Archive for May, 2009
District Women Want Mental Health Clinic to Stay Open (source: Washington Post)
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The conference room in the D.C. Community Services Agency doesn’t offer much — just some squeaky chairs and mismatched metal filing cabinets — but every Thursday morning at 10:30, it contains what Sylvia Adegoke calls her ”lifeline.” This Southeast Wash… (source: Washington Post) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
China refined copper production up 5.9% in April (source: IB Times)
Big Chinese smelters pushed up their metals production in April to help meet yearly output production goals. (source: IB Times) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com
Omega Men’s Speedmaster Automatic Chronograph Watch #3539.50.00 (Watch) newly tagged ‘’sport” (source: Amazon)
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Omega Men’s Speedmaster Automatic Chronograph Watch #3539.50.00 (Watch)By Omega Buy new: $1,760.009 used and new from $1,450.00 Customer Rating: First tagged ‘’sport” by Jeff ten Bosch Customer tags: chronograph(3… (source: Amazon) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
U.K. metal detectorists find history, respect - MSNBC
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PENARTH, Wales - Derek Eveleigh walked carefully, searching for buried treasure. Its such a thrill when I find something — and I often do, Eveleigh said as he listened to the steady beeps of his metal detector. Not far away from this Welsh …
COMMODITIES-Sugar, coffee jump, but broad rally pauses - Reuters UK
NEW YORK, May 11 (Reuters) - Supply woes lifted raw sugar to three-year highs on Monday and arabica coffee to seven-month tops, while industrial commodities like oil and copper followed the stock market down on renewed worries about the economy. A …
Vise Squad: Putting The Squeeze On A Crystal Leads To Novel … - Science Daily
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ScienceDaily (May 10, 2009) A clever materials science technique that uses a silicon crystal as a sort of nanoscale vise to squeeze another crystal into a more useful shape may launch a new class of electronic devices that remember their last …
Metal detectors reviews
Metal detectors are a very popular gadget of hobbyists looking for hidden, lost or buried treasure. Relic hunters enjoy looking for any valuable metal and the search for the “holy grail” of the relic hunters is varying wildly in perspective. But most of the wannabe Indiana Joneses are in it for the reward, less for the hunt itself. Therefore, the proper choice of a metal detector seems vital. Some of the metal detectors offer some amazing promises and characteristics, where it is almost sounding too good to be true, what the specifications are professing. The only way how to find out if the claims are true, short of borrowing a metal detector for a test drive, is to read metal detector reviews and find out how well these gadgets did perform in the field. Each and every metal detector manufacturer has a web page where the product line is featured. Besides all the specifications, there is usually a page or a feature where users display the treasure they have found using such a machine. Since that this is the web site by the manufacturer, these success stories should be taken with a moderate amount of caution. The very same web pages have very often some field performance test results posted and also testimonials by customers who bought these apparatuses, proclaiming the efficiency and displaying the bounty. It is questionable how far these reports are based on facts and that has nothing to do with the company itself, perhaps some bounty hunters did get very lucky, on the other hand, they just wanted to see their picture on the web page, so they beautified the report a little bit. There is a very large community of treasure hunters around the world and many of such enthusiasts have started web pages and community forums in order to achieve contact with other fellow enthusiasts. There have been clubs devoted to relic hunting for a while now, but since the advent of the Internet and the wide spread popularity of message boards, community portals and forums, getting in touch with fellow metal detecting aficionados is really easy. Such community interaction possibilities are perhaps the best source of metal detecting information. There are also plenty of people willing to share their personal experiences, when treasure hunting and also which metal detector performed good and which bad. They have extensive tests of their machines, explaining how they work, how well they assist with finding relics and also how much they cost. The best trait of such an interaction capability is the fact that you can ask your fellow enthusiasts everything and anything you’d like to know.
Pinch is good for gold buyers - Chincoteague Beacon
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The weakened U.S. dollar and economic uncertainty forcing scores of business closings have created a lucrative business climate for secondhand, precious-metal object dealers like Ward. Devaluation of the dollar has spiked the price of gold. And the …