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Advanced ElectromechanicsTime Tues. and Thurs. 11:00 - 12:15
Room Anderson Hall 253
Instructor Arthur V Radun
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Office hours Tues. 4:00-5:00, Weds. 2:00 - 3:00 and Fri. 11:00 - 12:00 or by appointment.
Text Electromechanical Dynamics, Part 1 & part 2, Woodson & Melcher, Wiley 1968, (These two parts are
two bound photo copies.)
GOALS: This course is designed to introduce the student to the methods of electromechanics. It begins with a review of computing inductance and capacitance using the integral form of Maxwell's equations. Then the energy method for computing the forces of electrical origin is introduced. These forces are then combined with circuit equations and the equations of mechanics to obtain dynamic models of an electromechanical systems. The methodology developed is applied to simple electromechanical structures and then to the synchronous motor and the induction motor. At this point the more advanced concepts of field transformations between moving reference frames and Maxwell stress tensors are introduced. The Maxwell stress tensor and its application to computing forces completes the course.
Exams Two exams and a final. Exams will be during scheduled class time in AH253. Final will be during finals week in AH253.
Exam 1 Thurs. Sept. 28, Material covered in class to 9-21-00
Exam 2 Thurs. Oct. 26, Material covered in class to 10-19-00
Final Thurs. Dec. 14,2000 at 1:00 PM, All Material
Homework Weekly homework, one design problem. Late homework will not be accepted. Hand in what you have completed. Weekly homework will be checked to see if it is complete. Random problems will be graded in detail. The design problem will be handed out about Nov. 9, 2000 and will be graded in detail.
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Grading Homework 10%, Design problem 20%, Tests 20% each, Final 30%.
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Did you hear that? It sounds so close. Oh, there it is again. It's freedom from the work week, and it's calling your name. You're almost there, champ. You're in the homestretch. I know it's been a long, hard week, but the weekend is so close. I know you can make it. All you need to get you through to the final minutes is the latest edition of Ten Stray Thoughts On A Friday.
Divisive Predictions
Making predictions isn't normally my cup of tea, but they don't call these "stray" thoughts for nothing. In terms of division winners, from the American League, I'm going with the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and the Oakland A's surprising the Texas Rangers. In the National League, I like Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Colorado. As far as wild card teams go, I'd think that the Rangers, Rays, Twins and Yankees are the front runners in the AL, while the Braves, Giants and Reds stand the best chance in the NL. I think Oakland's pitching, both rotation and bullpen, are going to surprise a lot of people this year.
An AL Central team winning the wild card? Hang on, and read below.
El Sacko Predictions
I'm guessing that the Cleveland Indians will lose more games than the Kansas City Royals this year, but not a whole lot more. Other cellar dwellers will be the Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, Florida Marlins, Houston Astros and, wait for it, the Los Angeles Dodgers, most likely due to a lack of leadership.
Dollars Make Cents
If you take the $86 million that the Blue Jays saved by trading Vernon Wells, subtract Juan Rivera's contract ($5.25 million), Frank Francisco's salary (who was flipped for Mike Napoli) ($4 million), and the rumoured $5 million that the Jays are said to have given to the Angels, then add back the cash that they received from the Rangers for the Napoli / Francisco flip, you have roughly $73 million dollars. Toss in the money that the Blue Jays saved by trading Shaun Marcum to the Brewers for Brett Lawrie ($4 million) and you get $77 million. If the Blue Jays pick up the option for Jose Bautista's sixth year they will end up paying him $78 million over six years. That's pretty close.
McGowan On My Mind
Still on the Blue Jays: Every time I see a tweet or sentence in a column mentioning Dustin McGowan throwing in a bullpen during Spring Training, I'm filled with a little bit of hope. I'm not even really hoping that he'll find the success that he had during his first two years in the league. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that he finds some reward for trying so hard to come back after injuries seem to continually mount against him. There would be few better stories in Toronto this year if he were to come out of the bullpen and pitch effectively in relief.
Retirements Equal HoF Speculating
We got two major retirements in two days when Jim Edmonds announced that he won't be playing anymore baseball one day after Gary Sheffield did the same. Whenever a good player retires, it's the sworn duty of baseball bloggers to argue about their Hall of Fame eligibility. I haven't thought it through precisely, but comparing how many years Sheffield played to Edmonds' seven seasons of 5.5 WAR or better baseball, including four above 6.5, makes me think that the latter is more deserving than the former.
NCAA Baseball
Drew Fairservice and I were having a conversation about college baseball yesterday, and we both agreed that it's about time that it take it's place in popularity among college basketball and college football. Maybe this is only the case in Canada, but isn't it a bit strange that college baseball has never been as accepted as the other two sports have been?
The thinking has always been that the short, early season contributed to athletic programs not considering it on par with basketball and football, but as warmer weather schools began investing more into their programs, popularity has been on the rise.
Here's a very interesting article on the new rules governing the baseball bats that college players are allowed to use. I'm not sure if this is going to help a whole lot with the sports popularity, at least in the short run.
The Hard Way
Beyond The Boxscore has an excellent post about the players who get on base the hard way, through the hit by pitch. The story reminded me of the former Blue Jays resident black and blue player, Reed Johnson. Between 2003 and 2006 (inclusive), Reed Johnson was hit by 69 (!) pitches, second only to Jason Kendall's 76. However, Kendall had 631 more plate appearances than Johnson.
Quick Question
So, um, does anyone know when Albert Pujols is up for free agency?
Self Promotion
As always, you can get the latest Getting Blanked stories to pop up in your Facebook news feed by clicking here, and "liking" our Facebook page. We'll even have some original content in there once the season kicks off. And staying on the social media train, you can also follow me on Twitter here, and follow the other Getting Blanked contributors here and here.
Getting Booked
I've been putting off reading The Bullpen Gospels since it came out last year because I had a feeling I wasn't going to like it and that I'd have to say bad things about it. Dirk Hayhurst seems like such a nice guy, who has gone out of his way to engage with fans, that I didn't want to risk having anything bad to say about him. All that's about to change with Getting Booked: The Second Chapter. For those wishing to participate in our book club on Monday, March 7th, I'd really encourage you to read or reread the book with a critical eye that separates the nice guy who's talked with you on Twitter from the words he's written in his book.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — There's a new slogan in town, and it's a winner.
At least that's what President Barack Obama has in mind.
WASHINGTON (AP) — There's a new slogan in town, and it's a winner.
At least that's what President Barack Obama has in mind.
The president unveiled his "Winning the Future" mantra in his State of the Union address, and now the upbeat but amorphous phrase is part of every speech, policy and pronouncement coming out of the administration. It's also emerged as a fat target for his Republican critics.
What's next on health care? Where to go on energy and education policy? How to improve the jobs picture? It's all about winning the future through innovation and determination, Obama and his aides have argued over the past few days.
There's no room for losers is the implicit flip side of the message.
"We've got to up our game," Obama told a crowd in Wisconsin.
The nation must ensure "America is still on top" in a decade, the president said on YouTube.
The country can't just lead, adds Vice President Joe Biden; it needs to "dominate."
It's a juiced-up way for Obama to frame his initiatives after two years in which even some of the president's supporters acknowledge that can-do verve sometimes was lacking from the conversation. What it means, though, is still TBD — to be determined.
After the long slog to stabilize the economy over the past two years, "clearly they've got polling that Americans are looking for someone that has more lofty goals and aspirations for America," says GOP strategist Rich Galen.
It seems that just in time for the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, Morning in America has arrived once again.
Just in time for the 2012 presidential race, as well.
"People need some optimism, they need to feel hopeful," says Democratic strategist Karen Finney.
The "winning the future" construct, she says, couples a much-needed boost of optimism with the reality of the global competition that is afoot.
"It won't resonate with everyone," says Professor Wayne Fields, a Washington University expert on presidential rhetoric, "but it has pretty powerful implications in political life. Something has to be done is the view of most people. What this suggests is that he's at least going to act."
Republicans found much to mock in the president's theme, styling it as nothing more than new rhetorical packaging for the same wrong-headed approach to governing.
Newt Gingrich, who wrote a book titled "Winning the Future" back in 2005, found Obama's interpretation of the same phrase "depressing."
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The Air Force says the Minuteman 3 was launched at 3:07 a.m. Wednesday and it reached the Kwajalein Atoll about 30 minutes later.
The military conducts several Minuteman 3 tests each year at the Santa Barbara County base to determine the weapon system's accuracy and reliability.
Vandenberg's 576th Flight Test Squadron installs that tracking, telemetry and command destruct systems for the missions.
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Summary: Almost Touching the Skies pays tribute to the diversity and vitality of American women writers through more than a century, and to the courage and resilience of young women through a compelling range of life experiences. Selected from the work of two dozen distinguished writers published by The Feminist Press, these stories explore the resonant theme of coming of age as a woman. How do girls and young women discover-or create-a sense of who they are and who they may become? How do th ...show moreey recognize what their lives have taught them and envision what their lives may someday be? How do they come to terms with what it means to be a woman in the world-and imagine how they may change the world as women?Almost Touching the Skies offers an engaging, multicultural collection of fiction and memoir written between the 1870s and the 1990s. In the 1890s in New Orleans, the young heroine of a Kate Chopin story must choose between marriage to a handsome and wealthy suitor and a career as a concert pianist. Just after the turn of the century, in a dirt-poor black town in Florida, a spirited Zora Neale Hurston struggles to maintain her dreams after the death of her mother. In Depression-era Brooklyn, Edith Konecky's precociously witty character Allegra Maud Goldman contends with bourgeois Jewish parents who dote on her neurotic younger brother as they ignore or dismiss their daughter's yearnings. Shirley Geok-lin Lim, writing of her childhood in Malaysia, considers the mixed blessings bestowed on her by her schoolteacher nuns, while Marjorie Agosin, recalling her early years in Chile, pays tribute to the mysterious and fragrant world created by her family's cook, Carmencita. And Estella Conwill Majozo, calling up her memories of the ''Little Africa'' section of Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1950s, captures the moment she gets her first period during a stickball game with her five brothers, and is welcomed into womanhood by her family matriarchs. Almost Touching the Skies includes work by ...show less
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"Deer and rabbit resistance" does not equate with "deer and rabbit proof". This has somewhat sharp blades that these animals find are not very "mouthable" so they tend to satu away from them if there are other, more delectable, things to eat. However new members of the wild animal community around you will not know that until adter they have tasted those types of plants. Live and learn. |
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November 24, 2008
John Stokes, Partner with AIG Highstar Capital, will deliver the keynote address at the JAXPORT 2009 Logistics and Intermodal Conference on March 17, 2009 at Amelia Island Plantation in Amelia Island, Florida.
AIG Highstar Capital, headquartered in New York and part of AIG Investments, is a private equity investment currently managing over $4.5 billion of capital commitments from leading institutional investors globally, including in logistics, intermodal, port concessions and operations.
Mr. Stokes, who joined Highstar in 2002, also is the interim CEO of HarborCorp, a Highstar company which owns Ports America, AMPORTs and MTC holdings. Ports America is the largest U.S. port terminal operator and stevedore; AMPORTS is a division of Ports America and one of North America's largest vehicle processing businesses; and MTC Holdings is one of the West Coast's oldest contract stevedore and terminal operating companies.
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77. HUCK FRISBEES with the 2,300-member Washington Area Frisbee Club from March through November at daily pickup games around the region (cooldowns usually involve a happy hour). For more laid-back disc tossing, head toward the Washington Monument, on the National Mall. (301-588-2629, www.wafc.org)
78. CHAT UP POLITICOS at the Hawk 'n' Dove, an old-school Capitol Hill pub where congressional staffers gather for free happy-hour appetizers, Hawk Amber Ale, and gossip. (202-543-3300, www.hawkanddoveonline.com)
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80. PEEL OUT into surging Class V rapids at the Potomac's Great Falls, just 14 miles from downtown on the Virginia-Maryland state line. Or practice your roll in the flatwater near Old Angler's Inn, in Potomac, Maryland. Rent a kayak at Potomac Paddlesports Center. (877-529-2542, www.potomacpaddlesports.com)
81. HOLD A WARRIOR PROSE by candlelight during a tranquil Friday-night yoga session on the dock of Jack's Boathouse, on the Potomac in Georgetown. (202-298-6664, www.jacksboathouse.com)
82. CANTER ON HORSEBACK through Rock Creek Park, a 1,755-acre swath of streams and trails that meander through the middle of D.C. The guides at Rock Creek Horse Center can lead you on a one-hour trail ride through the woodsy solitude. (202-362-0118, www.rockcreekhorsecenter.com)
83. FILL UP on culture at the Corcoran Museum of Art's Sunday Morning Gospel Brunch. You'll marvel over Andy Warhol's Mao, sip mimosas, and chow on French toastall while the impassioned wails of a local choir boom through galleries filled with 19th-century American works. (202-639-1786, www.corcoran.org)
84. FIND INNER PEACE at the Zen-themed Topaz Hotel, in Dupont Circle, where staff clad in bright tunics promise positive karmaalong with an impressive menu of all-natural energy drinks. Book a "Yoga" room, equipped with mats, blocks, and an exercise nook, or an "Energy" room, which comes with an elliptical trainer. (Doubles, from $129; 202-393-3000, www.topazhotel.com)
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The Associated Press January 28, 2013 1:10PM
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INDIANAPOLIS — A bill that would certify Indiana therapists who specialize in using music to treat people with autism, Alzheimer's and other conditions is advancing in the General Assembly.
The music therapy bill cleared the Indiana House's Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee last week with unanimous support. If it clears the full House, the Senate would need to approve it.
The bill, which was sponsored by state Rep. Suzanne Crouch, R-Evansville, would create a new state board to certify music therapists in Indiana.
"It's a small, very specialized group of individuals," she said.
The Evansville Courier & Press reported Monday that about 160 music therapists in Indiana provide the kind of treatment that helped rehabilitate former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords after she was wounded in a 2010 mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz. Among those they treat are people with Alzheimer's, and children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
"It is an evidence-based practice, and it's something that has great outcomes for the clients we serve," said Casey DePriest, owner of the Evansville-based Integrative Music Therapy.
DePriest, who chairs a task force pushing for Crouch's measure, said a state certification would help patients get their health insurance providers to cover a treatment that's already funded for some through Indiana's Medicaid waiver and other state programs.
Certification would also allow prosecutors to use the state's consumer fraud laws to prosecute people who bill themselves as music therapists but have no training in health care.
States that have adopted similar certifications have seen an increase in insurers willing to cover music therapy, DePriest said.
Four universities in Indiana — the University of Evansville, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College — have music therapy programs.
Kellie Schallert, a music therapy teaching assistant who is studying in IUPUI's master's program, works primarily with autistic children. She said the social skills of an 8-year-old client she's treating have improved dramatically.
She said the boy's mother said that since he began the therapy he's doing better in school and has been able to interact better with other children.
"I saw him come out of his shell in the music sessions," Schallert said. "He was communicating with me more and needing mom in the room less."


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The film travels along with Burtynsky as he takes the photos that became the recently published art book Water. We visit gargantuan dams in China, the dried-up remains of Mexico's Colorado River delta, the Ganges and more, usually talking to some local about the way water is used. "How does water shape us; how do we shape water?" the photographer asks. And in his signature large-format images, he finds diverse answers: "step wells" in Rajasthan, where mazes of stairs lead deep into the earth and plains in Texas where a horizon-stretching pattern of circular green crop fields is watered by the Oglala Aquifer.
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It's been over a year now that the United States Postal Service consolidated the Customer Service Mail Processing Center for Helena, Butte and Great Falls.
One Helena man, Carl Hendrix, said he lost four checks in the mail during the month of December.
"Something is going on, because we had no problems. We've had the same address for twelve years. We had no problems at all until they consolidated in Great Falls," said Hendrix.
Hendrix said he only received one notification from the postal service, saying his parcel had been shredded.
He feels lucky that he hasn't had any late fee charges, but he got a call from his landlord about not receiving his rent and he noticed a double payment on his phone bill, a sign it never got paid.
He doesn't own a computer and pays all his bills by mail.
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She adds, "It happens occasionally. You know there's such a large volume no matter where the mail is processed."
Hendrix can't seek remedy. After one check was lost, he had to get a stop-payment issued from the bank, which cost him $30. USPS won't reimburse you for anything, unless you've paid for insurance.
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Any search of casino games will normally result in a few popular games, blackjack, being one such game. A blackjack game can often be one of the most straightforward casino games a player can play, however it does require a fair amount of strategy.
The game of blackjack, or 21 blackjack as some may call it, has been around since the 1700's. Although originally brought over from Europe, the game caught on in America also and the popular name of vingt et un, was quickly changed to blackjack.
Learning how to play blackjack is relatively straightforward. All players are dealt two cards by the dealer, one face up and one face down. The goal of online blackjack is to have a hand worth more than the House without having a total of more than 21. If a player requests a hit (known as taking another card in blackjack rules) and goes over a total of 21, this is known as going bust, and the player loses his hand and bet.
However, at times the dealer and the player will both have the same hands. If the internet blackjack game appears to be a tie, a push will occur in the blackjack game. This means that neither the House nor the player takes the hand, and all blackjack bets are returned to their original owners.
Another blackjack strategy that players should be aware of is insurance. This option is only made available when the dealer has an up card which is an Ace. Before the dealer checks his hole card (his face down card), a player can opt to put insurance on the dealer's hand. The player is then betting that the dealer has in their hand a natural or a two card 21 (an ace and a card with a value of 10). This can be a lucrative bet for the player as it pays off 2:1, if successful.
The term insurance comes from the idea that a player can protect his original bet even if the dealer has a blackjack. By betting the full half of your original bet, a player can re-earn the money they would likely have lost if a player has blackjack. When playing casino blackjack, players should note that the insurance bet is put on a special portion of the table, which usually has the words "Insurance Pays 2:1".
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Fox News' fatal car chase mistake: A catalyst for change?
BY LORI RACKL TV firstname.lastname@example.com September 29, 2012 10:26AM
In this video grab provided by Fox 10 News, a vehicle involved in a police car chase is followed on an interstate highway by a television station helicopter west of Phoenix, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. Police say a man fatally shot himself in the head on live national television at the end of the high-speed chase that began in Phoenix when the driver stopped, ran into the desert and placed a handgun to his head and fired. (AP Photo/Fox 10 News)
Updated: October 1, 2012 11:22AM
Live television always has the potential for disaster, but that risk is ramped up when the real-time coverage involves car chases.
Fox News Channel -- no stranger to airing speeding vehicles attempting to flee the cops -- found out the hard way Friday when it inadvertently showed a man shooting himself in the head after being chased by Phoenix police.
Fox News was covering the chase using a live helicopter shot from its Phoenix affiliate when the driver stopped his car, ran into the desert and staggered around before putting a gun to his head, pulling the trigger and slumping to the ground.
Fox anchor Shepard Smith apologized to viewers, saying the video was supposed to be on a five-second delay so the network could pull the footage off the air in case something graphic -- like a self-inflicted gun shot wound to the head -- should occur.
Prior to the apparent suicide, Smith had been narrating the video of the chase, which was generating social media buzz -- and no doubt a boost in ratings. "Would not be a Friday with out a high speed car chase on @FoxNews! #LovesIt," tweeted one of many captivated viewers leading up to the disastrous final act.
When Smith saw the train wreck that was coming he shouted, "Get off, get off, get off, get off it," to producers but it was too late. The footage had been shown and it wasn't long before it was posted on YouTube (which subsequently removed it for violating is "shocking and disgusting" policy) and other websites, such as BuzzFeed.
After the incident aired, Fox News cut to a commercial break. It returned to a contrite Smith, who looked to be disgusted by the whole thing, as he repeatedly apologized to viewers.
"That should not have been on TV," he said. "That was wrong and it won't happen again on my watch."
The Associated Press reported that Fox's executive vice president of news editorial, Michael Clemente, issued a statement: "We took every precaution to avoid any such live incident by putting the helicopter pictures on a five second delay," he said. "Unfortunately, this mistake was the result of a severe human error and we apologize for what viewers ultimately saw on the screen."
Only the biggest cynic would assume anything other than a mistake was at play here. But the end result still raises several thorny topics, including the arguable news value of airing live car chases.
Do televised chases serve any purpose other than to boost ratings? No. Is it fair to fault a television network for wanting higher ratings? Again, no. But as we saw today, there's a real risk in going after those additional eyeballs with something as unpredictable as a car chase. I doubt most of the people who were following the action on Fox News wanted to see a man put a bullet in his head. Many said as much on Twitter and the comment section of blogs, taking Fox to task for its gruesome mistake.
Just as television news knows there's a risk for things to go wrong when broadcasting live car chases, viewers have to realize the same when they choose to tune in. They also might want to ask themselves why they're tuning in. One thing's for sure: It's not see if the person being chased ends up with a speeding ticket. They're watching because car chases carry an inherent potential for mayhem, and many of them got a lot more than they bargained for with this unfortunate broadcast.
So will this debacle change the way live car chases are covered, or whether they're covered at all? The New York Times' Media Decoder blog raised an interesting point about changes made in the wake of a televised suicide in 1998 in L.A., when a man set his truck on fire and shot himself with a shotgun. The blog said that after the event, some local stations put time delays on future live coverage and ordered aerial cameramen to film wide shots rather than close-ups during chases.
My hunch is nothing major will change, not as long as car chases boost ratings and feed much-needed content to the 24-hour cable news cycle on an otherwise slow day.
As long as there's an appetite for this kind of television, you can bet someone will serve it up. And mistakes will be made, resulting in what many people witnessed today.