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Amfleet coach seats
|In service
|1975–present (Amfleet I)
1981–present (Amfleet II)
|Budd Company
|Built at
|Red Lion, PA
|Family name
|Budd Metroliner
|Number built
492 (Amfleet I)
150 (Amfleet II)
|single car
|Fleet numbers
|25000-25124, 28000-28024, 43344-43397, 48140-48197, 81500-81551, 82500-82999, 85999
|Up to 84 seats
|Car body construction
|Stainless steel
|Car length
|85 ft (25.91 m)
|9 ft 11.5 in (3.035 m)
|12 ft 8 in (3.861 m)
|Floor height
|4 ft 3.5 in (1.308 m)
|Platform height
|4 ft 3.5 in (1.308 m)
|Amfleet I: 2 pairs end doors, automatic operation
Amfleet II: 1 pair end door, manual operation
|Maximum speed
|125 miles per hour (201 km/h)
|106,000 pounds (48,000 kg) (coach)
110,000 pounds (50,000 kg) (cafe)
|Power supply
|Train heating
|Electric heat and air conditioning
|Budd Pioneer
|Braking system(s)
|Pneumatic, 2 tread and 2 disc per axle.
|Coupling system
|AAR type H
|Track gauge
|4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Amfleet is a fleet of single-level intercity railroad passenger cars built by the Budd Company for Amtrak in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Budd based the Amfleet design on its earlier Metroliner electric multiple unit. They were the first new locomotive-hauled cars ordered by Amtrak. Today, Amfleet cars are used extensively throughout the Amtrak system outside the eastern and western United States and form the backbone of Amtrak's single-level fleet.
Amtrak inherited a fleet of approximately 1,200 steam-heated coaches from private sector railroads when it began operations in 1971. These cars were aging, in need of maintenance, and in many cases incompatible with each other. Amtrak recognized the need and opportunity to standardize on a single design.[1] Amtrak ordered the Amfleets from Budd in two batches. It placed the first order on October 12, 1973, along with orders for 70 EMD SDP40F diesel locomotives and 11 GE E60 locomotives.[2] The first batch, which came to be known as "Amfleet I", consisted of 492 cars in the following configurations:[3]:194-204
- 54 "Amcafe" cafe cars with 51 coach seats and a snack bar in the middle
- 37 "Amdinette" cafe/dining cars with a snack bar, eight four-person booths and 23 coach seats
- 40 "Amclub" club/parlor cars with a snack bar, 18 club seats and 23 coach seats
- 90 "Amcoach" long-distance coaches with 60 seats
- 271 "Amcoach" short-distance coaches with 84 seats
The first Amfleet cars began running on the Northeast Corridor on August 5, 1975.[2] Amtrak heralded their arrival, calling 1975 as "the Year of the Amfleet". As the cars were distributed throughout the system timetables would note that trains now had "Amfleet Service" and that trains had been "Amfleeted".[1]
Amtrak followed up in 1981–1983 with a second order, dubbed "Amfleet II". This order consisted of 150 cars:[3]:194
- 125 "Amcoach" long-distance cars with 59 seats
- 25 "Amlounge" lounge cars with a snack bar, ten four-person booths, and 17 assorted seats
- Amfleet II, consisting of 125 coaches and 25 lounges, was delivered in 1981–83.
The Amfleet II cars were intended to replace rolling stock on Amtrak long-distance trains, featuring larger windows, more legroom, and folding legrests.[4]
Because Amfleet cars can fit through the tunnels and under catenary of the northeastern United States, Amtrak uses them heavily in that area.
Amfleet rolling stock mostly disappeared from service in California when the San Joaquins switched to the Horizon Fleet in the 1990s and then to "California Cars" later in the decade. The San Diegans also stopped using the Amfleet when their Pacific Surfliner cars were delivered (with the exception of a single trainset that runs during the Del Mar Racetrack season in July and August, and during Thanksgiving week). The Pacific Northwest Cascades now use Talgo train sets instead of Amfleet.
Car types[edit]
Each type of Amfleet, I and II, currently is composed of coaches and food service cars. Amfleet IIs include lounge cars. Amfleet I cars can be identified by having vestibules at both ends of the cars; Amfleet II cars have a single vestibule.[5]:120 North American standard (120 V, 60 Hz) electrical outlets are provided in most cars of both types. Amfleet I cars are mostly used on corridor trains in the northeast, such as the Downeaster or Northeast Regional; Amfleet II cars are used on long-distance trains, such as the Cardinal or Silver Star.
Amfleet I coaches are configured as either Regional coach class (72 seats per car, with 2x2 seating) or business class (62 seats per car, with 2x2 seating). Amfleet I food service cars are either Club-Dinettes or Full-Dinettes. Club-Dinettes have 6 tables at one end and a snack bar in the middle, followed by 18 business class seats (1x2 seating). Some tables may be used by train crew members for paperwork. Full-Dinettes have tables on both sides of the snack bar. Table seats in food service cars are not sold and may be used by any passenger.
An Amfleet II coach seats 60 passengers (2x2 seating). Amfleet II food service cars are referred to as Diner-Lites to distinguish them from other types of Amtrak dining cars. When first delivered, the Diner-Lites were configured as Amfleet II Lounge containing 17 lounge seats on one end, a snack bar in the middle, and 8 tables at the other end of the car. Some cars were later rebuilt with an enclosed smoking room in place of the lounge seats. All Amlounge IIs were later converted to Diner-Lites between 2006-2010 with additional tables added where the lounge seats once were and increased food service capability (including new ovens).
In the late 1970s Amtrak to converted two Amfleet coaches (#22900 and #22901) into sleepers. Two prototype Superliner roomette modules were installed, displacing twelve seats. The cars were used on the Washington—Cincinnati Shenandoah. Regular sleepers returned to the Shenandoah in 1979 and the two coaches were returned to a standard configuration. These conversions were termed "Ampad."[6]:69[7]
Paint schemes[edit]
Amfleet I cars are the only Amtrak rolling stock to have carried all five normal paint schemes. These paint schemes are referred to as "Phases". Phase I-painted Amfleet cars had large red and blue stripes around the windows with thin white stripes on each end of the pattern, and featured the original Amtrak logo on one end of the car.
Amtrak's Phase II paint scheme eliminated the arrow logo. The Amtrak logo and coach number were printed in white.
Phase III paint featured stripes that border the windows, and had equal-width red, white, and blue stripes. The Phase III paint scheme marked a switch to black Amtrak logos and coach numbers.
Phase IV (aka "NortheastDirect") paint departed more noticeably from the previous designs. This scheme consists of a large blue stripe outlining the windows, and smaller red and white stripes above the blue stripe. On more recently painted cars, a red reflective stripe runs along the bottom of the car.
For a short period of time in the early 2000s, some Amfleet cars were painted in the Phase V style, also known as the Acela Phase. The Acela paint scheme varied depending upon the type of car, with the different types having different colored "splotches" on them. The Coach class cars were decorated by a turquoise window stripe and a darker-shaded turquoise splotch, and the Business class cars were decorated by a navy blue window stripe with a light-turquoise splotch. Cafe cars were decorated with light-turquoise splotches and navy blue window stripes, and instead of a window where the snack bar was, there was a splotch of spring green.
All active Amfleet cars are currently painted in the Phase IVb scheme, which is Phase IV with the newer Amtrak logo.
Specifications and build[edit]
Amfleet cars are largely based upon the 1966 Metroliner design and were originally designed to operate at speeds up to 120 mph (193 km/h).[1]
An Amfleet car is 12 feet 8 inches (3,860 mm) tall (relative to the railhead), 10 feet 6 inches (3,200 mm) wide, and 85 feet 4 inches (26,010 mm) in length over the vestibule diaphragm faceplates. The carbody itself is built up from spot-welded stainless steel sections, resulting in an exceptionally strong structure that is resistant to corrosion. Due to the length of the car, a noticeable arch is built into the carbody to prevent sagging when carrying a full passenger load.
A cafe car weighs about 110,000 pounds (50,000 kg), while a coach weighs approximately 106,000 pounds (48,000 kg). Amfleet seats have swing-down tray-tables for at-seat food service, overhead and underseat luggage storage (similar to that on a commercial airliner), and all cars (including cafes) are equipped with at least one restroom. Electric heating and air conditioning, operated by head-end power from the locomotive, are used to maintain passenger comfort.[8]
A feature inherited from older Budd-built cars is the use of dual disc brakes on each axle, with electronic anti-slide controls to prevent wheel lockup during full service or emergency brake applications. Although this braking system is more costly than the traditional wheel tread shoe braking design, experience has shown it to be a better-performing and lower maintenance alternative.
- ^ a b c Amtrak. "Digging into the Archives: Introducing Amfleet". Retrieved June 8, 2014.
- ^ a b "August and September in Amtrak History" (PDF). Amtrak Ink 15 (8): 20. August–September 2010.
- ^ a b Simon, Elbert; Warner, David C. (2011). Amtrak by the numbers: a comprehensive passenger car and motive power roster, 1971-2011. Kansas City, MO: White River Productions. ISBN 978-1-932804-12-9. OCLC 837623640.
- ^ "Amtraking" (PDF). Trainmaster (Pacific Northwest Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society) (244). November 1981.
- ^ Foster, Gerald L. (1996). A Field Guide to Trains of North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-70112-0. OCLC 33242919.
- ^ Sanders, Craig (2006). Amtrak in the Heartland. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34705-X. OCLC 61499942.
- ^ "Amfleet Cars". The Wilmington Chapter NRHS Official Newsletter 32 (3). July 2009.
- ^ Information Sheet Produced in 1977
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Graduates of universities in the former Soviet Republic may find their degrees losing value as corruption among higher education programs continues to rise, two Vanderbilt professors find in a new study published in the February issue of Comparative Education Review.
The study confirms what many educators have learned anecdotally: Educational corruption in the former U.S.S.R. and other former communist regimes has increased since the end of the Cold War.
"Education corruption is among the most serious new problems in economic development today," says Stephen P. Heyneman, co-author of the study along with Kathryn H. Anderson, professor of economics at Vanderbilt, and Nazym Nuralyeva, lecturer in sociology at a university in Kazakhstan.
Heyneman, professor of international educational policy at Vanderbilt's Peabody College of education and human development, presented the results to a meeting of the Kazakhstan cabinet in February.
"Although educational corruption existed under the Soviet Union, we hypothesize that it was modest by comparison to the level today," the authors said. Among the immediate problems for the students is that a devalued degree adversely affects their earning power.
Devaluation of degrees has serious international policy implications, degrades the entire social system of those countries, and decreases the likelihood that those graduates will be able to improve their economic standing, say the researchers. Perceived corruption also could jeopardize funding from international development-assistance organizations that might rethink their participation.
Since 1999 members of the European Union have been working to make university degrees equivalent in hopes of facilitating transfer students and greater mobility in the labor market. Ministers of education from 29 European countries in the Italian city of Bologna signed what has come to be known as the "Bologna Process," which was then opened up to other countries signatory to the European Cultural Convention of the Council of Europe. Further governmental meetings have been held in Prague (2001), Berlin (2003), Bergen (2005) and London (2007).
But the taint of scandal might abruptly halt that process, Heyneman says. "It is difficult to imagine why a country or a university with a high reputation would allow its degrees to be made equivalent to those of a university or a university system with a reputation for corruption," the authors said in the report.
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Bachelor of Science in English Education
Admissions to the Secondary English Education Program for Undergraduates
BS in English with Certification
Declaring Interest in the Program
Students interested in teaching middle and/or high school English should declare English as their major, and then choose "secondary English education" as their concentration and program. "Selection of Degree Program" forms are available in the English Department main office. There is a separate admissions process into the program, since the program is connected to the School of Education. We advise that students should meet with their English major academic advisor as soon as possible to plan for their admission into the program.
Before the Application Process
Most students apply to the program during their sophomore or junior year, once they have successfully passed EDU 201: Introduction to Teaching Professions—an introduction to middle and high school teaching course—and ENG 112: Writing Arguments, the composition requirement. State certification regulations specify that students cannot take more than two professional education courses before they are accepted into a teacher education program. A list of these courses follows:
Professional Education Courses
- EDU 201—Introduction to the Teaching Professions
- SHE 203—School Health
- EDU 413—Secondary Education
- MDS 340—Media Literacy Education for Students and Teachers
- PHI 370—Philosophy of Education
- PSY 370—Educational Psychology
- RDG 517—Content Area Literacy in Middle and Secondary Schools
- IDS 471—English Language Learners in the Classroom
- SED 482—Teaching Exceptional Students in the Secondary Education Classroom
- ENG 492—Teaching Literature to Adolescents
- ENG 493—English (Secondary School)
- ENG 494—Secondary School Student Teaching in English
- ENG 496—Student Teaching Seminar
Therefore, most students take EDU 201 and SHE 203 before they apply to the program. Avoid taking any other classes from the list above. They require admission and special permission.
The Application Process
Application to the program occurs during both the fall and spring semesters. In the fall, applications are typically due in mid-October, and in the spring they are typically due in mid-March. The exact due date will be posted in the English hallway and emailed to all English majors. We welcome interested students to meet with the coordinator of the program, Melissa Talhelm, in Engleman D 272, to inquire about the process and due dates.
In addition to submitting the application materials, students will also interview briefly with two members of the Admissions Committee during the week following the due date for the application materials. A sign-up sheet will be on Dr. Talhelm's door. An interview will not be granted unless all application materials are complete. We encourage students to come to the interview professionally dressed and prepared to speak about those experiences that have informed your desire to become an English teacher.
Required Admissions Materials and Criteria
1. Copies of complete transcripts from all institutions attended (official or unofficial)
2. The School of Education requires students to maintain a 2.7 QPR average, while the English Department requires a 3.0 average in all English classes. Eligibility for acceptance into and continuing in the Secondary English Education Program depends upon these academic standards.
3. Proof of passing the PRAXIS I exams in reading, writing, and mathematics. In some cases, the PRAXIS I may be waived based on SAT scores. Follow this link from the School of Education's website for information regarding the PRAXIS waiver (APPLICATION FOR CONNECTICUT ACADEMIC SKILLS ASSESSMENT WAIVER): http://ares.southernct.edu/education/uploads/textWidget/wysiwyg/documents/Praxis_Waiver-ED_192.pdf
Be aware that the waiver application process can take several weeks until you receive the letter from the State Department of Education. Please plan ahead.
4. A writing sample of academic prose (4 to 6 pages), preferably from an English course
5. An essay (2 pages maximum) answering this question, "Why would you like to become an English teacher?"
6. Two letters of recommendation, along with the recommendation forms from the School of Education's website. Follow this link to the forms: http://ares.southernct.edu/education/uploads/textWidget/wysiwyg/documents/English_Undergraduate_Recommendation.pdf. Recommendations can be sent directly to Melissa Talhelm in the English Department.
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All materials must be submitted to Dr. Talhelm by the application due date for the given semester. Materials can be left in her mailbox in the English Department mailroom. Students should also sign up for an interview at that time.
If candidates have any questions, they should contact Dr. Melissa Talhelm via email@example.com or by phone at (203) 392-6895.


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Private Loans
The Financial Aid Office will determine how much you are eligible to take out in private loans. You are not required to take the full amount; please consider how much you will really need. You will then need to apply for the loan, following the instructions below.
The Law Access Loan
The Gate Y-Loan
The Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority (CHESLA)
The Law Access Loan
The Law Access Loan (LAL) is a private loan program offered by The Access Group. It is a national loan program designed by law schools that provides loans in amounts up to the cost of attendance each year. For 2007-08 the guaranty fee and origination fee are 0 percent. The variable interest rate, which changes quarterly, is based on 3-month LIBOR, plus 1.7 percent, 2.7 percent or 3.3 percent depending on your past credit history. This loan has a nine-month grace period. The current LIBOR interest rate as of February 2007 is 5.37 percent. To apply for this loan call Access Group's Loan Line at (800) 282-1550 or visit the website.
The Gate Y-Loan
The Gate Y-Loan program was designed for simplicity, affordability and wide availability. The loan is offered to you in cooperation with Bank of America as Lender and First Marblehead Corporation as Program Manager. It is available without a co-signer for domestic and international students attending Yale Law School.
The Gate Y-Loan has a variable interest rate that changes on the first day of each quarter (January, April, July, October), has no origination fees, a 20-year repayment schedule and 6 month grace period after graduation or enrollment of less than half-time. The loan program also offers other incentives such as no payments during enrollment or graduate study, no prepayment penalties, combined billing and the ability to pay ahead while in repayment.
To apply for this loan complete the Notification and Confirmation Form and submit it to the Financial Aid Office.
The Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan
The Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority (CHESLA) offers the Connecticut Family Education Loan Program (CT-FELP), which provides loans from $2,000 up to the cost of attendance per year ($125,000 cumulative maximum) per student and allows up to 140 months (11.67 years) after graduation for repayment. There is a 3 percent reserve fee. The current (February 2007) interest rate is fixed (non-variable) at 6.15 percent. Further information and applications may be obtained online or by calling FELP at (800) 252-3357 in Connecticut or (860) 236-1400 from out of state.
Students and parents may also wish to contact their own state loan guaranty agency directly to determine and compare the terms and rates of any local supplemental loan program for which they may be eligible.


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SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Criss Angel "Mind Freak" made an appearance in the Carrier Dome Sunday as the Syracuse ran Providence, 22-3, in the season opener for both clubs.
The moment came with 2:39 in the first quarter with Kenny Nims cradling behind the cage. The senior motioned a pass intended for Chris Daniello out front. The throw never got there, mainly because Nims never had the ball. Stephen Keogh was in possession – and at some point in that sequence scored SU's sixth goal of the day.
"It wasn't really something planned out, but they fell for it," Nims said. "It was nice."
Coach John Desko joked back that his players could have saved the move for Johns Hopkins, "but that's okay," he finished.
Okay, so Nims didn't pass the ball with his mind, but the hidden ball trick is back.
There was a point where the game was unexpectedly close. With 5:53 to play in the first Bobby Labadini scored Providence's first and only 1st half goal to knot things at one. Thirty seconds later, PC asserted it's statistically strong defense and collapsed on Kenny Nims in front of the net. The rush involved no fewer than five players (on both teams) going after a loose ball that seemed more like a goal-line fumble.
Providence played a zone defense, constantly switching up the it's looks, but after connecting on just one shot in the game's first 10 minutes, the Orange figured things out.
"I kept trying to move in the middle," Keogh said of his five goal outing. "They kept sliding from the crease, so I thought if I kept going to the middle I'd be open and that's what happened."
The turning point seemed to be a three minute penalty on the Friar's Dean Fraser for an illegal stick. That led to a three minute non-releasable man-up and three goals for SU. The rout was on and any breaks that existed went SU's way, including an Friars own goal just before the half.
"I wouldn't call it a slow start, I would think a patient start," Desko said. "I think that we got the possessions that we wanted early and took some good shots and then kind of broke things open early as we got into the end of the first and second quarter."
SU plays its second game Friday at home against Army. Black Knights coach Joe Alberici was in attendance scouting Sunday.
Sophomore LSM Joel White didn't dress for the opener, out with an ankle sprain. Desko said he expects to have White back for the Army game Friday. Several guys filled his place in the meantime with Tyler Hlawati getting the start. Freshman Joe Moore also saw field time while registering the first shot of his career. --
The Orange used seven different bodies at the face-off X, still trying to find a replacement for graduated All-American Danny Brennen. Jake Moulton got the start, winning five of his 10, not including a fairly clean Providence win to begin the game. Josh Knight took over duties for a while, showing very good success in the second quarter. He finished winning eight of his 10 draws.
"It's a great competition between everybody. We're all fighting for the position," Knight said. "The competition in practice just makes it better on the field because if you just have one guy dominating, than no one else is going against each other and it helps us a lot."
Knight said he stuck with a basic clamp, then flipped it out the back to get the wings involved.
"We have the number one guys in the nation playing the wings and it's amazing," Knight said. "Just clamp the ball, flick it out to them and let them do what they do."
The 'Cuse trotted transfer Scott Kahoe (2-2), Jovan Miller (0-1), Tim Harder (2-2), Tom Guadagnolo (0-1) and Gavin Jenkinson (0-1) to midfield as well. Desko said it's still undetermined who will win the job, or if any one person will win it at all.
"Face-offs are such a technique thing," Desko said. "You might have a player that's got a dominant move and another player that's got a totally different move and all of a sudden you expect something's going to work in a game situation and it doesn't. A lot of times it's a match-up issue."
This is the first and last time Syracuse and Providence will meet in a non-conference setting. Next year both clubs will be part of the Big East Conference. But after falling 22-3, PC coach Chris Burdick had no interest in the subject.
"That's the furthest thing from my mind," Burdick said. "I have a 2009 lacrosse team that's got its eyes on the MAAC championship and the NCAA tournament. We want to try and get back here in May, so I'm not even thinking about that."
Regardless of the outcome, Desko said he felt the atmosphere was still beneficial to the opponent, citing the crowds and "hoopla" in the Dome. He also referenced how these types of games could work to team's advantages in the future.
"When you've got a conference championship to think about and seedings within the conference and eventually an automatic qualifier for if you win the conference no matter what kind of year you had, a couple of years ago we were 5-8," Desko said. "Had we been in the Big East Conference, we beat all the opponents we played in the Big East. At 5-8 we would have had an AQ into the playoffs. So if ever a team is having a year like that, that's something else you can shoot for."
|Kenny Nims
|(3, 5)
|Stephen Keogh
|(5, 1)
|Greg Niewieroski
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|Chris Daniello
|(3, 0)
|Tim Desko
|(1, 2)
|Scott Kahoe
|(1, 1)
|Jovan Miller
|(0, 1)
|Max Bartig
|(0, 1)
|Nate Tucker
|(1, 0)
|Pat Perritt
|(1, 0)
|Matt Abbott
|(1, 0)
|Josh Knight
|(1, 0)
|Dan Hardy
|(1, 0)
|Josh Amidon
|(1, 0)
|John Galloway
|4 (0.667)
|Al Cavalieri
|3 (0.750)
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Palm City manufacturer of low-cost water filtration systems begins production Monday
PALM CITY — In a world that often glorifies everything high-tech, Bio Clean Water Technologies begins production of its low-tech, low-cost water filtration kits on Monday.
Bio Clean Water Technologies, which moved this week into a 7,100-square-foot office-warehouse space in Palm City, will manufacture a low-cost filtration system that inventor and CEO Allen Korson says will make safe drinking water available to millions of people around the world.
Korson said the 12 assembly workers he has hired will start Monday to manufacture the BC-Water Tower, a three-pound kit that assembles into a water filter about three feet tall.
The unit's light weight "allows it to be carried into the remotest areas of any country," Korson said.
Assembling and operating the filter requires "no electricity, no machinery, no tools or chemicals," he said.
Korson said he already has orders from Ghana, Honduras, Mexico and Haiti that total about 15,000 units.
Ghana has initially ordered 100, but Korson said he expects that to eventually increase to 100,000.
Korson said he is in negotiations with Venezuela, Brazil, Nigeria, Colombia and Morocco as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which could use the filters in storm-ravaged New York and New Jersey.
"We have to get to work on Monday because we're behind schedule already," Korson told the 40 or so people who gathered for the company's ceremonial opening Thursday evening.
He expects that by spring, the company will be producing 20,000 units a month and said to achieve that he will have to hire another two dozen assembly workers at $10 an hour.
Korson got the inspiration in Haiti to invent the filter. He went to Port-au-Prince for four months in 2010 to help build an orphanage and, like many others, while there he got an intestinal parasite.
"The Minister of Public Works said they had no plans for public safe water for 10 to 15 years," he said.
Korson brought in as a partner Gary Haymond, who made a six-figure investment in the startup, and went to work at his Port St. Lucie home to develop a filter.
"He (Haymond) is the money man and I'm the technical," he said.
Korson, who holds a bachelor of arts in biology from Castleton College in Vermont, said, "I went through over 100 prototypes."
The two-step process first puts water through a 0.5 micron filter that removes algae, mold, parasites and some bacteria. With monthly cleaning, that filter has a projected life of 1 million gallons, Korson said.
The second filter, at 0.01 microns, "creates what is known in the water industry as a seven-log kill," Korson said, explaining that only one bacterium in 1 million gets through.
"Nothing gets through this baby," he said.
The filter normally processes 1.5 gallons per hour, but a hand pump increases that to five gallons per hour.
Four hours after Korson approached the Stuart/Martin County Chamber about finding a suitable space for manufacturing in Martin County, the chamber and the Business Development Board had found him the space in Heritage Square next to Palm City Elementary School, chamber account executive Amy Pearlstine said at the company's ceremonial opening.
"We're excited to have worked with Bio Clean Tech on their move to Martin County," said Tim Dougher, executive director of the Business Development Board. "True entrepreneurship at its best and we look forward to future expansion and the success of the company."
Chamber Chairman Michael Dadko said the filter is "brilliant in its simplicity. Everyone should have one of these for their home hurricane kits."
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There are a lot of things we can see Naomi Campbell doing: lying to a judge, throwing a statement necklace at a puppy, even generously allowing a homeless person to smell her fragrance as she walks down the street shielded by security guards and paparazzi. But doing a program on CNBC, the business news television channel of record? What's up with that?
Apparently, Campbell is going to be the focus of one of the channel's Meets series, which will follow her life from growing up in London to starring on catwalks and magazine covers all over the world. The famously press shy Campbell told Vogue UK that she's excited to see her life on screen.
"I've really enjoyed working with [presenter Tania Bryer] on this programme, and I'm looking forward to seeing the finished show!" Campbell told us. "For me, it's really important to remember my roots and experiences growing up – it's those things that make you the person that you are. London will always be home to me and it was so much fun to take a walk down memory lane and visit the house I grew up in."
Wanna know how we know the program won't contain any information about that huge blood diamond controversy Campbell was involved in? Because she called it "so much fun." Tune in to see what does make it on the air on September 28 at 10 pm.
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Andy Robinson has refused to rule out quitting as Scotland rugby supremo in the wake of his team's humiliating 21-15 defeat by Tonga.
It took the coach more than an hour to appear at the post-match media grilling - and speculation was rising over his immediate future following the autumn Test series whitewash.
Three times, raging Robinson declared: "That was totally unacceptable out there. I am very angry - I apologise to all Scotland fans.
"There will be consequences, but I will not reveal what they will be."
When asked if the aftermath will include his own future, Robinson replied: "I will look at everything.
"I have got a contract until 2015 - but there needs to be consequences after this.
"I will be discussing the situation (with Scottish Rugby Union chief executive Mark Dodson). I will have a meeting with him at some stage but that will be between him and me."
Tonga coach Mana Otai rubbed salt in the Scotland wounds by claiming his men didn't even have to be at their best to beat them at Pittodrie.
"It was a pretty good performance in alien conditions - but it could have been better," Otai said.
"There were aspects of the match we did not execute properly and so we have work to do.
"However the bottom line is that I am very, very proud of what the boys achieved.
"It is right up there with the greatest things that have happened in Tongan rugby - right up there with beating France in the World Cup in New Zealand last year."
His sentiments were echoed by skipper Nli Latu.
"Our time has arrived - we are now senior players because we have come to Europe and earned a victory against a top grade nation," he said.
The contest burst into life in the 51st minute as Tonga snatched a surprise lead.
Lua Lokotui more than made up for his yellow card by burrowing over for a try from point-blank range, giving 'Apikotoa a simple conversion.
Greig Laidlaw instantly eased the Scots anxiety by adding a fourth penalty - and repeated the dose midway through the half.
But still Tonga looked more clinical in attack and stand-off Fangatapu 'Apikotoa narrowed the gap with his next strike.
Even better was to come for the tourists as winger Fetu'u Vainikolo left his cover for dead with two dazzling dummies and galloped in for a superb solo try from his own half.


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October 3, 2012 - The election forecast model we have developed predicts a victory for Barack Obama over Mitt Romney on November 6th.
The model, which is based on state and national polling data as well as state historical voting patterns, predicts that President Obama will receive 53.13% of the national 2-party popular vote to Mitt Romney's 46.87%. Furthermore, the model predicts that President Obama will win the Electoral College vote, 332 - 206.
The model that we have used to generate this forecast was originally published in the International Journal of Forecasting in 1999, and has undergone significant refinement since that time. Our most recent update was presented at the 2009 Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, and was ultimately published in Putcha, C., ed. Methods of Forecasting American Election Outcomes. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
It has been used to generate fairly accurate predictions of the last two presidential elections. Our research, which looks at data from the elections from 1992 - 2008, shows that the model correctly predicts just over 90% of all state outcomes, predicts the national popular vote to within an average of 0.5% of the 2-party vote, and predicts the Electoral College vote to within 24 Electoral Votes.
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I'm originally from the Bahamas, but currently make my home in Singapore. I speak and write what I call Sacred Languages of the Self (many call it Light Language) and glyphs/written languages, communicating and doing healing sessions and workshops with beings such as angels, dragons, fairies, dark unicorns, star races and other energies that come through. During my sessions I often give Oneness Deeksha and Munay-Ki Rites as an additional blessing. I have also been writing what I call "mystical poetry" that expresses connection to Source and the eternality of our existence – it is often received first through my light language writing and afterward I automatically interpret it into English.
Because it felt right for me, I also became a certified Munay-Ki Rites Instructor and have been initiated to give beautiful Oneness Deeksha Blessings. Through visions during mediation I saw how to intuitively use Crystals during my sessions, connecting them like lay lines in the body causing areas to activate and come online. I've also learned basic Colour Light Therapy after receiving in dreams and visions again that there is a whole realm of colours that are unseen that hold certain vibrations and tones. After a huge shift during a workshop, I regularly practise the Form Reality Practice and CosmoFORM and share these also freely with people.
My vision is to self-empower people to live a heart-centred existence by learning to trust the Divinity within that is the real essence of who we are. Workshops and sessions are to assist others to come into their own innate abilities and gifts and to learn to heal themselves.
Because I believe in giving people choice by giving them information they might not normally be exposed to, I created The Light Family of Singapore Facebook Page & am the Organiser of its associated Meetup Group and several Group Pages on Facebook. But that's another story
How did it all happen?
Along Life's path, I was also a Reiki and Kundalini Reiki practitioner. During a typical Reiki share, when it was my turn to give Reiki, my body started visibly vibrating and I began spontaneously crying. I couldn't move my hands from the person I was touching until assisted. That night, my body hot, I lay in bed and felt distinct waves of energy washing up and down me from head to toe. I didn't know what was happening and was later informed that my third eye must have opened.
I continued to vibrate noticeably for several weeks. A visit to a Past Life Regressionist catapulted me into the reality of past lives and the shadow self. Triggers in my environment caused me to regress spontaneously into visions of the past while doing every day things like watching a film or walking down the street. Repressed abilities arose – the ability to sense another's emotions and the cause, the ability to speak to spirits, power animals, fairies and angels, the ability to sense malevolent entities on myself and others and pull them off, the ability to help spirits who approached me cross over into a light they saw behind me aided by an archangel…
I started to grow away from Reiki, not finding it to be enough for what I was experiencing. I began to speak a "Light" Language that I know is my own language from an ancient time many eons of existence ago. Since then many other of these "sacred languages of the self" have surfaced. Shortly after the first of these languages, I discovered the mystic, Almine and studied many of her teachings, finding them to resonate much with what I was experiencing.
When the Sacred Language began, I no longer sensed spirits and the type of entities I had previously. Instead, my interaction became more and more with mystical beings, in particular angels and then dragons. It continues to grow all the time as I become more and more open to energies for which I cannot give a name. I refuse to try to box them into a word or label that we as humans try to impose on such things that will perhaps contain their energy or messages for me or others.
The path I've been walking has opened me up to many profound ideas and discoveries of what is my own truth and permitted me to observe many synchronicities and messages. Sometimes these signs have been so "in your face" that I would be an idiot to ignore them.
For me, we are all the One Life, we are already ONE, already interconnected, interwoven. We are striving to maintain this Oneness and to move it into a higher frequency somehow, something even more magnificent and beautiful than Oneness. In our true essence we are eternal beings with no beginning and no end. We have so many capabilities, so many gifts to offer this Earth. Sadly, so many of us have forgotten this for a plethora of reasons. We have forgotten from where we originated… the Holy Infinite Source of All.
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Do we know "high" vs. not yet? Of course Jason gave a Worilds class performance in substitution yesterday, but still, it ain't the same ...
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Do we know "high" vs. not yet? Of course Jason gave a Worilds class performance in substitution yesterday, but still, it ain't the same ...
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We got our "6-PACK" - time to work on a CASE!
Worilds shows very well at LOLB - much better than at ROLB. We are in much better shape at backup when Wood goes down than when JH goes down.
Worilds has played well when called upon this year and had a very nice game yesterday. I'd like to have Woodley back, but I'm more concerned about the offensive players right now...
woodley has played a few games in a row now. its time for him to get 'injured' again and take a few weeks off
Final Ruthless Mock:
1.22 CB Marcus Peters, 6'0" 197 lbs., Washington
2.56 FS Damarious Randall, 5'11" 196 lbs., Arizona State
3.87 TE Clive Walford, 6'4" 251 lbs., Miami
4.121 DE Henry Anderson, 6'6" 294 lbs., Stanford
5.160 WR Titus Davis, 6'1" 196 lbs., Central Michigan
6.199 OLB Kyle Emanuel, 6'3" 255 lbs., North Dakota State
6.212c OLB Max Valles, 6'5" 251 lbs., Virginia
7.239 RB John Crockett, 6'0" 217 lbs., North Dakota State
Worilds has played better than Woodley this season, IMO. I'd be tempted to leave Worilds as the starter and bring Woodley in as a situational pass rusher.
Glass Man is injured again? Shocking!
(to his credit though, he did try to return but only lasted a play. I hope he's good to go versus Balt.)


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Mr. Horace Clinton Moore
Mr. Horace Clinton Moore, age 83, passed away peacefully after a 10-year struggle with Alzheimer's Friday, March 29, 2013.
Mr. Moore was born in Rome, GA, to the late Henry and Bamma Moore. He attended McHenry High School in Rome, GA, West Georgia College and Georgia State University. Clint was a Korean War veteran serving in the Army. He was Southeastern sales manager for Delaware and Hudson railroad for 40 years.
Clint was a dedicated Christian, deacon, father, husband and "Papa."
The family of Mr. Moore would like to extend a special thanks to the caring staff of Embracing Hospice.
He was preceded in death by his brother, Vernon Moore, and is survived by his wife of 60 years, Sara Barton Moore; daughter, Joy Callahan, her husband, Whit and their children, Darren, Clare, Natalie and Marion; son, Bart Moore, his wife, Glenda and their daughter, Kara; great-grandchildren, Isabella, McKinlay, and Holden; brothers, Varnell Moore of Greensboro, NC, Emory Moore of Seneca, SC; special daughters, Cynthia Watts, Debbie Norwood, Kathy Clanton; many nieces and nephews.
Mr. Moore's body was donated to Emory University School of Medicine.
A Memorial Service will be held Friday, April 5, at 11:30 a.m. at First Baptist Church of Cliftondale, 4005 Stonewall tell Rd., College Park, GA 30349 with Rev. Jerry Johnson officiating. Those wishing may sign the online guestbook at www.parrottfuneralhome.com .
In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to your favorite charity. The family will receive friends Friday from 10:30 until the service begins in the sanctuary of the church.
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Luis León MassonSpanish (Seville, Spain, 1858 - ca. 1874, Seville, Spain)
Plaza de Francisco, Seville
ca. 1860photograph | albumen print from a glass negative
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9 3/4 in. x 11 3/4 in. (24.77 cm x 29.85 cm)
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MUNCIE -- The Muncie Sanitation Department, 811 E. Centennial Ave., will host "Shred Your Files" Day 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday. (This originally said the event was today and has been corrected.)
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Barry Bonds never asked us to believe in him. He never represented hope or the power of the human spirit. He never had me wearing a yellow rubber band on my wrist in support of his inner strength and courage.
Lance Armstrong did those things. And that's why his fall is going to be much worse than Bonds'. One athlete built up years of good faith and one years of bad. Yet after hearing Tyler Hamilton, Armstrong's former teammate, make doping allegations on CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday night, I'm wondering if Armstrong was just telling the bigger lie.
DID ARMSTRONG CHEAT? 60 Minutes report: Lance Armstrong encouraged doping
Hamilton said that Armstrong had used banned performance enhancing drugs, and that the U.S. Postal Service team officials and cycling federation were systemically involved, and covering up.
"He used it to prepare for the Tour," Hamilton said. "I saw it in his refrigerator. I saw him inject it more than one time. … He took EPO, testosterone and I did see a blood transfusion."
Bonds never wore a smiley face. So it's going to be interesting to see how people will respond as this goes forward, continuing to believe, looking the other way or getting very angry.
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Hamilton said he has made the same allegations to a federal grand jury in an investigation to determine if Armstrong committed fraud against the U.S. government by allegedly taking banned drugs to win for the
Postal Service. Fraud? That has an awfully good ring to it now. Fraud.
But I don't see it in a legal way.
According to "60 Minutes," another of Armstrong's ex-teammates, and close friend, George Hincapie, also told investigators that he and Armstrong provided EPO, a banned substance, to each other. Floyd Landis, yet another former Armstrong teammate, had already made an accusation of PED use, and other claims that match Hamilton's.
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So nothing is proven, and these are just allegations. Armstrong has fought off allegations for years. But now, it's not just whispers or outsiders or conjecture. It's not even people on Armstrong's periphery anymore.
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on cycling, but one thing that always amazed me was how Armstrong's teammates always seemed to give themselves up to fight for him. The goal of each member of that Postal Service team was not to win the Tour de France, but instead to help Armstrong win it. I guess that's what cycling teams do. But along the way during races, their job was to protect Armstrong from other cyclists, to make sure he was safe and in the clear.
"Everything possible to help Lance win," Hamilton said. "We had one objective."
When it came to allegations away from races, too, they continued to protect him so strongly, in fact, that they were oftentimes referred to as his mafia. That's what's so stunning now, seeing those same protectors giving up Armstrong.
Meanwhile, Armstrong and his people continue to say that he has passed hundreds of drug tests, that there is no evidence against him and that the people making accusations have something to gain by doing so. His
people say they don't believe that Hincapie made the allegations to a grand jury at all, and point fingers at CBS.
Hamilton recently turned back his Olympic gold medal, and said, basically, that he did the same things he alleges Armstrong did.
Hamilton declined to testify against Armstrong at first, but then was issued a subpoena and granted limited immunity.
Hamilton also says, as Landis once did, that Armstrong did once fail a drug test and, with the help of the International Cycling Union "took care of it." Armstrong later donated $125,000 to the union.
This was a disturbing suggestion that with cycling, the dirtiest sport, the performance enhancing drug problem isn't just about rogue athletes, but also about team doctors and governing bodies. Hamilton said that at least two or three members of each team are cheating.
But Armstrong meant more than anyone else. He came back from testicular cancer to win the Tour de France. Seven times. I mean, his positive attitude and fight truly meant something to people.
Years ago, Greg LeMond, another U.S. rider who won the Tour, told the Times of London this about Armstrong's amazing return from cancer to Tour victories:
"If the story is true, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sport. If it is not, it is the greatest fraud."
In a greater sense of what Armstrong will mean to humanity, his hope and inspiration outweigh any alleged cheating. And even if he used banned substances to rebuild his strength after fighting cancer, that's
none of my business.
What's not OK is if he did it the way his teammates suggest. If he did it just for cheating, then he was playing off our emotions in the most vicious way.
Bonds didn't have the public and the media on his side, and didn't have cancer victims to add testimonials. But he didn't have witnesses, as Armstrong does, telling a grand jury they actually saw him doping.
Armstrong has pointed too many fingers at too many people, now friends and TV networks. To hear him, the whole world is in on a corrupt attempt to get Lance Armstrong. It gets harder to believe.
Armstrong is (was?) an American hero because we bought in.
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Letter: Good for all of us
H.H. Herman, Naples
Good for all of us
Jack Tymann's guest commentary proposes that conservatives study the Constitution.
This has great merit.
Not only conservatives but progressives as well as every American citizen should understand the basic law of the land. The Constitution contains the clearest and practical formulations of government. The document is easy to read, secular (separation of church and state), democratic (the people vote), republican (elected representation) and firmly grounded in the philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment.
Constitutional government today has to confront two realities. It cannot avoid the questions of reform and a gradualist path out of the structures that dominated economic and political life in past centuries. It is time to understand the long-term social, political, economic realities.
One reality is that many of the educational, social and economic institutions continually are failing the masses of people. The days of boom and bubble are over. The great recession has given way to as period of long-term anemic growth (stagnation).
Tymann commiserates with the anger and despair of conservatives who place their trust in policies espoused by Paul Ryan and Rand Paul. But those working at minimum wages, subject to unemployment or living at the poverty level, have just as much right to demand and expect a constitutional government lead by President Barack Obama to protect their interests.
The U.S. Constitution is a document which, supported by an informed and energized citizenry, conservative or liberal, can provide justice for all as it has done for more than 200 years.
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LANSING, Mich. (WZZM) - A new law moving through the State Senate would cover what some lawmakers are calling a "major loophole" in one of Michigan's laws.
When it comes to legislation on teachers having sex with students, it's illegal if the student is under 18. It's a grey area some lawmakers want to correct and now legislation has been introduced to ban all teacher and student sexual relations until after graduation, no matter what age the student is.
State Senator Rick Jones (R) Grand Ledge created the bill after several cases in the state were reported to him, including this one: "In the community of Ionia, they had a teacher find out that a student was turning 18. In one day after her birthday, he took her to a motel room in Kalamazoo all day, and had relations with her," said Jones.
The bill passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, and will be on the floor in the next few weeks. As for the rest of the system, Jones says he expects the legislation to pass through within the year.


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Archive for the 'steam-powered' tag
1963 Ford Falcon: Steam Power Edition
In a perfect automotive world, history reveals that most of the technology we think of as new is quite old. Electric cars? Ask Detroit Electric (1907-1939) how that worked out. Hybrid cars? Dr. Porsche (1875-1951) himself could have expounded at length. Steam powered the Aeolipile, or Hero engine, 2,000 or so years ago in Greece, the industrial revolution few years later, a few automobiles along the way, and speeding locomotives up until not even that long ago. Only Superman could fly faster. Modern locomotives are series hybrids: a diesel engine powers a dynamo, which generates electricity to turn the wheels.
As combustion is better controlled at constant engine speed, the locomotive churns economically across great distances. Taking a series hybrid and a steam engine into a car was Australian engineer Edward Pritchard, who built a steam-powered 1963 Ford Falcon in the early '70s. The Green Stripe Pritchard Steam Car efficiently burned most any combustible liquid, and drove about just like any other 1963 Falcon. While the Hemmings wood pellet fired 1977 Mercury Bobcat steam wagon is still in the developmental stage, this video reveals a steam powered Falcon that actually worked.
Four-Links – NYC cars, Cycolac, Coronado Speed Festival, first auto race revisited
* Christopher Benton emailed us this week to let us know about his new website, comprised of photos of older cars shot on the streets in and around New York City. He said he likes to hit up industrial areas and neighborhoods off the beaten path – Williamsburg, Red Hook, Long Island City – so expect to see more driveable dreams than six-figure exotics.
* I could have sworn we've previously written about the Cycolac Research Vehicle here on the blog, but I guess we haven't. However, Geoff Hacker, over at ForgottenFiberglass, did write about the CRV this week and included scans of a CRV brochure in his story on the unique clamshell automobile.
* Jesse, the justacarguy guy, headed down to the Coronado Speed Festival last month and came back with a great selection of photos.
* Finally, regular readers may recall our mention of Jonathan Klinger's 365 Days of A project, which he kicked off last year and just wrapped up this week. Looks like he was successful in his goal of driving a Model A every day for a year, and sharing his experiences through his blog. (via)
* One of the selling points for "La Marquise," the world's oldest operating vehicle, was the claim that it participated in the world's first automobile race, though as Steve at Serviside pointed out this week in a detailed and well-written post, that claim is dubious, considering that the race took place many years after the 1878 Wisconsin steam buggy race we wrote about back in June.
"La Marquise" sells for $4.62 million
Images courtesy RM Auctions.
In a way, it's surprising that RM Auctions even bothered at all to put a pre-auction estimate on "La Marquise," the 1884 De Dion Bouton Et Trepardoux Dos-a-Dos steam runabout that currently holds the title of world's oldest operating motor vehicle. As a unique specimen that attracted attention from beyond the bounds of the collector car hobby, any such estimate was bound to be more speculation than educated guess. What's not surprising, then, is that "La Marquise" far surpassed that estimate, ultimately selling for $4.62 million Friday night.
Bidding for the De Dion at RM's Hershey auction started at $500,000, quickly jumped to the seven-figure mark, and steadily increased between two in-attendance bidders until about the $4 million mark, when one dropped out. The winning bid of $4.2 million (the sale price includes a 10 percent buyer's premium), however, appeared to have come from a proxy bidder for a buyer whose identity has so far eluded even the most knowledgeable sources.
As RM Auctions noted in its press release, the buyer will be just the fifth owner of "La Marquise" in the De Dion's 127-year history. It came to the auction from the estate of the late John O'Quinn with a pre-auction estimate of $2 million to $2.5 million.
While no other cars at the Hershey auction sold for seven figures, nearly a dozen sold for more than six figures, helping push the total sale amount at Hershey to $10,065,200. Rounding out the top five sales of the auction:
1912 Mercedes 28/50 PS Town Car – $253,000
1938 Lincoln Model K Convertible Victoria – $203,500
1935 Packard Twelve Coupe Roadster – $181,500
1930 Cord L-29 Boattail Speedster – $165,000
For results from the Hershey sale, visit RMAuctions.com.
UPDATE: The History Blog found this clip from Great Cars TV showing "La Marquise" running:
And Howard Kroplick over at his blog on the Vanderbilt Cup Races recorded some video of "La Marquise" entering the RM stage and the subsequent bidding:
World's oldest operating motor vehicle to highlight RM's Hershey auction
1884 De Dion Bouton Et Trepardoux Dos-A-Dos runabout. Images courtesy RM Auctions.
As the month of October nears, it means one thing for generations of of collector-car enthusiasts: Hershey Week! By now, we're all aware that technically it's called the AACA Eastern Fall Meet, which transforms the grounds of Pennsylvania's Hershey Park into one of the world's largest four-day swap meet and car corral gatherings (five, if you include vendor setup day), anchored by a dazzling one-day car show; the dates for this year's event are October 5-8.
Veteran attendees are also aware of the annual Vintage Motor Cars of Hershey sale hosted by RM Auctions. The two-day auction, scheduled for the evenings of October 6-7, will once again take place at the renowned Hershey Lodge, located on the western edge of downtown Hershey. RM's catalog is packed full of vintage gems, perhaps the most intriguing being the steam car pictured above: an 1884 De Dion Bouton Et Trepardoux Dos-A-Dos runabout, offered from the estate of noted collector John O'Quinn.
The De Dion, at 127 years of age, is claimed to be the oldest running motorized vehicle in the world, its twin compound steam engines capable of propelling the vehicle to 38 MPH, with a range of up to 20 miles on a tank of water. The French vehicle also touts just four owners – including single family ownership for 81 years – since it was constructed. RM estimates that the De Dion will sell between $2 million – $2.5 million on the evening of October 7.
Auburn Auction Weekend: Worldwide Auctioneers
It used to be that there was only one auction during the famed Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Festival held annually on Labor Day weekend, but in recent years, Worldwide Auctioneers has brought several wonderful catalogs to the Indiana town. Their sale this year, scheduled for September 2-4, is no exception.
One of their featured lots is the 1948 Delahaye 135M Chapron DHC Competition pictured above, looking every bit of a true barn find – and touted as such. The layer of dust is reported to be volcanic ash from the 1982 Mount St. Helens eruption. Additional information provided by Worldwide states that it's had just three owners since new; it runs and drives, and – perhaps more stunningly – it's being sold with no reserve on the evening of September 3.
Information proved by Worldwide states that the engine and gearbox are original to the chassis of this 1912 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost "London to Edinburgh" Torpedo Tourer. Originally sold as engine/chassis, it was bodied by Mann Egerton (of Norwich) for Sir James Dale of Surrey, England. The Rolls-Royce is also slated to cross the block on September 3.
As far as domestic makes, Worldwide offers more than a few, including the court-ordered sale of this 1911 Stanley Steamer Model 72 Runabout. To date, it's the only example with a known history since its first owner. The Stanley is another no reserve September 3 vehicle.
At the opposite end of the domestic scale is this 1965 Shelby G.T.350R; one of just 36 Mustangs prepared by Shelby American for road racing. Complete ownership history since new, as well as race records and "the actual 289 Hi-Po engine block" are just some of the appealing features, as well as the original body panels, although it was subjected to a cosmetic restoration in 1992. According to WW, the Shelby will also cross the block on September 3.
A complete Worldwide catalog can be found here.
The first American automobile race?
While we're on the topic of steam-powered vehicles today, let's take a look at a recent post over at The Old Motor, in which David Greenlees dug up some information on a 200-mile race through Wisconsin – from Green Bay to Madison – between a pair of steam buggies that took place in 1878. As related at the Wisconsin Historical Society's website, the race was prompted by a $10,000 award offered by the Wisconsin state legislature in 1875 for a viable self-propelled alternative to a horse and buggy. Six entrants stepped forward, but only two – the Green Bay and the Oshkosh – ended up competing in the race. The former had the speed advantage, but proved unreliable, so the Oshkosh took the win, though the Wisconsin legislature only ended up awarding the owners of the Oshkosh $5,000.
As David noted, the first automobile race in America is commonly believed to have occurred in 1895 in Chicago. The account of the steam buggy race seems to upend that little bit of history.
By the way, if those mid-1870s dates seem familiar, that's precisely the same time George Alexander Long built his first steam wagon in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, and proceeded to terrorize the locals with it. Coincidence, or was there some reason steam wagons seemed to be in vogue at that time?
Gettin' steamed on the bus
In the year-plus since we discovered the photos of the first-ever Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development, we've teased out more information on a couple of the attending vehicles: the McKee-built Sundancer and the GM 512-series micros. Next up, the Lear-built steam bus.
While we only see evidence of one Lear steam bus, a GMC, at the Symposium, thanks to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Flickr stream, we see that Lear built at least two other steam-powered buses for a California-based federally funded alt-fuel transit bus project, including the Flxible and the unidentified bus in the photo above. According to LACMTA, the project ran from 1973-1974 (neatly overlapping the October 1973 date of the Symposium, which took place in Ann Arbor, Michigan) and placed one bus each on the streets of Los Angeles (through the Southern California Rapid Transit District), Sacramento, and San Diego.
The Lear behind the Lear steam buses would be William P. Lear, the originator of the Lear Jet (and, incidentally, the automotive eight-track tape player). After selling his jet business in 1967, Lear relocated to the old Stead Air Force base outside of Reno, Nevada, where in about 1968 he began work on his steam turbine engines, with the ultimate goal of downsizing them enough to place them in passenger cars.
As we see in this second photo from LACMTA showing the Flxible's steam engine, it differs significantly in appearance from the engine shown in the Symposium photos, suggesting that Lear and his engineers hadn't yet finalized the design of the engine. Indeed, his initial announcements on the steam engines proclaimed he had invented a substitute for water – something up until then only theoretically proposed – with idealized thermal conversion properties. He called it Learium, but by 1972, he abandoned Learium and reverted to water after finding that Learium was not as chemically inert as he believed. Lear received a number of patents on his design, including Combustor for Vapor Power Generators (U.S. Patent 3,812,826) and Vapor Generators with Low Pollutant Emission (U.S. Patent 3,846,065).
Both Popular Science and Popular Mechanics sent reporters to Nevada to take exhibition rides on Lear's prototype GMC in early 1972, and came back with a good number of statistics: The turbine would spin up to 60,000 RPM, producing about 220 horsepower and resulting in a top speed of about 55 MPH. Zero to 30 took 16 seconds – or 12 seconds faster than a diesel-powered bus – and noise levels were about half that of a diesel. Fuel consumption was double that of a diesel, however, though they duly noted that steam turbines can theoretically run on any combustible fuel with far lower emissions. Interestingly, PopMech noted that the GMC was scheduled to undergo testing in San Francisco.
The buses were not the extent of Lear's steam visions by far. We know that Lear built a steam-powered Chevrolet Monte Carlo, as well as a steam-powered race car designed to compete at Indianapolis, and he allegedly built 26 steam cars for the California Highway patrol around this time. According to LACMTA, the steam engines were removed from the three buses after the test, and one was later used in a land-speed record attempt. That would be the Jim Crank/Barber-Nichols Steamin' Demon, which ran Bonneville in the late 1970s and 1980s and is now on display in the National Automobile Museum in, of all places, Reno.
Hemmings Find of the Day – birthplace of the American automobile?
Amid all the celebrations of Mercedes-Benz's 125th anniversary this year, it's worth keeping in mind that Daimler and Benz were not the inventors of the automobile. Inventors of the internal combustion automobile perhaps, but the automobile's history well precedes 1886, as we see from this unassuming piece of property in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, for sale on Hemmings.com.
The man who put this three-story building on the map was not Joel Derby, who built it in 1837 as a cooperage (though keep that date in mind). Nor was it Captain Jason R. Holman or Charles D. Merriman, the business partners who transformed the building into a machine shop in 1865. Rather, it was George Alexander Long, a 15-year-old resident of Northfield, Massachusetts, just over the state line, who came to work at the machine shop as an apprentice in 1875. It was in this shop that Long built a single-cylinder charcoal-fired steam engine, mated it to a four-wheeled carriage with a fifth wheel up front for steering, and created a self-propelled vehicle, what many allege to be the first in the United States. Over the next three years, he proceeded to refine his horseless carriage, running it up to 35 MPH when the local roads permitted. His contraption was not appreciated by all: Northfield banned him from operating it there after he gained a reputation as a demon on wheels, scaring horses off the road and spewing cinders as he drove by. Long simply responded by taking to the streets under the cover of night, though he still managed to rile the locals, who eventually persuaded him to disassemble it in 1878. The chassis went to the town of Hinsdale for use as a (horse-drawn) fire-fighting wagon and the boiler went on a cargo boat that plied the Connecticut River.
Long wasn't done yet. The next year, he began work on another steam-powered car, this one a 2F1R tricycle with a gasoline-fired V-twin steam engine, assembled in Albert Pope's Columbia bicycle plant in Hartford, Connecticut. By the early 1880s, he had finished its construction, and in August 1882 he applied for a patent on his "Steam Road-Vehicle," granted the following July (U.S. Patent 281,091). This tricycle would unbelievably survive and, with the help of 96-year-old George Long, John Bacon would restore it in 1956 before it made its way into the collection of the Smithsonian.
According to the listing for the former Holman-Merriman machine shop, the Federal-styled three-floor, 4,770-square-foot building currently houses a pair of one-bedroom apartments on the second floor, while the first and third floors are used for storage. Asking price is $1,447,000.
For what it's worth, Long's story resembles the story of another automotive pioneer who coincidentally hailed from Brattleboro, Vermont, just across the river from Hinsdale. During the early 1830s, John Gore began work on a self-propelled, steam-powered vehicle that he finished in 1837, the same year Joel Derby built his cooperage. According to the Standard Catalog, Gore spent $600 building his automobile with a wood-fired two-cylinder engine, then spent the next decade or so driving it in and around Brattleboro, scaring horses and causing the townspeople of Brattleboro to pass a law prohibiting Gore from driving the steamer unless a boy ringing a bell preceded him. On a trip between Bernardston, Massachusetts, and Brattleboro, Gore crashed the vehicle into a ditch and left it there. He apparently never built another vehicle after that.
SIA Flashback – 1924 Doble: Most Sophisticated Steamer Ever Built
The 1924 Doble profiled in this driveReport from SIA #71, October 1982, as we come to learn by the end of the article, has a curious link to the SE-101 steam-powered Grand Prix we included a photograph of here a couple weeks ago, but that's just one of the many chapters in this particular Doble's story, closely linked to a small but fervent steam-car culture in the San Francisco Bay area.
Out-of-gallery links: page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5, page 6, page 7, page 8
Lost and Found overflow – Step aside, ma'am, we're racing
Bill Schulz recently sent along this photo which he inherited, but which came with absolutely no information that would help him identify the car in it. Bill writes:
If the photo's from my mother's side, it's probably in the Kerhonkson, NY, area. If my father's, probably somewhere around Poughkeepsie/Pleasant Valley, NY.
That is probably my paternal grandmother on the other side of the road as I'm sure no finely dressed woman would have been standing in a field out in the puckerbrush all by herself; "It's just not proper!" "Gramps" probably heard the car coming and crossed the road to take the picture, leaving his bride to wait in safety there.
"Gramps" was William Rudolph Schulz, "Granma," Marie Augusta Heinken "Gussie" Schulz. My father, William John Schulz (I'm "Junior") was born in Pleasant Valley in 1908.
As it just so happens, the excellent and wide-ranging pre-war auto racing thread on the H.A.M.B. recently included a couple photos of Walter White's 1905 Vanderbilt Cup racer, which matches the shape and details of the car in Bill's photo. A little googling, and we see that in 1905, Walter White punctured his left front tire on the Guinea Woods turn on the fifth lap of the race and continued to run on the bare rim. The photo above isn't clear, but it appears to show a bare left front rim. That looks like a slow left-hand turn in the background; could Gramps have caught White's steamer very shortly after its tire burst?
VanderbiltCupRaces.com also has a map of the entire 1905 race course, so I'm wondering if we could even pinpoint exactly where Gramps snapped this photo. Perhaps somewhere on Glen Cove Road just north of where the LIE currently crosses it?