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From myth to masterpiece, the first street car he ever built will become a legend. The curvaceous Daedalus roadster, hand-built from scratch over a span of 17 years in a two-car garage, is a one-off original design with a hand-formed aluminum body, 302-cubic-inch GMC inline six-cylinder engine, C4 Corvette suspension, Truspoke wire wheels, and custom leather interior. Inspired by European sports roadsters that ruled Sebring, Le Mans, and high-end tracks around the world in the late 50s and early 60s, owner and builder Kris Heil incorporated styling cues from Aston Martin, Jaguar, Ferrari, and Porsche without copying any particular design....

Could use some help please. I make a calendar every year for my dad that includes daily text entries to remind him of birthdays, but also has jokes and puns which he likes. I have always used the iPhoto calendar template in the past, but Apple no longer supports making calendars from iPhoto. Last year the Apple template was available but I had to order the calendar from Mimeo by sending them a PDF of my iPhoto calendar.. Mimeo has a calendar template but it limits text entries to maybe 20 words per date. I have searched all over but...

Today I went with my 6 year old grandson to a  Halloween gathering.at his school. He was instructed, however,  "NOT" to wear a Donald Trump custom. So. I guess it would  be alright  to wear an Adam Schiff custom and the girls could come in a  Nancy Pelosi custom. Now that would scary, really scary?

Ernie Adams tells us about his 1949 Mercury Dwarf Car in this professionally produced video. See the car's features up close. Learn about the building process. Ernie even takes it for a spin around the block. Enjoy!

Looking for someplace that prints notecards with military insignia on the front (one of those things I never got around to after I pinned on, but now need to send attaboys/attagirls on a regular basis to distract the addressee from my atrocious handwriting. Anybody got an idea? Colonel, USAFR

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2010 – The maker of rugged Pelican cases, widely used in the military to protect weapons and computer gear, has launched a program to give custom cases for prosthetics to wounded warriors who have lost limbs. Left to right: Lyndon Faulkner, president and CEO of Pelican Products; retired U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. James King; and retired Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, Pelican Products board chairman, pose for a photo during an April 27, 2010, ceremony at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Fisher House in Washington, D.C., announcing the “Pelican for Patriots program. The Pelican Products company offers...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2007 – A former Army sergeant and his family are settling into a brand new house this month in New Bern, N.C., custom-built to insure his war injuries will not keep him from independent living. Enjoying the first moments in their new home, Eric and Stephanie Edmundson, front, are joined by Donna and Bill Russell of Kit Corp., left, and John Gonsalves, far right, president and Founder of Homes for Our Troops. Photo courtesy Homes for Our Troops  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “Well, we need the house because Eric is in a wheelchair all the...

Customs office on border about to close, officials say October 21, 2006 DANDONG, China -- North Korea has few doors open for goods to be imported from the outside world. This Liaoning province city on the border with the North is a major access point for such goods, but the gateway is shutting on the Chinese side as the international community steps up efforts to isolate the North after its Oct. 9 nuclear test. The Chinese customs office here will shut down for 40 days starting next week, a Chinese border patrol official told the JoongAng Ilbo yesterday. About 80...

So sorry to post a vanity, but I am in an area that I have no experience. I was t-boned by a driver in my 1996 Camaro that was in perfect mechanical and cosmetic condition and has been modified in both areas for show and race. How do I argue diminished value and or loss of raceworthiness? I know about 17c and am in Georgia, but disagree that a 72 Ferrari that is hit has no diminished value due to age or mileage and ditto my poor chevy. Any advice on combatting what I think is coming for a 10...

Massive smuggling trial gets to court By Qin Jize (China Daily) Updated: 2004-06-03 22:34An opening hearing related to the notorious Xiamen smuggling scandal was held Thursday in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, drawing public attention nationwide. The Chengdu Intermediate Court heard from lawyers regarding charges against the Tibet Summit Industry Company Ltd for smuggling huge amounts of motorcycles, auto parts and oil. The firm was registered in the Tibet Autonomous Region but was based in Chengdu. The case is believed to be connected to the notorious smuggling ring headed by mastermind Lai Changxing,of Xiamen, in East China's Fujian...

Front Page of Mexican Daily Newspaper "El Sol de Mexico" Headline: "U.S.A. To Offer Visas to 8 Million Illegals" January 4, 2004 The link to the full article is above, in Spanish. Somebody might wish to Babelfish/translate it.The subheads are, as translated in English: "Bush Announces Migratory Plan...Offer is to 8 Million Illegals...by Carmen Flores, Correspondent"The first paragraph:(From original Spanish) "President Bush of the United States has decided in a migratory plan which will result in in temporary employment for three years for 8 million illegal (immigrants), the majority of whom come from Mexico. This plan needs to be...

Public release date: 5-Nov-2003 Contact: Claire Bowles claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk 44-207-331-2751 New Scientist Oldest human custom EVEN early humans knew a thing or two about dental hygiene. Our ancestors used grass stalks as tooth picks, experimental findings suggest. The teeth of ancient hominids commonly have curved grooves on their roots. It has been suggested that these marks were made by an implement used to pick teeth. But critics of this theory point out that the teeth of today's regular toothpick users have no such marks. Resolving this conundrum has surprisingly wide implications. Similar grooves have been found on fossil teeth dating back...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Available soon: You step into a booth where a 3-D body scanner sends more than 300,000 data points from your body to a computer. Then you select style, fabric and design features from a clothing manufacturer on the Internet and e-mail your body scan. Soon you receive a custom-fitted garment. Thanks to a major donation of software, worth as much as $600,000, from Lectra Systems, Inc., apparel students at Cornell University are the first in the country to produce automated custom patterns for garments. They use a sophisticated body scanner, which generates an individual's detailed measurements from...