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WASHINGTON — The Federal Election Commission on Thursday raised sharp questions but came to no firm conclusion over Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein's bid for greater fundraising leeway in the wake of embezzlement by her former campaign treasurer.
The FEC will take more time to consider whether California politicians who were ripped off by former treasurer Kinde Durkee can solicit additional funds from individuals who already have reached their contribution limit. Feinstein wants contributors who previously maxed out to be able to replace their donations with more money.
"We're all sympathetic to your client," FEC commissioner Ellen Weintraub told Feinstein's attorneys Thursday morning, "but it's still a hard question."
Although the commission's legal staff had recommended rejecting Feinstein's request, the commissioners indicated they thought it was a close call. Several voiced concern over the potential "implications" for other campaigns of granting Feinstein's fundraising request.
"We have to do some special thinking," Commissioner Steven Walther said during the two-hour hearing. "We're in a tight spot, and we need to think this one out."
Feinstein wants contribution limits lifted following revelations that Durkee had embezzled millions of dollars from dozens of state and federal campaign treasuries.
Feinstein's campaign alone reported losing at least $4.5 million under Durkee's scheming last year. The Federal Election Commission's reasoning will apply to other former Durkee clients as well, and also will be closely watched by California's Fair Political Practices Commission.
Durkee, 59, has pleaded guilty to five counts of mail fraud and is awaiting sentencing.
As investigators discovered last year, Durkee commingled funds from her various political clients, repeatedly transferring money from one account to another and using embezzled funds to pay personal and business expenses.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that Durkee finagled more than $7 million out of more than 50 clients over several years.
"Embezzlement has become a bigger and bigger problem," Weintraub said. "I thought we had seen the worst of it until this case came along."
Prior to Durkee's arrest last year, Feinstein's campaign treasury reported having $5 million on hand. Following her arrest, the bank reported to Feinstein that only $662,000 was actually available. The First California Bank subsequently froze the account.
In response, Feinstein's campaign attorneys earlier this year requested an FEC advisory opinion about the campaign's proposed solution. The campaign — reasoning that the embezzled money was never really in the Feinstein campaign treasury — wanted to collect "replacement contributions" from individuals who had previously maxed out.
"Because the funds embezzled by Durkee were not 'accepted' by the committee or its agents, the donors who provided these funds should be permitted to replace their attempted contributions," Feinstein's attorneys wrote.
The FEC's legal staff acknowledged that some candidates in other cases have been allowed to re-solicit contributions from donors who already have given the maximum, but only when the original checks had been lost or otherwise not deposited. In Feinstein's case, the money had been accepted and was apparently in the Feinstein campaign treasury, even if only for a little while.
Commissioners also pressed Feinstein's campaign attorney Marc Elias on whether the campaign had adequately protected itself against potential embezzlement.
"The campaign committee did what was reasonably prudent," Elias insisted, adding, "I'm not sure what (else) you would have wanted the Feinstein campaign to do."
Individuals are currently permitted to contribute up to $2,500 to a candidate for each election; taking a primary and general election together, this adds up to $5,000.
In the wake of Durkee's embezzlement, Feinstein subsequently loaned her campaign $5 million. With the loan, Feinstein's campaign bankroll had $6.5 million available as of Dec. 31. She has been aggressively fundraising since, including holding a lunchtime event Wednesday at the Sanger, Calif., home of Nisei Farmers League President Manuel Cunha, followed by an evening event in a Fresno home.
Republican Elizabeth Emken, perhaps the highest-profile of the candidates maneuvering to challenge Feinstein, had not yet reported raising any money as of Dec. 31.
The FEC commissioners could take the case up again as soon as their next session, which is in May.
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WOODLAWN, the Bronx, N.Y. — With no funeral and with her relatives barred from paying their last respects, the reclusive heiress Huguette M. Clark was entombed Thursday morning as she had lived, with solitude and secrecy.
Before the public gates opened at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y., her casket was carried by funeral home employees up the 18 steps of the Clark family mausoleum. The massive bronze door was open, leading to a private chapel with gold-inlaid ceiling, a tile mosaic floor, and an altar with the inscription, "Nearer My God to Thee." A single bouquet of daisies was placed by the door.
There was no priest for Huguette Clark, who was raised a Roman Catholic, like her mother. The only people in attendance were employees of the funeral home, the cemetery, and the company that supervised a restoration of the mausoleum this year to make room for her.
She was laid to rest next to her father, mother and sister.
Clark family members, who had known and visited Huguette in years past, had inquired about plans for a funeral or burial, but they were shooed away by e-mails from her attorney, Wallace "Wally" Bock, who along with Clark's accountant is under investigation by the Manhattan district attorney, who is looking into the handling of her copper mining fortune, estimated at $500 million.
"It was Ms. Clark's specific wishes and instructions that no funeral service or mass be held," attorney Bock wrote to relatives. "We expect interment to take place immediately."
Though the relatives have cooperated with their Aunt Huguette on making recent changes to the family-owned mausoleum so there would be room to bury her there, and have visited the mausoleum through the years to pay respects and even for a family picnic on the grounds, Bock refused to tell relatives the time of her burial. Some of these relatives had visited Huguette and her mother through the years, and exchanged cards and letters, but the relatives said the attorney abruptly cut off all family contacts five or six years ago, about the same time as he has said Clark signed a will.
Clark had no children, and her only relatives were half-great-nieces and half-great-nephews and others descended from her father's first marriage, and scattered descendants of her mother's siblings.
Huguette Clark, the daughter of mining tycoon and U.S. Sen. William Andrews Clark (1839-1925), died Tuesday at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, where she was registered under a fake name. She had lived in hospitals since the late 1980s, even when her health was good. ( Click here to read her obituary .)
A last-minute rush for a burial spot
Huguette Clark had reached age 104 without having a place to be buried.
Although her father's mausoleum was built before she was born, its last crypt was occupied when Huguette's mother, Anna, died in 1963. Beginning in 2008, her attorney obtained consent from the Clark family, all of whom are descendants from her father's first marriage, for an additional space to be added inside the mausoleum.
Construction didn't begin until this spring, allowing Huguette to be entombed next to her beloved older sister, Andrée, who died of meningitis at age 16 in 1919, when Huguette was 13. Also resting in the massive granite mausoleum are their mother, their father the senator, his first wife, and other children and relatives from his first marriage.
Full coverage: 'The Clarks, an American story of wealth, mystery and scandal'
A criminal investigation continues, with the Manhattan district attorney looking into her financial affairs, which are handled by Bock, 79, and her accountant, Irving H. Kamsler, 64, a registered sex offender who pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to send indecent materials to minors.
No one has been charged with any crime in the handling of Clark's finances, and the men have said that they handled her accounts strictly according to her wishes, and were only following her desire for privacy by keeping relatives at a distance.
A will has not yet been filed, nor an accounting of her fortune. A will could be contested, leading to a court battle over her estate. If a court invalidated the will, Clark's estate would flow under state law to her nearest relatives, the dozen or so direct descendants from her father's first marriage.
Related content for "The Clarks: An American story of wealth, scandal and mystery":
- All of msnbc.com's reports on Huguette Clark are gathered at clark.msnbc.com.
- The photo narrative from February on Huguette Clark and her empty mansions (on this page)
- A PDF file for printing the photos
- Notes and documents consulted in researching the Clark family story
- Part one of the investigative report: At 104, mysterious heiress is alone now
- Part two of the investigative report: Who is watching Huguette's millions?
- Report sparks welfare check on reclusive heiress
- Copper heiress has signed a will, attorney says
- Family of copper heiress asks court to protect her
- Reclusive heiress's attorney lashes out at family
- Generosity of an heiress: homes for the nurse, gifts for attorney's family
- Investigated pair still controls heiress's wealth
- Huguette Clark, the reclusive copper heiress, dies at 104
Documents (PDF files)
- Family's petition seeking a guardian for Huguette Clark
- Attorney Bock's sworn statement to the court
- Judge's ruling rejecting the family's guardianship petition
- Kamsler letter informing Clark of his guilty plea
- Kamsler's criminal court file and investigator's report
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A top Russian diplomat on Thursday said President Bashar al-Assad could lose control of Syria, Moscow's first public admission of that prospect.
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Tea Review 10 - Lipton Green Tea to Go
Lipton Tea
Some ideas are pretty lousy in theory, but turn out to be okay in practice. Other ideas are just lousy all around.
I've never worked for a giant food conglomerate, so I can't say for sure, but I'd be willing to bet that the new products division is constantly under the gun to come up with nifty new gimmicks that will sell by the boatload. Which may go a long way toward explaining a product like Lipton's Green Tea to Go - or maybe not.
The gimmick here is a single serving foil pack of tea mix that you drop in a 16.9 ounce bottle of water, shake and drink. What could be more convenient? And, of course, it's green tea, so you know it'll make you live to about two hundred years old, cure your leprosy and - for the guys - enlarge your you know what until you have to wheel it around in a cart.
Actually, the primary health claim Lipton makes for the product is that it contains eighty milligrams of "protective flavonoid antioxidants," which help guard your body against free radicals - molecules that can damage your precious little cells. Well, gee whiz, I'd better get me some of them and, by the way, that's more flavonoids than broccoli or cranberry juice and twice as much as orange juice, so flavonoid fans rejoice.
The ingredients are instant green tea, maltodextrin (yum), citric acid, sucralose (double yum), natural flavors and - what tea would be complete without it - silicon dioxide.
To say that I wasn't expecting much from this health-giving elixir, would be putting it mildly, but I grabbed a bottle of water and plunged boldly ahead.
The verdict? Well, my mother always told me that if I couldn't say anything nice, I shouldn't say anything at all. But since I never listened to my mother too well, I'll say that if you're looking for a cough medicine/Kool Aid type flavor that's heavy on the artificial sweeteners, you're gonna flip for this one. As for me? Straight down the drain.
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I actually think the stuff tastes great, but found something interesting. If you sprinkle a VERY slight amount of a packet into water, it looks like there are little tiny creatures swimming in it. I originally thought it was the dissolving of the powder, but I don't think it is. I have to do further investigation, but for now I won't drink it any longer. If anyone would try that and see what you find, I would be interested to know. I hope I am completely wrong about it.
- James said...
I agree, I like the taste. The problem is getting it to dissolve. Nothing like shaking a bottle for 10 minutes, then taking a drink 5 minutes later and seeing brown lumps all over the bottom.
- Ron said...
They make a mango flavored green tea as well. It's pretty good. For the most part - I think you guys are being overly critical. It's not that bad. (LOL)


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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Feb 17, 2013) - Eldorado Gold ("the Company", "Eldorado", or "we") (ELD.TO)(EGO) confirms that shortly after midnight on Sunday, February 17, 2013 a masked and armed group of approximately 50 persons illegally entered the Skouries Project in the Municipality of Aristotle, Halkidiki, Greece. The armed attackers assaulted two of our security personnel. One sustained injuries which required hospitalization and has subsequently been released. The group then set fire to our temporary construction offices as well as several trucks and heavy equipment, most of which are owned by local contractors. The fires have been extinguished and the site secured. The Company is cooperating with the police and other relevant authorities to ensure the ongoing safety of our employees and assets.
"While we respect the right of individuals to voice their opinions in a safe, legal and responsible manner we fully condemn any activities that put the safety of our employees, contractors and assets at risk," stated Paul Wright, Chief Executive Officer of Eldorado Gold Corporation. "The Company is in possession of all permits required to operate legally at its projects in Halkidiki. These projects are licensed under an Environmental Impact Assessment which consisted of an exhaustive technical review as well as comprehensive public consultations. In Halkidiki, as in all our mining operations throughout the world, we operate to the highest environmental standards complying with all local, national and international laws and regulations."
Eldorado is a gold producing, exploration and development company actively growing businesses in Turkey, China, Brazil, Greece, and Romania. With our international expertise in mining, finance and project development, together with highly skilled and dedicated staff, we believe that our company is well positioned to grow in value as we create and pursue new opportunities.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 2016 — Many successful initiatives are underway to reform the Military Health System, but the system will require change to continue its many benefits to readiness and patient care, military medicine's top leaders told a Senate panel yesterday.
Dr. Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs; Navy Vice Adm. (Dr.) Raquel Bono, director of the Defense Health Agency; and the Army, Navy and Air Force surgeons general made recommendations to a Senate Armed Service Committee personnel panel on defense health care reform.
"The Military Health System takes great pride in its performance in combat medicine over more than 14 years of war," Woodson said, adding that the services' medical collaboration resulted in "a greater than 95 percent survival rate of those wounded from battle."
And similarly, the ability to prevent disease through primary care created "equally historic outcomes," he said.
While the medical knowledge from the decade and a half of war in Iraq and Afghanistan yielded many joint-service "best practices," military medicine must continue to grow, he said.
"The challenges we face in medicine and in national security continue to evolve," Woodson said, adding that new approaches are needed to be prepared for the future. To meet those challenges, the Military Health System has taken a number of initiatives to gain greater strength in all facets of its responsibilities, he added.
One such effort addresses reforms for TRICARE, the military's health plan that uses contracted private medical services when military treatment centers are not easily accessible for Defense Department beneficiaries.
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Woodson said he was grateful for beneficiaries' and service organizations' congressional testimony on the Military Health System.
"The TRICARE benefit was named the No. 1 health plan in the country for customer experience in 2015, owing in no small part the comprehensive coverage and low cost to our beneficiaries," he said.
"But we've heard loud and clear from our beneficiaries that access to primary and specialty care needs attention, particularly at our military treatment facilities," he added, noting that such concerns already have resulted in steps such as greater access to primary and specialty care.
"We entered 2016 confident the reforms in the Military Health System and [TRICARE] can be further strengthened through a combination of legislative and operational reforms," Woodson said.
*Defense Health Agency: Collaboration*
The Defense Health Agency was stood up two years ago as a combat support agency to enable all three services to provide a medically ready force to combatant commands during war and peacetime. DHA director Bono said the agency continues to improve military health care quality and safety expectations for beneficiaries in both military treatment facilities and in TRICARE.
"We're simplifying contracts, reducing management overhead in government and [contracts]," she noted, which would, for example, allow beneficiaries to use urgent care clinics without prior authorization.
"A DHA analytics team [also] will assess performance of MHS using joint measures for readiness, health, quality, safety, satisfaction and cost for leadership at the headquarters and field level," Bono said.
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"To ensure readiness, Army medicine must maintain the medical capabilities that are ready to deploy and support our warfighters," Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Nadja Y. West said. West also serves as commanding general for U.S. Army Medical Command.
Improving patient access to care is her priority, she said, adding that she has directed actions to rapidly improve that access.
"'I understand reforms are necessary to ensure the long-term sustainability of TRICARE," she said, stressing that reforms should not increase financial burden on beneficiaries or affect readiness.
"Reforms must not degrade our combat-tested system or readiness in an environment where we must remain rotationally focused and surge ready [because] the next large-sale deployment could be tomorrow," West said.
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"As changes are considered, we strongly recommend sustaining care for active-duty families in military treatment facilities," said Air Force Surgeon General Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Mark A. Ediger.
While the Military Health System has "proven itself time and again [with] the thousands of men and women who are alive today, it is not perfect," said Navy Surgeon General Vice Adm. (Dr.) C. Forrest Faison III.
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I hope you are enjoying the 5 lip colour recommendation series, cos its been fun for me rummaging through my lip stash!
The uber nude lip gloss is the super super pale lip. But because its a gloss its a little more wearable. This kind of lip works well with very colourful eyes or smokey. It gives a plumping kind of effect although I wouldn't necessarily recommend this kind of uber pale pale beige for super fair ladies.
I have to say, I used to adore the nude lip but as I have got a bit older (a bit, goddammit!) I have found softer colours more flattering. I have very pigmented lips so this kind of nude tones them down a bit, and also tones down harsh colours.
However, this kind of lip can be deadening and make you look corpse like. If the rest of your face is a little red (like mine can be) it can also look quite odd.
Anyway, I digress. Here are my 5 favourite uber nudes.
Bourjois Les Nudes 33:
The Bourjis Les Nudes range is very pretty, although what I don't like is how scented it is. Nude 33 is the palest beige, there is also a pretty pink and orange which are good alternatives if this is too light for you. Has quite a heavy silvery shimmer which stays on the lip after the gloss has faded.
Nars Striptease:
I do love Nars glosses but they are so expensive and have a bit of a plasticy small. Anyway, Striptease is very light and works well for toning down or sheering out very scary lip colours. It doesn't have shimmer.
Visee BE370:
Visee is a medium thick lipgloss, with a bit of shimmer. This is neither here nor there – nothing spectacular about this gloss, not the texture, not the shade, so its just OK. You can buy this gloss from www.adambeauty.com
Tiffa beige:
Quite a liquid, sheer gloss with some sparkles in it. The Japanese seem to love these so called 'milky' lip colours – and so do I! Shades with a milky edge have a…erm…milky edge to it. Like imagine someone put a drop of cream into your lip colour and mixed it. However this actual gloss is very sheer and doesn't really do much for my lips.
Art Deco Color Gloss 27:
I like Art Deco a lot although this German brand hasn't done anything exciting for a while. This gloss is a simple nude, no sparkles. It's a medium texture and once again, does what it says on the tin, but isn't that spectacular. Its a warmer tone than Striptease.
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Managed to get out yesterday with the rally. Have it setup with 19/54 gearing and I went back to the stock tires/wheels. I left the body 1 hole higher on the posts though and I installed some straight rate springs in the rear from a stampede as per the Jangs suggestion.
I really like the stock tires SO much better than the buggy tires/wheels I was running before. They get better grip on all surfaces, the car handles way better, drifts better, turns better... everything is better. This car really benefits from the larger outer sidewall on the SCT style tires. I hope traxxas or proline releases different options in this size. Or at the very least, traxxas gets the tires in stock as this is all ill want to run.
I took the car out to a large sand spot at our local fair grounds. It was groomed smooth after the last time it was used so it only had a few minor bumps in it. If I go back I may take some cones and setup a course, possible even add a few minor jumps.
Before i went I attempted to install some roost deflectors behind the front wheels. I think the concept is sound, but the deflectors are not tall enough. Im going to keep working with the design to see if I can make it more effective. One thing is for sure, even with the deflectors, this chassis sure does collect dirt and sand. Luckily, it only took a few minutes with a compressor to clean it up again.
And a short video. Please forgive both the crappy driving and filming. I was holding my Iphone with one hand and driving the car with my other hand (yes, one had driving).
Last edited by pavmentsurfer; 11-15-2012 at 10:37 AM.
Wow, that is some serious sand!!!
What was the air temperature when you made the video?
That is why I am still in doubt about getting a Rally. I just hate the fact that all the dirt which goes up in the air with a car like a Pede or a Rustler, but gets caught underneath the body with a Rally or a Slash.
Anyhow... Nice rig you got there, Pav.
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I'm going to contact tbone to see if they would have any interest in making a set of inner fenders for. Rally/slash. I think they would sell amazing.
Got out again today with my version 2 fenders/deflectors. I added a 2nd section and it seems to have been fairly effective. Looks ridiculous... but works, especially in the sand.
These pics were taken after 2 times the amount of running I had done in the last set of pics at exactly the same spot.
I also contacted novak about my short run time issue and why, despite my high gearing and the high KV of the motor, I wasnt experiencing any heat. I was told that A: I should increase the timing in the ESC... not the timing of the motor, but the timing CURVE of the ESC. The Novak ESC starts the motor out at 0 timing then ramps it up in an exponential curve until you hit your maximum selected timing at full throttle. I turned the timing up to level 3 (not sure what degree that is, ill check later on) and was told I should lower my gearing as the increase in RPM at full throttle would cause excess heat. Speeds went up at full throttle, heat in the motor went up only a tiny bit. Heat in the ESC went up a bit more than expected so I re-added the fan and that kept the ESC nice and cool. Im pretty sure I could increase timing even further.
In terms of battery life, im getting about 12 minutes from an SPC 5400mah 50C 2S pack. In my VXL stampede I get at least 30 minutes from the same pack. In my last sensored setup, an MMP/Trinity 540 I was getting nearly 30 minutes as well. The guy at novak told me their systems, in particular their 550 systems are real amp hogs and 12 minutes is a realistic expectation for a 5400mah 2S pack. Also, I was told the LVC is set at 3.3 VPC... but its kicking in early as the amp load is tripping it early. I timed my last run, mostly full throttle running, and I got 5 minutes before the LVC kicked in the first time. At that point I eased up on my running and got another 8 minutes out of the pack before the LVC hit full shut off. This is unacceptable and, IMO, a pretty major drawback to this system. I love the power, I love the smoothness... but if Im only getting 12 minute run times and more than half of it has to be at easy throttle... thats terrible. Im seriously considering going to an MMP/3800 combo instead. I know that setup will get decent run times and have lots of power. The guy at novak told me their motors are 2 pole where as the castle motor are 4 (as we all know) and that the 2 pole motor is less efficient. But, the VXL motor is 2 pole as well... and it gets decent run times. So that cant be it.
Just thought this was an interesting update. Sure, I could always run my 8200mah packs but I shouldnt have to in this car.
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If there was one available, would you use an Outerwears shroud instead?
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Im going to get an outerwears shroud for this thing for sure. Theres a thread on the forum of someone who used the slash 4X4 shroud and it fit fine. Im going to pick one up. It really is the solution to the problem.
Just bought the outerwear's cover. Could only get blue but it should match the rest of the car anyway. Hopefully this is the answer the "chassis full of dirt" problem.
Let us know how it fits. This thing needs it badly lol.
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Very cool vids dude have seen them both and they rock for one hand driving check out the v2 tenshock motors for your rally dude...peace
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Well from my talking with Novak I knew much of the performance and run time endurance was going to come from proper timing of the ESC/motor but as many times as I considered this system I never noticed these to be only 2-pole motors? That is why I shared that info with you on timing set ups. I hope it gets better for you so I will be anxious for next update!
I know you are mentioning run times of much more length than 12 minutes but you are comparing to motors that are 3800kv and under. The high demand on amps would explain the shorter runtimes. I don't believe sensored motors can be as efficient as sensorless but have some advantages in what you experienced in smoothness and adjustable timing curves that may be beneficial to racing applicatin where as runtime is not?
It might just be tough to beat what the Velineon, Castles give in both performance and runtimes for us! I have never run a 2400kv Castle yet but have one coming, the HPI Vektor 4000kv seems like a great take off bargain on Ebay. Soooo many choices LOL. I got plenty of runtime on my 2WD Slash but would expect less on my 4WD platform.
I'll sooner or later let you know what happens with a Tekin 6.5t 3300kv 4-pole sensored I picked up that I will run off my MMP ESC. I might like it, and I might not, just having fun tinkering and will settle in on a package or two to use, the Rally is awesome, well once I get my dang #7430 bulkhead replacement in it LOL
One other note, if that Novak is a 'hog' and you are running a 50c discharge pack it will take that pack down faster than a 25c if I am correct?
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Couldnt help myself. Towers EZpay setup is just too "EZ". I just ordered a set of HPI Maxxis Belted Trepadors in D compound. Apparently they are within 3mm of the stock tire height and ive run them before on pavement. They perform very similar to the stock rally tires but last a long long time. My stock tires are nearly gone after today so ill be needed something else very soon.
I also picked up a brand new Castle MMP/3800 combo... I do like the smoothness of the of Novak system but the run times are just not good enough. I ran today on a clean parking lot and the LVC kicked in after 9 minutes. I got 6 minutes of easy throttle after that until the LVC shut down entirely. So, 15minutes... thats the best ive got. I know you guys running castle systems are getting 25-35minutes easy out of the same packs. And im sure the 3800 can be geared to run cool on 2S and still be plenty fast.
Im going to mount the trepadors on some Proline Split 6's in black. Should look nice. Then, when the stock tires are toast (pretty soon). Im going to bake the tires off, dye the rims black and mount up some Duratrax Bandito's... which are also supposed to be very close to stock tire height and are a decent looking onroad tread pattern.
Just thought a little update would be useful to some. For what its worth, I havent upgraded ONE thing on the car and havent broken anything at all. Im seriously resisting the urge to upgrade at all... I just want to see how long this thing will last completely stock.
Today I ran 4 Packs through the rally. All on dry pavement with dusty patches. Most of the driving was drift style (like a real rally car). After the first 2 packs I realized, if I want my stock body to last until traxxas releases clear versions... im going to have to run the focus body I painted in the mean time. As I get more used to the car I get more daring and start taking greater chances trying drift around obstacles or between things. Often it doesnt end well. So, I slapped on the funny looking focus body and ran the last 2 packs.
The focus body looks extra funny with the stock white tires and wheels. The wheel/tire combo is simply too small for that body. Its very out of scale IMO. It also needs a wing to finish the back end... it looks too bulbous and round at the back. Other than that, its a good thing I decided to run it as I had a few pretty major mishaps. Now, my shiny new focus body is not new anymore.
Ive run approximately 12-16 packs through the car now... I havent kept track but I think im pretty close with that. Most of it has been on pavement. After this much running my rear tires are essentially done. Maybe one more pack and they will be bald. The fronts have about %50 remaining so I rotated them. I should be able to get 4-6 more packs TOPS from both sets until im down to nothing if I keep running on pavement, and I plan to so hopefully tower doesnt take too long to ship the Trepadors I ordered.
Im not unhappy with the life span of these tires. Its been cold here so im sure if it were warm they would have worn faster. Im also dealing with short run times. I think if i was running a VXL system or other standard brushless setup that gives normal run times I would have got half the number of packs through before the tires were toast.
I hope the trepadors work as there really arent any other options that are similar in style and appearance to stock that are close in size as well.
Ya I've seen a guy post up saying he only got like 8 packs through the tires.
I would just use those for street running and buy another set for sand at your town fairgrounds.
Idk how grippy those tires are but my stock bfg tires are slicks on my 2wd. I still run them on everything but they need replacement.. There are now holes in the tire.
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I've always had a hard time keeping the wheel spin on the lesser side lol, now we have a car for the purpose! Seems alot of you guys are burning um up. Those hpi tires should slide nice, they did for me! I also used them on carpet, that's ne of my best sets for our track!
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I would really like a set of dedicated drift tires and a couple of compounds in them, a hard one for serious slide and finesse the throttle drift and some speed drift where you won't hook the car over in a power slide.
For fun I may try out some Anacondas on 2.8's. Mounted I have them at 105mm, not too far off the 102mm of the stock Rally treads which now have dwindled down to about 100mm.
I think good tire choices are going to bring out the most fun and driving style on pavement with this chassis so I hope the tire makers get going on this soon!
Pave, what do you think about a shroud like they put around a non-retracting airplane wheel that is ultra lightweight that attaches to the suspension and houses the tire to keep the debris transfer reduced. Could easily attach and be lightweight lexan, painted up too of course?
Pave, how is the center bearing and support working out? I am guessing you are giving it attention after every run. Also, did you add the alum spacer? Original bearing?
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Honestly man, I haven't taken the car apart at all since I installed the power system. The bearing appears to be fine. I'm you g to take it apart when my new castle system comes in. I did install the aluminum adapter. Haven't had a problem with anything on this car at all. It's been totally perfect so far.
I've run my car for about 8 hours or 10-12 packs worth. I have the upgraded Revo Slipper with aluminum shoes & traxxas bearing adapter and everything looks good there so far.
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I didnt... I bought it 2 days before the sale hit. After my tower discount I didnt pay ALOT more than the sale price would have been after shipping. But it was definitely more... which I wasnt pleased about.
Just bought a new slash platinum 4x4 to scavenge all the upgrade parts from. After my tower discount and %5 cash back from PayPal it only cost $380 shipped.
Sell the vxl system for $120 and a few of the other bits, then sell the comets roller with all the stock parts I take off my rally and I should almost break even.
My MMP/3800 system and Maxxis Trepadors FINALLY came in today.... 17 days from tower. Not the best shipping time. Ive got the motor in... it came with a 5mm shaft. i was pleased to see that. Going to solder up the ESC tonight and get it mounted. Tires are on the rims, not yet glued.
They are VERY similar in overall diameter to the stock tires (at least stock tires WITH tread... which mine do not have). But they are wider and therefore DO contact the body quite a bit more. I had to trim my focus body about 3mm all the way around the openings. Not a big deal and on that body it doesnt look funny at all. (the body looks funny enough as it is). BUT, I wont be trimming up my stock body. Ill wait to get some new rally tires or a set of sweep racing GT tires. The Trepadors will do to hold me over and will likely make a decent snow tire for winter.
Pics will be coming later tonight.
OK, to keep this thread going a bit despite the forum being mostly dead the past few weeks.
Here are some pics of the SCT/3800 installed and my outerwears cover on. As well, the Maxxis tires on a set of proline rims.
I think everything looks quite clean in there. There certainly is alot of room. Im sure I could put the RX box back in its original location and move the ESC back a bit. And I might still do that. But for now, this setup is fine.
Im not really impressed with the fit of the outerwears cover. I can see that it will very likely do its job. But the manufacturer hasnt taken into account the side nerf bars so the cover just sortof lays over them... give it a really sloppy look IMO. A simple slit in the side of the cover so the nerf bar rail could slide into the cover would have been a very simple and effective fix.
The Maxxis tires are darn close to the stockers (if the stockers had tread)... in both width and height... but for some reason they just dont fit the same. I think it might be the outer shoulder of hte tire is VERY square... and thats the part that causes the most interference. I had to trim about 3mm off my wheel openings and cant say if it was enough as I havent run it yet. Hoping to get out this afternoon for a pack or two.
Those tires still give the "big tire" look that were all trying to avoid and is somehow not present with the stock tires so I wouldnt say these are "the answer"... but they are better than many of the other SCT size tires ive seen out there.
I think some of the "big tire" look comes from the short course wheels. It has a thick rim, which makes the wheel seem smaller and the sidewall seem bigger. The stock rally wheels have a thinner rim and they took out just enough sidewall for it to look right. I would be curious to see what a short course tire would look like on a stock wheel.
Well, my stockers are shot and I havent glued the trepadors yet so maybe ill try them on the stock rims to see if your theory is right.
I like the look of the tires Pave, will be interesting to hear your opinion on them after some running of them, curious if they will 'drift' or not?
The Outerwears will likely be a big help keeping things clean on the inside, my wife is a seamstress so I think I will find some material like this and have here make a few of these up custome fit properly to the chassis and nerf bars.
I just installed my 2400kv last night and kept the ESC easily in front of the motor between the Rx box. I have never run a 2400kv before so I hope to find some time, light and good weather to do so. I am impressed with just how much resistance there is in turning that rotor, I also have a sensored Tekin SCx4 6.5t that has nowhere near the feel to the rotor but I have not tried that either I'll give a try to that sensored set up and see just how smooth it can be but will watch for runtimes on batteries as you reported.
I'm still waiting for a paintable Traxxas body and a better selection of fun tires to try too...............
I feel the same way with the Outerwears. It wasnt made for the Rally, so the fit isnt perfect for it. I had a spare one and mounted it to get some use from it. Hey it was there so I slapped it on. It has kept quite a bit of trash off the chassis pan. I've even thought about taking the nerf bars off myself. Plan on keeping it on or trying to make it work?
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perhaps this is more obvious with the rally in your hands, but couldnt you just cut a slit in the cover where the nerf bars attach to the rest of the chassis and maybe add a little extra velcro so it still attaches nice and clean (and secure) on each side of the nerf bar slit?!
I noticed that your antenna is bent forward. I noticed this on mine too. if you put on the shroud normally, it will bend the antenna. You have to put the front part only half on the velcro. Could the antenna be damaged from being pushed forward?
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Im concerned about cutting this material as it will likely fray. Maybe I could cut it and use some CA to seal it or something. I have to admit though, taking off the nerf bars is the simplest and most obvious solution (dang, why didnt I think of that). Thanks digger.
The antenna isnt being flexed to the point where its being damaged. But I dont like how it looks. Im going to move my RX box back into the chassis and will continue to tweak the cover till im happy with it. I havent attached the velcro to the front or rear shock towers so I can still tweak that area.
Ill get some time tomorrow to work on that stuff. Went and did my restricted firearms test tonight, passed with flying colors. Now I need to buy a Glock... hehe.
Hot knife should/would certainly seal up the edges where you cut it. It is basically a nylon material aren't they?
i was thinking you could use a torch (or whatever a hot knife) to 'seal' the edges.... are the nerf bars there to help protect the shell from bending inward too much and cracking?! i would think you'd want them installed. but i can only speculate.
You could cut through the nylon material with a hot knife, but after that what would you do at the "V" to keep it from tearing any further? I would suspect stitching some material or velcro to support it there. I'd just think taking it on and off would eventually cause it to tear. I'm just thinking.
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Im having all the same thoughts you guys are. Pondering what the best way to deal with this is. I dont own a hot knife... unless by "hot knife" you literally mean a heated butter knife. I can do that (hehe).
I may take it to my wifes mom and see if she can stitch it for me. Shes a seamstress so she should be able to do the job for me. We'll see. weather is crap here so I havent been able to get out and test the 3800 on 2S. Maybe tomorrow if its not raining.


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There are whole websites and blogs out there devoted to chronicling all the hidden Mickeys in Disney locations. It's like a whole Where's Waldo thing, only funner and cooler because it's Mickey Mouse and not some random dude in a striped shirt, and it's at Disney World and not just a dizzying illustration in a giant picture book.
A couple examples:
|Easy one! Check out the rock formation in the center! :)
|Can you spot it? It's a tricky one.... look directly under the wrist!
Okay, so now that you have had a crash course in Hidden Mickeys, here's my Hidden Mickey bento.
Packed in a Laptop Lunches 2.0 box:
- cucumber, cut into sticks
- Goldfish crackers
- leftover pizza pinwheels (from a take-out my hubs picked up while traveling home late)
- kiwi fruit
Technically, this lunch contains TWO Hidden Mickeys, although only one was intentional. The other one sort of snuck up on me and surprised me after the fact. Hidden Mickeys can be very sneaky.
Can you find them? :)
This is how the Laptop Lunches looked before placing it in Paige's lunch bag. I used lids on two of the inner dishes to keep juices contained.
Hidden Mickey Hint: the two Hidden Mickeys are still visible in the second photo! Teehee!
Supplies used to pack this lunch:


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Citing impending budget cuts, immigration officials have announced the release of hundreds of detainees considered low-level threats to public safety. This move by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has quickly turned into one of the most baffling chapters in the public-relations chess match going on between House Republicans and the Obama White House over the looming "sequester."
The release of detainees may score some short-term points for President Obama, who has been sending dire warnings about the impact of the cuts, including with a speech Tuesday at a Virginia shipyard. But the GOP could also strike a chord with Americans by highlighting security concerns and other issues posed by the release.
And such concerns could bring into play even more than the fight over federal spending, deficits, and the debt. Namely, the release of detainees could also affect the debate over comprehensive immigration reform.
That's important because the GOP's political future may in part be staked on potential gains that the party can make with Hispanic voters. Mr. Obama, too, could lose a lot if immigration reform falters.
"It's natural that people in a federal organization are going to take this chance to prove how important they are to the public, especially as that goal is aligned with a White House trying to raise the ante" over the spending cuts, says Allert Brown-Gort, an immigration expert at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. "But," he adds, "this also points to some of the questions around the immigration bill right now," including how serious the government is about securing the US-Mexico border.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, the release came as ICE prepared for the sequester, which is set to kick in Friday and which mandates automatic cuts from nearly all corners of the federal bureaucracy, including ICE's $2.05 billion budget. In announcing the release, ICE insisted that the government is not dropping these deportation cases.
"The agency released these low-risk, noncriminal detainees under a less expensive form of monitoring to ensure detention levels stayed within ICE's overall budget," White House spokesman Jay Carney said Wednesday, insisting that the White House was not involved in the decision.
On Monday, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, a member of the Obama Cabinet, offered: "I'm supposed to have 34,000 [beds for detainees]. How do I pay for those? We want to maintain [some] 22,000 ... Border Patrol agents. I've got to be able to pay their salaries."
Currently, 30,000 immigration scofflaws are housed in 250 detention facilities nationwide.
Pro-immigrant activists hailed ICE's move, calling it a common-sense approach that will save the government a lot of money. They also cited research suggesting that those enrolled in alternative-to-detention programs, which include GPS anklets, come to their final immigration hearings 96 percent of the time.
More broadly, however, 59 percent of all alleged immigration lawbreakers who are not detained by ICE fail to show up for their immigration court dates, critics say. Moreover, some 600,000 illegal immigrants have never answered deportation letters sent to them by ICE, according to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a Washington think tank that advocates stronger borders and tougher immigration enforcement.
"Illegal immigrants are by definition flight risks," says Steven Camarota, research director at the center.
So far, polls suggest that Republicans are on a "death march" by opposing moves like eliminating tax loopholes and some deductions, Mr. Brown-Gort says. Earlier this week, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) complained that Obama is "trying to scare the American people" by ginning up potential effects from the sequester, which really puts the brakes on spending growth, in part by reducing Treasury outlays for discretionary spending.
Beyond the sequester showdown are the recent moves toward immigration reform, with both Obama and a bipartisan group of senators, notably including Sen. Marco Rubio (R) of Florida, outlining proposals that move illegal immigrants toward legalization. In that light, the Obama administration could be particularly vulnerable to criticism over releasing lawbreakers, especially if any of those detainees cause mayhem that makes the news.
"[The Obama administration is] basically saying, 'Look, the Republicans are so irresponsible they're forcing us to release illegal aliens,' " says Mr. Camarota at CIS. "But I'm not sure this particular [gambit] is going to play out the way they hope. Obviously there's nothing in the sequester that says you have to release anybody. And if you have legalization, that's predicated on a promise of future enforcement, and this shows [the Obama administration] is not serious about enforcing laws."
Rep. Robert Goodlatte (R) of Virginia, who's been tasked with trying to find a compromise path for immigration reform in the House, addressed ICE's move at a Wednesday breakfast with reporters sponsored by the Monitor.
"If the president's idea of how to manage our federal government is to release [thousands] of people who have been detained – and most of the people who have been detained are not just illegally present in the United States, but they've committed some kind of a criminal act in addition to that – that seems to me to be a pretty misguided approach to how you save money in that agency," Representative Goodlatte said.
According to The New York Times, several high-ranking Republicans "shrugged off" the release as part of an ongoing number of administration scare tactics designed to undermine those Republicans who don't mind seeing the automatic cuts go into effect.
The situation is a peek into the GOP's internecine warfare, where especially tea party hard-liners on spending and immigration are at loggerheads with establishment Republicans pushing for immigration reform and a sequester deal that may include a tax hike.
"One of the things you've got right now is that the [GOP] establishment understands that they've got to get something done on immigration, which is why they're taking a relatively low-key approach to the detainee releases," Brown-Gort says. "They don't want the base riled up on this right now. They need them to be quiet."
It may be too late.
In Arizona, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said on NPR Wednesday morning, "You don't have to be a detective to figure out that likely this is a weapon in [the sequestration] fight." He added, "A lot of criminal illegals were released ... onto streets and neighborhoods in my county, and that's not OK."
House Speaker John Boehner, Obama's chief adversary in the sequester debate, couldn't hold back, either.
"This is very hard for me to believe, that they can't find cuts elsewhere in their agency," Mr. Boehner said on CBS Tuesday. "I'm looking for more facts, but I can't believe that they can't find the kind of savings they need out of that department short of letting criminals go free."
Also on Tuesday, the senior DHS official in charge of arresting and deporting illegal immigrants informed his staff of his retirement, the Associated Press reported. Gary Mead will be leaving at the end of April, according to an e-mail to his staff that was obtained by AP. He apparently told senior DHS leaders several weeks ago of his plans.


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English language instructors present at regional conference
Three Kansas State University English language instructors — Jenell Williams, Max Stinnett and Christina Kitson — recently presented at the Summer Institute on Distance Learning and Instructional Technology Conference, Aug. 7-9, at Johnson County Community College.
This sold-out conference was targeted to the "c2c organization," or colleague to colleague, and welcomed 400 participants from schools throughout Kansas and Missouri.
Williams and Stinnett presented "Building a Computer Lab from the Ground Up" where they detailed the processes, design and "lessons learned" in their task of building a new computer lab for the university's English language program in a mobile, modular design both in furniture and devices, to accommodate classes, open lab, department functions and student activities. The current design and lab will be operational by late August.
Kitson's session on "Using technology and Web 2.0 to Help Students Learn" conveyed various Web 2.0 tools that teachers can use to create assignments and engaging class activities. She demonstrated and showed examples for journaling, flashcards and quiz creation, developing time lines, voice collaboration, creating animated movies, rubrics and blogs, as well as authoring websites. She selected tools that are free, downloadable and available. "Christina definitely had a standing room only crowd, they were spilling out into the hallway," Williams said. "Our audiences and discussions were very lively, diverse and content rich."
Each presentation and proposal is vetted by the conference committee, so a wide range of skills, topics and interests are represented during the two day conference.
Williams has been with the English language program since 1991 and was responsible for opening the program's first computer lab and taught the first semester of Digital English.
Stinnett came to Manhattan in 2008 from Southern Illinois where he went to school and taught English five years. He has also served as student adviser, teacher of the hybrid student orientation class and the tech committee chair.
Kitson is working on her doctorate in teaching English as a second language and completed her Master's in 2008 in teaching English as a second language and applied linguistics.
The program provides English instruction to students who are qualified to begin university work but do not meet K-State's English proficiency requirement. The program also offers English instruction to international students choosing language training only or participation in study abroad experiences. Five levels of intensive English classes are offered as well as support classes for graduate and undergraduate students and specialized English courses for university international partnerships.


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GOP risks rift with right on taxes
Republicans are risking a rebellion with conservatives over taxes if party leaders compromise any more in the fiscal cliff talks, especially if they raise tax rates.
Speaker John Boehner's pitch of $800 billion in new tax revenues already has tea party-backed conservatives accusing GOP leaders of peddling a plan that would destroy job growth. Conservative outside groups are urging their party's rank and file to rebel and reject any new taxes. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his leadership team pointedly declined to endorse the proposal.
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All told, it points to a party still struggling to find a way out that doesn't destroy its reputation with the activist base or take the nation over the fiscal cliff. The question remains: Does it hold firm by its party's small government principles and reject any new taxes — no matter the cost? Or does it try to stake a middle ground and cut a bipartisan deal to end the partisan gridlock, even if it means latching on to a deal that would force the conservative base to recoil?
( Also on POLITICO: Obama rejects GOP offer on fiscal cliff)
In order to get one with President Barack Obama — who has refused to cut a deal until Republicans agree to increase tax rates on the wealthy — the GOP may have to go even further on taxes, a prospect that could prompt a full-scale party rebellion.
"That's a big gulp," Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) said of the $800 billion in new taxes, which did not include a tax rate increase. "As long as we're not talking about rates, there may be a way to accomplish it."
Asked about the concerns from conservatives, Kyl said: "They are right it would hurt job creation. Absolutely right. Well, that's the question — what is the least, worst alternative? And I don't know what the answer to that question is at this point."
( Also on POLITICO: Governors warn of fiscal cliff 'havoc')
In a counteroffer to the White House on Monday, Boehner and his leadership team proposed $800 billion in new taxes over the next decade, saying the new revenue would come from higher tax receipts, rather than through economic growth, as many conservatives demand. In the plan — which was endorsed by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the rest of the leadership team and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) — the Republicans said they would not raise marginal tax rates, including on the top 2 percent of wage earners.
Instead, they said, the money would be raised through closing a bevy of unspecified tax loopholes and deductions, while attempting to lower marginal rates. In exchange, they called for a range of spending cuts, including $600 billion from health care savings, partly by increasing by two years the Medicare eligibility age to 67, and by cutting $200 billion by overhauling how inflation is calculated, a proposal that would affect Social Security benefits.
A number of influential Republican lawmakers — such as Sens. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Rep. James Lankford of Oklahoma — called it a serious attempt to resolve a difficult policy stalemate, with taxes poised to increase on every American and deep spending cuts about to take effect in the new year if Washington doesn't act.
But even with the entitlements cuts in the $2.2 trillion GOP offer, many conservatives on Capitol Hill scoffed at the proposal.
"Higher taxes is exactly the wrong thing to do," Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, the tea party leader, said after leaving a party lunch. "It's not what we stand for as Republicans."
"If you take $800 billion out of the productive sector of our economy, you're going to harm economic growth," said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). "I got real concerns with that."
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, outgoing head of the conservative Republican Study Committee, said the Boehner proposal is better than the White House plan, but said his leadership's plan is "not conducive to economic growth, and I'm not for it," a concern he said "lots of members" are echoing.