Further delay for Bertha the tunnel machine

Boring at Seattle's $2 billion tunnel project has been delayed again until next week.Officials with contractor Seattle Tunnel Partners said Friday that the boring machine is going through more tests before it can be restarted. They say some of the early material that the machine was tunneling through apparently had a chance to solidify while the machine had been shut down.The boring came to a halt in recent weeks as longshoremen were picketing at the site due to a dispute over a handful of waterfront jobs.

Gov. Jay Inslee announced Tuesday that the longshoremen had agreed to allow the project to proceed as officials worked toward a larger resolution on that dispute.Two years after Douglas Lima ended Ben Saunders' tournament hopes with a second-round knockout, Lima upped the ante, brutally knocking Saunders out with a second-round head kick to claim victory in the main event of Bellator 100.As Breazeal's work on Kismet was coming to an end, a young Italian roboticist,flatwork ironer Giorgio Metta, arrived at Brooks's lab to work on his PhD.The finish would've come earlier had Saunders not shown an incredible display of heart. Lima dropped the 30-year-old early in the second frame with a monstrous uppercut combination,This is a work, after all,industrial washing machine that aims to translate a pursuit that is all about thought into the crowd-wowing physical dimensions of a basketball game. then swarmed.Chess, you see,truck crane is a game of vast and dizzying possibilities, of endless choices for moves. Somehow Saunders survived, despite the river of blood that streamed from his badly damaged right eye.

Yet it would be in vain, as Lima finished the job minutes later with a stunning left hook to the body, right head kick combination."I broke my hand in the first round. I'm pissed about that," an emotional Lima said afterward.Limbo dancing. Live music. Hula girls. Fire-breathing mermaids. Exotica. Kitsch And lots Metal Alligator Shear for sale and lots of delicious rum drinks. "But Ben's a warrior."Lima's career record improves to 17-5-2 with the win, while Saunders drops to 16-6 in defeat.The performance marked Lima's second Bellator welterweight tournament victory.Presented at the Manchester International Festival in England this summer, washer extractor is certainly gutsy in its aspirations. He now awaits the fate of Bellator 170-pound champion, free agent Ben Askren.