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A family is grieving after their child was killed, run over by a car. It happened on a private road off Kapiolani Blvd. in Moiliili Wednesday morning when a woman was taking her daughter to school.
Police say she was backing out of her driveway and when she pulled forward, she didn't see the child on the sidewalk and ran him over.
Filimone Asi was just 2-years-old. His family says his favorite past time was watching "Power Rangers" on his mom's phone. His sister says she'll will miss watching it with him.
"I always used to watch him, now I don't have to anymore, but I'm going to miss him," says Sela Asi, Filimone's sister.
To his family, he was known as "fat boy." He lived with his older brother and three sisters who were in school Wednesday morning. His mother and father were too devastated to talk but other family members say they will remember Filimone as the light of their life.
"Every morning he was up calling my son to come play or say 'hi' to everybody that comes by our neighborhood," says Lupe Funaki, Filimone's aunt.
"We've been waiting for him to come out and start making noise or arguing with his siblings or wanting us to leave his house because he wanted to spend time with his mommy," says Mary-Ann Lovely Koli, Filimone's cousin
Part of that time was spent on religion, going to the First United Methodist Church of Honolulu. Filimone's family has lived at their home for over 10 years. They know nothing can replace the loss of their loved one, but they hope this event will send a message to others.
"Just want to let people know to be more aware of the things they do or when they're backing up you know there's children around, you may never know what may happen within the next couple seconds or so," says Koli.
The family believes the neighbor who ran over Filimone is frightened. They have a message for her as well.
"We just want her to know that we're not going to blame, we all know, we're parents here. We're just here because we lost one of our children and we miss him dearly," says Funaki.
Police have opened a negligent homicide investigation. They'll look into why the woman didn't see Filimone on the sidewalk and will determine if there was any recklessness on the part of the driver.

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Matt Brill was featured in an occasional series on ncaa.org about what he learned from the college experience. At North Central, Brill was a three-time All-American in cross country, finishing second in 1995 and winning the 1996 title on the 8,000-meter course. He helped the Cardinals to the team title in 1993, when they scored a record-low 32 points, and led North Central to second-place finishes, 1994-1996. He was an eight-time All-American in track, helping the Cardinals to the 1994 outdoor title, and was a two-time GTE Academic All-American. He says, "I was fortunate to be part of Al Carius' North Central running program. He stressed that running was just one part of our lives, but if we could show it the focus and attention it demanded on a daily basis to be successful, we would find the success method spills over to other parts of our life. Running at the collegiate level knows no off season, and when we were not in racing season we were working the hardest. We trained through rain, Midwest winters, humid summers and sickness because on race day, all that you could control is yourself, and you would need to be conditioned to outside influences and how to minimize their effect on your performance. Now that I'm 36, the correlation between running and life as a father, husband, employee and citizen is much more apparent. That is why I still try to run and attain goals, but they are much more personal in scale." He now works as an equity and derivatives broker for Tourmaline Partners and has worked in the derivatives business since leaving North Central. He lives in East Coventry, PA, with his wife Maggie Zdziarska '99 Brill and two sons.
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By Marlena Hartz: CNJ staff writer
This behemoth on the High Plains has evolved from a patch of caramel dirt scratched amid acres of farm land to a gleaming metropolis of cheese and whey production, with 60 miles of stainless steel piping and 742 miles of electrical cable above and below ground.
The Southwest Cheese plant — a 340,000-square-foot facility in southern Curry County — is one of the largest cheese plants in the world.
Ground was broken for the plant in February 2004.
On Friday, Southwest Cheese officially opened, with company officials envisioning only more growth.
"This is a proud day for New Mexico," Southwest Cheese President Maurice Keane said. "This is a proud day for Clovis."
Southwest Cheese produces 250 million pounds of cheddar, Colby, Monterey Jack and pepper jack cheese annually. More than 200 people are employed there, with 80 percent of the workforce locally derived, according to Keane.
The plant is a $190 million joint venture of Glanbia Foods and the Greater Southwest Agency. The Agency is a cooperative of four milk producers: Dairy Farmers of America, Select, LoneStar and Zia. A food company, Glanbia has operations around the world, with headquarters in Ireland.
The plant represents innovation and collaboration at its finest, said Gov. Bill Richardson, who traveled to Clovis, along with a host of other dignitaries, for the opening.
"This is historic," the governor said.
Industry transformed
As a result of the Southwest venture, the dairy industry in New Mexico has been transformed, said Southwest Cheese Chairman and Select CEO Mike McCloskey during a press conference Friday.
Before Southwest, milk profits in the region were drained on highways,
according to dairy officials.
Milk producers hauled milk from New Mexico to buyers as far away as Florida. Determined to circumvent hauling costs, Greater Southwest producers searched worldwide for a partner to process their milk, McCloskey said.
With Glanbia, that search ended.
"This partnership has added value to every pound of milk we ship," said Tom Camerlo, chairman of Dairy Farmers of America, a milk cooperative 21,000 members strong.
With every load of milk dropped off at Southwest Cheese, a local dairy farmer saves about $1,000 to $2,000 in circumvented hauling costs, said Wayne Palla, chairman of Dairy Farmers of America's Southwest Area Council.
Thirty years ago, New Mexico ranked among the five lowest milk producing states in the country, according to McCloskey. Today, it ranks seventh in the nation for milk production.
Southwest Cheese "ensures the economic success of dairies," said Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., who attended the Friday official opening of the plant, along with Richardson, Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., Rep. Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Clovis Mayor David Lansford.
"America and Ireland have had a love affair for a long time," Udall said.
"Thank you," he said, turning to Keane, "for sharing your economic miracle with eastern New Mexico."
Also at the Friday opening were members of the Irish press and Ireland's ambassador to the United States, Noel Fahey. They were invited to attend the opening by Glanbia, according to Fahey.
Glanbia is an important force in the Irish farming industry, according to Fahey. He said the company operates in a prosperous region of Ireland and processes a lion's share of milk produced in the country.
"They are very impressive," he said.
Many American companies have investments in Ireland, but people are less aware of Irish investments in America, the ambassador said.
"There is an image of America investing in Ireland," he said, but less so vice versa.
Glanbia, however, has operated in America for more than 20 years and also runs a large cheese plant in Idaho.
These days, the company's operations in America are shifting west, Glanbia Group Chief Executive John Moloney said during the press conference.
Such western concentration, Moloney said, allows Glanbia to partner with "efficient, large-scale milk producers." That, he said, is the trend in milk processing and producing industries.
Glanbia also has operations in Europe, Asia, Nigeria and South America,
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Room for growth
Despite mammoth output, there is still room for growth at the Southwest Cheese plant and in the regional dairy industry, Southwest partners said Friday. It lies in the international market, they said.
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By the numbers
7 — Million pounds of milk accepted at the plant every 24 hours
60 — Miles of stainless steel piping above ground
200 — Estimated employees at the plant
742 — Miles of electrical cable above and below ground
3,000 — Pounds of whey protein powder produced per hour
44,000 — Pounds of cheese processed every hour
500,000 — Gallons of water recovered from milk every day, treated and recycled for irrigation
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Some environmentalists complain that it ends up releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than is stored underground as waste.
It's another example of the Obama administration promoting new, cleaner technologies and allowing companies to do things it otherwise would oppose as harmful to the environment.
At first, the idea behind "carbon capture" technology was to make coal plants cleaner by burying, deep underground, the carbon dioxide that they typically pump out of smokestacks.
But that "green" vision proved too expensive and complicated, so the administration accepted a trade-off.
To help the environment, the government allows power companies to sell the carbon dioxide to oil companies, which pump it into old oil fields to force more crude to the surface. A side benefit is that the carbon gets permanently stuck underground.
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Companies have been injecting carbon dioxide into old oil fields for decades. But the tactic hasn't been seen as a pollution-control strategy until recently.
Obama has spent more than $1 billion on carbon-capture projects tied to oil fields and has pledged billions more for clean coal. Recently, the administration said it wanted to require all new coal-fired power plants to capture carbon dioxide. Four power plants in the U.S. and Canada planning to do so intend to sell their carbon waste for oil recovery.
This month, former Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced he was joining the board of a company developing carbon-capture technology.
The unlikely marriage of coal burners and oil producers hits a political sweet spot.
It silences critics who say the administration is killing coal and discouraging oil production. It appeases environmentalists who want Obama to get tougher on coal, the largest source of carbon dioxide.
It also allows Obama to make headway on a second-term push to tackle climate change, even though energy analysts predict that few new coal plants will be built in the face of low natural-gas prices and Environmental Protection Agency rules that require no controls on carbon for new natural-gas plants.
"By using captured man-made carbon dioxide, we can increase domestic oil production, promote economic development, create jobs, reduce carbon emissions and drive innovation," Judi Greenwald told Congress in July, months before she was hired as deputy director of the Energy Department's climate, environment and energy efficiency office.
Before joining the Energy Department, Greenwald headed the National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative, a consortium of coal producers, power companies and state and environmental officials promoting the process.
But the environmental benefits of this enhanced oil recovery aren't as certain as the administration advertises.
"Enhanced oil recovery just undermines the entire logic of it," said Kyle Ash of Greenpeace, one of the few environmental groups critical of the process. "They can't have it both ways, but they want to really, really bad."
That has become a theme in some of Obama's green-energy policies.
For wind power, the government has shielded companies from prosecution for killing protected birds with giant turbines.
For corn-based ethanol, the administration underestimated the environmental effects of millions of new acres of corn farming. The government even failed to conduct required air- and water-quality studies to document its toll on the environment.
The administration wants to make similar concessions to make carbon-capture technology a success.
A 2009 peer-reviewed paper found that for every ton of carbon dioxide injected underground into an oil field, four times as much carbon dioxide is released when the oil produced is burned.
Administration officials counter by saying the oil was going to be extracted anyway, so the policy should be seen only as reducing carbon dioxide from coal plants.
In Mississippi, where Southern Co.'s Kemper County power plant eventually will supply two oil producers with carbon dioxide, Denbury Resources Inc. says it would not be able to produce oil there otherwise.
The federal support for Kemper lowers the cost of installing the carbon-capture equipment and, ultimately, the cost of carbon dioxide for the oil producer.
The nearly $5 billion project received $270 million from the Energy Department, before the Obama administration, and $279 million in federal tax credits.
While Kemper is the first, it's not the only one. Obama's Energy Department has provided $1.1 b illion to six projects that capture carbon and sell it to oil companies. Four of those projects are power plants. And the EPA recently highlighted two of those projects, with a combined $858 million in federal money, as a way to reduce power-plant emissions. Both plan on selling the carbon dioxide to oil companies.


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Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations, obviously
Eternals online a private server version of tales of pirates a online game o,o
Started playing Bayonetta again and uh Prototype 2, I guess.
Final Fantasy 8 & Skyrim
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Tell me about it, commercial looks nice
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Tell me about it, commercial looks nice
It is, better than the first one.
You should get it or at least rent it or something. (:
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Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations, definitely one of the games with the hardest online gameplay I've ever experienced (at first anyways), and Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2
World of warcraft, it never get's old
Been Playing Pockie Ninja, pretty decent game
I also Play Naruto Generations, BF3, and MW3
games i'm playing:
viewtiful Joe
resident evil 2
and waiting for my copy of ninja storm generations to arrive
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Adam Jenson - loveliest voice ever. A real genetic gift.
I think I really got hooked on Prototype 2, it's so much better than the first one.
And I totally missed throwing people off buildings.
Minecraft and prototype 3
Batman Arkham City. Catwoman ftw!
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- Apple (AAPL) iPhone 5 – 4.0 inch
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Samsung was the first to crack sub-tablet screen sizes, but Huawei's entrance in this range should push prices for large-screen devices lower. Smartphones at this size should not be considered direct competitors to ordinarily-sized smartphones like the ones listed above. It appeals to users who read or use the web far more often than talking on the mobile phone. Battery life, weight, and the ergonomics of the device are also very different than smaller smartphones.
The push for bigger smartphones might be met with tepid demand. The option for having a bigger smartphone might still drive consumers to stay with devices in the 4-4.8 inch range. In any case, Investors interested in component makers benefiting from smartphone growth could add many companies to their watch list.


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Ok, so I'm creating a character right now and the GM is using the River Kingdoms, Razmiran, and the surrounding areas as the playing field.
The whole thing is probably gonna be a mid to high level game overall, simply because of the mercenary opportunities in the area.
I'm creating a rather fun little character background. He's one armed mostly (the second one he lost early on in Numeria, from around half the forearm on down he still has it). Now, I'm gonna create a real standoffish SOB, Chaotic Neutral, Gorum. Pretty standard stuff, human, Kellid, probably a Numerian Trait and a Combat one.
Anyway, here's the thing: because he's one armed, he's going to be using a Scizor in his mutilated arm (pretty much permanently strapped on there like a prosthetic). Only being able to wield one different weapon does limit him a bit so I was wondering about something fun like the Jotungrip from Titanmauler Archtype, and how that would stack up with Two Weapon Warrior Fighter Archtype.
I'm inexperienced with two weapon user types, usually go with a big two-hander.
Being able to wield a Keen Falchion in one hand can definitely make up for the other only able to use a Scizore. Only problem is, early on he's gonna take some penalties in attack rolls. That's less of a concern for me.
My question is should I got 2 levels of Titan Mauler and then to Two Weapon Warrior for a build like this? Or is there something more viable? Also, does the Jotungrip stack well with Two Weapon Warrior? If so, what do people recommend by way of feats? I was thinking of going the Deadly Stroke route, but if I do, would I have to make any major sacrifices by way of Two Weapon fighting feats? Or am I going about this all wrong?
|Dragonchess Player
I'd say you could do OK with titan mauler/two-weapon warrior, although you will need a high Dex. You may be better off with multi-classing into ranger instead of fighter: all you need is a 15-16 Dex to qualify for Two-Weapon Fighting and you can use your Combat Style feats to pick up Double Slice (2nd level ranger) and Improved Two Weapon Fighting (6th level ranger) while you concentrate on increasing Str as much as possible.
Still, 2d4 for a falchion isn't much of an upgrade over 1d6 for a scimitar. You might want to look at picking up Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Elven Curve Blade) for 1d10 damage, instead. As an added benefit for multi-classing into ranger, you can cast lead blades: 1d10 becomes 2d8 when lead blades is active.
Hmmm, good points all. However, I don't think I'm going to go with a Elven Blade simply because meh, I hate elves. Blech.
Now however, I'm thinking maybe a Falcata might be a better match for the character. Critical rate is not as good, but the multiplier is pretty nasty, and the weapon is very distinctive and probably a bit rarer, simply because it requires a feat to use properly and is more of a national weapon.
Also, decided against the deadly stroke route. With a 1 handed weapon character it doesn't seem nearly as worth it.
I would go Ranger 6 / Fighter 4 for the first 10 levels. Ranger to skip those DEX prerequisites and Fighter for the Feats.
If your happy stopping the TWF chain at Improved TWF stop at Ranger 6 and go Fighter the rest of the way for Weapon training. If doing that the Guide archetype is a good route.
I'd actually suggest against using a Ranger feat for Double Slice. With an 18 STR it will add 2 damage to your off hand attacks - I'd defer that until later when you have a magic item to get you the DEX requirement and a really big STR mod to make it pay off. Plus if you take it as a fighter bonus feat you have the option to retrain it if you don't get much mileage from it.
Really, really good point right there.
Even when I play a fighter, I usually forget about the retraining of feats. One of the big things right there.
Damn there's a lot more involved with TWF than THF (Two weapon fighting vs Two Handed Fighting). I almost prefer the big dumb hulk-smash to this maniac I'm building, but screw it. I gotta go through with it all the way.
Now I'm looking at the ranger as a possible choice simply to avoid some of those early high stat requirements. My big question is this: Is Greater Two Weapon Fighting worth staying on until level 10? I would honestly say no, simply because you sacrifice too many feats and levels of fighter (as well as abilities with Two Weapon Warrior) but I'd like to get others opinions on the matter.
With regards to Regular Fighter vs Two Weapon Warrior, are the damage benefits worth giving up Weapon Training? I was always curious about that, simply because it looks like that if you took Dueling Gloves, you wouldn't be able to get the full benefits of them as a fighter because TWW gives up Weapon Training for those special benefits. I might be misinterpreting it though, as it could be reasoned that it is another form of weapon training.
And thanks for suggesting ranger, that DEFINITELY helps, simply because I figured going Two Weapon Warrior all the way would be insanely stat consumptive and involve a helluva lot of re-training. With Ranger to 6th, I can get those feats without having to pump dex as my best stat (and I can still focus on Str).
Well, I changed my guy's background to him being a Taldan (bit of a standoffish type to say the least).
Very aggressive and bloodthirsty as a child, son of nobility of course, killed the wrong person in a duel, and the man's family came after him, took his left hand as a bit of vengeance. He's learned nothing from the lesson they taught him though, and is still violent, aggressive, and intense. He's come to worship Gorum, rather fervently as well. Essentially, after that, he was cast out.
Ambros Trumbull
Traits (Heart of the Streets, alternate, replaces skilled)
Racial Traits
Killer (will come in handy with his Falcata I think)
Wealthy Dabbler (Resistance and Dancing Lights)
Chaotic Neutral (at best, but he has tendencies towards both good and evil. He hates being insulted, especially for his mental faculties, and will often fly off at the handle, and while he has few qualms about killing, he doesn't often go out of his way to ruthlessly murder people or hunt them down unless they've really done him wrong)
So far, that's what I got. Gonna start off with 6 levels of ranger, both for the feats and for the spells (probably Lead Blades, Longstrider, Entangle and whatever else I can stuff in there by level 6).
After that, heading over to Two Weapon Fighter and really rack up the damage.
Only thing about ranger is what to choose as his favored enemy. I would think Human because of how common they are, and the fact that he is a bit of a city boy.
Do you want or have plans for an Animal Companion? If not you can go Guide and instead of FE gain "Ranger's Focus". If you're going to stop at Ranger 6 this is not a bad option. If you were going with more Ranger you'd have to consider losing out on the "Instant Enemy" spell in addition to the Animal Companion - which may not be worth it.
As for other spealls - I actually get some mileage out of Resist Energy.
*Edit - Yes Human is a good choice for Favoured Enemy.
Animal companion never even occurred to me. Heh. Gonna go with the Focus ability to grant favored enemy to his allies.
Ranger doesn't really get you out of the dex prerequisites. It only gets enough bonus feats to get the base TWF stuff and TWF doesn't pay off without two weapon rend or loads of bonus damage (ie. smite, challenge, or sneak attack). What ranger can get you is prereq free Power Attack for a finesse build, but that's only two levels.
Certainly ranger 6 isn't going to do you any good when you hit level 11 and need a 19 dex feat to keep your attacks up.
I'd stick to fighter, rogue, paladin, or cavalier for TWF. I'm pretty sure ranger TWF is a trap.
From d20pfsrd
"The ranger's expertise manifests in the form of bonus feats at 2nd, 6th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level. He can choose feats from his selected combat style, even if he does not have the normal prerequisites."
Now, for two weapon rend, you need the following: Dex 17, Double Slice, Improved Two-Weapon Fighting, Two-Weapon Fighting, base attack bonus +11.
I wouldn't need 19 dex unless I wanted to get Greater Two weapon fighting. I'm not sure it's worth it for an extra attack on an offhand weapon, especially at -10.
Scizore isn't light, it's 1-handed martial but not light.
That's why after ranger benefits at 6, change to Two weapon warrior and increase damage as well as reduce penalties further.
Dex to 17 is important because it's a requirement for Two Weapon Rend, and outside of Ranger class I still need the requirements for that particular feat.
Using two non-light weapons will give me a penalty, but I'm hoping to counter balance it with the bonuses from TWW.
|Dragonchess Player
I'd actually suggest against using a Ranger feat for Double Slice. With an 18 STR it will add 2 damage to your off hand attacks - I'd defer that until later when you have a magic item to get you the DEX requirement and a really big STR mod to make it pay off. Plus if you take it as a fighter bonus feat you have the option to retrain it if you don't get much mileage from it.
The reason I recommended Double Slice with the ranger's Combat Style feat is because I made the assumption that the character would already have Two-Weapon Fighting. Also the main reason you want Double Slice is to qualify for Two-Weapon Rend, not for the slight bump in off-hand damage; don't forget that permanent bonuses (such as a belt of incredible Dexterity +2 or a belt of physical might (Str, Dex) +2) count for meeting feat prerequisites (Core Rulebook, pg. 555).
|Dragonchess Player
The question was originally for a multi-classed barbarian/(fighter or ranger). Added Str bonuses from Rage (on top of normal Str bonuses) start to stack up when they apply to off-hand attacks with Double Slice; especially when you don't need to keep pumping Dex for Improved Two-Weapon Fighting and Greater Two-Weapon Fighting. Two-Weapon Rend is probably not worth waiting on with a multi-classed barbarian/ranger (or ranger/barbarian); even with only two levels of titan mauler to pick up Jotungrip, taking it at barbarian 2/ranger 9 and taking Greater Two-Weapon Fighting at ranger 10 is probably one of the better choices (unless going for a critical-focused build, for which Two-Weapon Rend is not central).
Personally, I prefer six levels of invulnerable rager, taking Lesser Spirit Totem and Spirit Totem as two out of three rage power choices, for a multi-classed barbarian/ranger (spirit ranger archetype, probably). Toothy half-orc (for bite attacks at any time) with an orc double-axe for being able to use the same weapon for two-handed and two-weapon fighting (and not having to drop a weapon to cast).
A single-classed ranger would be a different build, because there are different considerations.


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Home List of Titles Ultraprecision turning of electroless nickel: effects of crystal orientation and origin of diamond tools
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/197847
- Title
- Ultraprecision turning of electroless nickel: effects of crystal orientation and origin of diamond tools
- Author(s)
- Pramanik, A.; Neo, K. S.; Rahman, M.; Li, X. P.; Sawa, M.; Maeda, Y.
- Abstract
- This paper deals with (i) the performance of natural and artificial diamond tools and (ii) the effects of crystal orientations at rake face of diamond tool for long distance (>200 km) ultraprecision machining of electroless nickel. The criteria for cutting performance of the diamond tool include flank wear, crater wear, workpiece surface finish, and cutting forces. Experimental results show that the natural diamond tool has superior performance compared to the artificial one as it experienced lower cutting forces and lower flank and crater wears. It was also found that the cutting tool with {110} crystal orientation at rake face performs better than the tool with {100} crystal orientation in terms of amount of wear, surface finish, and cutting forces.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 43, no. 7-8 (Aug 2009), pp. 681-689
- Publication year
- 2009
- FOR Code(s)
- 0910 Manufacturing Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- Crater wear; Crystal cutting; Crystal orientation; Cutting forces; Cutting performance; Cutting tools; Diamond cutting tools; Diamond tool; Diamonds; Electroless nickel; Flank wear; Long cutting distance; Long distances; Machining; Natural diamonds; Nickel; Nickel alloys; Rake face; Surface finishes; Ultra precision; Ultraprecision machining; Work pieces
- Publisher
- Springer
- 0268-3768
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2008 Springer-Verlag London Limited.
- Peer reviewed


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Ohio Northern University to celebrate veterans with wreath-laying ceremony
Ohio Northern University will celebrate the contributions of American service members with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Henry Solomon Lehr statue adjacent to James F. Dicke Hall on Monday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m. The event is free and open to the public.
The ceremony will feature reflections concerning veterans from guest speaker Paul Hartman, ONU assistant professor of operations research and supply chain management, who served in the Air Force for 20 years before retiring from the Pentagon as a major in 2007.
The Color Guard of Ream McElroy VFW Post 9381 of Ada will post the colors, and Adriane Thompson Bradshaw, ONU vice president of student affairs, will sing the national anthem. ONU President Daniel DiBiasio and Ada Mayor David Retterer will conduct the laying of the wreath, and two members of the ONU Marching Band, C.J. Brincefield, a sophomore music education major from Lima, Ohio, and Jim Park, a junior marketing major from Sylvania, Ohio, will perform taps.
This marks the fifth year that ONU has set aside time to reflect on and honor America's men and women in uniform, and the observances are designed to raise awareness in the ONU community.


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Katie's Anti-Duck Voodoo Post
We managed to repair the duck, but she destroyed it right before the Spring race at Talladega(2009). Once again, Carl suffered an unbelievable run of bad luck.
After that, the AFLAC duck was pretty much toast, but we did buy her another duck chew toy.
It seems to have the same effect. In addition to that, Katie gets a piece of duck jerky before every race, and her beagle chow is covered in duck sauce from our favorite Chinese take-out.
Katie wants everyone to post their anti-duck voodoo spells here. Remember, we don't want Carl to get hurt; we just want him to have another unbelievable run of BAD luck over the next three weeks.


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Holiday revellers often emerge from New Year's Eve hangovers determined to moderate their drinking. But as the University of Saskatchewan research chair in substance abuse explains, the problem of excessive drinking goes far beyond the individual.
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University of Saskatchewan professor and research chair in substance abuse Colleen Anne Dell suggests sticking to Canada's new Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines to mitigate risk factors associated with alcohol consumption.
Since moving to the province a little more than five years ago, Prof. Colleen Anne Dell has seen plenty of evidence of what she refers to as the region's "heavy drinking culture."
"It's part of the culture, and the rural (aspect) obviously comes into part of it when we talk about harm that comes from alcohol," Dell said. "So for example, (with) drinking and driving … there aren't the same options with taxis and things when you're in a rural area."
Saskatchewan is the province with the highest rate of deaths related to drinking and driving. In terms of economic impact, alcohol-related harm is estimated to cost the province half a billion dollars per year. Fifty-six percent of provincial residents in a recent public poll by the University of Saskatchewan said alcohol was a problem in their communities.
A resident of Saskatoon, Dell offered an anecdote to explain how common impaired driving remains.
"We live just outside the city and from the time we moved here to just the other day again, the number of times I see beer bottles on the highway or a bottle of whiskey empty, it's just like, 'Oh my gosh, people are obviously still drinking and driving,'" she said.
The prevalence of youth drinking is also a concern for Dell. When she first moved to Saskatoon, she remembered a local school hosting a "safe grad" that was designed to encourage responsible drinking by offering students tickets for drinks.
"I think the kids got 15 tickets, so 15 drinks a night or something," she recalled. "And that's absolutely not good, for many, many, many reasons …
"These are high amounts. These are kids who aren't even 18, some of them, but this was sanctioned … People were out back and said, 'Well, it's my kid. They can do whatever I want my kid to do. They're safe.' I was like, 'How is that safe? What is our definition of safe?' Because a brain isn't even fully matured until it's 24, and putting that amount of toxin in it … is not safe."
The quest to make drinking safer was what led to Canada's National Alcohol Strategy, which put forward policies to encourage a "Culture of Moderation" across the country.
The rural (aspect) obviously comes into part of it when we talk about harm that comes from alcohol. Colleen Anne Dell
One of the fruits of this effort was the establishment of Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines, which encourage women to drink no more than two standard drinks on most drinking days and men to drink no more than three (or four on special occasions), with a limit of 15 drinks per week.
Knowing the volume of a standard drink can go a long way towards curbing excessive drinking at parties.
"If you're at a house party or someone's house … what is a standard wine glass?" Dell asked. "Are you getting a big goblet and it's filled to the top? Well, you might have two drinks in there, not one. So two of those doesn't mean you can go drive -- you've just had four drinks …
"Are they using a shot glass … so you know how much is going into your drink? You have to be really aware of those things."
Another tip is drinking a glass of water between each drink to dilute the alcohol.
As part of her work, Dell has been involved in numerous programs aiming to address problem drinking. She is currently working with the Saskatchewan Team for Research and Evaluation of Addictions Treatment and Mental Health Services (STREAM), which is funded by the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation and evaluates treatment methods with the goal of a more evidence-based approach.
Dell has also promoted What's Your Cap?, a student initiative at the U of S that seeks to raise awareness and knowledge of the risks involved in overconsumption of alcohol. The idea is for students to talk with other students about the evidence on binge drinking.
"'If you drink more than this amount, this is what's happening to you and your body or what have you, so make the choices that are important for you,'" is how Dell summarized the approach.
"But it's not a preachy type thing, and it's from students for students and they really, really like that."
More information about safe alcohol consumption and the risks of excessive drinking may be found at www.ccsa.ca and www.whatsurcap.ca.


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November 18, 2011 —
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) is seeking public comments on an environmental assessment review the agency has drafted as part of its application for a federal grant.
The PFBC has applied for the grant through the Voluntary Public Access-Habitat Incentives Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency. The program is designed to provide private landowners various incentives to open their land to public fishing and wildlife-related recreation and to improve conditions for wildlife and their habitats.
As part of its grant application, the PFBC must submit an environmental assessment. Comments on the draft assessment will be accepted through Dec. 19.
The assessment can be reviewed online at fishandboat.com or in person at the agency's headquarters in Harrisburg and its six region offices.
Comments can be submitted to Jackie Kramer, PFBC statewide public access and lands conservation coordinator, at email@example.com [1] or by mail to Fish and Boat Commission, Attn: Jackie Kramer, P.O. Box 67000, Harrisburg, PA 17106-7000.


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Conventional nerd wisdom says that the more Hollywood changes a comic book they're adapting, the greater the amount of balls it's going to suck. Look at movies like Catwoman, Constantine, or LXG -- they all made inexplicable changes to the source material, and according to Box Office Mojo's stats, each of them sucked over 75,000 donkey balls (Wikipedia's "List of Films by Most Donkey Balls Sucked" page says LXG sucked a record-breaking 101,837, but the claim is unsourced).
But, despite being a well-documented nerd, even I have to admit that sometimes, even if the original comic is a classic, the changes are for the best. There are things that the comic book medium can pull off which simply wouldn't work on the big screen, mainly because comics can get silly as fuck, you guys. Here are some scenes that I'm glad exist in comic book form, but I'm thankful they didn't get adapted.
4 The Avengers -- Loki Is Defeated by Ants
What They Got from the Comics:
The basic plot of The Avengers (the 2012 movie) is the same as The Avengers #1 (the 1963 comic), give or take some explosions and Galaga references: Loki, Thor's brother and the god of trickery, manipulates a bunch of superheroes as part of an evil plan, thus causing them to band together and kick his ass.
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"I am bad at evil plans."
Despite spending a big chunk of the plot punching each other instead of the villain, the superheroes decide to stay together as the Avengers. As in the movie, the team in the comic is composed of Iron Man (back when he was chubbier and completely yellow), Hulk, Thor, and Captain Ame-
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Wait, who the fuck is this joker?!
What They Left Out:
That joker is Ant-Man, named like that because he has the "power" of shrinking to the size of an ant. Beside him is his assistant/love interest, The Wasp, who also turns tiny but at least gets some wings in return. Ant-Man, on the other hand, has to get around by using exploited ants as skis. I can see why they left him out of the movie: He would have been even less useful than Hawkeye and Black Widow during the big fight scene in New York.
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"Hey, where's An- whoops."
Despite being universally recognized as the leader and soul of the team, Captain America doesn't show up until issue #4 ... but the thing is, they don't really need him in the fight against Loki, because Ant-Man saves the day. Actually, that's not accurate: Ant-Man's ants save the day. Just regular ants that he talks to, the way Aquaman talks to aquatic animals. How do the ants save the day? Well, at the end of the comic the heroes think they've got Loki cornered, but he turns himself radioactive and starts killing them (which was a thing he could have done at any point, apparently). The mighty Avengers are completely at the mercy of Loki. The team is over before it even started.
That's when the ants open a trapdoor under Loki, drop him into some sort of furnace, and lock him inside.
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While Ant-Man helpfully commentates on what they're already doing.
At this point, Thor probably invited the ants to join the Avengers, but they were too busy ruining someone's cereal, so the team settled for that Ant-Man assclown. Am I being too hard on the little guy? Probably, but I have to make fun of him while I can before Edgar Wright and Paul Rudd make him cool in his upcoming movie (though I should have learned my lesson after my ill-fated 2007 article, "7 Reasons Why Iron Man Is Stupid and No One Likes Him and Never Will").
It Gets Sillier:
Another big difference between the Avengers movie and comic? I'm pretty sure the movie skipped the part where Hulk tries to go incognito and joins a circus masquerading as a robot clown juggling horses and elephants.
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"Yes, no one will look at me twice now. I am great at secret identities."
3 The Dark Knight Rises -- Bane and Batman Become Bros
What They Got from the Comics:
The Dark Knight Rises, that long-ass Christopher Nolan movie with dramatic music in every scene (you know, the one with Michael Caine in it?), is based on several Batman comics storylines, but mainly the one where a big guy called Bane shows up in Gotham City one day and breaks Batman's back.
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"Hey there, what's your gimmick? Bring any henchmen toda- ARGH!"
Batman spends several months recuperating abroad until his spine basically fixes itself and he's ready to resume his Batmanning. Eventually he beats Bane in a rematch and then Bane dies, obviously, because there's no more use for the character anymore.
What They Left Out:
Wait, no. That's in the movie. In the comics Bane survives and, having no idea what to do with the character now, the writers said "fuck it" and came up with a plot where he thinks he might be Batman's little brother.
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They even got a portrait made in the style of the poster for Step Brothers.
See, that's what happens in comics when a character specifically created for one storyline is allowed to hang around for years and years: His plotlines get increasingly silly until they reach soap opera-esque proportions. In this case, Bane goes on a long quest to find out who his father was, until one day he comes across a photo of his mom with some guy called Dr. Thomas Wayne. As in Thomas "Let's Take a Shortcut Through This Dark Alley, It Looks Really Safe" Wayne, father of Bruce. Alfred confirms that Batman's dad did visit the island where Bane grew up, roughly nine months before his birth, to provide the locals with his special brand of "medical relief."
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"Also, one time, he fucked a penguin. Wonder what happened to that ugly kid."
So how does Batman react to one of his biggest enemies making a claim like that? By punching Bane in his shriveled, steroid-filled balls and throwing him out of the city he once threatened to destroy with a clean-energy-device-turned-nuclear-bomb, right? Nope: He lets Bane stay at Wayne Manor, lends him a batmobile, and takes him out on patrols like he's courting a new Robin. To be fair, Bane did chill out considerably during this period, and even started calling himself Wayne. Just Wayne. Wayne who likes to party.
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Party on, Bane.
Of course, a few issues later the DNA test Bane and Batman ordered comes back negative, and Bane goes off to continue his dadquest. But the damage is done: He isn't quite so intimidating after you've seen him in a polo shirt.
It Gets Sillier:
More-recent storylines have Bane discovering his tender side and trying his hand at romance -- which is completely awesome, actually, but try to imagine the following dialogue in Tom Hardy's muffled voice:
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You'll know you did it correctly if you never feel aroused ever again.


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Beeville Police Department Detective Lt. Eddie Garcia said Jimmy Barrera was chased down after he was seen sitting in a vehicle at about 5 a.m. Sunday.
The intended victim had a firearm that was not described in the report, and he gave chase.
The owner of the vehicle caught up with the suspect and held him until police arrived to make an arrest.
Barrera was taken to the Bee County Jail and booked on a charge of burglary of a vehicle, a Class A misdemeanor.
The owner of the vehicle was not charged. Officers at the scene determined that the intended victim was protecting his property.
Barrera is suspected of being connected with a recent rash of vehicle burglaries because the number of such incidents has decreased since his arrest.
If convicted of the charge in county court, the defendant could be sentenced to 180 days in the county jail and fined $4,000.
Garcia also reported the arrest of a man and wife suspected of drug activity after a raid on their residence Sunday night.
According to the lieutenant, BPD Special Weapons and Tactics Team officers found cocaine, prescription pills and cash when they raided an address in the 1600 block of North Avenue D at about 9 p.m.
Guadalupe Rodriguez Sr., 45, and Amy Rodriguez, 34, were taken into custody on drug charges. Two other adults who were in the house at the time were detained on outstanding misdemeanor warrants.
According to Police Chief Joe Treviño, officers found more than 150 pills on the female suspect.
The man was charged with possession of dangerous drugs, a Class A misdemeanor, possession of a controlled substance, less than 28 grams, also a Class A misdemeanor, and possession of a controlled substance, cocaine, less than four grams.
The cocaine possession charge is a third degree felony, according to one of the investigating officers.
If convicted of that charge, Guadalupe Rodriguez could face a 10-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine.
Amy Rodriguez was charged with possession of a controlled substance, less than 28 grams. The charge is a Class A misdemeanor.
Garcia said officers took $3,000 in cash from the residence.
An investigation into activity at the residence is continuing.
"The Beeville Police Department is going to continue to target illegal narcotics, even if it just one dealer at a time," Treviño said.
Gary Kent is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 120, or at email@example.com.


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BRATTLEBORO Heavy traffic leaving the state Sunday after a long holiday weekend caused southbound backups of up to 4 miles on Interstate 91.
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Some 20,000 daily drivers that used to have two lanes northbound and two lanes southbound now have one each. On Sunday, that caused tie-ups significant enough to cause authorities to send out press releases advising of the slowdown.
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Can bank stocks continue to party in New Year?
Shares of the largest US banks proved to be among the best investments in 2012. The question many investors now face is whether they can pull off an encore.
The financial sector of the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index has soared 25% in 2012, outpacing the broader S&P 500 index, which is up 12%. The KBW Bank Index, which tracks 24 of the country's biggest banks, has gained 28%.
Many investors piled into bank stocks in large part because lenders had fallen to such depressed levels that they were considered a bargain. In some cases, banks were trading at less than the value of their assets.
While few investors are betting on a similarly strong performance in 2013, bulls argue that banks remain relatively cheap, and they see potential for higher profits as lending picks up. Bears point to shrinking net-interest margins, an important gauge of lending profitability, as well as continued regulatory uncertainty to make the case that bank stocks have run up too far and are due for a pause. They say that while rising demand for loans could nudge profits higher, banks' earnings growth will be limited.
How bank stocks fare is an important signpost for investors looking at the broader market. Because of banks' central role in directing capital across the economy, their health and prosperity foreshadow the fortunes of the overall stock market.
Bank of America jumped 104% this year and Citigroup has soared 48%, while JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley have each tacked on 23% or more.
Some high-profile analysts have recently turned optimistic on banks, despite the big gains this year. Morgan Stanley in December upgraded large-capitalisation bank stocks to "attractive," from a neutral position, citing an expected boost in new loans, a recovery in the housing market, which would bolster lending, and restructuring undertaken by banks to shed bad loans and become leaner.
Meredith Whitney, an independent analyst who has long been a sceptic of big banks, upgraded Citigroup and Bank of America to a "buy" recommendations this month.
"The rally is still in its infancy," says Matt Lloyd, chief investment strategist at Advisors Asset Management in Monument, Colo., which manages about $7bn in assets. While banks are flush with cash, thanks to high levels of deposits and low borrowing costs, they haven't yet ramped up lending to households and companies, Lloyd argues. That may soon change, he says.
"When people go to banks to borrow money, they don't just sit on it—they hire, they expand, and that just recycles and amplifies economic activity," Lloyd says. "That's what people are underestimating."
Bank stocks are cheap, too, by some metrics. According to Goldman Sachs, the financial sector is trading at 11.1 times projected earnings for the next year, making it the cheapest among the 10 sectors of the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. By comparison, telecommunications stocks trade at 18.3 times 2013's projected earnings.
The rebound in lenders' shares comes after the financial crisis in 2008 ravaged the banking industry, which was forced to take billions of dollars in writedowns of bad loans and assets. At Friday's close of $11.36, Bank of America is trading at roughly one-fifth of its late 2006 peak of about $55 a share.
"As I look at what the banks have done over the past five years, they've chewed through a lot of rot," says Jason Ware, a market strategist at Albion Financial Group in Salt Lake City, Utah, who expects financials to be one of the best-performing sectors of 2013. "They're coming out cleaner than they were four or five years ago, and valuations are still cheap."
Skeptics of bank stocks' prospects have focused on net-interest margins, which track how much banks earn when they borrow from depositors and then lend or invest those funds. While the Federal Reserve's stimulus actions have helped spur economic activity, they have also pushed interest rates down to historically low levels, squeezing bank profitability.
Net-interest margins are now floating around their lowest levels in three years. And there is unlikely to be much relief as the Fed holds rates low.
Bernie Williams, vice president of discretionary money management at USAA Investments, has been "underweight" the financial sector for the past year, and has no plans to change that. While he acknowledges bank stocks' rebound off their lows, "they won't be the same huge growth area that they were," he says.
Williams argues that banks will be so constrained by rules drafted in the wake of the financial crisis that they could soon start to resemble utilities—churning out steady, if unremarkable, streams of profits. He sees banks supplying loans under close oversight in the same way that utilities supply electricity to customers, with profits constrained by government regulations.
"The government is just not going to let them grow," Williams says.
For others, the concern is simply that the share-price increases already capture recent improvements.
Charles Lahr, New York-based managing director and global equity portfolio manager for Pacific Investment Management Co., a unit of Allianz, praises big US banks for aggressively tightening their belts in the past year, but says there is little room for upside from here.
"At this point, given how far they've come, I'm underweight," he says, calling himself "very selective" on the sector—so selective that he can't find any bank stocks he likes in the US, though he is keeping an eye on Citigroup as its new chief executive, Michael Corbat, slashes costs.
Lloyd of Advisors Asset Management says one factor is likely to underpin bank stocks, as well as the broader stock market, regardless of how far they have run up: central-bank stimulus.
The Fed has flooded the economy with dollars and pushed down interest rates to support the mortgage market. That has helped US households repair their battered balance sheets, and reduced banks' losses on soured loans. As the economic recovery supports a pickup in lending, that momentum may be picking up, he says. The Fed's efforts have also been aided by central-bank stimulus in Europe and Japan, he says.
"We haven't seen forces like this before," Lloyd says.
--write to Jonathan Cheng at email@example.com
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Simone A. KitchFebruary 22,2013
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PLAINFIELD Simone Antoinette Kitch, 68, died Monday, Feb. 18, 2013, at her home.
She was born in Brandon Dec. 20, 1944, the daughter of Emile and Dorothy (Johnson) Racine.
She graduated valedictorian of her class from Brandon High School and earned her bachelor of arts in psychology from the College of St. Joseph in Rutland.
Mrs. Kitch was primarily a homemaker but had worked for the Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice and, later, for the Becket School in Pike, N.H.
She volunteered for Red Cross Disaster Relief efforts in Louisiana, Ohio and Vermont, and for the Humane Society in Barre.
She was known as an artist and she also enjoyed cooking, gardening, knitting and crocheting.
Survivors include her husband, David Kitch of Plainfield; two sons, Aaron Johnson of Thetford and Daniel Johnson of Woodruff, Wis.; a daughter, Simone Stewart of Delaware, Ohio; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; three brothers, Armand Racine of Killeen, Texas, Maurice Buzz Racine of Brandon and Terry Racine of Leicester.
The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 25, at St. Marys Catholic Church in Brandon, officiated by the Rev. Richard Crawley.
Private burial will be at a later date in St. Marys Cemetery.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, at the Miller & Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon.
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Kee (which owns JT) bought up most of Smart Parts when they liquidated back in 2010. I would say it looks like the 2009 Smart Parts Impulse, but the major difference I see in this picture is a macroline. Discuss!
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Vt car search after robbery finds dummy grenade
MORRISTOWN Vermont State Police had a scare when they were searching a car after a robbery and found what appeared to be a hand grenade.
Police say they also found what appeared to be a gun and notes threatening to use the weapons during Fridays search, which followed Thursdays robbery at the Kinney Drugs store in Cambridge.
The car was parked outside the Morristown Police Department, which was ordered evacuated. A state police bomb squad was called in. The grenade turned out to be a dummy, and the gun turned out to be an air gun.
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Starting line up edit. I actually had to laugh at myself on this one.
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Some say that he once threw a rock in the air.......and missed
LMAO at threw a rock in th air and missed. This is definately gonna be a tough game though, jefferson, milsap, and kirilenko inside make it tough. Plus itsgonna be tough for fields with raja, melo with ak47 and amare with eiter milsap or jefferson. We have to continue hitting open shot, williams, mason and TD are gnna be very inportant tonight.
I think Melo is going to have his best game as a Knick tonight. He's just due for a good game and it's at the garden.
Milsap being out is great news for the Knicks, especially considering the fact that we have our own injury issues to deal with. Jazz are 2-8 since they lost Sloan & Williams. The good thing is, there not a horrible team; the Knicks will be ready. Gonna be hard to the Jazz to win @ NY in MSG tonight.
Anyone know the word on billups tonight?
Great thread crazy8s .. very insightful and hilarious
I see us winning this game by a dozen points. The Jazz are definitely not the same since having lost their 2 great leaders in Sloan and Williams this season. We should win these type of games, but I guess nothing is certain, especially when we lost 2 games to the cavs last week
Either way, I still see a victory for us tonight GO KNICKS!!!!
Is it just me or is Millsap playing??
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November 7, 2012 —
Many homes and businesses were still without power in some Upper Delaware River towns following Hurricane Sandy's visit to the region last week when the Upper Delaware Council (UDC) met on November 1 after power was restored in Narrowsburg.
With the impacts of the hurricane fresh in everyone's awareness, the subject of floodplain regulation came up. Prompted in part by a recent presentation from the Wayne Conservation District about Pennsylvania's new floodplain regulations, the discussion revolved around issues related to wetlands.
"At the risk of stirring up a hornet's nest, I'm curious if this has to do with land use, and what determines wetlands for the state of Pennsylvania," said Town of Deerpark, NY representative David Dean.
Berlin Township, PA representative Alan Henry, who spent many years in law enforcement with the National Park Service (NPS), offered his perspective. "You can build in a floodplain, but not in a floodway," he said. "In Pennsylvania, we were always amazed that people would be dumb enough to put a house in an area that we had seen flood on the Delaware because most of our ancestors were bright enough not to put them there. But the state would approve it, as long as it wasn't in the floodway."
Dean said he believes wetland designations are being expanded in both New York and Pennsylvania and that he is concerned about this development. "The use is being taken away from the people who are paying taxes on the ground," he said.
Dean then told new UDC resource specialist Travis O'Dell that he should be on the lookout for information related to this issue. "I'm going to be looking to you to see who is taking control over private property," he said. "I'll be very blunt about it."
Town of Tusten, NY representative Susan Sullivan pointed out that wetlands help to minimize flooding and could reduce the types of catastrophic events that resulted from the recent hurricane. "The function of wetlands is incredibly important and it should dictate land use," said Sullivan. "Back in the day when people didn't have government or insurance companies to clean up for them, they didn't build in these places."
"One of the things that we might all bear in mind is what happened this past week, and whether it was advisable for some places to be built where they were built in the first place," said Carla Hahn, management assistant at the NPS Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River.
William Rudge of the NY Department of Environmental Conservation said there is extensive information about wetlands available on the agency's website at www.dec.ny.gov/lands/305.html [1].
Council members next learned that visitation statistics gathered by the NPS show that while approximately four percent of the population that visits the Upper Delaware region comes to swim, there are no designated swimming areas for them to do so. "There are many reasons for that," said Hahn. "We cannot provide lifeguards and there are no lifeguarded areas."
It was also reported that the NPS is involved in 13 multi-agency research studies in the region, and that the federal agency is fairly certain it will be facing a 1.7 % budget cut in January.
In other matters, a committee was appointed to identify
nominees for the council's 2013 officers. The slate will be presented at the next meeting on December 6 and voted on at the January 3, 2013 meeting. The UDC meets at 7 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month at 211 Bridge Street in Narrowsburg, NY. The public is welcome. For more information visit www.upperdelawarecouncil.org [2] or call 845/252-3022.


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Big Island police have identified the last two victims of a two-vehicle crash on Wednesday that killed five people on Highway 11 near Pahala.
The occupants of the 2002 Ford pickup truck, which overturned in the crash and caught fire, were identified as 64-year-old Richard Taylor of Na'alehu and 56-year-old Trinidad Ballesteros of Na'alehu.
An autopsy determined that they died from the fire. Their identities were confirmed by dental records.
The family of Ballesteros has set up a fund to help with funeral and travel expenses. The Taylor family has also set up a way to donate to the family on the web.


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Hanukkah decoded
Different families have their favorites, but most folks are familiar with the traditional latkes. This is one of the most famous of Jewish foods, and a specialty of Hanukkah. The latkes (potato pancakes) are served as an appetizer, as a side dish, and even for tea with a sprinkling of confectioners' sugar. They can be marvelous if properly prepared, just before eating. I've never mastered making latkes, but I'm pretty good when it comes to eating them. In my house, I always make sure to have sour cream at the ready.
What is a dreidel?
Another website, www.about.com, helped to decipher what that "funny looking toy" is. "Dreidel" is a Yiddish word that comes from the German word "drehen," which means "to turn." A dreidel is a four-sided spinning top with a Hebrew letter on each side. It is used during Hanukkah to play a popular children's game that involves spinning the dreidel and betting on which Hebrew letter will be showing when the dreidel stops spinning. Children usually play for a pot of gelt, which are chocolate coins covered in gold colored tin foil, but they can also play for candy, nuts, raisins—anything, really.
Many of us have heard the children's song, which is sung every year while playing the Hanukkah game, and the memorable chorus often sticks in my mind long after the last candle has burned out. For me, it's the Jewish version of (oy vey!) "It's a small world after all" and goes something like this:
"Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel
I made it out of clay
And when it's dry and ready
Then dreidel I shall play!"
Religious practices
Although Hanukkah is considered one of the "fun" holidays, its roots are deeply significant and given proper reverence while observing during the eight-day celebration. There are three Brachos (blessings) which are recited when the Hanukkah candles are lit. For example, in both traditional Hebrew and English we recite: "Baruch ata Ado-nai, Elo-heinu Melech ha'olam, Asher kid'shanu b'mitzvosav v'tzivanu l'hadlik ner shel Chanukah." Translation: "Blessed are You, Hashem our G-d, King of the universe, Who has sanctified us with His commandments, and has commanded us to kindle the Chanukah light."
On a lighter note
I found this charming poem on www.holiday123.net:
Let's be Happy
By Malvine P. Hoenig
Let's be happy, let us cheer,
Hanukkah again is here.
All the lights are shining bright,
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by Anton Shilov
Intel Corp. has initiated shipments of correct versions of its Cougar Point chipset for Sandy Bridge processors. Leading manufacturers of mainboards and notebooks have reportedly received the B3 stepping of the core-logic and will be able to install it shortly.
Officially, Intel initiated shipments of P67 and H67 B3 stepping core-logic on the 14th of February, 2011. On Friday sources close to leading makers of mainboards confirmed to DigiTimes web-site that the new chips had been received and were ready to be used for production of mainboards or notebooks.
In January Intel discovered a design issue in the Intel 6-series, code-named Cougar Point, and has implemented a silicon fix. In some cases, the Serial ATA-300 ports within the chipsets may degrade over time, potentially impacting the performance or functionality of SATA-linked devices such as hard disk drives and optical disc drives. The two SATA-600 ports are unaffected. Intel has stopped shipment of the affected support chip and so did its partners, who halted shipments of systems featuring the core-logic.
Intel and its partners did not comment on the news-story.