You also have a choice of fasteners. Porch swing hangers made specifically for this purpose include a base, hook, and comfort spring. Or you can use eye bolts or S-hooks that have 4- to 6-inch shafts. Install the fasteners 2 to 4 inches wider than the swing’s length at each end to prevent the chains from rubbing against the swing and to better distribute weight. When installing the fasteners, drill a pilot hole that’s slightly smaller than the hardware so you have a snug, secure fit.

The first two wrought iron Volkswagen Beetles were made in Mexico and displayed at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968. Similar cars have been built since then, numbering somewhere between twelve and twenty. Often referred to as “The Wedding Car,” this one was purchased from an elderly Mexican man who found the body of the car abandoned just outside of Puerto Vallarta Mexico. He relocated to California, bringing the car with him. Calling it the “Cinderella” car, he fitted the body to a cut-down Super Beetle chassis and sold it. Other than the novelty of a car with an iron body full of holes, it has very little to offer. The aerodynamics are awful, and it would be impossible to heat on a cold day.

Johnson and his team compiled their findings into a report, which they were still working on when Obama tapped Janet Napolitano, formerly the governor of Arizona, as the new secretary of Homeland Security. Napolitano “got it” when it came to white supremacy, says Juliette Kayyem, who served as the department’s assistant secretary for intergovernmental affairs in 2009 and 2010. While serving as Arizona’s attorney general, Napolitano coordinated the investigation of one of Timothy McVeigh’s accomplices. Now, concerned that a reinvigorated white-supremacist movement could pose a threat to the country’s first African-American president and to citizens, Napolitano began asking her intelligence analysts about a rise in lone-wolf “right-wing extremism,” a term commonly used in the counterterrorism world to refer to the radical beliefs of fringe players on the right of the political spectrum.

An earlier version of this article misstated the percentage of the federal budget that is spent on counterterrorism. It is 15 percent of discretionary spending, not 16 percent of the overall federal budget. The article also misstated the number of additional participants in a meeting between P.W. Singer and senior Trump officials. It was Singer and one colleague who met with the officials. It was not Singer and several other analysts.

The publishing professional, for instance, has resolved to not ask her friends for help. “My friends are successful. They have money, I don’t. I feel like a loser,” she said.

It has taken the full details of the 1033 program and created a searchable tool listing what Defense Department equipment has been received by local police agencies.

You can expect to see standard hex nuts, jam nuts, flange nuts, star washer or K-lock-Kep, a locknut known as a prevailing torque lock nut, slotted or castle, and nylon or Nylock nuts. Some of these you’re not likely to find in an OEM application.

Now that I had all the mechanical parts sorted out, it was time to turn toward the electronic end of the project. A wind power system consists of the wind turbine, one or more batteries to store power produced by the turbine, a blocking diode to prevent power from the batteries being wasted spinning the motor/generator, a secondary load to dump power from the turbine into when the batteries are fully charged, and a charge controller to run everything. There are lots of controllers for solar and wind power systems. Anyplace that sells alternative energy stuff will have them. There are also always a lot of them for sale on eBay. I decided to try building my own though. So it was back to Googling for information on wind turbine charge controllers. I found a lot of information, including some complete schematics, which was quite nice and made building my own unit very easy. Again, while I fol­lowed a general recipe from an online source, I did do some things differently. Being an avid electronics tinkerer from an early age, I have a huge stock of elec­tronic components already on hand, so I had to buy very little to complete the controller. I substituted different compo­nents for some parts and reworked the circuit a little just so I could use parts I already had on hand. That way I had to buy almost nothing to build the control­ler. The only part I had to buy was the re­lay. I built my prototype charge control­ler by bolting all the pieces to a piece of plywood, as seen in the first photo be­low. I would rebuild it in a weatherproof enclosure later. Whether you build your own or buy one, you will need some sort of controller for your wind turbine. The general principal behind the con­troller is that it monitors the voltage of the battery(s) in your system, and either sends power from the turbine into the batteries to recharge them or dumps the power from the turbine into a secondary load if the batteries are fully charged (to prevent over-charging and destroying the batteries). In operation, the wind turbine is connected to the controller. Lines then run from the controller to the battery. All loads are taken directly from the battery. If the battery voltage drops below 11.9 volts, the controller switches the turbine power to charging the bat­tery. If the battery voltage rises to 14 volts, the controller switches to dumping the turbine power into the dummy load. There are trimpots to adjust the voltage levels at which the controller toggles back and forth between the two states. I chose 11.9V for the discharge point and 14V for the fully charged point based on advice from different web sites on the subject of properly charging lead acid batteries. The sites all recommended slightly different voltages. I sort of aver­aged them and came up with my num­bers. When the battery voltage is be­tween 11.9V and 14.8V, the system can be switched between either charging or dumping. A pair of push buttons allow me to switch between states anytime, for testing purposes. Normally the system runs automatically. When charging the battery, the yellow LED is lit. When the battery is charged and power is being dumped to the dummy load, the green LED is lit. This gives me some minimal feedback on what is going on with the system. I also use my multimeter to mea­sure both battery voltage and turbine output voltage. I will probably eventual­ly add either panel meters or automo­tive-style voltage and charge/discharge meters to the system. I’ll do that once I have it in some sort of enclosure. I used my variable voltage bench power supply to simulate a battery in various states of charge and discharge to test and tune the controller. I could set the voltage of the power supply to 11.9V and set the trimpot for the low voltage trip point. Then I could crank the voltage up to 14V and set the trimpot for the high voltage trimpot. I had to get it set before I took it into the field because I’d have no way to tune it up out there. I have found out the hard way that it is important with this controller design to connect the battery first, and then connect the wind tur­bine and/or solar panels. If you connect the wind turbine first, the wild voltage swings coming from the turbine won’t be smoothed out by the load of the battery, the controller will behave errati­cally, the relay will click away wildly, and voltage spikes could destroy the ICs. So always connect to the battery(s) first, and then connect the wind turbine. Also, make sure you disconnect the wind tur­bine first when taking the system apart. Disconnect the battery(s) last.

What’s more, it had been the best playoff game of Kevin’s career, at least to that time, and his continued presence could very well have changed the outcome.

This time he let Cooper get a half-step ahead on a drive down the right baseline, all the while staying close on his left shoulder. Then when Cooper reached up to shoot a driving runner, Bird swatted it away cleanly from the side over his head with his cat-quick left reflexes as the Laker defensive standout stumbled out of the play, surprised.

The family vowed to continue the cancer fight in his name. They formed the Al Copeland Foundation and partnered with LSU Health New Orleans and its Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center.

Re-emerging is a kind of women’s work authorized by the Feminist Art Movement: an expansive vision focused on pleasure, optimism, joy, and against violent imagery. These impulses are similar to those stimulating P&D, a style notable for just such qualities. A current exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design looks at the legacy of Miriam Schapiro’s decorative work, and another at the Bronx’s Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos considers the revival of P&D. Recently, several artists shown at the Volta and Armory fairs evinced P&D qualities, and there are several P&D museum exhibitions planned for this fall. One beginning in Aachen, Germany, will travel to Vienna; another will go from Geneva to Dijon; and a third opens next year in Los Angeles. Each one will look at P&D through a different lens.