Archive for July, 2009
Metal artist wins best of show at Art in the Park (Grand Island Independent)
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A Friday-night decision to enter Grand Islands 27th annual Art in the Park show Sunday paid off for metal artist Bruce Bitter of Hoisington, Kan.
Angloplat’s first-half earnings fall on weak metal prices (Mail and Guardian)
Anglo Platinum, the world’s biggest platinum producer, said on Monday its earnings per share tumbled 95% on lower prices for the metal, but said it would meet its annual output target.
Metal theft costs mount for Harmac (CHEK News)
As metal thefts continue to plague Nanaimo’s Harmac pulp mill, the courts must also recognize the extent of damage goes beyond losing material, says one senior employee.
Metal-theft bill signed by governor (Albany Democrat-Herald)
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Albany Democrat-Herald Gov. Ted Kulongoski has signed the legislatures latest effort to stop metal theft.
Metal artist wins best of show at Art in the Park (Grand Island Independent)
A Friday-night decision to enter Grand Islands 27th annual Art in the Park show Sunday paid off for metal artist Bruce Bitter of Hoisington, Kan.
Metal theft costs mount for Harmac (CHEK News)
As metal thefts continue to plague Nanaimo’s Harmac pulp mill, the courts must also recognize the extent of damage goes beyond losing material, says one senior employee.
Metal Hammer Meltdown Radio Show Starts Sunday! (Metal Hammer)
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Gill and Beez prepare to unleash anarchy on the airwaves! Metal Hammer is launching a weekly radio show on fast-growing specialist music station, NME Radio with Sonisphere Festival Knebworth sponsoring the first show.
Metal fans rock Oxford County Fairgrounds at day-long music festival (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
OXFORD More than 3,300 metal fans from across the region descended on Oxford County Fairgrounds for a daylong music festival jam packed with roaring riffs, pounding drums, lyrical angst and, of course, lots and lots of moshing. “Heavy metal music rocks,” screamed Josh…
One Legged Metal Fan Gets Away With Concert Beating (antiMUSIC)
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A top story from this week. A one legged metal fan, who beat up another rocker at Alice Cooper concert won’t be going to jail.
Recovery School District students gripe over metal detectors, but officials reject call to drop devices (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Superintendent Paul Vallas says metal detector debate ‘really the least of our priorities,’ while student says ’schools should not feel like prison’
Green crusaders invent generator from scrap metal (Croydon Guardian)
An unlikely pair of green crusaders have emerged from New Addington with a power generating device made out of scrap metal.
Selling scrap metal? New three-day wait to get paid. (KATU Portland)
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Gov. Ted Kulongoski (D) has signed a bill into law that requires scrap metal dealers to pay for their material with a check mailed to the seller’s home instead of cash on the spot.
Green crusaders invent generator from scrap metal (Croydon Guardian)
An unlikely pair of green crusaders have emerged from New Addington with a power generating device made out of scrap metal.