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Rapid fabrication of miniature lens arrays by four-axis single point diamond machining |
Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 3, pp. 3557-3572 (2013)
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A novel method for fabricating lens arrays and other non-rotationally symmetric free-form optics is presented. This is a diamond machining technique using 4 controlled axes of motion – X, Y, Z, and C. As in 3-axis diamond micro-milling, a diamond ball endmill is mounted to the work spindle of a 4-axis ultra-precision computer numerical control (CNC) machine. Unlike 3-axis micro-milling, the C-axis is used to hold the cutting edge of the tool in contact with the lens surface for the entire cut. This allows the feed rates to be doubled compared to the current state of the art of micro-milling while producing an optically smooth surface with very low surface form error and exceptionally low radius error.
OCIS Codes
(220.0220) Optical design and fabrication : Optical design and fabrication
(220.1920) Optical design and fabrication : Diamond machining
(220.3630) Optical design and fabrication : Lenses
(220.4610) Optical design and fabrication : Optical fabrication
ToC Category:
Optical Design and Fabrication
Original Manuscript: November 8, 2012
Revised Manuscript: January 19, 2013
Manuscript Accepted: January 22, 2013
Published: February 5, 2013
Brian McCall and Tomasz S. Tkaczyk, "Rapid fabrication of miniature lens arrays by four-axis single point diamond machining," Opt. Express 21, 3557-3572 (2013)
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Actor Luv Sinha has signed a film project with producer Ekta Kapoor. However, no further details are known as yet.
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Why the hell do you all care about the hair so damn much. It's just hair and there for has no real importance. Now get on with your life.
Yah howl i just sed msn manga
go to google type in msn manga and one piece should be one of the first links.
version 1 is from ch 1-290 Verson 2 is 291-current.
You know Tobi may just be parts of differnt warriors that somone decided to put together such as half of obitos head the fourth's arm's perhaps hakus great grandfathers hand Kimimaros uncles spine...
Has Oda or anyone stated how much longer One Piece the manga and the anime will last. Because it may be my fav. anime/manga it still must end somday and if know it ahead of time it lets me prepare...
Digital Devil Saga 1&2 PS2.
Shadow Hearts 1,2&3 PS2.
Chaos Legion PS2.
The Bouncer PS2.
Wild Arms PS/PS2. (probably does not need to be in list)
Alien Shooter Vengence PC. (It's a guilty...
also damn racing games no matter what cars you use no matter what tracs you race or what power ups you buy its all the same thing hold down either the A,X or R trigger buttonsto go and left stick to...
I partialy piss myself off I never have the will power to finish any of my RPG's but i love RPG's so it's kinda like a visious circle of enjoyment and self hatred.
I think kabuto hell hin. because even though he was working for the downfall of konoha he still was and is a medic and he probably has some type of honor or pride in that fact.
I agree with the Devil may cry 2 thing it was gay. Also 3 was just too F**KING hard.
But also somthing that pisses me the F**K off with devil may cry 3 Ninja Gaiden Black/Sigma and fable and a...
Or he could have a hair lip or gold teeth he had put in when he was younger and now regrets them or even somthing extreme he had his tounge removed and a kunia put in it's place.
So basicly I thought this would be a good idea A thread about games that are realy good and should be played but are not well known.
The last game i played that realy pissed me off was the sonic game for ps3/360.
Sonic was one of my fav. game searies/icon and just to see him fall so far Its disgusting I could not even finish the...
No sauske is not ready for Itachi.
he is not ready and when he finaly is ready somone else will have alredy killed Itachi.
Ok that is racism in it's worse form, and i am not just saying that because its against me BUT because its against me because its somthing i am good at.
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and if it did not help than well Mario can't beat sonic in or on speed.
first its realy not that creapy
Now what would be a friggin awesome plot twist is if Sauske dies. Granted that will probly not happen but still it would be a houge shock.
Hay its back up
no that is mannaphy.
speaking of witch where the hell does phione come in.
2 people fighting a match that nobody cares about anymore.
Look i own all 3 and i am confident that by the begining to mid of 2008 ps3 will be ontop of them all.Wii coming in second and last 360. Now do i have proof no. BUT when you treat video games like i...
i never liked alakazam and metagross is going in my steel team with registeel and jirachi.
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I like the code! Unfortunately, it's largely preaching to the converted. However, that's usually the case; those who most need correction tend to least listen to it. The good thing is that if even a tiny % of people contribute more positively after reading this, then it's been a success! And I'm sure at least that will happen. Also I encourage use of the /ignore and /mute when faced with someone who is being nasty. Better that than get sucked into it and rage back (which let's face it, isn't as satisfying as we'd like )
The Code is a great idea. There have been several times I have added players not because of their exceptional playing, but because of their good attitude and cooperation in team movements. With League of Legends being a team game, it's essential to choose a balanced team if you want to succeed... Not only balance with Champs, but balance with summoners as well. Kudos on reminding us all of the real focus of this game. It's about time someone did.
All hail the code! Those who dont shall see a defeat after another!
Long live the code!!!
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Revenues rose 14 percent to $3.1 billion from $2.8 billion in 2011. Third quarter revenues from Timberland were $499 million compared with $164 million in the same period of last year; the acquisition was completed on September 13, 2011. Organic revenue growth in the quarter was 2 percent (6 percent in constant dollars) driven by continued strength in the Outdoor & Action Sports, international and direct-to-consumer businesses. The Outdoor & Action Sports, Jeanswear, Sportswear and Imagewear coalitions all achieved growth on a constant dollar basis. The sale of John Varvatos impacted VF's organic revenue growth by 1 percentage point in the third quarter. Gross margin rose by 140 basis points to a record 46.7 percent, compared with 45.3 percent in the same period of 2011 with improvements in nearly every business. The higher gross margin also reflects the continued shift in our revenue mix towards higher margin businesses. Operating income was $551 million on an adjusted basis in the third quarter of 2012 and included adjusted operating income from Timberland of $77 million. On a GAAP basis, third quarter operating income was $537 million compared with $430 million in the same period of the prior year. Acquisition-related expenses for Timberland in the third quarter of 2012 and 2011 were $14 million and $27 million, respectively. Adjusted operating margin was 17.5 percent compared to 16.6 percent in the third quarter of 2011. The current quarter's operating margin was negatively impacted by 80 basis points by Timberland. On a GAAP basis, operating margin was a record 17.1 percent. Net income on an adjusted basis was $393 million compared to $321 million in the same period last year. Adjusted earnings per share increased 23 percent to $3.52 per share from $2.87 during last year's same period. 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Norwegian singer-songwriter's seventh album, 'Please,' coming this fall via Mona Records
Sondre Lerche spent a bulk of 2013 creating the mostly-instrumental soundtrack for The Sleepwalker, the well-received directorial debut by his then-wife, Mona Fastvold; on the heels of their divorce, Lerche promises a raw, primal seventh album — a painful turn in a career full of lush pop experimentation. His talent for complex melodies and his laidback Norwegian charm will take a backseat to his need for catharsis, giving space for more noise and darker themes on his forthcoming LP, Please.
With "Bad Law," the 10-track effort's opening song, Lerche gives us a bouncy reverie on broken love which, in his trademark style, occasionally combusts into neat stretches of total disarray. He seeks a physicality in this contrast, riding on the pain of divorce to produce an aggressively simple track that abstains from the pop-craft flourishes of his past. Says Lerche, "'Bad Law' came charged with this urge to play a simple song that would allow people (and myself, I suppose) to ventilate anger and frustration, to get happy, dance like idiots and ultimately feel a little better, despite everything going to shit."
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A pretty woman in a brown and pink striped dress, carrying a cafeteria tray with a salad and cup of chicken noodle soup, sits down directly across the table.
Well now. Maybe this one won't threaten to rape you.
She's got the kind of face you'd expect from a French model, round brown eyes under thoughtful brows, her lips are pale and naturally smiling, and her nose has a slightly Jewish touch to it. She's wearing large spectacles and the silliest pair of wooden craft-class gag earrings you've ever seen on a woman so otherwise cultured. She has a name tag which identifies her as Dr. Di Lucien. Her ID picture is horrible and looks nothing like her.
You stare at her. Perhaps she got lost on her way to the pediatrics ward. She seems like the type to treat children. You wish she'd leave the cafeteria before something ugly happened in her presence. She looks like she would fall apart if someone spoke roughly to her. She doesn't belong here, you think.
"I'm Patricia," the woman says, putting out her hand. "Nice to meet you."
You reach to shake with her, but you're not really keen on using that hand until the muscles in the arm have healed, and so you pull it back and give your left hand instead, which makes for an awkward but successful shaking experience.
"Hi." You say, and realize she's waiting for a name. "I'm Kano," you say. "Are you looking for somebody? Because I don't know anybody here. I can't help you."
"Actually, Kano," The doctor swipes a floret of cauliflower through the ranch dressing on the salad, and your name sounds really strange when she says it, "I was kind of hoping I could help you." She bites the cauliflower in two and munches it.
The idea of eating something that's been polluted by ranch dressing makes you want to throw up. And she's still looking at you, which is another bad sign. It means she's probably waiting to see how you react to her words. This woman actually wants to help you. That makes her an enemy already. She probably can't even find a vein properly, like the first nurse you remember seeing, the one who left junkie-red blotches all over your arm because she kept missing.
"I have a doctor. I saw him this morning."
"Different kind of doctor," She says with that perpetual smile. "I'm a psychologist."
"You're a shrink."
"If you like. I've been assigned to your case."
"Oh well fuck that." You stand up and, leaving your tray untouched on the table, stalk away. She of course follows you.
"Is there some reason why you're upset?" she asks, catching up. She must have left her vegetable tray with yours. Perhaps the two of them will fall in love on the table and, when thrown away, will mix together in the trash.
The bliss of wedlock.
"I don't want another shrink. Benton's bad enough. I don't even need him. And you don't want to deal with me."
"Why?" she asks, and you turn around, ready to say something scathing and painful or super teenage-dramatic, perhaps "Because I'll kill you eventually, and I don't want to do that." But instead, you find the words just come out unbidden: "Cruciferous vegetables. I can never open my mind to a woman who dips them in ranch dressing. Now go away, Dr. Di Lucien. You can't help me." Not the most profound method of doctor dismissal, but it will have to do. Since you're supposed to be this crazy kid, she no doubt has you pegged as a psychotic already. So who cares how you sound?
And you try to stalk off again, but a second time she ruins it by stubbornly refusing to back off in a properly dramatic fashion. It never works like in the movies, you think.
The two of you end up in the corridor between the cafeteria and the recreation room, a face-off at high noon. She has the kind of high-heeled sandals that require a minimal amount of bondage to wear, and the straps go halfway up her calf. Like a Greek goddess, kind of.
Why are you looking at this doctor's legs? She's the enemy. You have to remember that she's Doctor Mengele. Doctor Womengele. Never to be trusted. That innocent face may look angelic, but inside there is a PhD waiting for you to say something meaningless so she can turn it around and convince you that you're insane because your mother didn't sing to you enough while you were floating around in the embryotic soup of her guts.
Beware the quack within.
"I'm sure my eating habits will never come up in conversation, since it's not me we'll be talking about." She thinks she's being so clever. "In fact, I'll take great pains never to mention them as a part of therapy."
"And you're so sure I need therapy." you ask. You try to stick a derisive snort in there for good measure, but it comes out sounding like a stifled sneeze. This... is not going well. "What for?"
"Well, for one thing, Dr. Benton tells me you threatened him with a piece of broken glass when you arrived here." She crosses her arms and regards you with a totally neutral face. Inside that brain, her PhDemon is waiting to pick your reply apart.
"I was having a bad day."
"He said you also told him that he had a demon face, and he was turning into a monster."
This lady's done her homework. You guess there must have been some sort of prodigy in the shinking arts, because she can't be a day older than thirty.
"He was being a dick. And I already apologized."
She makes pity look beautiful, which makes you even more angry at her.
"Stop feeling sorry for me. I don't want your help." You decide that since you've already stomped away in a huff twice, this third time you'll just wear her down until she leaves. You stare at her for a good twenty seconds until you start seeing something--maybe a fish, maybe something else--behind her eyes. It swims lazily from the left eye to the right, inside her head, like her head is hollow and full of water.
Definitely a fish. One of those lacy, mottled-colored ones. A koi. Only smaller. As you gape at her eyes, the koi flips a fin at you. The fish's delicate, ethereal way of saying "Fuck you." You can't help smiling at that. You cover your mouth so she won't see but she's sharper than that angel's face would have you believe.
"What's so funny?" she asks, not in that smart-ass way people have when you make fun of them, but in a way that tells you she wants to be let in on a good joke. "Why are you laughing?"
"There's a fish," you tell her between breaths, "swimming around in your head." And, realizing you just gave yourself away again, you're instantly angry. "It's nothing. Go away. You're fired."
And then it happens: The showdown itself.
"Your father is prepared to keep you here as long as it takes, whether you fire me or not." Bang.
"Fuck him, fuck you, and..." your brain fails to cough up a third target. You fumble for whatever seems appropriate. "And double-fuck whoever put up all these retarded posters. All the fucking kitten shenanigans in this place. Is it like job security to you people? Driving us around the fucking bend?" Dry click: misfire.
Shit. That was stupid. You are stupid.
"Nevertheless," she says, and just looks at you. Bullseye.
It hurts, but you twist your hands into two dry fists and jam them as deep into your pockets as they'll go. It's a good thing you have your street clothes back. It would be even better if you could find a big black hole on this shiny floor and just sort of fall into it. But there's nothing in this hallway but stupid pictures of cats climbing trees and a broken clock (how fucking poetic) and you and your stitches and this fucking psychologist with little swimming fish inside dangerous eyes that don't slide off your own and won't let up.
You would give anything to get in that head and wipe out any memory she has of you. Knowing you, you suddenly are certain, will ruin this woman's life. Fuck it, be dramatic. Everyone expects it.
But she's not as helpless as she looks. Maybe because you're not much of a threat to her like this, or maybe just because she's some kind of super-bitch. A super-bitch powered by koi fish. No, stop that, think the crazy people thoughts when she's not here to read them.
"Fine," you say at last. "When."
"I'd like to get you in before I leave today, if that's all right," She says, and you are pretty sure this whole thing has been a formality. She has shot you down without trying. And there she goes again, she smiles, she's fucking happy to think of seeing you again because she's back on top and you're a patient. She has the advantage on her side and you have... Joe, in his stupid fucking wifebeater and his smug face while he reads those endless romance novels in the hallway.
"But I don't do the couch thing. You want me in your office, I had better not even see a couch."
"I don't have a couch." She doesn't roll her eyes but you can hear it in her voice. "I'll send someone at three to bring you along."
And now she walks off, leaving you in the dramatic silence of your failed attempt at a showdown. She wiped the floor with your skinny ass and all you can think about is those legs, which is just fucked up and makes your empty stomach turn a little. That bounce to her step as she goes off to report to her superiors tells you that you just lost a battle against the one person you honestly need to beat, and you aren't even sure how it happened. It should have been easy but she looked at you.
You unpeel your hands from the pocketed fists (which hurts) and return to the cafeteria because you have nowhere else to go for three hours. Might as well give the guy with your future career a break and dump your fucking lunch tray.
But first you reach over and take a floret of cauliflower from Doctor Womengele's abandoned plate, skim it across the rubber-skinned vanilla pudding on your own, and pop it in your mouth.
Not bad.
You throw out the leftovers and wander the hall like the world's lamest ghost until it's time to visit Dr. Di Lucien.


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Who got rain (so I know who to hate)?
kidding of course.......mostly.
0.02 at home
0.00 at the farm
According to my rain gauge, zip, zero, zilch at my house. However I observed with my very own eyes a few minutes of good rain at the office.
They have just been teasing us....
The heavy rain stopped 5 miles north of us and gave BA an inch or more. My wife had to wait 45 minutes at McDonalds for the rain to let up so she could get the kids to the car and home. It was all moving our way (at the house) and then just stopped and moved directly east. She drove through rain on the way home and then was shocked that it totally stopped when she crossed the river. The .02 we got was just after noon. We got nothing from the major late push.
Since the front has stopped right on us, I like our chances tomorrow.
We received about a half inch of rain. Though, to the North of us (Peggs) I bet they received quite a bit. Also, I suspect there was more precipitation to the South and West. I watched the radar as the storm clouds pretty well skirted above and below us. It looked like the Fayetteville area received some heavy rains.
I suppose the 0.02" at home was better than nothing, but just barely.
I was watching the radar and thinking for a while you might be getting rain, or about to get rain.
Go ahead and hate me if it will make you feel better. This week we've had about 0.90 inches....maybe only 0.88" 'cause I'm just looking at the rain in the gauge and guessing, so it is not precise. It is very humid this morning and we even have dew. I appreciate the rain, truly I do, but I do not want for mosquitoes to start hatching out!
Today you're one day closer to a good rainfall than you were yesterday. We know it has to rain sooner or later. Hopefully sooner.
Seems like last year Jay said something about getting 12" of lightning, I am not sure how much rain 12" of lightning is equal to, but it could equal a lot of fires. I have never heard the remark before and thought it was funny. May we All get the much needed rain.
When I left my daughter's--18 miles from me--at 7 last evening it was raining and rained heavy the whole 9 miles to town, through town and a mile out of town my way. Then it stopped and I drove on barely wet roads to within a mile of home where I drove out of it. Sigh...so only a trace for us. My daughter is dry, but she has had almost 3" in the last two months that we didn't get.
No-o-o-o-o! We want rain this weekend. We want rain next week. We want rain every day. We don't need no stinkin' pattern change that will limit our rain chances.
I think you could buy water by the tanker load and haul in a of it for that $10,000. Maybe not enough to equal 2" of real rainfall.
Let's say the worst happens and no rain falls there. Then what? Do you have more water to haul to the trees or have you emptied every pond already? Is there a water company in town that will sell you water to haul in tankers?
Dorothy, We were in Gainesville one day driving through pouring rain, and as we came through Thackerville it was still raining, and as we went north from there it was raining, and when we got 2 miles from home, it wasn't raining but the streets were wet....and when we got within a mile of home, the streets and everything else were dry. If it is going to rain close to us, but not on us, I'd rather not even know it rained at all.
Parts of western Love County have had more rain this year than we have, but I can't allow myself to begrudge them their rainfall because they're usually a lot drier than we are. With sandy soil that drains fast, the extra moisture doesn't even seem to help them like it helps us here with our clay.
I have to stress I have no real complaints with our rainfall here at our house this year. We are within a couple of inches of average year-to-date rainfall, but it just hasn't fallen heavily when needed. We had all the rain in the world back when it was time to plant cold-season root crops and my potatoes were sitting there with water standing around them and making them rot, but not much rain in May or this summer when the warm-season crops really needed it.
We've hauled about 130,000 gallons and only have about 20,000 gallons left by my estimate. That will allow me to put 100 gallons on each of my 200 young trees one more time if we don't get rain by Labor Day.
Almost all the trees older than 30 years still look really good for now so I hope they will make it regardless. It's all of the young grafted ones that would be mostly dead if I hadn't watered them.
Thirty acres are upland and they are the ones in danger. Only rain can help them now. Too bad my 4,000,000 gallon pond didn't hold water. What a waste.
Chandra got rain yesterday morning and he lives 8 miles from me....(5 as the crow flies)....and I didn't get a stinkin' drop one.
So I'm safe too.
Our trees are dropping leaves like crazy, especially the red-buds. Do you think since they're partially dead already that they'll decompose faster and make good mulch? (yes, I'm grasping for ANYTHING good out of this garden season.)
No rain here yet. But cooler temps. A high of 79 on Thursday. Traveled to Wichita, KS and back yesterday. No sign of recent rains the whole way. The crops are burning up. Moisture now will be too late to make a lot of difference for many of them. Not near as many cattle either. Many have been sold. As my step-dad stated it is very rare that you see that area as dry as it is and especially the whole way from Elkhart to Wichita. It looks like the cooler temps are here to stay at least through next week. Hopefully moisture will arrive soon for everyone. Jay
Scott, Please tell me that the farm got rain! I was kept awake by ridiculous amounts of lightning and thunder here until about 3 a.m., but no rain at that time, and I was watching the radar as rain crept closer and closer to y'all. I hope it reached the farm.
It did rain here after I fell asleep--about a quarter-inch. So, I'd say we got about 12" of lighting, 6" of thunder and a quarter-inch of rain. Despite the lack of sleep, I appreciate the rain if not the lighting and noise that came with it.
What in the world is wrong with your pond? Is the bottom not holding water or is it that enough rain just didn't fall? One of our neighbors put in a huge pond during the drought of 2008 and I am not sure if it has held any water yet. I think he has too much sand and not enough clay. Another one across the highway put in a pond last year, and it held water in winter when it rained so much that my potatoes were rotting, but it didn't hold any this summer---maybe because rain only falls in small amounts that soak into the pond bottom, leaving no surface water in the pond.
I know your pond has to be fixable.
Paula, I can't believe the rain missed you. Maybe you'll get some this weekend.
Leaves decompose fastest if cut/shredded and then kept wet. Otherwise, it can take them a year or two to break down. So, I always rake mine into a pile and run over it with the lawn mower, catching the cut-up leaves and grass clippings with the mower's grass catcher. If you have some grass clippings mixed in with the leaves, they'll decompose faster...and that is what you want. You want them to be a good winter mulch now, but you want them to break down and enrich the soil by next spring too. Fresh off the trees they are likely to be too dry to decompose, so water them after you put them wherever you want them for mulch.
If you want to save this fall's leaves for next spring's mulch to be put on the garden after plants have emerged, chop them up, put them in black garbage bags, use a water hose to put a little water in the bag (not a lot, just want it moist not sopping wet). Then, poke air holes in the bags and pile them up behind the garage or something. By spring, you'll have bags of beautiful leaf mold to use as a composty mulch.
Ezzirah, That sounds like a good plan. Hardwood mulch from native trees is a great mulch.
Larry, That's a lot of rain. It is nice that you would have sent some of it to Scott if you could have.
Jay, It is cooler here too the last couple of days. Only 97 degrees yesterday! With any luck at all, we won't see a 97-degree day again for at least the new few days.
I think that Kansas looks simply dreadful on the drought map and cannot even imagine how devastating this summer weather is for all the farmers, ranchers, market growers and gardeners. I am afraid rain will be coming too late for the farmers and ranchers though.
Can y'all grow winter wheat in Kansas like we do here in Oklahoma or does Kansas get too cold? I can see folks here in southern OK and western North Texas are plowing their fields now to get them ready to plant winter wheat. They have to be ready so they can rush out into the fields and plant the wheat when rain seems likely so it will be able to sprout and grow. Of course, the rain deficits are so high in much of Kansas that it makes you wonder if enough rain could fall to make the winter wheat grow anyway.
The rainfall map since midnight looks pretty good. I'm going to link it below.
Here is a link that might be useful: Rainfall Since Midnight
Dawn, I use to drive an 18 wheeler, I drove all the lower 48 states and a good bit of Canada. I saw what looked like large wheat fields in central Canada. It may not be the same kind of wheat grown here, but it looks about the same. I have seen much more wheat in northern states than I have in southern states. At the time I was driving Canada was shipping a lot of hay south, which seem strange to me, but some may have felt it was easier to sell their hay than to over winter their cattle in a harsh winter.
We missed the heaviest rain, but we did OK. I never could get to sleep. I caught the newscast at 11:30 on my way to bed and they showed storms just starting to form near Ponca City, so I stayed up a bit and watched the line form from there to near Sapulpa. About a 20 mile wide strip got about 1.5 to 2 inches but we struck out until the middle of the night, and then the line shifted and we got an inch before it stopped as the sun came up.
(Some areas of our pond did not get compacted clay on the bottom. It filled the entire 4,000,000 gallons in one day last spring and it dropped 2 inches per day until it only held a small amount.)
Scott, Hooray! An inch is a good start, and if the radar is any indication, you might get more today. I am so glad for you.
At least you know the problem is fixable. A little compacted clay or some betonite, and you'll have a 4-million gallon pond for future drought years.
Larry, That's good to know about winter wheat being able to grow so far north. Maybe if rain returns at the right them, the farmers and ranchers have a shot at a great winter wheat crop.
I don't know how winter wheat is grown in other areas, but here where we live it is a dual-purpose crop. After it sprouts and gets to a certain size, you can let the cattle graze it in winter. Then, at a certain point in spring, you pull the cattle off of it and it grows and forms heads, which you can harvest and sell. This spring, with the prospects of rain being poor in the summer months, some of the farmers then came back after the grain was harvested and cut and baled the wheat straw, but others left it standing. In some cases, fires got the dry wheat stubble. Our worst summer fires often are started in dry wheat fields during harvest time, which is so unfortunate.


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John Paul Jones, Harper, and Questlove played for a packed crowd at the Other Tent. The musicians cranked out Zeppelin hits like "When the Levee Breaks," "Good Times, Bad Times" and "Dazed and Confused." They also covered Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues" and Stevie Wonder's "Superstition."
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Saw the Colts dump the Bengals the other day. No doubt about that one. No chance for the Cats; the young horses ran circles around them. I know it's heresy to say it here but I have to be honest: as much as the Patriots have fed off of the "no respect" card these past six years, the constant smack-down of Peyton's character seems to have made him more determined and resolute to prove the naysayers wrong. Why wouldn't it?? If it works for Rodney and company, it will work for others. Manning sure didn't look like a dead loser against the Bengals on Monday night; he looks serious, like he's on a mission. Will he fall apart again?? Doesn't look like he plans on it. Meanwhile, we're going to have our hands full against the Jags. I'm inclined to say we don't beat 'em. I'd love to be proven wrong, but that's my gut. Anyway, that's why we play the games, isn't it? To see if we can pull it together. Love to see it happen; won't be surprised if it doesn't, though, not with what's happened this year.
Manning really does look good this year and even more focused. Too bad (for him and Ryan) he doesn't have the "horses" on defense to get it done this year. If they last long enough to meet up with the Patriots - we will eat his team up be it in Indy(likely) or Foxboro(doubtful). I say that because I see our running game jelling in the playoffs and see our "D" keep them under control. We will be able to "hold" them to 24 points as we score 34. As for Jax...my gut says we win this - maybe even easy, depending on how many of the injured return. If we get W&W along with what appears to be Rodney and Maroney - we will win by 21 points. My gut is bigger than yours so I win.
Um, it might have helped if the Bengals knew whether they were running ot throwing or just taking a knee so that awsome Colts' defense didn't eat them alive.
Hard to concentrate when when every time a fire truck goes by, you start looking around at your teammates to see whose gettin jiggy.
Ha!! Got to get myself up off the floor after that last one!! :rofl: You're just lucky I've been eating less these days. You bring up a great point about that very porous run D of the young horses. Could be their Achilles heel. Hope so. Question is whether the Pats O can take advantage of that. Jury is still out, imo. As for Sunday, the Jags are rising to their peak. Whether that peak will be higher than the Pats' (nice little ski area in NH, btw, Pats Peak; it's in Henniker -- the "only Henniker in the world", understandably -- but I digress... ) remains to be seen. For the Jags this game is their season. They've got a boatload of incentive to make it their best game of the year, and I've got to think they will play their hearts out. I still have to wonder how much the Pats have got it together. Maybe I need to increase my calorie intake. //
Yeah, strange how the Bengals turned into such purring kitties just when they had their chance to make a statement .... Maybe they're the only ones it could happen to. (???)
Oh, yeah, that's right! And he'll be doing it while running back kicks, playing nickle, being possession receiver, and filling in as "special situation" QB -- all in the span of three minutes. Unique guy.


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Vital StatisticsTitle: Tengen Toppa Gurren LagannFormat: Manga Story: GAINAX Manga: Kotaro Mori Original Publisher: MediaWorks | Release InfoRelease Date: 12/02/09 (volume 3)US Publisher: Bandai Entertainment Inc. Translator: Shoko Ono Length: 186-200 pages per volume MSRP: $10.99 per volume |
Disclosure: This review is based on review copies courtesy of the publisher.
The Story
Okay, I probably don't need to tell you guys the story of Gurren Lagann anymore, so I'll keep this part blissfully short: set in a world where most humans live underground, young Simon is buddies with a slightly older guy named Kamina who is obsessed with breaking through to the surface. One day their underground home is invaded by a giant mech and a busty young woman mid-battle, and Kamina and Simon take their chance to move to the surface-- which is under the control of the Beastmen, who attempt to slaughter any attempts by humans to settle on the surface.The Review
You guys may remember that I reviewed the first volume of this manga and didn't find myself too impressed; it was mostly just a retelling of the same story, with the plot tightened up to move a bit faster.Having now read volumes 2 and 3 though, I'm revising my opinion: if you're someone who just kinda liked Gurren Lagann, you should still probably skip the manga...but if you're an obsessive Gurren Lagann fan, it's worth your money. Especially if you start from volume two (although volume one isn't terrible by any stretch).
There's JUST enough expansion on certain plot points-- for example, Rossiu and Kinon connect earlier to foreshadow their eventual relationship --to feel like you're getting added flavor, not just rehash. You've also got Mori-sensei's hilarious 4koma comic strips between chapters that, at least for me, provided a lot of laughs. Maybe not ten bucks' worth, but they were pretty amusing. There are also a few other little touches-- like the scenario when Rossiu makes Yoko cover herself up with a cloak, in the manga version the cloak has cat ears.
Finally, it really starts to come across in volume three that Mori is a fantastic artist. While it's really hard to compare to the anime in terms of the over-the-top action, he does a fantastic job at rendering some scenes, particularly the ending of the Gurren-dan's battle with Thymilph.
So there you go: if you're more of a manga person but want to know the fuss about Gurren Lagann, the manga will get you through, and if you're desperate for more Gurren Lagann content-- you know, the kind of desperate that gets you flying across the country to see the second movie --you'll enjoy the new tweaks.
But half-hearted Gurren-dan members need not apply.