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Also you can see how the once clear plastic looks after sanding it: Remove the “crown” off of the bulb end of the flashlight.
You will still have the reflector cone and clear focuser inside the light.
This takes a bit of sanding for adjustment but the 1.5″ coupler almost threads perfectly onto the end of the flashlight.
Sand as needed and test fit.
Push 24″ PVC into the unsanded coupler end.
PVC Cement can be used if desired.
I shoved a wrinkled disc of foil in the end cap to reflect light back.
Don’t make it too thick or the PVC pipe wont go in all the way.
Cut a piece of aluminum foil slightly bigger than then end of the PVC pipe, shiny side toward the flashlight.
Fit it over the pipe and slide the PVC Cap about half way on.
If there’s any foil sticking out, trim with utility knife.
Then press Cap on fully.
This step is optional: Using the leftover flourescent shield, insert it into the PVC pipe.
This will be the paint shield so black paint won’t get on the inside of the light pipe.
Place hose clamp around end of PVC coupler and snug tight.
(this is only for paint purposes so it will be in place for paint and won’t scratch if you try to put it on after painting.
I used Krylon matte black spraypaint that was specific for plastics.
It bonds well and only takes about 15 minutes to dry.
Several thin coats will work better than one thick coat.
This is after a couple coats of paint (the paint shield keeps the inside clean and white): After its dried, its time to fit it onto the flashlight.
Replace the painted fluorescent shield with the sanded white shield.
For the Coupler I used, I had to cut a small (2 cm) piece of PVC pipe to fill in the gap on the flashlight side of the coupler.
The clear plastic for focusing the flashlight falls out if there’s nothing there.
This is a trial and error step.
It will take some trimming to get a good fit.
Once the coupler is fit and the focuser is in place, tighten the hose clamp.
That’s it.
The focuser on the flashlight acts as a dimmer for the light.
When its set to wide beam it is dimmer since less light is reflecting off the foil at the end.
This light also has two brightness settings so it dims down pretty well.
Here’s a photo showing how dispersed the light from the DIY Ice Light is: Here’s an unedited photo of my unimpressed wife at 1am: Finally, here’s a video in which I demonstrate how this DIY Ice Light works: About the author: Justin Barr is a professional photographer based in Florissant, Missouri and serving the St. Louis area.
You can visit his website here.
A Wall Street sign is displayed in front of the New York Stock Exchange.
The Dow Jones industrial average hit a new all-time intraday of 18,873.6, and closed more than 200 points higher Thursday, as Wall Street fears related to Donald Trump's election win gave way to hopes that the president-elect's policies could boost the economy, CNBC reported.
The S&P 500 gyrated between gains and losses, holding about 0.4 percent higher, with financials rising 4 percent to lead advancers.
The dollar index, which measures the U.S. currency's performance against a basket of currencies, rose 0.29 percent Thursday, with the euro near $1.089 percent.
The safe-haven yen fell more than 1 percent versus the greenback, trading around 106.80.
It marked the second day of what investors have dubbed the "Trump Bounce."
As President Barack Obama begins his second term, democratically returned to office by a majority of Americans who seem to buy what he is selling, it would profit us to pause a moment and examine the discrepancies between the vision he expounded in his inaugural address and the economic reality that surrounds us.
This leads to a pivotal question: What, exactly, is the underlying purpose of Obamanomics, and how would we know?
Logic offers two choices.
We can take the president at his word, and then ask why the promised economic recovery, growth, prosperity, and equality, haven’t arrived yet.
Or we can ascribe darker motives to the policies that have brought our country to the brink of ruin.
That raises the horrifying possibility—unlikely as it might sound—that precipitating an existential crisis in order to bring about radical change has been Obama’s underlying agenda all along.
If we take the high road and accept Obama at his word, as most Americans have, we are led to three alternatives.
The first is that the Keynesian nostrums applied to goose the economy—bailouts, stimulus spending, money printing, artificial suppression of interest rates, government “investments” in all manner of money-losing schemes, and a rapid expansion of the welfare state, all with the goal of increasing “aggregate demand”—are working fine.
All we need is to give Washington a bit more time, a little more spending leeway, and a few more tax dollars extracted from those who can most afford it, and all will be well.
The second possibility is that the president’s macroeconomic policies are not working because they are too modest.
Therefore, we must let Washington double down and play an even larger role in the economy, or all will be lost.
Notables such as The New York Times’ Paul Krugman imply that this is the only way to restore prosperity, and that the one thing holding us back is stingy Republican recalcitrance.
The third possibility is that, noble intentions aside, the Keynesian plan is not working, cannot work, never has worked, and never will work.
This implies we need to change course if we want to revive our struggling economy and restore our government to solvency.
The political battle being fought in Washington ranges largely across these three possibilities.
But suppose none of them represent reality.
Suppose, just for the sake of argument, that the series of deeper and deeper crises the nation is experiencing are not unintended consequences of failed policies but were the primary goal all along.
Yes, this requires taking a trip into the right-wing fever swamps occupied by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
But these days, it seems that only in such decidedly unfashionable neighborhoods are government policies measured not by their stated intentions but by results.
Examining the dismal results of the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression through such jaundiced eyes, we come to two alternatives.
The first is that our government is controlled by a group of self-serving, hopeless incompetents locked in mortal gridlock with a rival political party also comprised of self-serving, hopeless incompetents.
This is the easiest hypothesis to defend, and the most likely, which makes it safe ground for critics and pundits.
But suppose, just for a moment, that Obama is as brilliant as his supporters say he is.
Suppose he knows exactly what he is doing and is not the least bit surprised by the outcome.
Suppose he is methodically executing the infamous Cloward-Piven strategy—which, if it is not succeeding in its objective of totally remaking America, you sure couldn’t tell by looking at the results.
Yes, I know, much ink has been spilled over this theory, the best being an American Thinker article from 2008, Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis.
It’s worth revisiting, now that we have had a whole term to watch Obama in action.
The idea that a new age of social justice and redistributive equality can be brought about by overloading government systems until they collapse, precipitating a populist demand for a wholesale rejection of free market capitalism, was first espoused by two Columbia University professors in the 1960s.
The idea gained currency in radical circles that included a diverse cast of characters, many of whom make cameo appearance in the life and education of our president and read like a who’s who of the American radical left, including Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Frank Marshall Davis, George Wiley, Saul Alinsky, Wade Rathke, ACORN, and George Soros, among others.
Yes, it is possible that Barack Obama has rejected all the radical ideas he marinated in as a young man, just as he claims to have rejected the vitriolic anti-Americanism of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, in whose pews he sat for years and whose sermons inspired Obama’s memoir, The Audacity of Hope.
Yes, of course, it is possible that all of the formative influences that made our president who he is are irrelevant to the policies he is enacting now, just as it possible that we are living through a bad dream and that in the morning we will awaken refreshed in a country that is not in the process of destroying itself.
Bill Frezza is a fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a Boston-based venture capitalist.
You can find all of his columns, TV, and radio interviews here.
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Ghazala Khan, the mother of a fallen U.S. soldier of Muslim faith, is responding to Donald Trump’s speculation that she didn’t speak at last week’s Democratic convention due to her religion.
“I can say that my religion or my family or my culture never stopped me saying whatever I want to say,” Khan said in an interview with CNN’s “New Day.” “And my husband is very supportive of me in these things that I have all the rights as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter.” After Khan and her husband, Khizr, took the stage at the Democratic National Convention last week to deliver an emotional speech denouncing Trump’s proposed Muslim immigration ban, the GOP presidential candidate suggested that Mrs. Khan wasn’t allowed to speak because of her Islamic religion.
Also Read: 'The Simpsons' Derides Donald Trump, Theorizes Dog Toupée (Video) “If you look at his wife, she was standing there.
She had nothing to say.
She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.
You tell me,” Trump said.
The Republican candidate received backlash for his comments, notably from Mrs. Khan.
“I have done very well saying my mind out, but that time was different.
And anybody can see it was different that time when I was standing there in front of America,” Khan said.
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Humayun, had served in Iraq and died during a suicide car bombing.
They said Trump’s ban would have prevented their son from serving his country.
And yet no one knows whether women will show up for Ms. Sandberg’s revolution, a top-down affair propelled by a fortune worth hundreds of millions on paper, or whether the social media executive can form a women’s network of her own.
Only a single test “Lean In Circle” exists.
With less than three weeks until launch — which will include a spread in Time magazine and splashy events like a book party at the foundation offices of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg — organizers cannot say how many more groups may sprout up.
Even her advisers acknowledge the awkwardness of a woman with double Harvard degrees, dual stock riches (from Facebook and Google, where she also worked), a 9,000-square-foot house and a small army of household help urging less fortunate women to look inward and work harder.
Will more earthbound women, struggling with cash flow and child care, embrace the advice of a Silicon Valley executive whose book acknowledgments include thanks to her wealth adviser andOprah Winfrey?
“I don’t think anyone has ever tried to do this from anywhere even close to her perch,” said Debora L. Spar, president of Barnard College, who invited Ms. Sandberg to deliver a May 2011 commencement address about gender in the workplace that caught fire online.
(Ms. Sandberg, who will grant her first book interview to the CBS program “60 Minutes,” declined to comment for this article.)
Despite decades of efforts, and some visible exceptions, the number of top women leaders in many fields remains stubbornly low: for example, 21 of the current Fortune 500 chief executives are women.
In her book, to be published by Knopf, Ms. Sandberg argues that is because women face invisible, even subconscious, barriers in the workplace, and not just from bosses.
In her view, women are also sabotaging themselves.
“We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in,” she writes, and the result is that “men still run the world.” Ms. Sandberg wants to take women through a collective self-awareness exercise.
In her book, she urges them to absorb the social science showing they are judged more harshly and paid less than men; resist slowing down in mere anticipation of having children; insist that their husbands split housework equally; draft short- and long-term career plans; and join a “Lean In Circle,” which is half business school and half book club.
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Dec. 22, 2016, 2:19 PM GMT / Updated Dec. 22, 2016, 5:08 PM GMT By Carrie Dann and Andrea Mitchell Donald Trump is calling on the Obama administration to veto a now-delayed U.N. resolution regarding Israeli settlements, weighing in on one of the most significant pressure points in U.S. foreign policy just weeks before President Barack Obama leaves office.