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Carpal Tunnel - Why Does My Hand Curl at Night?

One of the unofficial symptoms of Carpal Tunnel is waking up at night due to increased pain and/or numbness in the hand....and from the fingers and wrist clenching and curling forward into a claw.

This not only annoys people, it can scare them. It's not really supposed to do that! Why does it do that?

The answer is pretty simple, but like all simple things it takes a little bit of explaining.

There is a process that leads up to the hand curling while you sleep at night. It goes like this.

1. Lots of use of the hand.

2. Muscles get tighter and tighter.

3. The nervous system sets those tight muscles as the new normal. So muscles get tighter and stay tight, progressively.

4.  A lot of other bad stuff happens under the skin that you don't notice. And continues to as time passes.

5.  The body fights off these negative factors until it starts to lose.

6. You start to feel ache, then pain.

7. You ignore it and avoid thinking about it as long as possible.

8. It -really- starts to hurt, and doesn't go away like it used to.

9. By now, your muscles are REALLY tight. Constantly. 

10. When you sleep at night, you think your muscles relax but they don't because tight is the new normal. It's kind of like you go to sleep at night holding up a 30 pound barbell.

Because your muscles are so tight, they are constantly pulling. Since you're asleep and not paying attention, the natural laws of physics take control, and the muscles on the palm side of your forearm (which are tighter than those on the opposite side) pull, pull, pull. 

The fingers and hand curl forward because the muscles are pulling them forward.

And they constantly pull, for hours maybe. And they get tired. And then they start to hurt. And the nervous system gets scared and does what it does best to protect you...tighten up muscles to guard you. The tightness becomes almost a spasm. Imagine holding up that 30 pound barbell for hours. You would get fatigued, then hurt. The same thing happens while you sleep.

And because the curl and muscle contraction can compress the median nerve, you get more numbness and pain.

The fingers and hand curling forward is not a neurological problem. It is not because of nerve damage. 

This is not something to be scared of. It is, however, a good clue that there is something that you need to start dealing with. And you might as well deal with it the RIGHT way.

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Required Ice Hockey Gear - The 13 Pieces of Equipment You Can't Live Without

So, you want to play hockey (or your son or daughter does), but you're not sure where to start. The first step is going to be purchasing ice hockey gear. This article goes over the basic ice hockey equipment requirements needed to get on the ice.

1. 
   Hockey Skates: Skating is the foundation for the game of hockey. If you can't skate, you can't play the game. So, it's important to get the best skates you can afford. Make sure to have them properly sharpened before you take the ice. You can buy skates new or used. Either is fine. Just keep in mind that you'll want to buy skates that are about one size smaller than your shoe size.


2. 
   Shin Guards or Shin Pads: There are two standard types of shin guards. One that has a strap that goes around your leg and velcroes onto the other side of the pad. Or, the type that has no strap and requires you to use hockey tape to get it to stay secured on your leg. It's a matter of preference. These are fine either new or used.


3. 
   Hockey Pants or Breezers: These are a pretty basic item. The better lines have good support for the tailbone and thighs. These are fine either new or used. Some of the styles will have suspenders to hold the pants up, others will have a tie at the waist to secure them. It's just a matter of what you like.


4. 
   Chest Protector or Shoulder Pads: For young kids (Mites through Squirts), mid-range shoulder pads are fine. But, once you are at a level that allows body checking, you're going to want pads with a lot of support at the shoulders and chest. This isn't an item you want to skimp on. Purchase the highest quality pads you can afford. New or used are both fine. Just check the integrity of the shoulder and chest areas on any used pads you are considering.


5. 
   Hockey Jock (shorts with built-in jock): This is pretty self-explanatory. There are actually two types of jocks available for hockey. The old school type (when that was all they had) and the new type of hockey shorts with the built-in slot for the jock to slip in. This is a matter of preference. Obviously, you're going to want to buy this item new.


6. 
   Mouth Guard (to protect your brain): A lot of people think the mouth guard is just to protect your teeth. While it does provide protection for the teeth, the main function of the mouth guard is to prevent a jarring hit to your brain. Never skimp on the mouth guard. Get a Shock Doctor, or have your dentist recommend a good orthodontist who can have one custom made for you.


7. 
   Neck Guard (optional with most associations): While this is an optional item in most leagues, the neck guard is becoming more and more popular as they keep replaying the NHL accident that shows what can happen when you take a skate to the throat. It's frightening enough to cause even the hardcore old-school hockey player to reconsider donning a neck guard.


8. 
   Elbow Pads: While the kids are young, mid-range elbow pads are fine. But, as they move into Peewee hockey (and above) you're going to want to put them in a quality pair of elbow pads. Make sure they are large enough to cover the entire elbow, as well as a portion of the forearm. These are fine to purchase new or used.


9. 
   Hockey Helmet: This is the one item I don't recommend purchasing used. Helmets take a lot of abuse in the upper levels of play and you never know how many hits a helmet has taken. So, always buy this item new. You can never pay too close of attention to protecting your head.


10. 
    Hockey Gloves: The hockey glove should feel like a large pair of winter gloves (a bit loose). The palm will be made of soft leather and the fingers will be a bit stiffer. These are fine to buy either new or used, however, make sure the palms are not worn through (which happens frequently with most players). Otherwise, you may get sent off the ice by the ref until you get it repaired.


11. 
    Hockey Stick: This is a piece of equipment that dozens of articles could be devoted to. There is a wood stick, a composite stick, and a two-piece stick. Those who love each type are loyal to their sticks. If you're just starting out, go with a wooden stick. It's less expensive and will get you in the game without a big cash layout. Also, for kids, there is virtually no benefit to an expensive graphite or composite stick. They don't have the physical strength to even utilize them correctly yet. If you have a left-handed player and aren't sure which way they'll shoot -- go with a straight blade. Within a short time you'll see which way they naturally shoot. It isn't unusually for lefties to shoot right (or visa versa).


12. 
    Hockey Jersey (usually provided by the team): This is an item you probably won't have to worry about. Teams typically provide the jerseys (although you'll have to pay for them).


13. 
    Hockey Socks (also usually provided by the team: Again, another item your team will provide to you at a charge. To keep your skates in good condition, always put your socks on before your skates. You would think people would instinctively know that, but they don't. Every season I see kids with their socks shredded by skate blades.

The above is just basic ice hockey equipment information to get you started. Hockey is the greatest sport in the world and it brings families together like no sport I've ever seen. My son starts his ninth year of travel hockey this season and it's never lost its charm to us.

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How to Reduce Work Place Injuries

Protect Your Back

Hi everybody, my name is Tracy Secombe.

I am a physiotherapist and I have been doing manual handling training now for about 15 years.

My experience comes from initially spending seven years in a private practice treating people, including people who have injured themselves at work and what I found was that the people that had injured themselves, I felt probably shouldn't have injured themselves in the first place, had they been given some important information to help them avoid that injury.

So what I am going to do today is give you some general information that can be applied to any kind of industry. So no matter what type of work you do, you can apply these principles and if you do apply them you will find things more comfortable and really reduce your risk of injuring yourself.

Don't forget that all the principles that we talk about can be applied to things that you do at home. If you are the person that does housework at home for example, that is definitely a manual handling task and these principles will be extremely useful.

So lets get started. First thing you need to know is that our spine is shaped like an 'S' curve, so when you have a look at somebody standing from side on, what you will notice is that the lower back curves forward, the middle back area or the thoracic spine, where the shoulder blades are, curves in the opposite direction and then the neck curves forward.

Now that 'S' curve is different from person to person because we are all different.

So some of us are taller, some of us are shorter and the shape of our 'S' curve is also different. So what you need to know is what your normal 'S' curve is like, so that you can try and maintain that normal 'S' curve for most of the time.

So when you are maintaining your 'S' curve, the disc at every level is in its ideal position. So what's the disc? Well you may already know about the disc and may have heard of the old saying 'I have slipped a disc'. Well you can't actually slip a disc, because the disc is firmly attached to the bone below and the bone above. So what can happen is the jelly inside of the disc can move, as we move and that is normal. That allows the movement through the spine and the disc acts as a shock absorber.

So what can happen with the disc with time, is if we are bending forward a lot or we are losing our 'S' curve a lot by flattening it out through the lower back area, then the jelly on the inside of the disc is pushing against the fibres around the outside of the disc. So if these fibres are elastic in nature, you can imagine what's going to happen if they continually get pushed or stretched. So as the jelly pushes against the fibres, the fibres get stretched and they can lose their elasticity and stay stretched.

Now the interesting thing about the fibres surrounding the disc, is that the fibres that are closest to the jelly don't actually have a nerve supply. So what does that mean? Well what that means, is that if you tear those initial fibres on the inside of the disc, they don't send a message to your brain saying 'ouch, you have hurt yourself, something's broken', and they don't give you a pain message. So a lot of us can have the start of a disc bulge without actually having any pain in our back.

....so you end up with a baggy disc or a disc bulge.

Now the interesting thing about the fibres surrounding the disc, is that the fibres that are closest to the jelly don't actually have a nerve supply. So what does that mean? Well what that means, is that if you tear those initial fibres on the inside of the disc, they don't send a message to your brain saying 'ouch, you have hurt yourself, something's broken', and they don't give you a pain message. So a lot of us can have the start of a disc bulge without actually having any pain in our back.

What's the problem with that you might think, 'if I don't have any pain, I don't need to worry'. Well the problem with that is, if we have torn through say for example, half the thickness of those fibres around the disc and we continue to lose our 'S' curve or slightly bend forward in the lower back, then we can eventually tear through all of those fibres. Now the fibres on the outside do have a nerve supply and it will be painful once you have caused those outside fibres to tear and of course close to the disc is the nerve root, that comes of each level from the spinal cord and it supply's the legs in the lower back and the arms in the upper back and neck. So this is how we can end up with leg pain. So the disc has burst all the way through those fibres around the jelly and is pressing on the nerve root.

Now when jelly from the disc presses on the nerve root, you can experience pain, you can experience tingling and you can experience numbness and you can even get weakness associated with this nerve root compression.

So it's really important to avoid a disc injury from getting to that point. Sometimes you may even need surgery to the back if you injure your disc to this extent. So how can we prevent our disc bulge that may already be there and we don't know about it, from becoming what's called a disc protrusion, which means the jelly has burst all the way through the fibres and is out in the spinal canal area, possibly causing irritation to the nerve root. Well put very simply, we need to make sure that most of the jelly stays in the very centre of the disc by maintaining as normal pressure as possible.

So thinking again about the structure of the disc, I don't know if you remember or whether you did this when you were little, but I know when I was little I would be playing on the beach and I used to love picking up those tiny little jellyfish and popping them into a bucket. I promised that I threw them back out to sea, but that consistency is a little bit similar to your disc or even a marshmallow.

So there is pressure inside a disc depending on the position that you are in and the activity that you are performing. Now the pressure is affected by your body weight. For example, for a person who weighs 70kg, when that person is standing up straight and maintaining his or her ideal 'S' curve, the pressure in the disc is equal to 70kg. So you can work that out for yourself, if you know how much you weigh, whatever your body weight is, that is how much pressure is going on in the disc, in your lower back when you are standing up straight. Now when you sit down the pressure in that disc increases to 100kg if you weigh 70kg. Now this is sitting down with a good posture, so sitting up straight, possibly with a little cushion behind your lower back so that you maintaining your 'S' curve, you do have increased pressure in your disc when you are sitting down. So this will explain why if you have got a sore back, you can't actually tolerate sitting for very long periods of time. Now here's the big one, if you are not sitting up straight, but you are actually sitting slouched in your chair, then you lose that curve in your back and the pressure increases from 100kg to 180kg. So that's a huge difference and that's a huge lot of pressure for you to have on that disc.

So if you can imagine a disc with increased pressure on it, you can imagine what's going to happen. The jelly is going to be pushing out at every angle towards those fibres around the outside. If the pressure is increased because you are slumping, then the fibres that will take the brunt of it are the ones at the back and those are the ones that can tear and then possibly cause irritation to the nerve root.

The other activities that really increases pressure in the spine, in the disc in particular, is a very simple activity that we do quite a lot without really noticing until we do have a sore back and that is the stoop. Now what I mean by the stoop is just slightly bending forward from the back, not bending all the way over, but just that little lean forward that we do. Now you might do this when a bench for example, is a little bit too low, when you are washing the dishes reaching into the bottom of the sink or when you are cleaning your teeth and bending forward to spit out the toothpaste. So it's a very light activity, there is no weight attached to it, but it is the actual stoop that increases the pressure in the disc.

Now using the example again of somebody who weighs about 70kgs, if you lean forward in this position the pressure in your disc will be about 120kg. Now the reason that this particular movement has such a huge impact on the disc, is because it is such a common one and its one that we certainly don't notice until we have a back pain.

During my years as a treating physiotherapist, I had many people come to me for treatment who said they were doing something as simple as cleaning their teeth and then they just couldn't stand up straight. Now the injury hasn't just occurred on the day that they were cleaning their teeth and just bend forward.

For probably months or years leading up to that day, they have slightly bent forward over and over again or they have done other activities such as heavy lifting that has torn most of the fibres and then on the day they were literally down to a few fibres that tore at the time.

The other activity of course that will increase the pressure in your disc is lifting and there is great awareness now about safe lifting and reducing the amount of lifting that you have to do at work and at home, share the load all of that and in fact rather than having a set safe lifting limit, most occupational health and safety regulations now recommend that it depends on the individual. And this is a good recommendation because it really is an individual thing in terms of how much you are able to lift. It is determined by your own body weight and definitely determined by your strength.

What do you think needs to be strong to help you lift safely?

Well your quadriceps absolutely need to be strong. That is your thigh muscles. When your thigh muscles are strong, it's going to be your legs that perform the lift and that's what should be lifting, not your back,...

and of course your upper limbs. Your abdominal's are really important too. The transverses abdominis forms your own internal brace. So if you can switch this on, you can actually activate muscles that are going to support your back during lifting.

However as a general guide in terms of the pressure that is placed on the disc when you lift, lifting 20kgs with your back straight or maintaining your 'S' curve and using your legs to lift, for a 70kg person the pressure in your disc is 180kgs. Now the interesting thing about that is lifting 20kgs puts the same pressure on your back as sitting slouched in your couch or on the sofa. You wouldn't think that. You would think that lifting is going to put more pressure on your back, but it can obviously be better to be active than to be sitting with a poor posture for a lot of the time.

Now the big difference comes if you accidentally bend a little bit through the lower back losing that 'S' curve when you lift. So lifting 20kgs with your back bent increases the pressure in your disc if you weigh 70kgs to 340kgs. So you can see why you can significantly injure your back when you lift with poor technique. And the problem is, that when you don't have a back injury you can spend years in your youth lifting poorly with bad technique just because you can and then after some years of doing this and the fibres have all been torn, you end up with a severe back injury fairly easily. So I guess that is the 'why' behind why you should lift safely. I think we all know, how to lift safely but that certainly gives you a little bit of background information about why it is actually so important to lift safely and what can happen if you don't.

So that gives you a little bit of information about the disc, but there is not just a disc in our back is there. The discs are between every single vertebra in your spine. So you have the lumbar vertebra, which is in your lower back. You have the thoracic vertebra, which is in your middle back and then the cervical vertebra, which is in your neck. So in between every single bone is a disc. It's firmly attached to the bone below it and the bone above it, so it can't actually slip anywhere as such.

But what other structures have we got? Well you've got the ligaments, which are between the bones and of course the joint capsules, which is the soft tissue around the joint. But the one thing that we actually have some control over in our body from a structural point of view, of course is our muscles. This is what sets people apart in terms of preventing a back injury. So muscles start off in great nick when we are kids and they usually remain pretty active during our adolescent years when we are involved in sport and other activities, but often as people get older they become more seventry, which mean they sit down more basically. And if you have a look at technology and what's going on in terms of the way we do our job now, a lot of us spend a lot more time sitting. So if we are sitting more, we have increased disc pressure for more of the time because we are spending more time in sitting. But what's happening to our muscles when we are sitting around? They of course are becoming weak. So it is really important to be involved in physical activity, ideally every day so that you can maintain your muscle strength.

Most importantly is your core strength when we talk about preventing a back injury. Core strength has really become a bit of catch phrase lately. Everybody is very aware of core strength and you may have also heard of pilates, which is a method of teaching you how to activate your deep abdominal muscles so that they can protect your spine. Now you can do specific exercises to target these muscles groups and get your transverses abdominis activated and correct all of those internal muscles and maintain a good posture. But do you know that if you're active in general that these muscles kick in and work anyway. So anything that you love to do, if you love to go for a brisk walk, do that. If you love running, do that. Riding a bike. All of these activities are activating your core muscles and increasing the protection for your back. So I can't recommend regular exercise enough. In this audio file we are specifically talking about manual handling and that is that obvious benefit for this session, but there a millions of other benefits that you are going to get from regular exercise anyway. And just to name a few, you are going to feel a lot better. For those of who are already fit, you will know that you are full of energy and you feel happier because you are fit and that is a proven scientific fact, that is just not here say. But if you want to prove it, the best way to do it is try it out yourself. So start getting active as soon as you can. If you are not doing anything at all at the moment, then just start by walking out of your front door in some comfortable shoes. If you haven't done anything in a while, walk for five minutes in one direction and turn around and walk back and gradually build up from there. But there are lots of fantastic ways that you can exercise that are going to increase that support through the spine and protect your discs and your back so that you can use it for the rest of your life.

So do we just need to protect our discs in our back? Well no of course not. We need to protect our muscles in our back from injury as well.

Now if you were to go off and do an aerobics class tonight and you haven't done one for a long time, how do you think you might feel tomorrow? A little bit sore possibly. And why do you feel that way? Well the muscles are fatigued because you haven't used them like that for a long time. Now a lot of the aches and pains that we feel, not only in our back, but in our shoulders, our neck, our joints, throughout the body really, can be related to overusing certain muscle groups and this comes down to our technique.

You may be in a job where you actually have to do something quite repetitively. That can be the nature of people's jobs. So whether you develop an injury or not is dependant on a few things. First of all, the ergonomic set up of the job that you are doing. So naturally you want things to be set up so that you can maintain an upright posture. If you are sitting, you should be sitting up straight. If you are standing, you should be standing up straight maintaining your 'S' curve. You want your task to be in close to your body so that you are not over reaching. The other thing that can contribute to over using your muscles is the way you perform the task. Now if you are in an ideal posture and you're in close to your task, then you're going to be using your muscles at the optimal length. So our body likes its 'S' curve. Ok, my body likes my 'S' curve and your body likes your 'S' curve. So once you know what that is, you want to maintain that so that it is easy for you to do your job and your muscles don't have to work too hard. If I lose my curve in my back, lets say for example the curve in my lower back, that is naturally going to affect the curves in the rest of my spine. So for me, I have what is called a sway back, which is quite an exaggerated curve in the lower back. That's ok, that is normal for me. It's actually caused by years of callisthenics for any of you that know what that is. I used to do marching and rods and all of these crazy things. Anyway we used to stand up so straight that we really kind of stuck our stomach out forward and increased that curve in the lower back and I am kind of stuck with that now. So for me, I actually need to make sure that that curve is maintained and if its not, what happens is, if I become flatter through the lower back then I become more round shouldered. My shoulders come forward and my head comes forward. So if you think about the muscles and where they are positioned. We obviously have muscles at the front of the spine and we have muscles at the back of the spine. So when we have our ideal 'S' curve, all of that is in balance. The muscles at the front are balanced with the muscles at the back and they are at the correct length. But if I spend a lot of time too flat through the lower back and therefore rounded through the upper back, what's going to happen is, I am going to cause a muscle imbalance. So I will become tight through the chest. Those chest muscles will get tighter and the muscles between the shoulder blades will get longer or weaker. Now if I do an activity in this posture, I will be using muscles when they are either on stretch or too tight and that is how I can get an overuse injury.

I can even get an overuse injury just by having the poor posture. For example, the trapezius muscles. Now these guys start in the base of the skull, come down and insert into the tip of the shoulder, so the ones along the side of your neck and they also come down in a kite shape in between the shoulder blades and into the middle of your back. So if I am always sitting a little bit slouched, so I am 'C' curved or rounded through the lower back and shoulders forward, you can see how weak the muscles are going to get that are stretched and how tight the muscles will get that are in the forward position or holding on at the front. So if you think back to the example of us going off to do some aerobics and then feeling really sore. That soreness is caused by muscles being tight. So often the first sign you are going to get before you actually get pain for any type of muscular injury can be tightness. Lets use an example of going for a run. Lets say you decide, 'yep I am going to get fit, I used to run, let's go running'. You may have not sought any advice about how to gradually introduce running and you might go off for example and run 6kms, after not doing any running at all for a few years. Now naturally you are going to feel very sore the next day, but if you don't actually get pain, you're definitely going to feel tight. Those muscles are going to be tight. This is the same with overuse injury's that can be caused by work activities. For example, if you think about the tennis elbow. Now some of you may have experienced tennis elbow before or know somebody who has. Tennis elbow is hardly ever caused by tennis. Naturally it can be, that is where the name comes from. The technical name for it is lateral epicondylitis, but you can forget that because that is not important. So with a tennis elbow what happens is, you overuse the muscles on the outside of the elbow and you overuse them by continuously extending your wrist. Which means, if you imagine your arm out stretched in front of you, you can do it now if you like with your palm facing down. If you pull your hand back towards you so that the back of your palm is coming up towards you, that is wrist extension. So when you pull your wrist back in that position, you use the muscles on the outside of your elbow and if you are always doing that activity then you are going to over use the muscles in the elbow. So how do we avoid that? Well what you will notice is, how much you use those muscles varies depending on your posture. So don't try this if you have actually got tennis elbow or if you have any aches or pains at the moment but if you sit in a slouch position, so you are in a chair and you let your bum slide forward a little bit in the seat, so you are slightly rounded through the lower back and then reach out straight in front of you with a straight elbow and grip the air really strongly, so hold on tight. Now put your hand over your forearm just underneath the elbow, so just lower than the elbow. You'll feel that the muscle works quite tightly when you grip in this position. So that is, arm out stretched with a poor posture. Now if you sit up straight with a good posture, bring your elbow into your waist and face your palm towards the other palm. OK, so you look like a robot now, you have got your elbows into your waist, elbows bent 90 degrees and your palms are facing each other. Now grip strongly, release one arm from that position so that you can feel the muscle in your forearm and you will see that it doesn't work so hard. So by correcting your posture you are actually reducing how hard that muscle works. Pretty good huh?

So this is the first principle that I want you to remember and that is to get as close to the task as you can. It doesn't matter if the task is heavy or light, you need to get as close as you can. So how close do you need to be? Well you need to be so close that you can maintain your 'S' curve really well, perfectly, your perfect 'S' curve. So that means that you don't need to put your shoulders forward at all. You can actually keep your shoulders in the neutral position for you, so the comfortable position that feels right for you. It also means that whatever you are doing is inside your base of support. Now what do I mean by that? What is your base of support? Well when I am standing up straight with my feet together, the base of support is the rectangle that I can draw if I trace a line around my shoes, with my feet in my shoes. So it's a very small base of support. I am standing up straight with my feet together. Now obviously what I can do is step to the side and now I have a wider base of support. But where do you think my task might be? Often, if not always, my task is in front of me. So where do you think I should put my foot, so that I can increase my base of support in the direction I need too and get the task inside my base of support? Out the front. So I put my foot forward, now I am in a lunge position or I may just have knees comfortably, not too straight, not too bent, with one foot in front of the other and now I bring my task inside my base of support.

So lets use an example, I'll use one that is not work related so that no matter what kind of work you do you will be able to relate to this if you have ever washed the dishes. If you haven't ever washed the dishes, shame on you! Ok if you haven't done it yourself you have probably watched somebody in your house do it. So we are washing the dishes and usually there is a cupboard under the sink. So you are standing with feet side by side on the ground and you are bending over so that you can reach into the sink. Where is your task and where is your base of support? Well your base of support is the line you can draw around your two feet on the floor next to the kitchen cupboard. The task that you are doing is in front of you, in the sink where you are washing the dish. Not a heavy task, but if you have a sore back you will know this will hurt. So the task is outside your base of support. So how do we fix that? Well unless you have got shelves underneath your sink then unfortunately you cant do this. But if you have got cupboard space, you open the cupboard door, clear a space for your foot, put your foot inside the cupboard so that your front foot is underneath the task. Now if you are not touching, if your body is not touching the edge of the sink or the bench, you may find that your foot wont go in far enough to be under the task. So the task is still slightly outside of your base of support. So what you do now is, you increase your base of support significantly by adding your workbench to your base of support by bracing. So if you now with your foot in this position, in the cupboard, press your hips against the bench, then you actually merge with the bench and the bench becomes part of your base of support. Now the activity, which is washing the dishes, is inside your base of support.

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Archery Set Selection - What to Look For When Buying Your First Archery Set

The sport of archery is a unique and fun sport. Selecting the correct archery set will make a big difference in how well you perform and ensure every session is enjoyable. As a beginner there are a number of critical factors to be aware of when deciding on which archery set is the best for you.

Typically there are five components to a beginner's archery set; The bow, arrows, arm guard, finger tabs and the sight. Let's take a look at each component and what you need to look for when creating your first archery set

The Bow

There are many types of bows used in archery depending on experience level, how the bow is to be used and of course budget. Understanding the difference is a subject for another article. As a beginner you should focus on a recurve bow and your selection should be based on these factors:

• Select the bow first not the arrows. Selecting the bow first will help you choose the correct arrows.


• Recurve bows are made for left and right handed people. Selecting the correct one for you is based on eye dominance. To find which of your eyes is dominant point at a distant object. Close your left eye. If you are still pointing directly to the object you are right eye dominant and should select a right handed bow. If you are not pointing to the object with your finger you are left eye dominant. Select a left handed bow.


• Select a bow that is easy to pull. This will give you a chance to find your form. Don't worry too much about the technical differences in how the strength of the bow is calculated. Just find a recurve bow that you are just able to pull without struggling.


• Recurve bows come in different lengths or 'draw lengths' basically for different shaped people. The length of your arms and the width of your shoulders are used to calculate the correct draw length. Visit an archery pro shop to get this right. The incorrect draw length will affect your accuracy.
  

The Arrow

As with bows there are many types of arrows based on composition. Aluminum and wood arrows are the most economical while at the top end there are carbon and carbon/aluminium hybrids. As a beginner an aluminium arrow will do just fine. There are essentially two aspects in selecting any type of arrow for your bow. Arrow length and arrow spine.

• Arrow Length - This is where selecting the bow first is important. Because you know how far you can draw your bow this will tell you which arrow length is required. Basically, at full draw the tip of the arrow should sit about an inch from the leading edge of the grip.



• Arrow Spine - Arrow spine or how flexible the shaft of the arrow is will effect its flight based on which weight bow you have selected. The best way to choose correct arrow spine is to visit your club and try a few out with you bow. Choose the arrow that gives the most consistent result.

The Arm guard

The arm guard is a simple device which will protect the inside of your forearm as the bow string is released. Your selection is largely driven by budget however, ensure the guard sits comfortably between your wrist and inner elbow and can be easily attached and removed.

The finger tabs

Finger tabs will help protect your index and middle fingers from becoming sore and blistered form consistently drawing on the draw string. You can also use a full glove however, the choice will depend on how much feel you like when drawings your bow.

The Sight

Although you can use your archery set without a sight it more difficult as a beginner to be consistently accurate. Archery sites can be a science in themselves. Don't be tempted to complicate things when you first start out by selecting an archery site with advanced features. Save that for later. Start off with a basic fibre optic 3 pin composite sight with a guard and twin pin tracks.

The sport of archery can be a very challenging and rewarding sport. How quickly you excel and how much you enjoy it will greatly depend on the correct archery set selection for your situation.

Whiplash Injuries

Whiplash injuries are a common result of a car accident because of the sharp changes in speed and direction of the body. Rear-impact, or rear-end car crashes tend to produce the most cases of the whiplash personal injury because the occupants of the front car are not able to anticipate the crash and thus are caught off guard. Sometimes, anticipation of the pending impact can make these injuries even worse! Studies have shown that one in five people involved in a rear-impact car accident have complained of neck pain after the incident. Approximately one million cases of whiplash occur because of car accidents in the US every year. Of these, 25% of the cases result in chronic pain and long term disability.

The most common type of whiplash occurs in a rear-impact car accident. When your car is hit from behind your car is pushed forward and then shortly after, your body follows. However your body doesn't move forward as one complete unit. Your head and neck are thrown back into the seat and headrest, while your torso is thrown forward. Your head and neck shortly follow in a downward forward motion towards the steering wheel. Your brain's immediate reaction is to slam on the brakes to stop the forward motion of your car. This in turn sends your body quickly backwards until your head and neck hit the headrest again. The extension both forward and backwards of your neck and the resulting impact on the headrest injures the tissues of the neck, resulting in whiplash.

This mechanism can also result in a brain injury as your brain is thrown about inside the hard, protective skull.

Whiplash is formally defined as injury to the soft tissues of the neck due to hyperextention (moving too far backwards) and hyperflexation (too far forwards). These tissues include ligaments, tendons, and muscles. Injury to these tissues can also damage the nerves in the area, resulting in long lasting damage and symptoms in the rest of the body. The most evident symptoms are localized to the neck and head. These symptoms are pain and stiffness in the neck, which can extend down to the shoulders and up to the head and headache. Whiplash can also manifest itself as tingling in the arms and hands because of nerve damage and lower back pain because of damage to the intervertebral joints and discs. Mental function can be impaired and may result in poor concentration or mental performance or loss of memory. Other common symptoms are blurred vision, ringing in the ears, dizziness, and tiredness.

Car manufacturers are improving their designs and technology to help prevent whiplash injuries in car accident victims. The most important part of the car in a whiplash case is the headrest. The headrest should be positioned to support the head's center of gravity. This will help keep the head from going even farther back in the reaction stage of the impact.

If you feel that you have suffered from whiplash, you should call your doctor immediately. If the case is severe, the doctor will likely have you wear a soft collar for a short period of time for protection and to keep the neck tissues in place. However, the most immediate treatment is ice to reduce the swelling and a pain reliever to prevent inflammation. In most cases, the pain subsides within a few months, although in about 25% of cases pain and symptoms continue indefinitely. If you believe you have suffered a whiplash injury, consult your doctor for long term treatment options such as chiropractic, massage, ultrasound and physical therapy.

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How to Put on Hockey Gear

As one of the most popular sports of today, hockey has become an activity people are wanting to get in to. People of all ages are now strapping up their gear to play the game. The sport is seen as a great method of exercising because it is a lot of fun to play. First time participants, however, may find that gearing up for the game is very difficult. There is a very intricate order in which the equipment must go on. The following are orderly steps to successfully get geared up to play:

• Shin Guards: These are the first piece of equipment to go on. They cover the shins of the players legs to keep them safe from the puck. They are usually labeled left and right, so that you know which one belongs to which leg.

• Socks: These are not your normal socks. These are large socks that go over the shin guards. They are usually matched with the color jersey the player is wearing.

• Pants: The pants are a crucial part of the equipment. They are large in size and protect the player from all forms of danger on the ice. They go on over the shin guards and are filled with padding to help keep the player safe.

• Skates: Without skates, hockey would not be played. The skates need to be put on the right feet and must be tied tight but not too tight that the foot starts to cramp. Every player has their own preference on how tight they like their skates.

• Shoulder Pads: These protect the participant from body checks. They cover both of the shoulders and, depending on length of the shoulder pad, protect a portion of the chest and back. They have great important of safety on the ice.

• Elbow Pads: These protect the elbows and a portion of the forearm. Without this piece of equipment, the player would not last long on the ice.

• Helmet: A must have piece of equipment, the helmet protects the head and face. Today, most people are denied access to the ice surface if they do not have a helmet on. A helmet decreases serious injury dramatically.

• Gloves: The gloves are used to protect the hands. They are made durable enough to protect, yet they are also flexible enough to grip the hockey stick.

• Stick: This is used to give motion to the puck. It is needed to play the game; to pass and shoot.

If these simple steps are followed in order, participation of the sport will be more enjoyable. Remember to always wear every piece of equipment when out on the ice, as they all contribute to the safety of the player.

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It's easy to remove an AR15 handguard, even a tight, new one. You don't need any special tools (I'm sure they're handy, but don't run out and buy one without trying this first). This was done on a brand new Spike's middy. You don't even need a screwdriver unless you're trying to remove a new handguard.

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International Shinbudo Association Sport Kenjutsu new disciplin - SHINKEN Members of Shinbukan (HQ of ISA) perform here the demo fight: Sensei Ivan Obradovic (Judge), Shihan Dr. Ivica Zdravkovic (black fighter), Sempai Darko Stoilkovic (blue fighter) Competitors use soft-padded approved sword 100cm long or shorter. Headgear is mandatory. Rules are similar to Kendo. Victory is achieved by winning TWO (2) points , hitting the head (MEN), arms (KOTE), body (DO) and stab to the head, neck or chest (TSUKI). Note: Strike on the shoulder will be scored too. Strike to the forearm or upper arm will be scored, but not the strike to the fingers, fist or wrist. All techniques (guards, strikes) must be performed with both hands on handle (ryote, or morote). In order to be awarded a point (IPPON), strike must be carried out as follows: 1) from the proper guard CHUDAN no KAMAE, with swinging above the head (SUBURI), or from guard JODAN no KAMAE. 2) with a loud KIAI when hitting 3) strongly, so that it can be heard (except for Tsuki) 4) with moving away from the opponent after a strike (back, forth or sideway), with guard CHUDAN or JODAN no KAMAE, so that the opponent can not make a delayed strike (ATOUCHI); this is to demonstrate the winning and calm spirit (ZANSHIN) Strikes delivered after pushing opponent from clinch (TSUBA ZERIAI) will be scored too. Mutual (simultaneous) strikes will not be scored (AIUCHI); Strike followed by the opponent's slightly delayed strike (ATOUCHI) will not ...

Don King's Prizefighter

Don King Presents: Prizefighter is the latest attempt on the Xbox 360 to add depth to an existing genre, which in gaming terms will shortly be found in the bargain bin muttering that it could have been a contender, and could have been somebody.

Boxing, despite its simple premise of two gentlemen in shorts punching each other repeatedly until a bell rings or someone looses an ear, is a very difficult sport to competently translate into a game. There have been valiant attempts to loosen the gaming pugilists feet of clay, but this isn't one of them. The fighting invariably becomes a graceless, desperate slugfest with both sides blindly hammering at each other until a pre-determined special punch can be delivered. The punch lands, one man falls, gets up a few seconds later and the whole horrible show is repeated at least four or five times.

The controls of Prizefighter are probably one of the more competently arranged aspects, with 4 basic punches mapped on to the face buttons, the right trigger toggling these between body and head shots, and a right and a left uppercut performed by X and Y or A and B simultaneously. A few extra buttons involve ducking and weaving and raising your guard, and despite the speed at which this will all get thrown at you in the initial training bout, it becomes intuitive quickly, enabling you to find the punch you want even in the thick of the action.

The individual punches do snap out with a reasonable enthusiasm, and if judged entirely on one fighter throwing and landing one punch, it would be a pretty good title. Unfortunately Prizefighter falls apart when the gamer has the audacity and poor sportsmanship to then want to land a following, associated blow rather than wait patiently for the other chaps turn. The concept of combinations is essentially non existent here, and rather than being able to fluidly string together punches as the situation calls for it, a-ducking and a-weaving, there are instead a grand total of about four 3-hit combinations that actually work to any extent and you'll find yourself repeating those over and over.

As you chip away at your opponent, in the bottom right hand corner an adrenaline meter will fill up based on successful hits. There are sections three in this meter of might, each one representing the use of a special punch. Landing one of these jawbreakers will make short work of the majority of the opponents health bar, and if not already decked a few follow up knocks will put them down. These punches are pretty much the match deciders, cheapening all the other pugilistic action into simply frenetic chipping at each other until unleashing a wild and career-ending gazelle punch. I pity the fool, most sincerely. Should all three of the adrenal bars fill up then you can use your secret weapon, reveal your true form, play your trump card, unleash your ultimate secret technique or whatever other madness the characters in anime tend to say before glowing, changing colour and kicking the stuffing out of the antagonist. In this iteration the screen will go misty red and you will briefly become the berserker foretold in legend, each punch a hammer blow and a knockdown effectively guaranteed.

The animation and mapping of the character models is far from terrible, but is by the same token unimpressive. The graphical moments that will stand out are the fairly frequent clipping problems when a forearm will phase right through an opponents head, or an allegedly successful punch will fall noticeably short in what looks to be a parody of bad fight choreography on 70's Star Trek. Given that the programmers has exactly two characters to animate and get the modelling right for, moving slowly insides a very limited space, and one of which is always you anyway, it seems odd that the fighters often seem so disassociated from each other actions.

So the actual boxing in Prizefighter isn't up to much, and you'll probably get a better sense of pugilism in Wii Sports, but what does Mr King intend to distract us from these shortcomings with? What does the man who's added almost as many hybrid words to parlance as President Bush proffer to dazzle us? Will there be spectaclarosity, or will the whole show be a victim with extreme fectaculosity of its own magnormous pompestuity? (All genuine King-isms)

It's mostly the latter, as all Prizefighter has to offer in the stead of a competent fight mechanic is FMV sequences, repetitive stat-building minigames, the Adrenalin system and an unimpressive build-a-fighter option. It truly is a Don King game - where the hoopla outside of the ring is overhyped to pull focus from the dubious nature of what goes on within it. In career mode you will fight as The Kid, biffing your way up from the grimy neighbourhood gym to the big time heavyweight champeen title in Vegas. The level progression is dictated by winning three or four fights, followed by taking down the regional champion before moving up to a higher bracket of boxers and winning purses. The fight money is in fact purely decorative, and the only discernable purpose of being told how much you win is as a vague gauge of the opponent's difficulty level, but this is frequently inconsistent. It's the FMV sequences that are played through every couple of brackets or so that actually introduces the Don King elements, as the take the form of a sports documentary following your career. As well as Mr King lending us his splendiferous sagacity, there's a cast of trainers, ex-girlfriends, agents, family members and actual genuine boxers and sports pundits spinning out some sort of background against which the repetitive fights are meant to have meaning. What is confusing is you can't really tell who in the footage is meant to be a character and who is making a cameo appearance.

A few of the boxers you'll recognise, several of the sport journalists are clearly the real deal, but many of the pundits act so badly its actually hard to tell between them and the its-either-this-or-porn character actors. I'm looking at you, actor turned sports documentary maker Mario Van Peebles. There's a few snarling panto villains, a sleazy agent, and of course Don King who already walks amongst us a caricature of a caricature. It's highly ignorable and adds exactly nothing to the drama or lack thereof within the ring.

Between fights your character will be given the opportunity to train up their statistics (strength, stamina, agility and dexterity) on two of four gym routines - shuttle run, heavy bag, focus mitts, jump rope and speed bag. The large number of overall fights your boxer will be put through, and the concomitant amount f time you'll spend in the gym means that you will slowly build quite a specific boxer statistics wise. Even small changes in your fighter's stats do actually make themselves felt in the ring, so there is a decent sense of progression and gaining competence. However, the gym routines are themselves uniformly dull, at best an uninspired Guitar Hero rhythm game, at worst an actual chore to perform. You'll be spending a lot of time in the gym, which translates as hours repeating the same four repetitive exercises, which I'm sure is a fairly accurate portrayal of intensive gymnastic regimens, but not a good way to make a fun game.

Boxing, despite its simple premise of two gentlemen in shorts punching each other repeatedly until a bell rings or someone looses an ear, is a very difficult sport to competently translate into a game. There have been valiant attempts to loosen the gaming pugilists feet of clay, but this isn't one of them. The fighting invariably becomes a graceless, desperate slugfest with both sides blindly hammering at each other until a pre-determined special punch can be delivered. The punch lands, one man falls, gets up a few seconds later and the whole horrible show is repeated at least four or five times.

Breaks from the monotony are offered in the way of special events being offered to you instead of one of your limited training slots before a fight. Some of these will be training events, where you will retreat into the mountains to fight bears or whatever, and come back a week later with your stats boosted at the cost of your image in the public eye. Conversely, you can accept offers to hang out in the coolest bar with the VIP and the movie stars which will increase your popularity at the cost of some of your statistics. The benefit of being more famous, aside from pointlessly boosting the prize money of each fight, is to start each fight with elevated levels of adrenaline, putting the wrecking ball punch in closer reach. This initially interesting system lacks the strength of its conviction, as fully partaking of either route will ultimately be detrimental to your fighter's chances, the game pushing you towards a pedestrian balance.

For variety, Old Trainer Joe (or whatever his name is) will every so often be found sitting in your office, replacing the option to train further or book another fight. With a sigh of exasperated tolerance usually reserved for talkative elderly relatives you will click on and be forced to play through a 'classic' match of old, featuring bygone boxing legends. You can tell its in the past due to the colours giving way to sepia and the warbling jazz track playing in the background, see? These matches don't really go anywhere or benefit your career mode in any way, and can usually be actually lost in short order just to get them out of the way. It's actually quite galling to have spent the last three hours squeezing up your stats in just the way you've been planning to then be repeatedly sidelined into the body of a preset historical figure that reacts with the comparative grace and dexterity of a buffalo. Yes, thank you Old Trainer Joe, have a toffee, come back anytime, ooh look your television show is on, would you like a blanket? From these episodes you learn or divine nothing except once upon a time people would not automatically demand a refund if it turned out to be two white guys fight.

Designing your own fighter is a predictably unsuccessful feature. As with nearly every other title that has given you the chance to facially design your character by altering the values for eyes, nose, brow, cheekbones, etc you will inevitably end up with something that looks like it came from a very insular community where everyone has the same surname. It is at least a chance to enjoy the pure science fiction of creating a London born Caucasian with a beard who could become the boxing champion of anywhere more than his own front room or outside Wetherspoons on a Saturday night.

The online multiplayer fights for Prizefighter involve some almost inexplicable choices. The entire mechanic of the fights has been changed, doing away completely with the depleting health bar over the course of multiple knockdowns, instead requiring a special punch to be delivered to have any sort of lasting impact what so ever. What was originally an onerous chipping away in pursuit of the sucker punch career mode is exacerbated five-fold in multiplayer. The result is a repetitive flurry of blind blows reminiscent of little girls fighting, if little girls fighting eventually culminated in one of them lamping the other right in the nose.

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Stay Down, Old Abram [Book 2: Chapters: 1-14 "Whatyoumacalitt"]

It was one of those odd days, and it would end up being even more coincidental before it ended, a nice overly warm day in the spring of l976. Chris had gotten his Buck Sergeant strips and therefore was eligible now for additional assignments, duties required by sergeant level personnel, thus, this Monday he was given a special assigned to take some nuclear waste, consisting of several twenty-five gallon canisters, to the 69th Ordnance Group, some ninety-miles away. Along with the truck driver, a Private First Class Presley, and a Corporal by the name of Meeks, whom was his second, or back up guard, they both jumped on the back of the five-ton truck, the driver in the front, and in the late morning sun, headed out to the 69th, all three soldiers, with their M16 rifles by their sides: locked and loaded.

Sergeant Wright never really liked using his time for other than Surety purposes, such as guard duty, or delivering soldiers to prison, or even nuclear waste jobs--, but it was part of the overall duties of sergeants now, as was other duties specifically for sergeants, and in a way he liked the idea of being a sergeant, and with such expectations, thus he took it with pride, not complaining: in addition, there were not that many sergeants with high security clearances on base, which was a requirement for the overall responsibilities of many needed tasks.

As they drove down the autobahn [freeway] the young sergeant looking east for suspicious people and west--from on top of the five-ton tuck down into their cars; also, often checking the twenty-canisters each holding twenty-five galleons of nuclear waste. It seemed to him some might be leaking around the seams of the top of two canisters, but they weren't after closer observation.

At the 69th

Sergeant Wright had the driver remain in the back of the open truck, having it park close by the 69th Ordinance Group's main Mess Hall, while he and the corporal went into it for lunch, it was 1:15 PM. He had notified the authorities on base he was holding the stockpile at its present location, by way of a phone located nearby. And they suggested he remain there while they send down a police escort along with additional guards to follow the truck to its destination-site. In the mean time, he need only remain at the Mess Hall, and the truck would be back in an hour or so, and they could head on back to the 545th. Accordingly, the Sergeant would bring a bag lunch for the driver.

As they walked into the Mess Hall--stepping up and over steps and a ridge in the middle of the doorway--the corporal following etcetera, they both, the assistant and the sergeant, disengaged the M16-clip-magazine of bullets from the rifle, putting them inside pouches on their ammo-belts, mussels down as they walked into the dinning area. Now looking back at the sun and its heat hitting the truck, it was refreshing to be out of the sun, therefore, he witnessed the driver talking to the Military Police, as he wiped his brow. Then he gave his rifle to the Corporal, and went in line along with other soldiers to get two trays of food. They had found a table somewhat close to the door; surprisingly so, since it looked quite jam-packed, for as Chris looked about, all the tables were now taken, funny he thought, humorous how did his eye catch this one. And then as he sat down with his two trays, a stranger from a nearby table stood up, it seemed obvious too obvious, or so the stranger made it seem that way, then he started walking over toward Chris' table.

"Can I bother you by asking you a question there: Buck Sergeant," ask the stranger, a Staff Sergeant, speaking in a Midwestern style, slowly with a middle tone to it. Said the sergeant without hesitation, since Chris nodded his head yes, with his eyes giving a signal of: 'sure, why not...' said:

"Familiar, --you look familiar," he repeated himself for better clarification.

Chris took a great look, said with haste--:

"Whatyoumacallit, (a pause), you're...are you, I mean you look like Whatyoumacallit," then it came to mind, the name, it got burped out: "Chick Evens!" said Sergeant Chris Wright.

Having said that, the conversation rang loud and clear, along parallels one might say, they were High School friends, and neighborhood friends: not one he [he being: Chris] hung around with per se, but one that hung around the Cayuga Street Gang, the area the police called, 'Donkeyland,' of St. Paul, Minnesota in the Mid-l960's. They had gotten drunk a few times with a group of people, and caused a little ruckus in the halls of Old Washington High School, off Rice and Cook streets. They both had been to Vietnam also, not together, but both there at different times; the last time they had met one another, was in Boot Camp, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in l969, he: Chick Evens was polishing his boots, when Chris showed up to say hello at his barracks--at Fort Bragg.

"It's me, and that's you, you all right," said Chris, adding, "Small world I'd say," as he wiped his mouth from the spaghetti he had just swallowed.

Chris then asked Staff Sergeant Evens, with a wave of his hand to join them, and Chick pulled up a chair, as they both noticed Chick's friends went on talking about whatever they were talking about. Both old friends become quite comfortable of one another within a few minutes and both delivered an update report on their lives. Chris knew, soldiers often ran into old Army buddies as years went by, for this had happened in Vietnam as well, where he had met, better put, ran into a friend who owed him money, $2 to be exact--but he wasn't from his state. In any case, it wasn't all that unusual, especially when they were in the same MOS [Military Occupation], and both Sergeants were in ordinance field, but the chances of meeting a friend from your home town, and High School, seemed too coincidental--a long shot, but none the less, it was as it was. And here, the two sergeants talked about old times, simple things men talk about, as: camaraderie took place; a beam of pride, and a nice break in the everyday life of both of them.

13.

Between Fights

Chris sat reflecting upon his Army career, his travels, his back home city life--his old friend came to mind, Chick Evens also, as the sound of crash and a bang come from a room down the barrack's hallway. Chick was a poet of sorts--he remembered--in his neighborhood, kind of a singing poet if he recalled right; he had also taken karate up, and for the most part was just a down-home good-old-boy, a friend from High School. It was funny seeing him in West Germany on one of his assignments a few days earlier, while delivering nuclear waste to the 69th Ordnance Group, of which his unit, the 545th Ordnance Company was under. He remembered him being a little hot tempered at times: save for the fact he was hard to get mad in the first place, but once mad it was hard to settle him down--an emotional character he did have, not like his brother, who was calm like a stone--but then, that was him: yet, given time, he'd cool down. For the most part, Evens was a discovery in himself thought Chris.

They were both--he and Evens--in all respects, developing alcoholics: they loved to drink back in those days, what my have been referred to as, 'the good old days of the neighborhood,' and then being in the Army, it also contributed to its ongoing love affair if anything, with the bottle. Again, Chris was disrupted from his meditation from a bang down the hallway, it sounded as if a fight was going on: a bash came, as if it cracked the wooden door to one of the rooms of the barracks framed arches. He opened his door to his four man room, and looked down the hallway--sure enough the sounds were from way down the hall: the sides of the walls were two-tone green and pale-egg white above the greens that went up the rest of the way of the wall, and across the ceiling and down the other side; the noise was coming from the very end room it seemed, on his right hand side, it was the middle of the afternoon. Again he listened intently: surely a fight of some kind he construed: he knew of three Army guys in that room, a Mexican who was always bragging how tough he was; a Southern white--called Red who sold dope to everyone who wanted it, if he wasn't strung out on it himself; and a black man Chris never really knew, just seen, he was big, but seemed harmless; all the same, he always was loosing his strips, from Corporal one month to Private the next, matter of fact, he had seen this very thing in his closet, that is: two sets of dress greens, one with private strips on them, and one with Corporal strips on them, thus saving time for running back and forth looking for a seamstress, and having them sawed on--: Chris walked back into his room, shutting the door behind him, sat back in his chair, and all of a sudden an incident occurred to him.

Chris was brought back to when he, Chick Evens, Johnny's girl, Karen, and the Shadow, Chris' girl [she was called the Shadow because she followed Chris around all the time, like a shadow would]; they were all in a bar in St. Paul, called 'Bram's,' before he went into the Army, specifically. In any case, during this time, "Hell's Outcast," came in, a motorcycle gang, and out of nowhere, Johnny and the gang started a fight with someone, Johnny being friends with them. Although Chick knew them, he never hung around with them, and so the brawl broke out, without Chick or Chris getting involve, and to Johnny's dismay, it seem a bit too pious. None the less, his girl was safe within the stall with the two, as the bar became more destabilized by the minute--it was as if the Gladiators of Rome had opened up the gates to the Coliseum for a festive-fight. From all corners of the bar, came: glasses flying, beer bottles and alike crashing recklessly everyplace, flying frantically by everybody's heads, bodies. People being knocked down, punched; people yelling, screaming.

Chris heard the bartender say, "I called the cops, they're on their way," a nice kind of warning for some odd reason, in hopes there would be no retribution afterwards most likely. Johnny was drunker than a skunk, and Karen was observing everything around Johnny, worried for him, yet not sure what to do; the Shadow was ducking, yet nothing had come to their booth, not yet anyhow; and Evens just looked at every move that was taking place in the bar, --Johnny's eyes caught his--Evens', Johnny the instigator for the most part, and Evens' friend; he looked like a drunken saber-tooth lion to Chris.

Said he [Evens], looking at Johnny about ten feet away:

"We better get out of here before the police come," at that moment he gave Chick a smiling-smirk ((if not a sneer)), and resumed fighting. From Chick's peripheral vision, he did a double take along side of his shoulder and the booths edge of the seat,--hence, towards the back of the booth a chair came flying; someone near Johnny had thrown it, or possible Johnny himself, possible anyone could have: and so it was, that someone had picked it up--the chair, noticing this one lone booth was not involved with the happy-go-lucky, dangerous fun, and wanted to insure they got their fate--but somehow, Chick quickly threw up his forearm, blocking the chair as it flipped against it--a moment prior flying in the air towards the heads of the whole booths; and as he blocked it, it fell onto another table: his forearm being a bit bruised. Then Chick got up, asking the three folks with him to get the hell out of there before it was too late, accordingly, making it to the door, as the police sirens were becoming louder in the background. He quickly grabbed Johnny, at Karen's request, throwing him into the cab and onto the floor, pushing him down with his foot as he tried to get up; whereupon, a policeman came and asked, looking into the cab, before it could take off:

"You see Johnny Low?" Chick replied, '...last I saw of him he was sick in the bathroom," then the police took off, and Chick told the driver to get moving, and he did.

--Chris looked out his barracks window, leaning on the sill, looked down and around at the busy and bustle below, then, triumphantly he leaned over to his radio, turned it up louder, drowning out the trouble-making angels of gloom down the hallway.

14

The Female Specialist
Specialist Jackson--at the 545th]

It was getting about that time for Sergeant Wright to head on back to the states, he had stayed forty-three out of his to be forty-four months at the 545th Ordnance Company; he had seen much happen in that time span. He had arrived a Corporal, and made Buck Sergeant, and was going up for Staff Sergeant soon, he would make it before he went to his next duty station he knew, possible in two months. His career had started at Fort Bragg, as a Private, and on to Alabama, where he became a Private First Class, and then on to the 545th as a Corporal, where he made Sergeant, and he'd be now assigned to Italy, after a short stay in the states, thus, where he would make Staff Sergeant.

As he continued to pass all the Surety Inspections, he had noticed that when he first arrived there was only one female on base, of which was in the Mess Hall, now there were several, some with technical positions, in the back area working on nuclear bombs; they were from all walks of life, and races: Black, Mexican and White women all working together, things were sure changing he told himself; matter of fact, he had heard that the 545th had received women now in the company on experimental bases to see how they would intermingle: even the MP's had one. It was a novelty for the most part yet, and the men liked it, yet the problem was arising where to put them all. This was the beginning.

Chris had gotten a call from a friend of his, a [Chief Warrant Office], CW3 McDaniel's, that his new Technical Nuclear Weapons Specialist had arrived, and she was a woman; and that they needed him to get her, her clearance right away: a Top Secret clearance, and would like it processed as fast as possible. This was not a new thing for Chris to hear, for the most part, everyone felt their people had, or should be given top priority; although Sergeant Wright didn't let on to this, he let the people think he was going out of his way just for them, and sometimes he would. In point of fact, it could take weeks, to get the process done, and sometimes days, and sometime even months. And a few times hours. This time the CW3 McDaniel's, wanted it in hours, saying he had most of the paper work completed on her already--and this was true. 'Well,' thought Sergeant Wright, 'why not try to accommodate,' for he was one of the few officers that would boast to the Commander, and inspectors when they came down from Washington D.C. to check on his records, boast about how good Wright was, that he was the best in his field; so it was easy for the sergeant to go out of his way for him, most willingly. And Wright never forgot that.

"Corporal, McGee [his assistant]," asked the Sergeant,

"I need you to hand carry this paper work on Specialist Jackson's through the process of getting her a top secret clearance so we can get her into the site working on them bombs, ASAP!"

"No problem Sergeant, I'll review the records, finger print her today, and tomorrow morning go down to Battalion and see what I can do." And so it was done, and Specialist Jackson got her clearance to work a little faster than the average person and Sergeant Wright got a phone call from his friendly Warrant Officer thanking him. Often times the name of the game was as it always was, 'you rub my back, I rub yours,' and for the most part it worked.

Specialist Jackson's Surprise

It was midday, and all of a sudden the siren went off, an alert was in progress, which happened frequently. In the process the front gates got locked, and the back area site was locked down also--the guards in the back area positioned themselves with their rifles and M60 Machine Guns, and all the Army personal on the site readied themselves for the ongoing mock drill; everything was to be secured and checked out in case of a real alarm, yet this alarm like all were either orders from Battalion, or Group level, and sometimes from even a higher echelon: but bogus for the most part. In the mist of all this everyone ran through their barracks and down to the Arms Room to get their weapons, and were instructed when to form a formation to get instructions for what the next step would be. Normally it would entail all to be prepared for an attack--that wasn't really an attack, to Sergeant Wright, a waste of time again he'd tell himself and his men, but he had no choice but to play the game, normally if he'd find out about when the drills would take place, he'd have something to do that day at Higher Headquarters, and be far away from the mock-emergency. Again, this of course was a trial, or dry run alarm to see how fast the site could be secured.

In the process, the orderly room got cramped with personnel, where at this point, about fifteen soldiers, three of them women, had to stand in the hallway waiting to see either the First Sergeant, or the Commander. Sergeant Wright being one of the fifteen, needed to see the First Sergeant on where his team should be, possible securing the records after the formation. As they all stood in the hallway waiting, a black soldier stood directly across from Sergeant Wright. She had big breasts, he had never seen her before, must be the new one he thought--Jackson maybe, and then he had seen her name tag: E. Jackson, her rank being Specialist-Four, equal to a Corporal. He found himself staring at her for some odd reason, possible at her big breasts--he told himself; possible in a daze thinking on the situation in addition to those big breasts she had, that covered her upper section, from her neck seemingly to her bottom rib.

"Something wrong Sergeant," said a voice: still in a daze, and almost on top of her breast with his eyes. [A pause.] She comments again, "What you looking at SERGEANT!" The sergeant looked up, right into her eyes--a long pause took place--"You see something you like Sergeant?" She was a bit rude he thought, no need to be that way, she had only needed to wake him up he thought. A few people started looking their way, said the sergeant: "Yup, I'm looking at the door knob right by...by your shoulder there--Specialist!" She looked with a smirk at him. He looked with a smile at her. Then he looked again, and again and finally started to look away toward another person when she asked:

"Now what Sergeant?"

"What's the E. for...?"

"You got my file, why not just check it out?" and turned her head way from him: evidently she knew who he was, that being, the Surety NCOIC. Thought, Sergeant Wright: '...that's what I get for getting her, her clearance right away.'