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Updated Information On Electro-Craft E-Series Motors
I've updated my trac page on the Electro-Craft E-3618 with a scanned datasheet with information on the E-3618, E-3622, E-3626, E-3629, and E-3633, and the BDC MINI-Series servo amplifier. Since I only own E-3618's, I didn't add a new page for the other motors.
By the way, the end of Electro-Craft catalog contains a nice little overview of servo motor theory and operation.
October 21, 2014 No Comments
Stepper Vs Servo Motor Torque Curves Part IV
My final look is at NEMA17 motors. Today's contestants are:
- In yellow, the IMS (now Schneider) MDI1PRL17C4x triple stack NEMA stepper motor with integrated driver and controller. I've used these cute little motors before; they are a great fit for the right application. As normal, the programming language sucks, but a CANOpen version is available.
- In red and blue, a Panasonic MUMS011A1 NEMA 17 servo motor. These motors have unfortunately been out of production for years; I loved their performance, encoder (10000 cpr), good looks, and price (about $250).
- In green, a Quicksilver Controls QCI-A17H3 stepper motor with encoder that's driven like a servo. I'm including it to show how much improvement you can get from closed loop stepper control.
- The MDI1PRL17C4 shows typical stepper characteristics, with torque rapidly dropping off; it can't even reach 2500 RPM.
- The MUMS011A1 shows typical servo performance, with a pretty flat torque curve, 3:1 peak to continuous torque, and compared to the steppers:Â higher speeds, less continuous torque at low speeds, more continuous torque at high speeds, and much higher maximum torque.
- The QCI-A17H3 doesn't turn the stepper into a servo, but compared to an open loop stepper, it has substantially higher maximum speed (4000 RPM – the highest of any stepper I've looked at), and offers significantly higher torque at higher speeds — in exchange for a higher price, of course.
Some General Stepper & Servo Notes
- Steppers are much simpler to drive: you can easily build a low cost drive using an integrated chip (e.g. from Allegro Microsystems, ST, or TI) or buy a commercial driver for $100-$150 (from Automation Direct, Gecko Drive, etc). Many low cost PLC's such as Panasonic's FP0/FPG have built-in step/direction outputs.
- But open loop steppers are very annoying, because you have to figure out your needs before start: you have to specify fixed currents for holding and running torque. If your current is too low, the motor will miss steps. If your current and duty cycle are too high, the motor will get hot – and if a bit of extra torque is needed to overcome something unexpected, you're out of luck.
- Closed loop steppers still aren't servo motors. However, I'm looking forward to affordable sensorless closed loop control (available or coming from Trinamic, TI, and probably others), which will improve stepper performance and minimize stepper heat generation.
- I think servo motors' torque curve fits well with many applications: a lot of time you just need maximum torque for a short time period. Servo motor system prices are also coming down (OK, not the basic motor, but there are affordable encoder, drive, and controller choices).
April 26, 2013 No Comments
Stepper Vs Servo Motor Torque Curves Part III
In this post, I'm going to look at some fun NEMA23 single stack servo motors and a single stack stepper motor. The entrants are:
- In brown, the PacSci M21 with Sigmax technology. The M21 has a lot more torque than many (most?) NEMA23 single stack steppers.
- In blue and red, one of my favorite motors: the BH02300 servo motor. I've spun one of mine at 20,000 RPM. Like the Emoteq QB series, the BH series has great peak torque.
- In yellow and green, the MCG (now Ametek) I2351014NC servo motor. After all the high end motors, I decided it was time to feature a non-exotic and affordable (if you can get it) motor.
- The difference between the I2351014NC and the BH02300 is the peak torque (the BH02300 has much more) and maximum speed (20,000 RPM vs 12,000) and, of course, price; continuous torque is about the same.
- Both servos are can go much, much faster than the M21 stepper (although at 3000RPM, it's pretty fast for a stepper motor).
- The M21's continuous torque looks pretty good; it always has more continuous torque than either servo, and below about 2000 RPM has more continuous torque than the I2351014NC has peak torque.
- OK, it's not really far to compare these motors — they obviously have their own areas (low end torque and low cost for the M21, high speed and moderate cost for the I2351014NC, and high speed, high peak torque, and high cost for the BH02300) but it's fun to see big differences between motors that are all about the same size.
April 25, 2013 No Comments
Stepper Vs Servo Motor Torque Curves Part II
NEMA34 Torque Curves
Today I am examining some interesting NEMA34 motors' torque curves. The graph is a bit complex because I want to show a variety of motors on one graph; to make it a bit simpler, I am using dashed lines for servo continuous torque, and solid lines for servo motor peak torque.
I chose motors that are all roughly the same size.
The motors and their colors are:
- Burgandy Red – PacSci N32 PowerPac double stack NEMA34 stepper motor at 75V. I choose this motor because it's a high end stepper, and I own a couple.
- Red – PacSci K32 PowerPac double stack NEMA34 stepper motor with Sigmax technology, also at 75V.
- Yellow – Emoteq QB03402 double stack NEMA34 servo motor. I own a similar motor (QB03403), plus the peak torque is very high.
- Green – Parker Compumotor BE342H double stack NEMA34 servo motor at 170V. Parker makes some really nice servo motors; the BE series has a lot of torque, and I want to look at the effects of voltage on torque curves. The BE342H and BE342K have different windings.
- Brown – Parker BE342H at 340V.
- Dark Blue – Parker BE342K at 170V
- Light Blue – Parker BE324K at 340V.
- The NEMA34 stepper curves are similar to the NEMA23 stepper curves; torque still drops off rapidly with increasing speed. One quirk: maximum torque is around 120 RPM, not 0 RPM.
- PacSci's Sigmax technology does provide significantly higher torque at all speeds, but does not change the shape of the torque curve.
- Overall stepper vs servo comparison is similar: the steppers have much more continuous torque at low speeds, less continuous torque at moderate speeds, less peak torque at all speeds, can't handle high speeds, and cost significantly less than servos.
- The Emoteq BH03402 has exceptional peak torque, but you'll have to provide a lot of current (e.g. 50A for the 130V C windings).
- The Parker BE342 shows the impact of voltage and winding. When the servo motor does not get enough voltage, its torque can decrease like a stepper, but for a different reason: back EMF.
- The BE342K might seem better than the BE342H, since it has the "best" torque curve, but that comes at price: the same torque requires double the current of the BE342H.
- Stepper currents are much lower; the maximum current of any N32/K32 model is 10A.
- As always, it comes down to knowing your requirements: torque, speed, size, current, budget, etc.
April 24, 2013 No Comments
Stepper Vs Servo Motor Torque Curves Part I
While I was working on my upcoming project, I got sidetracked by the issue of servo motors versus stepper motors. Since I've never seen direct stepper and servo torque curve comparisons, I created four comparison charts using a variety of interesting motors.
Disclaimer: I graphed all the torque curves myself, and their shapes should be pretty accurate; however, I didn't have very good data for some motors (e.g. Emoteq peak torque). Motor pricing can very quite a bit, depending on the exact model and quantity ordered, so any pricing is a rough guide.
If you click on the images, you will get a much bigger version. To avoid a megapost, I've split this topic into multiple posts.
Now that the preliminaries are out of the way, let's start with the first contestants.
NEMA23 Motors
First up is a pair of motors: the Kollmorgen AKM21G single stack NEMA23 servo motor with 75V winding and the Pacific Scientific P22 double stack NEMA23 stepper motor.
I picked these motors because 1) they are both from the same company (Danaher), 2) I've used both, 3) they're about the same size, 4) are designed for similar voltages, and 5) both are high end motors, so they should show off the best of their technologies.
The colors are as follows:
- Red – AKM21G peak torque
- Blue – AKM21GÂ continuous torque
- Green – P22 at 72V
- Yellow – P22 at 24V
- Notice how quickly the P22's torque falls off at 24v – at slow speeds, torque is about 150 oz-in, but it's <50 oz-in by 1000 RPM (substantially less than the AKM21's continuous torque).
- The P22 is considerably better at 72V – the torque curve is much flatter, and it has more continuous torque than the AKM21G up to about 2100 RPM. The higher drive voltages reduces the effects of the stepper motor's inductance.
- Servo drives are the only option for higher speeds. The AKM21G is rated at 7800 RPM max, while the P22 torque curve only goes to 3000 RPM.
- The AKM21G has a much flatter torque curve, especially continuous torque.
- The servo's peak torque is a big advantage: the peak torque available from the single stack AKM21G is ~50% greater than the maximum P22 stepper torque. The peak torque advantages gets much bigger as the speed increases.
- On the other hand, the servo is much more expensive: an AKM21G will run $400 or more, while the P22 is around $100.
March 30, 2013 No Comments
Analog Servo Amps Versus Digital Servo Drives
The traditional analog servo amplifier receives ±10V analog commands from a motion controller, translating the command into current to the motor. Most servo amps have potentiometers for setting gain, offset, and such. Brushless servo amps typically add hall sensors inputs for commutation.
I use the term digital servo drive for a servo amplifier combined with digital control. A typical servo drive that supports the CiA 402 motion profile receives commands from a fieldbus such as CANOpen, Ethernet PowerLink, or EtherCAT. It provides power to the motor and receives the motor's feedback, typically including hall sensors, encoder, and/or resolver inputs. Typically these drives can run in torque mode, velocity mode, position mode, or PVT (position-velocity-time) mode.
Some models support alternate modes, including mimicking an analog servo amp (±10V command), a stepper drive (step/direction commands), or encoder (follow a master encoder input).
If your needs are simple, you can use CiA 402 drives directly connected to a computer with your control logic creating and sending the motion commands to the drives. For complex motion profiles, it may make sense to put a dedicated soft (on PC) or hard (embedded CPU) motion controller between control logic and the drives.
I really like using digital servo drives on a fieldbus. The biggest reason: the wiring is much simpler. For example, PC to CAN interface to servo drives to motors instead of PC to PCI board to breakout boards to analog servo amp to motors. Another big improvement: it's much easier to add motors later, unlike with a typically motion controller which is setup for a fixed number of axes.
Even using digital servo drives in analog mode has some advantages:
- Setup is much easier:
- Â Typically no DIP switches or pots to worry about.
- With many digital drives, phasing the motor is so much easier: connect the motor's power wires in any order, connect the hall sensors in any order, spin the motor in the direction you want to be positive, and let the drive figure out the correct order. With analog drives: keep swapping wires until you get the right setup, for the desired direction of motion and hall phasing.
- With many digital drives, you can run motors in sinusoidal mode, with encoder feedback but without hall sensors. I've found that a significant number of my older motors have one or more faulty hall sensors, but they're still usable on my digital drives.
- With many digital drives, you can watch the hall sensors inputs so if the hall sensors are flaky, you can quickly identify which ones are the problem.
- Because all the settings are stored in the drive, not controlled by pots, it's easier to replicate the setup, and harder to screw up.
- On the negative side, digital drives are often more expensive than analog servo amps, and may require encoder feedback to the drive, which complicates the wiring when they're used as analog servo amp replacements.
I've been setting up a variety of motors for both a AMC BE15 analog brushless servo amp and a Copley Accelnet digital drive:Â motor setup is so much easier on the Accelnet.
Sometimes the digital drive might add complications: the first digital drive I used was an IDC B8000 analog input digital drive. I was using a pair of them for some extra axes on a Adept robot system, and I could not get the whole system tuned to perfection. The tuning was OK, but I think the B8000's feedback loops were interfering with the Adept's feedback loops.
Note: post expanded 7/31/2012
July 28, 2012 3 Comments
Mixing Industrial Ethernet Protocols
Standard Ethernet is inherently not capable of real time communications, and thus industrial Ethernet protocols that can run on stock Ethernet hardware cannot be real time. The best they can do is provide synchronization (for example, using hardware or software implementations of the IEEE-1588 Precise Time Protocol).
Of course, coordinated multi-axis motion using distributed Ethernet servo drives need real time communications, but the problem with real time industrial Ethernet networks is that they cannot use commercial switches and maintain good real time behavior.
One solution I've seen from several manufacturers is to put a motion controller in the middle. Instead of directly connecting the Ethernet servo drives to the main industrial network, the drives are connected to a multi-axis motion controller, which then connects to the main industrial network using a different protocol. The controller receives higher level motion commands, and sends out lower level motion commands over its own, private real time network to the distributed drives.
Similar motion controllers exist for CANOpen (Ethernet or other network in, coordinated CANOpen motion out), but I find the use of multiple Ethernet protocols interesting. The result is potentially very good: appropriately using the strengths of the different protocols to make the overall automation system better.
I haven't needed to use of any these yet, since I don't have a requirement for Ethernet speed or advanced coordinated motion. However, here are the controllers I've come across:
- Parker ACR9000-EPL series motion controllers. They can communicate with Ethernet/IP networks, and talk to servo drives using Ethernet PowerLink.
- Omron NJ series controllers. They can communicate with Ethernet/IP networks, and communicate with servo drives using EtherCAT.
- Elmo Gold Maestro motion controllers. They can communicate with Modbus/TCP networks, and communicate with servo drives using EtherCAT.
- ACS SpiiPlus controllers (including the soft controller, I believe). They can communicate with Ethernet/IP networks and talk with servo drives using EtherCAT.
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Learning Servo Motion Control
Although I use commercial motion control equipment, I enjoy learning about the fundamentals of servo motor control. I'm currently going through the posts in TI's Motor Control blog; they have a high signal to marketing ratio, and include a lot of non-obvious tips, like the best time to measure current.
The posts include a number of simulations which are helpful in understanding the different control topologies. However, there is still no substitute for spinning actual motors.
Commercial controllers are great at getting you up and running quickly, but don't let you play with different control techniques. For learning, motion control development kits are the way to go.
My dev kit is TI's DRV8312-C2 kit with a F28035 DSP, DRV8312 brushless DC driver chip, and servo motor (unfortunately TI didn't include a dual shaft model, but I have plenty of servo motors with encoders). TI's ControlSuite software provides a variety of control methods.
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Since their founding in 1962, the Pavillion Agency has gained most of their business and candidates through repeat customers or referrals. With over 50 years in the industry, their reputation for being an effective source for finding top-notch candidates is well deserved. Along with solid recruiting practices, the agency has adopted new technology to stay on the cutting edge of the industry and meeting the ever-increasing demand from principals for the latest technical advances. In addition to their main office in New York, the firm opened a Miami Beach office in 2012. They place candidates in positions across the country, with a focus on Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Greenwich, the Hamptons, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
In today's Agency Spotlight, Seth Norman Greenberg, their Vice President and Marketing Director, gives us more insight into the long standing and ever-evolving company…
- How long have you been in business?
Since 1962.
- What makes your agency unique?
Our dedication to integrity, personalized service and client satisfaction. From the very beginning, Pavillion has distinguished itself as an organization with the highest ethical standards and moral values. This is evidenced by the fact that over 90% of our client and applicant base are either repeat customers or personally referred to us. Our reputation is everything. We have set ourselves apart by continuously improving the way we conduct business with innovations unique to our industry.
- What types of positions do you place?
Nannies, chefs, butlers, chauffeurs, private security, housekeepers, house/estate managers, personal assistants, baby nurses, domestic couples, laundress/lady's maids and much more.
- What is your ideal candidate?
We look for four key traits. Specifically, someone who is experienced, friendly, accommodating, and flexible.
- Do you place across the country or locally? If so where?
Over the past 55 years, we have developed a strong following in many American cities. We have come to identify a group of regions that have the highest demand for our services. While we do place in multiple locations, we have found that by focusing on some key markets, we are able to serve our clients better as well as build a strong network for sourcing candidates.
Following are the primary domestic cities we have a focus on servicing: New York, Miami Beach, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Greenwich, Hamptons, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
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Certain positions require a certain education level or skill set. Any continuing education is a plus.
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Of course, our website is always a good source. We do advertise on EstateJobs.com and promote our positions through our social media accounts:
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Carnival CEO Gerry Cahill and the SC States Ports Authority Executive Jim Newsome have agreed to exchange friendship bracelets in lieu of local safeguards and standards.
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Dillon – Fresh off of his official entry into the South Carolina gubernatorial election, Lt. Governor André Bauer began his issue roll-out this week with what he is calling his "big idea" to bring our state into the 21st century.
Oconee – The wildly successful cash for clunkers program is being opposed by the state's legislative leaders. The program, paying up to $4500 for qualifying cars to reduce the price on new automobiles ran out of funding last week.
North Augusta – In a startling and unanimous agreement across economic, racial, and political lines, the entire population of South Carolina has agreed to relocate to an undisclosed location while Governor Sanford is away on vacation.
Columbia – An unusual clause in the state supreme court's now-famous stimulus package ruling will allow the funds to be used for the creation of higher quality pornography billboards along the interstates that carve their way through South Carolina.
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Wednesday, 11 November 2015
The Rage of the Fleas by John A. A. Logan
15 comments:
- Susan Price said...
Happy Birthday, John!
- 11 November 2015 at 01:12
- Post Gutenberg said...
Get away with you, An tUasal Sean Oleoghain! A riveting read from start to finish, wonderfully well told, as usual ...but if true, means you were only working as a reporter, when you wrote Agency Woman.
I do believe the bit about the clothes-free posterior suspended on the fence because no imagination, no matter how wild, could have given us _that_.
To think that there must be people who think you live a quiet life in which hardly anything happens, ever.
- 11 November 2015 at 05:38
- Dennis Hamley said...
Rivetting, John. A terrific essay in alienation. The underlying Kafka-like fear is deeply disturbing and the Blake context is entirely right. The work of a born story-teller.
- 11 November 2015 at 06:04
- Kathleen Jones said...
I found this very moving John - and sad. You have nailed, exactly, what life is like in a (non-wealthy) community today. Last week I had three people in the front garden throwing stones at the windows and threatening to burn my house down. The police took them away, but all they've been done for is resisting arrest! It was, apparently, a mistake - the torching was meant for someone else. This is a village of some three and half thousand people and we used to know each other well. But there's no employment now, so many people have left and the idyllic rural location has meant that troubled people from Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle have been moved into empty properties. I have moments of despair.
Thank you for a beautiful piece of writing.
- 11 November 2015 at 11:43
- John A. A. Logan said...
Thanks, Susan!
Thanks, Postgutenberg (Cheryll)...all true, honest!
Thank-you, Dennis!
- 11 November 2015 at 13:08
- John A. A. Logan said...
Thanks, Kathleen - I'm very sorry to hear you have had to go through a terrible situation like that. Yes, it is shocking sometimes to find out how little the police can do...
That is a very serious, terrifying thing to experience.
It does sound like a "mistake", which is still appalling, but...gives you a route back to some peace of mind there I hope...though I know that is easier said than done.
Take care, and I hope/pray nothing remotely like that ever happens again,
- 11 November 2015 at 13:36
- Lydia Bennet said...
Gosh John, what a grippingly written but dystopian view of your city, is this fictional or autobiographical? I find people in general are very kind and helpful. Also I must say I'm puzzled about why nobody did anything even ring 999 about the man over the fence, the position of his trousers is surely neither here nor there.People often pass out while urinating for example. I often get involved with people I don't know if they seem to need help and so do others I know, though I have a care for my own safety up to a point. What do others think?
- 11 November 2015 at 14:54
- Ann Evans said...
A fascinating, gripping story but I half expected it to be an extract of one of John's novels. I know the world is becoming a horrible place at times, but I've never known people pass by others who are clearly in need of immediate help. I'm hoping it was fictional. Very well written either way!
- 11 November 2015 at 15:58
- John A. A. Logan said...
Thanks, Valerie (Lydia) - Yes, autobiographical. Yeah, a couple of years ago I think the bus driver, or someone on the bus, would have done something to help the bloke lying in the garden across his fence like that - but not now, it seems.
Thanks, Ann! - no, sorry, not fictional. I'm just glad I got home without that Demon Dog tearing a piece out of my axxx.
- 11 November 2015 at 16:30
Most of us don't read Camus, or Nietzsche, or Schopenhauer, or any other philosopher who focuses on the human predicament. Because to us, there is no predicament.
As Thomas Gray said where "ignorance is bliss" existential questions are only relevant to those able and willing to contemplate them.
Do you have a problem? John is right. It is an enormous question.
The Guardian in the UK and certainly the US papers and what passes for news on the television stations recount daily the callousness pervading our daily lives. Even the beggar on the street with one leg outside the church in my town is ignored by the passers by. And they step over the winos sprawled in doorways, covered with vomit. How many of us will risk giving such a human resuscitation?
Thomas Gray:
To each his sufferings: all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan—
The tender for another's pain,
Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet, ah! why should they know their fate,
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies?
Thought would destroy their Paradise.
No more;—where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
And Rabbie Burns:
Many and sharp the num'rous ills
Inwoven with our frame!
More pointed still we make ourselves
Regret, remorse, and shame!
And man, whose heav'n-erected face
The smiles of love adorn, –
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
- 12 November 2015 at 02:18
- John A. A. Logan said...
Thanks, Aine (good to see Mr Gray and Mr Burns visiting also!)
- 12 November 2015 at 15:09
- lynnann50 said...
John...thank you again...as always, for your words.
Never too many nor too few...just right.
Two questions...
Where did all the gifts come from?
Why are you alone opening them?
love and peace...lynnann
- 13 November 2015 at 21:59
- John A. A. Logan said...
Thanks, Lynnann!
Yes, I can see why those questions occurred. In a way, the story does beg those questions...
The answers:
The gifts came from friends.
On the day, those friends were far away (though not too far away to talk to by phone!)
Take care,
- 13 November 2015 at 23:52
- julia jones said...
Brilliant, sad, very disturbing. Reading it I wanted to wade in. If I'd been there, probably not.
- 14 November 2015 at 08:30
- John A. A. Logan said...
Thanks, Julia (I don't know, I'd make a fair bet that you might well have waded in if you were there...)
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So it was after class, and it was voluntary. Some might argue it was nothing more than a presentation for a human sexuality class. Nevertheless, Northwestern University Professor John Michael Bailey is in a boatload of trouble for an extracurricular sex-toy demonstration presented in his classroom, and he's being vilified by the press and investigated by university authorities.
The controversial demonstration involved a couple bringing a large, electric phallic sex toy to class, according to reports. The woman removed her clothes and energetically used the device. Bailey says the demonstration was not objectionable because it took place after class, was optional for the 600 students in his class, and was relevant to the subject he was teaching.
Bailey issued a statement that read, "After all, those still there had stayed for an optional demonstration/lecture about kinky sex and were told explicitly what they were about to see. The demonstration, which included a woman who enjoyed providing a sexually explicit demonstration using a machine, surely counts as kinky, and hence as relevant."
"I expect many people to disagree with me. Thoughtful discussion of controversial topics is a cornerstone of learning," Bailey's statement continued.
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The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency operated just a third of its normal morning service, spokesman Paul Rose said.
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Anthrax frontman Joey says he had stage invader situation under control before he was tackled and slammed under security pile-on
Anthrax frontman Joey Belladonna says he had the situation under control before over-zealous security guards slammed him and a stage invader into a multi-man pileup.
The drama unfolded at a show in LA last weekend 90 minutes into the band's show. A single fan managed to make his way onto the stage and Belladonna went to tackle him. But a large bouncer climbed onto the stage and knocked both of them off their feet, and several other security guards joined in.
The band stopped the show with bassist Frank Bello shouting angrily at venue staff while guitarist Scott Ian told the crowd: "It's pretty smart to tackle the singer – I guess they haven't seen him up here on stage for the last 90 minutes."
Now the singer has shared his own thoughts on the event. Belladonna tells Metal Assault: "He bulldozed me. I got slammed. Then there was, like, and eight-guy pile-on. I was like, 'This is not happening.'
"Usually that doesn't happen with me involved. I just wanted to say, 'Hey, no, stop – everything's good,' but within seconds I was on the ground."
He's confident the stage invader could have been deal with calmly, and says he was part-way through dealing with the situation himself.
"I had both arms on his shoulder," he explains. "I turned my head in seconds and I got ploughed over."
But he's stopped short of slating the house staff, accepting things may not have looked the same from the first guard's viewpoint: "I know in certain circumstances you have to react quite quickly. Maybe it didn't look right to him – I don't know.
"I've seen people come out and really get too quick with it. He was that big he could have just put his arms round and said, 'Okay, you're done. I'm going to hold you and I'm going to walk you off, and if you don't wanna, then we're going to fight.'
"I've seen people resist and that's when it gets ugly."
Meanwhile, Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante says the band would have liked to have been higher up the bill at the Big 4 concert in their home town of New York in September.
They opened the show, as they've done on all dates, for fellow thrash giants Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth – but Benante admits it would have been nicer to have played later at the Yankee Stadium.
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My high school Sunday School teacher sent a beautiful e-mail today as her husband has been fighting pancreatic cancer since November 2006. Last night she came across something she had written in her Bible in August 2001. She gave me her permission to post it here. More than 30 years have passed since I was in their non-denominational protestant church, but it is surprising how much faith we still have in common:
Everything that comes into my life is in some way a gift. Everything (happiness, family, joy, suffering, grief). So in every experience I must recognize that it is material for sacrifice, an offering back and up to God. He is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Amen."
That was true in August 2001. It was true in November 2006 when we received the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and is still true in May 2008.
The word Everything teaches us about our Lord-
Jn 3:35 The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. — Sovereignty
Jn. 4:39 Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did.— Omniscience
Jn 14:26 … the Holy Spirit, … will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. — Omnipresence, Omniscience
1 Cor. 10:26 The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it. — Sovereignty
I could go on and on.
John and I stand amazed as we watch everything our Heavenly Father works out in our lives, opening doors of witness in suffering and grief, yes, we grieve. All this gives us the opportunity to offer back to God our praise and thanksgiving for His faithfulness and goodness to us.
"Always giving thanks to God the Father FOR everything." Eph. 5:20
"Give thanks IN all circumstances [everything], for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." 1 Thess. 5:18


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I know you all have just been waiting anxiously wondering why it has been FIFTEEN days since you have seen a new post…sort of like this guy.
You may have even gotten mad as hell, like this guy.
Well traveling through the mountains of Canada means limited access to WIFI, which means no dumb Traveling Rhonda posts or crazy Bert videos.
Well, we are now back in the good old USA. We are back to annoy you.
Your lives can continue.


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L danced five times over three days, and blew us away by winning her demi-character, barefoot, jazz, jazz championship and the most promising ballet dancer under 12 years of age. All that nagging to get her to practice was worth it!
As the dancing was spread out it gave us time to catch up with friends, drive down to Hokitika for lunch, take the kids to the swimming pool and visit a local beach. I even got some op-shopping in!
With the hubby taking a couple of days off, we had a leisurely drive home yesterday. The weather was warm and summery, so we played at being tourists.
First stop was at Punakaiki to see the Pancake Rocks. A few metres into the walk we came across a weka family, the chicks were the cutest little fluff balls. I never get tired of taking photos of the nikau palms either.
The high tide meant that we actually got to see the blowhole blowing - not something you see everyday.
The rock formations at Pancake Rocks are quite unusual, but with a low battery I didn't take many photos.
After a quick coffee and a wander around the craft shop we were back on the road. Next stop was a small beach at Fox River, which is a favourite of mine. It's featured before here.
Before we got to Westport we took a detour to Tauranga Bay to visit the seal colony. It's a short walk to the viewing area, and you can smell the seals before you see them.
At first it's actually quite hard to spot them, as they are camouflaged against the rocks. But once you start looking you see more and more. They don't all lie around asleep, some were chasing each other, while others hopped from rock to rock. The photos below all have three seals in them, some are harder to spot than others.
After that we stopped in Westport for lunch (and more op shops) and were home by 3 to check all our animals hadn't forgotten us. Part one of the holidays is over, now I'm looking forward to this coming weekend's adventure.


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The Limmud Wars – A Response to the Rabbis
"Pluralism is the 'political correctness' of the theological world."
Thus begins the statement of intent, or re-statement, of a group of ultra-orthodox rabbis in the UK who wish to scare people out of going to the annual interdenominational Limmud conference.
This first sentence alone tells us where we are, we are locked in a system of thinking wherein "political correctness" is self-evidently misguided. Any parallels with the Bible's ethos of welcoming the stranger, of remembering that we were once the oppressed people, enslaved to the mighty Egyptians, are ignored. There is no consideration of the ways in which encouraging people to overcome their natural sense of threat when encountering difference is an important step towards building an exemplary community which is warm and welcoming. No, we are in a xenophobic mindset, where 'political correctness' may as well be equated with 'moral weakness'.
We perhaps suspected that such a mindset existed in the anti-Limmud camp, now we know for sure.
In this politically incorrect world, we might now turn our attention to that other great evil – pluralism. For a group of people who presumably spend a lot of their time immersed in the Talmud, the blindness to the sense in which that is a text which embodies many aspects of pluralism is striking. Never mind the story of the heavenly voice who declared of the fractious Hillel and Shammai that 'both these and these are the word of the living God' (eiruvin 13b), never mind the idea that there are 70 modes of interpreting Torah – shivim panim laTorah, never mind that we are instructed to read the Biblical text on four levels of different meaning. Notwithstanding all of these, the Talmud is from start to finish a set of discordant voices, a multiplicity of opinions, a cacophony of wildly divergent theological opinions.
It is of course true that sometimes the discussion seeks to resolve these arguments, to conclude decisively on one halakhic way or another, but, many times, particularly when dealing with the 'theological world' it simply doesn't. Opinions are recorded and then left, sometimes probed deeply, sometimes not. There is no sense in which every account of God and his ways needs to be consistent, universal, dogmatic. There is an appreciation that the language of theology resembles the universe of music, different notes and structures strike different ears differently, what resonates for one will not always resonate for the other. Brahms does not become invalid if he doesn't do it for you, one simply chooses not to listen to him.
The rare occasions when the Talmud does come down fiercely against someone are usually in response to a failure in coping with the demand for discussion, for tolerating the opinion of others, for ignoring the moment and being stuck in their ways. Shammai, Rabban Gamliel and Rabbi Eliezer are all harshly criticised for this, sometimes being excommunicated.
Indeed the next sentence of their edict, "The upshot of this is that even though opposing philosophical viewpoints are espoused, no one is deemed to be wrong" does actually sound pretty close to a description of the Talmud.
They, of course, are actually mocking such a position, even though their lazy use of 'the upshot of this' bears witness to the fact that they really haven't bothered to spell out the steps in their argument, to share with us the depths of their understanding of pluralism. No, it is an angry phrase, a statement of impatience, intolerance, the explosive outburst of a group who simply can't believe how far from the truth the rest of us have strayed.
Their statement of singular and univocal faith then follows:
As religious Jews, however, our fundamental bedrock is that there is only one truth – the Torah B'ksav and Baal Peh which is of Divine origin.
I want to note the presumption here, that they are able to speak for all religious Jews. In making this move they are also avoiding any individual responsibility for their claim, they are trying to refer back to some universally apparent position, something which should be so obvious to us that their helpful reminder of it removes any further need for them to support it.
Well, Rabbis, there is nothing obvious about your claim, so please do enlighten us. (Why not come to Limmud and run a session showing that this is so?)
There is an immediate absurdity in the fact that they cite two versions of Torah – the written and the oral – as part of the 'one truth' they purport to cling to. The relationship between these two bodies of thought is complex, their side by side existence seems to bespeak the realisation that any written text will always need a living and engaged interpretation, that truth can never be expressed unequivocally once and for all time.
The famous story of Moses visiting Rabbi Akiva's lecture embodies this spirit Rabbi Akiva is innovatively expounding hundreds of new ideas from the written Biblical text and Moses doesn't recognise any of them. He starts to weaken out of confusion and distress, before Rabbi Akiva explains to one of his inquisitive students that all of these ideas are 'Halakha Le'Moses Mi'Sinai' – 'a tradition of Moses from Sinai'. Moses recovers his strength, and expresses newfound appreciation for the genius of Rabbi Akiva.
There is a paradox revealed here which lies at the core of Torah – there was a singular moment when God revealed something of his will and vision to Moses and the people at Sinai, but this truth could only ever be partial and would need, by design, to be constantly expounded and renewed by the intellect and creativity of human beings. There must always be variety, for the limits of language are such that no words can ever maintain consistent meaning and purpose across time, their usage and context are forever shifting.
The idea of 'one truth' is a befuddlement. When Rabbi Yehoshua rebuts God himself with the verse 'It is not in heaven' he is asserting that Torah is not a closed book, but that it is given to mankind, and it is for him, in his infinite and confusing complexity to decipher and apply it, with all the variety that will necessarily entail.
Even within the written Law there is nothing resembling one truth: from the minute He creates a humanity which disobeys and deceives Him, God himself is on a very steep learning curve. Throughout the Torah and prophets God is tested and challenged, and any sense of one approach, one method, one all knowing perfect Being is simply absent. Monotheism, as none other than Freud reminds us, was a radical and innovative idea, a rejection of the polytheistic and totem worshipping religions of the day. But to equate one God with 'one truth', that is a confusion, a category error which completely misunderstands the sort of thing 'truth' actually is.
Moving on to the Holy Writings of the Bible, the Ketuvim, our 'theological world' becomes even more rich and varied. The Psalms alone contain thousands of visions and images of the Divine, with no concern for coherence or compatibility, no attempt to make them universal. The soul is moved, and it expresses itself in myriad ways. There is a concern with authenticity, with true expression, but this is different from a closed and hermetically sealed truth, from an exclusive and excluding singular dogma.
More variety. The gentle wisdom of the Proverbs is entirely different from the more pessimistic Epicurean vision of Ecclesiastes. Neither of these are of the same spirit as the impassioned love of The Song of Songs, which again could not be grappling with more different issues than the tortured character of Job.
We have inherited a veritable smorgasbord of truths, of wisdoms, and it is a peculiarly rigid desire which seeks to make them 'one', which seems to undermine and subvert their pluralistic and multivocal richness.
We could, by its nature, spend pages exploring this inheritance of pluralistic variety, taking in the different Gaonic and Medieval philosophers, and the later expositors of Mitnagidic, Chassidic and Mussar based philosophies which certainly were not commensurable with each other. But let us return to our statement of concern.
Their concern with Limmud is that it 'blurs the distinction between authentic Judaism and pseudo-Judaism'.
Again, it is presupposed that we are familiar with this distinction, that we have a clear and sharp sense of what is 'authentic' in contemporary forms of Jewish expression and what is merely 'pseudo'. Well, we don't, and one can only register the hateful dismissiveness which could come up with such an offensive and demeaning insult as labelling someone's heartfelt religious worship as 'pseudo'.
I suspect that their idea of 'authentic Judaism' relies on their notion of 'one truth', on an unbroken and uninterrupted tradition which has been transmitted without difficulty from Moses at Sinai until the present day. We have already brought many texts which dispute such a monolithic vision, let us consider another. The Talmud tells us that in the period of mourning for Moses three thousand laws were forgotten. Joshua and the other prophets told the people not to panic – again using the idea 'It is not in Heaven'. Tradition doesn't stay alive through the perfect reproduction in every generation of exactly what transpired in a previous age. It stays alive because there is commitment and continuity and dedication, spirited engagement and creative application. Otniel seeks to rediscover, in that story, something of what was lost, but he uses creativity and intellect, he doesn't run back to God to fill in the gaps. From the breach there was creation, from death sprang life.
The last two hundred years have seen multiple challenges and cataclysms for the Jewish people. It is perhaps not surprising that some have reacted to this trauma by trying to freeze the past, by projecting back into history a rigidity and fearfulness which was never there. But such a move is spiritually and emotionally and intellectually catastrophic, and will be the true undoing of the Jewish people and its heritage.
Let us consider now the final passage, that anyone 'who wishes to walk upon paths which will be viewed favourably by the Ribbono Shel Olam' should avoid Limmud and its fellow corrupting influences.
Whenever I hear such claims I am reminded of Moses' famous discussion with God. Moses is frustrated, he wants to know something of God's essence, to grasp the mystery of his ways, to see the fullness of His Being. God is clear on this point 'No human shall see me and live'. No human being can know God's ways, not even Moses himself. God tells Moses to wait patiently in the cleft of the rock, and once God has passed he will see the shadow of his back. There is no direct knowledge of God's ways, of God's will, the entire revelation is shrouded in smoke and clouds, in difficulty and terror.
These Rabbis would perhaps do well to remember this story, this profound philosophical principle, and resist the temptation to confuse the respect people give them with the tyranny of fundamentalist authority, a force for evil which has only brought pain and destruction upon the world.
I will be at Limmud. I will be talking about all of these topics, encouraging as much discussion and disagreement as the 2500 other participants care to throw up. I invite these Rabbis to come and be a part of this discussion, to re-enter Jewish history, to re-engage with the full spectrum of the Jewish people and to leave behind the traumatic rifts of the past in the spirit of renewal, creativity and rebirth. 'Chadesh yameinu kekedem' – may our present days be renewed in the spirit of the past, may our future be sculpted with full consciousness of the glorious multiplicity of our varied and nurturing past.


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Saturday, September 12, 2015
Things I love right now....
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Sharon I adore Karolyn's painted Chinoiserie Pumpkins, she sent me one last year. I saw you note and will call you later....ReplyDelete
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Big Hugs to you and I will send one your way soon- XO KarolynReplyDeleteReplies
I just adore these. I posted on FB too and you got rave reviews!!!Delete
Very cute...Karolyn is so creative!ReplyDelete
I was one of the lucky bloggers who received one of the gorgeous pumpkins at Tina's lunch. I leave mine out all year round and think of sweet Karolyn every time I look at it. Enjoy your Sunday.ReplyDeleteReplies
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I'm thrilled to get one. So special and unique. I like the idea of leaving it out year round, I may borrow that from you. Thanks for stopping in.
These are so beautiful Sharon. What a great idea thanks for sharing Karolyn's special talent. Also so glad to hear you have air conditioning---we don't.. And this heat wave is crazy isn't it? We're right next to the ocean and it's still hot. :(ReplyDeleteReplies
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I'm a bit behind on blogging so I apologize for my late response. It's finally cooled off and now it's going to heat up once again. Yes, I am so grateful for air!!!
I just love Karolyn's style and blog--the pumpkins are amazing. Happy to stop by your beautiful blog today.ReplyDelete
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The woman, named by US media as Sydney Leathers, a Democrat activist from Indiana, denounced the disgraced former US congressman for his "lies" in scathing comments to The Dirty, a gossip website, which exposed their raunchy online exchanges.
Mr Weiner, 48, a rising star in Democrat politics, resigned as US congressman in June 2011 after admitting "sexting" six women, including one aged 21. As he announced his candidacy for mayor earlier this year, he insisted his problems were behind him.
Sydney Leathers
But as he maintained his campaign schedule, New Yorkers heard tawdry tales of duplicity from the woman scorned following a steamy cyber affair that Mr Weiner initiated under the alias "Carlos Danger".
"I just want people to know he's lying when he acts like he has changed," Miss Leathers told The Dirty. "I think it's important to reiterate the fact that all of this happened with him after his first scandal, so all of his campaign promises about being a changed man are absolute lies."
Nik Richie, editor of The Dirty, said that the website would publish "new and embarrassing" details about the relationship in coming days after they began to emerge on Tuesday afternoon.
At the other end of the media landscape, The New York Times weighed in with a scathing editorial calling for Mr Weiner to end his campaign.
"The serially-evasive Mr Weiner should take his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye, away from the cameras, off the Web and out of the race for mayor," it declared.
Mr Weiner with his wife at the press conference on Tuesday (AP)
The newspaper delivered its damning verdict hours after Mr Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin appeared at a joint press conference where he insisted his online shenanigans were behind him. In a remarkable display of support, Miss Abedin, Hillary Clinton's most trusted aide, said she loved and forgave her husband.
Miss Leathers, who worked on Mr Obama's election campaign in Indiana and once listed Mr Weiner as a political "hero" in a now-deleted blog post, has not responded to requests for comment since being identified.
But Mr Richie gave some details of her version of events to The New York Times. She first contacted Mr Weiner via Facebook to express her disappointment that he had resigned from Congress, but he soon steered their exchanges from politics.
Using social media accounts in the name of "Carlos Danger", he bombarded her with explicit messages, including a photograph of his penis, and repeatedly asked for racy pictures of her.
"He would demand pictures almost every day," Mr Richie said. "He always wanted pictures with heels in them. He loved her heels." He reportedly told Miss Leathers that he loved her, talked of obtaining an apartment in Chicago where they could consummate their relationship and said he could help her find work with a political website.
Before these revelations, Mr Weiner appeared to be heading for political redemption in this year's race to become New York's next mayor, leading polls for the Democratic nomination.
He asked voters for a second chance and promised them that he was a changed man who had learned his lessons, campaigning with his wife at his side.
Although he had acknowledged that other pictures might surface, he had given no indication that he had continued to indulge in his behaviour after the 2011 scandal. But the timeline now emerging is damning.
Indeed, the messages from "Carlos Danger" were at their most intense and raunchy last July, the same month in which Mr Weiner and Miss Abedin posed for People magazine with their seven-month-old son for a "rehabilitation" piece.
"Anthony has spent every day since [the scandal] trying to be the best dad and husband he can be," she said. "I'm proud to be married to him."
As those words appeared, he was also dispatching sexually explicit emails to Miss Leathers.


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Pennsylvania's Governor Edward G. Rendell recently announced another $5.1 million dollars to be invested in the state's Energy Harvest Program, supporting 27 clean energy projects across PA. Projects include solar power, wind, biomass, geothermal, and energy efficient buildings.
PA is already recognized around the world as a leader in clean energy technology and investment. Their programs and policies have been showcased at the United Nations, and it was the only state given an opportunity for a keynote address at the WindEnergy 2006 conference in Germany.
Their Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard is one of the most agressive in the nation, mandating that 18% of all retail energy come from renewable and efficient sources by the year 2020. It's the largest state purchaser of green electricity in the nation, and is seemingly coming out of nowhere to soon being the leading producer of biodiesel within the year. Hats off to you, PA!
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