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University of North Georgia freshman pitcher Kylee Smith is the Peach Belt Conference Softball Pitcher of the Week.
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Connor Hoover had a walk-off home run in the 13th inning as the University of North Georgia baseball team topped No. 1 Nova Southeastern 8-7 on Saturday at Bob Stein Stadium.
The University of North Georgia baseball team scored its first run on a first-inning double, and Dylan Peppers pitched 5 1/3 scoreless innings in a 4-3 win against defending Division II national champion Nova Southeastern on Friday in Dahlonega.
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Brenau freshman pitcher Kathleen Daniel had a historic debut in her team's season opener last Saturday, throwing 20 strikeouts in a 2-1 win against Piedmont.
North Georgia's Kelsey Hutchins scored 19 points in a 58-57 loss to Clayton State on Monday in Morrrow.
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North Georgia's softball team split a double header in Day 2 of the Gulf Coast Invitational on Saturday, defeating West Florida 5-1 after falling to No. 13 Valdosta State by a 7-2 decision at the Spring Hill College in Gulf Shores, Ala.
Buford High graduate Jordan Deep had a two-run homer as part of an 11-hit outing for the No. 8 University of North Georgia's softball team in a 10-4 win over Auburn-Montgomery in a two-game split of the Gulf Shores Invitational on Friday in Gulf Shores, Ala.
Gainesvilee High grad Shaquan Cantrell scored 36 points in 33 minutes in the University of North Georgia's season opener victory against Emmanuel College, 108-87, Friday night in Misenheimer, N.C.
Andrew Gale, a West Hall graduate, helped lead Piedmont College to win their second straight the USA South Conference men's cross country championship on Saturday. Gale, a freshman, finished 12th overall with a time of 29 minutes, 49.9 seconds in the 8-kilometer distance to finish second team All-Conference honors.
The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics listed Brenau University's athletics program as one of the best in the Southern States Athletic Conference in its 2015-16 Learfield Sports Director's Cup final rankings.
After having spent the last 12 seasons on staff as an assistant baseball coach, Justin Scali has been announced as the successor to Jim Peeples as head coach at Piedmont College. The move comes Saturday after the announcement made by Peeples that he will serve as the school's athletics director, after filling both roles for this past academic year.
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South Korean kitchen scraps are gourmet items in North Korea....
Don't want anyone hurt by the radioactive fallout drifting south from what was formerly Pyongyang?
Please pray for our 298,000 soldiers who are stationed in Korea. Please pray for the South Korean people who may be affected by this madman.
Why is it I keep getting the feeling Obama and this little boy of a man are having long conversations over encrypted lines in deep secure locations?
Seoul ( and region ) live traffic looks normal now.
Hey, Obama, your check still hasn't come in the mail. I'll give you some more time before I rattle my sword again.
Yawn. I can't even take them seriously. Every day it's something else. They like the attention they are getting from this, and they like trolling the world stage, but I don't see them doing anything because they know they are finished if they do.
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Nobody seems to be taking this seriously.
What if growing up in the protected bubble of his family's cult of personality has rendered Kim Jong NumberUn incapable of critical thought?
I've not seen a lot of counter measures put into place "just in case" this fat little bastard thinks he's as awesome as everyone has told him he was for his entire life.
The US will respond with a stern letter to the UN
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It's clear Moses' "divine" law isn't divine because nobody ever gets struck dead by the "all-powerful" Yahweh for violating it. So should we just ban that so we stop blaspheming whatever deities might exist?
By "ban it" I mean make it an artifact and not teach it as the word of God.
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you are thinking too much. That's why you'll stay as dumb as you are now. What do you think does it mean? literally what it says? think a bit further and you'll get it, it won't make any difference whether it gets banned or not because people will believe what they want to believe, you're just fed up with the bible and want to take you anger out00|00|0
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I'm not religious, but I think you'll like my answer.
In the Bible, the laws of the OT are supposed to be null and void ever since Jesus' death on the cross. Christians are not to live their lives under The Old Testament Law or else they are 'cursed'. Galatians 3:10. You can refer to some more verses here that detail how the OT is not to be and cannot be followed by modern Christians who also 'walk with the spirit': Galatians 3:13, Galatians 5:1 & 5:18.
You are right, it should not be taught in the sense that it is the word of Yahweh, as according to one of the verses I provided, following and making others follow the old law are nullifying the cross of Christ and denying his death on the cross - effectively burdening people "again by the yoke of slavery".00|00|0


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I've been following the glycemic index diet for about ten years now. However, that doesn't stop me loving dessert! I've adapted my grand mother's apple crumble to suit the principles of the diet. It's really easy and quick to make and taste oh so yummy. If you leave it out over night the crumble will be really moist the next day and I think its better like that!
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- 1⁄2 cup buckwheat flour
- 1⁄2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup quick oats
- 1 cup fructose (or other sugar substitute)
- 1⁄3 cup I Can't Believe It's Not Butter® Spread (or butter or margarine)
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- Preheat oven to 180C.
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- Melt butter in microwave for about 20 seconds.
- Combine the flour, oats and fructose in large bowl and mix well with hands.
- Add the melted butter and mix well with hands.
- Spread apples and raspberries in baking dish and pour the flour mixture on top.
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There's an idea I have with regard to my writing on this site; create multiple stand-alone stories that are loosely interconnected, take place within the same universe, and will ultimately combine to outline the shape of a much larger narrative (and no I have no idea how long this will take to do. Other than a while. Quite a while.) My intent is to touch on many of the classic horror tropes and give them my own spin while finding common ground to work them into one encompassing story.
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Janis, Byron
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- Yankelevitch, Byron
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Birth Date
- 19280324
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1987
- Organization: Manhattan School of Music (New York, N.Y.)
Birth Place
- McKeesport, Pa.
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- male
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- found: Beethoven, L. van. Sonata no. 21, in C ... 1956
- found: Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interprétation musicale au XXe siècle, c1982 (Janis, Byron; Byron Yanks; b. 3-24-1928, McKeesport, Penn.; American pianist)
- found: New Grove, 2nd ed. www site, Dec. 15, 2000 (Janis, Byron; b. Mar. 24, 1924, McKeesport, PA; American pianist)
- found: Int. ww in classical mus., 27th ed. (Janis, Byron; b. Mar. 24, 1924, McKeesport, PA; American pianist)
- found: Wikipedia, Mar. 5, 2013 (Byron Janis; b. Byron Yanks (a shortened form of his family's name, Yankilevich), Mar. 24, 1928, McKeesport, Pa.; American classical pianist)
- found: Internet Movie Database, Mar. 5, 2013 (Byron Janis; b. Byron Yankelevitch Janis [sic], Mar. 24, 1928, McKeesport, Pa.; pianist and composer)
- found: Byron Janis WWW site, Mar. 5, 2013 (Byron Janis; pianist; 20 years old in 1948)
- found: U.S. copyright file, Mar. 5, 2013 (Janis, Byron, 1928- )
- found: All music guide WWW site, Mar. 5, 2013 (Byron Janis; b. Mar. 24, 1928, McKeesport, PA; pianist, teacher, and composer; on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music)
- found: Bach Cantatas WWW site, Mar. 5, 2013 (Byron Janis; b. Mar. 24, 1928, McKeesport, Pa.; American pianist; has taught since 1962, and from 1987 has given classes at the Manhattan School of Music; also a composer)
- found: Oxford music online, Mar. 5, 2013: Grove music online (Janis (Yanks, Yankelevitch), Byron; b. Mar. 24, 1924, McKeesport, PA; American pianist) Oxford dict. of music (Janis, Byron (Byron Yanks); b. 1928, McKeesport, Pa.; American pianist)
- found: Pittsburgh post-gazette WWW site, Mar. 5, 2013: Mar. 24, 2008 (McKeesport native and venerable pianist Byron Janis celebrates his 80th birthday today)
- found: Pittsburgh post-gazette, Apr. 23, 1958: p. 13 (Byron Janis, 30-year-old piano soloist, formerly of McKeesport, Pa.)
- found: Janis, Byron. Chopin and beyond, c2010: t.p. (Byron Janis) p. 15-16 (b. Mar. 24, 1928, McKeesport, Pa.)
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Like any good dancer, Amy Purdy has a great pair of legs. But as with any good dancer, there is far more to her talent than what she does with them.
Still, the legs grab your attention. Purdy is a double amputee, and her prosthetic limbs have carried her with deceptive ease through four weeks of competition on ABC's Dancing With the Stars. She and partner Derek Hough have been scoring just below such unsurprising favourites as Olympic gold-medalist ice dancer Meryl Davis and pop singer James Maslow.
"We have Wonder Woman in this room, I'm telling you!" gushed Bruno Tonioli, one of the show's judges, after Purdy and Hough entwined themselves in more ways than you'd think possible throughout a steamy, ingeniously choreographed cha-cha on the season's first episode. The twisting hips and tight, fast footwork posed no problem for Purdy, a competitive snowboarder who won a bronze medal at the Sochi Paralympics.
Tonioli is right. Purdy is a natural superhero, with all the required muscle power and retro-glamour. She has abs of steel. Red-carpet looks. Sex appeal to burn, in a lithe body that's perfect for the show's skin-baring costumes.
And those legs: Peeking out of her adorable gold-fringed cha-cha pants were gleaming metal rods leading to flesh-toned plastic feet, part Terminator, part department-store mannequin. Purdy's bionic limbs give her a fascinating fembot-bombshell look. (She may be too modest to consider herself a bombshell, but "fembot" is a label Purdy proudly embraces in her motivational speeches and her blog, Through the Eyes of a Fembot.)
Purdy is without question an inspirational performer. "And what have you done with your day?" the show's host, Erin Andrews, deadpanned to the camera after Purdy described how she won her medal, flew to Los Angeles, rehearsed and danced, all in little more than a weekend. Yet what is most extraordinary about her is the sheer beauty -- and artistry -- of her dancing.
You expect to see skin on Dancing With the Stars, and glitzy getups and snappy footwork. But for most of the contestants, conveying feeling is the toughest part. Most never get there. Purdy and Hough shade their dancing with emotion without making it forced and schmaltzy.
Looks pass between them as if they are sharing secrets. Purdy is all slow burn with her circling hips and supple spine, and she makes you feel it. Even with those mechanical limbs, she has more honest expression in her body than the other contestants have with their full complement of fleshly parts.
Maybe it's because of her life story. She survived bacterial meningitis in 1999, at age 19, which robbed her of her legs, kidney function, the hearing in one ear and very nearly her life.
She has looked into the abyss and clawed her way back. Seven months after receiving her prosthetics, she was back on her snowboard, regaining the moment-to-moment responsiveness, core strength and sense of balance that make her a sensation on the dance floor.
When she dances, she sways her hips like a merengue queen. She isn't the least bit self-conscious or afraid; there's no tension in her shoulders. And you'd never know she has any hearing loss from the full-bodied way she responds to music.
There's a Zen saying, "When the shoe fits, we forget the foot." Watching Purdy dance, we forget her disability. It doesn't even seem right to use the word disability. In fact, Purdy is helping to bury the very notion of disability.
A post-disability world is closer than we think. When soccer's World Cup begins in Brazil in June, a paralyzed teenager will rise from a wheelchair on the field to make the ceremonial first kick. The teen will be wired into an exoskeleton, with electrodes in his brain that will make the machine respond to his desires, and move the immovable.
One day, exoskeletons could even enable a paralyzed person to dance, by neurally commanding the limbs. "A person can think, fire their own biological muscles and the exoskeleton can respond appropriately," says Hugh Herr, head of the Biomechatronics Research Group at MIT.
"They could help us learn a new task, like dancing, or playing piano and golf," Herr says. "They could wrap around our bodies and teach us."
The forthcoming film Transcendence, starring Johnny Depp, carries this idea further, imagining life beyond the body, with human consciousness existing in a digital realm after the body has failed. The concept is extreme -- or is it? Is it the logical endpoint of efforts to transcend the body's limitations?
Biomechanical engineers will tell you transcendence is here already.
Bionics is not only about making people stronger and faster, says Herr: "Our expression, our humanity can be embedded into biomechanics."
"As technology becomes more intimate to our bodies, connected to our nerves and brains and mechanically linked to our bodies, our very nature will be expressed to those synthetics," he says. "In fact, when the human-machine interaction is seamless, it's not clear when biology ends and synthetics begins. It really won't matter what we're made of. The only thing that will matter is quality of life and expression."
Herr has been watching Dancing With the Stars with interest. Purdy has come to MIT to speak with him about collaborating on a better set of limbs for snowboarding, with the limb integrated into the board, he says.
Like Purdy, Herr is a double amputee and an athlete, having lost his legs to frostbite while rock climbing in 1982. He was able to climb better after his accident than before, he says, using specially designed prosthetic limbs.
And unlike flesh and bone, his legs are upgradable.
"There is no disability," Herr says. "There is only poor design."
Dance is a new frontier. Herr recently unveiled a bionic leg specially made for dancing. He designed it for Adrianne Haslet-Davis, a ballroom-dance instructor who lost a leg in the Boston Marathon bombing a year ago. Last month, she danced for the first time since the bombing, padding softly through a brief rhumba with a partner at a TED conference in Vancouver.
Inside Haslet-Davis's titanium-silicone-carbon dancing leg are a motor, wires, tiny computers and springs that mimic tendons. Unlike the conventional, "passive" prosthesis, this leg "can act like a gas pedal, can thrust," says Herr.
Yet with all the advances of science, he laments that there is still a biology bias.
"We put cells and tissues on a pedestal. We think cells and tissues are godly and spiritual. And that a person who has an artificial limb -- that limb is not really human. But that idea will disappear."
This is why, in terms of blurring the boundaries between flesh and titanium, Purdy's appearances on Dancing With the Stars matter even more so than her sports achievements. She's earned a high profile on one of television's most popular shows, for one thing. For another, the poignancy, emotion and beauty of her dancing can leave you breathless.
On Week 3, the contestants were tasked with commemorating the most memorable year of their lives. Purdy chose the year her father gave one of his kidneys to her. A family video showed her in her hospital room, dancing with her dad, twirling under his arm on her new prosthetics before she had mastered walking in them.
"If I can dance, I can walk. And if I can walk, I can snowboard. And I can live a great life," she reasoned at the time, recounting the moment on camera.
How did she convey that on the show? Tiptoeing onto the stage for her contemporary-style dance with Hough, Purdy wore a simple silver dress with an airy chiffon skirt, the hem short enough to show her muscular thighs and sleek, jet-black shins, exposed metal ankle joints and rubbery Barbie-doll feet in a permanent point. (The legs were designed for swimming, which is why the feet were pointed.) The music was Christina Perri's Human, perfect with its slow buildup and huskily sung lyrics about vulnerability. Hough's brilliantly devised choreography played with images of fall and recovery in surprising ways. But the emotional power lay in the way he and Purdy moved together, as if the dance floor were a private realm beyond reach of physics.
At one heart-catching moment, Purdy melted into his arms and he swept her around his back as if she were weightless. As if she were swimming through air.
"I am not my legs," says Purdy.
"We are such stuff that dreams are made on," wrote Shakespeare.
Bodies are temporary; dreams don't have to be. It's not science fiction: As Purdy and Hough and other resilient innovators show us, transcendence is within reach of all of us.
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I'm pretty much queen bee at my school.. not being cocky just telling the truth.. there's this guy in my english class that I never really noticed before.. he is a drama nerd , but he also plays sports like football etc.. I'm very vocal and opinionated so whenever we have class discussions I'm the first to state my opinion.. I noticed that when I talk he really listens to what I have to say and seems genuinely interested in my point of view.. I've never felt that way.. and before I knew it I found myself hopelessly attracted to him.. he makes me feel so important just by listening to me.. so as the days go by I like him more and more and more.. I told my best friend who is also on the football team that I liked english class boy and he begged me to let him do some digging.. I agreed. apparently eng. boy doesn't date but we think its an excuse because a girls never asked.. anyways my friend ended up telling him that I have a HUGE crush on him and he was like oh really.. and had a huge smile on his face.. I have no idea how he feels about me.. ( he is always so nice and polite the smiling reply could just be common courtesy for him) and even if he likes me back I know he won't have the guts to ask me out! I really want to be with him! how do I get him to tell me how he feels about me ? I will ask him out but not until I know that he likes me back ! I HAVE A HUGE FEAR OF REJECTION! HELP!
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He definately has self doubt about girls. I mean he probably thinks no girls like him, so he's happy to do his own little thing and shy away from girls. In his mind he may be thinking "there is no chance she likes me as she is so popular and can have a pick of guys". He also might be thinking its a wind up as he is not exactly Mr Popular himself and he doenst wanna get hurt.
Now what you need to do is start engaging in regular chats with him, start taking interest in his hobbies and give out hints that you really do like him. I admire you for thinking beyond popularity and not looking down to people, you seem like a nice laid back girl at heart. I'm sure he likes you, once he gets beyond the self doubt stage and realises you do genuinely like him, I'm sure he;ll be your boyfriend before you know it :)11|00|0
Thanks that helps a lot, I'm going to try talking to him for the next few days and see how things go! I'll keep you updated =]
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My husband Frank and I wanted to take a short vacation to a Mexican beach last winter. We got a room at thw Puerto Vallarto Sheraton. The trip by car was smooth and free of setbacks despite our five year old van, but by the time we drove into Puerto Vallarto we were exhausted. All we wished for at that time was that we could get our room as quickly as possible. The people at the front desk were affable and eddicient, spoke good English, and before long we were lying on pur beda in a room that exceeded, by far, both our expectations.
Puerto vallarto is a place where you can walk almost anywhere. The hotel is so close to the center of town that we never had to hail a cab, not even at night, when we left one of the many bars in town after a fabulous time wirh some ex-pats we met. We had a great time, but felt dreadful the following morning, so we booked a massage session in the hotel SPA. We got the best of treatments in small cabin overlooking the ocean! Everyone should definetely try this some time!
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© 2009 by Kim Guzman
© 2009 by Kim Guzman
This lovely Tunisian crochet project is worked in cool cotton for strength and comfort. In my experimenting with Tunisian crochet, I've been able to develop many beautiful Tunisian lace stitch patterns. The lace portion of this top is exceptional, especially after it is blocked as the lace really blossoms and opens up. Although lace is not the typical thought when thinking of Tunisian crochet, it is surprising the number of different looks you can get with it. Be watching for even more Tunisian lace projects from me in the future!
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Author | exchange4media News Service | Saturday, Aug 02,2008 8:59 AM
Amid the high drama witnessed in Parliament during the July 22 Trust Vote, three BJP MLAs caused a furor in the House when they waved bundles of rupees, alleging they were given the money by the ruling coalition to abstain from voting against the Trust motion. Claims were made of a sting operation by CNN-IBN and the entire exchange of money caught on tape. Despite nine days passing, there are no signs of these tapes. So, where are these tapes? CNN-IBN clarifies.
In a press statement issued by CNN-IBN, the channel has clarified that they had chosen not to telecast the story yet because they did not feel that the story was complete. "CNN-IBN's rigorous editorial protocol demands that even a hidden camera shoot is absolutely water-tight. In this particular story, there were many loose ends that needed to be cross-checked, corroborated and investigated further before the story could be aired," the press statement said.
CNN-IBN added that all the raw, unedited footage was placed before the Lok Sabha Speaker within 24 hours of the Parliament fracas and claimed that not a single frame had been edited in any form.
The Speaker has subsequently ordered an inquiry, which media reports suggest, is to be completed by August 11.
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Lundqvist, Rangers end three-game losing streakOct 17, 2006 - 2:43 AM NEW YORK (Ticker) -- Henrik Lundqvist showed Martin Brodeur there was more than one outstanding goaltender in the building.
Lundqvist stopped 34 shots, weathered seven power-play attempts and the New York Rangers scored twice late in the second period en route to a 4-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils.
Lundqvist made 15 of his 34 saves in the third period as the Rangers snapped a three-game losing streak. They allowed 17 goals during the skid.
"They want to play good hockey and it's no secret," Rangers coach Tom Renney said. "We've had some tough games and it's not because they wanted to have tough games. Sometimes it does take a real good kick in the backside to wake you up. We got bad in Buffalo, as much as we may have been kidding ourselves before that."
New York lost 7-4 at Buffalo on Saturday, after suffering 4-2 and 6-5 defeats to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh earlier in the week.
"We really felt like we've been beating ourselves," Brendan Shanahan said. "I think we beat ourselves in the Philly game and the Pittsburgh game and then it just hit rock bottom in Buffalo."
Shanahan scored on the power play with 1:31 remaining in the second period to snap a 1-1 tie. It was his league-leading seventh goal of the season and fourth with the man advantage. The 19-year veteran has scored in every game he has played for New York.
"It's a very good group and a group that's willing to put the work in," Shanahan added. "As long as we work hard, intelligently and together. ... Obviously we wanted to win but we were less concerned about the score and more concerned about playing the right way."
Jason Ward followed 57 seconds later on a shorthanded tally. His shot came on a two-on-one, when he scored off a miss by Matt Cullen.
"It's just one of those situations," Ward said. "I wanted to be aggressive on the D and it just poked loose. Cullen was going wide, he's got lots of speed and it was just one of those things that I was totally off the play. The puck was just laying there and I took my chances."
Brodeur, a two-time Vezina Trophy winner who has helped the Devils to three Stanley Cup titles, was attempting to become the third goaltender in league history to win 450 games. He finished with 25 saves.
"The way that we were playing, we had a good second period," Brodeur said. "We were able to get to them a lot and get some quality chances but we made some mistakes."
Martin Straka added a goal and an assist and defenseman Aaron Ward scored unassisted in the first period for the Rangers, who were outshot, 36-29.
"Goals are going to come, it's a matter of patience," Aaron Ward said. "When you start to fall apart in the second period and it's still 0-0, the sign of a bad team is you start pressing and making those small mistakes which lead to those turnovers in a tight game like this.
"We exercised maturity and we're a veteran team. We were patient and that's a good sign as opposed to Saturday night."
Scott Gomez and Travis Zajac each tallied for the Devils, who had their two-game winning streak snapped.
"Sometimes we try to shake things up a little and hope to get things going," Devils coach Claude Julien said. "Overall we didn't play a bad game. In the second period when they scored the goal on the power play, that was the area that ended up costing us."
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Business cards are still an important way of connecting with potential customers, and we assume that this real estate agent has plenty of nerdy clients. Her Magic the Gathering card describes her as a "Legendary Creature – Sales Rep" and I would hire her to sell our house in a heartbeat.
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"To provide highly integrated media and driver safety products that offer a high degree of differentiation and an attractive value proposition to the automotive market."
Rosen's corporate headquarters is conveniently located in Southern California with access to one of the largest automotive markets in the world.
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Our roots date back to 1980, when Rosen was focused exclusively on the aviation industry. In the early 1990's, Rosen emerged as a leader in LCD flat panel displays for private aviation and launched products specifically designed for the automotive market. Rosen became immediately recognized as an industry leader in automotive due to their "Leading Edge" product innovation. Rosen's very recognizable "Look and Feel" was born. From the very beginning, the Rosen brand has been based on developing and delivering high quality, leading edge and proprietary designs.
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- First OEM-validated overhead entertainment system with integrated slot-load DVD player
- First Audio DSP (Digital Sound Processing) design for automotive video applications
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- First mobile video system with integrated video games and dual-zone controller (A10)
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- First DVD headrest system with integrated video games
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Author | Rosy Ngaithe & Pallavi Goorha | Monday, Dec 17,2007 6:35 AM
LG Electronics India Ltd (LGEIL) has changed its brand strategy from being a mass brand to being a premium inspirational one. This is a step taken to enhance the brand communication and strengthen its product position, by delivering value through its quality and service to its consumers.
According to V Ramachandran, Director-Sales and Marketing, LGEIL, "We are known as mass consumer players in the consumer goods category, with strong brand equity in the eyes of our customers. But the Indian consumer is changing now. They are now seeking high-end world-class products, and have begun to move away from the savings-oriented mindset."
LG Electronics entered the Indian market in 1997, and according to Ramachandran, the company became the number one brand in consumer durables in most of the categories such as CTVs, ACs, refrigerator, washing machine and micro waves, within a span of five years. Currently, the company has a 27 per cent share in the Indian consumer market. The company claims to have brought cutting-edge technologies to India, faster than anybody else, thus giving tough competition to all other brands.
LGEIL is also restructuring its marketing spends, resulting in a significant increase in its mass media expenditure for better brand visibility. The company had a marketing budget of Rs 320 crore in 2007, with a 60:40 split in favour of below-the-line activities. Next year, the company plans to increase the expenditure on mass media campaigns, even as overall marketing spends would be raised by about 10-15 per cent.
The company would also expand its product portfolio in India with focus on IT, flat panel display TVs and mobile phones. "We will also expand our home appliances segment with new products such as wine cellars and vacuum cleaners," added Ramachandran.
He added that the products, especially the IT and GSM segment ones like laptops, would be youth-centric. The products would also cater to the Indian climatic conditions of dust and humidity, as well as power situations, something that the global products will not be able to cater to.
Ramachandran further said that the company would be revising the price of the products by two-five per cent, in relation to competition, product leadership and unique feature qualities of goods. "The new pricing structure is due to rising costs of inputs such as picture tubes for televisions, low profitability in refrigerators, and the overall strategy to reposition LG as a premium brand. And we are expecting a growth profit of about 20 per cent next year. We hope that the sales of our GSM and flat panel screens will increase by 20-30 percent."
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I wanted to pose this question to the forum. Is it possible when Danny comes back it will actually weaken our current team? This teams bread and butter is an elite defense. True the scoring has lacked at times, however we are third in the East and surging without Granger. Granger's big knock over his career has been his defense, however last year was a step in the right direction. When Granger comes back is the defense still going to be elite, or will he weaken our half court defense that has been so strong?
Granger for EJ anyone? LOL, couldn't resist!


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. said: Kinda like Hope Solo
. said: The problem with weak whyte failures who make youtube videos to rail on about feminism is they would still be loosers under the tradon 1950s, any tribal living arrangement, sharia holy law, medieval fife, etc. These people are the losers under any system.
One thing these imbeciles did help succeed at however, is get their hero candidate into the white house. How's that going?


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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The New York Giants might get to welcome one of their injured veterans back on Sunday against the Detroit Lions -- just in time to possibly scramble to replace another.
Giants center Shaun O'Hara practiced Friday for the second straight day and there is a chance the veteran lineman can return to the field for the home game against Detroit.
O'Hara has missed the past three games with an injured left ankle and injured Achilles tendon. Head coach Tom Coughlin said O'Hara's availability will be a game-time decision. He is listed as questionable.
The Giants might be without kicker Lawrence Tynes against the Lions. Coughlin said Tynes sprained his left (non-kicking) ankle in practice on Friday and had to leave the team's workout.
Tynes is questionable for Sunday, as is linebacker Keith Bulluck, who practiced on a limited basis on Friday and has missed the past two games with turf toe.
Bulluck said that he would have to play through pain to be on the field Sunday, but added that the majority of discomfort associated with the injury has subsided.
O'Hara's injury first occurred in training camp. He played in the Giants' first two games but said prior to the regular season that he would likely have to deal with pain associated with the injury throughout the season. He had a cortisone shot last week to temper the pain but has not tested the ankle by pushing off of it while engaging in a block.
Backup lineman Adam Koets has started at center in O'Hara's absence.
It's unclear who would replace Tynes. Coughlin said Tynes suffered a similar injury in training camp over the summer and was unable to kick for "a couple of days."
When asked if the Giants would need to find a free-agent replacement for Tynes prior to Sunday, the coach said, "I can't tell you what I don't know. ... We have to see what he does."
Rookie punter Matt Dodge was a kickoff specialist in college at East Carolina, so he could potentially take over the kickoff duties Sunday. But he hasn't kicked field goals since high school. The Giants have a deadline of 4 p.m. ET Saturday to add a player to the roster. They would have to make room by cutting a player currently on the 53-man roster.
There are veteran kickers, such as Shayne Graham, Jason Elam, John Carney and Kris Brown, available.
In other injury news, defensive end Osi Umenyiora is probable for Sunday. He participated in the portion of practice open to the media on Friday but was limited on Thursday with swelling in his knee. Safety Kenny Phillips practiced on Friday after being limited on Thursday. He is probable.
Mathias Kiwanuka, who has missed the past two weeks with a bulging disk in his neck, was running outside while his teammates practiced inside. He is out for Sunday. Fullback Madison Hedgecock (hamstring), defensive back Brian Jackson (neck), running back D.J. Ware (groin) and receiver Victor Cruz all are listed as out for Sunday.
Ian Begley is a frequent contributor to ESPNNewYork.com.


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|Mar 23, 2010
|Filing date
|Mar 20, 2008
|Priority date
|Mar 21, 2007
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|Rodica Musat, Frank A. Raneiro, Thomas H. Rooney, Jr.
|Original Assignee
|Magnetic Metals Corporation
|Export Citation
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|Patent Citations (13), Referenced by (11), Classifications (20), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application claims the priority of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/896,193, filed Mar. 21, 2007.
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to leakage current protection devices such as ground fault circuit interrupters. More particularly, a leakage protection device is provided that can operate using one transformer, with one magnetic core, to sense continuously both for current imbalances and low impedance ground faults.
2. Prior Art
Leakage current protection devices protect persons from electric shock hazards by sensing when current conditions on a load circuit depart from nominal. When the conditions depart sufficiently, the protective circuit decouples the load circuit from the power mains, normally requiring a reset to return to a normal state. Leakage current protection devices may be provided in domestic power outlets, such as the type of device known as a ground fault circuit interrupter (sometimes abbreviated "GFCI"), or in an appliance or in powered equipment generally.
Requirements for GFCI circuits are defined in UL standard 943A. A GFCI typically comprises a first differential transformer and a second grounded-neutral transformer. There are sensed conditions that each employ a separate transformer and magnetic core. Two primary windings of the two transformers are defined by the line and neutral power line conductors. Secondary windings on the two cores are coupled to an amplifier and switching circuit.
The differential transformer can be made of ring-shaped laminations, each lamination is stamped from a Ni—Fe sheet of 0.006 to 0.014 inches thickness. The laminations are stacked and enclosed in an electrically non-conductive encasement. The stack of laminations is termed a magnetic core or a ring core.
The power line and neutral conductor paths pass through the lumen of the ring core. The differential transformer ring core is wound with a conductor from several hundred to several thousand turns, the ring core with these windings is mounted in a plastic bracket with pins for terminations, and mounted on a circuit board.
In nominal current conditions, the line and neutral conductors carry equal and opposite currents. The differential transformer responds to an imbalance in current on the line and neutral power lines coupled through the core. A trigger signal is developed and coupled to an operator that latches open a set of contacts and thereby decouples the load circuit, including the GFCI, from the power mains.
The grounded neutral transformer in the device typically comprises a ferrite ring core. The ferrite core is wound with a secondary winding of approximately 150 to 300 turns. The grounded neutral transformer can be mounted separately or in a pair with the differential transformer in plastic brackets carrying pins for terminations.
Grounded-neutral ferrite core transformers use a dormant oscillator approach. The neutral conductor passes through the ferrite core. When resistance between neutral and ground becomes less than 2 ohms at the load side, oscillation at the ground-to-neutral transformer induces a voltage in the power line hot line and neutral conductors. Current then flows between the neutral and ground. That current represents a current imbalance and is detected by the differential core. This triggers the contacts to open and decouples the load circuit from the power mains.
Core materials such as ferrite and Ni—Fe alloys are conventionally chosen for inductor and transformer cores due to their good magnetic permeability coupled with relatively limited electrical conductivity. If electrical conductivity is high, changing magnetic flux leads to eddy currents that dissipate power due to resistive heating, which is undesirable.
A typical circuit for such a single phase GFCI as described is illustrated in
A current from unequal line and neutral current levels induces a current in the secondary winding of the differential transformer 111. A voltage is thereby coupled to the input of amplifier 115. The input voltage is amplified and coupled to a contact control 117, which can include a threshold detector coupled to drive a solenoid (not shown) to open the contacts.
Differential transformer 111 typically comprises a high permeability ring core 111 a and a secondary winding 111 b of many turns, typically over a thousand turns. Assuming one turn for the passage of the line or neutral conductor, the transformer turns ratio is 1:1000 (or greater), to develop a current imbalance voltage of a reasonable magnitude for application to an amplifier and/or threshold detector. The grounded neutral transformer 113 has a ferrite ring core 113 a and secondary winding 113 b with a turns ratio typically in the range from 1:150 to 1:300.
A current imbalance between the line and neutral conductors passing through the differential transformer produces a signal voltage across secondary winding 111 b, which signal is proportional in magnitude to the magnitude of the detected current imbalance. This voltage is the input to AMPLIFIER 115, which amplifies the voltage signal and produces an "open contacts" signal to CONTACT CONTROL 117, which is typically specified to open the normally-closed line contacts 101 for threshold current imbalances of 5 mA, 10 mA, 30 mA, or greater, over a temperature range of −35 C to +80 C, depending on the specific GFCI model.
In the GFCI of
Other types of leak current protection devices are known that sense current imbalance with a differential transformer, and lack a second transformer because ground faults are not sensed. For example, an appliance leakage current interrupter (ALCI) and an equipment leakage current interrupter (ELCI), which typically are mounted in the equipment housing or cabinet, typically have a differential transformer but not a grounded neutral transformer. These devices are distinct from GFCI devices that sense for both current imbalance and ground fault conditions.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a GFCI wherein a single transformer is used to sense both for line-neutral current imbalance and low ground-neutral impedance, simultaneously and continuously.
Thus, it is an aspect to serve the two sensing functions of the separate transformers described above with one transformer that is structured and configured to continuously sense for current imbalance and low impedance ground faults.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a leak current protection device wherein the differential transformer is formed from a stack of ring laminations punch pressed from a thin amorphous metal work material.
In one aspect the present invention is a ground fault current interrupter device utilizing a single laminated ring magnetic core transformer formed from a plurality of high velocity punch pressed amorphous metal or nanocrystalline soft magnetic laminations as the sensor for both the current imbalance winding and the low impedance ground fault winding.
In another aspect the present invention is a current imbalance protection device wherein the current imbalance sensing transformer is a laminated ring magnetic core transformer formed from a plurality of high velocity punch pressed amorphous metal, or nanocrystalline soft magnetic laminations.
These and other aspects of the invention are set forth in this specification.
The foregoing brief summary, as well as the following detailed description of the invention, is better understood when read in conjunction with the appended drawings. For the purpose of illustrating the invention, there is shown in the drawings exemplary forms of the invention that are presently preferred; however, the invention is not limited to the specific arrangements and instrumentalities disclosed in the following appended drawings:
According to one aspect of the invention, a leakage current protection device is provided with a differential current sensing magnetic ring core comprising a stack of amorphous metal laminate blanks.
According to another aspect of the invention, the improved magnetic properties provided by employing an amorphous metal laminate stack as the differential core, are exploited by using the same said core to couple the oscillation of a neutral-ground low impedance to the differential core, and thereby provide a sufficient signal to the amplifier and threshold detection circuits to trigger decoupling of the circuit from the power mains in the event of either differential current in excess of a predetermined threshold or neutral-to-ground impedance below a predetermined threshold.
According to a preferred embodiment, the amorphous metal specifically comprises a nanocrystalline material, and the magnetic cores are formed as laminated axially stacked annular ring shapes that are punched from a thin amorphous metal strip.
A laminated magnetic core is formed from a stack of ring laminations by blanking an amorphous metal sheet, strip or ribbon in a high velocity punch press. The laminations as thus formed are processed and assembled to provide magnetic cores.
One suitable method for forming the amorphous metal strip is by melt spinning on a super cooled fast spinning wheel. One type of such amorphous metal strip is known as METGLAS� and is available from Metglas, Inc. Conway, S.C. The amorphous metal strip may be annealed prior to stamping to form a nanocrystalline soft magnetic ribbon.
The amorphous metal is generally characterized by a structure of fine grains as opposed to a highly crystalline metal mass. The material can be made by cooling molten metal faster than the metal can crystallize.
A suitable example of a nanocrystalline soft magnetic strip is described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,881,989 (the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein), and is available as FINEMET� from Hitachi Metals, Ltd., Tokyo, JAPAN. Preferably the amorphous metal strip used in the present invention has a thickness between approximately 0.0007 inch (17.78 μm) and 0.0010 inch (25.4 μm). FINEMET material is specified for certain inductors wherein a torus is formed by winding a continuous length of the soft metallic strip around a spool or the like. According to the present invention, a ring core is made by axially stacking punched rings of material from a strip.
FINEMET and other similar nanocrystalline Fe-based soft magnetic materials with high saturation flux density and low core loss are particular apt for providing a compact, low-cost differential current ring core. As disclosed herein, the ring core can be used for both differential current sensing functions and as the inductor in resonant tank circuit whereby the dormant oscillation of a neutral-ground impedance responsive circuit can be coupled to the differential current coil of a leakage current protection device. Only one coil is needed. The coil can be smaller and less expensive than nickel-iron compositions having comparable windings and/or the number of windings needed can be fewer.
Nanocrystalline material (e.g., FINEMET) is made from an amorphous (non-crystalline) ribbon obtained by rapid quenching, for example at one million degrees C. per second from a molten metal. The molten mix can include Fe, Si, B and small amounts of Cu and Nb. The crystallized alloy has extremely uniform and small grains, about ten nanometers in size. Amorphous metals, particularly with alloy elements have superior soft magnetic properties due to crystallization. It has been reported that larger crystal grains yield good soft magnetic properties. Small grain (nanocrystalline) materials also have excellent properties.
Amorphous metal and more particularly nanocrystalline amorphous metal materials such as FINEMET have high saturation magnetic flux density comparable to Fe-based amorphous metal, and high permeability comparable to Co-based amorphous metal. The material has low magnetostriction, i.e., good immunity to mechanical stress. It is possible to control the shape of the B-H hysteresis curve by annealing a core in the presence of a magnetic field aligned in a circumferential direction to obtain an H-type squared hysteresis characteristic, or no field to obtain a nominal M-type characteristic, or a field vertical to the core plane to obtain an L-type slanted characteristic.
The absence of a high proportion of nickel results in low material expense. The advantageous magnetic properties allow the core to be compact. A compact core, or a core with fewer windings, may achieve electrical circuit operational characteristics that are as good or better than a larger core with more windings using more conventional materials and elements.
A suitable punch press for stamping the laminations is described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,113,736 and 5,245,904 (also hereby incorporated by reference). The punch press is generally referred to herein as an electromagnetic punch press. Referring to the element numbers in these patents, female die (32), and male die (34) (see FIG. 1 in both the '736 and '904 patents), correspond to die 32 and punch 34, respectively, in attached
Work material "W", which in the present invention can be an amorphous metal strip or a nanocrystalline soft metal strip, is suitably fed into the die set (30) of the two referenced patents. Independent self-centering pilots can be included to locate the strip accurately in the die prior to stamping.
By stamping the laminations from the amorphous metal strip using accurately dimensioned punch and die element that are accurately guided, the amorphous metal strip material can be sheared with minimal fracturing along the inner and outer edges of each ring lamination. This is achieved in part by use of a stamping tooling with punch die clearance of about 10% of the material thickness, per side, and utilizing a die set comprising a large reciprocating bearing as described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,311,597. This structure allows mounting of punch components inside the inner race and mounting the die components to the outer race.
Operating the punch press at relatively high operational velocities, for example 7 to 12 feet per second, with a stamping apparatus arranged with a reciprocating bearing for guidance and the 10% clearance mentioned, it has been found that an amorphous strip with a thickness between about 17.78 μm and 25.4 μm can be produced with advantageous characteristics. The outer and inner diameters may be varied to obtain the desired electrical and magnetic characteristics. In one embodiment, the maximum outer radius of a ring core is approximately 1.675″ and the minimum inner diameter of a ring core is approximately 0.010″.
The punch-die clearance, which is relatively tight as thus specified, is defined as a relative clearance, per side, in percent of the material thickness, and is represented by the equation:
Stamped laminations 36 ejected from punch press can be guided (e.g., dropped by gravity) onto a pin or spindle and carried on suitable conveyors to collect and advances a predetermined number of laminations in stacks along a processing direction to assemble a core.
Heat treatment optionally can be applied after stamping the laminations to anneal the amorphous metal material. In that case, the laminations 36 can be heat treated before or after collection into stacks. Heat treating can be accomplished, for example, by conveying either stacked laminations on spindles or individual laminations on a guide rod, through a tunnel oven or through an electric induction heater. In one embodiment, the laminations are heat treated in a nitrogen atmosphere at a temperature between 700 degrees Fahrenheit and 1080 degrees Fahrenheit for approximately twenty minutes to about two hours. The nitrogen environment is replenished at 400 standard cubic feet per hour. Heat treating the laminates helps develop the crystalline structure and thus develop the desirable electrical and magnetic properties of the laminates. Accordingly, adjusting the temperature and duration of the heat treatment will adjust the electrical and magnetic properties of the laminates.
After heat treatment (or after punching, if heat treatment is not required), a vibration dampening agent, such as light oil, optionally can be applied to the laminations, for example, using a spray apparatus. This treatment is useful to dampen electromechanical vibration of the laminations when ac current is applied to an assembled magnetic core.
A stack containing the required number of laminations 36 is mounted in an electrically non-conductive container as a finished core. The number of laminations will vary on the desired electrical and magnetic characteristics of the finished magnetic core. The laminations can be placed in a nonconductive container such as a plastic case, which is potted or capped to seal the container. Other materials may be used for the nonconductive container including, but not limited to, glass filled nylon, aluminum epoxy, and polyurethane. Alternatively, the stack of laminations can be transferred to a suitable encapsulation apparatus for encapsulation in a nonconductive coating or encapsulating material. In one embodiment, the nonconductive container is sized such that the stacked laminates may move within the container.
The magnetic cores can be subjected to an electrical test process along the process for automated selection and rejection of cores according to a desired specification. For example, the magnetic cores may be accepted or rejected according to their impedance permeability. Preferably, testing and selection are accomplished after the cores are packaged in containers or encapsulated so as to represent the finished product. The cores can be coupled between a coil applying an exciting signal and a coil coupled to suitable test equipment (not shown) to assess whether the response to the excitation is within predetermined tolerances.
In assembling the electric circuit shown in
Instead of coupling a resonant ground fault winding to a separate ferrite ring core, according to the invention, a second secondary winding is coupled to the amorphous metal ring core. The secondary winding for ground fault detection can have approximately 150 to 300 turns. A parallel capacitance CS provides a resonant tank with the inductance of the secondary winding and also couples such resonance through the ring core to the differential current sensing input of amplifier 113 b. As a result, the circuit functions in a manner similar to a two core device as in
The amorphous metal laminate stack core as described has substantially improved magnetic properties compared to a second ferrite ring core. For example, a finished magnetic ring core formed from the amorphous nanocrystalline material has a permeability of approximately 160,000H/m when operating at a flux density of 40G and at a frequency of 60 Hz, which is approximately eleven times the permeability of a conventional ferrite ring core (15,000 H/m) operating under the same conditions. The amorphous metal laminate stack core also has improved magnetic properties compared to a second 80% nickel ring core. For example, the permeability of the amorphous nanocrystalline material has a permeability of approximately four times the permeability of an 80% nickel ring core (40,000 H/m) when operating at flux density of 40 G and a frequency of 60 Hz. Additionally, the saturation flux density of the amorphous nanocrystalline ring core (12,000 G) is approximately twice as high as the saturation flux density of an eighty percent nickel ring core (6,000 G) and is operable over a wider thermal range −50 C to 150 C than the nickel alloy (−35 C to +70 C).
The use of thin amorphous metal as described herein achieves a substantial cost saving in the lamination material, compared to alternative materials. According to the invention, a cylindrically guided or similarly precise punch press can produce the laminations without undue incidence of fracturing along stamped edges. The invention is readily automated as described thereby reducing labor requirements, and by minimizing or eliminating handling, further protects the fragile laminations from damage.
Moreover, by employing amorphous metal material, and more preferably a nanocrystalline amorphous metal material, raw material costs are lower and less volatile than magnetic materials with a substantial proportion of nickel. The compactness of a current leakage protection circuit is improved because the ring core can be small and requires fewer windings. These aspects reduce material expense and production time. According to the invention, the ground to neutral core is entirely eliminated without loss of the ability to sense low neutral-to-ground impedance conditions. Unlike complicated and expensive switched circuits that shift between current imbalance sensing and ground/neutral fault sensing functions, the disclosed device simultaneously and continuously monitors for both such conditions.
The foregoing disclosure describes a number of embodiments and alternatives, but these are intended as examples. The invention is not limited to the arrangements disclosed as examples demonstrating the subject matter, and is capable of embodiment in other ways consistent with this disclosure.
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|International Classification
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