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Andy Stein with Active Control presenting the Active mine device at SME.

Liebherr Mining Equipment Co. Howard Grant and Rick Ochs

McLanahan Corp.George Edmiston and Bruce Daskivich

Wooster Hydrostatics, Inc.Annette Shields, Sales Manager and Lisa Stewart, Outside Sales

Norwest CorporationKevin Whipkey, Donovan Symonds and

Michael Day

F & R Mfg.Randy Gardner

What’s in a name? Plenty! It’s amazing how things can get mis-construed, or minds can be influenced by a name that sometimes isn’t close to what it really means.

For Instance: Some years back, brother Tony and I were on vacation at Watoga State Park in West Virginia. We took all the hiking trails that the park offered, and enjoyed every one of them.

By the end of the week we were pretty much “hiked out”, but decided to take one last trip through the woods. We traipsed along the lake and came to an intersection of paths leading in opposite directions. The one path read something like “Angel’s Wings” while the other read something like “Devil’s Breath”. We looked at each other quizzically and almost simultaneously said, but of course, Angel’s Wings. Let’s take the easy route.

Barely had we begun, maybe 100 feet, when the trail shot straight up like a mountain edge. Again, we looked at each other and said “I’ll be (bleep) if we’re taking this trail.” Angel’s Wings really turned out to be a devil of a trail. That ended the

People. We congratulate them on their success and look forward to a long-stand-ing relationship.

SME’s Coal & Energy Division Adds to Scholarship Endowment

The Coal & Energy Division of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration held its tenth annual Silent Auction in conjunc-tion with its luncheon at the SME Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City on February 26, 2007. This years’ auction co-chair, Bar-bara Arnold of PrepTech, Inc., reported that $15,604 was raised at this years’ event. Half of this total was through a dol-lar-for-dollar match provided by Marshall Millers & Associates.

The division’s scholarship endowment currently sits at over $600,000, with un-dergraduate scholarships being awarded annually. The division authorized funding nine scholarships at $2,500 each for the current year. In addition, an undergradu-ate research scholarship in the amount of $5,000 is available annually.

The annual luncheon was chaired by Gary Buchan of Foundation Coal. PrepTech, Inc. was luncheon sponsor.

The following pages display photos taken at the SME Annual Meeting & Exhibit To obtain additional information on SME, log-on to www.smenet.org.

hiking for the trip.

Well, in making calls to my friends the other day, I was chatting with Ken Begley of United Central Industrial Supply of Bristol, VA., when the name “Hell for Certain Creek, Kentucky” came up. Don’t know how or why, because sometimes we don’t even talk about ads. My first thought was “boy, that must have been a rough place to live.”

On the contrary, it is a nice, scenic and quiet place where his parents and grandparents lived for many years. He still has family at Hell for Certain Creek, in Leslie County.

Ken isn’t sure how the name came to be, but he said it’s rumored that the first settlers in this valley looked at the creek and one of them said, “this place looks like hell.” The other answered, “that’s for certain”. Makes sense to me.

If you want to visit Hell For Certain, take a left at Thousand Sticks and it’s right across from Bull Creek. What’s in a name, hey?

Coal People’s Sales Associate Lisa Roper joined Doug Sublett of Jeffrey Corp., and Theresa Antell and Don Dunnington of K-Tron International for a dinner meeting in February, Doug stated that he was very happy with Jeffrey’s advertising results from Coal People Magazine and 80 per-cent of the hits they receive on their Web site have come from advertising in Coal

2008 SME Post-Show Pictorial

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Derrick Corp.Jobe Wheeler, Mechanical Engineer; Steven

Valine, V.P Process Engineering; Robert Reinhofer, Engineering Manager

Industrial ScientificChuck Hayden, Ilene Grimm and Bob Comer

Contitech Conveyor Belt Group Casey Price and Stefan Hoheisel

Womens Mining CoalitionCarla Ludwig, Jacqueline Cahoon and Ruth

Carraher

Cubex Limited Kerry Willett, Manager, North America

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Oliver USAHunter Fuqua, National Sales Director and Chistopher Black, Executive Vice President

TaggartDavid Jaumotte, VP of Marketing

Mine Site Technologies Richwood Industries

General KinematicsTodd Danielczyk, Mike Boyko and Ron Zorn

RexnordTom Oxley, Bulk Material Handling Market Man-

ager and Jason Quackenbush Account Executive

Continental Crushing & ConveyingKen Sullivan, Sales Engineering/ Mining Equip-

ment and Joe Skert District Manager/Mining

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Fromsprag Clutch – Marland Clutch WesTech Engineering

MincomCarl Fessenden, Senior

Mining Consultant

Downer EDI MiningPeter Barker, Area Sales

Manager – Americas Mineral Technologies

Brookville Mining Equipment

Dywidag SystemsSteve Nye and Dave Jenkel with customer

3D-PMike Bazar

Cornell Pump Jeff Johnson, Rental/DAF Market Manager and

Dave Young, Northwest Regional Rep

BaroidDavid Wilson, Sr. Field Sales

Representative

CH2MHillSusan Riley, Business Development Manager- Mining; Anne Parry, Project Manager and Bill

Newlin, Principal Product Manager

Engineering Consulting Services, Inc.Mike Amick, Director of Mining Services and Kevin Houston, Vice President - Engineering

Atlas CopcoBack row, Jeff Camsell, John Hislop and Ed Tanne

Front row, Tom Shenosky, Rob Fournier

Finn Equipment SalesJoseph Finn, President

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Luff Industries LtdSteve Cook, Sales Manager and Matthew

Armstrong, Sales Representative

GrindexRandy Bard, Grindex Regional Sales Manager

and Anthony Martines, Tram Electric, Inc. Director of Sales and Marketing

HGI hydroGEOPHYSICS Ron Bell, Sales & Marketing Manager

Mineral Information InstituteBob Brown, Nelson Fugate, Dan Eyde and

Ben Severinghaus (former President Franklin Industries, Past President SME & AIME)

Mine TracerEric Pirttima and Ken Hill

Superior Industries Bill Criss, Territory Manager

ASGCOTom Dalla Palu and Mark Bayley

EndurideJohn Trembley, V-P Sales-Marketing

Terex David Marston, Detlef Bartsch and Eric

Berkhimer

ERIEZLance Christodoulou, Technical Sales

Engineer and Michael Mankosa, Ph.D. Vice President Operations

Industrial Rubber ProductsBoris Babich and Chris Liesmaki FMC Technologies

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GIWBob Kolodziej and Pamela Welty

Mid-west Industrial Supply, Inc. Lynn Edwards, Quarry-Mining Business

Manager

Godwin PumpsDean Mills, Sales Engineer and David Nation,

Branch Manager

InterSystemsHugo Wenshau, VP – Sales

Kinder Morgan Roger Billings and Derek Tatum

Naylor Pipe Ed Gregorich and Russell Blais

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a 78-page report, “Climate VISION Progress Report”, showing that industries participating in the Bush Administration’s Voluntary Innovative Sector Initiatives: Opportunities Now program are on track, or ahead of schedule, in meeting agreed to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions intensity. A copy of the report is available at DOE VISION Report.

Summit Training Source has released a new Video and DVD training program on Machine Guard Awareness, teaching workers the hazards of unguarded machine parts and that every moving machine part needs to be safeguarded. OSHM reports that workers who operate and maintain machinery suffer approximately 18,000 amputations, lacerations, crushing injuries, and abrasions yearly. These workers also suffer 800 deaths per year. Available in English or Spanish, Video, and DVD. Visit www.safetyontheweb.com or call 800/842-0466.

The Coal-to-Liquids Coalition (CTLC) has published five new fact sheets demonstrating the

many benefits America stands to gain through the domestic production and use of clean coal-to-liquids (CTL) transportation fuels. Details the economic and national security benefits of CTL fuels and the environmental improvements made possible by CTL fuels. Visit www.futurecoalfuels.org and click on “Get the Facts on CTL”.

Flex-Core Catalog 2011 is now available, featuring split-core and solid-core current transformers, potential transformers, electrical transducers for AC and DC applications and accessories. Visit on-line at www.flex-core.com or call 614/889-6152.

The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research is launching a new Coal Combustion By-Product Education Web Site at www.caer.uky.edu/kyasheducation/. This interactive web site explains the issues surrounding coal combustion by-products, their potential for beneficial uses, environmental cleanup, and what the CAER is doing to study them. The information is usable at the lay person’s level.

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