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Controls For Electric Fans - A Hot TopicWritten by on June 1, 2009 Controls For Electric Fans
Of all the issues street rodders are concerned with engine operating temperature is always at or near the top of the list. Little radiators with big engines, lots of horsepower and lousy air flow, air conditioning and traffic jams are just a few of the combinations that lend themselves to overheating and the resultant pool of green coolant on the ground.
One of the methods many rodders opt for to keep an engine below the melting point is an electric fan. And while that often is an effective method of temperature control, something that is frequently ineffective is the control of the fan. We often see a simple toggle switch used, which means the driver has to have one eye on the road and the other on the temperature gauge. As often as not the fan doesn't get activated until the engine is already hotter than it should be, or shut off when it's not necessary.
Another method we frequently see is wiring the fan directly to the ignition switch so it runs whenever the ignition is on; while that method is also simple, it's hardly effective. Besides adding a burden to the oft-overloaded electrical system, the fan runs when it's not needed. And since we all know nothing lasts forever, why wear it out prematurely? Besides, running the fan at highway speeds may actually inhibit airflow, and that's not the point, is it?
There are a variety of electric fan controls available that will help take the worry out of overheating-some are simple with fixed on and off temperatures others have adjustable on and off points and features like activation when the A/C is turned on and cool down periods after the engine is shut off.
While there is no way we can show all the electric fan controls from all those offering them, here are some of the companies that will help your hot rod keep its cool.
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American Autowire offers a variety of fan controls, their PN 500800 temperature switch triggers a ground for a fan relay when the engine reaches 195F, and it's off at 180FZirgo has several types of fan switches; fixed and adjustable. This single-wire style is used in their controls to activate the fan at 180F.Mounted in cylinder head or intake manifold, the two-wire design allows power-in and power-out to a relay. Their PN 500399 turns on at 193F, off at 175F, power-in and power-out.For engines with an optimal operating temperature greater than 180 degrees this adjustable temperature control allows you to set the activation temperature anywhere 180F to 240F.Dakota Digital builds the PAC-2000, a programmable fan control that works with the existing electric water temp gauge and sending unit (a dedicated sending unit is also available). On and off temperatures can be adjusted and it will leave the electric fan operating after the engine has been shut off for up to five minutes.The PAC-2700 has the same features and digital readout as the PAC 2000 plus it includes a 70-amp relay.EZ Wiring offers the relay necessary for most fan installations. Connections are: bottom terminal 30= battery positive; right terminal 85= relay ground; left terminal 86= switched 12 volts; top terminal 87= outgoing power from relay to fan (center 87a isn't used).
Fan Man offers a variety of senders. Typically a 180-degree thermostat would use a 195F/180F on-off switch; a 160-degree thermostat would use a 185F/170F on-off switch.Flex-a-Lite has introduced the Variable Speed Control module, or VSC. It uses a radiator mounted probe to measure coolant temperature and make adjustments to the electric fan's speed depending on the conditions: as low as 20 percent or 100 percent as cooling needs increase. The VSC can also increase fan output when the A/C is turned on and will run for short periods after the engine is shut off.Hot Rod Air recently announced the release of their new dual fan wiring harness specifically designed to safely handle the electrical load of a dual electric fan setup with the use of a single heavy-duty relay. The kit comes complete with 70-amp relay, wiring harness with loom and terminals.Several complete fan control kits are also available from Hot Rod Air. They come with relays and wiring harness; various on and off set points are available.Hotronics has custom machined aluminum temperature senders available separately or with a thermostatic relay pack. On/off temperatures are 196 to 180F or 220 to 210F. Thread sizes are 1/2 or 3/8 NPT.Also available is the Cool Down Timer that keeps the electric fan running after the key is turned off. Adjustable run times are from 2 to 4-1/2 minutes. Delay time is adjusted with small screwdriver through a hole in end of box.Painless designed the Fan-Thom II kit to provide protection from voltage and amperage spikes and to keep the fan from back feeding through the system. Set points available are PN 30102 -200F on/185F off; ?PN 30103 -185F on/170F off.Also available from Painless are fan controls that are triggered by the fuel injection system's ECM and fully adjustable styles. The adjustment knob is used to set a precise temperature desired for fan activation. The kit includes the thermostat with bracket, a 30-amp relay, 30-amp circuit breaker, wiring, terminals and mounting hardware.
Along with fixed set points, adjustable controls, A/C triggers and delays, relays for multiple fans are also available. The Ron Francis CD-36 has dual adjustable relays that can keep a cooling fan and electric water pump running after the key is shut off.Southern Air's adjustable fan thermostat controller is designed to be screwed in place of the drain cock on the radiator with the control switch mounted just about anywhere under the hood. The control allows for infinite adjustment between always running or only coming on at a preset point. Provisions are made to operate when the air conditioning compressors clutch is activated. Two different sized senders are available and a 30-amp relay, dedicated circuit breaker and wiring is included.Preset fan controls are also available. Two different sized senders are available and it comes with a 30-amp relay, dedicated circuit breaker, and all wiring needed.Vintage Air has several fan controls that have fixed and adjustable set points. They also offer trinary switches that activate the engine-cooling fan when the A/C is switched on.


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In a scene from the 2006 movie, The Devil Wears Prada, the powerful and demanding editor of a New York fashion magazine orders her assistant to obtain a hard-to-get advance copy of one of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books. The almost insurmountable feat took all the employee's resources to accomplish.
In an instance uncannily similar to the movie, CU-Boulder student Caitlin McCluskey interned with Cosmopolitan magazine in New York last summer. An editor asked her to get an advance copy of Rowling's latest book, The Casual Vacancy, delivered overnight so that it could be reviewed in the magazine's next edition. Unlike the assistant in the movie, however, McCluskey was unsuccessful at getting the book for the editor.
"I was flat out rejected by the publisher," said McCluskey. "When I told my boss the publisher wasn't giving out any advance copies, she got mad and said I didn't ask the right way. So she called the publisher and got even more rejected. That really made her mad."
A junior majoring in English and psychology, McCluskey was the books intern at Cosmopolitan, an international women's lifestyle magazine, during the summer of 2012. The internship opened networking opportunities for McCluskey in an unexpected way.
Her job was to order and sort through the 20 to 30 advance copies of books that came in each week and list those she deemed worthy of review in the magazine. She also researched, organized, and sometimes helped editors write articles about current and cultural events.
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This was a dream job for McCluskey. She has read Cosmopolitan, also known as Cosmo, since she was 13 and aspires to a career reviewing books in the publishing industry.
"Because I ordered all the books for the magazine, I ordered a lot of books that I was interested in reading," she said.
One book in particular sparked her interest — Lauren Leto's Judging a Book by Its Lover — a witty guide to the world of passionate literary discussion.
"I absolutely loved the book and thought she was an amazing writer," said McCluskey. "It made me want to be her friend."
McCluskey emailed Leto explaining that she was interning at Cosmopolitan and had enjoyed reading the advance copy for the magazine's book review section. To her delight, Leto wrote back and suggested they meet for coffee. Over lattes McCluskey and Leto sat in a park and talked about their favorite books and how to break into the publishing industry.
"She's beautiful and funny and has read every single book that I've ever wanted to read," said McCluskey. "Now she's my mentor. And she sent my resumé to one of the publishing houses."
McCluskey, who has written articles for the CU Independent — a student publication on campus — and Rooster magazine, almost didn't apply to Cosmopolitan thinking that an internship there was a long shot. Through her research on internships in publishing, she found instructions for applying to Cosmopolitan on the magazine's website.
"It's a huge international brand that everyone wants to work for," she said. "But I tried anyway and made it."
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I'm working on a simple airplane game where I use skybox cube rendered using disabled depth test.
Very close to the bottom side of the skybox is my terrain model.
What bothers me is that the terrain is not connected to the skybox bottom. This is not visible while the plane flies low, but as it gets some altitude, the terrain looks smaller because of the perspective. Since the skybox center is always same as the camera position, the skybox moves with the plane, but the terrain goes into the distance.
Ok, I think you understand the problem. My question is how to fix it.
It's an airplane game so limiting max altitude is not possible. I thought about some way to stretch terrain to always cover whole bottom side of the skybox cube, but that doesn't feel right and I don't even know how would I calculate new terrain dimensions every frame.
Here are some screenshot of games where you can clearly see the problem:
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- untextured brown is the skybox bottom here: http://i.stack.imgur.com/9oZr7.png


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I am searching for 3D artists for a 3D iPad game. Is there a good place in the net, where I could find one? He or she should have created game models before.
Depending on your budget, you could try contacting professional 3D artists at sites dedicated to 3D art. Two big ones are:
There's also a "Renderotica" for more naughty stuff, but I'm not going to link it here ...
A cheaper variant could be looking through modding sites for games for both art and artists. Two I can recommend are:
Finally, you can always look for nice objects at Google's 3D Warehouse and contacting the artists of the models you like.
You can also try GameDev.net. You can always find good freelance artists there looking for jobs.
I am working on an Android 2D game that uses 3D model animation frames for its animation (i.e. I'm not manipulating 3D models in real-time, just playing back previously captured frames).
I found a lot of my 3D models on TurboSquid.com, many of which were free and a handful I payed maybe $25 to $35 dollars for.
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So anyone else catch this yet? It's a tale of two Doctors and stories. The first half is a regular Who tale, with bad guys doing their thing and lots of running. (Bikes!) It really isn't anything all that special, showcasing a great supporting role by Lindsay Duncan and a really stupid robot named Gadget. I liked the water monsters, especially how humans turned into them, but this part of the story was ok.
Then the last half as the Doctor leaves and comes back is the interesting part. I kept wondering what was going to happen since he was leaving too early in the story - I was fairly convinced he really would just leave, just once - but then he comes back and declares himself the winner of the Time War. Interesting. I don't think I like that evolutionary twist for the Doctor, as it feels totally out of place. But I'm counting on that to be the impetus for "The End of Time."
My problem with the specials this year is that I keep expecting more from them, being a "shortened" season of just four "specials." I want more, bigger, grandiose ideas. I want special. But I have to remember that they aren't that special, necessarily. Just typical Who tales in a "special" season. In that context, this year has been average. I'm hoping "The End of Time" will be that special special I've been waiting for.
Please, no spoilers on "The End of Time." All I know is what I saw in the promo clip and that he regenerates...in some fashion...as hinted to Tennant's appearance on The Graham Norton Show.
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by Melissa Brunner
AMBER Alerts are few and far between, but Kansas now has seen two of them, on consecutive Tuesday nights. One ended in the worst way possible; the other is still unfolding, even though, as it turns out, it never applied to Kansas at all.
The first instance involved in the abduction of 10-year-old Hailey Owens from Springfield, MO. As we know, she was found dead. Before that outcome was known, we received questions in our newsroom as to why an AMBER Alert was issued in Kansas for a Missouri incident. The answer is that Springfield is aweful close to the Kansas border and it wasn't known which direction the suspect was headed. With a little girl's life on the line, personally, I'm okay with having a few words scroll over the upper or lower portion of my basketball game or an alert tone drowing out a few seconds of the dialogue on NCIS.
The second instance involved a 15-year-old missing from Texas. Kansas authorities were notified the girl's cell phone pinged in the Kansas City metro area. They used that information to once again activate the Kansas AMBER Alert system. By morning, however, KBI Special Agent Mark Malick told me, they were notified that whoever in Texas entered the coordinates received from the cell phone provider miscalculated and, it turns out, the location of the ping actually came from the Lubbock, Texas area. With no evidence the teen and the suspect ever were in Kansas or the Kansas City area, the Kansas AMBER Alert was cancelled, although it was soon replaced by one for the state of Texas.
A couple notes on the most recent alert. Agent Malick wants to stress that in no way should it diminish or damage the value of the AMBER Alert program. He says authorities reacted based on the best information they had at the time and, in cases of a child in danger, will err on the side of caution. He says their call center was flooded with calls after the alert, which he told me speaks to the impact of the program and shows it's doing what it's intended to do.
I agree with Agent Malick. The fact that the Kansas AMBER Alert is activated so rarely shows that authorities are very aware of the importance that it be used only in the most dire of situations. To overuse it would be to diminish its impact. True, there are those who question whether it should be used more frequently or whether it is activated quickly enough in some situations, but I understand authorities are trying to avoid a "cry wolf" mentality that would ultimately lead to alerts being ignored and written off as part of the daily landscape. If instances like this remain rare, then I'm okay with it. And remember - it's not like this teen was never and is not still considered to be in danger. She is still the focus of an AMBER Alert, just not in our state. To that end, I subscribe to a feed of all alerts nationwide, because you never really know where an abductor might be taking their victim.
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If it's a dump file, load it into a development database using the load command. Alternatively you can use a working production system to obtain a new dump. You can the transfer it from the sybase db to the ms sql server db using Microsoft's SSMA tool.
The download link for SSMA is below. Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant v5.3 for MySQL
Use the Sybase ddlgen utilitly to extract the database structure, datatypes, etc. Then use the Sybase bcp utility to extract the data from the Sybase database. Once you have those two things, you can build the database in SQLServer, and import the data.
Since both Sybase and SQLServer share the same SQL dialect (T-SQL), I'd generate the DDL statements from the existing database (it will require a Sybase server) to build the SQL Server database and the an SSIS task to copy data between databases.
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11 Oct 2012 4:51 PM #1
Help: How to create a column with check box cells.
I am using Sencha Architect 2. I have a data grid in which one field is boolean values. Instead using a Boolean column, I want to display the cell value as a checked or unchecked value.
I tried to find a simple example, but I have not been successful. Help please?
Thanks in advance,
12 Oct 2012 12:58 AM #2All Best
Željko Mitrović
"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." Martin Golding
12 Oct 2012 7:34 AM #3
Danguba: Thanks!
But, I cannot seem to locate checkcolumn in the Sencha Architect toolbox. do I need to import a file. If so, tell me please, what do I need to do?
Thanks again for all your help. I really appreciate it.
12 Oct 2012 10:30 AM #4
Figured it out.
I had to:
- Get the file, CheckColumn.js from the ExtJS.4.x download and put it into a directory I created, /app/ux, under the web app root.
- Add a loader to the Application
- add the setting, {"Ext.ux":"app/ux"} to the loader path
- copy the configuration code for the Panel in which the grid lives, ovrride the Panel, paste the configuration code into the override and then in the change the code xtype of the column that I want to have checkboxes displayed to, xtype:'checkcolumn' (I suggest that you be really careful here.)
- Get the css file, CheckHeader.css from the downloaded ExtJs zip file and put it into, app/css, which is a folder I created.
- Add a <link> tag to app.html, <link rel="stylesheet" href="app/css/CheckHeader.css">
- create a directory app/css/images and put the files checked.gif and unchecked.gif in the newly created, app/css/images directory. (You can find the gif files in the ExtJS zip file from download)
- Make sure that the field in the model, to which the grid-column is bound, is set to boolean. In my case the model field is named, inactive
I gotta say this was hard in terms of "figuring it out time". I wonder why checkcolumn is not part of the Toolbox. it's a pretty common use case.
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Great work figuring that out mate! Thumbs up!All Best
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3 Dec 2012 6:15 AM #6
After many tries I have found this solution with SA.
-Download CheckColumn.js from Api
In Sencha Architect
-Add a simple Ext.grid.column.column
-in property tdCls add 'grid-cell-checkcolumn'
-add this basic functions: constructor, processEvent
copy and paste the codes of this functions from CheckColumn.js
and remove or add comments in this lines
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return me.callParent(arguments);
This because we dont'have inheritance but we are overriding default methods.
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TORRINGTON -- It was a well-earned victory, but it may come with a terrible loss. Just 11 minutes into the game, Woodland's Steph Dumond collided with Torrington defender Tori Flowers. Dumond went down and did not get up. She left the field, and it was later learned that Dumond broke both bones in her left forearm.


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The following was sent to all Zappos employees this past Monday:
Happy New Year! To kick off the year, I sent this on Jan. 2nd to a smaller group, but a few folks suggested that it should be sent to all Zappos employees. Here is a slightly cleaned up and better version of what was sent.
"It was the best of times and it was the worst of times." – A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
On CNBC Reports 2008, Maria Bartiromo quoted Charles Dickens, noting that, while Dickens was referring to the French Revolution, he could have easily been talking about 2008.
No doubt, 2008 was a very challenging year, starting out with a weak economic and retail environment that degraded slowly in the first half of the year and then fell off a cliff in the second half of the year. Depending on what reports you read, online ecommerce was down 3-5% this holiday season, marking the first time ecommerce didn't grow. Reading about these not-so-positive reports just goes to show how very lucky we are at Zappos, because we were able to ride through these rocky times and produce pretty incredible results. No, things weren't perfect, but 2008 was still a great year for us! Official results have to wait until our finance team closes the books and releases the audited financials in early March, but we managed to grow our business over last year and during the holiday season (when ecommerce was down), exceeded $1B in gross merchandise sales, and by Doing More with Less, kept ourselves profitable and cash positive – all the while having a lot of fun serving our customers!
We can reminisce about 2008, but now that 2009 is here and we are back from some much needed downtime, it's time to get our A-game back on. We'll be going over our goals and our "official" plans as soon as our board approves them, but even before that "officially" happens, we already know what we need to do.
One thing I encourage you to do is to refer back to our Core Values document and specifically the challenge in there: make at least one improvement every week that makes Zappos better. Ideally, we would do this every single day. It sounds daunting, but remember improvements don't have to be dramatic. Think about what it means to improve just 1% per day and build upon that every single day. Doing so has a dramatic effect and will make us 37x better, not 365% (3.65x) better at the end of the year. Wake up every day and ask yourself not only what is the 1% improvement I can change to make Zappos better, but also what is the 1% improvement I can change to make myself better personally and professionally – because we, Zappos, can't grow unless we as individual people grow too.
Imagine yourself making 1% changes every day that compounds and will make you and Zappos 37x better by the end of the year. Imagine if every employee at Zappos was doing the same. Imagine how much better you, Zappos and the
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It won't be easy and 2009 will no doubt present its own set of challenges, but we positively will get through it. Have a great and happy 2009!
P.S. Also check out Tony's blog entry, p-4231 .
P.P.S. This is for the math geeks. If you start out with $100 at the beginning of the year and you were able to increase what you have by 1% every single day, at the end of the year, you would have $3,778.34 = $100 * (1 + 1%) ^ 365. That is 37.78x what you had at the beginning of the year. Get that 1% every single day!
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Vintage Buick Nailhead Engines - Buick NailheadsWritten by on November 1, 2008 Plentiful, Powerful, And Practical
Of all the vintage engines being examined in this series, the Buick V-8s of the '50s and '60s have maintained their loyal fan base in the hot rodding world longer than many of their competitors. Almost from their introduction in 1953, the Buick overhead V-8s caught on with the coupes 'n' roadsters crowd, lakes runners, drags racers, and even builders of sports car "specials."
Today, you see Buick engines in a variety of hot rods, not just nostalgia or trad rods. And, we don't mean one or two Nailheads at an event, as might be the case with a 409 or 312 Ford, but enough to carry off their own Nailhead Corral!
Few vintage engines-other than the Flathead and Hemi, which are in a category all their own and not covered in this series-have so much specific information available. Couple that with an ever-widening choice of performance and appearance equipment, and you have a very practical engine choice that will reward a rodder with long-term reliability and serious low-end torque. A full "dresser" Nailhead will draw a crowd of other enthusiasts who are quick to begin storytelling about street and track exploits with Nailhead V-8s in days gone by.
Nailhead History
Among the first engines built by Scottish-born David Dunbar Buick was an overhead-valve one-lunger at the close of the 19th century, so the cusp of technology was associated with the Buick marque from its inception. Conceived as a higher-level car from the start, once the Buick name was established it was soon folded into General Motors by William Durant, and several times (pre-WWI) Buick was the biggest seller and the savior of GM. Little known trivia: The three shields that make up the Buick logo are actually representative of David Buick's ancestral heraldry.
Performance, dependability, and luxury were all successfully meshed in the Buick line's reputation, that first attribute forged in racing competition, including taking checkered flags at Indianapolis Motor Speedway even before the Indy 500 had been thought of. The dependability, at a time when automobiles were still thought of as an amusing fad, was demonstrated by Buicks in numerous cross-country, and cross-continent, endurance events.
As we have discussed in other engine profiles of this series, the hot inter-marque sales competition of the automakers in the '50s sparked rapid development of the engines we take for granted today. These engines may seem technologically primitive compared to our fuel-sipping, distributorless, computer-managed powerplants of today, but they laid the OHV groundwork for the modern engines we now enjoy in our daily drivers.
For decades, the Buick line had been powered by overheads almost exclusively when few other makes were so equipped. During what we affectionately call the "Flathead era," Buicks were powered by a succession of OHV straight-eight engines that were smooth and had the torque to handle heavier luxury-model cars. They were not that popular with hot rodders, but the few who bothered to take a 320-inch Buick-eight out of a wrecking yard and drop it into a roadster with a recessed firewall (as did Ak Miller) found they could prune off a hot Flathead Ford time after time without ever running hot.
In 1953, Buick introduced its first overhead-valve ("valve-in-head," as Buick would say) V-8 engine in a 322ci size, and with 236 hp, it received immediate notice, triggering a climb in Buick sales that didn't begin to dim until the later '50s. That first "Nailhead" V-8 (so named derisively in reference to the relatively small valve-head diameter in relation to the standard stem size; i.e., proportioned "like a nail") was joined by a 264-inch version in 1954 for the lesser "Special" line, and in 1957 was superseded in the higher lines with a new 364-incher in 1957.
That motor continued in the line through 1961, but sales were down by two-thirds by 1959. The smooth power of the Nailhead motors was still praised by owners and auto writers, but according to industry observers, it was Buick's failure to read the mercurial styling trends of the late '50s that killed their sales. Obviously, car customizers didn't feel that way, since they snagged all the toothy Buick grilles and gracefully curved side trim they could get, to apply them to plebeian makes like Chevy and Ford for an upgrade.
In an effort to stimulate sales and keep up with the horsepower "curve," Buick introduced the fabled 401ci V-8 in 1959, and it continued until the end of the Nailhead era in 1966. This and its 425ci bigger brother (1963-1966) more than held up the highway performance image of the cars, and Buick's sales were recovering in the early '60s.
These are the engines that made the reputation the Nailheads enjoy today with legions of fans. While the design of the heads didn't make for great high-rpm breathing, they worked superbly at doing what Buick engineers were aiming at: making torque. So proud of their cruisin' torque was the Buick team that they gave their engines decals that referred to their torque rating, rather than their displacement. Thus, to the confusion of many Buick initiates, you pop the hood on a Buick Wildcat and see decals that proclaim the engine as a "465," yet that is lb-ft, not cubic inches! That engine is actually a four-barrel 425-incher (1963 to 1966).
Buick went on to maintain its position at GM, and in the overall marketplace, with innovations like an aluminum V-8, the first V-6 in the U.S., the fabled Grand National turbo cars, and with constantly reinvented styling. However, with the exception of the few Nailhead cars that ran in NASCAR in the early '50s and the Super Wildcats, Riviera Gran Sports, and those turbo models of much later, the Buick name was not connected to a racy image.
Hot Rodding and Nailheads
Torque is what propels a car across an intersection from a dead stop, without "gow" gearing or high rpm. The Nailhead Buicks could do it without a murmur of protest, plus run 100 on the open highway all day long without your right foot being all the way down. Torque is good, and low-end torque is even mo' betta. This is the arena where Nailheads shine. The 401 achieved 410 lb-ft, even with a two-barrel carb, and 445 lb-ft with a Carter AFB four-barrel. The beauty of that last number is in the rpm at which that max-torque is achieved, 2,800! Most modern "performance" engines that can produce that much torque do so at higher rpm. Take your typical 383-stroker small-block Chevy. It makes very good torque, say around 420 lb-ft, but at over 4,000 rpm. Unless you wind the wee out of it, a 65-year-old geezer in a 45-year-old 401 Buick could embarrass you from stoplight to stoplight. Hopefully, there are no witnesses.
This "dig-out" performance appealed to hot rodders right from the beginning. Thanks to some trendsetting rodders, such as Max Balchowsky, Tommy Ivo, and Tony Nancy, the rodding world was exposed to what a Nailhead was capable of. Max had a shop in Hollywood for imported sports cars. While he tended to the tuning and repair needs of Ferrari and MG owners from the '50s on, he wasn't above building hot-rodded Buick engines and running them in "sports car specials," which at the time were usually built from various aftermarket bodies made of the new Fiberglas wonder material and mounted on a postwar Ford chassis or tubular design. Motivation was usually by good-'ol-boy domestic V-8s. They often trounced the tea-baggers in road races, and few foreign roadsters could compete with them in hill climbs. Max started with a channeled Deuce roadster with a Nailhead, then graduated to a handmade/junkyard sheetmetal sports car body on a primitive frame, the first of the famous "Ol' Yeller" specials, driven by Max and several now-legendary race drivers.
Max developed friendships with a number of celebrity clients, including one we all know and love, "TV" Tommy Ivo. Tom had a brand-new Century in 1955 and loved it, but he didn't know much about engines at first, until Max taught him how to tune and rebuild Nailheads. When Tom was inspired by fellow actor Norm Grabowski's seminal T to build his own bucket, Max said it should have a Nailhead. While Norm's car was showy and radical looking, Tom built a very clean street rod with the emphasis on performance, as attested to by its nearly unbeaten status on the streets of the San Fernando Valley and the dragstrips of the L.A. area. From that success, Tom developed an interest in a pure race car, and wound up trying his injected Nailhead out in a friend's dragster chassis.
With the go-fast disease progressing nicely in his system, Tom then had Kent Fuller build a new chassis and campaigned this with an injected Nailhead (Top Gas) in 1958, followed later by a twin-engined Nailhead gas dragster (he sold the single-engine Nailhead car to buddy Don Prudhomme). He began his professional touring-pro career with the twin-engined car, then built the famous four-engined, four-wheel-drive Showboat dragster in 1961. Tom remained a pro racer for many years after in Top Fuel and Funny Cars.
Famed upholsterer Tony Nancy had also built Buicks when he stopped using Flatheads in his 22jr roadsters. They were as fast as they were detailed, like all of his dragsters to follow. However, there were lots of other street rods and competition cars powered by Nailhead Buick V-8s. Northern California's Nailhead guru Russ Martin has a display case in his shop that features vintage car magazines. Although the collection is restricted only to magazines that exhibit a Nailhead on the cover, there are some 56 at last count.
Back in my homeland of Massachusetts, we had a local guy named Whitey Gould who did for the East Coast what Ivo had accomplished in L.A., building a very clean T-bucket with a Nailhead sporting six Stromberg deuces on top. Whitey's creds were gained on the streets and at New England dragstrips, as well, leaving a lasting respect for the Nailheads among my crowd of impressionable teenagers. Forty-five years later, my current ride is a '40 pickup with a 401.
Nailhead Power Today
From the mid-'50s to the late '60s, hopped-up Buick powerplants filled the engine compartments of dragsters, roadsters, lakes cars, show cars, and fat-Ford hot rods across the nation, then they seemed to fade out of favor as factory hot rods and high-output big-block engines, the cream of the musclecar era, became available to any rodder with a steady job and a cosigner.
Nailheads are having their renaissance today, though, as a newer crop of rodders discovers the trifecta appeal of their low-end torque, their narrower width (for a big-block engine), and their classic looks. Hard to believe, but it was 11 years ago that Doc Frohmader did an outstanding year-long series of Nailhead buildup articles in this publication, when the Nailhead revival was starting, and the engines and articles are just as relevant and popular today.
The upright valves and their inboard location were part of the factory design to make the engine narrower, which is good for street rod applications; however, the Nailheads do have some added length, with a long timing cover at the front and a rear-mount distributor that angles backward a little, instead of being vertical. You'll need room for the distributor in flat-firewall cars, and a considerable recess for a Model A or '33-40 Fords with "projecting" firewalls. A complete 425 Buick weighs 620-640 pounds, which isn't bad for that much displacement, and can easily be svelted-down another 50 pounds or so with tubing headers and a typical aluminum aftermarket intake manifold.
One problem with Nailheads is the left-side starter location, which causes interference problems between the steering, starter, and exhaust all trying to occupy the same real estate. Unfortunately, we know of no one then or now who made an adapter plate (as they did for Olds V-8s) that swapped the starter over to the right. If you have an M2 frontend, there's plenty of room to run a D-shaft past the exhaust and starter, but you'll have to plan carefully to utilize a Nailhead with a dropped axle, split 'bones, and a Vega box.
Your search for a Nailhead to use in your next project should probably be focused on the 364-401-425 engines. The earlier engines are harder to find, and the later engines have bigger valves and other improvements, although vintage speed equipment and trans adapters for the earlier engines are sometimes easier to find, perhaps because hot rodders "traded up" when the bigger Nailheads came out. The 401 happens to be one of the most common because it was produced in higher quantities over a number of years, while the 425s are tougher to find and are more expensive, since they were only in a few models. The Riviera Gran Sport enthusiasts are always trolling for 425s and pay a little more than we vintage-rod builders.
As with any senior-citizen engine, you should check the condition of the block and internals carefully, looking for cracks in heads, cylinders and water jackets, gouged cylinders from OEM wrist pins that came loose, or a loose balancer bolt (they need to have 225 ft-lb of torque to stay on) that could have caused damage to the crank snout. Take the short-block to a machine shop for a thorough exam. Ideally, find an engine that has not been rebuilt before. The Buick cylinder heads are comparatively easy on valve seats, but the material around the seats isn't copious, so many a Buick head has been ruined by someone trying to install hard seats and hitting the water jackets.
You'll find engine rebuild kits readily available from Egge Machine, Kanter Auto, and Centerville Auto Repair, with most internals still available from Federal-Mogul and oil pumps from Melling. Other Buick parts specialists include Classic & Muscle Automotive, and J&C's Parts. Between these experts, you can set up your Buick with everything from modern crank seals to roller rocker arms. Poston Enterprises has a line of performance camshafts for the Nailheads. You should know that the original profiles on stock Nailhead cams were comparatively radical for non-musclecar OEM applications, as a means of compensating for shortcomings in port size and angles. Most of the common Nailhead-building mistakes are well covered in the previously mentioned '97 Frohmader articles in Street Rodder. What is needed is a decent book about the Nailheads, because the story of these engines today is too big, even for an entire issue of a magazine.
The end of the Nailhead era saw these engines fitted with GM's newest transmission, the Turbo-Hydramatic 400, and we bless those forward-thinking GM engineers, as this is a rare case of a vintage engine that comes with a thoroughly rugged, modern transmission! These were in '64-66 models, but then if you have a pre-1964 Nailhead, that '64-66 TH400 trans and flexplate can easily be fitted to the early (shorter) rear crank flange with an adapter from Centerville Auto Repair. Wilcap has adapters for GM automatics and a stick bellhousing.
There is enough aftermarket performance equipment being made today for the Buick Nailhead engine that you could assemble a fire-breather without ever visiting a swap meet or eBay, although there are still good vintage external items out there in fairly good numbers for the traditionalists. Since these engines have excellent performance to start with (stock with a good cam profile and 10:1 compression), about all street rodders are concerned with are the intake and exhaust. Sanderson Headers has the hot side covered, and the right year and model of original cast-iron manifolds can work quite well in some applications. What's hard to find is a left-side manifold that clears both the firewall and steering. New Tri-power intakes are available from Offenhauser (see Exeter Auto Supply) and Streamline Hot Rod Parts carries the new Eelco dual-quad and 6x2 intakes.
When shopping for a vintage intake, be aware that there are three widths of manifolds. Measuring from one of the front boltholes to the one on the opposite side, the 264/322 manifolds measure 8 1/4 inches, 364s measure 8 5/8 inches, and 401/425 intakes measure 9 inches.
Recent dyno tests on Eric Schmidt's well-built 425 Buick at Craig Shuck Motorsports showed results of 470 lb-ft of torque at 2,600 rpm, and 370 hp at 3,600 rpm, which is more than enough to make your rear tires dance around like water drops on a hot frying pan! Also interesting in his test results were that Tom Telesco's adjustable billet roller rockers (see Classic & Muscle Automotive) were worth some 13 hp, the Eelco 2x4 had the same power as a vintage Edelbrock 2x4, and that the Sanderson shortie headers were about the same power as cast-iron manifolds, but moved the powerband up a little.
When it comes to dressing for the party, Buicks look as good as anything out there, short of a blown Hemi with M/T valve covers. Offy still makes their finned valve covers, as do Mooneyes, Milr Products, and Eelco. O'Brien Truckers, Moon, and Milr Products all make finned aluminum valley covers. Ignitions are available ranging from new billet MSD distributors to Joe Hunt Magneto's "mag-alike" to vintage Mallory or rare W&H DuCoil distributors. If you want modern performance with the original look, send your stock distributor to Dave's Small-Body HEIs, where Dave Ray will rebuild your distributor and install modern electronics and adjustable vacuum advance while keeping the outside stock.
For a vintage engine suitable for today's hot rods, Buick Nailhead engines are still in decent supply. Though they're not as cheap as a small-block Chevy or as expensive as a 409 or Hemi, we've seen numerous complete Nailhead motors going for $500-$600. (This author bought a running '65 401 for $600 with a rebuilt TH400.) Watch your local classified papers and hit the swaps. It may be unwise to buy one from a source that is too far from you to permit a thorough examination before purchase, which is true for any vintage engine.
Once you get "Nailed," you'll understand why these have remained so popular in hot rodding circles. For what you'd spend for a crate motor, you'll have a piece of automotive history in your engine bay that'll be good for horsepower and conversation for many years to come.
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Nailhead installations today run the gamut from pristine to practical. The former is exemplified by Russ Martin's '22 Buick roadster with all "pre-1962" goodies such as Stelling & Hellings air filter atop Edelbrock dual-quads, Moon valley cover, rare Spaulding Flamethrower ignition, and Fenton valve covers.On the other end of the spectrum is this cut-down '20s Buick closed car with an "undressed" Nailhead and the distinctive original Buick radiator shell. Even the hard-core guys don't mind having some dependable vintage power, instead of trying to patina a 350 Chevy.Buick has a colorful history of performance, but there was no better unofficial spokesperson to hot rodders than Tommy Ivo, shown here smokin' the recaps at Santa Ana Dragstrip in 1957. In another year, he was piloting an injected Nailhead in a gas dragster.Mike Keeler's beautiful Deuce five-window illustrates a nice Nailhead installation. You can see the amount of recess on the firewall, and also how good the stock right-side iron exhaust manifolds fit hot rods. On the left side, Mike did some crafty cutting/welding of a manifold to clear the steering.Most later Nailheads you find will have a center-sump oil pan (top). A rear-sump oil pan (bottom) was used on '57-61 Nailheads (also rare GS engines) and will be a necessity for most hot rod installations for clearance (tie rod, cross-steering). The pan swap will require a different pickup for the oil pump, available from J&C's Parts.One way to handle the left-side traffic jam of exhaust/steering/starter is to use an outside header, which gives plenty of clearance for a steering shaft and a forward-mounted steering box.If you want a lighter, more modern starter that can also save you some room, you might contact Tom Telesco for this mini-starter. Compare its length to the behemoth Nailhead starter above it here.
Simple 1/4-inch plate mounts like these are easily fabricated to mate with early Ford biscuit locations. On other makes or applications, make a plate for the block that accepts a common SBC mount and use available side mounts to the framerails. Also, Speedway Motors offers urethane-bushed Buick engine mounts that can be adapted to most framerails.Identifying Nailheads is easy: If it has a left-side starter and a rear-mounted distributor, it's a Nailhead. They all look alike, but you can tell a 425 from all others by this 425-only, cast-in bump (arrow) on the center-left of the bellhousing flange.Milr Products not only makes about the coolest Nailhead valve covers we've seen, with Buick "Fireball V-Eight" logo, but they have an intake manifold for four two-throat Webers that should satisfy anyone's need for attention-getting carburetion! (Photo courtesy of Milr Products)Like a Buick calliope, Eelco's "flagship" is this chopped 'n' channelled A coupe with its six-carb intake and long outside headers.Sanderson Headers makes a nice short header perfect for street rod applications, with good frame clearance. The company also has a new model for vintage Riviera applications.Russ Martin's Centerville Auto Repair has all the trick parts to complete your Nailhead. Clockwise from the top right: brake booster pipe for Super Wildcat dual-quad setups; oil pick-up used when converting from center-sump pan to rear-sump; correct-length and correct-diameter oil gallery plugs, rear cup plug and correct-size snap-ring for the camshaft; special front and rear crank oil seal kit; and gasket and heat plate to prevent AFB carb burnout from exhaust heat passages. In the center are a stainless distributor hold-down and rubberized washers for large valve cover bolthole sealing on Moon and some OEM valve covers.If you want a vintage intake, there were a number of them made. Part of Russ Martin's collection of rarities includes (from top row, left): Weiand 2x4 for a 364; early Weiand 2x4 for 264/322; Weiand 3x2 for the 264/322; and a factory 2x4 for a Super Wildcat 425. Then (from bottom row, left): very early copy of a Golden Engineering 2x4, the design used on Balchowsky's Deuce in 1953; Edmunds 2x2; a single-four-barrel manufactured by Balchowsky, and an unmachined Balchowsky (one side shown) for four Webers.This Nailhead-in-an-A has the radiator moved forward and a recess in the firewall, which isn't noticed much when you have chromed stock valve covers and an Offenhauser intake with a trio of Rochesters to look at.
The 264 and 322 engines had tin spark plug wire covers (center), but the aftermarket caught on right away and produced finned aluminum versions for fashion-conscious hot rodders. Two modern examples are made by Milr Products (top) and O'Brien Truckers (bottom).Only the '53-56 264-322 heads had a tapped provision for mounting plug wire covers, but nothing daunts hot rodders when they want something. Brackets are available that mount under two head bolts on any Nailhead. Covers do not shorten plug wire life.Many '50s V-8s had a flat valley cover that rodders usually replaced with finned aluminum examples. Two of today's choices are from O'Brien Truckers (background) and Milr Products (foreground). The Milr example is available with or without the oil fill tube, and can be ordered with a PCV hole and baffles underneath.Sometimes, an engine is so cool-looking, you don't want to distract from the picture with a big ugly alternator. Centerville Auto Repair has this kit for mounting an unobtrusively small alternator off the right cylinder head.Don't overlook "vintage" wrecking yards that may be near you. Ask old-timers where they used to go. Mike Hogan runs the Buick Bonery in Sacramento, CA, sourcing and selling from his acres of exclusively '40s to '60s Buicks. Engines, bodies, builder cars, they're all there. He's even shipped floorpans to foreign countries!


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Aurdon dislikes the screaming dragon on the login screen, as he spends too much time listening to it roar while he is in the queue with nothing else to do.
I, on the other hand am developing a dislike for it due to my son's fascination with the dragon. Guess that's what traveling will do for you, we must have seen too many dragons in Singapore.
I start WoW, then sit at the screen tapping my fingers while my son alternately yells in joy at the dragons appearance or chants at the top of his lungs for the return of the dragon.
So I propose a solution to both Aurdon's and my dilemma. Make a game out of the login/queue screen which involves you utilizing the dragon.
Maybe some sort of obstacle course you need to fly the dragon through, or some sort of bombing run. Maybe as you fail in your task the bones drop from the dragon leaving you with a puzzle where you need to rebuild the dragon.
On the topic of my son's new found fascination with WoW, Mammoths. You know there are elephants in India… everywhere. Now we have Mammoths in WoW.
Luckily for me, he only saw the mammoth in Ironforge. Sure I had to chase the poor guy around IF for 20 minutes (I think he got a bit freaked out, but my son was preventing access to the keyboard for me to message him and explain my son's interest).
At least he was tucked away in bed before I hit the Borean Tundra. I would never have gotten him to bed, so many Mammoths, so little time.
Baby elephants Daddy!
Mummy elephants Daddy!
Daddy, why are the big elephants stomping on you?
Stomping on me… This raises another issue. I wrote a while back about how he was interested in any Gnome, as long as it wasn't a WoW Gnome. Well this has changed.
Now I find myself running through battlegrounds with him demanding that I stop so he can see him (Where has the Nome gone Daddy?). The problem here tends to be that by the time I have stopped, zoomed in and panned the camera he is looking at either a Gnome corpse or a Gnome Ghost, which of course is followed up with:
Where has the Nome gone Daddy?
So now I just have to find him something to entertain him, so I can move on from the login screen/Borean Tundra/graveyard.
Gnomer and Out!


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On the rarity of two athletes from the same collegiate team making the Olympics -- Head Coach Mark Wetmore: "I've never seen it before; it's pretty rare for a single collegiate to make it from a team. In 2008, there were maybe five collegiates on the 2008 Beijing team. I've never seen two from the same event."
On how this was possible -- Head Coach Mark Wetmore:
"A confluence of luck, talent, and environment. Two people, I won't say equally talented because talent packages can vary greatly but in the end, it adds up to Olympic level talent. When you have that talent at the same school and the same time; it's pretty rare and of course, Boulder and CU are excellent for a person to become a distance runner. A lot of things came together for that to happen. But since it's that rare, it doesn't happen that often. It's a rare, rare combination."
On the differences between Shalaya Kipp and Emma Coburn as athletes -- Head Coach Mark Wetmore:
"Despite the fact that they are both Olympians, and at the trials they ran within three seconds of each other, every athlete is a unique talent package and each has to be developed uniquely. Emma has her strengths in the event which are different from Shalaya's. While they do have some similar workouts, they will also have some different workouts More importantly, different focuses in the workout. I've been quoted as comparing them to different generations of Formula One racing cars. In the early 90's, Formula One cars had 12 cylinders and at least 1,000 horsepower engines. Safety regulations and cost-cutting regulations have dialed that back to V8s and 750 horsepower, but the cars are just as fast with aerodynamic changes. So, Emma's impeccable technically and Shalaya has a 1,200 HP engine. There's a difference, they come in different talent packages and they need different workouts. While we're working on Shalaya's aerodynamics, we're working on Emma's horsepower."
On the longevity of the track season -- Head Coach Mark Wetmore:
"We scaled back the indoor season for Shalaya, she only raced two indoors events...but you're right it's a long haul from the beginning of cross country racing to the Olympics, which is 11 months. What a lot of people don't get is that distance runners in the NCAA may begin racing in early September and continue mid June and in some cases go beyond. Managing the momentum of it and the excitement of it is what (Associate Head Coach) Heather (Burroughs) gets paid a lot of money to do."
On the steeplechase event -- Associate Head Coach Heather Burroughs:
"Well the steeplechase is rarely run in high school. No one sponsors it. We rarely get to see steeplechase talent in high school. We look for certain qualities or aspects of their personality that might make them steeple runners. Jenny was the first CU athlete to gain eligibility to an international team so she's been an important part of building our steeplechase tradition. But we had several other contenders such as Steve Slattery and Billy Nelson in the past. We had several individuals over the last 10 years that have done well for us. Many [prospective recruits] have very little familiarity with it. When we're talking to them about our current success in steeplechase and some are very intrigued but some are very terrified of it and have no interest in it. A lot happens freshmen year to see if it can be a match for them."
On expectations for Shalaya Kipp -- Associate Head Coach Heather Burroughs:
"Shalaya ran a 9:35 in the final Olympic trials to make the team. I think it took about a 9:40 to make the team at the World Championships last year. An Olympic year brings new motivation and aspirations. On a world level, women are running faster this year. It's going to take 10 seconds faster to make the final. Our goal for Shalaya will be to run a personal best and to make the final. That would be an enormous achievement for her. On paper right now, she wouldn't make the finals. The goal is to maybe upset those rankings and have her come close or make it."
On Kipp's first Olympics -- Associate Head Coach Heather Burroughs:
"Yeah I'd say historically most people have a difficult time in their first World Championships and Olympics. It's a whole new level of stress, attention. Often there are 12 or 15 hour time differences. So across collegians, it's difficult to run your best at that meet. Shalaya would have had a long season of racing that most of competitors wouldn't have had but we're careful to make sure [she doesn't get burned out]."
On her experience with steeplechase -- Shalaya Kipp:
"When I came to Colorado I didn't know what the steeplechase was. I still thought it was a horse event. But through Jenny [Simpson], I kinda learned what the steeplechase was. I watched Emma do it and then Coach Wetmore approached me about doing it and I tried it out and it turned out to be a pretty good fit. It's different than any other race but it's been really fun."
On having Emma Coburn as a teammate -- Shalaya Kipp:
"[Having Emma as a teammate] probably helps me the most. I get to learn so much from Emma; she has the international experience and she tells me the little things I need to know. In practice, I get to follow her off water jumps, she has beautiful form. I really benefit from having Emma as a teammate. "
On talk of CU as a steeplechase dynasty -- Shalaya Kipp:
"You start to hear reference CU as a steeplechase dynasty. Maybe because our coaches are so involved with the steeplechase, maybe CU's just been lucky I'm not really sure."
On how she got to where she was today -- Shalaya Kipp:
"There were definitely steps I needed to take to get to this level. Just starting basically from winning my first Pac-12 championship in steeplechase to the NCAA championships; all those races were necessary and now I'm hoping I can get another win and be ready in August."
On qualifying for the Olympics -- Shalaya Kipp:
"I'd say going into the trials, I tried to think that these weren't the only trials. I just wanted to race people and beat people. Once you cross the finish line and realize whatever thing was going to happen; I was pretty excited. Especially with CU's history I know a lot of the success here can be given to the coaches. I know if I went to any other program or school, I would not be trained to go compete on the Olympic team."
On her experience with steeplechase -- Emma Coburn:
"[Shalaya Kipp and I] are a little different. I had done it a handful of times in high school so I knew it was the only event that I had done well at a national level in high school. I thought I would do the steeplechase [at CU] but I think Shalaya had a much different story."
On making the Olympics -- Emma Coburn:
"Well I've never been to Las Vegas, but I keep telling people that it feels like I went to Vegas for the weekend in a daze and then I woke up. It's been a blur so far, I think what people forget is that we have a lot of work ahead of us. We still have races to do and we still have training, it's not a big celebratory time in our lives. We're both really happy and appreciative of the fact that we made it, but it's still business for us."
On being able to take a break -- Emma Coburn:
"I think I was just ready to have an emotional break. I got to go home for two days; it was great; I love Crested Butte. If anyone has been there during the summer, it's the most beautiful place I've ever been to. I got to do a long run up there; I was kind of hurting up there at about 9,000 feet. But I kind of put my head up and looked around and I couldn't complain since it was just beautiful. It was just a nice way to hit the refresh button and get ready to focus towards the summer racing ahead and just start back over."
On having Shalaya Kipp as a teammate -- Emma Coburn:
"I would probably say the opposite. I probably benefit more. Even though I have more steeplechase and international experience from last summer, Shalaya is a very talented, strong runner. In practice, six other days of the week when we're not doing steeple workouts, she's ahead of me or we're shoulder to shoulder. We push each other pretty well and we get along really well to it's nice to have a friend and teammate when you're on a 15 mile run when you're in pain. Even in steeplechase stuff, she's like a yard behind me so I can't let up, so that helps me also."
On the differences between her and Kipp's qualifying experiences -- Emma Coburn:
"I think we had different experiences, I went in knowing that if I didn't make the team, it would've been a major failure for me personally. So I went into the trials like it was a business trip and I had a job to do. I got it done and there were very little emotions involved leading up to the race. That was what was supposed to happen on paper and that's what I had been working for. It wasn't util 30 minutes later; I don't even know what sparked me off. I just broke down and couldn't stop sobbing. Shalaya saw me and thought someone told me someone had just died. I think [Coach Wetmore] had just asked how I was feeling. That's how emotional I was and although I think I had a business trip in mind, I had a lot of emotions of being an Olympian get in my head and it got there and it sunk it. I had an emotional minute there but after that it was okay."
On the excitement of the Olympics -- Emma Coburn:
"It's going to be an experience to get to be a part of the Opening Ceremonies. But what I've heard from past Olympians, it's six hours of standing and you don't get water. It's not torture, but kind of. Obviously we are both excited for the racing of it. It's an honor to be an Olympian and it's something we're both proud to have on our resumes and in the coming years but we're mainly just excited to race and trying our best to ignore everything else. That's going to be our toughest job I think."
On her coaches' expectations for the Olympics -- Emma Coburn:
"We haven't talked much about it. It might be a better question for my coaches. I ran within a second of my PR to get to the final. If I can run within a second of my PR I can make the final. The primary goal is to make the final. A personal best would be nice. Just race my guts out and see what happens. If you look at the descending order list of medalists, a medal would be way too far in the distance for that to be a goal of ours. Finishing better than my 12th place finish last year would be a success for me."
On possibly winning a medal -- Emma Coburn:
"No, I'm trying to stay focused on what I know what I can achieve. If either of us were to dream beyond what is attainable, it wouldn't work out, I think we would both fail. I think that would be the best way to go into it."
On there being potentially less pressure -- Emma Coburn:
"I mean, I enjoyed the trials. I have never had a breakdown from being a favorite. That doesn't bother me. Any time I've raced in an international field it's been nice to sit behind some people and race hard and see what happens. I'm looking forward to that. Yeah, the pressure of being looked at and being a favorite doesn't bother me."
On whether she sought out advice from former CU Olympians -- Emma Coburn:
"Our coach Billy Nelson was also in the Olympics, we see him every day, we train with him. He's probably our go-to for advice. I think that will be our source for most of our information. I'm sure we will see Jenny there; she's also supportive of us. I'm sure she'll have some tips to handle it. I think Billy Nelson will have it under control."
This piece originally appered at www.cubuffs.com.


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Marc Jacobs: 10 Things Every Woman Should Have
When it comes to your wardrobe, and life in general, designer Marc Jacobs believes "it's all about freedom of choice." Here, he shares the ten choices he thinks every woman should make, like owning a polka-dot Louis Vuitton wallet, personalized stationery, and more.
Marc Jacobs has always been fashion's cool kid—eternally adored in a supremely fickle world. The designer celebrates the individual, especially women with a flair for artistic, even eccentric, self-expression. "I'm a bit of an exhibitionist," he says. "I think most people like attention.' Jacobs draws on street-style blogs and music (this season, the Oliver! sound track) for inspiration. He's currently advocating a mix of textures, with dresses in patchwork and lamé, Dr. Seuss–style fur hats, and bell-shaped skirts that draw the eyes to the hips. "I trust my instincts," he says. With wardrobe, he says, and life in general, "it's all about freedom of choice."
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Diary of Genevieve Porter - 01-02-2011, 07:14 PM
A project for my APUSH class. I don't know I'f I'll ever fill in the blanks, but it was fun to write. (More entires to come as I write them).
November 16th, 1774
Dear Diary,
Tomorrow is my 15th birthday, and Mother gave me this diary to record my thoughts and feelings in, as an early birthday gift. But I'm not sure that was her only reason. There's been . . . unrest here in the colonies. It was close to a year ago that the men in Boston pretended to be Indians and threw all of the tea into the harbor, and since then, nothing here has been the same. Everyone here in Coventry, Rhode Island is divided, between rebelling and staying loyal to the king. But it's not just here, it's all throughout the colonies and America; Rhode Island is not alone in this conflict. Some are saying war is inevitable at this point, but I hope they are wrong. If they are right, however, I suppose that is the real reason I have this diary.
I suppose I should tell you about myself, in any case. My name is Genevieve Porter, and I'm nearly 15 years old. My birthday is November 17th, 1759, and I live in Coventry, Rhode Island in America with my mother, Alexandria Porter, father, William Porter, and my older brother, Zachary Porter, who is currently 22. We moved over here from England when I was three. I'm too young to actually remember England, but people tell me things about it. Though, they mostly tell me how horrible everything was over there, but my father tells me not to listen to them. He says they are just the bitter rebels who's forefathers had been kicked out of England for being too poor, a criminal, or just someone that England didn't want to have in their country.
Despite all of the taxes put on us colonists, my family remains loyal to the crown, which isn't surprising, considering we lived there not to long ago. However, not every family is as universally agreed as mine is. The family who lives down the street from us, the Greenes, are split into two, their mother, grandfather,and daughter supporting the crown, while the father and sons support the rebels.
Their situation is like many other families throughout Coventry, but the Greene's is different, well, to me at least. You see, Alexander, the family's youngest son, is my best friend. We've known each other since he first moved here, nearly five years ago, and been friends ever since. Earlier this year, both mine and Alec's parents announced to us that we were engaged, and going to be married at the end of the year, after Christmas. But after the Boston Tea Party and Alec's family was divided in their loyalty to the crown, I started to doubt that we were going to be married at all. It seemed like it wasn't even real for the longest time, because most girls my age were married off to someone they didn't know, who was nearly twice their age. And there I was, going to be married to my best friend, who was only three years older than I was. Even I have to admit that it doesn't seem realistic.
Back on track to what the colony is like, Over the past 12 years that my family has lived here, things have changed, significantly. More and more taxes have been put onto us, taxes for things like tea, stamps, glass, and on non-British imported goods. Then there isn't to mention the Quartering, Quebec, and the Coercive Acts. It seems that the more unruly we in the colonies become, the more taxes and punishments are put on us. And the more taxes and punishments are put on us, the more unruly we become. It is an ongoing viscous circle, one that can only be ended through war, or pleading with England.
The sun has finally set and I am using the last of it's raise to finish this entry, as my candle is nearly run out, and mother refuses to let me run into town when it is dark out. I don't know when I will write again, because writing is not one of my favorite activities, though mother says I should be grateful for it, because many other women my age would be blessed to be able to read and write, but in any case, it will no doubt be sooner than a year, for I am sure something is bound to happen in this conflict.
baby, you got me. ♥
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JULIA RICH has performed across the Americas and around the globe: from Iceland to Brazil, from the Hollywood Bowl to Lincoln Center, from the World's Fair in Seville to Orchard Hall in Tokyo.
The Symphony's Annual Fundraising event is coming up on Saturday, February 23, 2013, 6:00 PM at The Knicely Conference Center. The signature event for The Symphony at WKU, The Soirée raises funds to support the educational programs offered by The Symphony in the Bowling Green/Warren County community.
This year's event will feature an elegant dinner dance to the band, "Julia Rich and the Celebrity Combo". JULIA RICH has performed across the Americas and around the globe: from Iceland to Brazil, from the Hollywood Bowl to Lincoln Center, from the World's Fair in Seville to Orchard Hall in Tokyo. She appears on several Glenn Miller Orchestra recordings and videos and boasts six solo albums on the Cardinal label. Julia's renditions of both standards and original songs can be heard on radio and as a regular feature on TV's Music Choice: Singers and Swing alongside such greats as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Buble and Diana Krall.
Julia specializes in the American Songbook spiced with a bit of Vintage Pop. Her band, the CELEBRITY COMBO, is a swinging group of players who have worked closely with many stars of the music business and are well known and respected as individual artists. Julia made a special recording of, "Baby it's Cold Outside" for this event.
A silent auction will include a sampling of our "Parties of Note" which we began in 2011. Parties will include: a Fashion Show at 440 Main Restaurant featuring the new Lilly Pulitzer store, "Pink Daisy" that will be opening in downtown Bowling Green, and "Let's Face the Music and Dance" which includes a two hour ball room dance lesson by local dance instructor, Kathy Leonard of Dance Images and if dancing is not your thing how about an elegant dinner at Home Café and Marketplace where Chef, Josh Polling will demonstrate local produce in, "Farm to Table".
Reservations are required for this event and seats may be reserved by calling (270)745-7681 or online at www.TheSymphonyatWKU.org.
For more information about The Symphony at WKU, please call Jennifer Bryant, executive director at (270)745-7681.


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I am currently using pole rotator connected to R10 with mini mount adapter on tripod or monopod. But pole rotator stop is so strong that it moved the position of tripod or monopod slightly and I got stitching errors.
Is there any rotator with small foot print like pole rotator with only degree markings and lock knob?


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I type in "how to" and hit enter. Nothing happens. I click on the magnifying glass icon to the left of the box. Nothing happens.
I'm logged in, running Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows 7 with Java/Script and Flash enabled.
Tried from both area51.stackexchange.com and area51.stackexchange.com/?tab=search
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Hurricane Sandy damage is seen north of Seaside, N.J., on Oct. 30, 2012. The storm has claimed several lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard. CREDIT: Governor's Office/Tim Larsen
NEW YORK (CNN) -- President Barack Obama on Friday asked Congress to provide $60.4 billion for states affected by Superstorm Sandy.
Obama's request, made in a letter, falls short of the total damage estimate in affected states.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said last week the latest estimates of storm costs in his state were $36.8 billion, while New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters the total cost in his state was $41 billion.
In a joint statement Friday, Christie and Cuomo said they have been working with Obama, administration officials and congressional delegates on relief.
"Today's agreement on the administration's request to Congress would authorize more than $60 billion in funding that will enable our states to recover, repair, and rebuild better and stronger than before," they said.
The money will go toward recovery, as well as preparing their states for future natural disasters, the governors said.
"There is a great deal of flexibility that better allows us to help homeowners, small businesses, hospitals, beach communities and localities rebuild, repair and protect themselves," they said in a statement.
The four expressed concern, though, for what they were sure would be future requests for additional funds as their "states' needs become more clear."
"This is going to be a tough fight in the Congress given the fiscal cliff, and some members have not been friendly to disaster relief," their statement read.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, acknowledged the deficiency in the request, but emphasized the need for quick action by Congress.
"While the total funding request released by the White House today is not everything requested, we have always been realistic about the fiscal constraints facing the federal government," Bloomberg said. "We need a full recovery package to be voted on in this session of Congress. Any delay will impede our recovery."
Senator Charles Schumer of New York called the request "a very good start," while Rep. Frank A. LoBiondo, R-New Jersey, said Obama's request was not enough.
Three other Democratic senators, Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez of New Jersey, and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, echoed that the funding would be a start.
"I disagree with President Obama's decision to not fully request the funding the states of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut say they need to recover and rebuild from the unimaginable, widespread damage caused by Hurricane Sandy," LoBiondo said.


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To the editor:
I am still waiting for Reagan's trickle down money. George Bush even called it voodoo economics. And now another Republican candidate is attempting to hoodwink the middle-class American people into paying for his golden tax breaks for the rich. I am certain that the smart American voters will not be tricked this time.
The choice is clear: the millionaires verses the middle class. Class warfare, you bet.
Obamacare provides a mechanism for everyone to be covered with medical insurance - patients, doctors and hospitals all benefit. In America, everyone deserves good health care. GOP nominee Mitt Romney wants to replace Medicare with a voucher system costing seniors an additional annual $6,000 paid to his cronies in the insurance industry. In the pre-Medicare days my grandfather, a successful and healthy businessman, had his health insurance canceled by the insurance company simply because he turned age 60. The Democrats and President Lyndon Johnson passed Medicare ... he lived to be 93.
Republicans are simply motivated by profit. Profit is good, if it is used to grow additional business and jobs. Today, however profit bubbles up to the excessive salaries, golden parachutes and beyond generous bonuses paid to the officers and CEOs who save corporate money by closing steel mills and factories and shipping jobs to third world countries all on the back of the American middle class worker.
Please remember how this administration got to where it is today. It was left with the debt of the wars that George Bush waged. We had a national surplus and business thrived under his predecessor, President Bill Clinton. The current issue of Forbes Magazine shows that business actually does better under Democratic administrations. As President Barack Obama tried to turn the country around (bin Ladin is dead and his terrorist organization is being destroyed, one war is over and we are on our way out of another and the American auto industry and good jobs in it are back), he was forced to deal with the contemporary "do nothings" and "tea baggers" who have no idea how to govern or even realize that there is a real cost to governance. Obstructionism is the plan and not governing this country as they were elected to do. Please continue to support candidates who support the president and you and me.
To my dear friends who are pro-life voters, your support of conservative candidates in the past has done nothing to protect the lives of unborn children and has caused poor families, children and the elderly to suffer. Single-issue voting is dangerous to a democracy. Republican candidates pander to our sincere concern for the unborn but have not delivered on their promises. Romney is already backpedalling on this issue to attract moderate women voters. To be truly pro-life, as the late Cardinal Joseph Bernadin taught, is to be concerned about the quality of all life from cradle to grave, and Romney does not get it. His statement about not caring about the 47 percent of the people said it all.
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Does anybody knows about good overview on intersection theory. The book of Fulton has very hard language. Does there exist simple overview on this topic with many examples?
Dear Klim, when you say "the" book, i suppose you mean Intersection Theory published by Springer . However Fulton has written a much more elementary overview called Introduction to Intersection Theory in Algebraic Geometry, published by the AMS in their Regional Conference Series in Mathematics , Number 54, which is only 74 page long and quite friendly.
There is also a great survey of Intersection Theory by Joël Riou here and Archibald's Master Thesis on Intersection Theory for surfaces there.
Eisenbud and Harris are coming out with a book on intersection theory, "3264 and all that", and if you know Harris's style at all, you'll know it's chock full of down-to-earth examples that should be right along the lines of what you're looking for. (Sorry to recommend a book that's not strictly speaking published yet, but it does sound like exactly what you're asking!)
This is certainly not an overview of intersection theory as a whole, but for its classical roots I highly recommend:
I found this article to be both completely lucid and completely fascinating -- and I am someone who, in general, has no great interest in intersection theory or (especially) Schubert calculus.


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I am contemplating paying a software consulting firm to provide my company with some enhancements to a piece of software that is licensed under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). I'm wondering what rights we will have to what they produce, and whether they can tie us to paying them royalties forever.
- What rights we will have to modify and redistribute what they provide us?
- Can they insist on a royalty payment when we distribute it to 3rd parties?
Before I start negotiating, I need to understand what we're getting - and ideally get this sort of thing explicitly agreed in the contract.
I know I should consult a lawyer.