These photos were taken during Cumberland's Empire Days festival where there are marching bands, parade, Great soap box derby, local music performers, Pancake Breakfasts, Beer Gardens, BMX copetition and more..
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
Photos Local Classic Cars
These photos were taken during Cumberland's Empire Days festival where there are marching bands, parade, Great soap box derby, local music performers, Pancake Breakfasts, Beer Gardens, BMX copetition and more..
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
Guitar Wizards - Music Magic
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Discover Real Wizards and some of their best music.
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Nokie Edwards; the
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gentleman of the Ventures... a true wizard... Namm o9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QD7Pp-bnhM
http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=3QD7Pp-bnhM
Chet Atkins; doing the impossible in 1954. Walking bass and
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-c66SJPuUI
Manu Chao; Doing Tex Mex, drawing crowds of a million in
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El3XHprh8kM&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZWXUfIyIs ... Nice Girls
Paul Simon; This version will getcha.. but I saw a NY version
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one better. It's not on Youtube. One Trick Pony
http://tinyurl.com/ygwjvy3
Thom Bresch; Son of Merle Travis; Here is Thom, Nokie and Bob
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North Carolina Minton Pawn shop. [ You don't see or hear this very often!]
Guitar players...Be patient! just stay through first 10%.- 9 POUND
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HAMMER ENDS! AND THEN GUITAR MAGIC FOLLOWS LIKE YOU NEVER SEE IN LIFE.
Nokie Edwards S M O K E S I T! This link leads you to other excellent playing. Thom Bresch is classy when you find him doing a full length number.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06bbTJz_dI8
Lotsa other artists are wizards at times, but this will do for now. TG
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Six Reasons you will drive an Electric Vehicle
The first reason comes from the Coda website ...
[1] Flip the bird to Exxon, Chevron, Esso, Shell and the rest.
http://www.codaautomotive.com/
[5] More reasons comes from Jim Motavalli, expert NYTimes writer. See if you agree.
http://tinyurl.com/ykvjxpq
1.
Feeling the heat. The imperatives of climate change mean we’ll have to stop burning fossil fuels, especially coal and oil. The Copenhagen talks did not produce a binding agreement, but trust me on this — one is coming. The successor to the Kyoto talks will be much tougher, and we won’t make the numbers without putting millions of zero-emission cars on the road.
2.
Oil peaking. We may or may not have already reached global oil peak — the point where oil demand exceeds oil supply. The worldwide recession suppressed demand and gave us something of a breather, but the numbers on oil demand (especially from China and India) in the next decade are completely unsustainable, and everybody knows it.
3.
The smart grid. We’re just starting to optimize our antiquated electric system, but the way forward is clear. Utilities are partnering with automakers to enable the easy charging of millions of EVs at night without adding new plants. Off-peak electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel the daily commutes of 73 percent percent of all cars, light trucks, SUVs and vans on the road today if they were plug-in hybrids, a 2007 study by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found. What’s more, solar car charging is becoming a reality, and that means a 100 percent zero-emissions loop — the answer to any critic who says that EVs get all their power from dirty coal plants. Even today, with 52 percent of U.S. electricity generated by coal-fired power plants, Plug-in America reports that EVs reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and most other pollutants compared with conventional gas or hybrid vehicles.
4.
The better mousetrap. EVs, on the road starting next year, will be better than gas cars in every way. Forget the idea that they’re slow, or that you won’t be able to get where you’re going. I’ve driven every EV, and all of them were exciting on the road. Every carmaker is building one, and they know it will be a very competitive market demanding excellence in engineering. BMW tells me that the consumers test-driving its Mini E plug-in quickly got over their “range anxiety.”
5.
Plugging in. You’ll have a charging station at home, at work and at play. Starbucks and McDonald’s will have them, and so will the big-box store down the street. Car charging will become ubiquitous — offering you $3 and $4 electrical fill-ups. Some retailers will even offer 15-minute fast charging free to get you in the door. [ Jim Motavalli ]
Much of No. [5] plug-ins, all ready exists in Sanfrancisco and Vancouver B.C. has passed bylaws that make auto-plug-ins mandatory in all new construction.
Remarkable, how quickly things are changing. TG
Click on the picture for a full screen look at the Coda.
The 1906 antique above is also an Electric Vehicle. What's new?
[1] Flip the bird to Exxon, Chevron, Esso, Shell and the rest.
http://www.codaautomotive.com/
[5] More reasons comes from Jim Motavalli, expert NYTimes writer. See if you agree.
http://tinyurl.com/ykvjxpq
1.
Feeling the heat. The imperatives of climate change mean we’ll have to stop burning fossil fuels, especially coal and oil. The Copenhagen talks did not produce a binding agreement, but trust me on this — one is coming. The successor to the Kyoto talks will be much tougher, and we won’t make the numbers without putting millions of zero-emission cars on the road.
2.
Oil peaking. We may or may not have already reached global oil peak — the point where oil demand exceeds oil supply. The worldwide recession suppressed demand and gave us something of a breather, but the numbers on oil demand (especially from China and India) in the next decade are completely unsustainable, and everybody knows it.
3.
The smart grid. We’re just starting to optimize our antiquated electric system, but the way forward is clear. Utilities are partnering with automakers to enable the easy charging of millions of EVs at night without adding new plants. Off-peak electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel the daily commutes of 73 percent percent of all cars, light trucks, SUVs and vans on the road today if they were plug-in hybrids, a 2007 study by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found. What’s more, solar car charging is becoming a reality, and that means a 100 percent zero-emissions loop — the answer to any critic who says that EVs get all their power from dirty coal plants. Even today, with 52 percent of U.S. electricity generated by coal-fired power plants, Plug-in America reports that EVs reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and most other pollutants compared with conventional gas or hybrid vehicles.
4.
The better mousetrap. EVs, on the road starting next year, will be better than gas cars in every way. Forget the idea that they’re slow, or that you won’t be able to get where you’re going. I’ve driven every EV, and all of them were exciting on the road. Every carmaker is building one, and they know it will be a very competitive market demanding excellence in engineering. BMW tells me that the consumers test-driving its Mini E plug-in quickly got over their “range anxiety.”
5.
Plugging in. You’ll have a charging station at home, at work and at play. Starbucks and McDonald’s will have them, and so will the big-box store down the street. Car charging will become ubiquitous — offering you $3 and $4 electrical fill-ups. Some retailers will even offer 15-minute fast charging free to get you in the door. [ Jim Motavalli ]
Much of No. [5] plug-ins, all ready exists in Sanfrancisco and Vancouver B.C. has passed bylaws that make auto-plug-ins mandatory in all new construction.
Remarkable, how quickly things are changing. TG
Click on the picture for a full screen look at the Coda.
The 1906 antique above is also an Electric Vehicle. What's new?
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Alert! EVs coming, Sell gas guzzler soon
As you know hybrids are blossoming and Electric Vehicles are not far behind.
First Israel is going all electric. Renault is manufacturing EVs for them.
France, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are well underway. Next, it seems Australia could follow according to the expert. The first 7 minutes is professor BS, but from 7 minutes in[when Agassi speaks], it gets gripping.
http://fora.tv/2009/07/22/The_Electric_Horizon_Shai_Agassi
Consider as well that China is partnering with Russia in a huge battery plant for Novosibirsk ready for 2011 with three production lines and a fourth production line by 2012.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/12/rusnano-20091228.html
Is it possible that used gas guzzlers may become difficult to unload?
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