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Plane with 40 pounds of marijuana strays into President Obama's helicopter's airspace - NY Daily News
Its not like that sort of stuff is kept secret. You know how when a plane crashes the reporter will frequently comment on whether it had filed a flight plan or not? Well the people you file those plans with know where the president is gonna be and they're more than happy to tell you.
Yeah ... you're a pilot so you get this stuff. This is more like stupid dumb criminals kind of stuff ... probably paid a cheaper pilot to save money and you get what you pay for .
Drug Dealers can be very stupid and arrogant, every once in awhile you will read about some drug moron loading up his car with ten million dollars worth of Heroin then getting on the interstate and driving 132 MPH, he is then dumbfounded as to why he was pulled over this is what he says "I want my lawyer your violating my civil rights" then what the Cops of my day would have done is pull out their nightstick and say to the moron "I got your f-cking civil rights right here" they would then knock all of his teeth out, break his kidneys, kick in his spleen and shove a pair of plyers up his ass, when the ambulance arrived the medic would say "what happened to him" Patrick Flanagan Malone the Cop would say "he fell out of his car"
that's because the "cops of your day" were as*holes who, like you, didn't understand the principles America was founded on


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Mar 03, 2006, 12:00 AM | |
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Here are a few of the motors I built. The first 3 on the right are contenders for the mega 16/15/4. The three center ones are just for comparison, but I do plan to rewind the GWS motor top center and the bp motor (left center) for a hotter wind. The GWS motor, top center has 12poles, so an LRK wind would be possible. The motor on the far left is a 20mm stator motor.
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I got 5 tape drives for $16 shipped off of EBAY, there were 2 Colorado T-1000s, a Colorado 250MB, and a Colodaro 1400, as well as an Iomega Ditto 3020 (3.2 GB ?). All had 9 tooth stators, the Ditto having intermediate headless teeth. The Ditto is also a bit bigger, 36.5 vs. 34.5 for the others. The other motors were all different too, 2 from Japan and 2 from China (the T-1000s had one of each). The Japanese stators are 3 mm, the Chinese are 3.5, as is the Ditto, which is a Japanese motor. I figure the thinner Japanese stators are better off being stacked, but there are some single stator motors at the Powerditto site ( http://www.powerditto.de./navigationengl.html ) so I thought I'd start with one of the 3.5 mm stators. I guess I got carried away, I wound 18t of 21g but it's too thick, both for the stator support and for can clearance. One of the other motors has a thicker stator support that might save me there, but the can clearance is going to be a problem. With a 3.5 mm stator and 5 mm magnets, the stator should be .75 mm into the can, mine is flush with the edge with no clearance. I may put this one aside and turn a custom can and stator support when I get a chance (and materials). 2nd try: 16t of 22g fit in 2 neat layers. The stator support for the other 3.5 thick stator is a little thicker, I think. The can that was with that stator has a plastic hub, so I'll use the can that was with the first stator. It looks like I'll have clearance with the stator the right depth in the can. Now to get some magnets, I should have ordered them a week ago. Good Luck! |
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http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...&page=22&pp=15 Beavrdamelectric i think (I DONT REMEMBER). i use new shaft. i dont need c clip. even in 12 x6 to 5800 revs. Latran. i going to post data later. Manuel V. |
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I still need a thrust spacer to keep the can away from the windings, and a prop adapter.
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You built some interesting motors. I find that 20mm motor with the 3mm magnets especially interesting, running a single 20mm stator at 13.3 amps with an efficiency of 76.4% is really something. Do you like the way this motor runs, any problems with it? Thanks for sharing your work . Adam |
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text: Laboratory Assignment 1 Sampling Phenomena 2.171 Analysis and Design of Digital Control Systems 1 Main Topics • Signal Acquisition • Audio Processing • Aliasing, Anti-Aliasing Filters • Digital Filter Design and Implementation 2 Equipment • Personal Computer with DS1102 (dSPACE, Inc.) Controller Card • Matlab, Simulink, Real-Time Workshop, Real-Time Interface, and Control Desk Software • Digital Storage Oscilloscope • Breadboarding System with Analog Electronics • Earphones • Function Generator • Music Source 3 Introduction This set of exercises familiarizes you with the laboratory hardware and shows you how to use the hardware to perform real-world tasks such as acquiring signals and processing them. We also ask you to look at the non-idealities of these operations. You will look at the effects of sampling on signals from the generator and on music. You will also study quantization. Finally, you will implement first-, second-, and higher-order discrete-time filters. These filters will be designed from the viewpoint of approximating continuous-time analog filters and directly as digital filters. 4 Aliasing and Smoothing 4.1 Background and Equipment In this lab, you will use sine waves and music as a source for signal processing. For the music source, you can provide your own, or play music out from the computer at each station. When processing a signal you will want to use nearly the full range of the A/D converters, so as to utilize the maximum number of quantization levels. The signal from the most music sources is at the 100 mV level, which is much lower than the full-scale ±10 V range of the A/D's. Thus you need to use an amplifier to increase this signal to the level of volts. We have designed an appropriate interface circuit for you as shown in Figure 1. 1 C 100K Sig.Gen. +15 V Vin 10K Vad 7 0.1 uf 2 - 3 LM741 6 Audio + 4 0.1 uf ADC 1 -15 V Anti-Aliasing Filter Scope Input C 22K Vda +15 V 22K DAC 1 7 0.1 uf 470 2 - Vout LM741 6 3 + 0.1 uf 4 -15 V Scope Output Smoothing Filter Figure 1: Anti-aliasing and smoothing filter circuit diagram. We also want to be able to listen to the audio signals. Headphones have been provided at each station for this purpose. Since the DAC cannot supply sufficient current to drive these headphones directly, we have built an interface amplifier which can supply the headphone current. This amplifier is also shown in Figure 1. Both of these circuits have been pre-assembled for you on the electronic protoboard. The lab explores the use of anti-aliasing and smoothing filters. The anti-alias filter attempts to remove high frequencies at the input before they reach the A/D. This is implemented by the input amplifier. The smoothing filter attempts to remove the high-frequencies associated with the staircase output from the D/A. This is implemented in the output amplifier which drives the headphones. The anti-aliasing filter has a transfer function of Vad (s) −Rf 1 = · (1) Vin (s) R1 Rf Cs + 1 −10 = 5C + 1 . (2) 10 This is a first-order filter with a low-frequency gain of -10, and a -3 dB frequency set by the capacitor value. The transfer function for the smoothing filter is similar to that of the anti-aliasing filter. It has a low-frequency gain of 1, and the capacitor value sets the cutoff frequency. 4.2 Experimental Procedure a) Use Simulink and rtilib to create a model like that shown in Figure 2. Set the sampling rate by selecting Simulation:Parameters from the simpleio menu bar. Set the options to a fixed- time-step solver with a step size of 0.0001. Close the window, save the file again, and select Tools:RTW Build. This step converts the block diagram into C-code, compiles this code, and downloads the executable to the DSP. At the end of this step, the DS1102 should be reading from the A/D and writing to the D/A at 100 µs intervals. b) We will now examine the effect of aliasing. Aliasing occurs whenever a signal is sampled at a rate less than twice the maximum frequency contained in the signal. Aliasing is easily demonstrated 2 Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Figure 2: Simulink block diagram simpleio.mdl used to demonstrate aliasing effects. using a sinusoidal signal source and sampling at less than twice its frequency. More complex effects occur when we sample a music signal. Pass a sinusoidal waveform from the signal generator through the anti-aliasing filter, and into A/D Channel 1. Initially run with the capacitors switched out, and thus no filtering. What effects do you observe in the output waveform? Try varying the input frequency and look at the frequency content of the output waveform. You may want to try changing the sample rate and recompiling to examine that effect. You should clearly see aliasing when the input frequency is higher than half the sampling rate. c) Switch in the anti-aliasing and/or smoothing filters. Investigate the effect that these have. We want you to both observe the waveforms on the scope and to listen to the outputs and inputs on the headphones. Try to correlate what you see on the scope with what you hear on the headphones. Notice the beating phenomenon which occurs with the input frequency near half the sampling frequency. d) Sinusoids are a simple waveform. Music is much more complex, but allows us to see/hear many effects simultaneously. Switch the input of your system to the music signal, and repeat the experiments above to understand the effects of sampling on the music signal. The music enters the system through the first BNC connector on your board, and the function generator enters through the second BNC. Move the wire to switch the input between them. Note the serious distortions introduced by aliasing when sampling audio signals at low sample rates. Look at the traces on the oscilloscope and listen to the music on the earphones as you lower the sampling rate; what effects do you see and hear? This gives you an appreciation for the effect of aliasing on real-world signals. What are the effects of the anti-alias and smoothing filters? 5 Quantization 5.1 Background and Equipment Every digital system discretizes an analog signal in both time and amplitude. Only fixed levels (quanta) are permitted in a digital system. The DSP board used in this course has 16-bit A/D's on channels 1 and 2, and 12-bit A/D's on channels 3 and 4. All four of the D/A channels have 12-bit resolution. 3 Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Figure 3: Simulink block diagram quantize.mdl used to demonstrate aliasing effects. For the 12-bit channels, the operating voltage range of ±10 volts is quantized into 4096 different levels, which corresponds to 4.88 mV per quanta. For the two 16-bit A/D's the signals are quantized into 65536 levels, which corresponds to 0.305 mV per quanta. The software interface to the DSP board also takes the convention that the analog range of ±10 V is mapped to a numerical range of ±1 in the block diagram. Be sure to note this scaling of 10:1! 5.2 Experimental Procedure e) Create a model with quantization as shown in Figure 3. The quantization block is located in the Simulink:Nonlinear library, and using it allows us to effectively increase the quanta size (thus decreasing the resolution). To quantize to 2N levels, double-click the quantization block and set the level to 1/2N −1 . Note that this value is chosen in light of the internal full range of ±1 corresponding to analog signals of ±10 V. As a starting point, let N = 4. Set the sample time (in Simulation:Parameters) to 0.0001 s with a fixed-time solver. Save the file as quantize.mdl, and download with Tools:RTW Build. f ) Choose the quantization bits N at several settings ranging from 2 to 12, recompiling after each change. The resulting distortion due to quantization when using fewer bits can be appreciated by listening to and looking at the quantized and analog signals. Remember that you have to keep the magnitude of the analog signal large enough to be able to see all the levels, but not so large as to be entering saturation. Use the function generator as the source initially and perform the experiment with sinusoidal signals. Observe the effect of increasing and decreasing the amplitude of the sinusoid. You should able to count off 4 levels for a 2 bit quantization level and 16 levels for a 4 bit quantization level on the oscilloscope. Try the same experiment with the music source instead of the waveform generator. Note the deterioration of sound quality as fewer bits are used. 6 Discrete-time filtering 6.1 First-order discrete-time filter Discrete-time filters are described by difference equations in much the same way that continuous-time filters are represented by differential equations. The discrete-time equivalent of a continuous-time filter 4 can be obtained by various approximations to the derivatives. A common approximation is by the forward Euler rule. Let xa (t) be an analog signal and its value at the k th sampling interval be given by x(k) = xa (kT ) where T is the sampling period. The Euler rule then approximates the derivative as xa ((k + 1)T ) − xa (kT ) x˙a (kT ) ≈ T x(k + 1) − x(k) ⇒ x(k) = ˙ (3) T xa (t) at t = kT . Let us now apply the above rule to a first-order unity-gain continuous-time filter given by the transfer function Y (s) b = (4) U (s) s+b The corresponding differential equation is then given by sY (s) + bY (s) = bU (s) ⇒ ya (t) + bya (t) = bua (t) ˙ (5) As before, define y(k) = ya (kT ) and u(k) = ua (kT ). Then the difference equation which approximates this via the forward difference is given by y(k + 1) − y(k) + by(k) = bu(k) T ⇒ y(k + 1) − y(k) = bT u(k) − bT y(k) ⇒ y(k + 1) = bT u(k) + (1 − bT )y(k) (6) Equation 6 gives the difference equation in a form suitable for implementation in a computer program. That is, we can calculate the present value of y with knowledge of its previous value and of the previous value of the input u. We can also specify this discrete-time filter via its transfer function. Introducing the z-transform variable z to represent a unit forward shift in discrete time, we can rewrite the difference equation above in transfer function form as bT H (z) = (7) z − (1 − bT ) where Y (z) = H (z) U (z). The above system can be implemented in Simulink by using a discrete-time transfer function block with num = [0 bT ] and den = [1 −(1 − bT )]. In discrete system representation, it is good practice to enter the numerator and denominator polynomials as equal length vectors, padded with zeros as needed. This avoids confusions which can occur due to the use of z or z −1 in transfer function polynomials. For instance, in the signal processing literature, it is common to use H(z −1 ), whereas in the controls area it is more standard to use H(z). We recommend H(z), but with the zero padding mentioned above, both forms are equivalent. h) Build and run a filter which implements this discrete-time transfer function. i) Examine the effect of the digital filter on sinusoidal input signals from the function generator. Initially, switch out the analog filter capacitors so that we do not have any anti-aliasing or smoothing effects. Initially, set T = 0.0001 and b = 1000, and thus the resulting first-order digital filter should approximate a continuous-time filter with a time contant of 1 ms. Using the scope, look at a sinusoidal waveform before and after the digital filter. Does it have the response you expect? Look at the response for inputs at frequencies higher than the Nyquist (i.e. above 5000 Hz). You should see the amplitude of the output grow again. Can you use aliasing to explain this effect? 5 j) Change the output of the function generator to a square wave, and adjust the scope to display the step response of the digital filter. While keeping the sampling rate fixed, change the value of b and examine the step response of the digital filter. At low values of b, the response should approximate a continuous system. Examine the shape of the response as you raise b. At what value of b does the response depart significantly from the continuous-time response? At what value of b does the response become unstable? Note the z-plane pole location for each value of b so that you can develop an intuition for the z-plane. Be sure you understand the response characteristics in light of the z-plane pole location. 6.2 Second-order discrete-time filter We will now create a discrete-time approximation to a second-order continuous-time system. A unity- gain second-order continuous-time filter can be described by the transfer function Y (s) 2 ωn = 2 2 . (8) U (s) s + 2ζωn s + ωn We will next apply the forward Euler rule to derive a corresponding transfer function, 2 ωn T 2 H (z) = (9) 2 z 2 + (2ζωn T − 2) z + (T 2 ωn − 2ζωn T + 1) Please check this derivation to be sure that you understand it before proceeding further. The experi mental procedure for this section of the lab is described as follows. k) Create a model which implements this filter with a 10 kHz sampling rate. l) Look at the filter output when using the function generator for a sinusoidal input. Does the fre quency response match your expectations? At frequencies past the Nyquist, can you see the increasing amplitude (as in the first-order system)? Change the function generator to produce a square wave output, and look at the step response on the scope. How well does the response cor respond to the modeled continuous-time system? Look at different values of ζ and ωn . How does the response correspond with the location of the discrete-time poles? Determine a relationship between ζ, ωn , and T for stability. Compare this with the mapping viewpoint of the approximate filter design. How does the approximation of the second order filter hold up for large ωn or small values of ζ ? 6.3 Other discrete-time filters Experiment with additional discrete-time transfer functions in order to understand the effect of pole and zero locations in the z-plane. m) Take a look at the effect of pole and zero locations in the transfer function b0 z 2 + b1 z + b 2 H (z) = . (10) a0 z 2 + a1 z + a2 n) Design some interesting finite impulse response (FIR) filters, and implement these on the real-time system. Compare the step and frequency responses with that predicted in Matlab, and explain these responses in terms of the pole and zero locations. A separate handout on FIR filters will be available shortly. 6


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Below you will find the discussion and relevant materials for the ES 105 homework assignment due on January 9, 2009.
DiscussionWe were asked to write and compile a Fortran code to perform certain desired operations: 1) read a matrix A provided in a data file hw0.dat ('Matrix A') and 2) produce a matrix B = A'*A ('Matrix B'). We then had to use this information to extract the diagonal of B ('Diagonal of B'), the negative square root of the diagonal of B, and then perform a symmetry check for each entry in B. On the right of the screen we find the source code, executable, and data files assigned for this exercise. Our symmetry check results for each entry in matrix B were: RMS=0, Mean=0, Maximum Value=0. A similar procedure was followed to produce matrix C = A*A' ('Matrix C'), diagonal of C ('Diagonal of C'), the negative square root of the diagonal of C, and also to perform a symmetry check for each entry in C. Our symmetry check results for each entry in matrix C were: RMS=0, Mean=0, Maximum Value=0. The Fortran code ('Fortran source code) was created in NEDIT and compiled on the Thayer Linux cluster using the following command: g77 code0.f -0 hw0.out The data files were further processed in Matlab to create all assigned plots shown below (see 'Matlab source code' for details). |
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Plots Diagonal of BNegative Square Root of Diagonal of B Third row of B Second Sub-diagonal of B Diagonal of C Negative Square Root of Diagonal of C Third Row of C Second Sub-diagonal of C |


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If I could bring anything to the world of gastronomy, this would be my first entry. The best testimonial was from la Signora. After her first taste, it was one of the items she asked for on more than a few occasions. I learned to make it at Albergo del Sole in Maleo, Italy. The chef, Franco, made his with poached John Dory, and he suggested trying it with tuna in olive oil. Serve it as an hors d'oeuvre, snack, or first course. It is especially important to use good-quality tuna. A number are available from Europe: A's Do Mar, Flott, Callipo, and Ortiz. Since there doesn't seem to be a standard for retail tuna packing, I have specified the amount of drained tuna to use.
Serve with bread sticks, small toasts, croutons, crackers, or in celery stalks. It can be topped with a drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil, thinly sliced radish, fleur de sel, piment d'espelette, Spanish pimenton, a pinch of toasted and ground fennel seeds, shaved bottarga, or truffles. It also makes a great tuna sandwich.
- 1Combine the soy sauce, vinegar, and lemon juice.
- 2Break down the tuna in a food processor by pulsing first, then running, until it is evenly chopped but not puréed. Add the liquid seasonings and process until the mixture is smooth. After a few seconds, stop the machine and scrape down the sides of the bowl to incorporate the tuna that didn't get into the purée.
- 3With the machine running, add the butter, piece by piece, adding the next only after each is incorporated. Do not overmix. The butter needs to be blended with the tuna but not whipped to the point that it will melt because of the heat generated in the bowl. Add the cream while pulsing the machine, and as soon as it appears incorporated, basta—that's it. This will only take a few seconds.
- 4Transfer the mousse to a bowl or storage container and keep refrigerated. The mousse can be made up to 3 days before serving. Take it out of the refrigerator 45 minutes before serving to let it soften.
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THE RULE OF NO RULE: "The future is brighter today," political organizers at SAVE Whatcom crowed in response to a decision by a panel of three state Court of Appeal judges last week that overturned the finding of the Washington Growth Management Hearings Board that Whatcom County had been heedless in planning growth in tandem with adequate water supply. "The county won a clear victory in the case," the conservative political group broadcast, "a victory also perceived to apply to rural property owners."
As it often is in politics, nothing could be further from the truth.
The decision of the Court of Appeals is almost cruelly unhelpful in its guidance to Whatcom County policymakers, yielding no insight into how the county should approach future water decisions and—frankly—leaving the county at liberty to treat rural property owners just as shabbily as ever.
In April 2013, the state growth board found the county's Comprehensive Plan did not protect rural character by adequately protecting surface and groundwater resources. The county, the board found, had continued to permit groundwater withdrawals for residential development in basins that were either partially or fully closed to withdrawals. More than 1,600 wells have been drilled in closed basins since 1997, according to the hearings board's decision.
The county fought the board's determination, spending more than $140,000 with Seattle law firms and perhaps an equal amount in staff time to challenge the decision. Arguably, the county's purpose was to receive clarity from the courts on how to proceed on future water policy. This the court did not provide, leaving unresolved all the substantive matters the county must consider in future planning.
"The board erroneously applied legal principles from one rule, the Skagit River Basin Instream Flow Rule, to the rule at issue in this case, the rule for WRIA-1 also known as the 'Nooksack Rule,'" the court argued. "But the board's reasoning… is based on a uniform interpretation of instream flow rules, erroneously assuming that they regulate permit-exempt withdrawals in different regions in the same manner. ....[the state] Supreme Court recognized that different basin rules contain different language and expressly declined 'to search for a uniform meaning to rules that simply are not the same.'"
The hearings board relied on a 2013 decision by the Supreme Court that found the state Dept. of Ecology overstepped its authority in establishing a balancing rule for the Skagit that insufficiently protected instream flows. The growth board reasoned "the applicable legal principles are the same" in a similar balancing rule Ecology created for the Nooksack; however, the appeals court argues that the Skagit Rule "shall be expressly subject to instream flows" and expressly governs permit-exempt uses of water, while no such consideration exists in Ecology's flow rule for the Nooksack.
Leaving aside the question of whether two drainage basins with headwaters in the North Cascades are markedly different from one another to be considered unique (the appeals court provides little evidence for this), the laws of supply and demand acting upon each are surely identical—you count up the number of subscriptions on their supply and compare to the total amount of supply. For the Nooksack as well as the Skagit, the rivers fail to meet minimum instream flow requirements a majority of the time through the dry months of the year. The requirements set by water law, that new withdrawals cannot impair an existing water right, are also uniform throughout the West.
The decision of the appeals court was similarly unhelpful to Ecology, paralyzed between an invalid balancing rule for the larger volume of Skagit flows that is substantially identical to a rule left in place for the smaller volume Nooksack flows.
For residential property owners, the issues were never about the built environment—the wells allowed, the homes constructed, the property rights established—but the unbuilt environment, and how much future rural development the county can permit, given its water supply is oversubscribed. On that, the court provides no guidance.
"The court's decision essentially leaves the status quo in Whatcom County," commented Jean Melious, a land-use attorney who had filed the challenge of the county's growth plans to the GHMB. "What is the status quo? Everybody openly acknowledges that three-quarters of the county's farmers are using water without legal water rights. Everybody knows that most of the county's watersheds are closed to new water withdrawals, either year-round or during the dry season, yet tens of thousands of new houses will pump water out of the groundwaters that supply water to closed rivers.
"It's also no secret," she continued, "that the county's 20 years of noncompliance with the Growth Management Act has resulted in an impressive blueprint for new greenfield land conversion everywhere in the county: agricultural areas, rural areas, and oversized urban growth areas around cites."
Whatcom County, she points out, has planned and provided for the construction of the equivalent of five new Blaines outside of cities. It has fought successfully for the right to ignore this new development when it calculates the size of urban growth areas, and when it allocates future population growth to cities, the county's practice is to ignore the amount of new development that it has already planned for, outside of cites.
"The county," Melious notes, "still has the authority to correlate its planning with water availability, but the Court of Appeals' decision exonerates it from considering whether water is available for the very significant amount of new development that will use exempt wells in closed watersheds.
"Throughout the long administrative process before Whatcom County, and then before the Growth Management Hearings Board, the Dept. of Ecology never once said that it's a good idea to allow the kind of massive new development that can occur in Whatcom County, on farmland and in rural areas where water is not available."
No answer is coming from the courts, other than Whatcom County stands alone in its planning authority. That was already understood.
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Madolyn Smith Osborne | |
Born | Madolyn Smith January 1, 1957 Albuquerque, New Mexico, US |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1980–1994 |
Spouse(s) | Mark Osborne |
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Born | Madolyn Smith January 1, 1957 Albuquerque, New Mexico, US |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1980–1994 |
Spouse(s) | Mark Osborne |
Madolyn Smith Osborne (born April 21, 1957) is a former American actress.
Madolyn Smith Osborne was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She may be best known for her role in the movie Urban Cowboy, opposite John Travolta. Osborne is also known for her roles in the TV miniseries If Tomorrow Comes[1] and the feature film Funny Farm, which co-starred Chevy Chase.[2] In 1984, she appeared in 2010, with Roy Scheider. She portrayed Jehan Al Sadat, wife of Egyptian president Anwar Al Sadat, in the TV miniseries Sadat. She also starred in The Super with Joe Pesci, and appeared in All of Me with Steve Martin.
Osborne guest-starred in an episode of the sitcom Cheers titled "What's Up Doc?" (episode 164, season 7, first aired on Thursday, March 30, 1989) where she plays beautiful psychiatrist Dr. Sheila Rydell, whom Sam "Mayday" Malone (Ted Danson) actually fakes having impotence for, so he can be treated by her in hopes of sparking a romantic relationship.[3]
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The Middleby Corporation (NASDAQ: MIDD), a leading worldwide manufacturer of equipment for the commercial foodservice and food processing industries, today reported net sales and earnings for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2011. Net earnings for the fourth quarter were $34,559,000 or $1.87 per share on net sales of $243,760,000 as compared to the prior year fourth quarter net earnings of $20,994,000 or $1.13 per share on net sales of $207,233,000. Net earnings for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 were $95,473,000 or $5.15 per share on net sales of $855,907,000 as compared to net earnings of $72,867,000 or $3.97 per share on net sales of $719,121,000 in the prior year.
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- Provisions for income taxes amounted to $9.6 million at a 21.8% effective rate in comparison to $12.4 million at a 37.1% effective rate in the prior year quarter. For the full year provisions for income taxes amounted to $45.0 million at 32.0% effective rate in comparison to $41.4 million at a 36.2% effective rate in the prior year. The fourth quarter and full year tax provision reflects a lower effective rate on increased income in lower tax rate foreign jurisdictions and adjustments to tax reserves for reduced exposures.
- Operating cash flows amounted to $64.7 million during the fourth quarter and $130.4 million for the year. Operating cash flows for the full fiscal year were utilized to fund 2011 acquisitions of $177.4 million, repurchase $15.7 million of Middleby common stock, and make investments of $7.8 million for capital expenditures in fiscal 2011.
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Willmar man hurt in I-94 accident
FERGUS FALLS -- A Willmar man was injured Wednesday in a one-vehicle accident on Interstate 94 near Ashby in Otter Tail County.
Jose Sierra, 41, was transported by ambulance to Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls for serious but not life-threatening injuries, according to a report by the Minnesota State Patrol.
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