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2009-10: Esa Lindell appeared in three games for Jokerit's U18 team and was the leading scorer among defensemen for Jokerit's U16 squad. In three U18 games he had 1 assist with 2 penalty minutes. Jokerit U16 finished third in the regular season and in 26 games Lindell scored 9 goals with 12 assists and had 16 penalty minutes. In 13 games in the U16 playoffs he had 1 goal with 2 assists and 8 penalty minutes as Jokeritn advanced to the finals against HIFK.
2010-11: Lindell was impressive in three playoff games for Jokerit's U20 team after missing much of the season. He scored 1 goal with 1 assist and was plus-three with 2 penalty minutes in the U20 playoffs. He skated in 18 games for Jokerit's U18 team (including four playoff games) and had 5 goals with 8 assists and had 14 penalty minutes.
2011-12: Lindell made his pro hockey debut, skating in two games with Kiekko-Vantaa in Mestis (Finnish second league), and was the leading scorer for Jokerit's U20 regular season champions. He represented Finland at the 2012 U18 World Junior Championship. Lindell was plus-one, averaging 18 minutes of ice time, in his two-game stint with Kiekko-Vantaa. In 48 games for Jokerit's U20 team he scored 21 goals with 30 assists and was plus-24 with 16 penalty minutes. He scored 2 goals with 5 assists and was plus-one, averaging over 25 minutes of ice time per game, in 11 playoff games. Jokerit lost to Helsinki rival HIFK in the finals. Lindell had 6 assists and was plus-4 with 2 penalty minutes for fourth-place Finland at the U18 WJC. He was invited to the NHL Draft Combine and ranked 12th amongst European skaters in Central Scouting's final rankings prior to the 2012 NHL Draft.
2012-13: Lindell made his SM-Liiga debut in September with Jokerit and skated in 19 games before being loaned to Kiekko-Vantaa in Mestis at the end of November. He also play for the Jokerit U20 team and was a captain for Finland's U19 team. After seeing consistent ice time early in the year, his ice time declined and Lindell finished -9 with no points and 4 penalty minutes for the SM-Liiga's regular season champions. Lindell scored 4 goals with 6 assists and was -10 with 16 points in 22 games for Kiekko-Vantaa. He scored 5 goals with 4 assists in 11 games with the Jokerit junior team and was +2 with 6 penalty minutes and scored 3 goals in seven games for Finland's U19 team.
2013-14: Lindell skated in 46 games for Jokerit, including two playoff contests, and played 11 games on loan to Kiekko-Vantaa in Mestis. He was part of the defense corps for the Finland U20 team that won a gold medal in the 2014 World Juniors. Lindell scored 2 goals with 3 assists and was +8 with 10 penalty minutes, averaging 17 minutes of ice time, for Jokerit. The club finished sixth and was swept by HPK in a best-of-three preliminary round series. Lindell had no points nor penalties and was an even plus/minus in the series. In seven games for Finland at the WJC he scored 2 goals with 3 assists and was +6 with 6 penalty minutes. Finland defeated Sweden, 3-2 in overtime, in the gold medal game in Stockholm. Lindell signed a three-year entry-level contract with Dallas in May 2014.
2014-15: Lindell was one of the top offensive defensemen in Finland with Assat Pori and joined Dallas AHL affiliate Texas following the Liiga season; finishing the year skating for Finland in the IIHF World Championship. He had 1 assist and an even plus/minus with 2 penalty minutes in five games with the Stars. Lindell scored 14 goals with 21 assists and had an even plus/minus with 28 penalty minutes in 57 regular season games for Assat. He was -1 with no points in the two-game playoff series against SaiPa. Lindell scored 1 goal with 5 assists and was +5 with no penalties in eight games for sixth-place Finland at the World Championship.
Talent Analysis
Lindell is a big defenseman who likes to join the rush. He has an offensive-minded style that needs to be roped-in at times and refined. Despite his size he doesn't engage too much physically. Lindell's skating is still a bit awkward and he's not particularly agile. The strength of his game is jumping into the play well and making offensive reads. Lindelll sometimes appears lackadaisical in his own end and makes questionable decisions. He has significant skills but must continue to coordinate them into a productive two-way game.
Lindell made his NHL debut with Dallas in January — appearing in four games with the Stars before being returned to AHL affiliate Texas — and has combined with fellow Finland native Julius Honka to push the play from the defensive end for the AHL club in 2015-16. His size and attacking style fits in well with the philosophy of the Stars and the type of players coming into the system. Like Honka and some of the other young defensemen coming up through the Stars' pipeline, he faces a stiff challenge in cracking the Dallas blue line. Long-term he projects as an offensive, skating defenseman at the NHL level.
Dallas Stars Top 20 features a new number one prospect
by Mike Farkas
Photo: Dallas Stars prospect Brett Ritchie is developing into a scoring threat at the NHL level. (courtesy of Andrew Dieb/Icon Sportswire)
Emergence and trades combined with accelerated arcs and stalling players have mixed up the Dallas Top 20 prospect list quite a bit. With two slick, offensive-minded defensemen leading the way followed by some monsters in the middle portion of the list, the Stars continue to boast an eclectic mix of youngsters. While there are some projects hovering in the ranks, there is a lot of experience as well, as seven of these 20 have participated in an NHL contest.
Lindell's solid season has him atop list of drafted defensemen playing in Finland
by Tony Piscotta
Photo: KalPa Kuopio defenseman and Nashville Predators prospect Joonas Lyytinen was one of the better performers for Finland at the 2015 World Junior Championship (courtesy of Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)
Finland as a nation has produced several young defensemen in recent years. With many of those players now beginning to make their way in North America, including Dallas Stars' rookie Jyrki Jokipakka and St. Louis Blues prospect Petteri Lindbohm, the number of those players still plying their trade in the domestic Liiga has dwindled. Read more»
2014-15 Liiga Preview, Pt. 2: Tough act to follow as Vaasa Sport replaces KHL-bound Jokerit
Photo: HPK Hameenliina goaltender and Nashville Predators prospect Juuse Saros backstopped Finland to the gold medal at the 2014 WJC and is likely to be a key player for that country at this year's WJC (courtesy of Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
In part two of the 2014-15 Liiga preview, Hockey's Future takes a look at the remaining teams from Finland's top hockey league not covered in part one. Included in the second part is Liiga newcomer Vaasa Sport, the team selected to replace arguably the league's most heralded organization, Jokerit, who is now a part of Russia's Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Read more»
2014 WJC Video: Esa Lindell, Finland
by Chapin Landvogt
Photo: Jokerit defenseman and Dallas Stars prospect Esa Lindell is competing for Finland at the 2014 U20 World Juniors after narrowly missing out on earning a berth on last year's squad (courtesy of Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
After competing with a more experienced squad at last year's World Junior Championship, a performance that featured decidedly more offense than one might expect from Finland, the Finns entered the 2014 WJC in Malmo, Sweden with a squad that is largely getting their feet wet at the Under-20 level.
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Q: Enviar formulário sem refresh e trazer resultados para a mesma página Preciso enviar um formulário do tipo POST para fazer uma consulta em uma página PHP (painel-admin.php) e retornar os resultados dessa consulta, nessa mesma página do form (sem refresh), como poderia fazer?

Imagino que vou ter que usar Ajax, mas, não sei como...

O código que eu tenho, está funcionando, utilizei SESSION, porém, está dando refresh na página.
HTML: (painel-admin.php)
    <form method="post" action="verificar-painel-admin.php">
        <input type="text" name="usuario" value="joaozinho" readonly>
        <button type="submit" name="confirm_usuario_pedido">Clique aqui para consultar os pedidos desse usuário.</button>
    </form>

                <?php
                    // Exibindo os pedidos do cliente caso haja.
                    if(isset($_SESSION['msg_pedidos_usuario'])){
                    echo $_SESSION['msg_pedidos_usuario'];
                    unset($_SESSION['msg_pedidos_usuario']);}
                ?>

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 if(isset($_POST['confirm_usuario_pedido'])){
    $cliente = $_POST['cliente'];

    // Todos os pedidos do usuário
    $sql = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT ID_compras FROM usuarios_pedidos WHERE usuario = '$cliente'");
    $qnt_pedidos = mysqli_num_rows($sql);

        // Se existir pedido desse usuário, exibir.
        if ($qnt_pedidos > 0) {

            while ($cont = mysqli_fetch_array($sql)){

            $_SESSION['msg_pedidos_usuario'] = "Você possui ". $qnt_pedidos . "pedidos";

            }  } // End IF & While

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Você ainda não possui pedidos!
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    header("Location: painel-admin.php");
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A: Olá, sim você vai ter que usar AJAX para tal tarefa. Vi que você botou jquery, então vou utilizá-lo neste exemplo.
Como você não exibiu sua página de formulário, vou falar o que eu acho que deve ser feito.

*

*PHP:

*

*Crie um arquivo para lidar com esse backend: seu_arquivo.php

*Configure o arquivo, e tratativas para impedir que usuários acessem esse arquivo diretamente do navegador (eu costumo enviar post por ajax, e faço um if(!$_POST){ header('location: ...') })

*Uma vez que você fez todo o insert do seu formulário, você vai ter que fazer um select para ter esses dados prontos para exibição(um jeito interessante é o PDO::lastInsertId()),

*Com os dados prontos, você pode optar por gerar um json com esses dados ou já exibir em HTML, dentro de tags e tals (em json é o jeito mais atual), e depois desse echo com os dados, sair do arquivo.

*

*Javascript

*

*Enviar o formulário para o backend por ajax. Como você disse que não sabe como, vou fazer um exemplo:
var dados = $('seu_formulario').serialize() // serialize() pega todos os valores dos inputs filhos do formulario no seletor

// função post(), vai fazer a requisição ajax
// primeiro parametro é a url,
// segundo é referente aos dados do seu form a serem enviados,
// terceiro é como vc vai lidar com o retorno
$.post(
    'seu_arquivo.php',
    dados,
    function(respostaAjax){
        // aqui que vai rolar a exibição, é interessante fazer uma validação antes,
        // voce pode dar um echo 'ERRO' no php e ler esse erro aqui, e exibir pro usuario
        if(respostaAjax == 'ERRO') {
            alert('ERRO blabla...'); // sua tratativa de erro

        } else {
            // vamos supor que você resolveu dar echo no html pronto
            $('sua_div').html(respostaAjax) // pronto, sua div vai ter os dados do backend sem nenhum refresh
            // se você resolveu fazer com json, pode dar um JSON.parse(respostaAjax) e então ir modificando
        }
    }

De forma bem resumida, é isso, se tiver alguma dúvida, to a disposição, espero ter ajudado!!

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Clean, accessible water and healthy practices change everything for rural families trapped in a cycle of poverty.
In Uganda, an estimated 24 million are still living without safe water. Together, we're walking alongside families to do something about it. Since 2016, Lifewater staff and supporters have completed 101 water projects in rural Ugandan communities, serving 43,772 people with safe water, improved health, and the hope of the gospel.
When families participating in the Vision of a Healthy Village approach begin practicing five simple healthy habits, lasting transformation begins.
Meet five people from Uganda who know the powerful change that comes from clean water and healthy habits.
Tibiwa's children often missed school from waterborne sickness, and the family spent their money on clinic fees.
Today, Tibiwa is a healthy and successful businesswoman. Through selling millet flour, she was able to open up a savings account and buy a plot of land.
Tibiwa displays her millet flour.
She's now making plans to open a commercial building in 2019, one that she will use to sell her flour and rent shops to other businesses. Clean water and hygiene practices made all the difference.
"The money [we] spent on water and treatments is what I saved to start the business," she said.
Veronica uses her school's handicap-accessible well for the first time.
For many years, lack of proper resources meant there were many things 12-year-old Veronica Magooba could not do on her own, like gathering water from the closest water source.
That is until generous Lifewater supporters established a handicap-accessible well for Veronica and her classmates at Bulumba Primary school.
Today, parents are coming from all over the region to send their children—both able-bodied and disabled—to Bulumba Primary. The well is a beacon of hope for children all over Uganda, and Veronica is pursuing her dream of becoming a teacher.
Justine smiles in front of her certified Healthy Home.
When Bukoba Central village received safe water and began practicing healthy habits, they immediately saw a transformation in their community.
They were so thankful for their improved health, that they even traveled to a nearby village to help stop a cholera outbreak. By teaching them healthy practices learned from Lifewater staff, they were able to prevent many more deaths.
Last year, waterborne diseases and long walks for water made it almost impossible for 14-year-old Rasheda and Sephoroza to keep up with their studies, and they nearly dropped out of school.
Lifewater supporters partnered with the PTAs at both Busala and Bwiite Primary schools to build safe water points, handicap-accessible bathrooms, and permanent hand washing stations.
Today, they're leading their schools in making healthy changes and teaching each household in their village how to practice five healthy habits.
"My life is better because we have enough safe water to drink," Rasheda said.
Rasheda proudly reads the words inscribed on her school's rainwater harvesting tank.
Disease has reduced and more children are going to school.
"We no longer miss classes because of health challenges, walking distances for water, and lack of menstrual hygiene," Sephoroza said.
Rose Mutensi leads her village.
Rose Mutensi is a leader in Kamaya, Uganda, a village that was experiencing debilitating sickness and water poverty when Lifewater met them years ago.
Rose advocated for clean water and for accountability among village leadership. Through her unceasing determination and leadership, Kamaya village was transformed.
This year, generous supporters came alongside Rose and her village to provide clean water, improved health, and the hope of the gospel. Today, their repaired well pumps safe water to over 200 people in Kamaya.
Clean water and health practices create a healthier, more hopeful future that allows people to thrive and spend time doing the things that matter most.
Partner with people like Tibiwa, Veronica, Justine, Rasheda, Sephoroza, and Rose by helping to sponsor a village in Uganda. Explore villages waiting for sponsorship here.


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Fishing With Flies :: Blog: A strategy for finicky panfish during the "dog days of summer"
A strategy for finicky panfish during the "dog days of summer"
I heard on the evening news last night that this has been the warmest first six months of the year (overall, for the entire country) in history. Since we don't have central air-conditioning at our house, we have been suffering these last few weeks. I don't think the fish like it either.
Locally there's not a chance that I will fish for trout. Some will find underground springs to help them holdover, but my guess is that a lot will die off.
So, I fished again today from my floattube for bass and panfish. But the fishing on my favorite farm pond was as slow as I have ever seen it. I fished the first 30 minutes without any action, trying topwater poppers and hoppers and gradually fishing deeper and deeper. Nothing.
Thinking about what other strategy I could try, I felt a need to fish something smaller and deeper. If I had some really heavily weighted small nymphs I would have tried them. Something like a Copper John would have been excellent. But, sometimes the best strategy for getting small nymphs down deep without adding more weight is to make adjustments to your leader.
I was fishing my standard panfish leader: A 6 foot tapered leader with about 2 feet of tippet added. That usually means a 3x tippet as that nicely turns over the poppers and buggers. To get deeper, I added about 3 feet of 5x tippet to the 2 feet of 3x tippet to create a 10 1/2 foot leader. I attached a beadhead and went to work. The 5x tippet material helped the beadhead sink because its thinner diameter sliced and sank through the water better. It also placed the fly further from the end of the floating fly line. Once the fly is down deep, it is important to move the beadhead only slightly because when you strip the line the beadhead will move up in the water column, and away from the fish.
This worked great. I kept the line barely taught and waited for the subtle "tap, tap, tap". The first beadhead was a size 12 herl body nymph with a short tail of rabbit fur. Basically, my "Hare & Herl Bugger" without the hackle. I managed to catch some big bluegills, and I also managed to loose a couple of fish that got wrapped around lily pads or underwater structures. With 3x I can usually coax them toward me, but 5x is a different story.
I then moved to an even smaller nymph. Probably a 14, but it had no tail. Just a bead head, white wool body and a couple of wraps of white hackle tied aft, rather than in front. Little white grubs like this work well for me during the summer. I find this interesting because usually I find dark colors better. To really change things up, try a white grub on a scud hook. This gives the nymph a little wiggle. Unfortunately, the scud hook grub was another fly I was without today. I would have tried it next.
Below is a picture of what was perhaps the largest (almost 10") bluegill of the day, followed by the largest (and only) Pumpkinseed. Pumpkinseeds don't get quite as large as bluegills. At nearly 9" this was a big one.
First outing at the "Land of the Nuclear Sunfish"


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Last season was a break-out year for the Turkish Airlines Challenge champion Joachim B. Hansen. In 19 starts, the 28 year old compiled two wins, three runner-up finishes, and another four top tens, against only four missed cuts, to complete his campaign as Challenge Tour Number One.
The Turkish Airlines Challenge makes its sixth appearance on the Challenge Tour International Schedule, taking place at a new location for the third time.
The European Challenge Tour Rankings will begin at the Turkish Airlines Challenge, when the action gets under way at Samsun Golf Club from April 25-28.


RENOVATED EXHIBITION AT THE BELI VISITOR CENTRE – Javna ustanova "Priroda"
The renovated exhibition at the Beli Visitor Centre contains exhibits explaining the life of the griffon vultures of Cres Island and the ethno heritage of Tramuntana. The tour begins in the Griffon Vulture Room, where we can learn interesting facts about griffon vultures and how people and nature coexist on Cres Island, the latter also being the focus of the Ethnological Room. The space in the corridor houses the exhibition "The Floral Richness of Cres Island", which we intend to change and enrich with new exhibits, on a regular basis.
By circling through the rooms, visitors first learn about the life cycle of the griffon vulture, from its hatching stage across its wandering the wide expanses of Eurasia to its return back to the cliffs of Cres Island to build a nest.
The multimedia part of the Griffon Vulture Room portrays the flight of the griffon vulture, its sharp eyesight into the distance, changes in its range through history, and migration maps, among other things, while the "What Do We Know About the Griffon Vulture" Quiz helps us to learn new facts and gain new insights. Particularly interesting is the silhouette of a griffon vulture with its wings spread, against which visitors can stand to compare their size to that of a spread-winged vulture.
Direct video transmission from the flight aviary/recovery cage for griffon vultures, which is part of the Centre, enables us to see what the recovering vultures are doing prior to their release into nature.
Next we come to the Ethno Room and the display titled "In Co-existence", which tells us of the connection between the life of local shepherds and farmer workers and their traditional way of co-existence with nature. In the centre of the room is a semi-circular "table" focusing on life with the Cres sheep, a breed of Pramenka sheep typical of Cres Island (Photo 2).


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Flywheel Size Design Considerations and Experimental Verification Using a 50-kW System for Voltage Sag Compensator with Flywheel Induction Motor
Posted byPQTBlog March 11, 2022 March 11, 2022 Posted inPower QualityTags:Flywheel, Flywheel Energy Storage (FES), Voltage Sags/Surges
Published by Shuhei Kato, Miao-miao Cheng, Hideo Sumitani and Ryuichi Shimada,
Integrated Research Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Flywheel energy storage systems can be used as an uninterrupted power supply system because they are environmentally friendly and have high durability. The use of a simple voltage sag compensator with a low-speed heavy flywheel and a low-cost squirrel-cage induction motor/generator is proposed. First, the ability of the proposed system to maintain the load voltage at 100% when the grid is experiencing voltage sag is validated experimentally. Next, design guidelines for the flywheel stored energy are dis- cussed. Experimental verification of a 50-kW-class system is carried out, and the results show good agreement with the developed design guidelines. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 181(1): 36–44, 2012; Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI 10.1002/eej.21252
Key words: flywheel; voltage sag compensator; squirrel-cage induction motor; capacitor self-excitation; design guidelines.
Voltage sag [1–3] is a phenomenon in which the grid voltage drops briefly (for about 0.1 second [4]), and in seven out of ten cases it is attributed to a lightning strike on a transmission line [5]. The frequency of occurrence of voltage sag is very high, approximately 10 to 50 times [5] that of power failures, and it causes significant losses in the form of autonomous robot failures and malfunctions in industry in general.
At present voltage sag compensators employing a parallel compensation method using an electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) [7], a NAS battery [8], or a super- conducting magnetic energy storage system (SMES) and a series compensation method known as a dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) [10], are gaining attention as voltage sag countermeasures [6]. However, in all of these semiconductor converters, harmonic filters and series transformers are required, and the equipment is complicated.
We have proposed [11, 12] a simple voltage sag compensator that can be linked directly to the grid without a semiconductor converter, that is built around a simple and inexpensive squirrel-cage induction motor with flywheel connected to the axis. It has the significant advantage of not requiring a semiconductor converter to generate a DC volt- age even though the stored energy utilization rate is low, with switching to the induction generator during induction motor sag by using capacitor self-excitation [13] in an induction motor during compensation.
In this paper we describe experiments with a simulated voltage sag (power source voltage drop) in order to confirm the effectiveness of a voltage sag compensator with a flywheel induction motor. We clarified the flywheel stored energy design guidelines for this method and tested a 50-kW-class system based on this design. The results show that the experimental results for the system agree well with the design values, confirming the effectiveness of the design method.
2.Configuration and Operation of the Voltage Sag Compensator without a Semiconductor Converter
Figure 1 shows the system configuration of the volt- age sag compensator described in this paper. This is a commercial power supply system during normal operation in which the induction motor with a flywheel is connected in series to the load, and power is supplied to the load via a thyristor switch from the grid during normal operation. The actions during operation are as follows.
(1) Flywheel startup and standby operation
The induction motor starting current is suppressed and the induction motor is started up by phase control of the interconnection thyristor switch from the grid without a connection to a capacitor or load. During standby, the thyristor switch is in a conductive state at all angles, and the induction motor is in standby under virtually no load.
Fig. 1. System configuration of the proposed voltage sag compensator without semiconductor power converters.
(2) Voltage sag occurs
When the grid voltage drops, an OFF signal is sent to SW1. When SW1 is OFF at the first current zero point after the voltage sag occurs, the induction motor automatically becomes an induction generator due to the capacitor self- excitation phenomenon, and power is supplied to the load. Because the frequency of the induction generator is lower than the grid frequency only for the "slip" portion, the load voltage vector rotates spatially at close to the slip frequency with respect to the grid voltage vector.
(3) Power restoration
When the grid voltage is restored and the voltage spatial phases on the grid side and the induction generator side (load side) agree (the voltage phase difference is zero), that is, when the voltage of the induction generator is rotated 360° in space and again matches the grid voltage, an ON signal is output to SW1. Reconnection in the state in which there is a voltage phase difference creates a disturbance in the grid and the interconnection switch faults due to the large current to the induction motor, and as a result, reconnection with the voltage phase difference near zero is always required. The process then returns to the standby state in step (1).
3.Simulated Voltage Sag Experiment (Power Source Voltage Drop Experiment)
In the experiment, we performed a simulated voltage sag test by switching an auto-transformer tap with an electromagnetic switch. Figure 1 shows the configuration of the test system.
3.1 Content of the voltage sag experiment and voltage sag determination
The flywheel system used in the voltage sag experiment was a system in which a 200-kJ flywheel was connected to an 11-kW-class squirrel-cage induction motor. Detection of the voltage drop involved calculating the three-phase instantaneous voltage by spatial vector computations, and monitoring the power flow to SW1 as well. A voltage sag was identified when the voltage shortfall detection threshold was 80% of the rated voltage (effective value: 160 V) and the power flow was reversed. The experimental conditions were set to a resistance load of 7.2 kW, and the self-excitation capacitor was set to 750 mF (reactive power: 9.3 kvar), which was optimal for 7.2 kW. A voltage drop width of 30% (residual current of 70%) was simulated.
Fig. 2. Experimental results of the voltage sag test in the case of a 7.2-kW load.
3.2 Results of the voltage sag experiment
Figure 2(a) shows the results of the experiment. A voltage sag was detected at virtually the same time as the simulated voltage sag started. Because the interconnection switch is a thyristor, there is a period of approximately one-fourth of a cycle in which OFF cannot be set. We confirmed that during this period, the load voltage wave- form is chaotic, but thereafter the induction motor acts as an induction generator due to capacitor self-excitation, and a suitable voltage is generated. We then confirmed that because power is also restored in the same phase during power restoration [Fig. 2(b)], reconnection to the system is accomplished smoothly. The present voltage sag compensator does not use a semiconductor power converter to generate an AC voltage, and thus a sinusoidal voltage greater than 97% of the fundamental is generated without a filter even during compensation.
4.Design Guidelines for the Flywheel Stored Energy Capacity
There are two points to be taken into consideration when the frequency drops and reconnection is performed during compensation in the present voltage sag compensator as described above.
(1) Reconnection to the grid cannot be performed at an arbitrary period. After the start of compensation, standby is essential until the voltage phase difference from the grid side reaches zero again.
(2) In the present method, the induction generator is reconnected directly to the grid without a semiconductor power converter. As a result, even when the instant of zero voltage phase is reached, if the frequency drops too much, excess current due to excess acceleration torque flows during reconnection, and consequently a frequency lower limit (90 to 95%) must be set. The lower limit to the frequency drop during compensation is set while taking the above two points (voltage phase zero and frequency lower limit) into consideration. The flywheel stored energy capacity leading to the same phase when the lower limit of the frequency is reached is the optimal flywheel stored energy capacity for the present voltage sag compensator. Design guidelines are given in detail below.
4.1 Derivation of the phase matching time
When the load power to be protected is Pload, the mechanical power input to the induction machine from the flywheel is Pme. The mechanical energy ΔE that the fly- wheel releases in the compensation time t is
Here ωn, ω(t), and I represent the standby rotational angular velocity of the flywheel, the rotational angular velocity function after the start of compensation, and the inertial moment. The rotational angular velocity function ω(t) can be rewritten as
On the other hand, the relation between the frequency F(t) of the induction generator and the rotational angular velocity is represented by
Here p is the number of pole pairs, S is the slip of the induction generator (although a negative value; S is a positive value due to inversion of the immediately preceding sign). With the slip at rated power denoted as sn and the rated power of the induction machine as Pn, we have
Therefore, if the rated frequency (grid frequency) is Fn, then the frequency difference ΔF(t) is
The time integral of this frequency difference is the phase angle θ, and the time t at which θ = 2π is the phase matching time Tmatch:
Here time integral (2), the rotational angular velocity function, is relatively complex. Further, Eq. (6) cannot be solved analytically in the form given. As a result, the rotational angular velocity function ω(t) is approximated linearly as
This is because when the compensation time is sufficiently small compared to the acceleration constant H = E/Pn for the rotating body, the drop in the rotational angular velocity is linear. Here k is a proportionality constant,
and is defined as the tangent slope of the rotational angular velocity function at t = 0. Hence, if Eq. (6) is rewritten using the voltage phase difference Θ of the grid side and the load side, the second-order constraint equation
is obtained. Solving this equation, we obtain
Thus, as shown in Eq. (11), after the start of compensation, the time Tmatch at which the voltage phase reaches zero again is θ = 2π, and is determined by the load power, the inertial moment, and the rated slip. Conversely, if the time Tmatch at which the same phase is reached is specified, then the required moment of inertia Imatch is determined by the time and load power, as shown in Eq. (12).
4.2 Flywheel design using the set frequency lower limit
The lower limit of the frequency must be given closer consideration when designing a flywheel using the constraint equation in the previous section. That is, the frequency drop up to the time at which the voltage phase difference again reaches zero must be at least ΔFlimit. Then the constraint equation for the frequency drop is represented by
Solving this equation, we can express the necessary mini- mum inertial moment Imin and stored energy Emin by means of the following equations (see Appendix):
The time at which the same phase is reached for the stored energy Emin is
based on Eq. (11), which determines the minimum period of the compensation time.
4.3 Design of a 50-kW-class system for the voltage sag compensator
We designed a 50-kW-class system for the voltage sag compensator based on the calculations in the previous section. Table 1 gives the design conditions. Specifying a lower frequency limit 5% below the grid frequency (ΔF = 0.05), calculations were performed with the rated slip sn = 0.019 (based on a list of results for a prototype 55-kW-class induction motor) for the 55-kW-class induction motor with four poles at ωn = 1500 rpm. The necessary minimum moment of inertia to compensate a load at a load power of Pload = 55 kW (based on 92.5% efficiency of the induction machine, Pme = 59.5 kW) is found from Eqs. (15) and (17):
Therefore, based on Eq. (16), the necessary minimum stored energy is
If design is performed as described above, then the compensation time when compensating a constant load at Pload = 55 kW is 583 ms
4.4 Reduction of flywheel capacity due to an improved interconnection switch
In order to restore power in the same phase when reconnecting to the grid as in the calculations in the preceding section, θ = 2π rad = 360° is assumed in Eq. (6). Thus, as shown in Fig. 3, if the interconnection switch is configured in a 9 TRIAC arrangement such as a matrix converter, then reconnection to the grid is possible in increments of θ = 2π/3 rad = 120°. In this case, the number of semiconductor switches increases, but as shown in Fig. 3, the TRIAC drive circuit has an extremely simple configuration with only a photocoupler and there is no need for an insulated power supply. Furthermore, because only three of the TRIACs have current passing through them at all times, the heat sink size (°C/W) and the constant loss in the switch do not change.
Fig. 3. Interconnection switch configuration with nine bidirectional thyristor switches.
Based on this idea, Fig. 4 shows the relationship between the compensation time and the frequency difference for compensation of the rated power. The horizontal axis represents time, and the vertical axis represents the difference ΔF(t) between the grid frequency Fn and the induction generator frequency. First, if the moment of inertia of the flywheel is infinitely large, then the frequency difference is constant at Fn – Fn/(1 + S). In this case, the time to reach the same phase is I = ∞. As a result, rearranging Eq. (10) and setting k = 0, we obtain
Fig. 4. Relationship between the compensation time and the frequency difference.
Next, when the moment of inertia is finite, the frequency difference ΔF(t) varies linearly with respect to time. If the frequency difference reaches a limit, then at the same time the moment of inertia at which the voltage phase difference changes to a constant curve with θ = 2π rad is Imin. That is, the area enclosed by the origin, point C, point A (point B when θ = 2π/3 rad), and Tmin is Θ = 1 (1/3 when θ = 2π/3 rad). The voltage phase differences q that can be selected depend on the number of phases: for three phases, there are three, namely, 2π, 4π/3, and 2π/3.
4.5 Flywheel guidelines based on an improved grid interconnection switch
Table 1. Design conditions of a 50-kW-class system
Using the improved grid interconnection switch de- scribed in the previous section, design was performed for the conditions listed in Table 1. The relationship between the compensation time and the stored energy when compensating rated power at 55 kW is shown in Fig. 5. If design is performed using region I (the dotted curve) in Fig. 5, then phase matching is reached at a given stored energy and the desired time, but the region is one in which the frequency drops below 95%. Conversely, if design is performed using region II (the dotted curve), the result is an overdesigned region in which there is still a margin for voltage drop when phase matching is reached in the desired time. Hence, the design point (optimal point) at which the frequency is 95% when phase matching is reached is the point at which the curves in Fig. 5 and the 5% frequency drop line intersect, so that
Fig. 5. Relationship between compensation time and stored energy for the 55-kW load case.
If the stored energy is greater than Emin, then the frequency drop is kept within 5% and reconnection to the grid is possible.
5.Experimental Evaluation of the Design Guidelines for a 50-kW-Class Test System
Based on the design guidelines in the previous section, we prototyped a 50-kW-class test system and con- firmed the validity of the design principles. The results are described below.
5.1 Specifications of the test system for the 50-kW-class voltage sag compensator
Because the majority of voltage sags are concentrated in the range of 100 to 200 ms [4], we created our test system using the test model point (reconnection to the grid at θ = 2π/3 rad) shown in Fig. 5. Table 2 lists the specifications for a 50-kW-class voltage sag compensator using the prototyped vertical-axis flywheel. Figures 6 and 7 show the external appearance.
Table 2. Test model specifications of the proposed 50-kW voltage sag compensator
5.2 Experiment to confirm the validity of the design guidelines
In order to confirm the validity of the design guide- lines for the proposed voltage sag compensator using the prototyped vertical-axis flywheel, we performed an experiment involving the opening of grid interconnection switch M1 rather than an experiment with a simulated voltage sag using the experimental configuration shown in Fig. 1. The capacitor value used for the self-excitation phenomenon was selected appropriately to the load [14], so that the induction generator produced approximately the rated volt- age Vn over a constant period during compensation. In practice, the load power often fluctuates, and countermeasures to automatically switch the capacitance as appropriate based on the fluctuations are extremely important. We performed our experiment by varying the compensation load from 10 kW to 55 kW. The total standby loss (iron loss, copper loss, wind loss, bearing loss) was approximately 1.77 kW.
Figure 8 shows the experimentally determined matching time Tmatch for the same phase with respect to the mechanical input power Pme (the measured load power Pload divided by the efficiency of the motor with that load = the value for the mechanical load of the flywheel). For the voltage phase difference, the output q of the phase- locked loop (PLL) where the d axis voltage of the induction generator voltage is zero is calculated, and the times at which the voltage phase difference is 120°, 240°, and 360° are measured. As can be seen in the figure, the experimental results and the values calculated using Eq. (11) agree well. When the calculated value is taken as the true value, the error is positive (approximately +7% at most), and the time until the phase again matches is slightly longer.
We also evaluated the induction generator frequency at phase match. Figure 9 shows the voltage phase difference and the frequency of the induction generator and the grid when the load power Pload is 10 kW. The frequency on the vertical axis was calculated from dθ/dt for the PLL. The figure confirms that the voltage phase difference expanded steadily from t = 0 s before compensation, and its time variation agreed well with the calculated values. The frequency dropped steadily, and at t = 0.613 s a voltage phase difference of 120° was obtained. The frequency at this time was 49.1 Hz. Figure 10 shows the voltage drop at phase match when varying the load power Pload as above. The experimental values for the voltage drop are more stable than the calculated values and the agreement is good. These results confirm the validity of the design guidelines in Section 4 for a system that compensates a 55-kW load for 0.22 second by reconnecting the test system to the grid at a voltage phase difference of 120°, using the grid interconnection switch in Fig. 3.
Fig. 6. Photograph of the test model, a proposed 50-kW voltage sag compensator.
Fig. 7. Photograph of the flywheel of the proposed 50-kW voltage sag compensator.
Fig. 8. Experimental results for the mechanical input power versus compensation duration.
Fig. 9. Time variations of the phase difference and IG frequency in the case of a 10-kW load power.
Fig. 10. Experimental results for the mechanical input power versus IG frequency at the end of the compensation period.
6.Conclusions
A flywheel stored energy of approximately 50 kJ is required for compensation of approximately 0.17 second when designing a 10-kW system (electrical output of 11 kW), as was the case in the previous section. If a two-pole system is used, then a voltage sag compensator with a simple horizontal axis can be created merely by having an approximately 65-kg flywheel overhang on the axis of the 11-kW-class squirrel-cage induction motor (horizontal axis). Thus, in this paper we proposed a simple voltage sag compensator using a flywheel to deal with the problem of voltage sag, and clarified the following three points.
(1) A voltage sag experiment simulating a 30% volt- age drop confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed method, which maintained approximately the rated load voltage even during reconnection immediately after the start of a voltage sag.
(2) We clarified flywheel design guidelines for our voltage sag compensator. We showed that a flywheel stored energy capacity of 180 kJ is optimal for a 50-kW system when the frequency drop during reconnection is 5%, and that the compensation time is approximately 0.20 second.
(3) We created a 50-kW-class test system (flywheel stored energy 220 kJ) based on the design guidelines. Experiments showed that the designed values and the experimental values agreed well, and demonstrated the validity of the design guidelines for a load power of 55 kW and an approximately 0.22-second compensation system.
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Derivation of Eq. (15)
On the left side of Eq. (14), the conditional equation for the frequency drop during reconnection can be converted to
by using Eqs. (8) and (11). Because pωn = 2πFn, the same equation can be represented as
using Eq. (13). Therefore, the inequality in Eq. (14) can be altered to
Because both sides of the inequalities are positive, the direction of the inequality sign does not change if both sides are squared. If Eq. (A.2) is rearranged by using Eq. (13) after squaring both sides, we obtain
which yields Eq. (15).
AUTHORS (from left to right)
Shuhei Kato, Miao-miao Cheng, Hideo Sumitani and Ryuichi Shimada
Shuhei Kato (member) completed the doctoral program in innovative energy at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering of Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2009. He is now engaged in research on energy storage using flywheels. He received a 2007 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan Excellent Presentation Award. He holds a D.Eng. degree.
Miao-miao Cheng (member) completed the M.E. program at Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2006 and entered the doctoral program in innovative energy at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering of Tokyo Institute of Technology. She is now engaged in research on flywheel energy storage for stabilizing distributed power source transients.
Hideo Sumitani (senior member) received a bachelor's degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1959 and joined Toshiba, where he was engaged in the development, design, and production of AC electric motors for industry. In 1991 he joined Toshiba Techno Consulting. In 1998 he joined Tokyo Power Technical Services. In 2001 he joined Toshiba Technical Services International, and became a researcher at the Atomic Reactor Engineering Laboratory of Tokyo Institute of Technology, where he is also a visiting instructor.
Ryuichi Shimada (senior member) completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1975 and joined the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, where he worked on the development of the large-scale Tokamak JT-60 fusion reactor. In 1988 he became an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering of Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was appointed a professor at the Atomic Reactor Engineering Laboratory there in 1990. In 2005 he became a professor at the Integrated Research Institute. He is primarily engaged in research on large-scale electric power systems, electric power engineering, electric power storage, power electronics, nuclear fusion reactor engineering, and plasma control. He has received the IEEJ Outstanding Paper Prize, Progress Prize, and Authorship Prize. He holds a D.Eng. degree.
Electrical Engineering in Japan, Vol. 181, No. 1, 2012
Translated from Denki Gakkai Ronbunshi, Vol. 129-D, No. 4, April 2011, pp. 446–452
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Q: Disable GPIO by default and temporarily activate it via python script I'm using a Raspberry Pi 2 with DietPi and plugged in an alarm module into the GPIO 14 (Pin 08).
I would now like to disable this Pin by default and only allow it to turn on temporarily within my python script.
So far I've tried using RPi.GPIO which hasn't worked and unexport/export but this only ended up damaging my os to an extend where I had to reinstall it.
Clearly I am doing something very wrong. Does anyone have experience with this and could point me in the right direction?

A: I don't have my rpi with me, but you can try using this.
First function exports, 3 following check time
import time
import sys

def unexport(gpio):
  value = open("/sys/class/gpio/unexport","w")
  value.write(gpio)
  value.close()

def checkHours:
    return int(time.strftime("%l"))

def checkMinutes:
    return int(time.strftime("%M"))

def checkAMorPM:
    return time.strftime("%p")

def disableGpio3AM46:
    if (checkHours == 3) and (checkMinutes == 46) and (checkAMorPM == 'PM'):
        print 'amazing'
        unexport(gpio)

A: Since posting this question I've figured out this way to disable and enable the pin/gpio through python:
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)
GPIO.setup(8, GPIO.OUT)

try:
    while True:
    GPIO.output(8,1)
    time.sleep(0.5)
    GPIO.output(8,0)
    time.sleep(0.5)

except KeyboardInterrupt:
    GPIO.cleanup()
    print "Bye"

All that's left for me to figure out now is how to disable the pinby default so that alarm won't play until the code is run


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The phonetics of a#n vs. an# juncture
Geoff Pullum's recent post "An aim or a name?" stimulated a surprisingly lively discussion of juncture in English. This morning, I thought I'd encourage this interest in phonetics by posting a random sample of relevant real-world examples.
The distinction between "a name" and "an aim" turned out to hard to find — the 25 million words of conversational (telephone) speech that I searched had plenty of instances of "a name", but only one instance of "an aim". So I picked a similar case where both sides of the opposition are represented by dozens of tokens: "a nice" vs. "an ice", in contexts like "a nice guy" or "a nice one", vs. "an ice storm" or "an ice cream sundae".
Here are four random selections from this little collection — see if you can identify them:
Note that I'm not guaranteeing balance here. Perhaps all four are "an ice", or all four are "a nice"; or any other combination of categories.
I'll give you the answer key, with some discussion, tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Bob Ladd's comment on yesterday's post (describing findings from Ladd and Schepman, "'Sagging transitions' between high pitch accents in English: experimental evidence", J. Phonetics 31(1) 2003), characterizes the true situation fairly clearly:
The biggest acoustic difference we found was […] that word-final consonants are shorter, on average, than word-initial consonants (in our data, 47 msec vs. 67 msec in the case of /n/). […]There were glottal stops (at the beginning of e.g. Eason) in only 10-15% of cases. In a subsequent perception experiment, we found that people, given a forced choice, could correctly identify the name intended by the speaker only about two-thirds of the time.
The thing that Bob left out is that the within-category variation (e.g. the variation in duration of word-initial [n]) was no doubt of roughly the same magnitude as the average difference between the categories. (The cited paper, alas, doesn't give variance measures, but only ANOVA F values — a pet peeve of mine…)
Also, although Ladd and Schepman were careful to avoid the obvious effects of facultative disambiguation, they were measuring "laboratory speech", i.e. the relatively careful and formal style of speech that you get when you bring people into the lab and have them read (somewhat contrived) passages.
This is necessary in order to get the orthogonal design required for ANOVA and similar statistical analyses, and therefore we phoneticians have been using such techniques for the past century or so; but this approach tends to produce somewhat stereotyped version of the differences under study, human nature being as it is, and to produce results that may be artificial in other ways as well. This practice is starting to change, as we learn to approach similar questions using data from collections of thousands of hours of natural speech.
Peter Taylor said,
May 8, 2010 @ 7:28 am
I hear "a nice", unsure but inclined towards "an ice", "a knife" (although the word boundary sounds more like "an ife"), and "a nice".
Craig said,
I live in central maryland, if that makes any difference. I pronounce "a" and "an" with a different "a". For "an", my tounge is pulled back to make the sound deeper in the throat (boy, am I a true linguist or not?). My "a" is much closer to the palate but at the back. There is not much difference when casually speaking, but it is certainly discernable.
I use that difference to guess that the middle two sounds were "an".
Christian DiCanio said,
#1, 2, 4 are "an ice" and #3 is "a nice." I may be totally wrong, but this is my guess. #3 was articulated faster than the others, so this may be biasing my judgement.
Jarek Weckwerth said,
A "non-native" speaker, I hear a nice in the first two and an ice in the other two. But I'm working on the assumption that the clips come from the kinds of phrases you mentioned; and I would expect an ice storm to be quite different in terms of the rhythm and stress (and, consequently, tonicity) from a nice guy…
notrequired said,
Here's my two cents:
1. nice
2. ice
jih said,
Any differences in duration would be a by-product of differences in articulation. In "nice", consonant and diphthong are always planned together, coarticulated. In "an ice" coarticulation may or may not happen. If the /n/ is coarticulated with the following /ai/, then you are not going to hear a difference, I guess.
Frans said,
I'm going with 1 and 4 "a nice", and 2 and 3 "an ice".
Aaron Toivo said,
Best guess:
Bob said,
I'm pretty confident #1 is "a nice". The other three could go either way, I can't tell.
(second part)
It follows that the most appropriate test is not forced choice between the two meanings, but, rather, "Could this be "a nice"?" Positive answers would be expected for all tokens where the speaker intended "a nice" and ALSO for those tokens where the speaker intended "an ice", but coarticulated across word boundaries.
It also follows that there should be much more variability in the duration of the word-final /n/ in "an ice" than in the duration of this segment when word initial in "a nice".
Adrian Bailey (UK) said,
a nice, a nice, an ice, an ice
Mr Fnortner said,
How can we tell if our answers differ from chance if we miss one answer (or even if we get all four correct)?
My answers:
1. a nice
2. an ice
J.H. said,
1. "a nice"
2. "an ice"
Dhananjay said,
1. a#nice 2. an#ice 3. an#ice 4. a#nice
Here are my responses:
1. First I thought it was "nice," but then I thought "ice." Or maybe it was the other way around.
2-4. See 1.
James said,
This answer seems to have a plurality. I couldn't give any reason for mine whatsoever — just how I perceived them.
D. Sky Onosson said,
My guesses:
1.a nice 2.an ice 3.a nice 4.an ice
However, I doubt that it would be very easy to pick out things like this without hearing more of each individual's speech. I don't mean contextual clues as to what the words are, but more examples of each person's idiolect.
@ jih: You might be right about that, but we can't hear articulation, only its acoustic consequences.
Christopher said,
I'm with J.H. – I heard "nice" on all except 2.
Lee Morgan said,
I heard:
Currently: 2 and 4 nice, 1 and 3 ice.
I'll probably go drink a nice cup of coffee with an ice cube in it, then come back and try again.
(or is it an iced cup of coffee with a nice cube in it?)
Marcus Merritt said,
Michael W said,
Like Jarek Weckworth I'd expect a big difference between "an ice" on its own and something like "an ice cream [cone]" or "an ice mass" or even "an icicle". We really ought to get some samples of "anisotropic" in there as well to compare.
I think most people would have much less trouble at identification if this were accompanied by other speech from the speaker. It'd be nice to see how that affects the ability to decide.
I'll give my guesses anyway. I think at least subconsciously I'm judging these as standalone phrases, which is most likely incorrect:
1. nice (this one I have the toughest time with)
PJ Funnybunny said,
nice, ice, ice, ice
Ast A. Moore said,
Number three is "an ice"; the others are "a nice."
I hear a nice, an ice, a nice, a knife.
I'm not a native speaker, but…
If I disregard the height and frontness of the initial vowel, I hear "an ice, a nice, an ice, a nice", but the vowel in the last doesn't quite sound like a typical way of pronouncing "a", so I guess it's "an ice". I agree with D. Sky Onosson about providing other samples of the speakers' speech.
It'd be nice: are you sure it wouldn't bean ice? :-)
(I think other junctions such as /t#S/ "cat shit" vs. /tS#/ "catch it", /k#w/ vs. /#kw/ (can't find a minimal pair right now), /tr/ vs /t#r/ ("nitrate, night rate"), in some accents /t#/ vs /#t/ ("great ape", "grey tape") would be easier to tell apart than /n#/ vs /#n/.)
John Cowan said,
Boy, this is a blast from the past, although when I was a yoot it was nitrate/night rate/Nye trait, and I see there are still plenty of hits for this. Anyhow, I make it nice/ice/ice/nice, like many others above.
mp said,
To me, all four sounded closer to "an ice," but the second one more so than the others.
Ice (CA) said,
1 and 4 are clearly differentiated for me as a nice / an ice.
#2 and 3 are hit or miss for me without context, as well as sounding more like disordered speech than a natural utterance.
Varun said,
Is this not a classic case of speech recognition??
I guess it is, and so in order to make some meaningful statement we should also get access to other voice samples.
Maybe then after finding some interesting features (time between words etc.) we can be in a better position to tell which sample stands for what…
Anyways my current guess are :) :)
1) a nice
2) an ice
3) a ice
4) an ice (100% sure)
— Varun
Scriptor Ignotior said,
Almost mere guessing, and involuntarily considering vowel length, intonation, and stereotypes about who would be talking about what:
I also involuntarily "corrected" for those stereotypical assumptions. [Bejasus these previews are unruly. No matter what I do, the line beginning with "4" gets spaced apart from the other three.]
Maria said,
Non-native speaker here. I heard nice, ice, ice, nice.
Native speaker here. At a first listen, I had a lot of trouble deciding based on pure phonetics. But then for each of the four clips I played it back and then immediately after, in my imagination, added a context ("…cream", "…guy", etc…) and compared. By contrasting these imaginary contexts, it became pretty clear to me that the answers are:
And this still seems to the plurality for the answers here, so I'm really curious if it's correct. And for the other people who got this particular set of answers I wonder if they employed a similar strategy as I (appending imaginary contexts and comparing) or if they found this answer set another way. If this particular set of answers was arrived at in multiple different ways, I'd be more inclined to believe it's the most likely.
I feel as though all four could be wrong, but here's my best guess:
#1 a nice
#2 an ice
Amanda said,
Army1987:
It'd be nice: are you sure it wouldn't bean ice?
O, good! It'd be nice is at least quasi-homophonic with It'd been ice (=It had been ice):
"Last season the pond didn't freeze at all; but every other winter it'd been ice for several weeks."
Ryan Denzer-King said,
FWIW:
Impressionistically, I feel like the /n/ in #2 is longer, and that this is what leads me to believe it's "an ice". I'll be interested to see the answers tomorrow.
Nijma said,
1. a (?)
…going by the sound of the vowels in the articles. (I'm from the U.S. Great Lakes area).
It would be a nice touch to know where the speakers were from.
BW said,
1 nice
2 ice
3 ice (at first, but now I'm not sure anymore)
Nijma:
O yes, it would! ☺ :)
Sili said,
3) a knife
4) an 'ife'
Adouma said,
I think before we even get the key, the comments have proved that most people can't reliably hear the difference. GKP was right all along.
jim said,
Phrasal homophones aren't that common in English, I think (now someone will come up with a lengthy list). They're all over the place in French, though. Listen to Barbara singing "Sid'amour A Mort" for example.
We distinguish them, like we distinguish single word homophones, by context. "I'll paint the wall anice cream" vs. "It's hot; I'll buy anice cream."
Peter said,
/k#w/ vs. /#kw/ (can't find a minimal pair right now)
A bit artificial, but "fork whizz" / "four quiz"
Faldone said,
I first heard:
1 a nice
2 an ice
3 a nice*
*But maybe "an ice"
After reading a few comments 3 and 4 became "a knife". Further listening managed to hear 3 as "an ife" as in "she showed be an Eiffel Tower picture she had taken …"


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Q: Using LINQ to get 1-2-3 scores and bind them to View I have a table with players and scores (Name:Mike Score:10, Name:Peter Score:5, etc) and a View with 3 pictures of a bronze, silver and gold medal.
Underneath each picture I want to display the playername(s) of the winners each week / round.
Could well be that there are multiple bronze, silver or gold scores.
In my TotalViewModel I have an ObservableCollection for all the Total Scores:
public const string TotalsPropertyName = "Totals";

private ObservableCollection<TotalViewModel> _totals;

public ObservableCollection<TotalViewModel> Totals
{
    get
    {
        return _totals;
    }
    set
    {
        if (_totals == value)
            return;
        _totals = value;
        RaisePropertyChanged(TotalsPropertyName);
    }
}

I wanted to use a IEnumerable because of the multiple numbers one, two, three score:
public IEnumerable<TotalViewModel> FirstOne { get; private set; }

private void UpdateFirstOne()
{
    this.FirstOne = this.Totals.Where(elem => elem.Model.score > 0).OrderByDescending(e => e.Model.score);
}

private void Totals_CollectionChanged(object sender, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
    try
    {
        this.UpdateFirstOne();
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
    }
}

The DataContext of my View is working fine for the straightforward bindings, it's set in the UserControl:
DataContext="{Binding MainTotal, Source={StaticResource Locator}}

But the results aren't displayed in my DataGrid (guess I'm making a stupid mistake here):
<data:DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding FirstOne, Mode=OneWay}" AutoGenerateColumns="true" Height="100" Name="dataGrid1" Width="120" />

So I have 2 questions:

*

*How do I get the desired collection of number 1/2/3 scores?

*How do I get them in my View?

Thanks.

A: Well I wont get into the data binding bit but a linq query to extract the top three could be something like this:
var topThreeScoringNameLists =
    Totals
        .GroupBy(x => x.Model.Score)
        .OrderByDescending(x => x.Key)
        .Take(3)
        .Select(x =>
            String.Join(", ", x.Select(y => y.Model.Name).ToArray()));

A: You're binding to FirstOne so you need to do a propertychanged for that property.
public IEnumerable<TotalViewModel> FirstOne
{
    get
    {
        return _firstOne;
    }
    private set
    {
        _firstOne = value;
        RaisePropertyChanged("FirstOne");
    }
}


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Q: multi-classification using Xgboost Scikit API I am confused with how and where to set num_class parameter for multi-classification using Xgboost Scikit API.
On the scikit website, there is no such parameter in docs.
xgboost.XGBClassifier(max_depth=3, learning_rate=0.1, n_estimators=100,
    silent=True, objective='binary:logistic', nthread=-1, gamma=0,
    min_child_weight=1, max_delta_step=0, subsample=1, colsample_bytree=1,
    colsample_bylevel=1, reg_alpha=0, reg_lambda=1, scale_pos_weight=1,
    base_score=0.5, seed=0, missing=None)

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Brigade General Sita of the 40th Army: What do you think about that? Isn't it exciting?
can we have a drop list ?
If I'm not mistaken we were getting random buff scrolls(craft, ap, drop) from one of the event NPCs every year until now. I'm disappointed a little bit but I see we are able to get craft materials bundle from snowflakes let's see how it goes.
I'm currently tryna sell 50x +1 snowflakes. if they don't sell i'll open too.
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@Galeas will there be a list, for snowflakes? Need to know.
Please don't post troll messages in event discussion threads.
The explanation I gave is a general explanation, as you could see we didn't mention all rewards for all events. But the arguments here are good for this one as we have snowflakes in the shop too. i'll see if we can get a list.
I will get you a list in English first and we will translate it as fast as possible for other languages.
Once you do give us a list, could you remove the unofficial list thread?
I'm really happy you can still place the snowflakes in the legion warehouse!
"Faith is a bird that sings while the dawn is still dark"
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It's not too bad because even the "terrible rewards" include useful consumables such as shop recovery serums.
I allready made 45 million and have a bit over 100 serums out of the snowflakes on the first day.
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The list of rewards has already been released.
Drop list? Why you launch events without normal description??? Where is drop list???


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