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I noticed a slight difference in the way men behaved toward me but it didn't help attract any guys to approach me. They just stared.
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Works okay on its own, but combined with other products works great! (Posted on 10/9/2015)
Probably most pleasant smelling pheromone Review by Maria
I haven't tried many pheromone products, mostly the ones that came in a sample pack. Of the ones I've tried, I remember liking the scent of this one the most, it's unusually comforting. It's not musky, but it definitely has a distinct chemical scent. My boyfriend who seems immune to all the other pheromones I've tried had a positive reaction to this. The trouble is the price, especially for the full size, but I guess if I think of it as buying an expensive brand perfume it might not be too bad? (Posted on 9/14/2015)
works too well ;-) Review by Monique
This stuff works amazingly i used it as a pick me up to get hubby feeling frisky, now 15 months later we have baby boy #2 who is 6 months old!..... (Posted on 3/29/2015)
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This product has changed my life for ever. I am so much more positive and confident with it. Highly recommend for anxiety ridden females (Posted on 11/20/2014)
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I am very disappointed with this prodoct. The vial sample is smaller than any in store perfume sample and on top of that is only full half way So you only get to try it once and..... IT DOENT WORK. Not woth the 19.00 plus postage for a total of 28.00. This is a complete rip off. Inshould get my money back (Posted on 6/16/2014)
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Love this stuff. Bought a sample and only used it on special occasions. Every time I wore it my boyfriend couldnt keep his hands off me. Sadly I broke the top of my bottle and spilled. But I will definitely get some more (Posted on 6/3/2014)
Review by Jaana
I remember having tested this before and liking it never got round to ordering a full bottle though.
As it says its a new formula I decided to try it again. I just received a sample pack where unfortunately something had leaked and two of the sachets appear to be empty havent opened it yet and everything is covered in gel so not quite sure which scent is which...
However the Pheromax vial is intact and while I obviously havent worn it outside yet I quite like the scent. I dont know if theyve changed it or not but if memory serves my first trial bottle didnt have any detectable scent to it at all while this one does. Maybe its just my sense of smell thats changed. In any case it does have a rather mild unmistakable copulin scent but as soon as I apply it on my skin it turns into a very pleasant light sweet flowery scent not masculine at all as some other reviewers have found it to be.
Im looking forward to some field testing (Posted on 2/13/2014)
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I really liked this one.
The scent is hard to explain. Definitely not overpowering its quite crisp and fresh a bit like cologne and almost a tad masculine but it is a background note as long as you use it sparingly.
Any time I have worn this I have divided one drop between my two wrists then dabbed one drop in my cleavage. Now and then I also split one drop between three points behind my ears and on the nape of my neck if I feel like having my man kissing my neck all evening lol
I then add a little of a regular perfume to cover the more masculine edge of the Pheromax.
Results are really good so far my partner seems to enjoy it and his teenage son gets flustered if hes standing close enough to scent it. I havent noticed much reaction from strangers on the street though.
Reordering now to continue the field testing. (Posted on 8/25/2013)
Review by Natalya
Looks like most of reviews are fake and written by same person this why I decided to write my review. It does work I wish wasnt so expensive. I use for my husband his attitude changes in minutes. (Posted on 8/1/2013)
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My only problem with this is it may be TOO strong. I wore it to a music festival and had guys coming up to me wanting to talk while I was trying to listen to the bands and then a couple of them were totally tongue tied, just followed me around. If I'm ever wanting to blitz every man in the vacinity I'll use it again but at this rate 1ml will probably last me forever! (Posted on 9/12/2010)


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Thinking about History
The study of history comes alive and is more engaging and meaningful for students when they are learning how to think like an historian and when they are actually doing history. The resources assembled on this page are dedicated to helping elementary and secondary teachers support their students to think historically and to engage in the work of historians by doing historical inquiry projects.
Teaching historical thinking
Building on the work of Professor Peter Seixas of the University of British Columbia, TC² has developed exemplary print and digital resources to support teachers and students in using six concepts to go beyond merely learning historical information to thinking deeply about history. This framework for historical thinking is developed and supported with practical teaching ideas in two print publications, and further supported with a wide array of digital materials and videos.
Teaching about Historical Thinking
This print resource elaborates on the six interrelated concepts central to students' ability to think about history. It offers specific suggestions for introducing the concepts to students and for applying them throughout the history curriculum.
Exemplars in Historical Thinking: 20th Century Canada
This print resource contains teaching instructions, reproducible activity sheets and assessment support addressing a range of events and people in 20th century Canada. The nine critical challenges build upon the six concepts of historical thinking.
The following online resources supplement the print publication, Teaching about Historical Thinking. Some of these resources are available to all teachers; others are available only to those who have purchased this publication. For these protected resources, enter the activation code included in the TC² purchase. For questions about access, please contact us.
Videos with accompanying lesson plans
The following videos, with accompanying lesson plans targeted to varying grade ranges, introduce the historical thinking concepts to students.
Thinking historically reference guide
This six-page reference guide identifies freely available video, print and online resources that explain historical thinking, suggest how to teach it and offer sources of historical documents and images on topics in Canadian history. Also indicated at the end of this guide are exemplary resources available for purchase.
Doing history
Students bring history to life and become the leaders of their own learning by doing history, particularly through rich, hands-on project-based inquiry. With the following resources, educators can support students to research their own inquiry, take intellectual risks and learn curricular content by constructing meaning rather than absorbing facts.
Using heritage fairs to support historical inquiry
Heritage fairs provide an excellent opportunity for project-based historical learning. Students research their own inquiry questions and use the media of their choice to present the results at a public exhibition. Heritage fair participation is an engaging way to teach social studies curricula, strengthen student understanding of their Canadian heritage and nurture qualities of engaged citizenship. The previous resources on this page enhance the heritage fair experience. In addition, the following resources developed in partnership with the BC Heritage Fairs Society provide additional practical information.
Seven Steps to a Powerful Heritage Fair Project
This online guide, developed by the BC Heritage Fairs Society in partnership with TC², helps teachers support students with their heritage fair projects. It offers suggestions for how to help students choose and refine a topic of personal and historical significance, dig deeply and critically into that topic, connect their findings with broader themes, social issues and "Big Ideas" in the curriculum and creatively share their conclusions in a public forum.
Tools to support historical inquiry
Use the following tools to help students develop a more in-depth understanding of the techniques of effective historical research and inquiry. These resources, useful at both the elementary and secondary levels, include six PowerPoint lessons with accompanying teacher notes, detailed instructions and relevant activity sheets.
Research questions
Preparing effective questions to guide research
Impact timeline
Visually demonstrating the sequence and span of related events and showing the impact of these events
Reading around the document
Identifying clues around the 'edges' of a historical document to learn about its author, audience, origin, purpose and type
Interviewing techniques
Using strategies to prepare and conduct interviews
Relevant details
Distinguishing between important and unimportant for a specific research question and purpose
Connecting facts to conclusions
Writing well-structured paragraphs that organize facts and indicate how they support the overall conclusion
Resonating voice
Using verbal communication strategies to connect with an audience
Enriching projects with historical thinking concepts
This "Tips for Teachers" document outlines the value of embedding historical thinking concepts in projects, and how specific concepts help guide more rigorous historical inquiry. Sample questions from actual heritage fair projects are provided to illustrate how each of the six historical thinking concepts can be embedded.
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ARLINGTON, Texas -- As Ian Kinsler goes, so goes the Texas Rangers offense.
It seems simple, and frankly, it is. Sure, that can be said for nearly every leadoff hitter in baseball, but when it comes to Kinsler and the Rangers, it's different.
Texas slugged its way to a 15-9 win against the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday night that meant a series split after the thrilling 11-10 comeback victory Wednesday. It was quite the coming out party for an offense that had been dismal for nearly two months.
"We kind of found ourselves as a team halfway through the game (Wednesday)," David Murphy said. "The team that stepped on the field (Wednesday) is a completely different team than the one that's leaving here (Thursday). Our offense is definitely back."
The Rangers combined to score 26 runs in the last two games after averaging just 3.52 runs per game in July. So, yes, the Texas offense is back. So what has been the difference?
The dynamic leadoff man was just 22-for-90 (.244) with three doubles, two home runs, seven RBIs and 10 runs scored during July. In these first two games of August that has seen a Rangers offensive explosion, Kinsler is 6-for-11 (.545) with a double, two home runs, four RBIs and six runs scored.
"That's what a leadoff man does," Murphy said. "He's a spark plug at the top of the lineup. When he is getting on base, he gets the ball rolling. It's always more fun to hit with guys on base. It's infectious for the rest of the team when Kinsler is getting on."
Kinsler admitted he notices that when he contributes the Rangers usually come out victorious and that when he doesn't, it's harder for the club to come out on top.
"I definitely notice," he said. "I try to get things going the best I can. The last couple of games, we've been scoring a lot of runs early and it's given ourselves a chance to run and get things going. It's been nice."
After the Rangers' emotional roller coaster win Wednesday, the Angels came out and put up two runs in the first inning Thursday to try to get some of that momentum they had built in the first two games of the series back. But Kinsler quickly set the tone for the Rangers offense by belting a home run in the bottom half of the first.
"That's the nature of having a leadoff guy who can generate the offense and be a catalyst," Michael Young said. "You want a guy that can provide some energy and the rest of the guys can feed of off it."
And boy, did they.
The Rangers were locked and loaded at the plate from the start. Ten of the 11 Rangers hitters that had an at-bat recorded a hit, and seven had at least two hits for the night. The Rangers struggled mightily for the better part of the summer to capitalize with runners in scoring position. On Thursday, they were 11-for-13.
"I think (Thursday) was very typical Rangers baseball," Kinsler said. "We scored as many runs as we needed to win the game. I think that was important. I think (Wednesday) was a huge night for us with just the way we battled, and it gave us huge energy. I think (Thursday) was the way Rangers baseball is drawn up."


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Ted's Sweet & Sour Sauce for Pork, Chicken Etc
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 10 mins
Nearly all the sweet & sour sauces here on RecipeZaar have pineapple in them - this one doesn't . It is just a perfect combo of sweet/sour flavor. Do your pork, chicken what ever meat you prefer pan browned or deep fried then pour this sauce over and serve immediately. If you are not deep frying the meat coat with a bit of corn starch and crisp fry it until done. I like 1" cubes for the meat. This is enough sauce for 1 lb of meat
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- 1 tablespoon peanut oil or 1 tablespoon other low flavored oil
- 1 teaspoon garlic, finely chopped
- 1 large green pepper, seeded,menbranes removed,cut into 1/2 inch squares
- 1 medium carrot, scrapped,cut into strips 2 inch long by 1/4 inch by 1/4 inch
- 1⁄2 cup chicken stock
- 4 tablespoons sugar or 4 tablespoons Splenda sugar substitute
- 4 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch, disolved in
- 2 tablespoons water
- Put tbsp of oil into a wok or skillet, heat but not smoking.
- Add garlic, carrot & green pepper stir fry for 2-3 minutes or until the carrot & pepper start to darken in color.
- Pour in the chicken stock, soy, vinegar & sugar, bring to a boil and boil rapidly for 1 minute.
- Add mixed cornstarch, keep stirring the sauce until it is clear and thickened.
- Pour over the meat and enjoy.
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Great recipe. I used pieces of bone-in chicken. For the sugar/splenda, I used 36 drops of liquid splenda and a pinch of stevia powder. Instead of corn starch, I used a very little bit of xanthan gum. It was very good.
wowBergy! Whomever Ted is he sure does know his sweet and sour, perfect balance! I chopped up two boneless pork chops, stir fryed them,removed them to a warm oven and made the sweet and sour sauce in the same frypan, followed the recipe exactly and it turned out perfect! I put brown basmati rice on the platter first, then the pork and poured the sauce over all. I had some red and some yellow bell peppers to use up so I added them in with the green, made quite a pretty dish with the carrots etc. We love this sauce and will be making it again, thanks for sharing a really tasty recipe!!


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Beyoncé will hold court at this year's Super Bowl halftime show as the planet's preeminent pop star. And up until a few weeks ago, we would've assumed members of her former group, Destiny's Child, would spend the day noshing on seven-layer dip like the rest of us. But, the pop diva announced she'll bring her old pals onstage with her. Still, we wonder: How does one golden-voiced talent break out into superstardom? Get some insight when the Broadway version of Dreamgirls comes to Mesa Tuesday, January 22.
The tale of The Dreamettes, starry-eyed girls who start out as backup vocalists to a '60s R&B star and grow into their own spotlight as The Dreams, is inspired by the real-life saga of The Supremes and Diana Ross. While the story is fictionalized, the songs of this hit musical and its associated productions have racked up very real Tony, Grammy, and Oscar accolades.
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VFC fans are in for a treat at the end of 2016 with #3Shows30Days. From Waterloo, IA, to Omaha, NE, and ending in Topeka, KS, VFC will hold six title fights in a span of 30 days for what could be the most watched fights in VFC history!
VFC 52 Post Fight Highlights
Check out the full recap of the fights from VFC 52. Maki Pitolo earned the unanimous decision over Kassius Kayne in the main event and Dakota Cochrane submitted Jason Witt via rear naked choke in the night's Co-Main Event.
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Victory Fighting Championship owner and president Ryan Stoddard revealed the full lineup of fights for VFC 52 Saturday, July 16 live from Baxter Arena in Omaha, NE, and on UFC FIGHT PASS®
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Rick Glenn has had the type of career thus far that many dream of, but few can achieve. With only one loss in the past six years, Glenn enters VFC 51 with one thing on his mind: keep winning.
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Rakim The Boogeyman Cleveland is tired of all the talk there has been in the lead up to his middleweight championship fight at VFC 51. He's ready to step on the mat and lay it all on the line for his chance to be the new VFC Middleweight champ.
Shawn West: It's a Blessing for Me to Be Where I'm At
One half of our main event - Shawn West - may describe himself as a "late bloomer", but finding the sport of MMA later in life than most fighters hasn't slowed him down one bit. Next up for him is a chance to grab his sixth professional title at VFC 51.
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Anthony Baccam has made his way from second place state finishes in high school wrestling to the professional ranks of MMA, but his journey continues. Next up at VFC 51 in Des Moines, in front of a hometown crowd, his plans include walking out of the square with his hands raised.
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Stoney Stuart (4-0) may be making his Victory FC debut June 24th at VFC 51, but he's not afraid of the fight. When he steps into the square inside Buccaneer Arena, his words of advice for his opponent are simple: Be ready.
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The European Commission's "Horizon 2020" research and innovation programme, launched in early 2014, will be discussed in depth at this year's TRA conference. TRA 2014 is open to a wide range of audiences including researchers and academics, decision makers, local authorities, government bodies and non-governmental organisations.
The conference is supported by the European Commission, the Conference of European Road Directors, and the three European Technology Platforms: the European Road Transport Research Advisory Council (ERTRAC), the European Rail Research Advisory Council (ERRAC), and the WATERBORNE TP.
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Da Bears! Love their style and history but just dont think Cutler has the "stuff" to get em to the prmise land.
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The Boston Celtics had Stephon Marbury and Glen Davis step up for them in the fourth along with one bad ref call and an impotent Orlando Magic Offense to win game 5 and take the lead in the series, 3-2. More →
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We're very excited for the May 2012 Orlando Tech Meetup and are eagerly looking forward to the incredible companies who will be demoing! Nothing compares to "in-the-house" energy but if you're unable to attend, join our live Ustream by clicking here.
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SendHub is a simple messaging solution which makes it easy for businesses, educators, healthcare workers and just about anyone to send texts to individuals and groups of any size. SendHub is a Ycombinator company which recently secured $2 million in seed capital. Checkout SendHub's TechCrunch article HERE. @sendhub
Promtr - http://promtr.com
Promtr is a stylish and once featured teleprompter app with multi-touch gestures allowing users to quickly adjust settings during live playback. This teleprompter app was featured under New and Noteworthy and What's Hot by Apple. The distinguished UI and UX make this teleprompter application hands down the best teleprompter app for iPad on the App Store. @promtr
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Doccaster is a free tool which helps people in the same location quickly share and discuss documents from their desktop computer or mobile device. Doccaster is the perfect tool for conventions, conferences, or any event happening in a location. Bag the Box. Broadcast your Docs! Checkout Doccaster's TechCrunch article HERE. @doccaster
Good meeting. Need to have a "hook" so people will actually mingle before or after the meeting. Also, if there is a a forum board available so people can post job openings, etc. might be something worth having.
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I liked the quick pace and the fact that everyone stuck to it. Seeing the presenters provided an opportunity to learn from what they did right and from their mistakes, and to discuss it with others afterward. The unofficial after-event discussions allowed me to meet some very interesting people. You said the goal of Orlando Tech Meetup was to promote a growing tech sector in Orlando. The May 2012 meetup was perfectly aligned with that goal.
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Great meeting
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Energy was crazy. Good companies demoing and it was an honor to have Garrett from Sendhub in the house. Not often we get a ycombinator 2M dollar funded company presenting at OTM.
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We'll be live Ustreaming the event. The link will be released soon.
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Some leaders balked at facing criminal charges without the guarantee of bail.
一些领导人面对刑事罪, 担心得不到保释, 就采取回避的态度.
But most cities have balked at the change.
To emancipate all mankind, we will balk at no sacrifice . even that of our lives.
为了全人类的解放, 即使牺牲生命也在所不惜.
With a wife to divorce, Pavarotti not balk at paying the high costs of divorce.
为了跟发妻离婚, 帕瓦罗蒂不惜付出高额的离婚费.
He balked at doing his sister's work.
They balked at signing a new contract.
His parents balked at the cost of the guitar he wanted.
他想要那个吉他, 但他父母看到吉他的价格却踌躇不决.
He balked at any kind of compromise.
But some Chinese librarians are beginning to baulk at the prices charged by these foreign journals.
但是, 一些中国文献工作在国外期刊的收费面前退缩了.
However, it is understood Temasek's investment managers balked at the $ 7.55 - a - share pricing.
但据悉, 每股7.55美元的定价让淡马锡投资经理止住了脚步.
But still he is a little balked at times.
Francis balked at paying such a large sum of money to join the golf club.
参加高尔夫球俱乐部要交这么大一笔钱, 弗朗西斯对此犹豫不决.
And as usual, those in the audience who balk at showboating can simply close their eyes.
和往常一样, 这些坐在包厢里的观众只需闭上他们的眼睛享受即可.
Tang's subordinate Chang thought of buying it, but balked at the price they asked.
唐易安的属下常副官想把它买下来, 可是高昂的价格使他望而却步.
Throughout a bitter, 26 - year conflict, the Tigers have never balked at killing their own people.
在这长达 26年 的武装冲突, 猛虎队员未曾手软地杀害自己的人马.
The foal balked at the high stone fence.
Large chain - store firms at first balked at the notion of building fewer, but larger stores.
Her husband balked at the expense of the plans she had made.
If hybrid cars are any indication, many consumers will baulk at electric cars'high initial price.
如果混合动力车暗示了什么的话, 那就是电动车高昂的初始售价令许多消费者望而却步.
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Florida election recount
The Florida election recount of 2000 was a period of vote recounting in Florida that occurred during the weeks after Election Day in the 2000 United States presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The Florida vote was ultimately settled in Bush's favor by a margin of 537 votes when the U.S. Supreme Court, in Bush v. Gore, stopped a recount that had been proposed by the Florida Supreme Court. That in turn gave Bush a majority of votes in the Electoral College and victory in the presidential election.[1]
- 1 Background
- 2 Recount
- 3 Post-election studies
- 4 HBO film
- 5 References
- 6 External links
The controversy began on election night, when the national television networks, using information provided to them by the Voter News Service, an organization formed by the Associated Press to help determine the outcome of the election through early result tallies and exit polling, first called Florida for Gore in the hour after polls closed in the eastern peninsula (which is in the Eastern time zone) but before they had closed in the heavily Republican counties of the western panhandle (which is in the Central time zone). Once the polls had closed in the panhandle, the networks reversed their call, giving it to Bush; then they retracted that call as well, finally indicating the state was "too close to call".[2] Gore phoned Bush the night of the election to concede, then retracted his concession after learning how close the election was.[3] Bush won the election-night vote count in Florida by 1,784 votes. The small margin produced an automatic recount under Florida state law. Once it became clear that Florida would decide the presidential election, the nation's attention focused on the recount.
The Florida election was closely scrutinized after Election Day. Once the results were announced, charges were raised that some irregularities favored Bush. Among these was the Palm Beach "butterfly ballot," which some pundits claimed produced an "unexpectedly" large number of votes for third-party candidate Pat Buchanan. Conservative opinion commentators countered that the same ballot was successfully used in the 1996 election with no post-election protests.[4] Progressive commentators also claimed that there was a purge from the Florida voting rolls of over 54,000 citizens identified as felons, of whom 54% were African-American, and that the majority of these were not felons and should have been eligible to vote under Florida law.[5] (It was widely presumed that had they been able to express themselves at the polls, most would have chosen the Democratic candidate).[6] Additionally, there were charges that there were many more "overvotes" than usual, especially in predominantly African-American precincts in Duval county (Jacksonville), where some 27,000 ballots showed two or more choices for President. Unlike the much-discussed Palm Beach County butterfly ballot, the Duval County ballot spread choices for President over two pages with instructions to "vote on every page" on the bottom of each page.[7] On the other side of the ledger, conservatives and Republicans charged that Democrats had registered non-citizens to vote, deliberately suppressed the overseas military vote, and arbitrarily changed vote-counting criteria after the election.[4]
Controversial issues[edit]
Studies of the electoral process in Florida have been done by Democrats, Republicans, and other interested parties, that reveal various flaws and improprieties. Controversies included:
- All five major U.S. TV news networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox and CNN) made the incorrect assumption that all of Florida's polls closed at 7:00 p.m. EST. They reported this incorrect information at 7:00. In fact, the westernmost counties in Florida had polls open for another hour, until 8:00 p.m. EST, as they are in the Central Time Zone. This region of the state traditionally voted mostly Republican. Also, the Voter News Service called the state of Florida for Gore at 7:48 p.m. EST. A survey estimate by John McLaughlin & Associates put the number of voters who did not vote due to this confusion as high as 15,000, which could have reduced Bush's margin of victory by an estimated 5,000 votes;[8] a study by John Lott found that Bush's margin of victory was reduced by 7,500 votes.[9] This survey assumes that the turnout in the Panhandle counties would have equaled the statewide average of 68% if the media had not incorrectly reported the polls' closing time and if the state had not been called for Gore while the polls were still open. So it is argued that Bush could have won by a larger margin and controversy been avoided if the networks had known and reported the correct poll closing times and waited to call the state until all polls closed. In a 2010 issue of TV Guide, the premature calls for Gore's victory ranked #2 on a list of TV's ten biggest "blunders", and were blamed for ushering in a new era of public distrust of the media.[10]
- Democratic State Senator Daryl Jones said that there had to have been an order to set up roadblocks in heavily Democratic regions of the state on the day of the election.[11] This charge, however, has never been substantiated.
- Democratic lawyer Mark Herron authored a memo distributed to Democratic election canvassers on how to invalidate military absentee ballots. The Herron Memo gave postmark and "point of origin" criteria Herron maintained could be used to invalidate military ballots. It was in line with a letter sent out by Secretary of State Katherine Harris stating that if a postmark was not present on a military ballot, it had to be thrown out. But on November 19, 2000, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Senator Joseph I. Lieberman appeared on Meet the Press and said that election officials should give the "benefit of the doubt" to military voters rather than disqualifying any overseas ballots that lacked required postmarks or witness signatures. Before that, the Democrats had pursued a strategy of persuading counties to strictly enforce postmark requirements by disqualifying illegal ballots and reducing votes from overseas, which were predominantly for Bush.[12] Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth, a Gore supporter, later told the counties to go back and reconsider those ballots without a postmark.[13]
- A suit by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP v. Harris) argued that Florida was in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the United States Constitution's Equal Protection Amendment. Settlement agreements were reached in this suit.[14] A systematic investigation by the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice found no evidence of racial discrimination.[15]
- Democrats claimed that between May 1999 and Election Day 2000, two Florida secretaries of state, Sandra Mortham and Katherine Harris, contracted with DBT Online Inc., at a cost of $4.294 million, to have the "scrub lists" reworked. Nearly 1% of Florida's electorate and nearly 3% of its African-American voters — 57,746 citizens — were listed as felons and removed from the voting rolls. (For instance, many had names similar to actual felons, some listed "felonies" were dated years in the future, and some apparently were random.) It was contended that in a small minority of cases, those on the scrub list were given several months to appeal, and some successfully reregistered and were allowed to vote, but most were not told that they weren't allowed to vote until they were turned away at the polls, with the company directed not to use cross-checks or its sophisticated verification plan (used by the FBI).[16]
- Some observers, such as Washington County Elections Chief Carol Griffen (1 p.25), have argued that Florida was in violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 by requiring those convicted of felonies in other states (and subsequently restored their rights by said states) to request clemency and a restoration of their rights from Governor Jeb Bush, a process that could take two years and ultimately was left to the governor's discretion. (In 1998 Schlenther v. Florida Department of State held that Florida could not prevent a man convicted of a felony in Connecticut, where his civil rights had not been lost, from exercising his civil rights.)
- The Brooks Brothers riot: Democrats claimed that Republicans brought in outside, paid activists to hinder the manual recount in Miami-Dade County, which was allegedly shut down "shortly after" screaming protesters arrived who were allegedly Republican Party members flown in from other states, some at Republican Party expense.[17] Republicans, conversely, contended that their peaceful demonstration (which involved chanting and requests for media attention) was in response to the Miami-Dade election board's unlawful decision to secretly recanvass ballots without Republican observers present. The Republicans noted that the election board was not bipartisan (as it was run by Democrats Myriam Lehr, Lawrence King and David Leahy) and that the ballots sought to be recanvassed were fragile (with their perforated "chads" that would designate which candidate was selected easily removable). The demonstration, which took place in view of multiple national network television cameras, resulted in the election board reversing their earlier decision to recount ballots without representatives of both parties present. The Republican representatives involved in the recount effort credit this demonstration, pejoratively dubbed the "Brooks Brothers Riot" by Democratic operatives, as a key factor in "preventing the stealing of the 2000 presidential election".[18][19]
- The suppression of vote pairing. In brief, websites sprang up to match Nader supporters in swing states like Florida with Gore supporters in non-swing states like Texas: the Nader supporters in Florida would vote for Gore and the Gore supporters in Texas would vote for Nader. This would have allowed Nader to get his fair share of the vote and perhaps get the Green Party into the debates in future elections while allowing Gore to carry swing states. Six Republican state secretaries of state, led by Bill Jones of California, threatened the websites with criminal prosecution and caused some of them to reluctantly shut down. The ACLU got involved in a legal (not political) effort to protect the sites, and the Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Jones two years later, but by then the election was over. The vote-pairing sites allegedly tallied 1,412 Nader supporters in Florida who voted for Gore.[20][21]
- The actions of the Florida Supreme Court. It was argued, particularly by Republicans, that the court was exceeding its authority and issuing rulings biased in Gore's favor. The court acted "on its own motion" to stop the official certification of the election while specifically allowing the recount to continue. The Gore legal team never requested that court action, but the contention was that Florida law gives the court the right to take action without such a request.[22] Similarly, the court's December 10, 2000 ruling ordered a statewide counting of undervotes, which the Gore team had also not requested.[23] James Baker, among other Republicans, accused the court of violating longstanding Florida law, on which basis Bush appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.[24] Democrats argued that the Florida Supreme Court was simply trying to ensure a fair and accurate count.[25]
Adding to these controversies was the fact that Florida's governor was the Republican presidential nominee's brother, although the governor recused himself from the recount process.
Palm Beach County's butterfly ballots[edit]
Allegations were raised that many voters in Palm Beach County who intended to vote for Gore or Bush actually marked their ballots for Pat Buchanan or spoiled their ballots because of the ballot's confusing layout.
Some commentators and observers have asserted that an unusually large number of ballots were spoiled because of two votes in the same race, with one of the two for Buchanan and the other for Bush or Gore.
On The Today Show of November 9, 2000, Buchanan said, "When I took one look at that ballot on Election Night ... it's very easy for me to see how someone could have voted for me in the belief they voted for Al Gore."[26] He, unlike the voters, did not have the opportunity to see the ballot before Election Day.
Although Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer said on November 9 that "Palm Beach County is a Pat Buchanan stronghold and that's why Pat Buchanan received 3,407 votes there",[27] Buchanan's Florida coordinator, Jim McConnell, responded by calling that "nonsense", and Jim Cunningham, chairman of the executive committee of Palm Beach County's Reform Party, responded: "I don't think so. Not from where I'm sitting and what I'm looking at." Cunningham estimated the number of Buchanan supporters in Palm Beach County to be between 400 and 500. Asked how many votes he would guess Buchanan legitimately received in Palm Beach County, he said: "I think 1,000 would be generous. Do I believe that these people inadvertently cast their votes for Pat Buchanan? Yes, I do. We have to believe that based on the vote totals elsewhere."[28]
The ballot had been redesigned earlier that year by Theresa LePore (Supervisor of Elections, and member of the Democratic Party). She said that she used both sides of the ballot in order to make the candidate names larger so the county's elderly residents could more easily see the names.[29]
Due to the narrow margin of the original vote count, Florida Election Code 102.141 mandated a statewide machine recount.[30] In addition, the Gore campaign requested that the votes in three counties be recounted by hand. Florida state law at the time allowed the candidate to request a manual recount by protesting the results of at least three precincts.[31] The county canvassing board would then decide whether to recount as well as the method of the recount in those three precincts.[32] If the board discovered an error, they were then authorized to recount the ballots.[33]
Once the closeness of the election in Florida was clear, both the Bush and Gore campaigns organized themselves for the ensuing legal process. On November 9, the Bush campaign announced they had hired George H. W. Bush's former Secretary of State James Baker to oversee their legal team,[34] and the Gore campaign hired Bill Clinton's former Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
The canvassing board did not discover any errors in the tabulation process in the initial mandated recount. The Bush campaign sued to prevent additional recounts on the basis that no errors were found in the tabulation method until subjective measures were applied in manual recounts.
The Gore campaign, as allowed by Florida statute, requested that disputed ballots in four counties be counted by hand. Florida statutes also required that all counties certify and report their returns, including any recounts, by 5 p.m. on November 14. The manual recounts were time-consuming, and, when it became clear that some counties would not complete their recounts before the deadline, both Volusia and Palm Beach Counties sued to have their deadlines extended.
Florida Supreme Court appeals[edit]
The trial of Palm Beach Canvassing Board v. Katherine Harris was a response from the Bush campaign to state litigation against extending the statutory deadlines for the manual recounts. Besides deadlines, also in dispute were the criteria that each county's canvassing board would use in examining the overvotes and/or undervotes. Numerous local court rulings went both ways, some ordering recounts because the vote was so close and others declaring that a selective manual recount in a few heavily Democratic counties would be unfair.
Eventually, the Gore campaign appealed to the Florida Supreme Court, which ordered the recount to proceed. The Bush campaign subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, which took up the case Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board on December 1. On December 4, the U.S. Supreme Court returned this matter to the Florida Supreme Court with an order vacating its earlier decision. In its opinion, the Supreme Court cited several areas where the Florida Supreme Court had violated both the federal and Florida constitutions. The Court further held that it had "considerable uncertainty" as to the reasons given by the Florida Supreme Court for its decision. The Florida Supreme Court clarified its ruling on this matter while the United States Supreme Court was deliberating Bush v. Gore.
At 4:00 p.m. EST on December 8, the Florida Supreme Court, by a 4 to 3 vote, ordered a manual recount, under the supervision of the Leon County Circuit Court and Leon County Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho, of disputed ballots in all Florida counties and the portion of Miami-Dade county in which such a recount was not already complete. That decision was announced on live worldwide television by the Florida Supreme Court's spokesman Craig Waters, the Court's public information officer. The Court further ordered that only undervotes be considered. The results of this tally were to be added to the November 14 tally.
U.S. Supreme Court proceedings[edit]
The recount was in progress on December 9 when the United States Supreme Court, by a 5 to 4 vote (Justices Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer dissenting), granted Bush's emergency plea for a stay of the Florida Supreme Court recount ruling, stopping the incomplete recount.
About 10 p.m. EST on December 12, the United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling to stop the recount. Seven of the nine justices saw constitutional problems with the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution in the Florida Supreme Court's plan for recounting ballots, citing differing vote-counting standards from county to county and the lack of a single judicial officer to oversee the recount. Five justices held there was insufficient time to impose a unified standard and that the recounts should therefore be stopped and Florida be allowed to certify its vote, effectively ending the legal review of the vote count with Bush in the lead. The decision was extremely controversial due to its partisan split and the majority's unusual instruction that its judgment in Bush v. Gore should not set precedent but should be "limited to the present circumstances". Gore said he disagreed with the Court's decision, but conceded the election.
Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris's certification of the election results was thus upheld, allowing Florida's electoral votes to be cast for Bush, making him president-elect.
Post-election studies[edit]
Florida Ballot Project recounts[edit]
The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, sponsored by a consortium of major United States news organizations, conducted a Florida Ballot Project comprehensive review of all ballots uncounted (by machine) in the Florida 2000 presidential election, both undervotes and overvotes, with the main research aim being to report how different ballot layouts correlated with voter mistakes. The total number of undervotes and overvotes in Florida amounted to 3% of all votes cast in the state. The review's findings were reported in the media during the week after November 12, 2001.
The NORC study was not primarily intended as a determination of which candidate "really won". Analysis of the results found that different standards for the hand-counting of machine-uncountable ballots would lead to different results. The results according to the various standards were reported in the newspapers that funded the recount, such as The Miami Herald[35] and the Washington Post.[36]
|Candidate outcomes based on potential non-absentee recounts in Florida presidential election 2000
(outcome of one particular study)[37][clarification needed]
|Review method
|Review of all ballots statewide (never undertaken)
|Standard as set by each county canvassing board during their survey
|Gore by 171
|Fully punched chad and limited marks on optical ballots
|Gore by 115
|Any dimples or optical mark
|Gore by 107
|One corner of chad detached or optical mark
|Gore by 60
|Review of limited sets of ballots (initiated but not completed)
|Gore request for recounts of all ballots in Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Volusia counties
|Bush by 225
|Florida Supreme Court of all undervotes statewide
|Bush by 430
|Florida Supreme Court as being implemented by the counties, some of whom refused and some counted overvotes as well as undervotes
|Bush by 493
|Unofficial recount totals
|Incomplete result when the Supreme Court stayed the recount (December 9, 2000)
|Bush by 154
|Certified Result (official final count)
|Recounts included from Volusia and Broward only
|Bush by 537
Media recounts[edit]
After the election, recounts conducted by various United States news media organizations indicated that Bush would have won if certain recounting methods had been used (including the one favored by Gore at the time of the Supreme Court decision) but that Gore might have won under other scenarios.[38][39] Some reports counted undervotes (chad blocked hole), while others also counted overvotes (hole punched plus write-in names).
USA Today, The Miami Herald, and Knight Ridder commissioned accounting firm BDO Seidman to count undervotes: ballots that did not register any vote when counted by machine (many due to dimpled or hanging chads blocking a hole). BDO Seidman's results, reported in USA Today, show that under the strictest standard, where only a cleanly punched ballot with a fully removed chad was counted, Gore won by three votes.[40] Under all other standards, Bush won, with Bush's margin increasing as looser standards were used. The standards considered by BDO Seidman were:
- Lenient standard. Any alteration in a chad, ranging from a dimple to a full punch, counts as a vote. By this standard, Bush won by 1,665 votes.
- Palm Beach standard. A dimple is counted as a vote if other races on the same ballot show dimples as well. By this standard, Bush won by 884 votes.
- Two-corner standard. A chad with two or more corners removed is counted as a vote. This is the most common standard in use. By this standard, Bush won by 363 votes.
- Strict standard. Only a fully removed chad counts as a vote. By this standard, Gore won by 3 votes.
The study remarks that because of the possibility of mistakes, it is difficult to conclude that Gore was surely the winner under the strict standard. It also remarks that there are variations between examiners, and that election officials often did not provide the same number of undervotes as were counted on Election Day. Furthermore, the study did not consider overvotes, ballots that registered more than one vote when counted by machine.
The study also found that undervotes break down into two distinct types, those coming from punch-card counties, and those coming from optical-scan counties. Undervotes from punch-card counties give new votes to candidates in roughly the same proportion as the county's official vote. Furthermore, the number of undervotes correlates with how well the punch-card machines are maintained, and not with factors such as race or socioeconomic status. Undervotes from optical-scan counties, however, correlate with Democratic votes more than Republican votes. Optical-scan counties were the only places in the study where Gore gained more votes than Bush, 1,036 to 775.
A larger consortium of news organizations, including USA Today, The Miami Herald, Knight Ridder, The Tampa Tribune, and five other newspapers next conducted a full recount of all ballots, including both undervotes and overvotes. According to their results, Bush won under stricter standards and Gore won under looser standards.[41] A Gore win was impossible without a recount of overvotes, which he did not request; but one could argue that the recount of overvotes should have happened nonetheless, because faxes between Judge Terry Lewis and the canvassing boards throughout the state indicated that Lewis, who oversaw the recount effort, intended to have overvotes counted.[42]
According to the study, only 3% of the 111,261 overvotes had markings that could be interpreted as a legal vote. According to Anthony Salvado, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine, who acted as a consultant on the media recount, most of the errors were caused by ballot design, ballot wording, and efforts by voters to choose both a president and a vice president. For example, 21,188 of the Florida overvotes, or nearly one-fifth of the total, originated from Duval County, where the presidential ballot was split across two pages and voters were instructed to "vote every page". Half of the overvotes in Duval County had one presidential candidate marked on each page, making their vote illegal under Florida law. Salvado says that this alone cost Gore the election.
Including overvotes in the above totals for undervotes gives different margins of victory:
- Lenient standard. Gore by 332 votes.
- Palm Beach standard. Gore by 242 votes.
- Two-corner standard. Bush by 407 votes.
- Strict standard. Bush by 152 votes.
The overvotes with write-in names were also noted by Florida elections observer Lance deHaven Smith, in his interview with Research in Review at Florida State University:[43]
- ...Everybody had thought that the chads were where all the bad ballots were, but it turned out that the ones that were the most decisive were write-in ballots where people would check Gore and write Gore in, and the machine kicked those out. There were 175,000 votes overall that were so-called "spoiled ballots." About two-thirds of the spoiled ballots were over-votes; many or most of them would have been write-in over-votes, where people had punched and written in a candidate's name. And nobody looked at this, not even the Florida Supreme Court in the last decision it made requiring a statewide recount. Nobody had thought about it except Judge Terry Lewis, who was overseeing the statewide recount when it was halted by the U.S. Supreme Court. The write-in over-votes have really not gotten much attention. Those votes are not ambiguous. When you see Gore picked and then Gore written in, there's not a question in your mind who this person was voting for. When you go through those, they're unambiguous: Bush got some of those votes, but they were overwhelmingly for Gore. For example, in an analysis of the 2.7 million votes that had been cast in Florida's eight largest counties, The Washington Post found that Gore's name was punched on 46,000 of the over-vote ballots it, [sic] while Bush's name was marked on only 17,000... –Lance deHaven-Smith[43]
Opinion polling on recount[edit]
A nationwide December 14–21, 2000 Harris poll asked, "If everyone who tried to vote in Florida had their votes counted for the candidate who they thought they were voting for — with no misleading ballots and infallible voting machines — who do you think would have won the election, George W. Bush or Al Gore?". The results were 49% for Gore and 40% for Bush, with 11% uncertain or not wishing to respond.[44]
HBO film[edit]
The 2008 made-for-TV movie Recount, directed by Jay Roach and produced by and starring Kevin Spacey, explores the 2000 election and recount. It premiered on the HBO cable network on May 25, 2008.
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External links[edit]
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- Video highlights of November 20, 2000 and December 7, 2000 oral arguments in Gore v. Harris in front of Florida Supreme Court
- Jonathan Rosenblum Papers. 1993-2006. 1 cubic foot (1 box). At the Labor Archives of Washington. Contains records of Rosenblum's assistance in ballot recount efforts in November 2000.


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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Publication date
|Oct 19, 1971
|Filing date
|Feb 2, 1970
|Priority date
|Aug 11, 1969
|Also published as
|Publication number
|Gordon W Speer, Dennis F Williamson
|Original Assignee
|Gen Electric Canada
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (48), Classifications (9)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
United States Patent Inventors Gordon W. Speer Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; Dennis F. Williamson, Media, Pa. Appl. No. 7,546 Filed Feb. 2, I970 Patented Oct. [9, I97l Assignee Canadian General Electric Limited Toronto, Ontario, Canada Priority Aug. II, I969 Canada 59141 CIRCUIT FOR KEEPING TI'IE FREQUENCY OF AN INVERTER SYNCHRONIZED WITH THE FREQUENCY OF ANOTHER SOURCE 8 Claims, 9 Drawing Figs. U.S.Cl 307/64, 307/66, 307/87, 32l/4 Int. Cl H02j 9/00, H02m 5/28 Field of Search 307/45, 46,
[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,337,743 8/1967 Rolfes 307/64 X 3,348,060 10/1967 Jamieson 307/66 FOREIGN PATENTS 846,545 8/i960 Great Britain 324/87 Primary Examiner-William H. Beha, .lr.
Attorneys-J. Wesley Haubner, Albert S. Richardson, Jr., Frank L. Neuhauser, Oscar B. Weddell and Joseph B. Forman INVERTER .1 jig," f #291211. .2 T a g I l L a 3 pf L LL? I y N UTILITY 23 mcomme I POWER i i 12 7 25 l i SYNCHRONIZING *F E/ r I l i i I 11 l 1 I BACK-UP *fi TRANSZORMER BATTERY & l l I r- RECTIFIER STATIC swncu 44 i l C 4 15 INVERTER l CONTRG.
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QQMLMWQM ATTORNEY CIRCUIT FOR KEEPING THE FREQUENCY OF AN INVERTER SYNCHRONIZED WITH THE FREQUENCY OF ANOTHER SOURCE .This invention relates to a circuit for keeping the frequency of an inverter synchronized with the frequency of another source.
Some power consuming installations, e.g., computers, airports, radar installations, and navigational aids require an uninterrupted supply of alternating current even during brief interruptions on the power system. In some of these installations, the entire load is supplied with alternating current from the inverter by first rectifying the alternating current from the system and then converting it back into alternating current. The installation comprises a rectifier for converting alternating current from the system into direct current, an inverter for convening the direct current back into alternating current for application to the load and a storage battery as a standby source of power. By connecting the storage battery between the rectif er and the inverter through a static switch, the inverter simply draws power from the battery in the event of an interruption on the power system. Moreover, to avoid a power interruption at the load in the event of an inverter failure, the overall circuit includes some means for connecting the load directly to the power system. Since this must be done very quickly, it important that the frequency of the inverter remain in synchronism with the frequency of the power system.
This invention provides a circuit which continuously senses the difference in phase between the voltages of a power system and a load and produces an inverter control signal representing this phase difference. The control signal keeps the frequency of the inverter in synchronism with the frequency of the system. 7
An embodiment of the invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram showing the overall circuit in block form and the synchronizing circuit in detail;
FIGS. 2 to 5 are wave forms of signals appearing in the circuit;
FIGS. 6 to 8 are vector diagrams of the alternating currents in the circuit; and
FIG. 9 is graph of the output signal from the synchronizing circuit.
In FIG. 1 there is shown a power supply consisting of essentially the following: feeder lines 10 from a three-phase, 60 cycle power system; a transformer-rectifier 11 having its input side connected to the feeder lines through a circuit breaker l2 and its output side to DC bus bars 13; a backup storage battery and static switch 14 connected to the bus bars through a circuit breaker 15; an inverter 16 having its input side connected to the bus bars through'a circuit breaker l7 and its output side to load lines [8 through a circuit breaker 19; an inverter control circuit 20; a synchronizing circuit 21; a bypass circuit breaker 22; and a bypass contactor 23 having normally open contacts which when closed connect the load lines directly to the feeder lines. Rectifier 11 is supplied with three-phase, alternating current power from the feeder lines 10, and in turn feeds direct current power into bus bars 13. lnverter 16 then converts this direct current back into alternating current of the same voltage, frequency and phase as that of the incoming power and feeds it into load lines 18. if there is an interruption of power to the incoming feeders, the backup battery 14 is automatically switched on to the DC bus bars in a fraction of a cycle by means of a static switch so that the battery now supplies the inverter with direct current until the power is restored on the incoming feeders. During this time the inverter continues to supply the load with alternating current with no loss of power. Circuit breakers l2, l5, l7, l9 and 22 are normally closed and are employed to protect the various components of the power supply.
The power supply is designed so that the load can be connected directly to the incoming feeder lines by closing the normally open contacts 23 of the bypass contactor in the event of faulty operation of the rectifier-inverter installation, in which case breaker 19 will disconnect the inverter from the load. This switchover is done automatically in a cycle or two in response to a signal representing abnormal inverter operation. However, in order to make the switchover in this short a time it is necessary to keep the frequency of the inverter in synchronism with the frequency of the AC supply, that is, the frequency of the alternating current in load lines 18 must be in synchronism with the frequency of the alternating current in feeder lines 10. Synchronizing circuit 21 exercises a modifying control over the inverter so as to keep its frequency at the proper value. This is done through inverter control 20.
The synchronizing circuit will now be described with reference to FIG. 1. The output voltage from the inverter, i.e., the voltage across phase one and the neutral of lines 18, is stepped down in transformer 24 and converted to a square wave voltage of constant amplitude as illustrated in FIG. 2 by means of the secondary circuit including resistor 25 and the two back-to back zener diodes 26 and 27. This square wave voltage serves as a reference signal which energizes the primary of a transformer 28 which has two identical secondaries 29 and 30. One terminal of secondary 29 is connected through resistors 35 and 36 to the bases of two NPN transistors 31 and 32 respectively and the other secondary terminal to an interconnection of the emitters of the two transistors. One terminal of the secondary 30 is connected through resistors 37 and 38 to the bases of another pair of transistors 33 and 34 respectively and the other secondary terminal to an interconnection of the emitters of this second pair of transistors. secondaries 29 and 30 are connected to the pairs of transistors 31 32 and 33, 34 in an opposite polarity sense so that the transistor pairs are gated on alternately by the positive and negative half cycles respectively of the square wave output of the transformer. That is, transistors 31, 32 are gated on while 33, 34 are off and vice versa. When transistor pair 31, 32 are gated on by a base to emitter current flow (pair 33, 34 are off and like an open switch) they will conduct in either direction if there is an input signal (voltage) available at terminal 40 of a transformer 39 which has its primary connected to phases two and three of feeder l0. Whenever there is a voltage of either polarity at terminal 40, current will pass from this terminal to the center tap 42 of the transformer secondary by way of the transistor pair,- reactor 43, capacitor 44 and the inverter control circuit 20. When the reference signal from transformer 28 reverses in polarity, transistors 31, 32 turn off and act like an open switch while transistors 33, 34 turn on and close a circuit from ter minal 41 to center tap 42 of transformer 39 by way of the aforementioned components 43, 44 and 20, whereby the voltage of transformer 39 is applied to these components with inverted polarity. In effect, the transistor pairs act like switches, pair 31, 32 being closed and pair 33, 34 being open during the positive half-cycle 45 (FIG. 2) of the square wave output from transforrner'28, and pair 33, 34 being closed and pair 31, 32 being open during the negative half-cycle 46 of the square wave output from the transformer.
The transistor circuit used in the synchronizing circuit is a well-known type of AC switch wherein the respective pairs of transistors turn on or off alternately according to the polarity of the base currents when these currents are at saturation levels. By connecting each pair of transistors emitter-toemitter the collector to emitter voltage drop across one transistor is the opposite in polarity to the collector to emitter voltage drop across the other transistor and, as a result, the voltage drop across the pair is in efi'ect zero. Hence switching is possible without voltage drops in the switches, and errors resulting from these drops are minimized. This switch has been found to operate very well. The output from the transistor switching circuit is filtered by reactor 43 and capacitor 44 so that a steady state signal is applied to the inverter control circuit.
[t can be seen from FIG. 6 that if the two systems are in phase, the voltage vectors Yg g and Y g are apart with respect to each other. Under these conditions the input signal or voltage at the secondary of transformer 39 is being switched at the 90' points and hence it can be seen that the average voltage out at the filter, V is zero as shown in FIG. 3.
Now assume that the inverter has moved behind the utilities by 45 as shown in FIG. 7. FIG. 4 shows that the switching has moved behind the 90 point so that there is now an average negative DC voltage produced at the output of the filter.
If the inverter moves ahead of the utilities the switching will move ahead of the 90 point so that there is now an average positive DC voltage produced at the output of the filter as shown in FIGS. 5 and 8.
FIG. 9 shows the relationship between phase position and the error voltage and it can be seen to be a cosine function. If this DC error signal is fed into the inverter master oscillator in the proper sense, the inverter will self correct for angle errors between its output and the incoming utilities. The circuit therefore synchronizes the inverter to the utilities by discriminating between phase angle errors.
This synchronizing circuit will operate equally well using PNP transistors in the place of NPN transistors. The PNP transistors will be connected emitter to emitter as is done in FIG. I with the NPN transistors.
While I have shown and described particular embodiments of my invention, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from my invention in its broader aspects; and I, therefore, intend herein to cover all such changes and modifications as fall within the true spirit and scope of my invention.
What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:
1. In combination:
a. a set of electric power feeder lines adapted to be connected to a predetermined source of alternating voltage;
b. a set of electric power load lines;
c. an inverter having a DC input side and an AC output side, said output side being normally connected to said load lines to supply the same with alternating voltage;
d. means for interconnecting said feeder lines and the input side of said inverter;
e. means associated with said inverter for controlling the frequency of the alternating voltage which is thereby supplied to said load lines;
f. a synchronizing circuit coupled to both of said sets of lines for producing an error signal whose magnitude and polarity depend on the deviation in phase of the voltage supplied by said inverter from the voltage supplied by said predetermined source; and
g. means for applying said error signal to said control means which consequently corrects the inverter frequency so as to minimize any phase deviation between said voltages.
2. The combination of claim I wherein said synchronizing circuit comprises: filtering means having input and output terminals; means coupled to a predetermined one of said sets of lines for deriving an input signal representing the alternating voltage on those lines; AC switch means for applying said input signal to the input terminals of said filtering means during periodic intervals when said switch means is on"; and means energized by the alternating voltage on the other set of lines for deriving therefrom a representative reference signal and for gating said switch means "on" during alternate halfcycles of said reference signal; said signal deriving means being so connected and arranged that said input and reference signals are apart in phase by approximately electrical degrees whenever there is no phase deviation between said voltages; said error signal being the average voltage produced at the output terminals of said filtering means.
3. The combination of claim 2 wherein said filtering means is a capacitance-reactance network.
4. The combination of claim 2 wherein said predetennined one set of lines comprises said feeder lines and said other set comprises said load lines.
5. The combination of claim 2 wherein said AC switch means comprises a first bidirectional transistor switching circuit arranged to apply the input signal directly to said filtenng means and a second bidirectional transistor switching circuit arranged to apply the input signal with inverted polarity to said filtering means; and wherein said gating means is arranged to gate the transistors in said first circuit on" and those in said second circuit off during each positive halfcycle of said reference signal and to gate the transistors in said second circuit on and those in said first circuit ofi" during each negative half-cycle of said reference signal.
6. The combination of claim 5 wherein said input signal deriving means comprises a transformer having a primary connected to said feeder lines and a center tapped secondary, said first and second switching circuits being respectively connected between a common input terminal of said filtering means and opposite ends of said secondary, and another input terminal of said filtering means being directly connected to said center tap.
7. The combination of claim 5 wherein said reference signal is a substantially square wave alternating voltage of constant amplitude comprising positive and negative gating pulses for said first and second switching circuits respectively.
8. The combination of claim 7 wherein said gating means comprises a transformer having a primary energized by said reference signal and having two secondaries, one for each switching circuit of the AC switch means connected in the circuit for gating the transistors.
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