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Newly opened in September, I'm KIM Korean BBQ offers high quality meats for barbeque and other dishes such as tteokbokki (spicy rice cakes), chicken wings, and potato wedges.
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I'm KIM Korean BBQ - nearly every SOTA student's favourite place to dine at. Located very conveniently at SOTA, it boasts of a decent variety of meat such as pork belly, garlic chicken, marinated ribeye, short ribs to name a few. The goodness does not stop there. I'm KIM Korean BBQ also offers wide range of side dishes consisting of Korean pancakes, kimchi fried rice, japchae (Korean glass noodles) and seaweed soup that you can pair with your choice of meat (this list is definitely not exhaustive). However, bear in mind that you get what you pay for. I find that the quality of the side dishes often differs - if you are unfortunate, the tteokbokki may be too mushy, or the pancakes not seasoned well enough.
At just $14 for a buffet lunch, this restaurant is extremely affordable, as evidenced by the throngs of students who patronize it every weekday. Students will be happy to know that I'm KIM Korean BBQ regularly holds student lunch promotions every now and then. Just present your student pass and your lunch buffet will only set you back a mere $12.90!
If you are the sort of person who enjoys spending hours languishing at the buffet table, I suggest opting for their dinner instead of lunch. There is no time limit imposed on diners during dinner time, whereas customers during weekday lunch are subjected to 1.5 hours dining time and 2 hours dining time for weekends. It would be best to call beforehand to make a reservation, especially on weekends and days leading up to public holidays in order to beat the crowd.
On my last visit, I had to wait for 45 minutes before I finally stepped foot into the restaurant. And honestly, its popularity is no surprise. At an average of $25 for dinner, it is definitely one of the more affordable K-BBQ restaurants around!
Furthermore, despite their relatively lower prices, this restaurant does not scrimp on taste or quantity.With its vast array of different marinated meats and cooked food, prepare your stomach for a night of joyous feasting. Note: Do not miss their chicken wings, those were so yummy I downed 6 of them in one sitting!! If you are a fan of spicy food, their Volcano Spicy Chicken is not to be missed too.
One bad thing about the place is that there are no smoke vents so it's likely you'll walk out of the place smelling like grilled pork. On the bright side, that's a wonderful smell.
The first thing that hits you as you enter this restaurant is the intense smell of BBQ around the entire establishment.The competition between korean BBQs in Singapore is tough, and this restaurant has a few unique dishes up its sleeve to let it stand out among the competition.
First, their Signature "Volcano" Chicken, which lives up to its name.The first few bites are fine, but the heat slowly creeps in until you realise, only too late, that this chicken has no chill at all. Thankfully, you can take a sip (or gulp) of their Sikhye (rice punch) to put out the fire. Don't worry if chilli is not your thing though, you are still spoilt for choice with 9 other varieties of meat, and very good cooked dishes.
My meal here would have been perfect if not for the dismal ventilation and the lack of fume extractors. I left the restaurant greasy from head to toe and smelling of roast meat. I was having dinner so I went straight home for a shower, twice.
I love bbq and LOVE free flow food and so when I walked past it and it seductively beckoned me to stop by - I'm only human - I couldn't resist. So I dragged a friend along with me that evening and I think it was the best $25 I've ever spent on food.
Priced extremely affordably and easy to locate, this place is one I will be returning to quite frequently. I think I paid about $25 in total for dinner, and I ate so much that I was bloated for like 4 hours after. From their appetisers to the meat selection and even down to their drinks, everything is made of pure, sinful temptation. I couldn't stop eating!
The only downside is that you'll probably want to make a reservation because when I was there, the walk-in queue was crazy long and moved very slowly because most people had already made reservations. But waiting isn't that bad when you have good company!
My visit to I'm Kim was wonderful for but one gnarly incident.
As my friends and I laid out strips of bacon on the hot grill, their fat spitting away and the juicy aroma forming a cloud around our heads, we turned our head to the left and spotted the gym on the second floor of the building next door. All the treadmills were lined up against the floor to ceilling windows and the gym's occupants jogged, watching us hungrily. (Save for one dude whom I assume must be vegetarian.) But then the spitting fat stung my hand and the guilty moment was gone. The three of us - well two of them were American therefore, bacon - wiped out over thirty slices of bacon.
But it's not only bacon that is delicious. The meat has been marinated to perfection and the chicken wings, the most popular of dishes, gets wiped out in under 20 seconds. People grab six at a time! I suppose you can't help but enjoy Korean, twice-fried chicken. So crispy! The range is marvelous and would satisfy even the pickiest of eaters. Soups galore for the older generation, meat for carnivores and salad and sides for vegetarians. All this under $25. Worth it for a massive Korean BBQ yes?
Unfortunately, the low low price comes with several unhappy factors. For one, like Seoul garden, the moist, marinating meats are left out in the open to be prodded by grubby thongs. Secondly the washing and cleaning area is hidden by a moveable trolley of drinks. While the trolley is sizable, it doesn't block the area form view. The surrounding space is also usually damp and unslightly. My suggestion: build a false wall!
Put that aside and sit at the far end of the restaurant, away from the wet mess, and you've got yourself one heck of a Korean BBQ. Finish off the evening with ice cream, it doesn't come with the buffet, but is the perfect way to end the evening. I would say this is a place for groups of students and young adults, but working folk, if you can afford better, go.
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Situated near POMO, an area I visit pretty often, I'm KIM Korean BBQ has always caught my eye, especially with the affordable prices for students. Needless to say, I had to try it out for myself, so I visited with a friend one day.
The interior was oddly dark the time I went, and perhaps this is the reason why it may not have much draw to passersby. Without bright enough lighting to illuminate the delighted faces of customers, perhaps it loses one marketing point. Which, really, is a pity, given its tasty food.
The meats are pretty well marinated and quite flavourful, but my favourite has to be the Korean pancakes. They are just so yummy! The kimchi taste is just right, and the pancakes are nicely chewy with a hint of crisp. The soups are great too.
I love Korean KBBQ, the word 'love' is an understatement. I was excited to try out I'm KIM Korean BBQ, the new kid on the block situated a walking distance away from Dhoby Ghaut MRT. With the Hallyu Wave bringing in all sorts of Korean food into our little island, the KBBQ restaurant that I found myself to frequent the most is Ssikkek because of its affordable buffet price.
I'm KIM's striking resemblance to Ssikkek made me a little disappointed as I had expected a KBBQ restaurant with a more original concept, but their wider variety of food choices as well as high quality left me a happy customer. My friend and I spent $25 each for a dinner buffet at I'm KIM, which is considerably cheap.
We went on a Wednesday night at around 7pm, and luckily for us, it became full house about ten minutes after we got seated, so do go early if you don't want to wait for a table!
To sum up, don't be fooled by their bright and loud storefront that may lead you into thinking that they have something vastly different to offer, because I'm KIM's KBBQ is honestly just a much better version of Ssikkek in terms of variety, quality and service. I do hope that they keep this up however! I thoroughly enjoyed my meal there and I might have just found my new favourite KBBQ place. More outlets please?
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Having opened recently, I'm KIM has already been enjoying much popularity. When I made a trip down, it was easy to see why. Something that distinguishes I'm KIM from its other K-BBQ counterparts, besides the wide variety of food, is the quality of the other dishes, and the service.
I was surprised to see they had such a wide variety of soups, kimchi stew, pumpkin soup, seaweed soup, and even samgyetang. (ginseng chicken soup)
Their glass noodles were also quite good, though I wish their kimchi pancakes were more sour - it was a little too tasteless for me.
On to the meats! The pork collar and rib-eye were my favourites, but the volcano chicken was good too. It was a tad too spicy for me though, but they had a variety of drinks (rice punch, mango juice, lime juice and korean barley tea) to quench the fire.
Another thing I liked was that after we paid for our meal, they gave us a coupon that was a discount for our next visit. It's a good marketing tactic to promote return customers. Not that they need it though, the quality of the food was reason enough for a return visit! They also have a weekday student lunch promotion, which is $12.90++. For a K-BBQ buffet, that is insanely cheap. Students of SOTA, you know where to go!


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Fran Rajotte asked God to help her find a job where she could make an impact on humanity. He sent her to the Visitation Hospital Foundation and Catholic Charities of Tennessee.
"When you pray for something you have to be careful to accept what God gives you," Rajotte said. "I prayed to have an impact on humanity. Both of my jobs have allowed me to do that."
More than 13 years later, she is retiring from her positions as associate director of the Visitation Hospital Clinic and as director of advocacy and social concerns for Catholic Charities.
In both jobs, she has been able to serve the poor. "It's been my passion," Rajotte said.
Her responsibilities at Visitation Hospital Foundation, which is affiliated with the Parish Twinning Program of the Americas, have primarily been raising funds for the construction of the Visitation Clinic in Petite Riviere de Nippes, Haiti, which opened in 2008.
"We had nothing," when she started, Rajotte said. "We just had a piece of land. From the time I started until now we have a thriving medical clinic that offers a variety of health care services and a laboratory and a pharmacy."
Over the years, the clinic has added numerous programs. Recently added has been a dental program, a nurse midwife program, and a program that sends community health workers out into the more remote areas around the clinic, Rajotte said.
The community health workers program, funded with a grant from the Raskob Foundation, has two workers trained by the Haitian Ministry of Health who deliver basic care and health education to people.
The dental program is sponsored by a dentist in Memphis "who has worked as my right arm" developing the program, Rajotte said. "The equipment there now is equal to anything you find in the United States."
Clarksville Pediatric Dentistry has helped sponsor some of the equipment, Rajotte added.
With funding from Saint Thomas Health and the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky, the clinic was able to hire three masters-level nurse midwives to train 40 midwives, Rajotte said. Most women in Haiti have their babies at home with the help of a midwife, most of whom have not had any formal training.
Through the program, the midwives completed a six-week course and were certified. When they graduated in June, Rajotte said, "I was able to present them with their certificates. The community was so excited."
The program has spread the word among mothers and the midwives to be mindful of pre- and post-natal care and to let them know they can come to the clinic if there are complications, Rajotte said.
Since the clinic opened, child malnutrition in the area has been reduced by 85 percent, Rajotte said. "We've almost eliminated worms in adults and children."
The foundation has developed relationships with the Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health, Belmont University School of Nursing, Aquinas College School of Nursing and Saint Thomas Health. Direct Relief Services provides the clinic with medicines every other month and will soon start sending free birthing kits for the midwife program.
The biggest need now is more space at the clinic, Rajotte said. The foundation's next goal is to raise $650,000 to build a labor/delivery room and a surgical suite. The job of raising those funds will fall to Rajotte's replacement, Lee Anne Wills, who started in the job on Jan. 4.
Rajotte will remain on the board of directors for the Visitation Hospital Foundation.
Six years ago, Rajotte added a second job working for Catholic Charities. Among her responsibilities has been working with the poverty reduction program through Catholic Charities USA. "We do a lot of education on poverty, such as poverty simulations, hunger banquets, and food stamp challenges," Rajotte said.
She also works with the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, overseeing its grant program locally. The grants are awarded to agencies that empower the poor to help themselves. Rajotte's role has been reviewing the grant applications before sending them on to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development national staff.
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Knowledge is NOT power. It is potential power. It becomes power when it is organized and structured into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
Before you can turn desire into success, you will require specialized knowledge of the service or merchandise. For you to succeed you may need a "mastermind group." A mastermind group is a group of real or virtual authorities on subjects that you are not an authority on.
For one to succeed he needs power, and power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed specialized knowledge, but that knowledge doesn't have to be in the possession of the man who acquires success.
As knowledge is acquired it must be organized and put into use, for a definite purpose, through practical plans. Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end. For example gaining wealth and being a good artist.
Combine your knowledge with your imagination to create ideas. There is no fixed price for sound ideas. There is no limit to the amount of wealth a good idea can bring.
Behind the idea is specialized knowledge. This knowledge is easy to acquire. What is rare is good ideas. Because of this, there is a universal and ever-increasing demand for ideas in the form of organized plans to create wealth.
Imagination is the workshop where plans are created. Your desire is given shape, form, and action through the aid of the imagination.
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Creative imagination - Is an inspiration, is your source for new ideas. It generates questions such as:- What if?, Why not?, What would happen if?
Desire is only a thought. It is abstract, and of no value, until it has been transformed into action. Your imaginative faculty may have become weak through inaction. It can be revived and made active through use.
Transformation of desire into reality calls for the use of a plan. These plans must be formed with the aid of the imagination, and mainly with the synthetic faculty.


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Happy Sunday DMI: This week in Digital Media Innovation we're going to start exploring how entrepreneurial perspectives are influencing news media companies and the overall industry.
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Recommended Books
The Church of Christ, by Ed Wharton.
The Scheme of Redemption, by Ed Wharton.
The Book of Revelation, by Jim McGuiggan.
The Model Church, by G. C. Brewer.
The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine, by Alister McGrath.
Billions of Missing Links, A Rational Look at the Mysteries Evolution Can't Explain, by Geoffrey Simmons.
Why Evolution is a Fraud, A Secular & Common-Sense Deconstruction, by Tom Sutcliff.
The Edge of Evolution, by Michael J. Behe.
Darwin on Trial, by Phillip Johnson.
The Wedge of Truth, by Phillip Johnson.
Darwin's Black Box, by Michael J. Behe.
Reason in the Balance, the Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education, by Phillip Johnson.
The Right Questions, Truth, Meaning & Public Debate, by Phillip Johnson.
Doubts about Darwin, A History of Intelligent Design, by Thomas Woodward
Total Truth, Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity by Nancy Pearcey
The Design Revolution, Answering the Toughest Questions About Intelligent Design, by William Dembski.
What Darwin Didn't Know, by Geoffrey Simmons.
How Blind is the Watchmaker? Nature's Design & the Limits of Naturalistic Science, by Neil Broom.
Tornado in a Junkyard, The Relentless Myth of Darwinism, by James Perloff.
God's Plan of Salvation
You must hear the gospel and then understand and recognize that you are lost without Jesus Christ no matter who you are and no matter what your background is. The Bible tells us that "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23) Before you can be saved, you must understand that you are lost and that the only way to be saved is by obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ. (2 Thessalonians 1:8) Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6) "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:12)
You must believe and have faith in God because "without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." (Hebrews 11:6) But neither belief alone nor faith alone is sufficient to save. (James 2:19; James 2:24; Matthew 7:21)
You must repent of your sins. (Acts 3:19) But repentance alone is not enough. The so-called "Sinner's Prayer" that you hear so much about today from denominational preachers does not appear anywhere in the Bible. Indeed, nowhere in the Bible was anyone ever told to pray the "Sinner's Prayer" to be saved. By contrast, there are numerous examples showing that prayer alone does not save. Saul, for example, prayed following his meeting with Jesus on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:11), but Saul was still in his sins when Ananias met him three days later (Acts 22:16). Cornelius prayed to God always, and yet there was something else he needed to do to be saved (Acts 10:2, 6, 33, 48). If prayer alone did not save Saul or Cornelius, prayer alone will not save you. You must obey the gospel. (2 Thess. 1:8)
You must confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. (Romans 10:9-10) Note that you do NOT need to make Jesus "Lord of your life." Why? Because Jesus is already Lord of your life whether or not you have obeyed his gospel. Indeed, we obey him, not to make him Lord, but because he already is Lord. (Acts 2:36) Also, no one in the Bible was ever told to just "accept Jesus as your personal savior." We must confess that Jesus is the Son of God, but, as with faith and repentance, confession alone does not save. (Matthew 7:21)
Having believed, repented, and confessed that Jesus is the Son of God, you must be baptized for the remission of your sins. (Acts 2:38) It is at this point (and not before) that your sins are forgiven. (Acts 22:16) It is impossible to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ without teaching the absolute necessity of baptism for salvation. (Acts 8:35-36; Romans 6:3-4; 1 Peter 3:21) Anyone who responds to the question in Acts 2:37 with an answer that contradicts Acts 2:38 is NOT proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Once you are saved, God adds you to his church and writes your name in the Book of Life. (Acts 2:47; Philippians 4:3) To continue in God's grace, you must continue to serve God faithfully until death. Unless they remain faithful, those who are in God's grace will fall from grace, and those whose names are in the Book of Life will have their names blotted out of that book. (Revelation 2:10; Revelation 3:5; Galatians 5:4)


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Why do I stack DP instead when "everybody" knows it's useless? Because I can't care less about 1v1. While I don't have time (or actual idea) to start a guild and not really thinking about joining anyone else's guild just to listen to stupid chat on the mandatory voice comms. These comms are a large negative to me in any game because no matter how good reason was behind their making, they quickly degrade to "friendly banther" which I can't suffer.
I participated in lots of Red Battlefield matches (no chat there) and saw the problem of this "warfare": everyone is skirmishing on the edges as moving in first would mean very quick death. Everyone is looking for someone making a mistake and people usually don't.
I realized that I can break this setup by charging in with full defense buffs as a Valkyrie. I still die fast, but as I force the enemy to focus me or I CC them, my team can finish them off. Every charge costs the enemy more deaths than my own. I don't see why would it work differently in other mass battles, like node and siege wars. Since I'm instantly focused, I'm lucky if I can cast a single CC before being CC-ed and then killed. So AP is worth near zero to me. DP and damage reduction on the other hand elongates my life, even if just by seconds, giving more time to my friendlies to finish them off.
This isn't just some random strategy, but comparative advantage at work. Someone has to move in first and no matter how little the difference of survival time of a glass cannon wizard and a full tank Valkyrie, it's obvious that the Valk is better to move in. Practically I trade my defense for their offense (I tank for them, they shoot for me), so I should focus on more defense.
I plan to prove this theory by getting to the Red Battlefield toplist. When I have more time playing (real life got really busy recently), I will test it in sieges too.


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i set the product back because it was'nt working. requested my money back, was told as soon as they recieve the product back they woukd refund my money.
I closed account and said not to send any more. the nest day there was a hold on a payment at my bank for another shipment. i called and cancelled again. was told i would recieve a full refund for both shipments of their product.
it would take two to three weeks.
they also took the money that was on hold that i told them not to. this company is a big rip offffffffff.
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I called they said I would receive a refund no later than 30 days. Called 3 times & each time they promise to put my refund through. Even promised to call me back & send me a tranaction# . They still have not called back, they are refusing to answer my messages and still no refund..
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This invention is related to electrical transformers and specifically to an integrated multi-phase high-frequency planar transformer.
Transformers are often used in electronic systems to transfer electrical energy from one circuit to another and to step-up or step-down the voltage of electrical signals. In long-distance transmission lines, for example, transformers are used to step-up the transmission voltage from several hundred volts to more than 100 KV for long-distance transmission. In other circuits, transformers are used to step-down voltages for low-voltage applications such as personal electronic devices (e.g., cell phones or computers) or toys. Transformers may also be used in signal processing applications to couple stages of an amplifier circuit. Transformers also can act as safety devices to provide current-limiting functionality in electrical short situations such as those found in some welding applications.
Multi-phase transformers are often used in industrial settings where very high power is required. These applications are commonly fixed or stationary in nature. The design intent for these stationary multi-phase transformers is primarily on cost.
In aviation and other mobile applications, multiphase transformers may be employed as a way to save weight when compared to the use of multiple single-phase transformers. A single phase transformer is generally constructed with a center core and at least one flux return path to produce a complete magnetic circuit. In multi-phase transformers there is a phase, or winding, around more than one core and therefore the cores themselves can provide a magnetic flux return path for each other, eliminating the need for a separate return path and therefore eliminating the weight, volume and cost of material used to construct the return path. For weight sensitive applications, there exists a need for a multi-phase transformer core design that is specifically designed to optimize the weight savings.
Multi-phase transformers could be applied in settings where high efficiency is required such as multi-phase DC to DC converter circuits (changing one Direct Current voltage to another Direct Current voltage). In such a case an input voltage may be switched at high frequency into multiple phases of the transformer then rectified and combined into a single output signal. The use of multiple phases in such a system are a dramatic reduction in input and output ripple as one phase can be supplying energy to the load while another phase is being energized.
When operating at the high frequencies employed in DC to DC converter systems, conventional multi-phase transformers have a number of serious limitations. Conventional transformers are formed on a core that has three legs, each with multiple windings present on it. However, the magnetic path from leg to leg is not even. This causes the magnetic resistance in each leg to be different and may therefore contribute to uneven losses and even loss of circuit control. Magnetic losses are generally higher in smaller transformers because the total flux concentrated inside the core is higher. Increased operating frequency also increases core losses as the magnetic flux is forced to change at a higher rate of change. For all of these reasons there exists a need for a balanced multi-phase transformer core.
Transformers are usually constructed by passing multiple turns of wire around the core. Several improvements in the types of wire, the shape of the wire itself and the method of winding have been proposed. As frequency of operation is increased, fewer turns of wire are required. It is possible to increase operating frequency to the point where only a few turns of wire are required. Maintaining accurate winding lengths, wire placement on the core, tension of the wire and turns ratio is exceedingly difficult as the number of turns is reduced towards one turn. Accurately maintaining the winding of the transformers is critical in DC to DC conversion circuits in order to maximize efficiency. Balance on each of the phases in a multi-phase system is also impacted by winding variation. There exists a need to more accurately control windings on a high-frequency multi-phase transformer.
Toroidal transformers are often employed to reduce weight. These transformers are based on a donut shaped core of magnetic material that has wire wrapped around it. Toroids are highly efficient as the entire ring of material may be used for carrying the wire turns and for carrying the flux. The principle disadvantages of toroids lies in the need to wind wire around the entire periphery in order to gain the full advantage of the design, this generally requires difficult winding techniques for the wire and is unsuited for use with planar style designs. It is also difficult to maintain even wire spacing and turns ratios. There exists a need for a transformer with similar weight savings to toroids, but with easier winding and higher accuracy.
Throughout this application, the concept of the core structure being assembled, connected or otherwise having certain mechanical features is taken in the sense of magnetic flux connections. Such plates, posts and cores may be constructed from multiple elements which are brought in proximity to each other in such a way that a magnetic circuit is formed. The actual physical connection between the various structures may be permanent in nature, may be part of the manufacturing process, or may be accomplished through any other positioning means be it temporary, frictional, clamps or frames. The entire structure may also be constructed from a single fused element such as would be found in injection molding casting or sintering. The fundamental nature of the shape, size and magnetic circuit is the principle concern herein.
Overall, there exists a need for a multi-phase planar transformer design that provides weight savings, balanced flux paths and highly accurate conductor turns ratio which can be constructed rapidly and repeatedly.
In one embodiment, the present invention is a transformer comprising a core structure. The core structure comprises a first plate having a triangular-shaped perimeter and three planes of symmetry, and three first core posts connected to a surface of the first plate. Each first core post is positioned along a different one of the three planes of symmetry of the first plate. The core structure includes a second plate having a triangular-shaped perimeter and three planes of symmetry, and three second core posts connected to a surface of the second plate. Each second core post is positioned along a different one of the three planes of symmetry of the second plate. Each second core post is connected to a different first core post. The transformer comprises primary windings formed around each of the first core posts or second core posts, and secondary windings formed around each of the first core posts or second core posts.
In another embodiment, the present invention is a transformer comprising a core structure. The core structure includes a high-magnetic permeability material and includes a first plate having three planes of symmetry, a second plate having three planes of symmetry, and core posts connected to the first plate or second plate. Each core post is positioned along one of the three planes of symmetry of the first plate or second plate. The transformer includes windings formed around the core posts.
In another embodiment, the present invention is a transformer comprising a core structure. The core structure includes a first plate having planes of symmetry, a second plate having planes of symmetry, and core posts connected to the first plate or the second plate. Each core post is positioned along one of the planes of symmetry of the first plate or the second plate.
In another embodiment, the present invention is a method of manufacturing a transformer comprising forming a core structure using a molding fabrication process applied to a high-magnetic permeability material. Forming the core structure including forming a first plate having planes of symmetry, and connecting first core posts to a surface of the first plate. Each first core post is positioned along one of the planes of symmetry of the first plate. Forming the core structure includes forming a second plate having planes of symmetry, and connecting second core posts to a surface of the second plate. Each second core post is positioned along one of the planes of symmetry of the second plate. The second core posts are connected to the first core posts. The method includes forming windings around the first core posts or the second core posts.
Implementations will become more apparent from the detailed description set forth below when taken in conjunction with the drawings, in which like elements bear like reference numerals.
FIGS. 1a and 1b illustrate a prior art conventional three-phase transformer having an E-Shaped core structure.
FIGS. 2a and 2b illustrate a perspective view of a three-phase planar transformer.
FIGS. 3a and 3b illustrates the flux paths in the three-phase planar transformer.
FIGS. 4a and 4b illustrate the optimum core size for a three phase planar transformer.
FIGS. 5a, 5b and 5c show the circuit board windings, core and sectional view of the planar transformer.
FIG. 6 shows a representative six-phase planar transformer.
The present invention is described in preferred embodiments in the following description with reference to the Figures, in which like numbers represent the same or similar elements. Reference throughout this specification to "one embodiment," "an embodiment," or similar language means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present invention. Thus, appearances of the phrases "in one embodiment," "in an embodiment," and similar language throughout this specification may, but do not necessarily, all refer to the same embodiment.
The described features, structures, or characteristics of the invention may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. In the following description, numerous specific details are recited to provide a thorough understanding of embodiments of the invention. One skilled in the relevant art will recognize, however, that the invention may be practiced without one or more of the specific details, or with other methods, components, materials, and so forth. In other instances, well-known structures, materials, or operations are not shown or described in detail to avoid obscuring aspects of the invention.
In aerospace applications, transformers are often used as part of the power-distribution system. In an airplane, for example, energy used to power the on-board electrical systems may be created by generators coupled to the plane's engines. In order to modify the electrical energy produced by the generators for use by the onboard systems, transformers are used to either step-up or step-down the input voltage to a desired value. Depending upon the number and type of on-board systems, several different transformers having different winding configurations may be necessary to generate an electricity supply for each of the on-board systems. If the generators provide a three-phase electricity supply, three separate transformers or an integrated three-phase transformer may be required for energy distribution.
Generally, a transformer includes two windings of conductive material formed around a core material. Depending upon the transformer, the two windings may have a different number of turns and are wound around a mutual core formed of a high-magnetic permeability material such as high-permeability silicon steel. When the transformer is energized, a changing current passing through the first winding generates a corresponding changing magnetic field that propagates through the first winding, the core and, subsequently, the second winding. This changing magnetic field induces a corresponding voltage across the second winding. If the second winding is connected to a load, a complementary current will flow through the second winding and through the load. In this configuration, the first and second windings are connected by electromagnetic induction and allow for electrical energy to be communicated or transferred from one winding to the other.
In most applications, transformers operate to either step-up or step-down a voltage applied to the first winding. For example, a transformer with an input voltage of 500 Volts Alternating-Current (VAC) may be configured to step-up that voltage to generate an output voltage across the second winding of 2500 VAC, with a corresponding drop in available current. These voltage modification characteristics of a transformer are controlled by the configuration of the first and second windings around the common core. Specifically, the ratio of turns in the first and second windings controls the ratio of input to output voltages of the transformer. For example, in a transformer having primary and second windings, the ratio of the numbers of turns in the primary (Np) to secondary (Ns) windings is equal to the ratio of the voltage across the primary winding (Vp) to that across the secondary winding (Vs) as illustrated in Equation 1:
As a transformer operates with an AC input, the core material is constantly being magnetized and demagnetized by the magnetic field generated by the primary winding. If the input frequency is too low, the core material may become saturated with magnetic flux resulting in a sharp increase in the current flowing through the first winding and overheating of the transformer. This condition can often result in device failure. At a given input frequency, therefore, the core material must have a sufficient magnetic flux capacity to prevent saturation. Because the magnetic flux capacity is dependent upon the geometry of the core structure, the core structure of a transformer at a given frequency has a minimum size. As a result, at relatively low frequencies, transformers tend to be extremely bulky and heavy.
In three-phase electrical systems, multiple transformers having more than two windings may be used to adjust the voltage characteristics of each phase in the distribution system. In high-energy power delivery systems, for example, a three-phase transformer may be used to step-up or step-down voltages across the three-phases for efficient long-distance delivery.
Three-phase transformers can be manufactured using a collection of individual, isolated single-phase transformers connected to each phase, or by combining a plurality of transformer windings with a single core structure. In three-phase transformers having a single core structure, the windings for each phase of the system are formed around separate portions of the core structure. As the transformer operates, a three-phase flow of flux created by the three primary windings is generated within the core structure.
FIG. 1a illustrates a prior art conventional three-phase transformer (100). FIG. 1a shows that the core structure is formed of two separate cores. One is in the shape of an 'E' and is called the E-Core (104) and is attached to a flat plate (105) which together form the entire core. Windings would be passed around each of the core legs (106A, 106B, 106C). The windings are not shown to improve clarity of the drawing. Plate (105) is connected to the E-Core (104) by an of a variety of methods form a continuous core structure for the device. The continuous core structure facilitates the distribution of magnetic flux throughout core structure. In this configuration, although straightforward to fabricate, the E-shaped core structure is not symmetrical with respect to each of the three pairs of windings. As a result, the flux paths for each phase or leg of the system are not balanced causing inefficient operation.
FIG. 1b shows the flux paths as a dashed line. The flux path from leg 106A would travel along the short loop (111) and the long loop (110). Flux from leg 106C would also travel along a short loop (112) and the long loop (110). However, flux from the center leg 106B would travel around only the short loops (111 and 112). This loop imbalance necessitates that a flux gap be added to many transformer cores in order to force losses to occur which will keep the core from saturation. This gap is usually included as part of the assembly structure by widening the gap (103) between the two core structures (104) and (105).
Because transformers tend to be heavy, bulky devices they can present significant costs when used in aerospace applications where a minimization of size and weight is crucial to high-performance systems.
FIG. 2A is a top view illustration of one embodiment of the invention which is an integrated three-phase high-frequency planar transformer having a core structure (200). FIG. 2B is a front view of the embodiment of FIG. 2A.
The top plate (201) and bottom plate (205) of the core structure are essentially flat triangles. The three core posts (202A, 202B, 202C) connect the top plate (201) to the bottom plate (205).
In one embodiment, core structure (200) is formed using a molding fabrication process. Alternatively, the core structure can be made using a cutting or etching process applied to a solid piece of material. In that case, the core structure may be fabricated using a computer-guided cutting or routing tool. In other implementations, the core structure is formed by joining pieces of material that are separately fabricated. For example, each core post (202A, 202B, 202C) may be manufactured and then mounted to the top (201) and bottom (205) plates.
Generally, the core structure includes a high-permeability material such as iron, steel, laminated steel, high permeability silicon steel, or ceramic materials such as ferrites. In other embodiments, however, any suitable core material may be used—even one that does not provide high-efficiency magnetic flux distribution. In other implementations the core structure includes zinc, or other doped ferrite materials.
As shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B, the top plate (201) and bottom plate (205) are formed as approximately planar structures having a consistent thickness. The perimeters of both plates form an equilateral triangular shape.
Still referring to FIG. 2A and FIG. 2B, a critical feature of the design ensures that the flux path from each core post is balanced and completely symmetrical to each other. If lines of symmetry (203) were passed through the core, they would cross at the center and be at all times of equal angles to each other.
Referring to FIGS. 3A and 3B, flux line paths 301 and 302 are shown. Windings would be positioned around each of the core posts (202A, 202B, 202C). The flux from core post 202C would flow equally along two flux paths (301, 302) in both the overhead and the front-view of the core. This three-dimensional flux flow will be symmetrical and balanced when flowing from any one energized core post through the two return-path core posts. By positioning core posts in this manner, the magnetic flux characteristics of core structure presented to each of core posts and their respective windings is approximately equal. In other words, the core structure as viewed by each post looks the same. As a result, the magnetic flux generated by each winding of the transformer is balanced throughout core structure. The balancing of magnetic flux for each phase of the transformer results in more efficient and consistent operation of the transformer across all phases.
In other implementations of the present system, core structures may be manufactured using other numbers of core posts and phases. For example, a transformer in accordance with the present system may be manufactured using 6 phases as shown in FIG. 6. The core structure (600) supports six separate posts (601) and may include a hole in the center to reduce weight. In each core structure for any n-phases, the sets of core posts are positioned along each of the planes of symmetry found in the core structure.
FIG. 4A and FIG. 4B shows the smallest expected core structure. FIG. 4A shows the core structure from a top view and includes rounded corners (401) which are brought up to the edges of the core posts. Flux flowing between the core posts will tend to not travel through the center of the core, as such the center may be removed leaving a hole (402) in the center of the structure without significantly affecting performance, provided appropriate design techniques have been employed to ensure adequate flux carrying material is used. Ideally the cross sectional area available for magnetic flux flow should be equal at all points in the flux path.
FIG. 4B shows the same core structure from a front view. The windings are not shown for simplicity. This shows that further rounding of the corners is possible (403) depending on the level of weight savings and the flux paths present in the core structure.
Although FIG. 4A and FIG. 4B show the smallest expected core structure, it is possible and may even be desirable in some circumstances to make the core somewhat larger than what is shown in these figures. For example, the hole (402) may dramatically increase the cost to manufacture the part with only minimal weight savings. It may also be desirable to allow the plate to have sharp corners or for the top plate and bottom plate to be larger than the core posts in order to dissipate extra heat, to aid in assembly, or for to allow for additional manufacturing tolerance. The top and bottom plate may also be of different sizes or configurations, provided the essence of balanced flux paths and planes of symmetry are maintained.
Additional advantages of this transformer design can be appreciated when comparing FIGS. 1a and 1b to FIGS. 4A and 4B. In particular the length of wire required to make one turn or loop is minimized when round cores are used as compared to square or rectangular legs. Heat dissipation area is also maximized for the planar transformer core and can be further improved by blowing air through the center hole (402) or by adding ridges and groves to the surfaces of the core to further improve dissipation. Referring to FIGS. 1a and 1b, it can be seen that the heat dissipation available to the posts will be unequal when comparing to outer legs (106 A, 106C) to the center leg (106B). Mounting the planar transformer is also simplified as it clamps around a circuit board, allowing a single bolt to pass through the center of the core, or for the use of adhesives or external clamps to hold the transformer core in place. Conventional toroids must sit on top of the circuit board due to their distributed windings.
FIGS. 5A, 5B and 5C illustrate the winding structure employed in the planar transformer. FIG. 5A shows an example printed circuit board (500) with spiral windings (510) of copper located on the surface of the circuit board. These spirals are located around three holes (511) into which the core posts will fit.
FIG. 5B shows an overhead view of the core structure (520) installed on the circuit board (500). In this way the core structure (520) is effectively sandwiching the circuit board inside the core.
FIG. 5C illustrates a cross-sectional view of the transformer taken along Section A-A of FIG. 5B As shown, primary and secondary windings of each phase of the three-phase transformer are formed around posts on the core (531) by use of multiple circuit boards (530). It is also possible to form multiple windings on a single circuit board, on a fused multi-layer circuit board, or to form the windings through more conventional wire winding techniques. Alternatively, the windings are first formed within a separate support structure which is separately formed and configured to mount around the core posts. For example, multiple windings may be formed within an epoxy or other solid insulative support material to form a separate winding structure. The winding structure is configured with openings or holes to fit over the core posts and between the core top plate and bottom plate. Depending upon the application, the primary and secondary windings of each phase of the transformer may be formed with any number of turns; the numbers of turns in the primary and secondary windings may be different, and the number of windings between phases, and even the number of separate windings themselves may also vary.
The winding structure may include a plurality of stacked printed circuit boards (530). Each circuit board (500) comprises a substrate material such as polytetrafluoroethylene, other fluoropolymers such as FR-4, FR-1, CEM-1, CEM-3 or other insulating substrate materials, and is formed to include holes (511) disposed there through to accommodate the core posts. Conductive material is formed over a surface of or within each board around each of the openings to forms one or more loops, spirals or turns (510) within the primary or secondary windings of each phase of the transformer. The conductive loops include a material such as gold, silver or copper and are formed on a surface or within layers of boards (500) using evaporation, electrolytic plating, electro-less plating, screen printing, or another suitable metal deposition process or combination of processes. Depending upon the application, each board may include a single loop of conductive material, or may include several loops for each winding formed over one another on separate layers of each board.
While one or more embodiments of the present invention have been illustrated in detail, the skilled artisan will appreciate that modifications and adaptations to those embodiments may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention as set forth in the following claims.


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Sultan aside, after you sign the contract at the dealer and hand over the deposit, your Phantom or Ghost actually will start to be hand assembled at the Goodwood Leicestershire UK factory usually within 72 hours of signing the contract. While robotic welds have vastly improved quality control over the years, most of the car is assembled by hand, particularly the interior. If the plant is not closed to visitors while simultaneously assembling top-secret cars for heads of state, they invite customers to the plant to witness assembly of their car and participate in the assembly process. If the customer is away and there are problems with any particular unit, a plant manager will call either the customer or the dealer right off the assembly line to let them know what the issues are to be resolved. I remember a plant manager once called a client of mine to tell her the color she picked for the car's interior didn't match the piping on the seats and to go back to the dealer to pick another color.
The plant keeps their customers fully informed of progress start to finish. When finished they like to keep the car at the plant for about a week for quality control to get the bugs out. If you opt to standard ship it overseas by boat (takes about 7-10 days to North America), the regional Rolls Royce Office in the country the dealer is located (i.e. Rolls Royce North America Woodcliff Lake, NJ) will keep it for another week to make sure Goodwood stomped all the bugs out. This is why Rolls Royce never warranties their cars at mileage 0 and why a new Rolls Royce always has a few dozen miles on it before an owner takes delivery--the warranty starts when they hand you the keys to the car. Bespoke cars are hand made which allows for more error, so test-driving is mandatory to ensure quality control. It is then the salesman's responsibility to ship your car from regional to the dealer.
|Once a car has completed assembly it stays at the UK plant for up to 10 days to constantly test track and tweak the car for quality control and then shipped to the regional office for further testing before delivery.


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The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History opens an exhibit in the local history gallery today on the Beach Flats Community Garden. The exhibit will run for a year and includes clips from interviews with the gardeners, photographs, and other items from the garden. The exhibit is titled "What is worth saving" and asks …
An Open Letter to Santa Cruz from the Gardeners
The gardeners of Beach Flats sometimes may seem invisible. They mostly work long hours for low wages during the week, only seeing each other in the late evening or on weekends. This week, with their gathering place at risk of closure, they came together to tell their story directly to the people of Santa Cruz. …
URGENT: Contact City and Seaside Company to Halt Destruction in Beach Flats Garden
A bulldozer rumbled into the Beach Flats Garden early Thursday morning, tearing out mature fruit trees and nopales plants that city staff had earlier promised would not be touched, and damaging an already strained relationship between the City and community. (For more images, see The Day the Bulldozers Came) Parks workers ripped out stakes and …
The day the bulldozers came
City of Santa Cruz Staff used heavy machinery to uproot and destroy mature fruit trees and nopales today. Topsoil compaction from the bulldozers will do irreparable harm to the precious garden microbes that make the beach flats garden soil so abundant.
Seeds of Change in the Beach Flats Garden
Thank you to everyone who has been a part the Beach Flats Community Garden over the last 23 years. 2015 was a year of struggle, and the the community turned out in great numbers to support the gardeners and the Beach Flats neighborhood in their call for the basic public resources. Gardeners and community members …
Media Update March 2016
Under Increasing Threat Of Legal Action, Beach Flats Gardeners Sign City Letters – Indybay Pie in Support of Beach Flats Community Garden! – Indybay Beach Flats gardeners reach accord with Santa Cruz by: jessica york – Santa Cruz Sentinel Coast Lines, Feb. 17, 2016: Community gardeners reach accord with Santa Cruz – Santa Cruz Sentinel Hundreds March for Beach Flats Community …
Delivering The Gardeners Letter
Yesterday, Emilio, Angelina, and Federico Garcia presented the department of Parks & Rec with a letter they devised saying they have faith that the city will continue to work to preserve 100% of the current Beach Flats garden! The gardeners worked very hard to acquire the signature 17 gardeners, and Dannette Shoemaker, head of Parks …
Art in the Garden
Come by now until 6 for art in the Beach Flats Community Garden."The city of Santa Cruz has announced a January 20th… Posted by Nopal Media on Thursday, January 21, 2016
Holiday parade
El Jardin de la Playa / Save the Beach Flats Garden contingent in #SantaCruz holiday parade! We received an… Posted by Beach Flats Community Garden on Sunday, December 6, 2015
Dolores Huerta Visits The Garden
Dolores Huerta visited the garden to support our struggle. We delivered her a key to the garden and recieved her signature on the Petition to save the garden. The community turned out in force to witness this histroic occasion. Santa Cruz Sentinel Article
March For The Jardin
Beach Flats Community Garden march Gardeners of the Beach Flats Community Garden march with over 200 supporters of the jardín to Santa Cruz City Council meeting on Tuesday October 27, 2015 where all members of the City Council committed to securing a permanent space for the garden. With the November 13th deadline still on the …
Harvest Festival
Through food, music and art the Beach Flats Community Garden Harvest Festival brought people together to highlight the… Posted by Nopal Media on Thursday, September 3, 2015
First Tomatoes!
Every Santa Cruz gardener knows the challenges of planting in the fog of the central coast of California. The late summer heat of August finally gives our tomatoes some color, by September we will be in full swing.
Second Cycle
The long growing season of coastal california gives distinct advantages. With diligence and some elbow grease, resourceful gardeners can sew and harvest 2 cycles of beans per year. Many of the parcels planted with beans in February and March have already been harvested and replanted. The beens have been dried and shelled, and now await …
Kale, kale, and more Kale
Kale has an eagerness to flourish known by many santa cruz gardeners. The fresh foggy air and mild central coast climate nourish kale plants throughout their lifecycle. As the plants grow, gardeners harvest the larger outside leaves and remove and wilted or damaged leaves periodically. This method allows the gardener to harvest a few leaves every …
Don Emilio's Work
Emilio was taking care of the communal areas of the garden this morning. After irrigating his own parcel, he began the task of tending the gladiolas, corn, roses, and cilantro that line walkways of the garden. In the heat of the summer he starts watering early to conserve. By irrigating in the morning, Emilio gives the …
Row crops
A walk through the garden can make one a little envious of the dirt shaping skills of the gardeners. Each parcel is filled with perfectly straight rows of corn, beans, broccoli, and sometimes multiple species co-planted together. The dirt is piled up on the bases of the plants, leaving a trough on either side for …
Squash – Calabaza
One of the garden's most prolific treats; any gardener knows that keeping up with the harvesting can be a challenge.
Every gardener deserves a space for flowers. They bring pollinators and beauty of the garden. Orange, red purple and pink are the colors of the day.
Save the Beach Flats Garden
The Beach Flats garden is being threatened with closure again. The City of Santa Cruz and The Santa Cruz Seaside Company, owner of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, are negotiating a deal for partial closure of the garden at the end of this year. We can not let this happen, our community relies on this space …
The bounty of summer
Summertime at the BFG
Garden Treats
Having snacks growing at the garden is a good motivation to get down there. Fresh green beans, tomatoes, peaches, plums and blueberries await the gardeners at various times of the year.
Peaches – duraznos
In order to maximize energy and space in the garden, many gardeners choose to co-plant multiple crops together in the same field. In the Beach flats garden, corn beans and squash are planted together in various formations according to each gardener's experience and traditions. Corn beans and squash co-planting is known as a three sister …


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I've been seeing a lot of studies lately that prove organic is better. This one is especially interesting because pesticides are the worst of the worst when it comes to spraying. Linked to cancers, ADHD, Parkinson's, and many other diseases, pesticides harm agricultural workers and consumers, especially consumers who are children. We all suffer from the petroleum-based agriculture that big business forces on us, and the resultant environmental and health consequences.
As someone who enjoys a relatively pest-free garden even though I hardly work at it at all, this story is vindication. I do plant wild flower and clover borders to attract beneficial insects. I do make sure my soil is healthy so my plants aren't stressed into becoming bug magnets. But that's about it. Evenness, the big point of this article, takes care of the rest!
""Almost all the studies that have been done have looked at the number of species in an ecosystem," says Crowder. "Very few studies have looked at the relative abundance. We think our study is really one of the first to highlight that evenness is also important.""
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One of the things that I hope will be highlighted by my new feature - Tried & Tested - is the people within the crafting community with experience and expertise who happily share their knowledge and enthusiasm with others. There is some amazing talent out there - and the lovely Tracey of Crystal Star Gems & Jewellery is no different. Every month, Tracey is posting a free tutorial on the Crystal Star Gems & Jewellery Facebook Page, each of them covering a new beading stitch at a level suitable for absolute beginners.
And let me tell you, Tracey's Striped Peyote Bracelet Tutorial was amazing to work on! The photographs are fantastic, showing each of the steps in clear detail - and the instructions are well written without being too wordy. So, even though I only knew the basics of weaving in peyote stitch, I was soon beading away and, more importantly, enjoying myself!
Although it's an extremely easy piece to bead, I felt that I learnt so much from this one tutorial - including how to keep track of stitch counts, zip up flat bead work and decrease or increase in peyote using different sized beads. So to finish up with such a beautiful bracelet at the end, seems like a bonus!
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Oh, my, it's been quiet around here! There are lots of reasons for that, and I'll get to them a bit later in this post. Right now, though, I'm excited to share a layout that you'll find in the latest issue of Scrapbook Generation's Create magazine!
It's no secret that I love Scrapbook Generation's sketch downloads, so when they asked the Simple Stories design team to contribute layouts to the May issue, I jumped at the chance! I worked with a two page sketch (you can find all of this month's featured sketches here as a free download) and used Simple Stories' Hey Mom simple set to finish up scrapping some photos from Mother's Day of 2012. I've done a few one- and two- photo layouts from this day already, but I had a bunch of random shots left over that I wanted to go ahead and get on a page. This two-page sketch has space for 12 photos!
Create's sketch downloads include both a single and double page layout sketch as well as card and tag sketches each month, and I used some of the leftovers from my layout to make a tag following the May sketch.
So, about the five week silence here on the blog...
If you listened to the Paperclipping Roundtable a few weeks ago, then you've already heard this, but life has gotten extremely busy for me lately. Not a stressed out sort of busy, but I do find myself going full speed from the time I wake up until the time I go to bed each day, and the blog has simply fallen to the bottom of my priority list.
I had an inkling that this was going to happen back in April, and at that time I contacted all of my design teams to let them know that I would need to step down this summer. They've all been great about working on an exit date with me, and I'm staying on to work through the design cycle with the product I've already been sent. I absolutely did not want to just drop everybody suddenly and have given them plenty of time and notice, and Crate Paper and Simple Stories both actually asked if I wanted to stay on to work with the mid-season releases, even after I sent in my resignation. I'll be leaving all of my teams in the June/July timeframe.
Citrus Twist asked if I'd like to stay on after my last kit as a designer with them (in July, which is when the new design team from their current call will be announced) and continue to do the monthly kit reveal videos as well as taking a more active role on their social media channels. I've always been a behind-the-scenes technical consultant for them on their various channels, so it's a natural role for me to fall into. I'll also be taking over photographing the kits for the web site, and I actually started that with May's kits.
I'll also be retiring completely from blogging after my last design team assignments in July. I have enjoyed blogging here for the last 6 years, but my life has changed to the point where I just don't have time for it any more without letting something else important fall through the cracks. With Darren starting school this fall and a growing Star & Bee (which I am so, so grateful for- I actually spent most of the last three days moving the business operations into a new, bigger space to work in!) on my hands along with a full-time job, there just aren't enough hours in the day to give my best work to everything.
I'll still be scrapbooking for sure- I have so many little challenges on a list for myself, including no more shopping and using up the supplies that I have. I've also got a wild idea to make a layout using each and every one of Scrapbook Generation's sketches (and there are hundreds!), and I'm itching to do more digital scrapbooking, especially as I work through my physical supplies (which, honestly, will take years). Not having to photograph and post layouts will leave me more time for crafting, which I'm really looking forward to.
I will absolutely miss all of the lovely people who have read and commented on my blog over the years, and I'm so grateful for your support. Thank you all!


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The rest of the (Moodle) world is eagerly anticipating Moodle 2.0, but I would like to tell you about what I have been doing for most of the last year, but which you won't be able to have until Moodle 2.1 - unless, that is, you are a student or teacher with the Open University, in which case you will be using it from this December.
What I have done is to rewrite a large chunk of the Moodle quiz system. What chunk is that? Well, first you can split a quiz system into two main parts. There is the quiz part, which says, "This quiz comprises these questions, and will be open to students between these dates". It tracks the student and they attempt the quiz, and stores their total score. Then there is the part that deals with the details of the individual questions within each quiz.
The question part can again be split in two. There is the question bank which lets the teacher create and store questions. For example "This is a multiple choice question where the student must select one of these three options, and it is an 'Elementary maths' question." Then there is the code that controls what happens when a student attempts a question "The student sees three radio buttons and a Submit button, and when they click the button we compute a score as follows and show this feedback." That second bit is what I call the question engine, and that is what I have rewritten.
However, you cannot just change the question engine in isolation. There are knock-on effects. For example, the quiz module still maintains overall control of things, even though it delegates a lot of the details to the question engine. So there are places where the quiz says things like "Dear question engine, please display this question now", or "Dear question engine, the student submitted this data, please process it", or "Dear question engine, the teacher wants to see all students responses to all questions in this quiz, give me the data to display." All those places have to change when the question engine changes.
There were also small changes required to the question bank. mainly because the new question engine has some new features that need some extra options stored with each question. So, the question bank needs to store the new options; let teachers edit them; back them up and restore them; import them and export them; and so on.
Altogether, my year's work added about 52,000 lines of new code and removed about 25,000 lines of old code (or, if you prefer, added 27,000 lines and altered 25,000 lines). At least that is the size of the change that I committed to the OU's CVS server last Friday, just in time to make the feature-freeze for the December update of our VLE. For comparison, the whole of Moodle 2.0 is about 1,600,000 lines of code, although that includes several large third-party libraries.
I am sure that there will be some minor bugs still to be found and fixed, but this new code has already had extensive testing from my colleagues Phil Butcher and Paul Johnson, so I am confident that the remaining bug-fixes will be minor.
There is much more I want to write about the new question engine, but I think this introductory post is already long enough. Therefore, I will split the remainder of what I want to say into separate posts which I hope to publish over the next week or so.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Introducing the new Moodle question engine
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Hi Tim, What you have done sounds great. Are you making this available to the community?ReplyDelete
Doh! all this is available to the public, I just forgot the link in my original post. See http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Question_Engine_2 and http://timhunt.github.com/Moodle-Question-Engine-2/.ReplyDelete
Also, I know I promised follow-up posts saying more. I have been busy. Perhaps I can write another one this evening.
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Have you ever heard someone talk about good or bad karma? What about life lesson? The two terms are often used interchangeably; however they actually have completely different meanings. There is more to karma and life lessons than what you may have been told.
What do you know about karma? Karma is most commonly understood to be the law of moral causation. A person is either rewarded or punished depending upon their actions, including those from previous incarnations. What if I told you that there is no such thing as negative karma? I would like to give you another definition of karma: Lee Carroll has channelled a loving entity known as Kryon, for over 24 years. Kryon has redefined Karma as the energy of incompletion.
According to Kryon, karma was created to "push humans" one way or another, and was needed mainly in an older Earth energy as a way to move the energy of the planet vibrationally, higher or lower. As humanity worked the karma they had been given, with total free choice, it provided the catalyst for change. Karma is about situations with other humans, unfinished business, and a system in interaction.
Karmic energy pushes you to do things. It's about the group around you, your place in it, and the emotional energies that are developed from that energy. It is the unfulfilled energetic puzzles that often drive us to do things. You might say that karma is the default guide of direction for all humans on the planet. It creates four and five generations of firemen, policemen, doctors or military officers. You "fall into the groove" of what you think you are supposed to do, or what your parents tell you to do, and you do it.
Karma is an old energy driving system that did its job well with a lower vibration humanity, but it is no longer needed in our new energy. When you drop your karma you are releasing an old controlling energy and moving to one where you are free to better help the planet with your light. This is your free choice, and it is driven by your intent. Those who are coming in with new attributes of pure spiritual intent, begin to understand that they don't need past-life karma to complicate their new energy decisions. Part of this karma-dropping process understands that becoming multi-dimensional. This means blending the past, present and future (potential) into a new reality called "the now." This leaves no room for "past karmic instruction sets" within the DNA. Our DNA is evolving spiritually.
In the old energy, karma pushed you to places to do things and meet people. In the new energy, you don't need karma to push you anywhere, because you are able to put yourself exactly where you are meant to be. These new understandings bring a level of responsibility – a total responsibility for all that is around you. No more playing the role of a victim and no more "accidents." This is called "co-creation," and is the spiritual evolution being given to all of us.
Life lessons, sometimes confused with karma, has a very different and have distinct purpose. Life lessons are totally and completely personal and only about "you with you." They may be related to karmic energy, but they stay with you even when you void your karma, ready to be revealed. So they are more profound than karma and belong to your individual core soul, instead of a group. Life lessons are carried from every expression of life, just like karma, but in a different way. Karma pushes you around, but identifying a life lesson helps you to advance into a higher vibration.
Each Human has more than one life lesson, and each Human comes in with this as an overlay. When you solve your life lesson, the solution is carried over to your next life and never has to be learned again. Here is a list of typical life lessons to be learned. They only belong to you if you feel they do, and there are many things not on this list, which may apply to you. Remember, everyone is different and has their own unique list of life lessons.
Learn to love
Learn to listen
Learn to receive
Learn to love yourself
Learn to speak your truth
Learn how not to be a victim
Learn not to let anyone define you
Learn how to feel your own mastery
Learn how to live with others humans
Learn how to get out of blaming others
Learn to move out of duality [drop your karma]
Learn to take care of yourself more than others
In this new energy, all your life lessons are on the table to be solved. Isn't that great news? Many ask, "How do we identify our life lessons?" The answer can only really be discovered by you, but the following questions may help: What do you react to? What is your Achilles' heel (weakness)? What is your purpose? What area of your life (such as love, health and abundance) do you feel is lacking?
Kryon has said that life lessons are complex and part of the planning you do with other souls when you are NOT on the planet. You choose your life lesson before you get here, which will enhance your life if you choose to work on them. There is also free choice to never work on them! Do you know people who are absolutely "stuck" with the same issue over and over? They are often miserable and always tell others they can't get their life together, or perhaps they seem to enjoy the drama of it all. The life lesson of this person is to step out of the distraction of drama and move into self-examination. Next time around, they will probably have the same lesson, because life lessons tend to repeat until solved.
Although they seem like it, life lessons are not karma. They are, however, allied with karma for they attract people in a karmic group, to help them with their life's lesson. It's interactive with karma, but it's an individual issue. When you become aware of your life lesson, and you work on it, it's often revolutionary to see immediate changes within yourself. You end up thinking differently, choosing different friends, and you begin to create the balance you desire. Without karma, your pat is then clear to create anything you wish to.
Kryon tells us that there are three things an old soul can do to greatly enhance their lives: First, drop your karma! Next, become "fully aware" of what your biggest life lesson is about. Identifying your life lesson, therefore is the hardest part. The last part is to slowly implement solutions, which sometimes may take a lifetime! I guess that's why it's called a life lesson. No one ever said being a human was easy. That's why spirit loves us so much. Your life is a miracle! It is time to celebrate the magnificence of who you really are.


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