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William Herndon | |
William Herndon, ca. 1875. | |
Born | William Henry Herndon December 25, 1818 Greensburg, Kentucky |
Died | March 18, 1891 Springfield, Illinois | (aged 72)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Lawyer, biographer |
Known for | Partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln |
William Herndon | |
William Herndon, ca. 1875. | |
Born | William Henry Herndon December 25, 1818 Greensburg, Kentucky |
Died | March 18, 1891 Springfield, Illinois | (aged 72)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Lawyer, biographer |
Known for | Partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln |
William Henry Herndon (December 25, 1818 – March 18, 1891) was the law partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. He was an early member of the new Republican Party and was elected mayor of Springfield, Illinois.
He was born the first child of Archer G. Herndon (1795–1867) on December 25, 1818 in Greensburg, Kentucky. His family moved to Illinois in 1820. Another child was born to Archer and his wife in Macon County, Illinois. By the spring of 1821 the family was living in Sangamon County. When William was five the family settled in the German Prairie settlement located five miles northeast of Springfield. Two more children were born to the family there. Archer built the first tavern in Springfield and was engaged in other forms of mercantile business from 1825 to 1836. He was also involved in politics as senator and was one of the men instrumental in having the state capital moved to Springfield.[1][2][3]
William, known as "Billy" at the time, worked for his father at the Indian Queen hotel before he attended college. The hotel was one of the first hotels in Springfield.[4]
On March 26, 1840 he married Mary J. Maxcy in Sangamon County. Mary's family were also early Illinois settlers; her grandfather and step-grandmother arrived in 1827 and Mary's immediate family arrived in 1834. Mary was born in Kentucky on July 27, 1822 to Maria Cook Maxcy and War of 1812 veteran James Maxcy. James' father, Revolutionary War veteran Joel Maxcy arrived in Sangamon County in 1827 with his second wife and died the following month.[2][3]
Mary and William had six children: James, Annie, Beverly, Elizabeth, Leigh and Mary. Mary Herndon died on August 18, 1860. The following summer on July 31, 1861 Herndon married Anna Miles with whom he had three more children: Nina Belle, William and Minnie. The family moved to a farm in Fancy Creek Township located six miles north of Springfield.[3][5][nb 1]
Herndon attended Illinois College from 1836 to 1837 in Jacksonville, Illinois,[2] having experienced "an unsuccessful year". Following college, he returned to Springfield and clerked at the Joshua Speed store where he often engaged in debates, discussions, and poetry readings with Abraham Lincoln. Their conversations and readings were sometimes practice sessions before presenting material to the Young Men's Lyceum where both Herndon and Lincoln were members.[4]
In 1840 Herndon began studying law at the Logan and Lincoln law practice. Even though he was employed at Joshua Speed's store, he studied up to 14 hours per day after work.[4]
In November, 1844 he passed the bar examination.[4] In 1854, ten years after beginning his partnership with Lincoln, he was elected mayor of Springfield, Illinois. Both men were members of the Whig Party. In 1856 Herndon was one of the organizing men of the fledgling Republican Party after the dissolution of the Whigs. Lincoln also joined the Republican party hoping to "fuse" people of disparate political affiliations who wanted to end slavery.[2][6][7]
Besides his in-depth law study, he loved to learn and developed "one of the best private libraries in Springfield" including works by historians, economists, humanists, free-thinkers and philosophers.[8]
Herndon enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle well into middle age due to the successful law firm and his various elected and appointed offices. Unfortunately he suffered severe financial reversals after the Civil War due to bad investments, bank failures, excessive generosity to his relatives and friends, and his inability to economize when his income declined sharply. By 1869, he was destitute and facing foreclosure on his home.[citation needed]
In the fall of 1844, Abraham was tired of being a junior partner. He had worked for senior partners with political ambitions and Lincoln wanted a younger partner to whom he could relate. Surprising both his wife and Herndon, in October Lincoln invited his friend to form a partnership.[2][4] Lincoln appreciated Herndon's friendship, loyalty, shared political beliefs and conscientious study. Lincoln said that Herndon "was my man always above all other men on the globe."[9] Herndon did not disappoint his friend. He established himself in the practice by performing research for his older and more experienced partner, building the firm's law library and overseeing young men who came to study law at their office.[8]
Herndon was a much stauncher opponent of slavery than Lincoln and claimed that he helped change Lincoln's views on the subject.[10] He felt that President Lincoln acted too slowly to bring an end to slavery.[11] Herndon felt that the only way to rid the country of slavery was "through bloody revolution." [12]
During political campaigns Herndon made strong points that tended to alienate members of the Republican party - as well as swing voters, so for the 1860 presidential campaign, Herndon was not involved in direct political activities. He did execute an important task during that campaign, though, Herndon conducted opposition research in the Illinois State Library to be used against Stephen A. Douglas in the 1860 presidential race. Finally, when Lincoln balked against voting for himself Herndon ensured that he voted on election day.[13][14]
Through the whole of his partnership and friendship with Lincoln he was never invited to Lincoln's home for dinner due to his contentious relationship with Mary Todd Lincoln. He also admitted that his frustration with Lincoln's overly permissive parenting of his two younger sons, Willie and Tad, who he recalled as undisciplined and disruptive brats in the law offices caused some harsh words during their partnership.[15][16]
His final meeting with Lincoln occurred in 1862 when he visited Washington, D.C. Lincoln received him amicably but he was not invited into the family's private quarters in the White House due to the enmity of Mary Lincoln.[16]
Following Lincoln's assassination, Herndon began to collect stories of Lincoln's life from those who knew him. Herndon aspired to write a faithful portrait of his friend and law partner, based on his own observations and on hundreds of letters and interviews he had compiled for the purpose. He was determined to present Lincoln as a man, rather than a saint, and to reveal things that the prevailing Victorian era conventions said should be left out of the biography of a great national hero.[17][18][nb 2]
In particular, Herndon said of Lincoln's "official" biographers, John Nicolay and John Hay: "They are aiming, first, to do a superb piece of literary work; second, to make the story with the classes as against the masses." He felt that this would represent the "real Lincoln about as well as does a wax figure in the museum."[19][20]
Ward Hill Lamon, who was then collaborating with a ghostwriter on a Lincoln biography, approached him for assistance. Herndon provided copies of and access to his original correspondences with Lincoln acquaintances and a written agreement not to publish his own biography of Lincoln for at least ten years in exchange for $2,000 cash and an agreement to receive up to $2,000 of the book's royalties.[21]
By the time he was free to release his own biography of Lincoln, a miscellany of personal problems, including continued financial problems and his alcoholism, left him unable to formulate the stacks of papers into a coherent text.[citation needed]
A young man named Jesse W. Weik who had corresponded with Herndon became a good friend. They then collaborated on the biography of Lincoln's life. Weik performed additional research in the 1880s, picking up any new information since Herndon's original research, and rewrote much of Herndon's draft.[22][nb 3]
The collaboration between the two men was often contentious due to extreme creative differences in writing style and in their visions of what type of biography should result; Weik favored a narrative linear form while Herndon wanted essentially a loosely connected volume of reminiscences grouped by type such as domestic life, law practice, political philosophy, etc. However, the two persisted due to a recognition of their complete dependence on each other. Weik depended on Herndon for the source materials and first person accounts of Lincoln, and Herndon on Weik for the energy of creating the manuscript and increasingly for financial support, which guaranteed their continued relationship.[citation needed]
Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, the result of their collaborations, appeared in a three volume edition published by Belford, Clarke & Company in 1889.[23][24][25] The majority of the actual writing was done by Weik, who received full credit as co-author. The book received wildly mixed reviews due to the inclusion of such unvarnished elements as Lincoln's mother's illegitimacy (and even the rumors of Lincoln's own), its sometimes viciously negative portrayal of Herndon's longtime enemy Mary Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's suicidal depression, and other decidedly less than hagiographic accounts of the martyred president who was quickly becoming the most venerated and romanticized figure in American history.[citation needed]
Weik kept the notes gathered during the writing of the book and wrote a follow-up book The Real Lincoln: A Portrait, which included Weik's personal insights and some embarrassing details for Herndon.[22] Weik's family kept them for fifty more years.[citation needed]
Particularly damning was the denunciation of the book by Robert Todd Lincoln, whose grudge against Herndon stemmed largely from Herndon's recounting of Ann Rutledge as the only romantic love of his father's life.[26] Weik felt that Herndon's portrayal of Robert's mother and the Lincoln's domestic life was especially hurtful.[27]
Questionable business practices and financial reversals on the part of the book's publishers, combined with the book's poor initial sales, made the royalties of its two authors very meager, with most of Herndon's share going to repay the frequent small loans advanced to him by Weik.[citation needed]
Herndon died March 18, 1891 at his farm north of Springfield. Herndon is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, the same cemetery as the Lincoln Tomb.[2][28]
Herndon's son William, or Willie, died the same day as his father. Herndon died of la grippe and his son Willie had la grippe that turned into pneumonia. At that time, William H., his wife Anna, Willie M. and their daughters Nina and Millie were at home. Herndon's wife Anna died less than two years later.[5]
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Herndon was portrayed in many movies and films for decades.[34]


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Correct on all counts. A couple of thoughts on this, as I have some expertise in this area. First, when I saw the link was to UofC, and saw how primitive the software was, I knew this was an experiment. Didn't know what they were testing until the results screen came up and then it was very clear.I mean we can all say we were not even looking at the COLOR of the person (just looking at the hand) as I was also, but the scores will mostly show our sub-brain prejudice, (SADLY)
Anyone notice that there were no females in the exercise??
Here's a more sophisticated example of the same thing.
What's important to understand is that there is no agenda here, but rather that researchers are trying to answer questions. By setting up the exercise as a very fast timed game, the idea is to determine subconscious preferences. I'd say that the generally consistent results we see from the results posted here would lend support for the idea that there is an effect of race on threat determination.
As to why there were no women, I think that's because they didn't want to introduce the variable of gender.
The most famous of these tests asked people to sort faces and match them against control words. The researchers received death threats afterward. Some people get very upset at the suggestion that they operate under various kinds of unconscious bias.


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Flagstaff, Arizona – Astronomers from around the world will gather in Flagstaff from June 9-13 for the 18th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun (commonly known simply as "Cool Stars", www.coolstars18.net) The workshop will be held at the High Country Conference Center (HCCC) and will feature a lecture for the general public on June 11.
More than 350 scientists have registered for this biennial workshop, which has been running since 1980 and is now one of the largest conferences for the professional astronomical community. Gerard van Belle of Lowell Observatory, who is chairing both the Scientific and Local Organizing Committees, said, "Cool Stars is a very prestigious meeting series. There have been a lot of important discoveries announced at these meetings over the years; for instance, in 1995 at Cool Stars 9 in Florence, astronomers announced the discoveries of both the first planet around another star and the first confirmed brown dwarf."
Scientific programs will run throughout the week and include morning plenary sessions, afternoon splinter sessions and 300 poster displays.
The June 11 public lecture, "Kepler and the Exoplanet Revolution," is at Northern Arizona University's Prochnow Auditorium and features Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz, Henry Norris Russell Fellow at Princeton University. In this 7:00 p.m. free program, Dr. Walkowicz will discuss the exciting discoveries made with NASA's Kepler Mission and how they have revolutionized our understanding of planetary systems. This lecture is sponsored by The Barringer Crater Company.
Flagstaff was chosen as host site for Cool Stars 18 because of the community's international reputation as a center of astronomical research. The availability of a highly appealing venue at HCCC and the proximity of attractions such as the Grand Canyon and Meteor Crater strengthened Flagstaff's bid to be competitively selected in 2012 for hosting this meeting. Past Cool Stars host sites include Cambridge, Massachusetts; Hamburg, Germany; Tenerife, Spain; St. Andrews, Scotland; Barcelona, Spain; and Tucson, Arizona.
Scientific meetings such as Cool Stars help bolster Flagstaff's reputation in scientific circles while drawing international attention to the region. Lowell Observatory Director Jeff Hall said, "Cool stars will bring astronomers from all over the world to Flagstaff, showcasing the city itself as well as the very large number of astronomical and other STEM assets the city has, so it is tremendous exposure for Lowell, for the city, and for northern Arizona."
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How is Regeneration of Plants after Mowing Affected by Shoot Size in Two Species-Rich Meadows with Different Water Supply?
- Jitka Klimešová,
- Štěpán Janeček,
- Alena Bartušková,
- Vojtěch Lanta,
- Jiří Doležal
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Mowing a meadow is an example of an equalizing process that reduces differences among species by removing aboveground biomass approximately 5 cm above ground. This regular disturbance that affects all plants prevents competitive exclusion of small species and thus allows coexistence of numerous species differing in shoot size. In this paper we search for the mechanism behind this by comparing the shoot biomass of 41 common species in dry and wet species-rich meadows in mown and recently abandoned plots in June (before mowing) and in October. We asked the following questions: i) Do the plants differ in proportion of biomass lost by mowing? ii) Are the mown plants able to compensate for biomass lost by mowing? iii) Is the compensatory ability of mown plants related to their size? iv) Is the compensatory ability of plants related to severity of disturbance (removed biomass)? v) Does water availability in meadows affect these features? Our results revealed that the earlier explanation of equalization of meadow plants after mowing due to the proportionally larger biomass loss in larger plants than small plants does not represent the entire mechanism. Even when larger plants in the wet meadow lost more biomass, the proportion of lost biomass was not dependent on plant size, and compensation ability (growth of mown in comparison with unmown plants) was not related to the lost biomass in this meadow type. On the contrary, the observed pattern could be explained by different compensation abilities of small versus tall plants. In addition, according to our expectations, the compensation for lost biomass in the wet meadow was higher than in the dry one.
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- Title
- How is Regeneration of Plants after Mowing Affected by Shoot Size in Two Species-Rich Meadows with Different Water Supply?
- Journal
Folia Geobotanica
Volume 45, Issue 3 , pp 225-238
- Cover Date
- 2010-09-01
- 10.1007/s12224-010-9066-5
- Print ISSN
- 1211-9520
- Online ISSN
- 1874-9348
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Abandonment
- Coexistence
- Compensatory growth
- Mowing
- Shoot biomass
- Species-rich meadow
- Kubát et al. (2002)
- Authors
- Jitka Klimešová (1)
- Štěpán Janeček (1)
- Alena Bartušková (1)
- Vojtěch Lanta (1) (2)
- Jiří Doležal (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Section of Plant Ecology, Dukelská 135, 379 82, Třeboň, Czech Republic
- 2. Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland


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Apr 15, 2012, 08:19 PM | |
The Naza is ideal for FPV in attitude mode, because it maintains level quite well. I'm certain that 99% of all Naza-FPV builders are using atti mode.
The maneuverability you speak of might be more suited to sport flying, as that type of flight in FPV will really mess with your orientation. Atti will give you smooth movements, staying reasonably level, avoiding big pitch changes. You're in good shape, I don't think you have anything to be concerned about with your goals. I would definitely just leave the Naza in Atti mode, and time it as best you can for you to be happy with its response. Set the gains so it's stable, and play with your rates on your tx to see how it works for you. Some folks have even dialed in negative expo for better stick response in atti mode. Happy flying. |
Apr 15, 2012, 08:54 PM | |
I haven't tried wkm in manual mode, but I've seen videos of others who have, and it seems to have the same results as Naza. Not a terrible thing, it flies well in atti mode. Most of the DJI equipped stuff is geared ore towards FPV, aerial photography and such, not so much sport flying.
Jun 12, 2012, 02:39 AM | |
I have been flying in atti/auto pilot mode ever since you guys told me to. But today even in auto mode it flipped for the first time in a while. I was about to land and it just flipped diagonally and crashed.
I'm guessing something is causing one of the motors to cut out. I should try and see if it keeps flipping the same way each time. |
Jun 12, 2012, 03:17 AM | |
this thread stinks of n00b fliers who dont know what they are missing with manual mode...
OP dont listen to the crap that the Naza or WKM cannot fly manual mode.... it is not what people usually buy the Naza for.... but it is fine (not the BEST) in manual mode. it just likes high diskloading... small props and you need to have your gains dialed in. as for your specific problem.... sounds like your motor idle speed is too low. upgrade to the newest firmware and make sure all your motors spin up when you arm the quad.... if they dont all spin up do 2 things. 1) re-calibrate your ESCs (not program calibrate) ..... you need to unhook the ESC servos wires from the Naza, connect them to the throttle channel on your Rx (use 3 servo Ys if you have them and you can do them all at once... otherwise you need to do them one at a time.... then (remove ALL PROPS) turn on your Tx.... put the throttle to the top (100%) ... plug in your LIPO (remember HAVE YOUR FREAKING PROPS OFF) listen for 2 beeps... then put the throttle to 0.... you should here 3 beeps.... (rinse, lather and repeat for all ESCS) the reconnect the ESCs to the Naza 2) Use the software assistant and increase your motor idle speed until all motors start up when you arm the quad also remember the Naza and WKM will stop the props if you go below 10% throttle..... so when you are flying do not go below 10% throttle or it will turn into a rock! was this a RTF from witespy? if so email/PM him he will walk you through everything... he provides great customer service (better than I will ) |
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Resume wise the two are close for me, obviously Benn had good wins over Dewitt, Barkley, Galvano (in Italy!! Not because he was a great fighter!), Robbie Simms and McClellan. Dont forget Benn's draw with Eubank too......he'd have won that without the low blow deduction! |
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I would have to go with Virgil Hill. Benn might have two wins with bigger names, one of which is very dodgy (if you've seen the Barkley fight), but overall Hill achieved a lot more and fought as many (probably more in fact) good or great fighters, and had a much greater title reign.
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US 7638890 B2 Abstract This invention relates to a device for supplying electrical power to an aircraft and for electrically starting a jet engine on board an aircraft, including a multi-phased starter-generator, a multi-phased transformer-rectifier unit, a multi-phased DC-AC converter, a multi-phased rectifier unit, and at least one three-phase inverter, wherein the number of phases is equal to or greater than 5.
Claims(15) 1. A device for supplying electrical power to an aircraft and for electrically starting a jet engine on board an aircraft, including a multi-phased starter-generator, a multi-phased transformer-rectifier unit, a multi-phased DC-AC converter, a multi-phased rectifier unit, and at least one three-phase inverter, wherein the number of phases of the multi-phased starter-generator, the multi-phased transformer-rectifier, the multi-phased DC-AC converter, and the multi-phased rectifier is equal to or greater than 5,
wherein the DC-AC converter is a five-phase power-reversible inverter that can operate as a voltage inverter and rectifier.
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12. A device for supplying electrical power to an aircraft and for electrically starting a jet engine on board an aircraft, said device comprising:
a multiphase AC distribution bar,
an AC distribution bus,
a first DC distribution bar,
a second DC distribution bar connected to the first DC distribution bar through a transfer contactor,
a DC distribution bus,
a multiphase starter-generator whose outputs are connected to the multiphase AC distribution bar through a contactor,
a multiphase rectifier unit whose inputs are connected to the multiphase AC distribution bar and whose outputs are connected to the second DC distribution bar,
a multiphase power-reversible converter connected on one side to the first DC distribution bar and on the other side to a compressor engine through a contactor,
a three-phase inverter connected on one side to the first DC distribution bar and on the other side to the AC distribution bus through a contactor,
wherein the number of phases of the multiphase starter-generator, the multiphase rectifier unit the multiphase transformer-rectifier unit, and the multiphase power-reversible converter, is equal to or greater than 5.
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Description This invention relates to a device for supplying electrical power to an aircraft and for electrically starting a jet engine on board an aircraft. Below, in order to simplify the description, we will consider, by way of example, an airplane-type aircraft. Most commercial airplanes include an on-board pneumatic system for starting their jet engines. An auxiliary power unit (APU) can indeed be used to produce compressed air that is routed to the pneumatic starting engines coupled to these jet engines. In each jet engine, the pressurised air serves to drive the turbine to a sufficient speed in order to enable the fuel injection and ignition. The jet engine then starts and becomes autonomous. The term �jet engine� used above refers to both a jet engine designed to provide the thrust of the aircraft and an APU-type (auxiliary power unit) jet engine that makes it possible to supply power on board the aircraft when it is on the ground. To provide air conditioning inside the airplane cabin, warm air is taken from the jet engine and mixed with outside air in order to reach a set point temperature. In addition, the movements of various airplane wing area surfaces are performed by means of servo controls powered by a hydraulic distribution network often pressurised by pumps driven by the jet engines. The pneumatic starting and air conditioning system requires the installation of air conduits of large diameter leading to the fuselage, the wings, the struts and the engine nacelles of the airplane. This leads to disadvantages associated with the installation, the duration of assembly and the loss of performance of the jet engine associated with the uptake of air, which could be used for the thrust. A solution enabling such disadvantages to be overcome consists of partially or completely replacing the pneumatic systems with systems using electrical energy. Such a solution has numerous advantages in terms of flexibility of use. Thus, if we eliminate the uptake of air on the engines (so-called �bleedless� airplane), the starting can be performed electrically by using the main electrical generators of the airplane in engine mode. The air conditioning can then be provided by the compression of air taken directly from outside of the airplane by means of electrical compressors. The various airplane wing surface areas can be moved by means of electro-hydraulic actuators (EHA), which are electrically powered (AC or DC network), and which locally produce a hydraulic pressure by the association of an electrical engine and a hydraulic pump. Such a solution therefore makes it possible to partially or completely replace the hydraulic network with an electrical network. A �bleedless� device known from the prior art, shown in
The principle of operation of this device is as follows: In the generator mode, the jet engine R drives the starter-generator SG in rotation, which produces 230-volt AC three-phase voltages with a variable frequency between 360 Hz and 900 Hz according to the engine power on the 230-volt AC distribution bar 10. This distribution bar is powered by means of a GLC contactor. This distribution bar 10 powers the TRU and ATU converters and the ATRU auto-transformer. The TUR converter produces a direct voltage of 28 DC volts on distribution bar 11 and the ATU converter transforms the 230 AC volts into 115 AC volts on the distribution bar 12. The ATRU auto-transformer transforms the 230 AC volts into +/−270 DC volts (540 DC volts of differential voltage) . The distribution bar +/−270 DC volts 13 is used by the MCU converter to control in torque and speed the ECS air compressor motor for providing air conditioning in the cabin. In starter mode, the 115 AC volt distribution bar 12 is powered by a ground power unit GP at a fixed frequency 400 Hz and at a fixed voltage of 115 AC volts. The power-reversible ATU converter generates 230 AC volts powering the 230 AC volt distribution bar 10. This voltage is then converted into +/−270 DC volts by the ATRU auto-transformer on the distribution bar 13 in order to power the MCU converter. The MLC contactor is open, the SLC contactor is closed and the GLC contactor is open. The NSGC contactor (neutral) is open so as to prevent the common mode currents from developing and adversely affecting the thermal behaviour of the assembly. The SG generator is therefore powered by currents coming from the MCU converter, causing it to operate in engine mode so as to transmit the mechanical power to the jet engine R in order to ensure that it starts. The choice of high voltages, 230 AC volts and +/−270 DC volts, makes it possible, for a given power, to reduce the cross-section of the electrical cables so as to reduce their mass. Such a device has the following disadvantages:
This invention is intended to overcome these various disadvantages by proposing a device for electrically starting a jet engine on board an aircraft that is lightweight and simplified. The invention relates to a device for supplying electrical power to an aircraft and for electrically starting a jet engine on board an aircraft, for example an airplane, including a multi-phased starter-generator, a multi-phased transformer-rectifier, a multi-phased DC-AC converter, characterised in that it includes, in addition, a multi-phased rectifier, and at least one three-phase inverter, and in that the number of phases of the multi-phased starter-generator, the multi-phased transformer-rectifier, the multi-phased DC-AC converter, and the multi-phased rectifier is equal to or greater than 5. The starter-generator advantageously generates a frequency between 800 Hz and 2 KHz. The starter-generator advantageously includes a five-phase stator that comprises five phases dephased by 72� for two consecutive phases. The device of the invention advantageously includes split power lines. The power lines do not comprise a neutral cable. The multi-phased rectifier advantageously includes ten diodes. The transformer-rectifier advantageously includes primary and secondary five-phase windings and ten diodes mounted on a full-wave rectifier. The transformer-rectifier advantageously includes an output filter. The DC-AC converter is advantageously a five-phase power-reversible inverter that can operate as a voltage inverter and rectifier. Advantageously each three-phase inverter is a power and filtering inverter module. The device of the invention has the following advantages:
The device of the invention, shown in
In generator mode, as shown in In engine starting mode, as shown in We will now more specifically analyse each of the characteristic elements of the device of the invention. The Five-Phase Starter-Generator SG′ The starter-generator SG′ that produces the electrical energy has a construction very similar to the three-phase starter-generator shown in In engine operation, the torque ripple frequency in five-phase mode goes to 10 times the power supply frequency, compared with only 6 times in three-phase mode. The increase in the number of poles and the number of phases allows for a significant improvement in the mean torque. The frequencies of operation of the device of the invention are in the range of 800 Hz to 2 KHz, which allows for a significant improvement in the mass while maintaining a good compromise between the mass of the starter-generator SG′ and the increase in the ferromagnetic losses caused by the increase in frequency. However, the use of higher frequencies (greater than 2 KHz) and a higher number of phases (greater than 5) is possible. The Power Lines Given the power generated by the starter-generator SG′ (in generator mode) in order to supply power to the air conditioning engine-compressor ECS and the electrical network, the power lines (�feeders�) can be �split� so as to preserve a current density in the cables compatible with their thermal limit. In the device of the invention, insofar as the power is distributed over five phases instead of three, the power lines can be �split� only starting at a certain power limit, which makes it possible to spare a cable. Given that the cable gauges (various cable cross-sections) can be chosen only by �discrete values� in pre-established tables, the five-phase power lines can have a mass similar to that of the three-phase power lines. In a comparative example, for a length of 25 metres, with a voltage of 230 AC volts, a power of 180 AC kilovolts at an ambient temperature of 100� C., it is possible to use:
The device of the invention assumes that no unbalanced or one-phase load is connected to the 230 AC volt network. Consequently, the neutral cable can be eliminated, and the common mode currents do not exist, which allows for a significant improvement in mass in an airplane in the carbon structure where the neutral cable is supposed to connect the starter-generator to the electrical core with significant distances. Similarly, thermal constraints in the starter-generator SG′ and the various converters associated with the presence of a homopolar current disappear. In the case of the example cited above, the reduction in mass due to the elimination of the neutral cable is greater than 4 kg. The Five-phase Rectifier Unit RU The five-phase rectifier unit RU includes ten diodes assembled two-by-two in series between two DV voltages −HVDC and +HVDC, as shown in In a comparative example, it is possible to use:
The mean value of the rectified five-phase voltage is around +/−300 DC volts, i.e. 600 DC volts of differential voltage, by comparison with +/−270 DC volts, i.e. 540 DC volts of differential voltage in three phases, as shown in The curves of This presents an advantage in terms of mass on the sizing of the cables of the DC network, which are defined with smaller gauges in consideration of the reduction in intensity associated with the increase in the mean voltage. In terms of the quality of the rectified voltage, the rectifier unit RU makes it possible to obtain better results on the residual voltage ripple because it operates at a minimum frequency of 800 Hz. Indeed, it generates a rectified voltage comprising ten pulses per period of 1.25 ms, which is to be compared with the 18 pulses per period of 2.8 ms of an ATRU converter at 360 Hz. The size of the associated filters can be slightly reduced. The Five-Phase Transformer-rectifier Unit TRU′ The transformer-rectifier unit TRU′, as shown in The Power-reversible Converter MCU′ The converter MCU′ is a five-phase power-reversible voltage inverter: two modes of operation are possible, the inverter mode and the rectifier mode. In an inverter operation, the converter MCU′ is used either to power the compressor engine ECS used to provide air conditioning in the cabin, or to power the starter-generator SG′ in engine mode in order to electrically start the jet engine R. In rectifier mode, the converter MCU′ can be used to generate a DC voltage, which is then used by another inverter MCU″ in inverter mode. This makes it possible for the same equipment to be reciprocal and, therefore to see an improvement in mass associated with the elimination of the ATU converter (conversion of 230 AC volts/115 AC volts) shown in The Inverter for the 115 AC Volt Network INV The conventional 115 AC volt electrical network is created from one or more power inverter INV and filtering modules adapted as needed or to the load that it powers. Such a solution makes it possible to provide a fixed frequency at the inverter output in order to power conventional loads such as asynchronous motors, furnaces or any other type of one-phase or three-phase equipment. It also allows for great flexibility because it is simply necessary to add an inverter module each time it is necessary, without being concerned about the network quality on the main 230 AC volt network at variable frequency or the +/−300 volt DC network. Thus, a family of inverter modules can be developed with a full range of powers as needed. Patent Citations
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Deformable registration can improve the accuracy of tumor targeting; however for online applications, efficiency as well as accuracy is important. A navigator channel technique has been developed to combine a biomechanical model-based deformable registration algorithm with a population motion model and patient specific motion information to perform fast deformable registration for application in image-guided radiation therapy. A respiratory population-based liver motion model was generated from breath-hold CT data sets of ten patients using a finite element model as a framework. The population model provides a biomechanical reference template of the average liver motions, which were found to be (absolute ) , , and in the left-right (LR), anterior-posterior (AP), and superior-inferior (SI) directions, respectively. The population motion model was then adapted to the specific liver motion of 13 patients based on their exhale and inhale CTimages. The patient motion was calculated using a navigator channel (a narrow region of interest window) on liver boundaries in the images. The absolute average accuracy of the navigator channel to predict the 1D SI and AP motions of the liver was less than 0.11, which is less than the out-of-plane image voxel size, 0.25 cm. This 1D information was then used to adapt the 4D population motion model in the SI and AP directions to predict the patient specific liver motion. The absolute average residual error of the navigator channel technique to adapt the population motion to the patients' specific motion was verified using three verification methods: (1) vessel bifurcation, (2) tumor center of mass, and (3) MORFEUS deformable algorithm. All three verification methods showed statistically similar results where the technique's accuracy was approximately on the order of the voxel image sizes. This method has potential applications in online assessment of motion at the time of treatment to improve image-guided radiotherapy and monitoring of intrafraction motion.
The authors extend their thanks to Dr. Doug Moseley and Graham Wilson for assistance in MATLAB programming and for technical support. The authors would also like to acknowledge Michael Velec for his assistance in acquiring patient image data and to Dr. Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen and Dr. Anne Martel for their valued guidance on this investigation. This research was supported by the National Cancer Institute of Canada—Terry Fox Foundation, Elekta Oncology Systems, Crawley, U.K, and NIH 5RO1CA124714-02.
I. INTRODUCTION II. METHODS II.A. Patient data II.B. Image data II.C. MORFEUS: FEM based deformation registration algorithm II.D. 4D population motion deformation model II.E. Quantification of motion using navigator channels II.F. Patient specific motion and the adaptation of the population motion model II.G. Accuracy III. RESULTS III.A. Population model of liver motion III.B. Accuracy of the motion detection technique III.C. Accuracy of the adapted-population motion models IV. DISCUSSION
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1. Will it be in the same case, or a new GOPRO type case ? 2 LCD view finder ?? 3. more buttons ? 4. will it have a better battery? 5. what new features are planned? 6. what is the release time-line ?? 7 Are you personally fixing all the unstable parts of the F/W Come one Fishy, don't be shy, give us the real stuff, don't hide your managerial skills under a bushel we need detail so we can plan our budgets. Or are you bound by a Non Disclosure Agreement wit The Developer? ike ( didnt see any of this on your thread - it seems a litle slow there at the moment. |
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Nothing could be FURTHER from the truth. As an engineer, I NEED details to understand what you are saying in your posts. You NEVER said anything about posting AV video in your recent post here about the hurricane damage. Your recent posts have been "walking tours" of the NYC subway and streets that many might find entertailing, but it's off topic in an AV thread! The problem with most of your posts is LACK OF detail, or incomprehensible "thumb texting" from a something other than a keyboard. AND, it' is getting Very, Very, Very old! Please stop. What part of that sentence do you NOT understand!
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1. Powering the camera with the external car charger cord. Test again. 2. Try pushing the rest buttom, Test again. 3. Try a different USB cable. Test again 4. Try un-plugging the battery for a minute then reconnect. Test again. Report back your findings. |
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Did you read the first page? You haven't have you ...well then check here http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showp...13&postcount=2 |
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I did dear friend, but as this thread has more than a year I thought there were more selleres...
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Recently, there are some "coincidences" like: the swedish user blue ghost low light bug (also I have this bug), the swedish user bricked card (also I had 3 damaged cards), my too early damaged battery (waiting for the swedish user or another users to announce this, if will happen). This is the reason I suspect something strange in the charging firmware code. Or some lower quality electronic component from the PCB and/or some lower quality lenses and/or batteries. I have the feeling that something is not working as it should. I hope the problems to be solved with a firmware fix, not hardware. |
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Because I was not in a discussion with you, correct? I was with lee and you assume. end, I need not explain every single detail to you.. Moveingforward. |
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This could open a can of worms :)
Whatever Guild you join, forget about joining the �successful lonely planet clones� Association. They ain't taking any new members ;)
[edited by: Web_speed at 1:52 pm (utc) on July 11, 2006]
Ahh now we get to the rulings and the HUGE door left open by the judge.
As for the remark about "Google haters" and "Google lovers," I've always believed that it's a mistake to let emotions get in the way of common sense. This case isn't about whether one hates or loves Google (or KinderStart, for that matter); it's about First Amendment rights.
The opposing atty. simply paraphrased what the judge said below...
Either way, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, what the judge says, (or doesn't say) in the whys and hows of the case being dismissed is the "meat".
This judge basically handed them what he would determine to be a complaint "worth pursuing and possibly winning"
This is off-topic but any webmaster/businessperson who doesn't see the value of Google not having more than 40% of the market share is either short-sighted or foolish.
When and if, Yahoo or MSN gets more than 40% of the market then I will become a "yahoo hater" or "msn hater".
In a "perfect" world, the market share would be broken up into 40%-40%-20% or 33%-33%-33% with no particular search having more than 40%.
Hopefully you understand the value of this?
As I have no particular issues with G persay.
[edited by: whitenight at 6:22 am (utc) on July 14, 2006]
Reread it. I mistakenly posted the lawyers comments instead of the judges.
The judge has clearly said that one could sue for "defamation" and may have a case.
Guess we'll have to wait until that case comes up to see if it holds any credence.
This judge is a MORON as anyone can be dumped by Google, anyone can dump a customer, there is NO LAW that forces you to do business with someone you don't like. Even if it was a hand edit, if they were doing things that violated GOOGLES T&C's or webmaster guidelines where's the defamation in that?
Now if KinderStart was on Matt Cutt's blog as an example of a site that was dropped for doing bad things, then they would probably have went to trial already, but that's not the case.
Stupid stupid judge, but we have plenty of them, why should this one be any different?
Who's signing up for the class-action suit? Sounds like "free money" to me.(if they win)
Knew this lawyer was savvy.... He's about to make himself a nice chunk of change and become the "go to guy" for future internet lawsuits.
Yeah, savvy enough to have all his claims dismissed because they were either insufficient or failed to allege facts to support the claim.
That is the sign of either an incompetent lawyer or one that is out to make some headlines even if he doesn't have a real case.
Usually you are able to have some of the claims survive, but this guy wasn't able to have any of them survive. Not even the claims that the judge thought might have some merit if they were properly plead.
If I had a valid claim against google, there is no way I would join the class if this guy was running it. He has a sympathetic judge and it still gets dismissed.
The Kinderstart case is and has always been irrelevant!
What the judge said about the case is what mattered.
Obviously the lawyer understood that as well, as he now is filing a class action suit for defamation. (He most likely had "some" class action suit planned all along depending on what the judge said)
My guess it that there is:
20% of him winning depending on his arguments and quantity or quality of additional plaintiffs
40-50% of Google settling this (see below)
30-40% of Google battling to the end and winning (see below)
First of all, there's a 99% chance that said lawyer makes a huge amount of cash no matter what the outcome.
Why do I think there is a 50% of G settling?
Again, whether true or not, the public believes that G is completely objective in their rankings and I dare say much of their popularity is due to this.
A class action lawsuit like this will probably get much publicity and bring into question, to the general public, all those little "conspiracy theories" you only saw mentioned by webmasters, ie:
Is G allowing certain sites to rank to increase adsense/adwords revenue?
Is G not allowing certain sites to rank to increase revenue?
If G is hand-editing sites, what's the basis of this editing?
How objective is the hand-editing?
This may all fall under the First Amendment but it reflects poorly on Google's stock...
It will be up to G to determine how far they want to let this discussion go on and effect their stock prices.
Either way, IMO there's a good chance that G settles which means "incompetent lawyer" get his hefty fees and other plaintiffs get little or squat.
Obviously if they win, he gets his fees.
Even he loses, filing a class-action is big business and puts this guy into the "big leagues" which = future big money clients. (regardless of your opinion of his lawyering skills and competency)
It certainly isn't about the First Amendment either. Only governments can censor -- businesses can choose to do as they see fit.
And without an employee coming forward, (and violating confidentuality agreements), I don't see how anyone is ever going to make the claim in court that Google hand-manipulated the SERPs -- and even if they do, I think most would say it is their right. Coke can certainly manipulate their drink forumlas if they choose. Doing so would hurt business, (as evidenced by "New Coke"), but it is their right.
There may be a case for unethical business practices, but I think Google is still the Belle of the Ball. It will take some mighty "evil" doings from the company who's motto is "Do no Evil" before any judge goes down that path.
Unlikely. Even the AOL volunteers v. AOL suit didn't get all that much attention, and it was a much bigger deal this from the general public's point of view.
Plus, even if this suit did get broader news coverage, it would make Google look like a hero.
Oh, and I'd love to see Google trot out the plaintiff's offenses in court. (Maybe Matt Cutts could go on the witness stand--his detailed exposes of "innocent" spammers on his blog are hilarious.)
This lawyers an absolute nit wit and I would bet you a case of cold ones he doesn�t know the difference between Adwords and Adsense! If he is charging his client one red cent he�s stealing from them because this case is an absolute waste of time. If your going to pick a fight then make sure you have your facts straight.
Again, run a site command on this site and you will see it�s an absolute piece of junk; its ranks poorly because it should. These people are not being picked on by anyone; they just built a bad site that sank like a stone. Maybe Google helped it down the toilet with a penalty but if you spend some time on it you will find plenty of infractions. It�s all a bunch of Public relations baloney because these people can�t seriously think their going to legally slug there way to the top of the SERPS with that thing.
Oh, p.s. anyone know when the next meeting of the �Guild of Unsuccessful SEOs� is? Just thought I might swing by, you know, just to check it out. (exactly how unsuccessful do you have to be in order to join?)
So what's the alternative--to let spammers run the show?
Google, like other search engines, needs to protect the integrity of its product, or users will go elsewhere. If that means KinderStart, SearchKing, or some other site of dubious value is no longer able to profit by influencing Google's search rannkings, so be it.
For example, when Google add a spam filter for doorway pages or link bombing or whatever, they're making a subjective judgment that filtering out sites that meet certain arbitrary criteria improves the quality of search results overall. At any given time their SERPs are a best effort and nothing more.
Sure, and that's why a federal judge used the word "opinions" when ruling that Google's "PageRanks" are protected by the First Amendment.
Plus, as was mentioned earlier in this thread, Google's Webmaster guidelines make it very clear that violators of those guidelines are subject to penalties and other negative results.
"Ranking Suit Against Google Dismissed"
Yeah, and he said dismissed.
The part he said that there were some valid questions raised is in no way binding. It just meant that he was telling Yu that here is the one and only case where you presented relevent facts. But even with those relevent facts the pleading was incompetent.
You forgot one major point, Google's record for settling lawsuits. Caldera made similar mistaken assumptions when they sued IBM.
As far as I know, Google has not settled any cases related to the search or advertising sides of the business. They have always fought it with everything they have.
I would guess that they would not settle a search related case without it looking like it was incredibly likely that they would lose, and that would be later in the case.
For them to be incredibly likely to lose, would require very good lawyering on Yu's part and very bad lawyering on Google's part. Google has very good lawyers. Yu successfully got his entire case dismissed and required guidance from the judge as to what to do next.
Google is certainlynot going to settle before their motion to dismiss the amended complaint. Nor will they settle before discovery and summary judgement, which they can make very uncomfortable.
And there is the little matter of the anti-SLAPP hanging over Yu and KinderStart's heads. On the outside chance that it became a class and doesn't get dismissed again, I certainly would not want to join the case until the aint-SLAPP got settled. I have no idea whether members of a class would be responsible for the fees under anti-SLAPP, but it is a distinct possibility if they have already joined.
As for class status, this is nothing new. Yu was trying for that all along. Read the decision. You see all those Does listed as plantiffs? That is the class.
The thing is that it is not the lawyer that gets to make it a class action, they only get to request it. It requires the judge to make it a class action case.
Do you really think that the judge will grant that to a one lawyer firm where the lawyer could not get anything in the original complaint passed the dismissal stage?
See, you are missing some things in your percentages.
80% chance that the amended complaint gets dismissed.
50% chance that google wins the anti-SLAPP sends kinderstart into BK.
95% chance that google files some even more serious counter-claims.
80% chance that Yu is not able to compete with Google when it comes to discovery motions. And discovery goes both ways.
80% chance that if it becomes a class that other members of the class will bring up evidence that google willuse to kill the case. Classes also provide some advantages to the defendants. They basically have to show that the entire class deserves to win.
90% chance that if the case gets that far that google will win or strip it down to the bare bones at summary judgement stage.
So after all those things, then you can start talking chances for settlement.
You have to remember that this is a lawyer that got his entire first complaint dismissed. The whole thing! Nothing survived!
And you are saying that at this point there is a 50% chance that google will settle?!?!?
There isn't even a 50% chance that he will be able to file an amended complaint that survives.
PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. Important pages receive a higher PageRank and appear at the top of the search results. Google's technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page's importance. There is no human involvement or manipulation of results, which is why users have come to trust Google as a source of objective information untainted by paid placement.
And my experience with one penalized domain suggests that even PR is subject to some kind of manual adjustment, in which case that assertion ought to be removed or rewritten.
To start with, only that first "objective" in that quote applies to pagerank. The second one refers to Google itself, and the fact that their results are "untainted by paid placement".
It will also be difficult to pin google down with that one statement, when there are many qualifying statements elsewhere on their website.
You also have to consider what was NOT said in that statement. they do not say that what the assumptions, inputs and calculations are. They could certainly argue that the pagerank calculation is objective given the subjective inputs and assumptions.
One such possible input or assumption is that a website will only accumulate pagerank as long as it has not failed a quality guidelines hand check.
Given that some very good lawyers would be making some version of that argument, wouldn't it be safe to assume that it would take a good lawyer to knock that argument down?
I suppose that it is possible that Gregory Yu is a better lawyer than I give him credit for, but he has yet to prove it in this case.
BigDAve, you've just earned this thread's Touche' Award. :-)
The judge focused on the language, "There is no human involvement or manipulation of results", whereas it appears that in the case of this site there was a manually imposed penalty which zeroed out the site's PageRank. The judge wrote:
First, I'm not a lawyer, nor do I claim to be one (unlike a few posters here who I wonder about).
All my cases have been won and/or settled, pro se.
I like to maintain my anonymity and have outgrown "proving" that I've done what I've said I've done. If want "proof" then do a logical search and you might stumble upon my forum and cases. Otherwise you can take my opinions just like anyone else's...with a grain of salt.
On that note, anyone posting here who is an attorney might want to be careful in how they phrase their sarcasm and opinions. Some here might mistakenly take that as legal advice. (tsk tsk. You should know better)
As far as how lawyers "try their cases", yes, in many cases they throw everything against the wall and see what sticks.
Again, Kinderstart's case was weak to begin with. I'm not sure why anyone thinks I'm defending the merits of that case.
One can not confuse the client's case with the lawyer's arguments. Nor can one assume the judge's rulings for Kinderstart's specific case applies to every future plaintiff.
Which is why I keep stressing the judge's comments.
One can argue Kinderstart has no case for future complaints. Fine! I agree and Who cares?!
The judge's comments about G potentially misleading PR statement re: it's objectivity/subjectivity for defamation and/or false advertising is important.
Not for Kinderstart particularly, but for other future plaintiffs and/or lawyers with stronger cases.
Their PR statement is a legal headache waiting to become a legal liability.
As far as anti-SLAAP counter claims, bah!
Google stopped being a "university project" a long time ago. They make billions in revenue and try to use anti-SLAAP as their legal weapon for counter-claims?
That's another case I'd like to see played out.
How is G going to claim that their search results aren't "commercial speech" when it "just so happens" to make them more money than 3rd world countries?
As far as G settling class-actions? Umm, didn't they just settle out in the click-fraud case?
Why did they settle? Who knows, but most likely cause it reflected poorly on their company to let it get too far.
And not because they didn't believe they could "win" or "were right".
That weird caution to lawyers. Is that supposed to mean something, or are you just trying to sound clever?


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Entropy is a very nice item that perfectly suit champions that need lots of AD but lack CC or when you need to build a little tanky while prioritizing AD. Kitae's however seems to share similar problems with Madred's and doesn't usually make it into on-hit builds, unless it's a very late game decision. Consider it a subjective, unprofessional and very amateurish comment.
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When I used to play more Dominion, I got Entropy pretty frequently on bruiser champions who had good AD ratios, like Lee Sin or Jarvan IV. I like the on demand slow, and it has a nice mix of defensive and offensive stats. It's actually something I would build on SR if it were available there. I don't play much Dominion anymore, but it is a relatively frequent buy for me on Proving Grounds.
hardly ever buy entropy i would always build mallet or trinity in it's place. I can't remember the last time i built a kitae's
Personally I never built an Entropy. It an item that falls between Frozen Mallet and Trinty Force. If you want the control you build Mallet, if you want damage you build TF. There just isn't a roll for it. I even like activation items (Omen, DFG, ect) but Entropy feels meh. Kitae's I have built - on Kog Maw. That's it. It's been thrown around that Kitae's should be an upgrade of Malady. I fully support that. I build Malady on a couple different characters.
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Sometimes I get those items but I think they are suboptimal. I got Kitae's once on Lee Sin because the enemy was stacking armor, but a LW would have been a better choice.
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So I think it's fairly clear at this point that both these items need looking at... kitae's in particular. I think after S3 hits, I'll give them a balance pass. I don't have any plans on bringing Blade of the Ruined King over to Dominion currently, as it seems to very heavily favor bruisers. It shouldn't be too hard to give kitae's a few bumps.
The question you should ask is: "What role should these items fill?" Do you want them to be niche-items good on just a few champions, or "standard" items that can be built by many champions? Entropy could be remade into an item for AD carries that want some slow. In that case, you might want to consider removing the true damage over time, since it doesn't really mesh well with most AD carries' kit. On the other hand, Entropy could be made as a bruiser item for bruisers than don't quite want Frozen Mallet but do want some slow, hp and damage. In that case, having true damage might not be so bad. KItae's Bloodrazor could be made as a niche on-hit item that's good for a few champions, such as Warwick. Or it could be made as an alternative for AD carries that want to deal with people stacking hp. The latter, however, might be hard to balance. Due to the way crit works, passive on-hit effects usually won't benefit AD carries all that much. Furthermore, the passive being magic damage won't help most AD carries, since they tend to get armor pen. You could consider giving it physical damage instead of magic damage, or perhaps even true damage. True damage might be hard to balance, though. You could add an mechanic similiar to Vayne's Silver Bolts, but that might make Vayne feel less special, and the item might be problematic when Vayne buys it. Due to all these factors, I think Kitae's should probably be used as a niche-item used for champions that want an on-hit effect that deals magic damage. Perhaps you could reduce or remove the AD and instead give it some magic pen? This, however, might make it a bit too similar to Malady. I'm not really sure what to do about it.
I don't think Kitae's should be given physical damage. The standard triangle of IE/PD/LW has already been shown to be a far more effective way of tearing through health than a Razor analogue ever will for AD carries against higher and lower health targets. Kitae's repurposed as an item for on-hit magic damage builds would probably be the cleanest solution, and the simplest change would likely to be just to remove the pickaxe and any AD from the recipe in order to make it less wasteful for those on-hit builds. That being said on-hit builds are sorely lacking in lategame items, so having Kitae's build out of more stuff while providing more power would be nice as well.
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Dominion casual here, I've only ever built Entropy once or twice, usually I never do because the characters I play that want it for the HP want more of it, and the characters that might want it for the AD want more synergistic stats instead of the active and HP. It's just a strange item with no clear optimization, I really never know the situation I'm supposed to build it in. I've built Kitae's on Kog, that's it, though many times it feels like a PD/LW combo would be better anyway. To be perfectly honest, isn't Kitae's a problem item for the exact same reasons as Madred's Bloodrazor is, in the way it only pretends to counter tanks and the like? Madred's is getting removed for being awkward and not fufilling its intended role from what I understand, shouldn't Kitae's fall under the same rework logic?
Entropy suffers from gold efficiency problems. The other AD caster items just have better combine effects. You're effectively getting a slow + 80 DPS on hit every 60 seconds. Compare that to crazy item efficiency (sanguine), the only way to scale armor pen (LW), or CDR (brutalizer) and it kinda falls short. IMO a cost adjustment will fix it. "Eh" effect for cheap might not be flashy, but it's often effective. Kitae's just bites period. The same reasons Madred's is getting replaced apply still. Further, in terms of slot efficiency, its proc isn't horrendous amounts better than Wit's End's proc (better at 1700 HP) or Ionic Spark proc (better at 2400 if Ionic hits two people). It's "secondary" benefit is self-synergy (neither Wit's nor Ionic has self synergy with its non-AS stat), but it's already less efficient b/c it builds out of pickaxe. Furthermore, Wit's severely reduces the effectiveness of the flatpen build and Ionic scales much better in fights with 3 or 4 people (AND has a slightly better AS to boot). And the kicker? You often don't build any of those three. You build Lightbringer because it's just way more efficient and gives unique utility.