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Legends of Soul – Playing it Old School
The Legends of Soul Tribute Show is a group of individuals who impersonate "" well "" legends of soul.
This very talented group of guys and gals, put on nothing short of a true Las Vegas style show, with each impersonator in full character during their entire set, and many performers playing multiple characters.
As droves of young and old crowded into Thunder Valley Casino Resort's Pano Hall on Saturday, radio personality, and the evenings emcee Nick Harper thanked everyone for coming out to the show, as well as Thunder Valley Casino for providing such a great venue.
The Legends of Soul kicked off their 2+ hour extravaganza with the legendary Sam Cooke played by Elijah Sterling (Get it? Legends of Soul "" legendary Sam Cooke. I know, it cracked me up too.) Cooke dressed in a powder blue suit with matching hat, sang "Cupid" and "Twist the Night Away," easily two of Cooke's greatest hits from the early "'60s.
Following Cooke was Jackie Wilson, played by John Hampton. Wilson was known as Mr. Excitement due to his dynamic dance moves while onstage. Hampton didn't disappoint as he took the stage by storm, dancing much like Wilson. Singing "You Keep Lifting Me Higher" and "Baby Workout," Hampton delivered a high energy performance.
Wilson Pickett, played by Dwayne Thompson, delivered a soulful performance of "Mustang Sally," followed by "In the Midnight Hour," two of Pickett's biggest hits.
The Legends of Soul wouldn't be complete without the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin, played by Samantha Richardson. A gentleman, accompanying Franklin on stage, removed a white fur she had draped around her neck and left the stage as she belted out "Chains of Fools" and "Rock Steady." Franklin finished off her set with an extremely well done rendition of "Respect."
The O'Jays arrived on stage singing "Love Train" and "Back Stabbers." The trio was in perfect synchronization their entire set and sounded eerily familiar to the original O'Jays.
The Stylistics and The Dramatics also performed later in the show. Both groups performed flawlessly while they danced in-step with each other, lending to their credible performance.
Needing no introduction due to the silky tone and song choice, Lou Rawls, played by Russell Branch, came out singing "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine," followed by "Lady Love." I believe I saw a woman or two faint, he was that good.
So the show continued with one legend after another. Some audience members were lost in the moment, as I'm sure they were thinking back to those long forgotten memories, or maybe they were just dosing ,as some folks in the crowd were just a tad on the old side.
Other stars that shared the stage were Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Patti Labelle, and Stevie Wonder.
Most notable was John Hampton coming out as Stevie Wonder. Lending to the credible performance was Producer Rudolph Peter's as he guided Wonder to his keyboard, taking Wonder's hand and guiding it to the keyboard and microphone to ensure Wonder knew where they were. Complete with the sound of Wonder, Hampton's performance included all the mannerisms of the legend.
Every performer did an excellent job staying in character and singing just like the real thing. The real standouts of the show, and mostly forgotten in the background, was the band, as they played a wide variety of hits throughout the night.
I wouldn't be surprised to see this group of talented individuals performing in Las Vegas at some point in the future. They pack in the people, they love what they do, and they do it well.
Complete Cast in order of Appearance:
Master of Ceremony: Nicholas Harper
Sam Cooke: Elijah Sterling
Jackie Wilson "" John Hampton
Wilson Pickett: Dwayne Thompson
Aretha Franklin: Samantha Richardson. Background Dee Johnson and Dewanna Slaughter
The O'Jays: Charles Boomer, David Lige, and Lionel Burns
Lou Rawls: Russell Branch
Curtis Mayfield: Elijah Sterling
Marvin Gaye: Chase Ruffin
Al Green: Lionel Burns
The Dramatics: James Hill, Stan Lockwood, Rodney James, Douglas Stepney, and Chase Ruffin
Patti Labelle: Dee Johnson ,background – Samantha Richardson, and Dewanna Slaughter
Stevie Wonder: John Hampton
The Stylistics: Ralph Greene (lead vocals), background- Elijah Sterling, Rodney James, and David Lige
Michael Jackson: Thurman Conners
Band: (Lead Guitar) Richard Cravalho, (Drummer) Rich Aguon, (Bass Guitar) Darrel Broadnax, (Keyboard Left) Archie White, (Keyoard Right) Earnest Nation, and (Congo) Glen Austin
Producer: Rudolph Peters
Motown comes to Thunder Valley
Armed with 20 vocalists, six band members and four crew members impersonating the legends of Motown, RPM Crown Productions brought theirHitsville USA Legends of Motown Tribute Show to Thunder Valley Casino Resort on Saturday.
There was a sold-out crowd of diehard Motown fans there to enjoy some of the greatest hits from the Motown era. It was perplexing that more people weren't up on their feet during some of the performances. However, after each performer finished their set they were met with more than a few people giving them a standing ovation.
The all-star lineup included acts such as The Four Tops, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, and even a brief break from Motown for a little bit of Prince's "Purple Rain."
With the plethora of tribute shows currently playing across the country, it's refreshing to see a solid lineup of talented individuals bringing not just one, but nine legendary acts to the stage in one spectacular show.
I was worried that with so many acts playing on one stage we'd be there all night slogging through hit after hit. That wasn't the case. Each act played full versions as well as shortened versions of their respective hit songs, keeping the show moving at a pretty good clip.
Emceeing the event was Nick Harper, a radio personality from the 60's, 70's and 80's. As he introduced each act he provided a brief history and highlighted some of their hits.
Kicking off the show was The Four Tops. Decked out in white suits and moving in perfect harmony, they sang their hits, "Sugar Pie Honeybunch," "Standing in the Shadow of Love" and "Ain't No Woman Like the One I Got."
Following The Four Tops were The Supremes in evening dresses singing, "Just Keep Me Hanging On," "You Can't Hurry Love" and "Love Child."
Al Green was handing out roses to a number of the female audience members as he sang, "I'm so Tired of Being Alone," "Let's Stay Together," and "Love and Happiness."
And so it went throughout the evening as nine artists entertained the crowd bringing hit after hit.
Don't miss the next tribute show at Thunder Valley Casino Resort, the Legends of Soul Tribute Show. These shows sell out fast, so get your tickets ahead of time.
Producer: Rudolph Peters
Band members: Richard Cravalho (Lead Guitar) ,Rich Aguon (Drummer), Darrel Broadnax (Bass Guitar), Archie White (Keyboard Left), Earnest Nation (Keyboard Right), and Glen Astine (Congo).
Below is a complete list of artists and the songs performed.
The Four Tops
(lead singer – Marion Brewer, James Hill, David Lige, and Lionel Burns)
"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)"
"Standing in the Shadows of Love"
"Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)"
The Supremes
(lead singer – Regina Wood, Tracy James, and Dewanna Slaughter)
"You Keep Me Hangin' On"
"You Can't Hurry Love"
"Love Child"
Al Green (John Hampton)
"Tired of Being Alone"
"Let's Stay Together"
Smokey Robinson (Lionel Burns)
"More Love"
"Ooo Baby Baby"
"Tears of a Clown"
The Spinners
(lead singer – Charles Boomer, Lionel Burns, David Lige, Rodney James, and James Hill)
Intro to "I'll Be Around"
"Ghetto Child"
"Rubberband Man"
Chaka Khan
(lead singer – Denise Robinson, Tracy James, Tammy Holloway, and Regina Wood)
"Sweet Thing"
"I'm Every Woman"
Richard Cravalho (lead guitar)
"Purple Rain"
Gladys Knight and the Pips
(lead singer – Dewanna Slaughter, Rodney James, David Lige, and Elijah Sterling)
Intro to "Use My Imagination"
"Save the Overtime"
"You're Number One (in My Book)"
"Midnight Train to Georgia"
"Neither One of Us"
Stevie Wonder (John Hampton)
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"
"My Cherie Amour"
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
The Temptations
(Carl Douglas, Stan Lockwood, Chase Ruffin, Elijah Sterling, and Douglas Stepney)
"Getting Ready"
"I Can't Get Next to You"
"Cloud Nine"
"Don't Let the Joneses Get You Down"
Intro to "Super Star"


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Updating 1968 Chevrolet C-10 Engine - Restoration RehabWritten by on December 5, 2011 Updating an Original Powerplant
After purchasing my '68 C10, it became obvious pretty quickly that the engine was in need of a little attention. Not only in the looks department, however, but in the performance aspect as well. Don't get me wrong, it pulled strong and ran like a clock, but it just didn't do it with any quickness of expedition. Couple that with the emaciated performance provided by the three-on-the-tree transmission and suffice it to say I was going to be making some changes to the powertrain in the C10.
Before I chose what road to go down though, it would be necessary to see what kind of shape the engine was actually in. I ran a compression test, dropped the pan, and checked the rings/cylinder seal with a leakdown tester from Summit Racing and was pleased to find out that the motor actually checked out pretty well. It also didn't knock or smoke while running, another good sign. The previous owner mentioned that he only drove it occasionally to haul large items to the dump or to pick up something from the hardware store so I figured it probably hadn't seen much abuse. Upon further investigation (okay it was one of the first things I noticed!) was the fact that the engine was not the usual Chevy Orange for the period, but Chevy Corporate Blue, a color not adopted until 1977 when GM began their "corporate engine" edict. I ran the numbers and sure enough, they matched the truck, being identified as a 307ci motor from 1968. A closer look revealed that the timing cover, valve cover, head, and intake gaskets were not painted, which told me that someone hadn't just inadvertently decided to paint the whole kit and caboodle (as I was about to!), but painted everything in pieces. This means that at one time in the past forty some-odd years, the engine was taken apart, at least that far. Long story short, someone rebuilt the 307 at some point, most likely between 1977 and 1982. Either that or they rebuilt it last year and painted it blue for some strange reason, but I digress.
That said, I figured I had a pretty sound foundation to build a super-mild, little hot rod engine for the C10 until my future plans for the drivetrain come closer to fruition.
My original plan was to leave the motor stock and to bolt on Holley's new Avenger EFI system once the truck was up and running with the new T5 transmission installed. That was a great plan, however, until I found myself at a crossroads while McLeod built my clutch. With the truck sitting, I figured I wouldn't get a better opportunity than that to detail the engine. I set off on my beautification phas e by dismantling the engine down to the block and heads to get rid of the Corpo Blue and return it to its original Chevy Orange guise.
Though I planned on making some contemporary upgrades, I wanted to make all of them in a conscious effort to maintain the late '60s period of the truck; nothing too out of place under that hood, at least in an aesthetic sense. I stuck with orange, grey, and black under the hood in order to build a hot rod motor that comes across as though it were factory, at first glance anyways. The end result really speaks for itself when compared to the initial motor, and the added power and performance really woke the truck up and made it transform from a junkyard dog to a highway hauler. CCT
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We'll start with that restrictive 2-bbl carb and intake and toss those straight in the recycling bin. The smog-era exhaust manifolds will follow suit as well as the original water pump and ignition system.Here are the three colors (Cast Iron Gray, Chevy Orange, and GM Black) we'll be spraying under the hood, all Summit Racing products.The first step is to carefully mask off the engine compartment. I used some EZ Sheet plastic from Summit to cover any areas prone to overspray and simple aluminum foil to mask off things I didn't want orange such as the wiring, engine mounts, transmission crossmember, etc.Surprisingly, the extra time I took to mask everything off paid dividends and the end result looked pretty good with almost no overspray in the engine compartment. It does help that the firewall was already Chevy Orange for the most part, and the rest of the engine bay had a nice oily sheen to protect it!Since I pulled the stock intake off to detail the block, I figured this would be the perfect time to install the Weiand Street Warrior that I was going to use for the Avenger EFI install. It will also give me a more even baseline when it's time to compare carb vs. EFI.After scraping the paint off the mating surface of the block and heads, I applied RTV to the gaskets and dropped the intake in place. New Grade 8 fasteners tightened to 30 foot-pounds will hold it steady.Like I said, I wanted to retain a stock vibe to the engine compartment, so it was a no-brainer when it came to picking a set of exhaust manifolds. These beauts are Speedway Motors' new Tru-Ram manifolds and they're stainless, which means you can polish them nice and shiny, paint 'em, or just leave them as is, like I did.One thing worth mentioning about the Tru-Ram manifolds is that you'll need to figure out what brackets will work on your particular application. I opted to contact Alan Grove Components (AGC) to get the brackets for the alternator, A/C compressor (which I'll be installing at a later date), and the power steering pump. That said, I had AGC send out a matching set of pulleys as well so there's no guessing game when it comes to putting together a set. The crank pulley is a triple groove while the water pump pulley is a double groove. Also pictured is the single groove pulley for the power steering pump.Here's a good example of what can happen when you start combining different pulleys, accessories and such. The Weiand aluminum water pump has a fairly large housing area so the AGC pulley wouldn't clear it. Luckily the stock GM pulley did and we were back in business. Since our engine is stock internally, spinning the water pump a bit slower should be okay. Once the A/C condenser is added in front of the radiator though, we may have cooling issues. Time will tell, but for now it's fine.
Since the damper and the timing indicator got painted, I marked each one so that it would be easier to set the timing later on down the road.With the number one cylinder at top dead center (TDC), it seemed logical to install the MSD Pro-Billet distributor.To be sure that you're at TDC number one cylinder, watch the valves open and close as the engine is rotated. Both pushrods should spin freely, meaning the valves are closed and the lifters are on the heel of the cam.One good habit I've gotten into is to drop in the distributor with the rotor pointed to the number one cylinder.One thing that may be necessary in an MSD distributor is to change out the advance springs and advance stop bushing to suite your particular engine. From the factory, MSD ships the dizzy with the heaviest springs installed, which yields the slowest rate of advance. They also come with the Blue (21 degrees total) advance stop bushing installed. I opted to swap them out with the lightest springs and the black bushing (18 degrees total) so that the advance comes on quickly but is limited more in total degrees.Shown here are the AGC brackets, painted in Summit GM Black engine paint. From left are the power steering, alternator, and a/c brackets. Each kit also comes with the necessary hardware and spacers required.
Here's the power steering bracket in place. Note that it attaches to the front of the block and picks up one mounting location from the motor mount for extra support.To keep the electrical system maintained, I opted to go with an old standby, Powermaster Performance and their 140-amp 12si one-wire alternator. Dig the as-cast casing!The AGC rear alternator bracket mounts off the first and third exhaust manifold holes using provided hardware and spacers……while the front bracket mounts off the top water pump bolt. Note that I've got the early heads that are sans bolt holes in the front, part of the dilemma that AGC solved when it came time to sort out the bracketry. Also note the Weiand as-cast, high-flow aluminum water pump.The alternator swings up and the whole kit and caboodle rotates within the bracket for belt tension adjustment.Hooking up a one-wire alternator is pretty simple: run an adequately gauged wire from the alternator BAT terminal to the battery. Powermaster recommends a six-gauge cable for this application; I might have to increase my wire's size.I also decided to go with a Powermaster Mastertorque gear reduction starter to rid Chevy's notorious hard-starting when hot problem.
The stock starter bolted to the bellhousing, so I was concerned that a standard Chevy block-mounted starter may be an issue. The block was machined to accept a standard starter so I rolled the dice and it proved to be a nonissue. Powermaster suggests 0.060- to 0.140-inch clearance between the face of the ring gear and the front face of the starter pinion.The original starter also used a wire that ran to the 'R' terminal (yellow in photo), something most gear reduction starters do not have. This provides 12 volts to the coil during cranking. In our case, it's not needed so it's simply tied back and taped up. The large terminal connects to 12V battery while the smaller is wired to the ignition switch.Hose Candy is a neat company that makes kits for installing vacuum hose using CNC quick-couplers. Pictured is what it took to assemble the simple vacuum advance hose from the Edlebrock carb to the MSD distributor.The result is a trick looking vacuum hose system that can be connected and disconnected with half-a-twist of your thumb and finger.And there you have it. Finished off with a '70-'72 Z28 Camaro air cleaner courtesy of Classic Industries, our grimey stocker is transformed into a '60s-style, hot rod powerplant. The 307 Turbofire 200hp decal on the air cleaner says it all!First, I traced the wires back into the harness and removed what I wouldn't be needing. The white (yellowish) and blue wires communicate between the voltage regulator and alternator and we will no longer need those. The red wire connected to the charging system. This is replaced by the red wire that runs from the BAT terminal on the back of the alternator to the battery. The brown wire connects to the indicator light on the dash.
I opted to wire the one-wire as a three-wire for two reasons. One, I could keep the idiot light in the dash working by attaching the brown wire in the stock wiring harness to the #1 post on the alternator.Two, I wanted to bypass the internal "exciter" setting built into the alternator. Typically, the alternator "excites" or turns on around 800 rpm. While that's not normally an issue, I encountered an unforeseen electrical gremlin that caused the truck be unresponsive until the rpms were brought up high enough for the alternator to "excite". With 12 volts at the coil during cranking and once it fired, I was at a loss as to why it ran this way but it was totally unresponsive until the alternator excited. This often required some careful "finessing" of the throttle until the engine came to life. Once I wired it this way so that the alternator "turned on" with 12V switched power, the problem went away. If there's any electrical gurus out there who can solve this, shoot me an email and I'll publish the answer and send you some CCT swag!One additional recommendation that Brady had was to ground the alternator itself, which can yield a gain of 60 to 70 percent more efficiency. Powdercoated brackets, engine blocks, etc can keep the circuit from properly grounding otherwise. The lowest wire connects from the alternator housing to the chassis ground on the opposite side of the truck.


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New Bern sophomore Michael Hughes plays defensive back/wide receiver for the Bears. Hughes has four interceptions, and returned two for a touchdown. New Bern�s defense has given up 17 points a game this season. Hughes discussed the season and other hot topics with Sun Journal Sports Editor Adam Thompson.
Sun Journal: What�s it been like to play on this year�s New Bern defense?
Hughes: We changed defenses from last year, and I think we are more of an active defense. We are flying around and having fun.
Sun Journal: How does it feel to be a defensive leader with four interceptions and two pick 6�s on the season?
Hughes: It�s great, especially doing it as a sophomore. It gives me a lot of bragging rights. I just have to stay focused and confident.
Sun Journal: What�s the transition been like in becoming a full-time defensive back?
Hughes: I�ve worked hard for this. I listen to what the coaches tell me and everything has fallen into place.
Sun Journal: What�s the camaraderie like with the players on defense?
Hughes: Our relationship is great. We help each other out. We help fix our mistakes.
Sun Journal: Have you learned a lot from some of the defensive backs that were here last season?
Hughes: Javarus (McConner) and I are pretty close. He helped me out a lot over the summer. I take what I�ve learned onto the field and it�s helped me.
Sun Journal: How did you get started in playing football?
Hughes: I started when I was six years old, playing flag football for the New Bern Recreation. I�ve loved it ever since.
Sun Journal: Describe your role on this football team.
Hughes: My role is to help the team where ever they need me, and help them win big games.
Sun Journal: What are your ultimate goals with football?
Hughes: I�m working to play at the next level and go far in life. That�s what the coaches are trying to help me do.
Sun Journal: What do you enjoy doing outside of football?
Hughes: I play basketball and I like to fish.
Sun Journal: New Bern (6-0, 1-0 Mideastern) is undefeated and ranked third in the state. How do you guys handle the pressure and expectations?
Hughes: It feels good that we are making a name for ourselves. Our ultimate goal is to get to the state championship and win, but we are taking it one game at a time.
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'Switched at Birth' goes silent to make a point
LOS ANGELES "Until hearing people walk a day in our shoes, they will never understand," says a guidance counselor at a high school for deaf students in "Switched at Birth."
Such insights are a staple of the ABC Family drama, a TV rarity that puts deaf characters, played by deaf or hard-of-hearing actors, at the center of the action.
But Monday's episode takes it a bold step further: Save for a few spoken words at the beginning and the end, it is silent. The actors' hands do the talking with American Sign Language, even rapping together in one gleeful sequence.
Subtitles, which are typically sprinkled throughout "Switched at Birth" episodes, keep the viewer clued in. But when a deaf character is confused because she can't hear something vital, the audience is too. It's powerfully disconcerting.
The cast, including Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin as the school counselor, are excited about what they see as a grand experiment and eager for viewer reaction.
"This is an opportunity for the hearing person to watch at home and try to experience it," said Katie Leclerc, who stars as deaf teenager Daphne Vasquez. "It's not exactly the same, but maybe you can try to imagine what your everyday life would be like."
"It's a risk," added Leclerc, who has an inner ear disorder, Meniere's disease, that can cause hearing loss and vertigo.
"A big risk," Matlin said through a sign language-interpreter. "But it's going to be an eye-opener. I'm very proud to be part of this risk-taking, history-making episode."
Matlin knows about making history. She was the first - and remains the only - deaf person to receive an Academy Award acting trophy, honored as best actress for 1986's "Children of a Lesser God."
The "Switched at Birth" episode pivots on another key moment for the deaf community: A 1988 student protest at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., that ended the unbroken succession of hearing presidents at the school for the deaf.
For fictional Carlton High School (inspired by real-life LA school, Marlton), more is at stake: The school faces closure because of funding cuts, which means its students will be "mainstreamed" with hearing teens.
(It mirrors a real-life trend caused by budget constraints, Leclerc said. There's also an increasing number of children being given cochlear implants to counter hearing loss, itself a controversial issue, according to series creator and executive producer Lizzy Weiss.)
The prospect is dreaded by the Carlton students, either because they've felt the sting of being an outsider or because they treasure being part of a deaf-oriented school.
"Deaf people feel that moving into the mainstream chips away at their community, which is about language and culture," said Jack Jason, Matlin's longtime interpreter and the series' on-set arbiter for correct sign-language use.
With Daphne as the driving force and invoking Gallaudet, students mobilize to take over the administration building and demand Carlton's survival. The conflict's ending will wait for the March 11 season finale.
The uprising panics parents and puts relationships at risk, including that of Daphne and Bay Kennish (Vanessa Marano), the switched-at-birth characters of the title who have come together as teenagers from two very different households.
"We started in the pilot with just one scene that was pure ASL," involving Daphne and Emmett (Sean Berdy), said Weiss. As the series developed, she and her writing team began pondering the "what-if" of an all-sign language episode for the second season.
Then ABC Family approached her with the same idea, and the challenge was on to find a logical and engaging way to realize the ASL-only goal and a big enough story to make the most of it.


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Congrats to Serena Williams for winning her second WTA Lady Baller of the Year Award.
Make room for another one ReRe. On second thought, you're good.
The rest of the WTA Baller Awards here.
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WILDWOOD, Mo. (KSDK) - Two sisters from Chesterfield were among three teens killed in a car accident in Wildwood late Thursday night, the St. Louis County Police Department said. A fourth teen was also injured in the crash.
According to Lt. Bryan Ludwig, a police spokesman, the accident happened at 9:40 p.m. in the 18000 block of Homestead Manor Drive. The four victims were riding in a 2013 Infinity G37S convertible when the car went off the road, struck the side of a home and backyard deck, and went into the woods.
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Eighteen-year-old Chris Lenzen, who graduated from Marquette High School in 2013, was driving the vehicle at the time of the accident and died at the scene.
Kathleen Oliver, 17, and Lauren Oliver, 18, were riding in the backseat of the vehicle and also died.
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Research related to privacy issues in data analysis.
The problem of statistical disclosure control—revealing accurate statistics about a population while preserving the privacy of individuals—has a venerable history. An extensive literature spans multiple disciplines: statistics, theoretical computer science, security, and databases. Nevertheless, despite this extensive literature, «privacy breaches» are common, both in the literature and in practice, even when security and data integrity are not compromised.
This project revisits private data analysis from the perspective of modern cryptography. We address many previous difficulties by obtaining a strong, yet realizable, definition of privacy. Intuitively, differential privacy ensures that the system behaves the essentially same way, independent of whether any individual, or small group of individuals, opts in to or opts out of the database. More precisely, for every possible output of the system, the probability of this output is almost unchanged by the addition or removal of any individual, where the probabilities are taken over the coin flips of the mechanism (and not the data set). Moreover, this holds even in the face of arbitrary existing or future knowledge available to a «privacy adversary,» completely solving the problem of database linkage attacks.
Databases can serve many social goals, such as fair allocation of resources, and identifying genetic markers for disease. Better participation means better information, and the «in vs out» aspect of differential privacy encourages participation.
For a general overview of differential privacy—the problems to be solved, the defintion, the formal impossibility results that lead to the definition, general techniques for achieving differential privacy, and some recent directions, see «A firm foundation for private data analysis» (to appear in Communications of ACM).
For selected publications organized by topic and chronological ordered scroll down or follow the links:
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Postdoctoral position announcement
An inter-disciplinary group of researchers based at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, invites applications for two-year postdoctoral fellowships under the Sloan foundation-sponsored project "Towards Practicing Privacy". The project involves the study, development and implementation of mathematically rigorous privacy protection technology that can be used to facilitate the data access for economists and medical researchers, and accommodate statistical data analyses performed by empirical researchers in these fields. The ultimate goal of the project is to understand and, it is hoped, to overcome the obstacles to the practical implementation of differentially private data analysis of large datasets used by social scientists and medical researchers.
The project is led by Dr. Cynthia Dwork, distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research, Prof. John Mitchell, professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and Prof. Denis Nekipelov, assistant professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. The advisory members of the project include Prof. Steven Brenner, professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley and Prof. David Card, professor of Economics at UC Berkeley.
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- Cynthia Dwork, Differential Privacy, in 33rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, part II (ICALP 2006), Springer Verlag, Venice, Italy, July 2006.
- Cynthia Dwork, Differential Privacy: A Survey of Results, in Theory and Applications of Models of Computation—TAMC, Springer Verlag, April 2008.
- Cynthia Dwork, The Differential Privacy Frontier, in 6th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2009, Springer Verlag, San Francisco, CA, March 2009.
- Cynthia Dwork, Differential Privacy in New Settings, in Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, January 2010.
- Frank McSherry, Privacy Integrated Queries, in Communications of the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 1 September 2010.
- Cynthia Dwork, A Firm Foundation for Private Data Analysis, in Communications of the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., January 2011.
- Cynthia Dwork, The Promise of Differential Privacy. A Tutorial on Algorithmic Techniques., in 52nd Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, October 2011.
- Cynthia Dwork, Differential Privacy, in 33rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, part II (ICALP 2006), Springer Verlag, Venice, Italy, July 2006.
- Ilya Mironov, Omkant Pandey, Omer Reingold, and Salil Vadhan, Computational Differential Privacy, in Advances in Cryptology—CRYPTO 2009, Springer, August 2009.
- Cynthia Dwork and Kobbi Nissim, Privacy-Preserving Datamining on Vertically Partitioned Databases, in 24th Annual International Cryptology Conference (CRYPTO 2004), Springer Verlag, Santa Barbara, California, USA, August 2004.
- Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim, and Adam Smith, Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data Analysis, in Third Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2006), Springer, New York, NY, USA, March 2006.
- Frank McSherry and Kunal Talwar, Mechanism Design via Differential Privacy, in Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), IEEE, Providence, RI, October 2007.
- Cynthia Dwork and Jing Lei, Differential Privacy and Robust Statistics, in Proceedings of the 41th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland, May 2009.
- Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, Omer Reingold, Guy Rothblum, and Salil Vadhan, On the Complexity of Differentially Private Data Release: Efficient Algorithms and Hardness Results, in Proceedings of the 41th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland, May 2009.
- Moritz Hardt and Kunal Talwar, On the Geometry of Differential Privacy, in STOC, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2010.
- Avrim Blum, Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, and Kobbi Nissim, Practical Privacy: The SuLQ Framework, in 24th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data / Principles of Database Systems, Baltimore (PODS 2005), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 2005.
- Frank McSherry, Privacy Integrated Queries, in Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2009.
- Lars Backstrom, Cynthia Dwork, and Jon M. Kleinberg, Wherefore art thou r3579x?: anonymized social networks, hidden patterns, and structural steganography, in International conference on World Wide Web (WWW), ACM, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 2007.
- Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, and Kunal Talwar, The price of privacy and the limits of LP decoding, in Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., San Diego, California, USA, June 2007.
- Cynthia Dwork and Sergey Yekhanin, New Efficient Attacks on Statistical Disclosure Control Mechanisms, in Advances in Cryptology—CRYPTO 2008, Springer Verlag, August 2008.
- Andrew McGregor, Ilya Mironov, Toniann Pitassi, Omer Reingold, Kunal Talwar, and Salil Vadhan, The Limits of Two-Party Differential Privacy, in 51st Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2010), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., October 2010.
- Shuchi Chawla, Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, and Kunal Talwar, On Privacy-Preserving Histograms, in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005.
- Cynthia Dwork, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Frank McSherry, Ilya Mironov, and Moni Naor, Our Data, Ourselves: Privacy Via Distributed Noise Generation, in Advances in Cryptology (EUROCRYPT 2006), Springer Verlag, Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 2006.
- Philippe Golle, Frank McSherry, and Ilya Mironov, Data Collection With Self-Enforcing Privacy, in ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2006), ACM, October 2006.
- Frank McSherry and Ilya Mironov, Differentially Private Recommender Systems: Building Privacy into the Netflix Prize Contenders, in Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2009.
- Anupam Gupta, Katrina Ligett, Frank McSherry, Aaron Roth, and Kunal Talwar, Differentially Private Combinatorial Optimization, in SODA, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, January 2010.
- Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, Toniann Pitassi, Guy N. Rothblum, and Sergey Yekhanin, Pan-Private Streaming Algorithms, in Proceedings of The First Symposium on Innovations in Computer Science (ICS 2010), Tsinghua University Press, January 2010.
- Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, Toniann Pitassi, and Guy N. Rothblum, Differential Privacy Under Continual Observation, in STOC '10: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM symposium on Theory of computing, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2010.
- Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals and National Research Council, Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists: A Framework for Program Assessment, National Academies Press, 26 September 2008.
- Privacy Workshop, October 10–11, 2011. iDASH, La Jolla, CA
- Statistical and Learning-Theoretic Challenges in Data Privacy, February 22–26, 2010. Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), Los Angeles, CA
MindSwap on Privacy Technology, October 19–20, 2007. Center for Computational Thinking, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Workshop on Data Confidentiality, September 6–7, 2007, Arlington, VA
CS-Statistics Workshop On Privacy and Confidentiality, July 9–15, 2005, Bertinoro, Italy
DIMACS/PORTIA Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, March 15–16, 2004, DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
In the media
- Thomas Claburn, Counterterrorist Data Mining Needs Privacy Protection, InformationWeek, Oct. 7, 2008
- Samuel Greengard, Privacy Matters, Communications of the ACM, vol. 51(9), Sep. 2008
- Dean Takahashi, Let's not give up on our privacy, San Jose Mercury News, Dec. 21, 2006
- Privacy Integrated Queries (PINQ)
Privacy Integrated Queries is a LINQ-like API for computing on privacy-sensitive data sets, while providing guarantees of differential privacy for the underlying records. The research project is aimed at producing a simple, yet expressive language about which differential privacy properties can be efficiently reasoned and in which a rich collection of analyses can be programmed.


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St. Petersburg, Florida - Governor Rick Scott and Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll raised their hands in victory in November 2010 as confetti rained down during their party.
Carroll, a retired U.S. Navy lieutenant commander, was the first African-American woman elected to the post. And in the past, the Governor called her hard working.
"It's jobs, jobs, jobs and that's what she's doing every day," Scott said during one news conference.
But it is her job that Carroll is now abruptly stepping away from, in hopes of putting distance between the Governor and an Internet gambling scandal. The Lt. Governor resigned after being questioned by law enforcement on Tuesday about her relationship with a controversial non-profit group that operates internet cafes throughout the state.
In 2009 and 2010 Carroll did PR work for Allied Veterans of the World and even appeared in a commercial supporting the group.
Allied Veterans is now accused of money laundering and dozens of people associated with the group have been arrested.
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"Usually black women who look like me don't engage in relationships like that," Carroll told 10 News with a nervous laugh.
With this latest link to a disgraced company, Carroll became an embarrassment to her office and perhaps a liability to Governor Scott. And lawmakers from Tampa Bay say resigning makes sense.
"I'm saddened by the news. Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll is a great public servant who has served well," said Rep. Darryl Rouson (D-St. Petersburg) in Tallahassee.
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More Jennifer Carroll stories:
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My birthday was a few weeks ago, and getting older always makes me reflect on the past. I'm in my late 20s and, even though I occasionally go overboard looking for fine lines on my face, getting older has been pretty great me for me so far. Every once in a while, though, I miss my early 20s, when getting up "early" meant "before noon." That said, I'd take my independent late 20s over my confused, anxious early 20s any day. Here's some of the stuff I absolutely don't miss.
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Meridian, Mississippi A local church gathered on Sunday to embark on a new journey.
Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church in Meridian hosted a groundbreaking ceremony Sunday afternoon. The church says it has been a long time coming, but finally, it is building a new sanctuary to help make more of an impact in the community. Pastor Maurice Lee says the church isn't able to do this alone though.
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Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church is located at 602 21st Street in Meridian.
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Volunteer Recognition
Attorney Emeritus Program (AEP) volunteers have been active in pro bono legal service at legal service providers throughout New York State. Emeritus attorneys come from diverse backgrounds – as private practice attorneys, corporate general counsel, and judges, for example – and many have no prior experience in the areas in which they are now volunteering. The stories on this page present just a few examples of the great work being done by AEP volunteers.
Legal Services for the Elderly, Disabled or Disadvantaged of Western New York, Inc. (LSED)
LSED provides free civil legal services to some of the most vulnerable members of our society: seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income people. LSED also provides guardian services to 102 low-income seniors. Most of LSED's wards have been the victim of elder abuse by family members and are isolated and alone at the time they are referred to LSED.
One elder abuse case is now being handled by an AEP volunteer, Joel Brownstein, who is a litigator in private practice. Mr. Brownstein's client had amassed a comfortable retirement savings before becoming critically injured in a car accident. The client became incapacitated and was sent to a skilled nursing facility for care. An acquaintance of the client wrongfully acquired power of attorney over the client, who had a diminished mental capacity, and subsequently stole about $300,000 from the client. Eventually, LSED was appointed as the client's guardian and began elder abuse litigation on the client's behalf, and Mr. Brownstein is working to repair the damage and is seeking criminal prosecution and civil restitution on behalf of the victim.
Mr. Brownstein received an award for his pro bono service at LSED's annual Champions of Justice Bash, a fundraiser for legal service providers in the Buffalo area. LSED is delighted to have Mr. Brownstein volunteer as an Emeritus attorney!
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Attorney Emeritus Program attorneys have been volunteering with the Legal Aid Society's Second Acts® Program. The Legal Aid Society has been awarded a three-year leadership grant by the Pro Bono Institute to establish Second Acts®, a national model for integrating transitioning and retired attorneys into their second careers as public interest law volunteers. Second Acts® attorneys use their legal talent and expertise in all of The Legal Aid Society's practices: acting as mentors to staff, working with law firm associates in the Society's extensive pro bono programs, helping Society staff manage special projects, volunteering part-time in a community or court-based office, or handling a specific number of matters annually.
One AEP attorney, Roger J. Hawke, has provided pro bono legal services through Second Acts®. Mr. Hawke, a retired partner at Sidley Austin LLP and a recipient of the Legal Aid Society's Second Acts® Award, is an exemplary model for continuing a lifetime of dedication to the law while serving the public good. During the past three years he has volunteered two days a week with the Brooklyn Office of the Aging, providing outstanding legal assistance to low-income elderly Brooklyn residents and expanding the office's scope of services.
A highlight of his outstanding pro bono work was the representation of an elderly veteran, which exposed a scam to fraudulently gain title to the client's home and steal his life savings of $25,000. The client had met an "advocate" in Family Court who had offered to assist him with a child support case. Believing that she was helping him, the client gave personal documents to the "advocate," including the deed to his home. Unbeknownst to the client, the "advocate" forged the client's signature on a transfer deed and on a power of attorney form, enabling her to withdraw funds from the client's bank account. Mr. Hawke initiated two successful New York State Supreme Court actions to have the forged deed expunged and the wrongfully taken life savings returned to the client. The case was covered by the New York Daily News, in which Mr. Hawke stated, "It's so easy to take the property away but so difficult to correct it." Fortunately, AEP volunteers like Mr. Hawke are working with the Second Acts® program to correct the injustices facing low-income New Yorkers.
Volunteer Legal Services Project, Inc. of Monroe County (VLSP)
VLSP provides free legal help to low-income residents of Monroe County who are facing non-criminal legal problems. VLSP is a non-profit pro bono agency that refers cases to lawyers for full representation on a pro bono basis, operates several limited legal advice clinics, and offers a consumer law hotline. Attorney Emeritus Program volunteers have been instrumental in helping VLSP provide legal services to low-income clients in a variety of practice areas.
One AEP volunteer, Gary Van Graafeiland, has been active in VLSP's Wills and Estates Clinic and has also accepted numerous wills case referrals as well as standby guardianship case referrals. Before joining the AEP, Mr. Van Graafeiland was general counsel of Eastman Kodak and had no prior experience in trusts and estates law. He became comfortable drafting wills and other documents after receiving training and support from VLSP. Since then, he has helped many low-income people put their wishes in writing, giving them comfort that their families' future will be protected.
Another AEP volunteer, retired Judge Patricia D. Marks, has volunteered with VLSP's Family Law Clinic and is now helping VLSP develop and implement a wills clinic for veterans. As a County Court Judge in Monroe County, Judge Marks had worked extensively in veterans' issues, and, after her retirement, she has continued to help veterans get the legal services they need. Dedicated AEP volunteers like Judge Marks and Gary Van Graafeiland have been leaders in pro bono service at VLSP.


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I've seen a few related posts, but I'm not sure if they solve my problem, so here goes. It appears that when I send email from a mail client like T-bird using my Zimbra server as the SMTP server my mail gets tagged with a pretty high spam score by SpamAssassin.
Here are my headers:
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X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.864 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6
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I fixed this for my email address by patching the /opt/zimbra/conf/amavisd.conf.in file and forcing it to give me an initial -10 score. However, this seems like a hack to me.
Part of the problem is that at home I use Comcast as my provider, and therefore it is possible that my IP got put on some blacklist or another, though it seems to be complaining more that my address is dynamic.
Now, I am authenticating to the SMTP server before I send mail out, so it seems to me that authenticated outgoing email should not be subject to spam filtering in the first place, or at least that this filtering should be configurable.
I am getting lots of rejected emails because of this because recipients email programs are throwing my emails away when i send them from home. Like I said I can hack it to make my emails score better, but it still leaves in the headers.
Is there a way to fix this?
By the way I am using zcs-4.5.1_GA_660 on a Fedora 4 server.


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CLEVELAND (AP) — What's the greatest performance at a music festival? According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it's Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, when he set his guitar on fire.
The Rock Hall asked fans to vote on their favorite moments and that one topped the list.
Big Brother and the Holding Company's set at that same festival is number two.
Queen's set at Live Aid in 1985 comes in third. Santana at Woodstock is number four.
The moment when Bob Dylan "went electric" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival was number five.
Otis Redding at Monterey was number six, Nine Inch Nails at Woodstock '94 was seventh, and Sly and the Family Stone at the original Woodstock was number eight.
U2 at Live Aid was number nine, and Muddy Waters at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival was 10th.
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Published: Monday, September 16, 2013 at 6:30 a.m.
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Former WWE star Kia Stevens, better known as The Amazing Kong, returns to Ocala's Dory Funk Arena Friday for a series of matches with Funk's academy wrestlers. The professional wrestling matches will raise money for Ocala's Interfaith Emergency Services.
KONGFRONTATION wrestling: 7 p.m. Friday, Dory Funk Arena, 3598 SW 74th Ave., Ocala, $20 in advance, $25 at the door (895-4658 or www.dory-funk.com)
Local rock acts Antic, The Farewell Music, Consent, Fear to Fail, Tyler Kaine and Davis Drive are scheduled to perform Friday night as part of the season's last Downtown Summer Jams show at Ocala's City Hall. The series is a showcase for young, original garage bands and soloists.
Downtown Summer Jams: 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Citizens' Circle at City Hall, downtown Ocala, free. (368-5517 or recreationandparks.ocalafl.org)
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Gospel singers DeWayne Woods and Jonathan Vicker will perform an Ocala concert Thursday night at the new Draw All Men Ministries Church.
Gospel concert: 7 p.m. Thursday, Draw All Men Ministries Church, 1919 SW 27th Ave., Ocala, $20 in advance, $30 at the door. (286-8100 or www.eventbrite.com)
Ocala Civic Theatre continues its ambitious, six-week run of the epic musical "Les Mis�rables." Tickets are selling fast. Call 236-2274 for reservations.
"Les Mis�rables": 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays and most Saturdays through Oct. 13, Ocala Civic Theatre, 4337 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, $10-$28. (236-2274 or go to ocalacivictheatre.com)
The Belleview Fall Festival, formerly known as the Nine Mile Pond Festival, will spread out in Belleview Saturday. The free family party will include the Belleview's Got Talent Show, car show, arts and crafts, kids zone and more.
Belleview Fall Festival: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, City Hall Park, 5343 SE Abshier Blvd., Belleview, free. (245-2178 or firstname.lastname@example.com)
The College of Central Florida on Thursday will open the exhibit "Child in a Strange Country: Helen Keller and the History of Education for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired" at the Webber Center Gallery. The educational display is on loan from the Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville, Ky.
"Child in a Strange Country": Opening reception, 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Webber Center, CF campus, 3001 SW College Road, Ocala, free. Exhibit runs through Nov. 1. (873-5809)
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"Prisoners": Thriller
"The Longest Ride": Nicholas Sparks
"United We Spy": Ally Carter
"The Final Cut": Catherine Coulter
"Thankless in Death": J.D. Robb
"The Hit": David Baldacci
"From Here To Now To You": Jack Johnson
"Wise Up Ghost (Deluxe)": Elvis Costello & The Roots
"Fight For My Soul": Jonny Lang
"We Are Tonight": Billy Currington
"Zendaya": Zendaya
"Bates Motel: Season One": TV thriller
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1929 Ford Model A Roadster - From Shimmin' To Trimmin'Written by on September 1, 2011 Contributors: Jim Miller Panel Alignment Procedures For The Model A Roadster
The John Martin Special is a sentimental project, and a tribute car of sorts. With the exception of a genuine Riley four-port head that the first version should have had anyway, this will be a very close recreation of the '29 roadster that Guardrail Willie Martin's father and grandfather raced together back in the '40s. In the project's early inception, as word of Willie's intent spread through Riverside, California, a parts pile began to materialize. First came a salvageable frame, then a pair of '29 headlamps, a windshield frame, a usable steering gearbox, and so on—Willie's friends all but threw parts at him. A body however, was not so easily acquired, and so began the quest for that precious metal.
After a while or two it became clear that the '29 roadster body supply had run dry and the good ones were gone … or were they? Then, during the L.A. Roadsters Show, it happened, right in front of Brookville's sheetmetal Mecca of a vendor's space. As Willie's wife and friends cheered him on, a wallet came out, a deal was made, and the missing puzzle piece was soon after delivered to Willie's shop, Ed Martin Garage. The rest will be history … in the near future.
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Our fabricating friend Jim Grady has squared away Henry's frame using Dagel's boxing plates and X-member. As Mrs. Rotten and I take over, we'll first check for even tire pressure. If the dead weight of the currently dead motor had been available to us, we'd have mocked that into position as well.For our panel alignment assignment, the radiator is the starting point. With the benefit of radiator mounting slots that have never been hogged out, we're confident that our radiator will stay located—at least fore 'n' aft.To ensure that our radiator stays put from side to side, we've included rectangular rumble seat washers into our mounting hardware. The lower washers have teeth, and with a quick trim to the inside edges of the upper two, they'll fit precisely against the straps, leaving the tightened-down radiator nowhere to go.While they're not enough by themselves, an assortment of shims will be helpful for achieving alignment of the hood, cowl, and doors. With the radiator already located and locked down, we'd like to be able to move the body on the frame as necessary—even after all the bolts are loosely in place.In order to maintain body mobility, caged nuts have been spot-welded to the bottom side of each body-mounting hole—before the frame was boxed. Although this extra movement will be slight at best, it can make a significant difference in panel-to-panel relationships later on.As we'd hoped, our caged nuts have allowed just enough body movement so none of the body's mounting holes required enlargement. A ratchet strap from floor crossmember to frame crossmember came in handy for moving the body on the frame.Based on previous experience, uniform gaps can't be achieved by shimming alone. At the very least, there'll be some twisting and bending required. Here the left door is high at the upper rear gap, and tight at the upper front. With the handle of a body spoon wedged between the upper hinge halves, we'll gently, but firmly, push the door closed. This affects the door—not the hinge.There's a brand-new digital caliper in the toolbox drawer, but that might be overkill for a Model A Ford. Since we're after 1/8-inch gaps, a 1/8-inch wooden stir stick makes for a more appropriate gap gauge—and by 1929 standards, this might also be overkill.
The idea here is to move only the upper part of the door forward. After a visual check of the degree and direction of the desired bend, when to say "when" is still anybody's guess. I'm still not sure how this happened, but we nailed it on our first attempt.After bending the forward half of the upper hinge, this door still swings smoothly, but we'll double-check hinge pin alignment using a length of 1/4-inch rod. If the rod is obviously curved, then the pins are binding and that would require some fine-tuning.On this body, the outer upper corner of the right door's rear gap was misshapen, so a fiber-reinforced polyester filler was used there as needed. Once again, our vintage gap gauge confirms that we have a 1/8-inch gap. Nonbelievers may refer to the digital caliper for a more modern reading.Adjustment of the decklid went fairly easily, with just a bit of a twist and a spacer added to the spindle of the right side hinge. The spacer won't be visible and it will prevent the lid from drifting out of position when opened.The hood and radiator shell for this car are Henry's own, and of course the hood shows ripples across the top from years of being tossed over upon itself when opened. This common habit damages more than just paint as it repeatedly shock-loads the metal surrounding the center hinge.The hood fit low at the cowl for our tastes, so Mrs. Rotten quickly duplicated the supplied shim. Once doubled up, these shims raised the hood even with the cowl, but the saggy ol' hood was in need of further support.A field trip to the nearest self-serve auto-recycling center rendered the perfect rubber seal. This one holds the hood in shape much better than stock lacing or any of the peel 'n' stick rubbers we had on the shelf.This clever hidden hood latch is Willie's idea: 1/4-inch rod, ground to a point, a spring, and a setscrew collar/stop will secure the hood firmly. At this stage however, the receivers still needed work.
Our target is now clearly in our sights. Using masking tape to sharpen our visual boundaries, the area of metal surrounded by blue must now be removed.With a pneumatic die grinder, we'll let the sparks fly. We begin with a small-diameter, well-used cut-off disc, which quickly removes what it can reach.For the final fit, we'll want to slow things down a tad or two. A square taper file is helpful here for finessing the corners of the rectangular slot.The latch setup will be the same at all four corners. The two forward receivers in the jamb portion of the radiator shell were easy by comparison, needing only a hole drilled to accept a 1-inch-long section of double-flared tubing.At times like these, it's good to have an accomplished welder in-house. The fuel tubing is scary-thin. Mrs. Rotten won't burn holes in it like I probably would.It is not unusual to have to add or subtract metal when going for gaps. On this job, we've been lucky—only the left front hood corner required trimming. First a guideline must be laid down. For this, masking tape will do the trick.This time with the hood's center hinge still anchored in position, a 9-inch body disc can be used to grind away the unwanted metal.What was the sore thumb of the project moments ago is now as uniform as any other gap on the car. This we can live with.
Using clean compressed air, Mrs. Rotten chooses to cool as she goes. This worked for her—there was no sign of heat distortion whatsoever.Again the body grinder was used to even out the welds. When dressing down edges, I like to take it slow, a step at a time, while checking the gap frequently. For any pinholes that may remain in or between welds, an epoxy adhesive will be pushed in with a spreader, and then sanded once cured.We'd decided that our welds could use some grinding, and afterward we decided to smooth them up some more. Although we could use polyester filler for this, the same epoxy adhesive we used on the trimmed hood edge seemed like a more substantial choice for these areas as well. We're using J-B Weld for this.Guardrail Willie likes it, so the fitment phase of our work is finished. Once our shims were bagged 'n' tagged for future relocation, the chassis was transported home to Ed Martin Garage where it will be torn down for powdercoating while the body parts remain with Mrs. Rotten and I for paintwork. Granted, this isn't rocket surgery, but panel alignment is time-consuming, frustrating work, and those who've been there, done that would agree that gappin' don't just happen.


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Former Major League manager Jim Fregosi has died after suffering a stroke while on a cruise for baseball fans.
Fregosi was hospitalized in Miami after suffering multiple strokes earlier this week. He passed away early Friday morning at the age of 71, according to MLB.com.
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Hi everybody,
I'm trying to set up Zimbra for my local political association and I'm in a little trouble with DNS. (Well, who doesn't?!? )
The goal is to install Zimbra 8 on a Dell SC1425 with 6 Gb Ram which I own; it's behind an ADSL Modem Router, it has a static IP, no firewall and all the necessaries port correctly forwarded to the server.
Before installing I've followed the SPLIT-DNS tutorial here and used the dnsmasq option as it seemed very easy to me.
Everything goes ok except for a step in the "Verify..." section: even if I edit /etc/resolv.conf by hand with nano writing
after the restart of the dnsmasq daemon, if I try to cat /etc/resolv.conf it saysCode:search yourdomain.com nameserver 127.0.0.1
which is not correct, according to the tutorial.Code:nameserver 127.0.0.1 search it
The cat /etc/hosts command returns the correct values.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks to all the kind replies.


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Hey Vellum, long time no see! Your album looks ok for me
I created an album to place my wip / finished work in, just in case anyone is interested. Have a look and tell me if this looks like it works, when I loaded the images into the album they seem to not correctly load and show only a portion of the image. While setting up the album there are two "picture blocks" one on the left and one on the right. The load picture window loads them to the one on the right. As there was nothing visible on the one in the left, I dragged and dropped the right pic into the left picture block. Did I do this correctly? Thanks for any input.
Hey Vellum, long time no see! Your album looks ok for me
Long time!! Its only been two weeks LOL thanks for the input on the album
Only 2 weeks? Damn I need to take a break from this forums


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Grown from tiny roots to the most powerful Christian radio station in Arizona, Radio Shine sends a message of hope across the state.
Ranch Hope has served at-risk youth and their families for over 46 years. The Ranch was founded in 1964 by the Rev. David L. Bailey, Sr., an ordained United Methodist minister, and his wife, Eileen. Over 14,000 children and their families have been served through the organizations programs.
ReFrame Media, as the English-language ministry of Back to God Ministries Int'l, has been a leader in media ministry for over 70 years.
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries (RHM) is committed to communicating the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the lost in their language and to motivating and equipping believers to communicate Christ to the lost in their world. Through creative and innovative approaches to "spiritual rescue," the RHM team seeks to reach "hard-to-reach hearts" with the Gospel—through media, the internet, radio broadcasts, and face-to-face events.
Russian Christian Radio Center (RCRC) was established in January of 2002 in order to work with American churches and individuals wishing to support our radio ministry in Russia, called "Radio Center, Moscow." This christian radio station is on the air since 1992.
ShareMedia has set the standard for radio broadcast fundraising because of their unmatched coaching, hosting and production expertise. Plus, by creating effective partnerships between radio stations and leading ministries, ShareMedia helps engage listeners throughout the year with opportunities for involvement.
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The mission of Son is to encourage people throughout New Mexico's communities to love the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with their whole heart, soul, and might by bringing them to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ through excellence in Christian media.
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The Salvation Army has been actively serving in the United States for 130 years with the mission of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and meeting human needs in His name without discrimination. It is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church, faithfully proclaiming the message of the Bible and motivated in its ministry by the love of God.
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June 8, 2012 | 4:51pm
Fallbrook Puppies Fight For Their Lives
Five dogs were attacked by a swarm of bees in Fallbrook. Tragically, they were all tied to a tree and could not escape. The two surviving puppies, both five months old, are a male Jack Russell terrier mix and a male Chihuahua mix. It is unknown if the person who tied the puppies under the tree knew about the bee hive.


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Video: Human Remains Found During Drug Bust
WHITE OAK, Va. (WUSA9) -- The Stafford Sheriff's Office says they have recovered human remains over the weekend, after reports of buried bodies on a property in White Oak.
Sheriff's Maj. David Decatur first told WUSA9 on Thursday, that deputies arrived at the 800 block of Belle Plains Road on March 16 to execute an arrest warrant for 58-year-old Dennis Paul Benzie for meth distribution.
After the arrest officials began receiving numerous leads about bodies buried in the Belle Plains Road area, Decatur said.
The remains, of what is believed to be of one person, were located between between March 23 and the 24 and were transported to the Chief Medical Examiner's Office in Richmond, Virginia for autopsy, officials said.
The body has been identified but the person's identity will not be released until the next of kin is notified, officials said.
The sheriff's office said it appears that the remains had been there for some time.