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Heckuva job? Bush Administration vaunted bogus credentials for birth control czar, records show
Medical Directorship was part time or volunteer post, group says
The former head of the federal agency overseeing family planning programs misled the public about his qualifications and background, a RAW STORY investigation has found.
Appointed by President George W. Bush in late 2006 as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Eric J. Keroack resigned unexpectedly in March of this year after Massachusetts officials launched a formal investigation into allegations of Medicaid fraud during his tenure in private practice.
Medicaid is a state-federal health program for the poor.
Although as an appointee he quickly became mired in controversy over his opposition to birth control, abortion and comprehensive sex education, newly obtained documents show that from the start Dr. Keroack was far from qualified to head the federal womens health program.
As Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs, Dr. Keroack was responsible for a $283 million budget and charged with running a federal agency overseeing womens health issues such as screening for cervical and breast cancer, contraception planning, pregnancy counseling and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases. However, a RAW STORY investigation has found that Keroack either misled the Bush administration about his background or was appointed regardless of his record and with little vetting.
HHS officials repeatedly cited Keroacks long tenure in private practice as one of his key qualifications, along with his highly publicized role as medical director for a chain of Christian pregnancy centers.
According to the Washington Post, Eric Keroack, a nationally known advocate of abstinence until marriage, served for more than a decade as medical director for A Womans Concern, a Massachusetts nonprofit group that discourages abortion and does not distribute information promoting birth control. But HHS spokeswoman Christina Pearson said yesterday that most of Keroacks professional time had been devoted to his private practice of 20 years, not the group.
Documents and interviews with Keroacks associates, however, show that the post of medical director was merely a part-time or volunteer job. Keroacks claims of an extensive private practice also appear dubious.
Administration vaunted bogus credentials
Records from the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine show that Dr. Keroack did not finish his residency in obstetrics and gynecology until 1993. This means he could not possibly have practiced obstetrics for 20 years.
In addition, according to the Post, Dr. Keroacks board certification as an OBGYN, which would have been good for ten years, had lapsed in 2005, a full year before his appointment. As a result, Keroacks tenure in private practice as a board-certified OB-GYN at the time of his appointment could have been no more than 10 years.
Documents obtained by RAW STORY suggest that Keroack may have been in practice even less time.
When Dr. Keroack took stewardship of Population Affairs in 2006, Massachusetts medical licensing board had already spent roughly a year reviewing a complaint that he had violated ethical norms by prescribing medications for people who werent his patients, had practiced outside of his area of specialty and had attempted to defraud the insurance system.
Massachusetts medical board spokesman Randal Aims said late last week that when a complaint is filed against a physician, the doctor is allowed to respond in writing. In Keroacks Sept. 18, 2005 response, in which he defended himself against the allegation that he was not qualified to provide counseling, he indicated that he had not been in practice for over 5-years.
As you might expect, the fact that it has been over 5-years [sic] since I took a leave from my direct practice of clinical medicine in the North Shore area has made the location of some of the individual single session C.M.E. lectures quite difficult, he wrote. I confess to being less than perfect when it comes to long-term personal record keeping.
This indicates that as of 2005, Keroack had withdrawn from practicing clinical medicine at least five years earlier, suggesting that the duration of his tenure in private practice was roughly five years.
The same document also includes Dr. Keroacks admission that he has no proof that he completed the Continuing Medical Education modules required to maintain his medical license.
HHS spokewoman Christine Pearson told the Post Keroack inadvertently missed the recertification deadline and plans to seek recertification in the future.
Records show that Keroack also let another professional certification lapse in 2005. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologys director of membership services, Bernice Jones, confirmed in a letter that Keroacks membership in the College had lapsed in July, 2005.
RAW STORY asked Pearson to respond concerning these discrepancies between Dr. Keroacks background and the public profile presented by HHS and to provide his official biography and any press releases or statements regarding his hiring, his term in office or his resignation. Responding via email, Pearson indicated that shed never seen a copy of Dr. Keroacks resume.
I have never had a copy of his resume nor am I aware of any press releases, pre-hiring announcements or press releases pertaining to his acts while he was in office, Pearson wrote.
Asked to explain how she knew how long Dr. Keroack had been in practice, Pearson explained that he had personally told her of his qualifications.
Another HHS spokesperson, Rebecca Ayer, said that HHS had never had an official biography for Dr. Keroack, but provided assurances that he had gone through the standard hiring process.
Saying she could not comment further on personnel issues due to the Privacy Act, Ayer suggested this reporter file a Freedom of Information Request.
Medical directorship was part-time or volunteer job
The controversy over Dr. Keroacks association with A Womans Concern and his particular views with regard to womens health in the wake of his appointment may have overshadowed deeper issues regarding his actual background.
A Womans Concerns tax records show no mention of him during the six-year period he was supposed to have been the medical director. As a non-profit, AWC is required to list all employees and contractors who are paid more than $50,000 per year.
Mark Conrad, the president of A Womans Concern, said that Dr. Keroack was only a part-time volunteer with the organization and simultaneously rented an office at one of their facilities.
Former Womans Concern president Rev. Ensor, who led the organization during most of Keroacks tenure, gave a different account.
Was he paid? Sure he was paid, Ensor said. Some seasons he volunteered, and sometimes we paid him.
Dr. Keroacks private practice address during this period shows him at 103 Broadway in Revere, MA in the same building as one of the AWC pregnancy centers. Both Conrad and Ensor agree that the doctor rented space from AWC but has now terminated his lease with the clinic. The phone number for Keroacks office at that facility is disconnected.
The business address Dr. Keroack lists on his physician profile is in Marblehead, Mass. The phone number is registered in the name of D. Merrick and was shown by additional background checks to be located at yet another address in Marblehead, 5 Orchard Circle.
Real estate records indicate that 5 Orchard Circle is a single-family home owned by Eric J. Keroack. It is not clear who owns or lives at or practices out of the second Marblehead address.
RAW STORY made repeated calls to the phone the number listed in the physician profile. During one such call, a woman answered the phone. She did not identify herself but did confirm that the number belonged to Dr. Keroack and that there was no office or other number by which he could be reached. Subsequent calls to the number yielded an answering machine message that strongly suggested the number was a residential line and not a doctors office.
Moreover, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Secretary of States office said they have no record of Keroack registering to run an office-based practice in the state.
Dr. Keroack did not return repeated phone calls and emails seeking comment.
Keroacks abrupt resignation
Dr. Keroack announced in late March of this year that he was resigning to defend himself against allegations of Medicaid fraud levied against his clinical practice. It is not clear whether the Medicaid investigation he was referring to was sparked by the ethical complaints filed with the medical board against him during his dual role as a private practice gynecologist and volunteer at A Womans Concern.
Its possible that there are other complaints against Keroack that have yet to be resolved. Massachusetts board spokesman Russell Aims told RAW STORY that as of January, 2007, two earlier complaints against Keroacks license had been resolved. Aims, however, stressed that medical licensing authorities in Massachusetts are prohibited from acknowledging the existence of unresolved claims still pending against a physicians license.
Though he has no formal research credentials, Dr. Keroack has lectured widely from a PowerPoint presentation that uses Loony Tunes characters to illustrate his theory that premarital sex damages the female brain, making non-abstinent women incapable of forming emotional bonds.
Keroacks highly unorthodox medical views had originally cast doubt on his qualifications to serve as the nations birth control czar. His appointment did not require confirmation from Congress.
Links to A Woman's Concern tax filings: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005


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The "464" Patent, issued by the United States Patent Office and owned in full by SmartMetric, Inc., deals with data cards such as smartcards that are inserted into readers and that are used to establish a connection with a network. Visa has announced that it has started issuing in the USA, such cards that are referred to in the industry as EMV Cards.
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Contador's favorite pedal.
The Look Keo Blade Carbon Pedals runs the material gamut -- carbon fiber body, cromoly spindle, stainless steel wear plate, and a blade of carbon fiber that flexes against the retention plate to hold the cleat in place. The blade helps make the pedal lighter than it could be with a steel spring without costing it any durability. That all reads good, but, you might be thinking the blade is fragile. It isn't. It would take some serious work to accidentally disengage the blade or break it.
While the carbon fiber blade is what creates the buzz, the rest is extremely tech-forward as well. Start with the redesigned composite pedal body. It's quite different than the Keo, utilizing the new Keo 2 design. It's 17% wider than the old Keo, about on par with the Shimano Dura-Ace pedal. This 62mm platform increases the surface area that contacts the cleat to 402mm², yet the cornering clearance is actually better because the extra width is on the top of the new pedal rather than the bottom. The result of the design change is 31% greater surface area than the old Keos, which should leave you with the feeling that your foot is on a more stable platform where foot pressure is spread over a wider area.
The axle is new as well and this is the only aspect where these Keo Blade Carbon Pedals differ from the top of the line titanium version. The cromoly spindle is 12mm in diameter on the inboard side near the mounting threads and remains so through the support for two sets of roller bearings, and then starts to taper towards the end, where a needle bearing sits. The greater diameter not only insures stiffness, but also allows Look to offer this pedal without the caveat of a rider weight limit. The larger spindle diameter might set off alarms with some people. These people fear that with the larger spindle, stack height must have increased. It hasn't, still at a slim 15.7mm, thanks in part to the stainless steel wear plate atop the pedal. Your cleat will not wear down the pedal body over time, so they could afford to make the pedal body fairly thin under the plate.
The Keo Blade Carbon Pedals come with a set of Grey Look Keo Grip anti-slip cleats. They have 4.5 degrees of float. You can also use the Keo Grip cleats in Red, with nine-degrees of float, or Black, with no float. The anti-slip designation is due to both the forward and rearward parts of the cleat being topped by non-skid pads. The cleat also has Look's Memory Clip built in to the center pad, which, depending on your shoe, can simplify changing cleats without having to futz with re-positioning. The pedal body and retention bar on the back are black. The claimed weight of a single pedal is 115g. Look currently makes the carbon blades with two different spring rates. Please choose between the 12Nm option (the lowest setting on Look's Keo 2 Max pedals, which is pretty good for most riders and racers) and the stiffer 16Nm option (just below the stiffest setting on the Keo 2 Max).
- Lightweight carbon fiber body provides a large, stable platform (31% larger than the standard Keo Pedal) for maximum power transfer
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Very nice pedal. I like them much better than the first generation of KEOs I had been using. The carbon spring is a bit gimmicky but it works.
Much higher quality than standard KEOs
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I noticed with the first clip-in, this pedal was different. The pedal is much thinner than a standard KEO pedal and the feel is that of more contact and a stiffer pedaling transaction. I put these on my new Ridley Fenix -- sooooo excessively awesome!
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I have a road bike and a Tri bike. For years I've been just repurposing my mountain biking shoes for road shoes, which means all my bikes (road included) had SPD pedals. I was starting to feel like the SPD was too small of a platform for long road rides. Someone recommended the Look Keo Carbon pedals and I bought a single pair first. I really liked them. Honestly, it's been a shift trying to adjust to clipping into these pedals, but once you get it down it's second nature. Definitely a better platform for a road bike setup.
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picked up a set to replace my classics which have searved me well for 1000's of miles. First clip in was great, very positive engagement. Ridden a few times since picking them up and havent pulled out of them once in a hard effort climbing or sprinting. The increased contact pad is nice, time will tell if it really makes a difference.
When they work they are great!
I got these and instantly loved them...
but one of the springs cracked and it was such a pain to get look to replace them... you have to send the pedals to the retailer then they send them to look, then back to the retailer, then back to you....
You get the point, very long turn around for such a simple fix.
But that was a while ago. I've been using them for 6 months now and no problems at all... Like I said when they work they are great.
...dewolfs favorite pedal
a good improvement over the original look Keo pedals. The alloy plate protects/prevents premature wear in this area. I use the 16Nm spring tension along with the Look red cleats (9 degree movement) No adjustment to tension on these like the regular Keo 2 max but the tension seems correct and feels really secure. The one star loss in rating is for the the carbon spring blade being exposed on the side and susceptible to damage in a crash which I initially saw as a possible design issue and then later actually experienced. Otherwise I have used these for two seasons and like them a lot.
Haha, yeah DEWOLF!!! Who cares about Contador anyway? Your heading made me laugh. Thanks.
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Are all Look Keo cleats compatible to this pedal?
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i just purchase a pair of this pedals and...
i just purchase a pair of this pedals and the left one it makes a noise from the blade everytime. what can i do?
I would give competitive cyclist a call. They have always worked with me and back their product. A lot of the time the companies have warranties that they will check on and help you with. I wouldn't ask a question on the review section It will take to long for someone to see it. You can also talk to them online under contact us and speak to a customer service person now tabs. Hope that helps
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Does the cleat in the Keo Blade differ from the keo Classic?
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Despite a .611 slugging percentage, two home runs and a team-high four RBIs through five games, Pablo Sandoval isn't feeling all that great at the plate.
It came as a surprise after his two-RBI, 2-for-4 showing with his second homer Saturday, but Sandoval said he feels "a little lost" at the plate.
How does he know? Because when's he not lost, he's not letting juicy fastballs pass him without sending them back. Against St. Louis Cardinals starter Shelby Miller, Sandoval apparently missed a fastball down the middle.
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Sandoval is fine, Meulens said. It's just fine-tuning his mechanics at the plate. After Sandoval's first at-bat Saturday against Miller, in which he flied out on an 0-1 fastball, Meulens took Sandoval to the video room to show him what was wrong.
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NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF AN UNKNOWN PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION USING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD AND BAYESIAN APPROACHES by Alona Chubatiuk __________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (APPLIED MATHEMATICS) August, 2013 Copyright 2013 Alona Chubatiuk
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These methods are based on the Expectation–Maximization (EM) and Primal-Dual Interior Point (IP) algorithms. The NPEM 1 algorithm uses the EM algorithm to maximize the log-likelihood function over the set of support points and weights. NPEM 2 fixes the large grid of point at first and them uses EM algorithm to maximize the log-likelihood only over the set of weights. The NPEM 2 algorithm is much faster than the NPEM 1 algorithm, but to find the optimal solution a very large grid of points has to be used. Therefore in case of multidimensional parameters, NPEM 2 can be impractical. The EM1+IP algorithm is a hybrid of the NPEM 1 and IP algorithms in the way that support points are updated the same way as in NPEM 1, but the weights are updated using Primal-Dual Interior Point (IP) algorithms. This method is much faster then NPEM 1 and comparable in speed with NPEM 2, however it does not need a large grid of points. EM1+IP requires no more then N support points to start the estimation process and therefore can be used in cases of multidimensional parameters. The EM2+IP algorithm is a hybrid of NPEM 2 and IP. It starts with a large grid of support points and then updates the weights using the IP algorithm. This method gives results instantly if compared to the speeds of the rest of the methods. However the optimality of the results, as in case of the NPEM 2 algorithm, very much depends on the initial grid of points. ❧ Another highlight of this thesis is an ability of building nonparametric maximum likelihood estimates of distributions of the parameters of linear stochastic models, i.e. population models with process noise. The advantages of the models with process noise are that, in addition to the measurements errors, the uncertainties in the model itself are taken into the account, i.e. process noise. For example, in case of the PK problem the errors like dose errors, sample timing errors, model misspecifications. are not included in the deterministic models. The stochastic models on the other hand can overcome this problem. ❧ We used linear Kalman-Bucy filtering [J70] to find the likelihoods of these models and then employed all the above methods to find the maximum likelihood estimates of an unknown distribution F. ❧ In the NPB approach, the distribution F is itself a random variable. The first requirement is to place a prior distribution on F. A convenient way of doing this is with the so-called Dirichlet process (DP) prior, see [F73, WW97, WW98]. A Dirichlet process prior on a random distribution F is defined by a probability distribution G₀ and a scale parameter α₀, where G₀ is our prior guess of F and the parameter α₀ will be the strength of the guess. 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Today, along with four other fabulous bloggers, we are launching a summer-long Agatha Christie Read-Along - Spend the Summer with Agatha Christie - Cool Down with AC! You can join one, two, three, four or all five for a truly mysterious summer with the Queen of Mystery!
Why all this focus on Agatha Christie now? As of the beginning of this year, HarperCollins is proud to be Agatha Christie's global publisher and we are reissuing all of her books in the US in beautiful new trade paperback editions. These wonderful authentic editions are exactly as Christie wrote them using the original UK texts. Now fans can read all of the Christie mysteries including the Hercule Poirot Mysteries, the Miss Marple Mysteries, and the Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries (coming Winter 2012). And you won't want to miss a single one of Christie's stand-alone novels and short stories.
So who are my cohorts in crime in this Summer of Agatha Christie? None other than Julie from Booking Mama, who will explore the world of Hercule Poirot, Melissa from The Sunday Book Review who will delve into the mysteries of Miss Marple, Jen from Devourer of Books who will focus on Christie's standalone novels and Nicole from Linus's Blanket who will focus on the four new Masterpiece Mystery films that will air on PBS this June and July. I will focus here on her acclaimed short stories.
Here's the schedule for the summer - sign up at the Mr. Linky below and take part on the weeks you can! Each blogger will be offering giveaways for the books they're discussing and there will be grand prizes for read-along participants of Agatha Christie totes, books, DVDs and more!
Short Story!
June 6th: "The Tuesday Night Club" here on Book Club Girl
June 13th-June19th: 4:50 From Paddington: A Miss Marple Mystery on The Sunday Book Review
June 20th-June 26th: Three Act Tragedy: A Hercule Poirot Mystery on Booking Mama
June 20th-June 26th: Three Act Tragedy airs on PBS June 19th on Linus's Blanket
June 27th: Endless Night on Devourer of Books
June 27th-July 3rd: The Clocks airs on PBS June 26th on Linus's Blanket
Short Story!
July 5th: "Three Blind Mice" on Book Club Girl
July 4th-July 10th: Hallowe'en Party airs on PBS July 3rd on Linus's Blanket
July 11th-July 17th: Miss Marple on The Sunday Book Review
July 11th-July 17th: The Pale Horse airs on PBS July 10th on Linus's Blanket
July 18th-July 24th: Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery on Booking Mama
July 25th: And Then There Were None on Devourer of Books
Short Story!
August 1st: "Witness for the Prosecution" on Book Club Girl
August 8th-August 14th: Miss Marple on The Sunday Book Review
August 15th-August 21st: The A.B.C. Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery on Booking Mama
August 22nd: Ordeal by Innocence on Devourer of Books
Wrap Up!
August 29th-September 4th: Book Club Girl on Air Show to be announced!
To join the overall read-along on all 5 of our blogs sign up at the Mr. Linky here:
For more details on each of the individual readalongs, visit the co-host blogs below. I'll post the sign up for the Short Story portion on Book Club Girl on Wednesday, June 1st!
Booking Mama - Hercule Poirot Mysteries
Devourer of Books -Standalone Mysteries
Linus's Blanket - Masterpiece Mystery Movies on PBS
The Sunday Book Review - Miss Marple Mysteries


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PSNI have confirmed they are looking at allegations of child sex abuse linked to football clubs in Northern Ireland.
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In my post on Monday I wrote a bit about refugee camps. The words seem to go together naturally: where there are refugees there are also camps. But the practice of putting displaced persons in camps is historically fairly new, a twentieth-century phenomenon, and as I suggested on Monday, the camps themselves are politically and morally complex places. They may provide refugees with shelter, and make it easier for aid agencies or host states to provide food and medical assistance; but they serve other purposes, too, and they create political logics of their own. They're not an unproblematic means of saving humans.
Most Syrian refugees today aren't actually in camps, though camps provide most of the images of refugees we see. (The picture at the top of the post actually comes from a photo-essay entitled Beyond the camps, accompanying a fine recent piece on the refugee 'catastrophe' in the New York Review of Books, and most of the pictures in it are of refugees outside camps.)
Turkey has established a kind of refugee-camp archipelago in and beyond the border zone (the high quality of the camps being widely recognized), but even there refugees outside camps outnumber refugee inside them by three to two—or, more precisely, three hundred thousand to two hundred thousand. Jordan has a similar number of 'encamped' refugees, all concentrated in a single vast camp, Zaatari, which is said to have become Jordan's fourth-largest city; a second vast camp is being built at al-Azraq, but Jordan also has even more refugees living outside camps than Turkey does. Lebanon, meanwhile, which hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees—about three quarters of a million of them—doesn't have any camps at all.
This makes it harder to track individual refugees, and for humanitarian agencies to gather reliable and comprehensive information about refugees' needs—let alone provide assistance to meet those needs. The flood of refugees has sent the cost of living soaring in parts of neighbouring countries and put enormous pressure on essential services. Rents in some parts of Jordan rose 300% in the six months to April 2013 alone (and have certainly risen further since). The half-million refugees there have added nearly 8% to the total population—which in one of the world's most water-scarce countries is a serious matter. Putting refugees in camps would be one way of limiting some of these impacts, and ensuring that the international community can shoulder some of their cost.
But there are reasons why the refugees themselves may be reluctant to move into camps, and why not all governments want to establish them—and a historical perspective can help explain them.
For example, uprooted Syrians have, since 1948, lived their lives in close proximity to generations of Palestinian refugees. In Syria, Palestinians were reasonably well-integrated into the host society (the camps weren't 'closed'), but only up to a point: 'Ibn al-mukhayyam [the child of the camp] will never be like ibn al-balad [the child of the country]', as a young Palestinian from the Yarmouk camp told an interviewer a few months before the war in Syria began. And Syrians are well aware that in Lebanon, Palestinians in their camps were excluded from the host society in all sorts of ways: barred from many occupations, for example. During the civil war, Palestinian civilians in Lebanese camps were often targeted directly: the massacres at Sabra and Chatila in 1982, or later during the 'war of the camps'. For Syrians informed by the Palestinian experience, camps may represent exclusion from the host society, the risk of massacre—and the possibility of permanent exile.
Wariness of camps exists on the side of states too, for related reasons. When Palestinian refugees housed in camps started to organize themselves politically in the 1960s, their aims and aspirations clashed with those of the host governments: ultimately they came to threatened state sovereignty. The camps, where refugees lived in isolation from the host societies and exclusion from their political institutions, became fiefdoms of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), and it was difficult or impossible for host governments to control them, even when they launched attacks across the border on Israel and the occupied territories. In its conflict with PLO militants, Israel did not hesitate to target the host states. In Jordan this process led to the expulsion of the PLO leadership, after a short but bitter conflict in 1970, to Lebanon—where the same process contributed to the outbreak of the civil war, in which camps themselves became targets. It is little wonder that Jordan is uneasy about placing Syrians in camps, and Lebanon positively allergic to it.
Getting assistance to refugees—and host communities—becomes more complicated, and perhaps more costly, when the people you want to help are dispersed through towns and villages. But my own view is that it's a necessary effort, and history can help us understand why. The UN increasingly takes the same view: "You cannot lock people into a camp", the UNHCR's representative in Turkey said recently, while talking about mechanisms for supporting refugees outside camps, like cash assistance programmes. So, even though the UNHCR has its own complex and not always positive history, I'll end by linking to its current appeal on behalf of Syrian refugees. The UN's appeals to help those displaced inside and outside the country are barely 50% funded (and their relative success may be making it harder for the UNHCR to attract support for other refugees). And the crisis isn't going to go away.


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Scott Ancrum was a Ravenclaw student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the 1990s. Despite being Sorted into Ravenclaw, he did not excel in his studies, and has said that he would like to have the same job as Rubeus Hagrid. However, he thought Horace Slughorn was a good teacher, and learned to prepare a potion from him. Scott had brown hair and could be found in the courtyard.
- "Scott" is from an English and Scottish surname which meant "a Scotsman". The original meaning of the word Scot is debated, but it may mean "tattoo", so given because Scotsmen often had tattoos.
- "Ancrum" is a Scottish name and is a habitational name from a place in Roxburghshire (Borders) called Ancrum, earlier Alncromb 'bend in the river Ale', from a word related to Welsh crwm 'bent', 'curved'.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (PS2 version only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (NDS version only)
Notes and references
- ↑ He was at least in his first year at Hogwarts during the 1993–1994 school year.
- ↑ "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," South West News Service, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
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Eric Bass and Bob Berky Set for RICHARD 3.5: LIGHT RUMINATIONS ON MURDER at Sandglass Theater, 1/4 & 5
Eric Bass and Bob Berky are back and they promise to kill again! On Friday and Saturday, January 4 and 5, at 7:30pm the internationally acclaimed performers take to the stage at Sandglass Theater for two special performances of "Richard 3.5: light ruminations on murder". Bass and Berky return for two special nights of blood and guts entertainment with their two-man ragtime cabaret version of Shakespeare's famous tale of power-driven murder. Richard 3.5 is a dark comedy that pulls out all the stops and blends Shakespeare with puppets, physical comedy, and contemporary political relevancy.
It's showtime again, and onstage, live from the 15th century, King Richard III is here to perform, for your enjoyment, 11 murders and 7 songs that Shakespeare never meant to write. Surrounded by larger than life candles, from whose wax the puppet victims are created before your eyes, Richard and his Emcee Accomplice dance and sing their way through this epic tragedy. Using comedy and irreverence Bass and Berky dig at the true meaning of Richard III and his drive for power. Framed as a dialogue between that relentless driver and his complicit passenger, Richard 3.5 asks how far can you go before there is no hope for redemption. Can corruption be turned around?
King Richard himself sees all people as merely "puppets" in his hands, to be molded as he sees fit. But the puppet, once created, cannot be so easily destroyed. Its spirit, once released, cannot be silenced. Richard 3.5 blends Shakespeare with a metaphorical staging that unlocks levels of Shakespeare's meaning through imagery, music, humor, and contemporary references.
Bob Berky is one of America's foremost physical comedians, theater clowns and "new vaudevillians". An Obie award winner and Edinburgh "Fringe Fest" winner, Berky has taught clowning at the Dell'Arte school, as well as many other programs and universities around the country. He is also an award-winning playwright.
Eric Bass is an award-winning puppeteer and director, well-known locally as the co-founder and artistic director of Sandglass Theater.
Tickets for "Richard 3.5: Light Ruminations on Murder" are $16 ($13 for students and seniors). Call Sandglass Theater for reservations and more information, (802) 387-4051, or visit www.sandglasstheater.org.


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Another Sundance acquisition! Entertainment One confirmed that it's finalized a deal for director Jim Mickle's We Are What We Are and will release the horror thriller in theaters later this year. The film, a retelling of the 2010 Mexican film by the same name, is about a wholesome-seeming family living in flood-ravaged Castkills, led by a patriarch (Bill Sage) hiding a taste for macabre tradition. Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner, Jack Gore, Kelly McGills, and Michael Parks co-star.
In a press release, eOne vp Dylan Wiley says: "We're so very excited to add We Are What We Are to our U.S. slate. Jim Mickle's talent was obvious in Mulberry Street and Stake Land, but this film fulfills his vision on a whole new level and will put him in his rightful place among the masters of genre filmmaking. It will be our pleasure to introduce him to an even wider fan base and we're confident that audiences will eat up the film."
EW has an exclusive photo from the film (see it here) and our own Clark Collis recently spoke with Jim Mickle about the new film.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College baseball series with No. 5 Armstrong originally set for Friday/Saturday has been moved to a Saturday/Sunday series due to the potential of inclement weather. Saturday, John Kurtz Field will host a single game at 4 p.m., with doubleheader action coming Sunday at 1 p.m.
Saturday will still host Senior Day festivities, as Bobcat Baseball honors 10 GC seniors this season.
The Bobcats and Pirates square off in a crucial season-ending series, as if GC can pull off a sweep of the weekend's action, the Bobcats will win the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Regular-Season Championship.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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What's Good: Small size, good reception.
What's Bad: Battery cover is flimsy, and the Shade doesn't offer 3G connectivity.
Despite the seemingly endless talk about smartphones, there's still a market for regular, reliable, entry-level cell phones. Quite frankly, I doubt that grandpa, the texting teenager, or those keeping a device for backup purposes want or need a fully equipped PDA. That being said, the Nokia Shade is a perfect entry-level smartphone for them to consider, despite a lack of 3G connectivity. But is it a device worthy of owning? I'll take a look at it below.
Design & Features
The left spine of the Shade contains a 2.5mm headphone jack, volume rocker, and a microUSB charging port. The right side sports a lanyard hole and a shortcut key to voice dialing. The front of the device the external display, the camera, and the external speaker. Overall, the device is relatively bland in appearance.
Like most Nokia devices as of late, packaging is minimalist and eco-friendly, offering the device, battery, wall charger, and instruction manuals. Coming in at 3.32 inches by 1.70 inches by 0.64 inch, the Shade tops the scales at a reasonable 2.6 ounces, making it light and easy to carry around on a regular basis. The 2.0-inch internal LCD display houses 262,000 colors and 160 x 128 pixels.
Usability & Performance
Like most non-smartphone devices in Verizon's lineup, the Shade ships with the carrier's stock user interface. Customization is reasonable, with the choice of four display themes and 22 wallpaper options. Font sizes can be selected for dial fonts and menu font sizes, and main menu settings offer users the ability for icons to be viewed in tab, list, or grid layout. The Shade supports instant messaging and mobile e-mail, with the latter costing $5 monthly. Ringtones, tones, sounds, and graphics are pre-installed for customization purposes, with the option of purchasing additional content through Verizon's storefront.
I tested the Shade in the Charlotte area, and call quality was quite good. Not only was call quality strong on my end, but callers reported similar results. When I went to a known Verizon dead spot in the area, I found calls to sound mostly clear, despite occasional choppiness. I successfully paired the Plantronics Voyager Pro Bluetooth headset to the device without issue, and Bluetooth functionality worked well throughout testing. When carrying several grocery bags into my apartment, I was able to use the device on my shoulder without trouble. The speakerphone was a mixed bag. Though quite good on my end, several callers noted that I sounded muffled, and in many instances I had to speak up. When testing the device in a busy convenient store, I was able to hear my callers well.
A typical trend with entry-level devices, the Shade is a 1xRTT device, meaning that it doesn't offer 3G connectivity. CNN Mobile loaded in 20 seconds, and the PhoneDog homepage loaded in just over a minute. The browser is clearly for occasional use only. The only thing I was less than impressed with was the method of entering URL's. Instead of a built-in option, the phone requires you to go back to a URL-entry page each time you want to input a website. After browsing for more than a few minutes, it gets a bit frustrating.
Estimated talk time is 5 hours, and in my testing, battery life was quite good, due primarily to the 1X connectivity. With moderate use encompassing text messaging, calling, e-mail, and light web browsing, I was able to use it just over two days before the low battery warning flashed. With little to no use, the device lasted just under four days. Like any wireless device, battery numbers will vary with the level of usage that they're subjected to between charging cycles, but the demographic that the Shade 2705 appeals to should be fine with the battery life.
Sure, the Nokia Shade isn't going to appeal to everyone. With a relatively basic feature set, it's clear that the device is marketed towards the first-time phone owners or those that use their wireless devices on a sporadic basis versus the corporate professional. Perhaps the most frustrating issue with the Shade is the lack of 3G. While the argument of "not everyone needs 3G" is true, I maintain my argument that a device shipping without it in 2009 is a bit unacceptable. I'm also frustrated with the decision to utilize a 2.5mm headphone jack instead of the standard 3.5mm configuration. Barring those two issues, the Shade is a decent entry-level handset that would fit the bill for new and casual cell phone users. The numeric keypad is relatively comfortable and easy to use, and it offers decent functionality across the board.


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WORKS ON THE NEW 4th GEN iPOD TOUCH AND iPHONE 4!
From the makers of the popular app, BrushyTime…
Now with the iPhone 4 and the new iPod Touch, you can check your hair, apply makeup, or check to see if you have anything in your teeth.
Reflection takes advantage of the front-facing camera to give you a personal mirror.
FOR iPhone 4 and the 4th Gen iPod Touch ONLY.
- 10 Fun Illustrated Frames – just swipe left or right to select a frame.
- 1 "light-ring" Frame for low light conditions
- Reflection remembers your favorite frame for next time.
- Double tap the screen for info about the app.
Developer Website: http://laserboy.com/


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|Renewable Energy Discussion on various alternative energy, renewable energy, & free energy technologies. Also any discussion about the environment, global warming, and other related topics are welcome here.
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Motor Generators
This thread could cover a wide range of what seems to be popping up
all over the web. The new more efficient magnet motors and generators
seems to hold real promise.
TUBE VIDEO's are better than your lying news outlets such as CNN,ABC,
NBC, FOX NEWS, and all of the rest of the bought and paid for agencies
who are funded by your hard earned money, to tell you their system
is the only way for the sake of national security.
Published on Aug 31, 2015
Free Energy Flywheel Generator Self Runing , From Pakistan KPK In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its stated velocity. Having gained this energy during its acceleration, the body maintains this kinetic energy unless its speed changes. The same amount of work is done by the body in decelerating from its current speed to a state of rest.
In classical mechanics, the kinetic energy of a non-rotating object of mass m traveling at a speed v is . In relativistic mechanics, this is a good approximation only when v is much less than the speed of light.
The standard unit of kinetic energy is the joule.
kinetic energy is an idea of creating a place or object that is free from the force of gravity. It does not refer to the lack of weight under gravity experienced in free fall or orbit, or to balancing the force of gravity with some other force, such as electromagnetism or aerodynamic lift. Anti-gravity is a recurring concept in science fiction, particularly in the context of spacecraft propulsion. An early example is the gravity blocking substance "Cavorite" in H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon.
In Newton's law of universal gravitation, gravity was an external force transmitted by unknown means. In the 20th century, Newton's model was replaced by general relativity where gravity is not a force but the result of the geometry of spacetime. Under general relativity, anti-gravity is impossible except under contrived circumstances. Quantum physicists have postulated the existence of gravitons, a set of massl...
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Motor Generator Looped
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Asynchronous Induction Motor 50W under a load of 1000 Watt. It nourishes itself. Hours - Infinity. Nothing is impossible. The technology described Free energy device a hypothetical perpetual motion device that creates energy, thereby contradicting the laws of thermodynamics or a device which collects energy at zero cost.... Power from Electricity Energy...
Asynchronous Induction Motor 50W under a load of 1000 Watt.
Here is an easy trick for the Kiddies.
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Free energy trick verified.
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Monopole motor generator running free energy that a child
can build. I'm the biggest sucker for these tricks.
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Nuts and bolts issue
Here is an easy one that is for real. This one is not coming from
a liar. So many liars on the web, slight of hand tricks.
It has a generator and a motor running for free, for days and
coming from the young man MakerJ I think it is real.
The young should have one for their science class.
I think many miss a few points on motor/generators
If you have a motor of 70% efficiency bolted to a generator of 70% efficiency your overall efficiency is 49% efficiency. With the right design and by placing the generator in the motor case and sharing an armature, it is possible to produce an overall efficiency of 70% without improving the individual components. Why? We only have one set of bearing, windage and iron losses to deal with.
Of course with better designed components it is not so difficult to achieve over 90% overall efficiency for the same reason.
If you speak to motor manufacturers, some motors will give an "apparent overunity" when operated under pulse width modulation and under certain conditions, although they insist it is only "apparent". Would a suitably designed motor/generator also give this "apparent" overunity?
The next point is that transformer actions take place between coils in such a device, with the exception of an induction motor and in inductive compensation, we try to minimize these effects. What would happen if we tried to exploit them?
Just a little food for thought
Hey Brown
Check out the motor generator.
Self running Bedini motor generator window motor.
Hello BroMickey,
This is one of the real machine it works, I was waiting whit many other members of the energia libre forum the blue prints seeing light whit not lack, different problems, break of the mains shaft etc, at the moment they are finding solution to the problem and eventually will come out. until I saw barbosa leal devices from Mr clarence It blow me out, I hope him have a good result to avoid the earth potential problem, and I hope hi is ready to shared.
Hope the best for everybody.
Yes that is a gravity machine also, I saw this before and didn't really
know what to call it.
Motor Generator excess energy.
Motor Generator cooked up by the owner who wouldn't give up
and cry "Uncle"
The man says 5 watts in and 38 watts output.
Getting your hands dirty.
As I have stated before, a DC motor should ALWAYS be run as a pulse motor and between the POSITIVES of two power sources with a POTENTIAL difference.
WHY you might ask???? So that between 80 and 90% of the power used to run the motor can be recaptured. And used again and again and again. If you design a motor to have deliberate off times, it runs as a GENERATOR during the off times.
There is at least ONE other person on this forum who has built a motor/generator combination pulsing an off the shelf DC motor to turn a generator where the motor runs on a PATH of about 40 watts (with 80% recovery) and turns a generator that produces close to 90 watts. What is the COP of THAT??
I haven't just SEEN it. I have BUILT it. At the present time I have a few thousand dollars invested in a scaled up model I have been working on for well over two years.
So I can tell you from experience that these motor/generator combinations WITH the right CIRCUIT, the right MOTOR, and the right COILS will DEFINITELY work.
Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.
Bernhard Haisch, Astrophysicist
After so many years of researching in this area I find it interesting and at times even humorous to see folks still pushing the idea of driving generators with external motors. As if to convey via their demonstrations that they have yet to find the relationship between motors and generators which would allow them to integrate the two aspects into a useful, practical whole. I sincerely hope that you are beyond this. There is much to be gained in properly uniting the two into a single mutually inductive relation.
I recall you asking if anyone had accomplished acceleration under short using an air core based system. Have you made any progress on that front?
I know it, these motor/generator work so many different ways
and people around the world still don't know which end is up.
The air cores and non air cores with a never ending combination
of magnet genny/moto always leaves me spell bound as the list goes
One thing is sure, I always forget the splitting the pos. Thanks for
the reminder. I hope you and "E" get stuff lined up to where others
can see your version running.
After people see it running they will become more interested. Until then
it is our uphill climb with the fears of losing our inventions to blood suckers
all the way to becoming a target.
Most devices with COP over 1 to about 1.5 are considered boarder line
so I like the way you bring out that enormous rating as part of your
defense. Now that cracks me up. But that is what we face. I know
that there are many possibilities with the flat mag genny's and the guys
doing the setup must be willing to share their info so the next group
of younger men can spend untold thousands of hours bringing the
advancement that makes the machine cost effective.
If you ask me? The guys you see running these motor/genny's are doing
it for the fun of it and they don't care to be bothered with speculations.
He lives for the experiment and the chatter is meanless in many cases
because he doesn't know how to fit into his world.
Each man is in his own small cubical where he either enjoys the work
and one day succeeds or it all just lands in the closet.
What you have said Dave is a key to reactive power.
That is another thing, terms, and how everyone has their own idea
about what a term means. The video's will win the battle hands down.
To answer your question about acceleration under load using air cores. Yes, we've made progression on that front. I have gotten acceleration under load with several (well, 3 is not really several) differential coil configurations. I WAS spending the time to try and figure out which configuration produced the most power, and then got evacuated because of the fire and have not been back to work on it since, but I will continue to work on that in my spare time.
You are absolutely correct that using external motors is a waste of resources, but it is a proof of concept that anyone with a dc motor and some wire to wrap a couple coils can build. And once folks SEE what is possible, perhaps they will invest the money needed to move forward in the RIGHT direction. I started out with my big 12 coil generator being run by a small razor scooter motor with recovery circuits. It worked. Then to increase production I started using some of the motor coils as drive coils to eliminate the motor. Then I switched to air core coils to avoid the magnetic lock of the magnets to the coil cores. Then I started looking at wiring configurations that would speed up the motor under load and still produce power as generating coils. You have to look at every part of a build and figure out what you can do to tweet it to improve production. As you well know, learning this stuff is a process. Too many folks here want to run before they have learned to walk or even crawl, and as you move through a progression of learning you pick up bits and pieces of information about how to build that each add small improvements to your project. And all those bits and pieces put together is the difference between success and failure, or the difference between COP of 2 and COP of 10 or more. Our belief is that if it doesn't have a COP of at least 8, you aren't there yet.
Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.
Bernhard Haisch, Astrophysicist
I don't suppose that Turion or erfinder would care to comment on a setup where a low voltage DC motor is driven, pulsed with a much higher DC voltage, to turn an external (resource-wasteful!) generator. It has been suggested that Lenz-loading of the PM may be much reduced using this setup.
There are so many methods.... but all require either modification of motor or generator or creating additional circuit and special method of pulsing or placing strong magnets inside generator or a special flywheel and so on.....
In my opinion the key to converting so-called "reactive power" is to be found, specifically, in those cases in which dynamo electric or magneto electric machines are the focus, is in the relation between the reactive power generating mechanism and transformer action.
I appreciate your dedication to the effort, and it's good to read that you too are aware of the fact that there is no advantage nor benefit to be found in separating the motor from the generator, especially in light of the fact that in unmodified off the shelf prime movers, we note that the current limiting mechanism is a generator, one whose output we are not at liberty to utilize.
Concept proofs for the purpose of sharing an idea in part is a waste of resources, I say that because in the end, the presenter will usually have a superior concept in the works, and for whatever reason will not share this superior concept with those he/she is "claiming" to be helping with the dumb down version. The funds that the replicator would/could invest should be invested in the superior concept and not in the inferior. When all is said and done, the replicator will be forced to invest twice. However I digress......
Motoring and generating are for better or worse joined at the hip. We must accept this, and in so doing, comprehend that which is needed so as to manipulate the internal generator, facilitating the use of the generated, while it simultaneously limits the input current. Most chose not to go this route because it requires effort, were as the joining of two devices one dedicated to motoring and the other dedicated to generating together via a common shaft or other torque translating means is easy. I completely disagree with the latter approach as we learn very little about the identity and nature of either, nor do we glimpse the intimate relationship which exists between the two, and find that which enables us to see them as an expression of one and the same thing.
The pursuit of the latter is more often than not replaced with what you have indicated, namely, the COP discussion/debate. When the input versus output discussions become the focus, when it overtakes any discussion of the inner workings, all hope is lost. You know this, it is a trend which can be viewed all over this forum, and all others where ideas being presented have reached the point where input and output are being compared.
Our machines swim in a sea of invisible (interesting word) stressed substance. Via our permanent and electromagnets we manipulate this substance, one could say that we are manipulating space/counter space itself, the combination of magnets and coils in the machines are likened to key, door, and lock. The presently practiced methods only allow the door to be cracked, allowing only a trickle of what's moving about the system to pass through the to the attached load. All that to say this....wouldn't it be awesome if through our comprehension of the relationship found to exist between motoring and generating, find that combination which fully opens the door, and in so doing, enable the infinite which surrounds the machine to drive the attached load? I'm thinking that under such circumstances, COP discussions become moot. At long last, I see what Tom Bearden was suggesting when he suggested that there is 10^13 (statement can be read in a patent granted to John Bedini) energy around a powered EMF circuit, moot indeed.
We need to understand the generator mechanism operating in the prime mover. Your motor is a generator, it is a generator before you put any power into it forcing it to operate as a motor. It is a generator while its motoring, and this issue must be addressed. Can we use this generated energy, if yes how, if no why not.
If and when you are able to manipulate the generator action operating within your prime mover, at this point one can begin looking at a proper generator, one which should be inductively coupled to the motor. A generator which is inductively coupled to the motor benefits from the field of the motor. Meaning the higher the consumption in the motor the higher the output of the generator. It should also be pointed out that the generator action is accomplished by two very different and unique (for the situation) flux linking and cutting mechanisms.
Pretty sure this isn't what you wanted, but I hope it helps, and doesn't fall a closed mind.
In the end these things are cosmetic. What matters, at least to me, is knowing exactly what you want, and being able to spot, isolate and correct the problem. In this particular case, we want a motor-generator. We know that motors are generators and vice versa. What we seek we already have, the task before us is understanding what is required to properly relate the two aspects in a manner which works to our advantage. This requires effort, more than some are ready and or are willing to invest.
@boguslaw - There may be many methods possible, but there are damn few that are public and easily reproducible!
@erfinder - Thanks for the response. Having followed 'Brad's' progress, I'm aware that the motor/generator can co-existing as one unit is a reality. It is also an enigma wrapped up in a conundrum, at least to me! Then there was 'Syair's' generator. I have no doubt that that was real as well. So as boguslaw says, there's more than one way to skin a cat...
Erfinder, I have been harping on about this for years, as you know.
As you know I got around one of the motor/generator problems with a 90 degree phase shift in the field coils, In effect it is no longer a motor, but a self motoring generator with an energizer coil. Once the device is activated it becomes self energizing. There is greatly reduced BEMF as no generation occurs in the energiser/Motor field coils.
Yes Turion, mine is pulsed, which leads to transformer actions between the energizer and generator coils and just as in a transformer, inductance is lowered allowing more current to flow. This causes acceleration under load in the sense that as more current is drawn from the generator coils, more current can flow through the energizer coils. As a result, the stronger fields cause acceleration.
I posted some of the basic information in how some of the device works in the Interesting motor thread over a year ago. Interesting Motor But this is only the DC operation. I haven't got everything worked out for the pulsed DC operation and it remains unfinished at this time but I am happy to let people know what I am doing if they actually build it.
Key points on efficiency
1 With the motor and generator in one case we only have one set of iron losses.
2 The transformer acts at the same time and on the same core and with the same wingdings so while we have 3 functions, the iron losses remain as if it were only one device. The copper losses remain as if it were 2 devices and not 3
3 We only have one set of friction and windage losses.
I dont know if what you are doing is similar, but if it is, get back to me
The term motor makes no sense when we view the machine from the perspective of what it does prior to passing current through it. The machine is and shall remain a dynamo. Motoring is in this light is reduced to an effect which we superimpose onto the already present and operating generating function.
Ultimately, I have this idea, the system should be allowed to do what it wants, how it wants, when it wants. It should be able to do this without the need of my influence. My job is to familiarize myself with the ways of the force, and to place my sails in its wake.
Did you mean motor drive coils are replacing generator coils
or motor coils added next to the gen/coils?? Could you let me
know if this is a misquote or what you are really doing?
PS:Note: In the last video he shows a diagram, do you agree with it?
category does your setup fall under? I honestly don't
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being stuck with a conventional motor core? Or did you do that already?
The generator has 12 coils, all of which are "generator" coils, but it is wired so that ANY or ALL of the coils can be pulsed as motor coils. It was a lot of work to set it up that way, but when you are experimenting, you want your options open.
I am STILL working on my generator, mostly because I have so much invested in it already, and it is a good research platform. BUT, the final design we post may be vastly different as we have been working on some things that SEEM to be proving out. Once we are SURE, it will get posted here for others to replicate, but not before.
Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.
Bernhard Haisch, Astrophysicist
going. We all know who is doing the tricky circuit. I am of course unaware
of exactly what your circuit entails but I would venture to say that using
short pulses the coils will motor just as you say. Next the same coil had
an off timewell off to that circuit so why not just have the backlash
be gobbled back up using another adjacent circuit.
That is a lot of possibilities for experiments. Pulsing coils and collecting
up the BEMF or whatever ya call it.
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