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Internet purchasing and electronic books has changed the way customers buy books, but bookstores are holding their share of the market from small, intimate shops to large chain stores. If you are responsible for managing a location, no matter what the size, the following step will help you run a bookstore.
1Design a storefront that will attract new book customers. Your name and logo should be placed in a highly visible spot. If you have a store window, create a display to grab the attention of all who pass by.
2Schedule special events. Offer signing events or readings to local authors, have a monthly poetry evening, invite book clubs to hold their meetings at your store and implement regular sales events. Become active in the community to heighten your visibility to new and old book customers.
3Maximize your floor space. In order to carry as much inventory as you can, invest in tall bookshelves or have them built from floor to ceiling. With a bit of planning, you can put the more popular titles within easy reach and the rarer books toward the top, which will allow you to offer a larger variety of tomes.
4Rethink the regular business hours. When you run a bookstore, you don't have to be open strictly during the workday when the majority of people are busy at work. A lot of book customers will want to stop by your store on their way home from work and not feel rushed out.
5Expand your bookstore inventory. Increase opportunities for profit by ordering items such as journals, stationery, pens and other office supplies. Place the displays near the register to attract impulse buyers on their way to checking out.
6Develop a bookstore website. Customers who use their computer regularly and who are searching for a local bookstore will skip right over you if you don't have a website or have one that is difficult to navigate. Include a description of your store, contact information, business hours, an events page, and a special order page that includes shipping information.
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Lads in Lycra, on bikes, being couriers in London, have become as English as Big Ben and Buckingham Palace. This is a day in the life of one bike boy called Danny Phoenix.
Danny has two major assets a big uncut cock, which also has the ability to squirt quite a lot, something that will impress you throughout most of the film. Danny has dark cropped hair, action man style; he has milky white skin, a tall slender body, which is defined and a long face with brown eyes. We first see Danny wanking off in the bathroom and believe me you soon get to see his squirting abilities.
Danny has a nasty work colleague called Nick back at the despatch office, who is played by Robin Hyde, who happens to be there when he gets to work, Tommy Trent is also in the office. Danny gives Tommy the nod and pretty soon Tommy and Danny are sitting in the office waiting for their first job, but before Danny knows it, Tommy makes a deliberate move on Danny. It's good to see Tommy in another Eurocreme film, this little half pint, blond tinker bell, packs way above his size and he has such a cute boy magnet, look about him. Tom soon begins to warm up Danny for Nick, as it isn't long before Nick comes over to play. Nick is quite tall and has cropped dark hair. Nick soon gets stuck into Tom's man hole with his cock, as Tom continues to banquet on Danny's body. Nick eventually makes sure it's Danny's turn to get fucked and that's when the fucking becomes even harder. Once they have all sprayed their man seed, Danny is left naked on the sofa and his boss catches him naked, so Danny ends up getting all the crap bike boy jobs, for the rest of the day.
There is something so sexy about straight boys don't you think? This one is a plumber called Josh James, who Danny has to deliver a part to. Anyway this plumber although straight acting and a bit on the hunky side, happens to be a bent straight boy, who soon gets into Danny's Lycra. Josh ends up taking Danny from behind and they are soon fucking like rabbits.
It's a hard life for a hard working Lycra wearing bike boy, especially when you have to go over to the other side of town, to deliver a package and you have to go to some dodgy film studio. When Danny arrives a gorgeous angel faced dark haired photographer called Wayne Cannon, takes a package off Danny. Danny then takes a seat, waiting to get paid, but unknown to Danny, fluffer boy James Scott, fancies doing some more fluffing. Wayne happens to be photographing a porn shoot, so Wayne soon gets Danny in on the action and calls Danny over, to suck on Ryan Garcia's cock. Ryan is a tanned young dark haired stud. Fluffer boy James is a kind of soft featured Twinkie, who could get any man stiff with his mouth action. James gets both ends filled and Wayne soon joins the action himself. Whilst Ryan fucks James, Wayne and Danny both stick their cocks in Jame's mouth and Wayne's cock, is just about as big as Danny's cock, so it's quite surprising how James doesn't choke, bless him!
Nick becomes a bit obsessed by Danny and ends up sniffing on some of Danny's Lycra back at the office, which is a good excuse for a solo wank. Ben Taylor the boss catches Nick at it and sacks him. Ben sends Danny off on another delivery after he has had his break, a delivery to Danny's surprise, to Bens own address and Ben is there when Danny arrives. Ben is tall, slender and toned and he has short blond hair, he is another member of the cast with a big dick. Danny is soon pointing his bottom in the direction of Ben's cock.
Nick soon gets settled in at his new place of work and gets into some foursome action with Tom Schwarz, Kyle O'Shea and David James. Tom is quite a tall dark haired stunner; I hope we see more of him in Eurocreme films.
Max Lincoln has been a bit of a directorial prankster, by including a scene which does not really belong in the story it's self. Andrew Dean and Dominic Diesel play two students, on and off they are seen having sex with each other, supposedly watching Bike Boy on DVD. How can that be you might ask yourself? which is the reaction I think we are meant to have.
If you have a fetish for Lycra you will love this film and if you're a Dream Boy fan, then there is eye candy which deserves some of your attention. Danny does not make the ideal leading man, but he puts in a good effort by all accounts and his big dick and abundance of squirts, all in the right places, redeem any niggling doubts you might have.


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The Spurs plan to retain reserve small forward Austin Daye for the 2014-15 season, general manager R.C. Buford told Jeff McDonald of the Express-News on Monday, hours before the start of this year's free agent period.
Daye's $1.06 million contract will become guaranteed at 11 p.m., the start of this year's free agent period.
Barring an unexpected change of heart, it will be Daye's first full season with the Spurs, and sixth in the NBA. The former Gonzaga standout has been a disappointment so far, averaging 5.4 points with four teams since Detroit took him 15th overall in the 2009 draft. Daye averaged 4.1 points in 14 appearances with the Spurs after they acquired him from Toronto in exchange for Nando De Colo at last season's trade deadline.
The Spurs will have 10 guaranteed contracts totaling roughly $54 million, with first-round pick Kyle Anderson slotted to make just under $900,000 provided he signs, as expected. They have also tendered a $1.15 million qualifying offer to restricted free agent center Aron Baynes, giving them the right to match any offer he receives.
The 2014-15 salary cap is expected to be around $63 million, with a tax threshold at $77 million.
The Spurs can also begin negotiations with unrestricted free agents Patty Mills, Boris Diaw and Matt Bonner this evening. Coach Gregg Popovich said several days after the Spurs beat Miami to win their fifth championship that he and Buford hope to keep the roster intact for this season's title defense.
Mills and Diaw should receive interest after strong seasons, while Bonner will almost certainly have to take a substantial pay cut from his $3.945 million salary last year in order to return.
Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports first reported the Spurs' intentions.


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Rupert and Angie Cox built Orchardleigh in Long Sutton in 1986 in the middle of an ancient cider orchard from which the property gets it's name. Set in nearly 2 acres of grounds each of the guest rooms look out onto open countryside and at certain times of the year guest will experience grazing sheep right outside the window. The month of May sees the beautiful apple blossom and later in the year the fruit on the trees is a real treat.
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The Supreme Court has an opportunity Wednesday to begin to offer clarity and certainty to an area of First Amendment law that cries out for bright lines. Reviewing two contradictory rulings in cases from Kentucky and Texas, the justices now will chime in on the growing battle over what role "Ten Commandments" displays ought to play in public life.
The Court is being asked to determine whether state-sanctioned displays of the Ten Commandments, surrounded by other historical and religious symbols, violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution. When a state encourages or permits the creation and promotion of such displays, on government property, usually near a seat of power, is it impermissibly endorsing one religion or another or one sect of a religion over another? Or is it just recognizing that the laws some believe the Lord gave to Moses form part of the historical and legal underpinnings to our modern-day legal system?
The answers to those questions depend entirely upon who you talk to. If you talk to former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, for example, he'll surely tell you that the Commandments deserve unique recognition by the government because America is a Christian nation, founded upon Judeo-Christian values, many of which are written in the tablets that Moses supposedly brought down from the mountain. Moore, remember, is the anti-judge judge who was forced to remove his Ten Commandments display from his Montgomery courthouse last year. This is the position, pretty much, that Kentucky and Texas are taking in their appellate briefs.
On the other hand, if you talk to the ACLU and other individuals and organizations who oppose the use of the Commandments as "official" displays, they'll tell you that there is no way to separate the clear and unilateral religious message of the Decalogue from whatever historical value they may have in shaping American law. These folks also will tell you the Ten Commandments crowd is disingenuously trying to bootstrap American history into the debate over the religious monuments in order to convince courts, like the Supreme Court, that the religious import and impact of the Commandments doesn't rise to an Establishment Clause level.
The justices took these cases because two lower courts came to different results when looking at similar issues. In Texas, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a display of the Ten Commandments on the Texas Capital Grounds. In Kentucky, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voided two similar displays of the Ten Commandments that had been posted in two counties in the state. Because the Kentucky case does not square with the Texas case, and because other states are soon going to have similar litigation, the Supreme Court decided it had better referee the fight now.
It will not be easy. When it comes to the Establishment Clause in particular, First Amendment law is a mess. The legal test that the justices love to apply in hard cases hasn't work out so well in these sorts of cases, mostly because the test over the generation since it was first announced seems to have more exceptions than rules. Indeed, both Texas and Kentucky told the justices that they wouldn't mind doing away with the Court's Lemon test, named for the 1971 landmark Court ruling that was supposed to generate some certainty in this fact-specific area of the law. And there appears to be an open-mindedness to do just that among some of the justices, particularly Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is often the Court's designated swing voter.
If the law in this area will make it difficult for the justices to reach a Solomon-like ruling, the facts of both cases won't help either. The briefs by the parties are littered with claims that one side or the other has misrepresented material facts. The intent and motives of public officials, especially in the Kentucky case, are in play, which further complicates the role of the justices. And both sides can point to legal and factual precedent to support their current positions. In 1980, for example, the Supreme Court struck down the placement of the Ten Commandments in a classroom. Since then, however, on issues of school prayer to vouchers, the Court has been far more open to religion being a part of public life.
As if all that weren't complicated enough, there appears to be a great deal of dispute over the true legal and historical tie-in between the Ten Commandments and modern American law. Not surprisingly, supporters of public Commandments displays say that our justice system is rooted in many of those "Thou Shalt Nots." And, naturally, opponents of the public displays say that they are overwhelmingly religious and represent the core of what the First Amendment was designed to prevent: government siding with certain religious beliefs over others.
In the Kentucky case, officials in two counties have tried for years to figure out a way to keep public their Commandments' display. When they first posted it, and were challenged, they argued that the display did not violate the Establishment Clause because the commandments represented "the inseparable connection between the ethical conduct of [Kentucky's] legislative body and the Christian principles which permeate our society and its institutions." Sensing correctly that this argument wasn't going to cut it, the counties then tried to surround their Commandments displays with other displays that included references to God and religion.
A trial judge ruled that the counties were illegally endorsing religion by "narrowly" tailoring [their] selection of foundational documents to incorporate only those with specific references to Christianity…" The counties tried a third time, this time surrounding the Ten Commandments with less religious (and more patriotic displays), but by then it was too late. The courts had given up believing that the efforts by the counties were anything but a way to keep the Ten Commandments in the middle of public life.
The Texas case was not nearly as long and winding on its path to the Supreme Court. The display in Texas has been standing for over 40 years and is now a part of a larger display that is more patriotic than religious. Indeed, Texas says that the whole display area is akin to an outdoor museum, like the National Mall in Washington, so that whatever religious impact the Commandments display offer is muted both by the space of the outdoors and the diffusion with other displays.
Moreover, unlike the Kentucky kafuffle, the Commandment display in Texas seems to have a built-in secular purpose that might protect it from First Amendment meddling. It was initially posted as an honor to the Fraternal Order of Eagles, its donor, as a monument to its work against juvenile delinquency, although for the life of me, beyond the Honor Thy Mother and Thy Father part, I cannot see the link between juvenile delinquency and the Commandments. "There is no secular purpose," says the brief challenging the Texas Commandments, "in placing on government property a monument declaring: 'I AM the LORD thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.'"
With clear factual distinctions between the two cases, the justices could take the easy was out and declare Texas' display valid while striking down the displays in Kentucky. I'm hoping they don't. I'm hoping (but not expecting) that the justices come up with a bold new legal test that provides once and for all clear rules in this area of the law. The Ten Commandments surely are religious — their public placement ought to be immediately suspect. But perhaps over time they have become what the law recognizes as "ceremonial deism;" as watered down as the phrase "In God We Trust" on our money or the invocation "God Save This Honorable Court" in halls of justice.
Whether or not the Commandments are the words of God, they are clear and direct and thus a good mark for the justices to shoot for as they decide these cases. It's time for the Court to declare a black-letter standard that would apply to any Commandments display anywhere in the nation.
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Leonard Bernstein's remarkable life, from 1918-1990, not only spanned much of the 20th century, it encompassed much of its tumult as well.
From a young age, Bernstein was a superstar pianist and a conductor who was known for his "extrovert podium manner.'' He's the composer of innovative musicals such as "West Side Story'' and "On the Town.'' He was as much teacher as musician, leading the landmark Young People's Concerts in the 1950s and the Norton Lectures at Harvard in the 1970s. He was the first conductor to record all nine completed Mahler symphonies.
Unfortunately, his youthful tendency to sign up for nearly every left-leaning political group earned him an FBI file that would haunt him for most of his career. Along with other artists such as Norman Mailer and Henry Miller, Bernstein appeared in a 1949 Life magazine issue in a "gallery of Communist dupes.'' His career temporarily stalled in the 1950s when his name appeared on the Cold War blacklist, the removal accomplished only after he signed an affidavit that he was not a communist. Writer Tom Wolfe forever branded him "radical chic'' for hosting a Black Panther fund-raising party.
In "Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician,'' Barry Seldes makes a convincing case that to truly understand one of the most influential musicians of the last century, you need to understand how he "responded directly to the moral climate and social-political milieu in which he lived.'' Seldes, a political science professor at Rider University, has made great use of previously unavailable FBI files, as well as once-dusty documents from the Library of Congress' Bernstein Archives, to forge a comprehensive cultural context for Bernstein's impressive musical career.
Bernstein was a college student in the 1930s (Harvard class of 1939), a time of great artistic and political ferment. Composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, and Ernst Krenek were shedding 19th-century compositional constraints to create music that incorporated jazz and other forms. Bernstein embraced these changes.
Seldes has a gift for literary counterpoint, balancing political, social, and musical story lines. For example, the anecdotes about how the gregarious Bernstein managed to meet Boston Symphony conductor Serge Koussevitzky and composer Copland alone are worth the price. This is a biography with a political focus, but it's a full biography, one that knocks over caricatures of a celebrity musician who merely played at politics.
Seldes evokes the atmosphere of Cold War paranoia; at one point Bernstein was even placed on a list of citizens to be moved to internment camps in the event of a national emergency.
Yet, unlike many blacklisted artists in the '50s, Bernstein never turned away from political activities. He participated in the 1965 Selma civil rights march and protested the Vietnam War. And though there were artistic misses as well as triumphs, Bernstein always strove to create music of consequence, "an organic, vernacular, rhythmically based, distinctly American music.''
The book ultimately addresses the inevitable question: Why did Bernstein, a man brimming with creative energy, never fulfill his goal of composing a great American opera? Seldes speculates that the kind of major American opera that Bernstein conceived of required a big libretto and a sympathetic American audience -- neither of which emerged in the 1970s or '80s.
Almost two decades after Bernstein's death, this is the first in-depth look at the man with his politics. It was worth the wait.
Carol Iaciofano is a freelance writer who blogs at Suburban Study, www.suburbanstudy.blogspot.com.


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Hotel Jakoberhof
Hotel Jakoberhof is a family run hotel located in downtown Augsburg and an ideal home base to go sightseeing.
We are only five minutes walking distance from townhall and townplace.
The building has rooms on 2 floors. Each room is equipped
with a waterbasin, wardrobe, table, chair, regular towels and bedding (of course including blankets and pillow). All rooms are equipped with satellite television. Shower and toilet are located on each floor for shared use.
We provide a free Internet Hotspot, but doesn't expect HD streaming quality - you have to bring your own WiFi device
such as a laptop, tablet or smartphone.
All rooms are non smoking!
We provide a hearty and energizing breakfast buffet for our guests every morning to start the day, which you can enjoy for only 7,00 Euro per person and day. No reservation is needed.
You will discover the magic of this city with its 2,000 years of history which has made it one of southern Germany's major sightseeing attractions. It's the Romantic Road's largest town and serves also as a gateway to the Alps and the south.
We will do our best to make your stay in Augsburg a most pleasant one.
PLEASE NOTE: Check in time is between 2 PM and 11 PM.
Disponibilité et tarifsPour vérifier la disponibilité et les prix, veuillez sélectionner vos dates puis cliquez sur "Mettre à jour les dates"
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Politique d'annulationCette propriété a une politique d'annulation de 1 jours. Si vous n'annulez pas dans cet intervalle de temps, vous devrez payer des frais d'annulation du montant de la première nuit de votre séjour.
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There is a bus and tram stop in front of the Hotel called Fuggerei. You can take tram no. 1 to Fuggerei.


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Located a short driving distance from Huntington Beach's main drag, Centerfield Sports Bar & Grill feels like it's a world away from the teeming downtown scene. Sports other than surfing are king here, and the crowd is well-behaved. The large room's windows are bedecked with handsome wooden shutters, and 20 flat-screen TVs adorn the walls. The respectable offering of brews on tap includes Pyramid Hef, PBR and Longboard ale; a full complement of liquors is also available. Other distractions include three pool tables, the ever-addictive video game Golden Tee and two dartboards. Enthusiasts of this last game might find themselves doing a double take, as the boards at Centerfield are the real deal-totally analog.
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The Bloomington Thunder, currently in the Southern Professional Hockey League, will leave the pro minor league ranks for the junior league, which also includes the Green Bay Gamblers.
Under the terms of the proposal, reviewed by the League's Commissioner and the USHL Executive Committee and presented to the League's Board of Directors last week, the Bloomington team would play its home games at the U.S. Cellular Coliseum in downtown Bloomington, a venue that was opened in the spring of 2006 and has a seating capacity of up to 6,000 fans for hockey.
Final approval of the expansion USHL Member Club and proposal is subject to execution of proper documentation with the League and review being undertaken by the USHL Commissioner's Office and the Executive Committee, and to final approval by the USHL Board of Directors.
The Thunder will be the second new team joining the USHL this fall, as the Madison Capitols are also joining. The moves will bring the USHL to a total of 18 teams.
The Thunder played one season in the SPHL, after playing two seasons in the CHL. Prior to that, Bloomington hosted minor league teams dubbed the Prairie Thunder and Blaze played in multiple leagues from 2006-11.


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ELYRIA — Lorain County Clerk of Courts Ron Nabakowski is again cutting back the hours his office is open to the public so his staff can keep up with paperwork.
Nabakowski's office is now open to the public between 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., but starting July 2, the office will close at 4 p.m., although staff will remain on duty until 4:30 p.m.
"We can't get our work done, and we're getting behind," Nabakowski said.
The clerk's office used to be open to the public at 8:30 a.m., but Nabakowski moved the time to 10 a.m. a few years ago in response to budget cuts and reduced staff.
But even that isn't cutting it any more, he said.
"My employees are reporting increasing difficulties in closing the office by 4:30 p.m.," Nabakowski wrote in a letter sent to the county's judges this week explaining his decision. "This problem is primarily due to customers arriving at or near closing time to file time-consuming documents or cases, or to obtain copies of court records."
Nabakowski said the deputy clerks who handle criminal cases are short-staffed and those who deal with civil cases recently have seen a marked increase in foreclosures.
The increase in foreclosure filings, Nabakowski said, comes after five banks reached settlements with government officials over numerous improperly filed foreclosures. Now that those issues have been addressed, Nabakowski said, the banks are moving forward with stalled foreclosures.
He said foreclosures are up 22 percent since this time last year. The rate of foreclosures in May of this year was 37 percent higher than it was in May 2011.
Although the clerk's offices will be closed to the public after 4 p.m., it will remain accessible to court staff, Nabakowski said.
In recent years, Nabakowski has clashed with the commissioners over his budget and unsuccessfully pushed for additional funds earlier this year.
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Sad follow up: Husband of Hot Springs Woman Featured in KATV Story Dies
Debbie Nelson's husband, Richard "Pete" Nelson, died over the weekend. Debbie and her husband were featured in a KATV Channel 7 story one year ago shortly after their house had burned down. The couple had been through many trials including the death of their only daughter but through it all, Debbie lived by the phrase "God is good... all the time."
Debbie's sister, Kimberly Eagle, says Pete had been very ill over the past year. He was diagnosed with Polycthmia Vera, a blood disorder, over a year ago. He had progressively gotten much worse over the last 3-4 months. He also had 4 bulging discs throughout his spine and severe arthritis. His pain was almost at the point of being uncontrollable. Then on Saturday, an hour after he went to lay down for a nap, Debbie checked on him and he was gone. The coroner said that he had passed peacefully due to a heart attack.
Once again, Debbie is clinging to her faith and offered these comments on her facebook page:"Thank you everyone for all your kind thoughts and prayers. It means so much! I just can 't believe this has happened, but I still have my faith and stand by the fact that God is good and He is good ALL the time! Pete is no longer in the constant pain he was in and he is with our precious Jennifer! I will love and miss him forever!!" Click here to see the video of the original story: Debbie Nelson... "God is Good." Click here to read the story we did on Debbie Nelson. Click here to read the follow up story: "House Given To Woman of Faith."


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Read any good books lately? Essayist Peter Smith has -- and not just a good book -- a good old book about Minnesota that just might be perfect for this time of year.
Something about this time of year makes real Minnesotans want to go take a nap. The cool weather comes. The birch trees go yellow. We are summoned to snooze, extra blankets from the foot of the bed pulled up to our chins.
Deep naps. Rich naps. Naps that leave you chenille-dimpled, and disoriented when you wake up in late afternoon twilight. Such a delicious little autumn vice. And this fall, I've found a delicious book to add even more guilt to the pleasure.
It's "Old Rail Fence Corners." - a collection of Minnesota pioneer memories first published in 1914 - a series of short pieces where people well into their nineties back then recall Minnesota as it was when they were young.
The industry with which they built the state fuels a Minnesota autumn napper's sense of decadence. Here are St Croix Valley loggers and Red River-bound ox cart drivers. Farmers. City builders-all of them hard at work while you lie there and fight the urge to drowse.
Here are our foremothers and fathers, immersed not so much in history as in the business of being human.
Familiar street names appear as real people. On Election night, 1843 in Saint Paul, a drunk August Larpenter opens the spigot on the barrel of whiskey in Mrs. Jackson's kitchen, loses his balance, falls over and lays laughing as whiskey flows onto the floor.
Whiskey on Election Night in Saint Paul. Imagine that.
The building boom is on. Sawmills are going full tilt. The town of Saint Anthony is laying wooden sidewalk by day. Thieves are stealing the boards by night.
Cultures-Ojibwa, Dakota, and European-clash and coexist. Steamboats race. Big Cigar politicians establish borders. The state assumes its now-familiar shape.
All told in wonderful anecdotal detail and that "back in those days..." tone senior citizens acquire. Read this book and you start to see Minnesota history everywhere.
It's "Old Rail Fence Corners," published by the Minnesota Historical Society-the perfect Minnesota autumn read. Check it out. I'd lend you my copy, but I feel a nap coming on...


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Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, literally went toe-to-toe with comedian Stephen Colbert on late-night national TV Tuesday and lost, at least the leg-wrestling portion of it. So much for the strong leg of Chaffetz, a former place-kicker for Brigham Young University.
Chaffetz appeared on "The Colbert Report" on the Comedy Central cable channel as part of Colbert's ongoing "Better Know a District" feature interviewing (and skewering) congressmen around the nation.
Chaffetz smiled widely as he mostly listened to questions by Colbert that poked fun at Utah's 3rd District and Chaffetz's stands. Chaffetz ended by challenging Colbert to a leg wrestle but lost.
As an example of the questions, Colbert asked, "According to my research, Utah's 3rd District is one of the most diverse districts in the state. Tell me about your black person. Is he nice?"
Chaffetz laughed and said, "We have a much more diverse population than we get credit for."
Colbert followed up, asking, "I understand that your district contains both Republicans and staunch Republicans?" Chaffetz conceded, "That's true. We have a few token Democrats, but it's a very Republican district."
And Colbert asked, "What percentage of your district is made up of Osmonds?"
Chaffetz said, "We've got a lot of Osmonds. I was pumping gas at the local Maverik and Marie Osmond
was pumping gas there. It was one of my big celebrity sightings." Colbert asked if the Maverik is a gay bar, and Chaffetz quickly explained that it is a gasoline station.
Colbert also took a shot at Chaffetz proposing last year to use tent cities to hold illegal aliens. Chaffetz explained on the show, "We have got to enforce the law. Right now we are just releasing people and saying please leave the country. So we're going to need detention facilities to take care of these people and make sure they are actually deported as required by law."
Colbert then asked rhetorically, "When did rounding up people you don't like in your country and putting them in camps get a bad name?"
Colbert then offered his own plans to fight illegal immigration: "Dip Mexicans in fluorescent paint so we can see them crossing the border at night ... fill the Rio Grande with acid ... poison pinatas." Chaffetz laughed and said, "That's a creative idea."
In the episode, Chaffetz also practiced telling Colbert, posing as Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, that she is not his boss. Colbert also prodded him into talking to Colbert's handgun, named Sweetness, to protect Chaffetz's "A" rating with the National Rifle Association.48 comments on this story
The segment was taped in November. Chaffetz openly worried about it on Tuesday before it aired, joking on his first day in office, "It may be the end of my career. It was nice for a few hours, though."
Chaffetz also noted, "The scary part is we filmed for three hours for a five-minute segment. So I have no idea what's going to be cut and spliced to make me look like I said something I didn't say."
Chaffetz said about his appearance, "I think it's the right thing to do. It's fun. It's a way to speak to millions of people. If you can laugh with somebody, then when you discuss more serious issues, you have a chance to make your point."The entire show can be viewed online at www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=215396
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Album Rating: 3.5Uchoten are a great band, just a bit on the bizarre side. This album's no exception.
that takes a bit of influence from groups like The Cure
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Britney Spears Smiles After Auto-Tune Controversy | Pictures
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Britney Spears has emerged, y'all! The singer flashed her megawatt smile while running errands in LA's Westlake neighborhood on Saturday. Donning a white tank top with "Aloha State" written on the front, black shorts, and flip-flops, Britney grabbed coffee at a Starbucks inside a strip mall near her home in Calabasas, CA.
The singer's casual appearance comes mere days after a raw recording of her vocals went viral. As criticism of her voice without Auto-Tune mounted, producer William Orbit clarified that Britney was just warming up her voice in the leaked clip. On Thursday, William wrote a second Facebook note about the controversy, defending Britney and "Alien," the song in question. "Regardless of the fun and games that we have with studio production, the main thing to keep in mind with Ms. Spears is that tens of millions (hundreds of millions?) of people enjoy the music," he wrote. "And charisma is charisma. No software ever invented can manufacture that."
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NAFCU's Tech Show Set for February
Engaging consumers where they are now and in the future will be key topics at NAFCU's 2012 Technology and Security Conference set for Feb. 14-16 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Breakout sessions will be on such topics as the latest IT trends and strategies; FFIEC guidance on authentication and anomalies; the top credit union fraud claims and loss prevention; data breach planning and procedures; and common lending data language, the trade group said.
Keynote speaker will be Peter Leyden, former managing editor of Wired magazine and co-author of "The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity." He'll address shifts and technology and media and how they're used by different generations.
"From Facebook to i-Phone apps, credit unions have a world of possibilities when it comes to communicating with members and improving their bottom line through technology," said NAFCU President/CEO Fred Becker.
"Credit unions must ensure they are operating at the vanguard of new technology," Becker said.


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|9 Jun 1987
|Filing date
|31 Dec 1985
|Priority date
|27 Dec 1984
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|Elmer W. Madsen, Ping-Shih Wang
|Original Assignee
|North American Philips Corporation
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (8), Referenced by (55), Classifications (11), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is a continuation-in-part of, and combines the disclosures of, U.S. patent applications Ser. Nos. 686,873; 686,874; 686,875, all filed on Dec. 27, 1984 by the same inventors, all now abandoned.
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to synchronous motors having a two-phase construction, and in particular to hybrid stepper motors.
Stepping motors can, in general, be considered as a type of synchronous motor in which the windings and magnetic structure have been proportioned such that continuous excitation of one winding is possible while not rotating, without overheating. Further, these motors are generally designed to operate in either direction, so that from any one specific rotor position, resulting from a selected excitation, stepping to an adjacent position in a selected direction is possible by appropriately selecting a change in the excitation of the coils. In order to provide high torque with a minimum of electrical power input, the motors known as hybrid stepper motors incorporate a permanent magnet to provide a field of fixed flux.
In synchronous motors designed for continuous rotation, an important condition for achieving a quality motor is often that the developed torque be quite constant as the shaft rotates, assuming a constant load torque. This is achieved by using a carefully balanced and arranged coil and pole piece structure. Because of the rotational symmetry for both (in a two-phase motor) or all three (in a three-phase motor) structures there is seldom any substantial difference between the torques when one or another of the coils is receiving maximum instantaneous excitation.
A similar requirement arises in the design of hybrid stepping motors, because a difference in the developed torque, depending upon which coil is energized, or in which direction (polarity) it is energized, can lead to a difference in the size of the angle by which the motor moves in consecutive steps. The simplest motor of this type, considered conceptually, would contain two fully independent electromagnetic systems sharing one shaft and a common stator housing. This structure is somewhat analogous to that shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,855,486 which, however, does not use a permanent magnet. In the most common form of operation, at all times a selected one of the two systems would be energized, and the polarity of energizing the coil would determine which of two angles the rotor moves to. For example, energizing system A may produce stable rotor positioning at angles defined as 0° and 180°, while energizing system B produces rotor angles of 90° or 270°. Usually there are large numbers of rotor and stator teeth, so that 360°, as referred to above, refers to a simple fraction of one full revolution of the shaft, such as 1/50 revolution.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A first major structural simplification over the basic, two-independent-system motor described above is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,206,374. In this motor two independent magnetic systems are provided for controlled-excitation flux, but one fixed field flux source is shared by the systems.
Each system includes two rotor discs having a regular tooth pattern about their periphery; for a 1.8° stepping angle, each disc has 50 teeth. Coaxial about each of the rotor discs is a respective stator disc, having the same number of internal teeth. A simple annular stator coil is wound coaxially about the rotor axis, between the stator discs. Surrounding the coil, and in contact with the outer periphery of each stator disc of a system, is a tubular stator portion. Each of the four discs, the tubular portion, and a rotor piece between the rotor discs is made of a soft ferromagnetic material. Thus an exciting current flowing through one of the stator coils will produce flux flowing axially in a first direction in the tubular portion, radially inward through a stator disc and its teeth, across the air gap to the rotor teeth and radially inward, axially through the rotor piece in a direction opposite to the first direction, and radially outward through the other rotor disc, its teeth, the other air gap, the other stator disc teeth and the rest of the disc.
To provide two stable shaft positions, the rotor discs have their teeth in line, while the two stator discs of one stator section have a 1/2 tooth pitch angular shift. Thus the angular alignment of each of the longitudinally aligned rotor-stator disc pairs of one system differs by half a tooth pitch.
The two systems are identical, except that the alignment of the stator sections is shifted by 1/4 tooth pitch, so that at a given shaft position, the teeth of one system are aligned tooth-to-tooth and tooth-to-space, while the other system has its rotor teeth angularly shifted 1/4 of a tooth pitch from the stator teeth.
The two systems share a common fixed flux source: an axially magnetized annular stator magnet fitted between the two stator sections. A third soft magnetic rotor piece is located coaxially with the permanent magnet. Ideally, the fixed flux value, and that produced by the individual stator coil with rated current, are such that when one coil is energized, the fixed and coil fluxes almost cancel each other in the rotor-stator disc pair which are aligned tooth-to-space, and the combined flux in the pair which are tooth-to-tooth is just sufficient to saturate the teeth.
Thus with one coil energized, flux flows through the magnet, splits approximately equally between the two stator discs of the system whose teeth are shifted 1/4 pitch each way from each other, flows through the third rotor piece, and then flows predominantly through the rotor-stator disc pair which is momentarily aligned tooth-to-tooth.
The structure just described is relatively easy to identify and analyze. At first glance, one would expect to see identical stepping distances between all four of the principal positions, corresponding to full excitation of the stator coils, alternately one at a time, and alternating polarity. However, upon careful measurement, a pattern of irregularity in step distances has been identified, but the reasons for this were not recognized.
An improvement to the structure described in the '374 patent is demonstrated in a motor marketed by N. V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken, and further described in Philips Data Handbook Components and Materials. Alignment of the various discs is more quickly and accurately achieved during manufacturing. The rotor of that motor differs in that the two discs of one rotor section are mutually shifted 1/2 tooth pitch, while the two discs of one stator section are in line.
Improvement of the operating characteristics of a stepper motor, when individual stator systems are isolated from each other, is disclosed in the U.S. Pat. No. 3,855,486 referred to above. In this motor, however, it is desired that there be no flux flow between one stator system and another stator system. The desire is that all of the flux produced by one coil shall flow through each of the rotor-stator air gaps associated with that magnetic system, so that maximum torque is obtained. Clearly, also, in the three-phase motor disclosed in that patent, stray flux coupling to adjacent sections would provide a noticeable imbalance from the performance when the center section was energized in comparison with performance when either of the end sections was being energized instantaneously. This motor is thus quite different from the hybrid motor in which flux must flow from one stator section to the other.
An especially short, compact hybrid stepper motor is described in Netherlands Patent application No. 8402543, filed Aug. 20, 1984, to which U.S. patent application Ser. No. 672,021 filed Nov. 16, 1984 (now abandoned) corresponds. For maximum simplicity and compactness of construction, this motor utilizes a single axially magnetized permanent magnet in the rotor, for both systems. The rotor has two identical toothed discs, one to each side of the magnet, with the teeth of one disc aligned 1/4 of a tooth pitch different from the other.
Each stator section is formed from two identical discs, each having two inwardly projecting sectors having teeth facing toward the rotor axis, the sectors each extending less than 90° around the rotor, and the sectors which are part of one stator disc being between the sectors of the other stator disc. A stator coil is wound around the rotor axis, and is disposed between the two discs forming one stator section. Axially extending cylindrical portions around the circumference of each disc function as the "back iron" for the flux resulting from excitation of that coil. The two stator sections are axially adjoining, so that each section has one outer disc, and one inner or middle disc. Thus the flux due to excitation of one section's coil may be thought of as extending radially outward through the first sectors of one disc; along the back iron; inward along the sectors of the other disc; across the air gap to the teeth of the rotor; angularly around the rotor to a location opposite the other (first) sector, and across the air gap to the first sectors. All the stator sectors which are axially in one line have their teeth aligned; but the teeth of one stator sector are disposed 1/2 tooth pitch, around the circumference, from the stator sectors to each side.
The field flux from the permanent magnet flows from one end face of the permanent magnet to the adjoining rotor disc, and then radially outward to the teeth of the stator section discs. Flux flowing to the sectors of the outer disc follows a path radially to the cylindrical portion, then axially along the circumferential back iron to the other stator section, and continues axially to the other outer disc, and radially inward to its air gap, across the gap to the other rotor section, and then axially back to the magnet.
Flux flowing to the inner teeth on the middle disc tends to flow axially to the middle disc of the other stator section, and then radially to the other rotor section.
While this structure seems quite symmetrical, it has been observed that there is a sufficient difference between the torque for one direction of first section coil current, and that for the other direction of coil current, so that for some applications the angular steps are insufficiently identical.
An object of the invention is to provide a simple motor construction which has essentially identical step distances for each direction of coil current.
Another object of the invention is to provide a stepper motor which comprises a minimum number of parts, which can easily be aligned during manufacture.
According to the invention, the reluctance of the field (permanent magnet) flux path is increased by providing a space which reduces the effect of coupling between adjacent stator discs of different stator sections, without affecting the reluctance of the path for flux flowing within each particular magnetic system due to current flow in that respective coil.
More particularly, in preferred embodiments of the invention in a hybrid stepping motor, a non-magnetic space or spacer is provided between the two middle discs, one from each stator section, while a direct magnetic path having only butt joints is provided between the two stator sections at the outer circumference of the middle discs or the two sections. In these embodiments, the permanent magnet is preferably a part of the rotor.
These embodiments provide substantially identical stepping angle, regardless of the polarity of the current through either of the coils, because the total magnetic flux carried by each of the stator discs of the unexcited section is substantially equal. The reason for this improved performance is that essentially all the flux crossing the air gap from the middle disc of the unexcited section to the rotor passes through the entire radial path length in the middle disc from its outer circumference. Flux passing through the air gap from the outer disc of the unexcited section to the rotor has only a slightly longer path through the stator iron, because of the length of the short axial path it travels from the region of the outer circumference of the middle disc to the outer circumference of the outer disc. By contrast, prior art motors having a butt joint between the adjacent middle discs experience a substantial flux linkage between portions of the middle discs that are relatively close to the stator teeth, or only part way out radially from the stator teeth to the outer circumferences of the two middle discs.
Motors according to these preferred embodiments offer substantially the same extent of improvement whether the stator sections are formed by discs or cups, and whether the butt joint connecting the magnetic path between the two stator sections is an axial path over a relatively narrow radial region near the outer circumference of the cups or discs, or whether there is an outer sleeve extending substantially over the entire distance between the outer discs of the two sections, with radial butt joints between the outer circumference of individual stator discs or cups. The invention thus offers the possibility of maximally improved performance regardless of the basic choice of stator iron construction.
In another aspect of the invention, the air gap flux (that is, flux traveling across the air gap from stator teeth to rotor teeth) for each of the two discs of the unexcited stator section is made relatively equal by providing an additional gap in the rotor, between the rotor teeth corresponding to each of the two stator sections. As a result of this increase in the total reluctance of the magnetic path followed by the fixed or field flux, the difference in reluctance between the path followed by flux passing through the outer disc, and that passing from one middle disc to the other at locations intermediate the stator teeth and the middle disc outer circumferences, is minimized on a relative basis.
Different structural embodiments of each of these aspects of the invention are shown in the drawing.
FIG. 1 is a longitudinal cross section of an embodiment of the invention in a short stepper motor having only two rotor discs,
FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the principal stator parts of an embodiment similar to FIG. 1 but having radial butt joints,
FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the separate rotor and stator portions of the embodiment of FIG. 2,
FIG. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of a second preferred embodiment in which each magnetic system is separated axially from the other,
FIG. 5 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale of a portion of the stator sections of the embodiment of FIG. 4, showing the butt joint,
FIG. 6 is an exploded view of the principal stator parts of an embodiment similar to FIG. 4, having a continuous outer magnetic shell and radial butt joints, and
FIG. 7 is a longitudinal cross section of a motor having a non-magnetic gap between the two sections of the rotor.
The stepper motor shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 is an improvement over a motor disclosed in copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 672,021, filed Nov. 16, 1984, now abandoned. To achieve a very short length, while still having a high value of torque developed, two electrically excited magnetic systems alternately use the flux from one permanent magnet, while each system involves one rotor disc whose teeth cooperate with alternating sectors of an outer stator disc and a middle stator disc.
Referring to the drawing, the rotor 1 has a shaft 2 mounted in bearings 3, 4 which are retained in housing end caps 5, 6 respectively. The magnetic portion of the rotor 1 consists of an axially magnetized annular permanent magnet 7 against whose end faces rotor discs 8, 9 are tightly fitted. The circumference of each rotor disc has fifty equally spaced gear-like teeth 8a, 9a which are parallel to the axis 2a of the shaft 2. The discs 8, 9 have a precise relative angular alignment such that one disc is offset from the other by one-fourth of the tooth-to-tooth pitch.
The stator 10 consists of two sections 11, 12 which are substantially mirror symmetrical about a plane perpendicular to the shaft axis 2a. Each stator section has a corresponding outer disc 13, 14 and a respective middle disc 15, 16. Between the outer and middle discs of each section 11, 12 is a respective coil 17, 18 which is wound coaxially with the shaft axis 2a.
Extending from each of the middle stator discs are two sets of teeth 15a, 16a. Each set of teeth extends over slightly less than 90° about the shaft axis 2a and faces and has an angular spacing identical to that of the corresponding rotor teeth 8a, 9a.
Nested between the sets of middle disc teeth 15a are two sets of outer disc teeth 13a; each set of teeth 13a likewise extending over slightly less than 90° about the shaft axis 2a (FIG. 2). The teeth 13a have a tooth-to-tooth spacing and radial spacing from the rotor teeth 9a identical to that of the middle disc teeth 15a. However, the angular alignment of the outer disc teeth 13a with respect to the middle disc teeth 15a is such that there is a shift of precisely one half a tooth-to-tooth pitch, such that when ones of the teeth 9a are aligned tooth-to-tooth with the middle disc 15a, the teeth 9a which are opposite the set of outer disc teeth 13a are in tooth-to-space relationship.
Similarly, the stator section 12 has middle disc teeth 16a and outer disc teeth 14a having angular spacing identical to that of the rotor teeth 8a, each set of stator teeth 14a, 16a covering slightly less than 90° about the shaft axis 2a. The outer disc teeth 14a have an angular alignment exactly in line with the outer disc teeth 13a, and the middle disc teeth 16a are in exact angular alignment with the middle disc teeth 15a.
Except for the provision of two middle discs having sets of teeth extending in opposite axial directions, this motor is just like that described in the pending application Ser. No. 672,021 referred to above. In accordance with the invention, an axial space 20 is provided between the middle discs 15, 16 extending over substantially the whole radial length of the discs from the teeth outward to a butt joint 21 which is substantially at the outer circumference of the middle discs 15, 16. In the embodiment of FIG. 1, this space 20 is preferably an air space so that a closely fitting butt joint 21 is readily achieved. In the FIG. 1 embodiment, each middle disc 15, 16 includes a back iron portion 23, 24 which extends from the butt joint 21 to the respective outer disc 13, 14. Where considerations of frequency response make the use of a ferrite material or the like advantageous for the middle discs, this construction is readily produced by pressing the ferrite material into the desired configuration. However, if the middle discs are machined from a bar or plate of a soft ferromagnetic material such as steel, the need to maintain close tolerances on all of the machined surfaces will make the discs very expensive to manufacture.
To permit use of less expensive manufacturing techniques, the embodiment of FIGS. 2 and 3 is identical in configuration and function to that of FIG. 1 except for the formation of the back iron portions with respect to the middle and outer discs, and the technique of providing the nonmagnetic space between the middle discs. As shown most clearly in FIG. 2, each outer disc 13, 14 is part of a respective cup 31, 32 having the respective back iron portion 23, 24 formed integrally with the outer disc 13, 14. The cups 31, 32 are identical except for the interlocking teeth 35a, 36a and notches 35b, 36b. It will be clear to those of ordinary skill, however, that the orientation of the teeth and notches to the teeth 13a, 14a can be varied so that the cups 31, 32 are identical.
To provide accurate alignment of the middle disc teeth 15a, 16a, the middle disc 15 has two radially protruding tongues 37a aligned symmetrically with respect to the teeth 15a, and the middle disc 16 has similar tongues 38a likewise aligned with the teeth 16a. These tongues engage respectively in notches 37b, 38b in the cups 31, 32, these notches likewise being aligned with the outer disc teeth 13a, 14a. Thus, the circumferential surfaces 15c, 16c of the middle discs 15, 16 then form a butt joint with inner surfaces 23c, 24c of the back iron portions 23, 24, and the butt joint 21 is formed between edges 21b of the back iron portions 23, 24.
In accordance with the invention, to ensure that there is a nonmagnetic space between the middle discs 15, 16, a spacer 37 is fitted axially between the middle discs 15 and 16. The spacer 39 may be formed of a nonmagnetic metal, or, to reduce eddy current loss, may be formed of a plastic material.
The embodiment of FIG. 4 is like that of FIG. 1 with respect to manufacturing details. The primary difference is that the motor has a length substantially equal to or greater than the diameter, and the sets of stator teeth 43a, 44a, 45a, 46a are spaced axially along the rotor rather than in angular segments about the rotor. Thus the stator sections 41, 42 have respective outer discs 43, 44 and middle discs 45, 46. Each of the stator section discs has a complete set of 50 teeth 43a, 44a, 45a, 46a. The outer disc teeth 43a, 44a are aligned with each other, and the middle disc teeth 45a, 46a are aligned with each other but are half a tooth pitch spaced angularly with respect to the outer disc teeth. Aligned opposite the two sets of teeth 43a, 45a of the stator section 41 are two sets of rotor teeth 49a, and two sets of rotor teeth 48a are similarly aligned opposite the teeth 44a, 46a of stator section 42. The two sets of teeth 48a are in line with each other, but analogously to the embodiment of FIG. 1 are rotated angularly one-quarter of a tooth pitch with respect to the teeth 49a.
In accordance with the invention, and as shown at an increased scale in FIG. 5, a butt joint 21 is formed between the back iron portions 53, 54 of the stator sections 41, 42, while a space 20 is provided between the middle discs 45, 46. Thus it will clear that in this embodiment also, when the coil 47 is energized, only an insignificant flux fringing will occur between the middle discs 45, 46; and substantially all of the flux will pass through the butt joint 21 so that equal mounts of flux will be carried by the outer disc 44 and middle disc 46. Similarly, when coil 48 is energized, the two discs of stator section 41 will carry substantially equal flux.
The embodiment of FIG. 6, compared to that of FIGS. 4 and 5, is similar to the embodiment of FIG. 2 with respect to that of FIG. 1. A spacer 59 is placed between the middle discs 45, 46, while the entire back iron function is provided by an outer sleeve 60. The inner surface 60c of the sleeve 60 provides a butt joint magnetic connection to the circumferential surfaces 43c, 44c, 45c, and that (not shown) for the middle disc 46.
The embodiment of FIG. 7 differs from that of FIG. 4 in that the permanent magnet 77 is an annular axially magnetized mass which forms part of the stator and is located between the middle discs 85, 86 which are otherwise functionally the same as the middle discs 45, 46. This arrangement permits the use of an extremely powerful permanent magnet, so that a nonmagnetic axial gap 90 can be provided in the rotor 91. Rotor discs 98 at one end, and 99 at the other have teeth arranged exactly as the teeth 48a, 49a in FIG. 4; but instead of a permanent magnet 7 at the center of the rotor structure, a soft magnetic extension 97 extends between the middle rotor discs and the space 100. In this embodiment, because of the reluctance of the extra gap 100, the difference in reluctance between the magnetic circuit formed by a middle disc such as the disc 86 and the inner rotor disc 98, compared with the outer disc 84 and the outer rotor disc 98, represents a very small percentage change so that there will be substantially equal flux in the rotor-stator air gaps 102 and 104 when the coil at the other end of the motor is energized.
All of the embodiments described above operate according to the same principle. The outer disc and middle disc of one stator section, and the rotor teeth and disc or discs with which they cooperate, form one magnetic system. When the coil of one magnetic system is energized with a first polarity, such that a substantially saturation value flux is flowing through the outer disc of that stator section, then virtually no flux flows through the teeth of the rotor-stator air gap of the middle disc of that section. Thus the rotor should be aligned so that its teeth are precisely in tooth-to-tooth relationship with the outer disc of the energized section. However, if the flux through the two rotor-stator air gaps of the other, unenergized system are unequal, a torque will be developed tending to rotate the rotor very slightly in the direction of that set of teeth in the unenergized system which is carrying the higher flux. In this respect, it is noteworthy that at this time the two sets of air gaps of the unenergized system are geometrically offset 90° to each side of the correct rotor position. Thus any flux imbalance between those two air gaps will tend to offset the rotor position slightly.
While the invention has been described with respect to a stepper motor having many sets of teeth, so as only to rotate 1.8° per step, it will clear that the invention is equally applicable to a stepper having any other number of teeth, including the ultimate limit in which each disc has one tooth only, so that a full 90° of shaft rotation is obtained per step.
The reference throughout to "discs" in the rotor and stator does not imply that flat structures are required. Other shapes of end connection between the back iron (or shaft region) and the teeth may be used for manufacturing convenience, and are included in the meaning of "disc."
It will thus be clear that other physical motor arrangements, besides the embodiments shown here, may utilize the invention. So long as a difference in reluctance, between the two paths that include the rotor-stator air gaps of the unenergized system, is minimized, the inventive advantage is obtained. In the preferred embodiments having a nonmagnetic gap between the middle discs of the two stator sections, a butt joint or other connection between the back iron portions of the two sections is clearly preferable, but can be formed by one or more butt joints at any location that is well removed from the stator teeth of the middle discs. The discs and back iron portions can be formed from pressed magnetic powder materials, can be machined or stamped from solid or sheet stock, or formed in other desired fashions. For example, middle discs can be formed from a stamped material, having broached teeth, and the circumferential region of each of the middle discs can be bent away from the outer disc of that stator section, toward the other middle disc, so as inherently to form the desired gap without use of any additional element or part.
Rather than having interlocking teeth and notches to align stator cups, the cups can have plain, butting open ends, or even overlapping open ends. The stator discs and cups can then be aligned using a jig which uses the stator teeth for accurate registration, and the cups can be welded or cemented together. An embodiment like that of FIG. 6 could instead use two cups and two middle discs, or four equal cups rather than a single sleeve.
Thus these and other variations which become known to those of ordinary skill in the art fall within the spirit of the invention.
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|12 Mar 1987
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- Professional Background: A director of our company since September 2008. Mr. Fitzgerald is Chairman of our Board and Chief Executive Officer of our company. Mr. Fitzgerald has also served as a director of our principal operating subsidiary, Monitronics International, Inc. (Monitronics), since December 2010 and served as Chairman of Ascent Media Group, LLC (AMG) from July 2000 until we sold AMG at the end of 2010. Mr. Fitzgerald also served as a Senior Vice President of Liberty Interactive Corporation (Liberty Interactive) and its predecessors from July 2000 to September 2011 and as a Senior Vice President of the former Liberty Media Corporation (currently known as Starz) (Old LMC) from its split-off from Liberty Interactive in September 2011 to December 2012. Prior to joining Liberty Interactive, Mr. Fitzgerald served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Operations Administration for AT&T Broadband (formerly known as Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI)), from 1998 to 2000 and was Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Operating Officer of TCI Communications, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of TCI, from 1996 to 1998.
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Jeff currently serves on the Board of Directors for CalAmp Corporation and the Qorvo Corporation, where he is also Chairman of the audit committee. From 2006 through February 1, 2015, he also served on the Board of Directors for Windstream Corporation. From 2012-2013, he served as Chairman of the United States Telecom Association.
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|Nominating and Governance
William R. Fitzgerald
William R. Fitzgerald
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Ascent Capital Group, Inc.
Charles Y. Tanabe
Charles Y. Tanabe
Philip J. Holthouse
Philip J. Holthouse
Michael J. Pohl
Michael J. Pohl
Carl E. Vogel
Carl E. Vogel


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