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The mother of a Kiwi bride and a family friend who tried to save her have drowned in Rarotonga, the day before the wedding.
Judith Lorraine Palmer, 62, drowned yesterday while swimming in a lagoon near where she and her husband, Auckland city police chief inspector John Palmer, were staying.
New Zealand police said a close family friend of the couple, Robert Groves, 64, also died while trying to help her.
The families were neighbours from Birkenhead. Their bodies were recovered by locals about an hour after the drownings.
Both couples were in Vaimaanga, Rarotonga, for the Palmers' daughter Vanessa's wedding which was scheduled to happen today. It has since been postponed.
The pair died in an area notorious for drownings and disappearances, the publisher of the Cook Islands News, John Woods says.
The area is currently being hit by southeasters and a 1.9 metre swell, making it even more dangerous.
"It is a turbulent passage in the right conditions," he said.
He believed as many as eight people may have died in the passage in the last decade.
"It is notoriously dangerous, and there are signs there."
With the swell and the tides, a lot of water would have flooded into the lagoon.
"It is a well known dangerous swimming area, and for fishing."
There a no big resorts near the passage, other than the abandoned Sheraton complex.
Woods said Rarotonga would feel the deaths sharply as the couple were on the island for the wedding.
Vanessa Palmer is a high profile triathlete and is the PE teacher at the Tereora College.
"She is a real personality on the island.
"A really great athlete, you see her on the road everyday, and she really shares her knowledge."
Woods said the families were holding a service this afternoon.
Auckland City District Commander, Superintendent Mike Clement, said the double tragedy has hit Chief Inspector Palmer and his wider family hard.
"We are all reeling from the news and can only imagine the magnitude of the devastation John, his family and the Groves family are feeling," Clement said.
"I know personally that the trip to Rarotonga for Vanessa's wedding was to be the highlight of the year for John and Judy and that much planning and anticipation surrounded it.
John and Judy Palmer had been married for 42 years.
Clement said he and Police Commissioner Peter Marshall had spoken with Palmer on several occasions in the past 24 hours to offer support at "this very distressing time".
Commissioner Marshall had also spoken to the Commissioner of the Cook Islands police and and thanked him for the support he was giving to the Chief Inspector and his family, Clement said.
Groves worked at Nuralite Waterproofing systems in Onehunga. His wife, like Judy Palmer, is a registered nurse.
Nuralite said the company learned of his death with sadness.
"Rob was a true gentleman who, over the past 40 years in the waterproofing industry, built a strong reputation based on integrity, practical knowledge and personal service," managing director John Simmons said.
"The fact that he died trying to rescue his neighbour is the ultimate testament to his commitment to helping others."
Simmons said Groves would be sorely missed be everyone at Nuralite along with all those he dealt with.
"Our thoughts are with his wife Denise, and his family and friends, during this distressing time."
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Still, your definition of "shoddy" and everybody else's, aren't the same thing. To some, Robert E. Howards work was shoddy and obscene, others, not at all.
Writing is not something that can be quantified by one man's opinion. To each his own.
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[–]GreatCuemudgeon -2 points-1 points0 points 1 year ago (2 children)
In your opinion...
I am not a writer and therefore, at least when it comes to this subject, cannot suffer from that which you may have a severe case of.
If you cannot grasp the simple logic that not everyone on the planet believes exactly as you do than, the problem is yours not mine.
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[–]GreatCuemudgeon -2 points-1 points0 points 1 year ago (0 children)
Comparing a burnt cupcake to the application and/or absence of the editorial process of a written work is infinitely more moronic than anything I have ever said or would possibly say.
How can you not get that a book, whether it is good or bad, edited or unedited, cannot be judged by you? It is not a difficult concept. To think that you can judge all writing, an overtly abstract and individualized art, is arrogant beyond measure.
You have a nice evening in whatever world you live in that allots you the arrogance to judge the works of others.
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Honestly, Steve Spurrier said, there's a truth in college football that after six decades in the game he fully acknowledges: It's not fair.
After discussing the merits of an early signing period -- "I've never been for that" -- and the tabled 10-second rule -- "If you don't like somebody using the no-huddle offense, you should use a no-huddle defense" -- the head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks was asked what's next for the game.
"I don't know what's next," Spurrier told ESPN earlier this spring. "We talked about not having a common opponent, but the commissioner [Mike Slive] wants Alabama and Tennessee to keep playing each other. ... That's not really fair for LSU or Florida, I don't think, because they're annually two of the best in the conference."
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"There's nothing fair about college football. You know that, don't you?" he asked. "If it was fair, Alabama would have to sit out a year of recruiting. They've had the No. 1 class five out of six years. That's like giving an NFL team the first five picks in the first and second round every year -- almost.
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Spurrier noted how Texas A&M and Auburn both played eight home games last season. Florida, he said, played only six, along with Georgia. South Carolina, meanwhile, hosted seven home games.
He's well aware of Florida's schedule, which includes Florida State as an annual nonconference opponent.
"To me, Florida's got the toughest schedule of any of us," he said. "That's a tough deal for Coach [Will] Muschamp. He can't complain about it and can't say anything about it, but I'll say something: He's got the toughest schedule in the conference with only six home games. They've got Alabama and LSU next year. Did you know that? That's brutal."
It's not fair, Spurrier said, but that's how it fell. South Carolina will get Texas A&M and Auburn from the SEC West, which won't be easy. And that's on top of the annual rivalry game against ACC power Clemson.
Mississippi State, meanwhile, rotates Kentucky and Vanderbilt in from the SEC East. The Bulldogs' big nonconference opponent is Southern Miss, which has won exactly one game in the past two seasons.
"It's not exactly fair by any means," Spurrier said. "But that's the way we've always done it. We can still fill the ballparks and the interest is at an all-time high. We'll worry about that fairness later on.
"In college football, you are whatever your schedule is. Nobody gave a dang last year that Texas A&M, their four out-of-conference games were Texas El Paso, Sam Houston State, SMU and Rice. That was their four out-of-conference games, and I think all four of them were at home. ... They gave up Texas to pick up Sam Houston State, and nobody said a word about that."
Don't worry, South Carolina-Clemson isn't going anywhere. "I would not do it," Spurrier said of even considering taking Clemson off the schedule.
But while we're talking about schedules, who does have it worst? South Carolina's schedule is no cakewalk, but Spurrier might be right that Florida's is a proverbial murderer's row. Here's a look at the three toughest and three easiest schedules in the SEC in 2014:
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- Florida: It's going to be an uphill climb from last year's 4-8 debacle. Florida draws the two toughest crossover games of anyone with Alabama and LSU, and then has to close the regular season on the road at defending national champion Florida State. Mix in games at Tennessee, at a neutral site against Georgia and at home against South Carolina, and the Gators' schedule is just as brutal as Spurrier described.[+] EnlargeSam Greenwood/Getty ImagesWith an annually tough schedule, it's no wonder that Florida coach Will Muschamp typically looks exasperated on the sideline.
- Tennessee: You think someone at Tennessee would have seen Oregon come off the schedule and decided to make things a little easier this season. Nope. As if Butch Jones wasn't getting enough favors with Utah State and Arkansas State, the Vols scheduled Oklahoma. And that's just the first three games of the season.
- Auburn: The way the Tigers start the season with Arkansas and San Jose State at home isn't going to knock your socks off. But playing Kansas State on its home turf isn't something many SEC schools would even consider. If Gus Malzahn hopes to reach the SEC title game again, not only will he have to go through a Louisiana Tech team that won nine games two seasons ago, but he'll also have to face South Carolina, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Georgia and Alabama in the final six weeks of the regular season.
- Vanderbilt: Nonconference games against Temple (4-7), U-Mass (1-11), a new FBS program in Old Dominion and FCS Charleston Southern shouldn't provide the stiffest of competition for a Vanderbilt team looking to rebuild under new coach Derek Mason.
- Alabama: To be fair, the Crimson Tide scheduled West Virginia when things were looking up for the Mountaineers. But after a 4-8 record last year, a neutral-site game in Atlanta should favor Alabama by three touchdowns or more. Mix in nonconference games against Florida Atlantic, Southern Miss and Western Carolina, and it spells a cakewalk. Crossover games against four-win Florida and five-win Tennessee don't appear to be much of a challenge, either.
- Mississippi State: The stars have aligned for coach Dan Mullen as his Bulldogs have three winnable nonconference games (Southern Miss, UAB, South Alabama) before going to LSU. Getting Texas A&M and Auburn at home is a huge boost, as are crossover games against Kentucky and Vanderbilt.
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Escaping ITEX in Florida, the Flock head west, with Max more burdened than ever by the knowledge that she's meant to save the world. But while their leader is keen to stay on the path leading to her destiny, Fang and the others are more interested in settling down and letting the chips fall where they may. With the Erasers eerily absent from their lives of late, has the Flock finally earned a bit of peace...or is this all just the calm before the storm?
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WCVB-TV 5 News Report "For Some Cleaners, Wet is the New Dry" |
11/20/07--Jason Marshall of the TURI Laboratory was interviewed for this WCVB-TV Channel 5 news report on dry cleaners replacing perchloroethylene with wet cleaning. URL: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/environmental/14650199/detail.html |
WBZ-TV 4 News Report "Chemicals Prompt Concern about Mattress Standard" |
11/08/07 Deputy Director of TURI Liz Harriman was interviewed by WBZ TV 4 about the Consumer Product Safety Commission's new regulations that require more chemical additives to mattresses. URL: http://wbztv.com/specialreports/local_story_312161349.html |
WBZ TV-4 News Report "Dangerous Lead in Household Items Deserves Warning" |
9/12/07 WBZ TV report about lead in household products includes comments from TURI Deputy Director Liz Harriman. URL: http://wbztv.com/consumer/local_story_255211439.html |
UML bestows grants to eco-minded organizations |
9/2/07 Lowell Sun article about TURI's 2008 Community Grant Recipients URL: http://www.uml.edu/Media/News%20Articles/UML_bestows_grants_t.html |
Pb-free PTH Rework on a Thick, Heavy Assembly |
August 2007 Cover Story in Circuits Assembly magazine about the New England Lead Free Consortium's rework on lead-free boards with minimal copper dissolution. URL: http://circuitsassembly.com/cms/content/view/5201/95/ |
UMass Lowell Helps Tech Firms Get the Lead Out |
7/27/07 article in Mass High Tech about the New England Lead Free Consortium work, including quotes from Greg Morose, TURI project manager. URL: http://www.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2007/07/30/story12.html |
Go green, make green |
6/6/07 article in the Worcester Business Journal about Pam Civie of TURI presenting at a symposium. URL: http://wbjournal.com/j/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1852&Itemid=129 |
Watertown auto shops receive grants to go "greener" |
11/16/06 article in the Boston Globe about TURI awarding the Town of Watertown a community grant. URL: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/west/2006/11/auto_shops_rece.html |
Upcoming Boston Lead-Free Conference |
May 24th article in Surface Mount Technology magazine, Greg Morose of TURI is the keynote speaker at SMTA's "Successful Lead-free/RoHS Strategies" conference, June 20–21 in Boxborough, Mass. URL: http://smt.pennnet.com/display_article/293601/35/ARTCL/none/HMST/Upcoming-Boston-Lead-free-Conference/&reason=0 |
Toxics Use Reduction Institute offers database of green cleaning products. |
10/6/06 article in Facilities Management News about the TURI cleaner solutions database. URL: http://www.fmlink.com/News/Articles/news.cgi?catid=1008&display=article&id=21757 |
TURI Seeks to Help Firms Find Chemical Alternatives |
3/21/07 article in the Lowell Sun about how TURI can help companies and community groups reduce toxic use. URL: http://www.uml.edu/Media/News%20Articles/TURI_seeks_to_help_f.html |
Proposal to ease EPA role at Issue |
1/5/06 article in Boston Globe. TURI Deputy Director Liz Harriman is quoted. URL: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/01/05/proposal_to_ease_epa_rule_at_issue/ |
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Forever linked to a famous World War II battle, the El Alamein coast is not a widely acclaimed tourist spot, despite developers' huge expectations for this Mediterranean district.
White sand, golden sun, turquoise water, azure sky - a kaleidoscope that has attracted billion-dollar investment in tourism along northern Egypt's El Alamein coast. And that's American dollars, not the local currency.
Economic woes, political unrest, crazy management, language difficulties - no wonder some developers had their fingers burned.
New resort hotels and apartment blocks line the highway beside the Mediterranean for much of the 20 kilometres from El Alamein to Sidi Abdel Rahman. They are not all pretty and not all finished. Some look as if construction has stalled.
An Egyptian driver tells me that the number of European tourists and wealthy Cairo businessmen making a getaway to these warm waters - and the gentle breezes that moderate heat - have slumped by 15 per cent. But that may be partly because summer has gone and the night air is getting chilly.
Building goes on in some places. Five or six men fussing over some small task that one worker would do in New Zealand is a common sight. Egyptian unemployment is mopped up by mass over-hiring of labour. Maybe it's not a bad thing. I see no beggars and am struck by the health and happy smiles of the ordinary people.
The company building a luxury yachting marina at Marassi claims to have 6500 workers on the project.
Entries to all sorts of premises have barrier arms tended by several men. They sit in their little boxes waiting for cars and buses to come along, then emerge to look the arrivals over before raising the barrier. They then they lower the barrier and return to their hutch for the next long wait.
Service at our Marassi hotel is similar. Try to pick up your bag, and half a dozen staff descend on you. Raise your hand for service at table and two or three waiters vie for the work. However, if they don't understand what you want, even though you say clearly "milk", and repeat it several times, and mime pouring it into your coffee, they reply "OK" and scuttle off - never to be seen again.
We nickname the head barman Basil Fawlty. Muslim countries frown on alcohol consumption, but Basil positively prohibits it. It takes a bunch of determined New Zealanders to break his embargo.
Basil's main tactic is delay. His response to every request is "One minute". It means nothing, as the length of his delays in serving ranges from five to 25 minutes. It is probably the only English phrase he knows.
Many a visitor would give up but we Kiwis, ever patient and good-humoured, devise a contest to see who can achieve the longest wait to receive their order. I fail miserably with a single-figure score. But we all get our drinks - eventually.
I offer to buy a colleague a drink, and he asks for a whisky. A bottle of Johnny Walker Red Label stands on the bar, with four other spirits bottles. The following monologue is punctuated with Basil's responses:
"A whisky, please." He scans the bottle labels for 30 seconds to discern which one is whisky.
"It's the red one, the Johnny Walker." Another half-minute spent absorbing this helpful hint.
"The one in the middle." He picks up the bottle.
"That's right, that's the one." He holds it up and examines the label for another minute.
"Yes please, that one." He unscrews the lid, takes a full-sized beer glass and pours the whisky in, almost to the brim.
That last utterance is me quaking at the expected cost. Imagine my relief when he charges the same as for a glass of beer, about 40 Egyptian pounds (NZ$8).
The Marassi hotel has magnificent landscaping and a glorious beach, good food and reasonable rates (rooms from about NZ$120 to $350). Units open onto small lawns which lead to white sand. Past an endless row of deckchairs and sun umbrellas the Mediterranean rolls gently in.
Not a swimmer myself, I let others enjoy a warm soak while I gaze at ships on the horizon. They have left the Suez Canal a few hours before and are heading for European ports.
If you are not a beach loafer, you need to be interested in war to enjoy El Alamein. The post-war town, 15km east of our hotel, offers two attractions: the Commonwealth War Cemetery and a military museum. There is also the former railway station, filthy and decrepit but significant because it was the only building there when New Zealand and other Commonwealth soldiers tackled the German and Italian armies in the epic battles of 1942 that swung the African Campaign in the Allies' favour. German and Italian war memorials are a few minutes down the highway.
Look at the surrounding desert, flat and featureless, and you wonder why they were fighting over it. But of course they weren't. The "Alamein line" was a strategic location for stopping the Axis forces advancing on the Suez Canal and gaining access to Middle East oil fields.
When it is time to leave, our bus takes us 30km (50km actually, because the driver gets lost and we have to double back) to El Alamein International Airport. A grandiose name for a semi-derelict 1980s complex that looks as if it was dumped in the heart of the desert and forgotten. It looms out of the sand like a mirage, or a ghost of history. Outside the terminal stand, three abandoned DC10s, their tyres flat, windows smashed, fuselages smeared with graffiti. However, the airport is functional. It opens when charter airlines arrange to land there. It would seem not often.
I recommend a visit to El Alamein, but better to land at Alexandria and make the one-hour drive down the coastal highway by rental car.
Mike Crean, senior feature writer for The Press, visited Egypt with World War II servicemen attending last month's 70th anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein.
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When Houston "Butch" Beswick and Carol Crain went to sleep late Sunday night or early Monday, Jan. 16, it's a good bet they didn't think it would last forever.
Early that morning, neighbors sounded the alarm that Beswick's home was on fire. When firefighters arrived, the home was "fully involved." All the highly trained volunteers could do was keep the flames from spreading to other properties.
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Conflicts, conflicts everywhere The real conflict of interest in the Radcliff City Council is Pastor Edward Palmer who ran for council without telling voters he is a local church pastor and should have recused himself from the "alcohol" discussions based on his own agenda to impede all progress on alcohol-related issues. It is surprising to me the title of reverend or pastor has not been attached to Palmer in any of the articles I have read in this paper. This is why our forefathers chose to separate the church from the state.
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Drunken or conflicted in Radcliff I'm not quite sure which of these characterize some of the Radcliff City Council members but they themselves should consider this and decide.


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US 7202582 B2 Abstract An electric machine includes a stator having a plurality of slots and a winding system having windings placed in the slots. The windings of the winding system are interconnected by at least one flexible circuit board which is constructed for attachment to a radial surface area of the stator and for connection to the windings.
Claims(12) 1. An electric machine, comprising:
a stator having a plurality of slots;
a winding system having windings placed in the slots; and
at least one flexible circuit board having printed pathways for connecting the windings of the winding system with one another, said circuit board being constructed for attachment to a radial surface area of the stator and for connection to the windings, said circuit board having a contact assembly connected to the windings for supply of electric energy to individual current phases via respective lead wires of each phase winding.
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Description This application claims the priority of European Patent Application, Serial No. 04005467.8, filed Mar. 8, 2004, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 119(a)–(d), the subject matter of which is hereby incorporated by reference. The present invention relates, in general, to an electric machine, and more particularly to a device for connecting winding leads of a winding system of an electric machine. Nothing in the following discussion of the state of the art is to be construed as an admission of prior art. Electric machines typically include a stator in the form of a stator core of stacked laminations. The stator core can have a star-shaped configuration and has slots for placement of at least one winding system constructed through tooth coil technology or exciter coil technology, involving a plurality of coil bobbins placed in the radial slots of the stator core, with each of the coil bobbins including an exciter coil winding of the winding system. To connect the individual coil windings, a circuit board is attached to an end surface of the end winding of the stator. Such a construction is disclosed in German patent publication no. DE 19 303 59. Depending on the type of winding system used, the circuit board is formed with feedthroughs for passage of the winding leads of the coil windings and their subsequent soldering to the circuit board. The arrangement of the circuit board to the end surface of the stator suffers many shortcomings. The axial dimension of the electric machine is enlarged. Due to the circular configuration and the typical limitation of the diameter of the circuit board when attached to the radial dimension of the stator, the layout of the printed circuit wirings on the circuit board becomes progressively more complex, when the number of coil windings increases. Moreover, as the winding leads cannot be easily fixed in axial direction, the assembly of the electric machine becomes even more complicated and expensive. It would therefore be desirable and advantageous to provide an improved electric machine to obviate prior art shortcomings and to allow simple and space-saving wiring of the winding system. According to one aspect of the present invention, an electric machine includes a stator having a plurality of slots, a winding system having windings placed in the slots, and at least one flexible circuit board for connecting the windings of the winding system, wherein the circuit board is constructed for attachment to a radial surface area of the stator and for connection to the windings. The present invention resolves prior art problems by mounting the circuit board to any one of the radial surface areas of the stator, such as the outer radial surface area or inner radial surface area of the stator core, or the outer radial surface or inner radial surface area of those parts of the coil bobbin of the stator that jut out beyond the stator core. As a consequence, the electric machine is compact and has overall minimum dimensions. According to another feature of the present invention, the circuit board may have plural feedthroughs for passage of winding leads which jut out radially from the winding system and are adapted for soldering to the feedthroughs. The term "winding lead" relates hereby to the respective ends of a winding, i.e. the beginning of a winding or the end of a winding. As a result of this construction, the windings can easily be interconnected, thereby further simplifying the assembly of the electric machine. In other words, the flexible circuit board can be mounted in a most simple manner to any one of the radial surface areas because the radially projecting winding leads can easily be routed through the feedthroughs, when the flexible circuit board is wrapped about the surface area. The winding leads can then be soldered to the circuit board in any suitable manner known to the artisan so as to interconnect the various coil windings of the winding system. As an alternative, or in addition to the feedthroughs, it is also possible to provide the circuit board with plural soldering points for soldering the winding leads which jut out radially from the winding system. Thus, especially after attachment of the circuit board, the winding leads can be bent and appropriately placed upon the soldering points for subsequent soldering thereto. This approach also contributes to a space-saving construction of the electric machine according to the invention. According to another feature of the present invention, the circuit board may be constructed in the form of a multi-layer circuit board. This construction is suitable in particular when the electric machine is of small size while having many coil windings and thus many connections for the winding leads. The multi-layer circuit board allows interconnection of the windings of the winding system across several adjacent layers so that minimum space is used. According to another feature of the present invention, a layer of electrically insulating material may be placed between the radial surface area of the stator and the circuit board, to provide electric insulation. In other words, the electrically insulating material may be disposed between the winding, the coil bobbins or the stator core, on one hand, and the circuit board, on the other hand. The layer of electrically insulating material may be configured in the form of a film. Another such layer may also be provided between the housing of the electric machine and the circuit board. Other features and advantages of the present invention will be more readily apparent upon reading the following description of currently preferred exemplified embodiments of the invention with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which: Throughout all the Figures, same or corresponding elements are generally indicated by same reference numerals. These depicted embodiments are to be understood as illustrative of the invention and not as limiting in any way. It should also be understood that the drawings are not necessarily to scale and that the embodiments are sometimes illustrated by graphic symbols, phantom lines, diagrammatic representations and fragmentary views. In certain instances, details which are not necessary for an understanding of the present invention or which render other details difficult to perceive may have been omitted. Turning now to the drawing, and in particular to In accordance with the present invention, the interconnection of the windings leads 5, 6 is realized using a flexible circuit board 7 which is attached to one of the radial surface areas of the stator 1. A surface area is hereby defined by the inner or outer dimensions of the stator core 1 a or by the inner or outer dimensions of parts of the radial coil bobbins 2 which jut out. As shown by way of example in The circuit board 7, shown here about the outer surface area of the stator core 1 a upon the projecting parts, includes a plurality of feedthroughs 71 which are so disposed that the winding leads 5, 6, radially projecting out from the coil windings 4 of the winding system, can be routed through the feedthroughs 71, when the circuit board 7 is attached. As the winding leads 5, 6 can be precisely positioned in radial direction through radial slits in the coil bobbins 2, the circuit board 7 can be easily rolled over the surface area of the stator core 1 a during assembly of the electric machine. Thus, the assembly can be executed in a substantially fully automated fashion. As the circuit board 7 can be directly attached to one of the surface areas of the stator core 1 a, there is no need for an additional device for mechanically securing the circuit board 7 in the electric machine. In addition, strain based on shaking, impact or temperature can be minimized. The flexible circuit board 7 has typically a configuration that corresponds to the shape of the stator 1, i.e. a rectangular configuration. The whole area of the circuit board 7 is thus available for printing the necessary electrically conductive pathways. In the event, the implementation of a simple wiring of the printed pathways in the absence of crossovers is not possible or too complicated to achieve on one layer of the circuit board 7, it is, of course, possible to use a multi-layer circuit board 7 that has several adjacent layers. As shown in While the invention has been illustrated and described in connection with currently preferred embodiments shown and described in detail, it is not intended to be limited to the details shown since various modifications and structural changes may be made without departing in any way from the spirit of the present invention. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and practical application to thereby enable a person skilled in the art to best utilize the invention and various embodiments with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated. For example, it is, of course, within the scope of the present invention to provide the circuit board 7, instead or in addition to the feedthroughs 71, with soldering points (not shown in detail) for contributing to a space-saving construction of the electric machine. In this case, after the circuit board 7 has been attached to the surface area of the stator core 1 a, the winding leads 5, 6 are bent about the circuit board 7 and then soldered to the respective soldering points. Depending on the complexity of the winding system and the space available for the circuit board 7, the application of a correspondingly complex flexible multi-layer circuit board of more than two layers, is, of course, also conceivable. The winding leads 5, 6 are hereby connected to the circuit board 7 in a same manner, as described above. The single layers of the circuit board are connected to one another by suitable through-contacts so as to establish a three-dimensional circuit pattern of the multi-layer circuit board. Patent Citations
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Athens, GA (SportsNetwork.com) - Rod Odom notched a double-double with 16 points and 12 rebounds for the Vanderbilt Commodores as they topped the Georgia Bulldogs, 59-54, in SEC play at Stegeman Coliseum.
Dai-Jon Parker netted 15 points for the Commodores (11-8, 3-4 SEC), who have won back-to-back games. Kyle Fuller contributed 13 points for the visitors.
Charles Mann poured in a game-high 20 points for the Bulldogs (10-9, 4-3), who have dropped two straight contests. Brandon Morris added 12 points.
The Bulldogs struggled mightily in the opening half, hitting just 5-of-25 from the field (.200), including a miserable 1-of-12 from 3-point range. The Commodores were not much better at 34.8 percent from the field, but it was good enough for a 27-21 halftime lead.
Both teams improved slightly in the second half, with the Commodores shooting 43.8 percent from the field to their opponent's 33.3 percent. On the heels of a 16-of-23 showing at the free-throw line, Vandy held onto the lead for the entire half, going up by as many as 10 points on two occasions.
Georgia perhaps relied too heavily on the perimeter game and only sank 4-of-23 from beyond the arc in the loss.
Southeastern Louisiana won't have to wait next season in its pursuit of a third straight Southland Conference football title.
Bill Elliott, a former Sprint Cup Series champion, and Wendell Scott, the first African-American to win a race in NASCAR's premier racing circuit, were among the sixth five-member class inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Friday night.
It didn't take Nostradamus to predict what was going to happen Friday when Roger Goodell finally met the media for his annual state of the league address two days prior to Super Bowl XLIX.
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"All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
"Brought peace?"
"Oh, peace! Pfft … SHUT UP!!!"
— Monty Python's Life of Brian
I'll begin with a hypothetical. Let's say there's a restaurant in your neighborhood that was never really very good. And at times it was awful. As in, "How are they still in business?" and, "Why hasn't the Board of Health shut them down yet?" caliber awful. So bad in fact, at one point the place was rumored to be shutting down and moving operations out of state. And frankly, not too many people were shedding a tear over it because the whole block they were on was a blight upon the neighborhood.
Now let's say one loyal customer decides, over his wife's objections, to buy the place. He even pledges to turn it into a five-star restaurant and is summarily laughed at coast-to-coast. Early on, things look dicey. He gets into a fight with his award-winning chef over who should pick out the groceries and the guy quits on him. So the owner brings in another chef who is in over his head and gets fired after three bad years.
So the owner brings in an old assistant chef to run the place. And soon this new guy turns the place around. He's such a success he's being compared to the all time great chefs like Escoffier or Boyardee. And suddenly that little failed restaurant is in the Michelin Guide as one of the greatest dining experiences ever. Soon the owner is doing well enough that he tears down the old place and puts up his own money to build a new, state-of-the-art restaurant in its place. And then, in the middle of a crippling recession, let's say he gets all sorts of retail shops to move into the block from hotels and bars to places to buy shower curtains and places to buy hunting rifles and puts hundreds of people to work in the process.
You'd think that a man like that and the restaurant he owns would get a pretty good treatment in the press. That he'd be hailed as a visionary. A bold leader in the community. An unquestionable success story and someone to be admired.
You'd think that, and you'd be right in any other instance. But with respect to this metaphor, change the restaurant to the Patriots, the owner to Robert Kraft, the chef to Bill Belichick and the press to the miserable, angry, bitter, grudge-holding, misanthropic troglodytes who make up the Boston football media, and what you get is exactly the opposite.
Almost from the moment the Kraft family bought the team, a majority of the Boston press has staked out the contrarian, antagonistic low ground against the ownership. Bill Parcells left town not because that's what he does every three years or so, but because the owner's own massive ego forced him out. Kraft turned his back on a deal with Hartford that would've been a license to print money for him, not because he wanted to keep the team in Foxboro, but out of some sort of reverse greed no one could ever clarify. He brought Belichick in out of misplaced loyalty, not because he saw in him the brilliance and demeanor to be one of the successful coaches ever.
And as for Belichick? He's a dour, sullen, paranoid little troll. He's Dick Nixon in a gray hoodie. Worse, he's a cold, heartless taskmaster, incapable of feeling human emotions or understanding the suffering of his minions. Belichick is a taskmaster, cracking his whip while those in his servitude build the Patriots Place pyramids to the glorification Pharaoh Kraft.
OK, I exaggerate. But only slightly. I've been following the Boston sports scene since I was in the womb, and in my life I've never seen the level of vengeful animosity I've seen toward the Patriots during this era of unprecedented success they're on. And I've spend the last several years being lucky enough to chronicle the anti-Patriot jihad on Barstool Sports, and honestly I can't make any more sense out of it now than I ever have.
Take, for example, contract issues. It happens in all sports where a player and management have differing opinions on how much a player is worth. It's the nature of the beast. And if you go back through your mental rolodex of high-profile contentious contract talks, invariably the player gets accused of 1) being greedy, 2) having an overinflated sense of self worth or 3) both. Yaz, John Hannah, rookie Larry Bird, Clemens, Pedro, Manny, and more recently, Rajon Rondo. Or does anyone care to recall Will McDonough calling Mo Vaughn "Mo Money"?
But when has the current Patriots management ever had a holdout where almost across the board the Boston media didn't skewer the team for being the greedheads in the deal? Law, Branch, Samuel, Seymour, Wilfork and a host of others were portrayed as victims of the Patriots' ruthless penny-pinching.
Never mind that the NFL has a real, bone fide salary cap, unlike the NBA's pretend, joke shop cap. Or that the way the Pats distribute money among the 53-man roster is the same system that built a dynasty. According to the pundits, players are the poor, overworked, underpaid Spongebobs to Kraft's miserly Mr. Krabs.
But the negativity from the Boston press goes beyond mere accusations of cheapness into an almost criminal charge of inciting panic. Or at the very least, disturbing the peace. Take the Tom Brady contract talks. Brady is entering his final year and would like to get an extension. Kraft says he wants to get a deal done. There's uncertainty with the labor situation, but both sides reportedly are working on it, rather than talking about it in public. Sounds reasonable, right?
But not in this town. The media has been in lockdown for months on this. Full-on, five-alarm panic mode where we're reading Brady's body language and parsing every non-answer that comes out of his mouth and hearing reports about a "disconnect." When he spoke at practice the other day and refused to give any details of the talks, a writer on the — ahem — "other" sports station in town called his evasiveness "telling." In fact, his answers were the thesaurus antonym of "telling," but what they told this writer that Brady is cheesed off and hates the team, his bosses and this whole lousy franchise. Of course I'd like to point out … and believe me I have … that the Brady-Pats situation is EXACTLY the same as the Peyton Manning-Colts situation. The only difference is Pay-me-a-ton and the Colts are both media darlings, but with the Pats, the press has never found a worst-case scenario they couldn't make worse, so personal is their vendetta against the team.
You want another example? I've got a million of them. Consider the case last year of Adalius Thomas. When he and the rest of the Tardy Boys were sent home for being late to team meetings, it seemed like low-hanging fruit for cantankerous old sportswriters who love nothing more than saying what lazy, pampered sissies ath-a-letes are nowadays. In fact, it was more than low-hanging fruit; it was a veritable fruit salad, all cut up and melon-balled in a nice dish with a sprig of mint on top. So naturally, they responded by attacking … Bill Belichick.
When Thomas popped off, claiming he was stuck in traffic and saying, "This isn't the Jetsons," most of the Pats press portrayed him not as a selfish, underachieving malcontent, but as the leader in a player uprising against The Man like he was Spartacus. The coach had been mean and disrespectful to him — even benching him for no good reason earlier in the year — and Thomas had had all he could take of this degradation. Notwithstanding that the game Thomas sat out was a 59-10 win. Or that the other coaches and players made it on time, including the superstar quarterback who left his wife and newborn to make it on time. No, George Jetson spoke out against Belichick, and for that he was a hero. (Note: As I'm writing this, he still hasn't hooked on with another ballclub.)
But it's been like this throughout this unprecedented run. Belichick was wrong to draft Richard Seymour. Wrong to bench Bledsoe. Wrong to trade Bledsoe within the division. Wrong to cut Lawyer Milloy. Wrong to bring in a "troublemaker" like Randy Moss. Even during the stunning success of the 2007 season they weren't happy. Spygate. Running Up the Scoregate. All the little Postgame Handshakegates. It got so bad that the Herald ran a fictitious anti-Patriot story on its front page the day before the Super Bowl. And after that gut-wrenching, for-the-ages loss, basically filled a hot tub with the Pats' salty tears and threw an industry party in there.
And this year? The take is that they're a team on the decline. That dynasty they denied ever existed is finished. Kraft's Ocean State Job Lot discount ways and The Hooded One's arrogance have finally caught up with them. There's a new power in the AFC East and the Pats are the odds-on pick to finish third. "The window is closing" on Brady's career. They've drafted poorly. There's a leadership void. And on and on. If the Boston football writers were covering China in the 1400s, they would've said "The Yongle Emperor is crazy if he thinks expanding trade routes to the West is going to work. The Ming Dynasty is over."
This is the part where the anti-Patriots jihadists call me a footsie pajama-wearing Kool-Aid-drinking suck up, which they did on the other station before I came to WEEI. But it's a label I wear proudly. Do I think the team is above criticism? Hell, no. All I or any other pro-Patriots fan looks for is a little balance in the coverage, not some personal vendetta because you don't like the way Belichick issues injury reports.
Last year I watched the team I grew up following — which was the laughingstocks in all of pro sports — go overseas and be received in Europe as THE iconic franchise of the NFL. Call me a rumpswab, call me a fan, but I think that's worth something worthy of some praise. And I don't think I as a fan should have to look beyond the Boston football press to hear a little of it. Bon appetit, Patriots.
The guys discuss their gut feelings as the game rapidly approaches and what they expect to happen today in Arizona.
Jerry Brewer joins the boys on radio row to talk about the journey this season for Seattle to come all the way back to the Super Bowl. He discusses the legacy of Pete Carroll, Russell Wilson as he looks to win his second championship in his young career, how they'll look to use Lynch and if the Seahawks can stop Gronk. He talks about what it's like to cover a very confident team like Seattle and more!
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Jim and Pete talk about the final football game of the 2014 season. It's the Patriots and the Seahawks, and there's still fantasy football to be played!
Chris and comedian Mike Mulloy recap the final Raw before the Rumble and preview the Rumble itself.
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Based on the success of SDE's annual Administrator Summit in Las Vegas, this one-day, high-intensity Summit brings together an all-star team of educational thought leaders to help K-12 superintendents, principals, assistant principals, and other administrators meet the most pressing challenges they face—right now.
As Rethinking Schools began to explore the school-to-prison pipeline, we searched for a construct that would help us understand how the criminalization of youth fits into the larger social picture.
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Largely invisible to the public, these workers help create a climate in which students feel supported but also accountable.
After Illinois lawmakers rejected a plan for Chicago Public Schools to delay pension payments, the District's budget problems may have gone from bad to worse.
Stronger-than-expected tax collections have left the state with an extra $300 million that could even grow before the fiscal period closes June 30. That is allowing the state to fully replenish its reserves and pay down money it still owes local school districts.
The Tulsa school board on Monday approved a series of facility-repurposing proposals and boundary changes for 2013-14, including the creation of a McLain seventh-grade center and a centralized enrollment center.
The Richmond School Board voted 5-4 Monday night to close Clark Springs Elementary School, the Adult Career Development Center and the Norrell pre-school center.
Results were mixed at campuses throughout the school district as principals completed the first round of teacher evaluations under a new system that ties pay raises to the ratings.
Only about one in four students in many of the public schools' top tech programs is a girl, a statistic that mirrors women's participation in tech jobs nationwide.
A Georgia grand jury has charged former Baltimore schools information technology chief Jerome Oberlton with seven counts of fraud and other charges related to his tenure with Atlanta Public Schools, during which he and a co-conspirator allegedly took $60,000 in kickbacks and Oberlton's private IT companies took bribes for awarding $700,000 to a contractor.