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So remember when I wondered aloud if Ana Ivanovic would be taking a trip to Spain to visit boyfriend Fernando Verdasco? And remember how I admitted I was, like, so jealous??
Well color me (not) shocked and (still) jealous to have been tipped off by a DtL reader to this video of a spiffy-looking Anando watching Real Madrid get upset by Real Union yesterday.
Wow - that didn't take long at all Ana. You really hopped onto that Spanish train with a quickness. Ride it!
Have a happy off-season Anando...we'll all be watching.
(video via rtve.es)
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
VIDEO VAULT: Anando spotted at Real Madrid match, off-season romance begins
Labels: Ana Ivanovic, Fernando Verdasco, tennis, video
16 comments:
i'm jealous of them both...ReplyDelete
lol Ride it indeed. Ride it hard.
this may be an interesting off-season after all??
I'd like a ticket on that Spanish train too, thank you very much. I assume Rafa is the caboose? :DReplyDelete
b2012: i'm willing it to be interesting as i typeReplyDelete
johanne: LOL! the visual of the three of them together is too much to take...oy.
Oh, it is SO her fault that Madrid lost. Ruined my damn day yesterday and now I know who to blame. I'll never look at Ana the same way again. Fernando, on the other hand, tee hee hee he's pretty =DReplyDelete
Caboose...BWHA!!!!!! Good one, Johanne.ReplyDelete
People all over the world
Join hands
Start a love train
Love train
gees some girls really have all the luck..!ReplyDelete
They're adorable. Though the thought of a Serbian sandwich is awesome.ReplyDelete
And can we start a petition for a permanent AnaFer Cam? I could watch that forever.
- AnonymousNovember 12, 2008 at 4:06 PM
they are cute together. ana told the media that they started going out during the USOReplyDelete
here's the video on youtube
It's Nando's birthday on the 15th. I think Ana is there to celebrate his birthday.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 12, 2008 at 6:23 PM
I can't bring myself to like Verdasco, he looks so... greasy. Maybe it's the hair, and the (faked?) tan. I'm not an Ivanovic fan, but I think she can do better.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 12, 2008 at 8:52 PM
i wasn't much of a verdasco fan either until i saw him in person and i got to tell you he is HOT!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 13, 2008 at 6:33 AM
Well done C-NOTE for calling the couple by a name that conforms more to reality - Anafer. It's many a long year since Fer Verdasco answered to his old childhood/adolescence name of Nando...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 13, 2008 at 6:38 AM
.... oh, and by the way, Rich, Ana din't "go" to Spain to visit Verdasco - she's been living there (based in Barcelona) for the past two years!ReplyDelete
anon 9:33 - wow anon, i didn't realize imagined combo names were so important to you. i'm glad to know you've submitted your approval, or in my case, disapproval. to each his own i suppose.ReplyDelete
where have you been all my life? can't wait for what profound comments you'll be leaving next. yay!
- AnonymousNovember 13, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Uh oh Viadisova! If it is love this kind a publicity will not help. If something else it can only be a distraction for Ivanovic who has only been in decline since the French. Ivanovic will make more $$ than Verdasco and he will always play second fiddle. Some day that will cause him to stray. I think the best is to leave them alone and let it play it's course and hope than Ivanovic's game is not to affected by it.ReplyDelete
Tennis romance almost never works while players are at the height of thier careers.
anon 2:12 - good point. usually either their game suffers or the relationship suffers but they don't usually rise up at the same time.ReplyDelete
time will tell i suppose.


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Parable of the Talent
After a crushing statewide defeat just two years ago, Jim Talent rejected self-pity and cynicism. He took time for one-on-one Bible study with his trusted pastor, and learned to see how "God governs in the affairs of men." Now, as the newly elected senator who made the Republican majority and helped President Bush make history, he's happily reconciled to the hand-and timing-of divine providence
For a guy who has just won the biggest political victory of his life, Jim Talent is a little agitated on this first Sunday since Missouri voters elected him senator. It's a warmer-than-usual November morning and he's briskly navigating the back stairs of his church and heading to the parking lot to retrieve the cell phone he'd left in his Ford Escape.
Their three kids safely deposited in their Sunday school rooms, Sen.-elect Talent and wife, Brenda, are awaiting the arrival of a friend they'd invited to church. Mr. Talent believes that his guest is lost. Well, not that kind of lost. She's a new convert, a young lady who helped in the campaign and is eager to visit the Talents' Presbyterian Church in America congregation in west St. Louis County. Sure enough, she had called. He presses the phone to his ear, squeezes the other ear shut, and calls her back.
"Hi, it's Jim," he says, and walks her through detailed directions. "Brenda will meet you upstairs."
He bounds back up the stairs and through the crowded halls, receiving assorted congratulations and greetings. Toward the front entrance, he spies Todd Akin, the congressman who filled the seat he vacated in 2000 for an unsuccessful bid for governor. Rep. Akin had won his first reelection, by a large margin.
"Hey, Jim," calls a smiling Mr. Akin.
Mr. Talent responds, "Congratulations, brother!" and the two Republican colleagues' embrace ends in a hearty series of back pats. "Big win!" he says of Mr. Akin's landslide. "Huge win, huge!"
"But I'm so thankful you won, too," says one woman in the conversational huddle. "We prayed and prayed."
"Thank you. Keep praying," Mr. Talent urges. "The hard work starts now. People are going to expect us all to produce, right, Todd?"
They are. But Jim Talent is not just another Republican senator from Missouri. With his Nov. 5 victory, officially declared several hours before the GOP victory in Minnesota that sent Norm Coleman to the Senate, he's the man who made the majority. A Republican ouster of a Democratic incumbent in Georgia followed by the Democratic pickup in Arkansas kept the score tied before the Talent victory put the GOP over the top.
The Republican sweep was not just another political victory. It was the first time in almost 70 years that the party of a president in his first term enjoyed gains in both houses of Congress. And the only time since 1860 that the president's party reclaimed total congressional control at the first midterm.
Political opponents might try to paint Jim Talent as an extremist from the religious right, but it's his biblical worldview that softens for the watching public the perceived harder edges of the Republican agenda he embraces. He's into racial reconciliation and compassionate conservatism. During his first term (of four) as a U.S. congressman from St. Louis County, he introduced the welfare-reform bill of 1994-not exactly the soccer mom-type concerns typical of politicians representing the 'burbs.
"I have a heart for reaching out, for reconciliation, for pulling people together, and particularly in the minority communities. I enjoyed enormously campaigning there. We still haven't been able to evaluate how big an actual impact it had on the election, but I am going to continue doing it," Mr. Talent says. "Think what a senator does for your average middle-class person of whatever color or background in St. Louis County.... It's stuff that's important, but it's not central.
"When HUD [the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development] is trying to take away the contract from a tenant management group, it means everything to the people in that housing project. They are just more vulnerable, and if their representatives don't fight for them, nobody does. They also often live in circumstances where they are being exploited, and in some cases by a political machine, and they need people who will fight for them. I have just been next to many of them and talked to too many folks in that situation, so I am eager to represent that community. What I mean is the urban core community, people who feel vulnerable. I want to try and help."
That's not the kind of talk that thrills those religious conservatives in the state who would prefer a lightning-rod leader willing to take a more confrontational approach to serious social problems. Mr. Talent kept his distance from hot-button issues like abortion, and instead stressed things like his opposition to Social Security privatization. In his campaign he talked about a prescription-drug benefit for seniors-though not the big one Democrats touted-and said he would be "Missouri's health care senator." Even Mr. Talent's pastor, Rodney Stortz, said he heard complaints that "Jim did not do enough to energize conservative evangelicals."
Not that Rev. Stortz is complaining. And not that Jim Talent isn't supportive of issues important to his brethren-social-conservative staples like educational choice, pro-life legislation, and resisting the gay political agenda-or that he doesn't want the president's conservative judicial nominees confirmed; he is and he does. But here's a typical answer to questions about the likelihood of banning partial-birth abortion and human cloning: "Since we now have leadership that is favorable to the whole agenda of protecting life, I hope we will step back and ask ourselves, 'What is the best way of doing that right now?' And then pursue those in a respectful way, in a way where we listen to the other side, where we seek as broad a coalition as we can, but we keep moving forward."
The Talent political style is to make no mistakes. His Senate campaign was seen almost universally as flawless. As a senator, there will be no shooting from the hip, no hot rhetoric. He will cautiously seek consensus where possible, and on difficult-to-compromise issues, that style is likely to grate on social-conservative activists and voters.
He is careful when discussing how the Bible informs his politics. Asked the question directly, Mr. Talent demurs that his conservative political philosophy was formed before he met Christ and his core views of limited government haven't changed much since. He's a product of the economically libertarian University of Chicago law school, from which he graduated with honors in 1981. Mr. Talent, reared in a Jewish family, turned to Christ while listening to a Focus on the Family program on the radio. Host James Dobson's guest that day was internationally known evangelist Luis Palau, who ended his talk with an invitation for listeners to a prayer of repentance. Jim Talent pulled the car to the side of the road and prayed along with Rev. Palau.
Mr. Talent joined Covenant Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, worshipped there regularly, and sat under the teaching of Rodney Stortz. He worked through the ranks of the Missouri state legislature-he ascended to House minority leader-before a successful run for the U.S. Congress in 1992. He never had trouble with reelection until he vacated the seat to run for Missouri governor in 2000.
That race he would lose. Mr. Talent could have become bitter and cynical coming off that narrow defeat. His loss came under dubious circumstances: Evidence of voter fraud in the heavily Democratic, African-American precincts of the city of St. Louis-where polls were kept open late into the evening, hours past closing time-had Republicans demanding a federal probe. Even the left-wing newspaper in the city carried stories of fraudulent voter registrations; in one case the paper cited, a dog was registered to vote. A liberal columnist for the paper actually referred to the statewide elections as "stolen" and expressed surprise that George W. Bush was able to carry the state despite the cheating.
After that defeat, private citizen Talent turned to Pastor Stortz; both in 1990 had moved from Covenant to a new church Covenant planted, Twin Oaks. "I said, 'Let's use your spare time to study and learn,'" Rev. Stortz recalls. "I trained him in theology and evangelism." He says they met weekly with very few exceptions for a year, in addition to the Tuesday night evangelism training program called Evangelism Explosion. "People were a little surprised seeing this man who had run for governor knocking on their door" to pay them an evangelistic visit on behalf of a church. "He led people to Christ," Rev. Stortz says. "He's always talking about people he'd had an opportunity to share his faith with."
The 2000 election cycle also saw John Ashcroft swept out of the Senate not only by probable vote fraud but by sympathy votes for his opponent, Democrat Mel Carnahan, who died in a plane crash with just weeks to go in the campaign. A majority of voters selected him posthumously and, in a legally questionable move, the Democratic governor appointed his widow, Jean Carnahan, to the seat. Republicans likely could have successfully challenged the process in court, but Mr. Ashcroft was much too gentlemanly to have anything to do with it. He shut down his campaign and accepted the result.
Jim Talent will say only "it's possible, I guess" he was robbed in 2000, but here his theological training becomes evident: He turns to the reality of providence. "I do believe that God governs in the affairs of men in that He raises up whom He wants to raise up, and He humbles whom He wants to humble," he says. "That doesn't mean you sit there listlessly and wait for God to do something. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord and not for men. But the final decision is in His hands. So I never thought of it that way and, as a factual matter, I don't believe that whatever went on in the city was enough to have made a difference in my race."
The context of that question was a discussion of the late-night scare he received when Sen. Carnahan-who trailed most of the evening-announced that urban votes were pouring in and the tide seemed to be turning. At the Talent election-night headquarters, where supporters expected a concession speech from Mrs. Carnahan, there was a sense of deja vu from 2000 when an 11 p.m. surge swamped the Republican. But this time the lead held and CNN switched live to Mrs. Carnahan's early Wednesday morning concession. Said anchor Aaron Brown, "That seals the deal.... Now we can say [the Republicans] have taken control of the Senate." Mr. Talent wound up with a 30,000-vote victory-not a squeaker, but not a landslide.
"Relief" was the word Mr. Talent used to describe his election-night feelings: "I did not want to let people down another time. When you run for office in a high-visibility office like this, there are literally thousands and thousands of people working for you and praying for you and wanting you to win.... You have a sense of how many people are disappointed if you don't do it."
That is Jim Talent's emphasis: It's not about him; it's about the "tremendous sacrifice" others make on his behalf in time and treasure. If he has an ego problem at all, it's maybe that he has an ego about not wanting to be perceived as egotistical: "I don't want anyone out there to think that he thinks he's God's gift to people. That's not what I'm saying." He says his Christian calling is politics and governing as a vocation, which means he has to rely for support on those who have other callings in life. "That's why I'm consistently humbled when people give something," he emphasizes. "I have had people who on a volunteer basis have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours."
In the choir room of Twin Oaks church, Mr. Talent refills his Styrofoam coffee cup, which has developed a small hole in the bottom. As hot java drizzles onto the tile floor, he quickly dumps the remaining coffee into a sturdier new cup. He drops the compromised cup into the trash and nabs a fistful of napkins, takes a knee, and mops the mess. He's dealt with other messes around the church: Nursery coordinator Kathy Hartmann recalls a Christmas Eve service when she, Mr. Talent, and another volunteer took care of the infants. "Christmas Eve is the hardest time to find volunteers," Mrs. Hartmann says. Did Jim Talent change diapers? "Oh, yes," she said without hesitation. "That's the kind of guy he is."
Thinking providentially, it's easy now to see how it's good for President Bush and the Republicans that Mr. Talent and Mr. Ashcroft lost in 2000. Now the U.S. attorney general, John Ashcroft-an experienced, trusted GOP elder statesman-is the point man for TeamBush in the domestic war on terrorism. Mr. Talent's loss of the governorship freed him to win back the majority for President Bush in the Senate; his experience shepherding welfare reform through the House could make him a player in the coming debate over the president's stalled faith-based initiative.
"Welfare reform has to be what they call reauthorized, which means repassed, reenacted, and they should have done it last year, but it was one of the many things that the Senate was unable to do. So now I will be in the Senate that considers welfare reauthorization. Of course, I have a big interest in that, and I want to not only not retreat from the work provisions in it, but it's so very, very important that we move ahead in encouraging marriage through the welfare system. And also I would say encourage people to consider adoptions as alternatives to out-of-wedlock births. What we've found with the last welfare bill is that when you move the system towards encouraging the right thing-good values-it has this enormously beneficial impact. If we can make the whole system work pro-marriage, the impact around the country could be tremendous. It's as simple as saying that as a young woman comes in to register for Medicaid, she's pregnant, while giving her the range of services we are encouraging her, nurturing her, saying to her what's the situation with the father? Have you guys talked about getting married? What are the obstacles? Let's talk about this because in many cases that really is an alternative and it's just not considered."
What about Jim Talent's own home life? He's not moving his family to the Washington area-as many senators do-and he plans to commute weekly to the Capitol so as not to "uproot their whole lives": church, school, friends, and family. "I think it would be foolish to move them there and for me to be here [in St. Louis] more than half the time anyway." He did the same thing for eight years in the House, but his kids are bigger now, and busier: Michael is 12, Kate 10, and Chrissy 6. He will guard his family time and "just stay close to the Lord.... I love the 103rd psalm, which says He knows how we are formed, He remembers that we are dust. God is so forgiving to us. He knows our weaknesses, and from everlasting to everlasting the Lord's love is with those who fear Him and His righteousness for their children's children. That is a great, great psalm."

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text: Thanks, updated my post. As for logging admin login attempts, I can only guess that those IP addresses have not been banned yet. With my config, they have 5 tries before being banned, and those 5 tries will get logged. Are there more than 5 log entries from an IP address? It's also likely that attacking the admin page is more common than regular webmail. If Zimbra allowed changing the admin port to something other than 7071 it would virtually eliminate admin attacks, but it's a 6 year old feature request.


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Not familiar with that font, looks like I gotta go shopping again.
I'm seeking to add a large title to my educational fantasy board game, "Spell Quest." I'd like the title to be made in large, thick, shiny gold metallic fantasy font similar to the HeroQuest board game.
Here is an example: http://heroquestbaker.altervista.org...est_titolo.JPG
In the example, the font rests on stone, but I'm just seeking the gold metallic part.
Help, anyone?
Not familiar with that font, looks like I gotta go shopping again.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
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HeroQuest has some great fonts!
Here's just what I would like, if anyone knows how to do this in GIMP: http://www.heroscribe.org/heroscribesign.png
That's certainly better than I can do, but I think it needs less neutral colors, more light and dark.
Looks like I'm not the first to respond. How about this one?
Wow, DevinNight and Ascension, my top two favorite artists on here, both replying in my thread!
This is one of those things I'm not going to be happy with unless I do it myself. I want to use the HeroQuest font and make it look as nearly identical (minus rock background) as I can for nostalgic reasons.
This is a very happy-happy, joy-joy fantasy adventure game set up something like HeroQuest. The players, who are in the third and fourth grade, spell their spelling words to capture the monsters.
3d apps like Blender can do excellent shiny stuff. What you need is to set its reflectivity up high and ensure you use an environment map so that your reflecting something interesting in it then it looks good. Its a bit like Cartmans glasses.
See something like this:
Also, Ravells uses DrawPlus which seems to have some great reflective options...
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Okay, I got Blender. Going to try to figure this out.
It's for my little sister. She had to come up with a game. Due Teusday (well, Thursday, but I don't know how I'll find time on Wednesday) and I'm crunching here.
Any step-by-step would be appreciated, Redrobes!
I have a cube and an extremely complex GUI on my screen and no time to play. Must get done today so Ican get it printed at OfficeMax tomorrow!
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Right, well Blender is not my 3D app of choice but its the one most people try to use. You can look over my initiation thread here:
but its not the simplest app to use. In fact it has to be one of the most unintuitive.
If you could post a link to a free download & free to use true type font that could be used then I could make the text if I catch the post in time. In any case, getting a font would be the best first thing you could do unless your planning on drawing the font as well.
With so little time maybe you would be better off trying to make it in a paint program. Here are some tuts I found for making shiny text.
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|START Conference Manager
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Baltimore, MD, October 26-30, 2012
All-visual Retrieval: How People Search and Respond to an Affect-driven Visual Information Retrieval System
Gerald Benoit and Natresh Agarwal
Monday, 6:30pm
The design of information retrieval (IR) systems must respond to the goals, intentionality and prior domain knowledge of the users. During focus groups conducted, end users complained that instead of looking for specificitems, they might be interested in a spectrum of concepts - all things related to something or all things of a particular color. To respond to these needs, an entirely visuals-driven information retrieval system project was developed using a test-bed of copyright-free images reflecting monographs, graphics, and work collections. In the absence of such IR systems, not much is known about how users will interact with a visuals-only retrieval system. This poster describes the project in general and its usage to explore (a) how users interact with graphic-only retrieval for exploring traditional and non-traditional access points and (b) how the affective component impacts the use of such systems. Findings based on the study will help shed light on research based on visual information systems and user behavior when interacting with such systems. The findings will be useful both in designing systems that respond to user needs, and add to prior research in information seeking and retrieval.


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Tallahassee, Florida- July 5, 2012
Jacob Eaton is no stranger to controversy.
In February, we showed you a scuffle he had with Leon County Democratic Party Treasurer Bob Henderson.
It came after Eaton was speaking about a questionable late contribution to Mayor John Marks' 2010 re-election campaign.
Eaton was charged with a felony for the scuffle, but the case was later dropped.
Now Eaton is a candidate for the city commission.
"The mayor should absolutely resign", said Eaton.
Eaton points to the Florida Ethics Commission's finding the mayor may have violated the law.
He claims city deals Mayor Marks has led have enriched the mayor and cost Tallahassee taxpayers about $60 million dollars.
"That disgusts me, that disgusts the public, that erodes the public trust and it's wrong for the citizens of Tallahassee", said Eaton.
But at the last city commission meeting on June 27th, the mayor said he hasn't had a chance to defend himself yet.
"Where the Ethics Commission is right now, it's not the last step", said Mayor Marks.
"He's had a chance to defend himself all the time he's had in office", said Eaton.
Eaton is hoping to unseat Commissioner Andrew Gillum who Eaton calls the mayor's strongest defender.
"If you get rid of one, you have to get rid of the other, because both of them are one in the same", Eaton said.
In a written response, Gillum said "I have a strong working relationship with all of my colleagues" and this campaign "is not about Mayor Marks or my opponents, it's about doing the right thing for the people of Tallahassee."
Tallahassee, Florida - July 5, 2012
There's a new call today for Tallahassee's mayor to step down. A candidate for the city commission says Mayor John Marks should resign effective immediately.
Jacob Eaton is running for the second district city commission seat. He made the announcement about Mayor Marks needing to step down outside of Tallahassee City Hall today.
You may recall Eaton was at the center of a controversy earlier this year. When he started to speak up at a meeting of the Leon County Democratic Party Executive Committee about questionable funds funneled to Mayor Marks campaign in 2010, party treasurer Bob Henderson confronted Eaton. A scuffle then took place.
Eaton was charged with the battery of a person 65 years of age or older, a felony. However, the charge against him was later dropped.
Eaton now points to the Florida Ethics Commission finding last month stating Mayor Marks may have violated state ethics law.
"What makes me mad about the whole situation as far as what the mayor did is that he cost the citizens of Tallahassee in the neighborhood of $60-million dollars because he wanted to enrich himself and ingratiate himself," Jacob Eaton, City Commission Candidate for Seat 2, says.
The mayor said at the last city commission meeting he still has the opportunity to defend himself against the ethics charges. He says any rush to judgment is premature.
Eaton is running for the seat currently held by Commissioner Andrew Gillum. Eaton says Gillum has been on the mayor's strongest supporters and needs to be replaced.


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Customers use the technology and tools for effective fuel management and driver productivity.
Len Kennedy, vice president and COO of the unit, will become the chief executive officer after the acquisition, which is expected to close by Dec. 31. When the acquisition is complete, UPS Logistics Technologies will transition its name to Roadnet Technologies Inc. The Roadnet brand, which already identifies the company's main products, is familiar to customers, value-added resellers and vendors.
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Ok we hav a big flywheel spinning in deep-outerspace. What iz happening to the aether?? Do we hav perpetual motion??
The aether exiting near the poles probly circles back to re-enter near the rim. If so then the aether flow symmetry would form two doughnuts side by side. In any case the aether entering the flywheel must gradualy veer allmost 90dg while inside the flywheel.
(Erratum). Later i realized that if aether haz zero shear-rezistance (zero viscosity) then aether exiting near the axle wouldn't quickly circle back in to enter near the rim, it would probly eventually circle back in from a long long way away.
Veering-aether creates forces tending to pull the flywheel apart axially , ie in addition to the centrifugal forces tending to pull the flywheel apart radially. The atoms of the flywheel rezisting being pulled apart axially create forces tending to oppoze the aether's veering outflow, which creates a backpressure oppozing the aether's inflow, which inkreeces the centrifugal forces tending to pull the flywheel apart. Here we hav a sort of feedback. Will the flywheel-spin and aether-flow quietly reech equilibrium, or will there be short-term or long-term reverberation?? Duzz reverberation rob energy and slow the flywheel??
Az aether enters at the rim and moovs towards the spin-axis the streamlines converge, ie the aether accelerates, and this reduces the radial centrifugal force(s).
Do we hav perpetual motion, or iz there energy loss?? If the flywheel (in deep-outerspace) reeches quiet equilibrium then there mightn't be any further energy loss. Perpetual aether-forces creating gravity-mass and inertial-mass probly do not rob kinetic energy.
Praps the flywheel duznt reech quiet equilibrium. Water passing a post creates eddys downstream, a sort of turbulence. Aether iz a sort of fluid. Iz gravity-mass allways a turbulent process?? Iz inertial-mass or radial inertial-mass allways a turbulent process?? Praps they iz.


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Just ran to Walmart and as I went past their photo studio, I saw a big poster advertizing for help wanted. One of the benefits listed was "Photography Certification". I'm wondering how close that comes to trademark infringement of Certified Professional Photography. The way my lawyer explained it to me (several years ago though) was if the name was close enough as to create confusion in the mind of consumers then it was considered infringement - or some other such legal term.
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Thanks for the heads up. I'm kinda surprised they haven't done this before now. One thing it tells me is that our certification process must be making waves around the industry. Imitation is the highest form of flattery. To be honest with you I'm not a big fan of state organizations certification programs either. It becomes redundant and confusing. I know PPA now has a program of multiple certifications and frankly I think it just dilutes the designation. I know it is supposed to seperate the disciplines but I'm certified period. Not a certified senior portrait photographer or certified wedding photographer or certified banana photographer etc. I don't think Wal-Mart certified will be much use outside their own studios. I can see them holding it over one anothers heads but so few of them work there for more than six months that I doubt that it will have much clout even in their own shops. If consumers can't distinguish between PPA Certified and Wal-Mart Certified than we are in trouble.
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Hi Holly;
The Walmart in my town has no "portrait studio". The next time I'm near a town where the Walmart has one I'll casually ask about it. Now that PPA joined all other professions that have certification, we have more clout. Once I get some info I'll talk to PPA about it.
Hi David;
The only state that I know of with their own certification is Ohio. They had it first and PPA got the idea from them. Here in Pa., we have a group of C.P.P.'s but we meet for programs and speakers. I am a liaison and proctor the exam for PPA but otherwise our state has nothing to do with it. If you know of other states, besides Ohio, that have their own certifiction please let me know.
D. Craig Flory PPA Certified, Cr.Photog, PPA C.P.P. Liaison, ASP
This may not be the place to ask this but here goes anyway. I am very new to the forum. I will graduate on Saturday with my associates degree in portrait photography. How do you go about becoming certified through PPA?
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I am a member of the Associated Professional Photographers of Illinois. I have never looked into it because I think my PPA Cert is more valuable but on the "About" page of the APPI it says they have a certification program. Now I don't know for sure but I don't think it is a study group. I think it is their own certification. Here is the link http://www.appillinois.org/html/AboutUs.php
Send Craig a private message. He is the most knowledgeable about certification on the forum. I had no idea Ohio's certification was older than PPA's! Learn something new from Craig everyday!
Craig, any company can set up its own "certification" program the same way Microsoft has set up certification programs for Microsoft Office, et cetera. Anyone can become "Word Certified" or "Access Certified" through Microsoft.
It may be possible to force Wal-Mart to asterisk it with "Not associated with Professional Photographers of America" or something like that.--Elephants can swim...
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I may be way off base here but I was under the impression that Certification for photographers was no longer specific to PPA that anyone anywhere can become certified now as long as they met the requirements ( Passing the test, image submission).
If I am wrong please correct me on this.
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Having been involved on the Board of Directors during the time the Certification prograpm was revamped, I can tell you that one of the NOCA (National Organization of Credentialing Associations) guidelines is that there has to be a separation between the credential and the credentialing association. Microsoft does not run the Microsoft credentialing program. That is why the PPA Certified program had to be spun off under the leadership of a new association and was made available to non-PPA members. While PPA, through the Board of Directors, has representation on the Certification Board, it is a separate entity outside of the PPA governing body.
This being said, I am at a loss to explain how or why the current Board of Directors at the June meeting could vote to eliminate usage of the PPA Certified logo and the term PPA Certified, by September 1, 2007, in favor of the "generic" term Certified Professional Photographer or CPP. This would be like Microsoft Certified being reduce to the term "Certified Database Professional". PPA has spent millions of dollars in brand recognition and now is eliminating that brand from a very popular consumer awareness program. In addition, as of Sept 1 of this year, the recognition of PPA Certified will no longer be used in any PPA publications. The Degree recognitions will once again come first, followed by the generic term CPP.
Just a little FYI
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08-08-2006, 01:19 AM #9Originally Posted by Holly Howe
CALL PPA STAFF and inform them. A free call....
Certainly Al Hopper would tell you who to contact.
To the one who wants to become "Certified", there is a section of www.ppa.com to anwswer all your questions. A forum is not necessarily the place to get totally correct and complete answers.
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It is no secret that homes are ever-increasing hotbeds of new technology such as set-top boxes, game consoles, wireless routers, home automation devices, tablets, smart phones, and security cameras. This innovation is breeding heterogeneity and complexity that frustrates even technically-savvy users' attempts to improve day-to-day life by implementing functionality that uses these devices in combination. For instance, it is impossible for most users to view video captured by their security camera on their smartphone when they are not at home. Heterogeneity across devices and across homes also makes it difficult to develop applications that solve these problems in a way that work across a range of homes.
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- Blase Ur, Jaeyeon Jung, and Stuart Schechter, Intruders Versus Intrusiveness: Teens' and Parents' Perspectives on Home-Entryway Surveillance, in 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2014), Ubicomp, 15 September 2014.
- Sarah Mennicken, A. J. Bernheim Brush, Asta Roseway, and James Scott, Exploring Interactive Furniture with EmotoCouch, in Adjunct Proceedings of ACM UbiComp 2014 (videos track), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, 15 September 2014.
- Sarah Mennicken, A. J. Bernheim Brush, Asta Roseway, and James Scott, Finding Roles for Interactive Furniture in Homes with EmotoCouch, in Proceedings of HomeSys 2014, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, 13 September 2014.
- Trinabh Gupta, Rayman Preet Singh, Amar Phanishayee, Jaeyeon Jung, and Ratul Mahajan, Bolt: Data management for connected homes, in Proceedings of NSDI, USENIX, April 2014.
- Trinabh Gupta, Amar Phanishayee, Jaeyeon Jung, and Ratul Mahajan, Towards a storage system for connected homes, Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware, November 2013.
- A.J. Bernheim Brush, Evgeni Filippov, Danny Huang, Jaeyeon Jung, Ratul Mahajan, Frank Martinez, Khurshed Mazhar, Amar Phanishayee, Arjmand Samuel, James Scott, and Rayman Preet Singh, Lab of Things: A Platform for Conducting Studies with Connected Devices in Multiple Homes, in UbiComp 2013 Adjunct Proceedings, ACM, September 2013.
- Blase Ur, Jaeyeon Jung, and Stuart Schechter, The Current State of Access Control for Smart Devices in Homes, in Workshop on Home Usable Privacy and Security (HUPS), HUPS 2014, July 2013.
- A.J. Brush, Jaeyeon Jung, Ratul Mahajan, and Frank Martinez, Digital Neighborhood Watch: Investigating the Sharing of Camera Data Amongst Neighbors, in CSCW 2013, ACM, February 2013.
- James Scott, A.J. Bernheim Brush, and Ratul Mahajan, Demo Abstract: Augmenting Homes with Custom Devices using .NET Gadgeteer and HomeOS, in Proceedings of BuildSys 2012, ACM, November 2012.
- AJ Brush, Jaeyeon Jung, Ratul Mahajan, and James Scott, HomeLab: Shared infrastructure for home technology field studies, in Workshop on Systems and Infrastructure for the Digital Home (HomeSys), ACM, September 2012.
- Jason Croft, Ratul Mahajan, Matthew Caesar, and Madan Musuvathi, Back to the future: Forecasting program behavior in automated homes, no. MSR-TR-2012-131, May 2012.
- Colin Dixon, Ratul Mahajan, Sharad Agarwal, AJ Brush, Bongshin Lee, Stefan Saroiu, and Paramvir Bahl, An Operating System for the Home, in NSDI, USENIX, April 2012.
- W. Keith Edwards, Rebecca Grinter, Ratul Mahajan, and David J. Wetherall, Advancing the State of Home Networking, in Communications, ACM, 1 June 2011.
- A.J. Brush, Bongshin Lee, Ratul Mahajan, Sharad Agarwal, Stefan Saroiu, and Colin Dixon, Home Automation in the Wild: Challenges and Opportunities, ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, May 2011.
- Colin Dixon, Ratul Mahajan, Sharad Agarwal, A.J. Brush, Bongshin Lee, Stefan Saroiu, and Paramvir Bahl, The Home Needs an Operating System (and an App Store), in HotNets IX, ACM, 20 October 2010.
- Towards a storage system for connected homes
Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS), Oct 2013
- Accelerating innovation in home technology
Workshop on Home Usable Privacy and Security (HUPS), July 2013
- The Current State of Access Control for Smart Devices in Homes
Workshop on Home Usable Privacy and Security (HUPS), July 2013
- Digital Neighborhood Watch: Investigating the Sharing of Sensed Data amongst Neighbors
Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW), Feb. 2013
- HomeLab: Shared infrastructure for home technology field studies
HomeSys workshop, Sep 2012
- Enabling smarter homes for everyone
Seminar at USC, Sep 2012
- An operating system for the home
USENIX symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Apr 2012
- Towards commodity smarthomes
Seminars at Duke University, ETH (Zurich), and MPI-SWS (Saarbrucken, Germany), Oct-Nov 2011
- Design for the "uninterested" user
IEEE Computer Communication Workshop (CCW), Oct 2011
- View the home as a computer
IEEE Computer Communication Workshop (CCW), Oct 2011
- Home automation in the wild: Challenges and opportunities
ACM conference on Computer Human Interaction (CHI), Apr 2011
- The home needs an operating system (and an app store)
ACM SIGCOMM HotNets workshop, Nov 2010
- Beyond the super-rich and the super-geeks: Smart homes for the rest of us
ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Home Networks (HomeNets), Aug 2010
Selected media coverage
- HomeOS: Microsoft Works on Bringing Smart Homes to the Masses, Time TechLand, Apr 2012
- Microsoft forges ahead with new home-automation OS, CNET, Apr 2012
- Microsoft's Smart House: Microsoft Research presents 'HomeOS', Technology Review, May 2012
- Microsoft HomeOS merges the smart home and smartphone, Gigaom, Apr 2012
- Microsoft Is Building An Operating System To Run Your House, Business Insider, Apr 2012
- Microsoft Research wants to automate your house, introduces HomeOS, Engadget, Apr 2012
- Microsoft's HomeOS brings smarter homes, blue hallway of death, VentureBeat, Apr 2012
- Microsoft continues to push for home-automation OS, Electronista, Apr 2012
- Microsoft Releases HomeOS, Hopes It Powers The Smarthome Of Your Dreams, Fast Company, Apr 2012
- Microsoft's 'HomeOS' automation platform detailed in research paper, The Verge, Apr 2012
- Microsoft forges ahead with its campaign to automate your home, The Next Web, Apr 2012
- Microsoft tests "smart home" waters with HomeOS, Gizmag, May 2012
- Microsoft Planning Home Invasion, Geeks are Sexy, May 2012
- Microsoft HomeOS: An Operating System For The Home, May 2012
- Microsoft's HomeStore: Home automation, with an iPhone-inspired twist, ZDNet, Oct 2010
- A.J. Brush
- Ratul Mahajan
- Danny Huang
- Jaeyeon Jung
- Ray Matharu
- Amar Phanishayee
- Arjmand Samuel
- James Scott
Alumni and other contributors
- Sharad Agarwal
- Victor Bahl
- Colin Dixon
- Evgeni Filippov
- Michel Goraczko
- Trinabh Gupta
- Bongshin Lee
- Frank Martinez
- Khurshed Mazhar
- Kirk Olynyk
- Menaga Raghu
- Stefan Saroiu
- Peter Stern (logo design)
- Brian Zill
Related events
- HomeSys 2013 workshop, Sept 9th 2013 at UbiComp2013
- Workshop on Home Usable Privacy and Security (HUPS), July 2013
- ACM Workshop on Systems and Infrastructure for the Digital Home (HomeSys), Sep 2012
- ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Home Networks (HomeNets), August 2011
- ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Home Networks (HomeNets), September 2010
- UW MSR Summer institute: Unraveling the technological knot in homes, July 2009


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(Updated at 4:00 p.m.) About half a dozen Arlington residents have woken up to find their car up on blocks over the past month.
Arlington County police have been responding to a seemingly increasing number of wheel thefts. Thieves have been been stealing the wheels — rims, tires and all — from parked vehicles in the middle of the night. So far, all of the thefts confirmed by ARLnow.com have taken place in south Arlington, but a tipster reported a "rash of wheel thefts" in the Madison Manor neighborhood of north Arlington in late October.
The most recent incident was reported Monday, Dec. 3. Two vehicles — a Dodge Challenger and a Dodge Magnum — had wheels stolen on the 2700 block of S. Veitch and S. Lang Streets. Meanwhile, two SUVs in the Riverhouse apartment parking lot on S. Joyce Street have had wheels stolen since the beginning of November. And a car on the 4700 block of Arlington Boulevard had two wheels stolen during Hurricane Sandy.
Police say they don't have much to go on this point.
"We don't have a very good suspect description right now," said Arlington County Police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck. "But we know it's more than one person."
Sternbeck said the suspects are likely driving a vehicle large enough to haul a set of four wheels, possibly a van or a truck. Residents should be on the lookout for suspicious vehicles or activity in their neighborhoods at night, he said.
Police say vehicle owners can protect themselves by using lug nuts or wheel locks, and by parking in well-lit and high traffic areas. If given the choice of parking in a garage or outside, police recommend parking inside the garage.
"An ongoing goal of ours is to prevent this," Sternbeck said.
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The Jonas Brothers have confirmed they are splitting up after weeks of speculation about the future of the band.
Rumors the brothers were preparing to go their separate ways were sparked when they axed their U.S. tour earlier this month.
The sibling band has now confirmed the split, with Kevin Jonas telling People.com, "It's over for now." The brothers told People the breakup was unanimous and came after Nick Jonas told his brothers in a meeting earlier this month that he felt "trapped."
Nick Jonas adds, "It's really hard to say 'forever'… We're closing a chapter, for sure."
The New Jersey brothers formed the band in 2005 and built a fan base through their association with the Disney Channel.
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Tunable MEMS Capacitor
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In an electrostatically tunable parallel plate capacitor, the distance between the two plates can be modified by a spring, as the applied voltage changes.
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In America
|Release Date: November 26, 2003
|Running Time: 103 mins.
|MPAA Rating: PG 13
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|Genre: Drama, Romance
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Summary:To begin all over again is a classic American dream. But it is remarkably hard to do, as Irish immigrants Johnny and Sarah discover when they hit New York City, with their two spunky young daughters, in the mid-1980s. In pursuit of a dream, the family uses ingenuity and sheer strength of will to make the most of their new life. With no cash to spare, Johnny and Sarah settle into a chaotic New York tenement and attempt to turn the dilapidated setting into a true home. From dragging an iffy-looking air conditioner across Manhattan to finding make-do jobs, nothing comes without a fight for the couple. And yet, as they see America as rife with challenges, dangers and weirdness, their daughters s... Full Summary >>


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The royal site at Aranjuez, appears as a peaceful oasis on the banks of the Tagus. The palace, embellished by the Bourbons in the 18C, houses a majestic staircase and a large number of decorated rooms that echo the design of Versailles. Outside, there is a magnificent formal garden embellished by sculpted fountains. The palace's shaded avenues are a popular place for a stroll on Sundays for Madrileños escaping the Spanish capital.
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Reales Sitios
E - 28300 Aranjuez
The estate dates back to the 14C when it was used by the Catholic Monarchs. Carlos V enlarged the domain, but the present palace can be attributed to Felipe II who called on future architects of the Escorial to erect a new palace and gardens. In the ..
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Located at the end of the prince's garden, the neo-Classical Casa des Labrador, is the result of one of Charles IV's whims, and bears witness to the refinement of the Bourbon court in Spain. The interior is a remarkable example of 18C decorative art,..
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calle de la Reina E - 28300 Aranjuez
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This attractive hotel is less than 5 minutes' walk from the gardens and Royal Palace in Aranjuez. All of the rooms have air conditioning, satellite TV, free internet, and a private bathroom. The Hotel Jardín de Aranjuez has an Irish-themed bar-resta..
Hotel Mercedes
Carretera Madrid, 15 E - 28300 Aranjuez
Situated in the historic centre of Aranjuez, this hotel is set 200 metres from the city's Royal Palace. Use it as a base to visit the sights before relaxing in its seasonal outdoor swimming pool. The Hotel Mercedes has a free private car park and fu..
Barceló Aranjuez
Plaza de la Unesco, 2 E - 28300 Aranjuez
Barceló Aranjuez is located next to Jardín Golf Course in Aranjuez, 47 km from Madrid. It offers a large wellness centre, 6 paddle courts, an outdoor pool and golf course views. The air-conditioned rooms at Hotel Barceló Aranjuez feature parquet flo..
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Casa Pablo
Almíbar 42 E - 28300 Aranjuez
A welcoming restaurant with a profusion of wood and a decor that pays homage to the world of bullfighting. Very popular public bar as well as three well-appointed dining rooms.
Barceló Aranjuez
pl. de la Unesco 2 (urb. Ciudad Jardín de Aranjuez) E - 28300 Aranjuez
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A long standing, family-run restaurant in which the main dining room, crowned by a beautiful wood ceiling, is on the first floor. The chef offers updated traditional cuisine, in which locally sourced vegetables feature strongly.


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Ban deeply disappointed after alleged Somali rape victim, reporter receive jail sentences
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his deep disappointment over the one-year sentences handed down today in Mogadishu against a woman who alleged she was raped by members of the Somali security forces and a journalist who interviewed her.
"The Secretary-General urges the Government of Somalia to ensure that all allegations of sexual violence are investigated fully and perpetrators are brought to justice," his spokesperson said in a statement.
"Above all, it is essential that the rights of the alleged victim and the journalist to a fair and transparent judicial process, including the right of appeal, are fulAbove all, it is essential that the rights of the alleged victim and the journalist to a fair and transparent judicial process, including the right of appeal, are fully respected.ly respected," he added.
Last month, Somali authorities arrested the woman – who claimed she was raped in September by armed men in government uniforms while living in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) – and the journalist who interviewed her, as well as the person who introduced them. Two other individuals have also been charged in connection with the case.
The journalist, Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim, was charged for offending the honour of a State institution and for filing a false report in spite of never having published his interview, while the alleged victim was charged for offending the honour of a State institution.
"The United Nations has repeatedly expressed alarm over reports of pervasive sexual violence in IDP camps in and around Mogadishu," said the statement. "These crimes are underreported because of risks to victims, witnesses and family members, as well as of intense stigmatization. It takes extraordinary courage for survivors to come forward."
It added that Somalia is emerging from a long and difficult period of instability, with representative institutions and a new Government that has made a commendable commitment to uphold human rights and the rule of law for all.
"This journey must begin with a solid foundation based on respect for human rights, freedom of expression and fair judicial process."
The UN Political Office in Somalia (UNPOS) as well as the Secretary-General's Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura, had spoken out in recent weeks about the case, urging that the alleged crimes be investigated and that a fair judicial process be ensured.


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Versa-Tire Large Repair Kit
Versa-Tire safely and permanently repairs any size puncture on any size/ply tire
Save money by repairing tires instead of replacing them. Versa-Tire material won't break down or "weep" over time like other rope plugs – repairs last the life of the tire! It's even government tested and used by the United States Department of Defense since 1966. Kits include everything you need to make repairs. Features adjustable injection needle tool that repairs higher ply tires for heavy applications. Great for professional repair shops and large scale fleets. USA made.
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Chevrolet C-10 Exterior Makeover - From Hand-Me-Down To HandsomeWritten by on June 21, 2010 DIY Weekend C-10 Makeover
I think it would be safe to say that most of us reading this who have a classic truck have a truck that's considered a daily driver. Sure there are the restos and high-dollar custom builds, but honest old trucks still probably outnumber the "nice" ones, right? My '72 C-10 is definitely a daily driver both in its mechanical state (a good thing) and in the looks department (a bad thing). Even though it's been the guinea pig for plenty of tech articles here and is actually almost "done," the exterior still looks like it could be a yard workers truck! Despite all the suspension, brakes, and drivetrain stuff I've done to it, its expanded foam/Bondo filled (really) rust holes are still covered in spotty white rattle can primer, which looks great with a wadded up rear bumper, broken grille, andfaded/oversprayed/cracked marker lenses ... not.
Well, I finally got sick enough of the truck's fresh from the junkyard look that I bought a few items from Brothers Truck Parts to make it look like it isn't waiting to be hauled off for a tax deduction. I didn't want to even start getting crazy with body and paint yet (even though I should) since I'm trying to finish the Bumpside, but since the LS swap I have been driving the truck quite a bit and wanted to be a little more proud of what's on the outside to go along with all my other hard work inside/beneath. So, a new grille, grille surround, headlight bezels, marker lights all around, taillight lenses, bumpers, and necessary hardware were ordered, and I set aside a weekend to tackle the small exterior beautification project. I also added a passenger front fender and inner fender to the list since now would be a great time to replace these items with the all too common battery-side rot.
Most of the items on the list are really easy to replace like marker lights. Two screws and twist the lightbulb back into place and voilà! I did, however, opt to go for the Cheyenne-style deluxe side marker lights to add a bit of class to my plain Jane. Just be sure to order new screws and such if yours are crusty. The hardest part was probably fitting the new grille inner to the new grille surround. Not because it was that hard, but because it should almost be a two-person job because of the size of the grille. That and just taking the time to line up all the rivet holes in the grille with the ones on the stock brackets takes a little bit of patience. Also, some trimming on the inside of the grille surround at the fenders might be required to avoid paint scratches, but it seems like it might vary truck to truck. The bumpers went on without a hitch (Brothers has those too!), which included new brackets and gravel pans in the rear as well as the license plate box and lamp. The new bumpers made a big difference in the "wow" department for sure.
Had I not replaced the fender and inner fender the rest of this stuff could have been done in a day, but I had to add some rattle can white primer to the fender, which led to touching up a bunch of other areas on the truck and spread into another day of working on it. By Sunday afternoon the truck was ready to roll-in style. Summer is here. Don't put something like this off any longer; it's so simple and produces great results!
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Overall the front of the '72 doesn't look that bad, but it doesn't look that good either! Now that the truck is pretty much done except for body and paint I wanted to make it look more presentable while driving it because I have no idea when or if it'll get painted.Like most old C-10s that have been on the road for their whole life the grille piece by the hood release is broken, and there is a big crack running up and down the whole grille. The surround is scratched here, dented there, and is just kind of beat when you look closely, but not for long.Just about every marker light lens on the truck is faded, chipped, cracked, broken, held on with rusty screws, and has overspray on it. Again, these aren't hard to replace and are pretty affordable, but makes a big difference overall when they look nice-even on an otherwise shabby truck like mine.All this stuff has to come off and then on the frontend, the bumper and front parking lights are first. Even though the front bumper mounts basically to the frame horns, there are two small brackets that need to be saved for the new bumper. Don't forget to swap your license plate too.There are a bunch of bolts and screws that hold the grille assembly on the truck and some are a little tricky to get to like the lower ones on the sides. For those with nice paint, take all necessary precautions to save your paint before removing the grille.This fist-sized rust hole directly under the battery is one of the reasons I wanted to replace the fender. Sure you can cut it out and weld in a patch panel, but fenders aren't that expensive.There was also rust holes in the front of the inner fender too so I replaced it as well. Surprisingly, there were only a few holes that needed to be opened up a little to get the new tin to line up.Look ma, no rust! Not ever having had the frontend apart on the truck I hadn't anticipated removing some of the stuff to get the fender off like the cowl vent panel. Once it was off, I had a hard time not sanding and adding a nice coat of primer to parts while it was there. If you have any fender mounting clips or bolts that are mising or broken be sure to add them to your shopping list.
All the heads of the stock rivets can be carefully drilled off using a larger drill bit. This helps to avoid damaging the stock brackets or oblong the holes.Here is the aforementioned hardware kit for the grille. The black rivets are for the black area around the headlights. The plastic inserts and small screws are for attaching the inner to the surround.Getting the plastic inserts to go through the backside into the soft aluminum surround was trickier than I had anticipated-especially by myself. Another set of hands to just hold the grille is recommended. I found that two sets of locking pliers like these positioned as close as possible to the edge of the insert so the aluminum wouldn't distort. If it does gently tap it squarely with the edge of a large flat blade screwdriver, then insert the screw and carefully tighten.I went ahead and reattached the stock grille side brackets to the fenders before riveting them to the new grille just to make sure it all fit properly.The new grille assembly actually fit pretty good and only needed a small amount of trimming on the inside edge where it fits on the fender cap on the new fender. You may want to tape this area up on any painted fenders until everything is fit. Another set of hands would be good here too.Using a skinny tapered punch you can line up the rivet holes and just set the rivets in. Try and make sure as many as possible line up before riveting the grille in place.After all the rivets were done and the grille hardware tightened down it was time for the new headlight bezels to go on. Things are really starting to look good now!
Same goes for the side marker lights. Before you start make sure all the lightbulbs work. I removed the standard issue markers and opted to replace them with the deluxe ones.Like lots of old trucks that were used for work the rear bumper was in serious need of a trip to the dumpster! It was about as straight as a dog's hind leg. Not only was the bumper a mess, but someone who thought they could weld made a mess of the mounts at the frame.Luckily Brothers has from soup to nuts everything you need to fix or replace anything pertaining to the rear bumper like brackets, license plate light and box, stock-style bumper bolts, and even gravel pans.After the original mounts were cut off and the weld ground off, the new replacement parts bolted right on. These gravel pans help keep rocks that get kicked up by the tires from reaching the tailgate.What a difference a few days makes! Even though the body still needs some help, this ugly duckling is finally coming into its own. A little shine coming from the bumpers, grille, and wheels almost makes you want to do a double take on this daily driver. See what easy projects Brothers has for you and your Chevy.


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Summary:Maya's life seems blessed--the boys can't resist her charm and beauty, and she has a promising academic future; yet, somehow, she still feels alone. Jared's is also blessed with ease. The two begin to flirt and date but on one night things move too far too fast and Maya tries to pull away--but he won't let go. After this violation, Maya breaks away from everything familiar. She enters the new semester transformed: bold and dynamic, in a world that suddenly seems small and protected to her. She vows vengeance on her attacker. She will be in control.


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Whether you say danke, merci, arigato or grazie, the meaning of "thank you" stays the same in any language. This January, which is National Thank You Month, say thanks to someone in your life with a little something special to let them know they're appreciated.
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Born on March 7, 1971 on Scott Air Force Base near Belleville, IL, Sarsgaard was raised an only child in a Catholic family that moved around the country numerous times, due to his father's work as an Air Force engineer. When he was young, Sarsgaard aspired to be a soccer player and took ballet after learning football players took dance to improve their game. When he attended Fairfield College Preparatory School in Connecticut, Sarsgaard was exposed to the film world courtesy of the Jesuit priests who exposed students to foreign cinema like the Italian neorealists of the 1950s. Meanwhile, too many concussions playing soccer forced him to pursue other interests, which he found in writing and l... Continue Bio >>
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A cowboy hat worn by Hollywood actor John Wayne sold for $37,500 at an auction.
The camel-colored felt headwear was used by the legendary actor in six major Western movies from "The Comancheros" in 1961 to "The Undefeated" in 1969.
"John Wayne, 'Comancheros'" is written in black marker underneath the front brim. His stage name is also written on the leather sweatband alongside the number "#3".
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ST. LOUIS Co. (KSDK) - A Spanish Lake woman has been sentenced to prison time on second-degree murder charges.
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I guess I forgot to post some pictures of the mule deer I shot with a bow this past year. I was on a solo, public land bowhunt.
To make a long story...a lot shorter.
My mule deer a 5x4 with a broken brow tine on the right side, otherwise he would be a clean 5x5. What first caught my attention was fronts through the brush, when I spotted him in the binos. I spotted this deer bedded down the afternoon of the fourth day of my hunt. It took me roughly 3.5 hours to get in position for the shot, which started by hiking around and getting on top of him. Then removing my boots and going in with just my wool socks (which is no easy manner out in this terrain). I slowly inched my way towards him, the wind was perfect!!! Once in position I ranged him a bunch of times since he was sleeping in his bed. And I set my slider sight to the correct yardage...he finally stood later that evening....and well....the rest is history!!!
I quarted the buck out that night, and packed his two front shoulders and all my gear, minus my bow, back to camp. I was 3.5 miles away from camp at this point. So I didn't make it back till after 10:30pm. I came back the next day to pack out the rack, and the rest of the meat.
Here are a few pictures to share with everyone.
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