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Listening to Kraft talk about the future of Tom brady, I was surprised he seemed to leave the door open to the possibiity that Brady may be on the table and if Mallett is deemed ready to go, maybe they would be ready to part ways. And since they don't look like they are going to sign Welker, a Brady for Harvin trade might be great for both teams. We would get a QB who could immediately make us serious contenders with the addition of one WR and having AP in the backfield would take the pressure off of brady in the latter years of his career and give him a running game he has never had.
Sure- it is pure speculation but this is SB sunday and I want the Vikings to play in that game before I cash in my proverbial chips.
To get Tom Brady for Harvin...right now...IN A HEARTBEAT! Brady has worked with average at best WRs his whole career (other than Moss). He's never had a RB like AD. Our TE's are below what he's used to, but Rudolph is the real deal. Let's go make the trade and give em our first rounder haha
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I think there's more chance of seeing Elvis swimming with the Loch Ness monster than there is of the Pats getting rid of Brady.
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Conventional wisdom says you are right but the Pats have sent a lot if their best players packing over the years earlier than you would expect.
Kraft said in an interview that it has to work for both sides and I am getting the feeling Brady is not happy about the talent he has been surrounded with. The Pats basically need to rebuild their whole roster on both sides of the ball and he might not have the patience to go through it plus I would think the decision all hinges on whether they think Mallett is ready to go and what they feel he can do. That, above all else is key .
I would make this trade any day of the week.. Are you kidding me? Tom Brady?
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IF the Pats believe Mallett is ready...? NOD- Nice Offseason Dream. I would do it, I mean - what the hell? Our best seasons have with acquired (or re-acquired) vets . Fran, Warren, Randall, Brett...
Why would anyone thing the following:
a. That Mallet is ready? For what? A quick throw of any sort to Percy with his delivery? Anyone would have to assume that if they traded away Brady for Percy they are going to stay with the offense they are running and that would mean Percy would replace Welker.
I'm sure that Percy can replace Welker but I'm not sure that Mallet can hold up that end of the bargain.
b. Why would Brady be happy here without his Welker (aka Percy). If he is unhappy with the talent around him it is all related to Welker not going to be retained. Again, makes no sense to send him on his way just to get the WR he wants (other than Welker).
So, based on those two assumptions, No, I wouldn't make this trade. I'd use my WR money on Percy, Simpson and someone like Barden, Keep working Wright into the picture and draft a big stud possession guy to work alongside Barden.
That would give you speed at the X (Simpson) for the 2 - 5 throws your going to make out there, a couple of nice possession guys to take a beating over the middle (move the chains like ole CC used to do) as well as a Red Zone threat, mixed in with Percy/Wright working the line of scrimmage/quick slant stuff.Many many thanks to my talented friend Jos for the new Sig.
You have to remember, the Pats seem to have no problem dealing players who are just past the peak of their career in exchange for younger players.
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but he has to stay indoors for a bit. He's a bit of a hunter so not sure he will feel the same when he goes for a walk.
That's how the silly mutt lost it in the first place, chasing something he was never going to catch and didn't look where he was going
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1998 Oldsmobile Silhouette 4 Dr GLS Passenger Van Extended
Prosit lasted 13 years and could still run nicely. Consrust :(
Great Family Van! — Good van, good power to carry alot of weight inside smooth ride thanks to the air suspension and looks sleek with leather interior cost was reasonable and was fun to drive for a minivan! great for transporting kids down to hard wood flooring! Primary Use: Family transportation |
1998 Oldsmobile Silhouette 4 Dr GL Passenger Van Extended
ProsMuch more room Consnothing really
Great Ride & Much More Room — Just got our van little over a week ago , we like the room :) Much more room for our family! Nice riding van on the highways. Much more room for hauling things,too. Love the van!! We have been looking for the right van to come along and this is it. Primary Use: Family transportation |
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I Often Get Mistaken For A Soccer Mom. — This car is relatively old (157k miles), and my mother owned (and crashed) it before my dad handed it down to me and bought her a RAV4. The brakes are TERRIBLE, and I would never let anyone but myself drive the thing because to brake in a timely fashion takes some getting used to. It has excellent pick-up and speed for a minivan. It's very sturdy to have lasted through a year of my driving. The mileage is horrible, and it takes $90 to fill up the tank. Overall, it's a very good car and I like it, the only problem is it's just not ME. |
1998 Oldsmobile Silhouette 4 Dr GLS Passenger Van Extended
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Minivan Hardly Says It Right — This van has pulled our trailers, hauled our kids, taken us camping, seen a good bit of the US, and has been pretty reliable all along the way. Since it's no longer in production we had to buy a different make/model, otherwise we would have been quite happy buying another one just like this one. |
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A Great Find!! By sheilac64
We've loved traveling as a family in this van, and enjoyed having all the extra room. It's very comfortable and includes a the luggage rack. Any family would enjoy this ride for years to come. It was ... Read More
Nice Family Car Good For Long Trips. By Rick
Leather Seats are the most comfortable that I've ever have. Plenty of room in the back seat for kids that like to fight. The bucket seats keep them to themselves. Plenty of room to move things. The... Read More
2002 Oldsmobile Silhouette Reviews
The Ultimate Soccer-mom Van, Yet Stylish. By Jaysen
The ultimate, everyday mini-van. The exterior is styled just right and with the automatic sliding side entry doors it makes getting in and out of the back seats a lot easier. Read More
2001 Oldsmobile Silhouette Reviews
Reliable, Ample Power, And Great Gas Mileage. By Matt
Love this van! Takes me everywhere and only once has given me a real problem which took a while to find. It's comfortable, great to drive on the highways, and looks great - or it did before she got ... Read More
Awesome Car! By Hunter
awesome! good handling great acceleration and great looking car! love the inside it looks like an old car with out being an old car! great gas mileage its about 28 mpg in town! other than being big it... Read More
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The Stylish Look By AHJ746
over all i think this car is a great vehicle and it has a dvd heated seat and leather seats drives 180 with cruise control automatic sliding door there is nothing that can be compared with this great... Read More
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has a nice interior big comfortable and can fit a lot of people. i dislike the fact that the Oldsmobile company is discontinued because it is a great car.it is very easy to drive around on long road ... Read More
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Great Van For Being A 3rd Owner By professortemple
Got this van as a second car for the family from my mother who got it from her mother years before, so it was a family affair. By the time we had it, it was well over 100,000 miles, so it had seen bet... Read More
Very Reliable Family Car, Drives Good, Safe, Spacious By Bunkman13
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by Bruce Smith
Motion control guys like me have heard for years about the advantages of direct-drive torque motors over drive systems that incorporate belts, pulleys, and other means of gear reduction. The mantra goes something like, "No more messy gearboxes, no worrying about belt particles in a Class-10,000 clean room, achieving both lower maintenance and higher bandwidths in our control loops ." The fact is, pretty much all that direct-drive rotary motor hype is true. However, the automation and motion control industries are only just beginning to see that as goes the rotary world, so too goes the linear.
The beauty of belts, pulleys, and gearboxes is that they allow you to use a low-cost motor that delivers low torque but runs at high speeds. Typically, we put a gearbox at the output of one of these motors to reduce its shaft speed while gaining greater torque at the gearbox's output. You aren't increasing your power output with gear reduction; the power going into the system (motor or motor + gear reduction) is equal to the power coming out. Because x speed = power, gear reduction allows you to decrease the output speed and increase the torque without paying for the additional mechanical or electrical power. You employ the same basic principle when you shift your car or bicycle into a lower gear to climb a hill. The engine (or pedals) revs faster, but you get more torque delivered to the drive wheels.
However, you don't truly get something for nothing. Adding gear reduction increases the number of system components, requires more maintenance, and takes up more space. Fortunately, belts and pulleys can be replaced with direct-drive torque motors, yielding more torque-per-unit volume. In the linear-motor world, there's an analogous situation with direct-drive linear motors. Furthermore, the options for providing direct force are rapidly increasing. Companies such as Linear Drives Ltd. (www.lineardrives.com), LinMot (www.linmot.ch), and California Linear Devices (www.calinear.com) are at the forefront in providing novel means of direct-drive force.
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LinMot offers a range of tubular linear motors, delivering peak forces up to about 50 pounds (lb) in a compact package that integrates the electronics, a feedback device, and an amplifier. LinMot's linear motors are waterproof and, given the appropriate connectors, can thus be used in a wide range of aggressive environments (including underwater), as well as in Class-10 clean rooms. They're offered in configurations that deliver nearly 60 inches of stroke in a light, efficient package.
Linear Drives' ThrustTube linear motor offers many of the same advantages. Its integrated package eliminates a good number of moving parts but requires external bearings. The ThrustTube also delivers low force-ripple and micron-positioning capability. Available in eight motor sizes, its 100+-inch stroke delivers intermittent peak forces up to about 200 lb (Figure 1).
California Linear Devices (CLD) offers tubular linear motors in six sizes, targeting those applications requiring up to 1,125-lb peak force. Forces at this level make CLD's products candidates for replacing the fluid-based actuators (e.g., hydraulics and pneumatics) that have reigned, as a rule, over the high-force domain. These motors are making fully programmable, high-force servo control available like never before.
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Conventional approaches have many things going for them, not the least of which is cost. Applying new technology is often seen as a risky enterprise. This risk includes the time investment required to come up to speed, as well as the possibility of exotic modes of failure. Accordingly, it seems easier to go with what you know, as even a good idea can be subject to a type of inertia. Yet the old way meant we had to drive cams and levers to ultimately get the forces we required.
Now, however, both options and incentives are growing for replacing not only hydraulics and pneumatics but also ball screws and other electromechanical motion solutions on the modern production floor (Table 1). You as the designer no longer have to first develop a means of converting rotary motion into linear motion via cranks, levers, or ball screws. You can more quickly prototype your design by incorporating fully programmable linear positioning. Users will be surprised to learn that a competitive advantage exists today for implementing linear power transmission.
Designers can choose among several linear motor manufacturers from which to make a purchase. Today's linear motor can follow arbitrary velocity and position commands (thus providing a programmable cam) or dynamically vary force control in pumps and compressors, vibratory applications, or a myriad of other applications, all done on the fly. (And you thought the wheel was a great invention!)
What we're seeing is that direct-drive linear motors, once thought to have serious limitations (not the least of which was high cost), are now gaining increased acceptance. Indeed, they're a desirable alternative to hydraulic fluids, pneumatics' lubricated exhaust, and the wear and subsequent backlash associated with traditional electromechanical devices such as ball screws, cams, belts, and pulleys.
Two recent factors have caused many motion system engineers to take notice of direct-drive linear motors. The first is that the magnets, which are key to the motors' operation, are now readily available, and at a considerably lower cost than in the past. Secondly, improvements made in digital control technology mean that these high-performance devices can be brought under a level of control that enables them to take full advantage of their speed, accuracy, and sensitivity. Consequently, systems integration has become much easier.
General Advantages
Magnetism, whether it's used for rotary or linear motion, is the key to direct-drive technology. In a direct-drive motor, a magnetic field provides the interaction between the stationary and moving parts. This is a very reliable, accurate method for achieving force and motion control.
There are several different types of direct-drive motor methodologies used throughout industry. Usually, some type of position feedback is required, and itas well as the method of controlwill depend on the type of motor technology being used. Because direct-drive motors are usually offered as part of a packaged system, the bundled feedback solution has considerable influence on the type of drive or programmable motion controller you'll be able to use.
Why choose a direct-drive motor? Primarily, it's to increase a production machine's accuracy and throughput. Because we've rigidly coupled the load to the motor, we've eliminated any errors caused by transmission components, so there's no backlash, belt stretch, or gear-tooth error. The limiting factor in achieving positioning accuracy thus typically becomes the feedback device. Fortunately, modern feedback devices for direct-drive motors have become extremely accurate and, when coupled with the right controller, can achieve accuracies on the order of microns.
The high stiffness between the motor and the load effectively absolves the motor as a source of mechanical resonancethe phenomenon in which a compliant load generates instability under high servo gains. Hence, the servo gains of direct-drive systems can be set very high, allowing faster servo response and greater resistance to load disturbances. System instability is therefore more likely to be found in a resonance mode of the load rather than in the linear power transmission. As an added benefit, having fewer moving parts also reduces noise.
Maintenance is likewise reduced because the only wearing component in a direct-drive system is the bearing, and if that bearing is permanently lubricated, the assembly can achieve zero maintenance. As a consequence, machines using direct-drive motors are often simpler and smaller because the transmission is eliminated. In addition, direct-drive motors actually reduce costs in cases where highly accurate transmission components or feedback devices would otherwise be needed.
Direct-drive Linear Motors
The North American market for direct-drive linear motors and drives is experiencing tremendous growth. The most significant driver behind this is the push toward greater efficiencies, often realized through increased machine throughput and improved manufacturing effectiveness.
Industry's need to increase both throughput and efficiency is resulting in an escalation of servo technology use. As OEMs make this shift, they're discovering that direct-drive linear technology meets their needs better than nondirect methods.
Direct-drive linear motors represent a departure from traditional electromechanical devices. Assemblies such as ball screws, gear trains, belts, and pulleys are all eliminated. As the name implies, the motor and load are directly and rigidly connected, improving simplicity, efficiency, and positioning accuracy. The acceleration available from direct-drive systems is remarkable compared with traditional motor drives that convert rotary motion to linear motion.
Direct-drive motors' inherent simplicity leads to a number of significant advantages over traditional approaches to linear motion and motion control. As I've stated, there are no gearboxes, ball screws, pulleys, or mechanical transmissions involved, so both failure potential and maintenance requirements are dramatically reduced. Decreasing the number of moving, wearing parts results in a longer cycle life.
The performance benefits are also substantial. There's no backlash, and because feedback resolution is high, direct-drive systems can be counted on to deliver superior repeatability and stiff, true positioning. By eliminating backlash and mechanical transmission considerations, we also realize much better overall servo performance.
All these factors add up to lower life-cycle costs, higher throughput, and greater productivity for a wide range of production applications.
Direct-drive Linear Motor Control
Drive electronics, including the motion controller, amplifier, feedback method, and control algorithm, play a major role in the overall performance of linear motion systems. Advances in digital technology have meant rapid improvements in controllability and control, allowing the accuracy of direct-drive linear motors to be fully utilized.
Tubular Advantages
Recent advances have increased our options in direct-drive linear motion alternatives. A recently introduced device that's increasing in popularity is the permanent-magnet, tubular linear motor. Possessed of integrated bearings and high force capabilities, tubular linear motors are fast becoming a bigger part of the automation landscape.
CLD has developed a tubular, brushless, direct-drive-based linear motor technology that incorporates permanent magnets, making it an excellent fit for a broad range of industrial applications. LinMot has its own offering for lower-force applications. Each tubular motor incorporates the important design features of a single moving part; integral, built-in bearings; a mounted encoder; and exceptionally high force-per-unit volume. These features deliver significant advantages, including space and cost savings, over not only traditional methods but other linear motors as well.
The Tubular Concept
With one moving part and an integral bearing system, tubular linear motors can accelerate quickly to high velocities, even when handling heavy loads. Their delightfully simple design provides robust, reliable operation and longer cycle life. More importantly, the design generates force in a highly efficient manner.
The permanent-magnet tubular motor's shaft slides into a stator assembly containing electromechanical coils. The stator's length and diameter set the force level, while the shaft length determines the stroke (Figure 3). Linear motion is controlled directly through a precision feedback device, which relays detailed position information to a motion controller. There's neither backlash nor compressibility to compromise position accuracy.
Current designs incorporate three-phase, brushless DC technology and rare earth, neodymium-iron-boron permanent magnets wrapped around the shaft's periphery. Not unlike a conventional linear actuator, the rotor lies flat and is then formed into a tube (Figure 4). The distinct advantage of this approach is that the electromagnetic interaction takes place over the shaft's full 360° surface area, resulting in a high force-to-volume linear motion solution.
Simplicity's the Key
The simplicity of brushless, tubular, linear motors carries benefits for just about any factory motion application:
- One moving part
- Two wearing parts
- Integral bearing system
- Encoder mounted directly to the motor
- Compact size
- No backlash or compressibility to affect position accuracy
- No supporting mechanical systems, pumps, or tanks necessary
- Environmentally friendly: no oil or hydraulic fluids, quiet operation
In addition to the above benefits, tubular linear motors have numerous inherent characteristics that result in a lower life-cycle cost:
- Their simple design costs less to integrate and install.
- Reduced downtime is due to simplicity and robust construction.
- They have fewer maintenance requirements.
- No environmental control activities are necessary.
Tubular vs. Competing Technologies
Other direct-drive linear technologies, including flat linear motors, offer excellent accuracy, resolution, and speed. The downside is that they offer these benefits at a premium price. Additionally, many competitive designs require an external bearing system to support and position the moving member in relation to the magnets. Such a bearing system can cost as much as the motor itself.
In contrast, a tubular linear motor's bearing system is an integral part of the motor. By packing the motor with its own bearing structure, we can realize both easier installation and substantial cost savings. MC
Figures and Graphics
- Figure 1: This tubular linear motor's 100-in stroke can deliver peak force approaching 200 lb.
- Figure 2: Tubular motors like this one can provide significant space and cost savings.
- Figure 3: Stator length and diameter set the force level, while shaft length determines the stroke in this tubular motor.
- Figure 4: A rotary motor's magnets (a) laid flat, make a linear motor (b) rolled up, they're a tubular motor's shaft (c).
- Table 1: Comparative characteristics of motion control systems.
Author Information
Bruce Smith is an applications engineer at California Linear Devices, Inc. Contact him at 2236 Rutherford Road, Suite 119, Carlsbad, CA 92008; tel: (760) 603-8026; fax: (760) 603-0049.
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All you will need for this is paper and scissors. Some people like to use fancy paper, but I use plain white copy paper because somehow the simplicity of white is more beautiful to me.
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Step 1: Step 1
You can make a square from a rectangular piece of paper simply by folding one corner down to form an isosceles triangle (like the one in the next step) and trimming off the excess paper.
Step 4: Step 4
See the explanation above, from a worksheet I made up, which should help to explain folding in thirds a little better.
Step 5: Step 5
A few years back I was showing my nieces how to do it and one asked me to make one with hearts.
Hmm, I haven't tried to cut that many tight curves in so many layers of paper before, I thought.
It came out awesome!
You can make very lacy loopy snowflakes by cutting like this:
- Hold the folded-up paper firmly without bending it.
- Keep the scissors stationary as you cut.
- Rotate the paper slowly into the blades as you smoothly squeeze the scissors.
- It's easier to keep the layers together if you make smaller cuts. Look for flat parts of your curves where you can join up two cuts invisibly.
- Keep your fingertips out of the way of the scissors!
Somewhere in all the paper files in this house, I have some patterns. Thanks for reminding me! I'll have to find them, and use some of yours, too.
I don't provide templates because I believe this stifles creativity. Part of the technique is figuring out which sort of cuts are going to make which sorts of designs. If you're only copying someone else's design, you're not learning. There are plenty of tutorials out there that will just tell someone how to make some basic designs while including some templates to copy....I wanted my tutorial to be different, to actually teach the technique itself instead of coddling. Steps 10 and 11 delve into how to look at a snowflake you like and envision the "template" for that snowflake....Trust me, many of the snowflakes don't look like anything when they're folded up...just a little squiggly piece of paper scrap. Only when it's unfolded can you see the overall design, and by analyzing the snowflake, as in step 10, you can see how the "template" relates to the overall design.
Happy scissoring!