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Irsay-Manning feud sure to steal Super Bowl spotlight

hemroids — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:16:29 +0000

Super Bowl Week is in danger of being hijacked by the host city for the second consecutive year. Jim Irsay, Peyton Manning and the Colts are threatening to make Indianapolis’s week in the spotlight memorable for all the wrong reasons. Last year in D...

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Lecturer shares memories of Ipoh through his drawings

hemroids — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:15:36 +0000

GROWING up in the simple town of Beruas and Ipoh during his childhood years, 47-year-old law lecturer N. Kumar has fond memories of a simple life playing sports and having many adventures with his friends. This helped mould his character, and while he lat...

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Diversified Plastics Sold to Employees

hemroids — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:40:45 +0000

James Dow, founder, president and CEO of Diversified Plastics, Inc., has announced the sale of his company to his employees through an employee stock ownership plan . The employees took ownership on November 1, 2011, but Dow will remain as president. “T...

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Laser-cut leather tiles create an off-the-wall look

hemroids — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:38:57 +0000

Wallpaper has enjoyed something of a renaissance over the past decade. Introduced tentatively as a refreshing antidote to outright minimalism, it is now available in a plethora of patterns.It has developed far beyond the standard 2D repeated patterns to i...

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Scientific Specialties brings innovation, jobs to Lodi

hemroids — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:40:38 +0000

In a compound of buildings on Lodi’s Eastside, K.R. Hovatter is masterminding a world of plastic to help change the world. Hovatter designs and builds an array of products used around the world, from Korea to Germany. The company he founded with his...

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Trapped in a World He Did Not Make

hemroids — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:38:50 +0000

Howard the Duck is, on the surface, a comical romp through Cleveland lead by a cute punk rocker, a clumsy lab assistant, a possessed physicist, and a crass duck from another world; but a deeper look reveals that this film is also an allegorical piece whic...

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Where Conservative Iowans Get Campaign News

hemroids — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:29:27 +0000

You heard it last week from an Iowa transplant: Iowans eat meatloaf, casserole and Jell-O molds. This was one of several sweeping generalizations made by Stephen G. Bloom last week in his much-discussed Atlantic online article, sub-titled “thoughts from...

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Layer by Layer

hemroids — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:11:11 +0000

The parts in jet engines have to withstand staggering forces and temperatures, and they have to be as light as possible to save on fuel. That means it’s complex and costly to make them: technicians at General Electric weld together as many as 20 sep...

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Japan’s Nissei ASB keys up on India

hemroids — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:52:23 +0000

Japanese blow molding machine supplier Nissei ASB Machine Co. Ltd. sees India as an increasingly key part of its future, so it is boosting investment at its Mumbai factory and studying using that facility to expand into new businesses such as manufacturin...

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Push under way to grow new robotics program

hemroids — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:58:21 +0000

A new robotics program in St. Joseph County is teaching the skills needed to work in manufacturing. The goal is to grow the program with more students and get the message out that manufacturing in the 21st century is highly employable. That’s how Ginny ...

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