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The departure of Dr. Kenneth Lewis this month may have extinguished a spark of hope for the troubled James E. Clyburn University Transportation Center.
But John Rosenthall, vice president of research and economic development, said he has plans to move biofuel research already under way on campus to the transportation center building, and to continue to apply for grants to bring in new research.
Lewis was rehired late last year in part to rev up research at the stalled transportation center by applying for and landing grants. No research was under way at the time at the struggling transportation center at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg. But Lewis said he was terminated without an explanation before a grant application that he had completed had gone out. It could have launched five veins of research at the transportation center, he said.
Rosenthall said he can't comment on why Lewis was terminated because it's a personnel issue. And he and others at the university continue to write grants for transportation research projects. "I'm not aware of any grant applications that I shut down," Rosenthall said.
Walter Tobin, chairman of the university's Board of Trustees, said he's aware that Lewis has been terminated, but he has not been notified officially about it by school administrators. Lewis, who previously worked at the university but left in 2011, has a track record for bringing in grants and programs, Tobin said. "He distinguished himself over the years."
Tobin also said he doesn't know the next steps for the transportation center. "There's nothing going on at the transportation center now, as far as I know," he said.
Hope Derrick, spokeswoman for U.S. House minority leader Jim Clyburn, said the congressman has no comment because it's an internal matter for the university. Clyburn is an S.C. State graduate and brought in most of the money for the center that bears his name.
But the transportation center's problems have been ongoing since a June 2010 Post and Courier report revealed that after more than a decade in the works, no transportation research was under way and the center had lost its federal designation. University leaders also weren't able to explain how much of $50 million that flowed to the center was spent. About half of the money was for a building complex, and much of it still was available. The other half was for transportation programs.
Now, just one building of the planned complex has been completed, which mainly consists of three large bays into which researchers could drive huge vehicles. But no large vehicle research is under way. University leaders have no plan to raise the more than $80 million it would take to complete the center.
Reach Diane Knich at 937-5491 or on Twitter @dianeknich.
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A field device for use in an industrial process control or monitoring system includes terminals configured to connect to a two-wire process control loop. The loop carries data and provides power to the field device. RF circuitry in the field device is provided for radio frequency communication. A power supply powers the RF circuitry using power received from the two-wire process control loop.
1. A process control transmitter for monitoring a process variable in an industrial process comprising:
a process variable sensor configured to sense the process variable;
I/O circuitry configured to couple to a two wire process control loop and communicate on the process control loop;
wireless communication circuitry coupled to the two wire process control loop configured to transmit an RF signal; and
power supply circuitry coupled to the two wire process control loop including a voltage regulator, the power supply circuitry electronically connected in series with the process control loop, the voltage regulator configured to receive a voltage drop and responsively provide a regulated voltage output to power the wireless communication circuitry.
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a third electrical connection configured to couple to the two-wire process control loop, wherein the second and third electrical connections are configured to couple in parallel with the field device; and
an RF circuit configured to receive power from the two-wire process control loop through the first and second electrical connections and transmit an RF signal which contains information related to data carried on the two-wire process control loop.
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The present application is a Continuation of and claims priority of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/878,235, filed Jun. 28, 2004 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,262,693, the content of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates to industrial process control or monitoring systems. More specifically, the present invention relates to field devices in such systems which are capable of Radio Frequency (RF) communication.
In industrial settings, control systems are used to monitor and control inventories of industrial and chemical processes, and the like. Typically, the control system performs these functions using field devices distributed at key locations in the industrial process and coupled to the control circuitry in the control room by a process control loop. The term "field device" refers to any device that performs a function in a distributed control or process monitoring system, including all devices currently known, or yet to be known, used in the measurement, control and monitoring of industrial processes.
Some field devices include a transducer. A transducer is understood to mean either a device that generates an output signal based on a physical input or that generates a physical output based on an input signal. Typically, a transducer transforms an input into an output having a different form. Types of transducers include various analytical equipment, pressure sensors, thermistors, thermocouples, strain gauges, flow transmitters, positioners, actuators, solenoids, indicator lights, and others.
Typically, each field device also includes communication circuitry that is used for communicating with a process control room, or other circuitry, over a process control loop. In some installations, the process control loop is also used to deliver a regulated current and/or voltage to the field device for powering the field device. The process control loop also carries data, either in an analog or digital format.
Traditionally, analog field devices have been connected to the control room by two-wire process control current loops, with each device connected to the control room by a single two-wire control loop. Typically, a voltage differential is maintained between the two wires within a range of voltages from 12-45 volts for analog mode and 9-50 volts for digital mode. Some analog field devices transmit a signal to the control room by modulating the current running through the current loop to a current proportional to the sensed process variable. Other analog field device can perform an action under the control of the control room by controlling the magnitude of the current through the loop. In addition to, or in the alternative, the process control loop can carry digital signals used for communication with field devices.
In some installations, wireless technologies have begun to be used to communicate with field devices. For example, completely wireless installations are used in which the field device uses a battery, solar cell, or other technique to obtain power without any sort of wired connection. However, the majority of field devices are hardwired to a process control room and do not use wireless communication techniques.
A field device for use in an industrial process control or monitoring system includes terminals configured to connect to a two-wire process control loop configured to carry data and to provide power. RF circuitry in the field device is configured for radio frequency communication. In one embodiment, power supply circuitry powers the RF circuitry using power received completely from the two-wire process control loop. A method is also provided.
The present invention provides a field device configured to couple to a process control loop which further includes a wireless communication module for one way or bi-directional wireless communication. The wireless communication module can transmit and/or receive an RF signal from a remote device or location. The module can be directly powered with power received from the two-wire process control loop, or can be powered with power received from the process control loop and stored for subsequent use. The module can be a removable module in which the module need only couple to those field devices in which wireless communication is desired.
Currently, industrial instrumentation often includes a local display or "meter" which can be used for local monitoring of process information. The meter can be quite useful in many installations, however, such a local display configuration does have several limitations. A local display requires direct visual access to the field device. Further, typically an operator can only view a single meter at a time. The instruments which contain the meter are often not at a convenient location or viewing angle. One technique which has been used to address such a configuration is the use of a meter which is wired to a process transmitter. This allows the meter to be mounted at a more convenient location. Another technique is shown and described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/128,769, filed Apr. 22, 2002, entitled PROCESS TRANSMITTER WITH WIRELESS COMMUNICATION LINK.
With the present invention, an RF communication module is included in a field device which can be used in addition to the connection to a process control loop such as loop 16. The wireless communication module 22 can be configured to be compact and lower power such that it can be easily included in existing field device configurations. The module can be used for wireless transmission of information for use in monitoring control and/or display of data. Such a radio transmitter can make the field device information available in a local area. For example, a single local display such as display 32 can be provided and used to display information from the field device 14. The display 32 can be configured to display information from several devices, either simultaneously, sequentially, or through commands provided to the display, for example using a manual input such as buttons available to an operator. The display 32 can be placed at a fixed location or can be a portable device such that it can carry throughout the process control system to monitor and observe operation of various field devices. Depending on the strength of the RF signal 24 and the sensitivity of the transmit and receive circuitry, the area covered by the RF transmission can be controlled as desired. For example,
The housing 62 includes end caps 70 and 72 which can be screwed into the housing 62. End cap 72 includes an RF transparent window 74 configured to align generally with an antenna 26 carried on wireless communication circuit 22. When attached, the end caps provide a intrinsically safe enclosure for circuitry within transmitter 60. The materials typically used in end caps, for example metal, are not transparent to RF signals. However, RF transparent window 74 allows RF signals to be sent from or received by antenna 26. One example RF transparent material for use with window 74 is glass or the like. However, any appropriate material can be used. The window and housing configuration can help to meet intrinsic safety requirements and provide flame proof (explosion proof) capability. Further, the cavity within housing 62 can be configured to provide a desired radiation pattern of RF signals generated by antenna 26. For example, it may be desirable to have the RF transmission be directional in some implementations, or omnidirectional in others. In other implementations, the cover 62 can be lengthened to provide an additional interior cavity for placement of wireless communication circuit 22.
The wireless communication circuitry 22 can be selected as desired. One example circuit is the "I-Bean" transmitter device available from Millennial Net. However, other circuitry can be used. Analog or digital signals carried on process control loop 16 can be read and transmitted using the wireless communication circuit 22 without disrupting operation of the process control loop 16 or field device circuitry 68. The circuitry used for wireless transmission should be sufficiently small and low powered to fit within the physical and power constraints of process field devices. Some prior art transmitters are configured to receive an optional display arranged generally in the position shown for wireless communication circuit 22 in
In general, the process control loop discussed herein can comprise any type of process control loop for use in industrial process control and monitoring systems. Such loops include 4-20 mA current loops in which a analog current level is varied between 4 and 20 mA to transmit information. The same control loop can be used to provide power to the field device. Another type of process control loop is in accordance with the HART� communication protocol in which digital transmissions are superimposed on the 4-20 mA signal for transmission of additional information. Another example two-wire process control loop uses a protocol set forth by the Instrument Society of America (ISA) which is called the Field Bus SP50 protocol. However, end signaling protocol can be used. Some process control loops are configured to connect to multiple field devices such that the field devices can communication one another or monitor transmissions from another field device. In general, any type of information transmitted on such process control loops, or available or generated internally or received by a field device, or otherwise used to control a field device or other type of information, can be transmitted using the wireless communication techniques of the present invention. In another example, a hand held unit or device used to configure field devices can be carried into the field by an operator. The operator uses the hand held device to send or receive information to a field device when the hand held device is within proximity of the field device. This allows the operator to gather information or program a field device without having to physically couple to the device or the physical process control loop.
In some embodiments, it is also desirable for communications from a field device, or to a field device, to carry addressing information. The addressing information can be indicative of the source of the transmission or the intended recipient of the transmission. The wireless communication circuitry can transmit continuously or on a periodic or intermittent basis, as desired. In another example, the wireless communication circuitry only transmits when activated or "polled". The activation can be from a source internal to the field device, received through the process control loop, received from a wireless source, or received or generated by another source. In environments in which multiple field devices may transmit simultaneously, the transmission protocol should be selected to avoid or address any type of collisions which might interfere with the transmissions. For example, different frequencies or frequency skipping techniques can be used, random or semi-random transmission windows can be used, repeated transmissions or token based techniques can be implemented or other collision avoidance techniques as desired. If the transmission includes error detection or correction information, this information can be used to detect an error in the transmission and/or correct any errors in the transmissions. If an error is not correctable, the receiving unit can request a re-transmission of the corrupt data or, can indicate an error, or can wait for a subsequent transmission of the data, or take other steps as desired.
In one configuration, the wireless communication circuitry requires power which is within the power constraints available in the field device. For example, one display currently used within field devices uses 3.6 volts at 0.5 mA. If a transmitter which is capable of operating an LCD meter is employed, the wireless communication circuitry can replace the LCD meter and use the same power source that is used to drive the LCD meter. In another example, the wireless communication circuitry is powered directly from the process control loop, for example using the voltage developed across a diode drop connected in series with the process control loop. In embodiments in which no battery is used with the communication circuitry, the circuitry can more easily meet intrinsic safety or other safety approval requirements and provide an indefinite field life without battery replacement or maintenance. In configurations in which the wireless configuration is only for sending information, power requirements can be reduced. In another example, if a greater transmission range is desired, a stationary device such as display 32 as illustrated in
Process device 104 includes a power regulator 110, a shunt or bypass 112, and a super capacitor 114. During operation, the super capacitor 114 is slowly charged (trickle charged) using a power regulator 110 by using excess voltage tapped from the process control loop 16. The bypass 112 allows loop 16 to operate normally and is connected in series with loop 16. Communication circuit 122 includes circuitry for receiving information, analog and/or digital information, carried on process control loop 16. The circuit 122 can responsively transmit an RF signal 106 based upon the received information. If operated as a receiver, circuitry 122 is capable of modulating data onto the electrical current carried in the loop 16. This can be either analog or digital information. This configuration allows data to be relayed over a wireless communication network. The network can be configured in accordance with any type of topology, including point to point, spoke and hub and mesh topologies. Process device 104 can be positioned at any location along the loop including configured as an individual device such as that illustrated in
The use of a super capacitor allows the device to operate without internal batteries or other techniques. The use of a capacitor allows quick charging and the storage of sufficiently large energy potentials. When used in a hazardous environment, large energy storage may not be acceptable in order to meet intrinsic safety standards. However, the process device 104 can be moved away from the hazardous environment, such as at the junction box 102, where intrinsic safety is not required.
A typical power supply used to provide power to a process control loop provides 24 volts DC. However, in a 4-20 mA system, a transmitter may only require 12 volts to operate. Wiring losses in the process control loop may cause 2 to 4 volts of voltage drop. Assuming only 5 volts is available for charging the super capacitor 114, and that the process control loop is operating at a low current level (i.e., 4 mA), there is still 20 mW available to charge the super capacitor 114. Because only 0.6 J was consumed during the transmit cycle, the available 20 mW will charge the super capacitor to full capacity in a time tc=0.6J/0.02W=30s. Therefore, such a configuration will be capable of transmitting a signal having a 1 second duration every 30 seconds. Assuming that the bandwidth of the communications signal is 200 Kb/s and a packet size of 200 b, the burst time is reduced to one millisecond and the resulting transmit time is 0.03 seconds. In such a configuration, diagnostic data can easily be transmitted because it is not of a time critical nature. However, if sufficiently fast charge times are available, control and process variable signals can also be transmitted wirelessly.
Although a super capacitor is described, any energy storage device can be employed including a battery, or other. The energy that is used to charge the storage device can be electrical or magnetic and can be derived or collected from any source.
The field device 154 can be of any configuration and is not limited to the specific schematic shown in
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Turning now to one specific embodiment of circuitry 170 shown in
In this embodiment, input circuitry 218 includes sense resistance 180 and is configured to measure the current I flowing through loop 156. Input circuitry 218 also includes a filter 220 which provides a differential connection to an OP amp 222. The OP amp provides an amplified input signal to an analog to digital converter 226 which is illustrated as part of a microprocessor 224. A clock circuit 228 is provided and used to provide a clock signal to, for example, microprocessor 222. Optional HART� transmit and receive circuit 230 connects to microprocessor 224, loop 156, clock circuit 228 and an RF transmit/receive circuit 232. The optional HART� circuit 230 is configured to receive a digital chip select signal (CS1) from microprocessor 224. The RF circuit 232 is configured to receive a separate digital chip select signal (CS2) from microprocessor 224. Both the HART� circuit 230 and the RF circuit 232 are configured to communicate with the microprocessor 224 on an SCI bus, depending on which chip select is active. Microprocessor 224 is also configured to provide a shut down signal to operational amplifier 222. Microprocessor 224 includes a memory 236 which is used for storing programming instructions, temporary and permanent variables and other information and may include both volatile and non-volatile memory. The memory can include, for example, an EEPROM and can contain addressing information which uniquely identifies circuitry 170. RF circuit 232 couples to an antenna 240 which can be configured as an internal antenna, external antenna, or combination, as desired. Circuitry 170 is configured to couple across the two-wire process control loop 156 such that the loop 156 can terminate at another field device such as a process transmitter or process controller.
The circuitry 170 illustrated in
The optional HART� transmit/receive circuit 230 can be used to monitor digital signals, such as a process variable, carried on the process control loop 156. Based upon the sensed digital signal, the HART� circuitry 230 can control operation of the RF transmit/receive circuit 232 for transmission of information related to the sensed process variable, or other information. If the HART� circuitry is implemented in accordance with the complete HART� protocol and appropriate RF protocol stacks, the circuitry can implement gateway level functionality which will allow a HART� master to communication in a bi-directional manner through the RF HART� gateway device with a HART� capable field device on the process control loop 156. This allows wireless communication with a field device for monitoring, configuration, diagnostics, or exchange of other information or data.
Frequently, in process control or monitoring installations, an operator is required to physically access a field device or the process control loop in order to exchange information with the field device. This allows the operator to repair equipment and do preventive maintenance on the equipment. The wireless communication configuration set forth herein allows the operator to interrogate field devices which may be in locations which are difficult to access. Further, even in configurations in which the field devices are easily accessible, the wireless communication circuitry does not require an operator to remove covers on equipment such as transmitters or junction boxes in order to expose loop wiring for physical connection to the process control loop. This can be particularly beneficial in hazardous locations where explosive gases or vapors may be present. A digital or analog process variable can be sensed by the wireless communication circuitry and transmitted to a wireless meter or hand held device as discussed above.
During operation, circuit 170 is placed in series with the process control loop 156 where it utilizes the 4-20 mA current flowing through the loop to power itself. For field devices that employ a common electrical ground, circuitry 170 can be inserted on the high voltage side of the loop connection. This configuration allows access to other bus circuitry within the field device such as a CAN interface. The configuration includes a test connection 186 for use in measuring loop current during testing. The sense resistance 180 is preferably configured to provide an equivalent of capacitance of zero as measured at terminals 181 which connect to loop 156 in accordance with intrinsic safety standards. Circuitry 170 is configured for nominal operation at between 3 and 4 volts and the zener diode 182 along with sense resistance 180 sets this operating voltage. The excess voltage available on typical 4-20 mA current loop is sufficient to operate circuitry 170. Further, power management techniques can be employed to limit the current drawn from the loop to about 3 mA. This allows any field device connected to the process control loop to send an alarm level signal of 3.6 mA without collapsing the circuit by drawing more than the available current level.
Zener diode 182 acts as a shunt element which is placed in series with the loop 156 to develop a preregulated voltage on the input filter stage. Any portion of the loop current which is not used by circuitry 170 is shunted through zener diode 182. The input filter 200 can comprise capacitive, inductive and resistive elements and is used to isolate the loop from any noise or load fluctuation generated by circuitry 170. This also suppresses noise in the HART� extended frequency band in order to conform with HART� standards.
The voltage regulator 202 can be any appropriate voltage regulator such as, but not limited to linear or switch mode regulators and is used to supply the voltage VDD to the circuitry. Filter 206 is used to store energy and further decouples circuit loads from the regulator 202. The output voltage of the secondary filter 206 is allowed to sag by several hundred millivolts during circuit load changes. This allows peak current draws by the circuitry 172 to be averaged from the 4-20 mA current loop.
In this embodiment, the microprocessor 224 including A/D converter, along with the RF circuitry 232 and input circuitry 218 can be placed into a sleep mode or low power mode during periods of idle operation in order to reduce power drain. For example, at a selected interval such as every 10 seconds, an internal timer in the microprocessor can enable the measurement of the loop current by the A/D converter. The measurement circuitry is allowed to settle before the A/D conversion occurs. After the A/D conversion is completed, both the loop measurement circuitry and the A/D converter are turned off to conserve power. The microprocessor passes the measured value to the RF circuitry 232 for transmission. Upon completion of the transmission, the microprocessor and RF circuitry return to the low power mode until the next cycle. The microprocessor may even put itself to sleep temporarily to save power. Using these power management techniques, the microprocessor is able to manage overall current requirements of the circuit by staggering the load demands on the regulator stage.
Loop current measurement is achieved using the 10 ohm sense resistor 180 coupled in series with the 4-20 mA current loop 156 to measure the analog current level. The voltage developed across the sense resistor 180 is filtered to remove fluctuations due to HART� digital communications as well as any loop noise. An operational amplifier stage 222 provides further signal conditioning and the signal is passed to the A/D converter 226 of microprocessor 224.
The RF circuitry 232 can be any appropriate circuitry or configuration as desired. In one simple form, the RF circuitry 232 simply transmits a measured variable to a wireless receiver. The antenna 240 can be used to broadcast the RF signal and can be formed integral with the circuitry 170, for example in the form of traces routed around an outside edge of a circuit board. The RF circuitry 232 can, in some embodiments, include a wireless receiver such that the circuitry 232 can be configured as a transceiver. The same antenna 240 can be used for both transmission and reception if desired. A typical low powered transceiver may have a communication range of about 200 feet, however other ranges can be achieved using different power requirements, circuit sensitivity, antenna configuration, and the like. If the circuitry 170 is mounted in a metal enclosure, such as a field housing compartment of a transmitter, an RF transparent portion of the housing should be used to allow transmission and reception of signals from antenna 240. For example, as discussed above, a glass window can be used. Other example materials include any material which is sufficiently transmissive to RF signals including plastic, or other materials.
The addition of the optional HART� circuitry 230 allows the circuitry 170 to selectively listen to a HART� message on the 4-20 mA signal carried on the current loop 156. Information such as measured process variables, diagnostic information, or other information can be transmitted to a wireless receiver. Further, if the HART� circuitry 230 is configured to modulate a digital signal onto the process control loop, it can be used to remotely command or interrogate a field device coupled to the loop 156. For example, the HART� circuitry 230 can be configured to act as a secondary master on the 4-20 mA current loop. This, in conjunction with RF circuitry 232 configured as a full transceiver, enables bi-directional communication and configuration of field device from a wireless master unit, for example a hand held device 80 shown in
Microprocessor 224 can also preferably be used to implement diagnostics functionality. Microprocessor 224 is configured to monitor the voltage and current characteristics of the process control loop 156, improper or problematic variations in current and voltage can be identified using diagnostic techniques and can be transmitted to a remote location, either wirelessly, or using the HART� transmission capabilities provided by circuitry 230, or by setting the current level carried on loop 156 to an alarm value or other pre-determined value.
Circuitry 170 is preferably configured to allow operation in hazardous locations and to meet the appropriate approval and specifications, such as intrinsic safety standards. For example, the intrinsic safety protection 190, along with intrinsically safety rated resistor 180 is used on the input to the circuitry 170. Using appropriate components and circuit layout, the addition of a redundant zener diode 192 in parallel with zener 182 provides a level of redundancy and limits the amount of voltage that can enter this circuit in an intrinsic safety protected system. Similarly, the sense resistor 180 can be used to limit the maximum current that can enter the circuit 170 and snub any discharge of stored energy from the circuit through its external terminals. This provides an equivalent capacitance of substantially zero. The loop measurement circuitry is further protected by two intrinsic safety rated high value resistors 194 connected between the two ends of the sense resistor 180 and the filter 220. Other circuit components can be protected from any outside energy sources by the use of potting material or the like which also prevents hazardous gases and vapors from reaching any internal storage elements and nodes in the circuitry 170. For other non-hazardous locations, intrinsic safety components may not be required.
The term "field device" as used herein can be any device which is used in a process controller monitoring system and does not necessarily require placement in the "field." The device can be located anywhere in the process control system including in a control room or control circuitry. The terminals used to connect to the process control loop refer to any electrical connection and may not comprise physical or discrete terminals. Any appropriate radio frequency communication circuitry can be used as desired as can any appropriate communication protocol, frequency or communication technique. The power supply circuitry is configured as desired and is not limited to the configurations set forth herein. In some embodiments, the field device includes an address which can be included in any RF transmissions such that the device can be identified. Similarly, such an address can be used to determine if a received signal is intended for that particular device. However, in other embodiments, no address is utilized and data is simply transmitted from the wireless communication circuitry without any addressing information. In such a configuration, if receipt of data is desired, any received data may not include addressing information. In some embodiments, this may be acceptable. In others, other addressing techniques or identification techniques can be used such as assigning a particular frequency or communication protocol to a particular device, assigning a particular time slot or period to a particular device or other techniques. Any appropriate communication protocol and/or networking technique can be employed including token-based techniques in which a token is handed off between devices to thereby allow transmission or reception for the particular device.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to preferred embodiments, workers skilled in the art will recognize that changes may be made in form and detail without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. As used herein, Radio Frequency (RF) can comprise electro-magnetic transmissions of any frequency and is not limited to a particular group of frequencies, range of frequencies or any other limitation. Any communication protocol can be used, as desired, including IEEE 802.11b, 802.154, or other protocols, including proprietary communication protocols.
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- Chattanooga falls to No. 2 Georgia Southern 39-31 triple overtime...the Mocs drop to 4-4 overall and 3-2 in the SoCon...Georgia Southern improves to 7-1 overall and 6-1 in league action.
- UTC is 4-22 all-time against Georgia Southern ... 3-10 at home and 2-6 in Finley Stadium.
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Sorry, but I did need to bring up that not everyone who voted "No" doesn't want PoP fans to get figures.
YES! I want to get more of the great rebellion quicker!
YES! I am sick of PoP taking up spots in the regular MOTUC sub!
NO! I like 2-3 PoP figures a year and they don't need to recognize the 30th anniversary!
I feel like people who vote "No" are simply voting to keep POP figures out of the hands of POP fans.
What the frick difference does it make to someone who isn't going to buy POP anyway whether or not there are 6 POP figures as a supplement to the regular subscription?? They won't be forced to buy them.
A Want List of Sorts: Filmation Tung Lasher, Roton, Skelcon, POP costume She-Ra / Starburst She-Ra, Lodar, and all the other POP, Filmation, & NA characters.
Sorry, but I did need to bring up that not everyone who voted "No" doesn't want PoP fans to get figures.
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Ask not for whom MOTUC is made, it's made for thee.
If you have to disclaimer your like, then you don't really like it.
Now if they would release good characters that were part of the original line to supplement the POP line and get the figures out faster then I would be all for that. It would be a great way to get us Madame Razz/Broom, Sea Hawk, Octavia, Vultak, Huntara, and Gen Sunder.
Although a 30th POP line could give us a female counterpart for The Mighty Spector!!
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how are you coming up with 2-3 pop per year? i wish it were only 2-3 pop per year...at least, for this year anyway.
would i care if they made a pop 30th line? nope. go for it. i would hope it sells well and folks get the figs they want.
in fact, i find "YES! I want to get more of the great rebellion quicker!" to be a little scary because if you don't have a good amount of GRs by 2015...well...that's just not cool. i would hope the 2-3 (or more) pop per year includes more main characters and less never heard ofs (SSs).
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I voted no but only in as much as I would most likely get whatever they made, so I would obviously support it with my money. But I vote no because I cant think of anything they could do figure wise that would nessesitate an anniversary line. Would basically just rather it be part of the normal line. I do want more POP than I have, but I am patient.
I would like to cast a vote favorable to a POP anniversary sub, but there isn't an option for me to vote on as I don't want it to use existing characters. I agree with Uki that it should be handled like the MOTU 30th sub (I will add that I'd also like it to be manadory that any POP anniversary sub have the male/female ratio reversed based on what we end up with from the MOTU 30th sub, ie, 5-to-1 or 6-to-0 female to male).
But I'm also hopeful that by 2015, I will many more female members of The Great Rebellion in my collection.
Even if we already have the likes of Glimmer, Queen Angella and Castaspella, it would be a good way to get to some of the other characters like Netossa, Double Trouble and Mermista not to mention villains like Scorpia, Octavia and Entrapta.
As it is intended to be a celebration of She-Ra's 30th Anniversary, I would also like to see some "concept" or "variant" figures considered for inclusion, including the "concept" She-Ra (black hair and armoured bikini), Filmation Hordak, "Force Captain" Adora and a "toy design" She-Ra.
It could also be a good opportunity to get failry minor characters like Huntara and Hunga.
I'm not a POP liker, so no I personally wouldn't support it but I voted yes cuz I know a lot of people would, and I'd like to see it happen since it is the anniversary. Perhaps it would cause me to change my opinion about POP being just for girls.
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Heck yes I would support it. I figure they will do something for it.
And thanks for voting "yes"
I don't think Mattel looking at votes is going to care what the reasons for voting are... they will either see that a lot of people support the idea, or not... many people would buy multiples... and I guarantee that half of the he-man-woman-haters club would end up secretly buying cool 4H designed She-Ra characters.
I mean, are pink boxes from the 1980s really going to keep any of you from buying a sick 4H Hunga the Harpy or Octavia?? What about General Sunder? Or Admiral Scurvy? Double Trouble? Mermista? I mean these are cool characters. Who cares how they were marketed years ago?
A Want List of Sorts: Filmation Tung Lasher, Roton, Skelcon, POP costume She-Ra / Starburst She-Ra, Lodar, and all the other POP, Filmation, & NA characters.
I do like that they've gotten away from the pink in POP nowadays, (packaging them just like the other MOTU characters) and some of the characters are cool. It just takes people time to wrap their heads around POP sometimes when all I can remember is girly stuff. That's all. I'm not saying I or anyone else can't come around eventually. There are cool characters in POP, and the epic-ness that is POP TOTALLY deserves an anniversary line. If nothing else, it's mandatory because of the history of POP.
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and keep in mind these toys were marketed to girls in the 80s so to say they weren't just for girls in the 80s is a bit of a misnomer.
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-11-...e-patch-kids/2"She-Ra and her associates, who sell for about $6 to $8 each, are not exclusively the domain of girls, said Candace Irving, a Mattel marketing manager. "We have found that girls buy about 10% of the boy-oriented Masters of the Universe toys, and we expect boys will account for a significant percentage of Princess of Power sales, though we don't expect it to reach 10%."
I'm all for POP characters in MOTUC's line, but POP doesn't need it's own 30th anniversary, and scott already addressed this saying POP is part of the MOTUC's line.
Let me explain briefly. My wife watches Star Wars movies with me, as well as Spiderman, Incredible Hulk, X-Men, Batman (typically "guy" movies) but she can't (and won't) be able to get me to watch movies like Grease, Hairspray, Twilight series, Legally Blonde (typically "chick flicks"). (Those are her favorite movies) For women, it's typical that if something is cool no matter what the subject is (for the most part) they'll be there.
For men, it HAS to be cool. It's a requirement. If not, we're OUT.
I understand that I'm "painting with a broad brush" here, and I DO NOT mean to offend anyone, but that's just my opinion based on my observation and experience.
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Yeah sure I would love more POP. I'm just glad they are making these figures cause I always wanted them from back then.
By the Power of Grey Skull!
Actually, I'm surprised I've been liking the PoP characters as much as I have, considering I didn't know much about that line from before. It's great getting more female characters (heroes and villains). So I wouldn't mind a POP sub at all.
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A 30th anniversary line that could include someone like Filmation Hordak. Now that would be awesome....
But to be honest I don't mind POP i the main sub at all, but an add on sub would be an added bonus, much like Filmation characters in the main sub, but getting an add on sub to boot for them.
But I could vote for a non pop related Variant sub too....
FF He-Man
TC Skeletor
Filmation Hordak
Filmation Clawful
Scratchin' Sounds Catra or Shower Power or even Starburst She-Ra
Not that I want him but to be fair....
NA Skeletor
Recent.... Spirit of Grayskull
Wanted.... NA She-Ra, Jitsu, Perfuma, Masque, Crita & Vultak
Needed.... Dragstor & the new Filmation line.
Oh man, did I forget to use these [sarcasm][/sarcasm] again? Sorry....
Yep! Great idea! Love the way that all the PoP characters look thus far!


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The Harwood Union wrestling team won three out of four at the December
23 Slater Duals at Fair Haven. Harwood beat Mill River 25-24, Rutland 30-24 and Otter Valley 39-18. Harwood lost to Fair Haven 42-36.
Harwood wrestlers who won all of their matches include Quinton Clayton
(160-pound weight class), Makhmud Kachaliyev (171-pound weight class),
Jacob Kernan (189-pound weight class), Kyle Streeter and Kaegan Pearsall
(215-pound weight class) and Henry Woodard (285-pound weight class).
Woodard had a key win against Mill River's Aaron Bosch who was a runner
up at 285-pound last year.
"It was a great team effort to get the dual meet victories and the kids wrestled with intensity and desire," said coach Brian Wagner.
The teams competed at the Hubie Wagner Invitational Tournament in Middlebury on December 29 and 30. Results of those meets were not available at press time.


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Brent D. Powell, 24 driving under the influence first offense
Charles Elbert Hallman III, 27 hold for Columbia County Sheriffs Office
Kimberly Josephine Mack, 24 assault and battery third degree
Kelli Ann Smith, 26 violation of probation
Valencia Shanice Williamson, 20 federally chartered banking
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Evan Sanders Frommer, 19 assault and battery first degree
Justin Cameron Harden, 22 hold for bed space South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon
Lindsey Nicole Brown, 28 failure to appear and pay
Ricky Dale Madden, 54 burglary third degree
Timothy Franklin Martin, 51 resisting arrest, disorderly conduct
Louis John Sedillo, 23 driving under suspension first offense
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Sometimes it's difficult to understand Google. A few weeks after dropping the non-obvious navigation menu from the desktop UI, Google tests a new mobile interface that uses the same menu.
Cascading menus on a mobile device? They're too large and many Google services are missing (Reader, Blog Search, iGoogle, Product Search, Google Finance, Picasa Web, Google Talk, Google Tasks), not to mention that there's no room for displaying Google+ notifications.
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The Nordstrom Beat the Bridge to Beat Diabetes is a fundraiser for JDRF—the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. The event consists of an 8K run and wheelchair race, a 4-mile walk, a 1-mile fun run, and the Diaper Derby for toddlers. Participants try to cross Seattle's University Bridge before it's raised during the race. Those who don't beat the bridge must wait, with a live band and prizes to pass the time. After a few minutes, the bridge lowers and everyone can finish the race. Nordstrom has partnered with JDRF to benefit T1D research since the first Beat the Bridge in 1983.


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PAINTSVILLE - Paintsville Golf Course has been hosting golfers since 1929. The course was one of the first 18-hole courses in Eastern Kentucky and remains a top destination for local golfers and those visiting the area. The Paintsville Golf Course design came from Dr. Paul B. Hall, a member of the Kentucky Golf Association Hall of Fame, and brothers C. Mitchel Hall and Dr. Lon C. Hall.
Paintsville Golf Course's front 9 features rolling fairways and several elevation changes. The back 9, a challenging group, includes two lakes, each adding difficulty for golfers. The Paintsville Golf Course's famous swinging bridge requires two tee shots (Hole No.10 and Hole No. 17) to carry the Big Sandy River. The 18-hole course features 6,048 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 70 . The course rating is 67.2 and it has a slope rating of 110.
The course opened on September 27, 1929. The city of Paintsville owns the country club but the golf course is privately owned. Paintsville's annual invitational tournament attracts golfers from throughout Kentucky and surrounding states. The course also hosts high school tournaments.
The Paintsville Golf Course Clubhouse formally opened in 1939. Paul B. Hall donated the land on which the building is located. The original structure was built by the WPA from local stone, which was cut and transported from neighboring Route 40. The clubhouse's banquet facilities are available for parties, reunions, receptions and weddings.
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(USA Today) - Singer Chubby Checker, 71, is in a twist over a software app that bears his name and is used to estimate the size of a man's penis based on his shoe size.
He's not dancing; he's suing.
The singer, whose real name is Ernest Evans, filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Hewlett Packard and Palm Inc., in federal court in Fort Pierce, Fla., on Tuesday over the app called "The Chubby Checker."
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The Twist singer's lawyers says it was an unauthorized use of Checker's name and trademark and that it will "blur and tarnish" that trademark by associating the Checker name with "obscene, sexual connotation and images." Checker is seeking a half-billion dollars in damages and restitution.
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Olson has served as Editor & Curator at Rhizome, the inaugural curator at Zero1, and Associate Director at SF Camerawork. She's contributed to many major journals & books and this year Cocom Press published Arte Postinternet, a Spanish translation of her texts on Postinternet Art, a movement she framed in 2006. In 2015 LINK Editions will publish a retrospective anthology of over a decade of her writings on contemporary art which have helped establish a vocabulary for the criticism of new media. Meanwhile, she has also curated programs at the Guggenheim, New Museum, SFMOMA, White Columns, Artists Space, and Bitforms Gallery. She has served on Advisory Boards for Ars Electronica, Transmediale, ISEA, the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, Creative Capital, the Getty Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Kennedy Center, and the Tribeca Film Festival.
Olson studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, and Rhetoric & Film Studies at UC Berkeley. She has recently been a visiting artist at Yale, SAIC, Oberlin, and VCU; a Visiting Critic at Brown; and Visiting Faculty at Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and Ox-Bow. She previously taught at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' new media graduate program (ITP) and was Assistant Professor of New Media at SUNY-Purchase's School of Film & Media Studies. She was recently an Artist-in-Residence at Eyebeam & is currently Visiting Critic at RISD.
Continually Redefining Game Art
No longer mere distractions cooked-up by programmers as a form of light relief in the early days of computers, video games have evolved into a variety of forms and have had a wide impact on multiple generations. To some extent, the same can now be said of art that addresses video games, the visual complexity and conceptual richness of which has grown with the medium. An exhibition guest-curated by artists Marcin Ramocki and Paul Slocum at Arthouse explores "the history, control mechanisms, political and art-historical implications of electronic games" by surveying both better-known and more emerging practitioners of game-related art, including Cory Arcangel, Michael Bell-Smith, Mike Beradino, Brody Condon, Alex Galloway, JODI, Guthrie Lonergan, Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay, Michael Smith, Eddo Stern, and Keita Takahashi. RESET/PLAY is up through November 2nd and is accompanied by a series of public events that includes a night of video game competitions and a performance by New York-based sound artists Loud Objects. - Marisa Olson
Image: Brody Condon, Judgment Modification (After Memling), 2008 (Courtesy of the artist and Virgil de Voldère Gallery, New York, NY)
Interactive Crowd Sourcing
While the term "crowd sourcing" generally refers to a large group of people (i.e. internet users) contributing to the realization of a project, it might also apply in interesting ways to the newest installation by Jody Zellen. In "The Blackest Spot," at LA's Fringe gallery, she culls footage of crowds and corrals them into content categories which are in turn activated by visitors to the exhibition. While the crowd is usually theorized as a single entity or herd, Zellen's selections exemplify the many different means and reasons for which people choose to assemble in a single spot. When viewers step on censor-marked spots on the floor of the gallery, they trigger audio responses linked to the gatherings, ranging from quietude to cacophony. As a result, Zellen's audience is compelled to consider their own identification with those portrayed in the collected images. - Marisa OlsonImage: Jody Zellen, The Blackest Spot, 2008
Sounding the Alarms
Jane Philbrick's "PULL" installation, at New York's Location One gallery, is definitively interactive. Not only does it require viewer participation to really make the work happen, but it invites reflection on the agency, authority, and influence of the viewer. Flanked by walls of 502 beautifully symmetrical, gridded, illuminated fire alarms, strobes, smoke detectors, siren horns, and control panels, the installation relies on (or questions) the human impulse to pull the trigger. Once a viewer does pull on an alarm handle, loud noises, flashing lights, and loud words bombard the participant's eyes and ears in a simultaneously beautiful and overwhelming cascade. The project is intended to reflect on questions of fear and control, as well as the seductive versus destructive nature of power. Philbrick's collaboration with Honeywell Labs instigates commentary on the ways in which these issues have trickled down into architectural, industrial, and consumer devices, while upping the volume on her ongoing investigations into the subjective dimensions of language and the voice. - Marisa Olson
Image: Jane Philbrick, PULL, 2008
Taking it to the Tavern
Red76 is an artist collective who employ a variety of media, including the internet, video, photography, printed matter, and social interaction. In fact, their use of materials is more a matter of calling up the right tools for the right job, but their projects are always infused with a kind of critical repositioning of default installation techniques and didactics. When exhibiting in a museum, they are likely to eschew wall text in favor of a giant arrow directing your attention to what you are really meant to see. In part, this bravery to bend the rules gets to the heart of their work: a persistent effort to create and critique public spaces. While Portland-based artist Sam Gould founded Red76, its membership constantly rotates, and the group privileges its open source ideals over attributed authorship. In this vein, many of their projects take the shape of "how-to" instructions, such as How to... Protest Song Karaoke, in which participants are encouraged to preface public karaoke performances with comments about the supposedly unknown political content of otherwise sappy mainstream pop hits. News Blackout was a successful example of that celebrated artists' trick known as the one-liner. The piece is a video in which someone strategically blacks out newspaper text with a black marker in order to make a statement about what often gets left out of the news. Their latest project The Battery Republic, which begins this weekend, also positions itself as an intervention. The weeklong series takes the form of a mobile tavern, which will occupy a room at the Park Avenue Armory as part of Creative Time's Democracy In America exhibition, as well as various other locations around the city. The collective will use this politicized space as a site for a variety of activities, ranging from conversations with visitors ...
Kind of Blue
The cyanotype, in some ways, fuses multiple modern impulses towards empirical knowledge. In this once novel medium, originally used to study the footprints of organic specimens and still common in kids' at-home science kits, objects are left on the surface of photosensitive paper to create a sort of blue and white negative of the item. But the image format also links itself to the study of architectural structures at the site of the blueprint and to the avant-garde's embrace of the color blue to study perception and the psychic effects of color. (Think Yves Klein.) So Christian Marclay's marriage of the cyanotype and the increasingly defunct magnetic cassette medium is just as philosophically rich as it is beautiful. And indeed, the artist's prints are extremely beautiful. On view through October 11th at New York's Paula Cooper Gallery is a solo exhibition of the artist's work. One of the pieces included, Allover, looks like an ocean of castaway cassettes and tape ribbons doing a sort of dead man's float, while the title reads as a double entendre--the image is a time-based collage (blurring representational epochs and the time it takes for the picture to seep into the paper) in which the tapes are "all over" the page and the title also signals the fact that the tapes' heyday is "all over." On the contrary, Marclay's heyday is still roaring, as the artist continues to find new ways to intertwine concepts of visual and sonic composition and to turn what might otherwise amount to commodity fetishism into poignant commentary on the evolution of technology and the narrative forms we've generated to record-keep our romance with it. - Marisa Olson
Image: Christian Marclay, Untitled (Madonna, Thy Word and Sonic Youth), 2008


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