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Custom Chevrolets find a home in VCCA
Customized 1957 Chevrolet. Photo courtesy Gary Binge.
The people at the Vintage Chevrolet Club of America who thought of this surely have a valid point: Of all the historic Chevys you see on the street, how many of them are completely, totally stock and unmodified? If your answer tends toward "not many," you'll be right in line with the VCCA; since the number of non-modified cars is on the wane, they've come up with a new chapter for Personalized Chevrolets.
What does that mean, exactly? First off, it's a standalone chapter with no geographic boundaries. Second, it will have its own criteria for eligibility, contest judging and rules. The first of the rules is that eligible Chevrolets be street legal, which means no pure racing cars. The degree of acceptable modification has yet to be determined, but the planned basics will limit the chapter to Chevrolet cars and trucks with engines produced either by Chevrolet or by another General Motors division, as per the car's original window sticker. The idea here is to give the potentially thousands and thousands of people with modified Chevrolets their own home in this huge club. Interested, or have ideas? Drop chapter director Gary Binge an email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Major forces in vintage racing merge
Photo by Gary Bihari, courtesy the Sports Car Vintage Racing Association.
Vintage racing barely existed in the United States until Steve Earle founded General Racing Limited. He soon followed that up by launching the Monterey Historic Races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on the central California coast. Vintage racing, up until then largely a phenomenon on the British Isles and on the Continent, was launched in North America in a very big way.
The vintage landscape has since remained an alphabet soup of sanctioning groups and societies, but now comes word of a major realignment of this universe. Earle's historic body has announced an immediate merger with Sportscar Vintage Racing Association, SVRA, the crowning achievement of an SVRA realignment announced by president Tony Parella a year ago.
In the world of vintage racing, this is a very, very big deal. SVRA is its only true national body and in General Racing, it absorbs the sport's national founding organization.
SVRA's portfolio of vintage events include the Portland Historic Automobile Races in Oregon, the Coronado Speed Festival in California, special events at the Long Beach Grand Prix and the Kansas City Historic Grand Prix, as well as the Wine Country Classic at Sonoma Raceway in California, which celebrated its 28th season in 2014, the fifth under the banner of the Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival. In June, SVRA launched an extremely successful vintage invitational at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which uniquely combined oval and road course cars at the same event. Find out more about what's going on in the vintage racing world by visiting www.svra.com.
Photo by Gary Bihari, courtesy the Sports Car Vintage Racing Association.
Muscle cars take on the cones in ProSolo competition
A pro touring Chevrolet Nova. Photo courtesy Speedway Motors.
Wait a minute. Aren't muscle cars supposed to go fast in a straight line? Sure they are, but a growing movement within muscledom is doing suspension and tire upgrades to turn their big-power brutes into apex choppers. As proof, we present the new collaboration between the SCCA and Speedway Motors, the famed parts supplier founded by the late "Speedy Bill" Smith, which are teaming up to put on the inaugural Classic American Muscle Invitational Challenge at the SCCA's Tire Rack SCCA ProSolo Finale on August 30-31 in Speedway's hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska.
The Classic American Muscle Class Invitational Challenge logo
What, you ask, is ProSolo? It's a relatively new development in one-on-one competition that's a cross between drag racing and traditional parking-lot autocross. Competitors line up at a Christmas tree and on the green, accelerate to attack two identical round-the-cones gymkhana courses. The new Classic American Muscle Class is open to any year of front-engine, rear-drive American performance car, but entered cars must be fully street legal, licensed, insured, have interiors and ride on 200 tread wear street rubber. Engines and drivetrains modifications are allowed and limited only by the owners imagination and budget.
Of the series, Howard Duncan, SCCA's vice president of Solo and Rally competition, said, "When I first began to autocross, part of the excitement for me was seeing not only the classic British sports cars, but also the great muscle cars of the day battling it out on the same course. The Speedway Motors Classic American Muscle Class Invitational Challenge… will once again bring back that excitement as the improved versions of these traditional muscle cars show their capabilities on the same courses used by the current crop of sports cars and sport coupes. It should be a great show!"
Interested? Contact Raleigh Boreen at email@example.com to request an invitation. Full details are at www.SCCA.com/Solo, and Speedway's site is www.SpeedwayMotors.com. CAM Invitational competitors are also eligible to run the SCCA Solo National Championships, on September 2-3, also at the Lincoln Airport.
Lincoln Museum dedication to cap Lincoln Homecoming Weekend at the Gilmore
The Gilmore Car Museum was already among the most compelling auto museums in the world. It's growing yet again with the Saturday, August 9, dedication of the Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum on the Gilmore's sprawling grounds in Hickory Corners, Michigan, and the event should prove to be one of the car world's great grand openings this year. The dedication is the centerpiece event of Lincoln Homecoming Weekend at the Gilmore, which is expected to draw more than 500 of the historic cars.
Why? First, the museum, created by the Lincoln Motor Car Foundation, is huge at 15,000 square feet. It's a replica of the historic P.J. Platte Lincoln showroom on East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit. Beyond the cars it will display, the museum's aesthetic touchstones are its huge engraved limestone panels spelling out "LINCOLN." They were originally positioned over the main entrance to Lincoln's administrative offices in Detroit. The foundation recovered them, and they've been on display at the Gilmore since 2006.
The new Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum is part of the "Dealership Row" at the Gilmore, which typically hosts more than 80,000 visitors each year. The foundation is a consortium formed by the four leading Lincoln clubs: The Lincoln Owners Club, Lincoln-Zephyr Owners Club, Lincoln and Continental Owners Club, and the Road Race Lincoln Register. For additional information, visit GilmoreCarMuseum.org.
Racing Heroes – Steve Kinser
Steve Kinser celebrates another win. Photos courtesy of Tony Stewart Racing.
How tough is Steve Kinser? When the 20-time World of Outlaws champion arrived for a recent Sunday stop at Lebanon Valley Speedway in New York, Kinser had raced the previous three days, back-to-back, at tracks in Pennsylvania, including a Saturday night main that lasted well beyond midnight, thanks to a weather delay. Despite this, he started the Lebanon Valley feature on the pole, but drew a yellow flag almost immediately with a fritzed ignition box. His crew quickly swapped it out, but then, on the restart for his own yellow, Kinser flipped the car. Once it was righted, the 60-year old driver re-fired the car and kept right on racing, as if nothing had happened, delivering a 12th place finish in the crowded A-main race.
Kinser in the early days, circa 1980.
Put plainly, Steve Kinser has done things in the shrieking, 900-hp Sprint cars that can stand against any accomplishment in the world of motorsports. He is, quite simply, the greatest dirt track driver who ever turned a wheel in the history of American auto racing. Kinser is a rock-hard racer, a former Indiana state wrestling champion who followed his father, Bob, a brutishly strong laborer accustomed to carrying brick hods for a paycheck, into the evil Sprint cars. His identity, the King of the Outlaws, is anything but an idle boast. Kinser was in the World of Outlaws first race (at Mesquite, Texas) in 1978 and has been in virtually every one of its features ever since. Along the way, he has amassed an incredible 800-plus A-feature wins, plus the first three consecutive World of Outlaws point titles. Oh, and he had a single start in the Indianapolis 500; he finished 14th in 1997. By the time he joined the Outlaws troupe, he was already a terror on the fabled Sprint ovals of Indiana, having notched his first win in 1976 at his home track, Bloomington Speedway.
Kinser with Eldora Speedway promoter Earl Baltes.
Along with rivals Sammy Swindell (also still racing) and Doug Wolfgang, Kinser formed the triumvirate that elevated Sprint car racing to true national prominence during the 1980s, driving mainly for his distant cousin, Karl Kinser. The list of victories he has amassed is unassailable: Fourteen triumphs at the Knoxville Nationals in Iowa, seven runnings of the prestigious Kings Royal at Eldora Speedway in Ohio, a dozen editions of the Gold Cup in California, four wins at the Williams Grove National Open in Pennsylvania, three Western World Championships at Manzanita Speedway in Phoenix, and an IROC event at Talladega Superspeedway.
Kinser's current ride, with Tony Stewart Racing.
This year marks Kinser's final season as a driver. He had a brief fling with the NASCAR team of Kenny Bernstein before returning to Sprint cars, driving now for Tony Stewart Racing. All eyes will focus next month on the Knoxville Nationals where Kinser will try to win an untouchable 13th crown. His son, Kraig, is also a Knoxville Nationals champion.
Even in his final season, Kinser's focus in no less intense.
The selection of photos shown here illustrates two things: Sprint cars haven't changed a whole lot conceptually, and Kinser has been winning for a very long time. One image shows him with the legendary, now-retired Eldora promoter Earl Baltes, at whose track Kinser made history. Just as an example, in the 1980s he arrived late there to drive Johnny Vance's USAC Sprint car. Never took a time trial lap. Started the feature dead last, with zero practice time, and still won. That's Klassic Kinser.
Another historic Chevrolet dealer on the block
Photos courtesy VanDerBrink Auctions.
One of the biggest single stories of last year in the world of historic cars came when VanDerBrink Auctions sold off the contents of the tiny Nebraska dealership, Lambrecht Chevrolet. Remember, this was the sale where some of the Chevrolets had never been titled and, in several cases, had authentic single-digit odometer readings.
VanDerBrink is at it again, having a similar sale scheduled for September 6 in the small city of Grant, Nebraska, in the southwestern quadrant of the state. It will liquidate the remaining holdings of Bullock Chevrolet, which dated to 1947 in Grant, the seat of Perkins County. The dealership was run by a family with deep roots in the dual worlds of cars and aircraft. The patriarch, Wayne, ran his own airline in the 1930s and brother Noel E. was a barnstorming race driver who won the Pikes Peak Hillclimb in 1922 before being killed in a plane crash. Wayne built the Grant dealership after having sold General Motors cars in Omaha despite being too young to officially hold a franchise.
A third generation of Bullocks continued on after the dealership ended its GM franchise in 2002. The sale will auction more than 200 cars, ranging from projects to restored cars, the latter category including a 1935 Chevrolet three-window coupe and a 1948 Chevrolet 3100 Advance Design pickup. A restored 1937 Diamond T Model 80 truck is also among the lots, as are countless NOS parts, signs and a restored fuel pump. The full list of lots and more information are at VanDerBrinkAuctions.com.
Can-Am thunder leads Monterey Motorsports Reunion
Photo courtesy Laguna Seca archives.
If you're taking part in the great automotive Woodstock that is Monterey week next month, an absolutely essential stop is the Rolex Monterey Motorsport Reunion. As if to underscore that fact in a highly auditory manner, the reunion will have the baddest cars ever to turn a wheel on a road course, the cars of the Can-Am Challenge Cup, as its lead category. It's a very apt selection.
For the uninitiated, the Can-Am was a pro-level series put on by the SCCA that ran in its original, rules-free iteration between 1966 and 1974. No single wilder class of racing car has ever competed on a race course in North America. Engines, aerodynamics and even the cars' basic layout were essentially free. It was one of the earliest series to have major sponsorship (Johnson Wax) and drew drivers from disciplines that ranged from NASCAR to Formula 1. The accompanying photo from 1973 at Laguna Seca, which hosts the Monterey Historics, punctuates those facts. Assaulting the Corkscrew are Vic Elford in the UOP Shadow, trailed by Bobby Brown in McLaren M8F (number 97), David Hobbs in a McLaren M20 (73), Charlie Kemp in a Porsche 917-10, Ed Felter in a McLaren M8E (47) and future F1 world champion Jody Scheckter in another Porsche 917-10 (0) pursue. Track publicist and historian Barry Toepke said the aluminum big-block Chevrolet in the UOP car was rumored to have 1,200 to 1,500 horsepower.
More than 30 period Can-Am cars will rock Laguna Seca in their class, one of 15 groups that will make up the reunion, set for August 14-17. For more information, visit MazdaRaceway.com.
Thunder from the Adirondacks: Saratoga Museum adds Saranac Lake stockers
Photos courtesy Saratoga Auto Museum.
Unless you're a pretty serious fisherman or outdoorsy type, you may have never heard of Saranac Lake, New York. It's so small it's tough to find on a state map, tucked away into the enormous Adirondack Mountains preserve. Yet certain places, such as Keokuk, Iowa, have a knack for producing really superior racing drivers. That's true for Saranac Lake, the hometown of a couple of the best ever from upstate New York.
The Saratoga Automobile Museum in Saratoga Springs has recognized them with a new display of the restored stock cars driven by Wes Moody and Brian Ross, who grew up together in Saranac Lake and raced two very different varieties of Modifieds. The older-style coupe was raced by Moody, who achieved folk hero status in the Sixties and Seventies by being the first stock car driver to post a qualifying lap above 100 MPH at the fairgrounds dirt mile in Syracuse. Lore has it that's why the track is still known today as the Moody Mile.
Ross had his racing prime about 20 years after Moody's. Over the winter, he located and restored his number 73 asphalt Modified, the radically low, orange car with abbreviated Chevrolet Cavalier bodywork.
If you look in the background, you'll see that the Saratoga museum hosts all kinds of tasty stuff, including the restored Bob Judkins 2X Modified that Eddie Flemke raced at tracks including Albany-Saratoga and Utica-Rome speedways; and a Maxim in which Mark Kinser won Sprint car racing's premier event, the Knoxville Nationals. The Moody and Ross cars will be on display at least through the coming winter, including the museum's annual Lost Speedways seminars held the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend.
For more information, visit SaratogaAutoMuseum.org.
Team owner Chip Ganassi to be honored at the Glen
Photo courtesy International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen.
Among the trophies next to their tux-clad recipient in the photo above are the Borg-Warner Trophy, emblematic of victory and the Indianapolis 500; and the Harley Earl Trophy, another permanent award that recognizes Daytona 500 winners. The comparatively smaller cup salutes a triumph in NASCAR's Brickyard 400 at Indy. As a team owner, Chip Ganassi has won them all. As a result, he's being honored by the International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen, New York, as recipient of the inaugural Cameron R. Argetsinger Award for outstanding contributions to motorsports.
Ganassi started out not in cars, but as a driver of unlimited hydroplanes on the rivers of his native Pittsburgh. He raced Indy cars until a savage crash at Michigan ended his driving days. As an owner, Ganassi has won 17 titles, including four Indy 500s and five wins in the Rolex 24 at Daytona; he also fields cars in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. The award is named in honor of Argetsinger, a pioneer of American sports car racing, who organized the first postwar road race at Watkins Glen.
The IMRRC dinner will be held August 7, during the NASCAR Watkins Glen weekend, at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. For more information, visit RacingArchives.org.
Iconic Indy scoring pylon comes down
Photos by Chris Owens, courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
In terms of being an immediately recognizable talisman of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the vertical black scoring pylon near the start-finish line could hold its own with the Pagoda and the Borg-Warner Trophy. Only now, the familiar frontstretch fixture has been removed.
Crews using a pair of heavy cranes unbolted the huge tower from its concrete base last week and swung it aside. The tower contains vertical electronic lights for the car numbers occupying each one of the traditional 33 positions in the Indianapolis 500 starting field, topped by a display for the leader's speed on each lap.
In place since 1994 – it succeeded an original scoring pylon that went up in 1959 – it will be replaced by a new, higher-technology scoring pylon in time for next month's Brickyard 400 weekend. The existing structure lacked space to track the 43 cars that typically start a NASCAR Sprint Cup race. That race weekend will also feature the NASCAR Nationwide Series and TUDOR United Sportscar Series, both of which typically start more than 33 cars as well.
UPDATE (25.July 2014): More on the new pylon at Indy, including renderings.


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Joseph Primiani
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Joey Primiani, San Francisco, CA, February 6, 2010
|Joseph Charles Primiani
October 27, 1988
Roslyn, New York, U.S.
|entrepreneur, technology innovator, interface guru
Joey Primiani (born Joseph Charles Primiani on October 27, 1988) is an American Internet entrepreneur and designer best known as the founder of Backplane[1] and Cortex.[2][3]
Life and career[edit]
Primiani started his first freelance web development and design company at the age of 8. He designed products at Google, Yahoo! and Revision3 as an intern by the age of 19. He studied Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction at University of Central Florida, and later at University of California, Berkeley.[4] During college he traveled to Silicon Valley every summer to "work with the smartest people he could find." [5]
Primiani worked at Google where he helped design the touch interfaces for search on mobile and tablet devices used by half a billion people around the world working under influential tech leaders.[6]
Primiani says the number one feature of any product should be its speed.[7] He focuses on building beautiful products that people use on a daily basis. His work is said to be heavily influenced by the work of the 1960s German designer legend Dieter Rams.[8]
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- ^ Pavlus, John (2010-12-10). "Cortex for Google Chrome solves one of social medias big problems". Retrieved 2010-12-10.
- ^ O'Dell, Jolie (2010-12-09). "Cortex for Chrome Makes Sharing Faster, Prettier & More Fun Than Ever". Retrieved 2010-12-09.
- ^ "Joey Primiani". 2010-12-09. Retrieved 2010-12-09.
- ^ "TWiT Live Specials 32: The Future Of The Web". 2010-09-01.
- ^ Siegler, MG (2010-12-15). "Forget The Social Browsers, Just Install Cortex On Chrome". Retrieved 2010-12-15.
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- ^ "Fast Company: 12 of the Year's Best Ideas in Interface Design". 2010-12-31.
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The invention includes an electric alternator/motor having a rotor, stator and at least one winding in the stator adapted to conduct a current, the machine also having and first and second magnetic circuits, one of which includes a saturable portion in which saturation may be controlled to permit control of the machine.
1. An electric machine operable as at least one of an electric alternator/generator and an electric motor, the machine having a rotor and a stator, the stator assembly including at least a stator electrical winding, the machine comprising:
a first magnetic circuit defined in the rotor and stator and encircling at least a first portion of the first winding;
a second magnetic circuit defined in the stator assembly and encircling at least a second portion of the first winding, the second magnetic circuit remote from the first magnetic circuit and including a portion which is magnetically saturable; and
a saturation control apparatus adapted to controllably varying a saturation level of said saturable portion.
2. The electric machine of
3. The electric machine of
4. The electric machine of
5. The electric machine of
6. The electric machine of
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8. The electric machine of
9. A method of regulating operation of an electrical machine, the method involving at least one electric machine having a magnetic rotor, a stator and at least one stator winding, the winding associated with a primary magnetic circuit defined by the rotor and stator, the winding also associated with a secondary magnetic circuit defined in the stator, the secondary magnetic circuit remote from the first magnetic circuit and including a magnetically saturable portion, the method comprising the steps of:
operating the machine to provide at least one of generated output electrical power in the winding and motive power as a result of current supplied to the winding, and
controllably varying a saturation level of a portion of the secondary magnetic circuit to thereby control operation of the machine.
10. The method of
monitoring the output of each machine for at least one criterion indicative of a fault condition existing in a deficient machine resulting in an associated power decrease;
controllably varying a saturation level of at least one non-deficient machine to compensate for said power decrease.
11. The method of
12. The invention as described in the attached specification and drawings.
This application is a continuation-in-part of applicant's co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/996,411, which is itself a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/444,952, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,965,183, the contents of which are incorporated by reference into this application.
The invention relates to electric machines such as alternators and motors, and in particular to the control of such machines.
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The output voltage and frequency of prior art PM alternators is determined by rotor speed, which present challenges where rotor speed cannot be independently controlled. It would therefore be desirable to improve the controllability of electric machines, generally, and in particular PM machines.
In one aspect, the present invention provides an electric machine operable as at least one of an electric alternator/generator and an electric motor, the machine having a rotor and a stator, the stator assembly including at least a stator electrical winding, the machine comprising a first magnetic circuit defined in the rotor and stator and encircling at least a first portion of the first winding, a second magnetic circuit defined in the stator assembly and encircling at least a second portion of the first winding, the second magnetic circuit remote from the first magnetic circuit and including a portion which is magnetically saturable, and a saturation control apparatus adapted to controllably varying a saturation level of said saturable portion.
In another aspect, the invention provides a method of regulating operation of an electrical machine, the method involving at least one electric machine having a magnetic rotor, a stator and at least one stator winding, the winding associated with a primary magnetic circuit defined by the rotor and stator, the winding also associated with a secondary magnetic circuit defined in the stator, the secondary magnetic circuit remote from the first magnetic circuit and including a magnetically saturable portion, the method comprising the steps of operating the machine to provide at least one of generated output electrical power in the winding and motive power as a result of current supplied to the winding, and controllably varying a saturation level of a portion of the secondary magnetic circuit to thereby control operation of the machine.
Still other inventions and aspects are disclosed in this specification and attached figures, as well, and the present application claims all such inventions.
For a better understanding of the present invention and to show more clearly how it may be carried into effect, reference will now be made by way of example to the accompanying drawings, showing articles made according to preferred embodiments of the present invention, in which:
Referring to
Alternator/motor 10 has a rotor 12 with permanent magnets 14 which is mounted for rotation relative to a stator 20. Stator 20 has at least one power winding 22 and preferably at least one control winding 24, and this embodiment stator 20 has a 3-phase design with three electromagnetically-independent power windings 22 (the phases are denoted by the circled numerals 1, 2, 3, respectively) and, correspondingly, three independent control windings 24. The power and control windings are separated in this embodiment by a winding air gap 26 and disposed in radial slots 28 between a plurality of adjacent teeth 30. (For ease of illustration in
The materials for PM machine 10 may be any deemed suitable by the designer. Materials preferred by the inventor are: samarium cobalt permanent magnets, copper power and control windings, a suitable saturable electromagnetic material for the stator teeth such as electrical silicon steels commonly used in the construction of magnetic machines, power and control flux busses. The stator teeth, power and control flux busses may be integral or non-integral with one another, as desired. The designer will select the rotor and stator dimensions and materials based at least in part on the desired properties of the magnetic circuits (described below) in the machine to yield the desired machine performance, etc. The control flux bus 32 is magnetically saturable, as will be described below.
Power winding 22 in this embodiment consists of a single conductor which enters slot 28 on a first side of power flux bus 36, crosses power flux bus 36 at the other end and exits slot 28 on the second or other side of power flux bus 36 (i.e. opposite to the first side, or side of entry) and proceeds to a next slot 28 of the same phase, where the power winding 22 preferably enters this next slot from the second side of power flux bus 36 instead of the first side, as described above. The winding of power winding 22 is preferably similar to that described in the applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 6,965,183.
Meanwhile, control winding 24 is wrapped around the control flux bus, in this embodiment preferably multiple times, such as 25 times, for reasons described below. The direction of winding between adjacent appropriate slots (i.e. appropriate to maintain phase correspondence with the power winding) is preferably the same from slot to slot, and thus alternatingly opposite relative to the power winding 22 and in equal numbers of slots, so that a net-zero voltage is induced in the control winding, as will also be described further below. Control winding 24 is connected to a current source and control system 50 (see
Referring to
Referring again to
Primary magnetic circuit 60 includes rotor 12, rotor air gap 34, power flux bus 36 and the portion of stator teeth 30 between rotor 12 and power flux bus 36. Primary magnetic circuit encircles a portion of power winding 22 and, in use as an alternator causes a current flow in power winding 22. Secondary magnetic circuit 62 includes power flux bus 36, control bus 32 and the portion of stator teeth 30 between control bus 32 and power flux bus 36. Secondary magnetic circuit encircles the portions of the power winding 22 and control winding 24 in slot 28 b. Power flux bus 36 divides slot 28 into two slot portions or openings 28 a and 28 b, with one opening 28 a for the power winding only, and another opening 28 b for the power and control windings. The primary magnetic circuit encircles an opening 28 a while the secondary magnetic circuit encircles an opening 28 b. Opening 28 a is preferably radially closer to the rotor than opening 28 b. Power flux bus 36 is common to both the primary and secondary magnetic circuit paths in this embodiment, however as discussed further below the power flux bus may be separate from the upper portion of the secondary flux path along the direction of flux lines so that the secondary magnetic circuit does not share any common stator portions with the primary magnetic circuit.
A tertiary magnetic circuit 64 preferably circulates around control bus 32, as partially indicated in
When operated as an alternator, the present invention permits the output of the power winding(s) 22 to be controlled through a manipulation of current supplied to control winding(s) 24, as will now be described.
As explained above, the equivalent power inductor 22′ is formed by the portion of the power winding 22 in slot 28 b and the secondary magnetic circuit 62, as schematically represented by the equivalent circuit of
The application of a DC current from the source 50 to the control winding 24 results in a DC flux circulating circuit 64 in the control flux bus 32. At the instant in time depicted in
As mentioned, the control winding pattern relative to the power winding preferably results in a near net zero voltage induced in the control winding, which simplifies control. Also, since the DC control current through both control flux buses 34 produces magnetic fluxes in different directions relative to the power winding 22, one bus 34 will saturate more in one half-cycle of the AC power while the other bus 34 will saturate more in the other, thus tending to equalize the control action through each half-cycle.
Once saturated, magnetic materials substantially lose their ability to conduct magnetic flux, and as such appear to be non-magnetic to both AC magnetic forces (HAC) and further changes in DC magnetic influence (HDC). The net effect of this saturated condition in the control bus 32 is thus to virtually eliminate the inductance (or impedance) due to the secondary magnetic circuit, which thereby significantly reduces inductance (or impedance) of the machine.
Furthermore, as the current flow in the power winding 22 increases, for example due to an increase in the external load or an increase in the generated output voltage due to an increase in operating speed, the portion of the control flux bus 32 in which the flux directions are instantaneously opposing will become less saturated, which causes a proportional increase in the inductance. This effect tends to cause the output current to remain somewhat constant. Thus the present invention causes the power output current of the alternator to become a function of the control current. The maximum inductance of the equivalent power inductor 22′ formed by the secondary magnetic circuit is related to the physical dimensions and materials of the portions carrying the secondary magnetic circuit. The power winding current limit is related to the current in the control winding by:
where: Np and Nc are the number of turns in the power and control windings, respectively, IP and IC are the currents in the power and control windings, respectively, and K is a constant which is inversely proportional to the maximum inductance of the power winding and other machine design features.
This permits manipulation of the output of power winding 22, and thus control winding 24 may be used as a source of control of PM machine 10. Means for controlling the operation of PM machine are thus available within the machine itself, as the �control� current may be generated by the PM machine 10 power windings, typically in conjunction with rectifiers. In some instances, therefore, no external source of control current may be required in conjunction with an electronic current control, although arranging the control winding in series with the rectified output current may also be used to control current to some extent. The novel architecture of the present invention therefore lends itself to many novel possibilities for control systems for the machine, a few examples of which will now described.
For example, the output (i.e. from a power winding 22) of alternator 10 may be controlled by connecting control winding 24 to a power supply 50, and a current applied to the control winding preferably sufficient to fully saturate the control flux bus 32, such saturation being caused by magnetic flux flowing along tertiary path 64 induced by current passing though control winding 24, which is wrapped around control flux bus 32 in this embodiment. When saturation occurs, flux around the secondary magnetic circuit 62 is effectively eliminated, and the magnetic relationship between the power windings and the secondary magnetic circuit is such that inductance in the power winding is virtually eliminated. Thus, more current is permitted to flow in the power winding. Therefore, the current level provided by controlled current source supply 50 can be continuously varied, as required, to regulate the output current of the power windings (and thus, ultimately, output voltage) over a range of rotor speeds and electrical loads. In order to effect constant output voltage control, for example, a feedback control circuit is used by the control system of source 50 to compare the alternator output voltage (i.e. the output of power winding 22) to a fixed reference (e.g. representative of a desired output voltage level(s)), and control can be configured such that, when the alternator output voltage is less than a desired reference level, a command is provided to increase the control current to increase saturation level and therefore output current, and thus voltage. Likewise, when the alternator output voltage is above a desired reference value (which may or may not be the same reference value mentioned above), a command is similarly provided to reduce the control current to decrease saturation level and therefore output current, which ultimately permits output voltage control as well. In this way, the output voltage of the alternator can be regulated.
In another control method, if no current is supplied to control winding 24, the output of power winding 22 is reduced and may be, by design, limited by the construction of the machine such that the machine's impedance is sufficient to limit short circuit currents to that which the machine may comfortably handle without damage (i.e. the short circuit current is low enough that it would not, for example, pose a danger such a machine overheating, etc.). In this respect, the present invention operates in a similar manner reminiscent of the �fusible-secondary� embodiment of the applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 6,965,183.
Many other control schemes are also possible, including the modulation of the control current (i.e. the current in control windings 24) control with a rapidly varying current so as to cause cyclic amplitude modulation of the alternator output, thereby resulting in the generation of new output frequencies (or side bands) which are different from the raw frequency of the machine (i.e. speed times pole pair frequency of the alternator).
Magnetic flux preferably circulates the tertiary magnetic circuit 64 in the same direction around the control flux bus 32. As mentioned above, although the control winding is provided in the slots corresponding to a particular phase of the three-phase machine described, the power windings are wound in the opposite direction in each slot which is due to the opposite polar arrangement of the magnets 14 associated with each adjacent slot of the phase. To ensure that a uniform direction for the tertiary magnetic circuit 64 is provided, as mentioned the control windings are preferably wound in the same direction in all slots. Also as mentioned, a net-zero voltage is induced in control windings 24, which is desirable because a relatively low DC potential is required to provide DC control currents, thus no special considerations are required to remove a significant AC potential on the control winding.
The present invention also advantageously permits load to be shared between a plurality of alternators/generators. The control winding controls the output current of the machine. Thus, referring to
It is also possible with this invention to connect properly phased alternators 10 directly together such that the AC output of a plurality of alternators 10 having matched phases (e.g. phase �1�, as described above) can be parallely connected, as shown in
In both of the above examples, this permits a much simpler means by which power may be shared, and does not require the complicated control systems of the prior art. This feature may be used advantageously, as well, in a �dual channel� electric machine, as described in applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 6,965,183. Referring again to
In another embodiment, as discussed above, primary flux bus 36 may be provided with a low Curie point materials in accordance with the applicant's co-pending application incorporated above, so as to provide thermal protection in the event that a fault causes normal operating temperatures to be exceeded.
Control schemes such as those disclosed above may be employed individually or may be combined as desired to permit several control features to exist contemporaneously within the PM machine. As prior art fixed-geometry PM machines typically are not controllable in any way other than by the speed at which they are operated, this controllability feature of the present invention is of significant value to the PM machine designer, particularly in those applications where the rotational speed of the machine cannot itself be used to control machine output. The present invention also offers a robust and reliable design suitable for aerospace applications. The power-sharing opportunities offered by the present invention also cannot be ignored.
In another embodiment, shown in
In the embodiment of
Referring now to
In another embodiment, depicted schematically in
The present invention may also be used for electric motor control purposes. For example, when used as a starter motor, the present invention may be used to vary the impedance of the motor and thereby control current transients experienced during motoring, the torque speed relationship can also be adjusted to some degree using the control winding, since the phase angle between the rotor mmf and the armature mmf are variable due to the variable inductance of the power winding. Similarly, other modes of control are possible for alternators/generators, as well. For example, as briefly mentioned above, varying or modulating the saturation level appropriately may be used to control the frequency of output alternating current in the power windings by variably shifting the generated frequency, as the alternator speed is varied, so as to provide a desired constant output frequency. This may be done using amplitude modulation techniques such that the alternator output frequency consists of two or more frequency components (i.e. sum and difference frequencies or sidebands). Appropriate filtering, subtraction or detection of one of the frequencies will result in a new single output frequency which is related to the sum or difference between the alternator frequency and the control frequency. Active rectification of the envelope of a modulated alternator output could also be used to provide a new power frequency.
The above description is meant to be exemplary only, and one skilled in the art will recognize that changes may be made to the embodiments described without department from the scope of the invention disclosed. For example, the number of phases in the motors could be varied and could be to any number. The motors may be single or multi-phase, single or multi-channel. The windings may have single or multiple turns per slot, the number of turns of a winding not necessarily has to be a whole number. The number of phase windings does not necessarily have to equal the number of control windings, and one or more windings may perhaps be present in a slot. The windings may be any conductor(s) (i.e. single conductor, more than one wire, insulated, laminated, Litz etc.) or may be superconductors. In multiphase machines, there may be delta or Y-connected windings in accordance with suitable techniques. There need not be an air gap between the power and control windings, as long as the windings are electrically isolated from one another. The rotor can be any electromagnetic configuration suitable (i.e. permanent magnet rotor not necessary), and may be provided in an outside or inside configuration, or any other suitable configuration. Other winding configurations are possible, and those described above need not be used at all, or throughout the apparatus. Also, the magnetic circuits described can be arranged in the stator (and/or rotor) in any suitable manner. Any suitable stator configuration may be used, and the stators depicted are exemplary only. The stator need not be slotted as shown, nor slotted at all. The arrangement of the primary, secondary and tertiary magnetic circuits, and the arrangement of phase winding saturation apparatus(es) in the machines may be any suitable arrangement. Likewise, the stator and rotor may also have any suitable configuration. Although DC is preferred in the control windings 24 of the machine, any suitable saturating arrangement may be used. Any suitable machine control arrangement may be employed. The present technique may also be employed with stand-alone motors if desired, and redundant systems are not required, but merely one apparatus arrangement which may benefit from the application of the above principles. Still other modifications which fall within the scope of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art, in light of a review of this disclosure, and such modifications are intended to fall within the appended claims.
Still other modifications which fall within the scope of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art, in light of a review of this disclosure, and such modifications are intended to fall within the equivalents accorded to the appended claims. In this application, it is to be understood that the term �alternator� is used sometimes used generically to mean a device used for generating electricity, and is not always intended therefore to be limited to a device for generating an output alternating current.
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A visit to Walt Disney World at Christmas is not complete without a visit to the resort hotels. They also glow with Christmas Spirit. Each resort is decorated according to the theme of the resort, beginning with a huge Christmas tree in its lobby that reaches almost to the ceiling. For example, the tree and decorations at Animal Kingdom Lodge have an African motif. At Coronado Springs Resort, the tree and decorations have a southwestern theme, and the Polynesian Resort has tropical island decorations throughout.
Several of the resorts should especially not be missed. In the lobby of the Grand Floridian stands a giant sixteen-foot tall gingerbread house, that you can actually walk into. The whole lobby smells like gingerbread and grandmother's kitchen. There is a sign outside the house that reports that it takes 1,050 pounds of honey, 600 pounds of powdered sugar, 800 pounds of flour, 140 pints of egg whites, 35 pounds of spices and 180 pounds of apricot glaze to make this amazing, old-time Victorian gingerbread house. In the lobby of the Beach Club Resort there is an edible rotating carousel with ponies made of sugar, and candy cane poles. It takes one entire week to decorate each pony. The sign here claims there are 10 Hidden Mickeys on the carousel!
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the pool was clean and well kept. The breakfast was good; good variety. Friendly, helpful staff. Good price for the room we had.
The room we were suppose to get was already being used. We went in and someone elses stuff was there; they had no idea. So they had to give us another room which worked out good in the end because it was closer to the pool.
Large bathroom ~ clean pool
We had our 'Do not disturb' sign hung ~ we came back to find that someone came in our room and took our towels.....no one should have been in our room.
Commons area was really nice.
The a/c was not working properly. It would only run for a few minutes. The lady working the front desk said that that was the way it was supposed to work. It ruined the whole stay.
Had to take a smoking room! Ugh!
Linens were clean and comfortable
Rude immature staff. Mold on shower curtain. Dirty bathroom floor. Mold in juice machine.
It was very clean, it was close to where we needed to be. Enjoyed free breakfast.
based on the online ratings and price difference I was at first reluctant to choose this comfort inn. But after staying there and having also recently stayed in the Holiday Inn next door. I like the Comfort Inn better than the Holiday Inn.
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Okay, we'll do the disclaimers first.
- Yes, this has spoilers. If you haven't finished 3&O, close this tab now.
- Yes, I realize 3&O has been out for awhile. I wanted to sit on it for a bit and gain perspective though. 3&O carries a rather heavy emotional payload, so I read it. Set it aside, watched us win 10 games, and then reread it. I was less suicidal the second time I read it. If you want to complain about this kind of diary reopening old wounds, close this tab now.
- I'm not going to cite things with page numbers or whatever. If I miss use a quote, call me on it. Consider 3&O to be a heavily cited work that gets the credit for most facts.
- It's long and doesn't have any pictures. I'm sorry.
Now then, why am I writing this. Because we're not entirely over RR. We have people who still are up in their caves, wearing their turbans and engaging in the Freep Jihad. We have people who scour every word written on the blog's mainpage and ranting at anything that might be critical of Hoke. We have people who take praise of Hoke to be an attack on RR. So I want to talk about the three years of sadness. If you feel an angry rant coming on, last chance to close the tab.
Right before Bo passed he said that once he died, we'd find out whole the real Michigan Men were. We did and it was damn ugly.
In the wake of Bo passing and RR being hired, we had three major players in Michigan football. Lloyd Carr, Bill Martin, and Rich Rodriguez. It would expand to 4 after MSC got involved and later Dave Brandon would replace Martin. However the tone of the era was set by the actions of the first three.
Lloyd Carr is the engima here. He was successful at Michigan. The only two coaches who had his number, Tressel and Caroll, ended up fleeing to the NFL one step ahead of the NCAA sanctions committee. He also won a NCAA title and 78% of his B1G games. He never lost more than 3 B1G games in a season and only finished below 3rd in the conference once. At the same time he took a lot of heat form the fans. Claims that he only won his ring with Moeller's players. Heat over his Rose Bowl issues and issues handling the spread. I still remember walking into the stadium one game and seeing an anti-Carr fan holding a sign. It read "Osama Bin-Lloyden is destroying Michigan football". The dude had a megaphone and was ranting. I just had to shake my head. Every year Tressel took him down, the fanbase got bitchier.
Since Carr has been silent (no comments in 3&O or anywhere else for the most part since he retired) it's hard to know what he felt at retirement. The evidence suggest he was burned out in 2006, but Martin had no replacement plan so he stayed on. The Horror happened and the heat on Carr was turned up. At the end of the day the best insight I have into Carr's mind comes from Bacon, who writes that Carr wanted to name his successor.
Here I'm going to make a leap. Carr felt like he'd accomplished a lot here and he definitely had. However the fanbase was pretty bitchy by this point and a lot of people were happy to see Carr retire. Basically it was a "Thanks for your service, here's your award, door is to your left" kind of retirement. No one exactly went into mourning when Carr hung it up. I see a potential situation where Carr felt bitter, underappreciated and not properly compensated in terms of legacy for his work. In 3&O, Carr tells Martin that someday a MAC team was going to beat us. Basically saying college football was getting tougher, more parity, and yet Michigan fans want to see the 100-0 scores that we'd manage in the early 1900s and when we didn't, we got bitchy. Carr did a lot for us and we photoshopped his face on Bin Laden's body. I can understand why the man might be bitter. Carr ends his career wanting DeBord or English to replace him, but after his last few seasons the fanbase would go nuclear if either of them did. Martin wisely says no to that. Carr's legacy ends him him kind of coming close to getting run out of town, despite his body of work. We all laugh at Minnesota for firing Mason despite his body of work, but we were dicks to Carr desite his. (As a side note I'm using we here because we're all part of the fanbase, even the retards).
So Carr is retired. Burned out, but not going since he was an Assoc. AD. Martin comes forward and coaching search begins. Miles is ruled out early (Carr says "Hell No" and MSC backs him on it, insert various rumors about why here). Martin screws up on a bunch of offers, Miles kind of becomes a hail mary option, Martin goes sailing and can't work his damn phone. Carr meanwhile reaches out to RR as kind of an end around on Miles and so he is kind of naming his own successor. Suddenly we have one of the top offensive minds in the country, a guy who won BCS games with WVU (while we lost ours), and a hot, young name in coaching.
We also have a problem. Carr is going off the reservation here and making first contact and from Bacon's work it carries the implication Carr did so on his own, at at the behest of Martin or MSC. In the Bo era if you went behind Bo's back, you paid. We're now at the point where a future Assoc AD is sneaking around behind his boss's back.
Martin's cluelessness with personnel decisions continued. When he interviews RR he tries to tell RR he has to keep Lloyd's entire staff. MSC though is now taking a role in the process (post Miles clusterfuck) and shuts him down. I want to break this down a bit though. Martin asks RR to keep the entire staff in a meeting with RR and MSC jumps on him. This wasn't something that Martin and MSC privately talked about on the way to the meeting. This was the President having to slap the AD down in front of a potential new employee. Way to plan ahead for interviews...
It also means something even worse. Think about what Martin said. "We love your spread and shred offense and want to hire you, by the way we want to you to keep DeBord on staff as the OC." Think about that for a minute. Bang your head into your desk. Later in the meeting when RR says it will take him awhile to install his system and Martin says that's not a problem, you really have to wonder if Martin had any clue what RR's system was. If Martin had any clue what he was getting into.
Martin of course then lowballs RR's assistants and fails to secure Casteel. So we arguably whiff on the second most assistant of RR's machine (I'd argue since RR is offensively minded, DC is more important than OC. Coordinators of course are clearly more important than posistion coaches). We also screw up the whole firing of Carr's staff. RR makes them wait in the hall and people like Gittelson (30 years here) are fired.
This is a failure for everyone. For Carr, for RR, and for Martin. Carr's about to become the Assoc AD for football operations. If he's so worried about his assistants getting treated fairly he should take a greater role in the process. Martin should be finding jobs for people like Gittelson (there has to be come kind of generic title we can give him, keep him on the Michigan payroll, and reward his loyalty. Barwis is now the man for football, we have dozens of weightrooms on the campus, we could have found Gittelson a place. Same with the others, stuff them in some AD job until they find coaching work. We're Michigan, we're supposed to be loyal.). RR of course really fails at handling the firings well. Carr of course ends up unhappy, somewhat openly advocating transfers, and the whole RR-Carr relationship goes sour.
We know how it goes from there. Freep columnists are harsh on RR, Carr era players attack RR in the media. Martin does nothing public, Carr does nothing public. RR says the wrong things, loses games, and finally Grobans himself out of a job. Plus of course getting bombed in the bowl didn't help.
My reason for rehashing this 3&O content was to show the actions of people and compare them to Bo. There was no "The Team, The Team, The Team". No concern for the players.
First off Martin flushed his legacy with the RR hire. The man put us in the black, he built a beautiful athletic campus. He set us up with the stadium suites that generate an amazing amount of revenue. We have the world's largest indoor practice facility because of him. Crisler doesn't look like shit anymore because of him (DB did it with his revenue). We could afford to offer Harbaugh 5 million a year because of him. We could pry Mattison out of the pros because of him. We have a massive bank account, a massive revenue stream, and top shelf facilities because of him. We also had the NCAA investigate us and a civil war because of his poor personal management. If we had a comptroller hall of fame, he goes in the first round. As it stands though he is remembered for going boating during a coaching search with a cellphone he could not operate.
I love Carr and anyone who bothers to read my posts knows I'm in the Carr defender category. Carr has done a lot for this University. On the field and off the field (namely his fundraising for Motts is really his greatest achievement as a human being since sick kids are a million times more important than kicking around an inflated pig's bladder). Yet when the time came he wasn't a Michigan Man. RR's teams were loaded with Carr's recruits. Yet he turned down 8 chances to speak to RR's teams. It's fine if Carr wanted to dislike RR. RR did fire all his friends and talk a lot in public, the antithesis of Carr. However when our fanbase errupted into a civil war it was the players, the players that Carr recruited who suffered as the program was ripped apart. Carr must have promised these kids B1G rings when he recruited them. Yet he shut up and didn't do anything when the program collapsed around them. It's almost as if he told them "transfer, because I'm cutting all ties and won't be around to help you after the Bowl". Bo was known for walking into people's offices and telling them "You need to shut up". Bo would have been defending the kids and the program. Carr was silent. At best he did nothing, at worst he was using his players and contacts to undermine RR instead of help him. I have no idea what Carr did during those three years, but he wasn't a Michigan Man because he definitely wasn't using his power to support the team.
I'm going to be brief on RR since we've dissecting him a million times on this board. He made a lot of mistakes on the field in terms of the defense. Off the field he really failed to win the political battle that comes with being the head coach at a name brand football school. Yes the deck was stacked against him, but even so he tended to make things worse, not better. For example RR played under Nehlen, a Bo assistant. He learned about "Those Who Stay Will Be Champions" from Nehlen and used it himself when he coached at Glenville State. Yet he never told those stories despite the fact they instantly put him on the Bo tree and made him more acceptable. More importantly is how quickly he broke down. His locker room destroying rage, this "fuck you" ridden tirades over his headset when Tate made a bad play. Yes it is projection, but you have to wonder if in year 4 or 5 he goes all Woody Hayes on a DB or Bob Knight on someone. I don't believe RR as a person would ever do that, but people do snap. At some level when you read how broken down RR was as Year 3 went from 5 and 0 to 2 and 5, you have to wonder if it was a mercy firing.
What we see there are three people who aren't bad people. Martin made us rich, Carr did a lot for the program and the school, RR wanted to make this his destination school and cared for his kids, and he did install the offense we hired him to install. Yet everyone had their flaws. Blindess with personnel hirings, a failure to support RR the way Bump supported Bo, and the inability to properly adopted Michigan mannerisms/fix the damn defense. No one is the devil here or an incompetent, but no one is Bo either.
Then there is the fanbase, us. That member of our fanbase who called a regent to complain that RR used "ain't" in a press conference (seriously, fuck you whoever that was). The fanbase who the minute Bo died, demanded someone else become Bo. Then when everyone showed they were mortal, not Bo, and could make mistakes we devolved into armed "Old Guard" and "New Guard" camps. Communist football vs primitive saurian Llloydball. We all agreed Martin was a moron who couldn't work a cell phone, picked a coach (RR or Carr) and tried to crown him as the new center of Michigan football. We also didn't exactly cover ourselves in glory.
That's what we need to take away from the RR era. Our dad died. Uncle Lloyd turned out be a distant and cold paternal figure. Uncle Rodriguez went through a rough time and had a melt down. Uncle Martin was busy clicking buttons in excel. So a lot of the fanbase regressed from Michigan Men into bitchy children who said mean things on the radio or wrote them, despite the negative impact they had on The Team.
As we enter the new era, 10-2, now willing to pay top dollar for top coordinators, with a guy who gets Michigan, and RR has a new job in a BCS conference, I think it may be time to let it go. At the end of the day we don't have a good guy and we don't have a bad guy. Martin, Carr, and RR all did a lot for this school and they all failed it. Any debate where you try to annoint one guy as the devil and one guy as the angel in this era is just going to generate a flamefest because each side has plenty of material to cite. The actors here were all humans who were successful in some areas, but unlike Bo they weren't successful in every area. No one was bad, they just weren't Bo and that is fine because being Bo is a high standard to live up to. As we go forward we need to stop looking for a new Bo. Bo's dead. But a new one will emerge. Just as it flowed from Yost to Crisler to Bo. Don't try and place someone on that throne by force though.
We should also remember how a house divided cannot stand against itself and more importantly how we hurt the players on the field with the whole civil war. We owe people like Graham and Moundros something. They gave it all on the field on Saturday while the fanbase was busy having a flamewar.
Oh and always remember Sharp and Rosenberg suck.
If we're going to keep one thing in our mind as we move forward, it should be that comment from Bo about how we'd find out who the real Michigan Men were when he died. We did and we need to remember what that cost us. It's up to us to keep it together now, because we won't have Bo to walk into our lives and tell us "You need to shut up now".
Three and Out: Pages 250-end
Okay, last installment. For the previous installments, see: http://mgoblog.com/diaries/three-and-out-100-pagesfor the first 100 pages, and http://mgoblog.com/diaries/three-and-out-pages-100-250 for pp. 100-250. Also, you might want to check out the comments to those entries for more exposition and clarification.
It's clear that this whole book, and this subject, reopen a lot of old wounds and dig up a lot of old debates. I've actually thought a little bit over the past two days about what a couple commenters said, which was that they don't think they'll read the book because of a handful of reasons, notably because, well, it's in the past, and why dig up old bodies, beat dead horses, reopen old wounds? I am conflicted by that notion. In a way, I understand that line of thinking- reading this book isn't a fun exercise after a certain point because it reminds the reader of the agony of those 3 seasons. It is not a happy tale, and today, we have a new regime, a 6-0 team, and things are looking up. At the same time, I think it's hard to discuss the past regime, the differences between Hoke & Co. and the past regime, and, most importantly, the differences between the two transitions without revisiting the dark days of late 2007-January, 2011. But the more I read the book, I could come to appreciate the idea that rehashing all of the negativity may not be something that many wish to do. That being said, I think it will be hard going forward to discuss the RR era without reading this book, even if you doubt the "spin" put on the story contained within its pages.
Again: this book is written from the RR perspective. Bacon was following RR, his team, etc. So a grain of salt (which many have rightfully pointed out) is wise.
These are just my musings on what jumped out at me, things I found interesting (personally) and thought that those who haven't gotten a chance to read this yet might also find interesting. I actually finished the book a couple of days ago, but haven't had a chance to write this yet.
Team Togetherness
One thing that strikes me is that the team really seems to stick together throughout all of the negativity- the Free Press stuff, the losing, the rumors, etc. Over and over again, Bacon muses that he figures the team would quit on the staff, that, at times, they probably should quit on the staff, etc. He seems to look for cracks in the team's drive/mission/togetherness, especially throughout 2009's slide and in 2010 when the players themselves are fully aware of all the rumors. But if that was ever the case, he didn't see it. Until, perhaps, the Mississsippi State bowl game, where the seniors, at least (but really more likely the whole team) were of the impression that RR was done, win-or-lose (more on that below).
Dave Brandon
The Les Miles stuff was purely for show and to appease the fanbase. He says, quote, that Les Miles would be Michigan's head coach "over my dead body" when RR asked him about it when the rumors reached a fever pitch in late December 2010. The book doesn't say why. I have a feeling that there are multiple reasons, and at the very least, some of the nastiest rumors must be either a.) true, or b.) believed by enough people in the Michigan community who actually have a say in things (LC, Brandon, among them) that Les was never a serious candidate.
Brandon also handled the transition infinitely better than Bill Martin from a "players leaving" standpoint. As soon as it was announced, he (DB) called a meeting with the players and asked them not to leave. Far cry from LC holding a meeting and saying "if you want to leave, I'll sign." DB told the players if there was a mass exodus, they'd be "crippling" the program.
Furthermore, after DB left the room, Molk, Van Bergen, and the other seniors-to-be stood up and said, essentially, "don't leave. We've all come too far." Seems everyone had learned from the 2007 debacle.
Also of note: Dave Brandon said that he'd talked to "lots of players" before making the decision to fire RR, and that his "door was always open" and had always been open. Apparently not to Denard Robinson. Denard requested an audience with Brandon multiple times between the U of M Bust dinner and the bowl game, both in Ann Arbor and after they'd all gotten to Jacksonville. Brandon never met with him during that time.
The 2010 Bust, Josh Groban, December 2010, and Senior Exit Interviews
To Bacon, this is where RR's tenure ended. He seems to think that after the Groban debacle, RR was toast. Many people were exchanging uneasy glances as he started doing it (asking for the song to be played) saying (by their looks) please don't do this. When the lights went up, Bacon says that even RR supporters whom he knew were, essentially, like "yeah…that was bad, and he's done." Also, apparently, there were rumors that Fox Sports and others were offering $50-100k for the tape. Dave Brandon told the film crew who were present that if the tape of the incident were released, they'd never have access to Michigan again.
Seniors conducted exit interviews with the A.D. (associate AD Greg Harden) in the weeks following the bust (but before the bowl game) and the conclusions the players reached was that Rich Rod was gone. The student managers told Bacon that, point blank, the seniors all "knew" RR was getting fired and, thus, "no one wanted to be here." I'm talking about the student managers talking about what the players told them. And that trickled down from the seniors to the rest of the team. "They realized winning would bring not freedom from their burdens—as it would have earlier in the season—but an extension of them. The way things were set up, they had more incentive to lose than to win." (P. 419). That quote is clearly Bacon's opinion.
During this time, the coaches themselves were concerned. Rich Rod, of course, had a contract. His assistants did not. The assistants "knew that other schools might be interested in them—particularly Maryland—if Rodriguez would just entertain the offers, but he steadfastly refused." (P. 418). Apparently, his assistants refused overtures (if there were any) as well, as Rodriguez said that none of them had approached him in the time between the tOSU game and the bowl game saying that they'd either a.) reached out to other schools, or b.) were considering offers from other schools.
On Hoke, from Dan Dufek: "He'll be successful because we're not going to do to him what some of those guys did to Rich," talking about the former players, etc. (P. 428).
The school orders rings for every bowl game. They are allowed to do so and give them to all members of the coaching staff and football staff who were on the staff at the time of the bowl game. Michigan ordered Gator Bowl rings, but didn't give them to RR and his assistants and any that RR had hired. They did give one to Scott Draper. When RR came to UM in 2008, even WVU sent him one from their Orange Bowl trip. Petty, not that important, but still…ugh.
Barwis, post-firing
When RR was fired, Brandon told the players that the new staff would pick its assistants and its strength staff, but that Barwis was still employed by the University. Sometime in either January or February of 2011, Florida State offered Barwis a package that would make him the highest paid strength coach in the country, a multi-year deal, and would employ all of his staff. He turned them down, as he was still coaching at Michigan and, assumedly, thought Hoke might keep him and his staff. In March, Hoke went a different direction, so Barwis opened BarwisMethods in Michigan.
Danny Hope
Rodriguez isn't the one who alerted the Big Ten to the punch by one of Purdue's players (in a game not against Michigan) that got the player suspended. It was actually someone in Purdue's own athletic department. However, after the Michigan-Purdue game in 2009, Hope pulled the stunt where he grabbed RR's hand and brought the player (Zach Reckman)over and said "I want to introduce you to the man who got you suspended." After that stunt, RR had a quote that I found humorous, which he blurted out after he told Rita what happened: "Bullshit! I gotta get my ass beat by a junior high school, no-class asshole?" I think JHSNCAH should be Hope's acronym from here on out.
Justin Turner and Wingless Wolverines
So, summertime workouts are voluntary. Showing up to the first day of fall practice, however, is not. In the summer of 2010, Tate, Gallon, Austin White, and Justin Turner showed up to fall camp out of shape, after having loafed throughout the summer. Turner famously said of the S&C staff (when one of his teammates warned him): "they can't break me."
The team had a conditioning run, and the three who didn't make in the time for their position group were White, Gallon and Turner. Tate made it, barely, by diving across the line. However, his landlord then called RR and told him Tate hadn't been paying his rent. So these four gentlemen got two pieces of special punishment: no wings on their helmets until they earned them back, and a "Breakfast Club" conditioning workout.
Amazingly, RR himself did the drills with them, at least for the first part of the Breakfast Club drills. They involved a stairmaster, then lots of situps. It lasted only 45 minutes, but clearly had an impact on Turner. The workout ended at 7 am. He asked for a transfer by 2 pm.
Coordinators' Salaries
This is mentioned on page 342. "…the contracts Michigan offered at the time did not permit (RR) to hire his first choice for many coaching positions, including defensive coordinator. In hindsight, he would probably agree that insisting on guaranteed contracts for his coordinators and cutting $100,000 out of the new weight room budget to secure Casteel- plus a multiyear contract- would have been wise, as would making recruiting an acclaimed kicker a high priority."
RR and the NCAA
He paid most of his life savings (cash savings) on his own attorneys in the NCAA investigation (over $300k). This was to ensure that the charge that he, RR, failed to promote an environment of compliance was vigorously fought, as it wasn't (in his mind) the University's top priority. (I actually agree with him here: in any case where the individual employee and the company's interests are both at stake in any lawsuit, which an NCAA investigation is, sort of, I strongly advise all of you to have your own counsel, not just the one hired by your company. Just my $.02).
Other tidbits
Michigan ranks 5th or 6th in the Big Ten in spending on football (or at least that's what RR thought, which surprised him). P. 397.
Barwis had a tear come to his eye after we beat Illinois last year in triple overtime. I didn't even know that was possible.
In Barwis I trust. (re: Chocolate Milk)
Caught this little gem on Reddit today. Now if only wolves were allowed IN the weight room.
Search terms used in case of double posting: milk, chocolate milk, courant, hartford.
Grading Mike Barwis
I do not doubt that Mike Barwis is a good Strength & Conditioning coach. How much better is he, than at other elite programs?
Michigan this year was not noticeably better conditioned than its opponents. I don't think better conditioning was the obvious difference in any game. I don't recall a game in which the Wolverines ground down their opponent in the fourth quarter.
In Michigan's seven wins, excluding Bowling Green, the Wolverines were actually outscored (modestly) in the fourth quarter. (I exclude BG because the starters were no longer playing at the end of the game.) In their five losses, Michigan did outscore the opponents in the fourth quarter, but only by a total of 9 points—not a huge difference.
Michigan's players certainly did not seem to be any less injury-prone than their opponents; if anything, they were more injury prone.
Although Barwis has clearly improved Michigan's conditioning over the latter years of the Carr program, I do not see the evidence that he has made it a distinct advantage. All that one can say, is that it is no longer a liability.
Michigan Injuries and Mike Barwis
As I was watching the game on Saturday, I couldn't help but notice how it seemed a lot of our guys got dinged up (the ones I remember are Carvin, Jonas, and D-Rob, but it felt like more), and not a lot of their guys did (there was one toward the end of the game that I remember).
I'm not bashing Barwis at all with this, he's obviously done a terrific job of getting our guys in elite shape, but I remember him saying that a big part of his program is about injury prevention. Can these injuries be pegged on him? Or are they more attributable to the fact that injuries just happen as a result of bad luck/some guys being more prone to injury? Maybe someone with more time on their hands could put together a diary comparing injuries at various programs over the past few years to see if the Barwis Effect is helping us.
10 Questions for Barwis
The Toledo Blade had a special segment with Mike Barwis. the stuff on Brandon Graham is sick!


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Pa. Sen. Judy Schwank and Reps. Tom Caltagirone and Mark Rozzi, who stood by Auditor General Eugene DePasquale's side during his news conference on Friday, called on him to conduct the audit in a letter they sent sent to his office in January, citing "a series of disturbing problems that have plagued the district."
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January 8, 2014
14 Days of Love for Him
by Julie
Is your man feeling a little love sick lately with Valentine's Day fast approaching?? It's Doctor Dating Diva here to prescribe him with a very effective remedy. Not only is it simple, but it is sweet, inexpensive, and has a 100% success rate with 0 side-effects. This is a 14 day countdown that is sure to make any guy's heart fill with romance AND remind him that a very important day is coming up- it's a win-win I'd say {wink!}
Are you ready to get started? I thought so!
The next time you are at the pharmacy, pick up a little pill box or you can order two Rectangular Organizer Cases to get started. I found mine at CVS but you should be able to find them about anywhere in a variety of colors.
Zip on down to the store and pick up a variety of miniature candies. Any small candy your husband likes will do. I went to Sprouts (love!) and scoured their bulk candy for the tastiest choices. Jelly beans, M&M's, Reese Pieces, Skittles, Gummy Bears, Red Hots, Mini Conversation Hearts, Smarties… all would be great choices. You don't need very much- I bought WAAAAY more than I needed to but I needed to make sure they tasted good… right?
I will say that the gummy candies did start to loose their softness once I put them into the little pill container, so keep that in mind if you are doing far in advance.
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Just cut the slips of paper apart, fill in your thoughtful sentiments, then fold and place them into your candy-filled pill boxes. Easy-peasy!
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