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Risk Factors for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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A risk factor is something that increases your likelihood of getting a disease or condition.
It is possible to develop carpal tunnel syndrome with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing carpal tunnel syndrome. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.
Risk factors include:
The vast majority of carpal tunnel syndrome cases are work related. People whose occupations involve repetitive work with the hands, such as keyboard operators, factory workers, typists, barbers, musicians, and vehicle drivers, are at increased risk. In addition, people who use vibrating tools, such as jack hammers, chain saws, chippers, grinders, drills, and sanders, for long periods everyday may be at increased risk.
Wrist injuries, such as burns, broken bones, compression, or crush injuries, may increase your risk of developing carpal tunnel syndrome.
Medical Conditions
Having the following medical conditions may increase your risk of developing carpal tunnel syndrome:
- ]]>Arthritis]]>
- ]]>Diabetes]]>
- ]]>Raynaud's disease]]> , which impairs blood flow in the hands
Water retention from:
- ]]>Heart failure]]>
- Kidney problems
Hormone-related conditions
- Pregnancy
- Breastfeeding
- ]]>Menopause]]>
- ]]>Hypothyroidism]]>
- ]]>Cushing's disease]]>
- Excess growth hormone
- Birth control pills
- Cortisone pills or shots
- Some high blood pressure drugs
- Tumors and cysts in the carpal tunnel
Carpal tunnel syndrome is most often diagnosed between the ages of 40-60.
Women are diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome three times more often than men.
Genetic Factors
Inheriting a narrowed carpal tunnel increases your chances of developing carpal tunnel syndrome.
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons website. Available at: http://www.aaos.org/ .
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research website. Available at: http://www.mayo.edu/ .
Last reviewed August 2008 by ]]>Robert Leach, MD]]>
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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Terry& Heather Dubrow Cut Kim Kardashian& Kylie Jenner Deep — 'What Are Those Butts Going To Seem Like In 20 Years? '
Knifestyles of the rich and famous.
Bravo and E ! may both fall under the NBCUniversal household … but don't expect their talent to inevitably get along all the time.
In fact, the networks' two biggest franchises — Maintaining Up with the Kardashians and Real Housewives of Orange County – may just have a feud on their hands judging by Dr. Terry and Heather Dubrow 's latest Kardashian/ Jenner shade.
Video: Khlo Kardashian Reveals 'F* cked Up' Face Fillers To Dr. Terry
To promote their new volume, Dr.& Mrs. Guinea Pig Present The Only Guide You'll Ever Need to The Best Anti-Aging Treatments , the Botched doctor and his real housewife spoke to DailyMail on Tuesday about today's hottest beauty tendencies … but objective up slamming their reality TV peers in the process!
Apparently, Terry actually blames Kylie Jenner for get his eldest daughter Maximillia Dubrow interested in lip injections at such a young age, saying:
"You have celebrities like Kylie Jenner moving the plastic surgery needle by doing things normal people wouldn't do. My 12 -year-old is talking about lip augmentations, so we're having dialogues about that at home … It's a scary day. 17 – and 18 -year-olds are talking about liposuction and Botox. Anyone thinking about it needs frank advice."
Kylie didn't change her face until she was at least 16 — so you've still got a few years to defined her straight-out, Ter! Ha!
While their Kylie komments stayed largely tamed … the married couple truly let loose on Kim Kardashian West 's behind, saying 😛 TAGEND
"You know, just when you thought the Kardashians were done their ratings doubled, and the same thing is going to happen with butts."
"What are those butts going to look like in 20 years? "
Dayum, Heath!
Although … we've kind of been wondering the same exact thing, tbh. LOLz !!
Do U think Kim and Kylie are going to take kindly to the Dubrows' claims ??
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America's political system has been a favorite subject of filmmakers for decades. The reasons are clear. There's enough grandstanding, scandal, backstabbing and intrigue in a week on Capitol Hill to fill a season of any network soap opera. Take the latest entry into the genre. Casino Jack, in the early stages of a nationwide rollout, follows the real-life story of so-called super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff who served time in prison for defrauding four Native American tribes out of tens of millions of dollars and trading money and gifts for political favors from some of DC's biggest power brokers. While the scandal landed public officials in prison, the film has landed Kevin Spacey a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) and very positive reviews for Barry Pepper as Abramoff's protégé Michael Scanlon.
Pepper recently sat down with Collider for a wide-ranging conversation. Hit the jump for the interview's full audio and transcript, including his view of Washington, whether he'd run for office, his wild experience on a new Terrence Malick film and his very thorough research to play Robert F. Kennedy.
Some actors shy away from playing real-life subjects. Barry Pepper has specialized in it. Having made three-dimensional portrayals of sports legends like Roger Maris in 61* to the title role in 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story and war heroes in Flags Of Our Fathers and We Were Soldiers, Pepper has deftly moved into the political sphere as Michael Scanlon in Casino Jack and the upcoming mini-series The Kennedys as Robert F. Kennedy. Pepper also gives a standout performance in True Grit, and we'll post our interview with him for that film later this week. However, we started this discussion with a look at his sports background to see if that's where he got his dedication to detail.
Collider: You're known for getting very deep into characters and that takes such a huge discipline. How important was sports, in terms of the influence of the discipline on you with your acting career?
Barry Pepper: I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family. So when it came to the opportunity to play Roger Maris in 61* that was just a dream come true and with Roger batting on the opposite side of the plate as me, I had to learn from scratch.
But also within the research of each character and to become a really good athlete, repetition is so important and, if you're playing basketball, you've got to be on the driveway 'til all hours of the night, until you can't see the ball anymore.
Pepper: Yeah, right.
Acting is very similar, in the sense of discipline.
Pepper: Yeah, we spent probably, at least on that film, several months, before principal photography, just in baseball boot camp with Reggie Smith, the great switch-hitter for the Dodgers. He put us through our paces, both Thomas (Jane who played Mickey Mantle) and I until we were completely blistered and battered and bruised and that really helps you immerse into that world. I mean, that's all you do is you eat, sleep and drink baseball. And then the same with the NASCAR film. I went to race school at (what was then) Lowe's Motor Speedway (re-named Charlotte Motor Speedway earlier this year) and each of them are remarkable experiences, in that you do get so deeply involved in it, that I knew nothing about NASCAR when I first took on the project and yet you come out the other side of it, very deeply steeped in the sport and enjoying it, actually.
It's interesting because you were talking about 61* and 3 (whose subjects of baseball and NASCAR) are so embedded in American culture and you've done so many different films that separate the myth from the reality of the American story whether it's Saving Private Ryan (displaying the brutality of World War II), 3 (which didn't shy away from Dale Earnhardt's personal demons), 61*, where you told just how big of a toll (the race to break Babe Ruth's single home run record) took on (NY Yankees' slugger) Roger Maris, Flags Of Our Fathers (which told the stark reality back home that awaited the men who were in the iconic World War II image of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima) and now Casino Jack. Yet, you grew up in Canada before you set sail (At age 5, Pepper's family sailed around the South Pacific Islands on the family's 50 foot hand-built boat, for 5 years with stops along the way).
Pepper: Uh huh. Well, I'm a dual citizen.
As of a couple of years ago. Right?
Pepper: That's right. Yeah.
Pepper: Oh, wow, you're good. You did your homework. (Laughter). But that's right. Yeah, I grew up on Vancouver Island.
Were you fascinated by the American story as a kid? I mean, did-
Pepper: Well, you know what's funny, as a kid, I was always a Yankees fan. So, go figure. I mean, we didn't have a Major League Baseball team (in Vancouver). My brother was a Yankees fan and I grew up just sort of emulating him, although I think that the Pacific Northwest, primarily Vancouver is so, sort of, influenced by what happens in Hollywood and that's really, sort of, where I cut my teeth in the business because of that overflow of work that came up from California to Vancouver and all of the series and films that were shooting there. American film and television's really what's predominately on television and in the theaters in Canada, so it's really unavoidable, in terms of pop culture, fashion. It's sort of intrinsically connected.
What was your exposure to politics (through your film career) before doing Casino Jack?
Pepper: It would've been We Were Soldiers. I played Joe Galloway, who was the first civilian to be ever awarded a Bronze Star in combat. He was a photojournalist in Vietnam and subsequently became a speechwriter for Colin Powell (at the State Department in 2001-02) and was very involved in politics in Washington and (as a writer for United Press International, U.S. News & World Report, Knight-Ridder Newspapers and McClatchy Newspapers). Anyway, he was the one that really introduced me to the state of things in Washington because we became very close friends and then (with) a few of my films, I would get invited to Vietnam Vet memorials and Veterans' anniversaries and bases around the country and West Point and you'd meet with soldiers and veterans and the more time that I spent in Washington, the more involved I got and seeing it through the eyes of someone like Joe, who is so intimately involved and really had such inside connections, you got a very unvarnished view.
Before doing Casino Jack, what was your view, especially in talking to (Joe Galloway) and seeing DC that way?
Pepper: The only reason that I involved myself in Casino Jack was because of what it ultimately said as a film. It was a cautionary tale to the public about what is currently the state of affairs in Washington, that our democracy is drowning under a tsunami of corporate financing and, you know, a mountain of cash that influences our political process and has irrevocably changed it forever, in my opinion. And even (with) all of the beating of drums that took place during this scandal when it broke by John McCain (who famously co-authored the McCain-Feingold law to regulate campaign financing) and others. Nothing changed. There was no lobbying reform act with any teeth. In fact, it's probably worse than it ever was. Material equality and liberty are intrinsically connected and you can't have an honest, true democracy without equal representation. You know, you see it in the recent midterm elections, record numbers of millions spent on these campaigns. $50-100 million dollars of personal wealth and probably corporate wealth wagered on these elected positions and you and I can't be equally represented if we don't have that kind of cash to get in the race. It's just ballooned so far out of control that I think until people become aware of it, and hopefully through a film like this, they can be made aware of it and exercise their 1st amendment right. Use their voice. Hold their elected officials' feet to the fire and understand that that is the truest form of democracy is dissension and that that's not only their right, it's a privilege. You know? People are tired at the end of a 10-12 hour workday, raising their kids and living their life, that most people in these high-level elected positions feel like they can really get away with whatever they want because the public just doesn't have enough time in the day to keep tabs on them.
I wasn't going to ask you this question, but hearing you talk about it, you're a concerned citizen, would you ever run for office?
Pepper: (Long pause) I don't know. Um, I think it would only be out of sheer desperation. (Smiles) You know I, if I felt like I could be of service in some way, absolutely. I, I think it would be every citizen's responsibility and also privilege to serve, but boy, it would be a very, I think, frustrating town to work in. You know, it's much like my business. You know, it's mostly theater. It's mostly pageantry. I mean, how else can you explain Sarah Palin? It just doesn't make any sense to me.
Jon Stewart said something along the lines; he said, "The difference between Hollywood and DC is that the people in Hollywood" and I'll clean up the language, "are jerks who think they have power. The people in DC are jerks who actually do.
(Note: Stewart's actual full quote is "The only difference between L.A. and Washington is they think they have power in L.A. They don't. It's the same insular a******s you find on both areas, but in Washington they actually do have power.")
Pepper: (Laughing) Yeah. That's very true. That's great. Is that an original quote of his?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Pepper: Oh, that's good.
Speaking of politics, you're gonna be playing Bobby Kennedy (in The Kennedys, opposite Katie Holmes as Jackie Kennedy and Greg Kinnear as JFK).
Pepper: Yeah. I just finished that.
Did you talk to the Kennedys (for research)?
Pepper: No, I didn't. There was a little bit of difficulty going into the project because the keepers of the Kennedy flame, if you will, were very concerned that the image of Camelot might be eroded and that, I think early drafts of the script might have given them an illusion that it was more of a, a salacious piece, than it really was, but it couldn't have been more opposite. It was such an incredible experience for me. But no, I, I stuck to just my own research, I read every book that has been written on the Kennedys and listened to every phone call between Jack and Bobby and every speech that Bobby gave and really just lived with him for five months that I was involved in the project, basically in my earphones. Just listening to his speeches over and over and over and over again. Everything that I could find, uh, I compiled digitally and he just lived with me, in my ears all day long. But the books are incredible. There's such a vast array of books out there on the Kennedys as you can well imagine, but, you know, specifically Bobby and then I read every book that HE highlighted in his books as being books that were an influence on him. Like, when Jack was assassinated, Jackie gave Bobby a book called The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton and that was a very, very important book to him, to both of them really, and it's what, was one of the, the keys to his healing some of his suffering and confusion at the time and then I read, you know, other books tbat were somewhat more controversial like (Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story) about their relationship and then, of course, you read other books that are also somewhat controversial, by Seymour Hersh; The Dark Side Of Camelot. Then you read all the other ones that are considered to be the foremost authorities.
Pepper: On, on The Kennedys and the ones that are, kind of, more mainstream and so, I really covered my bases, in terms of research and the, The History Channel also just compiled a, a tremendous amount of documentaries and just real footage and material for us to wade through. So, it was a mountain to research that was just ongoing throughout the entire production. It really just never ended. I thoroughly enjoyed that, but I hope to meet them. You know, even playing Roger Maris, the family was quite hesitant about being involved with HBO.
Private. Such a private family.
Pepper: Very, very private. And then after the film came out, they welcomed me with open arms. We screened the film at the White House together and they just loved it. They were very grateful (for) the care and the sensitivity that HBO took to represent their father and husband. Roger, I should say. And I became dear friends of their family. And with Casino Jack, I wasn't able to meet Mike because he was- excused himself from Washington.
I'd imagine so.
Pepper: And he was actively cooperating with the investigation so it wasn't available to me, but I was able to speak to his friends and colleagues and co-workers and was given a tremendous amount of information that I would've never been able to get from books and articles.
Have you heard through friends of Scanlon what he thought about the film being made? Have you heard, like, what his reaction was, at all?
Pepper: No. No, we haven't, but Kevin (Spacey) got to speak at length with Jack (Abramoff) in prison and so, that was, that was quite informative. Like I say, all of my information came through friends and co-workers and colleagues that had worked in Mike's office. Such an interesting personality. Such a schismatic personality in the sense that he's holding down this $10/hour lifeguard job through the entire time that he's making millions as a PR consultant and lobbyist with Jack Abramoff.
And for a smart guy, making the dumbest decisions.
Pepper: Incredible, but he was this truly pure surfer dude. (That) really was the life closest to his true self was this surfer dude living the life as this lifeguard on the beach and yet, all the while he was in Washington, he was a completely different guy. You know-
Well, it makes, it makes actually perfect sense, if he was a surfer that he was riding that wave. (Pepper laughs) And I'm not saying that in a pun kind of way, but literally as this thing is cresting, he's going let me see where it takes me.
Pepper: Oh, it was like a narcotic, for sure. You know, he was a very hail fellow well met sort of country club type guy running these elaborate schemes and then, here he is off at Rehoboth Beach (in Delaware) working for $10 an hour as a lifeguard! Holding, holding down that job the whole time and I, and so I was just fascinated by that character study. Absolutely fascinated! And I can absolutely understand why he was swept up into it. I mean, you can't remove culpability from all the others that were involved. Even the casino- or the Indian tribes, I should say, that opportunity to access power and wealth, by exchanging cash or lavish gifts for legislative favors was like a narcotic to them, too.
Pepper: I mean, there was a lot of people that (were) very involved in the scandal that really didn't suffer the blows that Mike and Jack did and so in that respect, I have a modicum of sympathy, 'cause they were really thrown under the bus as the fall guys for this, but you know, nothing has changed. Ten more guys have taken their place. They say they're trying to clean it up, but they never will because it's such a gravy train for their re-election campaigns that neither –
It's "Follow the money."
Pepper: The Democrats, nor the Republicans will ever clean it up.
Pepper: (Smiling) That's up to you and I. (Laughter)
You were talking about The Kennedys and you just worked with Rachel Weisz (on Terrence Malick's currently untitled new film) who's doing (Darren Aronofsky's film about Jacqueline Kennedy) Jackie.
Pepper: No, I never did work with her.
Oh, you didn't.
Pepper: But she was on the same film.
Pepper: That's the nature of a Terrence Malick (Days Of Heaven, The Thin Red Line) film (laughter). Because our two characters never knew each other existed. I don't know. I don't even know her storyline in the film.
Oh, really. What's your storyline in the film?
Pepper: I couldn't tell you.
But you're playing "Father Barry."
Pepper: I can partially tell you but I couldn't tell you what the script is about because I never received a script.
Wait. Ok, because we hear it's about a fisherman.
Pepper: (Smiling) Ok. (Laughter) Well, then you know as much as I do or more.
So, wait, what do you know?
Pepper: I only came in and played my part. That's all I know. That was what was so wonderful about it.
What is your character?
Pepper: I believe it's not any breach of confidence because that's, I've, I've read it many times on the internet that Javier Bardem and I play priests. But that's really all that I can tell you.
(Note: there is unconfirmed word that the plot focuses on a failed writer played by Ben Affleck in a loveless marriage who does, indeed, go fishing to clear his head. Click on the link for further spoilers)
Pepper: (Laughs) No, but I mean, you know, there are cer-, there are certain obligations that you have, but I'm being absolutely honest with you in saying that I don't know what the story is about. All I know is my involvement, which is a small chapter within the film, so, which to me was absolute joy to work with him on that level because it was so free and so, unlike anything I'd ever experienced. Never been involved in a project where you're not handed a concrete screenplay, but to me it was just like floating down a river. You know, you really just had to go with it, or else… You just really had to float because it was such a free process that if you fought it, you'd, you'd just start drowning. (Laughs)
Yeah. Well, thank you so much.
Pepper: Yeah, my pleasure.


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Winona Ryder was in our etalk lounge today. It's impossible how beautiful she is. Like, you can't even imagine how much more beautiful in person. Anyway, as far as I know, the conjuring hasn't worked yet. Winona's premiere is tonight. Johnny was here for the documentary West Of Memphis on Saturday. Wearing this.
It's like...it's like he's adding more of it, right? More cuffs, more chains, more feathers, more buckles, more belts, more rings, more necklaces, good god, I mean does it ever come off, or does he have to reapply every single time? I feel like he reapplies every single time.


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PRINCESS ANNE, MD - (Nov. 8, 2013) - Civil rights attorney Richard L. Mays Sr. of Little Rock, Ark., chairman of a new regional TV network, will be the graduation speaker at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore next month.
The widely traveled Mays will deliver the commencement address at the 17th winter graduation exercises scheduled for Dec. 13.
Mays is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he received the Phi Beta Kappa award for Outstanding Scholastic Achievement. His law degree is from the University of Arkansas and is a senior and founding partner of Mays, Byrd & Associates, P.A. (formerly, Mays & Crutcher, P.A.), which he established in 1977.
Earlier this year, Mays helped launch "Soul of the South," a regional television network geared to African-Americans. It produces original programming and news broadcasts to viewers in Little Rock, Dallas, much of Louisiana, Florida's Panhandle as well as in the New York, Philadelphia and Chicago markets. Its business plan calls for programming to be available in Washington.
Mays worked at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. under the Attorney General's Honor Graduate Program before returning to Arkansas to serve as a public prosecutor.
After entering private practice, he ran successfully in 1972 for a seat in the Arkansas General Assembly, becoming one of the first African Americans elected to the state legislature in the 20th century.
President Bill Clinton, during his first term as Arkansas governor, appointed Mays in 1980 to fill an unexpired term on that state's Supreme Court. In 1990, Clinton appointed Mays to the Arkansas Ethics Commission and was its first chairman.
After Clinton was elected president in 1992 and re-elected in 1996, Mays served on both inauguration planning committees.
In 1993, he served as a member of the U.S.-South Africa Business Development Committee. From 1993 to 1995, Mays was Senior Vice President of Cassidy & Associates, a public affairs firm in Washington, D.C.
For more than 10 years, Mays was a consultant to CMS Energy of Jackson, Mich. in connection with the development and expansion of a 330-megawatt power plant in Takoradi, Ghana.
In 2001, then-Gov. Mike Huckabee appointed Mays to the Arkansas Economic Development Commission and in 2003, appointed him to the Arkansas Banking Board. He joined the Arkansas Claims Commission in 2006 and currently serves as co-chair.


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There are many things that are inefficient in the Marine Corps. One of them is the supply system. I don't understand why it takes so long to receive supplies, that is, if we even receive supplies. I spent $200 in Afghanistan on necessary supplies. I knew my bosses weren't going to get them, those lazy bastards.
People in supply, get hooked the fucked up! I remember walking in one supply office and everyone's got their own mahogany wood desk, black executive swiveling leather chairs that roll around, wireless mouses, wireless keyboards, flat screen monitors for their computers, that were all up-to-date and all that shit. I remember one time, supply hooked up all the SNCOs and officers with their own deployment bags, which were freaking nice, and expensive ass watches. Is this really how we spend the tax payer's money?
Also, in order to get stuff from supply, apparently, you have to know someone in supply. Or you have to know a guy who knows a guy in supply. The normal route is always inefficient so Marines have to go around and use the backdoor. I remember in Afghanistan, I was wearing these really shitty pairs of boots. I figure, we're in Afghanistan, the sandiest bitch on the planet. My Sergeant demands I go get new boots because I look unprofessional. I tell him that there is no where to get new boots. He says he'll take me to a guy that knows a guy in supply. So I went off with him and reluctantly took these brand new boots, which I'm sure someone was really waiting for. A few months later, those new boots looked like shit because we're IN AFGHANISTAN.


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In our first installment, we took you through the process of removing our old, tired, and not terribly exciting small-block. We also showed you how we prepped our '69's engine bay for the installation of a new Tri-power EFI big-block.
Part 2 was a step-by-step build plan showing how, with the help of a select list of high-performance suppliers, we assembled this 21st century Rat motor.
This month, we'll install all the new upgrades we've chosen, along with the main ingredients of our project—specifically, the engine, a super-duty Gearstar 4L60E transmission, and a made-to-order, bulletproof rearend from Precision Corvette Differential.
There's a learning curve with every "first-ever" build, and it quickly became apparent that our C3's stock automatic transmission didn't have a chance of handling the new big-block's output. So we switched to a Gearstar Level 4 electronically controlled 4L60E/four-speed automatic. It has an 11-inch, custom-stalled, full-billet, lock-up torque converter, and it's built to handle up to 650 hp and 600 lb-ft of torque. Follow along now as we find out what it takes to get a transmission to Level 4 capability.
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Gearstar Performance Transmissions says it "custom builds your transmission to order." Fortunately, that's a fact and not just a slogan. Much as you would when having a bespoke suit made, you'll speak directly to one master tech, who will then build your transmission—based on your specific requirements—from start to finish. The journey to building a Level 4/4L60E starts with qualifying the case, then high-pressure washing and bead-blasting it. It's then re-washed, re-inspected, and painted.
The reassembly process begins with a master overhaul kit with Kolene steels and Raybestos racing frictions. Gearstar uses a carbon- fiber, super-wide 2-4 band that utilizes 100 percent of the available surface area. Two valvebody-reprogramming kits are used to improve shift quality and durability, and all of the internal electrical parts are replaced with updated components. A complete bushing kit; new, heavy-duty Torrington bearings; and new thrust washers are also installed.
To handle the additional torque, Gearstar uses a high-capacity pump with a hardened rotor and vanes. The input drum is hardened and reinforced with a billet sleeve to greatly increase strength, and the clutch drum is also modified, allowing it to tolerate higher rpm levels. Additional clutches and steels are added, which boosts clutch capacities by 30 percent. The Level 4/4L60E also incorporates a fully rollerized planetary gearset that provides enhanced durability and greatly reduces power-robbing drag. The four-pinion OE planetaries are replaced with hardened five-pinion steel planetary gearsets.
This Level 4/4L60E is one of the most flexible fully electronic transmission packages available, allowing us to completely customize shift timing, shift feel, and lock-up application. The bottom line is that every part of the transmission is brought up to super-duty specs so it can handle the power and deliver years of trouble-free service. And Gearstar guarantees every transmission it sells. Welcome to Level 4.
Supporting Mods
In addition to the transmission, we needed to address a number of items that, upon closer inspection, didn't look up to the task at hand. The first thing we did was treat ourselves to the beauty and durability of powdercoating. There's a whole list of powdercoating shops in the Atlanta area where we live, but the name that kept coming up was Miller's Powder Coating. That's probably because Bill Miller is a true hot rod and motorcycle enthusiast and has done powdercoating work for virtually every car and bike club in the state.
Once we had our upper and lower control arms coated, we were hooked. We ended up powdercoating the entire front suspension, the trans crossmember, the rear-diff crossmember, and a few other odds and ends. Miller's can even powdercoat your entire chassis in virtually any color you'd like.
Now that our chassis was cleaned and painted, and our front suspension powdercoated, we were loath to reinstall the stock power-assist slave cylinder. It's always leaked, and we were told that a new stock-replacement unit would end up in the same condition in just a few months. The best remedy was to upgrade to a new Borgeson power-steering box. It offers better road feel, a quicker turning ratio, and eliminates the slave cylinder completely. The Borgeson kit is complete and includes the hoses, lines, and a new rag joint as well. The installation was straightforward and, best of all, uneventful.
It didn't make sense to reinstall old brake pads or shock absorbers, either. We chose to upgrade both the pads and rotors with new units from EBC Brakes. They're specifically designed to work with stock Corvette calipers, and their rotors are slotted and partially drilled to avoid cracking. We painted the calipers with caliper paint to complete the look.
For shock absorbers we were back on the phone with Summit Racing, whose techs recommended QA1 adjustable gas units. We also replaced the stock rear multi-spring setup with a single composite spring from Volunteer Vette. It'll deliver better ride quality and reduce a fair amount of weight as well. (Volunteer provided our front big-block springs, too.)
One of the biggest and most noticeable upgrades we made was to eliminate all the stock pulleys and belts and install a Vintage Air Front Runner serpentine belt system, which came complete with a new and more efficient A/C compressor, power-steering pump, and 140-amp alternator.
The Front Runner system is truly a sight to behold. Everything is polished or chromed, the mounts are all one-piece 6061-T6 billet aluminum, and the fasteners and bolts are from ARP. It includes a high-volume aluminum water pump, and the installation is painless. Our only mistake was thinking the job was going to be difficult, which led us to read the install instructions. Vintage Air has simplified this procedure to the point that you can save a lot of time by simply following the picture diagrams.
Prior to lowering the engine between the framerails, we removed the lower pulley for clearance, installed a set of Prothane urethane motor mounts, and then laid our Hedman ceramic-coated headers in place.
Once our big-block found its new home, it was apparent the lower pulley wasn't going to clear the front crossmember. We used a cutting wheel and notched a 1x4-inch section. Another necessary modification involved the power-steering pump. Since it's a universal pump, we needed to cut off the plastic return fitting and drill and tap the hole for a 90-degree fitting. This allowed it to clear the upper-control-arm cross-shaft.
Finally, it was time to bolt up the Gearstar 4L60E. But first, we needed to install the Denny's HD driveshaft into the rear-differential yoke. The front of the driveshaft slips into the back of the trans, and the trans is raised to finish the installation. Our new trans does have a slightly larger billet servo on the side, which initially made contact with the trans tunnel. Using a small Dremel attachment, we cut a 2x3-inch notch in the tunnel to accommodate it. We'll need to remove the carpet on the passenger side of the tunnel and re-glass this cut at some point, to keep road noise and heat from entering the interior.
With the engine, trans, and rear diff installations finished, we focused on all the little details necessary to make everything look neat, clean, and professional. We mounted the FAST computer on the inner fender well, and placed the transmission computer in the storage compartment behind the passenger seat. Both are now protected from road damage and rainwater, and still easily accessible if we need to plug in our laptop. The MSD 6 box and coil are mounted on a 1/4-inch aluminum plate and bolted to the firewall right behind the MSD distributor.
Next, we routed our 1/2-inch fuel line and 3/8-inch return line on the outside of the framerail, behind the rocker cover. Here, they're protected from undercar heat and road scrapes, and are completely hidden from view.
For a little more "bling"—and way better cooling—we installed a Be Cool all-aluminum radiator with twin electric fans.
Once we had everything mounted in the engine compartment, we covered our wiring harness with new GM harness covers. They perfectly match the covers on the FAST E-Z EFI harness and give it a clean, modern look. Last but not least, we bled the brakes, had a four-wheel alignment done, checked for leaks, and reinstalled the original hood, which now boasts a reproduction 427 emblem from Volunteer Vette.
Firing it Up
We quickly forgot about all the parts and the hours of labor that went into this build the second we turned the key and heard the engine explode to life. Yes, explode. Small-blocks start, and it's fairly uneventful when they do. When a big-block starts, it sounds like a bomb going off. I clearly remember the first time I heard an original 427/435 fire up. It had side pipes, and it scared the life out of me—the kind of scared when you can't stop smiling.
David Fulcher took the first spin…literally. As he dropped the shift lever into "D" and touched the gas pedal, the car spun the tires right there in the service bay.
Don't miss the next issue when, along with final photos, we'll have the complete report from Walden's dyno, a full road-test review, and our driving impressions—including braking, steering response, handling, acceleration, and even a fuel-mileage summary. See you then.
Bulletproofing Our IRS
Bulletproof and IRS are two words you don't normally see in the same sentence. The guys making 500-plus hp and more than 500 lb-ft of torque usually run it through a solid-axle rearend. But Corvettes since 1963 have been built with an independent rear suspension (IRS) for good reason. The ride and handling from an IRS are far superior to the antiquated design of any solid- axle rear. Unfortunately, your Vette's IRS was never designed to handle more power than the factory engine developed, so getting it to cope with our big-power big-block started with some very stout race-ready parts. The source—Tom's Differentials.
The parts list from Tom's is extensive, but cut corners here and you'll find yourself stranded on the side of the road. Tom's provided a 3.73 U.S. gearset, an oversized and hardened cross-shaft, a 31-spline spindle kit, a billet 1330 pinion flange, Eaton solid clutches, a hardened spider-gearset, and 30-spline inner stub axles. Throw in the fact that every nut, bolt, and shim are hardened, and you'll see we've basically replaced everything but the case. After all, to do it right, all the "weak links" in the system need to be removed from the equation.
While we were at it, we also tossed the original trailing arms and ordered new arms, bearing supports, and parking-brake components from Lonestar Caliper.
With parts in hand, it was time to move on to the machining, setup, and assembly of our rear diff. The experts at Tom's warned us that there are only a handful of machinists left who have the experience to build an IRS capable of handling this type of power. The reason? It's an incredibly time- and labor-intensive process, and everything inside the diff needs to be set to within thousandths of an inch. At the top of the "recommended" list was Mike Dyer, a 35-year veteran and the owner of Precision Corvette Differential.
Dyer starts by cleaning and media blasting everything, and then boring the new carrier to fit the oversized axles and cross-shaft. He machines a new flat for the cross-shaft lock bolt that is 0.060 deeper, then radiuses the edges and polishes the carrier to remove any casting imperfections. The clutches are pre-scuffed so they're already seated before you turn the first wheel, and the spider gears are shimmed to 0.002 backlash. The ring gear is installed with Loctite, and the axles are machined to 0.005 endplay. Even the tips are polished.
The ears on the case are also machined off for axle clearance, and the bearing-cap holes are drilled and tapped for 1/2-inch bolts. (Dyer machines these HD caps from raw blanks.)
The Timken bearings and races for the carrier and case are installed next, followed by the pinion and carrier themselves. The gears are then set up by pattern—and then the whole thing is disassembled and cleaned to surgical standards.
Finally, Dyer does it all over just to make sure it's perfect. The final assembly includes the installation of the new Torrington stub axle bearings, along with the pinion and crush sleeve; the pre-load is then set to 15 in-lbs. The carrier is then installed and set to 0.007 backlash. As with building a race engine, everything is checked and rechecked.
When we received the complete rear diff and new trailing arms (which Dyer also built), one spin of the axle stubs told us everything we needed to know. The fresh setup had that smooth, almost silky feel that only comes with a machined part that's perfectly on spec. Our project now truly has a Precision Corvette Differential.
While we were at it, we ordered larger-diameter, "nitrous-ready" halfshafts and a new HD main shaft from Denny's Driveshafts. (The Denny's units come complete with heavy-duty universal joints as well.) By comparison, our old half- and mainshafts looked like they came out of a Corolla. Denny's even used our old parts as a template for size, length, and correct yoke spline, to make sure everything will go back together just the way it came out.
So there you have it: big-block power, a super-duty transmission, a bulletproof rear diff, and a set of nitrous-ready halfshafts and mainshaft. Guess where the weak link is now? The rear tires. We're gonna shred 'em like mozzarella cheese.


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When I was younger one of my favourite cartoons on tv was Gatchaman. Don't remember it?
Well actually that's what they called it here in Japan. You might know it better as Battle Of The Planets or G-Force. Like many of the other popular cartoons of the time, I had no idea these anime all originated from Japan.
Last week I went to my special place in Shibuya and saw some small Gachapin dressed up as Gatchaman. I didn't buy them then, but seeing they were still there today I decided to snap them up for 420 yen.
There are three of them.
Mark (what they called him in BOTP), in his normal number one shirt and another in his "bird" suit.
The other one has him driving the Phoenix, the cool spaceship that turned into a fiery bird whenever the guys were in big trouble.
If you're familiar with my blog, you'd know I think Gachapin is one cool, little dinosaur.
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Gachapin is Gatchaman
When I was younger one of my favourite cartoons on tv was Gatchaman. Don't remember it?
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The north of Germany is known for its plains, but at just under 500 metres high, the Ith and Hils in Germany's Central Uplands are the exception to this rule. Hikers can immerse themselves in nature on this 81 kilometre circular route.
The Ith-Hils Trail is close to Hamelin, the town of the famous Pied Piper. Perhaps the legendary rat-catcher also trekked across the peaks of the two ridges. The Ith and the Hils are both fantastic for climbing. The rocks even have funny names: "Adam und Eva" (Adam and Eve), "Kamel" (Camel) and "Teufelsküche" (Devil's Kitchen). So when hiking, you can tell the story of how Adam and Eve roasted a camel in the devil's kitchen. Yet there are also caves, vast forestland and a few observation towers with panoramic views.
On the ridge of the Ith-Hils Trail, enjoying nature is top priority. We find cosy taverns and elegant hotels in Coppenbrügge, Delligsen and Salzhemmendorf at the foot of the two hills.
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University Park, Pa. — Penn State student-athletes continue to make better progress toward graduation in comparison with the nation's Division I institutions, despite higher academic standards than required, according to data released Wednesday (May 6) by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
The NCAA released data from the 2007-08 academic year as the fifth set of results in the Academic Progress Rate (APR), a formula introduced in 2005 as part of the Division I Academic Performance Program. The NCAA released sport specific data for 2007-08 to each institution, as well as the most recent four years of collected data that is used to determine a rolling four-year (multi-year) APR score for all athletic teams to provide a meaningful assessment of a team's academic performance.
Three Penn State squads have a perfect multi-year APR score of 1,000 - field hockey, women's lacrosse and women's tennis. Just 7.2 percent of the nation's 6,323 teams in the survey earned a four-year APR score of 1,000.
Among Penn State's 29 varsity teams, 23 have a four-year APR score at or above the Division I average for their respective sports. The NCAA did not release institutional APR rates for 2007-08 or the multi-year rate.
Nine Nittany Lions squads have multi-year APR scores that rank in the Top 20 percent nationally for their respective sport: men's basketball, women's cross country, field hockey, football, women's golf, women's lacrosse, softball, women's tennis and wrestling. An additional six Penn State teams rank in the Top 30 percent nationally for their respective sport.
Penn State has the highest multi-year APR score among Big Ten football teams, while the Nittany Lion basketball team ranks No. 3 in the Big Ten. The Nittany Lion football and basketball squads and the Lady Lion basketball team all improved their APR score by at least nine points from the 2008 NCAA report.
"We continue to be very pleased with the consistently high level of academic achievements of our student-athletes," stated Tim Curley, Director of Athletics. "Their academic success is a credit to their outstanding work-ethic and dedication. Our coaches deserve credit for identifying and recruiting student-athletes that are able to excel in the classroom, compete for championships and represent Penn State. The encouragement and guidance they receive from our faculty and academic support personnel also are a critical component in our academic successes."
In April, five Nittany Lion teams - field hockey, softball, women's lacrosse, women's tennis and wrestling - earned NCAA Public Recognition Awards for having APR scores in the top 10 percent nationally for their respective sport during the 2007-08 academic year.
Penn State's five honored teams were tied for second-highest in the Big Ten Conference. The Nittany Lions have placed second in the Big Ten all three years of the NCAA's Public Recognition program.
Penn State student-athletes earned a record Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 89 percent compared to a 78 percent average for all Division I institutions, according to NCAA data released in October 2008. Twenty-two of Penn State's 25 teams earned a GSR score above the national average (track and field and cross country are counted as one sport) and 21 Nittany Lion teams earned a GSR higher than the national average for their respective sport.
Eleven Penn State squads earned a GSR of 100 percent, according to the 2008 NCAA report.
Penn State academic standards (Faculty Senate Policy 67-00) are higher than both the NCAA and Big Ten standards and are reflected in the APR reporting to the NCAA. Nittany Lion student-athletes are required to have passed more credits entering their fifth through eighth semesters than the Big Ten and NCAA require. Penn State student-athletes also must have a higher grade point average than the Big Ten minimum entering their second through sixth semesters.
The APR scores are a measure of eligibility and retention/graduation for each student-athlete receiving athletic aid during the identified academic semester/year. Retention is evaluated for each student-athlete with the following question in mind: Did that student-athlete return to the institution the next semester (students can earn 2 points after the fall semester and 2 points after the spring and summer semesters)? Eligibility is evaluated using NCAA, conference (if applicable), and institutional standards.
The APR is based on four years of data, with the most current year's data added and the oldest year removed to create a four-year (multi-year) rolling rate.
Contemporaneous financial aid penalties can be applied if an athletic team's multi-year APR score is below 925. If a team's multi-year score is below 900, that team could be subject to historical penalties.
None of Penn State's 29 varsity sport programs team has a multi-year APR below 925.
The Penn State football team has the highest multi-year APR score among Big Ten football squads at 976, an increase of 12 points from the 2008 report. The Nittany Lions easily surpassed the Football Bowl Subdivision (Division I-A) average of 941 and the Division I public institution average of 931.
The Nittany Lion basketball team has a four-year APR score of 975, an increase of 11 points from last year, and significantly above the Division I men's basketball average of 933 and the public institution score of 924. Penn State posted the Big Ten's third-highest APR figure among men's basketball teams for the second consecutive year, trailing only Illinois and Michigan State.
The Lady Lion basketball squad has a multi-year APR score of 962, an improvement of nine points from the 2008 report, and six points above the public Division I women's basketball average of 956 and equal to the Division I average for women's basketball programs.
Penn State's student-athletes, who have captured 17 Big Ten Championships during the past four years and six NCAA titles in the past two years, consistently have been among the nation's most successful in earning their degrees. Among some of their recent academic accomplishments are:
- A school record nine Nittany Lion student-athletes were selected to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® team during the 2008 Fall semester, including six first team honorees.
- According to 2008 NCAA data, Penn State's 2001-02 entering freshman class earned a record 84 percent federal graduation rate among student-athletes, significantly above the 64 percent for all Division I institutions. The four-year federal graduation rate average for University Park student-athletes was 82 percent, again well above the national average of 63 percent, and second to Northwestern (88) in the Big Ten.
- African-American student-athletes at Penn State continue to graduate at much higher percentages than at other Division I institutions. Seventy-nine percent of African-American student-athletes that entered Penn State in 2001-02 graduated, highest among Big Ten Conference institutions and significantly above the national Division I average of 53 percent.
- Penn State's African-American student-athlete GSR was 80 percent, again significantly above the Division I national GSR average of 62 percent. Penn State was second only to Northwestern among Big Ten schools in the African-American four-year federal graduation rate and GSR.
- Of the Penn State student-athletes in the NCAA studies from 1992-93 through 2001-02 who exhausted their eligibility, 96 percent left with their diplomas.


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One morning around 18 months ago I was standing atop a drought-blighted hillside graveyard. The Fiji national anthem was played at one point, which was distinctly strange because this assembly of martyrs was outside Harare in the cursed African nation of Zimbabwe. Perhaps the bandmaster liked the tune, but most of the people there were, for survival's sake, blindly loyal to one nearby man; Robert Mugabe. He gave a rambling speech about the glories of his liberation wars and went on about how the world did not understand Zimbabwe and its traditional ways. You feel physically ill when in the presence of such diatribes; what you see with your own eyes makes a complete mockery of the words. Mugabe is 83 years old; the life expectancy of ordinary Zimbabweans is just 33. He's consuming his own people in pursuit of immortality.
Now for the benefit of Fiji's current rulers – whose restricted intellects can be seen from the fact that if they had thought for a minute, they wouldn't have staged a coup at all – I do not equate Fiji with Zimbabwe. Nature has been very cruel, of late, to Zimbabwe; she has always been generous to Fiji. It's merely its citizens who make a mess of it.
Still, some accidental parallels are present. Mugabe's thugs were running Operation Murambatsvina, aimed at driving opposition supporters out of the pathetic squatter camps they were obliged to live in. Over 700,000 people lost their homes. The translation of Murambatsvina is "clean up". Voreqe Bainimarama shares Mugabe's clean up fetish.
What made me think of the anxious morning on Zimbabwe's Heroes Acre was listening to Colonel Pita Driti's April 12 speech at Queen Elizabeth Barracks (QEB). It sounded the same xenophobic rant. Driti later seemed to realise that he'd removed his own big toe with his shots. He also demonstrated vividly his personal ambitions to take power. Is he the next Shane Stevens? That he is part of the Murambatsvina Triumvirate is odd; am I the only one to remember his distinctly ambiguous behaviour during George Speight's coup. That he did not end up in Nukulau is a tribute to his craftiness; or quiet recognition that he leads a significant and dangerous clique within the Republic of the Fiji Military Force (RFMF). Coup V or VI is going to come from him. Some one other than Ilisoni Ligairi turned the 1st Pacific Meridian Squadron aka the Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit from a specialist defender of democracy to an enemy of it. That person is still in the RFMF and don't imagine for a moment the new anti-corruption squad will go after him.
Whatever virus Driti had was catchy because Bainimarama was also foot-shooting under the guise of a war on Washington (Please, some one, lend him a copy of Peter Seller's "The Mouse that Roared" – just to lighten things).
So, why am I now writing my own invitation to a re-education session at QEB? One reason is the fate a couple of contacts in Suva. One used to be outspoken but had a QEB conference session and is now a quiet little mouse. Remember "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"; military lobotomy and all is quiet. Another was always good for coffee, including the day before Murambatsvina. Righteous outrage followed but then something happened; the coup turned out to be aimed, not at clean up, but at indigenous rule.
This too is a post humorous tribute to Robert Keith-Reid. Way back in 1987 he was hauled up to QEB for a severe thrashing in the name of Sitiveni Rabuka. He used to speak of it later, with a kind of shudder, but unlike the current generation of pussy cats, it did not shut him up. He was angry and outspoken right up until his death during the elections last year. The first time he went back into QEB after 1987 was in 2000 to witnesses Bainimarama announce his First Coming as the Saviour of Fiji.
I've also some obligation thanks to "Speight of Violence; Inside Fiji's 2000 coup" which I wrote with former Foreign Minister Tupeni Baba and his academic wife Unaisi Nabobo-Baba. As anybody who has read it will realise, I carried most of the narrative and expressed most of the opinions over what the coup was about. The Babas wrote personal accounts, one as a hostage, the other as a waiting wife. In the book I wrote Fiji had not confronted the real lessons of 2000. Because of this, I wrote two years ago, Fiji, would quickly suffer another coup.
It had been a good exercise in writing a history of an event a couple of years on; the trivial and the significant become re-arranged.
Now it can be argued that 2000 real coup was not when Speight and whoever else he had in his band overthrew the always venal Mahendra Chaudhry on May 19, 2000 (one can only speculate on whether the family scrapbook containing all his statements on the importance of democracy made in 1999-2000 are being kept). It wasn't Speight who ultimately kept Chaudhry out of office after he got his freedom. It was not Laisenia Qarase. The man who usurped power in 2000 was Bainimarama.
Perhaps this was why he was always so angry with Lieutenant Colonel Filipo Tarakinikini. Was the handsome hill tribesman really in on the first Bainimarama coup - only they fell out in a battle for the spoils. Tarakinikini is Fiji's Molotov; in perpetual exile waiting for an ice pick. Driti was with the other coup.
May 2000 had nothing much to do with Speight at all; the bald one was an opportunist who dropped the ball. Bainimarama did too, but he eventually got rid of those who blocked him.
What his actions underscore too is the danger implicit in the RFMF's existence. In its entire lifetime it has not driven off one foreign enemy. It has not fought one single battle in its own right in its existence. Its only combat was as part of a New Zealand force in the Solomons and while their endeavours there were heroic, they were not influential or particularly outstanding. They were not called upon again to fight after the Solomons. For much of their life too they have been a a racially based force; a matter of shame they have yet to recognise.
Their peacekeeping work is no doubt worthy, but lets make it clear here. Nations provide soldiers for such duties for one of two reasons; because they believe in being good global citizens (in which case the go along with the global rules), or they need the money. Fiji rejects democracy and it is obvious that they are soldiering, not for a cause, but for the money. Fiji soldiers are the girmit to the world's messed up zones.
It's a complete myth too that Fiji makes money out of war-whoring. The UN pays for some of it, but raising soldiers is still a net cost to Fiji. Putting soldiers into Lebanon, or Croatia or Iraq means Fiji's hospitals do not have the services they would otherwise have. Soldiers in Baghdad mean Vanua Levu's schools do not have books, much less computers. And imagine the clean and reliable water the people of Suva could have if the soldier's money was spent on pipes. Soldiers – any soldiers in any nation – are a drain, dead or alive. Fiji's fascination with soldiering is a costly adolescent boy fantasy. They have, on more than one occasion, systematically wrecked Fiji's economy. They cost a fortune and every so often they stage coups, usually just after the hard pressed civilians have got the GDP moving back into positive territory.
Just imagine if Fiji had no army! Perhaps Tonga might have invaded Lau, and Tuvalu might have plundered Rotuma. A lot of money could have been saved though; Fiji could have made it as a First World nation. The truth that Fiji's people need to understand is that no one is planning to invade Fiji and if they were there are easier ways to do it. Foreign invaders could just take over Fiji's banks, fast food joints and cinemas. And some supermarkets and the odd island or two; Waikuya for example, or Turtle Island. But, of course, Fiji would never let foreigners take over like that?
And what an incredible joke Fiji and the UN are now playing. They are off to Baghdad to help in the no doubt noble venture of keeping warring Muslim factions from destroying each other. Meanwhile back in Fiji various Sunnis are actually filing in the previously elected posts around the place. It has a kind of manic madness about it all.
Epeli Ganilau (seeing the cohorts have scrapped the GCC the "Ratu" business can now be skipped) gave a press conference last December just after the coup. In the elections earlier in the year his cobbled together political party had won no seats and few preferences. It was worse; no one could remember what it was that his party even stood for. But packed into his pokey little office near Marist he told us all we had to accept reality, roll over and surrender. Help the new order, he said. He was duly rewarded with a military burble in a cabinet no one recognises. I was struck with the way a former military commander simply surrendered like that. He just gave up (unless, of course, he was part of the coup – but he denies it). Gosh, he said, the odds are too bad, let us drop our arms and bend over. The RFMF has only one significant bravery award to its ranks; that granted Sefanaia Sukanaivalu who was killed trying to fight the inevitable, but was cut down in a heroic defence against impossible odds. Ganilau would define Sukanaivalu was a misguided fool. Surrender, not glory, is his order.
The leadership of Zimbabwe, like those who have claimed Fiji's leadership, are given to exclaiming that the world does not understand them. And that the world should leave them alone, although some of money from those who don't understand would be welcome. Bainimarama and cohorts might want to consider something else: the world does understand what is going on in Fiji. The world does not like it. So long as Fiji wants to help itself the money of other taxpayers, it comes with conditions attached (oh, and Fiji's need for foreign, tainted cash would virtually disappear it it did not have to pay for the RFMF each year).
What Bainimarama has not got – and a lot of Fiji's people seem to have failed to get a grip on – is that the world is simply not going to accept his rule. He can huff and puff as much as he likes but in the end, small countries are obliged to accept global rules. Some go their own way; North Korean and Zimbabwe for example. Its One World Frank; not One World and Fiji!
The global order – with its increasing acceptance of democratic rule (and yes, China is not but who can make it conform to that particular rule) – is actually to the benefit of countries like Fiji. This though is not an argument for globalisation or multilateralism; its much more brutally pragmatic than that. Bainimarama might escape prosecution in a Fiji court, but he's doomed on the global stage where he cuts absolutely no ice. He can strut Mussolini-like for a while for local consumption, but in the end he will realise – as he must – that his triumph is pure mirage. What the Pacific Forum, the Commonwealth, the UN and the neighbours want, they will get. It is an inevitability. The only question is how much damage he and the RFMF will do before the light goes on in their heads.
Have no doubt here, the damage being inflicted to the people of Fiji, by the people of Fiji, is substantial and long term. A slide in GDP might sound strangely academic to most but the reality it translates into is poverty, disease and failure.
Bainimarama launched his second coup (his first was in 2000) differently this time, saying he wanted to end the coup culture. It is up there with the never to be forgotten Vietnam military expression, destroying a village to save it.
Fiji is heading to another coup; the only person who can head it off now is none other than Bainimarama himself.


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You may be older than the target market for Activision and Robomodo's next Tony Hawk game, but perhaps video of Tony Hawk Shred will bring out the kid in you.
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Garth Brooks is back and out of retirement.
Access Hollywood's Nancy O'Dell was the first to sit down and talk with the country superstar about his comeback just before he made his announcement in Nashville earlier this week.
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Family is the most important thing is Garth's life. Eight years ago, at the height of his fame, the top-selling solo artist in U.S. history with over 128 million albums, gave it all up to be home for his and former wife Sandy's three daughters, who are now teenagers.
"Playing music doesn't worry me, it's easy. Making sure [my children are] good, that's what I have started, that's what I'm in the middle of," he told Nancy.
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Now returning to work, Garth isn't reducing his parenting duties. Starting in mid-December, he'll perform select weekends at the Encore Hotel in Las Vegas and will be home in Oklahoma during the week with his girls.
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September's kit is called Seeing Spots (I'm sure you can see why! lol) and I PACKED it with some of my favorite goodies! Here is a pic:
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Missouri Republicans To Tackle Workers' Compensation
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) - Republicans who control the Missouri Legislature plan to make another attempt at revising the state's workers' compensation laws.
Republican lawmakers want to require people with occupational diseases - such as cancer caused by asbestos exposure - to file their claims for money through the workers' compensation process.
Courts currently have interpreted a 2005 Missouri law to allow claims involving occupational diseases to be filed in court. Business groups say that creates uncertainty for employers and could drive up their costs.
But attorneys who represent victims of occupational diseases say the workers' compensation system would not provide an adequate benefits for certain ailments, such as asbestos-caused cancer.
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Building the Application
Both the user interface and the behavior of the Currency Converter are complete now. All that remains for us to do is to build the application executable into a Cocoa application bundle. Apple's tutorial relies on XCode to build the application from Objective-C source files; we will use the Clozure CL IDE to build it from our Lisp source file.
We build the application using the optional BUILD-APPLICATION feature, distributed as part of Clozure CL. The steps to build the Cocoa application are:
- Launch the Clozure CL IDE. It's safest to build the application with a fresh IDE session, so if you have it running, you may wish to quit and relaunch before following the rest of the steps.
- For convenience, set the working directory to your "currency-converter" folder. For example, you can do something like this (using your pathnames in place of mine, of course:):
(setf (current-directory) "/Users/mikel/Valise/clozure/openmcl/example-code/currency-converter/")
- Load the application code:
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- Load the BUILD-APPLICATION feature:
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- Run BUILD-APPLICATION (be sure to correct the pathname to your CurrencyConverter? nibfile. It is safest to use a full, absolute pathname—not the relative pathname you see below):
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USCT at the Battle of Milliken's Bend (June 7, 1863)
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The Battle of Milliken's Bend on June 7, 1863 was only a small part of the Vicksburg Campaign, but this engagement represented another important moment for African American participation in the Civil War. The three African American regiments, which had just been organized during the previous month, played an important part in the Confederate forces defeat. Victory, however, came at a high cost for those three regiments – almost 8% of the men who participated were killed. Yet as historian Richard Lowe observes, this battle "loom[ed] large in the overall history of the Civil War." Even Confederates recognized the significance. "The obstinacy with which they fought…open the eyes of the Confederacy to the consequences" of the decision to allow African Americans to fight, as Confederate General John G. Walker recalled. Reports about the battle were published in newspapers across the country. While "at first [they] gave way," the Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper made sure to note in their short summary that "the colored troops…[saw] their wounded massacred, rallied, and after one of the most deadly encounters in the war, drove the rebels back." A letter published in Harper's Weekly offered a similar account: "It was a genuine bayonet charge, a hand-to-hand fight, that has never occurred to any extent during this prolonged conflict."
(Courtesy of the House Divided Project – "Louisiana," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 27, 1863, p. 210: 2-3 ; "The Fight at Milliken's Bend," Harper's Weekly, July 4, 1863, p. 427: 4.)
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OHIO: Kalida
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Kalida is a Native American word meaning "beautiful," and it suits the town perfectly. The town is home to a lush, green community park and great food festivals, and it is a big proponent of recycling. Kalida is also home to Pioneer Days, the oldest festival in Ohio.
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By: Jeff Crandall
Section 8 Chicago has long provided one of the most creative and vibrant pieces of support both at home and on the road in Major League Soccer. This past Saturday I got to be part of the Fire supporters contingent in Montreal and though we were a small speck among nearly 59,000 fans at Olympic Stadium we sung with unity and provided our own atmosphere for the players throughout the match.
Knowing the atmosphere Section 8 is capable of producing in Toyota Park's Harlem End, the Fire and ISA would like to see it resonate throughout our ground. With that, the club and Section 8 Chicago are partnering to push out the "Stand. Sing. Participate." initiative.
What is S.S.P.?
To improve upon the atmosphere created within Section 8 Chicago, we're pushing all Fire supporters in attendance at Toyota Park to participate in specific chants that originate in The Harlem End.
Have you wanted to sing along with the Section to "Hot Time in Old Town" or "Vamos La Maquina Roja" but not known what the words being sung were? No worries, the Fire and ISA will have you covered throughout the stadium with chant cards to guide you along the way.
This Saturday as you enter the gates at Toyota Park, you'll likely receive a co-branded chant card listing five popular chants in Section 8 Chicago. Miss them at the gate? Find our roving Firestarters or wander over to Section 8 Chicago and grab one! These will also be distributed throughout the entire season!
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We're currently in the beautiful, sun-drenched city of Valencia at Feria Hábitat Valencia 2011 – an annual design fair, which this year attracted some 950 exhibitors from more than 20 countries. And while the industry heavyweights present their relatively recent products from across the furniture, lighting and textile sectors, an impressive number of 40 recent graduates and young, up-and-coming design practices, showcase their talent with an array of innovative, at times surprising, products and prototypes at the coinciding nude (Nuevo Diseño Español) exhibition.
Among those selected for this year's 10th edition of the show is the trio of young Valencian designers
José Gómez, Héctor Muñoz and José Ramón Tarazona of Estudio Estres. Exhibiting at nude for the third consecutive year, today Estudio Estres have come back with a new concept of material combinations, which resulted in the creation of these two, recently-realised designs: an ash side table 'Nort' and a ceramic lamp called 'Beo'.
Here's what Estudio Estres say about their designs:
'Built out of ash wood solid board and phenolic chestnut plywood board, the two pieces that act as table legs fit together in the shape of a cross. A glossy ceramic disc rests on top and a round-shaped board finishes of this peculiar table. Its ceramic touches bestow Nort a special distinction, always following Estres' leitmotiv of mixing materials. The design originates from a planar net where all of its pieces evolve from the same 1,5 cm thick board, fact that helps cutting off production and distribution costs'
'Beo is an ambience lamp that plays with the lightness of its aesthetics and at the time with heavy materials. It arises from the necessity of showing a wide range of morphologies and their relationships with light. This allows for the emphasis of the distinct particular properties of each different material included in the product. Its evanescent presence characterized by its slim profile, its wide diameter and the visual impact of the with ceramic tulip contrasts with the use of heavy materials such as concrete.'
'It includes two pieces: a disc that comes in 3 different finishes – cork, concrete and ash wood-; and a wide circular screen made out of glossy ceramic. This new lamp concept lacks ironworks and thus keeps the pieces in place using their own weight. The concrete herein used is environmental friendly, in collaboration with Tecnalia Reserah & Innovation.'


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Live Video Live Results Heat Sheets Following a fast prelims session, Liberty will have a large representation in Friday night's finals at the CCSA Swimming & Diving Championships in Athens, Ga.
Friday's morning session saw the Lady Flames qualify 12 swimmers to the finals, with eight making A finals and four qualifying for B finals. Liberty qualified 1-2 in both the 100 fly and 100 breaststroke, breaking conference records and setting NCAA B cuts in both events. Jess Reinhardt swam a conference-record and NCAA B-cut time of 53.58 to place first in qualifying for the 100 fly, followed in second by defending champion Bethany Wakeley (55.28). In the 100 breast, Emilie Kaufman broke the conference record with a B cut of 1:01.04, while Laura Day was second in qualifying at 1:01.75, also meeting the B standard.
The Lady Flames qualified three swimmers for the A final in the 100 back (Brye Ravettine – 2nd, 55.46; Emily Duff – 5th – 55.99; Kendall Hough – 8th, 56.31). Cori Gary qualified in sixth for the 200 free A final, in 1:52.18. This evening's action will feature pool-side, live blog coverage as the Lady Flames compete in Athens. Look for coverage to begin shortly before the 6 p.m. finals start with an interactive blog, where all are invited to interact with questions and comments. Day 2 – Finals (6 p.m.) 200-yard Medley Relay "A" 10-minute intermission 400-yard Individual Medley 100-yard Butterfly (Jess Reinhardt, Bethany Wakeley, Ranndi Grubbs) 200-yard Freestyle (Cori Gary, Meghan Babcock, Bethany Wakeley) 100-yard Breaststroke (Emilie Kaufman, Laura Day) 100-yard Backstroke (Brye Ravettine, Emily Duff, Kendall Hough, Chloe Thomas) One-meter Diving (Men) 800-yard Freestyle Relay "A"
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Dewey Weber was a dynamic force in and out of the water. With his blond hair, compact muscular stature, and flamboyant personality he brought surfing to a new level of world-wide recognition. He epitomized the surfing lifestyle launching a trend in surfboard design and fashion that remain the main stay of the surfing market today.
Dewey was the first surfing "star" to establish himself as a leader in the surf business community. In the 1960′s he quickly gained recognition as the most innovative and largest surfboard manufacturer in the world.
He contributed to major advancements in surfboard design and manufacturing technology. He broadened the market base by introducing skateboard and apparel lines to the surf business.
Dewey designed his first garment line in the 1960′s. His surf team of more than 30 athletes, affectionately known as the "Redcoats" hit the beach in 1964 resplendent in full Dewey Weber regalia, making a fashion statement still in evidence in the 1998 Dewey Weber Surf Wear line.
In business since 1960, the company retains it's leadership position in the surf industry. Since Dewey's death in 1993, the Weber family has dedicated themselves to the continuance of Dewey's commitment to excellence in all their product lines. And perhaps, most importantly they stay "close to the soul" of the surfing lifestyle by just going surfing.
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