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HUNTINGTON, Utah — A video camera lowered into a coal mine revealed equipment but not the six missing miners, a federal official said Sunday. Officials planned to drill yet another hole in an attempt to locate the men.
Poor lighting allowed the camera to only see about 15 feet into a void at the bottom of the drill hole, far less than the 100 feet it's capable of seeing, said Richard Stickler, head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Rescuers saw a tool bag, a chain and other things that are normally seen underground in a mine, he said.
"We did not see any sign at all of any of the miners," Stickler said.
The men have not been heard from since the mine was struck by an earthshaking collapse early last Monday. Rescue leaders said they were proceeding as if the miners were alive.
"Our attitude is we always have to have hope, and our position is that we're hoping and we're praying and it would be a terrible mistake to give up hope until you know for sure," Stickler said.
Another attempt to see farther in the mine will be made with an improved lighting system, Stickler said. In between using the camera, compressed air is being pumped down the hole into the mine.
Stickler announced the findings after a 3½-hour meeting to brief families of the miners.
The drill rig was to be relocated to a new position late Sunday where it will send the drill down 1,414 feet. The previous holes were more than 1,800 feet.
No estimate on time
Bob Murray, head of Murray Energy Corp., co-owner of the mine, said the new hole will target an area that the miners would have gone if air in their original location was bad.
Officials did not immediately estimate how long it will take to complete the new hole. The latest hole took about three days to drill.
The Crandall Canyon mine is built into a mountain in the Manti-La Sal National Forest 140 miles south of Salt Lake City.
Opening off a narrow canyon, the mine's main entrance is large enough for vehicles to enter and drive deep into the mine. At the time of the collapse, the miners were believed to be working at a point 3.4 miles from the entrance.
Rescuers have also been slowly moving horizontally through the mine to try to reach the men.
The horizontal route was blocked about 2,000 feet from the men. As of late Saturday, rubble had been cleared from about 650 feet of that route. Officials said the pace has been slow because of the need to install extensive roof and wall supports with each advance.
Councilwoman Julie Jones, who was with the families when they were briefed, said they were very hopeful.
Of the miners' relatives, she said, "They are one family."
Families losing hope
Mike Marasco, son-in-law of missing miner Kerry Allred, said his family has been sleeping on the floor of the school where families were gathering to somehow identify with their father's discomfort inside the mine.
"It's hard to just sit here. We want to feel what he felt. We've been sleeping on the floor ... it's not even close to being in the mine but it's something."
The miner's son, Cody Allred, 32, looked sad and exhausted. "I've accepted all possibilities," he said.
The cause of the collapse has not been officially established.
Murray has insisted that the collapse was caused by an earthquake. Seismologists say there was no earthquake and that readings on seismometers actually came from the collapse.
A 2½-inch-wide hole was drilled first into the miners' presumed location.
A two-way communications system was dropped down that hole but there was no answer to repeated calls of "Hello in the mine."
Air samples taken through a tube placed down the small hole ominously found oxygen levels too low for survival.
A bigger drill bored a nearly 9-inch-wide hole into the mine 130 feet from the small hole late Friday. Rescuers banged on the drill steel to signal the miners but there was no response.
A video camera dropped down the hole Saturday found what officials described as "survivable space" — a 5½-foot-tall void with about 2½ feet of rubble and water on the floor.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. builders broke ground on fewer homes last month but a jump in permits for future construction to a 4-1/2-year high indicated the housing market recovery remains on track.
Another report on Wednesday showed wholesale prices rose in January for the first time in four months. However, the gain was smaller than expected and left scope for the Federal Reserve to keep buying bonds to stimulate the economy.
Housing starts dropped 8.5 percent in January to an 890,000-unit annual rate, pulled down by a sharp drop in the volatile multi-family unit category, the Commerce Department said.
Starts for single-family homes hit their highest level since July 2008, and permits for future construction, which lead starts by at least a month, were at their highest level since June 2008.
The drop in starts followed an outsized gain in December and was confined to the Northeast and Midwest, suggesting winter weather likely contributed to the pullback.
"The fundamentals are there and the drivers are looking good," said Patrick Newport, an economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts. "We see more new construction this year. The only question is whether it will be in the multi-family or single-family segment."
Housing has shifted from being a headwind for the economy to being a pillar of support, although mortgage rates have crept higher in recent weeks, cooling loan demand.
Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers on Wednesday reported disappointing quarterly results, hurt in part by lower selling prices, but other homebuilders have been able to take advantage of the recovering market.
A separate report from the Labor Department showed producer prices rose 0.2 percent last month as rebounding food costs offset declining gasoline prices. Wholesale prices had slipped 0.3 percent in December, and economists had expected them to rise 0.4 percent in January.
Food prices accounted for more than 75 percent of the rise in wholesale prices last month.
Away from the spike in food prices, the producer price report showed inflation pressures were generally muted.
In the 12 months through January, wholesale prices were up 1.4 percent and data on Thursday is expected to show consumer inflation below the U.S. central bank's goal of 2 percent.
"Inflationary pressures remain well contained," said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial in Chicago. "The Federal Reserve would rather see inflation slightly higher in response to stronger economic conditions than benign because the recovery remains tepid."
In an effort to drive down borrowing costs and spur stronger growth, the Fed last year launched an open-ended bond buying program and said it would keep it up until it saw a substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market.
But minutes of the U.S. central bank's January 29-30 meeting showed a number of policymakers believed the Fed might have to slow or stop asset purchases before seeing an acceleration in job growth because of concerns over the costs.
U.S. stocks fell on the minutes, with the Standard & Poor's 500 index posting its biggest one day percentage decline since mid-November.
The dollar rose against a basket of currencies. Prices for U.S. Treasury debt ended higher.
Wholesale prices excluding volatile food and energy costs edged up 0.2 percent last month after gaining 0.1 percent in December. In the 12 months through January, those so-called core prices rose 1.8 percent, the smallest gain since February 2011.
A surge in the cost of fresh and dried vegetables pushed up food prices in January. Gasoline prices surprisingly recorded another substantial decline last month, even though prices at the pump have been rising almost every week this year.
The core PPI was lifted by a jump in the cost of drugs, while passenger car and light truck prices fell.
Additional reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Andrea Ricci, Tim Ahmann and Leslie Adler


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The Woven pack introduces new colorways of the Vans OTW Ludlow and Prelow this spring. Utilizing embossed woven detailing throughout the quarter panel, the Ludlow presents a set of black leather uppers while the Prelow features a canvas fabrication throughout its toe vamp. Modern design meets the original as the Ludlow refines the classic wino style through upgraded materials and sophisticated simplicity and the Prelow builds the timeless oxford aesthetic on an UltraCush Lite outsole. Laser etched tongue branding, aged metal eyelets and tonal laces complete the Woven pack colorways for delivery this month at select Vans OTW retailers.
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TV1 did a special on old black television shows and their contributions to the media industry. One of the shows they highlighted was the briefly aired Richard Pryor show. I remember seeing bits and pieces of this show when I was a kid, but I finally got a chance to watch it in its entirety last month. What was so funny and true was the episode shown above about Kamit/Kemet. A lot of people think that the black peoples' interest in Kamit/Kemet began here recently or may have even begun when Cheikh Anta Diop first wrote his book African Origins of Civilization: Myth or Reality. The truth of the matter is that we have been interested, fascinated, encouraged and inspired about the Kamitic/Kemetic tradition for a very, very long time. Possibly since the days of slavery.
Did you know that the first African American collegiate fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (founded in 1906) was inspired by the Kamitic/Kemetic culture, Kamitic/Kemetic mystery system and tradition. In fact, all of the Divine Nine (Black Greek-letter Organizations) were inspired by the Kamitic/Kemetic and their early initiation/pledge systems were originally based upon the Kamitic/Kemetic mystery system with a little bit of Masonic symbolism thrown in, watch Spike Lee's School Daze. We won't even talk about how much Kamiticism/Kemeticism exist in the Masonic orders. That's a whole new discussion.
But, don't get it tWiSteD like a lot of brahs and soros have done and think that they are "Greeks". The Greek lettering was used as a mask, a classic defense mechanism developed from having a double-conscious.
Even W.E.B. DuBois was aware of this as indicated by the NAACP Crisis publication, and further analysis reveals that it goes back beyond that to when African Americans learned of their presence in the bible.
What's interesting about this is that we are talking about shortly after slavery, African Americans knew that the Kamitic/Kemetic people were black and brown Africans. The reason they chose the Kamitic/Kemetic people as a source of inspiration in the early 1900s is to combat the racists and stereotypical imagery that existed during those times. It was a reminder that we are a great people and can or will be great once again. If we remember, put into practice the concepts and principles left by our Kamitic/Kemetic ancestors we won't forget 'dis time.


text: Progress on the Brooklyn home-front at A-Z East feels like it has been moving forward at a snail's pace. I'm in my old apartment on the second floor every other month, but it seems like whenever I'm here there is a show to hang, or a bunch of meetings to make. Today we finally hung a new linen window-panel in the bathroom that has been on my to-do list for over two years…. Victory.


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What is an ECU?
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A: An engine control unit (ECU), is also known as a PCM (powertrain control module). This is an electronic control unit, which controls actuators on an internal combustion engine to help the engine run at optimum.
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A: ECU remapping is a tuning procedure of the engine, that allows several manufacturer constraints to be lifted from the vehicle. Sound confusing, click here for more information on what ecu remapping is & why these limitations are placed by vehicle manufacturers.
If remapping is so amazing, why hasn't the factory done it?
Q: If my car can be improved so much by an ECU Remap, why hasn't the factory done this?
A: This is a very common question that we get asked. The answer is very simple, the factory could have remapped your car, however they choose not to for many reasons, the most important is marketing. Cars are manufactured to fit into a market category and there is certain criteria for make & model categories and the car's ECU is mapped to fit into these categories. It also allows for a enough power separation between various models. Manufacturers will also produce two identical cars with identical engines, then simply offer the car in two states of tune, this is a very economical way of extending a model range. Examples of such cars include the BMW Mini One and the BMW Mini Cooper, another example is the VW Golf Tdi 104BHP and the Golf TDi 140bhp.
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A: Yes, as we have our own in house map writers we can gear our maps to our customers' requirements, whether that be for economy, all out power or for towing purposes.
Will my engines life expectancy be shortened?
Q: Will my engines life expectancy be shortened?
A: No, we map the ECU to optimise the performance without exceeding your engine's limits.
Can my car be reverted back to original if need be?
Q: Can my car be reverted back to original, should I need it to?
A: We can always return your car to standard should you ever need it to.
Will you need to dismantle my ECU to program it?
Q: Will you need to dismantle my car ECU to program it?
A: Normally on most modern cars we can reprogram the ECU through the car's OBD port
Will I need to upgrade my brakes after a remap?
Q: Will I need to upgrade my brakes after a remap?
A: On most cars the brakes can easily handle the extra power. However, should you want to upgrade your brakes we can advise & supply upgraded pads, discs and calipers.
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