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The invention described herein was made by an employee of the United States Government, and may be manufactured and used by or for the Government for governmental purposes without the payment of any royalties.
The invention disclosed herein generally relates to a current measuring electrical circuit. More particularly, the invention provides a system for utilizing measured parameters to discriminate insulators, such as dielectric objects, from conductors.
It has been known to utilize capaciflector/capacitive sensing for robotic collision avoidance and for "virtual feel" robotic assembly and servicing as long as the objects operated on were electrical conductors. Further, capacitive technology has been used for quality control measurement in industry and government, including dielectric glass quality control. Capacitive sensing technology has also been used for precision alignment of components and sub-systems in scientific instruments.
However, sensing insulating materials has been found to be more problematic than sensing electrical conductors. For example, known sensors may be unable to distinguish between an electrical conductor at a distance far away and an insulator at a close range. Also, the known capacitive technology is not able to accurately sense a dielectric film that is over a conductor.
Basic capacitive technologies measuring dielectric materials, such as glass, have several limitations. To gain sufficient electric field strength to pass through the stand-off range to the glass, to penetrate the glass and to return to electrical ground, a transformer may typically be used to amplify the electrode voltage by approximately a factor of 100. Even so, this type of system does not work near the edges of the glass. For example, these systems fail to discriminate between edge losses, alignment errors, and glass anomalies.
Capacitive sensing systems used for precision alignment of components and subsystems in scientific instruments have been successful, but are more than an order of magnitude less precise than embodiments of the present invention that employ a driven ground circuit with capacitive sensing or capaciflector technology.
Inverting amplifiers are not normally used to terminate a load and, usually provide no direct information about the electric current passing through the load. Inverted amplifiers may be used to terminate a load with the virtual ground feature performing that function. However, in this role, the input resistance may be unnecessary and reduces its sensitivity as a ground termination.
Thus, a problem exists in the art in connection with an inability of known sensors to accurately detect insulators. The insulators may be detected in general, however, there continues to be a problem of more precisely identifying and characterizing insulators and their relative permittivity.
Accordingly, it may be desirable to provide an electrical circuit for a sensor system that can accurately detect an insulative material, such as a dielectric. It may also be desirable to provide an electrical circuit for a sensor system which accurately detects and quantifies an insulative material. Further, it would be desirable to provide a sensor system that accurately detects an insulative material utilizing a driven ground electrical circuit that may be applicable to various sensing environments and sensing systems.
In one embodiment, a sensor system and method accurately detects an insulative material using a driven ground electrical circuit, hereinafter "driven ground", configuration. A driven ground may be a current-measuring ground termination to an electrical circuit with the current measured as a vector with amplification. A driven ground may also be a means of passing information via the current passing through one grounded circuit to another electronic circuit as input. It may ground one circuit, amplify the information carried in its current and pass this information on as input to the next circuit. A driven ground may further be a means of focusing electric flux (capacitor), magnetic flux (inductor), both electric and magnetic flux (radar) and, thereby, providing more accurate location of the ground points nearest the source. Additional features of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.
In one embodiment of the invention a sensing circuit is disclosed wherein the circuit includes: an electric potential source; an impedance load; and a driven ground comprising a resistor and an operational amplifier. The electric potential source drives a current through the impedance load to the driven ground, and the voltage source exciting a minus terminal of the operational amplifier to reactively generate an equal and opposite voltage driving a net potential to approximately. It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the invention, as claimed.
The accompanying drawings illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.
Reference will now be made in detail to exemplary embodiments of the invention, which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers will be used throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts. For simplicity and illustrative purposes, the principles of the present invention are described by referring mainly to exemplary embodiments thereof. However, one of ordinary skill in the art would readily recognize that the same principles are equally applicable to, and can be implemented in, all types of sensors and sensor systems, and that any variations do not depart from the true spirit and scope of the present invention. Moreover, in the following detailed description, references are made to the accompanying figures, which illustrate specific embodiments. Electrical, mechanical, logical and structural changes may be made to the embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. The following detailed description is, therefore, not to be taken in a limiting sense and the scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.
In one embodiment, a driven ground is electrically equivalent to a natural ground except the ground termination is accomplished in three (3) stages. 1). A virtual ground is physically connected to the electronic circuit to force the potential to ground at its termination point. 2). The action of the current, passing through the virtual ground, excites an amplified inverting voltage source to re-energize the current after it passes through ground potential and to provide an amplified measurement of the current vector passing through the circuit. 3). The current continues on through a selected impedance to natural ground where the circuit is completed. A Driven Ground can be applied to electronic circuits involving capacitors, magnetic circuits and/or electric currents through resistors. The concept can also terminate in combinations of all three (3).
At the outset, the term "driven ground" may be a simple, building block concept, capable of functioning with other building blocks of "natural ground," "driven source," and "driven shield" to form useful, capable electrical circuits and systems of many forms and variations. Each of the terms may be described more fully in the following description and representative applications will be introduced to demonstrate how the concept building blocks may be combined to form and operate in different systems.
The term "amplified driven ground," as used herein, refers to a reconfigurable combination basic concept (driven source, driven ground, natural ground) all based on a common current measuring operational amplifier ("op-amp") configuration, which can be switched from state to state. Driven source and driven ground may both be vector components. A driven source can be utilized as a driven sensor or a driven shield.
The term "single driven source," as used herein, refers to supplying electric flux to each of several driven ground sensors. The term "tri-state," as used herein, refers to driven source, driven ground, and natural ground being electrically reconfigurable tools that can discriminate dielectric from conducting objectives.
In general, a driven ground/driven sensor row over column sensor array configuration, as used herein, may provide electric field proximity pixels. This configuration measures relative surface deformations and/or a pressure/haptic touch force. Embodiments of the present invention may use both the electric field configuration and a method for interpreting the signals. Triangular row and column electrodes, as used herein, may form proximity arrays of rectangular pixels. Selective driven ground row and column scanning in arrays of rectangular pixels, as used herein, may discriminate dielectric from conducting objects.
As illustrated in
However, for purposes of explaining some of the principles of the present invention, the difference in capabilities between the driven ground 110 and natural ground 130 will now be illustrated in connection with
In contrast, as shown in
Referring now to
As shown in
Driven ground analysis begins by examining the equivalent circuit as shown in
I I R I =ΔV=g M ΔV−I O(R O +R FB) (2)
V M =−g M ΔV+I O R O ≈−g M ΔV (9)
For purposes of explanation, it is assumed:
gM=150,000 (DC open loop gain)
VM=0.1 volts
From equation (10), and estimated values from directly above:
From equation (9) and estimated value from directly above:
V M =−g M ΔV
Even if gM drops off by a factor of 10 (e.g., at high frequency and under large electrical impedance load), ΔV still is only 6.7 E-6 volts, and essentially ground. Since 7 micro-volts is an insignificant amount in this situation, and essentially zero, driven ground 110 is indistinguishable from natural ground 130 in performance.
Referring now to
(V−(V M −I O R FB))g M=(V M −I O R FB)
(V−(V M −I O R FB))g M =ΔV
This produces a voltage droop on the order of:
(which may be considered insignificant).
The following are representative applications based on the above described concepts of driven ground, driven source, and natural ground. These examples include a single source and driven ground array as shown in
Referring to
A portion of the electric flux couples through the air to the driven ground array 110. When a sensor probe (not shown) comes to near proximity of the insulator 200 (with dielectric relative permittivity>1, such as on the order of 4 or 5), the presence of the dielectric (glass in this instance) causes the electric flux going to the driven ground sensors 110 to increase. The increase in flux indicates a measure of electric field intensity and displacement current and is measured by each of the driven grounds 110. These measurements, in turn, indicate distance from the flux source, driven source 140, to the glass surface and the distance from the glass surface to the driven ground being measured. The driven ground configuration enables the flux measurements at each of the driven grounds to be made with great sensitivity. For example, open loop gains can be typically about 140,000 to 1, which enables 70�10−6 volt signal discrimination. Therefore, by comparing the readings between the sensors of the array, the range, tilt, edges, and irregularities in the glass surface can be measured and discriminated.
Referring now to
A general procedure for using the reconfigurable sensor in connection with
The tool may then move slowly to capture and seat on the workpiece 228, such as a fastener (bolt), using non-contact "virtual feel". A real-time blinking between sensor states occurs until it is established that only electrical conductors are present (no insulators). Once this is established, one may use a driven sensor configuration for virtual feel precision, and thus non-contact seating.
Now, the procedure utilizing driven ground 110 operations will be more closely examined in the presence of insulators/dielectrics. First note that when the path length from the driven sensor through the air gap, through insulator path and back across the air gap to driven ground 110 is less than or equal to the path length from driven sensor through the air gap and through the insulator layer thickness to natural ground 130, the driven ground 110 may read a current increase. This can be shown by the following equations:
d=Air gap width
ΔL=spacing between "driven sensor" and "driven ground"
∈R=Relative dielectric constant of insulator
t=Thickness of insulator
Simplifying equation (13) results in:
In some instances, it can be assumed:
And, substituting these values into equation (13) above, the result is:
Representative values for equation (15) would estimate ∈R=4 and a separation between driven source and driven ground of 0.030 in. (t/2). Hence, it can be easy to detect the presence of a dielectric film 0.060 inches thick with a relative dielectric constant of 4. In most cases this will be sufficient. For measuring even thinner insulator films, the separation between driven sensor and driven ground 110 can be further reduced. The real error in measuring the contact surface is
inches which can be compensated by moving slowly to touch contact and force/torque haptic sensing or by maintaining a � inch safe separation.
Referring now to
The deformation camera (haptic version shown in
A deformation camera operation could proceed as follows. When an object makes contact with either the upper or lower surfaces of the deformation camera, that surface may deform in response and a portion displaces toward the opposite surface. This, in turn, may cause the elastic insulation layer to compress and bring portions of the driven source columns close to portions of the driven ground rows directly below. This in turn, may increase displacement current passing between the driven source columns and the driven ground rows. The displacement current and the deformation may be used to determine the extent and shape of the deformation in a three dimensional manner. The elastic constant of the elastic insulation layer may be used with the deformation extent and shape to determine the force and pressure being exerted by the object. In applications measuring deformation only without generating haptic forces, the elastic insulation layer can be made to be very soft or eliminated all together, leaving an open separation space.
Deformation camera signal processing will now be explained with reference to
Displacement current passing between columns and rows may be apportioned on a pixel by pixel basis. The first estimate of this apportionment may be accomplished by the following procedure:
Displacement current may be measured for each of the columns and for each of the rows. As shown in
The losses are estimated to occur mainly (and presumably equally) between driven source columns YI and YJ and the current readings of these two columns may be adjusted accordingly.
A pixel on each driven ground row XI is calculated by the equation
Where the corrected values of YI and YJ may be used
The process, described directly above, may be repeated for each of the J driven source columns.
The next driven ground row XJ−1 will be apportioned into pixel values by the same process used for XI. In this manner, the entire driven ground set of rows can be apportioned into a mosaic of individual pixels.
The entire driven source set of columns can be apportioned into a mosaic of individual driven source pixels which mirrors the driven ground mosaic of pixels directly opposite it. It is also noted that XII=YJI for each opposing pixel pairs
Pixel apportionment can now be converted to a continuous surface shape by the process outlined in
Surface first order definition may use interpolation and curve fitting techniques to make the wire frame a more complete representation of the actual surface. Second order errors can be corrected using the following techniques:
Mechanical edge constraints and the way the layer/membrane is mounted to the frame can be taken into account. Also, the driven source column leakage from the ends of the columns can also be taken into account. Further, the mechanical stiffness of the membrane/layer in contact with the object can also be taken into account as can the mechanical properties of electric insulation separation space between the column and row surfaces. The non-linear properties of displacement current vs. pixel separation distance can also be taken into account, by a weighting process, to adjust surface shape.
As shown in the figures, there may be through holes 242 in the insulation layers to allow the bus lines to pass beneath each other and to connect to individual pixels as may be required. The total upper multi-layer flexible printed circuit board may be approximately 0.030 inches thick. The lower multi-layer, flexible printed circuit board may be approximately 0.030 inches thick. The lower multi-layer flexible printed circuit board may consist of a bottom electrical conductor 248 (about 0.005 inches thick) with a thin layer of insulation 246 above it (e.g., about 0.005 inches thick). This, in turn, may have a network of driven ground/driven source conductive rows for a total lower multi-layer flexible printed circuit board thickness of about 0.015 inches thick. The upper and lower multi-layer printed circuit boards may sandwich a haptic insulation layer 250 (e.g., about 0.125 inches thick) for a total skin thickness of about 0.170 inches thick. The haptic insulation layer can be made thicker if desired (0.25 or 0.5 inches).
For proximity sensing, the skin electronically configures itself as follows: The triangular pixel columns and rows have their operational amplifier drives configured as driven sources. The rows immediately below the elastic layer may be configured as driven sources and together form a driven shield. The layer below the driven shield column may be configured as a natural ground. The driven source triangular pixels detect, locate and provide a first estimate of the range of a proximal object as per a typical capaciflector array sensor. When the range becomes sufficiently close, the driven ground/driven shield may be switched to a driven ground configuration, as may the column and row, which intersect nearest the estimated center of the object. This intersection may be moved about the estimated location of the object by changing the row and column that are switched to driven ground. When the driven ground column and/or the driven ground row experiences an increase in electric flux, the presence of a dielectric insulator is indicated. This insulator search routine can be alternated with the capaciflector, all driven source configurations, and root motion, to determine the range and size of the object and its conductive/insulator properties.
With this technique, it may be possible to determine, in a manner similar to that described and illustrated in connection with
Post contact "haptic" sensing will now be discussed in connection with
When an object contacts the skin surface, the contacted pixels push the pixel column buses through the elastic insulation layer and towards the driven source rows. The driven source layer, behind the driven source rows, may perform the driven shield function for the driven source rows. The pixel column buses may be configured as driven ground columns and, in conjunction with the driven source rows, the driven shield layer and the elastic insulation layer in between, constitute a deformation camera which may perform as described above. In this formulation of a deformation camera, making the surface contacting the object a driven ground, rather than a driven source, may isolate its proximity effect from its haptic effect. The shape of the deformation volume and the stiffness of the elastic insulation layer may provide haptic information. Mechanical properties of the remainder of the skin structure contribute to the haptic information.
When a hot object appears, the column bus structure may expand thermally with respect to the strain gauge wires (they have different temperature expansion coefficients) and temperature strain may be measured. Strain gauge measurements need only be done on columns because information on object location may be separately measured by virtual feel pixels and/or haptic pixels. The strain gauges may measure using one switching current measuring operational amplifier connecting to the oscillator and the other switching current-measuring operational amplifier configured as a driven ground. Strain gauge wire resistance may be measured by the current passing through the termination operational amplifiers. The strain gauge termination operational amplifiers can be switched open (left with floating ground) during haptic measurements so they may not affect theses measurements. The same may pertain to proximity measurements.
The material identification sensor may be constructed as a thin, multi-layer, flexible printed circuit board set of two each pairs of state-switching driven source 140/driven ground 110 capacitive sensors. The two pairs may be located with one directly above the other and separated by a thin film insulator 200 isolating the two pairs from interfering with each other. The two material identification sensors of each sensor pair may have interlocking sensing fingers as shown in
The thin, multi-layer, flexible printed circuit board sensor head may be mounted to an elastic insulation layer 250 such that when the sensor may be pressed against an object, the sensor head may conform to the shape of the object. The sensor system may be capable of determining whether the object is an electric insulator, an electric conductor, or an electric conductor with a layer of insulation over it. If the material is determined to be an insulator, the sensor may measure its relative dielectric constant at sensor frequency. If the material is a conductor, the sensor may determine this, but will likely be unable to discriminate its exact conductivity beyond establishing it to be very conductive. If the material is an insulator film over a conductor, the sensor may determine this to be the case, to determine the insulator film thickness and to determine its relative dielectric constant.
Referring now to
Since ∈RC=1 for air or vacuum, we have determined ∈RM
IDS=Current from driven source (vector quantity)
IDG=Current passing through driven ground (vector quantity)
IDSM=Current from driven source mirror (vector quantity)
IDGM=Current passing through driven ground mirror (vector quantity)
∈RM=Relative dielectric constant of elastic insulation layer
∈RX=Relative dielectric constant of unknown material
With regard to sensing insulators, when insulators are being measured with no interference from neighboring conductors, a situation occurs similar to that in the calibration conditions, (Equations (16), (17), (18) above), except the unknown insulation material may be measured has a relative dielectric constant ∈R different from air and different from the mirror elastic insulator material. So, the unknown ∈RX can be calculated by:
The case of sensing conductors will now be examined. When
Determining the coefficient of conductivity precisely may be difficult because the length of the conductive path being measured may be too short to provide a useful voltage drop due to resistance.
The case of sensing mixed conditions where a conductor may be covered by a dielectric layer is addressed in the following.
Thus, the relative amounts of electrical current that goes to the driven ground relative to that which goes to the natural ground across the gap may be determined. From
With the multi-technology skin performing in the proximity sensing mode, the column and row triangles may sense as electrodes. When a set of triangles (one belonging to a row and one belonging to a column) is covered by a rectangular pixel displaced slightly from the electrode surfaces to prevent shorting, the signals from the electrodes can capacitively coupled through the common displaced pixel to an object ground. If a slight voltage imbalance may be created between the electrodes, the dominant electrode may take possession of the displaced pixel and that pixel may be capacitively coupled to the object. This imbalance can also be set so that there is no coupling between the triangular electrodes. With this technique, the pixels can perform as a set of n columns or as a set of m rows. This technique may serve to nearly double the effective area of each triangular electrode. For example, if it is assumed that the pixel displacement is 0.010 inches and the object is 1 inch away from the pixel, the displacement capacitance C can be calculated as
The pixel capacitance of object is:
Together they constitute a capacitance of:
Accordingly, driven ground sensing in combination with capaciflector sensing and natural ground and with the capability to switch to any of the three states in real time, may be much more effective than only capaciflector sensing in many respects. This hybrid technology can discriminate dielectrics from conductors and can provide precision guidance for robot tools in all expected space/industry working environments. It may also provide added safety and performance as a result.
Basic capacitive technology measuring dielectric materials, such as glass, have limitations that may be overcome using switching capaciflector driven sources in conjunction with driven and natural grounds. Amplified driven ground arrays may be more effective and precise than a single driven source electrode. They may be also simpler and less expensive.
For precision alignment of components and subsystems in scientific instruments, driven ground terminations, taken in conjunction with driven sources may provide a more precise measurement than using capacitive (or capaciflector) technology by measuring losses and leakage and by amplifying the measurement of displacement current passing through the object.
Capacitive array sensors and skins may have advantages for both robotics and prosthetics because they are rugged compact and flexible and because they may sense the presence of humans and conductors so well. Capaciflector arrays and skins may have better S/N than typical capacitive designs and have been successfully used. By incorporating a driven ground capability, sensitivity can be improved and dielectrics can be discriminated from conductors so their use as a collision avoidance safety system may greatly improve. This holds true for both capaciflector and capacitive-based arrays. Driven ground capabilities may also improve the haptic capabilities of skins. Multi-technology skins may have synergistically reinforcing technologies and capabilities in a simple, rugged and practical package.
Although a few embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it may be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes may be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention. Other embodiments of the invention may be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims.
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I dunno about you ladies, but today was seriously the first time I've gotten on BRU. W/ ODS, I think I spent the entire pregnancy either on BRU or Baby Depot's websites. There was so much cute stuff! W/ YDS, it was a little less, but mostly because there was no point in registering because I wasn't getting another shower.
I just got on there to look at cute stuff, but seriously - I feel like there's nothing I need. Maybe new bottle nipples for later, but I can get those at Wal-Mart for a heckuva lot cheaper. We have a double stroller, pack'n'play, YDS's baby bedding is pretty gender neutral so we can just reuse it. The only things we'll really need are a booster car seat for YDS and some baby gates b/c we'll be moving to a house w/ stairs, but again that stuff is so much cheaper at Wal-Mart or online. I may be through there later if this baby is a girl because they usually have pretty cute clothes.
It's kind of disappointing being setup already!


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Lets see they are in a finiancil bind, they are trying to set up a payment plan, that is per Sreve Freidman one of the companies owners, that promise was made in October of 2004, since then we saw a check for 350.00 in late December. It floors me that they can get away with this, everyday on some venue or another there is some sort of complaint about Stainsafe. Do not purchase their warrenty when buying a waranty from a retailer ASK who the warrenty is through if it's Stainsafe DECLINE to buy it.
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INTERFACE Modeling Agency Interface network Interface Modeling Agency a RIPOFF, we paid over $4000 for NOTHING!!!! Internet
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They will tell you how great your child looks and talk you into paying $100 first, then into $300 and once you have taken all the steps, including getting photos taken - they will ask you for 1000s of dollars so your child will be seen by all the big companies. We thought it would be a great investment, and thought that taking our child to photo shoots every now and then , which would help to save up for a good school later on... we are hard working people and trusted them to get us into the industry.
Once we paid everything and had the photos taken (which were HORRIBLE btw... the photographer unable to work with small children, the stylist hardly gave our son 2 minutes of "styling attention") we never heard anything from them again. NOthing.
When we called them after 6 months to figure out what was going on... nobody had time to talk to us. We tried a few times. They hung up on us after a while, because they knew we were starting to be trouble.
PLease don't go there... they will make you feel that YOUR child will make it, and the ones that didn't were probably just not pretty enough... Of course you will believe them. I can't believe they are still around ripping off people. How can they be stopped???
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For Federal Computer Week's 25th anniversary issue, we highlight some of the people, policies and technologies that have influenced federal IT. Although it is not possible to include all the dynamic and dedicated people who have been or still are a part of this marketplace, we start with some who have left their mark.
Tom Davis, a Republican who represented Northern Virginia, was the point man for both the government users of technology and the industry that wanted to sell to them for many of the 14 years he served in Congress. The Oversight and Government Reform Committee was not a highly prized committee assignment when Davis asked for it. But he had seen the challenge from both sides — as general counsel at government contractor PRC and as a government official trying to work within the system, as archaic as it was. As the committee's chairman, he drove change from Capitol Hill to streamline the processes while protecting the government customer.
"Tom is unquestionably one of the most knowledgeable legislators on federal procurement issues to have served in Congress," said Rob Burton, a partner at Venable law firm and former deputy administrator at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. "He championed significant acquisition reform legislation and was a dedicated supporter of the acquisition workforce."
Davis was the chief author of the Federal Information Security Management Act that standardized basic cybersecurity and access protections for computer systems. He was also instrumental in acquisition reform and training and served as chairman of the Technology and Procurement Policy Subcommittee and co-chairman of Congress' IT Working Group, which promotes a better understanding among lawmakers of key technology issues. He is now director of federal government affairs at Deloitte and Touche.
"While there are many members of Congress who are knowledgeable about the tech industry, there is still no one who is able to step up and totally fill his shoes," said Olga Grkavac, executive vice president for the public sector at TechAmerica. Davis' experience in procurement at the federal, state and local levels made his background unique, she added.
As technology has become more complex, oversight has become more fragmented and lawmakers seem less involved, said Bob Woods, president of Topside Consulting Group and a former senior official at the General Services Administration.
"Technology is more pervasive than ever, but Congress seems to have lost its way and does not have the interest," he said. "Technology does not seem to be as important" to lawmakers, which makes Davis' contribution to the federal IT community even more significant.
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I'm roughly 17.5weeks along with my first child! Pretty excited to say the least. My boyfriend is going nuts wanting to find out the sex, to the point where he can't/doesn't want to wait for my appointment March 21st where we're going to find out. He wants to schedule a 3D ultrasound for A.S.A.P.! Soooo I wanna see what you ladies think for fun: Boy or Girl?
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My host tells me they highly recommend against disabling mod_security though, as it then poses some large security risk.
Can anyone expand on this please? I have databases with peoples names/phone numbers/addresses/ etc stored on them, i dont want to open up any security holes


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- Believing Their Own Lies: Dukat is so warped, that he really believes his own message.
- Chocolate Baby: Dukat tells his followers that the half-Cardassian baby is a sign from the Pah-Wraiths.
- Creepy Child: During production, the showmakers decided an animatronic baby would be less trouble than a real one. And decided to hire, of all people, the creators of Chucky to make it. The results were predictably creepy. And a real baby was used in the end.
- Cult Colony: What Dukat has set up on Empok Nor.
- Cyanide Pill: Promazine, the pill that the cultists were going to use. It was developed by the Cardassian Obsidian Order for their agents in the event of capture. Not only does it kill, but it causes the body to crumble to dust not long after, leaving no evidence behind.
- Driven to Suicide: One of the cultists willingly swallows his promazine pill, even though it's been revealed that Dukat is a fraud.
- Have You Told Anyone Else?: Not only does the mother admit she hasn't told anybody the truth, she also confesses that she doesn't think she can lie to her husband. While standing alone with Dukat in an airlock.
- Oh Crap!: Dukat, when Kira knocks his fake suicide pill to the ground amid many real ones. It's one of the few times in the series where he comes close to genuinely losing his cool.
- Pet the Dog: Dukat contacts DS-9 to have them pick up Kira after his cult commits suicide.


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Looks like it will be a hard plat no doubt. Still got to get DS2 jeez.
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This list looks very most intriguing. Shame that I've decided not to play this one when it comes out. But who knows, if it's really that good / true to the horror formula, I might find some time.
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The co-op ones are the put off for me. If I can split-screen it with a second controller on the lowest difficulty, I will. If I can't, the odds of me getting this plat go way down. Especially if the connectivity is anywhere near as bad as it was for DS 2's horrendous multiplayer mode. Either way, probably not a day one buy for me.
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Sweet Jeevus! The list looks wonderful! Hopefully the co-ops can be done with a second controller, for online play doesn't interest me with co-op. But I am seriously looking forward to "Pure Survival". I crushed hardcore on DS2, it wasn't hard at all, but this sounds enticing! Should be awesome, can't WAIT!
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Psh, Hardcore, Pure Survival, Classic... bring 'em on. If I can do NYMHC in Max Payne, I can do anything this game can throw at me.
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I hate bursting anyone's bubble but, there will NOT be split screen co-op. The developers have been saying this from the beginning. There are elements in co-op that wouldn't do the game justice in split screen. In some places one character will see one thing while the other will see something else. If you could see it on the same screen it would take away from the experience.
I do understand how peeps don't like online for various reasons(this includes me, I don't like competitive), but I like what they are trying to do.
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Looks like a challenging list, a lot of trohies for different collectibles and difficulty levels, though I bet the only one that really matters is the hardcore mode, if u can do that the others difficulties shouldn't be a problem. I kinda feel that the co op doesn't really fit in the series and they added trophies for it to force ya play it too . Things could be a lot worse too, at least they didn't bring back those terrible online modes from ds2. I have the platinum in ds2, ds1 and extraction and I am willing to get it on this one too. Hard to the core!
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I wonder what is the Survivalist trophy about...
"Complete the game in Pure Survival Mode"
A kind of DOOM³ Nightmare perhaps?
Health stuck at 25% and no health pack (also no saves?)
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One can only speculate Dederum. Personally I'm happy that hard core is there again and also hoping that the game will be harder overall as well.
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fast train college The students were disrespectful and smoking weed every day on campus and the school retaliated on me when I exposed that I knew something was going on that was illegal. I saw four teachers "laid off" pembrokepines, Florida
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My first class was a class to introduce us to the college.I believe my first teacher was Mr. Sanchez. My next class was Mr. Bush and he was a great teacher. I learned alot in his class.
There were problems though with some students. Certain students would be disrupting the class and when he would ask them to stop they would curse at him and tell him to shut up. He then told the student to leave and go to the office.
The student left but with words of anger and then 10 min later they would be back in the class like nothing happened. The students were not repremanded for thier actions in the class room at all and Mr. Bush had to let him back in the classroom even though in any other school that would have meant termination.
Every day I came to school students were in the back smoking weed. Alot of students were picked up in Dade county by fasttrain buses. Its like the school preyed on low income people because they felt they could dangle a better life opportunity in front of them just to get government money.
I also was borrowing money to pay this college cause they said my financial aid didnt cover the tuition. I am and was at the time on foodstamps so i did not have the money to pay them.
A friend of mine helped helped me pay. They took hundreds of dollars from me that I had borrowed. I had complained of the criminal activity going on and the disrespect by certain students and nothin was done.
I came to school in May of 2012 to find that the FBI were there and they were investigating the school. When I came back to school I asked what happened and they gave some false stiory. Then Mr. Bush got let go by the school and I went to the office and asked them why one of the best teachers was gone they falsly accused him of passing students who didnt make the grade. That was and is still a lie. Mr. Bush is an honorable man with morals and standards. His character is that of a good and knowledgable man.
So I knew they were falsly accussing him and taking advantage of us less fortunate so I was forced to withdraw. I had alot of stress put on me during my pregnancy due to this school.
Cynthia Brayn
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EsuranceP.O.Box 5250 Sioux falls, South Dakota United States of America
Esurance Fraudulent Advertisement using low price rates to lure then cancel to obtain higher prices Sioux falls, South Dakota
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In march I received intent yet again for CANCELLATION. This time due to the fact one of my sons used my address as his mailing Address. I told them he did not live with me and suggested they EXCLUDE him. The Phone Representative said "NO that was not needed to see if I could get another address. I informed him my address was where he wanted his mail and that I DID NOT want to play anymore GAMES. He insisted that I would be charged a large fee. I told the representative that I needed to know why I would be charged a fee for an exclusion he had no answer. As I was on hold I overheard him swaering and using derogatory names towards Black people (N-word).No word for 1 month and then I was mailed a letter of intent of cancellation spoke with a Representative again (more WASTE of my TIME for Esurance to play their games) So I again told ESURANCE to simply exclude my son who did not live here. This time the Representative agreed and stated that now they Need information of a person that they thought lived in my home but know they had no information on him, and need me to sign and return a form. I was like okay you already INVADED my PRIVACY and want me to confirm what you suspect. This was on the 8th of April and they told me it had to be back in their hands on the 12th. I told them to send it and nothing was sent as I had suggested from the beginning of this 3 ring circus of a Corporation. Instead these carnival workers used another form of email and sent me this document which inadvertently wound up in my spam mail. I went on vacation while checking my email the whole time and nothing.
Today (3/19/2011) I was balancing my books (unlike the US Government) when I noticed that money from esurance was credited to my account. So I called them and the Carnival worker (no carnivals for this person to pull a lever at) begin to get smart with me. And told me that I was canceled because my son could not afford insurance and lived with me. I told the guy everything above and he connected me with another unemployed Carnival worker with more teeth and she begin demoralizing me and my family. I said it was Esurence's responsibility to email me what we agreed to. So they sent a pdf.doc again. And again it was not in my email as was all the other quotes from my initial qoute and confirmation letters. So I checked spam and there it was with in ANOTHER form of email. I filled it out and resubmitted it within (2) hours and called them back to confirm. After they confirmed they sent was rude and sent me to a (get this) Professional agent who would give me a new quote!
The new quote for a NEW POLICY and it was $160 more than what I originally paid. When I ask how come the raise the Professional Lever puller of the marry-go-round she simply stated I could not get my on-line discount. I suggested that I go on-line and continue she disagreed but stated I could pay the quote in full and then later they would give me a refund. I suggested she was freaking ignorant and that would only make sense to a unemployed Carnival Worker. So then I ask to remove the car that had Full coverage she removed only $200 I said okay lets remove the one with merely liability and the cost of insurance was the same for (1) car. Yes the car with (1) liability was higher than the cost of the additional $160 with (2) Cars. I told the con-Artist my education was a little higher than a carnival worker and declined the rip-off of this http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/SummaryQuote.asp?symbol=WTM&selected=WTM traded company.
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Baldivieso led Bolivia to a poor Copa America Centenario showing where they finished bottom of Group D without a single point.
The 44-year-old had a record of 10 losses and one victory in his 11 games in charge, and was relieved of his duties ahead of the next round of South American World Cup qualifiers, with Bolivia sitting second last on three points from six games.
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