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Large-scale cultivation of biofuels in Europe could lead to increased human mortality and crop losses according to research from the Lancaster Environment Centre.
These findings, published online in Nature Climate Change, demonstrate that the wider implications of biofuel cultivation need to be assessed alongside their potential to save carbon.
Biofuels - usually derived from specialist crops such as poplar, willow or eucalyptus - constitute one of the alternative energy sources being advocated as part of the solution to society's reliance on carbon-intensive fossil fuels. However, many plant species grown for biofuel emit more isoprene, an ozone precursor, than the traditional crops they replace.
A modelling case study by Professor Nick Hewitt, Dr Oliver Wild and former LEC PhD student Kirsti Ashworth estimates the increase in ground level ozone pollution likely to result from a change to biofuel crops, and the associated impacts on human health and agricultural production.
In the case study, enough land area in Europe to meet the European Union's 2020 goal for biofuel production was converted to short rotation coppice crops and the effects on human mortality and crop productivity estimated.
Professor Hewitt said: "Growing biofuels is thought to be a good thing because it reduces the net amount of carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere, but biofuels could also have a detrimental effect on air quality. Large-scale production of biofuels in Europe would have small but significant effects on human mortality and crop yields."
The paper - Impacts of biofuel cultivation on mortality and crop yields - uses a model of atmospheric chemistry to estimate the changes in ground level ozone concentrations that will result from the large scale planting of short rotation coppice biofuel crops in Europe.
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The major telecommunications players have long been among the largest of global businesses. From Telefonica to Verizon to AT&T, these communications service providers have long earned substantial revenue. As the Internet during the late 90s and on to today and the explosion of mobility and wireless technology of the last five years continue to drive where consumers now look for anytime and anywhere services, there remains a "lurking" sense among the major carriers that they are in danger of becoming disenfranchised. What does this mean?
What it means is that the service providers are – and have been – in danger of simply becoming dumb pipe providers. As pure wireless delivery continues to expand – especially on the LTE 4G front and becomes pervasive, it also simply becomes a commodity. This issue has indeed been lurking – it hasn't happened yet, but the danger for those carriers that cannot effectively change their business models and offerings to include significant suites of new services –chief among them cloud services - that consumers will want to use and be delighted by, is that they will indeed become dumb pipes.
For the large carriers the issue is a very real one, and they are all hard at work looking for ways to take advantage of their own wireless delivery capabilities to build out non-trivial mobile services that will generate billions of dollars in mobile-driven revenue. Can the large carriers compete with smaller and more nimble players? The good news for the large carriers is that in most – not all – cases they have enough cash in hand in the billions of dollars range – to invest in building out such services.
At today's ITEXPO Miami keynote panel session focusing on the future of global service providers, the assembled panel was purposefully built to not include any service providers. In the image below, we have, from left to right, my TMC colleague Peter Bernstein moderating, Craig Walker of uberconference, Steve Johnson of inGate, Dave Walters of Sansay, David Tipping of Sonus and Rene Sotola of CGI. A stellar panel indeed.
Can these global carriers evolve into "full service providers?" Rene Sotola suggests that doing such a thing is a huge challenge, and will require a significant commitment to meeting the challenge that the carriers do not have in their DNA to pull off.
Dave Walters believes that Wall Street is moving beyond looking at the service providers to the application providers for services. What this means is that Wall Street believes in the emerging dumb pipe theory.
Steve Johnson wonders if IP-driven pipes can be considered "smart pipes" rather than dumb pipes and if the major carriers can take advantage of it. Craig Walker wonders if the carriers – who's latest true contribution was caller ID- have the ability to understand the user and consumer at a level that will allow them to deliver truly valuable services. Case in point: does anyone use carrier-supplied navigation apps? The answer is mostly no.
Sotola believes that the carriers do not do a good job of fully understanding the problems that consumers have and that the services the carriers need to develop and deliver. Sotola suggests that the carriers need to evolve from "bell-heads" to "Google-heads." Carriers do not reach out and ask – rather they spend too much time acting as ivory towers that know the answers without doing the requisite consumer and enterprise homework. Instead of delivering smart solutions for their emerging "smart pipes" they deliver solutions that fail to delight the consumer of business user.
What this means of course, is that the carriers aren't going to deliver dumb pipes simply because they aren't delivering services, but that the carriers themselves will act "dumbly" and fail to take advantage of their smart pipes to deliver smart services – they will deliver dumb services.
Steve Johnson notes that the providers need to understand they are under attack from technologies such as WebRTC. And the carriers need to understand that their decades of delivering wired capability needs to be "blown up" so that the carriers can truly think in blank sheet and out of the box ways.
But can the carriers do so? Should the carriers open up the networks and look to third parties to directly deliver services for the carriers? It is a hugely difficult question to answer – the network is the carrier golden egg no matter how you slice it and dice it. Getting them to open it up may prove impossible given today's collection of senior management leadership at each of the global service providers. If they do not open the networks up to those nimble players that can help them re-invent themselves into smart services providers – which means that they will need to share not only revenue, but also what is currently highly protected and hugely valuable subscriber data – they will devolve.
Craig Walker suggests that the carriers cannot break the mold. At least not yet. The problem then becomes one of can the carriers change before the "dumb pipe" scenario becomes a reality?
The panel's collective ultimate response is that they are hopeful the carriers can pull it off and not evolve into dumb pipes, but remain highly skeptical that they will pull it off. To be sure they will try, and some will do better than others. But collectively as an industry they will lag significantly.
Recently, AT&T announced an ambitious plan to expand its network and its services. A less than superficial look into AT&T's plans suggests that AT&T may have some out of the box thinking in hand, but probably not enough of it. We believe that all the major carriers are in this boat. We also remain hopeful but skeptical.
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22 Triple-A Players Elect Free Agency
A total of 22 players that finished the year in Triple-A elected free agency after the end of the regular season according to the transaction pages of the Pacific Coast and International Leagues. All but one of those 22 players (Matt Carson, formerly of the Rays) played in the big leagues this season. Here's the full list:
Dusty Brown (Pirates), Travis Buck (Indians), Armando Galarraga (D'Backs), Jay Gibbons (Dodgers), Edgar Gonzalez (Rockies), Steve Holm (Twins), Wil Ledezma (Blue Jays), Andy LaRoche (Athletics), Felipe Lopez (Brewers), Lastings Milledge (White Sox), Pat Misch (Mets), Pat Neshek (Padres), Mike O'Connor (Mets), Matt Palmer (Angels), Felix Pie (Orioles), Brad Snyder (Cubs), Brett Tomko (Rangers), Wyatt Toregas (Pirates), P.J. Walters (Blue Jays), Randy Williams (Red Sox), and Reggie Willits (Angels).
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Outrighted: Toregas, Hughes, Pucetas, Nieves
Players who cleared waivers and were outrighted to Triple-A:
- The Cubs announced that Brad Snyder has been outrighted to Triple-A Iowa. The outfielder was designated for assignment on the weekend.
- Catcher Wyatt Toregas was outrighted to Indianapolis by the Pirates, tweets Rob Biertempfel of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He'd been designated for assignment on Sunday to open a spot for Mike McKenry.
- Lefty reliever Dusty Hughes was outrighted to Rochester to open a 40-man spot with the Twins for infielder Tsuyoshi Nishioka, according to the team's transactions page. They'd claimed Hughes off waivers from the Royals in January. The Twins will need another spot for Joe Mauer soon.
- Righty Kevin Pucetas, designated for assignment by the Royals on Friday to open a 40-man spot for Mike Moustakas, was assigned outright to Omaha today according to the Royals' Twitter page.
- The Brewers outrighted catcher Wil Nieves to Nashville, writes MLB.com's Adam McCalvy. George Kottaras' contract was selected. The Brewers' 40-man roster count remains at 37. The White Sox are the only other team under 38.
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Pirates Designate Wyatt Toregas For Assignment
To make room for catcher Mike McKenry, on the 40-man roster, the Pirates have designated Wyatt Toregas for assignment, writes MLB.com's Jenifer Langosch. Toregas was on the Bucs big league roster for just four days.
In 135 career Triple-A games, Toregas has a .235/.301/.355 slash line with eleven homers. Prior to this season, the 28-year-old catcher had just 19 major league games to his credit, all of which came with the Indians in 2009.
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The Pirates optioned Daniel McCutchen to Triple-A and reassigned Sean Gallagher, Tyler Yates, Wyatt Toregas and Josh Fields to minor league camp today. Here are more updates on the Pirates from Florida…
- Rob Biertempfel of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review hears that the Pirates will not release Ryan Doumit if they can't work out a trade (Twitter link). Though Doumit will earn $5.1MM this year, the Pirates like his bat.
- GM Neal Huntington told Pat Lackey of Where Have You Gone Andy Van Slyke that the Pirates haven't focused on pitching in recent drafts, even though it might appear that way. The Pirates have just been selecting the players at the top of their draft board, according to Huntington. Pittsburgh picks first overall in 2011.
- In a separate post, Lackey points out that John Bowker's strong spring has likely assured that Rule 5 selection Josh Rodriguez will be returned to the Indians.
- Huntington told reporters this morning that the goal for McCutchen at the Major League level would be for him to pitch multiple innings as a reliever. The right-hander may return to the Triple-A rotation.
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Quick Hits: Toregas, Montanez, Hargrove, Payrolls
A few notes from around the league that have nothing to do with players who avoided arbitration or filed salary figures…
- The Pirates signed catcher Wyatt Toregas to a minor league contract with an invitation Spring Training according to a team press release. The 28-year-old spent the 2010 season in the Indians' farm system, hitting .227/.311/.383 in 148 plate appearances.
- The Cubs signed outfielder Lou Montanez to a minor league deal according to Baseball America's Matt Eddy (on Twitter). They drafted him third overall back way back in 2000. Montanez hit .223/.257/.323 in 266 plate appearances with the Orioles over the last three seasons.
- Former Indians manager Mike Hargrove is back with the team as a special advisor, the club announced today.
- The Marlins project to have an Opening Day payroll around $58MM according to MLB.com's Joe Frisaro. It will be the franchise's highest payroll since opening the 2005 season at $60.4MM.
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- The Royals are now projected to have a payroll around $40MM after Gil Meche's surprise retirement, tweets Bob Dutton of The Kansas City Star. In a separate pair of tweets, Dutton says the team is unlikely to use the payroll savings from Meche's retirement on free agents, but will instead boost their draft and international free agent budgets.
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Toregas, Anderson Hernandez Clear Waivers
FRIDAY, 9:35am: Paul Hoynes of the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported last night that Hernandez and Toregas both cleared waivers.
SATURDAY, 7:27pm: The Indians have designated catcher Wyatt Toregas and infielder Anderson Hernandez for assignment, according to Paul Hoynes of The Cleveland Plain Dealer. The moves free up 40-man roster spots for Austin Kearns and Mark Grudzielanek.
The 27-year-old Toregas hit .176/.267/.196 in 60 plate appearances for Cleveland last year, but owns a .264/.331/.408 career batting line in the minors. Hernandez, 27, hit .252/.315/.370 in 149 plate appearances with the Mets last season, and is a .245/.303/.324 career hitter in close to 600 big league plate appearances. He doesn't grade out too well with the glove either.
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The Real Madrid boss has remained coy over his future with the Spanish club as he continues to be linked as the replacement for interim manager Rafa Benitez, who is set to leave Stamford Bridge when his contract expires at the end of the season.
Mourinho left Chelsea in September 2007 after his three-year reign produced two Premier League titles, one FA Cup and two League Cups, but Wenger believes club would be wise to give the 50-year-old a second spell in charge.
"I think Chelsea currently have a great coach in Rafa Benitez," Wenger was quoted as saying.
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The new dredger is Sterling's third barge to be built at May in the last year and a half, and though its construction has finally been completed, the shipbuilding crew encountered a few setbacks along the way. Last October, Superstorm Sandy brought more than six feet of water into the yard, knocking one of May's drydocks into the ship, causing damage to the vessel. The yard was closed for at least 30 days, DeCrescenzo said, and without power, the project was kept stagnant for nearly six weeks. With help from 250-kw generators, May's builders were able to get production back on track.
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Significantly, the crane is powered by two Caterpillar C27 tier 4 diesel generators that produce 800 eKW each, synchronized for 1,600 eKW of total power. DeCrescenzo said the vessel will feature state-of the art electronics and boasts an all-electric design, right down to the operation of the crane. With all hold-ups in rearview, Sterling has wrapped up assembly on the barge's crane in Quincy. The crane, designed to T6 criteria by Canadian company TDC Cranes Ltd., has finally made its way onto the barge.
When engineering on the crane began in June 2012, Sterling set forth to produce a crane that was enormous, powerful and high-tech, yet still durable and simple to operate. Sterling provided continual input to TDC throughout the engineering and design process to end up with a machine that suits the end user and application. "Everything about this crane is massive, said Richard Gillespie, President of TDC Cranes Ltd., "from the draw works to the boom to the dual slew drives, carbody, a-frame, house roller beams, gear reducers, open gears and operating cab."
"Assembly of a machine this size is a huge undertaking requiring skilled fitters, welders, millwrights and electricians," Gillespie said. "This was undertaken by Sterling's crew in Quincy with TDC supervision and support. Large steel fabrications were built off site, delivered to Sterling and had all the mechanical and electrical components installed by Sterling at the Quincy yard."
The dredge crane features 200,000 pounds of line pull, 250 feet-per-minute rating, diesel-electric drives and 75-foot operating radius. It can be equipped with either a 70-yard bucket for trimming or a 30-yard bucket for heavy digging. With a crane of this size, simple operation seems hard to imagine. But, that's where many of its high-tech features come into play. The entire crane can be operated from one seat with two joysticks. There are no pedals, no frictions, and the winches are fully powered up and down. Even the spud winches and walking spud can be controlled from the crane seat.
The list of state-of-the-art features doesn't end there. The crane's winch lock allows the operator to automatically coordinate the winches, auto-close, auto-open and cinch control. As the closed bucket hauls up, the closing winch adjusts itself 60 times per second to ensure the bucket remains closed even when the winch is inactive.
The house rollers, carbody and rail are unique to TDC. The roll path is a continuous, curved beam with heavy flanges and web that provide uniform, continuous support for the rail, facilitating direct transfer of loads to the structure of the barge without bending in the carbody. The rail itself is rolled in a precise curve with the ends cut on 45 degree bias to guide the house rollers transition across the rail joints.
Moving to the Head of Class
Built entirely in the United States with North American components, the newbuild work platform is ample proof that U.S. builders can get the job done and that much needed dredging capacity continues to be launched. "The result," Gillespie said, "is a strong roll path capable of withstanding the rigors of dredging. Environmentally, the crane is state-of-the-art; it uses Tier 4 engines, double walled fuel tanks and elimination of all hydraulic equipment," Gillespie said. "This dredge is lightyears ahead of the competition environmentally and is the only dredge in North America that is Tier 4 compliant throughout."
Ahead of the curve environmentally and technologically, Sterling, Canadian-based TDC Cranes Ltd. and May Shipyard have beaten the odds presented by both Mother Nature and the regulatory scheme to produce a competitive and highly desirable dredge unit.
(As published in the August 2013 edition of Marine News - www.marinelink.com)
Robert "Bobby D" DeCrescenzo got his start in the maritime industry working on cranes in the late 1970s. From there, he was hired by Jay Cashman Inc. as a mechanic and worked his way up to president of Sterling Equipment. (Photo: Eric Haun)
Workers configure the crane's mammoth Carbody in Quincy, Mass. (Photo: Sterling)
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In the Terminator franchise, Skynet is an evil military computer system that launches war on humanity. And at some point, someone in the National Security Agency sat down and thought, "Damn, that's a sick thing to name a secret system!"
Malevolent undertones of aspirations to unchecked aggression be damned, I guess, because Skynet is real. A report from The Intercept today detailed how the NSA's Skynet program uses metadata to pick out potential terrorists from bulk data collection. (You know, the kind of bulk data collection ruled unlawful by a court yesterday.)
The NSA's Skynet has bigger problems than getting saddled with an appropriately menacing name: As The Intercept reported, it misidentified a prominent Al Jazeera reporter as a terrorist.
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Skynet (the real one) works by analyzing metadata to look for suspicious behaviors, like swapping SIM cards out frequently or only accepting incoming calls. And like Skynet (the fake evil one), it may be involved with sending automated machines to kill people, as The Intercept pointed out:
As other documents from Snowden revealed, drone targets are often identified in part based on metadata analysis and cell phone tracking. Former NSA director Michael Hayden famously put it more bluntly in May 2014, when he said, "we kill people based on metadata."
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Identity theft is a problem for many individuals, but even cities can fall victim. The West Tennessee town of Henning learned that when someone tried to use two counterfeit checks issued in the town's name last year.
The banks refused to honor those checks, but the town did lose $25,500 when another check was stolen and the amount and name of the payee were altered. Those were among the findings of an audit released by the Comptroller's Division of Investigations today.
The mayor of Henning initially told auditors that the stolen check was lost at a store in Covington. However, an investigation revealed that the check - written in the amount of $187.65 - was actually sent to a vendor in Dallas to cover a legitimate expense.
That check was intercepted and altered to reflect a payment of $25,500 payable to "Cheveze Pippins." The check was then deposited into a Houston bank account last year. Several months later, unsuccessful attempts were made to transact the two counterfeit checks in the town's name at banks in Louisiana and Texas.
Auditors noted that the town should have taken action promptly to stop payment on the stolen check when it was determined that the vendor had not received it.
"This case illustrates the importance of proper record-keeping," said Comptroller Justin P. Wilson. "Adequate safeguards need to be in place so lost or stolen checks are quickly detected and appropriately handled."
The audit also found that the town failed to adequately document some transactions, pre-signed some blank checks and improperly handled vehicles confiscated by police.
To view the report online, go to: http://www.comptroller.tn.gov/ia/
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Cate Edwards tells about how she was 'devastated' by her father John's affair with Rielle Hunter as she opens up publicly for the first time
Disgraced politician John Edward's daughter Cate is speaking out publicly for the first time about her father's extramarital affair that ruined both his presidential campaign and his marriage.
'I was devastated, and I was disappointed,' Cate told NBC's Savannah Guthrie in an exclusive interview.
She said that her father was the one to tell her about his affair with videographer Rielle Hunter.
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Devastated: John Edwards' daughter Cate said that her father was the one to tell her about his affair with videographer Rielle Hunter
Support network: John Edwards is seen with his daughter, Cate, during his corruption trial
By his side: Cate was a constant presence at John Edwards' corruption trial last spring
'I guess he and my mom decided that that was, you know, how it needed to be done. So yeah, I was devastated. And I was disappointed. I mean, these are my parents. I had grown up with a lot of love in my family. And it was hard to see them go through this.'
When asked whether she was mad about the affair that resulted in the birth of her half sister Quinn, she said, 'Yeah, yeah of course.'
Only snippets of the interview were released by the network but it will be aired in its entirety on Friday on The Today Show.
The anger over the affair did not stop Cate from supporting her father throughout his corruption trial where he was charged with misusing campaign funds to keep his lengthy affair with Hunter a secret as he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination. The 31-year-old lawyer appeared at her father's side throughout the trial, walking into the Greensboro courtroom with him and her grandparents every day.
The other woman: Cate said that her father told her directly about his affair with Rielle Hunter (left)
One particularly awkward moment came after he was acquitted, when she was standing right next to him as he told reporters about his love for his daughter Quinn, the then-4-year-old daughter he had with Hunter during their affair.
Cate was very close to her mother Elizabeth and was said to be effectively raising her young siblings Emma Claire and Jack, who are 15 and 13 years old respectively, since their mother died from breast cancer in December 2010.
Cate told NBC that the little habits that she used to share with her mother that causes her to miss her mother now.
Family: John Edwards is seen here in 2008 with his ex-wife, Elizabeth, who died of cancer in 2010, and their kids, Cate, Emma and Jack
Big day: Cate got married in 2011, and her sister Emma Claire (right) served in the wedding party. She said that her wedding was one of the biggest days that she missed her mother
'I miss her in sort of big ways and small ways,' she said.
The biggest of those ways was that her mother was not present at her wedding in October 2011, ten months after her death. At the time, Cate said that she and her mother were able to talk about the wedding and begin planning before she died, but Elizabeth was obviously unable to see their vision come to fruition.
'I mean, I get away with bad grammar. I never used to get away with bad grammar,' she said of the small ways she is reminded of her mother's absence.
The affair between Edwards and Hunter began while he was campaigning for the highest office in the land back in 2006, and he waited until it was clear that he would neither be the presidential nor vice presidential nominee to sit down in 2008 and admit that he had cheated on his popular wife Elizabeth.
In a 2008 interview, Edwards said that he did have an affair with Hunter but he was not the father of her daughter Quinn.
He later retracted this statement.
Speaking out: Cate was listed as a possible witness during the trial but she was never called to the stand
Throughout the ordeal, Edwards' aide Andrew Young volunteered to pretend that he was the father of Hunter's child, and they used nearly $1million to cover Hunter's tracks, flying her across country with the Youngs and keeping her hidden in various mansions.
That money was the focus of the federal trial against Edwards, where they had to prove that the money used to hide Hunter was given by personal donors who understood that it was not so much a political donation to Edwards' campaign but that it was being used to help hide the word of the affair.
Cate was actually listed by the defense as a possible witness in Edwards' case, but she was never actually called to the stand.
The public attention surrounding the Edwards family drama did not die down after the trial ended in May, as Hunter released a tell-all book just a few months later where she trashed Elizabeth.
In her book 'What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter and Me', Hunter describes the Edwards' marriage as broken by the time she arrived on the scene.
Placing blame: Edwards is apparently angry over her decision to release a tell-all memoir about their affair- and even though she put out a revised edition where she apologized, he fears she will write another
She wrote that Elizabeth- who at the time was battling her second bout of breast cancer- was a 'witch on wheels' who belittled her beloved Johnny and was very aware that their marriage was on the outs.
Hunter has faced much criticism for painting such a grim portrait of Elizabeth in her book, especially since she died in 2010 and she can no longer respond to Hunter's claims.
That criticism was echoed by Cate in her NBC interview, set to air on Friday.
'I just thought it was — I thought it was a poor choice, I guess, is all I can say,' Cate said diplomatically.
As for Hunter's current role in their family, it remains unclear as she said during her book tour that she and 'Johnny' had just decided to end their relationship, though that announcement came just days after they were pictured enjoying a beach vacation with Quinn for Father's Day.
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This car is as high as the Eclipses go in this year! It is the GT Spyder Convertible. This car will get you from... More
This car is in great condition!! Cosmetically and mechanically is sound. If you need a first car or just something that will... More
This car is very clean and very efficient!! Not to mention it has a DVD/CD Player with 2 Memphis Audio 12 Subs in... More
This car drives like a top! It has custom pin striping, Mag wheels, New Tires, New Brakes, Just tuned up, New Battery, New Rear... More
Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4D Sport Utility, PowerTech 4.7L V8, 5-Speed Automatic, 4WD, Brilliant Black Crystal Pearlcoat, and Sandstone w/Leather Trimmed Bucket Seats. Attention Bargin... More
2002 CADILLAC SEVILLE SLS * BROWN EXTERIOR * GRAY LEATHER INTERIOR IN GOOD CONDITION * POWER WINDOWS * POWER LOCKS * RADIO * COLD... More
2002 KIA RIO IN A BRILLIANT WHITE COMPLIMENTED WITH A GRAY CLOTH INTERIOR. CAR HAS NEW WHEEL BEARING, WHEEL CYLINDERS, BRAKE DRUMS, AND SHOES!... More
This Camaro is an Arizona car , we have had it for 6 years and have had some fun with it, time to go.... More
2001 Chrysler Town & Country LX minivan (VIN: 2C4GP44301R335501), dark blue with tan cloth, 250,750 miles, auto trans, 3.3L V6 drives great, power mirrors... More
2001 Volvo S60. Runs and Drives great! Heated Seats and Cold A/! Clean Car, Great Everyday Driver! 3-Owner car, 2 minor accidents, clean title!... More