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With the Congress sitting on its hands, don’t expect too much from the State of the Union Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Talking to plants or, for that matter, a comatose patient is said to be a good deed even if the quiescent don’t  “hear” in the conventional meaning of the word. In a sense, that’s what will happen when Barack Obama delivers his fifth State of the Union address at the end of the month.

It’s the most widely viewed presidential speech and it probably won’t move the ficus or EKG monitor very much, let alone boost his approval ratings or stir Congress to action. The legislative branch is so much like a potted plant that its mere passage of a budget, expected later this winter, is cause for self-congratulations which is like the congenital truant who applauds himself for coming to class once.

The Washington that Obama speaks to later this month is in a moribund state and that’s why the president was reduced to telling his cabinet last week that “I have a phone and a pen,” a phrase which made him sound less like the commander in chief and more like 11-year-old, who also has both. The president, of course, meant that he has the power of persuasion (said phone) and power of unilateral action through executive orders (said pen).

But when a president has to enunciate his power, it’s generally a bad sign. Teddy Roosevelt never said speak loudly and carry an iPhone.

With this address, the president is more deserving of pity than ridicule. Except for renaming post offices, Obama can’t pass much in the way of bills through the tea party-infused House, led by Republican Speaker John Boehner, or through the Senate, where Republican Leader Mitch McConnell can use the once rare and now commonplace filibuster to stymie legislation even if it commands a majority of supporters. (There’s been some curtailment of the filibuster but only when it comes to appointing personnel.)

Obama advisors tell Newsweek to look for the president to offer more environmental directives and health-and-safety regulations--a pen-driven paean to labor and the left but also popular policy in the wake of disasters like West Virginia’s water contamination crisis this month.

Given that, what can the state of the union address do for Obama and for the country? The answer is not nothing -- but not much either.

To understand Obama’s dilemma as he approaches his speech on Jan 28, it’s important to know the history of this odd bit of Americana. Derived from the monarch’s address to parliament, the Constitutional Convention included a mandate that the president report on the State of the Union.

While George Washington used the dictum to deliver an address, Thomas Jefferson put an end to the practice of a spoken statement, considering it too king-like, and simply sent a statement to Congress. It was, in essence, the State of the Union PowerPoint until Woodrow Wilson revived the tradition of actually delivering an address to Congress. It was a profound development, shifting the spotlight to the executive which is something Wilson favored, having concluded as a political science professor that Congress had too much clout.

But Wilson delivered the address at noon, which made sense in a newspaper age. It was Lyndon Johnson who made the modern address that we know today by giving it during prime time. In the three-commercial-broadcast-network universe of the 1960s and 1970s, that meant a president could capture a nation’s attention.

Presidents used it to enhance their status as a leader of government and society. Nixon declared a “war on crime” as a citizen and a sovereign. (He also declared war on cancer, too.) Ronald Reagan introduced the tradition of inviting everyday heroes to the chamber and pointing them out so that Congress could applaud. It was the president as talk show host.

With its plumage--all of Congress is there along with Ambassadors to the U.S., the Supreme Court, et al --it became the royal affair Jefferson feared. While it’s rarely brought a bump in the polls to presidents, it’s been helpful for rebuilding their images.

In an age of short clips, few Americans ever see their presidents speak at length. The pomp has a payoff: The lengthy speech gives Americans a chance to see the president looking presidential, literally elevated above the Congress. It may not result in immediate popularity but it's an opportunity no president would forego because of it's immediacy and theatrics. It helped Bill Clinton fend off impeachment in 1998. Seeing him arrive in the chamber with a long list of policy goals made him seem serious in contrast to the Republican mob eager for his head.

Obama will surely hit some high notes, too, and they shouldn’t be ignored. Democratic advisers say he may call for the federal government to demand its suppliers pay a higher minimum wage--a move that could affect half a million Americans right away and put pressure to raise the minimum wage across the board.

There will be more ideas about putting money in the housing market and a call for legislation to overturn the Supreme Court’s controversial ruling last year striking down a key part of the Voting Rights Act. Since Congress won’t hike the wage, this may be Obama’s best option, and the politics of it, at least, are likely to sell well.

As a nod to bipartisanship, he’ll offer best wishes to his friend, Sen.Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who announced this week that he would leave the Senate early because of health issues.

The case of Coburn shows the problems with Washington and what Obama is up against when he delivers his speech. When he was in Newt Gingrich’s House in the 1990s, Coburn, a physician, was a critic of Gingrich from the right on spending and was a vehement social conservative. These days, relative to the tea party, Coburn is a flaming moderate, an apostate, who has said he’s open to tax hikes, under the right circumstances, and who voted for the Simpson-Bowles budget commission plan.

Oklahoma has gay marriage for now, thanks, to a court order. But it will undoubtedly choose someone to the right of Coburn to replace him.  For Obama there are fewer friendly faces in the audience.

Congress is only likely to become more conservative this year. One Democratic consultant says that every one of the party’s Senate candidates should be running scared this year, not just the usual suspects like Arkansas’s Mark Pryor or Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu or North Carolina’s Kay Hagan, who did not travel with the president this week when he spoke in her home state.

The speech only works if there’s a modest expectation that something might get done. Otherwise it’s like a comic working a dead room. Yes there’s applause for good lines. but if everyone knows it’s for naught, then that’s tougher and tougher for Obama.

It’s not just the culture of Washington that is making life harder for Obama. He’s made it harder for himself. Consider American manufacturing and the trade deficit. There are important issues for the American culture and economy. And, although manufacturing is often touted as a bright spot in the economy, it’s less glowing than it at first appears.

Obama promised to add a million manufacturing jobs in his second term. He added just 77,000 in 2013. What comeback there have been are owing mostly to the auto industry but not to other sectors.

And if the trade deficit has eased a bit it’s because of the natural gas fracking boom curbing our demand for foreign oil, not because of any diminished appetite in our demand for foreign goods. The trade deficit with China alone was $315 billion in 2012.

On big issues like clamping down on what’s widely seen as Chinese currency manipulation or forging and enforcing tougher trade agreements, the Obama administration has been “short on follow through,” says Scott Paul, President of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, who notes that the administration is well short of its own goals with the public-private partnership hubs of the kind Obama toured this week--goals he outlined in last year’s State of the Union speech.

And therein lies the problem of an address in a year where Congress sits on its hands. Last year Obama pushed for gun control. It was two months after the Newtown massacre, of course. Nada. Immigration reform. Nada. Tax reform. Nada. Entitlement reform. Nada. He warned about the sequester but that arrived nonetheless. He wrung his hands over Syria, but that seems worse, as does Afghanistan and Iraq.

The speech demands a swell of promises that are sometimes fulfilled but are doomed when Washington is this paralyzed. Can unilateral action make up the difference? We’ll see.

Or maybe Jefferson was right and the state of the union address should go back to being a memo.


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Tangled Path of Alzheimer's-Linked Brain Cells Mapped in Mice

"Transportation" may be at the heart of the disease

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    The paths (red) taken by a single cholinergic neuron as it branches through a thin section of the forebrain of a mouse

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    The cholinergic neurons of a healthy mouse at 12 months of age (left) compared to those of a mouse with "Alzheimer's disease" at 7 months (right). The diseased neurons are fragmented and show clumps of what may be cellular debris.

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    Actual and relative dimensions of a human cholinergic neuron. (Top) Total length of the branches if placed end to end; (middle) length of the central “pipeline” connecting the branches to the cell’s hub (soma; bottom).

Newswise — By studying laboratory mice, scientists at The Johns Hopkins University have succeeded in plotting the labyrinthine paths of some of the largest nerve cells in the mammalian brain: cholinergic neurons, the first cells to degenerate in people with Alzheimer’s disease.

“For us, this was like scaling Mount Everest,” says Jeremy Nathans, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology and genetics, neuroscience, and ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “This work reveals the amazing challenges that cholinergic neurons face every day. Each of these cells is like a city connected to its suburbs by a single, one-lane road, with all of the emergency services located only in the city. You can imagine how hard it would be in a crisis if all of the emergency vehicles had to get to the suburbs along that one road. We think something like this might be happening when cholinergic neurons trying to repair the damage done by Alzheimer’s disease.”

Each cholinergic neuron, Nathans explains, has roughly 1,000 branch points. If lined up end to end, one neuron’s branches would add up to approximately 15 times the length of the mouse brain. But all of the branches are connected by a single, extremely thin “pipeline” to one hub — the cell body — that provides for the needs of the branches. The challenge of moving material through this single pipeline could make it very difficult for cholinergic neurons to combat the challenges that come with a disorder like Alzheimer’s disease, he says. Now, by mapping the branches and pipelines, scientists will likely get a better fix on what happens when the neurons fail to meet the challenges.

A summary of the research was published online in the journal eLife on May 7.

Cholinergic neurons are among the largest neurons in the mammal brain. Named for their release of a chemical messenger called acetylcholine, they number only in the thousands in mouse brains, a tiny fraction of the 50 to 100 million total neurons. Their cell bodies are located at the base of the brain near its front end, but their branches extend throughout the cerebral cortex, the outermost, wrinkled layer of “grey matter” that is responsible for the mind’s most advanced intellectual functions. Therefore, although there are relatively few cholinergic neurons, they affect a very large part of the brain, Nathans says.

Due to the technical challenge of visualizing the complicated paths of hundreds of tiny branches from a single neuron tangled within millions of other neurons, the actual size and shape of individual cholinergic neurons — and the territory they cover — had been unknown until now, Nathans says. Using genetic engineering methods, the Nathans team programmed several cholinergic neurons per mouse to make a protein that could be seen with a colored chemical reaction. Critical to the success of the work was the ability to limit the number of cells making the protein — if all of the cholinergic neurons made the protein, it would have been impossible to distinguish individual branches.

Because microscopes cannot see through thick tissue, Nathans and his team preserved the mouse brains and then thinly sliced them to produce serial images. The branching path of each neuron was then painstakingly reconstructed from the serial images and analyzed. In adult mice, he says, the average length of the branches of a single cholinergic neuron, lined up end to end, is 31 cm (12 inches), varying from 11 to 49 cm (4 to 19 inches). The average length of a mouse brain is only 2 cm — a bit less than one inch. Although each cholinergic neuron, on average, contains approximately 1,000 branch points, they vary significantly in the extent of the territory that they cover.

The researchers used the same techniques to study the cholinergic neurons of mice with a rodent form of Alzheimer’s disease and found that the branches were fragmented. They also found clumps of material that may have been debris from the disintegrating branches.

Although the cholinergic neurons of human brains have not been individually traced, Nathans’ team was able to calculate that the average cholinergic neuron in the human brain has a total branch length of approximately 100 meters, a bit longer than a football field. “That is a really long pipeline, especially if one considers that the pipes have diameters of only 30 thousandths of a millimeter, far narrower than a human hair,” says Nathans.

He adds, “Although our study only defined a few simple, physical properties of these neurons, such as size and shape, it has equipped us to form and test better hypotheses about what goes wrong with them during disease.”

Other authors of the report include Hao Wu and John Williams of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

This work was supported by grants from the Human Frontier Science Program, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Brain Science Institute of The Johns Hopkins University.

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IMG_5627“I’ve got a few questions for you, then I’d like to make a statement and have you respond to the statement.”  So began a lengthy back and forth between Jeb Bush and a man at his Alton, New Hampshire town hall Monday night.

Bush’s questioner, who identified himself as Joe Castagnaro from Gilford, New Hampshire, had some preliminary questions on term limits, taxpayer funded elections and ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council) but his deepest focus was on Wall Street “crimes” and the repealed Glass-Steagall Act.  His description of asking Hillary Clinton whether she “would she reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act that her dirtbag husband repealed” drew some giggles from Bush and the audience.

Castagnaro passionately described the 2008 financial crisis as not a “bubble … crisis … [or] meltdown” but a “crime” that bankers should be in jail for.  He also declared that “when you’re president you’ll take your orders from” Wall Street.

Bush demonstrated some political deftness in the exchange, engaging his questioner and somewhat adopting the questioner’s concerns, but the moment also illustrates why Bush has had such a rough time.  He’s more naturally attuned to the financial services industry goal of deregulation than to the visceral anger and distrust of a man who has had his home foreclosed on.  That anger is the dominant pulse of the 2016 race and it’s just not Bush’s.  It’s also the case that Bush and his questioner fundamentally disagree on increasing financial regulation.  While both appear to want credit to be more readily available to borrowers, in reality they represent fundamentally different approaches.  Bush seeks a freer market, believing that will allow banks and other lenders to flourish with a resulting bounty of credit. His questioner appeared to believe that stricter regulation and control of banks, accompanied by increased criminal prosecutions, is  the path to easier credit.  While those views share a rejection of the recent past and current market, they’re ultimately dramatically divergent.

His town hall was well done in a nice setting with solid production and a crowd that perfectly packed the modest sized room to capacity, but this exchange ultimately demonstrates that he’s trying to grab onto the current Zeitgeist, not generating it.

Toward the end of their exchange Castagnaro said there’s “nothing I would rather do than vote for you”, but that the only two candidates tuned in to his view of “taking down the Wall Street banks” are Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.


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NFC South Predictions – Week 9 to 12

Rather than take each team on its own, I have decided to split the season into 4 sections and used previous match-ups and momentum as a factor in trying to predict each teams result for that particular week.

Week 9

Atlanta Falcons v Tampa Bay Buccaneers

It’s a re-run of last season as the Bucs claim a whitewash over The Dirty Birds. The Bucs win keeps the pressure on the Panthers as the Falcons and Saints are left to fight over the basement positions in the NFC South.

Result – Buccaneers win

Carolina Panthers v Los Angeles Rams

The Rams lose their first game in LA in over 22 years as the Panthers claim a vital win on the road. Kelvin Benjamin displays his rookie season form, however, it is the ever reliable Greg Olsen who proves to be the match-winner.

Result – Panthers win

New Orleans Saints v San Francisco 49-ers

It’s proving to be a real struggle for Chip Kelly in his first season as Head Coach in the Bay as the Saints leave Levi’s Stadium with a rare away win.

Result – Saints win

Week 10

Denver Broncos v New Orleans Saints

With a three way fight developing at the top of the AFC West, the Broncos have to win in the Super Bowl and they do as yet again the Saints are capable of scoring on Offense but also conceding, a lot, on Defence.

Result – Saints loss

Kansas City Chiefs v Carolina Panthers

Football fans are in for a treat as two play-off contenders go head to head in Charlotte. Although the Panthers are struggling to repeat last season’s form, they still manage to sneak out a tight win against the in form Chiefs.

Result – Panthers win

Atlanta Falcons v Philadelphia Eagles

A rare win away from Georgia for the Falcons as the Eagles continue to struggle at home in 2016. The only consolidation for Eagles fans is that they are doing slightly better than Chip’s 49-ears at this stage of the season.The Falcons poor start to the season, sees them firmly rooted to the bottom of the division.

Result – Falcons win

Chicago Bears v Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Having lost both games against the Bears whilst under Lovie Smith’s tenure, the Bucs don’t make the same mistakes under Koetter and keep momentum on their side as they keep the pressure on the Panthers as two massive games are looming large on the horizon.

Result – Buccaneers win

Week 11

Bye week – Atlanta Falcons

Tampa Bay Buccaneers v Kansas City Chiefs

The Bucs run had to come to an end eventually and there is no embarrassment in the defeat from the current top seed in the AFC. The Chiefs have been playing lights out football all season and today was no different.

Result – Buccaneers loss

New Orleans Saints v Carolina Panthers

The Panthers avenge their loss In New Orleans earlier in the season by recording a relatively comfortable win against the Saints.

Result – Panthers win

Week 12

Carolina Panthers v Oakland Raiders

The young Raiders team is beginning to lose touch with the Chiefs at the top of the AFC West but they still push Carolina all the way in a pulsating encounter at the Coliseum. The Black and Silver are within touching distance of their first winning season since 2002.

Result – Panthers win

Seattle Seahawks v Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The Bucs lose their second game on the bounce but this time at home against the Seahawks. However, like the Raiders, the Bucs are also within touching distance of their first winning season since they missed the play-offs in 2010 despite finishing with a 10-6 record. Could history repeat in 2016?

Result – Buccaneers loss

Arizona Cardinals v Atlanta Falcons

Arizona win in Georgia for the first time since the Phoenix Cardinals won there in 1994. With the the Cardinals fighting it out with Seattle at the top of the NFC West, they are more than a match for the Falcons side who have struggled to show any consistency throughout the season.

Result – Falcons loss

Los Angeles Rams v New Orleans Saints

The Rams are a force to be reckoned with at home but have struggled to make any impact away from home and today is a prime example as they lose to a Saints side. Todd Gurley does his best to get the win but Saints stand firm to see off the challenge from their West Coast opponents.

Result – Saints win

Division Standings After Week 12

Carolina Panthers 9-2
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 7-4
New Orleans Saints 4-7
Atlanta Falcons 3-8

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Continuing with Apogee Books acclaimed NASA Mission Reports Series this latest entry covers all of the unmanned deep space probes including Pioneer 10 a 11, Voyager 1 a 2, Galileo and Cassini, NEAR, Stardust and Deep Space One. With all of the press kits and flight data for each of the deep space probes including all of the latest information on Cassini's mission to Saturn . This is the most comprehensive study of NASA's Deep Space Probe Program ever published! The BONUS DVD: Side 1 features DVD video of the Voyager, Galileo and Cassini missions, and more. Side 2: features hundreds of colour pictures of the outer solar system; MPEG video of Pioneer 10s 5th Anniversary press conference; full-colour NASA documents of the Voyager, Galileo and Cassini missions; complete Cassini-Huygens mission press release archive, and program updates.Because radio signals take on the order of 45 minutes (plus or minus a few minutes depending on where the ... Jupiter and back, the Galileo spacecraft was designed to operate from computer instructions sent to it in advance and ... The flight team designed a special form of the software language called aquot;machine languageaquot; in order to change its functionality over time. ... on other NASA missions including Viking to Mars, Voyager and Pioneer to the outer planets, and Cassini to Saturn.

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N.J. Constitutional Convention: Vol. 4, Page 11

Tuesday, June 24, 1947 (Morning session)

Tenure and Qualification of Judges

posal is something to be considered, I think, by this Committee. We did not have it before us in 1942.

The Revision Commission in 1942 proposed that the Justices of the Supreme and Superior Court be counsellors-at-law of ten years' standing, and that they should not engage in the practice of law or other gainful occupation. Moreover, it proposed that each Justice of the Supreme Court prior to his appointment must have been at least one year a Justice of the Superior Court; however, after appointment he was to hold office during good behavior until age 70. The Justices of the Superior Court were each to hold office for a term of seven years, and if re-appointed, then to hold office during good behavior until age 70. Thus, each member of these courts was to serve a trial term, and if he was then promoted to the highest court or re-appointed to the Superior Court, he need not thereafter in his judicial career look to political influence for further reappointments. I think that that was one of the finest proposals we made. This business of limiting tenure for judges is, I think, very disastrous.

According to the plan advocated by Hon. Hatton Sumner for the federal system, the issue of good behavior with respect to the highest court was to be triable by the Senate, and with respect to all other judges of the State, by the Supreme Court.

Administration of the Courts

Under the Commission's plan, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was constituted the administrative head of all the courts of the State and required to supervise the work of all the courts. Thus, the Commission sought to construct a unified judicial department of government in place of the large number of one-judge tribunals we now have throughout the State. Perhaps the most important function of the Chief Justice was to assign the Justices on their appointment and annually thereafter, and from time to time as need appeared. By leaving the power of assignment to the Chief Justice, a lawyer, the specialized experiences of the judges would most surely be availed of. By providing for annual reassignments, an opportunity was presented, without disturbing the usual course of things, to move a judge to another section or county when it would best serve justice.

The Revision Commission also proposed that the Chief Justice be directed to appoint an executive director to serve at his pleasure and to assist him in his administrative tasks. I think that is highly important, and it should not be expected of a man, a man learned in the law, that he should constantly have his mind disturbed by administrative details which now must disturb the Chief Justice tremendously.

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Total amp draw would be with the heater and both pumps on high speed.

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Main frame
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Electrical Connections
Drive shafts

Body Work

Buffer beams
Height adjustment

Future Work

A workhorse Class 37 has been on my to-do list for a long time and I have gradually accumulated a collection of parts towards this end. One of the first was a secondhand Triang model of which only the body looked to be of any use and has survived. More recently a Lima 37 joined the collection and with the advent of Ultrascale "drop-in" wheelsets these were tried. OK I suppose if you only have a flat layout and don't want good slow running, the wheelsets were fine but not the motor and chassis. On my grades it was slipping with 2 coaches. I also have an Overland chassis intended for an SD40 or some such which has fully sprung bogies and I have spent some time pondering on how to convert these to P4, I have got as far as obtaining some etched frames from Bill Bedford but have not yet cracked the wheelset conversion.

During this process I came across an Athearn PA at a good price in a swapmeet and brought it home to see what it could do. Performance on H0 track was excellent so I started scheming a P4 conversion. The bogie wheelbase at 52.5mm is a touch short of the 54mm needed for the 37 so I spent some time looking at the effect behind the Lima frames and eventually decided I could live with the discrepancy.

So what follows is my conversion effort.

The first problem was the wheels, the Athearn bogies have dummy outside frames and functional inside frames with split axle pick up. stub axles

The stub axles are 2.4mm diameter and project through the wheels into the outside dummy frame, this makes them long enough for P4 use but the axle and tyre do need to be electrically connected. At this point I was stuck until I had a brainwave and checked out some of my original Mark 1 P4 coach wheels, the turned steel type with central insulating bush. By some miracle they were a comfortable push fit on the Athearn half axles and were nicely fixed with solder paste.

For those of you without stocks of old Studiolith wheels, an excellent alternative is now available and has been successfully used. Branchlines supply uninsulated nickel silver wheels which can be fitted on 2mm stub axles, use of an Exactoscale 2.4mm od sleeve will allow the assembly to fit the Athearn bearings and gear.

 wheelsets   fitted to the bogie   bogies reassembled.   the rewheeled PA

This led to the crucial test, the wheelsets were assembled with 8BA spacing washers to take up the space on the axles, fitted to the bogie and the bogies reassembled. Somewhat to my surprise the rewheeled PA (a cabless B unit so it looked a bit odd) operated in an exemplary manner, hauled the required 7 coaches up the hills and stayed on the track. Surprise as it is not sprung, and not really equalised, however, the centre axles can lift slightly which means they are not normally carrying any weight and all axles can drop a bit.

Anyway this proved that conversion was practical and I could move on to the next stage.

Side frames

The only item left to complete the bogies was to fit the Lima side frames. First the coupler mounts were cut off the Athearn bogie keeper plate and the situation examined. The Athearn dummy frames are in seperate side pieces and plug in to holes in the bogie frame assembly eyelets. They are held in just by friction. It appeared very difficult to replicate this with the Lima frames but the eyelet holes seemed the only practical fixing point. The centre was cut out of a Lima frame leaving the sides connected by the end beams. The frames are then flexible and could be sprung into place if a suitable pin could be devised.

holes in the bogie frame assembly eyelets   a Lima frame  leaving a 1mm spigot.  standoffs in place   sprung into place

After a couple of false starts the solution was found to be to make 4 standoffs from brass rod. The first 2mm was turned to fit nicely in the eyelet holes and the rod cut off to give a 5mm standoff. A hole was then drilled in the plain end to take 0.9mm brass wire, a piece soldered in and cut off leaving a 1mm spigot. With the 4 standoffs in place the Lima frame was sprung into place over the spigots and carefully adjusted to the correct position. The brass standoffs were then carefully heated with the iron and the frames squeezed so the spigots melted into the back of the frame.

The assembled frame.

Fitting the second bogie frame was left until after the body and couplers were finished as having a bogie available with only inside frames helps with establishing clearances.

Main frame

To achieve the correct bogie centres the Athearn underframe needs lengthening by 28mm. After some examination I concluded that this was best accomplished by cutting the frame into 3 pieces, first the motor mount was cut off with two horizontal and two vertical cuts leaving the mainframe with straight sides. After trying the hacksaw and finding it hardgoing ( a new blade might have helped) I tried the cut off wheel in the Dremel and found this easier. The frame was cleaned up and then cut in two through the middle. Two brass strips 1/2" by 1/16" were cut to length and clamped accurately in place, frame and brass drilled through 8BA tapping size, then seperated so the brass could be tapped and the frame drilled out to clearance and countersunk. They were fixed with a total of 12 *8BA bolts. (Note the extra holes in the pictures as my original idea came out misaligned, hence the clamping method)

Note the extra holes in the pictures  snug fit in the body.

Remarkably the overall length was spot on but the frame would not fit into the body as the ends were not the correct shape. The front end of the frame just needed the taper extending a little, the rear end needed a complete taper and a curve putting in the end. This was accomplished with a large file, working at it until a snug fit in the body.

Motor mount

Now the frame looked great, but there was no place to put the motor, the motor has to sit down between the frames and is fixed with a couple of plastic clips into 4 holes in the (removed) mounting block. The Lima fuel tanks are large enough to hold the Athearn motor mount and some additional lead weight but has to be fitted in place somehow. Looking at the frame it appeared that the gap between the Athearn frames could be used to form a clip to hold the tank in place. To do this an additional piece of brass 1/4" by 1/16" by 28mm was soldered onto the bottom edge of the main frame brass strip in the gap.
The tanks were then cut from the Lima frame leaving a piece of sidemember fitting the gap in the Athearn frame. With the tank held up into place a couple of 60thou plasticard pieces glued inside the Lima frame made a clip holding on the brass piece.
The Athearn motor mount had to be trimmed about a millimeter on each side to fit in the tank, achieved with the dremel cut off disk and the large file again, some fillets also had to be removed from inside the tank. By fitting the motor mount tight up to one end of the tank it is neccessary to extend the Athearn drive shaft at only one end and more room is left for the DCC decoder. The remaining space in the tank was filled with lead sheet to counterbalance the off centre motor. The plastic motor mounting clips have to be thinned down to fit between the brass strips, difficult stuff to file but persistance does it.

the tank with motor mount,   the tank clipped to the frame   the tank and frame with motor fitted.

Pictures show the tank with motor mount, the tank clipped to the frame and the tank and frame with motor fitted.

Electrical Connections

The original Athearn design has one side of the motor connected to the frame and the other to a contact strip above the motor, the frame and the contact strip are connected through rubbing contacts to the opposite sideframes of each bogie. As I am using DCC I needed to isolate the motor, at the same time I wanted to enhance reliability by wiring direct to the bogie frames, eliminating the rubbing contacts. The bogie design is such that the main frame remains connected to one side rail.

To isolate the motor the top contact strip was discarded and then the top and bottom brush retaining clips exchanged. Wires were then soldered to these retaining clips before re-installation. (The exchange is required as the bottom clip has springs punched out of it to contact the chassis, the exchange puts these on top where they do no harm). To allow removal of the bogies a 2 pin plug and socket is needed for each, also for the DCC decoder a 4 pin socket is needed. A small piece of pcb veroboard with 4 tracks was used to make the connections, this is soldered to the motor brush wires and the three sockets attached. When dismantling it stays with the motor.

Wires were then soldered to these retaining clips        three sockets attached

The DCC decoder has provision for lighting controls which I have not yet used in this installation.

Simple plasticard frames were built to create a shelf over the flywheels and driveshafts for the electrical components.

Decoder end loose wiringsupport in placerear end loose wiring   support in placecomplete assembly

Picture show: Decoder end loose wiring and support in place, rear end loose wiring and support in place, complete assembly.

Drive shafts

The extra 28mm of length between bogie centres meant that the drive shaft at one end no longer reached the gearbox. It proved possible to drill a 1.5mm hole down the centre of the splined shaft and then cut it in two using a piece of 1.5mm rod to increase the length. This was sufficient to operate satisfactorily but the motor is a bit further from the other end than it was originally and I feel that the splined shaft at that end does not fit far enough into its socket for long term reliability so will be extending that shaft in a similar way.

increase the length.

Buffer beams

Looking at the space available at the chassis ends it was apparent that fitting the buffer beams and couplers to the chassis would be very difficult. I therefore decided to trim the ends of the chassis and fix the buffer beams and couplers to the body. The Lima buffer beams were therefore cut off the ends of the original chassis and glued into the end of the body, taking care to get the height correct. The chassis could now again be tested for fit. (Buffer beam and coupler fitting shown in these two pictures, A-end  and B-end).

trim the ends of the chassis   tested for fit.

  A-end       B-end

Height adjustment

Now that the buffers were attached the bogies could be inserted and the ride height checked, this was now found to be 0.5mm high. And here you can learn from my mistake, do not fix the tank retaining clips before this stage or, like me, you will have to persuade the glue to come unstuck! The ride height is controlled by the top edges of the frame contacting the bottom of the driver's door recesses inside the body shell. A bit of work with scalpel and scrapers was required to remove the half millimetre from the bottom of each. Once the height came out correct, the tank and motor mount could be refitted, a 20thou plasticard spacer was needed between the top of the tank unit and the bottom of the frame after which the clips could be reglued.

To suit my operations Kadee couplers were fitted, because the space is very restricted KD No 35, short overset, were used.

the complete chassis  assembled loco.

Pictures show  the complete chassis and the assembled loco.

Future Work

Now I have a working loco it joins the queue for cosmetic attention to the bodywork.
There is also the original Overland chassis waiting inspiration to complete the P4 conversion.

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Every year, thousands of performance industry leaders converge on the Las Vegas Convention Center for the annual Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) event to show off their latest hardware. While most are content to take Highway 15 into town or hop on a shuttle from McCarran Airport, Tyler Francis of RSO Performance decided to take a different route.

“We built a Toyota FJ60 to drive from San Diego to the SEMA show,” Francis explains. “But instead of taking freeways, we decided to plan a route that would keep us on dirt roads using the Magellan GPS TRX7. We geared the whole thing around Magellan – we figured we would put their system to the test in order to off-road through the most civilized part of California. San Diego to Las Vegas goes through the heart of the concrete jungle, but if we could figure out a route that was mainly dirt, we thought that would be a huge success for the off-road community.”

The maiden voyage of Francis’ FJ60 has been a long time in the making, as he started building the truck over six years ago while he was still in high school. Although things didn’t go quite as smoothly as he had planned, his idea to drive to SEMA on off-road trails using the parts they’d be showcasing at the event demonstrates the capability behind the build, rather than just providing eye candy.

Francis says that he also wanted to establish a trend – which he did, as multiple industry groups followed suit and also forged an off-road route to SEMA. “One we worked with, Aaron from Garage Shop, also used Magellan GPS to come from North Carolina to Vegas all on dirt,” Francis told us. But more than anything, they were in it for the adventure.

“We were on the trails for three days in a self-sustained vehicle so we can take our time and see all the sights we wanted to see – not to mention camp out and have fun,” Francis continued. “We started the trek on October 26th and pulled into Vegas on the 30th.”

The Rig

The goal for RSO Performance was to provide an example that proved that enthusiasts could build a fully capable overlanding vehicle with high-performance aftermarket hardware. “We know the overland market and have been involved in the community long before we opened shop in 1999,” said Francis. “We figured this would be a great way to showcase how the products featured at SEMA worked in the real world, freshly tested on the trails.”

Francis' FJ60 sports a Chevy 350 swap, which is hooked to a custom built 4L60E gearbox and the original Toyota split transfer case. A Gibson exhaust provides the soundtrack, while a Flex-a-lite radiator and transmission cooler manage the heat. All of the bumpers and sliders were built by RSO Performance with Industrial Metal Supply providing the materials.

The team started with a 1986 Toyota Landcruiser as their canvas. The first order of business was swapping in a Chevy 350ci V8 with throttle body injection, along with a custom-built 4L60E automatic transmission from Maximum Offroad Transmissions. The FJ60’s suspension also got some tweaks with a spring over setup using the original springs, which were paired with Bilstein 5165 shocks and Energy Suspension bump stops.

“The Cruiser was my first car and I’ve been building it for six years,” Francis explained. “The paint, suspension, engine swap, fabrication, and wiring were all done here in our shop.”

 The Drive

Working with Magellan, Francis and the team at RSO devised a route that would get them from near border by Coyote Wells to Ocotillo Wells, then from Johnson Valley to the Mojave Desert and finally into Las Vegas.

“The original plan was to take two FJ60s, but the other one had ECU issues and wasn’t ready in time,” Francis told us. “We learned that the difference between an ’05 and a ’06 flash can dictate whether the throttle will work or not,” he joked. While that other FJ60 would end up displayed at the show, Francis, and his co-driver would be heading without a second vehicle along for the trek through the dirt. He was looking at going out by himself, which he wasn’t particularly stoked about.

Francis says that Magellan would share the route he took from San Diego to Las Vegas with would-be off-road adventurers, which they could access through the TRX7.

Fortunately, Francis found a co-driver to ride along with him. “He was going to take his own truck, but realized it just wasn’t going to be reliable for the trip. I met Dylan, my co-driver, for the first time the day before we left – now we’re best friends, we talk to each other almost every day. Spending several days on the trails will do that to you.”

Even though Francis and his co-driver got a late start, the trip got underway without a hitch and it appeared as though it would be smooth sailing most of the way. “By the time we got out to Ocotillo Wells it was getting dark, so we set up camp for the night. We got up early the next morning and drove through the notches and riverbeds around Ocotillo Wells, testing to make sure everything was working well, and everything seemed okay. From there, we got on the 86 and headed up to Berdoo Canyon, which is the back way into Joshua Tree. There’s a lot of washed out roads and nooks and crannies up that route, so I finally got a chance to put the wagon into four-wheel drive, which was awesome because it was just eating it up.”

The green Toyota did not want to play nicely and ended up making it to the SEMA Show, but not the hard way.

All seemed well – until it didn’t. “I started to hear spitting and sputtering from the engine,” Francis recalled. “I pulled over wondering what was going on. I’d had an issue with the fuel filter before, so I checked there first. After banging it on some rocks, I saw chunks of rust and dirt coming out, and I’m thinking, ‘This isn’t going to be fun.’ There were no parts stores around me to pick another one up; I knew I had got to get into Johnson Valley to pick up more fuel filters, but I had to get there with this situation. I found out later that there was a recall for these fuel tanks, which tend to rust out like crazy.”

Francis explained that he cleared out the fuel filter as best he could, which got him to the top of the hill before the fuel system choked up again. “Fortunately we’d made it to Geology Tour Road, which was a nice, mellow downhill dirt road, so I just threw it into neutral and coasted down.”

The general route that would be taken to Las Vegas, providing them with ample dirt trails and very little pavement.

After clearing out the filter once more, Francis was able to get the FJ to a parts store in Joshua Tree, where he loaded up on fuel filters, adding a second plastic filter to the mix that he could swap out with a replacement as needed. From there, everything was seemingly back to business as usual.

“We got into King of the Hammers country,” Francis recalled. “We were making our way into Barstow when it died again after plugging up another filter. After another swap, we made our way to Afton Canyon Campground to settle in for the night. It was only five miles off Highway 15, but there was just amazing scenery out there. That was probably the coolest part of the trip – not necessary a hard drive, but really scenic.”

After heading out of the campground in the morning, Francis and his co-driver encountered their first water crossing. “The surface was up to the bumper, about three and a half feet deep, so that was fun. But not long after, the fuel system began to act up again. At this point, I was out of new filters, so I was just cleaning them, but the truck was only making it a few miles between stops,” he recalled. “We tried a few things, like a makeshift sump catch to filter the fuel, but it didn’t really work because all the sediment was stuck in the baffles inside the tank.”

The FJ60 is outfitted with Vision-X lights and a Superwinch Talon 9.5 with a Factor55 e-link and fairlead, while the Hinterland Industries Rincon CT tent served as shelter from the elements when camping.

Eventually, the fuel pump started to give up the ghost as well. “We cleaned the filters, but now the motor wouldn’t turn over. We checked for spark, everything else was working great – it had to be the pump. We pull the hoses off the pump, and it’s just spitting fuel,” Francis said.

After some deliberation, Dylan suggested as a last ditch effort that they try banging on the pump with a ratchet while Francis cranked the ignition. “It fired right up,” Francis said with a chuckle. “OK great, the fuel pump was working. So we put it all back together, headed about another mile or so, and the fuel pump died – this time for good.”

At this point they were in the middle of nowhere – no cell service and the closest highway or road was about twenty miles away, which is not an ideal hike through the middle of the day on foot through the desert.

“We started clicking through the race radio and eventually we got a hold of some guys who were able to get in contact with our support, who in turn got to a local sheriff and relayed our GPS coordinates from the Magellan. He came out, helped pull us off the trail and waited with us until support showed up with the fuel pump and filter. We got the new pump and filter installed, headed out, fueled up at the next gas station and hopped on the 15 all the way to Vegas. We got there at about 9:30 at night, so we’d been stuck in the desert for about seven hours that day. We were prepared, though – we had dual batteries in the wagon, and we’d packed plenty of food and water – we could have stayed out there for two or three days if we had needed to,” he pointed out.

Though it was a bummer to “wave the white flag” as Francis put it, when the FJ’s fuel pump kicked the bucket dozens of miles outside of civilization, it was clear that he and his co-driver were going to need a hand in order to get the Toyota moving under its own power again. Once a new fuel pump was installed, the pair were back in action and made it to Vegas that evening.

The Road Ahead

Francis says that after taking into consideration what he learned this time around, he has something much bigger planned for next year with a bigger crew along for the ride. But despite the trials and tribulations of this year’s journey, he says it was a blast anyway. “Even though we were breaking down and I smelled like gasoline, the trails were better than the 15,” he explained. “We were still having fun. This was a car I’d been building since high school, and it was its first off road run. So with that in mind, we still consider it a success and we’re super proud of what we accomplished.”

Francis hopes his off-road trip to SEMA will inspire other folks to follow suit in the future. After learning some lessons from this year’s trek, he says he’s got something much bigger planned for next year.

“I wouldn’t be surprised to see this turn into a phenomenon with the off-road community and SEMA,” he continued. “I bet there will be 20-30 rigs at SEMA next year that show up dirty from some sort of expedition that took them to Las Vegas for the show.”

As for advice on how to prepare for a trek like this, Francis offers some words of advice. “If your car isn’t new – or even if it is – have a backup plan. Expect to break down, expect to be stranded, and plan for that situation with extra food, water, and communications methods. And bring spare parts!”

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[Circa 2009] After my first run in with Smooth & Dreamy, I had high hopes when I picked up this flavor, and you know what? I'm so glad I did! I like it, I really like it. I guess it just hits that special chocolate and chippy part of my brain and tells me to eat the whole container (not that I did, I was good)

Breyers Smooth & Dreamy Chocolate Chocolate Chip Light Ice Cream

Now the problem is that I can't really describe the base chocolate ice cream itself. It seems to be a good flavor and texture, but the chocolate chips are so plentiful that they run the whole show here. It's not a bad thing, just be prepared for it. If you just want ice cream (and I will try the plain chocolate at some point), go with the straight chocolate. If you want to crunch chips 'til your heart's content, then go with the Chocolate Chocolate Chip.

I would like to make one comment, just a minor point to keep in mind if you are watching calories. The point of smooth and dreamy is all about 1/2 the fat and less calories, and while most of the S&D varieties clock in at 2 grams of saturated fat, this one has four because of the chips. Nothing major, but just keep it in mind.

Ok, and now for some TV...something to distract me from having another bowl of this stuff right now. Have I mentioned I really like this ice cream? MMMMMMM....really need to think about something else now.

2009 Nutrition: 140 / 50-4 / 1 / 3

2012 Update: This flavor does still exist, but the "Smooth & Dreamy" moniker is dead. It's no longer all natural but should be "even creamier & smoother". This results in slightly different nutrition stats.

2012 Nutrition: 130 / 40-3.5 / 1 / 3

2013 Update: Retired!

Anonymous said...

WHY can't I find this delicious CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHIP (smooth and creamy) in any of the many supermarkets I frequent?? It's my favorite .....all stores that DID have it, no longer do....WHY???

Dubba said...

Smooth & Dreamy is currently being rebranded. Please hang tight until a fresh shipment comes in (you can also ask your grocery store's customer service to order fresh containers)

Carol Hiller said...

I wish they would bring this back!!! I have looked every where and of course no one has it any longer due to Bryers not making it!!! Can you please bring back chocolate chocolate chip ice cream.


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Visible pores happen as a result of extra oil skin and many people battle with this problem. Large pores are not a nice sight so we try to do whatever we can to reduce their appearance. We try different creams, masks and lotions but we often find them to be ineffective.

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EA update position on Fire Prevention plans for Biowaste treatment facilities

The EA have released a revision on their position for Fire Prevention Plans (FPP) for biowaste treatment facilities. The guidance is available here. The amendments come in two categories. The first is a long overdue update to reflect any changes that came in after the guidance was updated last July. The second is to point out that although the windrows at compost sites aren’t included in the stack sizes calculations for the site, operators still need to take into account that they will need a certain amount of liquid to maintain moisture levels, and that this should be taken in to account when doing water calculations for the rest of the site.

If you wish to discuss this further, please contact Jeremy.

WISH have a comprehensive guidance document on Reducing fire risk at waste management sitesThe aim of this guidance is to provide waste management operators with the guidance, information and standards to allow them to:

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Shrewsbury never sleeps. Discover the latest goings-on, stories and must-read news to come out of the original one-off.

Amateur Bakers Rise to the Sourdough September Challenge

While the Great British Bake Off has the nation's amateur bakers glued to their TV screens Shrewsbury has experienced a bit of its own baking mania. Artisan bakery Bread and Loaf issued a challenge to home bakers to have a go at making bread using the oldest and most difficult method, as part of the nationwide 'Sourdough September' campaign - and it has been inundated.

University Centre Shrewsbury opens doors to prospective students

Students looking to start a degree course in 2016 can gain a taste of University Centre Shrewsbury life at an Open Day this weekend. As University Centre Shrewsbury's first undergraduates near the end of Welcome Week, the institution will throw its doors open to the next intake of prospective students.

Darwin Centre Trust launches international institute for study of compassion in Shrewsbury

The new Darwin Centre Trust in Shrewsbury is to launch the International Institute for the Study of Compassion on Wednesday 30th September The Conference will be attended by individuals and media from across the Globe, including leading figures such as Andrew Stone, ex-chair of Marks & Spencer, Karen Armstrong author & TED prize winner, & aut

Pioneering University Centre Shrewsbury students arrive to a big welcome

University Centre Shrewsbury's first undergraduates and second intake of postgraduates are being welcomed to the town. Established by the University of Chester and Shropshire Council, with the community, University Centre Shrewsbury aims to bring new and varied prospects for students, the town and Shropshire.

Shrewsbury couple to run University Centre coffee shop

A Shrewsbury couple are to run the coffee shop in the town's University Centre learning and research base at Guildhall. Mike and Nicola Dalton already run two successful coffee shops in the town; stop. coffee shop in Greyfriars and stop. cafe bar in Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery.

SDC commission Shrewsbury musician to arrange songs for Theatre Severn production

A Shrewsbury musician has just completed a commission from Shropshire Drama Company (SDC), to write and arrange four pieces of music for Theatre Severn production.

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A distinguished academic with 35 years' experience of leadership in education has been appointed as University Centre Shrewsbury's Provost. In advance of the new academic year, Professor Anna Sutton has been selected for the senior role, heading up the management team at the University Centre.

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Windows And so the smartphonification of the general purpose computer continues. This time around, though, it might actually be for the better. Microsoft has detailed two new features in Windows 8: refreshing and resetting your computer. Reinstalls will be a thing of the past.
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And design a better filesystem while your at it. - Then maybe, you won't need to reinstall because of it "slowing down"

I bought a newly installed WinXP laptop for friend, went through the painful process of installing all the latest windows updates (*3* reboots IIRC) and found that although the disk was only 10% full, data was all clustered in the first 20% of the disk and was badly fragmented. It's like MS learned nothing from the BSD filesystem research on UNIX from the early 80's, and thirty years later NTFS still performs like a UNIX V7 filesystem.

Once the filesystem fills up, there's no hope of even successfully defragging properly, though I did find some of the defrag utilities at sysinternals ( very useful (page file defrag!)

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PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless With the Palm Pre out the door, the wait is for the software development kit for the PRe to hit the streets. The Mojo SDK is open for limited testing, but apparently, someone decided to leak the download link, and thanks to the web, the SDK can now be downloaded all over the place.
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I've hear that GNOME 3 source code has been leaked also.

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Legal Well, this was rather unexpected. As it turns out, Commodore USA's CEO Barry Altman isn't particularly pleased about the article I wrote earlier today in which I placed a considerable amount of scepticism with regards to Commodore USA and its business (and website). He (not his lawyer) sent us a threatening email demanding we take down the article, post a new correction article, the whole shebang. The entire email - as an image, you'll want the original formatting - after the break. Our reply? We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram.
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General Development Enlightenment version 16 was one of most configurable window managers back in late nineties (and still is). For the next version however Rasterman and friends decided to create a complete desktop shell instead of just a simple window manager. Enlighenment version 17 is therefore based on a set of graphical libraries which can used for other applications as well. But do we need another set of libraries when QT and GTK+ are already mature and stable? Depending on your needs, you might find that using the Enlightenment libraries is truly an enlightening experience!
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