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Hot Rod Car Auctions - Going Once, Going Twice ... Sold!Written by on May 13, 2011 Contributors: Courtesy Of RM Auctions Inc., Mecum Auctions, Bonhams Co. Want To Bid On A Hot Rod, Custom Car, Or Muscle Car At An Auction? Here's What's Happening Out There, And What You Need To Know To Buy The Right Car At The Right Price.
With the U.S. economy slowly emerging from a recession, the jobless rate pinned at a dismal 8 to 10 percent, new car model sales off by millions of units, capital gains tax regulations about to change for the worse, and our enthusiast population inexorably aging, is this any time to buy a hot rod, custom car, or muscle car?
We think the answer is yes. But, consider these caveats: The state of the vintage car market is continually changing. The annual Father's Day Weekend L.A. Roadster Show has long been a barometer. This year, the swap meet was the largest anyone remembers. The annual SO-CAL Speed Shop open house was packed with newly built cars. Attendees speculated about the August Monterey, California, auctions, held in conjunction with the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, and the largest concentration of cars for sale in mid-year anywhere in the United States.
Last year, the August Monterey sales totaled $120-plus million. This year, with five auction houses vying for competition over three days, and several choice rods in play-like the legendary Chrisman Bonneville coupe, Ed Roth's "Tweety Pie" roadster, the restored, ex-Charles Marr/Jerry Huth chopped '40 Mercury, a stunning green Carson-topped convertible that was built before World War II, the chopped-and-channeled ex-Art Lellis '39 Ford, a Hot Rod magazine feature car in the '40s, a cherry black deuce three-window with a built flatty and Kinmont brakes-guys were waiting for records to be broken.
It didn't hurt that while celebrating its 60th year, the Pebble Beach Concours featured a superb class of dry lakes and Bonneville racers-and the paddock at the Monterey historic races was dotted with hopped-up coupes, roadsters, and woodies. The fact that historic hot rods and sports racers are welcome at these premier events encourages buyers to seek them out and restore them, driving prices upward further still.
At Monterey, as auctioneers like to say, the money was in the room. When the last hammer fell on Sunday, August 16, Sports Car Market magazine's preliminary estimate was an astonishing $172 million in cars sold! Selected vintage-street and competition Ferraris, as well as classic Delages, Delahayes, and Duesenbergs, were routinely multi-million-dollar sales. A sleek '38 Talbot-Lago T150 brought $4.6 million and a Ferrari LWB California Spyder went for $7.3 million. At Mecum's lively Hyatt Regency sale, a thundering '66 427 Cobra, built for Le Mans with very interesting history, was hammered and sold for $700,000; a '67 L-88 Corvette brought $1.2 million; and Reggie Jackson sold a four-cam 275 GTB for $1.6 million. Obviously, there are still a lot of discretionary dollars available in the rarified world of the top car collectors.
But a lot of hot rods and custom cars stalled. The Chrisman coupe, which brought over $660,000 at the RM Joe MacPherson estate sale, was a no-sale at Mecum at $475,000. Ed Roth's Tweedy Bird didn't fly, nor did the Art Lellis Ford, which went to $80,000 (failed to meet reserve, did not sell). John Mumford stole RM Auctions' little black deuce coupe, which was loaded with period speed equipment, for only $115,000. One ray of hope was the ex-Gerry Huth chopped '40 Mercury Custom, Bonhams' impressive $166,500. And that, in our opinion, was a steal, considering the high quality of workmanship on the car.
Posies "Extremeliner" brought $137,500-decent money for an older custom-while John D'Agostino's "Golden Star" '58 Olds went to a new home for just $60,500. The biggest surprise was the '34 Packard "Myth" custom, a design by the late-Strother MacMinn, built by noted restorer Fran Roxas, for an astonishing $407,000. If you wanted Ed Roth's "Road Agent," you could have had it for $154,000.
Muscle cars were erratic. At Mecum a rare '71 Corvette ZR2 brought just over half a million dollars, and a '71 AMC Javelin Trans Am racer notched $770,000, but many other nice examples, including several deuce roadsters, attracted just average bids and a lot of sellers were disappointed.
Here's the kicker: a '61 Ferrari 250GT Short Wheelbase Berlinetta, known as a "SEFAC Hot Rod", because it was one of less than 20 examples fitted with a lightweight body and a hopped-up V-12 engine (Bruce Meyer owns one of these), brought a world record $6.1 million. It took an Italian hot rod to show the way.
Experts predict this may be just the beginning for an even more dramatic increase in auction interest and car prices. Why? Because the stock market is terribly erratic; interest rates have tanked; even real estate is iffy; gold is boring; and investors are putting their money into tangible, collectable items like paintings, sculptures, and yes, collector cars and even hot rods and customs.
Can one collector influence a market? Yes, if he's the late John O'Quinn, a billionaire Texas class-action attorney who amassed over 1,000 cars and then died in a car crash before his plans for a museum could come to fruition. The market for historic hot rods was driven upward, for a time, by Ralph Whitworth, a wealthy enthusiast, who planned a museum in Winnemucca, Nevada, but was forced by the recession to divest of most of his cars at a $17-plus million RM Auction at the Petersen Automotive Museum just last year. None of us are getting any younger. SRP predicts we'll see more choice rods, customs, and muscle cars at auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, in January. Mecum, Barrett-Jackson, and RM will lead the way and some of this Monterey enthusiasm is bound to trickle down to the modified cars we like. But be wary.
There are very smart hot rod buyers out there-guys like Richard Munz, Kirk White, John Mumford, Ross Myers, Bruce Canepa, Bob Everts, and Bruce Meyer. They already own many significant cars; and they'll step up for the right one. So if you see them bidding, as the song goes, "you'd better step aside." That said, they can't buy 'em all.
Here are the insider auction tips and techniques you need to know, to be a successful bidder.
Collector car auctions are exciting, fast-moving, entertaining, and deadly serious events. But whether you're an experienced veteran or a first-timer, don't even think of bidding unless you ...
1. Always do your homework before the auction
Know what you want to buy before it's on the block. The more specific you are about a make and model, or a specific hot rod or custom car, the better. Check out auction websites to see if the car you want is listed. Find an auction calendar in Keith Martin's Sports Car Market magazine www.sportscarmarket.com or Hemmings Motor News www.hemmings.com, then order the specific catalog.
Got a Jones for a '68 Barracuda like you had in high school? Check out the latest value in Cars That Matter www.carsthatmatter.com. Go to auction websites to compare past sales. Consider past results just a guide however, not a hard standard. Buy a marque/model-specific reference book www.motorbooks.com), and decide which features, engine, transmission, etc., you want.
Know up front if you want a roadster, coupe, custom, or a resto mod (a muscle car with modern upgrades like disc brakes, radials, improved shocks). That way, you don't get your purchase home and wonder, "what was I thinking?"
Join Goodguys, NSRA, the HAMB, Hotrod Hotline, and KKOA (if you want a kemp). Their classifieds will give you a few choices and prevailing asking prices. Sign up with the relevant marque club, like National Corvette Restorers (NCR) or the Pontiac GTO Club before you hit the sales. Their monthly newsletters/magazines are packed with information. (For club listings, seeHemmings' Collector Car Almanac).
2. Target the nicest car you can afford
Restoration is always more expensive than buying a car in good to excellent condition. The auction catalog description is only as valid as the information the owner volunteered. Read between the lines. Catalogs often ramble on about the glorious history of the model or hot rod being offered. Somewhere in the text, you may discover this particular car is a re-body, or its engine numbers don't match the chassis, or they aren't correct, or the engine isn't the original. Any of those factors drive the value down. Be wary. As Ronald Reagan said, "Trust, but verify."
Ensure there's a clear, valid title with no liens. If you're unsure, have a knowledgeable friend or an expert technician thoroughly examine the car. Review service and restoration records if they're available. Never bid impulsively or spontaneously on a car on the block that simply catches your eye. You'll regret it.
3. Obtain expert help
It's OK to bring a restorer or knowledgeable friend with you. If you can't, seek out authorities who know that car or model and ask questions. The man standing next to you may be an expert who's just waiting to talk about the car. Inspect a car very closely before it goes over the block. Read all the display material. Check the car mechanically. Many auctions have independent diagnostic services on site. For a fee they'll examine the car and give you an evaluation. Get to the auction a few hours before the sale begins so you can look at cars and select the one(s) you want. If you can talk to the owner, do so. If he (or she) will start and run the car for you that's even better.
Jay Leno, who has an impressive collection of cars and motorcycles, says, "Buy the owner, not the car." Leno tries to establish a rapport with a seller, evaluates what he says about his car, and can prove it. Then Leno judges the individual (as well as the car, of course) and makes up his mind.
Testdrive the car, if you can, and note any visible problems. If you don't feel qualified, retain an expert to help. Make a fair offer, bearing in mind any work that's needed. If you're bidding at a vintage car auction, know your limits and the car's real value so as not to overbid. Arrange for shipping with a reliable specialist transporter. When the car is in your garage, examine it closely again, and make any needed repairs before registering it and taking it on the road.
4. Always have a number in mind
Once you've made a bidding decision, know when "your" car is going to be offered for sale. Know what you want to pay and be ready to bid. Remember to add in auction company commissions and fees to get the full selling price. Stay within your limits. Use pre-bid time to pick up tips, talk with other bidders, and examine the car from every aspect. Remember, when a car is actually on sale, everything happens very fast. Look to see who's bidding. If you spot one of the high rollers discretely raising a paddle, consider bidding on another day.
There's a palpable tension in a live sale, so if you've never bid at major auction before, learn what it's like by bidding at a smaller auction, even a charity event, or on eBay at sale's end, so you've had practice bidding under pressure. With bid paddles waving, tensions mounting, the auctioneer shouting, and the price rising rapidly, it's no place for on-the-job training.
5. Work With the ringmen (and women)
Top auctions have ringmen (and women) stationed strategically in the bidding area. Find the closest one and identify yourself. Tell him or her the car you want to bid on. Be near them when "your" car comes up. Their job is to ensure your bid is recognized and to keep you on top of what's happening. They know who's bidding, they'll coach you on when to bid, and when to wait. They're wired into the auctioneer's platform, so if you don't hear the bid, or need a clarification, they'll get it. They WANT you to buy the car, so they're "sort of" on your side. Don't ever reveal how high you're prepared to go, but be alert and ready to bid. The ringman will tell you when it's your turn. Know where you want to start. Stay cool.
If the car fails to sell on the block, try to find the owner right away, along with an auction company representative, and negotiate a deal. (Tip: the owner is usually that sad-faced guy walking after his car). Both parties would prefer to sell that car, right there, right now, rather than ship it home, so both sides are willing to compromise on price and commission. And you'll be the winner.
Have fun, but be prudent. Vintage cars have vintage brakes and steering, very few safety devices, and they may have long-distance limitations. Until your "new" car has proven itself on the road, be cautious.
With the strong interest we currently see in building and driving rods and customs, and the eligibility of hot rods and custom cars for Concours classes, SRP believes it's only a matter of time before prices begin to head upward again. Learn successful auction techniques, do your research, and be ready.
(Editor's note: If you need to ship your car to an auction company location, or you've just bought a car and want to ship it home, SRP has worked with and has had success with Intercity Lines (800-221-3936, www.intercitylines.com) or Reliable Carriers (877-744-7889, www.reliablecarriers.com).
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Not exactly a hot rod, but built by Italmeccanica, who manufactured an early version of the S.Co.T. blower in Torino (Turin) Italy, this Flathead V-8-powered, Farina-built coupe, from the collection of Clyde Ensor, Sr., had a Ford Flathead V-8, an aluminum body that resembled an early Ferrari and a three-speed tranny. Estimated at $60,000-$100,000, featured in Speed Age in December, 1952, it brought a heady $143,000.Considered one of the inspirations for the Plymouth PT Cruiser, Posies' "Extremeliner" knocked the custom car world on its ear in the '90s. Still stylish, totally unique, and a head-turner wherever it's shown, this Studebaker chassis-based icon sold for "just" $137,500 at RM. It could be a while before fine customs like this one are fully appreciated again.Sedan deliveries are among the rarest Deuce models with only 400 built. This original example, the John Deats Ford parts shop truck, was straight as a stick, and had a dropped axle, a Winfield-equipped four-banger, and hydraulic brakes. Reportedly, this was the first time it had been seen in 45 years. It sold without reserve for $48,400. Another good reason to go to the auctions ... you just might get an amazing deal.A beautiful restoration, this Dearborn Award-winning '50 Merc was part of the famed Nick Alexander Collection until it was sold in 2009. This year $101,750 was all the money this summer. Add a set of pipes, drop it a tad, and you're ready to cruise.The late Duncan Emmons was a racing enthusiast. His chopped '70's era, 3-inch chopped '32 three-window with a 350/350 combo, was an original all-steel Deuce. The consignor was hoping for as much as $90,000 for this old California hot rod. He couldn't have been happy with $55,000. But we bet the buyer was delighted.Not long ago, great customs with show history sold for at least as much as they cost to build. Not so for the barris and Bailon award-winning John D'Agostino-built, chopped and air-suspended "Golden Star" '57 Olds. Although estimates ranged as high as $100,000, the hammer price, with commission, was just $60,500.Genuine '37 Ford roadsters (with snap-on windows) are scarce as hen's teeth. Ford made just 1,250 examples (and only 12 survived) before offering the car with roll-up windows. Restored years ago by Don Critesor, of Portland, OR, this green beauty should have brought much closer to its $100,000-$125,000 estimate. Instead, it found a new home for $74,800, which was probably less than the restoration cost. I'm amazed the owner let it go!This delectable Deuce was built from a Dearborn-winning original. Solid Henry steel, Stewart-Warner instruments, rare Kinmont disc brakes, Columbia two-speed rear, mohair interior ... you couldn't build this car for the $115,000 that John Mumford paid at RM's Monterey sale. Don't you wish you'd been there?Chuck Daigh and Marvin Panch drove this Experimental Class Battlebird at Daytona in 1957. Packing a 400-bhp, Hilborn-injected 312 Y-block, mounted 6 inches rearward, a Jaguar four-speed, Halibrand quickie, modified everything, built by Jim Travers and Frank Coons (C-T Automotive), it was campaigned by ex-Indy winner, Pete DePaolo. A second Lincoln-powered Battlebird was destroyed, so if you wanted it, you needed $280,500. That was the low end of the estimate, but it sold.


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The Channel 4 programme Countdown has started the search to find an arithmetician for the new series in 2009.
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Mathematics is often used to study evolution, whether that be the evolution of animal species, the evolution of viruses or the evolution of language. A recent study has taken this one step further by modelling the evolution of national cuisine, and it was found that even though there are wall-to-wall celebrity chefs on television these days trying to broaden our culinary horizons, our cultural cuisines are largely the same as they were almost 100 years ago.
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After every Olympics, there is speculation about which country performed best. Should we really be surprised when China, with its huge population, and the US, with its combination of high GDP and population, top the medal table? Can we take a look at the medal tables and see which countries did indeed perform better than expected?
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Disney Pixar have just released the movie, WALL-E. A bleak, post-apocalyptic tour-de-force, the movie depicts the gentle romance between two robots of the future: WALL-E, the not-so-bright and not-so-attractive "guy" with the big heart and sweet personality, and EVE, the sleek, sexy, totally out-of-his-league babe.
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ATLANTA -- There's a new course coming to Morehouse College.
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So Lee reached out to Yale Professor Dr. Jafari Allen, who agreed to teach the course. Allen, a one-time Morehouse student himself, said the course will use familiar literature to frame the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender conversation around culture and politics.
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It's no secret in the black community: the topic of homosexuality is often a difficult one to discuss. Even Morehouse has dealt with its isolated issues in the past; in 2003, a Morehouse student was convicted of beating another student with a baseball bat because he felt that student peered at him in a dormitory shower.
While some call the course a major step for Morehouse, even controversial, sociology department chair Dr. Michael Hodge said this is just the latest step in a list of university actions to spark LGBT dialogue.
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It's hard to believe that Sigourney Weaver, Oscar-nominated actress, sci-fi icon and doyenne of stage and screen, was once told she'd never make it in acting. 'My teachers at Yale said I had no talent and would never get anywhere,' she smiles ruefully, clearly quite happy that she's proved them wrong. 'I tried!' she laughs. 'I wanted to work in a flower store or a bakery, but my friends, who were mostly playwrights and directors, kept casting me in plays in New York, so I worked all the time, even though I wasn't being paid.'
She has been working ever since and now the 59-year-old Weaver's career has spanned nearly four decades in film. 'I feel it's nice to be in my age bracket because I get thrown so many different challenges,' she explains, as she talks me through her upcoming roles. As befits an actress who has tackled just about every genre from comedy to sci-fi and drama, her latest projects are as varied as ever, with releases including Crazy on the Outside, a comedy directed by Tim Allen, through to Russell Mulcahy's Prayers for Bobby, the true story of gay rights crusader Mary Griffith, and Avatar, the big-budget 3D blockbuster from Titanic director James Cameron.
Born Susan Alexandra Weaver in October 1949 to English actress Elizabeth Inglis and Pat Weaver, the future president of NBC, she had a gilded upbringing in New York and California. While on the surface at least, life seemed perfect, the family moved home a lot and Weaver reveals that she wasn't a very confident child. 'I was terribly shy, really geeky and terribly tall – as tall at 11 as I am now,' says the actress whose 5ft 11in stature is as celebrated as her acting prowess. At the age of 14, she decided to change her name to Sigourney after a dedication in F Scott Fitzgerald's novel This Side of Paradise, because, she has said, 'Susan' just didn't seem appropriate for a girl of her height.
Literature was her first great love and, on finishing school, Weaver enrolled on an English Literature degree at Stanford University in California. She was all set to be a writer when, on a whim, she decided to follow in her mother's footsteps and try acting. 'I had almost finished college and, on a lark, I auditioned for the Yale School of Drama,' she says. 'Because I got in, I thought I should pursue it.' Pursue it she did, studying at the same time, although not in the same year, as Meryl Streep.
On graduating, Weaver spent most of the early Seventies appearing in off-Broadway shows, carving out a career as a stage actress. 'My dream was to be part of a repertory company and play big parts in one play and little parts in another,' she explains. 'I loved being part of an ensemble'. She would have happily carried on working the stage had a chance audition with a maverick English director not changed her life for ever.
This year [2009] marks the 30th anniversary of Ridley Scott's Alien, the film that catapulted Weaver into iconic status in the role of Ellen Ripley – arguably, the first female action hero. Weaver's portrayal not only shone new light on her acting skills, but also redefined how women were seen on screen. 'It was a time when a lot of women in America were taking on these traditionally male jobs such as being in the army and navy, so I think it was a very timely character,' she muses. 'I was lucky that the script was all about character and action, as opposed to looking fantastic in an unbelievable outfit. It was such an original and innovative movie, showing space as it might be. And Ripley was a woman from that world.'
The role that would change her life wasn't even something that she was initially interested in. 'To be quite frank, I was a bit of a snob at the time,' she laughs. 'I had gone to drama school and I wanted to do a few films, but really I was a theatre person. I almost blew off the audition.' Luckily, she didn't and, wearing thigh-high boots, she towered over Ridley Scott and won the part. 'When he asked me about the script, I told him that it was a very bleak picture of life and some of it was completely unbelievable. Fortunately, Ridley likes people who speak their minds, and perhaps because I didn't really want it, they wanted me – that's always the way it works.'
Following the phenomenal success of the film, Weaver went on to make three Alien sequels, as well as combining big Oscar-nominated movies such as Working Girl and Gorillas in the Mist with more left-field projects such as Roman Polanski's Death and the Maiden and Ang Lee's The Ice Storm. More often than not, these were tough or troubled characters who carved their own way in life. 'I've played a lot of women who were quite isolated,' she concedes. 'I always end up playing these loony women who are very much on their own.'
Despite playing tough, dramatic roles, Weaver showed a lightness of touch and great comic timing in Ghostbusters, Galaxy Quest and Heartbreakers. 'I would run a mile to do a comedy. I started out in comedy on stage and it's my favourite thing to do,' she says. 'I would maybe have liked to have done comedy earlier in my career, but I think Ripley made such an impression it took a long time for someone to trust me with it.'
She has recently voiced roles in two animated films: Wall-E and The Tale of Despereaux, showcasing once again her willingness to explore a variety of roles. And despite the differences, Weaver maintains that there is a link between all of them. 'When I look at my career, I've followed the same model. I don't care how big the part is; if it's a good story and hangs together it's something I want to be part of, and that's thrown me into all kinds of projects. For me, it's all about the story. I'm not saving lives, but I feel there's something very important about being a storyteller and to give someone a sense of what it is to be someone else.'
As an actress, Weaver has travelled the world. She values the great service and sense of calm that comes with staying in a Mandarin Oriental hotel. 'The first time I stayed at a Mandarin Oriental hotel was in San Francisco when I was filming Copycat,' she recalls. 'It was such a difficult film and I was so grateful that I was able to stay in such a lovely place.' Since then, she has visited several Mandarin Oriental properties and has always been impressed by the attention offered to guests. 'I like the unique philosophy and way of taking care of people. It's a wonderful reason to adventure all over the world, knowing that you have a lovely place to stay.'
As a discerning New Yorker, Weaver was exactly the kind of person Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group was looking to impress when it opened a hotel in the city. 'It was the perfect pairing,' she says. 'There's a very international population in New York, and Mandarin Oriental is a truly global brand. It really takes your breath away.' In the near future, she hopes to visit more of the properties – work permitting, of course.
Busier than ever, Weaver says she is 'more satisfied with what I'm being offered now than with what I've been offered before' – which is amazing when you consider the length, success and sheer variety of her career. From stage to screen, she has created her own unique path – even more impressive when you think that years ago, she was told she'd never get anywhere.
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Continue ReadingOften referred to as ghost stations, some travelers obsess over tracking down abandoned subway stations. Subway networks around the world have stations there were cut off from service or never used at all, it's just a matter of finding them. Here are five cities with plenty of options for the abandoned metro-station hunter.
Never Mind the Ed Sullivan Theater, Abbey Road Is the Top Beatles Travel Spot
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Continue ReadingSunday marks the 50th anniversary of The Beatles playing on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Fab Four's first U.S. television appearance. To commemorate the occasion, New York City's Ed Sullivan theater (now home to The Late Show with David Letterman) unveiled a special marquee; the New York Port Authority placed a historical marker at JFK International Airport, where The Beatles held their first press conference; and CBS is airing a two-hour tribute Sunday at 8 p.m. EST, "The Beatles: The Night That Changed America -- A Grammy Salute."
But just as Abbey Road is the group's best-selling album, a visit to the setting of its iconic cover -- outside Abbey Road Studios in London -- has got to be the top Beatles-related travel destination. (Just watch the Abbey Road Crossing Cam and count the photo shoots.) Here are some of the better shots we found online.
But just as Abbey Road is the group's best-selling album, a visit to the setting of its iconic cover -- outside Abbey Road Studios in London -- has got to be the top Beatles-related travel destination. (Just watch the Abbey Road Crossing Cam and count the photo shoots.) Here are some of the better shots we found online.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A widespread winter storm has dumped snow over the Northeast and parts of Ohio just days after the regions were hit by another storm moving from the nation's midsection.
The National Weather Service expects up to a foot of snow in parts of southern New England. The heaviest snowfall could be in Boston and Providence, R.I.
The weather service says in Ohio, Dayton, Columbus and Cincinnati saw about 2 to 5 inches of snow Saturday.
Drivers in the Northeast are being warned to be cautious. Officials lowered the speed limit on much of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
The earlier storm dumped more than a foot of snow in some places and has been blamed for at least 16 deaths. It spawned more than a dozen tornadoes in Alabama.


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WVU's 'lumberjill' wields a mighty ax
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Well, if that woodchuck follows Erin Vorholt's lead, it will be a substantial stack.
As Vorholt settles in at West Virginia University for her senior year, she will certainly look back to the day she became a "lumberjill."
"There was a barbecue at the beginning of the school year for students in the Davis College of Agriculture and Natural Resources," she explained. The WVU Forestry Club and Woodsmen Team had a booth there, and then-freshman Vorholt walked past.
"They needed a girl. And I've been in it now for four years," she said.
The petite brunette has been the only consistent female presence in the club for four years, but that's not the case at other schools. She competes against women from Virginia Tech and other colleges at meets throughout the year.
Woodsmen is a competitive, coed intercollegiate sport in the United States, Canada and elsewhere based on various skills traditionally part of forestry educational and technical training programs. In North America, the sport organized into five regional divisions: northeastern, mid-Atlantic, southern, midwestern and western.
Woodsmen/lumberjack competitions have their roots in competitions that took place in logging camps among loggers. As loggers were paid for piece work, the ability to perform specific tasks more quickly or with a degree of showmanship was something to be admired.
Vorholt, the daughter of Steve and Kim Vorholt, of Poca, said her events include:
When talking about the underhand chop, she admits it's a bit daunting.
"It's scary when you get to the end -- I don't want to hit myself with the ax. But it's really fun. And she said following the July derecho, she and her father spent a lot of time cutting wood and searching for downed trees that she could use for target practice.
"My dad has really gotten into it. He helped me buy an ax at a flea market," she said. A good ax can cost $300 or more, and the saws cost in the thousands -- and sharpening them costs even more.
The coach of the WVU team is Arden Cogar Jr., known as "Jamie" in the timber-sport community, a West Virginia lawyer and decorated professional woodsman competitor.
"There are around 15 people on the team," Vorholt said. "Jamie has a cousin at Virginia Tech, so that's why we often compete against them. Jamie has helped us all so much with technique."
Vorholt is in the agriculture sorority, Sigma Alpha, and the WVU chapter has 38 active sisters. She's made friends in the Virginia Tech group as well.
"My mom teases me and says that with this as a hobby, I scare off all the boys," she said. "But this club has given me a big group of big brothers."
The Charleston Catholic High School graduate is a horticulture major considering attending graduate school in recreational or horticultural therapy. She hopes all of her practicing pays off when she enters an annual meet in early October at Twin Falls State Park. In the meantime, the team is often asked to give demonstrations at festivals across the state as well as at the Future Farmers of America state convention.
So, when she throws the ax, what goes through her mind?
"It's fun -- and a good stress relief. I do picture someone on that target," Vorholt said with a chuckle. But she's not telling who would "get the ax."
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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 25, 2014 -- Verio Inc., the leading provider of online business solutions to SMBs worldwide, today announced it is the first and only service provider offering Hosted Zimbra Collaboration via the Application Packaging Standard (APS) for use on the Parallels Automation platform. Verio has been offering Zimbra Collaboration, an open source messaging and collaboration solution that includes complete email, address book, calendar, file-sharing and tasks, through its own distribution network for some time, and is proud to be the first to bring it to the Parallels Automation catalogue of services.
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LANSING - Angelina McKeever doubled and knocked in a run as Shadyside bested Bridgeport.
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|Aniela Finch joins Holyoke Enterprise staff
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Aniela Finch has the friendly, new voice at The Holyoke Enterprise, having recently joined the local newspaper staff as receptionist.
In addition, Finch handles classified advertising and other tasks, as well.
Aniela (pronounced on-yell-a) and her husband Weston, who grew up in Holyoke, moved back in February from Washington State after Weston completed active duty with the U.S. Army. He continues in the National Guard.
Aniela grew up in Boulder, graduating from Fairview High School, and earned her bachelor's degree in communications, with a minor in journalism from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley in 2005.
While she was a student at UNC, Finch was actively involved with Campus Crusade.
Aniela worked at Helzberg Diamonds in Loveland, and transferred to a Washington store when Weston was based at Fort Lewis, Wash. Aniela maintained their home base in Lacey, Wash. while Weston was sent overseas a number of times.
Born in Austria, Aniela's heritage is Polish, Portuguese, Albanian and Scottish. Her father is a professor in the engineering department at CU in Boulder.
Having lived in Texas and then Colorado as a youngster, Aniela and her family returned to Austria for a couple of years when she was 7. They then moved back to Colorado.
From age 5 until she went to college, Aniela attended ballet classes, and she continues to enjoy dance. She also likes studying other cultures and traveling overseas.
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Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
Horton Hears a Who! Synopsis
The makers of Ice Age, and comedy giants Jim Carrey and Steve Carell, bring to life Dr. Seuss beloved Horton Hear a Who. An imaginative elephant named Horton (Carrey) hears a faint cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Although Horton doesn't know it yet, that speck houses an entire city named Who-ville, inhabited by the microscopic Whos, led by the Mayor (Carell). Despite being ridiculed and threatened by his neighbors who think he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to save the particle...because "a person's a person no matter how small."
Hollywood has had it all wrong when it comes to Dr. Seuss. For the past few years theyve been trying to shoehorn his imaginative, wonderfully weird, classic childrens books into a series of failed, live-action feature films. Finally though, theyve come to their senses and found the right way to adapt Dr. Seuss: animation.
My favorite Seuss book has always been Horton Hears a Who, and now the book is being turned into a computer animated film with Jim Carrey as the voice of Horton. As a Seuss fan, Im heartened by what Ive seen from the look of the movie so far, though Im not so sold on Carrey as the voice of Horton. Perhaps even more worrying, the trailer makes this thing look like a slapstick comedy where the greatness of Seusss original Horton book is that its a little bit sad and bittersweet as well. Seusss stories always have something important and sometimes serious to say along with all of the good Doctors wonderful weirdness, and I just hope thats made it into this translation along with the wackiness.
Horton Hears a Who! Release Date
In Theaters March 14, 2008
Horton Hears a Who! Credits
Starring: VOICES: Jim Carrey (Horton), Steve Carell (Mayor of Whoville)
Written by: Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul, based on the book by Dr. Seuss
Directed by: Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino
Produced by: Bob Gordon
MPAA Rating: [ G ]
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- A four-year-old girl is in critical condition after an overnight house fire and one man is in police custody for what happened after firefighters arrived.
The fire happened at 3 a.m. Sunday in the 2600 block of 33rd Street Southeast.
Leon Harrison, a witness, said, "I saw the smoke coming out of the house. There was thick smoke. It was so thick it was covering the lights."
Flames were shooting out of the home where seven people lived, including a mother and her two small children.
Everyone got outside except the four-year-old little girl who had to be rescued.
John Jackson told us, "You could hear windows popping and a woman scream."
According to Lt. Christopher Kauffman of the Metropolitan Police Department, "The family takes a count outside and sees that the 4-year-old is missing. Firefighters find the four-year-old upstairs."
The little girl is in critical condition with burns and smoke inhalation.
When firefighters arrived, fire was seen coming from the basement and the first floor.
Metropolitan Police Lt. Christopher Kauffman says tensions were running high as firefighters battled the blaze. He says the landlord who also lived at the home got into a fight and threatened one of the women.
According to the police report, the 30-year-old man was arrested on felony assault and threatening to kill one of his tenants.
Investigators are also looking to see if the fire was intentionally set.
Police are still trying to figure out how the argument escalated and what caused the fire.
What neighbors and family are thinking about is the 4 year old little girl still in the hospital.
"It's just a terrible incident. Our prayers are with the family," said a neighbor.


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Kentucky is back on the road, traveling to Starkville, Miss. to face the Mississippi State Bulldogs on Saturday, February 8. The game will be televised by the SEC Network and tip is set for 1:30 p.m. ET.
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Professional fisherman Alton Jones posted on his Facebook page Wednesday night that he found a dead body on the Mexican side of Falcon Lake, which is on the Texas-Mexico border. He was on the lake fishing with friends when he made the discovery.
"With what I saw I couldn't believe it would be a drowning victim or something like that. We examined it and it didn't take long for us to realize, 'Oh my gosh, that's a person.' There was no flesh left visible, just bones," Jones said.
Jones took a photo of the body which he released to law enforcement and the family of David Hartley.
9NEWS received a copy of the photo Thursday night. It shows a human skeleton with clothing still on it and the feet tied together. The Hartley family has not decided if they want to see the photo yet and out of respect for them, 9NEWS has decided not to show it at this time.
"Whoever that person was, somebody was trying to dispose of that body. The body, if that was him, it wouldn't have naturally ended up where it did. Someone would have had to take it upstream," Jones said.
Jones and his friends found the skeletal remains about 15 miles from where Colorado native David Hartley was shot and killed 15 months ago by suspected cartel members.
Searchers never found Hartley's body.
"I don't know if this is David Hartley or not. It would be nice for that family to get some closure," Jones said.
Jones turned over the GPS coordinates to U.S. Border Patrol agents who said they would pass along the information to Mexican officials. Jones also says the water levels on Falcon Lake were down 23 feet, and the body was spotted in an area that was once submerged.
Three phone calls to the Border Patrol's Laredo office were not returned Thursday.
Zapata County, Texas Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Junior says he did receive confirmation of the discovery, and was awaiting further details Thursday evening.
"We have checked with Border Patrol and they have told us that yes in fact there was a report given to them about a body or some skeletal remains," Gonzalez said.
Gonzalez said the body was located 13 miles north of Zapata in the area across from San Ignacio, Texas.
"It's about 16 miles from where David Hartley was killed. I have already contacted the FBI to see if they can get some of their people in Mexico to go out there and see what they can locate," Gonzalez said.
The sheriff says because U.S. authorities are not allowed to conduct investigations in Mexico, they could only pass along details to their counterparts in Mexico.
"All we can do is, again, just wait and see if the Mexican authorities will go out there and actually look for this body," Gonzalez said.
The sheriff says it has proven difficult to get Mexican authorities to follow-up on reports of bodies.
"In the past we have had bodies that we have seen and that we have reported to Mexican authorities. And sometimes it's taken Mexican authorities up to a month, sometimes, and they still don't respond until finally the body just disappears. We're just hoping that they go out there and respond as soon as possible," Gonzalez said.
According to authorities, it is not unusual for human remains to be discovered on Falcon Lake. The 60-mile lake straddles the border between the United States and Mexico, and the Mexican side of the lake is known for drug smuggling activity, shootouts, and illegal immigration.
With water levels down recently, Gonzalez thinks more bodies may be discovered.
"We're going to start seeing more skeletal remains on both sides of the border," Gonzalez said.
Gonzalez says he does not believe it is likely that the skeletal remains discovered are in fact those of David Hartley.
"There's that hope the family always has regarding David Hartley. The chance is always there. My information from the very beginning that came directly from the Zeta cartel was that there will be no body. There is no body. The body has been, you know, there is no body. The possibility is there, the probability is not very likely," Gonzalez said.
At her parent's farm in La Salle, Tiffany Hartley says she has been on the phone with her law enforcement contacts hoping for confirmation that the remains are indeed her late husband.
"I instantly, of course, am thinking of David and that this is going to be him. We've been praying for this for 15 months now and we're just hoping that this is going to be our end of the year miracle. It might not be him and we know that too," Tiffany Hartley said.
David Hartley's brutal murder at the hands of suspected Mexican cartel members on Sept. 30, 2010 put the spotlight on a border region plagued by drug violence.
David and Tiffany Hartley took their personal watercraft to Falcon Lake, on what she has described as a "quiet day" on the water. It was supposed to be one final day of fun on the water.
The couple, who had been married for eight years, had plans to move back to Colorado after living along the border for two years.
David Hartley worked for a U.S. oil and gas company which had facilities in Reynosa, Mexico. Drug violence prompted the couple to relocate just across the border to McAllen, Texas.
David and Tiffany Hartley had visited Falcon Lake before. Tiffany Hartley says her husband wanted to go back to photograph a partially submerged church on the Mexican side of the lake.
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Soon after, Tiffany Hartley says the men began chasing her and she had no choice but to leave David behind.
Warning signs are now posted near the Falcon Lake boat ramp. But there are fewer fishermen in the water.
This latest discovery has reignited Tiffany Hartley's hope of bringing her husband's remains back to his home state of Colorado for burial.
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Yes it is possible to do this with 480 ivl Without the potion that cleanses the Doom dot on you ( if you struggle to kill him within the duration of it )
I did this with 482 ilvl and above in multiple Locks, with or without set bonus 2 - 4 . Just get all reforges and gems correct so you can get the most mastery and crit.
I'll explain what should be happening for each phase.
- Phase one
Fights starts , Prepot
You just got Pit Lord enslaved , you should also sit on 4 full embers just by using your normal rotation.
Use straight away Pit Lords charge and cast 3 chaos bolts. ( if you have 4set bonus you should already have popped DS while you cast CB )
Keep your normal rotation on boss with Immolate ticking and Rain of Fire falling boss will cast his 1st Chaos bolt , dodge it with Portal or Gateway, get back in melee to get yourself dispelled by Pit Lords breath , it also important to not let Boss cast multiple dots on you while you gonna use the portal - gateway cos they might get you out of position by the Seed of terrible corruption when it knocks you back, single dispel by command demon is very useful.
At this point Boss will be going in the middle and that means 1 thing and only Cataclysm is about to come in the next few seconds, meaning that your 2nd Pit Lords charge should be ready to be used. Let him cast cataclysm why you cast your own Chaos Bolt in mid cast of yours , use the Charge and dump all embers you got. He will start doting you again , repeat the dispelling steps.
He now is moving to start summon the Fel Imps , your Charge will come shortly ready anytime soon.
Imps are spawning , Rain of Fire on them this will get you full embers already , cast 1 FnB immolate and refresh RoF.
You are ember caped and charge is ready. Use Charge while casting CB , your should aim to cast 5+ chaos bolts on boss while sitting and taking fel imps down with just RoF immo and a Shadowfury to stop them casting , he got you fully doted and is about to cast Chaos Bolt get inside melee , get dispelled and get ready to Portal - Gateway. Imps should be dead and you full embers.
Boss moves to middle and gets ready to cast Cataclysm , charge and use 2 chaos bolts on him. At this points you start thinking getting dispelled by Breath and ( put Pit Lord to passive ) so he's ready to be Move in a LoS position for felhunters. dispel yourself with Command demon from now on.
- Phase two
1st comes and you pop DS and cast your 1st Chaos bolt to it followed by Conf and if not dead bring it below 20% to shadowburn it. you get 2 emebrs from it meaning you have 3+ now. 2nd Felhunter comes , use Havoc on this one and cast your 2 CBs on 3rd and shadowburn it, and 2nd is still alive , CB + shadowburn it. Boss will cast a Chaos bolt on you, Felhunters are dead , target boss and send pet in , pop you SacP and use his healing colldown on you and absorb this chaos bolt. He will have you fully doted , and you have dispelled your self so far by Command demon.
Boss will move to middle to cast Cataclysm and you have 3 if not 4 embers. Charge and dump all embers with CBs, get breath dispelled at all times from now on.
- phase three
Boss moves to summoning position and you charge should come out of cooldown soon , and you gonna dump all embers you got to that charge.
Doom lord is spawning , use Soul Shatter when he comes and get in melee to get breathed , this will loose all your aggro on Doomlord and breath will get Pit Lord aggro ( if you feel comfortable with Banishing Doomlord feel free to do so ).
When boss comes to middle you gonna use all embers you got left when you charge him.
and now boss will start moving to summoning position to get Fel Imps again , you repeat 1st phase again ( Nuke phase cos imps will generate you infinite embers to dump on boss while you charge him again )
Your doomguard should be popped around 30% because he will be 1min up and when you hit boss @ 20% he won't last more than a minute.
Your 2nd Potion should be used when boss is below 20% and you have 4embers to cast all 4 shadowburns at once, it's really important that you keep immolate ticking and RoF falling to generate you always embers.
repeat all the above actions for each phase and you will master every phase.
here are some videos of kills with the explained tactic above.
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The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics released preliminary figures on Friday, showing Maryland's jobless rate at 6.6 percent, down from October's 6.7 percent.
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That is cool Rob - Excellent work. I would like to get around to making some post apocalyptic maps myself but I haven't had the time or the lightning bolt of an idea to do it yet.
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The 'continent' itself is a landlocked area surrounded by an ocean of trash and refuse; basically a Waste Land. From the corners of the world, giant creatures called Monads slowly devour the world, literally devouring it into non-existence over the course of centuries. The world is largely primitive, though there are aspects of more modern times that have seeped into it. The most noticeable being the Chrysler Building, which appeared after the collapse of the fifth pillar, just before the arrival of the Monads, and heralded the coming of the Observer, who saved the world from immediate nullification but damned it to a slow death.
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That is cool Rob - Excellent work. I would like to get around to making some post apocalyptic maps myself but I haven't had the time or the lightning bolt of an idea to do it yet.
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very nice indeed and quite unusual! Great work as always, RobA!
You made this in GIMP and Inkscape!? I definitively have a lot to learn. Excellent map, the style is awesome. Repped and rated!
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Pretty cool, man. Strange and unusual places are fun to do and this looks like a good ole time.
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That's pretty darn cool. The 'over-labeling' is really effective.
Cool stuff Rob.... Could we see the final export from Inkscape->GIMP? I am interested in how much was done there vs GIMP to produce the final image(ie, was there any type of shading done in Inkscape, etc).
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Very nice map, Rob. Love the style.
Just one thing I'm not getting is those big black blobs in the corners. Looking at the labels I guess I can understand the reason for these blacked out areas but I'm just not digging the look of them.
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great looking map, I'm with Ramah on the blobs though - don't really understand those - but cool, makes me want to do some post-apo-mapping
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WHEELING — Legislation targeting U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules for new coal-fired power plants would prevent the agency from setting impossible-to-achieve standards in the future, Sen....
Only an idiot would build anything coal fired today with the price of natural gas. These guys just feel the need to try to get some coal miners that really think the EPA is the problem to vote for them in the up coming elections. I'm not in any suggesting that the EPA isn't a little over the top. I'm just stating the fact that it wouldn't matter what the EPA does the new plants will still be gas fired and the existing ones will eventually be converted to gas.
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Why is the EPA still in existence? They did their work in the 1970's and 80's and the agency should cease to exist. During the recent Government shutdown, over 90% of their staff was deemed "non-essential".
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*had the power
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black: On Appropriations Byrd and Mollohan has the power to trade project benefits to others in exchange for the legislation they wanted. We do not have this power now. Byrd did pump over one billion in Federal spending into WV. It helped. The Wheeling money was mostly squandered however via WNHAC.
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chester has a point. WV is trying to hang on to the past vs embracing the future. Wheeling is the centerpiece of this thinking. The headline should read: Manchin and McKinley launch initiative for new manufacturing starts to replace the loss of coal employment.
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The loss of jobs at Ormet can be tied directly to the war on coal and forcing prices to rise. Coal is still plentiful and technology has made mining more effective and cheaper. But we don't have a clear path of changing over from coal or exploring newer tech that uses coal emissions (German and Saudi Arabia), we just get policy made via sacks of cash from left wing groups and ethically compormised labor leaders. For a party and a President who preach looking out for the little guy, this administration has been more bought/paid for by lobbyists (alternative fuel paid big)than either Bush administrations. Thats odd and a disppointment to me a lifelong Dem. Fascist govs kill the people for the "common good", liberal often do not. The coal to gas idea was explorted in Marshall Co in the 80's but the plant lost its funding. The idea worked the politics didn't. With gas/oil/coal being used the US would be an energy giant. We don't have leadership unfortunately.
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Yep. Byrd and Mollohan made WV #1. Yep.
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Time magazine, 11-25-13 issue. Article entitled "Coal Miner's Totter - What Kentucky's effort to break its mining addiction can teach other states.
They meant to say 'enlightened' states. Of course, no one in the god-forsaken state will read the article or take it to heart.
Almost forgot. Memo to Manchin & McKinley: HELLO! The EPA is not coal's enemy. That would be the shale gas parasites who are currently busy ripping up the local landscape. Get a clue.
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Coal's problem is cheap natural gas. Low natural gas prices in the U.S. have made coal a less-optimal option for new power plants. In 20 years WV will wake up and realize the free market has passed the coal industry by and it will have had nothing to do with the EPA. Meanwhile, a bunch of fatcats from Oklahoma and Texas will have reaped all of the benefits of WV's natural resources cause its citizens held on to the past for too long. Wake up folks... or just drive through a local hotel parking lot and read the license plates in the parking lot. It ain't that hard to figure out.
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atoddh, How did the WV economy do while Byrd was in office?
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If WV still had Byrd and Mollohan (Appropriations)this kind of legislation would have a chance. Junior legislators have no power. Nothing to bargain with. WV is a eunuch now.
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folks: The plan (1.)curtail any new coal plants from being built.(2.) decommission all but the most efficient newer ones now operating(3.) encourage gas/ nuclear/alternatives for power.
This will become the global policy as well in the near future.
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The USA policy is- now- to replace coal plants with gas. Junior Congresspersons will not change this. They know this. Soon it will be a global initiative.
What about alternative WV employment ideas to compensate for the loss of coal jobs? Have not heard much from these gentlemen.
Recall the Highlands was to be a light manufacturing mecca; not retail. Downtown and the Capitol was to be a tourism attraction. Yet the main anchor attraction JUSA was turned away.
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Apparently WVU isn't teaching their GEOs about the law of conservation of energy or the second law of thermodynamics. They ARE receiving a comprehensive education in snake oil sales and conspiracy theories, though. LOL
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And, even a little further, in a patent application that's still pending, the USDOE itself, in: "United States Patent Application 20100205856 - Method of Producing Synthetic Fuels and Organic Chemicals from Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", disclosed technology developed by scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory that would, using environmental energies to drive the processes, convert Carbon Dioxide into, as the USDOE specifies: "diesel fuel, jet fuel, gasoline, petrochemicals, plastics, butane, methanol, ethylene, propylene, aromatic compounds, petrochemical derivatives, derivatives thereof, and mixtures thereof". We're just not being kept up to speed.
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And even further, again if this is about CO2 emissions, the Icelandic company, Carbon Recycling International, look 'em up in the Wiki, for Pete's sake, using in part chemistry developed by a Nobel Prize-winning chemist in California, are collecting industrial off-gas Carbon Dioxide and converting it into Methanol which is, right now, being blended into Gasoline and being sold at service stations in several European countries. We simply are not being fully informed.
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ALl SIZZLE AND NO STEAK!
Charlie Ballouz has more influence in D.C. than Dave McKinley.
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Even further, and again if this is all about CO2 emissions, CO2 can be converted via a number of known processes into substitute natural gas Methane. The original technology for doing so was awarded a Nobel Prize all the way back in 1912. The recipient was Paul Sabatier, of France, who said, in his Nobel acceptance speech: "methane ... can be synthesized with the greatest ease". Right now, in Germany, the car maker Audi has a pilot plant up and running that, using wind-generated electricity, is collecting exhaust gas Carbon Dioxide and converting it into Methane. Search for, from June of this year, the Volkswagen Group news release: "Audi's New e-gas Plant Comes Online". NASA has designed a highly-efficient, CO2-consuming, Methane-synthesizing Sabatier-type reactor. Look up: "United States Patent Application 20120029095 - Sabatier Process and Apparatus for Controlling Exothermic Reaction".
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Further, and again, if this really is about CO2 emissions, then your government is snowing you. The US Navy has established an entire body of technology for recovering Carbon Dioxide from the environment and, then, in some cases using environmental energy to drive the processes, converting that CO2 into liquid hydrocarbon fuels. See, for the latest example: "United States Patent 8,436,457 - Synthesis of Hydrocarbons Via Catalytic Reduction of CO2". The Navy has even issued news releases about it all which haven't been picked up by our press. Search for, from last year: "Fueling The Fleet, Navy Looks To The Seas", from the Naval Research Laboratory. We, simply, are not being fully and honestly informed.
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Unfortunately, this article doesn't go into any useful detail, at all, about what the new regulations are all about. If it all really is about "reducing carbon pollution" then we're all being taken for a ride. Right now, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Basic Industries has contracted with the German engineering firm Linde Group to build a factory that will collect Carbon Dioxide emissions from petrochemical refineries and convert it into Methanol. And, Methanol can be converted directly into Gasoline via ExxonMobil's "MTG"(r) process. The US Government, at the Brookhaven, NY, National Laboratory, first established the tech for converting CO2 into Methanol back in 1976. Look up: "United States Patent 3,959,094 - Electrolytic Synthesis of Methanol from CO2".
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