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Flex Lewis and BSN Part Ways
Boca Raton, FL ( PR Newswire)
IFBB Pro and 212 Olympia Champion, Flex Lewis, announced last week that he has decided to leave BSN after three years as a sponsored athlete. This was an amicable decision for both parties.
BSN, a leader in the sports and nutrition industry and Flex Lewis, current 5-time 212 Mr. Olympia have shared a successful and respected partnership. Lewis spent many years working with BSN to help the brand establish recognition on a global level and promote the sport of bodybuilding worldwide.
"Flying the flag for the 212 division has been my passion as an IFBB professional athlete. I have had the pleasure of traveling the world as BSN's main athlete for the past few years and have nothing but respect for the company," Lewis said.
"BSN and myself have different visions of what should be brought to the bodybuilding and fitness market. Our future goals and ideas were in different arenas and through many discussions, we both decided that going separate ways was the best route to take," Lewis continued.
With a strong understanding of the bodybuilding industry and motivation as an entrepreneur, Lewis's decision to move on was made with the anticipation of growth in new business adventures. This includes expanding his brand as a leader in bodybuilding and creating more opportunities to connect with his fans.
Expect to hear from Lewis in the coming months about new partnerships, appearances and opportunities, as his sights are focused on achieving a 6th 212lb Mr. Olympia victory.
About Flex Lewis
James 'Flex' Lewis is an IFBB Professional bodybuilder that was born in the small town of Llanelli, Wales in the United Kingdom. He moved to the states when he was 21 years old to follow his dreams to compete in America. Now located in Boca Raton, FL, Flex launched Flextraordinary Productions Inc. as the parent company promoting athletic training apparel branded under his own name, as well as, Dragon Nutraceuticals which launched its first product in the Fall of 2014.
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|17 Oct 1989
|Filing date
|1 Apr 1988
|Priority date
|20 Nov 1986
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Kenneth E. Daggett, Eimei M. Onaga, Richard J. Casler, Jr., Richard A. Johnson
|Original Assignee
|Unimation, Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (21), Referenced by (25), Classifications (23), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 06/932,974 filed Nov. 20, 1986.
The following concurrently filed patent applications, each filed on Nov. 20, 1986, are related to the disclosure of the present application, assigned to the present assignee and are hereby incorporated by reference:
U.S. Ser. No. 932,975, (W. E. Case 53,224) now continuation Ser. No. 180,719 filed Apr. 4, 1988 (W. E. Case 53,224C) entitled DIGITAL ROBOT CONTROL HAVING AN IMPROVED CURRENT SENSING SYSTEM FOR POWER AMPLIFIERS IN A DIGITAL ROBOT CONTROL and filed by Kenneth E. Daggett, Leonard C. Vercellotti, Richard A. Johnson, Richard J. Casler and Eimei Onaga.
U.S. Ser. No. 932,841 (W. E. Case 53,225), now continuation Ser. No. 231,627, filed Aug. 5, 1988 (W. E. Case 53,225C) entitled DIGITAL ROBOT CONTROL HAVING AN IMPROVED PULSE WIDTH MODULATOR and filed by Kenneth E. Daggett.
U.S. Ser. No. 932,992 (W. E. Case 53,226) now continuation Ser. No. 180,703 filed Apr. 5, 1988 (W. E. Case 53,226C) entitled COMMUNICATON INTERFACE FOR MULTI-MICROPROCESSOR SERVO CONTROL IN A MULTI-AXIS ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM and filed by Kenneth E. Daggett.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,763,055 (W. E. Case 53,227) entitled DIGITAL ROBOT CONTROL HAVING HIGH PERFORMANCE SERVO CONTROL SYSTEM and filed by Kenneth E. Daggett, Richard J. Casler and Eimei Onaga.
U.S. Ser. No. 932,853 (W. E. Case 53,368) now continuation Ser. No. (180,723) filed Apr. 14, 1988 (W. E. Case 53,368C) entitled IMPROVED POSITION AND VELOCITY FEEDBACK SYSTEM FOR A DIGITAL ROBOT CONTROL and filed by Kenneth E. Daggett, Richard J. Casler and Eimei Onaga.
U.S. Ser. No. 932,983 (W. E. Case 53,369) entitled UNIVERSAL ROBOT CONTROL BOARD CONFIGURATION and filed by Richard J. Casler, Eimei Onaga, Vincent P. Jalbert, Barrett Booth, and Kenneth E. Daggett.
U.S. Ser. No. 932,991 (W. E. Case 53,372) entitled BASIC DIGITAL MULTIAXIS ROBOT CONTROL HAVING MODULAR PERFORMANCE EXPANSION CAPABILITY and filed by Kenneth E. Daggett, Barrett Booth, Eimei Onaga and Richard J. Casler.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,786,847 W. E. Case 53,373 entitled IMPROVED DIGITAL CONTROL FOR MULTIAXIS ROBOTS and filed by Kenneth E. Daggett, Richard J. Casler, Eimei Onaga, Barrett Booth, Rajan Penkar, Leonard C. Vercellotti and Richard A. Johnson.
U.S. Ser. No. 932,983 (W. E. Case 53,374) entitled MODULAR ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM and filed by Kenneth E. Daggett, Barrett Booth, Vincent P. Jalbert, Eimei Onaga and Richard J. Casler.
U.S. Ser. No. 932,977, now continuation Ser. No. 180,601 filed Apr. 6, 1988 (W. E. Case 53,423C) entitled MULTIPROCESSOR TORQUE SERVO CONTROL FOR MULTIAXIS DIGITAL ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM and filed by Kenneth E. Daggett, Richard J. Casler and Eimei Onaga.
U.S. Ser. No. 932,990 (W. E. Case 53,424) now continuation Ser. No. 180,723 filed Apr. 4, 1988 (W. E. Case 53,424C) entitled MULTIPROCESSOR POSITION/VELOCITY SERVO CONTROL FOR MULTIAXIS DIGITAL ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM and filed by R. Lancraft, Eimei Onaga, Richard J. Casler, J. Kenneth E. Daggett and Barrett Booth.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,829,219 (W. E. Case 53,489) entitled MULTIAXIS ROBOT HAVING IMPROVED MOTION CONTROL THROUGH VARIABLE ACCELERATION/DECELERATION PROFILING and filed by Rajan Penkar.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,774,445 (W. E. Case 53,490) entitled MULTIAXIS ROBOT CONTROL HAVING CAPABILITY FOR EXECUTING TIMED MOVES and filed by Rajan Penkar.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,772,831 (W. E. Case 53,491) entitled MULTIAXIS ROBOT CONTROL HAVING IMPROVED CONTINUOUS PATH OPERATION and filed by Rajan Penkar.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,773,025 (W. E. Case 53,492) entitled MULTIAXIS ROBOT CONTROL HAVING FITTED CURVED PATH CONTROL and filed by Rajan Penkar.
U.S. Ser. No. 932,973 (W. E. Case 53,493) now continuation Ser. No. 180,598 filed Apr. 6, 1988 (W. E. Case 53,493C) entitled MULTIAXIS ROBOT CONTROL HAVING IMPROVED ENERGY MONITORING SYSTEM FOR PROTECTING ROBOTS AGAINST JOINT MOTOR OVERLOAD and filed by Eimei Onaga.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,807,153 (W. E. Case 53,494) entitled MULTAXIA DIGITAL ROBOT CONTROL HAVING A BACKUP VELOCITY MONITOR AND PROTECTION SYSTEM and filed by Eimei Onaga.
The present invention relates to robot control systems and more particularly to the energization and control of brushless DC joint motors employed in such systems.
Better robot performance and more economic robot control manufacture can be achieved with use of a completely digital robot control system as more fully considered in the various cross-referenced patent applications. The digital robot control disclosed in these applications includes digital pulse width modulation (PWM) circuitry employed to control the on time for drive current supplied to the robot joint motors. In W. E. 53,225, the PWM circuitry is fully disclosed and claimed, and it is described in connection with both DC brush type robot joint motors and DC brushless robot joint motors.
Since the disclosed PWM circuitry embodiment is structured to produce output control signals operative to switch power amplifier circuitry employed with DC brush type robot joint motors, a need has existed to adapt the PWM circuitry for operation with DC brushless robot joint motors. Such adaptation requires provision of commutation for the brushless motor windings in addition to basic on/off winding energization control.
Although commutation has been provided by analog circuitry in power amplifiers for brushless DC motors in the prior art, such known commutation schemes have no application to the more advanced digital robot control.
The present invention accordingly is directed to the adaptation of digital PWM circuitry to brushless DC motors in a digital robot control.
A digital robot control is provided for a robot bearing a plurality of arm joints with each joint driven by a brushless DC motor. A power amplifier is provided for each motor and has six switching means interconnected with the three motor phase windings to direct drive current through series paired windings corresponding to the sequenced switching operation of pairs of the switching means.
A digital pulse width modulator circuit having up/down counter means for generating a sawtooth waveform as a function of time, and the counter means count is compared to a signal representing a control command so as to define the time width of forward and reverse reference control pulses for the power amplifier switching means in accordance with the control command and command polarity. An enabling reference control pulse is generated for each of the reference control pulses and a plurality of phase displaced signals representative of motor rotor position are generated. Respective control pulses operate the six power amplifier switching means and correspond in time width to the reference control pulses.
Commutating means responsive to the position signals and the polarity command apply successive pairs of the switch control pulses to the switching means so as to produce motor drive current for the command time as the motor current path is commutated from winding pair to winding pair in accordance with the command polarity and a predetermined sequence. Feedback control loop means are provided for each arm joint and include at least position, velocity and current control loops through and operating the associated pulse width modulator circuit.
FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a robot which employs DC brush type arm joint motors but which otherwise is similar to robots which employ brushless DC arm joint motors operable in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 2 shows a generalized block diagram of a control loop arrangement employing position, velocity and torque control loops in which the invention may be embodied;
FIG. 3 shows a more detailed block diagram of a control loop arrangement employing position, velocity and torque control loops in which the invention preferably is embodied;
FIG. 4 shows an overview of an arrangement of electronic boards on which circuitry is arranged to implement the robot control system including commutation circuitry employed in embodying the present invention;
FIG. 5 shows a block diagram of a pulse width modulation (PWM) generator which produces control signals for application to a power amplifier in accordance with the principles of the invention;
FIG. 6 is a graph which shows control signals generated by the PWM for use in developing digital control signals for application to the power amplifier in accordance with the present invention;
FIGS. 7A-7D show circuitry on the arm interface board employed in accordance with the invention to develop brushless DC motor control signals from motor position feedback signals and from the PWM device of FIG. 5;
FIG. 7E shows a PAL device included in the circuitry of FIGS. 7A-7D to perform commutation logic;
FIG. 7F shows a general representation of the logic performed within the PAL device;
FIG. 8 shows power amplifier circuitry controlled by the circuitry of FIGS. 7A-7D to operate a DC brushless robot joint motor;
FIG. 9 shows Y connected stator windings of a brushless DC motor energized by the power amplifier circuitry of FIG. 8; and
FIG. 10 shows a waveform diagram illustrating the relationship among various signals generated in the circuitry of FIGS. 5 and 7-9.
Robot capabilities generally range from simple repetitive point-to-point motions to complex motions that are computer controlled and sequenced as part of an integrated manufacturing system. In factory applications, robots can perform a wide variety of tasks in various manufacturing applications including: die casting, spot welding, arc welding, investment casting, forging, press working, spray painting, plastic molding, machine tool loading, heat treatment, metal deburring, palletizing, brick manufacturing, glass manufacturing, etc. For more complete consideration of robots and their uses, reference is made to a book entitled "Robotics in Practice" published in 1980 by Joseph F. Engelberger.
To perform work within its sphere of influence, a robot typically is provided with an arm, a wrist subassembly and an end effector. The coordinate system employed for the robot arm typically is Cartesian, cylindrical, polar or revolute. Generally, three motion axes are employed to deliver the wrist subasembly anywhere within the sphere of influence and three additional motion axes are employed for universal orientation of the end effector. A drive system is used for each motion axis, and it may be electrical, hydraulic or pneumatic.
More particularly, there is shown in FIG. 1 a six-axis industrial electric robot 20 which employs brush type DC motors but which is otherwise illustrative of a wide variety of robots that can be operated in accordance with the principles of the invention. The robot 20 is a relatively powerful electric robot sold by Unimation Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the present assignee, under the trade name UNIMATE PUMA SERIES 700. The Model 761 PUMA has a 22 pound payload capacity and a reach of 59.1 inches. The Model 762 PUMA has a 44 pound payload capacity and a reach of 49.2 inches.
PUMA 700 Series robots are designed with flexibility and durability to ensure long life and optimum performance in even the harshest, most demanding manufacturing environments. Specific customer needs for either higher payload or extended reach determine which model is suitable for a particular task.
With its longer reach, the PUMA 761 is ideally suited for precise, repetitive tasks such as arc welding and sealant dispensing. The PUMA 762 performs high-precision material handling, machine loading, inspection, testing, joining and assembly in medium and heavier weight applications. The PUMA robots occupy mineral floor space, yet a large work envelope allows the robot to service multiple machines and work surfaces.
Each axis motion is generated by a brush type DC electric motor, with axis position feedback generated by incremental encoders. With the use of brushless DC motors in the robot 20 or similar robots, a basis is provided for implementing the present invention.
As shown, the wrist of the robot 20 is provided with three articulations, i.e., an up/down rotation indicated by arrow 21, a left/right rotation indicated by arrow 22, and a third motion indicated by arrow 23. Elbow and shoulder rotations in the up/down direction are respectively indicated by arrows 24 and 25. Finally, a left/right arm rotation on a base 27 is indicated by arrow 26.
The present invention is directed to a robot control 30 (FIGS. 2, 3 or 4) which can operate the robot 20 adapted with brushless DC motors and other robots including the larger Unimation 860 robots which employ brushless DC axis motors and absolute position feedback. Generally, however, the robot control 30 is universally and flexibly applicable to differing kinds and sizes of robots in stand alone or robotic network operation.
As a result of its unifersality, the control 30 can be arranged to operate a complete family of robots. Thus, all hydraulically and electrically driven robot arms manufactured by Unimation, a company of Westinghouse, assignee of the present invention, can be operated by the control 30. The key to the family usage, or more generally the universality of the control 30 lies in modularization and in minimizing the use of arm dependent hardware and avoiding the use of any arm dependent hardware in as much of the modular control structure as possible. The robot control 30 is identified by the acronym UNIVAL and operates with completely digital servo control to provide better robot performance with lower cost.
In FIG. 2, there is shown an embodiment of a generalized control loop configuration 100 employable in the UNIVAL™ robot control. Thus, each robot arm joint motor 102 is operated by a torque control loop 104. An outer position control loop 106 is tandem connected to a velocity control loop 108 which in turn drives the torque control loop 104. A feedforward acceleration control loop 110 is responsive to acceleration command 112 and arm and load inertia 114 is also directly coupled to the input of the torque control loop 104. The robot arm is operated by the control loop 100 in accordance with a robot program through a stream of program position commands 116 applied to the position control loop.
FIG. 3 shows the preferred generalized control loop configuration 118 presently employed in the UNIVAL robot control. It is preferably implemented as a completely digital control. With the provision of hierarchical architecture and multiprocessor architecture and floating point hardware as described herein or in other patent applications referenced above, the trajectory cycle can be characterized with a cycle time in the range of 32 to 8 milliseconds depending on the employed modular configuration.
In the preferred control loop arrangement 118, control loop 120 and velocity control loop 120 and are parallel fed to the input of a torque control loop 124. Velocity commands are generated by block 126 from position commands received by block 128. In turn, feedforward acceleration commands are generated by block 130 from the velocity commands. Computed inertia (load and arm) 132 is multiplied against the acceleration command as indicated by reference character 134 in the feedforward acceleration control loop 136.
In the velocity loop 120, the velocity command in the present embodiment is generated once every 8 to 32 milliseconds depending on the modular configuration of the robot control. The basic robot control described subsequently herein has a trajectory cycle time of 32 milliseconds while the enhanced contact has a trajectory cycle of 8 milliseconds.
In any case, a velocity command generator 138 interpolates velocity commands at the rate of 1 each millisecond which corresponds with the velocity feedback sampling rate in velocity feedback path 140. As shown, velocity feedback for a Unimation 860 robot is produced by tachometer signals which are converted from analog to digital by converter 142. A scaler 144 and a filter 146 supplement the velocity feedback circuitry.
Similarly, in the position control loop 122, an interpolator 148 generates position commands every millisecond in correspondence with the position feedback sampling rate in feedback path 150. In the Unimation 860 robot control, position feedback is absolute and the velocity and position feedback paths 140 and 150 operate as just described (with switch 151 as shown). For Unimation PUMA robots, tachometers are not available and velocity feedback is computed from incremental position feedback as indicated by block 152 (with the switch 151 swinging to its other position) as described more fully in referenced applications W. E. 53,225 and W. E. 53,368.
Velocity error is generated by summer 154 with gain applied by loop 156. Similarly, position error is generated by summer 158 with gain applied by box 160.
Velocity and position errors and feedforward acceleration command are summed in summer 162. Gain is applied in box 166 to generate a torque command which is applied to the input of torque control loop 164 every millisecond. Torque error is generated in summer 168 by summing the torque command (motor current command) with current feedback from feedback path 170. Box 712 applies a torque loop gain to the torque error to get (motor voltage commands) and pulse width modulated (PWM) signals which are applied to a power amplifier 174 which supplies the motor drive current for robot joint operation. Current feedback from resistor 175 is sampled every 250 microseconds (see referenced patent application W. E. 53,224) and converted to digital signals by box 176 with scaling applied by box 178.
Implementation of the control looping for the robot control 30 in FIG. 4 is achieved by the use of digital control circuitry disposed on a plurality of electronic boards. The organization of the circuitry on the boards and the partitioning of programming among various microprocessors enables advanced robot control performance to be achieved with a modular control configuration characterized with economy of manufacture, facility and universality of use, and flexibility in choice of level of control performance.
As shown in FIG. 4, the control board configuration includes an arm interface board 800 which preferably houses all circuitry dependent on the type of robot arm being controlled. For example position feedback circuitry will differ according to whether absolute or incremental position feedback is used by the robot arm to be controlled. Thus, two or possibly more varieties of the arm interface board 800 can be employed to provide digital control systems for any of a variety of different sizes or types of robot arms. Any particular robot arm would require use of the arm interface board which is structured to work with that robot arm.
The arm interface (AIF) board 800 also houses generic circuitry such as VME bus control circuitry which is generally related to two or more boards and not to any one board in particular.
Control signals (pulse width modulated) are generated from the AIF board 800 to control power amplifier blocks 150 which supply motor currents to the robot joint motors. The AIF board 800 also operates as a channel for external coupling of the robot control 30 to other robot controls in a work cell as indicated by the reference character 152, to programmable controllers and other input/output devices 153 in an area network and to higher level computers 154 for supervisory control.
A torque processor (TP) board 600 and a servo control board 400 are generic circuit boards used with the AIF board 800 and power amplifier blocks 150 in all robot control systems for all robot types. The three circuit boards 400, 600 and 800 lprovide complete 6 axis control for a robot arm and thus form a basic control configuration for the UNIVAL family of robot controls as well as other robot controls.
The torque processor board 600 provides motor torque control in response to commands from the servo control board 400. In turn, the servo control board 400 provides arm solutions and position and velocity control in accordance with a robot control program.
Extended control capability and/or system functioning is achieved by interconnecting additional electronic boards or devices to the basic control 400, 600, 800. For example, with the addition of a system control board 500 and partitioning of predetermined program functions including the arm solutions from the servo control board 400 to the system control board 500, the UNIVAL™ robot control can operate the robot 20 and other robots with significantly faster control action, i.e., with a trajectory cycle shortened from thirty-two microseconds to eight microseconds.
Interboard data communications for control and other purposes occur over multiple signal paths in a VME bus 155. Additionally, a VMX bus 156 is provided for connection between the torque processor board 600 and the AIF board 800.
Multiple pin interconnectors (not shown in FIG. 4) are provided on the AIF, TP and SCM boards and any other connectable units to facilitate VME and VMX interboard bus connections modular and board assembly for the robot control 30. Other connectors are provided on the AIF board 800 for external input/output connections.
More detail on the board circuit structure is presented herein or elsewhere in the writeups for the cross-referenced patent applications.
As previously described, the higher level control looping generates voltage command signals to be executed through the AIF board 800 for the arm axes so that the arm effector is moved to commanded positions under controlled velocity, acceleration and torque in accordance with a user's robot program. Pulse width modulation circuitry 801 and drive circuitry 802 are provided on the AIF board 800 to develop axis drive signals, in this instance for application to power amplifiers which provide the drive currents to brushless DC electric motors respectively associated with the six axes of arm motion.
The pulse width modulation circuitry provides a digital interface for closing the torque or current control loop through the axis motor drive circuitry. The pulse width modulation concept is applied to control the conduction time width for the joint motor power switches and thereby satisfy motor voltage and torque commands.
As shown in the generalized block diagram of FIG. 5, a digital PWM generator 825A receives 9 bit data commands and 3 register address bits on the torque microprocessor P2 bus (specifically shown elsewhere as the VMX bus). Additionally, device select logic, read/write, reset (initialization) and data strobe signals are received from the P2 bus. A DTACK (acknowledge) signal is returned to the bus by the PWM generator 825A after each reception from the torque calculator on the torque processor board.
The digital PWM generator 825A is preferably arranged to service three axes where, in the present case, either brushless or brush type DC motors are employed as the axis drives. Thus, a set of digital signals (in this instance four such signals A1, A2, B1, B2) is generated for controlling the amplifier base or gate drive circuitry associated with each brushless DC axis motor amplifier.
Four digital PWM signals are employed to control the direction and magnitude of current flow through the motor windings through on/off power switch control. In the present brushless DC motor application of the invention, the three phase windings of the brushless DC motor in FIG. 9 are interconnected in a bridge circuit (FIG. 8) such that the motor drive current is always directed through a pair of windings and the motor conduction path is rotated or commutated through successive winding pairs to produce the motor drive torque. In this arrangement, the PWM pulses determine the time span of motor current flow and commutation switching logic based on the PWM pulses and Hall effect sensor feedback signals determine the winding pairs through which, and the direction in which, drive current is to flow.
The three address signals generally are encoded to address eight registers within the PWM generator 825A of FIG. 5. Two registers are used to store voltage commands for each axis. A total of six registers are thus used to store voltage commands, and the remaining two registers store command and status data common to the three axes.
The modulation system used to generate digital switching signals which satisfy axis voltage commands is illustrated in FIG. 6. The up/down counting output of the ramp counter 844 (shown in FIG. 5B of incorporated by reference W. E. 53,225) is represented by a saw tooth wave 845 with a top rail 848 (dashed line) corresponding to a zero negative motor voltage command with increasing negative voltage commands corresponding to decreasing ordinate values. Bottom rail 849 (dashed line) similarly corresponds to a zero positive motor voltage command with increasing positive voltage commands corresponding to increasing ordinate values. The output control pulses A1, A2, B1, B2 are used with additional processing circuitry to control, the DC brushless power switching amplifier of FIG. 8.
Generally, the width of an output control pulse is logically determined by scaling the voltage request or command (dashed horizontal line 846 corresponding to a counter count of 256) along the ordinate for the counter sawtooth waveform 845 according to the magnitude of the voltage command. In illustrative Case No. 1, positive voltage commands are scaled upward from end point 848-1 and intersect points 846-1 and 846-2 define the width of the resultant A1 control pulse 847-1 needed to execute the commanded positive motor voltage (with B2 enabling pulse, 847-2, on as shown). With A1 and B2 on, current flows through the motor in a forward direction.
In illustrative Case No. 2, negative voltage commands are scaled downward from end point 848-2 and intersect points 846-3 and 846-1 define the width of the resultant B1 control pulse 847-3 needed to execute the commanded negative motor voltage (with A2 enabling pulse, 847-4 on as shown). With B1 and A2 on, reverse motor current is enabled.
For a zero voltage command, forced negative and positive end stop control voltages represented by dotted lines 850 and 851 together produce an effective motor voltage of zero. The forced positive and negative end stop control pulse TES, TEG and LES, LEG respectively, enable an identification of the polarity and magnitude of motor current and thereby enable motor current to be sensed for feedback control. This permits the use of economy hybrid power packs with a single power amplifier sense resister 63 in the present brushless DC motor embodiment. Thus, current through the current sense resistor 63 is the motor current and, although the resistor current is not always in the same direction, the motor current direction (polarity) at any point in time can be determined from the polarity of the last end stop control pulse. Reference is made to incorporated by reference patent application W. E. 53,224 for more description of the motor current feedback sensing system.
Circuitry associated with the up/down counter 844 (shown in FIG. 5B of W. E. 53,225) senses the cycle count to initiate power amplifier switching in both the positive end region and the negative end region of the sawtooth counter waveform thereby producing forced motor current at both ends of the counter waveform even if the received motor voltage command is zero (i.e., near and at the maximum positive count and the maximum negative count). As shown in FIG. 6, intersect points 850-1 and 850-2 define the width of the positive A1 end stop control pulse 851-1. Similarly, intersect points 850-3 and 850-4 define the width of the negative B1 end stop conrol pulse 851-2.
Since the conducted currents are equal but opposite over the two end stops in each PWM cycle, the effective end stop motor current during each PWM cycle is zero. The end stop currents are produced regardless of the level of the motor voltage command, and calibration of the up/down counter count to motor voltage level for comparison with command voltage in the comparator 845 takes the end stop currents into account.
End stop switching results from two ramp end stop control pulses 851-1 (LES and LEG), generated within the PWM devices 828 and 829 in FIG. 5B of incorporated by reference W. E. 53,225.
Two of the end stop switch signals are associated with the lower extremity of the ramp, the center of which represents the positive request modulation midpoint. This extremity is referred to as the lower end stop. Similarly, two ramp end stop control pulses 851-2 (TES and TEG) similary generated and centered on the upper extremity of the PWM ramp the center of, which represents the negative request modulation midpoint and is referred to as the upper end stop.
Within the lower end stop, one of the end stop pulses LEG forces PWM drive signals B1 and A2 to be non-asserted, and the other end stop pulse LES forces PWM drive signals A1 and B2 to be asserted.
Within the upper end stop, one of the end stop pulse TEG forces PWM drive signals A1 and B2 to be non-asserted, and the other lower end stop pulse TES forces PWM drive signals B1 and A2 to be asserted. The ramp end stop pulses, TES and LES, are made available as device output signals.
Greater detail on the PWM circuitry is set forth in incorporated by reference W. E. 53,225.
In FIG. 9, there is shown the stator winding circuitry for DC brushless motors employed as axis drives in various robots including the Unimation 860 robot which is more powerful than the Unimation 700 Series robot shown in FIG. 1.
A commercially available, low cost hybrid power amplifier block 60 (FIG. 8) is provided for energizing the DC brushless motor windings. As indicated by the dotted box, the power amplifier block 60 is packaged to include the six semiconductor switches 61-1 through 61-6 needed for operating the three phase windings of the brushless DC motor. The block 60 is a low cost power amplifier mainly because the device is packaged to contain a simple switching circuit configuration without internal control loops.
The power amplifier block 60 is provided with external power supply terminals 62-1 and 62-2. A current sense resistor 63 is connected to the terminal 62-2 for series connection to the power supply so as to provide motor current feedback signals for control loop operation as more fully disclosed in cross-referenced patent application W. E. 53,224.
The power amplifier block 60 additionally includes external terminals 64-1, 64-2 and 64-3 for respective connection to the free ends 65-1, 65-2 and 65-3 of the Y connected motor windings. External terminals 66-1 through 66-6 are also provided for application of the switch control signals U1 and U2, V1 and V2 and W1 and W2 from the PWM commutation circuitry. To prevent power supply shorting and switch burnout, the power switches are always controlled so that only one switch can be on at a time in each of the respective parts of switches 61-1 and 61-2, 61-3 and 61-4, and 61-5 and 61-6.
The control signals U1, V1 and W1 are the basic pulse width control signals that control the level of drive current through the motor windings. The control signals U2, V2, and W2 enable the six motor winding conduction paths in rotation and generally provide for the flow of freewheeling motor currents.
The following listing in conjunction with FIGS. 9 and 10 will provide a more complete understanding of the rotating (commutated) motor conduction paths and how the power switches operate to rotate the motor conduction paths and produce the rotating rotor gap magnetic flux which drives the rotor:
______________________________________ Switches Windings SeriallyPath Turned On Connected______________________________________1 U1-V2 U-V2 U1-W2 U-W3 V1-W2 V-W4 V1-U2 V-U5 W1-U2 W-U6 W1-V2 W-V______________________________________
AIF board circuitry shown in FIGS. 12A, 12B, and 12C of incorporated by reference W. E. 53,224 for each of the six robot axes is used to generate the power amplifier control signals U1 through W2 from the PWM signals A1, A2, B1 and B2 and couple the same to the power amplifier output terminals on the AIF board 800.
Separate drive circuit channels 860J1-860J6 shown in FIGS. 7A, 7B and 7C, 7D are provided on the AIF board 800 to process and couple the PWM digital outputs to the power amplifiers for the respective robot joint motors. Since the drive circuit channels are alike, not one channel 860J1 will be described.
At the input of the drive circuit for this channel 860J1, four PWM digital drive pulses AP1A1-A2 and AP1B1-B2 are applied to a PAL device 861-1. As previously described, the A and B pulses are time shifted, the A2 and B2 pulses are relatively wide enable and the A1 and B1 pulses have varying time width to function as control pulses (within the B2 and A2 time spans, respectively).
In addition, three similarly prefixed feedback commutation signals AP1(CAL-CDL-CCL) from the joint 1 brushless DC motor are applied to the PAL device 861-1. As shown in FIG. 13F-1 of incorporated by reference W. E. 53,373, three Hall effect sensors 864-1, 865-1, 866-1 are disposed about the periphery of the joint 1 motor to respond to magnetic flux changes and indicate the position of the rotor and which way the rotor is moving. Like sensors are employed for each joint motor as shown FIGS. 13F-2 to 13G-2 of W. E. 53,373. Each sensor signal is routed to a comparator 867 which operates a gate 868 when the sensor signal reaches a reference level.
The nine gate output signals from the nine comparator circuit channels which process the Hall effect sensor signals from joint motors 1, 2 and 3 are applied to a two component latch register 869 in FIG. 13F-2 of incorpoated W. E. 53,373 which in turn generates commutation signals for the commutation PALS 861-1, 861-2, 861-3. A latch register 870 similarly in FIGS. 13G-2 of W. E. 53,373 generates commutation signals that are applied to the PALS 861-4, 861-5, 861-6 for joint motors 4, 5 and 6. Respective buffers 871 and 872 access the commutation signals to the P2 data bus for the torque processor board 600 thereby providing a basis for modification of PWM output signals as a function of motor rotor position. These signal can also be used as the basis for providing software commutation in an alternative arrangement for control of the three motor windings.
Thus, the PAL device 861-1 logically operates analog driver circuits 862, 863 and 864 in FIGS. 7A and 7B to generate commutation timed signal sets A1U1-U2, AP1V1-V2 and AP1W1-W2 for application to the power amplifier switches shown in FIG. 9 which in turn direct motor drive current pulses through the joint 1 motor windings in accordance with the commutation control and in accordance with the pulse width modulation control. The currents through the windings of the other joint motors are similarly controlled by the other PAL devices 861-2 through 861-6.
A simplified schematic of the commutator PAL devices 861-1 through 861-6 is shown in FIG. 7E as a commutation PAL device 861 with input signals A1, A2, B1 and B2 from the PWM and HA, HB and HC from the Hall sensors and output signals U1 through W2 to the power amplifier. The PAL device is a commercially available programmable array logic device which is programmed with the following logic equations to generate the designated outputs from the applied inputs: ##EQU1##
As shown in FIG. 7F, the power amplifier control pulses U1 through W2 are logically controlled by block 862 to be synchronized with the clock pulses C.
The waveforms shown in FIG. 10 show more clearly the manner in which the various pulses are related. At the top of the graph, the Hall effect rotor position signals are observed to be overlapping pulses which are phase shifted by 60 electrical degrees.
The A1 and B2 pulses are being generated to produce motor drive current in the forward direction. Thus, the B2 pulse is a wider enabling pulse that embraces the A1 pulse but is off during the on time of the B1 pulse. The width of the A1 pulse provides control over the switch on time in the power amplifier.
The A2 pulse is a wider enabling pulse for the B1 pulse which in this instance is a narrow end stop control pulse explained more fully in cross-referenced patent application Ser. No. 932,975 now continuation Ser. No. 180714 filed Apr. 4, 1988. Generally, both the A1 and B1 pulses are implemented to force current conduction through the connected motor winding at both ends of the PWM ramp even if the control command is not otherwise calling for drive current.
The PAL generated power amplifier drive signals U1 through W2 are shown at the bottom of the graph. The successive winding connection states (or motor conduction paths) 1 through 6 are designated between the vertical dotted time lines.
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|6 Nov 1989
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The actress, a vegan, enjoyed summer salads, veggie "sushi" rolls and a vegan chocolate cake from Red Velvet Café, along with a giant blow-up birthday cake and a processional led by a flag-waving Marquee cocktail waitress. She passed out slices of the cake to partygoers in nearby cabanas.
While in town, Nikki also dined at Tao in the Venetian and partied at Marquee Nightclub, where, as we previously reported, singer Chris Brown, partying with girlfriend Karrueche Tran, joined DJ Benny Benassi onstage to perform two songs. Also at Marquee separately, singer Taio Cruz and actress Emmanuelle Chriqui.
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Benching Alex Rodriguez certainly didn't turn out to be the answer.
The Yankees, who slumped offensively during their recent five-game trip to Detroit and Toronto, returned home Friday night and were colder than the feelings between Hillary and Bernie's campaigns, flailing and failing in a 7-1 loss to the Mariners at the Stadium.
"We've struggled the last few days with runners on. That's why we've lost a few in a row,'' Joe Girardi said. "When you're going through it, it's no fun."
The Yankees, who scored a total of seven runs in losing two of three to the Blue Jays, have lost three straight in falling to 4-5. The Mariners are 4-6.
The Yankees, who had six hits, went 0-for-12 with runners in scoring position, stranding 12. In Seattle starter Nathan Karns' five innings, the numbers were 0-for-8 and eight.
And it won't get any easier Saturday afternoon as CC Sabathia takes on Mariners ace Felix Hernandez.
The pitching did not distinguish itself, either, as the Mariners scored in each of the final six innings. Luis Severino (0-2, 5.91) struggled for the second straight start, allowing four runs and eight hits in 5 2⁄3 innings. The 22-year-old allowed three runs and a career-worst 10 hits in five innings in his previous start April 8 in Detroit.
Said Girardi, "It's two starts. It's not like he's being pounded."
Chris Iannetta, who went 3-for-3 with three RBIs, hit a two-run homer in the fifth to make it 3-1. Franklin Gutierrez added two RBIs.
Yankees righthanded reliever Kirby Yates allowed a run in two-thirds of an inning and lefthander Tyler Olson, brought up earlier in the day as Luis Cessa was sent down, allowed two runs in 2 2⁄3 innings. He likely will be headed back to the minors Saturday.
Brett Gardner, coming off a 3-for-16 trip, gave Severino the lead in the bottom of the first, hammering a belt-high 92-mph fastball off the facing of the second deck in right for his first homer of the season.
The Mariners tied it in the fourth. Seth Smith yanked a double past a diving Mark Teixeira with one out, bringing Robinson Cano to the plate. Severino got ahead of the former Yankees second baseman 0-and-2 on a pair of fastballs but Cano, after taking a ball, punched a slider past Starlin Castro to tie it at 1.
The Yankees threatened to retake the lead in the bottom half, putting runners on second and third with none out, but failed to score. After a walk to Dustin Ackley — who served as the DH with the slumping Alex Rodriguez getting the night off — Castro, 2-for-17 on the recent trip, pulled one over the third-base bag for a long single that put runners at the corners. A wild pitch moved Castro to second, but Didi Gregorius, Chase Headley and Jacoby Ellsbury struck out to strand the two runners. The latter two took called third strikes.
Adam Lind led off the fifth with a single and Iannetta got ahead 2-and-0 before pouncing on a 95-mph fastball and driving it to deep left for his second homer of the season.
The Yankees again came away frustrated in the bottom half of the inning. Gardner led off with a single and Teixeira worked his second walk. Brian McCann, who brought a .538 on-base percentage into the evening and was 1-for-2 in the game to that point, struck out. Carlos Beltran flied to the track in center, allowing Gardner to tag and go to third, and Ackley flied to left for the third out, dropping the Yankees to 0-for-8 to that point with runners in scoring position.
Lind's RBI single with two outs in the sixth made it 4-1 and knocked out Severino.
The Yankees' futility at the plate continued in the sixth after a double by Gregorius and two walks loaded the bases with two outs. Former Yankees lefthander Vidal Nuño was called on to face Teixeira, who rolled over an off-speed pitch and grounded to short for the third out.
Gutierrez hit a sacrifice fly in the seventh, Iannetta added a two-out RBI single in the eighth and Gutierrez added an RBI double in the ninth.


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I did pretty much what you did yesterday afternoon when the update screen appeared on my computer. When the screen disappeared, I went to the control panel, found the adobe Flash Player and Jaws told me that the date on it was yesterday's date. So it must have installed. Geoff -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 10:16 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Adobe Flash Player Installation Query It took a week for this Adobe Flash update message to reappear, but it just did. Thanks to Roy and the others who helped. Still, it wasn't smooth sailing. First, insert-b gave me no new information. I still had before me an unlabelled button and the other saying simply, "Q." Following lister advice, I clicked on the non-q of the two buttons and was presented with a screen of three buttons. This time one was unlabelled, one said "Q" again, and the third said "I." If "Q" stood for "quit," I figured "I" must stand for "install." I clicked on it, after which a third screen appeared with the "I" button again. And again I pressed spacebar on it. The screen went away, and I'm left with no idea whether the installation completed. I thought the people at Adobe got the whole accessibility message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roy Nickelson Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 5:55 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Adobe Flash Player Installation Query well q is "quit" and the unlabeled one is the one you need to activate the install. Roy ----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Spratt To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:49 AM Subject: Adobe Flash Player Installation Query Hi. I keep receiving a message on rebooting my computer that Adobe wants to install a new version of its flash player. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear consistently or else I would have had someone sighted look at the screen. the first appearance shows a clear "Install" button, which I click on. However, the next screen shows two buttons, one with no label and the other with the unhelpful label of "Q." Can someone tell me what these two buttons represent?
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Written on: 09/01/2008 by studavies2 (1 review written)
Good Points
It looks nice.
Bad Points
It fundamentally does not do the job it is supposed to..end of story.
General Comments
I cannot beleive that Mr. Oliver would put his name to this item, and i doubt very much whether he uses it unless he's on TV trying to increase sales.


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October 3rd, 2007, 07:32 PM #1Inexpensive Domain Name Registration?
I was looking to register a few new domains. So far, I have seen $9.99 for .coms. Anything lower out there?
October 3rd, 2007, 08:03 PM #2
October 3rd, 2007, 08:06 PM #3
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Lots lower:
But sometimes you get what you pay for. Looks like Godaddy went down from $9.99 to $6.95 right now.
October 3rd, 2007, 08:19 PM #4
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Didn't see those prices posted at the website. Just on a google ad?
But as Trust mentions, you get what you pay for. I've been looking into where to reg a domain from, and if you go cheap you can get burned.
October 3rd, 2007, 08:42 PM #5
Not laughing at you, I just find it funny when $9.99 isn't cheap enough.
When I bought my first domain over 7 years ago, Network Solutions was about the only legitimate registrar around. There were others, but they were new and unknown. Network Solutions registration fee was/is $35 a year.
I moved to Dotster about a year later (they were one of the new ones back then). I now have 32 domains, and always think what it'd be like if I was still with NS. I'd be paying $1100+ a year on domains.
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October 3rd, 2007, 09:21 PM #6
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Uh, Godaddy.com is cheap. $8.95 ($9.10 after icann fee). You can also find coupons that knock off 20% of that cost as well (they are all over the net).
October 3rd, 2007, 09:23 PM #7
GoDaddy Coupon: .com Domain for $6.95 - Code: hash3
GoDaddy Coupon: Save $4 on a .com Domain - Code: OYH3
They should still work, I used hash3 last Friday, I think the OYH3 is new.
October 3rd, 2007, 10:09 PM #8
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I'm getting quite attached to Dynadot.com
They have a great user interface, you don't get the endless upsell attempts like at Godaddy, and they make even have an affiliate program.
October 3rd, 2007, 10:25 PM #9
How about 1&1? .com $5.99
(no setup fee)
Generic domain
They provide a chart:
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1&1 $5.99
Hostway $6.95
Interland $7.95
Web.com $7.95
AIT Domains $7.99
Go Daddy Inc. $9.20
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Yahoo $9.95
Verio $9.95
RegisterFly $9.99
Dotster $14.95
eNom $29.95
Network Solutions $34.99
Register.com $35.00
Back in 2005 I bought a domain from 1&1 without hosting.
At that time I was using "free webhosting" but I had so many problems with the "free hosting" that 1&1's package deal looked like a bargain to me.
You don't have to use their hosting.
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October 3rd, 2007, 11:12 PM #10Originally Posted by kse
Give Haiko the business, I say. Let's all give Haiko the business!Generate more fake news.
October 3rd, 2007, 11:18 PM #11
Even if you pay twice the Godaddy rate, it would only be 6 freakin' cents a day when you divide the cost by 365 days. Get a grip.CUSTOM BANNERS by GRAPHICS CANDY ~ Banner Sets and Website Graphics ~ Professional design, reasonable rates
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October 4th, 2007, 01:41 AM #13
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ABW uses godaddy's reseller service, though I am not sure the coupons would work with it.
October 4th, 2007, 08:46 AM #14
Godaddy coupon for $5 off if you spend thirty bucks...USA6Following everyone else is a GREAT way to become average.
October 4th, 2007, 12:27 PM #15Alex
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October 4th, 2007, 01:34 PM #16
I didn't know about ABW reselling domains, though I'm not a fan of GoDaddy (inappropriate TV advertising IMHO). NameCheap has done well for me - I've got no complaints about them. Great coupons listed at http://www.retailmenot.com/view/namecheap.com
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October 26th, 2007, 04:00 AM #17
i am planning to transfer to other registrar as well
any more suggestions ?
October 26th, 2007, 08:01 AM #18Originally Posted by cbsturg
ICANN just had their first price increase (in many years) on October 15th. So many registrars are upping their reg fees by 45 or 50 cents.
As mobilebadboy mentioned, domains used to be a lot more. My first registrations were at Network Solutions because they were the only game in town - $35 per year with a two year minimum purchase. 70 bucks...Ouch!
Also, if you intend to register several domains, you can call up a company like Moniker - and they may offer you a lower price than what they publish on their site. Just ask.
But, for a few names, you can't go wrong with Haiko's service here at ABW - and it would be good to give him the business.
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October 26th, 2007, 10:09 AM #19Originally Posted by writerguy
I'm kinda ticked off at GoDaddy right now, they sent some lame a** $3.95 charge to a collecter for some reason, even though the hosting plan in question is paid up through next year. The collector threatened to 'close my GoDaddy account', so I fired off a note to GoDaddy suggesting that every time that dumba** called me I was going to move 20 .TV domains ( $40 a shot) to a different registrar. According to the sales rep at GD, his manager is out on vacation this week, so he can't help me until next week. All over a stupid $3.95, which was paid several months ago.Following everyone else is a GREAT way to become average.
October 26th, 2007, 12:01 PM #20
some very cheap places do not offer bulk transfer
just forget them
November 4th, 2007, 08:19 AM #21
November 7th, 2007, 11:47 AM #22
I am managing the Register.com program and we are shortly announcing a $9.99 domain and email promotion. We are also interested in working a system to allow easy bulk transfers. http://forum.abestweb.com/showthread.php?t=97059
Haiko, just sent you an offer to see if we can earn some of your domain business.
November 7th, 2007, 02:42 PM #23Cheap Domains - Get what you pay for.
GoDaddy is always competitive - just click through the adwords ad and you'll get the discount every time.
That being said, GoDaddy is not so great in more ways then one. I use Moniker - if you're going to use more then a few domains search Google for the namepros pricing and you'll get a significant discount..
Either way 6.95 or 9.99 is not that much. only makes a difference in bulk.
And I remember when domains cost $100 for the first year and then $70 each year. I also remember when NSI was InterNic, and you could still get a whole lot of ROI from that $100.. Those were the days, and these are the days, folks.
November 7th, 2007, 07:47 PM #24
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Look at what happened with RegisterFly. They were fine while still a reseller of eNom, but when they became a registrar unto themselves and started competing on price and unfulfilled "promises," many people got stung in the turmoil. Or, a few years ago when some folks who sold their domains and got stung by having to pay Register.com $200 to effect a change of Registrant (owner) within the same company. That is no longer the case, because the new owners are working hard to overcome a lot of negative rep.
I have been recommending Moniker, eNom, and GoDaddy for the last couple of years. All are big companies and have been in business since the divestiture of the Network Solutions domain monopoly about 10 years ago. As far as I know, Moniker has never had a domain lost or hijacked. They are probably best known for the security of their system. And their prices aren't bad, either. eNom now is the second(?) largest registrar in the world and have excellent DNS management services (at no charge) for forwarding, masking, redirecting. eNom, however, is a bit pricy unless you have a lot of domains with them, then you can get reseller pricing. If you take advantage of their free services the reg fee is then reasonable. (Some places charge even more and then "nickel-n-dime" you on all the extras.) GoDaddy is well known for service and their Super Bowl Commercials (not that that makes them good) They are big and have been around a while and thier pricing is reasonable, including free domain management tools. Domains registered through ABW are actually done as a reseller of GoDaddy. I have several domains with GoDaddy, several dozen at Moniker and even more at eNom. I also have a few scattered at other registrars and am moving them to either Moniker or eNom as they come up for renewal.Bill / Marketing Blog @ 12PM - Current project: Resurrecting my "baby" at South Baltimore..
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Regavim v. Susya villagers
For background see Aggressive Zionist body wins court order to demolish Palestinian village
Israeli court postpones hearing on Hebron village Susiya
By Ma'an news
February 01,03, 2013
HEBRON — Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday postponed hearing the appeal of a Palestinian village in the southern West Bank against the demolition of their homes.
The case of Susiya, a rural community in the south Hebron hills, will be now be heard on Sunday, residents told Ma'an.
Right-wing settler advocacy group Regavim has petitioned the court on behalf of an Israeli settlement overshadowing the Palestinian village, calling for the authorities to implement demolition orders against most of the village's structures.
Jihad Nawajah, the head of Susiya village council, told Ma'an that the people of Susiya are waiting for the court to decide their fate.
If the court rules against Susiya, it will "strip us of our Palestinian nationality and anything that we have on this earth," he said.
"For 17 years, we have been fighting cases at the Israel's Supreme Court for our existence, and it's the time for us to feel comfortable on our land," he continued.
Islam Nawajah, a resident of Susiya, told Ma'an the hardest thing is answering her children's questions as to why they live in tents when a few meters away settlers live in housing blocks.
Important Supreme Court session on the future of the Palestinian village of Susiya
By Rabbis for Human Rights/Internatonal Solidarity Movement
January 30, 2013
On Thursday 31st January the Supreme Court will hold two sessions regarding two petitions affecting the future of the Palestinian village Susiya. One will discuss the organization Regavim's petition to expedite the demolition of most of the village. The other petition seeks to prevent the villagers' remaining lands from being rendered off limits to them.
Susiya, a Palestinian village in the south of the West Bank, which is not connected to any water, electricity (sic) or sewage infrastructure, faces imminent demolition. The village's future remains shrouded in doubt after its original inhabitants were driven from their homes in the 1980's, when the area was declared a closed archaeological zone, and Palestinians were barred from entering. With no other options and no alternative location, the residents moved to their nearby farmlands, where they could not get building permits.
The first session involves a petition by the far-right organization Regavim, which petitioned the Court together with the nearby Jewish settlement of Susya, to expedite the demolition of most of the buildings in Palestinian Susiya. Such demolition will in all likelihood mean the complete disappearance of the village. The petitioners have also requested and received a temporary injunction that prohibits any further development in the village until a decision is issued. RHR is representing the villagers. The petition was submitted against the Minister of Defense and the inhabitants of Palestinian Susiya.
The second hearing covers a petition by the villagers, with Rabbis for Human Rights, responding to the blockage of about 3,000 dunams of their farmland in the area. The petition names the Minister of Defense, the heads of the Civil Administration, the Chief of the Hebron Police, the Susya Cooperative Association, and the Har Hevron Local Council.
Practices that must end:
A. Unlawful collaboration between Susya settlers, the illegal settlement outposts and the IDF in the area
The Palestinian complainants are unable to access their farmland, as a result of the use of threats and violence by the settlers of Susya and neighboring outposts. The illegal actions of these settlers are executed in collaboration with security forces that remove the complainants from their lands without military orders to do so, or with temporary, one-day orders. Moreover, police enforce the orders against the complainants and their escorts, and fail to properly investigate Palestinian complaints of violence from the settlers' side and land encroachment. Finally, the Civil Administration refuses to arrange for the complainants to enter the areas from which they have been blocked. The authorities' behavior is in violation of Israeli, international humanitarian, and human rights law, which require the occupying military government to protect the local Palestinian population and its fundamental rights.
B. Blockage of Palestinians' entry to their farmlands as usurpation by the settlement
As Palestinians are blocked from accessing their land, Susya residents have gradually encroached on this private land, all the while committing crimes such as attacks, threats, encroachment, malicious property damage, etc. By the time the petition was submitted, settlers from Susya and neighboring outposts had seized about 400 dunams, representing about 15% of the area "prohibited" to Palestinians on their own lands.
This petition therefore makes two demands: to require the respondents to guarantee freedom of movement of the claimants to their lands and to protect the claimants from violence committed by extremist settlers.
Attorney Quamar Mishirqi-Asad, Rabbis for Human Rights: "We fear that the Court will draw an un-based symmetry between the two petitions and reject them both – because prima facie the state and security forces are already addressing the issue, at their own pace: both in demolitions and in blocking access. But in both cases the state is harming Palestinians in a way that is fundamentally unconstitutional, implementing a policy that is contradictory to basic democratic principles. In the first case the state prevents equal planning and representation in planning bodies for the Palestinian residents. In the second, it ignores the harm being done to Palestinians when they attempt to enter their lands; often the security forces collaborate in preventing this access. The Court must know the following: the state is not working to repair what is distorted; it is the very source of the unfair actions against which the Court's involvement is requested. Both the law enforcement and planning bodies flagrantly discriminate against Palestinians."
Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Rabbis for Human Rights:
"Regavim declares that its goal is 'to protect the lands of the nation.' When that slogan is compared to the organization's actions, its agenda becomes clear: Regavim is petitioning for the destruction of buildings on private Palestinian lands, with 'planning' pretexts – indicating that Regavim considers even private Palestinian land to be 'the lands of the nation' that should be protected from its lawful owners, whom it considers foreign invaders. That agenda glorifies discrimination and the trampling of rights; it is based on a distorted interpretation of Jewish sources, setting an agenda which debases the giants of Jewish thought who deem such discrimination and theft from non-Jews sinful. Rabbi Akiva himself, in a ruling (that did not apply only to the Diaspora), said that even a non-Jew who fails to uphold the seven Noahide commandments may not be stolen from, oppressed or defrauded, and anything stolen from him must be returned (Bava Kama 113b; Hulin 94a; Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Robbery and Loss 1:2; Laws of Theft 1:1; Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat 348:2, 359:1). All of Regavim's actions must be seen in light of its overarching goal."


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Thirteen people were injured in Pamplona's first bull run of the year today after the animals ploughed into a crowd of spectators.
The Spanish Red Cross said the wounded were treated for head and rib injuries after falling or being trampled. None of the patients – five Spaniards and tourists from Britain, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Romania and South Korea – had been gored.
The worst off was a 37-year-old Spaniard with fractured ribs and a ruptured spleen, the Red Cross said.
In a separate incident, a 23-year-old Irish soldier, Aidan Holly, from Tarbert, in north Kerry, died yesterday after falling 30 metres from a wall encircling the town's old quarter.
Today marked the start of the annual week-long Fiesta de San Fermin, as the Pamplona bull run is known.
In the first of eight scheduled half-mile runs through the town's cobbled streets, the six half-tonne bulls became separated early in the route after running into a crowd of people. Some of the bulls fell and two ended up running on their own.
One of the animals became disoriented and tried to return to the starting point before herders waving sticks guided it to the bull ring where the course ends. Upon reaching the finish, one bull collapsed and lay inert on the ground for several minutes before coming round.
The whole run took a little more than four minutes, a bit slow by Pamplona's normal standards.
"There were a few tense moments, but I think everything went quite well," said Aritz Lopez, a 29-year-old runner from Bilbao.
Since records began in 1924, 14 runners have died. The last person killed in a goring was a 22-year-old American, Matthew Tassio, in 1995. In 2003, a 63-year-old Pamplona native, Fermin Etxeberri, died after a bull trampled on his head and put him in a coma for several months.


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With demand high for EE and IT talent, recruiting continues to be hectic as companies search for new college grads and seasoned veterans alike.
"The outlook at TI is very strong," said Roger Coker, director of U.S. staffing at Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas), which has about two-and-a-half times as many openings today as a year ago.
"We have over 100 openings for chip designers, predominantly in DSP and analog/mixed-signal," he said. "We need a couple of dozen system engineers and several dozen product engineers. We're also doing a lot of college recruiting; we'll hire over 150 new college grads this year."
It isn't only in hot areas like semiconductors that hiring continues almost unabated. Workers whose job it is to bring new employees to their companies are running at a fast pace even in more-mature technology areas like connectors.
"We're still faced with an extremely tight market a seller's market where the candidates are in the driver's seat," said George Hyland, manager of staffing at Molex Inc. (Lisle, Ill.). "We're looking for lots of EEs and we're starting to look for people with an RF background. It's basically the same as the last year or two."
The crush for skilled personnel isn't limited to the United States. In the United Kingdom, salaries that were at the top of the pay scale three years ago now represent the floor. They're lower than U.S. wages, but U.K design engineers scanning recruitment advertisements offering annual salaries equivalent to $48,000 to $72,000 feel they've have never had it so good.
Adam Walker, a director with Technical Recruitment plc (Luton, England), said the rising wages demonstrate that demand exceeds supply. That's due in part to a limited number of new electronic-engineering graduates replenishing the pool of talent and partly to a steady expansion in the number of design and development centers, he said.
"The U.K. engineer is still relatively low-cost compared with either the U.S. or the continent [of Europe]," Walker said. "That's why Siemens is opening a system-on-chip design center in Bristol [England]. And that's why Toshiba is opening a multimedia design center in Bristol and a set-top-box design center in Cambridge."


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The last time the Richardson ISD had a runoff for a school board seat was in 2005. A serious challenge to an incumbent is even rarer: The last time an incumbent lost was 1995.
But challenger Rachel Chumney got more votes in the May 11 election than five-term incumbent Lanet Greenhaw. And Richardson is a district that requires a candidate achieve a majority rather than a plurality to win.
The runoff is set for June 15. Early voting will be June 3-11.
Both candidates agree that Chumney's successful results were linked to a smart bit of campaign strategy: During early voting, either Chumney or her husband spent every day outside the busiest early voting location, buttonholing voters. Greenhaw, who won her last election by a 4-1 ratio, spent a lot of that same time in Austin, lobbying for education-related bills.
"The voters have spoken that they want a mom on the board, a fresh voice," Chumney said.
"We made a tactical error," Greenhaw said. "I guarantee we've fixed that."
Chumney, 37, says her prime qualification is her real-time experience with Richardson schools through her three children: a fourth-grader, second-grader and a kindergartner.
She's never been a PTA officer and never attended a school board meeting before she decided to run earlier this year.
Her experience with her oldest child, diagnosed as autistic in January, sparked her interest in the school board seat, she said. While teachers and administrators at her son's school helped, the number of hoops any parent has to jump through to get proper attention for a special-needs student is daunting, Chumney said.
But she says she is also focused on issues that affect the entire district. She wants the Richardson school board to push harder for more local control and to have less emphasis on standardized testing.
At a candidates' debate, she said she was in favor of arming school officials as a security measure.
"I want our children to be safe. If that means our principals need to have guns, I'm for it," she said. "If we do not trust our principals with guns, they do not need to be principals in our schools."
Greenhaw, 58, was first elected to the board 15 years ago. Before running, she had served as PTA president for elementary, middle and high schools and been the citizen co-chairwoman for a bond campaign.
She's the director of education and public policy for the Dallas Regional Chamber, which she said was one reason she spent so much time in Austin during the run-up to the May 11 election. Like Chumney, when she first ran for the board she had three kids in the schools. But all three have long since graduated.
She says that she still gets plenty of first-hand contact with the schools, however.
"I am in our schools all the time," she said. "I still have the time and energy for this."
Greenhaw says the district is a leader in battling for more local control through its membership in the North Texas Regional Consortium and the High Performance Schools Consortium.
School funding is a crisis created by state policies, she said.
"We have a Cadillac system in terms of what we want for our children and what we are required to do and we have moped funding," she said.
Unlike Chumney, Greenhaw is opposed to arming school officials beyond the Dallas and Richardson police officers who work in the schools as resource officers.
"I don't favor bringing additional guns into a place where they could get into the wrong hands," she said at the candidate's forum.
BACKGROUND: School candidates
Rachel Chumney
Age: 37
Birthplace: Memphis, Tenn.
Occupation: Homemaker
Education: Bachelor's degree, University of Mississippi, 1997
Political career: None
Career: Worked at Cornell University in the state 4-H office, loan officer at National Bank of Commerce in Memphis
Lanet Greenhaw
Age: 58
Born: Richardson
Occupation: Director of education and public policy, Dallas Regional Chamber
Education: Bachelor's degree, Oklahoma State University, 1976
Political career: Richardson school board, 1998-present
Career: Director of education and public policy, Dallas Regional Chamber, 2011-present; lead marketing communications consultant, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, 2009-11; executive director, National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship of Greater Dallas, 2006-09.


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We have finally arrived to our Wine Dinner presented by Steve Pignatello, renowned for his knowledge in fine wines the World over. Tonight we will be exploring the wines of Burgundy, France and our menu will reflect on Mr. Pignatello's choices for wines. I hope everyone enjoys themselves. A big thank you to our staff for the hard work all week in preparing for tonight's dinner. Looking forward to serving you all.


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The collection of past-due child-support payments has, unfortunately, proven lucrative enough to develop into something of a growth industry in Texas in the past few years.
The child-support entrepreneurs say they're just looking after the interests of children and mothers in need of the assistance they aren't getting from the Texas attorney general's office. (See "Trading on Desperation" in the November 11 Press.)
Of course, some of the collection agencies pocket as much as 30 percent of what the families are owed by deadbeat dads. The fact that the collectors are making money off of folks who already are just barely getting by hasn't made them universally admired. And the arrest last week of the owner of Child Support Collection Group -- for, yes, failing to pay child support -- did nothing to enhance the industry's already suspect image.
Earlier this year, the Harris County Sheriff's Department was notified by authorities in Jim Wells County to be on the lookout for Todd Woodyard, a former sheriff's deputy in that South Texas county who was wanted for failing to pay $17,500 worth of child support.
The 34-year-old Woodyard was believed to be in the Houston area, and the job of tracking him down was assigned to Sergeant Debra Schmidt of the sheriff's fugitive warrants division. Shortly after putting word out on the street that she was looking for Woodyard, Schmidt was contacted by a confidential informant who told her that the deadbeat dad from Jim Wells was running a two-person child-support collection agency out of a Galleria-area office.
Posing as a mother owed back child support, Schmidt contacted Woodyard, who told her he'd be glad to help her and her fictitious kids -- for 29 percent of what they were owed. Schmidt attempted to arrange an appointment with Woodyard, but she says he was suspicious and insisted on conducting all of his business by mail.
"He would never meet me," she says. "The informant said Woodyard felt like we would never catch him -- that we couldn't touch him -- because of his experience in law enforcement."
But last week, Schmidt learned that Woodyard was living at a North Belt-area apartment. Fortified with backup units from her own department and the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force, the deputy arrived at Woodyard's apartment early in the morning and knocked on the door. After being admitted by Woodyard's girlfriend, the officers arrested Woodyard as he was coming out of the shower. According to Schmidt, the suspect didn't have much to say for himself. "He asked if the warrant was for child support," she says.
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For Schmidt, Woodyard's arrest was much more satisfying than the average cuffing.
"He had this huge big screen television," she says. "He had a nicely furnished apartment and three cars. He was not for want of anything. It really makes me mad that he got all that by making a living off mothers and children."
Woodyard was taken back to Jim Wells County to face charges of criminal non-support and contempt of court. His attorney, Rick Soliz, did not return phone calls from the Press.
As of this writing, Woodyard was still in jail in Jim Wells, where his bond was set at $10,000. If he's as smart as he claims to be, Woodyard might find it wise to remain incarcerated. His ex-wife, you see, is the daughter of the former sheriff of Jim Wells County.


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Curtis Stone has spent a lot of time in American home kitchens.
For two years, Stone would ambush a female shopper in a grocery store and offer to cook dinner for her family that night with the ingredients in her cart. That was the format for his former TLC show, �Take Home Chef.�
Stone, 37, turned his experience with those harried home cooks into his latest cookbook, �What�s for Dinner?� Stone�s book tour will bring him to the Tanger Outlets in Mebane 1-3 p.m. Sunday for a cooking demonstration and book signing.
Originally from Australia, Stone is not just on television because of his surfer good looks. He is a bona fide chef. He trained in London under three-star Michelin Guide chef Marco Pierre White.
Since �Take Home Chef,� Stone has appeared on �The Today Show,� �Oprah,� �The Biggest Loser,� �Celebrity Apprentice,� and most notably as host of �Top Chef Masters,� which will air a fifth season this summer.
In a phone interview last week, Stone talked about his new cookbook and how becoming a father has changed his cooking.
Stone explained that �Take Home Chef� � his first foray into American television � was a �wild introduction to America and domestic kitchens.� He saw firsthand how people struggle with the daily challenge of getting dinner on the table.
�The more I speak to people, the more I understand everybody�s life is so out of control,� Stone said. With this book, Stone, who now lives in Los Angeles, said, �I tried to categorize the challenges we faced on a daily basis and put together a collection of recipes that hit those challenges.�
The 302-page book is divided into chapters for each day of the week. The �Motivating Mondays� chapter offers healthy recipes to counteract the indulgences of the weekend. That�s followed by �Time-Saving Tuesdays,� �One-Pot Wednesdays� and �Five-Ingredient Fridays.�
Stone and his fianc�e, American actress Lindsay Price, are parents of a 17-month-old son named Hudson. Becoming a parent, Stone said, has introduced him to the time pressures of cooking for a family.
�It takes me a lot longer to get breakfast together, of course,� he said. �When I�m cooking eggs, I have to have him on my hip.�
Stone said he and his son get in the kitchen every morning. When Hudson was smaller, Stone would sit him in the sink. Now, he said, his son perches on the kitchen counter and loves to help juice the fruit or crack the eggs. The father-and-son ritual caused a problem recently when the family tried to dye Easter eggs � his son kept trying to crack the eggs instead.
Cooking for his son, Stone added, made him rethink ingredients he thought he knew. When his son first starting eating fruit and vegetable purees, Stone said he couldn�t use the salt and sugar that chefs rely upon to make food tasty.
�In that way, it was quite powerful,� Stone said. �You start to think about raw ingredients again � You want to do the best by your kids � have it be super nutritious and as healthy as it can be.�
Oven-roasted Shrimp and Asparagus
Oven-Roasted Shrimp and Asparagus From �What�s for Dinner? Delicious Recipes for a Busy Life,� by Curtis Stone, (Ballantine Books, 2013). 1 lemon 2 tablespoons finely chopped shallots 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 pound medium-thin asparagus, woody ends trimmed 1 pound large (21 to 30 count) shrimp, peeled, tails left on, and deveined 1/3 cup shaved Pecorino Romano cheese
HEAT oven to 450 degrees.
GRATE zest from lemon into a small bowl. Squeeze 2 tablespoons of juice from the lemon and add to the bowl. Add shallots and whisk together. Gradually whisk in 2 tablespoons of the olive oil and season to taste with salt and pepper. Set aside.
TOSS asparagus with 2 tablespoons olive oil on a rimmed baking sheet and season with salt and pepper. Spread asparagus on one side of the baking sheet, separating the spears. Roast until they turn a brighter shade of green, about 3 minutes. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, toss shrimp with the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Remove the baking sheet from the oven and arrange the shrimp on the empty side. Return to the oven and roast until the shrimp are almost opaque throughout and the asparagus are crisp-tender, about 5 minutes.
TOSS asparagus with enough vinaigrette to coat in a large bowl. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Divide asparagus among four dinner plates and top with shrimp. Drizzle more vinaigrette over the shrimp. Sprinkle the Pecorino Romano cheese over the shrimp, and serve hot.
Yield: 4 servings


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