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A robotic system that includes a remote controlled robot. The robot may include a camera, a monitor and a holonomic platform all attached to a robot housing. The robot may be controlled by a remote control station that also has a camera and a monitor. The remote control station may be linked to a base station that is wirelessly coupled to the robot. The cameras and monitors allow a care giver at the remote location to monitor and care for a patient through the robot. The holonomic platform allows the robot to move about a home or facility to locate and/or follow a patient.
1. A remote controlled robotic system that is coupled to a broadband network, comprising:
a first remote control station coupled to the network;
a base station coupled to said remote control station through the broadband network; and,
a mobile robot wirelessly coupled to said base station and controlled through said first remote station, said mobile robot having a robot camera and a robot monitor that move together in at least one degree of freedom.
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transmitting a command to move a robot, through a broadband network from a remote control station to a base station;
transmitting wirelessly the command from the base station to the robot;
moving the robot in response to the command and, said mobile robot having a robot camera and a robot monitor that move together in at least one degree of freedom.
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20. A remote controlled robotic system, comprising:
a first remote control station;
a second remote control station;
a robot that contains a controller that arbitrates access control of said robot between said first and second remote control stations and, said mobile robot having a robot camera and a robot monitor that move together in at least one degree of freedom.
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transmitting a first command to move a mobile robot from a first remote control station;
transmitting a second command to move the mobile robot from a second remote control station;
determining which command has priority; and,
moving the mobile robot in response to the transmitted command with priority.
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This application is a divisional application claiming priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/206,457, filed Jul. 25, 2002 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,925,357.
1. Field of the Invention
The subject matter disclosed generally relates to the field of robotics used in the medical field.
2. Background Information
There is a growing need to provide remote health care to patients that have a variety of ailments ranging from Alzheimers to stress disorders. To minimize costs it is desirable to provide home care for such patients. Home care typically requires a periodic visit by a health care provider such as a nurse or some type of assistant. Due to financial and/or staffing issues the health care provider may not be there when the patient needs some type of assistance. Additionally, existing staff must be continuously trained, which can create a burden on training personnel. It would be desirable to provide a system that would allow a health care provider to remotely care for a patient without being physically present.
Robots have been used in a variety of applications ranging from remote control of hazardous material to assisting in the performance of surgery. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,762,458 issued to Wang et al. discloses a system that allows a surgeon to perform minimally invasive medical procedures through the use of robotically controlled instruments. There have also been developed "toy" robots for home use. Such robots typically have a relatively simple movement platform and some type of speech synthesis for generating words and sounds. It would be desirable to provide a robotic system that would allow for remote patient monitoring and assistance.
A robot that may include a camera and a monitor that are attached to a housing. The robot may also have a platform that is attached to the housing and coupled to a controller. The controller may be coupled to a broadband interface.
Disclosed is a robotic system that includes a remote controlled robot. The robot may include a camera, a monitor and a holonomic platform all attached to a robot housing. The robot may be controlled by a remote control station that also has a camera and a monitor. The remote control station may be linked to a base station that is wirelessly coupled to the robot. The cameras and monitors allow a care giver at the remote location to monitor and care for a patient through the robot. The holonomic platform allows the robot to move about a home or facility to locate and/or follow a patient.
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The remote control station 16 may include a computer 22 that has a monitor 24, a camera 26, a microphone 28 and a speaker 30. The computer 22 may also contain an input device 32 such as a joystick or a mouse. The control station 16 is typically located in a place that is remote from the robot 12. Although only one remote control station 16 is shown, the system 10 may include a plurality of remote stations. Additionally, although only one robot 12 is shown, it is to be understood that the system 10 may have a plurality of robots 12. In general any number of robots 12 may be controlled by any number of remote stations. For example, one remote station 16 may be coupled to a plurality of robots 12, or one robot 12 may be coupled to a plurality of remote stations 16.
The robot 12 includes a movement platform 34 that is attached to a robot housing 36. Also attached to the robot housing 36 are a camera 38, a monitor 40, a microphone(s) 42 and a speaker 44. The microphone 42 and speaker 30 may create a stereophonic sound. The robot 12 may also have an antennae 44 that is wirelessly coupled to an antennae 46 of the base station 14. The system 10 allows a user at the remote control station 16 to move the robot 12 through the input device 32. The robot camera 38 is coupled to the remote monitor 24 so that a user at the remote station 16 can view a patient. Likewise, the robot monitor 40 is coupled to the remote camera 26 so that the patient can view the user. The microphones 28 and 42, and speakers 30 and 44, allow for audible communication between the patient and the user.
The remote station computer 22 may operate Microsoft OS software and WINDOWS XP or other operating systems such as LINUX. The remote computer 22 may also operate a video driver, a camera driver, an audio driver and a joystick driver. The video images may be transmitted and received with compression software such as MPEG CODEC.
The speaker 44 is coupled to the bus 56 by a digital to analog converter 64. The microphone 42 is coupled to the bus 56 by an analog to digital converter 66. The high level controller 50 may also contain random access memory (RAM) device 68, a non-volatile RAM device 70 and a mass storage device 72 that are all coupled to the bus 62. The mass storage device 72 may contain medical files of the patient that can be accessed by the user at the remote control station 16. For example, the mass storage device 72 may contain a picture of the patient. The user, particularly a health care provider, can recall the old picture and make a side by side comparison on the monitor 24 with a present video image of the patient provided by the camera 38. The robot antennae 44 may be coupled to a wireless transceiver 74. By way of example, the transceiver 74 may transmit and receive information in accordance with IEEE 802.11a.
The controller 54 may operate with a LINUX OS operating system. The controller 54 may also operate X WINDOWS along with video, camera and audio drivers for communication with the remote control station 16. Video information may be transceived using MPEG CODEC compression techniques. The software may allow the user to send e-mail to the patient and vice versa, or allow the patient to access the Internet. In general the high level controller 50 operates to control the communication between the robot 12 and the remote control station 16.
The high level controller 50 may be linked to the low level controller 52 by serial ports 76 and 78. The low level controller 52 includes a processor 80 that is coupled to a RAM device 82 and non-volatile RAM device 84 by a bus 86. The robot 12 contains a plurality of motors 88 and motor encoders 90. The encoders 90 provide feedback information regarding the output of the motors 88. The motors 88 can be coupled to the bus 86 by a digital to analog converter 92 and a driver amplifier 94. The encoders 90 can be coupled to the bus 86 by a decoder 96. The robot 12 also has a number of proximity sensors 98 (see also
The low level controller 52 runs software routines that mechanically actuate the robot 12. For example, the low level controller 52 provides instructions to actuate the movement platform to move the robot 12, or to actuate an arm of the robot. The low level controller 52 may receive movement instructions from the high level controller 50. The movement instructions may be received as movement commands from the remote control station. Although two controllers are shown, it is to be understood that the robot 12 may have one controller controlling the high and low level functions.
The various electrical devices of the robot 12 may be powered by a battery(ies) 104. The battery 104 may be recharged by a battery recharger station 106 (see also
The robot 12 may have an arm 114 that supports the camera 38 and monitor 40. The arm 114 may have two degrees of freedom so that the camera 26 and monitor 24 can be moved from an upper position shown in
The robot 12 may include a drawer 118 that can automatically move between a closed position and an open position. The drawer 118 can be used to dispense drugs to a patient. For example, the drawer 118 may include a drug(s) that must be taken at a certain time. The robot 12 may be programmed so that the drawer 118 is opened at the desired time. A nurse or other health care provider may periodically "load" the drawer 118. The robot may also have a battery recharger port 119. Although drugs are described, it is to be understood that the drawer 118 could hold any item.
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The transmission rollers 126 are coupled to a motor assembly 132. The assembly 132 corresponds to the motor 88 shown in
Rotation of the output pulley 134 rotates the ball pulleys 138. Rotation of the ball pulleys 138 causes the transmission rollers 126 to rotate and spin the ball 124 through frictional forces. Spinning the ball 124 will move the robot 12. The drive balls 126 are out of phase so that one of the balls 126 is always in contact with ball 124. The roller pin 146 and bracket 144 allow the transmission rollers 126 to freely spin and allow orthoganal directional passive movement when one of the other roller assemblies 120 is driving and moving the robot 12.
The first linkage 150 may be coupled to a first motor 158 and motor encoder 160 by a gear assembly 162. Rotation of the motor 158 will cause a corresponding pivotal movement of the linkage 150 and arm 114. The linkage 150 may be coupled to the fixed plate 152 by a bearing 164.
The second linkage 154 may be coupled to a second motor 166 and encoder 168 by a gear assembly 170 and a pulley assembly 172. The pulley assembly 172 may be connected to the gear assembly 170 by a pin 174 that extends through the gear assembly 162 of the first motor 158. The second linkage 154 may be attached to a pin 176 that can spin relative to the first linkage 150. The pulley assembly 172 may have a belt 178 that couples a pair of pulleys 180 and 182 that are attached to pins 174 and 176, respectively. Pin 176 may be coupled to the first linkage 150 by bearings 182. The arm 114 is configured to allow wires 183 to be internally routed through the linkages 150, 154 and 156.
The third linkage 156 may be connected to a pin 184 that can spin relative to the second linkage 154. The pin 184 may be coupled to the second linkage 154 by a bearing assembly 186. The third linkage 156 may be structurally coupled to the first linkage 150 by a pair of pulley assemblies 188. The pulley assembly 188 insures a horizontal position of the third linkage 156 no matter what position the first 150 and second 154 linkages are in. As shown in
The gripper 116 is attached to the third linkage 156. The gripper 116 may include a pair of fingers 190 that are pivotally attached to a base plate 192. The fingers 190 are coupled to a motor 194 and encoder 196 by a gear assembly 198. The base plate 192 is coupled to the third linkage 156 by a bearing assembly 200. The motor 194 can spin the base plate 192 and fingers 192 relative to the third linkage 156.
The gripper 116 may further have a push rod 202 that can engage cam surfaces 204 of the fingers 190 to move the gripper fingers 190 between open and closed positions. The push rod 202 may be coupled to a motor 206 and encoder (not shown) by a linkage assembly 208. Actuation of the motor 206 will translate the push rod 202 and move the fingers 190. The motor 206 may have a force sensor that provides force feedback back to the remote control station. The input device of the remote control station may have a force feedback mechanism so that the user feels the force being exerted onto the gripper fingers 190.
In operation, the robot 12 may be placed in a home or a facility where one or more patients are to be monitored and/or assisted. The facility may be a hospital or a residential care facility. By way of example, the robot 12 may be placed in a home where a health care provider may monitor and/or assist the patient. Likewise, a friend or family member may communicate with the patient. The cameras and monitors at both the robot and remote control station allow for teleconferencing between the patient and the person at the remote station.
The robot 12 can be maneuvered through the home or facility by manipulating the input device 32 at the remote station 16. The robot 12 may also have autonomous movement. For example, the robot 12 may be programmed to automatically move to a patients room at a certain time to dispense drugs in the drawer 118 without input from the remote station 16. The robot 12 can be programmed to monitor and/or assist a patient 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Such a monitoring capability is enhanced by the autonomous recharging function of the robot.
The robot 10 may be controlled by a number of different users. To accommodate for this the robot may have an arbitration system. The arbitration system may be integrated into the operating system of the robot 12. For example, the arbitration technique may be embedded into the operating system of the high-level controller 50.
By way of example, the users may be divided into classes that include the robot itself, a local user, a caregiver, a doctor, a family member, or a service provider. The robot may override input commands that conflict with robot operation. For example, if the robot runs into a wall, the system may ignore all additional commands to continue in the direction of the wall. A local user is a person who is physically present with the robot. The robot could have an input device that allows local operation. For example, the robot may incorporate a voice recognition system that receives and interprets audible commands.
A caregiver is someone who remotely monitors the patient. A doctor is a medical professional who can remotely control the robot and also access medical files contained in the robot memory. The family and service users remotely access the robot. The service user may service the system such as by upgrading software, or setting operational parameters.
Message packets may be transmitted between a robot 12 and a remote station 16. The packets provide commands and feedback. Each packet may have multiple fields. By way of example, a packet may include an ID field a forward speed field, an angular speed field, a stop field, a bumper field, a sensor range field, a configuration field, a text field and a debug field.
The identification of remote users can be set in an ID field of the information that is transmitted from the remote control station 16 to the robot 12. For example, a user may enter a user ID into a setup table in the application software run by the remote control station 16. The user ID is then sent with each message transmitted to the robot.
The robot 12 may operate in one of two different modes; an exclusive mode, or a sharing mode. In the exclusive mode only one user has access control of the robot. The exclusive mode may have a priority assigned to each type of user. By way of example, the priority may be in order of local, doctor, caregiver, family and then service user. In the sharing mode two or more users may share access with the robot. For example, a caregiver may have access to the robot, the caregiver may then enter the sharing mode to allow a doctor to also access the robot. Both the caregiver and the doctor can conduct a simultaneous tele-conference with the patient.
The arbitration scheme may have one of four mechanisms; notification, timeouts, queue and call back. The notification mechanism may inform either a present user or a requesting user that another user has, or wants, access to the robot. The timeout mechanism gives certain types of users a prescribed amount of time to finish access to the robot. The queue mechanism is an orderly waiting list for access to the robot. The call back mechanism informs a user that the robot can be accessed. By way of example, a family user may receive an e-mail message that the robot is free for usage. Tables 1 and 2, show how the mechanisms resolve access request from the various users.
The information transmitted between the station 16 and the robot 12 may be encrypted. Additionally, the user may have to enter a password to enter the system 10. A selected robot is then given an electronic key by the station 16. The robot 12 validates the key and returns another key to the station 16. The keys are used to encrypt information transmitted in the session.
The recharger controller 262 is connected to a recharger infrared (IR) transceiver 264. The recharger IR transceiver 264 is coupled to a robot IR transceiver 266. The robot IR transceiver 266 is connected to the low level controller 52. The robot 10 may also have an alignment sensor 268 that can sense a target 270 on the station 106. By way of example, the sensor 268 may include an optical emitter and receiver that detects a light beam reflected from the target 270. The controller 52 may also sense a current flow into the battery 104 to determine whether the robot 12 is aligned with the docking station 106.
The secondary windings 250 are connected to the battery 104 by a charger circuit 272. The secondary 250 and primary 252 windings may each have wires 274 wrapped about a magnetic core 276. The station 106 may also have an oscillator/chopper circuit (not shown) to increase the voltage magnetically transferred to the secondary winding 250.
In operation, the robot 10 is moved to the battery recharger station 106 either autonomously, or by user control. The robot 10 is moved until the sensor 268 is aligned with the target 270. The low level controller 52 then sends a command to the recharger controller 262 through the transceivers 264 and 266. The recharger controller 262 then closes the relay 256 wherein power is transferred to the battery 104 through the windings 250 and 252. When the battery 104 is recharged, or the battery recharging process is interrupted by the user, the low level controller 52 transmits a command to the recharger controller 262 to open the relay 256. The robot 10 then moves away from the recharging station 106.
w1=is the drive angular velocity of a first ball 124.
w2=is the drive angular velocity of a second ball 124.
w3=is the drive angular velocity of a third ball 124.
V=is the input linear velocity for the robot. V has components Vx and Vy, where; Vx=|V| cos θ and Vy=|V| sin θ.
Let the angular velocity vector w=[w1, w2, w3]T. (4)
and the velocity vector:
The angular velocity vector w is calculated from equation (7) and compared with the actual w valves measured by the motor encoder. An algorithm performs an error correction routine to compensate for differences in the actual and desired valves.
While certain exemplary embodiments have been described and shown in the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that such embodiments are merely illustrative of and not restrictive on the broad invention, and that this invention not be limited to the specific constructions and arrangements shown and described, since various other modifications may occur to those ordinarily skilled in the art.
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Why did Jesus say he was the Son of Man which is in heaven???
I noticed you did not answer the question I posed to you about who said all men would be saved, Paul or Jesus, so which one do you think is the authority, the actual word of God?
The "slops" to which I refer is 1.) dumping Paul (though I don't see what that has to do with it) and 2.) diametric opposition to Jesus' doctrine by holding what flesh you're born with determines who you are, profiting everything or condemning in being born. 3.) You noticeably never answered whether you considered Jews or Negroes to be examples of "Tare" humanoids, unsavable Satan's spawn. Even if you did not subscribe to such wicked error yourself, what you teach is right up Nazi's and Skinhead's alley.
I don't know which individual person is a tare. Jesus said you will know them by their fruits.
You do not even hear what I teach, let alone are you a judge of it's source.
As for Paul being opposed to most of Jesus says, that is not true. If you don't know what Paul is really talking about then you make that a fact. The flesh does profit nothing, for it falls short of being and doing perfectly, and can not please God. But there is a bloodline from Adam, the son of God by His breath that was the wheat, the crop He planted. This crop will be perfected in Jesus Christ, when He is all and in all. There is a bloodline from the enemy, the tares, planted to destroy the crop, who's end is foreordained, as you know Jesus said plainly.
You did not answer the question about who said all men would be saved or who's word was the authority, Jesus, or Paul, in scriptural truth.
I have a little question for you. You said Jesus was refused by the Father to have the cup pass. Since all the apostles were asleep, how did one of them hear what was going on in the garden?? There is only one reference to this event, and by Luke who was not present in the olive grove. Luke 22:41And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, 42Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. 43And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. 44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. 45And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow, 46And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. If this verse were true why would the following statements have been made by Jesus. Who was, by the way, Immanuel, God with us.
By the way, why do you think Jesus and the Father are seperate when they are one and the same?
John 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 30I and my Father are one.
As for God's will about who He will save.Job 34:13Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world? 14If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; 15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Quote from: Peacetroll on May 30, 2008, 08:45:50 PM You did not answer the question about who said all men would be saved or who's word was the authority, Jesus, or Paul, in scriptural truth. The question has a false premise, it implies that only Jesus or Pauls words have authority on the matter.God's will is the final authority, this is why Jesus was not allowed to have the "cup" pass.God wills that all mankind be saved. Either the bible contradicts itself, or any verse that appears to contradict Gods absolute will is not understood properly.
You did not answer the question about who said all men would be saved or who's word was the authority, Jesus, or Paul, in scriptural truth.
I have a little question for you. You said Jesus was refused by the Father to have the cup pass. Since all the apostles were asleep, how did one of them hear what was going on in the garden?? There is only one reference to this event, and by Luke who was not present in the olive grove.
No surprises, you'll can't read or reason or answer anything posted to you.
You say nothing new and have no idea what scriptures really say, because to you your dogmas have much more credence than the words of Jesus Christ.
John 14:8Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
John 16: 24Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. 25These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
26At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
John 14:13And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. 15If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 20:27-29 (King James Version)King James Version (KJV)Public Domain 27Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. 28And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God.
29Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
What is the name of the Father?Matthew 16:13When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
John 3:13And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which IS in heaven.
John 1:18No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
John 17:26And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.Isaiah 62:2And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.Revelation 2:17He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.Revelation 3:12Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. I have shown who ever can hear the new name of God, from His own mouth. YHVH all you wish. The folling will still happen.
Zechariah 14:8And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. 9And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. And that name is all of the Adamic race. One as Jesus said, in the Father. MAN. Jesus Christ, the human being, was the first of many bretheren, Man, the beginning of the creation of God. God recreating Himself.
Revelation 3:14And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Good and evil is not being taught, it's being separated. Carry on.
Willy H, are you a crypto jewish infiltrator of christian movements?
I see you are always squaking about YHVH, and not spelling the Name, of who you think God is. Only jews do this.
Paul, Jesus Christ and the Father are one. He is Emmanuel, God with us. His word is THE WORD, made flesh so that God could speak and live and be a Savior to all Adam. Paul is His agent.
Good and evil is not being taught, it's being separated.
Jesus Christ and the Father are one. He is Emmanuel, God with us.
Hebrews 5:14But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.The Judgment is now (good and evil separated).


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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (Jan. 6) - The New Mexico State softball team steps into the 2013 season as the host of the Hotel Encanto Invitational Friday, Feb. 8 through Sunday, Feb. 10. The Aggies welcome the Nebraska Huskers, the Illinois-Chicago Flames and the New Mexico Lobos to the NM State Softball Complex for the three-day tournament.
Coming off a 24-29 season a year ago, the Aggies look to battle their way back to the top of the Western Athletic Conference with the talent of 13 returners and seven newcomers. Head coach Kathy Rodolph begins her 10th season at the helm of the program and see's unmatched potential for her 2013 team.
"We are really excited about the year," Rodolph said. "The girls have been practicing really hand and they just can't wait to put somebody else in the other dugout. I feel like this team can absolutely vie for a conference title and that starts with this weekend."
The Aggies return 13 from the 2012 squad, including four vital parts to the program, seniors Amber Olive, Alex Newman, Teresa Conrad and Tehani Kaaihue. Conrad and Olive were named to the All-WAC preseason team just weeks ago, while the team was picked to finish third in conference. The leadership of the four seniors sets the stage for the seven newcomers for the Aggies this season.
Five true freshmen, a redshirt and one transfer make up the new class for the Aggies. Lacey Rother comes to Las Cruces after spending one season with the South Carolina Gamecocks. Starting 10 games for the Cocks, Rother will spend time behind the plate for the Aggies this season. Also putting on the crimson and white for her first season is Carlsbad, N.M. native, Thai Ramirez. Helping her high school team to five straight district titles and a second-place finish at state since her eighth-grade year, Ramirez will be a quick contributor for the Aggies. Redshirt freshman Ayssa Vargas was with the Aggies during the 2012 season as a redshirt and will user that experience to her benefit on the field come Friday.
In the circle, NM State brings back Newman and junior Celisha Walker. Newman owns a 4.22 ERA after 2012 and worked for a 10-14 record after a team-leading 137.2 innings. Walker was the least experienced of the pitching staff last season with 86.2 innings under her belt, but she finished with a 7-4 record, good for a 2.85 ERA and two saves on the season.
"Alex Newman has come a long way for us and I feel like the number one strength of our team this year is pitching," Rodolph said. "I think some teams may have a dominating number one, but I don't think they'll have the depth that we have in all four of our pitchers."
Sophomore Karysta Donisthorpe spent just over 116 innings in the circle in her freshman season for a 3.73 ERA and 105 strikeouts. The Aggies add Makayla McAdams this season to round out the pitching staff.
During the weekend at home, the Aggies face Nebraska as the season opener on Friday before battling with the Flames on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. The Aggies wrap the home tournament with the first of three games against Rio Grande rival New Mexico.
Scouting the Huskers: The Aggies welcome the Huskers for the fourth straight season and the Friday meeting marks the first of four games between the teams. The Aggies travel to the land of the Huskers in March for a three-game series. With just a 4-11 overall record against Nebraska, the Aggies fell twice last year to Nebraska while the Huskers were ranked No. 24 in the country.
After a 33-22 finish in 2012, the Huskers spent a portion of the season in the top 25, but missed the mark for an NCAA Tournament bid. The team boasts a group of all-Big Ten selections from 2012 and returns three plays with a batting average above .300. With a .301 average at the plate, Tatum Edwards also had a 2.88 ERA in the circle with a 9-5 record. She pitched 80.1 innings for the Huskers and struck out 57 batters.
Scouting the Flames: Illinois-Chicago opens the 2013 season after an even 26-26 season in 2012. The Flames finished third in the Horizon League after opening last season in Las Cruces as well. NM State topped the Flames in 2012 during opening weekend with a 5-2 win. The team batted .293 as a team in 2012 and collected 37 home runs. Melissa Perish led the Flames last season with a .391 average and was named first team all-conference for her work on the field. Perish also had a .543 slugging percentage and .474 on-base percentage while hitting five homeruns.
In the circle, the Flames return one of their top pitchers from last season, Devin Miller. In 2012 she worked for 192.1 innings and started in 32 of the games for UIC. She posted a 14-13 record and finished the season with a 3.79 ERA.
Scouting the Lobos: The Lobos open the 2013 season with a tournament in Tempe, Ariz., for five games before finishing the weekend in Las Cruces. Last season, the Lobos finished the season 27-25 overall and worked for the top national ranking in home runs per game, second in slugging percentage and 14th in batting average. With a powerful offense in 2012, UNM had a .355 batting average as a team with 72 home runs, 203 RBI and .711 slugging percentage.Top hitter Chelsea Anaya comes back for 2013 after tallying nine homers and seven doubles on the season with a .327 batting average. She also had 33 RBI in 2012. Kaela DeBroeck was tops in the circle for the Lobos with a 13-6 record and a 5.66 ERA. She worked 133.2 innings in the circle for New Mexico.


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College Park, MD (Sports Network) - The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets scored five rushing touchdowns en route to a convincing ACC road victory over the depleted Maryland Terrapins at Byrd Stadium, 33-13.
The Yellow Jackets (4-5, 3-3 ACC) quarterback tandem of Tevin Washington and Vad Lee had just two completions on four pass attempts, but with 370 team rushing yards, it didn't matter much. Lee gained 60 yards on the ground while scoring twice, and Washington picked up 30 yards and a touchdown. Orwin Smith led the squad with 89 yards and a touchdown on 10 carries. Jeremiah Attaochu wreaked havoc for the Maryland offense, finishing with three sacks and a forced fumble.
Shawn Petty, a freshman linebacker who hadn't been under center since high school, got the start at quarterback for the Terrapins (4-5, 2-3) after the first four quarterbacks on their depth chart were all lost for the season to injury. Petty struggled out of the gate but finished with two touchdown passes, an interception and 115 yards on 9-of-18 passing. Stefon Diggs was the recipient of both Petty touchdown passes for Maryland, which lost its third straight contest.
Georgia Tech opened the scoring midway through the first quarter after a series that consisted of just one pass play compared to 11 runs. Washington scored from one-yard out to complete the drive.
Petty was then sacked by Attaochu on his first career snap under center and failed to complete a pass in the first quarter. He also lost a fumble, which was picked up by Attaochu to give the Yellow Jackets' offense terrific field position. Smith scored five plays later and Georgia Tech was in control.
Lee added to the lead midway through the second quarter with a short touchdown run, and the Yellow Jackets led 20-0 at halftime. Maryland gained 46 yards of total offense in the half and only picked up four first downs. Petty completed just one pass for one yard in the half.
Robert Godhigh scored his second touchdown of the season with 3:26 remaining in the third quarter to put Georgia Tech ahead, 27-0.
Although the game was well in hand in the fourth quarter, Petty's late touchdown passes to Diggs provided Maryland with some hope heading into next week.
The Yellow Jackets improve to 15-6 all-time against the Terrapins.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Sleeping with someone can be scary.
Just last Saturday, shortly after midnight, I was on that sweet edge of oblivion, the moment of no return when you feel yourself slipping under. At that instant Widdle Baby--already sound asleep—sat bolt upright, bobbed his head sharply and let out a blood-curdling scream. Then, still sound asleep, he flopped back down into his pillow.
Every wife will understand my reaction, which was to A) Wet the bed and B) Run to the kitchen for a bread knife. I didn't stab him, of course. I love my husband and also I'm still on probation. Just kidding, Mom!
The next morning we were groggily heading to church when Widdle asked, "Did I jump up in bed last night?"
"Did you ever," I replied dully, inspecting my split ends. (I really do feel sorry for the people who see me at the 8:30 a.m. service.)
He smacked the steering wheel. "I remember! I dreamed I was being attacked by a gang! They had my arms and legs pinned--all I could do was head butt. So I did!"
"So brave," I mumbled.
"It's not funny. I was fighting for my life like Bruce Willis," he said. "Yippie ki yay!"
Sleep scientists say the older you get, the more important it is to get quality sleep. Not more sleep, necessarily, but better sleep. The kind of deep slumber that lets you wake up refreshed and ready to tackle the day. Good sleep is a vital factor in functioning well.
If that's true, Widdle and I are dysfunctional. Nonfunctional, even. In fact, we are zombies.
Some back story: I prefer sleeping single. I slept with my sister 'til I was 12, and then snoozed alone until marriage at 26. Eleven years later I was once again blissfully solo, splayed out like a starfish in my queen-sized bed.
When Widdle Baby and I first wed, my sleeping subconscious threw a fit. I thrashed around like a gator in a death roll every night. Somehow, he dodged my elbows and stuck it out until we became compatible bedfellows.
This bliss lasted until our true colors emerged.
You see, as newlyweds I didn't snore and he didn't fight monsters. But today (after surgery that, ironically, improved my breathing), I gulp and gargle in my sleep. And he twists, turns, groans and punches. All. Night. Long.
Now, dreams don't mean much to me. I've had the same one for 40 years: A young woman in a white dress is grating nutmeg in a darkened kitchen on a sweltering summer day. It's a peaceful, soothing dream. But Widdle goes all Jackie Chan in REM.
Then there's that demon, insomnia. I went through a stressful period, years ago, when I literally slept two hours a night. I know it was two hours because for the other 22 I was working, shopping, cleaning, reading, grooming the dogs, sanding and repainting cabinets, running at 4 a.m., hanging wallpaper, baking compulsively and addressing Christmas cards in June.
Finally I went to my doctor and said, "I'm not… uh, kumquats?" He looked at my sunken eyes and shaking hands and said, "Here. Take this pill 30 minutes before bedtime." I did, and slept 13 hours.
That was in 1998, and that same pill works to this day. Or night. It's a blessing. When I take my magic pill, I'm going to be asleep in 30 minutes.
Unless somebody starts street fighting six inches away.
Julie R. Smith, who no longer believes in beauty sleep, can be reached at email@example.com.
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December 11, 2013
Lately we've been featuring a range of Sudoku-esque puzzles kindly provided by Muddled Puzzles. The puzzles owe their origin to Sudoku and go by the umbrella brand name Sudokion. Here is our latest addition: the Cross HyperLogikion. It's a challenging and beautiful specialty puzzle, only available in the Platinum (highest) challenge band. For more (and also less challenging) Sudokion puzzles, see our Sudokion page.
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December 10, 2013
If it wasn't for the Babylonians who lived millennia ago, paying your bill at a restaurant or checking your credit card bill would be much more painful than it already is. And so would anything else involving numbers. It was these Babylonian scholars who had the brilliant idea of making the value of a numeral dependent on its position in a string of numerals: if you see a 1 at the end of a string, you know it means 1, if it's shifted one to the left, you know it means 10, if it's shifted two to the left, it means 100 and so on. This means that using only the symbols 0 to 9 you can write down every single whole number, no matter how large, rather than having to invent a new symbol every time you go up a order of magnitude.
The Babylonian number system actually had 60 as its base, rather than base ten as we do. The numerals we use today, including the use of a symbol (zero) for nothing instead of a gap, stems from India.
Find out more on in the Fabulous positional system and out other articles about number systems.
December 9, 2013
I went Christmas shopping yesterday, to buy a book from the local bookshop that costs £7. I didn't have any money, so I borrowed £5 from Marianne and £5 from Owen. I bought the book and got £3 change. I gave £1 back to each of my kind colleagues and I keep the remaining £1. I now owe each of them £4 and I have £1, giving £9 in total. But I borrowed £10. Where's the missing pound?
There it is!
The answer is that the £10 are a red herring. There's no reason why the money I owe after the whole transaction and the money I still have should add up to £10. Rather, the money I owe minus the change I got should come to the price of the book, that is £7. Giving a pound back to each of Marianne and Owen just re-distributes the amounts. The money I still owe is reduced to £8 and the money I still have to £1. Rather than having £10-£3=£7, we now have £8-£1=£7. Mystery solved!
December 8, 2013
An infinite set is called countable if you can count it. In other words, it's called countable if you can put its members into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, ... . For example, a bag with infinitely many apples would be a countable infinity because (given an infinite amount of time) you can label the apples 1, 2, 3, ... and so on.
Two countably infinite sets A and B are considered to have the same "size" (or cardinality) because you can pair each element in A with one and only one element in B so that no elements in either set are left over. This idea seems to make sense, but it has some funny consequences. For example, the even numbers are a countable infinity because you can link the number 2 to the number 1, the number 4 to 2, the number 6 to 3 and so on. So if you consider the totality of even numbers (not just a finite collection) then there are just as many of them as natural numbers, even though intuitively you'd think there should only be half as many.
Something similar goes for the rational numbers (all the numbers you can write as fractions). You can list them as follows: first write down all the fractions whose denominator and numerator add up to 2, then list all the ones where the sum comes to 3, then 4, etc. This is an unfailing recipe to list all the rationals, and once they are listed you can label them by the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, ... . So there are just as many rationals as natural numbers, which again seems a bit odd because you'd think that there should be a lot more of them.
It was Galileo who first noticed these funny results and they put him off thinking about infinity. Later on the mathematician Georg Cantor revisited the idea. In fact, Cantor came up with a whole hierarchy of infinities, one "bigger" than the other, of which the countable infinity is the smallest. His ideas were controversial at first, but have now become an accepted part of pure mathematics.
You can find out more about all this in our collection of articles on infinity.
December 7, 2013
We've all got favourite numbers and some of us even go as far as thinking some numbers lucky or unlucky. Seven is probably one that crops up quite a lot in this context, so it's nice to know that it really is a lucky number. No, seriously, that's true! There is a mathematical recipe for finding lucky numbers, and 7 is one of them.
The recipe goes like this. Write down all the positive whole numbers starting from 1. First, you eliminate all even numbers, leaving only the odds:
The next number on the list after 1 is 3, so you now go and eliminate every third number, leaving:
The next surviving number after 3 is 7, so you eliminate every 7th number in the list of survivors. And so on. When you've finished this process the sequence of surviving numbers starts:
These surviving numbers are called lucky numbers. They are similar to the prime numbers in some ways. There are infinitely many of them, and they are the result of a sieving process (successively eliminating numbers) similar to the sieve of Eratosthenes which sieves out primes. When you try and approximate the distribution of the lucky numbers among the other numbers as you move up the number line, the result is akin to the prime number theorem. The lucky numbers even have their own version of the Goldbach conjecture, which states that any odd number greater than 4 can be written as the sum of two primes. One thing that isn't known, though, if whether there are infinitely lucky numbers that are also prime, or only finitely many.
All this doesn't make 7 lucky in the everyday sense of the word — but it makes us feel very lucky to have so many numbers to play with!
December 6, 2013
Now here's an important mathematical question: how likely are you to win the lottery?
1 in 14 million.
In the UK lottery you have to choose 6 numbers out of 49, and for a chance at the jackpot you need all of your 6 numbers to come up in the main draw. So the question is really how many possible combinations of 6 numbers can be drawn out of 49? There are 49 possibilities for the first number, 48 for the second, and so on, to 44 possibilities for the sixth number, so there are 49x48x47x46x45x44=10,068,347,520 ways of choosing those six numbers... in that order.
But we don't care which order our numbers are picked, and the number of different ways of ordering 6 numbers are 6x5x4x3x2x1=6! =720: there are six possibilities for the number that comes first in the list, 5 for the number that comes second, and so on. Therefore our six numbers are one of 49x48x47x46x45x44/6! = 13,983,816 so we have about a one in 14 million chance of hitting the jackpot. Hmmm...
But on a brighter note, we have just discovered a very useful mathematical fact: the number of combinations of size (sets of objects in which order doesn't matter) from a larger set of size is:
This sort of argument lies at the heart of combinatorics, the mathematics of counting. It might not help you win the lottery, but it might keep you healthy. It is used to understand how viruses such as influenza reproduce and mutate, by assessing the chances of creating viable viruses from random recombination of genetic segments.
You can read more on the uses of combinatorics, including in money matters (lottery), love (well, kissing frogs) and fun (juggling and Rubik's cubes):Combinatorics on Plus
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Brad Pitt's latest role is an unusual one: Furniture designer! The 48-year-old is teaming up with famed craftsman Frank Pollaro for a line of luxury home furnishings to be unveiled in New York on November 13th. The pieces include a 17-foot dining room table finished in 24K gold, and an epically huge bed.
Apparently Brad has been harboring secret carpentry ambitions for many years. "I've been doodling ideas for buildings and furniture since the early 1990s, when I first discovered [Charles Rennie] Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd Wright," the actor told Architectural Digest. "Actually, I found Wright in college, when looking for a lazy two-point credit to get out of French. It forever changed my life."
The duo hit it off when Frank was installing a custom commissioned desk in Brad's home and caught a glimpse of his sketch book. "I asked him, 'Why don't we make some of this stuff real?'" Frank said. "Brad said he thought that could be fun." But Brad is by no means the first celebrity who's gone out of their comfort zone with a side project. Although some have succeeded more than others. Head on down to the gallery below to see a few of our favorites from over the years!
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