Archive for April, 2008
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Construction Workers Remember Fallen Colleagues - NY1Thousands of construction workers in the city took time today to remember their fallen colleagues at a mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The ceremony honored the 13 people killed in construction accidents this year, including the seven people who died Ohio lawmakers ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Food bills set to soar 50pc - News.com.auCASH-STRAPPED families face further pain at the supermarket checkout, with experts warning of price rises up to 50 per cent on food staples before the end of the year as a world food shortage hits home. Fruit and vegetables are expected to be ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Interest payments ease at arts institutions - Los Angeles TimesThe sub-prime mortgage crisis continues to inflict collateral damage on several major Southern California cultural institutions -- but the financial bleeding has slowed since late March, when they were forced to pay more than twice as much interest 4 ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
The lathe is an ancient tool, dating at least to the Egyptians and, known and used in Assyria, Greece, the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
The origin of turning dates to around 1300BC when the Egyptians first developed a two-person lathe. One person would turn the wood work piece with a rope ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
A lathe is a machine tool which spins a block of material to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, or deformation such as metal spinning with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object which has symmetry about an axis of rotation.
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
view additional pages This Automobile Is a Complete Airport TWELVE-TON TOOL BOX ON WHEELS TURNS ANY LEVEL COW PASTURE INTO A SERVICE BASE WITH ALL EQUIPMENT FOR REPAIRING PLANES. ROLLING swiftly down highways on ten oversize balloon tires, a revolutionary airport-in-miniature for use by passenger air lines ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
I lived in this house for three years. The rent was cheap and it was really close to work…I had an oil well in my front yard. (by the way I lived across the street from Belmont High School and about four blocks from the new Belmont Center) I ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
REVIEW SUMMARY: A thought-provoking classic. MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: George Orr, a man who can alter reality with his dreams, is manipulated by Dr. Haber, a dream specialist. MY REVIEW: PROS: Awesome premise; excellent characterizations; great writing. CONS: None, really, though ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Night Shift At The Machine Shop Out in the dark past the grime-caked windows I feel pain begin to stir in the wombs of animals while here under a smear of ugly lights the lathe scrapes out its archaic rhythm constantly until the raw mesh of my nerves starts ...
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