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September 11, 2014 - Industry News
The trucking company Central Transport has been cited for five workplace violations by the Occupational Safety Health Administration at its trucking terminal in Rock Island, Illinois following a formal complaint.
Tags: Regulations, OSHA, Enforcement, Central Transport
New U.S. Labor Department figures show the number of deaths in trucking last year accounted for about 10% of all fatal work injuries.
Tags: Fatal Accidents, Highway Fatalities
In this rolling quarter FreightWatch recorded a total of 179 thefts in the United States, with 66 thefts in May, 53 in June and 60 in July.
Tags: Security, Cargo Theft, FreightWatch
September 10, 2014 - Industry News
Annette Sandberg, a former FMCSA Administrator turned consultant, on what will happen with pending safety rules and some troubling tactics the administration is using.
Truck Smart Parking Services Inc. and the infrastructure firm HNTB have struck a deal to take the Truck Parking Information and Management System nationwide.
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September 9, 2014 - Industry News
Driver turnover, a problem that has traditionally plagued longhaul, irregular-route truckload fleets, is now affecting every type of fleet in the industry – and it's only going to get worse, according to industry analysts at investment advisory firm Stifel.
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September 8, 2014 - Industry News
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is extending its test of a new approach to screening new entrants into trucking. It also is adjusting how the screening process works.
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Household goods movers represented by the American Moving and Storage Association are asking the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for an exemption to one part of hours of service regulations.
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September 5, 2014 - Industry News
The Michigan Department of Transportation has activated the Truck Parking Information and Management System on a section of Interstate 94 in southwest Michigan.
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September 4, 2014 - Industry News
Illinois, and more specifically, the Chicago area, just won't turn loose of its reputation for being one of the truck cargo theft crime capitals in the U.S., according to a new report.
Tags: Security, Illinois, Cargo Theft, FreightWatch, Chicago
September 3, 2014 - Industry News
Several lane closures on Interstate 64 in St. Louis are expected to impact drivers heading downtown from Sept. 4-10.
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A jury decided a civil case on Friday that pitted the nation's passenger rail service against one trucking company, with the fleet having to pay more than $4.5 million in damages, according to Courthouse News Service.
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September 2, 2014 - Industry News
Logistics security services provider FreightWatch International said in the second quarter of 2014, it recorded 185 truck cargo thefts in the U.S., down 4.9% from the same time a year earlier.
Tags: Security, Cargo Theft, FreightWatch, Crime
A driving force behind trucking safety at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Deborah M. "Debbie" Freund, died Thursday of metastatic breast cancer.
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August 28, 2014 - Industry News
The California Air Resources Board has fined the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works and DBI Beverage Inc. for environmental violations relating to their diesel fleets.
Tags: CARB, Fines, Air Pollution, California, Emissions, Food & Beverage Fleet
The owners of two trucking companies pled guilty in federal court recently to violating imminent hazard out of service orders issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration more than two years ago.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation is implementing a system for monitoring parking availability at truck stops along a section of Interstate 94.
Tags: Hours of Service, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Truck Parking, Rest Areas, Minnesota, Truckstops
Nearly 35 million million Americans are expected to journey 50 miles or more from home Thursday through Monday, a 1.3% percent increase over 2013.
Tags: Security, Traffic Congestion, Highway Fatalities, Cargo Theft, Holiday Travel
August 27, 2014 - Industry News
Carriers and drivers can now get a violation removed from their CSA scores if a court has dismissed it. Under a system that went live August 23, carriers and drivers can submit proof of dismissal or a not-guilty finding through the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's DataQs portal.
Tags: FMCSA, CSA, Drivers, Safety & Compliance
August 26, 2014 - Industry News
UPDATED -- A coalition of industry groups is putting pressure on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to remove CSA safety scores from public view. In an August 22 letter to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, American Trucking Associations and 10 other groups said the scores are not likely to provide an accurate assessment of a carrier's safety.
Tags: FMCSA, ATA, CSA, OOIDA
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has announced that the Annual Brake Safety Week will run Sept. 7-13.
Tags: Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Brake Safety Week, Operation Airbrake, Brakes
August 22, 2014 - Industry News
As Anne Ferro wraps up her time as administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration this week, the agency has named the agency's chief counsel, Scott Darling, to serve as acting administrator until a permanent administrator can be named.
Tags: FMCSA, People
August 20, 2014 - Industry News
Researchers at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute are in the early stages of an idea to move stop and yield signs from the side of the road into the car itself, where a dashboard screen will automatically alert the driver of what actions to take, if any.
Tags: Information Technology, Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications, Connected Vehicle Technology
The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement with Gaines Motor Lines and its owners that includes paying more than a quarter of a million dollars to resolve findings made by the department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Tags: Drivers, Regulations, OSHA, Hours of Service, Safety & Compliance
August 19, 2014 - Industry News
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is taking another swing at a driver training rule, this time suggesting negotiations to resolve details that sidelined an earlier proposal.
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Welcome to the latest installment of our award-winning "THEN & NOW" series, where we look at what we said then . . . and what we think now. Once again, we prove how much fun history can be.
On February 18, 2013, we discussed Collin Cowgill in 2 Guys Talking: Is Collin Cowgill Really the Next Lenny Dykstra?:
The Mets were selling Cowgill hard, Jimmy, but you weren't buying. You said the following:
By age 26, in his 5th year for the Mets, Cashen traded Dykstra to Philadelphia in one of the most misguided trades in Mets history. Collin Cowgill turns 27 this May. In the sum total of his MLB career, Cowgill has slugged .311 in 196 ABs. That reads for XBH: 2 homers, 5 doubles. For speed: 7 SBs, 6 CS — so statistically he's better off not going at all. Billy Beane, nobody's fool, gave up Cowgill in a trade for 22-year-old prospect, Jefrey Marte.
So the Dykstra talk seems ludicrous.
As much as I enjoy disagreeing with you I couldn't do it that day. I finished up the post with my own Cowgill comparison.
The big problem is that when I hear people talk about Cowgill the guy who keeps popping into my head is Bill Pecota.
Weren't we all just going to love him once?
So the good news, if you can call it that, was that neither of us felt let down by Cowgill.
Yeah, this was a case where we were actually right. Our opinions never changed. Though even I was surprised at how quickly Collins soured on him. Cowgill had a bad week and he was history. He's what I think of as the "ALL-INTANGIBLES" type player. He's awesome in every way that can't possibly be measured — in a sport that measures everything. He hustled, "played the game right," seemed energetic and involved, and so on. Ultimately, I think he would make a terrific camp counselor.
Another guy from that wild, madcap, heady time of free agency signings — ah, the crazy, hell-for-leather winter of 2012-13 — was Andrew Brown.
Mike, you wrote of your first impression:
With Scott Hairston gone we could really use a right-handed bat with some pop. This role looks like Brown's job to lose. My first impression of Brown is that he might lose it anyway. On a team saddled with Lucas Duda, Brown is another plodder. That bat looks slow to me also, slider speed. If you can't handle a major league fastball, you can't be a good pinch hitter. If Brown can't pinch hit, he needs to get cut.
As for my part, I was unfair from the beginning, and in full snark mode wrote on March 1st about my first Brown sighting:
In RF, I saw a big guy lumbering in the direction of a high fly ball — it hung forever, but he didn't get there — and knew I had spotted Andrew Brown. It wasn't exactly a blur. Fortunately, Brown strikes out a lot, so the lack of speed shouldn't be a problem (or: the problem) on the offensive side.
Sigh. I'm such a failed human being.
The truth is, Andrew Brown grew on me as the season went on. Getting back to your initial comment, I think he's the type of player (if not the exact player) I like on the bench, should things fall out that way, though I can't honestly make a logical argument in favor of it (.227/.288/.400 in 150 ABs, with 7 HRs).
A year ago I saw Brown as organizational filler, the type of guy who gets major league at bats on a bad team. One year later my view of Brown is that he is organizational filler, the type of guy who gets major league at-bats on a bad team. I hope he is in Las Vegas in 2014 or in another organization.
Speaking of Vegas, Mr. Brown had exactly three more ABs there and put up these numbers: .346/.432/.660 for an OPS of six bazillion. In fact, he's been tearing up the minor leagues for the past 3-4 years, just a monster. I never really liked the term "AAAA player," and I'd hate to make Mr. Brown frown, but, alas.
All that said, I still kind of like him for unaccountable reasons.
The signing of Chris Young is a positive step in this direction. Cowgill, Brown, Baxter, Niewhenhuis, we had so many guys that saw time in our outfield who were not major league players. Young is an upgrade over these guys.
Ah, sigh. You have to jump through some hoops to get there, abandon all hope ye, but, yes, Chris Young is a professional baseball player with significant upside. Given the dire circumstances, I guess he makes sense. Combined with a carefully orchestrated series of moves, Chris Young could help out in the year 2014 of our Lord. Hopefully at some point the farm system can produce guys who can give us this kind of production. Cesar Puello, my fingers are crossed.


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A Greeneville man was arrested Tuesday on vandalism charges on a construction site, according to a police news release.
According to the release, a project manager for the construction site at 3130 Rocky Top Road observed smoke coming from inside a building, went inside and found Tommy F. Griffin, 47, 131 Mason St., 1-E, passed out beside an extinguished fire on the floor.
Police said there was a burnt place on the floor where the fire had been and the victim told police of a broken window on the building.
Griffin told police he was homeless. Damage to the building was valued at more than $5,000.
Griffin was charged with felony vandalism and trespassing and was taken to the Carter County Detention Center.
He was being held on $4,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in Carter County Sessions Court on Feb. 4 for a preliminary hearing.


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Many may be angered by UEFA, and there seems to be a lack of logic in refusing to use a technology sanctioned by FIFA which can help determine if a goal is really a goal. But UEFA have a point. If this is brought in across the world, where does it stop? The creeping hand of technology in football is one Michel Platini is wary of, and with good reason.
Goal line technology is a good move, but further technology is not. The reason for that is because goal line technology determines a matter of fact – has the ball crossed the line, or not? Conversely, other forms of technology can not decipher other contentious decisions, like whether the ball strikes a player's hand by mistake or whether it is intentional. Or if a foul in the area is a penalty or not.
None of these decisions can be proven with technology. Sure, they can be helped. But they cannot be proven. Such situations would surely only lead to more arguments, rather than less. One team believing that they are due a penalty may use a replay to argue their case more fervently, whilst the opponent may similarly use the video to argue their point. It is all about interpretation.
That is fundamental to football. Decisions over offside and whether the ball crosses the line are clear cut facts. Almost every other decision in the game though, is up to interpretation. This is not tennis, where it can be proven one way or the other whether the ball was over the line.
That is the problem at the heart of technology in sport. It is only useful where the technology can help more than hinder. In football there is the real danger that it would hinder. A referee with video replays under pressure from players to make a decision that is, ultimately, subjective, is a recipe for potential disaster.
Not all decisions are equal, frankly. Being one of the world's oldest sports is why this is the case – there were fewer definites worked into the rules of the game. But those rules are the way they are. Goal line technology is needed because of the need to know if a ball is 100% across the line. Of course it may be less necessary if the ball just had to be in part over the line, but then when the Brits wrote the rules they said it had to be completely past the post. So the irony is that the campaign has been strongest in the place where the daft rule originated in the first place.


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Posted By John Schoonejongen On May 31, 2011 @ 12:43 pm In Uncategorized | Comments Disabled
While the pilgrimage of seven Iowans to Gov. Chris Christie's doorstep Tuesday has raised all the politico's "Christie-for-president" antennae again, the trip may not be playing all that well in the heartland.
But for some of the folks in Iowa, where presidential politics is most local, the feelings seem mixed about the effort to persuade New Jersey's governor to jump into the 2012 race, at least those interviewed for a Des Moines Register blog on the Iowa caucuses. [2]
"We don't need him necessarily," said Republican state Sen. Rob Bacon about Christie. "We have a great lineup."
Bacon went on to say that Christie's East Coast cred might not fly in Iowa, where early 2012 presidential caucuses while have an outsized influence on who eventually becomes the Republican nominee.
"In Iowa, when we hear someone's from out East, we kind of go, 'Hmm, that's nice," Bacon said, while admitting that he wouldn't mind if Christie decided to run for president.
Christie has repeatedly ruled out a run, going so far as to say he's not ready to be president. But that hasn't stopped Republicans from courting him, especially those who tend to back a run financially. And it's that money that bothered Bonita Davis, a Republican from Des Moines.
"It's not up to the big-money donors to decide who they want. It's for the grassroots to decide who they want," she said. "Gov. Christie can stay where he's at. We need good governors where they're at, and I'm really not interesting in him coming in."
But one Iowa radio host says that there is not a "happy warrior feeling" among Republicans in Iowa now.
"The reason Christie has such appeal is the Iowa Republicans are hungry for an alpha politician who will go out and make battle," said Jan Mickelson.
Mickelson's quote led to the best line in the blog, where writer Jennifer Jacobs said some Republicans view Christie "as a beefy, Jersey version of John Wayne."
Regardless of the feelings of Iowans, though, Christie says he's committed to staying in New Jersey, a proclamation which led political expert Doug Gross of Des Moines to declare the businessmen's trip to the Garden State a "fool's errand."
"He's not going to run," Gross said.
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See also, How to Eat Mexican Chocolate and Fear the Swiss
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If you have a brick of chocolate, use that. You can buy this stuff in stores under brands like "Ibarra" and "Abuelita". If you use the store-bought stuff, don't add any sugar.
Step 2: Melt the Choclate
Add a little milk.
Let the chocolate get warm and liquid.
Step 3: Add Milk
The chocolatey-ness of the final beverage is inversely proportional to the amount of milk you add.
Step 4: Add Spices
If you care to, you can also add nutmeg, orange peel, or anything else you enjoy (red pepper, dark chocolate flakes, I don't know - throw stuff in and see if it tastes good)
Step 5: Warm
Step 6: Blend
This will cause the beverage to be foamy and delicious.
If you like having chunks of chocolate at the bottom, you might be able to save some from your saucepan, and add them in, after blending.
I picked up a bar of the ibarra chocolate in the staff lounge. I did not know how to make it. I do now and I will NEVER forget. Yum! Thanks
It is called a molinillo, & you can find them at most Mexican grocers. In a pinch, you could actually use a honey dipper, but you would really have to do it one cup at a time. :3
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I'm so glad to see I'm not the only one still missing ATWTs. I started watching with my Aunt when I was a young girl, she loved, I watched it with her and I got hooked. I have been watching for about 30 years now. My Aunt passed away a few years ago which made watching it even more important to me, it was like I was watching it for her. I even have gotten my husband hooked, he might not admit it but I was watching an espsiode {I have it saved on PVR } and at the end (it tapes a few minutes after the show is over) Days of Our Lives was on and my husband said who are these ppl we don't know them, where is Jack and Carly or Dusty and the cute red hed? I almost feel on the floor, I couldn't believe he knows their names and who goes with who. Then I reminded him they took our show off the air, just when he was really getting into. We watched the wedding together.
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Carrie and Joe are great, hard working people. You'll always have that skill Carrie, you'll know when the time is right to bring big mamma's back in business.
98% of Asian car brands sold in the USA are built in the USA. They don't assemble them over seas and ship them here anymore. Nissan has two plants in Tennessee and one in Mississippi.
my thoughts exactly. Sub standard at it again...
even in a car or suv the driver would have most likely died. The side of those trailers are perfect height for taking peoples heads off if they are driven under at highway speeds.
there is way more to being a QB then just throwing....
unless you are dependent on a life saving piece of machinery, then relax and let them fix the problem. People are so spoiled and take the power grid for granted that when it does fail for a few hours they go nuts.
because Michael Richards was a horrible comic and the industry was looking for a way to run him out of doing stand up comedy. Tosh thrives on this type of attention. Tosh.0 is driven by people doing "look at me" type stuff.
they should build a factory so all of these freeloaders can be employed and afford a vehicle to drive to a grocery store. I'm so tired of hearing about how this is Wegman's problem. It isn't Wegman's responsibility to stay open and NOT make a profit just because some immigrants do not own transportation
hahahaha he heckled some girls who were yelling out dumb comments at his show he in Syracuse....his responses were hilarious. He is insanely funny and quick with his jokes. if you go to his shows, you should expect over the top and CRUDE humor. Look at some of the stuff he gets away with on Comedy Central.....hilarious!
i would be embarrassed to be an athlete for america if I had to wear that
i thought they were inmates when i drove down 690 earlier lol
government control , that's what they care about, not people's lives.
ah yes, my fault, that is Calypso Cay....sorry folks.
rt 81 goes over the entrance to the river, then rt 11 runs between the two restaurants, then about 100 yards west of Castaways is the train bridge....so there are three bridges all with in 1/4 mile
not every concert has to be filled with angry meat heads bashing into each other while trying to consume as many tall boys as possible.
not having it the same weekend as the IronMan would ease some traffic issues on Saturday too
He couldn't have family visit in the hospital to keep him safe but the media is allowed to put a huge headline up on the internet the moment he was released from the hospital. Give the man a break and leave him alone.
how many of you are glenn beck sheeps, i mean listeners?
I worked at Fins and Tails many year ago. Margaret and Tom are good people. They actually care about what they are selling and have many loyal customers. I haven't been in there in a while but only because I live so far away.
eating healthy is a life style choice. most of us who do eat healthy and engage in a healthy lifestyle already know that 99% of restaurant food is bad anyway. Its about making the correct choices when we do go out. I don't eat a double bacon burger at a fast food restaurant but I do enjoy a nice filet mignon with a side of steamed broccoli.


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Recently, an article in the St. Louis Dispatch examined whether or not the wheat industry is ready for biotechnology traits being researched by many public private partnerships, including a Monsanto research program noted in the article.
HIGHLIGHTSPoliceAt 1:06 p.m. Thursday, an officer responded to the 200 block of North Mulberry Street for a report of theft and criminal damage. Someone broke open a gate and took scrap copper, brass and wire. Total...
After a three-week flirtation with a new campaign for the White House, Mitt Romney announced Friday that he will not seek the presidency in 2016.
Change is hard. Most of us struggle with it at times �� some more than others. And then there are the lucky few who seemingly thrive on change, charging into the unknown full steam ahead.
About 100 Chinese families of passengers on the missing Malaysian airliner demanded Friday that Malaysian officials retract their statement that all aboard died, saying that without hard evidence they don't want to start compensation claims.
A new page on Facebook is creating a stir of opinions.
Students at Roosevelt Elementary School celebrated Kansas' 154th birthday by learning about the state's symbols.
The city of McPherson is providing law enforcement with extra support in maintaining good mental health.
On Dec. 6, Mecum Auctions invited 12 students from McPherson College's automotive restoration program to attend its Kansas City auction and to experience first-hand the world of collector car auctions.
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ALBION ŌĆö The Lady Wildcats girls basketball team opened its season with a decisive 63-33 win over Central Noble in Albion.
Though, as Head Coach Brandon Bradley said, the first game doesnŌĆÖt necessarily portray how the season will go, WhitkoŌĆÖs girls had a lot to offer their fans Tuesday night.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) ŌĆö Penn State football coach Joe Paterno will retire at the end of the season, his long and illustrious career brought down because he failed to do all he could about an allegation of child sex abuse against a former assistant.
"This is a tragedy," Paterno said. "It is one of the great sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more."
FORT WAYNE ŌĆö Churubusco was defeated at the hands of two-time defending IHSAA Class 2A State Champion Fort Wayne Bishop Luers Friday.
The Knights took the opening kickoff and drove down the field to score in the first three minutes of the game.
Jaylon Smith capped the drive off with a seven-yard touchdown run to give the Knights a 7-0 lead.
It was the first of SmithŌĆÖs three touchdowns in the contest.
With 7:24 left in the second quarter, a one-yard TD run by Smith made it a 14-0 ball game.
The Columbia City Saturday Basketball League came to a close last weekend.
FORT WAYNE ŌĆö The last two times Churubusco and Fort Wayne Bishop Luers faced off was in consecutive years, 1995 and 1996.
Both times, it was in sectional play.
ŌĆśBusco lost both games by a combined score of 85-7.
The SAC champions are ranked first in Class 2A by the Associated Press.
ChurubuscoŌĆÖs Eagles are ranked 11th.
The Northeast Corner Conference Champions bring in an 11-0 record ŌĆō the first perfect grid slate in school history.
It is no secret the Eagles will try to sustain drives and put up points by letting workhorse Jason Nicodemus do just that ŌĆö work.
TERRE HAUTE ŌĆö A tournament that began with thousands of runners four weeks ago came to a close Saturday in Terre Haute at the IHSAA State Cross Country Meet.
Eight local harriers ŌĆö WhitkoŌĆÖs boysŌĆÖ team and Columbia CityŌĆÖs Samantha Roush ŌĆö had the opportunity to compete against the top runners in the state.
Columbia City sophomore stand-out Samantha Roush placed the highest of Whitley CountyŌĆÖs runners, taking seventh in the girlsŌĆÖ race.
Though Roush improved on last yearŌĆÖs 12th place finish, her goal is to continue to improve next season.
GARRETT ŌĆö The WildcatsŌĆÖ season hit the end of the road, or railroad for that matter, Friday night at Garrett.
After heading into the locker room with a 14-all tie at halftime, Garrett stand-out Todd Frickey scored four touchdowns in the second half to propel the Railroaders into the sectional finals, 42-14.
ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖve always been a second half team,ŌĆØ Garrett Head Coach Ron Frickey, ToddŌĆÖs father and former long-time Columbia City head football coach said.
CHURUBUSCO ŌĆö The Churu-busco Eagles moved to 11-0 Friday for the first time in the schoolŌĆÖs history, beating Madison-Grant 28-20.
With the win, the team is also advancing to the sectional championship at Bishop Luers.
It was one of the closest contests of the season for the Eagles.
Madison-Grant took the opening possession and matriculated down the field on the feet of Cedric Presley, who had two runs of 32 yards on the first drive.
Argyll Tyler Young scored from one-yard out, taking the lead 7-0.
Young and Presley served as workhorses the entire game.
Check out Thursday's edition of The Post and Mail for this week's sectional previews.
Churubusco (10-0) is hosting Madison-Grant (7-3) and Whitko (6-4) is traveling to Garrett (8-2).
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Summer is flying by and it's a good time to schedule some cemetery visits before the winter snows arrive. There are always lots of special events at the local cemeteries come Halloween season, but you don't have to wait til then to get a tour of several of the area's most beautiful and historic cemeteries.
The Chicago History Museum is offering a tour of Graceland Cemetery later this month.
The Chicago Architecture Foundation has scheduled tours of Calvary, Rosehill, Lake Forest, Oak Woods and Graceland.
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A drilling tool for percussive and rotary drilling in advance of a trailing casing tube (20) has a reamer (15) pivotally journalled and an eccentric shaft (12) rearwardly of a centric pilot bit (11). The reamer (15) has an eccentric portion (32) carrying axially directed hard metal button inserts (36-40) grouped within an arcuate angle (V) of a circle sector centered on the drilling axis (C). The inserts comprise primary inserts (36-38) with a radial reach defining the full diameter of the drilled hole and inner secondary inserts (39, 40) closer to the shaft (12). The reamer (15) is pivotable on the shaft (12) between a projected and a retracted position. When projected, the group of button inserts (36-40) ream up the hole from the diameter drilled by the pilot bit (11) to the full diameter of the hole enabling the casing tube (20) to advance. In the retracted position, the drilling tool (10) can pass through the casing tube (20). A duality of inserts (36, 39) leading in the rotational direction act jointly to break rock in a direction substantially tangentially relative to the shaft (12).
1. A drilling tool for percussive and rotary drilling in advance of a trailing casing tube (20), in which tool (10);
a) a pilot bit (11) via an intermediate eccentric shaft (12) is carried by a guide body (18), which is rotatably centered in and by the mouth (23) of said casing tube (20) on the rotational axis (C) of said tool (10) during drilling, and is coupled to drive means (21, 22) in said casing tube (20) for actuation of said tool (10),
b) a tubular reamer has an eccentric protruding portion (32) carrying on one axial face thereof hard metal button inserts (36-40), and
c) the reamer (15) is pivotally mounted on said eccentric shaft (12) between a projected position, in which said eccentric portion (32) with the button inserts, (36-40) thereon are adapted to ream up the hole from the initial diameter produced by said pilot bit (11) to the full diameter of the hole enabling the casing tube (20) to be advanced thereinto, and a retracted position, in which the drilling tool (10) can be passed through said casing tube (20),
wherein said reamer (15) on its eccentric portion (32) comprises a duality of adjacent radially spaced button inserts (36, 39) leading in the rotational direction (50) during drilling of said tool (10) with the radially inner button insert (39) trailing in said direction immediately behind the outer button insert (36), said duality of button inserts (36, 39) being adapted jointly to break rock in a forward direction substantially tangentially relative to said shaft (12).
2. A drilling tool according to claim 1, wherein said button inserts (36-40) on said protruding portion (32) comprise radially outward primary button inserts (36,37,38) defining during drilling the full diameter of the hole, and secondary button inserts (39,40) disposed radially inwardly thereof, said primary and secondary button inserts (36-40) forming a closely united group with the button centers thereof falling within an acute angle (V) of a circle sector extending from said rotational axis (C) and defining the perimeter of said eccentric reamer portion (32).
3. A drilling tool according to claim 1, wherein said reamer (15) on the flank thereof that faces the rotational drilling direction (50) is provided with a groove (52) extending axially in rearward direction rotationally in front of said button inserts (36-40) and adapted to lead away flushing medium and drill cuttings expelled from said inserts (36-40).
4. A drilling tool according to claim 3, wherein said groove (52) forms an axial cutting edge (54) adjacent to and in front of said outer leading button insert (36).
5. A drilling tool according to claim 4, wherein said groove (52) is reinforced by hard metal material along said cutting edge (52).
6. A drilling tool according to claim 2, wherein said closely grouped primary and secondary button inserts (36-40) are outwardly inclined relative to said rotational axis (C), said secondary inserts (39,40) being less inclined and having a somewhat smaller diameter than said primary inserts (36-38).
7. A drilling tool according to claim 2, wherein a supply groove (44) for flushing medium is provided within said reamer (15), a forwardly directed flushing groove (45) extends from said supply groove (44) and opens towards the area rotationally in front of said duality of button inserts (36,39).
8. A drilling tool according to claim 3, wherein a supply groove (44) for flushing medium is provided within said reamer (15) and an inclined axially rearwardly directed flushing channel (47) extends from said supply groove (44) radially in outward direction to the rear of said groove (52) whereby flushing medium ejected through said channel (47) is adapted to enhance removal of flushing medium through said groove (52) by ejector action.
9. A drilling tool according to claim 6, wherein said primary an secondary button inserts (36-40) are disposed with their centers symmetrically grouped within said acute sector angle (V) and comprise three outer primary button inserts (36,37,38) with the intermediate one of them on the plane of symmetry of said sector and two inner peripherally staggered secondary button inserts (39,40) spaced from said plane.
10. A drilling tool according to claim 9, wherein said secondary button inserts (39,40) are spaced in radial direction inwardly of said primary button inserts (36-38) and a separate trailing button insert (41) on said reamer (15) outside said sector angle (V) is set to work any remaining rock in the radial spacing between said primary and secondary button inserts (36-40).
11. A drilling tool according to claim 2, wherein said reamer (15) on the flank thereof that faces the rotational drilling direction (50) is provided with a groove (52) extending axially in rearward direction rotationally in front of said button inserts (36-40) and adapted to lead away flushing medium and drill cuttings expelled from said inserts (36-40).
12. A drilling tool according to claim 3, wherein a supply groove (44) for flushing medium is provided with said reamer (15), a forwardly directed flushing groove (45) extends from said supply groove (44) and opens towards the area rotationally in front of said duality of button inserts (36, 39).
The present invention relates to a drilling tool for percussive and rotary drilling in advance of a trailing casing tube, in which tool a pilot bit via an intermediate eccentric shaft is carried by a guide body, which is rotatably centered in and by the mouth of said casing tube on the rotational axis of said tool during drilling, and is coupled to drive means in said casing tube for actuation of said tool, a tubular reamer has an eccentric protruding portion carrying on one axial face thereof hard metal button inserts, and the reamer is pivotally mounted on said eccentric shaft between on the one hand a projected position, in which said eccentric portion with the button inserts thereon are adapted to ream up the hole from the initial diameter produced by said pilot bit to the full diameter of the hole enabling the casing tube to be advanced thereinto, and, on the other hand, a retracted position, in which the drilling tool can be passed through said casing tube.
The drive means usually comprise a drill string which within a string of interconnected casing tubes carries a downhole drill for direct actuation of the drilling tool by way of impacts and rotation as described for example in U.S. Pat. No. 3,848,683 (FIGS. 6-8) or, when tophammer drive is practiced, has the drill string directly coupled to the tool for actuation thereof. The latter drive is exemplified by U.S. Pat. No. 3,753,470 (FIGS. 1-3). In both drilling applications tools provided with hard metal button inserts of cemented tungsten carbide have been in extensive use for more than a decade. One such drilling tool is described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,440,244.
In drilling with tools of the above type normally the reamer element is subjected to the heaviest load and has a shorter operational life as compared to the other tool elements. It is generally expected that in the average two reamers will be worn out for each expended pilot bit, and two pilot bits for each guide body. It is therefore important that attempts to increase the operational life be directed primarily to the reamer so as to prolong the useful time cycle between servicing and change of worn tool elements.
It is an object of the invention to increase in drilling tools of the above type the life expectancy of the reamer primarily by improving the grouping and rock crushing action of its button inserts. Another object is to gain by the chosen rock breaking action that the produced rock debris tends to become more coarse in grain. Another object in connection therewith is to enable the produced coarser rock cuttings to be removed by more efficient flushing whereby secondary crushing of the debris by the inserts is reduced. A further object is to improve reamer work and flushing during drilling of tough clayey ground. These objects are attained by the features stated in the appended claims.
An embodiment of the invention and a modification thereof will be described hereinafter with reference to the appended drawings, wherein
FIG. 1 shows, partly in section, the drilling tool in its drilling position in front of a casing tube to be driven down concurrently.
FIG. 2 shows the tool of FIG. 1 in retracted position while being passed through the casing tube.
FIG. 3 shows the forward portion of the tool in FIG. 1 seen from the rear.
FIG. 4 shows a somewhat enlarged side view of the reamer in FIG. 3.
FIG. 5 shows on a still larger scale a view from below of the reamer in FIG. 1 seen on the line 5--5 thereof.
FIG. 6--8 are sections in the scale of FIG. 4 seen on the respective lines 6--6, 7--7, and 8--8 in FIG. 5.
FIG. 9 shows enlarged a modified embodiment of the reamer depicted in a side view similar to FIG. 3.
FIG. 10 is a view showing the modified reamer of FIG. 9 from below in a presentation similar to FIG. 5 but also indicating in section the eccentric shaft carrying the reamer.
In analogy with the above cited patent references, the drilling tool in FIG. 1 comprises a pilot bit 11, a reamer 15 and a guide body 18. In practicing tophammer drilling the slightly modified guide body thus would be connected directly to a drill string. In the downhole drive example chosen in FIG. 1 the drill indicated at 22 is connected to be rotated within the casing tube 20 by the drill string 21 in unison with the guide body 18 while delivering impacts to the latter.
The cylindrical guide portion 19 of the guide body 18 is rotatably journalled in and centered by a casing shoe 23 forming the mouth of the casing tube 20 at the lower end thereof. The casing shoe 23 has a somewhat smaller inner diameter than the casing tube 20 and forms at the transition thereto an annular shoulder 24, against which a rear flange 25 on the guide body 18 abuts in order to transmit impact energy thereto so as to drive down the casing tube 20. Straight axial flushing grooves 26, for example three in number, are provided on the guide portion 19 and extend through the rear flange 25 for purposes of expelling flushing medium and drill cuttings from the hole to the interior of-the casing tube 20. At least one of the grooves 26 should during drilling be positioned to receive flushing medium from the broad spacing radially behind the reamer 15. Preferably the guide portion has an annular groove 27 formed centrally therearound for equalizing the flushing medium flow emitted through the axial grooves 26. Flushing medium is supplied via passages 28 in the drill string 21 and guide body 18 and is supplied to the hole via a central passage 29 in the pilot bit 11.
The pilot bit 11 has an intermediate eccentric shaft 12 rearwardly prolonged by a threaded end 13 concentric with the pilot bit 11. The end 13 is received in centered threaded engagement with the guide body 18 and the intermediate eccentric shaft 12 carries pivotally the reamer 15 between a projected drilling position according to FIG. 1 and a retracted position shown in FIG. 2. The drilling position, in which the pilot bit 11 together with the reamer 15 are adapted to drill a hole larger than the outer diameter of the casing tube 20, is defined by an inclined abutment 16 at one end of a ledge 51 at the rear of the pilot bit 11. Abutment 16 transmits via a cooperating inclined lug 17 on the reamer 15 the joint rotation of the drill string 21, guide body 18 and pilot bit 11 on to the reamer 15 and urges the latter axially against the guide body 18 in order to eliminate play during transmission of impact energy therefrom. Upon turning of the drill string 21 180 degrees relative to the reamer 15, the straight rear portion of the reamer lug 17 moving along the ledge 51 is met by an axial abutment 14 thereat, FIG. 3, diametrically opposite to the inclined abutment 16. When brought together, the axial abutment 14 and the lug 17 define the retracted position, FIG. 2, in which the drilling tool 10 can be raised through and lowered down through the casing tube 20.
The reamer 15, FIG. 5, is a tubular substantially cylindrical steel body 30 centered on axis K and provided along a parallel axis E with an eccentric through bore 31 whereby the reamer 15 is pivotally journalled on the eccentric shaft 12 of the pilot bit 11. By the bore 31 the reamer body 30 becomes an eccentric symmetrically disposed with respect to a central plane through the axes K-E and having a radially protruding eccentric portion 32. That portion 32 has a circular crest centered on an axis C coplanar with plane K-E and being the rotational axis of the guide body 18 and the entire tool 10. The crest of the eccentric portion 32 is geometrically faced by an acute angle V of maximally about 36 degrees extending from the axis C and forming therewith a circle sector symmetrically divided by the plane K-E-C. At its crest the portion 32 is bevelled forming an inclined conical surface 33 with axis C as center. Surface 33 carries primary button inserts 36,37,38 of hard metal which are inclined outwardly relative to the drilling axis C and whose radial reach defines during drilling the full diameter of the hole. The primary button inserts, 37, FIG. 6, are preferably inclined 35 degrees relative to axis C and are grouped as close to one another as is permissible with respect to the necessary operational strength for the buttons, by experience at a distance between them of about 1.5 times their diameter. In hard rock it is preferred to have three primary buttons 36-38 on surface 33 as shown, while in softer ground the number can be reduced to two. The outer periphery of surface 33 outside angle V is rounded to conform with the mantle of reamer body 30 centered on axis E. The maximally possible value for angle V is limited by geometrical considerations depending on the size of the full diameter drilled, the necessary size of the shaft 12 for transmitting the impact energy required, and the demand that the primary inserts 36-38 on eccentric portion 32 upon retraction thereof should be retractable through the casing tube 20.
The reamer portion 32 has a plane axially directed front face 34 into which the bevelled surface 33 merges along a circular line centered on drilling axis C. Front face 34 extends from the lug 17 to a diametrically opposed abutment 35 on a axially protruding portion 42 by which the reamer 15 rests against the back of the pilot bit 11, and which extends peripherally back to the lug 17. The front face 34 carries secondary hard metal button inserts 39,40 placed on the same radius from axis C within the sector angle V and staggered radially inwardly of the primary button inserts 36-38. The arrangement for working hard rock will as shown be two secondary inserts 39,40 inwardly of three primary ones 36-38 or, for softer ground, one secondary inside two primary, in both cases in a symmetrical disposition relative to the middle plane K-E-C. To allow for closely concentrated grouping of the inserts the secondary inserts 39,40 have a somewhat smaller diameter than the primary ones 36-38 and their lasting attachment to the reamer 15 is assured by on the one hand inclining the secondary inserts somewhat less, for example only 10 degrees, than the primary ones 36-38 inclined at 35 degrees, and on the other hand by disposing the secondary inserts radially at a sufficient distance from the inner boundary of the bevelled surface 33.
The flushing passage 29 within the eccentric shaft 12 of the pilot bit 11 has a through crossbore 43 through which flushing medium is led to an inner supply groove 44 in the eccentric bore 31 of the reamer 15. Therefrom are branched two axially forwardly directed flushing grooves 45,46 extending to the front face 34 and opening towards respectively the abutment 35 and the lug 17. From the supply groove 44 there preferably extend two rearwardly directed oblique channels 47,48 to the diamwetrically somewhat reduced rear portion 49 of the reamer 15. One of them, 47, FIGS. 4, 5, emerges some distance behind the area of the front face 34 between the inserts 36,39 and the abutments 35,14. The other, 48, emerges also in rearwardly spaced relation at the plane of symmetry, FIG. 6. Through the channels 47,48 flushing medium is emitted to produce ejector action whereby flushing of the hard metal inserts 36-40 is enhanced.
During drilling the tool 10 rotates counterclockwise when viewed from the underside in FIG. 1 as indicated by the arrow 50 in FIG. 5. The pilot bit 11 drills, preferably likewise by the aid of hard metal button inserts, a pilot hole that is reamed up by the reamer button inserts 36-40 to a full diameter big enough to enable the casing tube 20 to be driven down concurrently while drilling is in progress. In the closely united group of reamer inserts 36-40 with all of them having their central axes within the limits of sector angle V, the secondary button inserts 39,40 are retracted and are trailing in the rotational direction 50 in a staggered way relative to the leading first primary insert 36 and its followers 37,38. Thereby the duality of leading button inserts 36,39 jointly attain a rock breaking action directed somewhat inwardly in the rotational direction, i.e. in substance tangentially relative to the shaft 12, and towards the abutments 14,35, FIGS. 3-5. This is the area swept by flushing medium (water,air,mist,or foam) from groove 45 and after reversal of the flow by the ledge 51 on the pilot bit 11 the debris loaded flushing medium flow escapes rearwardly through the broad clearance between the leading flank of the reamer 15 and the drilled full diameter hole. Simultaneously cleaning by flushing medium of the group of button inserts 36-40 is further enhanced by flushing medium emanating from the flushing groove 46, the ejector channels 47,48, and the debris laden retreating flushing medium flow from the perimeter of the pilot bit 11.
A separate trailing button insert 41, FIG. 5, 8, can be provided for working any residual rock fragments remaining in the radial spacing left between the primary 36-38 and secondary 39,40 inserts. The trailing insert 41 is disposed straightly axially, is set across the inner borderline of the bevelled surface, 33 and is spaced angularly for example 37.5 degrees relative to plane K-E-C and axis C.
For purposes of drilling for example a 115 mm hole it is recommended to choose diameter 14.5 mm for the primary button inserts, diameter 10.0 mm for the secondary, and 12.7 for the trailing insert.
In the embodiment of FIGS. 8, 9, a combined flushing and digging groove 52 is provided on the reamer flank that faces the rotational direction 50. The groove 52 extends shovellike towards the rear of the reamer 15, terminating on the reduced rear mantle portion 49 of the reamer body 30 some distance in front of flushing channel 47. The rotationally leading borderline 53 of the groove 52 in the example shown is somewhat inclined away from the rotational direction 50, while its opposed straight edge 54 is reinforced by hard metal, preferably by application of stellite. The flushing medium stream issuing from groove 45 is reversed by ledge 51, catches from the area in front of the duality of leading button inserts 36,39 the normally coarse rock debris broken out jointly by them, and expels the debris laden flushing medium through the reamer groove 52. The shovellike action of the groove 52 enhances the flow and so does its reinforced edge 54 by pushing and driving the cuttings in the rotational direction 50 for more easy removal. The concentrated flushing-away of debris from the area in front of the inserts 36,39 assures a reduced tendency towards secondary crushing of the cuttings, which due to the close adjacency of the foremost inserts 36,39 tend to become more coarsegrained than in conventional reaming. A flow enhancing action is also due to the rearwardly ejected flushing fluid stream issuing from the channel 47 upstream of the groove 52.
Experience shows that drilling in claybound ground becomes more easy due to the cutting action of the radially protruding trailing edge 54 of groove 52, whereby the inburst of tough clay is severed and flushed away portionwise. The tendency towards plugged flushing passages is thus reduced. In case of need the cutting edge 54 can be formed somewhat inclined, preferably helically with a steep pitch in the counterrotational direction to assure better clay removal.
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August 3, 2015
The College Station City Council passed a proposal Thursday that would allow the sale of a lot at Wellborn and Church Street to Asset Plus Realty. The property is where the original College Station City Hall, and now Café Eccell, is located.
The City of College Station has owned the 3.36 acre lot, known as the First Street Property, since the 1940's, according to city officials.
-The City Council proposal states that Asset Plus Realty Corporation, a Houston based company, would purchase the property for $3,555,000. The new development would cost an estimated $30,000,000. Construction would start within two years, and the project would have to be done by January 1st, 2016.
Café Eccell is the only structure currently on the property. City officials say building plans haven't been decided yet, but the historic landmark will most likely be torn down, then incorporated into the development as a new facility.
"The developers made a verbal commitment to the city that they would construct a monument or try to incorporate existing brick into the final product to commemorate the location of the original city hall," said Randall Heye, Economic Development Analyst for the city.
The General Manager of Café Eccell told News 3 that they are in full support of the proposal, and they are already negotiating their new lease with the new owners.
Residents in the area say they would welcome the new high rise, but they aren't looking forward to the construction process.
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Police blunders that let rapists walk the streets of Plymouth
Posted: October 24, 2012|
A DAMNING report has revealed the true scale of the police blunders which allowed a Plymouth rapist to evade justice for more than two decades
The conclusions of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) about errors made in using DNA evidence by forces nationwide prompted one former detective to say thousands of sex offenders who should be behind bars could be walking Britain's streets. Stewart Butler – a retired Detective Sergeant who headed the original Plymouth rape inquiry – fears yesterday's IPCC report into the way Devon and Cornwall Police handled the case could show every force in the country may have made the same mistakes.
The Herald reported last month how Shaun Harrison was jailed for the rape in 1989 of a teenage girl.
Harrison, 46, of North Prospect, was jailed for eight years last month after being found guilty of two rapes and two indecent assaults. The first was of the teenage girl in a Plymouth car park, the other a woman outside a city nightclub in 1995.
DNA evidence was collected but the Devon and Cornwall force did not update the police database so when Harrison's DNA was taken after a separate offence several years later the two were not matched. He was only caught after a bizarre false confession by another man two years ago which prompted detectives to re-open the case.
The IPCC found Plymouth police failed to act on repeated requests to "upgrade" DNA evidence.
The IPCC found the force had not instructed the Forensic Science Service (FSS) to load the original DNA onto the database – established in 1995 – despite repeatedly being advised to do so.
Shockingly, when police finally upgraded forensic samples last year, they found three further matches – from 1989, 1990 and 1993. As a result, more rapists were identified and jailed.
The IPCC said all police forces were asked by the FSS in 1996 to update older versions of DNA samples to a newer version.
Two years later the FSS contacted Devon and Cornwall Police highlighting 10 serious sex cases – including the 1989 Harrison rape – held on the older database that were "worthy of an upgrade" onto the new national database.
The force chose two of the 10 – not including Harrison's rape.
The IPCC said Devon and Cornwall Police had a "number of opportunities" to review the case but had "failed".
The IPCC noted how the Harrison case acted as a "trigger" for the force to "conduct a comprehensive review of all their undetected serious sex crimes".
Deputy IPCC chair Deborah Glass said: "Devon and Cornwall Police missed opportunities over the years to review this case.
"This meant that Harrison's and other DNA samples were not upgraded in line with forensic advancements."
Now city MP Oliver Colvile and North Devon MP Nick Harvey have called upon the Home Secretary and the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to demand all police forces ensure they have not made similar errors.
Mr Colvile said he would table Parliamentary questions over the fiasco.
Mr Butler added: "It's a major, major failure in the system. If other police forces have made the same mistakes then there will be people walking around the streets, serious offenders, who've not been identified because of this mistake.
"There could be hundreds of cases out there, if not thousands around the country."
DEVON and Cornwall Police refused to answer questions regarding the IPCC's report.
But, in a statement, a spokesman said: "We welcome and fully accept the findings of the report, much of which relate to historic practices.
"We have already adopted much of the learning contained within the IPCC report.
"This investigation has highlighted a potential national issue around how historic DNA should be treated.
"However, DNA technology has progressed significantly since 1989 and the way police investigate such offences is now very different.
"Devon and Cornwall Police have proactively sought to identify any such cases and have currently found three related to historic, undeveloped DNA hits.
"All of these cases have been voluntarily referred to the IPCC and have all now resulted in substantial prison sentences for offenders."
An ACPO spokeswoman added: "ACPO will work with the IPCC in relation to any lessons which may need to be shared with the wider service as a consequence of their investigation into this particular case."


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The recently announced demo of Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge now has a release date: today. The demo is available now on PSN. Meanwhile, the Xbox Live version has yet to appear, though Tecmo tells Joystiq that is "definitely slated to go live today." The demo allows players to take on different sections of the game as either the series longstanding hero Ryu Hayabusa, or the purple-haired kunoichi, Ayane.
Team NINJA and TECMO KOEI America today announced that the free demo for NINJA GAIDEN 3: RAZOR'S EDGE, the latest chapter in the famed action series arriving in April 2nd for PlayStation®3 and Xbox 360®, is now available for download. The robust demo is available today on the PlayStation®Store and Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for Xbox 360 and features separate stages starring Ryu Hayabusa, the game's iconic ultimate ninja, and the female warrior Ayane. In support of this news, Team NINJA has released an all-new trailer and a new batch of screenshots related to the demo.
Team NINJA's demo allows players to sample the game's fast, hard-hitting action combat while also creating a save file that can be transferred to the full version of NINJA GAIDEN 3: RAZOR'S EDGE. All Karma and Ninja Skills acquired in the demo can be brought over to the retail game, ensuring that demo play time is put to productive use.
Hayabusa's action-packed stage is set in the scorching deserts of Dubai while Ayane's takes place in Paris, the City of Light. When both stages are cleared, the characters can be played in Chapter Challenge-and skilled players can even unlock Kasumi in the demo. The demo can be played in Hero and Normal difficulty levels by default, and Hard and Master Ninja levels can be unlocked to challenge even the most skilled ninjas.
NINJA GAIDEN 3: RAZOR'S EDGE is the most action-packed and feature rich NINJA GAIDEN game ever created. Published by TECMO KOEI and developed by Team NINJA, the game was designed from the ground up to please core fighting fans with a redesigned battle system, brutal enemy AI, streamlined story elements, upgraded online features, and the return of dismemberment. The Ninja Skills system lets players use Karma earned in combat to purchase weapon and Ninpo upgrades, feats, and costumes. Adding to the variety of gameplay, Kasumi, Ayane, and Momiji all join Hayabusa as playable characters. Ayane will get her own chapters in story mode while all three female characters can be played in the new Chapter Challenge mode and Ninja Trials co-op play with multiple costume options.
NINJA GAIDEN 3: RAZOR'S EDGE is developed by Team NINJA and published by Tecmo Koei. The game has been rated "M" (Mature) by the ESRB and will be available for an MSRP of $39.99 (USD).
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- Game format Optical disc, Downloadable
- Online features Multiplayer, Voice chat, Video chat, Store, Browser
- Drive capacity 250 GB
- Controller type Wired, Wireless
- Motion controls Accelerometer, Gyroscopic
- Video outputs HDMI (v1.3), RCA / composite
- Released 2012-09-25
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The viral political video clip of the day is the one in which White House Press Secretary Jay Carney loses it during his exchange with ABC's Jon Karl when the latter pressed him about the latest twist in the ObamaCare fiasco. Karl pointed out that contrary to the assertion by President Obama, even those who bypass the dysfunctional website are forced to wait in the same line when they try to apply by phone or in person. Since those who assist the people who employ those methods must use the same website and thus be stuck in the same queue, Carney wasn't quite telling the truth when he said it would take only 25 minutes to apply that way. In response, Carney began mocking Karl, condescendingly dismissing the question and acting as if somehow the veteran reporter wasn't quite smart enough to understand his somewhat disingenuous spin of the president's latest fibs.
That Carney lost the room a long time ago is well known. Rather than work with the press to explain the administration's stands, Carney seems to spend his daily briefing lecturing them and barely containing his frustration and anger when they don't buy his spin. But while this is pretty much the opposite of what a press secretary should be doing, Carney is merely reflecting the attitude of his boss. That was made plain by the president's speech yesterday to an adoring crowd of Democratic party workers and health-care activists in which he used the same tone in explaining his infamous lie about promising Americans that if they liked their health-care plan, they could keep it under ObamaCare. Unlike Carney, who was just talking down to a room full of journalists, the president was talking down to the American people as if they were too stupid to follow along with the permutations of his tortured explanations.
The president claimed that there was no difference between what he was saying for three years about ObamaCare and today. After all, if the health insurance that people had was grandfathered in before the 2010 passage of the bill, they were OK. "What we said was you could keep it if it hadn't changed since the law was passed," Obama impatiently snarled. And didn't people understand that there was always "churn" in insurance markets. The president didn't bother to hide the thinly veiled condescension in these comments.
Of course, for three years he didn't add the "if"–the guarantee was unconditional. But the point here is that this is a president who never thinks he should be called to account for his past statements or behavior. After all, this is the same man who claimed over and over again while he was in the Senate that the troop surge in Iraq in 2007 would lead to more violence and accomplish nothing. Yet once in office, he claimed the surge as his own and then pretended that everything he had said about it actually meant the opposite of what he meant at the time. The same rule applies to his Senate vote against raising the debt ceiling. In the past year, he has characterized Republicans who used the same tactic to try and stop his policies are nothing less than anarchists trying to destroy the government. But now he claims when he did exactly the same thing to George W. Bush, it was not only different but also somehow acceptable.
That this is hypocritical is obvious. But there is more to hypocrisy in the president's explanations of the huge gap between what he says and the truth. Implicit in every explanation is his exasperation with those who won't think along with him as he schemes his way through political controversies. It's not just that the public and the press aren't buying his spin, it's that he seems to think we're too stupid to understand that his noble motives and great intellect should allow him the sort of leeway that isn't granted to lesser mortals. What the president—and his press secretary—is doing is not so much explaining the administration's policies as talking down to the rubes that they govern. In doing so, Obama is playing not so much the democratic leader as the benevolent despot who knows what's best for the peasants.
That presidents and their minions eventually become so accustomed to power and so frustrated with the need to be accountable in a democracy isn't a new phenomenon. But this administration's second term seems to be sinking into this morass in which all other lame ducks have found themselves, with a lack of grace or a sense of their own implausibility that few of its predecessors could match.


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Join Bo from Amalfi, Italy for a weekly update on the happenings in the EV industry. Is the VOLT still on track? Who owns Chrysler now? Any new EVs planed to hit the roads? New battery factories? Find out who's going to jail and who's getting sued. Another EV cast you don't want to miss!
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Nice iShow. The sound quality was great. One item I picked up this week that is of note, DOE funded $11 million for "development of advanced batteries for electric drive vehicles" (link below). I wonder if our EV production funding is soon to follow. Keep up the good work.
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WooHoo! 1000 EVCast members now! Congrats Bo and Ryan. And glad you will still a weekly show the next few weeks- thanks!
New sponser in Mr Ricard- there was an article on his car in Autoblogreen (I think) that I came across two or three weeks ago. I went to, and bookmarked, his site- it is very interesting. He really did a lot of homework on his EV conversion, and his videos, if a little quiet in their delivery, are extremely informative! And his converted Porshe is very cool- wish I had one;-)
He was the founder of the Boardwatch Magazine back in the 80's- I even bought one or two of them, though I never really got into BBS's. He brings a unique perspective on being part of, first, one game-changing technology with computing, and now potentially another with Electric Transportation/Renewable Energy. Hopefully, he will be a future interview for y'all.
The new Voltec Caddy- I agree with Bob Lutz that this makes a lot of sense- it is an upscale vehicle that you can sell at a profit even with new technology. This will be good news for GM, but perhaps bad news for the likes of the Fiskar Karma and the Tesla Model S- GM will be able to do this cheaper than they will be able to- hopefully there will be a market for all three.
Th!nk has money now - interesting- even more so given the prediction of **I forget her name** and her report on the future of EV and solar technolgy, and specifically the future of Th!nk- though this game is still in the early innings;-)
And speaking of innings- go UT at the CWS in Omaha! Hook 'em Horns!
Martin Eberhard- can we say frivolous lawsuit- he could have taken the high road on this, but in the end he will tarnish his own image and Tesla legacy.
Zap! The more I hear and read about them, the more I wonder how they are still in business- amazing! I am all for many EV makers, and hope most, if not all, make it- but I am not sure Zap would be missed if it failed.
I have said the same thing before, but I must agree with Rick from Houston- set a date to stop the sale of all new ICE cars a few years down the road (I would set the time for 5-6 years from now). I am not a big fan of the Government legislating everything- but sometimes there are some things that are just too important to leave solely to the Marketplace. Besides, by legislating ICE-driven cars to go the way of the Dodo, you level the playing field, so one company does not take excessive risk in being the first in developing next-gen electric cars. And if it is done en masse like this, initial costs of these new cars, while still higher than present-day ICE vehicles, will come down in price very quickly. I think you could make a pitch to the American Public to get behind this as well- especially if gas shoots back up to $4 a gallon this summer- which it will if we get one large huricane in the Gulf of Mexico again that disrupts the Oil Platforms and shuts down the Refineries along the coast.
Whew! That was a lot of pent-up blogging! Hope no one nodded off trying to read so much;-)
I just wanted to add a few comments based on info in this web case.
First, while the database produced by Plug-in America is very interesting it contains loads of vehicles that are never likely to see the light of day. Check out evfinder.com which has links to most current EVs available - not all it's almost impossible to keep up unless you can go at it full time. There are also links to places where you can actually buy these EVs.
On the ZAP recall, recalls are pretty common for car manufactuers, Tesla also has a recall, which also applies to a bunch of Lotus ICE cars. I doubt that this will kill ZAP but it is possible. One error that you had is about ZAP not having distribution centers. ZAP actually sells vehicles through a network of dealerships who are also capable of doing the recall. Again check out the ZAP Xebra listing on evfinder.com
The company in Washington making the Kit Car is called The Commuter Car Company and their vehicle, called the Tango, has currently sold 10 vehilces including at least 3 to Google.
On the Prius, If the hack is to the 2004-2009 Prius I can see this possibly causing problems. The Prius is designed to spin the engine at freeway speed even if it is not injecting fuel. If the hack involves not spinning the engine then damage to the electic motors, most likely MG1, could result, and this would not be covered under Toyota Warranty. The 2010 Prius is desinged to run faster in EV mode so damage is less likely.
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The goals of this course are twofold: (1) to take good programmers and turn them into excellent ones, and (2) to introduce them to a range of modern software engineering practices, in particular those embodied in advanced functional programming languages.
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Will the course be largely about functional programming in Haskell? Do you expect to teach much material that would apply to non-functional programming?
Like past semesters, the focus of this course will be functional programming in Haskell. The goal is to bend your mind about what programming is, and Haskell is an excellent tool for the job. Of course you will learn things that will apply to other languages and paradigms, but we'll leave that exploration to you.
Do you expect that the course will involve any large projects, or mostly smallish weekly assignments?
It will be smallish weekly assignments. However, "small" does not necessarily mean "easy," because Haskell programs can do a lot with just a few lines of code!
Will it be important to know much about functional programming before starting the course?
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DENVER - Denver firefighters put out a fire at a home in south Denver on Friday afternoon that had a marijuana grow operation.
Firefighters said the fire started in the attached garage in the 2200 block of South Fox Street and crews were checking to see if the fire extended into the home.
Rows of charred marijuana plants were found inside the garage.
The first call came in just after 1:30 Friday afternoon. There were no injuries as a result of the blaze.