The war on coal… the battle lines drawn. Particular states may be of interest to the Trump campaign this fall..
In rustic Buchanan County, 94 percent of residents are white and pickup trucks are the vehicle of choice – many carry bumper stickers declaring the primacy of the region’s main industry through slogans like “Can’t Keep The Lights On in America Without Coal From Virginia” or “Stop The War On Coal.”
For generations, coal has been the lifeblood in the region known as Appalachia, which includes southwestern Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and parts of Pennsylvania.
That’s changed drastically in the past 20 years. A major consumer of coal, the U.S. steel industry, has struggled against cheaper imports, closing down smelters from Pennsylvania to Ohio and cutting the demand for metallurgical coal, the higher-grade coal found in Buchanan and surrounding areas.
In the past five years, a global supply glut has driven down coal prices drastically. The company that operates Buchanan County’s largest functioning coal mine reported a steep fall in fourth-quarter prices, from $68.58 per ton in 2014 to $48.41 in 2015.
“Right now we know that there is something out there that’s putting people in near death situations,” said Camden Metro Police Chief Scott Thompson.
Thompson says heroin at its purest form being sold in Camden caused 15 overdoses in several surrounding towns since Tuesday, 14 of those cases being young people.
“Generally young 20’s,” Thompson said. “We’re talking Washington Township, Cherry Hill and Haddonfield. Heroin doesn’t discriminate who it hooks into.”
As a matter of fact, I did.. thanks for the question.
I detailed the UFO sighting I had back in October or so of 2010 – I remember it fondly. It was a beautiful autumn night before my son was born. My now deceased dog Bailey was finding a spot outside during a walk.. and I looked up and saw a hovering cigar shaped light which, after seeing it, sped away out of sight..
This “hotspot” is due to the faster turnover of water through the Atlantic’s currents as compared to the Pacific, where water can take 200-300 years to make a full circuit from one end of the Atlantic to the other, as compared to the 600-900 years it might take for water to get around the Pacific.
In this case, warm waters from the Caribbean Sea that would normally be circulated northeast across the Atlantic Ocean are instead pooling off of the U.S. East Coast, due to the interruption of the North Atlantic Current. As water warms it expands, causing the ocean level to be higher wherever this expansion is experienced. NASA currently uses this effect to track ocean temperatures via satellite, using radar to record regional sea level changes to determine their temperatures.
Another recent study has shown that this has already happened, when a 4-inch sea level rise was recorded in a region of ocean between New York and Newfoundland that occurred in 2009 and 2010, due to a sudden change in the North Atlantic current.
“It could be the discovery of the century. It’s very important for Egyptian history and the history of the world,” he said, adding that the chambers may well have belonged to a king or queen. Further tests will be done on March 31 to discover more about the newly-discovered spaces, he added.
An emerald-green comet will brush the Earth Monday, followed one day later by a kissing cousin that will swerve closer to the planet than any other comet in nearly 250 years.
The first and bigger of the two comets will be visible Monday to the naked eye in the southern hemisphere, as long as city lights are far away. Stargazers in the United States will probably need only binoculars to see the bigger comet in late March. Scientists, however, are bringing out the big guns. The Hubble Space Telescope, the powerful ground-based Gemini telescopes and others will be trained on the celestial visitors, which will provide an extraordinary close-up of objects usually glimpsed only at a distance.
It’s about to feel like 2000 all over again. John Titor–the real time traveler!?–set for MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT with Heather Wade!?
Remember, TITOR never appeared on BELL’s COAST TO COAST AM, but was active in the AOL chat rooms of the early 20th century.. now 16 years later–and lots of time gone on–Heather Wade is able to brag up the fact that she may just have done the extraordinary: Contact made with the time traveler among us..
Fun times ahead .. ‘stay tuned’ appears to be the words..
The wrestler, known in court by his legal name, Terry G. Bollea, sobbed as the verdict was announced in late afternoon, according to people in the courtroom. The jury had considered the case for about six hours.
Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker and a defendant in the case, was found personally liable, as was Albert J. Daulerio, the site’s former editor in chief.
Google Maps has a street view of some amazing stuff.. including this:
Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima, is an abandoned island lying about 15 kilometers from the city of Nagasaki, in southern Japan. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture
According to the United Kingdom Meteor Observation Network (UKMON), the fireball momentarily overloaded the camera with light.
“Preliminary calculations estimate the brightens to be around -7 mag and explosion -14 mag. An estimated terminal altitude was just 30 - 34 km (18.6 - 21 miles),” UKMON’s Richard Kacerek said.
“With the second video we will be able to triangulate and calculate the orbit,” he added.
It’s tempting to find these lapses in realism and historical provenance and find satisfaction in that detective work. But the preservation of the incorrupt is often meant to be noticed. The sacristan, an officer in charge of overseeing Anna Maria’s sacred relics (what he sweetly called her “little old lady things”) explained that the wax on her isn’t designed to trick people. It’s to preserve an honest impression of her the moment she was discovered in her grave.
Yet the mystery is part of how the incorrupt draw us in with their uncanny sleeping faces, as if the twins Hypnos and Thanatos were playing tricks by switching places. They are somehow both a memento mori and the opposite of the anonymous grinning skull. We will all die, but maybe, if we’re very good, we can linger in this world
It forced me into a strange place.. contemplation over what this whole NET thing is doing to the world. To us. To news.. to everything.
I turned 21 a week before 9/11 happened. When that terror attack took place, I went online and immediately began updating –in HTML mind you–my website about the terror attack.. There is still a record of it somewhere on Archive.org. So in that regard, I was immersed in the NET world at 21 before REDDIT and Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Back then it was AOL Chat rooms and Drudge, along with very basic chats..
But now? Twitter? REDDIT.. The REAL error of citizen journalism is here. And it’s fast, sloppy, messy, and amazing.
But to what end?
The funny thing is after watching THE THREAD, I feel out of the loop. Even though I was a NET kid, it was new then.. it was all new. Now it’s ‘always been’ to the generation born since 2000. Think about that.. Kids of today have no idea what a boring Sunday afternoon watching NICK meant.. Now it’s constant life online. Nothing boring but yet everything is. Kids of today? You don’t KNOW boring..
And even though I was somewhat on the ‘cutting edge’ of media evolution with my VERY OWN DOT COM in the early part of the century, it’s rudimentary when compared to the fast paced information overload of today’s age.
Fast news. Loose rules.. What you see isn’t what you get. And the best chance of real factual information may come when the book is written years later.
But we are all experimenting with this old media murder. The journalists of yesterday who are still paying their school loans are watching the carpet pulled from them. YOU. Me. EVERYONE can be a reporter.
Is it too much/ Too much Trump? Too much of a good thing? Live streaming until it gets dull?
Periscope…And all of the rest of the social networks popping up hourly.
In the early 1920s, Irish priests of the Order of the Holy Ghost established their mission in southern Nigeria. Later St. Patrick’s Society for Foreign Missions, dedicated on March 17, 1932, became one of many Catholic groups in Nigeria providing education both religious and secular.
These days Catholics in the country number some 20 million, and Nigerian seminaries send their ordinates all over the world to serve as priests. In fact, since numbers of clergy in Ireland have long been in decline, Nigerian priests have recently been assigned to churches there.
Though St. Patrick’s Day is not an official public holiday in Nigeria, plenty of Guinness stout will be consumed anyway. It’s the second most popular beer in the country, brewed with sorghum or maize instead of the European recipe’s barley, and packs a 7.5 percent alcohol content.
It’s said that St. Patrick’s revelers thought wearing green made them invisible to leprechauns, who would pinch anyone they could see (anyone not wearing green). People began pinching those who didn’t wear green as a reminder that leprechauns would sneak up and pinch those not sporting the color.
The Walking Dead creator debuted his new series Outcast at the South by Southwest film festival on Monday. The upcoming Cinemax series is adapted from Kirkman’s comic about demonic possession and exorcism.
The first episode’s climactic exorcism scene involves – spoiler alert for those who have not read the comic – the show’s troubled hero Kyle Barnes (Gone Girl’s Patrick Fugit) violently and repeatedly punching a possessed 10-year-old child in the face. Previously the character revealed such a method for driving out a demon worked for him in the past.
“He was a monster and he deserved it,” joked Fugit when asked about the scene, then added of the young actor: “He was such a little trouper.”
The only two ways to meet people that have had increased chances of success lately: Bars and online. The new reality of dating. Lots of lovely people now alone on couches with Netflix.. 💋💄
A good tale about why not to pick up hitchhikers. And a lot more.
I am fascinated by a growing number of younger people of didn’t know a thing (understood) and didn’t learn a thing in school (not understood) about Charles Manson..
Web entrepreneur Dmitry Itskov is behind the “2045 Initiative”, an ambitious experiment to bring about immortality within the next 30 years by creating a robot capable of storing human personalities.
The group of neuroscientists, robot builders and consciousness researchers say they can create an android that is capable of uploading someone’s personality.
We know they want to try it and do it.. But will it work?
Please please please.. Never again lecture me that I’m a kook who deserves a tin foil hat for believing hat weather modification and chemtrails are real things..
My latest trip there yielded sad results.. the mall is just about mostly vacant now. The newest stores appear to be struggling with the lack of foot traffic as well..
The once great shopping center on the hill in Frackville PA .. And the home of a ….future…prison? To join the rest.
I have been into this story ever since a few years back when Ian Punnett hosted a show about the potential ‘Smiley face killer’ nationwide on Coast to Coast AM.. Now this new book just released looks promising. I may consider a purchase..
The true mysterious unexplained story of the Drowning Young Men. Hundreds of young men; vanishing without a trace, only for many of them to be found dead; weeks or months later, in remote rivers or creeks, shallow ponds or canals, in areas that search parties have searched multiple times before; their bodies later discovered there, as though placed to be found.
Also if you’re as fascinated and equally creeped out by the entire thing, give the Smiley Face Facebook page a looksee.. http://ift.tt/1pioKUI
And just when you want to dismiss the entire idea–or at least dismiss the possibility of some weird connection between all of the vanished youthful men of the same age group who are subsequently found face down in bodies of water already searched in the aftermath of their disappearances, dive deep into the topic before rendering a verdict.. See where the information takes you.
“For me, out of everything I’ve ever done, the quality of the writing is so far superior to any of the other work I’ve done”
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Jamie Lee Curtis on SCREAM QUEENS..
Sharing her love for FOX’s hit Scream Queens at LA’s Paleyfest Saturday with costars Lea Michele, Emma Roberts and Niecy Nash – all of them returning for season 2 – Curtis said she knew from the premiere episode that the show would be a hit, and that she was in love with her character, Cathy Munsch, dean of murder-prone Wallace University.
Ronald Reagan giving a speech in Nevada in the early 90’s is startled by a crazed protestor who is tackled by the secret service. From CNN Headline News
DAILY MAIL REPORTS THE GORY DETAILS OF THE NEARLY 60-YEAR-OLD:
Swigging tequila from a fan’s hip flask, Madonna suffered another onstage meltdown yesterday as she branded ex-husband Guy Ritchie a ‘son of a b***h’ and begged 'someone please f*** me’.
The 57-year-old singer, locked in a bitter custody dispute with Guy over their son Rocco, couldn’t contain her emotions during a second mumbling show in Melbourne, Australia.
Her ‘chaotic’ appearance at the Rod Laver Arena included an emotional plea to the crowd, begging, 'Somebody take care of me please. Who is going to take care of me?’
Meanwhile, MADGE is apparently drunkenly attempting to audition for a SAW movie.. Tricycle and all.
A Bangladeshi man who suffers from an extremely rare disease causing tree-like roots to grow from his hands and feet has undergone surgery to relieve his condition and give him greater mobility ..
Dubbed “Treeman” because of the large growths, Abul Bajander has had the first of many surgeries to free the ‘bark’ encasing his hands and feet, reports Reuters.
A doctor consulted by the German pilot who crashed a Germanwings jet into the Alps last year, killing 150 people, recommended two weeks before the disaster that he should be treated in a psychiatric hospital, French investigators said on Sunday.
The unidentified private physician was one of a number of doctors consulted by Andreas Lubitz as he wrestled with symptoms of a “psychotic depressive episode” that started in December 2014 and may have lasted until the day of the crash, they said.
Prosecutors believe the 27-year-old co-pilot, who had a history of depression, barricaded himself into the cockpit and deliberately propelled his Airbus jet into a mountainside on March 24, 2015, killing everyone on board.
Rogue waves can damage and even sink vessels. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have come up with an algorithm that predicts when they are about to strike
Good morning! Did you remember to set your clocks forward one hour for daylight savings time?
The concept was first proposed in 1895 by George Hudson of New Zealand, but the first widespread implementation of the adjustment wasn’t until 1916 when Germany and Austria-Hungary used daylight savings time as a way to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, Russia, and the United States followed the practice, implementing it over the next two years.
After the war, however, many countries discarded the idea of daylight savings time until it was picked up again during World War II. Some countries adopted it later to help alleviate the 1970s energy crisis.
There has been research on the benefits and drawbacks of the time change, including energy use, economic effects, public safety, and health benefits. Not everyone was in favor, seen here in this cartoon depicting opposition to daylight savings time by Clifford K. Berryman.
The cartoon shown in this is ‘opposition to Daylight Savings’ from 1922 .. And the hard core feelings revolving around the issue have not gone away..
This morning, like you most likely, I woke up trying to figure out which clock was accurate and hoping that I would be able to find the universal clock online just to make sure all was well..
It is confusing.
But my vote is actually IN FAVOR of clock changes twice a year. It feels like the clocks move us as much as we move them.. it feels like they can generate spring time energy when we have light longer.. and as we should hibernate when we decide to fall back.. COUNTING CROWS sing about it..
