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Vacuum Forming is awesome, and can produce a lot of parts useful for a lot of projects.
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There will be a flurry of Federal Reserve speakers later this week, and it will be most interesting to see if any try to move away from their traditional hawk-or-dove positions in favor of a more practical stance, said Michael Gregory, head of U.S. economist at BMO Capital Markets.
"What I am looking for is to what extent there is growing pragmatism among policymakers," he said.
Gregory said Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen "laid down the gauntlet" in favor of pragmatism in her speech in Jackson Hole last month. The message of her speech was that looking at the economy using hawkish or dovish glasses can yeild policy mistakes, he said.
At its heart, Yellen's new move to the center is an attempt to convince the market that the Fed is ahead of the curve on inflation, Gregory said. This will be the only way to keep long-term interest rates from shooting higher.
"At the end of the day, the Fed has to be seen to be acting preemptively," Gregory said.
One speech that will get special attention will come from Loretta Mester, the new president of the Cleveland Fed. Mester, a voting member of the Fed policy committee this year, will discuss the economic outlook on Thursday. She has not talked about the economy since since assuming her role in June.
Fed officials will hold their next monetary policy meeting on Sept. 16-17. Yellen will hold a press conference following the end of the two-day discussion. A key question for analysts is whether the Fed changes its forward guidance that rates will stay at zero for a "considerable time" after the central bank ends its bond-buying program, expected in October.
Gregory said the Fed won't replace that language just yet.
Here is the schedule of Fed speakers for the week: On Thursday, Mester of the Cleveland Fed will at 12:30 p.m. in Pittsburgh, Fed Governor Jerome Powell at 7 p.m. in New York, Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher will speak at 8:15 p.m. Eastern in Dallas, Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota will hold a town hall in Helena, Mont. at 9 p.m. Eastern. On Friday, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren will speak at 3:45 p.m. Eastern in Boston, and on Saturday, Charles Plosser, the president of the Philadelphia Fed, will discuss the economic outlook in a speech to a bankers convention in Amelia Island, Fla. at 10:15 a.m. Eastern.
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Sunday, 6 February 2011
As feared
The aftermath of Thursday's gale, as we'd feared. The wind had whipped the heavy netting up and away from the metal pegs anchoring it to the soil, and deposited it neatly along two sides of the cage. We were surprised that any of the cage was left upright. For a minute or two we contemplated taking the whole thing down and leaving the struggling broccoli and kale to their fate. The pigeons had already been right in there.
The ground was so soft that we didn't think the uprights would last long. On the basis that the old ones are the best, we pressed the climbing frame into service. It's been overwintering beside the shed, and we'd planned to dismantle it.
I don't quite know what it reminds me of. A hovercraft? The Apollo command module?
11 comments:
- The Plotkeeper said...
these dastardly pigeons just love brocolli and kale,but your new frame should keep them out.
- 9 February 2011 at 23:15
- Oakland Daily Photo said...
To me it looks like weird playground equipment.
The joys of gardening. Last summer was so cool here that sunflowers finally bloomed in late August and were over in three weeks. Tomatoes didn't begin to ripen until August either. This winter we're having a long period of balmy weather. Can't seem to predict anything anymore. Hopefully your calm, sunny weather will arrive soon.
- 10 February 2011 at 05:15
- BilboWaggins said...
Apollo module, definitely {smile}. Excellent idea to recycle climbing frame, would make a good fruit cage too.
- 10 February 2011 at 07:24
- Mark Willis said...
Linda, I also have some of the Build-A-Ball kit and I find that it collapses quite easily - i.e. it is hard to maintain its rigidity. The climbing-frame looks altogether a better proposition!
- 10 February 2011 at 07:36
- Jo said...
The pigeons haven't stripped the plants completely. I'm sure once spring arrives then the broccoli and kale will put on lots of new growth and will romp away. Hope the climbing frame works better than the cage did.
- 10 February 2011 at 11:13
- Ali said...
Oh dear, and there's a lot of glauc (is that right??!) on the ground too... poor veggies :(
- 10 February 2011 at 12:36
Greetings from Southern California :-)
I added myself to follow your blog. You are more than welcome to visit mine and become a follower if you want to.
God Bless You, ~Ron
- 12 February 2011 at 04:51
- Mal's Allotment said...
Those pigeons - they're just waiting for the opportunity!
- 12 February 2011 at 21:54
- Kris said...
Well, dang! Hopefully the hovercraft will save the brassicas. Take heart..!
- 13 February 2011 at 14:16
- Corner Gardener Sue said...
Hi Linda,
Vegetable gardening sure can be a challenge, can't it? I am really hoping to keep more of what I grow from being consumed by critters. I hope your new structure works.
- 14 February 2011 at 03:08
- Fay McKenzie said...
Oh dear dear dear
1999 perhaps?
Poor you I'm just catching up from Yay, to oh no to oh dear.
Bit of a rollercoaster out there isn't it???
Love the improv!!!
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As the only industrialized superpower not decimated by World War II, the United States once made nearly 40% of the planet's goods. These days, that number has shrunk to 18%. We make American Girl dolls in China, Levi's jeans in Mexico, and enough movies in Vancouver to nickname it Hollywood North.
After decades of outsourcing, however, the U.S. is quietly enjoying a manufacturing revival, and companies like Apple (ticker: AAPL), Caterpillar (CAT), Ford Motor (F), General Electric (GE), and Whirlpool (WHR) are making more of their goods on American soil again. It isn't just U.S. companies that are drawn to our cheap energy, weak dollar, and stagnant wages. Samsung Electronics (005930.Korea) plans a $4 billion semiconductor plant in Texas, Airbus SAS is building a factory in Alabama, and Toyota (TM) wants to export minivans made in Indiana to Asia.
The Rust Belt owes its new shine to many factors, including rising wages and industrial-land costs in Asia. But none is bigger than the U.S. energy boom. Thanks to a head start in extracting oil and gas from shales, North America now produces far more natural gas than any other continent. Unlike oil, gas isn't easily transported across oceans, and a result is some of the world's cheapest energy within our reach: Natural gas here costs $3.55 per million British thermal units, versus roughly $12 in Europe and $16 in Japan. Cheap energy not only reduces our trade deficit and our addiction to Middle East oil, it also makes our factories more competitive globally -- a boon for a country that had gone from exporting American goods to exporting American jobs.
The biggest beneficiaries are energy-guzzling companies like chemical producers and steelmakers, and Barron's has identified eight stocks that should prosper in our gas-fueled manufacturing upswing. They are Southwestern Energy, LyondellBasell Industries, Nucor, Dover, Calpine, CF Industries, Williams, and Union Pacific. But any glow will also rub off on regional lenders, home builders, and local small businesses. "The U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas," declares Nancy Lazar, co-head of the New York research firm International Strategy & Investment. "And Middle America is my favorite emerging market."
Our energy boom got cracking with fracking, a controversial process in which pressurized fluids are pumped through rock formations, often a mile or more under the ground, to extract oil and gas. Critics condemn fracking, which they contend causes environmental harm, but even they agree that it's led to an abundance of cheap gas. Over the past six years, U.S. production of petroleum and natural gas has jumped from 15 million barrels of oil-equivalent a day to 20.1 million, a 20-year high. Over the same period, imports have fallen from 14 million barrels a day to below eight million, a 25-year low.
It's a sign of the times: Graduates from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology -- acceptance rate: 88%; mascot: Grubby the Miner -- now command a median starting salary 16% higher than that of Yalies.
By 2020, the U.S. will become the world's biggest oil producer, says the International Energy Agency. By 2025, North America will be a net energy exporter, predicts ExxonMobil (XOM).
That edge should remain ours for decades. "It isn't just the huge reserves we have underground," says Tim Parker, who manages T. Rowe Price's natural-resource stock portfolios. "No one else has our predictable cocktail of infrastructure already in place, know-how, a relative abundance of water, and a favorable royalty regime that give landowners a stake in the exploration game." Europe, for instance, is averse to fracking and has little infrastructure; Japan has hardly any shales; and while China has vast reserves, only shales nudging the Yangtze River have enough water for fracking.
Of course, an especially frigid winter could send gas prices soaring, but any such spike should be temporary. Given our expanding reserves and record inventory, commodity strategists expect U.S. natural gas to stay between $3 and $5 per million BTUs for years -- well below prices abroad.
CHEAP GAS ISN'T THE ONLY booster in our tank. In the decade since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, that nation has become Earth's low-cost factory. But wages and benefits there are rising 15% to 20% a year, while they're stagnant here. Despite Beijing's efforts to hold it down, the yuan has gained 33% against the dollar since 2005. Industrial land averages $10.22 a square foot across China, but rises to $11.15 in the coastal city of Ningbo and $21 in Shenzhen -- compared with $1.30 to $4.65 in Tennessee and North Carolina. "Within five years, the total cost of producing many products will be only about 10% to 15% less in Chinese coastal cities than in parts of the U.S. where factories are likely to be built," says Hal Sirkin, a senior partner at Boston Consulting Group. Add duties and shipping, and the cost gap shrinks further.
Location-scouting manufacturers also are looking beyond mere costs. Moving part of their supply chains closer to the U.S. -- still the world's biggest consumer market -- helps companies react faster to changes and also speeds innovation, says Gary Pisano, a Harvard Business School professor. Adds Robert McCutcheon, who heads PricewaterhouseCoopers' U.S. industrials practice: "You protect not just the intellectual property of your products, but your processes as well."
Companies, of course, won't completely shutter overseas factories. U.S. corporate taxes are still high, compared with many other countries', and there's a limit to how many jobs will return, given advances in automation and productivity. But BCG's Sirkin conservatively estimates that 2.5 million to five million jobs will be added by 2020, which could shave two to three percentage points from our unemployment rate, now near 7.8%. We'll also expand exports, at the expense of higher-cost developed rivals, such as Germany and Japan. And U.S. ports stand ready and idle, operating at just 54% of capacity, well below 59% in Europe, 67% in Latin America, and 76% in Southeast Asia.
Busier factories would help the entire country. For every dollar spent on manufacturing, another $1.48 is added to the economy, says the National Association of Manufacturers. Another bonus: Manufacturers account for two-thirds of what the private sector spends on research and development.
And we've only just begun: Abundant gas and a weak dollar are long-term trends, and U.S. wages should behave until unemployment falls well below 6%, says Jeffrey Korzenik, chief investment strategist at Fifth Third Private Bank. "Offshoring had gone on for decades, but the re-shoring trend is only in year two or three."
Here are eight stocks that should benefit:
Southwestern Energy (SWN)
Cheap energy is a boon for manufacturers, but a curse for exploration companies, and investors are shunning the producers most exposed to slumping gas prices. With 99% of Southwestern's production and reserves in natural gas, you'd think the Houston company's managers would be anxiously sweating over prices near decade lows.
But they aren't. That's because Southwestern is a highly efficient, low-cost producer. It works its 926,000 acres in the Fayetteville shale with operational aplomb, using dense wells, some of its own rigs, and vertically integrated services. The company has another 187,000 acres in the Marcellus shale. At $34, its shares trade at a small premium to its gassy peers but still a discount to its net asset value.
Ken Settles, who co-manages the RS Global Natural Resources Fund, expects gas prices to hit $5 to $6 eventually. "But the benefit of focusing on a low-cost producer is that, even with gas prices below sustainable long-term levels, Southwestern's assets are still profitable and creating value for its owners."
Southwestern plans to increase 2013 production by 11% to 13%, and analysts see its per-share profit climbing 19% this year. Earnings will grow even more if natural-gas prices rally, but you won't sweat waiting for that to happen.
LyondellBasell Industries (LYB)
Chemical makers guzzle energy and also rely on byproducts from oil and gas purification -- stuff like ethane, butane, and propane -- for raw materials. So the shale boom delivers a double blessing of cheap feedstock and energy. In fact, PwC thinks that we might start seeing more plastic-based substitutes for materials like metal, glass, or wood. That's good news for diversified specialty-chemical giants like DuPont (DD), and also Dow Chemical (DOW), which is investing $4 billion to boost production and build an ethylene plant in Texas that could hire 2,000 workers.
Still, Tim Parker of T. Rowe Price says that the narrower profit margins of more commoditized base-chemical companies might see a bigger boost from the new world order of cheaper feedstock and energy. His pick: LyondellBasell.
Since the Rotterdam-based company emerged from bankruptcy in April 2010, its New York-listed shares have climbed 184%. The shares, recently trading at $62, fetch 10.7 times 2013 profits. LyondellBasell's management team is boosting earnings and returning capital to shareholders through share buybacks and dividends. The stock yields 2.6%. And net profit margins of 5.6% trump the 3.7% average of its peers. With new capacity, cheap feedstock and $14 billion in free cash flow, it can earn $10 a share by 2016 and become a $100 stock, Deutsche Bank analyst David Begleiter maintains.
Nucor (NUE)
Steel-making isn't just another energy-intensive business. Steel pipes and products are integral to energy exploration and transportation, not to mention manufacturing and construction. With 99% of its revenue earned in America, Nucor, the largest U.S. minimill operator and metals recycler, is well-hitched to that energy and manufacturing boom.
The steel industry is vexed by excess capacity, and its volatile stocks surge or slide with temperamental economic data. So it helps that Nucor is more defensive than its peers. Wells Fargo steel analyst Sam Dubinsky favors it over the long haul, "due to its lean cost structure and product diversity, both of which have resulted in earnings at the high head of the peer group." Nucor also is most levered to the bottoming construction market. A healthy balance sheet and a 3.1% dividend yield further burnish the appeal of its stock, recently at $47.78.
Dover (DOV)
Is the U.S. really ready to make more things again? The average age of our manufacturing plants is 15.5 years, while our equipment has been around almost six years. Both are near five-decade highs. "Old equipment and manufacturing plants suggest the need for a large replacement cycle," writes ISI. Over the next five years, the research firm expects capital expenditure's share of the economy to rise from 10.2% to 14%, putting it near its early 1980s peak. That's good news for Dover. The conglomerate makes a vast array of industrial products -- from refrigeration systems and specialty pumps to drill bits and bar-code equipment -- making it a proxy for our manufacturing boomlet.
Compared with other economically sensitive stocks, Dover is more diverse and more stable. Management has allocated capital shrewdly, making acquisitions, buying back shares, and lifting return on capital to 12.4% -- a decade high. Dover has a 2.1% dividend yield, and its 9.7% profit margin trumps the sector's average. Yet its shares, at $67, trade at 12.8 times 2013 profits, a discount to the market and other machinery stocks.
Calpine (CPN)
Calpine is the largest independent U.S. producer of gas-powered electricity, and runs some of the newest, most efficient plants. Just six years ago, nearly half the nation's power came from coal. But gas' share has swiftly risen from a fifth to a third, while coal's has waned.
The ongoing switch to cleaner natural-gas-generated electricity is one reason why Barron's has been bullish about the stock (see "Calpine Gets Ready to Light Up," July 23, 2012). The company also has unused capacity that puts it in the driver's seat as utilities replace decades-old coal plants.
At first blush, that advantage seems well reflected in the shares, which, at $19, fetch 27.6 times 2013 profit estimates of 69 cents a share. But that seemingly lofty multiple is below its median over the past five years, and Calpine is generating more than $1 a share in free cash flow and continuing to pay down debt. "When power prices are low, Calpine benefits by taking market share from less-efficient producers," says MacKenzie Davis, who co-manages the RS Global Natural Resources Fund. "But it also benefits if power prices rise, since margins and cash flow will improve."
CF Industries (CF)
Energy can account for nearly 70% of the cost of producing fertilizer, and Jack Ablin, BMO Private Bank's chief investment officer, singles out CF Industries as a big beneficiary of plentiful natural gas.
The company, which produces nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers, earns 85% of its revenue in the U.S. Shares of Deerfield, Ill.-based CF, at $226, have outrun their peers and climbed 73% over the past two years, the latest leg coming as drought sent corn and soybean prices soaring. Fearful that cyclical earnings have peaked, analysts are downgrading the stock, and investors fret that margins and share buybacks will suffer as management spends $3.8 billion to expand its nitrogen capacity.
But any pullback is an opportunity for long-term investors. Cheap gas costs should keep operating margins near a record 50.1%. Tight corn supplies, low water levels in the Mississippi, and a still-dry Corn Belt should support grain and fertilizer prices, and CF's investment-grade credit rating and low debt let it borrow money cheaply should it need to. Its stock trades at just 8.2 times what CF earned over the past 12 months, well below the 12.3 times median since it went public in 2005.
Williams (WMB)
So why aren't American drivers enjoying a bigger windfall at the pump? For one thing, global demand dictates gasoline prices. After decades of ferrying imported oil, our infrastructure also needs to be re-oriented toward redistributing domestically produced natural gas. That benefits master limited partnerships that operate pipelines, and for investors who want to avoid MLPs' complex tax-filing regimes, their parent companies.
Williams gathers and transports natural gas, and owns 78% of its namesake MLP, Williams Partners (WPZ). It has diverse assets, pays a 3.9% yield, and thrives as demand increases for natural-gas processing and infrastructure.
However, 2012 was the first year in the past 13 in which MLP returns trailed the overall stock market's, thanks to weak gas prices, tax concerns, and profit-taking after years of gains.
Williams Partners, which sports a 6.6% yield, fell 22%. Shares of its parent also struggled after it issued stock to help finance a complicated $2.25 billion investment in privately held Access Midstream Partners and the MLP it controls.
Still, the deal boosts Williams' position in the Utica and Marcellus shales, and adds steady fee income that tempers Williams' exposure to fluctuating commodity prices. Investors fret that Williams, which trades at $34, may have to raise more money, but cash flow of about $1.6 billion this year exceeds the adjusted net income of $816 million that Wall Street expects and should more than cover payouts, letting Williams deliver on its promise to increase dividends at a 20% annual rate through 2015.
Union Pacific (UNP)
All manufactured goods must move from the factories in which they're made to somewhere else. Kansas City Southern (KSU), which has a unique North-South network linking the Midwest with Mexico, could benefit from any spillover of manufacturing south of our border. But the king of rail remains Union Pacific.
Spawned 150 years ago, after Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act, Union Pacific's dense network blankets the map west of the Mississippi. Stephens' transportation analyst Brad Delco flags Union Pacific as one of the rail stocks most exposed to energy-intensive groups like autos, chemicals, and steel. It hugs the Gulf Coast, has the largest U.S. chemical franchise among rail carriers, and hogs 75% of the western U.S. traffic for assembled autos and parts. Its relative absence along the East Coast further shields it from coal's dying embers.
Union Pacific shares have run up 44%, to $133, over the past two years, nearly twice as much as the rail group has. But the stock trades at 14 times projected profits, a small premium to its peers, and no higher than its own historical average. Management has lifted operating margins to a decade-high 36%. The stock boasts a 2.1% yield, and the company has paid a dividend every year since 1899, when the steam engine propelled the U.S. to its first industrial boom. The rail giant's in great shape for the next one
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Carrie Underwood to Debut 'Blown Away' Video on July 30
Ever since we saw the haunting trailer for Carrie Underwood's 'Blown Away' video, we've been dying to see the finished product. Luckily, we only have to wait a few more days to engulf ourselves in the full-length clip. On Monday (July 30), the video will make its online debut.
E! News and E! Online will have the first look at the clip on the web, but lucky country fans down in Texas will really get to view the 'Blown Away' video first. Underwood will appear in the flesh in San Antonio on Saturday to debut the completed clip for a small audience at the private world premiere. Local station KJ97 won the red carpet premiere via a contest, and will host the singer and 200 lucky listeners for the viewing.
By now, all of Underwood's fans -- okay, anyone who listens to the radio -- have heard the dark hit song, which has chilling lyrics and a haunting melody. Judging by the 30-second trailer, the music video will fit in perfectly with the song. The mini-clip shows shots of Underwood engaged in a physical argument with a man, shattered windows, lightning, a terrifying tornado and the award-winning songstress running through a dark and windy field. This video could be one of the most intense clips Underwood has ever released.
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Asia Markets Shrug Off Worries Over Italy
News of political gridlock in Italy helped hammer U.S. markets overnight, but reaction in Asia has been mostly mild. The WSJ's Jake Lee explains why Europe's latest concern is not weighing on Asian markets.
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Save A Buck Or Two By Rebuilding Your T10 Racing Trans Yourself
If you race on Saturday nights on asphalt, you are probably running a T10 transmission or some derivative of it. The T10 four-speed manual transmission appeared in passenger cars in the '70s and '80s, mostly in GM performance vehicles. And components for this design are still being produced today, so parts are plentiful and you can stay away from junkyard shopping. Racers like them because they are simple, relatively small, tough, and fully mechanical.
But despite its hardiness, the T10 should occasionally be rebuilt and inspected for damage or excessive wear. If you race a full season, plan on a rebuild during the off-season to prepare yourself for trouble-free racing when the next season begins. Tex Racing, which specializes in everything gear related and works with race teams from the NASCAR Nextel Cup level all the way to Street Stockers, maintains as many T10's as it does its own T101A design, which is a favorite of the Cup guys.
Manager Tony Hancock says that since the T10 was originally designed as a street transmission, it requires a few specialized steps not normally needed for a race-only unit like the T101A, but any racer with decent mechanical skills should be able to tear down and rebuild his or her T10. The first step, obviously, is to get a rebuild manual, but we also followed along as Tex Racing rebuilt a tranny for a local Late Model racer. In addition to checking for wear and rebuilding this piece, transmission specialist Kevin Carpenter showed us a few tricks as he worked his way through this unit. If you attempt to do your own rebuild or make repairs to your T10, you can acquire rebuild kits and replacement gears from many racing supply houses or directly from Tex Racing.
When it comes to transmission upgrades, the first thing Tex Racing recommends is having all the gears and shafts REM polished. This creates a smoother, harder surface that cuts both friction and heat.
Once you've done that, you may want to get into lightened gears. You can purchase lightened sliders, which cut the weight from 2.12 pounds each to 1.68. A lightened reverse gear cuts the weight from 2.78 to 1.76 pounds. Both cost approximately $100 each. A gundrilled main shaft cuts the standard shaft's 10.86 pounds to 8.7, but costs significantly more at approximately $550. If money is tight, the lightened gear and sliders are much more preferable since the weight being removed is further outboard; we all know that when it comes to a spinning mass, the further out you can remove weight, the better. Finally, you can use an aluminum reverse gear, which weighs only 0.70 pound, but it is practically useless and should only be installed if your rule book requires you to prove that you have a reverse gear. If you are spun on the racetrack and need reverse, you are just about guaranteed to strip the aluminum gear.
A final option is to upgrade to a roller bearing design (main shaft and bearings). This doesn't necessarily put more horsepower to the track, but it is good protection for your transmission because the main shaft depends on splash oiling. The roller bearings can definitely help prevent galling between the shaft and the gears.
As we said earlier, rebuild manuals, kits and replacement gears are readily available from many different supply houses. Go get 'em and have fun getting your T-10 ready for a new season of racing.
Some wear on the shifter forks is to be expected, as you can see here on the tips. But if the wear has cut more than about 0.010 inch off the forks, you should consider replacing them. You may notice that the transmission will unexpectedly start popping out of gear if it is left alone. This happens because the forks aren't getting the sliders fully locked into position.
The tailhousing must be separated from the main case, but you have to release the connection to the reverse gear idler shaft first. To do that, knock the pin into the case and pull up the actuator.
A C-clip keeps the transmission midplate in place. It's pretty heavy duty, and Carpenter says it can often be reused if you can manage to remove it without bending or breaking it.
Once the C-clip is out of the way, the midplate is only held in place by a single bolt. Carpenter likes to check the cluster shaft bearing in the midplate by spinning the plate to see if he can feel any rough spots. If the bearing still spins smoothly, it can last through a couple of rebuilds. With the midplate out, drive out the cluster shaft. (This is the gear where all the cogs are made together.) It is located with a keyway and can only come out the backside of the transmission. Next, slide the cluster gear back into the case. Slide the main shaft out the back of the transmission. To get the clearance you need, push the sliders into Second and Fourth gears.
At this point, the cluster gear still cannot be removed from the case. First, you must press out the input shaft. The input bearing isn't a press fit into the case, so you should be able to gently knock it out.
Remove the cluster gears and clean the transmission case.
The main shaft holds First through Fourth gears, the sliders, and the synchronizers. Snap rings are used to locate all the gears. Don't worry if you don't have a specialized holder like Carpenter's; you can use a vise with a set of brass jaw covers.
Second and Third gears must be removed with a hydraulic press. Just be careful, as there is a ring around the shaft that locates the gears. Make sure you are pressing against the gears and not the shoulder of the main shaft.
Make sure the teeth on the gears (top) and the sliders (bottom) as well as the brass synchronizers are still in good shape and have a defined point on them. If they are worn from use or broken from slamming the transmission into gear, they should be replaced to ensure smooth shifts in the future.
This input shaft should be replaced because of the wear to the left of the splines. This is a sign that the bellhousing isn't properly aligned, pulling the input shaft out of alignment so that it wears on the front bushing. Misalignment is also very hard on all the gears.
Inspect all the gears for cracks, broken teeth, severe pitting, and excessive wear. Carpenter suspects that the damage on this gear tooth is from a piece of metal floating in the gear case.
The cluster gear rides on 112 needle bearings. The bearings sit in four sets of rings inside the cluster gear, with two on each side of the gear and a spacer tube dividing the two sets. Use a thick moly paste to lubricate each set of the 28 needle bearings. The thick lube helps hold the needle bearings in place while you are placing them.
Carpenter checks runout on a special fixture. Most of us don't have this luxury, but it's still a good idea to check the main shaft as best you can to make sure it hasn't become oil starved and warped from heat.
Thoroughly lubricate the main shaft and reinstall all the components in the reverse order that they were removed.
The brass synchronizers slide into position on collars that are cut on an angle. They should ride with approximately 0.050 inch of space between the synchronizer teeth. If there is less clearance, or especially if they touch, then there is too much wear and the synchronizer should be replaced.
Set the cluster gear in position and slide the cluster shaft into place.
This key prevents the cluster shaft from sliding out of the case. It is held in position once the midplate is bolted up.
Next, you can slide the main shaft back into position.
Now is a good time to make sure all the sliders still move into their positions easily with no catches.
Put a new seal into the front cover, bolt it to the transmission, and safety-wire it in place.
The seal on the tailhousing should be replaced at every rebuild. It can be tapped into place with a dead-blow hammer.
Before the tailhousing can be bolted back on, the reverse gear must slide in place. Don't forget to make sure that the collar on the gear slides inside the slot on the reverse selector lever.
Now you can finally bolt the tailhousing back to the main case. Carpenter uses blue Loctite on all these bolts.
Before repositioning the sliders, give everything a thick coat of oil to protect the gears the first time the transmission is used. The case will be filled with lubricant later, but that won't distribute lubricant to all the necessary places; the last thing you want to do is to put your new transmission into gear with the gears dry.
Carpenter pressure tests every transmission after it is finished. This is cheap insurance to make sure it won't leak after the team installs it in their race car.
Reinstall the side cover, making sure that the gear levers are properly engaged to the shifter forks.


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As important as he was in God's plan of salvation, John the Baptist was called not to exalt himself but to point to the Savior. That is our task today. As many have said, we are just "poor beggars telling ...Read More
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Lifestyle in Europe
In this edition:
Androgynous Chic
Jordanian-born Rad Hourani is both the first Canadian to present a haute couture collection in Paris, and the first designer ever to unveil a unisex haute couture collection at the illustrious shows. Euromaxx goes backstage in the French capital to meet the cutting-edge couturier.
Georg Baselitz Turns 75
We're at a special exhibition at the Essl Museum near Vienna to profile Baselitz, one of the world's most famous contemporary artists. The museum is previewing works that Baselitz created between 1968 and 2012. Born in what was to become East Germany, Baselitz eventually moved to West Germany where his art became very controversial. Eventually, though, Baselitz found fame and fortune.
Riding in Style
Highbrow ski resorts in the Austrian Alps are finding their well-heeled clientele increasingly harder to please. In the Hochzillertal they now have a luxury cable car lift complete with surround-sound, champagne, and heated seats designed to draw well-heeled skiiers from far and wide.
Metalhead Vintner
Michael Schott is a young German vintner who's striking quite a chord in the western Nahe wine-region. The heavy metal fan doesn't just sing in a metal band, he's now following in the footsteps of veteran bands like Motörhead and AC/DC by bottling his wines in packaging designed to appeal to fans of the music genre.
The Treaty of Friendship
In January 1963, Germany and France signed the Élysée Treaty of reconciliation which helped lay the groundwork for a new era of cooperation between the two countries. To mark this milestone Euromaxx meets German and French nationals pursuing creative careers in the respective "other country". This time French Journalist Cécile Calla tells us what it's been like living in Berlin for 10 years.


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Scholarships Now Can Be Used Within or Outside Ohio
(October 14, 2011 – Cleveland, OH) At this year's September 11th commemoration on Public Square seven young people read personal essays reflecting their experience with prejudice and what they are doing to stop it. All were finalists and winners in the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage 2010 Stop the Hate: Youth Speak Out! essay contest.
The Museum is again challenging students in grades 6-12 to take personal responsibility to combat hatred, discrimination and intolerance by participating in the 2011-12 contest. For the first time, scholarship winners may now select the college of their choice within or outside Ohio; "For the first three years, scholarship winners were required to select an Ohio college or university" said Judi Feniger, Maltz Museum Executive Director "but we wanted to remove any barriers for students wishing to express themselves on this issue by entering the contest."
Now in its fourth year, Stop The Hate gets students thinking, writing and talking about what they've seen and heard, and taking responsibility for how they can help stop prejudice and discrimination. In the past three years, nearly 5,000 students have submitted essays. Subjects ranged from bullying to racial discrimination to sexual orientation and mental/physical challenges.
Stop The Hate asks students to describe an act of discrimination, reflect on their response and write a 500-word essay with a plan of action to affect change. Essays are scored on content, writing, originality and creativity, and integration of the theme of personal responsibility. Top-scoring entries advance to the finals.
High school juniors and seniors compete for three college scholarships of up to $50,000 as well as other prizes and educational resource materials for their schools. The ten scholarship finalists read their essays at a ceremony to be held on Sunday, April 22, 2012, where winners will be selected. Students in grades 6-10 are eligible for cash prizes, field trips and educational resource materials.
Essays for 6th-10th graders are due December 6, 2011. The deadline for 11th and 12thgraders is January 24, 2012. Students are encouraged to submit their essays electronically through the official Stop the Hate website. Complete information, current guidelines and copies of all past winning essays are also available on the website.
Schools can arrange a Stop The Hate guided tour of the Museum designed to help them prepare students to write their essays, or dozens of other tours aligned with Ohio State Academic Content Standards. "The Stop the Hate essay contest gives young people a chance to express themselves about the consequences of bullying and become leaders for change," remarks Judi Feniger, Executive Director of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.
This year's Stop The Hate: Youth Speak Out! is sponsored by Dealer Tire and KeyBank.


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Since when did this season turn into the Yunel Escobar show?
Within the space of 24 hours, he went 6-for-8 with four runs scored and a walk-off homer. Also, he got his grill really familiar with the knee of one of those LaRoche boys while performing one of the ugliest slides we've ever seen. And we played softball with drunken fat men.
Escobar's injury is concerning, given both what he's produced thus far in the season as well as the potential long-term impact of head injuries. He certainly looked like he was in significant discomfort when taking his position in the field for the next inning, but here's hoping that the long term effects are minimal.
Escobar will be out of the lineup for this afternoon's matchup, but we'd be hanging off of every dugout shot of him if only we could find a way to sneak out of the office to watch the game.
(And BTW MLB.TV, we would shell out the money today for your service if we could watch Jays games online instead of being blacked out from the Georgia Strait to the Northumberland Strait ot the Beaufort Sea.)
Lunchables: The always fun HitTracker.com has yet to post the numbers for Travis Snider's first screaming line drive homer of the year, but we felt for the dude who had the ball rip through his grasp. Though his pals gave him grief for his inability to come up with the ball, he's not the first fan to flinch when a whistling laser from Snider's bat came their way.
Check out the prudently short arms that this fan in Cleveland (they exist!) developed when trying to make a barehanded grab on this 119.7 mph liner off Snider's bat last May. It was the fifth hardest hit homer in all of baseball last year, and if there is one skill or attribute above hustle and grit and heart and intagible leaderificness that we really appreciate, it's guys whe hit the ball hard like they've got a grudge against it.
Game Time! Today's the sort of day where being a working stiff outside of the GTA really sucks, because we'd really like to take some strategic consultations down to the Dome for three hours this afternoon.
RickRo versus that punk Trevor Cahill at 12:37. We'll be hanging off of every tweet for the rest of the afternoon.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Yu, Knee
4 comments:
- Ty said...
Yunel has been an absolute star on both sides of the ball throughout the first week. Here's hoping for a quick recovery. Hearing that he's "day-to-day" and expected back next week brings back unpleasant memories of hearing the same thing about Aaron Hill back in '09, so hopefully this goes better than that did.
- April 7, 2011 at 2:12 PM
- SP said...
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- April 7, 2011 at 2:41 PM
- SP said...
You're right, Hill's was called mild too. I didn't remember that. Now I'm really worried.
- April 7, 2011 at 2:43 PM
- Chad said...
Nice post!
- April 7, 2011 at 7:54 PM
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Anne Cohen said she has been interested in marine calcification for as
long as she can remember. Growing up in coastal South Africa, she spent
much time collecting mollusc shells, which were the subject of her
Ph.D. thesis at the University of Cape Town. She came to Woods Hole
Oceaongraphic Insitution for postdoctoral research, where she became
interested in corals and coral reefs. Studies of coral skeletal growth
have become more sophisticated, and Cohen now uses nanoscale
technologies to study how corals make crystals and to analyze their
crystal composition. She has scuba dived on reefs around the world and
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Porters and StoutsAlways Bet on Black May 1, 2009 - Chad Wulff
I'm really not much of a gambler and, no, I'm not talking about schwarzbiers. Porters and stouts are the topic in this piece, friend. OK, porters aren't as black as stouts and still show some hints of deep ruby, but roll with me here. It's almost the end of 2008 and Chicago is nothing short... View Article


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The toy box itself was completed prior to Christmas 2010. However, it wasn't until last week that the soft down flap stay was installed completing the project and making it toddler safe.
There's a few differences between Box #1 and #2. 1# has a variable resistance gas strut rather than the soft down flap. 2# has dovetailed skirting boards and has been limed.
Timber: Radiata Pine. Dimensions: 800×400×480mm. Glue: Titebond III Joinery: Various, Dovetailed, Tongue & Groove, Stepped Panel and Frame. Finish: Feast Watson Liming Agent, Minwax Wipe on Poly Matte, Ubeaut Natural Wax. Hardware: Zinc piano hinge (sourced from Bunnings), and soft down flap stay. (sourced from Lee Valley.)


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Let's talk about what REALLY matters...the kicker!
We currently only have Carson Wiggs on the roster.
Do you think they will draft a kicker with one of our 26 7th round draft picks to compete, or bring in a vet? Does Hauschka come back?
Now that the Tanzania crisis has been averted, I find this to be the current worry!
There, I spun it...you discuss it.


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This Date In Royals History – October 19, 1985
What is the perfect match-up for a Royals fan in the World Series? To be honest, any team in the National League will do – we just want to see the boys in blue play on the biggest stage. But leaving that aside, there had always been a dream to battle with our red feathered cousins to the east for baseball's ultimate prize. Twenty-four years ago on this date that dream became reality.
Saturday, October 19, 1985 was the start of the I-70 World Series with the Cardinals traveling west to Royals Stadium for Game One. When it was over the most memorable emotion from that first game for the Royals was utter frustration. Though Kansas City scored first with a run in the second inning, it was the lost chance at a big inning that still lingers. With one-out, a run home and runners on first and third – Darryl Motley was caught off third base for the second out of the inning. The Cards then walked Buddy Biancalana to face the pitcher Danny Jackson who struck out with two runners on. It was just the start of lost chances.
Lonnie Smith started the Royals third with a single, but was immediately picked-off first. Scoring chance lost. In the fourth Jim Sundberg led off with a double, but would eventually be thrown out at the plate on a short foul pop up that turned into a double play. Scoring chance lost. Willie Wilson started the sixth with a single, but was stranded there. Another scoring chance lost. By this time St. Louis had pushed across single runs in the third and fourth to lead 2-1.
The most agonizing lost opportunity was in the Royals seventh. With two out pinch-hitter Lynn Jones tripled. Dick Howser went back to the bench for a pinch hit at-bat from Hal McRae, who was hit by a pitch. Lonnie Smith followed that with a walk and the bases were loaded. But Todd Worrell got Willie Wilson on a foul pop-up to left and the Royals could not cash another scoring chance.
The Cardinals scored again in the ninth and though Pat Sheridan led-off the Royals final at-bat with a double, he too was stranded and St. Louis had a 3-1 win. There was more frustration and angst to come the next night – much of which we don't remember because we know where the trophy would ultimately reside. Trust me, it's still here – I saw it this morning…
Just A Bit More: The 1985 World Series was not the first to feature two teams from the state of Missouri. Actually 41 years earlier, the 1944 World Series pitted the National League Champion St. Louis Cardinals against the American League Champion St. Louis Browns. The Browns were making their first and only World Series appearance. Sportsman's Park was home to both teams so all six games were played at the stadium at Grand Boulevard and Dodier Street.
The Cardinals won the series in six games. Ten years later the St. Louis Browns flew east to become the Baltimore Orioles.
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Tonight on the penultimate episode of Jersey Shore, it was raining men and meatballs. Both were about as sleazy and cringe-worthy as we've come to expect from this series. It seemed they saved a little extra umph for this final race to the finish.
There was Deena falling down drunk on the dance floor and flashing the world her vagina (we haven't seen that in a while), and a whole host of girls willing (and shameless enough) to become meatballs, including the super scary "Scotland". Yikes.
Then there was Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino who announced to everyone that he used to work as a stripper in college. The roommates kept egging him on to perform for them and show them his moves, and, attention whore that he is, he of course did so.
So after their final Sunday dinner (sniff), they set up the strip club for Vito Durado (Mike's stripper name). There were bubbles, lights, fake money, and a fog machine. JWOWW was handcuffed to a chair with Ron and Sam's personal pair (eww), and in came Vito.
From his stiff, awkward dance moves to scooping up JWOWW and dancing with his face in her crotch, it was, in a word ... painful. As Ron said, "Mike is actually the worst stripper I've seen in my life."
But as bad as it was, they seemed to have a lot of fun and everyone had a good -- if not uncomfortable -- time. And as Snooki said, it was a "good effort".
Next week the gang is planning a big beach bonfire for their final farewell. There will certainly be plenty of tears -- both from them and from fans -- as they all say goodbye to this crazy, crazy ride they've been on. And there may even be a few shed by those of us who just haven't been able to pull ourselves away from the train wreck no matter how ridiculous and distasteful it may be.
Are you sad there's only one more episode of Jersey Shore left?
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Skin Smarts: A Tour of Dermalogica's Santa Monica Spa
Dermalogica, a skin care system researched and developed by The International Dermal Institute, a postgraduate training program for skin care professionals begun by Jane Wurwand, has seven concept spaces around the world. Each features the brands' Skin Bar, Face Mapping Skin Analysis, MicroZone Treatments and Skin Treatments.
When clients belly up to the Skin Bar they are "served" sample products as part of the discussion with a licensed skin therapist. Face Mapping involves an examination of the skin which forms the basis for proactive preventive care. It's the first step in the client experience.
Targeted 20-minute MicroZone Treatments are performed in semi-private stations—no appointment needed. At the Santa Monica space on Montana Avenue, Erin Carey, the spa manager, says they are extremely popular and that when it was first introduced, they saw a marked increase in foot traffic and overall store activity.
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GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Who hasn't peered into this brain-bending abyss and failed to conceptualize 6 million years of stream erosion through a vertical mile of primordial rock?
"I'm sorry, but there's no way a river did that," huffs a voice among this evening's mesmerized herd of South Rim-at-sunset gawkers.
The voice belongs to my buddy Mark Segal, 40, a food service account manager from Long Beach. Or maybe it's my other friend Vic Leyson, 34, a business manager from Studio City. Or maybe it's me — or anyone else in this silhouetted Grand Canyon Village crowd staring dumbly into the glowing pink-orange megascape.
The next comment, though, is unmistakably Mark's.
"So that's what we're walking to the bottom of tomorrow morning," he says blankly. He turns away. He's seen enough. "All right, where's the bar around here?"
A couple of years ago, Mark, Vic and I tested our aging knees, our semi-firm resolve, our rock-solid-ish friendship by hiking together to the top of Mt. Whitney — and vowing never to do something like that again.
Then the inevitable happened. Amnesia and that restless, middle-age itch to tear ourselves from our families for 72 hours and log another long-weekend bucket-lister with the guys led us to talk about our next big, cheap, doable conquest within two gas tanks of Los Angeles. Where should we plant our flag this time? The discussion lasted about four seconds.
The Grand Canyon. You've probably heard of the place.
And perhaps, like us, you might be drawn here by some inexplicable higher calling. Or lower calling, entering the planet's most famous cleft and hoofing along vertiginous trails to its riverine basement. And (important) walking all the way back up again. Don't forget that second part.
Some people embark from the canyon's remote, higher North Rim. Others go rim to rim, walking the canyon's entire width. A few crazies go rim to rim to rim — hiking down one side, up the other, back down again and out the original side.
Our plan on that brisk weekend in mid-October (brisk at the top, it will be pushing 100 degrees at midday down below) is to backpack the classic South Rim loop. Down the steeper and more exposed, 7-mile South Kaibab Trail to the bottom, camping for a night by the river at Bright Angel Campground, and then back up by the canyon's main corridor, the 91/2 -mile Bright Angel Trail. Backcountry permits get snatched up months in advance for expeditions such as this, especially during the Grand Canyon's more temperate fall and spring shoulder seasons. Winters get icy, rainy and frigid. Summers, the most popular time to visit the rim, swelter in the lethal triple digits in the inner gorge during what the park calls its "danger months."
"A lot of people don't totally know what they're getting themselves into in the Grand Canyon, even if they think they do," says Mark Wunner, the park's Backcountry Information Center supervisor, who likens the signature rim-to-river hike to an upside-down mountain climb governed by conditions just as extreme, only different. "The fact that those conditions aren't as immediately obvious as on a snowy summit can make them even more treacherous," he says.
6:31 a.m.: The morning's first load of Hiker Express shuttle riders disembarks at the South Kaibab Trail head (7,260 feet), atop an incomprehensible panorama of pastels and monstrous receding shadows. A dawn moon hangs in the west, ending its shift. The sun's first reflected rays blast the tip of the North Rim, 10 miles of empty sky away.
"It just doesn't seem real," says Vic, setting up a wide-angle-lens-defying shot of the three of us before we head down into the canyon's gaping jaws.
It's true. From up here, your eyes can't help but refab the Grand Canyon into a magnificently fake 1950s Hollywood backdrop. It's two-dimensional. Not real at all.
"It'll seem real pretty soon," Mark mutters as he tightens a strap and blows into his hands. It's still in the low 40s. We can see our breath. Last night was barely above freezing. Thank God for air mattresses and warm socks.
7:08 a.m.: Get these socks off me. The sun still hasn't shown its face above the cliffs, but after our first set of switchbacks, my mouth is like sandpaper and it's already time to strip off layers and swig more water.
7:22 a.m.: At a dizzying overlook called Ooh Aah Point, we stare into the gorgeous void, grinning stupidly. If you're not experiencing ineffable joy at Ooh Aah Point, please consult your doctor.
"I'm really happy we're doing this," says Mark, succumbing. Vic and I nod. Enough said. We continue heading down. Down. Down.
8:35 a.m.: Several plunging switchbacks and some broad, sun-drenched traverses later, we hit Skeleton Point (5,220 feet), the trail's approximate midway mark and a suggested turnaround spot for day hikers — who appear to show no interest in turning around in spite of posted park warnings, in four languages, that each year hikers suffer serious illness or death from exhaustion by pushing themselves all the way down to the river and back in a single day.
9:12 a.m.: Hiding below Skeleton Point is the descent's greatest acrophobia test, a narrow, blasted-out ledge that isn't an ideal place for two-way traffic — but here come the morning's first heat of pink-faced, sweat-soaked climbers hauling themselves out of the canyon, edging past us with distorted faces that don't look nearly as joyful as they may have on the way down.
9:30 a.m.: It's getting hot. Every few hundred feet lower, every few minutes closer to the midday high is a twist on the canyon's thermostat. The temperature swing today between the rim and the inner gorge will push 60 degrees.
10:19 a.m.: First, we hear it. Then we see it. The Colorado River, swooshing doggedly across the canyon floor. What a bang-up job it's done, carving mile-deep canyons and quenching the thirst of seven states. We should stop for a moment and pay our respects. Instead, we numbly plod on, past some 900-year-old Anasazi ruins to a row of campsites lined along a burbling stream. Bright Angel Campground (2,480 feet).
"What time is it?" Mark asks with a grimace while rubbing his foot. "Like 4?"
11:11 a.m.: "So this is what heaven looks like," Mark says with a sigh, basking in Bright Angel Creek, a picturesque, spring-fed brook framed by cottonwood trees, towering red cliffs, rays of hot, desert sun and a huge, imaginary "Payoff" sign. "Lie down right on your stomach," he tells me as I wade into the cold, shallow water. "Trust me."
I lie face down on a bed of river stones. An intoxicating sheet of icy water rolls over my heels and calves and spine.
If there's one reason to hoof all the way down into the Grand Canyon, this must be it.
1-4 p.m.: Or this — an icy glass of lemonade at Phantom Ranch, the canyon's legendary rustic retreat a short walk along a cactus-lined trail from the campground. Guests can (and should) reserve cabins, dorm bunks and steak dinners more than a year in advance at this 90-year-old, air-conditioned mirage. The rest of us can stumble into the lodge's canteen between 1 and 4 p.m. to hide from the afternoon heat, guzzle lemonade and read through a box of 30-year-old Trivial Pursuit cards to see who's the smartest guy at the bottom of the Grand Canyon today.
'Round midnight: It must be at least that late. I check my watch. 8:06 p.m. Lying wide-eyed at the bottom of the Grand Canyon in an open tent in the pitch dark, one's grasp of time soon becomes as trivial as any other human pursuit.
It's the greatest sleepless night of my life, tempered by one little preoccupation. Tomorrow we have to walk out of the Grand Canyon.
6:28 a.m.: At sunrise, the canyon reappears in silky, pink light you can almost touch. Ten feet away, a deer stands in the creek having a drink. Hulking above us, the canyon is stunningly, quietly real — nothing two-dimensional about it. You're really in it down here. That's the greatest payoff of all.
"This is not going to be fun," Mark says as he wakes up with a hiker's worst hangover — a pulled foot muscle. "You guys go on ahead," he says, staring at the mountainous cliffs. "I'm going to be taking a very, very long time."
No. We're sticking together. We're either walking out of this thing as a band of brothers, or we're settling down here and opening a new lodge with cheaper lemonade. Three Guys. All for one and one for all.
7:42 a.m.: The safest route back up to the South Rim is the Bright Angel Trail, which follows a massive fault break with shade, ranger stations, emergency phones, water fill-up stops, petroglyph sites and four segments of 1,000-plus-foot climbs that look much friendlier on a national park trail map.
The first major hurdle is an interminable set of switchbacks through a massive, craggy bowl — aptly named the Devil's Corkscrew. Here, a giggly group of young women jog (yes, jog) past us, down the Devil's Corkscrew, in bright tutus — one of them with a tiara on her head. A minute later a middle-aged woman (a bachelorette party chaperon perhaps?) trots by in a kilt trying to catch up with them. Are we hallucinating already?
9:25 a.m.: By the time we haul ourselves up to Indian Garden (3,800 feet), a riparian oasis covered in cottonwoods and wildflowers at the trail's halfway point, the Bright Angel's morning pageantry of super-fit trailblazers has revealed a serious gender imbalance. About 90% women.
9:42 a.m.: The midway mark may be behind us, but the bulk of the climb is dead ahead. The last four miles feature endless switchbacks on a massive series of steep, sunbaked cliffs furnished with a couple of little rest houses named, deceptively enough, "Three-Mile" and "Mile-and-a-Half."
"How long to the top from here, would you say?" Mark asks a young park guide, striding up into the cliffs with a small group.
"It really varies," he counsels. "But it's not how fast you get up — it's that you do it with a smile."
Hmm. Not helpful.
10:11 a.m.: Up we go. Back and forth. Back and forth. Until now, the trip has been grueling at times but mainly spectacular. "Something's not right," gasps Mark, craning his neck and peering up at the South Rim. "Is it just me, or does the top keep getting farther and farther away?"
10:42 a.m.: At Three-Mile Resthouse (4,748 feet), Vic pulls ahead and high-tails it to the top alone. What about today's band-of-brothers pact? Or was that even today? No, that was ages ago.
12:26 p.m.: Then it's Mark's turn to move ahead. "How long are you planning on sitting here?" he asks me at One-and-a-Half-Mile Resthouse (5,729 feet).
Perched on a rocky ledge, staring down at the abyss, listening to my pulse, letting a faint altitude headache subside, I notice the Grand Canyon receding into two dimensions.
Some unspecified time later: I must be getting close. Folks are now strolling down Bright Angel Trail in loafers and chatting about dinner reservations.
"You come from the bottom?" a guy in cotton slacks asks me. "How long did it take you?"
I glance at my watch. I'm not sure. Two billion years, give or take? Anyway, it's not how fast you go, right? It's whether you go with a smile.
I stop. Throw off my pack. Lean against the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon.
And smile.
What a place to work on that lesson.


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FY04 Learning in the Arts
Austin Symphony Orchestra, $20,000
To support the String Fellows Program. Designed to revitalize Austin public high school orchestral programs, the project will place teachers and students in strings workshops and sectionals with a quartet of Austin Symphony Orchestra musicians.
Boston Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Tanglewood), $35,000
To support Day in the Arts at Tanglewood (DART). The project offers eight, five-day summer arts immersion programs, including workshops and field trips for sixth through eigth-grade students from Berkshire County.
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra (consortium), $20,000
To support School Partners with Artists Reaching Kids (SPARK). The consortium project will team musicians with classroom teachers from the Kettering City School District to create lesson plans incorporating music concepts into the classroom curriculum.
Florida Youth Orchestra, $10,000
To support an expansion of Music STEPS (String Training and Education in Public Schools) - Choral Kids. The project will provide after-school choral training and performance opportunities for elementary and middle school students.
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra (consortium), $20,000
To support the Preschool Music Program. Working in partnership with three Early Childhood Alliance sites and consortium member Childhood Alliance of Northeast Indiana, the project will provide a music curriculum, rhythm instruments, and live ensemble performances for inner-city preschool children.
Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, $43,000
To support expansion of the Intensive Community Program, providing rigorous string-instrument training to low-income youth from the Boston area. The project will continue the program's growth by adding another class of 20 talented students to the current student body.
Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support a school-based and community-based education program. Activities will include school residencies by musicians and composers, string coaching by professional musicians, and concert and community-based programs.
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, $55,000
To support the expansion of the ACE Partnership, a model music education program in Milwaukee elementary schools. Sequentially based, the project integrates learning in the arts with other academic subjects.
New England String Ensemble, $18,000
To support the New England Musical Heritage Initiative, a music curriculum in public schools. Composers will create compositions based on the lives of past and present New Englanders, which then will be used as a study resource.
New York Philharmonic (consortium), $62,000
To support the continuation of the School Partnership Program, a consortium project. Students in grades three through five will attend workshops and receive recorder and composition instruction from orchestra musicians and music educators.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $38,000
To support the Symphony Young Strings program, a consortium project of comprehensive string instruction. Through artist residencies, after-school music instruction, and a summer string camp, children from underserved areas surrounding Pittsburgh will work with and be mentored by professional musicians and educators from the orchestra.
San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Youth Orchestra), $65,000
To support the ongoing Youth Orchestra Artistic Development Program. Personalized coaching, engagements with renowned artists, apprenticeships, and mentorships will enhance the curriculum of individualized training and specialization for youth orchestra members.
RELATED ARTS LEARNING GRANTS American String Teachers Association (consortium), $65,000
To support the consortium Strings Project. The program, designed to lessen the shortage of public school orchestra teachers, will offer Suzuki training, chamber music instruction, theory classes, and private lessons to undergraduate string education majors.
American Symphony Orchestra League (consortium), $65,000
To support an education initiative that will identify and reward excellent work in orchestra education. Components of the consortium project will include building resources of music education materials, conducting research for online documentation of best practices, and selecting recipients for the Excellence in Orchestra Education awards.
Boston University, $25,000
To support the Young Artists Orchestra and Young Arts Wind Ensemble programs of the Tanglewood Institute. High school musicians will receive individual music instruction and group participation opportunities through ensemble rehearsals and performances, master classes, and coaching sessions led by resident ensembles such as the Synergy Quintet and Vento Chiaro Wind Quartet.
Carnegie Hall (consortium), $72,000
To support the continuation of LinkUP! In partnership with the New York City Board of Education, the consortium project is a standards-based music education program that integrates music into the elementary school curriculum.
From the Top (consortium), $62,000
To support music and theater training for students. In consortium with Young Audiences (NY), students will create a live, collaborative radio show that will be performed, taped, and disseminated on the organization's Web site.
Georgia State University (on behalf of Center for Educational Partnerships in Music), $52,000
To support Sound Learning, a project that integrates music education with core academic curriculum for approximately 1,600 students in the greater Atlanta region. In partnership with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the program will engage local musicians to serve as music mentors for students while working with teachers to develop lesson plans.
Juilliard School, $18,000
To support the continuation of the Music Advancement Program. The project will involve concentrated musical training for public school children, ages eight to 14, from all New York City boroughs.
Midori Foundation, $19,000
To support expansion of the Making Music Program. Additional grade levels and classes will mark the expansion of the music education project for one intermediate and ten elementary schools in New York City. The project will involve planning sessions for teachers and administrators and free group lessons for children in grades three through six.
New England Conservatory of Music (consortium), $82,000
To support the Music-in-Education National Consortium Project. New resources and cross-institutional capacities will be developed to support the evolving role and innovative practices of music and musicians in urban public schools.
Project STEP, $24,000
To support continuation of the String Training and Education Program (STEP). With a focus on gifted, economically disadvantaged youth, the program will immerse students in private lessons, classroom instruction and master classes, performance opportunities, summer study, and career counseling, and will offer them musical instrument loans.


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Dave Allen
Dave Allen • Dave Allen is a world-renowned award-winning nature and landscape photographer, as well as a respected photography instructor, based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. His unique portfolio features a wide range of photography including landscapes of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Smoky Mountains National Park, waterfalls, wildlife, Blue Ridge Parkway photography, flora and fauna and other related outdoor and nature themes.
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Enough with the subscription crap, this book will be sold in stores, right?
Oh. Does that mean between the 15 track CD and the bonus downloads that we're ultimately getting every song that didn't make U22? 22 + 15 + 2 = 39There were 48 tracks in the running for U22. At present, that means 9 songs remain that haven't been accounted for on U22 or FTGU, and we know more bonus downloadable tracks are coming.


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LOS ANGELES – A 21-year-old student at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been arrested for investigation of false imprisonment.
UC police spokeswoman Nancy Greenstein says Omar Arce was taken into custody Wednesday following a months-long investigation.
Greenstein says the probe was launched when a female student reported she was a victim of sexual battery.
Arce is commissioner of the Undergraduate Students Association Council Community Service, according to a statement from the organization.
He is being held on $50,000 bail and is expected to make his first court appearance Friday.