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Let's create what we prefer.
It's an amazing world, and let's do that; create what we prefer.
Let us always create what we prefer. Let us create something of our own choosing, and allow ourselves the space around that creation, to become a "breathing zone", for what we choose for ourselves. To support our higher selves — our truest version of self, it's the only way we can have impact, ultimately, in our universe.
My reality.
(Even more than sex…) I fantasize about a tolerant, patient, open-minded society
which can handle revolution
and rejects the musical spectacle
A hierarchy for creating results.
Why is it important that others align with their higher self, to find this understanding?
The goal of all life is, ultimately, to create happiness by meeting all the needs for survival, followed by the needs that lead to self actualization. Maslow identifies this with his hierarchy of needs, which ascends in 5 levels (physiological, safety, love, esteem, and finally, self-actualization.)
Perhaps, for one thing, there is nothing more boring at parties than someone who hates their fucking job. Because you always want to know from them, why don't you really just do a career, and not focus on a job instead?
Maybe the world would become a more enlightened (and happier) space, if we all do what it takes to create this for ourselves, with a higher goal in mind.
What would a mass form of idealism produce?
Would it form a shallow, utopian view? If we don't assume responsibility for ourselves, whenever we talk about Utopia, then the prospect doesn't seem so realistic. We imagine a perfect world, but we also still assume that someone else, maybe a creator, is still responsible for our decisions. It is easy to see why we give up on a vision, especiallly when it becomes easier to assign "utopia" with a label… such as "equals, unrealistic."
Synergistic relationships, however, between spouses, partners, clients and vendors …all begin with a principal alignment, which must require few compromises, few second-guesses. There is no world so heinous as one which senselessly endorses "harmful" goods and services — products that its inhabitants don't really want. If we don't make the time to research the alternatives we choose, to our own satisfaction, then we contribute to a glut of useless options, without addressing our civil right for better options — a right which requires self-authority; to make a deliberate choice early in the puzzle — and which precedes a glut based upon quantitative measures.
When we work against our better instincts, we unwittingly give creating energy to the parties whose products we do not deliberately endorse; this is especially true, when we undertake business relationships that we feel are separate from our awareness of higher self.
Perhaps it is every person's responsibility: first, to get to know oneself, to understand and to value this importance. Equally, we must learn to be consistent within ourselves, in a manner which produces a satisfactory result, one which appears to be connected to the steps taken to arrive there.
How often does someone you know give up, frustrated, saying "I want C, but I do A and B, but I never get C as a result!" And how often do we also know that A or B may not have been the only right steps in the first place, but an abbreviation of merely some of those steps?
Mind the gap.
She/He may be limited…
in space…
in experience…
in money…
in patience…
in food…
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in out of body experience…
in good life experience…
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Polity & Governance
- Can't Mekedatu be used to address T.N.'s needs, asks SC
Environment, Ecology & Disaster Management
- Harit Diwali, Swasth Diwali Campaign
- Climate change costs India $10 billion every year
- India has 27,312 elephants, Karnataka has highest: Census Estimation
Bilateral & International Relations
- US and India to co-host global entrepreneurship summit
Defence & Security Issues
- Navika Sagar Parikrama
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Can't Mekedatu be used to address T.N.'s needs, asks SC
The Supreme Court has asked the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu governments to envision the Mekedatu dam project as a facility to store excess water from Karnataka, which can be released to Tamil Nadu.
- The suggestion was mooted during the hearing of appeals in the Cauvery case.
- Tamil Nadu has indicated that it was agreeable to the proposition, provided that such an arrangement was under the control and supervision of an independent third party.
About the project:
Karnataka intends to build a reservoir across river Cauvery near Mekedatu in Kanakapura taluk.
- It was first proposed along with Shivanasamudra hydro power project at Shimsa in 2003 with an intention to use the water for a hydro power station and supply drinking water to Bengaluru city.
- The drinking water and hydroelectric project will have a balancing reservoir to store 66.50 tmcft of Cauvery water.
- The project is estimated to cost 5,912 crore and about 4,900 hectares of forest land will submerge if the project is implemented.
Controversy over the project:
- The contentious project has been opposed by Tamil Nadu on the grounds that it violates the Cauvery tribunal order. However, Karnataka has said that it aims to utilise excess water after releasing 192 tmcft to Tamil Nadu.
Environment, Ecology & Disaster Management
Harit Diwali, Swasth Diwali Campaign
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has launched the "Harit Diwali, Swasth Diwali" campaign.
- The campaign was launched with an aim to reduce adverse environmental conditions especially pollution in the country after post Diwali celebrations due to excessive bursting of crackers which contributes significantly to air and noise pollution.
About the campaign:
- The campaign aims at enlightening the children about harmful fire crackers.
- It will motivate children to not to buy fire crackers, instead buy a gift, food items, or sweets for poor and underprivileged children living in their locality.
- Under this campaign, the MoEFCC will undertake various activities for creating awareness among various stakeholders and encourage people to participate in combating air pollution.
- Some of the activities will include promoting Green Diwali among school children include stickers/logo distribution, advertisement on public transport systems, poster competition, public appeal using Radio. Social media campaign will be also undertaken under it.
- Moreover, an online video competition will be conducted, where any individual or organisation can make a video on the theme 'Pollution Free Diwali'.
Need for this campaign:
Diwali is an integral part of our rich tradition and a festival that embodies joy and happiness.
- In recent times, the pattern of celebration has changed somewhat and has got associated with excessive bursting of crackers, which contributes significantly to air and noise pollution. As a result, there has been a significant impact on the environment and health of the people.
- As has been the experience in the past few years, airborne pollution has been rising above safe limits during winter in many cities. The excessive burning of crackers during Diwali aggravates the problem.
- The pollution levels in Delhi last year, especially post Diwali, reached such levels that the government had to declare an emergency situation, which had socio-economic consequences like closing down of schools, construction sites and power stations.
Climate change costs India $10 billion every year
In its recent report, a parliamentary committee has observed that extreme weather events are costing India $9-10 billion annually.
- It also observed that climate change is projected to impact agricultural productivity with increasing severity from 2020 to the end of the century.
Impact of Climate change on agriculture:
Decrease in Productivity
- The productivity of major crops will be marginal in the next few years but it could rise to as much as 10-40% by 2100 unless farming adapts to climate change-induced changes in weather.
- Major crops such as wheat, rice, oilseeds, pulses, fruits and vegetables will see reduced yields over the years.
- It will force farmers to either adapt to challenges of climate change or face the risk of getting poorer. It could turn India into a major importer of oilseeds, pulses and even milk.
- Adaptation to climate change will need different cropping patterns and suitable inputs to compensate yield fluctuations.
Food Security
- Vulnerability of Indian agriculture due to vagaries associated with climate change and low adaptation capacity of majority of Indian farmers poses risk to food security of the country.
- By 2030, India may need 70 million tonnes more of foodgrains than the expected production in 2016-17.
- The demand for food is also going to increase due to an increasing population, expanding urbanisation and rising income.
- To meet increasing demand, India to depend on import if it does not act on time to increase production and productivity of major food crops, pulses, oilseeds and milk by adapting to climate change.
- The ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research has projected food demand of 345 million tonnes (MT) by 2030- almost 30% higher than in 2011.
- The projected demands for fruits, vegetables, milk, animal products (meat, eggs and fish), sugar and edible oil, by 2030 is estimated to be 2-3 times more than that in 2011.
Economic Losses
- According to the economic survey estimates, India currently incurs losses of about $9-10 billion annually due to extreme weather events. Of these, nearly 80% losses remain uninsured.
- The quantum of losses is going to increase substantially in future if one takes into account the impact of climate change on farm productivity.
Improve in Yields
- Though there is possibility of decrease in yields of certain crops in traditional sown areas due to climate change but it may increase elsewhere due to change in weather pattern.
- Though most crops will see reduced production, but climate change may also help improve yields of soyabean, chickpea, groundnut, coconut (western coast) and potato (in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh).
India has 27,312 elephants, Karnataka has highest: Census Estimation
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change released preliminary results from the first-ever synchronised All-India Elephant Population Estimation.
- As per the estimation, the population of Asian elephant in India stands at 27312.
- The estimate is derived from the sighting-based direct count method alone. However, the estimate will be confirmed with estimates from the indirect dung-count method in three months.
About All-India Elephant Population Census:
- The census was conducted between March and May 2017 by the Asian Nature Conservation Foundation (ANCF) at the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru), several NGOs and independent conservationists aided the Project Elephant Directorate and forest departments of 23 states.
- It was first-ever synchronised all-India Elephant Population census that covered 1.10 lakh square kilometres and spanned four regions of the country: the northeast, south, east-central and north.
Highlights of the report:
- According to the report, Karnataka has the highest number of elephants (6049), followed by Assam (5719) and Kerala (3054).
- The population estimation of Asian elephants in 2017 census is lower than from the last census estimate in 2012 (between 29,391 and 30,711).
- However, the experts say that parallels cannot be drawn, because in the 2012 count, various states used different methodologies and the effort was not synchronised across the country. As per them, errors and duplication could have led to overestimation.
- As per the estimation, a number of indices, including birth rate, indicate that the elephant population is increasing. However, it shows marginal increase in elephant poulation ever since the 1990s.
- Due to habitat fragmentation, elephants are moving out to agricultural landscapes leading to an increase in man-elephant conflict resulting in both crop damage and loss of lives of elephants.
- It is to be noted that as per the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the population of Asian elephants was about 41,410 to 52,345 and of that India alone accounts for nearly 60%.
Bilateral & International Relations
US and India to co-host global entrepreneurship summit
The US and India will co-host the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in November this year in Hyderabad, India.
Key facts:
- GES 2017 will create an environment that empowers innovators, particularly women, to take their ideas to the next level.
- Around 1,500 delegates from over 160 countries will participate in the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES).
- The theme of the GES this year is: "Women First, Prosperity for All," which highlights that when women do better, countries do better.
- This year marks the first GES held in South Asia, and the event underscores the broad and enduring partnership with India.
- The summit will focus on four key industry sectors: Energy and Infrastructure, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Financial Technology and Digital Economy, and Media and Entertainment.
About GES:
- The Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) organised annually since 2010, is the preeminent annual entrepreneurship gathering that convenes over one thousand emerging entrepreneurs, investors, and supporters from around the world.
Defence & Security Issues
Navika Sagar Parikrama
Navika Sagar Parikrama is a project wherein a team of women officers of the Indian Navy would circumnavigate the globe on an Indian-built sail boat INSV Tarini.
Key facts:
- This is the first ever Indian circumnavigation of the globe by an all-women crew. The project is scheduled to commence in early Sep 17.
- INSV Tarini is the sister vessel of INSV Mhadei.
- The project is considered essential towards promoting Ocean Sailing activities in the Navy while depicting Government of India's thrust for 'Nari Shakti'.
- The expedition has been aptly titled 'Navika Sagar Parikrama', aimed at promoting women empowerment in the country and ocean sailing by the Indian Navy.
Additional aims of the Expedition are as follows:
Nari Shakti:
- In consonance with the National policy to empower women to attain their full potential, the expedition aims to showcase 'Nari Shakti' on the world platform.
- This would also help to discard the societal attitudes and mindset towards women in India by raising visibility of participation by women in challenging environment.
Environment and Climate Change:
- Sailing encourages the use of environment friendly non-conventional renewable energy resources which affects the life of women.
- The expedition thereby aims at harnessing the energy to optimise the livelihood of the women onboard.
Make in India:
- The voyage also aims to show case the 'Make in India' initiative by sailing onboard the indigenously built INSV Tarini.
Meteorological/ Ocean/ Wave Data Observation:
- The crew would also collate and update Meteorological/ Ocean/ Wave data on a daily basis for subsequent analysis by research and development organisations.
Marine Pollution:
- The crew would monitor and report marine pollution on the high seas.

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December 14, 1964: Civil Rights Act Upheld
Two hours after the 1964 Civil Rights Act was signed into law, on July 2, attorney Moreton Rolleston filed a suit challenging its constitutionality. He was part-owner of a large motel, the Heart of Atlanta, which advertised nationally and was popular with interstate travelers. It had refused to take in black guests, and vowed to maintain that policy—putting it squarely at odds with Title II of the new legislation, which banned discrimination in all places of public accommodation.
Rolleston argued that by interfering with his right to operate his business "as he sees fit," Congress had exceeded its regulatory authority, placing him in a position of "involuntary servitude."
Though the Supreme Court upheld the new law unanimously, two justices expressed concern about the court's reliance on the commerce clause. The approach, one confided, might imply to some that "hamburgers are more important than human rights."
Rolleston decried the ruling as a step toward a "socialistic state," but he also offered a more optimistic view of future race relations in the U.S.: "With my grandchildren, there won't be any problems at all. They won't even know there were any."
Due to a production error, an early, unedited draft of this article was inadvertently published in the December magazine and the initial online article. This updated version was posted Jan. 5, 2011.


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What Are The Foundations Of Success?
As we set off on this journey together, I will teach you the Foundations of Success and help walk you through a series of what I have come to understand, are the crucial foundations for becoming successful and gaining wealth. I have developed, over the last two years of study, research, and application, a full guide that has not only changed my life around, but if given the chance can also change your's. I've labeled this highly valuable program the "Foundations Of Success," because it contains what I believe to be the most crucial and foundational ideas, concepts, and principles that you absolutely need to understand and apply in order to truly achieve Success in your life.
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Ultimate Definite Purpose – Foundations Of Success 6
6) Ultimate Definite Purpose
"A man without a definite major purpose is as helpless as a ship without a compass."
– Napoleon Hill.
Your Ultimate Definite Purpose is your's to define, and that is what you must be working toward achieving with every step of your life.
If You Seek Change In Your Life, Define The Change:
If you are seeking to change and improve your life, you first must define what that change looks like. Where do you want to be in life, what are you striving for, and what is the one pursuit in your life, that if accomplished, would lead you to feel not only "Successful" but also empowered to find success in all other areas and passions of your life?
This one thing, is defined as your Ultimate Definite Purpose. All success starts with defining for yourself your Ultimate Definite Purpose, and creating a Burning, or White-Hot desire for it.
A Burning Desire:
Your Ultimate Definite Purpose must be accompanied by a burning desire, a white-hot desire for success. It should be a goal so definitive in your life that you think about it day and night, and you stay restless, knowing that you want to achieve it.
With your Ultimate Definite Purpose you must desire it so strongly that you will not waver from your purpose, from achieving it, and that no amount of obstacles or delays will stop you from having it.
Say to yourself, I want it, and I'll have it. Have absolute dedication and determination to achieve it, and you will.
This is the driving force behind all successful people in life. They have clearly set their eyes on a singular goal, and they work purposefully to achieve that goal. And until it is theirs, they don't relent, they don't give up or give in. They know, without a doubt, that they want it and they will have it.
In order to reach your Ultimate Definite Purpose, you must know what you want to accomplish, have faith in your ability to do it, and persist until you have accomplished your goal.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that belief, plus burning desire, plus constant action, improved by thinking and assessment, cannot accomplish.
You don't need to have all of the right things in line, you don't need to have the right education, the right schooling, you must have the right attitude and the right determination to succeed at the task for which you are pursuing. You must have a definite purpose and you must persist. And you must think! Yes, you must always think, and think anew, and apply and review and Think, and put into process that which you have thought.
Persistence, concentration of effort, and definiteness of purpose are the major sources of almost all achievement.
Triangle Of Success:
Your faith will create action, and by thinking and constantly applying, processing, and moving forward and taking action consistently, you will continue to believe in it more and more. Your desire will increase, your faith will increase, and your action will increase. These three things feed each other.
Define your Ultimate Definite Purpose, have a desire for it, believe that it will be done, and take action. The action you take will fuel your desire, which in turn will fuel your faith, which in turn will fuel more action. This triangle of success will continue to fuel and feed itself until you reach all that you have set out to accomplish.
Newtons 2nd Law: A body in motion will remain in motion, and a body at rest will remain at rest:
We've all had days where we've lacked discipline and sat around a little too long in the morning, not accomplishing anything. And within 10 minutes of doing that, our entire day falls away from us and we tend to accomplish nothing the whole day. It tends to become so hard to get moving doesn't it?
That is because a body that is not in motion, will remain at a standstill.
We've also all had those days were we accomplish more than we ever thought possible. You wake up, and the first thing you do after your morning routine is accomplish a small task, you continue to accomplish tasks all throughout your day, and experience productivity unlike ever before. And that is because a body in motion will remain in motion. The sooner you can accomplish even a small thing, you will continue to accomplish great things, and you will maintain the energy you have.
The key then is to build momentum as quick as possible. To set up your day and structure your day in such a way that you are set up for success and for accomplishment. We need to rest, and so we sleep.
Creating and defining for yourself an Ultimate Definite Purpose is the staring point of all success. With this comes an increase in desire, faith, focus, and action. If you set all of your focus, determination, and persistence on achieving your Ultimate Definite Purpose in life, you will ensure that each day is a success, that you are consistently moving toward the one goal that will improve your life by great amounts.
Do not neglect to define you purpose in life. If you have no specific purpose, how can any amount of inspiration, motivation, or learning help you improve? Understanding what are you improving toward gives you the direction to accomplish great things and have a purposeful life. Learn to build, along with your Ultimate Definite Purpose, a white-hot burning desire to see it accomplished, and set each task and action step toward it's attainment. All effort will then guide you towards a life of success.
Next I will teach you how to structure your day and manage your time so that you can ensure that each day is successful, laying a building block on the foundation of your Ultimate Definite Purpose.
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The Supreme Court will deliver the judgment on Thursday on the government appeal filed against the High Court order granting bail to detained Awami league chief Sheikh Hasina in an extortion case.
The full bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Mohammad Ruhul Amin set the date after holding hearing on the appeal.
The government on Tuesday filed the appeal with the Supreme Court challenging Monday's HC order granting ad interim bail to Hasina an extortion case and also directing the government not to hold trial of the case under the emergency power rules.
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Celebrities will stop coming to Fiji if their movements could not be kept confidential, the country's tourism industry said this week. Industry organizations said the privacy of the celebrities who often traveled in private jets should be respected. South Pacific Tourism Organization chief executive Lisiate Akolo said in some countries the media ruined the holidays of celebrities who spent a lot of money on their vacation.
He said Fiji was popular in the region because of its five-star island resorts and strict confidentiality was maintained by the management, staff and handling agents. The Fiji Times took the views of organizations after the arrival of newly-wed pop star Britney Spears into the country on Monday morning.
Ms Spears will spend eight days with her dancer husband Kevin Federline at a five-star resort in the Yasawa Group.The source said the couple were accompanied by their bodyguard and flew into the country on a private jet. They will spend almost $2000 each per day at the resort. That is just for food and accommodation. An executive of the resort declined to comment, saying the privacy of guests was important for the company.
Fiji Visitors Bureau chief executive Viliame Gavoka said details of celebrities were so confidential the bureau did not have any statistics on it. He said the country received free mileage when the stars returned home and told their fans and the media they had just returned from Fiji. Mr Gavoka said celebrities provided free publicity and should return home with good memories.He said the celebrities liked the remoteness and the privacy and for many of them Fiji was their regular holiday destination.
Airports Fiji Limited media officer Prasheeta Ram said celebrities did not want public attention when they were on holiday. She said AFL handled only security aspects of the stars and all staff members had to adhere to the confidentiality policy of the company, which applied for all visitors coming in the country.Air Fiji manager airline operations Arthur Whippy said his company handled a lot of airline transfers for celebrities and staff adhered to the policy of confidentiality.
He said the airline prohibited staff from releasing details of any passenger, regardless of their status. Fiji Hotel Association president Dixon Seeto said the arrival of celebrities into Fiji always added a brand to Fiji.He said these guests spent a lot of money and should be looked after well. Mr Seeto said visitor arrivals picked up after political instability when celebrities started visiting the islands and talked about their stay after returning to their countries. He said these visitors would not return to the country if the public and the media disturbed them.
Air Terminal Services acting chief executive officer Isimeli Qaranivalu said the company handled the arrival of the visitors but most of the staff did not know which celebrity was coming or for how long they would stay as all details were handled by agents.
He said ATS was committed to providing 100 per cent services to all customers and celebrities and stars who came in private jets often had their programs pre-planned and known only to them and their agents.
The country has been a popular spot for Hollywood stars who either come to the island resorts for a break or on honeymoon.Among stars who frequently visited are Nicole Kidman, Pierce Brosnan, Russell Crowe and Mel Gibson. Mr Akolo said it was important for people involved in the tourism industry to remember that guests wanted the best service for the money they spent.
He said some tourist destinations in the region had been attracting celebrities for a number of years because of the services they provided. Thanks worldofbritney.com


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Houston Astros vs Colorado Rockies, Wednesday July 3, 2019 (8:10pm et) Current Odds: Astros -135 Total Runs 14.5
The Colorado Rockies are wrapping up one of their toughest homestands of the season: four games against the National League West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers and two against the American League West-leading Houston Astros.
The Rockies have held their own so far, standing at 2-3 with one game to go following a 9-8 loss to Houston on Tuesday.
In the homestand finale on Wednesday, the Astros will send veteran left-hander Wade Miley to the hill to oppose Colorado rookie right-hander Peter Lambert.
Miley (6-4, 3.39 ERA) is coming off of a solid outing against the Seattle Mariners on Friday. He went six innings and gave up just one run on three hits but settled for a no-decision. He has won only one start since May 24, going 1-1 with a 3.76 ERA in June.
Miley is 7-2 with a 3.89 ERA in 14 career appearances against the Rockies, 13 of which were starts.
That ERA could be tested against Colorado on Wednesday. Coors Field has been giving up a lot of runs over the past month and has hurt the stats of All-Star pitchers.
Houston manager A.J. Hinch is familiar with dealing with playing in Denver from his days as a skipper with the Arizona Diamondbacks. He pointed out the home runs aren't as much of an issue as the vast outfield.
"Everyone automatically thinks it's about the fly balls," Hinch told reporters before Tuesday's game. "Fly balls fly out of the park here. It's the ground balls and the singles that turn into doubles and make this offensive park even more intimidating.
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"I was in the NL West for a little bit of my post-playing career. And when you see ground balls hit and the outfield's playing so deep, it turns a ground ball into a double. That can create a lot of momentum and a lot of offense in this ballpark."
For that reason, Hinch went with his best defensive outfielders Tuesday and didn't start Yordan Alvarez, who is hitting .317. And Hinch doesn't plan on starting him Wednesday.
"Their dugout will be very aware when he's moving around the dugout and getting a helmet and getting ready to hit," Hinch said. "He's going to be a force to come off the bench for a critical at-bat. If we need a big at-bat, he's going to be in there."
Lambert, who made his major league debut a month ago, allowed a total of two runs in winning each of his first two starts. In the three outings since, however, he has given up 16 runs. In all, he is 2-0 with a 6.57 ERA.
Lambert isn't the only culprit on the staff. Colorado starters and relievers are getting hit hard, including Tuesday night.
"We have to get some things in order on the pitching side," manager Bud Black said Sunday. "On any given night, we have 13 pitchers, and we need a number of guys — double-digit guys — pitching well. We can't have a guy pitch good, a guy pitch bad. We need consistent pitching from our rotation and our bullpen."
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Wighed in today, and I'm almost at 10 lbs lost 😀 It's a small victory, but a victory nonetheless!
I had a hard time for about a month, lol, I would just eat too much and not exercise enough, but since we got a salad spinner, we've been replacing the starch (potatoes, rice, etc) at some dinners with big salads. I've been cutting down quite a bit all those little snacks that add up in a big way at the end of the day, and making sure that we either take a walk or I do jumping jacks (yes, they are such a wonderful, full-body, heart-pumping exercise).
Also, I have been on a huuuuge Booster Juice kick! However, being a student, lol, it is kinda on the expensive side to be getting everyday! So I think it's high time we get ourselves a blender. Speaking of food stuffs, we also picked up a small countertop grill, which has been fabulous! I much prefer grilled food to pretty much anything else, except for maybe a delicious roast, of course! 🙂
Anywho, just thought I'd share some of my health happiness 😛 And, thank you for all the views recently! Holy cow! I've capped out my viewing records a few times in the past week! 😀 You are lovely, aren't you? 😉


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One year ago I did a major housekeeping change.
I finally opened an Interactive Brokers account (I still have accounts with TDAmeritrade and OptionsHouse – now ETrade).
I don't particularly like IB's web interface or the desktop GUI. But one year in, it bothers me far less than it used to. I love the speed and the quality of execution. My other brokerage accounts, while offering better UIs, force me to bid in increments of 5c, and often take forever to fill comparable orders.
The big factor, of course, is cost. Instead of shelling $5+, most of my options cost me $1 or less. IB often gets me a price better than my limit price. I understand that it could pocket the difference, and I would never know. Actions like these build trust (Costco/Amazon playbook). In 2017, almost 90% of my trades were executed on IB.
It also pays me meaningful interest on my cash balance (0.92% currently for cash balances above $10k). This is higher than the interest at my bank.
As my portfolio moved from 16% cash at the start of 2017 to nearly 35% currently, the interest I earn underwrites all my commissions and then some.


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The Emu Trail - No Emus Though
This region I am visiting today is part of the emu trail. Foretold, is the white sand that makes up the trail. However, after some time, I gave up today. There were not even any trail footprints left by emu in the sand, which would have been a good indicator of life out here. There were kangaroo droppings, but they would have passed through here long ago. I am here most likely at the wrong time of year to see emus here.
Instead; I am here and all I can photograph is the white sand running through the dry river bed of the gorge. Although dry it does have water running less them 1m below the coarse sands. It is also drinkable. Today made for an unusual landscape photograph.


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Lone Wolf is typically a folding knife maker. So when they make a fixed blade, they make a very nice fixed blade. Their latest offering is the Steve Kelly Trailmate and it is a beauty to hold and to look upon. It is also a pleasure to use, with its 154CM blade steel. Finally, it is a pleasure to buy, at only $140.
You can see them at www.knifecenter.com
Here are the details from Lone Wolf Knives:
The Trailmate fixed blade knife by Lone Wolf was designed by custom knife maker Steve Kelley. The Trailmate has a 3.5 inch long blade built from 154CM premium stainless steel. The handle slabs are brown jigged bone for a great looking non-slip grip. The handles are riveted into place in two positions and epoxy sealed under the bone to the blade. There is a lanyard hole to provide added security when using or carrying the knife should you choose to employ a lanyard. The handle shape has two deep finger groves to enhance the grip/control of the blade under slippery conditions. The top edge of the blade also has thumb-notching just forward of the handles to also enhance the grip when putting downward pressure on the blade with your thumb. We heat treat, temper and cryogenically freeze each blade to maximize the properties of this exotic stainless steel.
The Trailmate comes with a high quality horizontal carry leather belt sheath to protect the knife and user. The Trailmate has excellent balance and rugged durability with its full-tang construction. The Trailmate has a limited lifetime warranty.
* Blade Length: 3.50 in.
* Overall Length: 7.50 in.
* Overall Weight: 6.1 oz. with sheath
* Blade Material: Premium 154CM high carbon stainless steel
* Handle Material: Brown jigged bone
* Fasteners/Lanyard: Brass pins
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On Your CalendarSave the date.
Spring 2019 Commencement
2 p.m. and 6 p.m. @ HTC Student Recreation and Convocation Center
Ticketed event
The Spring 2019 commencement weekend will be held on Friday, May 10 through Saturday, May 11, 2019, inside the HTC Student Recreation and Convocation Center. The Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts and the HTC Honors College and Center for Interdisciplinary Studies degree candidates will be honored on Friday, May 10, at the 2 p.m. ceremony. The E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration and Spadoni College of Education degree candidates will be honored on Friday, May 10, at the 6 p.m. ceremony.
Visit coastal.edu/commencement/spring for more information.
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Earth's thermostat is stuck on bake as October shatters records for global warmth
In just over two weeks, diplomats from around the world will meet at a carefully constructed campus on an airfield on the outskirts of Paris in an attempt to slow global warming enough to prevent dangerous impacts. Yet the climate is moving far faster than the pace of diplomacy, as shown again on Monday, when word came that October was the warmest such month on record dating back to the late 19th century.
The new data comes from the Japan Meteorological Agency, which is one of several agencies around the world that keep tabs on the planet's thermostat. The others are expected to report similar data in the coming days, including NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the United States.
The most notable element of the October data released by the JMA is the distance with which the globe's average temperature exceeded all other Octobers — 0.19 degrees Celsius (0.342 degrees Fahrenheit)
This was the largest temperature departure from average for any month so far this year.
In other words, October was more unusually mild than any other month so far this year, which is saying something, considering this is all but certain to be the planet's warmest year on record.
The JMA data shows that October was 0.53 degrees Celsius (0.94 degrees Fahrenheit), above the 1981 to 2010 average, and was therefore the warmest such month since 1891. The second-warmest October occurred just last year, when the monthly average temperature was 0.34 degrees Celsius (0.61 degrees Fahrenheit) above average.
These numbers may seem small, but considering that there have been a total of 1,486 months since January 1891, and that these temperature records are typically set by a few tenths of a degree, this October milestone seems even more rare.
The JMA information shows October was unusually mild throughout areas of the Northeast, Central, and South Pacific Ocean, much of North America, the Indian Ocean, parts of Asia and most of Europe, as well as all of Australia, Africa and the Middle East.
The warmth in the Central Pacific is related to a strong El Niño event that is characterized by unusually mild ocean temperatures along the equator, from the central Pacific to the west coast of South America. El Niño events cause changes in weather patterns around the world by altering the way heat is distributed throughout the oceans and atmosphere, and they tend to boost global average temperatures higher, in addition to the effects of long-term manmade global warming.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has found a 97% chance that 2015 will break the all-time calendar year temperature record for the planet. NASA has found that likelihood is slightly lower, at about 93%.
Not only that, but for the year as a whole, global average surface temperatures are likely to reach 1 degree Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial temperatures for the first time, according to the UK Met Office and NOAA. Even 2014, which was the previous record-holder for the warmest year in recorded history, did not eclipse this symbolic boundary.
The 1-degree mark means that the world is already halfway to the internationally agreed warming target of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), above preindustrial levels. Since the stated goal of the Paris Summit is to craft an agreement that will limit global warming to the 2-degree target or lower, it's clear that diplomats do not have an easy task before them.
In fact, the assessments produced to date show the planet will likely exceed the 2-degree threshold, at least for a period of time, even if the Paris agreement puts stringent emissions limits in place and they are rigorously enforced.


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Cloning Ban Waits in the Wings
Although fear that an unscrupulous scientist might clone a human has subsided in Congress, the issue could resurface as legislators return to work next week. And aides say one vehicle with unpredictable consequences for researchers may be an amendment to a 1998 spending bill.
The only panel to act on a proposed ban so far is the House Science Committee, which voted in late July for a permanent prohibition on using federal funds to support "any project of research that includes the use of human somatic cell nuclear transfer technology to produce an embryo." This language, drafted by Representative Vernon Ehlers (R-MI), was criticized as too broad by such groups as the Biotech Industry Organization and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Some complain that the bill would ban not just cloning but human embryo research. Others fault the bill for failing to regulate private clinics.
Despite opposition from two members—Constance Morella (R-MD) and Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD)—the science panel, led by chair James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), voted for the proposal and sent it to the Commerce Committee for further review. But that panel is not expected to take any action this year.
The situation is more fluid in the Senate. Senator Kit Bond (R-MO) has introduced a bill similar to Ehlers's, and an aide on the Senate panel that oversees research notes that this legislation could turn up in another form at any time—including as an amendment to a bill funding the National Institutes of Health.
DOD Basic Science Takes a Hit
Universities that receive funding from the military are scrambling to reverse a surprise setback in Congress for Department of Defense (DOD) basic research. Following the recommendations of its appropriations committee, the House voted on 29 July to slash Defense Department spending on basic research in 1998 by more than 4%, to $1.03 billion. This cut, which would continue a 3-year decline, went against the prevailing mood this year: The president, the Senate, and both congressional authorizing committees have proposed an 8% increase in basic DOD science.
University officials are gearing up to protest. "I hope our industrial colleagues will write to Congress" to oppose the cut, says Venkatesh Narayanamurti, engineering dean at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Leaders of the Association of American Universities also have been discussing a coordinated response. House and Senate conferees must resolve the $140 million difference in science funds when they meet next month to work out a compromise DOD spending bill.
Social Policy Debate Could Snag HHS Bill
The National Institutes of Health is looking forward to a healthy budget boost for 1998, but NIH officials better not pop the champagne corks just yet. While Senate appropriators have proposed a 7.5% raise for NIH, and their House counterparts a boost of 6%, the final figure could be influenced by an upcoming House floor debate over social programs in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
When Congress returns from its break next week, it will consider the HHS package (which includes NIH), along with 12 other unfinished money bills for the fiscal year that begins on 1 October. But some Capitol Hill staffers say a fight that delayed a House vote on HHS funding in July may cause trouble again in September. A Republican group that calls itself the Conservative Action Team tried unsuccessfully to cut several programs in this bill before the August recess, and it plans to try again when the HHS bill comes up on 8 September, according to House aides. The group may also throw its support behind an amendment requiring HHS family planning clinics to give parents notice when minors apply for aid. Representative John Porter (R-IL), chair of the subcommittee that drafted the HHS bill, plans to fight such an amendment.
If the battle produces a stalemate or a bill the White House rejects, the result could be a stopgap funding bill for HHS with no increase. But one senior House Republican staffer thinks that's unlikely. There will be a noisy "dustup" on the House floor, he predicts, but it won't prevent passage of the HHS budget.
Trade Decision Clouds Modelers' Future
U.S. global climate modelers are concerned that they may be headed for the minor leagues of their profession, thanks to a Commerce Department decision last week. Commerce found that a Japanese company illegally charged below cost for a new supercomputer it offered to the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research—and the revised price could be beyond NCAR's reach.
A year ago, Commerce began investigating charges by U.S. supercomputer maker Cray Research Inc. that Japan's NEC Corp. tried to sell vector supercomputers below their actual cost when it won a $35 million contract for a new NCAR computer for predicting greenhouse warming trends. Last week Commerce agreed, finding NEC should have charged 4.5 times more. Next, the International Trade Commission (ITC) will decide whether NEC and another Japanese company found guilty of "dumping" in its NCAR bid should pay duties to bring the supercomputer prices closer to fair value.
But already the decision worries modelers, who say the NEC machine, not Cray's, has the speed they need (Science, 16 May, p. 1041). "I don't think there's any possibility NCAR could pay four-and- a-half times the price" to buy the NEC computer, says David Randall of Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Meanwhile, Randall says, "we have colleagues in Australia and England who have immensely more computing power" because they're using Japanese supercomputers. The National Science Foundation, which funds NCAR, is keeping the purchase on hold until the ITC decision next month. Says NCAR director Robert Serafino, "We don't know what we'll do at this point."
Chile Ponies Up for Telescopes
Chile has reclaimed its status as a full partner in a U.S.-led consortium to build twin, 8-meter telescopes in Hawaii and Chile. Last week Chilean President Eduardo Frei signed a bill that enables Chile to meet the terms and payment schedule set by the Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy, which manages the $184 million Gemini project.
Chile had agreed to put up 5% of construction costs, but payments were frozen by a 3-year battle over the project's legal status and rules governing all scientific facilities on Chilean soil. The holdup had caused Gemini organizers to begin talks with Australia and to set a 1 September deadline for Chile to resolve the problem (Science, 8 August, p. 758). "We're very happy that legislators have recognized the importance of this project," says University of Chile astronomer José Maza.


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…As PenCom issues new guidelines for mortgages
Ten years after it was enacted to sanitize and govern the nation's pension sector, the Pension Reform Act (PRA) 2004 was effectively repealed by the 2014 Act. COBHAM NSA reports on what the regulatory agency, National Pension Commission (PenCom), is doing for the contributors now
Good news has come the way of contributors under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) as the National Pension Commission (PenCom) plans to issue new guidelines on how to access funds for mortgages. This development is courtesy of the Pension Reform Act (PRA) 2014 signed into law on July 1, 2014 by out-going President Goodluck Jonathan. The new Act effectively repealed the 2004 Act that did not permit Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) to directly invest pension funds in real estate. An enthralled Stakeholders' conference on the PRA 2014 in Abuja savoured the breaking news and also got assurances from Director General of PenCom, Mrs. Chinelo Anohu-Amazu the guidelines would clearly state how contributors can easily access their funds to own houses through mortgages. According to Mrs Anohu-Amazu, "The process of issuing these guidelines is already at advanced stages and it is our expectation that as soon as it is implemented, this development would assist in bridging the housing deficit in Nigeria." The Director General said the new Act has changed things around for good as PFAs are now empowered to explore mortgage financing with the contributed funds, adding that the development would make it possible for majority of the over six million contributors to utilise part of their funds as equity contributions for residential mortgage. She gave further insights into the new Act thus: "The most important thing is the allowances of the utilization of the retirement savings balance for the provision of a primary home. For the first time, you are now able, as a contributor, to utilise part of your balance to secure your own primary home in accordance with the guidelines to be issued by the commission." "And I think this is fantastic in a country where we have over 15 million housing deficit; at least, those who are contributing, over six million contributors under the CPS, can now for the first time utilise the money rather than just leaving it there", the PenCom boss said, noting that "The application of the CPS by States and Local governments has received a boost under the PRA 2014 by setting a standard which state governments are required to comply with for the benefit of their respective employees." The Director General said the Conference was meant to assist relevant government agencies to clearly address some of the public sector challenges facing the scheme based on new provisions and developments ushered in by the PRA 2014, stressing that "The new Act clearly outlined the responsibilities of other government institutions in the implementation of the CPS and the administration of the defunct Defined Benefits Scheme. Thus, public sector challenges under the CPS, which were encountered during the past 10 years, in the areas of remittance of pension contributions, funding of the retirement benefits bond redemption fund account, duration and adequacy of monthly pensions for public servants, periodic pension review, the funding of pension entitlement for professors and political offices holders are some of the issues to be specifically addressed by relevant agencies by virtue of the PRA 2014." Innovations in the new Act include establishment of the Pension Protection Fund as well as "The introduction of a minimum pension guarantee so that it doesn't matter what your contributions are, you are guaranteed a base minimum to satisfy and take care of you in old age." In his presentation, Deputy Governor, Operations, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Alhaji Suleiman Barau said workers now have reasons to celebrate going by the transformation so far recorded in the nation's pension industry. He said obvious shortcomings and the changing trends in the last 10 years made it imperative to review the 2004 Act in line with current realities. What is new in the 2014 Act? Mrs. Chinelo Anohu-Amazu: The most important thing is the provision that allows the use of your retirement savings balances for the provision of primary mortgage. For the first time as a contributor, you are now able to utilise part of your own Retirement Savings Accounts (RSAs) to secure primary mortgages in accordance with the guidelines to be issued by the commission. This is fantastic because in a place where we have over 15 million housing deficit, the over 6 million distributors under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) can now utilise part of what they have saved for the purpose of owning a house. Other incentives The second thing is the introduction of the minimum pension guarantee so that it doesn't matter what you have contributed, you are guaranteed the base minimum to satisfy you and take care of you in your old age. The informal sector The new act has extended coverage to the informal sector and this is something that the Commission is passionate about because we find out that in the 10 years of our existence, the bulk of the working population is outside of those in the formal sector. We have artisans like plumbers, electricians, carpenters and hairdressers among many others, who are their own employers but have absolutely no retirement benefit plan. Our aim is to bring them in under the aegis of this 2014 Act so that they will be provided for in their old ages. Huge funds We have a huge pool of investable funds, but the key thing is the funds are primarily to pay retirement benefits. The Commission is also insisting these funds are utilized not in static investments but in investments, especially infrastructure such as power, transportation and others that would be utilized to ameliorate the austerity measures facing the contributors. Our concern is for the funds to be invested in projects that directly affect the contributors and retirees alike.


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County concerned over seemingly vague public records law
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Though elected officials gathered earlier this month to select a designee who will take charge of public records requests, there was a distinct lack of volunteers. "Nobody wants to do that," said Commissioner Jeanne Whalen.
The reluctance comes from what gathered officials described as a new law that still has many unanswered questions. Enrolled Act 72, passed by the legislature earlier this year, makes changes to how government entities must handle public records requests.
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Halo TMCC: 343 Industries "Working Around the Clock" To Solve Issues; Server Update Launched
Multiplaer woes at the launch of a big game are nothing new, and Halo: The Master Chief Collection isn't immune from them, with users having problems with the game's matchmaking.
Luckily 343 industries is aware,a and working hard to fix the problem:
We're aware of issues some have been having with matchmaking and we're working around the clock, alongside the Xbox Live team, to address.
— Halo (@Halo) November 11, 2014
We've also deployed an update that has shown some improvement, and we work around the clock to optimize. This is our top priority.
— Halo (@Halo) November 11, 2014
If you're wondering how to download the update, you don't need to, as it's fully server-side.
The update deployed to matchmaking was done on the server side and does not require an extra download to your Xbox One.
— Halo (@Halo) November 11, 2014
Ultimately, on launch day with such big releases, patience is a virtue. Hopefully the folks at 343 will manage to fix everything soon.


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CWR Offers Christmas Deals
CWR Electronics has launched a Countdown to Christmas holiday promotion. The distributor will offer specials on its website every day between now and Dec. 23.
"After the success of our Black Friday specials, we are anticipating an even bigger sales event with our first ever Countdown to Christmas," Brian Swanke, CWR's president, said in a statement. "We'll be dropping prices way down on some of the year's hottest gifts."
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Top three things to do on (if arriving on a cruise ship): Aruba, St. Martin, Grenada, St. Lucia, Barbados, Dominica?
about 9 years ago about Aruba
Asked by Kellie Cereola via Ask a Nomad iPad app
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St Martin: sailing on Americas cup boats or, on the French side, a croissant and café au lait.
Greneda: in town, buy nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon, walk around the harbour. Eat nutmeg ice cream. Visit the stunning Grand Anse beach.
St Lucia: completely depends where your ship docks.
Barbados: Many many options !
Bon voyage about 9 years agoAnswered by TravelEater via WorldNomads.com
Unless you are overnighting in Barbados you will probably only be able to shop, sightsee or go to the beach. Go to Accra beach for a good mix of locals and tourists, go to Bathsheba for exciting Atlantic vistas or go duty free shopping on Broad Street about 9 years agoAnswered by George via Ask a Nomad iPad app


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This unisex turtle bag is made from butter soft buckskin and a real whole turtle shell. The turtle shell is approximately 6 inches x 8 inches and is lined on the inside. A buckskin braid decorates the front of the shell under the flap.
Not counting the shoulder strap, overall length of this bag is 27 inches. This turtle bag has two layers of extra long fringes o the flap closure and around the bottom of the bag. The fringes are decorated with solid brass trade beads and each fringe is tipped with a brass cone.
There is a quartz crystal on the flap fringes to repel negative energy. This bag would make the perfect addition to your dance regalia, rendezvoux or re-enactment outfit, or to add to your native american collection.
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This could have gone in the "i made this " section of the forum and I'll put a link in there as well but i think it will be better appreciated here .
This is a 3D printing project I've been working on to build a replica of the Yokomo YZ-834b Dogfighter , it started as just a way to produce a few spares for my runner and the list if bits i made grew and grew , then it became more of a list of bits i had not made .... it became inevitable at that point that I'd complete the set . Most of it is faithfully reproduced with a few parts either made stronger or redesigned in a way more favorable to 3D printing .
New gears in the original box , diff is printed but not shown as I'm waiting on parts .
Original gears in a newly printed prototype gearbox .
The Chassis is Kydex and also hand made by me , all the other parts you see are 3D printed other than where i show the my gearbox with stock gears and vice versa.
Right now a more finalized version of the gearbox is printing , its only got minor changes to the design of the original in order to make it printable , the design of the gears is unchanged and compatible with an original gearbox .
This is really amazing, have been following on RC10Talk. Really fantastic work ! What printer do you use ?
I've only got an Ender 3, so nothing fancy , I've got a better extruder ,Bltouch and the upgrade board with Trinamic 2208 stepper drivers, its still fairly basic but it does what I want it to .
The gearbox is now virtually complete except the diff , I made some sprockets for the chain today as well as more gears , it takes a bit of trial and error printing gears to get the mesh right , Fusion 360 ( the CAD software) has a gear making add on but you have to get the lash right as well as some other bits to get them to run smooth . The sprockets are not from the Fusion 360 add on , I had to just freehand copy them from originals and that was very hit and miss but on my 4th or 5th attempt I got a good result with both positive engagement and smoothness .
I'm waiting on thrust washers and bearings for the diff then I'll fire up the lath and make the outdrives and front drive parts .
Fantastic stuff, keep up the great work ! Very inspiring
I have the gears all running smooth now and I'm printing what i hope will be a final design gearbox , i threw it all together as well for a look .
The latest version gearbox is finished and all as good as i could hope for , more pictures I'm afraid , both proto-gearboxes and all the proto-gears then some shots of the genuine article and my version .
Now with added Diffy goodness , i still need to finish the outdrives but its all working, i had it running for a few minutes without load , it was a little rough at first but free'd up well . Shown with the genuine one with the white main gear.
Wow love it mate well done
My feedback feel free to add anything
Awesome stuff. This is the future in all manner of things
Your work is absolutely great!
I think I got inspired by some of your threads on RC10Talk to start some measuring and modelling of my old Dogfighter.
It is not something likely to be fully completed. My concern has always been the rarity of the drive train parts.
Thus my car has not run since the 90's. Maybe a modified altered clone is somewhere in my future also.
Also: Please tell if You are willing to work for peanuts and make many spare metal parts :-)
Not sure if it helps, but I have made some 834B chain sprockets.
The idea was to make sprockets for both original chain and the larger type Kyosho Optima chain.
The 13T sprockets for standard chain seems fine.
The 10T sprockets for Optima chain fits, but the car does not accept the wider chain without modifying.
I use OpenSCAD and print at Sculpteo.
A link: Experimental chain sprockets 834B std/ot
I have the sprockets already modelled and printed ,you can see the rear one on the printed gearbox pictures , I already run kyosho sprockets and chain on my upgraded runner , its even got a front ball diff , I'm planning on modelling up printable kyosho pitch sprockets but its not yet done .The other thing I've done on my upgraded runner is use a modern ball diff coupled to a stock diff gear and balls, I used a Team C diff for the out drives and thrust washers with a 12mm sleeve over the drive cups to match the bearings
The rear diff took an unreasonable amount of time to make for this one and to be honest is not of a high enough standard to sell , my lath is manual not CNC and my time is free to me but I'm not planning on making any more , the rest of the parts are probably going to be on Shapeways , probably the most useful parts will be the gears , top deck/chain guide and steering knuckles as they are just unobtainium , its also going to mean that more get off the shelf and get their wheels dirty , well that's the hope .Hopefully you would be able to buy a complete gearbox set that just needs gear axles and bearings and drop it in and save the vintage transmition .
Its all now on hold for a week or two as I have other stuff on my to do list , thanks for the kind words .
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Thanks for the update and even more good tips.
Sorry, had to ask about parts making just for fun. I understand the problem with varying quality and precision on handmade items. And then it is supposed to be usable and to fit well with original parts. If a part comes out perfect only the 3rd time, it is not fun to repeat forever I understand.
No pressure, just keep up the good work!
Found a little time to modify some Scorpion re re rear axles to make front axles , these will hold the roller hub on with a regular nut rather than a C clip , i had to first anneal them then turn them and finally harden them again , i also had to insert a 6mm drill bit shaft into the cup so i could hold them in the lath chuck without squashing them but it all worked out and with only slightly frazzled nerves :shock:
Shown with an original thats much lighter in colour .
Next will be to turn and mill the square drives for fron and back , I've got the one way bearings for the front and I'm expecting the little flanged bearings that go either side to arrive tomorrow .
All the new bits fitted , the eagle eyed among you might notice I've done some vapor smoothing to the ABS parts , this smooths out a lot of the layer lines and gives a more shiny surface ,it also adds a little strength , its done by using acetone soaked into tissue and placed into a sealed container with the part for about an hour , the vapor melts the surface a little .
Made up a very simple roll bar to mount shocks at the rear and fitted some Pargu front shock mounts with a cheap shock i had laying about , its still got genuine rear shafts , no chain or front shafts yet but i could run it 2wd now if i wanted , oh i threw some tires on as well .
Chain guard , new version of rear arms that are much more accurately copied are printing now .
Redesigned rear arms , the white one was one of the first models i made in Fusion 360 and although i was pleased with it then i later deleted it as it was too flawed , so the two black arms are the new design , a closer copy of the original , one is straight off the printer and the other has been vapor smoothed .
on close inspection you might notice a raised section around the front pivot hole , the car originally had a washer there to space it well into the mount , these have been printed with an integrated washer but i have a model without as well if you wanted to fit washers .
Well it was and still is "OFFICAL WORLD WIDE SILLY GRIN DAY"
The front shafts arrived today and fit perfectly , its still short of a chain so only rear wheel drive but she runs !
Dirty as well !
Oh the motor is just a cheap modern one with a sticker on it , the only genuine parts on the whole car are the rear shafts , the nylon gears run smoothly and very quiet , in fact its very quiet , no chain noise i guess , Vidio soon .
Just a bit of fun , i modeled up a rough copy of a Bolink Funco half body , its not quite right , the cab is too long , this is printed in Vase or Spiral mode , just one layer or 0.4mm thick , printed in PLA as a test print so its quite brittle but it covers it over for now , only took 4 hours to print .
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The marketing gurus at Mercedes have enlisted Richard Dean Anderson to help sell the new Citan. He will revive his role as MacGyver and star in three new webisodes.
The marketing gurus at Mercedes have enlisted Richard Dean Anderson to help sell the new Citan.
Reviving his roll as MacGyver, Anderson will battle evil-doers in three webisodes that will be posted on the Macgyver-Citan.com website on September 18th. According to Mercedes, "In time-honored fashion, the maverick problem-solver uses quick thinking, dexterity and everyday items to overcome the challenges and adversaries that he faces. As he embarks on a fresh round of MacGyver adventures, he knows he can count on his newest partner - the compact, maneuverable and versatile Citan."
As we have previously reported, the Citan is essentially a rebadged Renault Kangoo. It will debut at the IAA Commercial Vehicle Show and be available with a supercharged petrol engine that develops 114 PS (84 kW / 113 hp). There will also be three diesels with outputs ranging from 75 PS (55 kW / 74 hp) to 110 PS (81 kW / 109 hp).


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The Winelands are packed with great places to eat, and drink excellent wine. The winter months see many of them cutting their cloth to fit so to speak by offering special winter menus at very good prices.
One of my favourite places to go any time of the year, and even more so during winter, is Michael Broughton's superb restaurant Terroir on the Kleine Zalze Estate in Stellenbosch.
This year Terroir is not dreaming up a stand-alone menu for winter but is offering the classic menu at prices that are much friendlier. From May to September two dishes from this menu are offered at R395 which includes a glass of Kleine Zalze wine – either main and starter or main and dessert. If you find the two-choice menu too delicious – and I cannot think why not – the other option is the chef's choice of four dishes at R550 which also includes a glass of the estate's wine.
Favourites like Terroir's superb prawn risotto with Américaine sauce are included – "We just have to keep it on the menu – if we take it off everybody complains," says Broughton. One of my best dishes is the superb duck with fennel, honey and orange closely followed by the flame grilled rib-eye served on Parmesan velouté with a robust Shiraz sauce adding punch – irresistible.
Bear in mind Terroir will be closed from June 25 to July 17 for their winter break, so dilly dally not and get thee to them soon. Phone 021 880 8167


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FEW Barrel Gin
Barrel-Aged Gin
FEW // Illinois, USA
FEW Barrel Gin takes a fairly neutral spirit base and flavors it with juniper, coriander, and other botanicals. It is then aged in a mix of new American oak barrels and used rye and bourbon barrels before bottling at 46.5% abv.
Barrel-Aged GinGin which spends some time in barrels, generally not more than a few months at a time, although there is no legal definition for this style.
Cask Typemix of new American oak, used rye, used bourbon
Tasting Notes
"Barrel-aged gin is often seen as a marriage between two spirits: gin and whiskey. The marriage isn't always a happy one, but in this case, thankfully, it is. On the first sip a note of sweet vanilla from the barrel comes through, followed by complementary flavors of juniper and orange. A lingering spice rises nicely on the finish. This is one gin that would be enjoyable served simply on the rocks, but it will also serve well in spirit-forward cocktails like the classic Martinez."


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The Supreme Court opened the door for sports betting legalization with its May ruling that struck down a 1992 law that banned commercial sports betting in most states. Sports betting is not yet legal in Illinois, but with football season underway, former Northwestern offensive lineman Eric Olson will take a weekly look at the odds surrounding the action on the field.
Eric is traveling this week so Bears producer Paul Aspan will fill in with a weekend of picks. Unlike Eric, he certainly does not have a Masters in Predictive Analytics and his football 'career' came to a crashing halt a few Falls ago with the loud pop of a hamstring on a Lincoln Park flag football field. Suffice it to say, you should not expect him to replicate Eric's 11-1 heater over the last two weeks.
Steelers at Bengals, Sunday 12PM CT
Spread: Bengals -2
Betting Percentage: 62% of bets on the Steelers; 75% of the money on Steelers
The pick: Steelers +2
I just don't believe in the Bengals. Whether they're 4-1 this year or 8-0 in 2015, there has to be some psychological impact knowing that your ceiling is the Wild Card game. The Steelers have won six straight games against Cinci, and I'm trying to figure out what exactly the Bengals do well. Yes they score points (thanks for pointing that out). But their defense isn't very good, they don't get off the field on third down and they're actually middle of the road in every offensive category: passing, rushing, 3rd down…everything outside of the one that matters most – scoring (where they're 5th) - they're somewhere between 12th and 23rd in the NFL. It's not like the Steelers convinced me they're fixed by beating Atlanta last week, but they do get to the quarterback (they lead the NFL with 19 sacks) and if this is a last score wins game, I'll take Roethlisberger over Dalton all day.
Bears at Dolphins, Sunday 12PM CT
Spread: Bears – 3.5
Betting Percentage: 61% of bets on the Bears ; 55% of the money
The Pick: Dolphins +3.5
This line jumped from Bears -1.5 to -3 almost immediately, and late in the week it's creeping higher. Everything points to the Bears this week, which I hate as far as taking their side. The Dolphins offensive line could be down three starters against the best pass rusher in the entire NFL in Khalil Mack. Starting left tackle Laremy Tunsil has practiced on a limited basis this week but is in the concussion protocol and watching his backup Sam Young get destroyed by the Bengals late in the Dolphins Week 5 collapse has to have the Bears foaming at the mouth. Home dogs have been hot (4-0 ATS last week), so I'm going back to that well and counting on the hook to make the difference.
Which brings me to a home dog teaser.
Two 12 PM CT games
- Dolphins +3.5 vs Bears
- Raiders +3 vs Seahawks (in London)
Two 3:25PM CT games
- Titans +3 vs Ravens
- Cowboys +3 vs Jaguars
Tease them all up 6 points at +260 odds (a $10 bet would win $26), and it looks like this:
- Dolphins + 9.5
- Titans +9
- Cowboys +9
- Raiders +9
Yes, I'm including the Raiders in my home dogs teaser. Who were the original Raiders? Pretty sure guys like Blackbeard and Jack Sparrow were British as hell. Factor in Mark Davis' Beatles haircut and the Raiders should feel right at home at Wembley. The Seahawks had their Super Bowl last week, throwing everything they had at the Rams. They appeared to get past the Earl Thomas contract / injury backlash and the Russell Wilson favoritism fall out but this feels like a house of cards that might now just fall apart.
The Ravens – as we discussed on The Daily Line podcast – disgust all of us with their inconsistency. They're currently 10/1 to win the Super Bowl which is insane, and I can't not take the points against Joe Flacco with a Titans team that suffered a not all that unpredictable letdown in Buffalo after beating the defending Super Bowl champs the week before.
The Cowboys red zone defense balled out against the Texans but once again Jason Garrett's (lack of) strategy & job security is already a hot topic in Big D. And speaking of QBs you can't trust, Blake Bortles made sure to remind everyone last week with a nice little 4 INT game in Kansas City.
And I'll just add this to the Dolphins: they lead the NFL in interceptions (10) as they suit up against young Mitchell Trubisky. Now that I've tried to pounce on the hot home dogs trend (16-6 ATS this season), here's to hoping it waits at least one more week to regress.
Obscure College Pick of the Week:
Middle Tennessee State vs FIU Saturday 6:30PM CT
Total: O/U: 56.5
Betting Percentage: 37% Bets, 64% of the money on the Over
The Pick: Over 56.5
To be honest I was just looking for a lopsided discrepancy between the percentage of bets (public money) and percentage of money (sharp money). And I knew I didn't want to take an under because cheering for no points is no fun. So here we are.
The total opened at 58 and dropped to 56.5. Only 37% of the bets are on the over, but 64% of the money is on the over, so count me in on the over. And if that's not enough of a draw for you, this is a battle for first place in Conference USA's East division and features a father-son Coach-QB combo of Rick Stockstill & Brent Stockstill for Middle Tennessee State. Just don't ask me how (or if) I plan on watching this game on Saturday.


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From Chris Wayan's journal 1994/1/26
"Reading the Mind of God" by James Trefil is a history of the basic assumptions of science. Trefil makes a strong argument for ignoring the ways people get their ideas, and just focusing on how and whether they test them empirically.
For societal brainwashing affects what questions get asked, but not which answers are disproved. He doesn't say this, but I suddenly see the result of this two-part filtering is that scientific absolutists and cultural relativists are each half right: the truths uncovered by scientific activity are indeed pretty reliable, relatively culture-free in that sense, but the rate at which knowledge expands in different directions is quite culture-bound. What gets investigated is indeed relative. Not just a question of funding--some questions are downright crackpot in one society or generation, and hot in the next. This does depend on culture--both fads and long-term biases exist.
Science is like a prairie fire, or a people exploring a new continent. What's inside the perimeter is pretty much known--subject to revision, but at least mapped out. And since people and fire are persistent, the perimeter will expand on all fronts, or at least not shrink much, regardless of wind and fashion. But the speed of advance on different fronts may be profoundly different, and does depend on the winds of fashion.
Those winds affect me personally.
My work with dreams and cosmology, especially my collecting samples of precognition and telepathy, is not mysticism, even though it looks nothing like the sanitized vision of modern science taught in American schools. By historical standards, I'm doing basic science: the Linnaean groundwork of data collection and basic classification. As I read of pioneers in physics, geology, and cosmology, they feel familiar: they usually made their own tools and collected their own data. That's how they got the intuitive sense to recognize when they had something unusual. Trefil calls it "magic hands" or "magic eye"--the talent for the materials in the field, not just for theory. And contrary to the way most science in the well-subsidized fields is done now, they mostly did it alone or in small partnerships. Seedling sciences look much like hobbies and obsessions. Unless you know the data yourself in such detail that you too have a magic eye, it's hard to know the difference.
So for my field, one that's out of fashion (indeed still stigmatized as crackpot), I'm doing just what I should. Seeking grants and support networks is fine for heavily mined regions of science, where you must dig very deep to reach fresh ore, and may require expensive equipment; but the field of dreams, especially parapsychological dreams, hasn't even got surface maps yet. Nuggets lying around!
That sneaking sense of uselessness and illegitimacy I get in my down times is just because I grew up in a period with a narrow view of what science was, and because (as Stephanie van Zandt Nelson keeps reminding me) both dreams and psychic phenomena are things Euro-American culture has historical blinders about. To exchange letters with other dreamworkers now and then, to keep minimal contact with the few networks of others interested in the field... and to keep up with "unrelated" fields, be broadly knowledgeable, these are the only social/professional contacts I NEED to do my work. There isn't a huge mass of swiftly changing info to absorb there. On the ground--in dreams themselves, in documenting psi and telepathic events, THERE is the huge mass of data needing someone with a feel for the materials! It's for the next generation of web-based researchers to try groups, to compare notes on a big enough scale to see if the seeming randomness of dreams is bleed-in from others' minds... and to implement all that, we'll need a change in the social attitude toward dreams: it has to be acceptable enough to enlist people with no ax to grind. Today, even I have trouble with fears of violation of privacy in shared and telepathic dreams, fears of predestination implied by precog dreams, a taught tendency to interpret dreams symbolically not literally, and in general strong FEELINGS around the various models for dreaming.
And I'm much calmer about these issues than most folks in the dreamgroups I've been in. The best dream group I was ever in broke up partly because the walls between our dreams started to erode... and dreamers started to panic. Dreams are nitroglycerine--not TNT, not just explosive, but UNSTABLE. By their nature they deal with what people care about most passionately, and often about their worst fears.
And those fears can distort your models, make you limit your hypotheses, make you deny... oh, nearly anything! The world is flat, and 6000 years old. God made us of clay, we never evolved from apes, those nasty things...
Do I exaggerate? Millions of people, decades after it was proven false, still deny they even dream.
For them, the world is flat.
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One of the most prominent features of Ideas is its ability to make writing concise and easy to read. Instead of only pointing out the common mistakes and correcting the grammatical errors, it will be working to make writing better overall.
Artificial intelligence will advise users to rewrite their text whenever a complex phrase will be written. Along with this, writing inclusive texts will also be possible with Ideas.
"The Ideas help users write polished prose, create more professional documents and efficiently navigate documents created by others.", explained John Roach in a blog post.The cloud-based tool will tell the estimated reading time of the document written and provide acronyms to writers, using the data from a Microsoft Graph.
It will also be capable of taking out key points from the text, which will be more beneficial from a reader's point-of-view.
There will be another feature, "Word Designer" that will allow designing different parts of the document and adding style to it.
Office Insider will be having these features by June, whereas, it will be rolled out to all users by the end of this year.
Read next: Microsoft Moving Its Focus to Web Tech through Fluid Framework as Revealed in Build 2019


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The UK's financial regulator has outlined its plans for a closer look at the £500bn online investment platform market - part of its investigation into the country's £7tn asset management sector.
The Financial Conduct Authority today set out the terms of reference for its investigation into platforms that allow retail investors to buy investment products online.
The FCA will explore whether these platforms - which include the likes of Hargreaves Lansdown and services run by Fidelity and Alliance Trust - "help investors make good investment decisions" and offer value for money.
It also wants to know how platforms compete with one another and if "relationships between investment platforms and other platforms, advisers, asset managers, and fund ratings providers" work in the best interest of consumers.
READ20 takeaways from the FCA's asset management review
The FCA estimates that assets under management across the online platform market as a whole increased from £108bn in 2008 to £500bn in 2016.
Christopher Woolard, executive director of strategy and competition at the FCA, said in a statement: "With the increasing use of platforms, and the issues raised by our previous work, we want to assess whether competition between platforms is working in the interest of consumers.
"Platforms have the potential to generate significant benefits for consumers and we want to ensure consumers are receiving these benefits in practice."
The regulator is inviting feedback by September 8, with a view to publishing preliminary conclusions and remedies by the summer of 2018.


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BEAUBIEN 03 By Lambert & Fils
LED pendant lamp
Brass, Opal glass, Powder Coated Aluminium
Samuel Lambert, Lambert & Fils
The Beaubien Collection's strong black lines bend in and out of space, moving effortlessly between simplicity and ornamentation. Round and cubic brass connectors complete the lamps' structures and add a rich material contrast to the powder coated rods. The collection's industrial and graphic aesthetic is imbued with a palette of influences, from traditional Chinese screens to the Memphis movement. Each influence strengthens the collection, creating nuance within its timeless character.
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Travis Wall Returns to So You Think You Can Dance
I, like many others, loved Travis Wall's contemporary piece last Wednesday night. Jeanine and Jason performed this piece well and did Travis's choreography justice. When Cat said that Travis was one of the choreographers for that night I was excited, because I felt it was about time that Travis did some choreography for the show.
Travis is an amazing dancer and we saw that in season two. He puts his heart and soul into every dance he does. Even though he wasn't the one on the stage on Wednesday night, a part of him was. One of my favorite solos he did on the show was Blower's Daughter. That one sticks out in my mind for one reason; it was the first time his mother was able to be at the show. He said it that night that it is because of he mother is the reason why he dances. I think it I safe to say that Travis has a long career ahead of him and maybe even an Emmy nomination.
I want to thank Travis too. It was because of his piece that we were reminded why Jason was chosen to be a part of the top 20. I can't wait to see his group piece that he is working on.
Travis proved his talent yet again this week with his group routine. He only had a short amount of time to put it together. However you wouldn't know it from watching the performance. At first I wasn't too crazy about the costuming, that is till the light went off. I love the creativity with the lights on the costumes; it gave the rave party feel to the dance. Ellen was very clever on taking credit helping Travis with the costumes and her different light suggestions. Thanks to twitter I know he was stressing about getting the routine done, but he pulled it off. It takes talent to be able to do what he did this week.
Looking forward to seeing him dance on the show again, the bench routine will always be one of my favorites. Then there is Ramalama and this time Wade will be dancing with them…so yes I can't wait for tonight.


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Citec Group provides competence, flexibility and cost efficiency by partnering in plant/product engineering & technical documentation. The responsibility for quality lies with everyone within the organization, it is every employee's duty to follow up and fulfil the agreed procedures and instructions. The Citec Way of Working ensures that Citec deliver services and products with the correct quality, at the right time, with the right scope and to the agreed costs. To follow up these goals we must:
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