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A meter which measures fluid flow by passing the fluid through a receptacle and determining the mass of fluid in the receptacle. The shape of the receptacle, the fluid flow path within the receptacle and the receptacle outlet are chosen to ensure that for a selected fluid the mass of fluid in the receptacle is a linear function of fluid flow rate. The mass is determined by weighing the receptacle. Total mass flow is determined by integrating the mass measurement over time if particular application of the meter is as a milk meter.
1. Apparatus for measuring flow rate of a fluid comprising, a chamber, an inlet to said chamber, an outlet from said chamber, and means for determining the mass of fluid in the chamber, said chamber and/or at least part of the fluid flow path through the chamber having a shape such that the flow rate of a selected fluid through said chamber, entering through said inlet and exiting through said outlet is in a substantially linear relationship to the mass of fluid in said chamber and the fluid flow rate through said chamber is substantially a linear function of the mass determined by said means.
2. Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said mass determining means is a weighing system upon which said chamber is supported.
3. Apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said chamber and said weighing system are contained within an outer housing, said weighing system being fixed to said outer housing.
4. Apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said weighing system is a load cell arranged to produce a voltage directly proportional to the weight exacted on the cell.
5. Apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said weighing system is spring means and a displacement transducer coupled to said chamber arranged to produce a voltage directly proportional to displacement.
6. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said outlet from said chamber includes an aperture, fluid which has passed through said aperture being outside the chamber, said aperture and said chamber being shaped such that the flow rate of said selected fluid through said aperture is in a substantially linear relationship to the mass of fluid in said chamber.
7. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said outlet from said chamber comprises a conduit extending upwardly from a base of said chamber and a longitudinal slot in a wall of said conduit through which fluid in the chamber may flow.
8. Apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said slot is substantially rectangular and said chamber is substantially egg-shaped.
9. Apparatus according to claim 7, wherein a baffle plate having dimensions greater than those of said slot is provided in said chamber in front of and spaced apart from said slot to thereby cause the fluid to flow around edges of the baffle before passing through said slot.
10. Apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said chamber is contained in an outer housing and wherein an inlet chamber having a fluid inlet thereto is incorporated in said outer housing above said chamber and adapted to discharge into said chamber.
11. Apparatus according to claim 10 wherein said inlet chamber is circular in horizontal cross section and said fluid inlet is positioned to cause rotational or cyclonic movement of said fluid within said inlet chamber.
12. Apparatus according to claim 10, wherein a distribution plate is provided between said inlet chamber and said chamber, said distribution plate oriented horizontally in use and having a plurality of apertures or slots therein through which said fluid passes into said chamber.
13. Apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said distribution plate has a substantially annular groove therein, said groove having a base and said apertures being provided in the base of said groove.
14. Apparatus according to claim 10, wherein a distribution plate is provided between said inlet chamber and said chamber, and said distribution plate has a single aperture through which fluid passes into said chamber.
15. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said chamber is rectangular in transverse cross section with an indentation in one long side, said outlet is a slot in said indentation, and said chamber has two sides which are parallel and the other two sides taper inwardly towards the bottom of the chamber.
16. Apparatus according to claim 15 wherein said chamber has two top opening inlets each disposed adjacent a tapered side.
17. Apparatus according to claim 16 wherein two baffles are located within said chamber oriented parallel to said slot and each are located in a fluid flow path from a respective inlet to said outlet slot.
18. Apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a summation means to determine total mass flow by integrating a plurality of measurements of said flow rate with respect to time.
19. A method of measuring flow rate of a fluid comprising the steps of passing fluid through a chamber, said chamber and/or at least part of the fluid flow path through the chamber being shaped such that the flow rate of a selected fluid is in a substantially linear relationship to the mass of fluid within said chamber, and determining the mass of fluid in said chamber, the fluid flow rate being substantially a linear function of determined mass.
20. A method of measuring flow rate according to claim 19, further comprising the step of integrating a plurality of measurements of said flow rate with respect to time to determine a total mass flow of fluid passed through said chamber.
This invention relates to the measurement of fluid flow rate and/or total mass flow. The invention relates particularly, though not solely to measuring the flow rate and/or total mass flow of milk supplied during milking of cows. In this application the invention provides an electronic milk meter.
By "flow rate" it is meant liquid rate in mass unit time e.g. kg/min. By "total mass flow" it is meant the integration of flow over the measurement time.
When measuring the flow of, in particular, liquids which are not uniform in composition, such as, for example, the milk, delivered during machine milking which foams due to substantial and varying amounts of entrained air and other gases, an accurate determination of the flow rate or the total mass flow of liquid is difficult to achieve. With milk, because of the differing quantities of air and other gases contained within the milk, the density of the milk may change substantially during the milking process. An acceptable accuracy for total mass flow is within 2% of the actual yield of milk supplied. It has been found that it is difficult if not impossible to remove the gas from milk to an extent that will enable this accuracy to be achieved whilst measuring the milk volume during milking or very soon after the milking occurs. As one of the main purposes of measuring the total mass flow is to determine the milk yield from each animal substantial removal of gas would require the milk to be retained in individual cow portions for a substantial period of time. Clearly, this is impractical. A method proposed to overcome the problem of density variation in measuring milk volume is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,035,139 where the foam profile of milk passing through a chamber is measured by measuring specific densities of the milk at different heights in the chamber. It would, however, be advantageous to measure total mass flow in a more direct manner rather than by making numerous volume and density measurements.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a means of measuring flow rate and/or total mass flow which will simplify the aforementioned measuring procedure or which will at least provide the industry with a useful choice.
Accordingly in one aspect, the invention consists in an apparatus for measuring flow rate of a fluid comprising, a chamber, an inlet to the chamber, an outlet from the chamber, means for determining the mass of fluid in the chamber wherein the shape of the chamber and/or the shape of at least part of the fluid flow path through the chamber is such that the flow rate of a selected fluid through the chamber is in a substantially linear relationship to the mass measured by the means.
In a further aspect, the invention consists in an apparatus for measuring total mass flow of a fluid comprising an apparatus for measuring flow rate according to the preceding paragraph and summation means to determine total mass flow by integrating a plurality of measurements of said flow rate with respect to time.
In a still further aspect, the invention consists in a method of measuring flow rate of a fluid comprising the steps of weighing a chamber through which fluid flows, the chamber being shaped and/or at least part of the fluid flow path through the chamber being shaped such that the flow rate of a selected fluid is in a substantially linear relationship to the weight of fluid within the chamber.
In a still further aspect, the invention consists in a method of measuring total mass flow of a fluid comprising measuring flow rate according to the method of the preceding paragraph and integrating a plurality of measurements of the flow rate with respect to time to determine a total mass flow of fluid passed through the chamber.
Preferred forms of the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a plan view of the mechanical components of a first form of the apparatus for measuring flow rate and/or total mass flow of fluid,
FIG. 2 is a side elevation of the construction of FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is a cross section on AA in FIG. 2,
FIG. 4 is a cross section on BB in FIG. 1,
FIG. 5 is a plan view of a distribution plate for use in the apparatus according to any one of FIGS. 1 to 4,
FIG. 6 shows flow rates of a selected fluid through the apparatus shown in FIGS. 1 to 5 plotted against the weight of fluid in the apparatus as registered by a load cell,
FIGS. 7 to 9 show three sectional views of a second form of the apparatus for measuring flow rate and/or total mass flow of a fluid, and
FIG. 10 is a block diagram of the signal processing circuits for the apparatus.
In the measuring apparatus shown in FIGS. 1 to 5, fluid is passed through a chamber 2 which is suspended within a container 20 by a force transducer mechanism 25 which generates a signal which is conditioned to provide a measure of fluid flow rate. The substantially cup shaped chamber 2 receives fluid through the open top of compartment 3 and fluid leaves the chamber through a conduit 4 extending upwardly from the base 5 of the chamber 2. The conduit 4 is open at its lower end 6 and has a longitudinal slot 7 in the wall thereof. In the preferred form the slot 7 is substantially parallel sided, although other shapes of slot, such as a slot widening towards the lower end could be used. Thus fluid being deposited through the entrance 3 will pass through the slot 7 to the outlet 6.
Where the fluid to be measured is milk (for simplicity the term "milk" will be used in this description and the apparatus referred to as a "milk meter") coagulated particles, or the like may be present, the width of the slot 7 must be sufficient to enable such particles to pass through without clogging. A slot 7 having a width of 2 mm has been found to be adequate but it is desirable to have a wider slot 7 such as 6 mm. Where a slot 7 of this width is to be used it is necessary to impede the passage of the milk through slot 7 and this can be achieved by the use of a baffle 8. Baffle 8 is preferably substantially arcuate in shape and in the embodiment shown in the drawings the arcuate baffle 8 extends a little less than half way around the circumference of the conduit 4. Baffle 8 could alternatively be positioned inside the conduit 4 rather than outside as shown in the drawings. An alterative baffle shape to that illustrated which would be suitable is a spiral.
The milk is desirably introduced into the compartment 3 through a distribution plate 10 which is shaped to guide the milk away from the upper end of the conduit 4. This is achieved by providing distribution plate 10 with an annular depression 11 and a plurality of apertures 12 therein (see FIG. 5) through which the milk may flow. An inlet chamber 14 located above the guide plate receives milk tangentially through an inlet port 15. This allows some cyclonic or rotational movement of the milk to occur which will assist in degassing the milk.
The cup shaped chamber 2 is suspended within an outer housing 20, the upper parts of which may form the inlet chamber 14. Outer housing has an outlet 21 through which milk exiting conduit 4 through outlet at 6 will ultimately pass.
The outer housing 20 carries a force transducer such as diaphragm load cell 25 to which chamber 2 is connected by a suitable connecting member 26. As this is the only means of support for chamber 2 and as the apparatus is used with the longitudinal axis of chamber 2 arranged vertically the weight of milk in the chamber 2 will cause distortion of the diaphragm which causes the load cell strain gauges to vary in resistance which variation is used to vary the load cell output voltage.
Thus the instantaneous weight of milk in the chamber 2 gives rise to an output signal which can be measured. Desirably, the milk flow rate in kilograms per minute is substantially linear with respect to the load cell output. FIG. 6 is a graph of load cell output voltage against flow rate of milk for an apparatus of the type described. Curve 30 is for the chamber configuration described herein where substantial linearity has been achieved. Curve 31 is for a chamber having two pairs of parallel sides with a rectangular slot in one side. It can be seen that such a simple arrangement is non-linear.
Linearity can be achieved by suitably selecting the shape of chamber 2. In the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 5 it can be seen that the container is somewhat egg shaped and in fact a container shape determined by the relatioship
V(h)=Vmax (h/hmax)R
V(h) is the volume of the container for a fluid height h,
hmax is the maximum height of fluid,
Vmax is the volume of fluid at the height hmax,
and n is the exponent
is suitable when hmax =90 mm, Vmax =314 cubic cm and n=1.74. Other factors will also have some effect. For example, the positioning and size of the baffle 8, the size and shape of the conduit 4 and the width of the exit as a function of height. If a non parallel sided slot 7 is used a different relationship between volume and height would be required.
The output of the load cell is indicative of weight, the linear relationship between flow rate and weight which can be obtained (curve 30) means that the milk meter output is substantially independent of the milk density. As already mentioned milk has a tendency to foam in transfer and the density of aerated milk is much lower than non-aerated milk. Substantially eliminating density as a factor in the measurement of total mass flow is therefore high advantageous.
In use milk from a cow is introduced into the upper chamber 14 through the inlet 15. The milk then falls through apertures 12 in the distribution plate 10 into the chamber 2 to pass between the wall of the conduit 4 and the baffle 8. It then flows through the slot 7 and outwardly down through the conduit 4, into outer housing 20 and then leaves the meter through outlet 21. At any given time, a quantity of milk will be present in chamber 2. The flow rate will inevitably cause the quantity of milk within the chamber 2 to vary. The load cell will therefore produce a signal having a varying amplitude. The total mass flow is derived by integrating this signal with respect to time and thus is not dependent on having a constant flow rate.
A second form of milk meter is shown in FIGS. 7 to 9. This uses a chamber having two parallel sides which is thus able to be accommodated within a "flat pack" outer housing 120. In this form of meter, the chamber 102 is suspended within outer housing 120 by leaf springs 126. In this form of meter, a different transducer is used to provide the output signal, namely a linear variable - differential transformer (LVDT) 125.
Milk enters the meter through inlet 115 and passes into a distribution manifold 114 where it spreads transversely to pass down through the two discharge ports 112. The milk then passes into opposite sides of chamber 102. The flow path followed by the milk is indicated by the arrows marked in each of FIGS. 7, 8 and 9.
On entering chamber 102 from discharge ports 112 the milk flows into sub chambers 103. It passes from these sub chambers around baffles 108 into a further sub chamber 104 which is in communication with both sub chambers 103. The milk then exits from sub chamber 104 through an aperture or slot 107 from whence it flows to the bottom of outer container 120 and leaves the meter through outlet 121. The configuration of slot 107 is determined by the same factors as have already been described in relation to the first form of meter. The external shape of chamber 102 together with the flow path determined by ports 112, baffles 108 and sub chamber 104 minimizes froth inducement in the milk as it passes through the meter and thus reduces errors in metered output arising from this phenomenon. Furthermore, as for the first form of meter the second form of meter has a configuration such as to ensure that the weight of milk within chamber 102 at any given time is linearly proportional to the flow rate at that time and curve 30 in figure is substantially representative of the performance of the second form of milk meter.
Chamber 102 is suspended within outer housing 120 by two leaf springs 126 cantilevered from mounting member 127 which in turn is fastened to the outer housing 120. A link member 128 connects between the outer ends of springs 126 and is fastened to the back wall 129 of chamber 2. Milk present in chamber 2 causes leaf springs 126 to deflect downward by a distance proportional to the weight of milk in chamber 2. This displacement is measured by an LVDT transducer 125. This comprises mutually coupled transformer windings 130 surrounding a movable ferromagnetic core 131. The core is free to move longitudinally within windings 130 and is mechanically coupled by arm 132 to link members 128. Thus as the leaf springs displace and chamber 102 moves downwards, so does core 131 thereby reducing the mutual inductance between the LVDT windings 130 and thus varying the output voltage of the LVDT.
The output of the LVDT is a linear function of the displacement of core 131 and as the displacement of chamber 102 is substantially a linear function of the flow rate of fluid passing through it, the output of the LVDT is a linear function of that flow rate. The LVDT output signal may be integrated to provide a measure of total mass flow.
Meter signal processing for deriving and displaying flow rate and total mass flow measurements from the transducer output signal is shown in FIG. 10. The signal processing system illustrated could be used for either of the meter input stages described above.
The electrical signal 201 from the selected primary transducer is input to analog signal conditioning circuits 202 where the signal is amplified and noise filtered. As mentioned above secondary transducers may be used to assist in producing a clean and accurate signal and thus the conditioning circuits 202 may receive more than one input. The output of the signal conditioning circuits is fed to a digitizing circuit 203 which samples the instantaneous signal value and converts each sample to a digital input 204 for microprocessor 205. Digitizer 203 is under the control of microprocessor 205.
Microprocessor 205 carries out a number of functions determined by the microprocessor software. These include a noise suppression function 206 and a flow rate calculation function 207. Flow rate calculations are successively stored in memory 208 and are available to output to a digital display 209 which will thus display instantaneous flow rate in kilograms per minute, for example.
An integrate function 210 operates on successive instantaneous flow rate samples from memory 208 to determine total mass flow or "yield" over the measurement period. The output of the integration operation is stored in memory 211 for outputting to display 209 whenever required.
In the two forms of meter described, two different transducers have been used, namely a force transducer and a displacement transducer. Other transducer types could also be used. It will be appreciated that the meters described are subject to turbulent variable flow of a fluid having variable density. With such a dynamic system, the electrical output of the transducers requires signal conditioning to remove noise and the like. To assist in signal conditioning, sensors could be used to measure the presence of fluid within chamber 102 at different heights within that chamber. Known sensors such as infrared detectors or conductivity detectors could be used to provide further data to assist in signal discrimination.
Although the two forms of meter described have been described with reference to the measurement of flow rate and total mass flow of milk, it should be understood that the meter of the present invention is useful for measuring flow rate and total mass flow of other fluids, particularly some which are difficult to measure using conventional techniques. Other liquids having entrained gases may be metered as may substances having fluid-like flow characteristics. An examples of the latter is particulate material such as cereal grains. The description of the working fluid as "milk" and the term "milk meter" have been used with reference to the two embodiments described simply for the purposes of simplification and clarity.
Thus it can be seen that, the invention provides a means for measuring flow rate and/or total mass flow which has the advantage that the flow rate measured or total mass flow measured for a homogeneous fluid is substantially independent of the density of the fluid passing through the measuring cell. Thus changes in density do not affect the reading. It will also be apparent that a weight or mass measurement can be obtained without storing or collection of the fluid.
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Does DC mean one-way or constant?[edit]
I do not agree with the section claiming DC sometimes refers to "constant polarity." DC is really the constant component of a voltage or current signal. The rectified signal has a DC component, but it also has many frequencies added to the signal. I think the point that is desired to be made is the conversion of AC to DC through a rectifier. However, a full-wave rectified signal is not DC. Mak17f 05:11, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
- Please see the second to last paragraph of this article. The bigger problem here is that the term 'DC' has been overloaded. For example, DC orginated as an abreviation for direct current - a current that does not periodically reverse direction. Thus, a phrase like 'DC voltage' becomes 'direct current voltage' which doesn't make much sense at all. Further, a 'DC current' becomes 'direct current current' which is redundant. We EEs commonly refer to the DC component of a signal thereby equating the term 'DC' to the time average of a time varying signal or, if we are in the frequency domain, the 0 Hz component of the signal. Additionally, we talk of DC voltage or current sources when we mean constant voltage or current sources. Finally, we refer to DC circuits when we mean a circuit without memory (the voltages and currents in the circuit do not depend on past or future values of voltages and currents). There are probably other examples where the term 'DC' has become shorthand for something other than a uni-directional current. Alfred Centauri 15:14, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
- Perhaps my concern is more that I think the most common use for the "DC" terminology is being a synonym for "constant;" be it constant voltage or current. Because of this, I feel the last couple paragraphs that you mention should be placed in the more prominent position in the beginning of the article. If in some circles DC is a synonym for constant polarity, it should be as an aside rather than the main definition. I agree that it seems the DC term is thrown around in many situations. Possibly in this article the different definitions should be clearly presented? I've rearranged the article such that uses and definitions are separated. Maybe this way the debate can be focused in these areas.Mak17f 18:50, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
DC means low frequency but not necessarily constant polarity. As an example, a DC motor can be rotated clockwise using a positive DC voltage and counterclockwise using a negative DC voltage. One meaning is with respect to power with constant polarity, like batteries and generators. The second meaning is baseband signal with frequency less than a threshold.Nanoatzin (talk) 08:19, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Does DC have a frequency of zero?[edit]
does dc has frq.
- If you mean "Does DC have frequency?", no, I don't think it does. —Zootm 12:19, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
- Actually (and mathematically), it does have a frequency: 0 Hz.--Lenilucho 22:50, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
- Really? Consider a sinusoidal voltage source:
- Actually (and mathematically), it does have a frequency: 0 Hz.--Lenilucho 22:50, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
- The rms value of this voltage is:
- This result is independent of the frequency. If we set the frequency to zero then:
- Thus, it would appear that this source should deliver 1W to a resistance of 1 ohm yet, according to the rms value calculated above, it should deliver an average power of 1/2W. So, is a 1V DC voltage source really equivalent to a 1V peak sinusoidal source of frequency zero? Alfred Centauri 04:50, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
- Ok, may be mathematically that is not right. Or I don't know what's wrong on what you wrote.But conceptually, a 0 Hz sinusoidal (or any waveform) would complete a cycle 0 times per second. So either it is not a periodic function (but a sine is continuous, so that's not right), or it is a continous waveform (so it wouldn't ever change, like DC). That's why it is sometimes considered of 0 Hz.Actually, if you take a function generator and you set its frequency at 0 Hz, with any waveform, you'll get DC.--Lenilucho 09:08, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
- The mathematical discrepency is due to the product of zero and infinity being indeterminate. In other words, we define DC to be a constant voltage or constant current (e.g., 1V or 1A). There is no product of zero and time in the definition. On the other hand, setting the frequency to zero for a sinusoidal function of time gives a constant for any finite value of t but, in the limit as t goes to infinity, the behaviour of this function is different from that of a constant.
- Here's an analogous problem. Is an ideal wire the same as an ideal zero ohm resistor? According to one definition, an ideal wire is identical to a zero volt voltage source. That is, the voltage across the ideal wire is identically zero regardless of the current through the wire. On the other hand, the voltage across a resistor is the product of the resistor current and the resistance. If a resistor is connected to a 1V source, the voltage across the resistor is 1V. In the limit as the resistance is reduced to zero ohms, the voltage is still 1V but the current is unbounded. In other words, the product of zero ohms and infinite current equals 1V in this case. However, if we connect an ideal wire across the 1V source, we have an inconsistent circuit that says 1V = 0V. Thus, a zero ohm resistance is not quite the same as a short circuit. Alfred Centauri 13:24, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
The frequency of a pure DC signal is generally considered to be , but this depends upon the situation. DC power that contains ripple has a spectrum with tones at multiples of the ripple frequency having different amplitudes. Nanoatzin (talk) 08:22, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Length of the cable to be used for Arc welding machine[edit]
I want to know what are the limitations for the length of the cable to be used for Positive connection for a DC Welding machine. Let me explain more we want to do welding for one equipment which is at a distance of 15metres from the welding machine we can get the power supply for the welding machine there only. For this i want to know is it safe to keep welding machine at 15metres distance and do the welding. In this case what is the earthing procedure we need to follow is it necessary to earth nearer to the equipment or we can earth the common earth of the machine which is nearer to the welding machine. Please suggest me what to do —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 184.108.40.206 (talk) 11:02, 5 December 2006 (UTC).
ĶЇŖŤÏ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 16:42, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Recommend you purchase the most recent edition of the National Electrical Code and follow the guidelines.Nanoatzin (talk) 08:26, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
What is DC? (as commonly accepted in EE)[edit]
Is it a steady state current (voltage) with no perturbations (ie no frequencies above zero), or is it just a unidirectional flow of charge the magnitude and frequency of which could vary as any old function of time you care to think up?--TreeSmiler (talk) 00:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
- The DC component of a signal (voltage, current, or whatever) is the mean value, or the zero-frequency Fourier component (which has an rms value higher than that of an AC component of the same amplitude, as pointed out above). The DC component thus does not fluctuate. But the term is also used for voltages or currents where the mean is much greater than the fluctuations; that is, the fact that a signal has fluctuations does not prevent it being called DC. And a DC voltage source (power supply) can have even negative fluctuations of the current, and still be DC. It's a broad concept. Dicklyon (talk) 00:26, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
- I would argue that the concept isn't broad at all but that the usage of the term is sloppy. That fact that it is 'understood' that DC is often used to mean 'relatively constant' doesn't change the definition of DC (in EE) as a non-fluctuating, i.e., constant with time signal. A unidirectional flow of charge that varies significantly with time is, at the technical level, sometimes called pulsating DC but this is a contradiction. To be precise (something we should all strive to be), a unidirectional current contains, in general, a component that has a non-zero time average as well as fluctuating component(s) with zero time average. Alfred Centauri (talk) 02:34, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
- If you prefer a strict definition, please do give us a source for it. What you call "sloppy usage" has been a topic of discussion at least since 1893, as we see here. Even a book with a strict definition follows immediately with "In practice, ...". And Vannevar Bush was flexible about different meanings, too. Dicklyon (talk) 04:22, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
- The acronym DC (direct-current) refers to a unidirectional current. Thus, strictly speaking, a 'DC voltage' (where DC is understood to be an acronym for direct-current) is a 'unidirectional current voltage' which is obviously nonsense . However, the term DC, where DC is no longer understood to be an acronym, has come to mean constant. I quote from 13th edition of "The Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers":
- "DC Sources. Some sources, such as batteries, deliver electric energy at a nearly constant voltage and thus they are modeled as constant voltage sources. The term dc sources basically means direct-current sources, but it has come to stand for constant sources as well."
- Thus the terms "DC circuit analysis", "DC solution", "DC component", "DC coupled", "DC restoration", etc. I stand by my assertion that the concept of the term DC, used by most EEs today to mean (ideally) constant, isn't broad at all. As additional support for my assertion, consider this where we find:
- "Direct current (DC) is defined as a current that is constant due to a steady, unidirectional flow of electrical charge" (emphasis is mine) Alfred Centauri (talk) 17:04, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
DC is not the same that CC[edit]
CC constant. DC sign constant. --Nicoguaro (talk) 14:08, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- Within the world of EE, DC is a synonym for constant, e.g., DC (non-timevarying) circuit analysis, DC (non-time varying) source, DC (non-time varying) component etc. Alfred Centauri (talk) 01:27, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Use of direct current[edit]
It would be helpful if someone who knows about such things could amend this article to discuss how it is that much if not most of the world relies on direct current. If the disadvantages of direct current are so great, why does all of Europe have DC systems? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahistorian (talk • contribs) 02:36, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
All of Europe does not have DC systems. The United Kingdom uses 240VAC at 50Hz. Direct current is used most often in modern commercial electrical power systems to transmit power over 1,000 miles. One such DC line delivers power from Bonneville Dam to Sylmar, Los_Angeles using +/-500,000 volt DC lines. Power lines operating at 240VDC can carry power just a few miles, which tends to be impractical.Nanoatzin (talk) 08:42, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Description of the filled parameters in the WikiProject Electronics template and the WikiProject Energy template.[edit]
I added the WikiProject Electronics template since this article pertains to this WikiProject; the WikiProject Energy template was already added, but none of the parameters were filled. I referred to the templates in the talk page of the article for AC current.
WikiProject Electronics Class and WikiProject Energy Class: I rated the article as being Start-Class because it has one reference; from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Electronics/Assessment and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Energy/Assessment, under the description for Start-Class articles, the rating of Start-Class should be applied for "An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and, most notably, lacks adequate reliable sources". If an article has only one listed source, it is, at best, start-class, regardless how informative, well-written, or long it is. This is simply because such articles need to be more verifiable, which Wikipedia holds in very high regard. The editors did do a good job, especially in formatting and organization; the article only needs more information and references for verification.
WikiProject Electronics Importance: Direct current (D.C. [or just DC]) circuits are absolutely fundamental to electronics, since every standard electronics class begins with the properties and equations that apply to a DC circuit. An understanding of DC circuits is the first step towards an understanding of higher-level concepts in electronics. Since knowledge of electronics requires knowledge of DC circuits, I rated this article as being of top importance.
WikiProject Energy Importance: Direct circuits form a paradigm of electric information and energy transfer. Indeed, networks of energy transfer can often be simplified (conceptually) into a DC circuit with components for those who do not know much about physics or when details are neglected. However, unlike in electronics, general knowledge of the dynamics of energy transfer in physics does not require knowledge of DC circuits. For these reasons, I rated this article as being of high-importance.
This article is technically lacking an infobox, so I noted that.
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Suggest merge[edit]
DC circuit contains very little not already desecribed here, and this unreferenced stub definition could usefully be merged here to give it context. --Wtshymanski (talk) 20:52, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
DC circuit is not the same as DC. A DC circuit is one or electrical device that are physically connected. Direct current is a form of energy. It would be better to add DC circuit to the DC disambiguation page. Merging the two articles is likely to make both inaccurate.Nanoatzin (talk) 08:55, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
- What, exactly, would you discuss only at "Direct current" that is not appropriate for "DC circuit" or the reverse? These aren't even two successive chapters in the physics textbook. --Wtshymanski (talk) 21:56, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
- Which argument are you using? You have one for and one against there. 126.96.36.199 (talk) 11:44, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
- Strongly Oppose Wtshymanski has a long history of merging articles with the sole intent of (during the 'merge') deleting large quantities of either or both articles (that don't meet his idea of what should be in what he regards as 'his' encyclopedia). 220.127.116.11 (talk) 11:44, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
The graphic for the article that shows "pulsing" is incorrect. The correct term is ripple.Nanoatzin (talk) 08:55, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
- Also (less commonly) known as 'pulsating DC' (even though the term is technically inaccurate). The standard symbol used actaully shows pulsating DC rather than DC with ripple. 22.214.171.124 (talk) 11:47, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Current Flow[edit]
Current is defined as the flow of charge, in articles that deal the concept of current specifically, using the expression current flow when talking about charge flow creates an implicit definition which is never defined. --Kyohyi (talk) 16:59, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
- At the moment the lede uses a definition for Direct Current as the unidirectional flow of charge. In the third sentence of the lede says "Direct current may flow in a conductor such as a wire, but can also flow through semiconductors, insulators, or even through a vacuum as in electron or ion beams.". "current may flow" implies a flow of flow of charge. I would like to change this sentence so that we don't imply a flow of a flow of charge. --Kyohyi (talk) 20:52, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
- Please, learn a level of English grammar, syntax and sentence parsing appropriate to the level of pedantry that you're pushing. "Current flow" is a commonplace idiomatic expression that is very widely used in an unambiguous sense. Yet in deference to you and your claims of tautology, we are not strongly resisting your goal to rework uses of it. However "current may flow" is simply a different construct; there is no tautology here, even to your nitpicking level. There is no error here and we should not "fix" it merely to make an article inaccessible to normal readers. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:13, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
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|Reviews for Shifting Gears
| Guest chapter 14 . 3/1
I don't know why , but I'm still check out the story regular to see if you supraise come back . and I'm so sad right now :(:(:(
| Guest chapter 14 . 2/28
Please don't abandon this!
| Guest chapter 14 . 12/30/2014
Please come back ...!
| Guest chapter 1 . 11/20/2014
Where are you? Uppppdate please ! Love your story sooomuch .
| Guest chapter 14 . 7/12/2014
Update update pleas update ! :)
| Always Hopeful Romantic chapter 14 . 5/21/2014
Hey guys, I realize that this fic is on the back burner for you, but it still begs to be finished. I love the parallels between the movie and your AU reality. Enough of the familiar pieces are there that it doesn't seem too far off, but yet, it is a whole new world. I love Dom being on Lucy's side. She just seems to fit better with Team Lucy. I go back and forth on Riley. She isn't so bad one minute, then the next she pisses me off again. Sometimes I think that she would be an okay substitute if Lucy couldn't work things out with Amy. Then again, I realize you can't have two top dogs in a organization, and somehow I don't see her taking a back seat to Lucy's clearly superior skills. And as for Lucy, I know that she is vulnerable after too many deaths and betrayals, but she needs to toughen up a bit, and be a bit more the confident, cocky, take-no-prisoners heroine she really was in the movie. Just my opinion, but I hate when she is wishy-washy. That being said, this is your fic, and I will gladly follow where you lead, if you will please finish the story. Thanks. Happy writing. AHR
| Mad Hatter chapter 14 . 4/23/2014
Any chance of an update soon? So much has happened and this chapter was so full of action that I'm looking forward to seeing where this is going. Surely you won't kill Amy but waiting to know what will happen next between her and Lucy now is very suspenseful. I hope you will update soon.
| kal1 chapter 14 . 3/18/2014
The first time I read this, I couldn't get pass the first half of chapter 1 because it was so confusing. I gave it another try and boy, did I regret not reading this thru the first time. This is totally AWESOME. This is one of the best DEBS fics. Great job! I hope you continue with this. Looking forward to your next chapter...I read this story three times already.
| Guest chapter 14 . 3/9/2014
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| CharlieGreyx chapter 14 . 3/1/2014
OMG YOU GUYS are back!? absolutely brilliant as always!
poor riley! unrequited love bites, but her going in to taunt amy was annoying as fark! uggggh arrogant brat...
anyway, im kind of excited now that amy knows that lucy knows she's an agent! this'll DEFS change things up.
ALTHOUGH, YOU SHOT AMY! :( (AND lucy!) the fact that you have lucy cooing and panicking all over amy makes this affront marginally less unforgivable... but not by much! PLEASE UPDATE SOON. considering this trend that you've started, should we anticipate an email in march? ;)
| madison4865 chapter 14 . 2/24/2014
OH BOY! just so excited to finally have the time to relax and read this up-date! this IS A GREAT CHAPTER, LOTS OF EXCITEMENT and action. sometimes i would love to smack max, she can be such a bitch! like that janet found a little confidence. so what is scud up to? if i didn't like amy and lucy, icould totally see riley with lucy, but i like amy to much for that. hope that amy will be alright and that it wakes lucy up. great read, maybe another chapter this year? :)
| Dixiedynamite18 chapter 14 . 2/23/2014
Fantastic update as always and imagine my surprise when I get an email alert for this story just a month after the last one! Loving the plot progression and I'm enjoying the Riley character development, you make it so hard not to favor that character for Lucy. Looking forward to what will happen next and how both amy and Lucy will handle themselves with Amy's injury and the subsequent knowledge that Amy's and undercover agent will do for their budding relationship. Bang up job and now my hopes are high that your next update will be within the next six months (don't want to ask for to much lol). Cheers!
| AnonX chapter 14 . 2/22/2014
Great story, i can't wait to see what happens next.
| JPElles chapter 14 . 2/17/2014
Poor Amy. With Lucy there i'm sure she'll be fine though. The real question is what will Amy do. Now that she knows the ball is back in her court. And if Lucy saves her life from the agents who were supposed to be on her side... That should be enough to give even Max some pause.
| SiwaPyra chapter 14 . 2/16/2014
Ahh monkey turds, what are you doing to my poor heart! Whew that was packed full of a lot of info and emotions! I like how the chapter kind of had three parts of Lucy with Riley, Riley with Amy, and Amy with Lucy. Obviously my fave was Amy with Lucy :P I was pissed when Riley came to the shop though... She was so obviously trying to stake her claim on Lucy and belittle Amy that it was kind of ridiculous lol. But I'm very proud of Amy for keeping her cool as well as she could.
Max is starting to piss me off, but I guess she's a sort of pseudo-antagonist in the DEBS storyline. You guys are doing an amazing job portraying her though, because her character is very believable. But man, her challenging Amy on everything is getting old haha.
And of course, that final scene, holy crap! I was afraid that Lucy was just going to basically ignore Amy as soon as she got there so I was bet pleasantly surprised when she was genuine about being sorry. Even if she had tried to convince herself that she wasn't going to acknowledge her feelings for Amy anymore, it's obvious that she still cares for her. And then even that was blown out of the water and proved that she still is totally in love with Amy when she found out Amy was hurt. *heart melt* she even called her 'baby'. D'awwww! Now I'm just nervous that the only person she could get ahold of was Riley... Because I know you authors would have no qualms about making an already complicated situation more complicated lol.
And now with a cliffy like that you can't leave us hanging for a year again! Such a good chapter, great job!


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What device? Not really sure what your questions are. Be a bit more specific. What type of competitions are you considering?
What do I shoot with? Canon gear of course
You absolutely need a cool hat.
I could make a list of a bunch of guns i have, or "have", or wish I had. Why would one feel compelled to provide that infornation freely? Do you feel the need to show off? Is it some immature game of oneupsmanship?
Why do you feel it necessary to list your guns?
Honestly, you're being so vague, its nearly impossible to help you.
You should research this on your own to decide what class you'll be shooting. When you decide that, you should them know what you'll need.
Really, are you talking holsters, timers, belts, mag holders, smithing and repair parts and tools....
What? These people need to know exactly what your talking about to be about to help you. A "device" for competition could even include a vehicle to ride to the competition in. Narrow it down a bit and these people WILL help you out. They're generally a pretty friendly and helpful bunch.
Lol! Yeah that does clear it up quite a bit!
I don't shoot competitively, but, when I decide to take that step, the first thing I'm going to do is go watch a few shoots to get the idea of how they go.
I shoot in local plate matches and plan to get into Steel challenge when time permits. As for advice for pistol competitions:
Get a pistol that you are able to compete with, run it well, and are familiar with. Then practice as much as you can. Dry fire, target aquisition, start slow and gradually increase speed. A shot timer helps to see what you are doing overall. Shooting thousands of rounds will help more than buying a $4k gun and not practicing much.


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Nov 27, 2013, 2:37 AM EDT
Here's a quick swing through the NBA for a Tuesday night, or you missed while seeing how far you could launch a pumpkin…
John Wall, Washington Wizards. No Bradley Beal so they need big games from him and they got it Tuesday in a win over a Lakers team that had been playing good defense — Wall had 31 points on 18 shots, plus 9 assists. More importantly, he had 13 points in final 4:30 of game, including seven straight at one point. However, Wall really gets the high grade because this is three straight games with 30 or more points (the last two are Washington wins).
Pelicans offense not getting Anthony Davis the ball more. Do the other Pelicans players realize how good Anthony Davis is? Because you don't see the Clippers ignore Blake Griffin for extended periods, or Portland forget LeMarcus Aldridge exists. As seems to happen at times, for stretches on Tuesday night the Pelicans forgot about Davis. Why? In 30 minutes Davis had 9 shots (and had just 2 free throws) while Jason Smith had 14 shots, Eric Gordon had 12, Jrue Holiday 16, Ryan Anderson 17 and Tyreke Evans 11. At one point in the fourth quarter guard Nemanja Nedovic had been switched onto Davis on a pick, Davis went to the block with a clear mismatch, and nobody got him the rock. It was sad. On the season Davis leads the team in shot attempts per game, but at times they just seem to forget him and you can't do that with your best player.
Arron Afflalo, Orlando Magic. He had 26 points on the night including 10 in the third quarter when the Magic went on a run to pull away. Afflalo is having a career year — 21.6 points per game with a true shooting percentage of 62%. Plus he plays solid defense. All he's really doing is improving his trade value for Orlando (he's one of the veterans on the block).
Toronto Raptors' final shot. Down 2 with 11 seconds left to Brooklyn at home, Toronto got the ball to Rudy Gay and ran a 1-4 flat (Gay has the ball out top, everyone else basically stands on the baseline and stays out of the way, then slides into position for a kick out or to get a rebound). You see that play a lot at the end of games but it is a pet peeve of mine, I am not a fan of that play unless you have LeBron/Durant, Gay doesn't qualify. Run a damn play. But that's not really the biggest problem with Toronto's last shot — Gay makes his move, the defense collapses and he kicks it out in the corner to a wide-open… Amir Johnson. A power forward who shouldn't be in the prime kick-out spot on the floor. That is the real problem — with DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry on the floor, why is Johnson the one with the corner three shot? He is a 27.8 percent shooter from three. Just not a well designed play. And with that Brooklyn gets the win.
- kinglorious - Nov 27, 2013 at 2:54 AM
I have to agree with you Kurt, Gay shouldn't get a 1-4 flat play at the end of the game. Especially with tonights stats. Just terrible.
- unxpexted1 - Nov 27, 2013 at 10:24 AM
Nice to see John Wall play at this high level consistently. he has the ability to be this type of player on a nightly basis. He can't shoot threes but he has a solid 15-18 footer. Just needs to work on his half court game
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Review: Microsoft Office pricey, but good value
If you have just one computer, the one-time fee is clearly for you. If you have two, it might still be cheaper to buy it the traditional way. You'd pay $280 for the basic package, compared with $300 over three years. I'm still running Office software from 2006 on an old iMac. That's less than $25 a year at today's prices, compared with $100 for a subscription.
Of course, the subscription gets you more, including access to all seven programs, not just four. You can change which five computers work with the subscription if you upgrade a machine or send a kid to college. You also get 20 additional gigabytes of storage on SkyDrive, on top of the 7 GB that comes for free, plus 60 minutes of free international calls a month on Skype.
Although Microsoft hasn't updated Office for Apple computers yet, the subscription will let you install Office 2011 on a Mac and give you a new version when it comes out, likely next year. The value proposition will grow even more if Microsoft ever makes versions that run on the iPad and Android devices. For now, the only tablets supported are those running Windows.
Office 2013 will require either Windows 7 or 8. With the subscription, you also get Office On Demand, which allows you to temporarily install copies on additional machines, such as that of a friend you are visiting. It's not the full experience, but it'll do. You won't lose your documents if you end your subscription one day, but you'll be limited to viewing and printing them.
Besides Google Docs, I've also used a number of free or cheaper options, including OpenOffice and Apple's Pages and Numbers. Yet I've repeatedly found myself coming back to Microsoft's Office. It's not cheap, but you're getting something far more versatile, whether you decide on a subscription or just a one-time payment.
Anick Jesdanun, deputy technology editor for The Associated Press, can be reached at njesdanun(at)ap.org.
About Office 2013:
Microsoft updated its Office package to support touch-screen features and emphasize online file storage. It's also pushing to sell the new Office 2013 as a subscription, with recurring fees of $100 a year or $10 a month, which is $20 more expensive for the full year. A subscription works with up to five Windows and Mac computers or Windows tablets. Mac users get Office 2011 until a new version comes out. Office 2013 is also available the traditional way, for a one-time fee that starts at $140 for a single Windows computer.
For more pricing details: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/buy
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Drinking in high school is nothing new, and teens face not only alcohol abuse but a new trend called drunkorexia.
The Last Call Program is a new private treatment done at home to help control excessive drinking habits without the necessity or embarrassment of public treatment. (PRWEB)
In a national survey of undergraduates, roughly six percent met criteria for current alcohol dependence (AD), and approximately 31 percent met criteria for current alcohol abuse.
One of the ways an alcohol dependence (AD) diagnosis can be made is through measurement of biological markers of hepatic injury such as gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT) and mean corpuscular volume (MCV).
Researchers know that gender differences exist in the prevalence, characteristics, and course of alcohol dependence (AD).
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When the recent decision was made to merge the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) into a yet unnamed institution, there were a lot of questions as to how, and even why, it needed to be done.
A new report reveals drinking during one's teen years can lead to long- and short-term consequences.
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Good Afternoon!
Per usual, I'm feeling a bit burnt out this Friday. I'm guilty of over scheduling myself the past few weeks, so I'm looking forward to a low key weekend.
Here are some random thoughts form the week.
Good Afternoon!
Per usual, I'm feeling a bit burnt out this Friday. I'm guilty of over scheduling myself the past few weeks, so I'm looking forward to a low key weekend.
Here are some random thoughts form the week.
Even though we had a March snowstorm this week here in Chicago, I have moved my puffy coat into storage and I'm looking forward to some warmer weather. It's now officially spring and I'm looking forward to putting winter behind us.
Here are some things I'm looking forward to this spring.
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A few weeks ago, Rich and I went on a date night at Davanti Enoteca's Taylor Street location. It was our first night out in the Little Italy neighborhood of Chicago and after years of having the 'hood on our bucket list, this dinner convinced us to visit the neighborhood more often!{Continue reading…}
As I mentioned yesterday, I took a whirlwind trip to Michigan over the weekend to attend my friend Stephanie's Baby Shower! You may remember her from her Bachelorette Party in Disney last May, Wedding Shower last June and her Wedding last August. As you can see, it's been a busy year for her and her husband […]{Continue reading…}
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Good Afternoon!! This weekend was a bit of a whirlwind but filled with fun. Friday night we enjoyed lots of good eats at Localicious and then packed up the car and headed to Michigan for some time with good friends. While we were there we celebrated my friend Stephanie's new house and Baby Shower and […]{Continue reading…}
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Good Evening! Today I got to thinking about how much I love Mondays. They really are one of my favorite days of the week (probably second to Friday). Here's why.{Continue reading…}
Good Afternoon! It's a beautiful day here in Chicago, so I'm not going to spend too much time recapping my weekend. Here are the highlights-Rich and I had a great date night consisting of dinner at Davanti Enoteca & a bluegrass concert at City Winery. This morning I met up with Allison for yoga & […]{Continue reading…}
Last weekend, I got the opportunity to hear The Pioneer Woman speak at The International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago. She was there launching her new cookware line and spent her lunch speaking to a small group of bloggers that felt like a group of friends!{Continue reading…}
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The most pleasant run-ins can happen in the most unexpected places… A photo posted by James Van Der Beek (@vanderjames) on Nov 11, 2014 at 12:12am PST Actor James Van Der Beek and his former "Dawson's Creek" co-star Joshua Jackson had an impromptu reunion in Los Angeles on Saturday. The actors played onscreen best friends [Read More]
Joshua Jackson tempted to quit acting after 'Dawson's Creek'
Joshua Jackson wanted to quit acting after shooting hit TV series "Dawson's Creek" because the grueling schedule left him "burnt out." The actor began making movies as a teenager, but it was his role as Pacey Witter in the popular teen drama that launched him into teen idol status. The show wrapped in 2003 following [Read More]
Diane Kruger: 'First date with Joshua Jackson was terrible'
Former "Dawson's Creek" star Joshua Jackson tricked his girlfriend-of-seven-years Diane Kruger into having dinner with him after persuading her to have a quick drink with him. The actor tracked the German star to her hotel and asked her to join him at the bar, but she made it clear that it could only be a [...] [Read More]
Joshua Jackson's mystery foot injury
Actor Joshua Jackson is hobbling around on crutches after suffering a mystery foot injury. The former "Dawson's Creek" star was photographed with a surgical boot on his right foot as he made his way through a Los Angeles airport on Monday with his longtime girlfriend, Diane Kruger. Jackson was also sporting a large bandage wrapped [...] [Read More]
Diane Kruger's mother quizzed Joshua Jackson over arrest
Diane Kruger was embarrassed during her boyfriend Joshua Jackson's first meeting with her parents as her mother interrogated him over his 2002 arrest. The German actress' mother, Maria-Theresa, took the opportunity to quiz the former "Dawson's Creek" star about an incident at an ice hockey match in North Carolina in 2002, and even pulled out [...] [Read More]
Diane Kruger has regular therapy
Actress Diane Kruger credits regular therapy sessions with keeping her relationship with Joshua Jackson healthy. The German actress has been dating the former "Dawson's Creek" star since 2006, and she insists seeing a therapist on a regular basis helps keep her personal life happy. She tells Britain's Marie Claire magazine, "All relationships are hard. It [...] [Read More]
Diane Kruger's skinny-dipping admission
Actress Diane Kruger left her boyfriend Joshua Jackson aghast during a red carpet interview after revealing the pair has a penchant for skinny-dipping. "The Inglourious Basterds" beauty was attending a special bash celebrating designer Prabal Gurung in Los Angeles on Tuesday night when she made the admission during a chat about her favorite summer outfits. [...] [Read More]
Joshua Jackson turned Diane Kruger into a backpacker
"Inglourious Basterds" star Diane Kruger has credited boyfriend Joshua Jackson with transforming her from a city slicker to a backpacker. The pretty German model-turned-actress admits she had never been camping before the former "Dawson's Creek" star suggested a rustic break at the beginning of their romance – and now she can't wait for their next [...] [Read More]
Joshua Jackson bans Diane Kruger from watching his early work
Actor Joshua Jackson has banned his girlfriend Diane Kruger from watching his early work, because he suffered from acne and bloating during his teenage years. The couple has been dating since 2006, but the "Inglourious Basterds" beauty admits she has yet to see Jackson's "The Mighty Ducks" or "Dawson's Creek," because the hunk is so [...] [Read More]


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Posts Tagged 'writing'
Speaking Bluntly
January 28, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
Two letters from Colette, who was born on this day in 1873, to her friend Marguerite Moreno.
Rozven, mid-September 1924
… I should like to talk earnestly to you about your copy for Les Annales. You still do not have quite the right touch. You lack the seeming carelessness which gives the "diary" effect. For the most part you have approached your gentlemen as though they were so many subjects assigned in class … For one portrait which works—Jarry—there are two others—Proust and Iturri, say—who don't. They are just not sufficiently alive!
December 31, 2014 | by Nick Courage
We're out until January 5, but we're re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we're away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year!
Getting back on the skateboard.
Not long ago I went to lunch with a gracious, well-intentioned editor who was not, I quickly realized, interested in publishing my book, the worst possible pitch for which is: "It's a middle-grade novel about peak oil." Having tabled my hopes like a used napkin, somewhere between the Lebanese tea and the shaved fennel, the editor asked what I'd rather be doing with my days, "in an ideal world." I was surrounded by sandwich-eating professionals and suffocating, psychically, at the thought of being one: that's when I remembered kickflips.
I'd given up skateboarding when I was fifteen, after breaking my wrist—I hadn't been on a board since. When, shortly after graduating high school, an acquaintance of mine went pro, the specter of his early success strengthened my resolve not to skate: Why confront my talentlessness when it was more easily avoided? But at lunch that day I realized I was thirty years old and viscerally hating myself for matching the workaday worst of Lower Manhattan in my light-blue button-up and tan oxfords.
So I started to skate again, taking mostly to a ten-block loop in Brooklyn that I call the Greenpoint Skate Lab, a toxic hat-tip to the ecological impact tours that roll through the Lab while I'm there most Saturdays. It's a deeply unhappy spot, physically and psychically—haunted by the same oil spill ("three times worse than Exxon Valdez") that, at home, a few blocks away, I only ever remember after having drunk from the bathroom faucet. As a reflective-vested guide explained to a small, inexplicable crowd on one of my first days out, a drunk driver once crashed through the barricade on Apollo Street where it dead ends next to the BP oil refinery. The car dove nose-first into the shallows of Newtown Creek. The water was so contaminated with oil that it was on fire for days. Read More >>
Purity of Essence: One Question for Nell Zink
December 8, 2014 | by Matthew Jakubowski
Nell Zink's novel The Wallcreeper came out in October and was listed last week among the 100 Notable Books of 2014 by the New York Times. Jonathan Franzen—who had earlier tried to interest publishers in Zink's first novel, Sailing Towards the Sunset by Avner Shats—wrote, "Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know."
The Wallcreeper is the coming-of-age story of Tiffany, a young woman who marries a man she hardly knows and follows him to Switzerland. Zink's compressed scenes and chapter-less form showcase her mastery of tonal register—think Diane Williams with a little less bathos—as the newlyweds' shared interests in each other and birding quickly shift to other lovers and separate environmental causes. Meanwhile, the zingers and bon mots fly so fast and furiously that one often forgets that Tiffany is on the brink of poverty.
Zink, now fifty, has also published several pieces in n+1. She lives in Bad Belzig, Germany, where she worked most recently as a translator. As a writer living abroad, she does not seem fond of things like e-mail interviews, and understandably so. This exchange took place in August—part of a longer interview filled with some of the most riotous, pummeling insults I've ever absorbed—and Zink explained that the course of her experience as a writer has involved a great deal of travel, marked by an intense effort to insulate her creative life from the work required to make rent. Her second novel, Mislaid, is due out next year. She sold it, as she has said elsewhere, for "megabucks." This may be half jest, but it hints nevertheless that her fortunes have shifted for the better since this summer, when she shared the following account of her personal history.
What kind of jobs have you had? Do you write full-time now, "living the dream"?
I was always a bit concerned about purity of essence. I never wanted a job that might affect the way I wrote or thought. I remember how in college I was very proud of having finagled a job in the English department, where I spent most of my time collating and stapling. I didn't major in English, obviously, because I preferred being challenged in courses where I might get bad grades. Once, Gordon Lish came to speak there and warned us explicitly against going to work in publishing, because it forces you to read bad prose all day every day and spoils your style. After his talk, all the other student writers jumped up to beg him for jobs in publishing while I wandered off strengthened in my resolve to do manual labor. Read More »
November 5, 2014 | by Sadie Stein
The hard truth is that not everyone has a novel in them. "I have no gift for invention," I say to anyone who ever asks after my own ambitions—and why do people ask? For that matter, is my response even appropriate? I'm not sure what that means, "a gift for invention": certainly I've never visited the Genius Bar without concocting some elaborate and gratuitous lie to explain the condition of my computer.
Which is not to say I've never written any fiction. I have, under duress. It was a requirement for my degree. The instructor was an older lady in caftans and arty jewelry with pumpkin-colored hair who had at one point written an epic women's best seller with a lurid, seventies-style jacket. She'd also written a book of cat poetry. I didn't mind any of that; the problem was that every detail of the class was as lazy and clichéd as that constellation of characteristics.
A few people in the class were predictably pretentious. They turned out derivative takes on macho writers and they were unnecessarily confrontational when discussing others' submissions. One guy's work was disturbing, but tritely disturbing. A few in the class spoke and wrote poor English. One girl was writing a fantasy novel; she was my favorite. Read More »
Desperate Measures: An Interview with David Gordon
October 27, 2014 | by Dwyer Murphy
David Gordon's fiction doesn't fall comfortably into one category. Depending on what you're reading and who you're talking to, he might be a mystery writer, a postmodernist, a satirist, or a hybrid. His new collection, White Tiger on Snow Mountain, runs an impressive gamut. Its cast is large and varied—there are gunmen, grad students, investigators, vampires, struggling writers, Internet sex trolls, and men named David Gordon. (One of these stories, "Man-Boob Summer," first appeared in The Paris Review's Fall 2012 issue.) Gordon's sentences are crisp and often jarring. His plots unspool in strange, sometimes disturbing ways. There's little to be gained in trying to situate yourself according to generic conventions; better just to enjoy the disorientation and to trust that you're in the hands of an earnest storyteller.
I met with Gordon, who has also published two novels, on a Friday afternoon in Brooklyn. School was letting out next door, but Gordon's booming voice carried over the two-thirty hysteria. We spoke over the course of the afternoon about repurposing genres, literary stardom in Japan (the Japanese translation of his first novel, The Serialist, was a major success), the risks of first-person storytelling, and the publishing-industry controversy swirling around him.
White Tiger on Snow Mountain is your first story collection. Did you approach the stories differently than you would a novel?
In conceptual terms, I do think there's a difference, at least for me. A story usually comes into my mind like a three-dimensional object—something I can see and feel and rotate. I'm often completely wrong about what the object is, but it's still there. Whereas a novel is more like a set of directions for a road trip to California, with a planned stop in, say, Colorado and a visit to the Grand Canyon. The truth is I have no idea what's going to happen along the way or whether I'll even get there, but I have this general sense of direction and an end I hope to reach.
Now that the stories are completed and assembled, are you surprised at any of the themes or images that crop up?
I wrote these stories over a period of years, so some of the thematic echoes that people point out seem fairly straightforward for somebody who's been writing for a long time—you deal with certain recurring ideas and problems. But then there are very specific echoes that I wasn't aware of, and those are really interesting to me. My protagonists eat a lot of Chinese food and go to a lot of cafés. People tend to have cats in my stories, and the women have long fingers. I have no idea where this stuff comes from. I have no lost love with long fingers. I guess these things just leak out of my subconscious. Read More »
A Sensual Act
October 16, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
I started writing and drawing at an early age … My first book was a book of poetry and drawings. Invariably the first drafts of my poems combine drawings and verse, sometimes taking off from an image, sometimes from words … With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot say about the act of writing. In fact, I often turn to drawing to recover from the writing.
—Günter Grass, the Art of Fiction No. 124, 1991
Happy eighty-seventh to Günter Grass. That "first book" he refers to is Die Vorzüge der Windhühner (The Advantages of Windfowl), from 1956; Princeton's Graphic Arts Collection has a few of the lithographs on their site. As Martin Esslin writes, "It is hard to tell whether the poems are there to illustrate the drawings, or the drawings to illustrate the poems"—which accords with Grass's fairly circular description of his process. Here's another:Read More »


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AHL announces suspension
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League today announced that Worcester Sharks defenseman Matt Pelech has been suspended for three (3) games as a consequence of an illegal check to the head of an opponent during a game vs. Syracuse on Nov. 25.
Pelech will miss Worcester's games Friday (Nov. 30) at Portland, Saturday (Dec. 1) at Bridgeport and Sunday (Dec. 2) at Providence.
- AHL names award winners for March
- Playoff Primer: April 1
- AHL announces suspensions
- Accountability plays a big role in Penguins' success
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The UN-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Friday charged mid-ranking former Khmer Rouge cadre Ao An with crimes against humanity. The charges allege that An, 79, carried out crimes at an execution site and in two security centers during the Khmer Rouge's rule in the ...[read more]
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An Indonesian court on Thursday delayed a hearing for two Australians that are known leaders of the Bali Nine narcotics organization. Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are currently facing execution for drug smuggling charges, including heroin. Earlier this year an Indonesian court scheduled the ...[read more]
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Missouri officials executed death row inmate Cecil Clayton early Wednesday morning after the US Supreme Court and Governor Jay Nixon denied his requested stay of execution. Clayton, 74, was convicted and sentenced to death for shooting a sheriff's deputy in 1996. Clayton's attorneys argued that he ...[read more]
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