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wow after reading the thread on scum, it sure is an ugly situation. i'd just leave the negative feedback for her opting out on the auction and file a non-selling seller action against her. sure she's doing the right business move by cancelling so she can sell for more (her excuse doesn't hold much weight with me), but by doing so she will have to be prepared to deal with those consequences. so long as no one actually lost money, they should just leave the negative feedback and whatnot, and just move on looking for the next good deal.


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There in the corner of an attic, stands a child holding a jar of light. Dust and gloom surround her. In front of her, she seeks her own vision in the antique mirror, and to her absolute delight and surprise, she sees a dress that brings her pale countenance to life. Counting her buttons and tying her bows, she twirls like a dervish, as time moves slowly into the past. With deaddy bear in hand she skips lightly down the stairs, as her skirt billows out around her. Alas, when she reaches the dining room and tugs at the skirt of the beautiful woman bent over her, arms outsretched, she is suddenly and sadly alone once more, left to haunt herself for all eternity.
A resplendent party dress for Cookie, designed for the Thursdays Child product line, and a top stand alone dress product. Textured to perfection to lend its haunting and delicate beauty to the darkness within in three distinctly different styles, this is a go to dress for one of the most beautiful original figures created today.
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You said picnic roast, so first off, if the skin is on, I would peel it off, trim off the fat under the skin to no more than 1/8" or so. My favorite rub for pork is to mix Simply Marvelous Sweet and Spicy with about 25% medium gring black pepper and coat the entire thing. Let it sit for an hour. Meanwhile, I fire my UDS or Kettle to 225F, with the vents set to reach 275F or so. I put the meat on at 225F, close it up and let the cooker run, after a couple of hours, it will be 275F or a little higher, let it go.
If you have a put thermo, use it as a guideline, when it gets to 185F to 19oF internal temperature, I will probe it, usually it is not quite done, the probe meets resistance. Once the probe goes in easily, I will grab a piece and pull, if it comes from the shank easily, then I figure it is done. Wrap in foil, cooler rest for 2 hours. Pull.
I like to take the foil drippings, defat them using a separator, then mix with equal part of vinegar. Then dump that into and equal part of BBQ sauce. Shake it up, serve in a squirt bottle. My pork tastes good just like that.
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Discussion in 'iPod touch' started by redroverr, Jan 31, 2008.
i see this everywhere. a little insight plz?
iPod Touch.
just a quicker way of 'ipod touch' tbh. Maybe some people are just lazy? Please Register or Log in to view images
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I guess its better than writing ipodt?
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Because an old member and mod named "Nintendodude" first started referring it as that and it stuck.
It sounds british if said outloud.. I don't really like it being referred by the title of iPot, why not just say the Touch or iPod Touch? But please, not the iTouch..
Touch is fine and thats what I usually refer to it as....itouch is just well.....its not that bad but for some reason it sort of annoys me as well...
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Basic Millet
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- Bring water to boil.
- Add all ingredients.
- Bring back to a boil stirring frequently.
- Cover and simmer over medium-low heat for approximately 15 minutes.
- Water should be absorbed and millet should be fluffy.
- For slightly different flavor toast millet before cooking.
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My attempts at making millet just never seemed to work out... I was on the verge of declaring that I didn't like millet! But this is almost a perfect way to make it. I toast the millet first in a dry pan, because I think it gives it a better flavor and texture. I was worried that the listed proportions would leave the millet soupy, so I used 3/4 cup of water to 1/4 cup of millet. It simmered for a lot longer than 15 minutes -- closer to half an hour -- but after that, it was perfect!
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One-pan English breakfast
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- fat26g
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- sugars2g
- fibre1g
- protein25g
- salt2.27g
Heat the grill to high. Heat a medium non-stick frying pan, add the chipolatas and fry for 3 mins. Add the bacon, turning occasionally, until it starts to crisp, about 5 mins more. Tip in the mushrooms and continue to cook for a further 3-5 mins. Drain any excess fat and move the ingredients so they are evenly spread out.
Season the eggs, then add to the pan, swirling to fill the spaces. Gently move with a fork for 2 mins over a low-medium heat until beginning to set. Scatter over the tomatoes, cheese, if using, and chives, then grill for 2 mins until set. Cut into wedges and serve with your favourite sauces.
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Fantastic - my wife prefers this version as it minimises washing up. I still prefer to cook all the ingredients first then scrape onto a plate. Then cook the omelette (use some milk in the mix to lighten) - add the ingredients to the top half with loads of strong cheddar and ketchup, fold it over until cooked. I cut this into 2 and serve each portion as a sandwich between thick slices of granary bread (from an uncut loaf) which must be buttered with real butter!
The filling oozes out when you take large bites - delicious! I have been known to put some slices of black pudding in as well (substitute HP for the ketchup in this case). For an interesting change put a teaspoon of Marmite into the filling.
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Maubeuge under the Germans
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Maubeuge Fortified town under siege
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Bailleul, a model of Flemish reconstruction
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|Christopher I. Reynolds
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|Northrop Corporation
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The invention relates in general to force transducers such as gyroscopes and accelerometers and in particular to a closed loop control apparatus and method which provides a precise definition of the forces applied to maintain a force transducer system in a selected balanced condition.
Force transducers represent a class of force responsive elements in which the component elements of the transducer respond to externally applied forces by deviating or perturbating from a selected known and measured orientation or position. The component elements also respond to applied restoring forces to return the respective component elements to their selected known orientation or position. Typically, a force transducer further includes sensing devices for providing error singals having, for example, signal amplitudes proportional to the perturbation, from the selected orientation, of the transducer component elements.
Typical examples of force transducers are the gyroscope and the accelerometer. In the gyroscope, pointing errors, that is, a change from a selected orientation caused by an axial displacement of the gyroscope structure, cause an internal sensing element to provide an error signal. Gyroscopes are typically operated in either a closed loop or open loop mode; and in the closed loop mode, electrical signals responsive to the error signal are applied to torque motors or similar devices within the gyroscope assembly to return the gyroscope to its original known orientation relative to its case. This return to the original orientation corresponds, in turn, to a reduction of the error signal amplitude generated through the sensing element.
Accelerometers similarly provide an error signal, generated by a sensing element, when the assembly is subject to a "disturbing" acceleration (dv/dt) force. The accelerometer, like the gyroscope, operates in an open or a closed loop configuration; and accelerometer "movement" from a known orientation is compensated for by the application of a balancing restoring force generated in response to the error signal.
For both the gyroscope and the accelerometer, the magnitude and duration of the applied restoring forces provide a measurement of the forces (and hence of other physical parameters such as distance and velocity) to which the force transducer was subjected. As a result, it is important to be able to accurately measure the magnitude and duration of the externally generated restoring forces.
Previously, externally generated restoring forces were typically derived either in a continuous analog feedback loop or in a closed loop wherein the time axis was finely quantized to control the time duration during which forces were applied to return or hold the force transducer to or at the selected orientation. Both of these methods of generating the rebalance restoring force can be improved (in differing amounts) because the methods are unable to determine, with great precision, the time-duration/amplitude product of the forces applied to the force transducer over time periods of interest.
In those force transducers wherein the electrical restoring force signals are linearly related to the resulting restoring force applied to the transducer system, the ability of the external control system to determine and integrate the applied forces over time is acceptable using available time quantized systems. But, as the need for greater speed and stability grows, designers are choosing more efficient torque motors in which the restoring force applied to the transducer is proportional to the square of the applied electrical signal. None of the prior systems provide sufficient stability, precision, or reliability to enable the integral of the applied restoring forces to be accurately generated; and hence they are unable to determine with the generally required accuracy, the various measurement parameters used for proper operation of the apparatus incorporating the transducer.
A principal object of the invention is therefore a high reliablity, stable, and precisely controlled closed loop apparatus and method which enables the accurate determination of measurement parameters in force transducer systems employing square law electro-mechanical torquing elements. Other objects of the invention are an electrically simple, cost effective, reliable apparatus employing proven technologies to provide an accurate force transducer control apparatus and method. Yet another object of the invention is a control circuit and method for a gyroscope or an accelerometer which enable precision readout and high performance.
The invention thus relates to a closed loop control system for maintaining a force transducer assembly in a balanced position. The transducer assembly has a sensing element which provides an error signal representing a sensed perturbation or misalignment from the balanced position and further has a rebalance transducer. The control system provides a force rebalance signal during each of a succession of time intervals to actuate the rebalance transducer. The rebalance transducer provides a restoring force to counteract the sensed perturbation to maintain the sensing element in the balanced position.
The invention features a feedback loop control circuit having an element responsive to the error signal for providing a respective digital representation for the rebalance signal for each of the successive time intervals, and an element responsive to the digital representations for providing the force rebalance signal to the rebalance transducer assembly during each time interval at one of a plurality of predetermined discrete amplitude values. The signal during each time interval has a constant amplitude.
In one particular aspect of the invention, the feedback control circuit features a square root element which is responsive to the error signal for providing an output signal having a value substantially equal to the square root of the value of the error signal; an analog-to-digital element for repeatedly generating, for each time interval, digital representations of the successive square root signals; a digital-to-analog element for providing an analog signal output having discrete amplitude values determined by the repeatedly generated digital representations; and a circuit element which is responsive to the analog signal output for deriving the force rebalance signal therefrom and for applying the rebalance signal to the rebalance transducer. Thereby, the digital representations correspond to the instantaneous restoring force applied to counteract the sensed perturbations and the restoring force has plural discrete values.
In yet another particular embodiment of the invention, the loop control circuit features an analog-to-digital element for repeatedly generating for each time interval a digital representation of the error signal; a digital processing element for generating a digital drive signal value, for each interval, in responsive to the respective digital representations; a digital-to-analog element for providing an analog output signal having discrete amplitude values determined by the digital drive signal values; and a circuit element responsive to the analog signal output for generating the force rebalance signal therefrom and for applying the rebalance signal to the rebalance transducer. Preferably, in this embodiment, the digital processing element is a digital computer.
In each of the embodiments of the invention, the operating system preferably has the digital measurement element which records the digital representations generated by the loop control circuit and which generates therefrom measurement data. That measurement data can be used for example to determine with great accuracy the forces acting upon the force transducer because the applied forces have known discrete amplitude values and known discrete constant time durations, thereby providing a highly accurate time duration/amplitude product.
The method of the invention relates to maintaining a force transducer assembly in a balanced position wherein the transducer assembly has a sensing element for providing an error signal representing sensed perturbations from the balanced position and wherein the assembly further has a rebalance transducer. The method features the steps of providing a force rebalance signal during each of a succession of equal duration time intervals; applying the force rebalance signal to actuate the rebalance transducer to provide a restoring force to counteract the sensed perturbations and to maintain the sensing element in the balance position; providing the force rebalance signal during each time interval at one of a predetermined plurality of discrete amplitude values; maintaining the signal level of the force rebalance signal constant during each time interval; and providing respective digital representations for the amplitude value of the rebalance signal for each of the time intervals.
Other objects, features, and advantages of the invention will appear from the following description of particular embodiments of the invention taken together with the drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is an electrical schematic representation of a typical force transducer useful according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is an electrical schematic representation of a closed loop control circuit according to a first embodiment of the invention; and
FIG. 3 is an electrical schematic representation of a closed loop control circuit according to a second embodiment of the invention.
As noted above, the apparatus according to the invention is applicable to force transducer assemblies such as gyroscope and accelerometer assemblies. In particular, in those circumstances wherein the gyroscope is strapped down and force rebalance signals must be applied to a rebalance transducer to maintain a selected balanced condition within the gyroscope, the present invention provides precise data regarding the magnitude and direction of the restoring forces. This data then enables measurement calculations to be reliably and accurately performed.
Referring in particular to FIG. 1, a typical gryoscope assembly 10, with two sensitive axes and with which the invention is particularly advantageous, has a synchronous three-phase motor 12 which receives input power over lines 14, 16, and 18. Motor 12 is referred to in the art as the "spin wheel" or "rotor". After motor 12 has attained synchronous speed, force rebalance transducers, here torque motors 20 and 22 having coil windings 20a, 20b and 22a, 22b respectively, under the control of driving input force rebalance signals over lines 24, 26, 28, and 30, orient the axes of the synchronous motor to a desired position , the balanced condition. The position of the motor 12 axes is provided by output signals over output lines 32, 34, 36, and 38 of position sensing detectors 40, 42, 44, and 46 respectively. The balanced condition is most generally a "null condition" which corresponds to a signal output over lines 32, 34, 36, 38 of zero value. As is well known in the art, an AC input signal is provided to the series connected position detector coils over a line 48.
The illustrated gyroscope 10 is a typical two axis gyroscope. Other gyroscope assemblies could also be used including those having one or three independent axes. In the discussion which follows, only one axis of the illustrated two axis gyroscope assembly is described, it being understood that the other axis would operate, and be controlled in the same manner.
Referring now to FIG. 2, the gyroscope assembly 10 according to the invention is connected and operated in a closed loop configuration. Assuming for illustration, that it is the axis corresponding to torque motor 20 which is being controlled, the output signals from the gyroscope position detectors are provided over lines 32, 34, 36, 38 to a preamplifier 50 wherein the position detector output signals are combined (and demodulated as necessary) to provide a preamplifier output signal over a line 52. In general, and in the illustrated embodiment, a loop compensation element 54 provides desirable amplitude and phase compensation and provides at its output, over a line 56, what is designated the system error signal. The system error signal corresponds to the amount of deviation of the gyroscope axis (here the X axis) from a designated null or zero balanced position of the position detectors 40, 42, 44, 46. This null condition or position, generally represented by a zero amplitude error signal output from the loop compensation element 54, is employed to maintain a desired balanced condition for the gyroscope assembly.
The gyroscope assembly 10, the preamplifier 50, and the loop compensation element 54 thus combine to provide an error signal to the remainder of the closed loop. These elements, thus grouped together, are the force transducer system 60, it being understood that the components of the force transducer system 60 may vary in both composition and type depending upon the particular application. Thus, in other embodiments of the invention, preamplifier 50 may not require a demodulation circuit function, and/or loop compensation element 54 may not be required.
In the illustrated embodiment, the output of the force transducer system over line 56, the error signal, passes through a square root circuit element 62 which provides at its output over a line 64, a signal level output voltage which has an amplitude equal to the square root of the input voltage amplitude on line 56. Such circuits are well known in the art.
An analog-to-digital converter 66 receives the square root output over line 64 and provides, at a specified sampling clock rate, a digital number output over lines 68, the digital outputs representing in each successive equal duration time interval, defined by the clock period of the analog-to-digital converter, the signal level over line 64.
In the illustrated embodiment, the digital output of the analog-to-digital converter 66 specifies the restoring force to be applied to torque motor 20 (this being the X axis motor). The digital number represented by the signal levels over lines 68 thus represents precisely the restoring force applied by motor 20 and the clock period of A to D converter 66 represents the duration during which that force is applied. Consequently, the digital representations over lines 68 when applied to a digital measurement apparatus 70, which may be for example a computer, enable the precise determination of the time/force product applied to the gyroscope assembly 10 and hence a precise determination of the integral of the external forces being counteracted, that is, the forces which caused the gyroscope assembly to deviate from its balanced (null) position.
A digital-to-analog converter 72, having clock signals synchronized to the clock of the analog-to-digital converter (by connections not shown), provides an analog output signal over a line 74 which represents precisely the digital number representation over lines 68. The output of the digital-to-analog converter, which has one of a plurality of predetermined signal levels, is applied to amplifiers 76 and 78 which together form the restoring force amplifier 80. Amplifier 80 provides the force rebalance control signal to the torque motor of the respective axis of the gyroscope assembly 10 to counteract (or rebalance) the external forces applied (or being applied) to the gyroscope. The outputs of restoring force amplifier 80 over lines 82 and 84 thus represent the force rebalance signal applied to the gyroscope torque motors (for example over lines 24, 26 of FIG. 1), and these outputs assume one of a plurality of discrete values in each time interval or period. The closed loop operation of the system ensures that the gyroscope will return to its balanced position.
As is well known in the art, torque motors 20, 22 can be of at least two types. In one type, the torque motors provide a restoring force linearly proportional to the applied rebalance signal. In another type, employed in the illustrated embodiments, the rebalance transducers (torque motors 20 and 22) each provide a restoring force proportional to the square of the applied electrical force rebalance signals. It is, in part, to compenstate for the square law relationship that element 62 is employed. The squre root circuit element 62 thus provides the needed mathematical relationship (vis-a-vis the illustrated torque motors 20, 22) which enables the restoring force to be accurately and properly related to the error signal. In addition to providing the correct mathematical relationship just referred to, however, the square root circuit 62 advantageously provides a dynamic range for small error signals over line 56, when they are later applied to the A to D converter, which is greater than would be available if the A to D converter acted directly upon the input error signal over line 56. This feature is described in greater detail below.
The square law relationship referred to above further and advantageously provides a mechanism wherein forces developed when the gyroscope is close to a null position are reduced, as a result of the squaring process, and an improved signal-to-noise ratio results. That is, if the digital-to-analog converter calls for a "zero" (or substantially "zero") restoring force, and the amplifiers 76 and 78 have some small noise or offset output signal, as will invariable happen, the square law relationship which results when the electrical force rebalance signal is converted to the restoring force in the gyroscope, reduces the small amplifier noise signal significantly causing a more precise closed loop operating system. For example, a noise level of "0.1" is reduced, by squaring, to a noise level of "0.01".
In a second embodiment according to the invention, the loop compensation element 54 and the square root circuit element 62 are replaced by a digital processing element 86 (FIG. 3). Processing element 86 is incorporated in the loop between the analog-to-digital converter 66 and the digital-to-analog converter 72.
Referring to FIG. 3, in which like reference numerals refer to like parts, the FIG. 2 square root circuitry 62 and loop compensation element 54 have (as noted above) been replaced by the digital processing element 86. The digital processing element 86 can be for example a suitably programmed digital computer or a hard wired digital circuit. In either case, the function of processing element 86 is to take the sequence of digital words provided over lines 68 at clock times determined by the clock repetition rate of the illustrated analog-to-digital converter 66 and to process each of those digital words to maintain a stable feedback loop. Processing element 86 provides, if necessary, the square root function originally performed by circuit 62, and provides, at periodic time intervals, the digital output signals over lines 88. The digital output signals over lines 88 represent the amplitude of the restoring force to be applied to gyroscope assembly 10.
In this second embodiment of the invention, if the restoring force applied to the gyroscope assembly 10 is linearly related to the output signal of the restoring force amplifiers 80 (as will be the case for earlier gyroscope designs), then the digital processing element 86 will not effect the square root function. If the restoring force is proportional to the square of the rebalance force electrical signal output of amplifiers 80, element 86 will effect the square root function.
Whether or not the square root function is implemented in the FIG. 3 embodiment, the dynamic range of the illustrated FIG. 3 embodiment at small amplitude error signal values is less than in the FIG. 2 embodiment. This phenomenon results from the loss of the square root function provided by square root circuitry 62 prior to the digitization of the error signal. The square root function provides for an increased digital precision of small amplitude error signals because the square root circuit provides a non-linear transformation of the error signal, and in particular, a transformation in which the large amplitude signal values are compressed in comparison to the smaller amplitude values. Thus, for the same number of binary bits in a digital representation (i.e. the output of the analog-to-digital converter 66) the second embodiment, represented schematically in FIG. 3, provides a reduced dynamic range for the smaller amplitudes when compared to the embodiment described in FIG. 2. In other words, the FIG. 2 embodiment provides more precision where it is needed, in the small amplitude values of the error signal.
The several circuit elements called for by the particular embodiments of the described invention are well within the skill of one practiced in the art, in view of the description above. Additions, subtractions, deletions, and other modifications of the described embodiments of the invention will be obvious to those skilled in the art and are within the scope of the following claims.
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|Sniffing leak detector
|Jul 25, 2005
|Feb 8, 2007
|Nebojsa Vrcelj
|Digital accelerometer
|Feb 4, 2008
|Sep 25, 2008
|Nebojsa Vrcelj
|Digital-to-analog converter and method of digital-to-analog conversion
|May 2, 2006
|Aug 27, 2009
|Inficon Gmbh
|Sniffing Leak Detector
|Sep 24, 1991
|Apr 1, 1993
|Bodenseewerk Geraetetech
|Steuereinrichtung fuer eine tunnelbohrmaschine
|Jun 23, 1987
|Jan 7, 1988
|Bodenseewerk Ger�tetechnik GmbH
|Inertial sensor arrangement
|Jun 23, 1987
|May 24, 1989
|Bodenseewerk Geratetechnik Gmbh
|Inertial sensor arrangement
|Sep 8, 1988
|Aug 23, 1989
|Messerschmitt-B�lkow-Blohm Gesellschaft mit beschr�nkter Haftung
|System for the inertial measurement of speed or acceleration, and signal processing circuitry therefor
|Jul 20, 1994
|Mar 29, 1995
|Litton Systems, Inc.
|Data interface for closed-loop accelerometer
|Jun 17, 1985
|Jan 16, 1986
|Sundstrand Data Control, Inc.
|Digital output instruments
|U.S. Classification
|318/648, 318/601, 73/514.17
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Jun 23, 1986
Owner name: NORTHROP CORPORATION, A DEL. CORP.
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Fondest memory: Red Rock Canyon National Park...
I've listed down some of the interesting places within the Red Rock area which you must try to see!
(a) Calico Hills: A large outcrop of eroded red sandstone rock.... which is excellent for climbing. There are several overlooks and short trails for the less energetic. The top of the ridge has good views over the colorful Calico Basin at the far side and the distinctive shapes of the casinos in Las Vegas are also clearly recognizable from up here! Wow.
(b) Lost Creek Canyon: The largest canyon through the cliffs which seems to be the only through route to the far side of the mountains.
(c) Ice Box Canyon: A narrow, sheltered ravine with a short trail following alongside a creek bed to the base of a 30-foot waterfall (<i>phew!</i>)....
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Stayed here using special Fall rates so price was great. Easy access to Interstate and restaurants. Clean room with microwave, small sink, and refrigerator. Door closed and
opened easily and securely. Front desk personnel very friendly. Plenty of channels on TV.
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thin worn out bedding. Blanket had cigarette holes. Tiny coffee maker in room was missing
a part rendering it useless but coffee available in lobby. Overall good value for the price.
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Kim Kardashian faces the wrath of her angry mother for helping someone she was once very close to.
London: Kim Kardashian incurred the wrath of her mother Kris Jenner for helping her step-father Caitlyn Jenner to find a dress to wear to an award ceremony earlier this year.
In a dramatic supertease clip that previews what's ahead on the exciting return of 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians', the matriarch tells her daughter, "Kim, you are a f**king traitor!"
"You're not going to f**king play this game anymore!" Jenner continued.
Reportedly, 35-year-old Kardashian had earlier this year helped style Caitlyn Jenner for the 'Arthur Ashe Courage Award' in 2015, selecting a white Michael Costella gown wearing which Jenner accepted an award at the same show.
Kardashian even took to Snapchat to share clips of the step-father, who now identifies publicly as trans woman, as she tried on a plethora of different types of gowns.
The preview shows the 35-year-old reality star sitting outside with sister Khloe Kardashian and their close friend Jonathan Cheban.
Jenner is heard shouting over the speaker phone, telling daughter Kardashian West, "I'm betrayed. I'm feeling abandoned."
But Kardashian assures her mother, "I would never abandon you."
The new episodes will also see Khloe think about enhancing her breasts, Kendall and Will.i.am joining forces to remake a 'Where Is The Love' video, and Scott showing dad-to-be Rob Kardashian the ropes of being a father.


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When you sign up with our Tom Barefoot's Tours Affiliate Partnership Program we immediately assign you three separate things: you're unique 10,000 page website, your unique phone number which is found on every page of the site and is used exclusively by your clients to call us, and your unique four-digit Promo Code ID# also found on every page of your site. When one of your clients contacts us from your web pages we are able to track them as belonging to you and you will receive commissions based upon the tours they have purchased.
The Tom Barefoot's Tours Affiliate Partnership Program's web tracking system is based on a tracking cookie. We've set the cookie to last for 12 months from the time they initially visit our website. To insure that clients who are using cloud based bookmarks continue to be tracked we've also appended your promo code to the end of the URL string so if the client bookmarks the site and returns to the site from another device such as their iPad or iPhone then the cookie will be set on that device as well. This feature also enables you to receive credit for any business that comes in as a result of any URL sharing that a client may do on their own social media accounts. It gets even better.... Once someone buys something from us, any return or add-on sales will also be tracked to your account. For instance, if someone browsing the site clicks on a link that takes them to one of the whale watches offered, then buys it, you will receive commissions from that sale. Then say the same client calls us back later and buys a snorkeling trip under the same name that they used for their previous bookings, you will receive commissions from that sale too. Now if that same client comes back to Hawaii 12 months down the road and purchases three more activities (also under the same name), you get commissions on those sales too...... Keep in mind that clients often visit more than one island and you will be receiving commissions on all bookings they make on all islands!
Our sales agents use a state of the art VOIP system that provides them with a 'pop up' message on their computer screen identifying the name of the affiliate calling the special phone number (all before they even answer the phone). Any sales that come from your phone number will be credited to you. Normally, when a client works with one of our sales agents they end up making some additional bookings and you will receive commissions on all those sales as well.
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