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.22 Benjamin Pistol
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This bolt-action air pistol is crafted from traditional, premium grade materials. Plus, it offers power and precision - without pumping! The EB22 has hand-finished American Hardwood grips and a precision tuned rifled brass barrel. Power comes from the 12 gram Powerlet. Designed and assembled in New York, USA.
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- Model NumberEB22
- VelocityUp to 430 fps
- Weight1.75 lbs
- Length9 in
- MechanismBolt Action
- Power SourceCO2
- Caliber.22
- AmmunitionPellets
- CapacitySingle Shot
- BarrelRifled Brass
- Front SightFixed Blade
- Rear SightOpen Adjustable
- SafetyCross-bolt
- StockHardwood
- MaterialWalnut
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.22 Benjamin Pistol
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(5 out of 5 stars)
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By Duan
2013-11-25 22:09:00
Crosman have a hits come alive again the pistols 1377, 1322, 2260 rifle but we ned other models like 1760 benjamin AS392 and AS397 that come alive again, that platforms are very versatile, check ther forums every body wants that rifles. regards from México
(5 out of 5 stars)
Too come a live Benjamin AS392 Buccanner
By Duan
2013-11-25 22:08:47
Crosman have a hits come alive again the pistols 1377, 1322, 2260 rifle but we ned other models like 1760 benjamin AS392 and AS397 that come alive again, that platforms are very versatile, check ther forums every body wants that rifles. regards from México
(2 out of 5 stars)
Disappointing Pistol
By Disappointed
2013-10-04 10:59:55
I bought my pistol in March 2013 and it has been trouble from the outset. Initially it was wildly inaccurate, it wouldn't strike within 4 inches of the aiming point in any direction. I withdrew the bolt to examine the barrel and was disturbed to find that the rifling was almost nonexistent, 2/3rds of it was perfectly smooth. I contacted Crosman Europe who directed me to their agents in UK, A - I - S, who replaced the main body of the pistol. The pistol I received back from them was wonderfully accurate and so powerful, I could knock down field targets at 40 metres. It took a few shots and allowing an extra foot of elevation. My troubles weren't over however, the knib of the cam-plate that retains the bolt lug when it is in the locked position began to bend under the recoil and eventually fouled the bolt and finally broke. I replaced the cam-plate. The bolt lug which is a hardened steel screw that sits in a recess in the bolt began to loosen and foul the underside of the cam-plate cover. a consequence of this was the recess became worn into an oval shape and ceased to provide a secure support for the screw and it snapped. I replaced the screw but after a couple of CO2 capsules it snapped again. I replaced the bolt and screw and it snapped again after shooting just one capsule. It is back with A - I - S who tell me that they cannot find a cause of this problem and it must be my fault in not locking the bolt correctly. I can't agree, in my opinion the cocking effort of this particular pistol was very high causing the stress on the bolt lug and the subsequent deforming of its mounting hole. Yesterday I visited a gun dealers and tried the action on a new EB22 and found it to be much easier than my own. In the end I bought a Crosman 2300T which I am looking forward to siting in. By the way why do they cost twice as much here that they do Stateside?
(3 out of 5 stars)
EB 22 cal
By Duce
2013-09-08 17:18:15
Love the look and feel of this gun. Wood and steel (pot metal?). That said, I hate hate hate the rear sight. It will not adjust much for windage. I sent the first one back to Crosman after emailing them about it when new. They sent me another or the same, they didn't say. Same problem. Shoots to the left. I've seen several other people with this problem and no fix if you want open sights. I would give it a 5 star if not for that. It has lots of power for it's size and feels perfect in the hand. I wish Crosman would do something about those rear sights or offer a replacement in the store.
(5 out of 5 stars)
good ole pistol wooden grips!
By K.G.B
2013-06-04 08:34:54
just a great old time real feel crosman pistol i wish they where all like this one. buy it before you can not. great price too!
(4 out of 5 stars)
Good little baby gun!
By Stephen
2013-02-22 13:24:12
For a co2 gun for its size... its quite powerful! Great for all types of shooters. Best suited for beginners :)
(5 out of 5 stars)
Quality Handgun
By Rick S
2013-02-20 20:26:08
I really like this gun. Comfortable wooden grip, shoots dead accurate, quality made in USA. Hits spot on every time. I do wish I had seen the HB22 before I bought this as I prefer the pump over the CO2. I'll save up and get the HB22 next time.
(5 out of 5 stars)
Great pistol
By Rick S
2013-02-17 21:10:16
This is a well balanced, powerful 22 pistol. It has lots of power and consistent accuracy. I've been shooting frozen plastic bottles of water and the Crosman destroyer pellets penetrate the outer plastic and lodge in the ice. Not bad for a pellet gun. The wood grips are really comfortable and the trigger has a short, consistent pull. Easily a close second favorite, just behind my Crosman 2240.
(5 out of 5 stars)
By Anonymous
2012-11-23 21:57:50
i got this gun today and i was amazed, its really awesome, im going to take it on the trapline in the morning and see how it holds up.it blast through tin cans at twenty yards.
(5 out of 5 stars)
.177 Benjamin EB co2 Pistol
By Chez
2012-07-25 10:37:20
Excellent, accurate and just the right weight and balance, squirrels hate it!
(4 out of 5 stars)
By unit armorer
2012-04-26 01:47:28
Fantastic w/beeman blue ribbon model 25 2x scope on cros/benji/sher intermount w/crosman premiers or other 14-15 gr @ 13 yds. Two gray squirrels last hunting season for brunswick stew. I'm a twelve year old boy once once again in 1970...
(5 out of 5 stars)
22 air gun
By harry
2011-11-02 17:18:29
very nice air gun seems to work very well grate for plinking and small pests....
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
This is really unfortunate. I picked this two days ago from Whole Foods and it is 100% flat. No head, no bubbles, no nothing. Taste is still ok, but I can only imagine how good this beer might be with the balance of carbonation. mouth feel is syrupy and overly sweet taste, but you get the hop bitterness and malt. I'm very disappointed, though. I was expecting this to be a great experience, which hasn't been. I'll try to pick another bottle soon enough.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Appearance- Pours up a good amount of head which looks to have equally good retention. The head is a fluffy, pure cotton-white while the body is a pale to medium amber which appears as a golden, pale amber in the light. Spots of lacing, some wisps.
Nose- This is dominated by hops which already makes it different from Hair of the Dog's high gravity beers. Lots of citrus which ranges from orange to lemon to grapefruit. Light notes of cherry, peach, and apple. Very fruity and very well rounded. Not in your face but still quite delicious. Slight grain on the nose- maybe the rye? Swirling doesn't show much.
Taste- Reflective of the nose as it shows bunches of fruity esters from the hops on the front. Orange, lemon, grapefruit, touches of peaches, hints of apple and cherry. Some spice on the finish (coriander) that mixes with pine and resin. Slight notes of rye. Reminds me a little bit of Lagunitas Sucks actually. Very clean and crisp tasting with all of the hops working in almost perfect balance together. Very little bitterness and quite reminiscent of the newer imperial IPAs. Maybe a little bit of earwax from the bitter side of the hops. Some honey and floral notes. Suggestions of caramel. Really good beer that has flashes of greatness. Not quite there but this scores well in every category: presence, complexity, and balance. I'm surprised I've missed out on this so far but I'm glad to be drinking it now. Some linger but a bit of dryness as well. Pretty enjoyable.
Mouthfeel- Between light and medium bodied with healthy carbonation and nuances of syrup on the texture. Maybe even a little slick or oily but in a good way.
Drinkability- Very easygoing and gives no indication of its 10% at all. Very accessible for a strong ale as well. It retails for about 5 bucks, which seems reasonable to me. This is definitely a beer I will be drinking again.
Overall- Just short of being great. Another example of why Hair of the Dog is the best brewery in Portland. Moreover, you don't have to stand in line or go to the brewery to drink this- you can buy it in a store! A must try and one I will be drinking again.
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On-Chip Actuation of an In-Plane Compliant Bistable Micromechanism A compliant bistable micromechanism has been developed which can be switched in either direction using on-chip thermal actuation. The energy storage and bistable behavior of the mechanism is achieved through the elastic deflection of compliant segments. The Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model was used for the compliant mechanism design, and for analysis of the large deflection flexible segments. To achieve on-chip actuation, the mechanism design was optimized to allow it to be switched using linear motion thermal actuators. The modeling theory and analysis are presented for three design iterations, with two iterations fabricated in the MUMP's process and the third in the SUMMiT process. 566 JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS, VOL. 11, NO. 5, OCTOBER 2002 On-Chip Actuation of an In-Plane Compliant Bistable Micromechanism Michael S. Baker and Larry L. Howell Abstract A compliant bistable micromechanism has been developed which can be switched in either direction using on-chip thermal actuation. The energy storage and bistable behavior of the mechanism is achieved through the elastic deflection of compliant segments. The Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model was used for the compliant mechanism design, and for analysis of the large deflection flexible segments. To achieve on-chip actuation, the mechanism design was optimized to allow it to be switched using linear motion thermal actuators. The modeling theory and analysis are presented for three design iterations, with two iterations fabricated in the MUMP s process and the third in the SUMMiT process. [795] Index Terms Bistable, compliant mechanism, micro relay, micro switch, pseudo-rigid-body model, thermal actuator. I. INTRODUCTION MICRO-BISTABLE mechanisms have numerous potential applications, including microvalves, microswitches, relays, and micropositioners. A bistable mechanism is defined as a mechanism that has two stable positions within its range of motion. As the mechanism is moved from its first stable position to its second stable position, it passes through an unstable equilibrium position. A primary advantage of a bistable mechanism is that it only requires energy input to switch the mechanism from one state to the other, but input energy is not required to maintain the mechanism in either of the stable equilibrium positions. This behavior of the bistable mechanism is of particular importance at the microlevel when power consumption and heat dissipation are often a major concern. The advantages of increased stability, positional accuracy and low power consumption have been important driving factors in the research and development of micro-bistable devices. Several different bistable devices and configurations have been demonstrated in the literature. Both in-plane and out-of-plane switches have been shown that utilize the snap-through effect of a fixed fixed beam buckled under compressive residual stress [1], [2]. A thermally actuated bistable device has been demonstrated which uses a film deposited in a state of residual tension to achieve bistable motion [3]. Each of these devices requires control of the residual stress in the deposited films to achieve the bistable effect. Several bistable devices have been shown which do not rely on residual stresses [4] [6], however these have not yet been demonstrated with a method of on-chip actuation. Manuscript received January 4, 2002; revised April 9, 2002. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants CMS-9978737 and xyz-on-a-chip Grant DMI-9980835. Subject Editor G. B. Hocker. The authors are with the Mechanical Engineering Department, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 USA (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JMEMS.2002.803284. This paper discusses the design of an in-plane compliant bistable micromechanism with rotary motion between its two stable equilibrium positions. For successful on-chip actuation, the mechanism design has been optimized so that its displacement and force requirements fall within the allowable specification of the thermal actuators used. Because of the potential for use in autonomous systems, the power consumption of the actuators has also been reduced. Three optimized designs were fabricated and tested and the results are presented using paired thermal actuators for single pulse on-chip actuation. II. COMPLIANT MECHANISMS AND THE PSEUDO-RIGID-BODY MODEL A compliant mechanism derives some or all of its motion from the deflection of flexible members. The use of compliance presents several advantages including part count reduction and more precise motion. The motion of a compliant beam can be predicted using small-deflection analysis, however, as the deflection increases the linearized small-deflection equations introduce significant error. Exact solutions of large deflection problems involve elliptic integral solutions, making design synthesis difficult. The Pseudo-Rigid-Body model (PRBM) is a method of analysis that allows the large deflections to be modeled using rigid-body kinematics greatly simplifying the design of compliant mechanisms. Using the Pseudo-Rigid-Body model, a cantilevered beam with a force applied at the free end can be modeled as a rigid link with a pin joint and a torsional spring (see Fig. 1). By replacing the flexible segment with a rigid link and a pin-joint, the force and deflection characteristics of the member can be analyzed using rigid-body kinematics. The location of the pin joint, or characteristic pivot, is determined by the characteristic radius factor, . The value for is a function of the angle of the applied load; however, it is reasonable to assume a value of 0.85 for a wide range of loading angles [7]. The location of the beam end can then be determined by (1) and (2) where is the pseudo-rigid-body link angle, is the horizontal distance to the beam end, is the vertical distance to the beam end, and is the undeflected beam length as shown in Fig. 1(b). This method is accurate to within 0.5% for a maximum angular 1057-7157/02$17.00 2002 IEEE Authorized licensed use limited to: Brigham Young University. Downloaded on March 16, 2009 at 11:22 from IEEE Xplore. Restrictions apply. BAKER AND HOWELL: ON-CHIP ACTUATION OF AN IN-PLANE COMPLIANT BISTABLE MICROMECHANISM 567 Fig. 1. (a) Original fixed-pinned segment. (b) Pseudo-Rigid-Body model of a fixed-pinned segment. displacement of . A torsional spring must be added to model the resistance of the beam to bending, with the spring stiffness defined as (3) where is the Young s Modulus of the material, is the area moment of inertia, is the beam length and is the Pseudo- Rigid-Body model stiffness coefficient, which has a value of 2.65 for most loading conditions [8]. After modeling all of the flexible segments in a device with the PRBM, the mechanism motion and energy storage can be analyzed using traditional rigid-body mechanism analysis methods. Once the geometry of a compliant mechanism is known, finite-element analysis is a useful tool for validating and fine-tuning the design, however, the PRBM is much more valuable in the early phases of design as it allows for devices to be designed that otherwise would not be feasible, with specific force and displacement characteristics. III. METHOD OF ACTUATION Thermal actuators are devices that utilize constrained thermal expansion of thin members to achieve an amplified motion. Fig. 2. SEM image of the thermal actuator design used in this work. Several different design configurations have been proposed for thermal actuation, including the heat-drive actuator and the thermal in-plane microactuators [9], [10]. Multiple leg thermal in-plane actuators were used in this work because of the relatively large force and displacement output (see Fig. 2). Actuators based on thermal expansion offer advantages over electrostatically actuated devices because they can produce a much greater force output per unit area at significantly lower voltages. They are also capable of relatively large displacements. The disadvantage of thermal actuators when compared to other methods is that they require a greater amount of power in their operation. The higher energy requirements are due to the energy loss from the heated legs to the surrounding air and into the substrate. However, this disadvantage can be minimized through proper actuator design. Operating in a vacuum has been shown to reduce the power requirements of the actuators used in this study by over an order of magnitude due to the absence of a medium for heat conduction from the heated legs. It has also been found that applying a rapid current pulse to the actuators, where a higher current is passed through the actuator legs for a short time interval, increases the deflection amplitude and improves the operating efficiency when compared to a steady-state operating mode [11]. IV. BISTABLE MECHANISM DESIGN The basic form of the mechanism developed in this paper consists of two thin flexible segments pinned to ground and connected to each other by a single rigid section. The mechanism consists of only a single link, but it is able to achieve its motion because of the compliance in the flexible segments. This type of mechanism has been named the Young Mechanism [12]. To analyze this compliant mechanism, the two fixed-pinned segments were replaced with their PRBMs, allowing the motion to be analyzed as a rigid-link four-bar mechanism with torsional springs located on each of the two pin joints that are not connected to ground (see Fig. 3). Using the following closed-form kinematics solution for a rigid-body four-bar mechanism, the Authorized licensed use limited to: Brigham Young University. Downloaded on March 16, 2009 at 11:22 from IEEE Xplore. Restrictions apply. 568 JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS, VOL. 11, NO. 5, OCTOBER 2002 Fig. 3. (a) PRBM of bistable mechanism. (b) SEM image of mechanism with PRBM links labeled. device motion can be calculated at any point in its rotation. For between 0 and (4) and for between and 2 (5) where , , and are defined as (6) (7) (8) and (9) The stability of the mechanism can be determined by examining the potential energy stored in the system. For a compliant mechanism, energy is stored in the deflection of the flexible segments. The compliance in the segment is modeled, using the Pseudo-Rigid-Body model, as a torsional spring. The potential energy, , of a single torsional spring is defined as (10) where is the torsional spring constant, is the link angle and is the initial fabricated link angle. The total energy for the mechanism is found by summing the energy stored in each of the compliant segments. For this mechanism, there are two torsional springs, and the total potential energy of the mechanism is defined as (11) where and are the PRBM spring constants as defined by (3), and , , and are the PRBM link angles. The stable and unstable equilibrium positions are then determined by plotting the total mechanism potential energy as a function of the input angle. Stable positions are located at the minimums of the potential energy curve [13], [14]. The maximum points in the potential energy curve identify the unstable equilibrium positions of the mechanism, and will be located between the stable positions. Taking the derivative of the potential energy curve with respect to the input crank angle gives the input torque required to rotate the mechanism, and is defined by (12) where (13) and (14) The maximum stress in each of the two flexible segments can be calculated at any position in the mechanism motion using the following equations: (15) and (16) where is the width of the segment and is the cross-sectional moment of inertia. Both the linear thermal actuator and the rotary bistable mechanism have been successfully demonstrated independently in previous works [10], [12]. However, because of the large rotations required to switch the bistable mechanism, it was not possible to actuate the device on-chip using the existing Authorized licensed use limited to: Brigham Young University. Downloaded on March 16, 2009 at 11:22 from IEEE Xplore. Restrictions apply. BAKER AND HOWELL: ON-CHIP ACTUATION OF AN IN-PLANE COMPLIANT BISTABLE MICROMECHANISM 569 actuators. The thermal actuators are limited to a maximum steady-state linear displacement of approximately 12 m. In order to toggle the mechanism directly with a single 12 m actuator pulse using the MUMP s surface-micromachining technology, the maximum rotation between the stable and unstable positions is limited to approximately 25 . This limit is based on the configuration shown in Fig. 3, where the actuator linear motion is used to flip the rotary mechanism by pushing on an extension of the mechanism input link. The minimum length of this input link extension is specified by the design rules for the fabrication process used. In addition to the displacement constraints, the input torque requirements of the mechanism are also limited by the upper bound of the actuator output force. The first design of the bistable mechanism had a required rotation of 60 between the stable and unstable positions, with a total rotation of 95 between the two stable positions, and as such could not be switched using a single-pulse of the actuator [12]. These devices were tested by manually displacing them with a mechanical probe. For successful on-chip actuation the bistable mechanism design must be optimized to reduce its required rotation to within the allowable output of the thermal actuators. V. INITIAL MECHANISM DESIGN AND VALIDATION These restrictions required the development of a new mechanism with small rotations that would also fall within the allowable torque restrictions. The PRBM and energy equations for the previously described mechanism [see (4) (16)] were programmed and linked to an optimization algorithm [15] with the objective of minimizing the angle of sweep between the two stable positions by changing: lengths of the Pseudo-Rigid body links, , , and ; Pseudo-Rigid body link initial angles, and . Subject to the following constraints : size limitation to reduce the effects of stiction and adhesion to the substrate (by restricting the size of the link to less than 300 m); geometric check to ensure that the mechanism could be fabricated from a single layer and rotate through its motion without interference (with minimum lengths of each flexible link restricted to greater than 50 m to allow fabrication of a pin-joint); constraint on the magnitude of the stress in the flexible segments to prevent failure (to less than 2.0 GPa maximum stress); required minimum potential energy difference between unstable and stable positions to ensure that the device has enough energy to overcome stiction (with the minimum allowable potential energy difference being greater than 150 pJ). The width of each of the two flexible links was fixed at the minimum allowed by the fabrication process. Because of the numerous local minimums in the design space, gradient-based optimization routines such as sequential quadratic programming (SQP) and generalized reduced gradient (GRG) failed to give good results; however, a simulated annealing routine provided satisfactory results and was used extensively in determining Fig. 4. ANSYS finite element predicted deformed shape at second stable position. the optimum design [16]. The simulated annealing algorithm randomly perturbs the design variables in a search for the best design. If a better design is found, it is accepted; however, if a worse design is found, there is a probability that it will also be accepted as the new best design. This probability is based on the Boltzmann probability factor and decreases as more evaluation cycles are performed. By allowing a worse design to be accepted, the algorithm is able to jump out of local minimums in the design space in the search for a global optimum. It is this characteristic of the simulated annealing algorithm that allows it to perform well in this design problem because the design space for the young mechanism is very discontinuous with numerous local minimums. Because of the discontinuous nature of the design space for this mechanism, and the numerous local minimums, several feasible designs were found by the optimization routine with a single design determined to be the best based on the level to which it met the optimization objective. To validate the design selected from the optimization routine, the final mechanism configuration was modeled and analyzed using a commercial finite element analysis code (ANSYS). Because of the large elastic deformations, a nonlinear analysis was performed. From the finite-element analysis, the position of the unstable equilibrium point and the second stable point were found as well as the value of the maximum stress in the mechanism at its second stable equilibrium position, and the mechanisms final deformed shape (see Fig. 4). The values obtained from finite element analysis were within 2.8% of the results predicted using the PRBM. The final mechanism design selected from the optimization results has a total input rotation of only 23 between stable positions. The potential energy and input torque curves are included in Fig. 5, and the dimensions of the mechanism are listed in Table I. The mechanism was paired with a thermal actuator in the configuration shown in Fig. 6 and was fabricated using the Multi-Layer MEMS Processes (MUMP s) at Cronos [17]. Two thermal actuators were used, with one actuator used to switch in each direction. The device proved to be bistable as predicted and was able to be actuated in either direction by a single pulse of a thermal actuator. Fig. 6 is an SEM of the device and actuators, with the mechanism shown in both its fabricated position and its second stable position. In testing done in air, the actuators required less than 8 volts and under 55 milliamps, or 440 milliwatts, to transition the device between stable positions. When tested under vacuum the power requirements were reduced by almost an order of magnitude, requiring less than 4.0 volts and under 12.0 milliamps, or a total of 48 milliwatts. This is due Authorized licensed use limited to: Brigham Young University. Downloaded on March 16, 2009 at 11:22 from IEEE Xplore. Restrictions apply. 570 JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS, VOL. 11, NO. 5, OCTOBER 2002 Fig. 5. (a) Potential energy and (b) input torque curves with respect to the input crank angle of the first MUMP s design iteration. to the absence of a medium for heat loss from the legs to their surroundings. VI. DESIGN REFINEMENT AND POWER REDUCTION A noted disadvantage of the mechanism just described is the large difference between the required rotations to toggle the mechanism in each direction. As can be seen from the potential energy curve shown in Fig. 5, the mechanism must rotate 19 from its fabricated stable position to the unstable equilibrium position, but only needs to rotate back 4 to go from the second stable position to the unstable equilibrium position. The size of the thermal actuator is determined by its required force and displacement, so a much larger actuator is needed to switch the mechanism from its fabricated position. To reduce the power requirements, and achieve a more symmetric behavior, it is desirable to have the unstable equilibrium position be more centered between the two stable positions. To achieve this, a second objective was added to the optimization setup to drive the unstable equilibrium position more toward the midpoint between the two stable positions. The widths of each of the two flexible segments were also added as design variables to increase the available design space. It was determined from the previous design that the clearance in the pin-joints introduces a significant variation in the mechanism performance. This clearance is on the order of 0.75 m and is Fig. 6. SEM images of the first MUMP s iteration shown in (a) the fabricated position and (b) the second stable position (shown on two different devices). a result of the MUMP s surface micromachining process. In an attempt to account for this variation, a tolerance on the length of the ground link of plus or minus 0.75 m was included in the optimization using a worst-case tolerance analysis. This makes the resulting design more robust to the errors introduced by the clearances. The resulting mechanism design has a total required rotation of 23 between stable positions, the same as the previous iteration. The potential energy and torque curves are included in Fig. 7, and an SEM image of the mechanism in both the fabricated position and the second stable position is shown in Fig. 8. A significant difference between this mechanism and the previous design is the increased width of the link . This increase was determined by the optimization routine to improve the device function. By widening this link the torsional spring is stiffened, resulting in a more symmetric behavior. As a result, a majority of the bending occurs in the link ; however, the link remains flexible relative to the rigid link and continues to contribute to the mechanism performance. While similar to the previous design in total Authorized licensed use limited to: Brigham Young University. Downloaded on March 16, 2009 at 11:22 from IEEE Xplore. Restrictions apply. BAKER AND HOWELL: ON-CHIP ACTUATION OF AN IN-PLANE COMPLIANT BISTABLE MICROMECHANISM 571 TABLE I SUMMARY OF EACH YOUNG MECHANISM DESIGN rotation, it is more symmetric about the unstable equilibrium point, with 9 of rotation from the fabricated position to the unstable position, and 14 from the unstable position to the second stable position. This gives it a maximum required rotation of 14 , compared to 19 for the previous mechanism. The peak torque values for the second iteration are similar in magnitude to the previous design, but the input torque curve has a smaller gradient so better performance is expected. This mechanism configuration was also fabricated using the MUMP s process and was successfully actuated in each direction using thermal actuators. Because of its lower maximum required angular displacement, smaller thermal actuators could be used, resulting in lower power requirements; however, for the initial fabrication the same actuators were used. Because of this, testing of this mechanism resulted in similar current and voltage requirements as for the previous iteration. Both design iterations are summarized in Table I. Fig. 7. (a) Potential energy and (b) input torque curves with respect to the input crank angle of the second MUMP s design iteration. VII. SANDIA SUMMIT V DESIGN OPTIMIZATION Both of the previous two designs were optimized for and fabricated in the MUMP s process, which has a minimum line width of 3 m, and a pin-joint clearance of plus or minus 0.75 m. Because these two process constraints significantly affect the performance and size of the Young mechanism, it would be advantageous to reduce these processing parameters. The Sandia SUMMiT V process allows for 0.8 m minimum line widths, and has a specialized pin-joint cut that creates pin-joints with less than 0.3 m clearance. These two advantages alone make the SUMMiT process much more favorable for the design of Young mechanisms. The optimization routine described in the previous section was modified slightly to allow for the smaller minimum line width and pin-joint clearance, and the device was reoptimized for the SUMMiT process. The resulting potential energy and torque curves are shown in Fig. 9, with the resulting geometry listed in Table I, along with the previous two MUMP s designs for comparison. SEM images of the mechanism in both positions are included in Fig. 10. Because of the availability of additional planarized layers in the SUMMiT process, a bar was added across the mechanism to prevent any motion out of the plane of the device. The addition of this feature is not possible using the MUMP s process; however, the additional layers in the SUMMiT process are not required for the Young mechanism. Authorized licensed use limited to: Brigham Young University. Downloaded on March 16, 2009 at 11:22 from IEEE Xplore. Restrictions apply. 572 JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS, VOL. 11, NO. 5, OCTOBER 2002 Fig. 8. SEM images of the second MUMP s iteration shown in (a) the fabricated position and (b) second stable position (shown on two different devices). Fig. 9. (a) Potential energy and (b) input torque curves with respect to the input crank angle for the SUMMiT design. This design was successfully tested with the lowest power requirements of any of the three designs, requiring only 3.0 volts and 11.0 milliamps in air, or a total of 33 milliwatts. This design resulted in a lower power requirement in air than the previous two iterations required in vacuum. Much of this improvement is due to design changes in the thermal actuators that were only Fig. 10. SEM images of the SUMMiT design shown in (a) the fabricated position and (b) the second stable position (shown on two different devices). possible in the SUMMiT process, such as elevating the heated legs higher off the substrate using the Poly3 and Poly4 layers. This increased gap decreases the heat loss to the substrate, increasing the efficiency of the actuator. In addition, significant savings were realized because the actuators could be smaller due to the reduced force and displacement requirements of the SUMMiT Young mechanism design. VIII. CONCLUSION By combining an accurate large-deflection model of a bistable mechanism configuration with an optimization algorithm, a device has been developed which can be actuated on-chip using linear thermal actuators. Three successful design iterations have been demonstrated, two having been fabricated and tested using the MUMP s surface micromachining technology, and one in the SUMMiT process. Each configuration can be switched in either direction with a single pulse of a thermal actuator. By minimizing the required displacement of the actuators their size has been reduced, lowering the power requirements from previous design iterations. The smaller line-widths and geometries that are possible in the SUMMiT process have proven to be a significant advantage in the design Authorized licensed use limited to: Brigham Young University. Downloaded on March 16, 2009 at 11:22 from IEEE Xplore. Restrictions apply. 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Roach, Optimization-based design of a fully-compliant bistable micromechanism, in Proc. 2000 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conf., Baltimore, MD, Sept. 10 13, 2000. [6] M. S. Baker, S. M. Lyon, and L. L. Howell, A linear displacement bistable micromechanism, in Proc. 2000 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conf., Baltimore, MD, Sept. 10 13, 2000. [7] L. L. Howell and A. Midha, Parametric deflection approximations for end-loaded, large-deflection beams in compliant mechanisms, ASME J. Mechan. Design, vol. 117, no. 1, pp. 156 165, 1995. [8] L. L. Howell, Compliant Mechanisms. New York: Wiley, 2001. [9] J. H. Comtois, M. A. Michalicek, and C. C. Barron, Electrothermal actuators fabricated in four-level planarized surface micromachined polycrystalline silicon, Sens. Actuators, Phys. A, vol. 70, pp. 23 31, 1998. [10] R. Cragun and L. L. Howell, Linear thermomechanical microactuators, in Microelctromechanical Systems (MEMS), at the 1999 ASME Int. 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Gelatt, and M. P. Vecchi, Optimization by simulated annealing, Science, vol. 220, no. 4598, p. 671, 1983. [17] D. A. Koester, R. Mahadevan, A. Shishkoff, and K.W. Markus, MUMPS Design Handbook: Cronos Integrated Microsystems, 1999. Michael S. Baker received the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, UT, in 2002. His research efforts were in the area of MEMS bistable mechanisms and actuation. He is currently a Member of the Technical Staff in the MEMS Device Concepts Department at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM. His research interests include compliant mechanism design and methods of actuation in MEMS. Larry L. Howell received the B.S. degree from Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, UT, in 1987 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1991 and 1993, respectively. He is currently Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at BYU. Prior to joining BYU in 1994, he was a Visiting Professor at Purdue University, a finite-element analysis consultant for Engineering Methods, Inc., and an Engineer on the design of the YF-22 (the prototype for the U.S. Air Force F-22). He is a Director of the Utah Center of Excellence in Compliant Mechanisms and has over ten patents granted or pending in the area of MEMS and compliant mechanisms. He is the author of the book Compliant Mechanisms (New York: Wiley) Dr. Howell is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (1996 2000), the ASMEDesign Automation Conference Best PaperAward (1999), the MDI Software Award (1992), and he is a member of the ASME Mechanisms Committee. Authorized licensed use limited to: Brigham Young University. Downloaded on March 16, 2009 at 11:22 from IEEE Xplore. Restrictions apply.
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First was an exploration of Bunratty Castle, built in the XIV century, followed by the visit to the Bunratty Folk Park, which recreates a XIX-century town in Victorian Ireland. The golfers had the unique chance to test their skills at the Ennis Golf Club, one of Ireland's oldest private clubs, and the world famous Ballybunnion Golf Club, situated on 60-foot sand dunes and cliffs beside the Atlantic Ocean.
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The group stopped at Blarney Castle, and nearly everyone climbed the steep and narrow steps to kiss the Blarney Stone. While in Dublin, the Mules stayed in the beach resort town of Malahide, and the next day played at the Deer Park Golf Course overlooking the Irish Sea.
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The Ups and Down in blog commenting
We all know that blog commenting was still used as one method to gain traffic and backlinks. Some linkbuilder/SEO spend their time in blog commenting for a whole day or for whole week and some have backlinks mostly from blog commenting.
On this post we will discussed the ups and down in Blog Commenting and we will determine the main cause of it.
The Ups
In the first week after you start your blog commenting campaign you will noticed the rapid growth of your backlinks for example your previews backlinks count was 50 and week after it is now 1,000 back links. I am sure you are in heaven that time.
The Down
After weeks to one month you will noticed the rapid decreasing of your backlinks count and it's irritating, right?
Why it was happening?
If you will noticed some blogs have a recent comment widget or Top Commentators widget located sometimes in the sidebar of the blog. After you leave a comment on a blog and it was approve by the owner your comment or your name (containing your link) will appear either on the recent comment widget or top commentators widget and It will appear in the whole blogsite And once it was placed their for two to five days it can easily crawl by the search engine and it can easily count as a backlinks.
For example your comment(containing your link) was approve on a blog that have a ten pages in the net. After a day or week all this ten pages will add to your number of backlinks because your links was present in the whole blogsite But after a day or week some readers will comment on the blogsite that you used in blogcommenting method and the chance of getting out of the Top Commentators/Recent Comments widget is high. And once you comment was kick-out in one of this widget this will trigger the rapid decreasing number of your backlinks because the search engine will no longer found your link in the said widgets.
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I hope this will be beneficial. On the face of it a good idea.
What are we discussing; business set-up & associated costs, VAT registration, taxation, corporation tax, accountants, payroll, HMRC? All interesting stuff, let's see how it goes.
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I've been thru the pain of setting this up without any prior knowledge, so willing to advise/assist others who might be thinking of it. All in the spirit of the forum of course.
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Anyone aware of what the reason is for the backlog at HMRC for registration of VAT (if other than sheer volume), and when they hope to resolve the issue?
Mine's been with them for weeks so am currently invoicing less VAT, with the proviso that my registration is with HMRC and will therefore invoice in due course.
This seems to be an acceptable approach with the client fortunately.
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Sheer volume is the answer, I suspect. It's not unusual.
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News 3 Sports would like to congratulate our latest Classroom Champion Caleb Rabun. The Anderson-Shiro High School senior has a 3.6 Grade Point Average and is currently ranked fifth in his class.
Caleb is a member and senior leader of the Owl Baseball team. In 2011 he was named 2nd Team All-District as a catcher. Caleb is also a member of the National Honor Society, FFA, Young Life, Senior Skills Team, Campus Crime Stoppers, and he's his senior class officer. Caleb received Outstanding Achievement in Algebra II, and professional standards in in Ag, Spanish I , and Advanced Animal Science. He's also very active in his church and in Grimes County.
"Caleb definitely leads by being vocal. He has quite an active personality; but is a great addition to the senior class. And isn't shy to voice his opinion, but then he's always willing to act on it and do whats best for his class. He is very silly in the hallways and loves to joke and have a good time. He definitely knows when to get to work with his peers especially in group work settings, getting down to business and taking care of it."
"Me and him had a talk early in the season prior to us coming out. And he's taking more of a coaching role, or a assistant coaching role if you will. As far as correcting players when they're doing something wrong. He's been around the program for three years. He knows my expectations, my assistants expectations and he's kind of relaying that to the kids. We only have two sets of eyes here and he gives another set of eyes for us."
"It's been pretty hard. Because when you have baseball games that are two hours away and you get done late at night any ways and you have to come back home. It's hard to get your school work done so late at night and get so little sleep and have to wake up early for school the next morning. So it's been a struggle the past three years but I've worked through it."
Caleb plans on attending Texas State University and majoring in construction science and management.
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In Winter League action yesterday, Gregory Polanco played for the first time in five days. He batted seventh and played center field, going 1-for-4 at the plate. He is now hitting .217 in 23 AB's, with one double, one stolen base, no walks and seven strikeouts. His teammate on Leones del Escogido, Starling Marte, did not play yesterday.
In other Dominican League action, Anderson Hernandez went 0-for-4, with an RBI. Oscar Tejada went 1-for-1 with an RBI double. It was his first game in three weeks.
In the Venezuelan League, Darren Ford went 0-for-3 in the leadoff spot. He is hitting .253 in 95 AB's, the highest AB total among all Pirates players participating in Winter/Fall Leagues.
In Mexican League ball, Ali Solis went 0-for-3, dropping his average down to .193 in 57 AB's.
Finally, in the Australian League, four Pirates players got into the game today for the Adelaide Bite, three of them in the starting lineup. Justin Howard batted cleanup and played first base. He went 1-for-4 with a strikeouts, raising his average to .130 after 23 AB's. Stefan Welch had the best day, going 2-for-4, with two doubles. Playing in just his third game in the ABL, those doubles represented his first two hits of the season. Dylan Child batted eighth and was the catcher. He went 0-for-4.
Rinku Singh came in during the seventh inning and allowed two hits, but got out of the inning without allowing a run. He threw 20 pitches, 13 for strikes, retiring the side on a groundout and two fly balls. It was only the second appearance for Singh, who hit the only two batters he faced in his first outing eight days ago.
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Robin Thicke "Blurred Lines" Video: Banned By YouTube!
by Free Britney at .Robin Thicke's unrated music video for "Blurred Lines" apparently blurred the lines of decency in the eyes of YouTube, which yanked it without explanation.
The video, which features a bevy of topless beauties, is no longer posted, although the original (and much more subdued) version remains on the site.
"YouTube took down the Unrated version of #BLURREDLINES because it was too hot," Thicke tweeted, while Pharrell, who collaborated on it, wrote:
"Why they trying to ban good sh-t?"
YouTube also banned the Kate Upton Cat Daddy video last year, only to reinstate it by popular demand. So there's hope if fans make enough of a ruckus.
Then again, Google is also shutting down YouTube altogether in 2023 once the best video of ALL TIME is selected ... or so we were told on April 1.
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It violates regulations. Also it supports sexism and rape culture with the lyrics. It is sexist because the women are flat out naked and the men are not so there is a power over the women. They are the entertainment and meat to look at not humans. So it should be banned but many support it because sexism is hard to realize when you have been exposed to it to the point where it's seen as ok.


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Marion Barry is now officially running for the D.C. Council's Ward 8 seat.
ABC7's Sam Ford has confirmed with the D.C. Board of Elections that Barry has filed to run for his third consecutive term.
Barry, a 75-year-old Democrat who served four terms as mayor, says his top priorities are job training, placement and development.
Barry has represented Ward 8 since 2005, when he returned to the Council after six years away from politics.
He faces several challengers in the April Democratic primary. But Barry is beloved by many Ward 8 residents, and political observers say the Council seat likely will be his as long as he wants it.
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1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup cinnamon-flavored applesauce
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup sour cream
1 cup plain Greek yogurt
1/4 cup orange juice
4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 (6 ounce) package sweetened dried cranberries
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup white sugar
I loved these, but I did make a couple of small modifications to suit my tastes and to substitute ingredients I had available. I replaced the applesauce with butter, and the yogurt with sour cream - in other words, all butter, all sour cream. I don't care for the orange/cranberry flavor so I replaced the orange juice with milk. I also used coarsely chopped fresh cranberries. I loved the flavor and richness of the butter and sour cream and prefer those substitutions for the applesauce and Greek yogurt, ingredients I don't generally have on hand anyway. The pecans, while a suitable addition, could easily be omitted and I might prefer that also. All and all, a beautiful, nicely domed cranberry muffin with just right sweetness and spice.
We found these muffins to be a bit on the dry side and except for biting into a cranberry mostly on the bland side. Plus they really stuck to the papers.
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I cut this recipe back by half to get 12 muffins. I used my own homemade applesauce amd two tablespoons orange juice concentrate for a stronger orange flavor. I made no other changes. Baked at 350*, my muffins were done at almost 22 minutes. I did get 12 bigger sized muffins out of a halved recipe. These muffins were very moist, chewy and had a wonderful assortment of flavors that worked very well together. GREAT muffin recipe. I'd like to try this again with fresh cranberries next time and see how that works out.
Very moist and delicious. I loved these muffins. I did not use applesauce though. I used a crushed cranberry, pineapple, apple mixture leftover from thanksgiving. Worked just like applesauce. oooh its so good!! Bless you Mr. Food.
When I made the first batch we found them to be dry and not very sweet. So I just made another batch with these revisions: 3/4 c. butter, 1 1/4 c white sugar and 1 1/4 c brown sugar. Now hubby and daughter give them a resounding 5.
First of all I cut the recipe in half as I didn't want 24 muffins. I also did as Naples (pretty photo she posted too!) and used solely butter and sour cream. On the other hand, I like orange w/cranberry so used it + fresh orange zest in the batter and the sugar/cinnamon topping. I reduced each sugar a bit (personal pref) and used 1 C fresh cranberries (cut in half). That worked out really well however I'll use 1-1/2 to 2 cups next time as using fresh, I definitely wanted more in each muffin. I used walnuts vs pecans. I didn't use papers liners and they popped right out but I have a really nice non-stick muffin pan. Okay ~ only reason for 4 stars is because...if I didn't heat the muffin up for 15 seconds in the micro...they were kinda dry/dense. Once heated a little bit though, they changed to moist & delicious. Glad I decided to give that a try as I was contemplating throwing them away. 'If' for some reason you don't think their good when cooled, give one a quick spin in the micro. I could barely stop eating them once I did that :) Thanks for the recipe thompson!
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The Great Napoli
Not only did Mike Napoli hit 30 homers in 2011, but, after never hitting over .273 in a season, he hit .320 with a tremendous .414 OBP. It didn't stop there, of course. Napoli is hitting .313/.383/.510 in the postseason with three home runs and 14 RBI. He has even been enshrined with a fake Twitter account called The Great Napoli.
The question for fantasy owners is, "Can he do it again in 2012?"
I had my reservations from the start of this offseason, which caused me to rank Napoli a bit too low on my early catcher rankings. Napoli's track record shows a hitter with plenty of power, but with plenty of strikeouts as well. Those strikeouts were one of the key components to the fact that he had never hit above .273 at the big league level until this season. Just a year ago, Napoli entered the offseason having hit only .238. Combine those factors with a consistently high whiff rate and it's hard to imagine Napoli apporaching a .300 AVG once again in 2012, especially since his 2011 AVG was carried a bit by a .344 BABIP.
Then, I started to take a step back and examine the entire story. Napoli was in a bad situation while with the Angels. His manager basically cringed while writing his name on the lineup card. That was never more evident than when Angels GM, er, manager, Mike Scioscia made it clear that Napoli should be traded away because, lord help him, below replacement level catcher Jeff Mathis was HIS MAN! What happened next might go down as one of the worst trades in baseball history.
Starting the year off in Texas didn't come without a few question marks. Where was Napoli going to get playing time? Will he even catch anymore? Soon enough, it was clear that Rangers manager Ron Washington would find ways to get Napoli's bat in the game.
Napoli didn't exactly start the season on fire. He continued to hit for power, but found little results in terms of his AVG early on. Then, from June 12th to July 4th Napoli missed 19 games with an oblique strain. During that time, the Rangers fired then hitting coach Thad Bosley and replaced him with Scott Coolbaugh. Now healthy and with a hitting coach that seemed to communicate much better with the hitters, Napoli absolutely flourished, hitting .433/.500/.820 with five home runs in July on his way to a .383/.466/.706, 18 home run second half.
Let me repeat. .383/.466/.706 with 18 home runs in the second half of 2011. To put it into context, Albert Pujols had a great second half and hit .319/.375/.584 with 19 home runs.
Do you really think Napoli will be able to do that again? Could anyone?
Given his tremendous overall numbers in 2011 on top of his postseason heroics, Mike Napoli is sure to be a name found at the top of catcher rankings and someone selected in the first five to seven rounds on draft day. While I believe Napoli can still be a 25-30 home run threat in 2012, I expect his AVG to regress, maybe not all the way down to .270 or below -- though, given his high whiff rate, that's not out of the question -- but I don't see him going much above .285.
Napoli should continue to produce well in the great hitter's environment of Arlington, but don't look past the risk factors involved when assessing his 2012 value. Chances are he'll be a bit overvalued on draft day.
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A breaks down 2012 Blazers in this ill anthem. You may of heard it at the Rose Garden during the Blazers Vs Lakers game last night (1/5/12) thanks to DJ O.G. ONE. As a true Portland Trail Blazers fan this ignites some major pride. And the Blazers are #1 in the West right now! Rip City! http://youtu.be/nAUvOpaWgIw
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A pedestrian is removed from a Google Street View image using experimental new software (note the umbrella and feet left behind)
Google Street View, while very useful, fascinating, and full of wonderful bloopers, does rub some privacy advocates the wrong way. Should people on public streets have a reasonable expectation of not ending up with their photo on the Internet? There's a whole other article in that, but in any case... for all the folks who do have a problem with it, a computer science graduate student is working on a solution: software that digitally removes pedestrians from Street View images. One of the byproducts of the current version of the system is somewhat unsettling, however – areas where people were in images are sometimes marked by ghost-like shapes, or even by disembodied shoes and feet.
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