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Prescient Ridge Management (PRM) was a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) offering managed futures products. As part of their strategy, they used a third party platform, TradeStation, to generate buy and sell signals from their strategy. PRM engaged Connamara to integrate the TradeStation with the CQG Continuum platform. With this integration, PRM could leverage the market data, order routing, exchange connectivity, and risk management to convert the buy and sell signals to executable orders.
Connamara created a solution to convert the buy and sell signals to order that were routed to CQG Continuum. Connamara also integrated the platform with the PRM proprietary back office for trade allocation, books and records.
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New Delhi [India], January 26 (ANI): Adani Group on Thursday said it is mulling legal options in the US and India against Hindenburg Research after its report accused firms owned by Gautam Adani of "brazen" market manipulation and accounting fraud.
Jatin Jalundhwala, Group Head - Legal, Adani Group, said, "The maliciously mischievous, unresearched report published by Hindenburg Research on 24 January 2023 has adversely affected the Adani Group, our shareholders and investors."The legal head said, "We (the Group) are evaluating the relevant provisions under US and Indian laws for remedial and punitive action against Hindenburg Research.""The volatility in Indian stock markets created by the report is of great concern and has led to unwanted anguish for Indian citizens," the legal head said in a statement on Thursday.
Hindenburg, an US investment research firm published a report claiming that Adani group had links with a labyrinth of off shore tax havens linked to Gautam Adani's family and the firms exposure to high debt was a concern. The report also claimed that Adani group's stock price was inflated and had significant downside risks.
On the report affecting Adani shares, Jatin Jalundhwala said, "Clearly, the report and its unsubstantiated contents were designed to have a deleterious effect on the share values of Adani Group companies as Hindenburg Research, by their own admission, is positioned to benefit from a slide in Adani shares."Jalundhwala also mentioned Hindenburg which said that it had taken "short positions in Adani Group Companies through US-traded bonds and non-Indian-traded derivatives, along with other non-Indian-traded reference securities."The Adani group's legal head said, "We are deeply disturbed by this intentional and reckless attempt by a foreign entity to mislead the investor community and the general public, undermine the goodwill and reputation of the Adani Group and its leaders, and sabotage the FPO (Follow-on Public Offering) from Adani Enterprises."Jugeshinder Singh, the chief financial officer (CFO) of the Adani Group, on Wednesday said the conglomerate was "shocked" by the Hindenburg Research's report and termed it a "malicious combination of selective misinformation and stale, baseless and discredited allegations that have been tested and rejected by India's highest courts".
Reportedly, the research firm, in its report on Tuesday, raised concerns about shares of Adani group companies having a possibility of declining from their current levels, owing to high valuations.
"We are shocked that Hindenburg Research has published a report on January 24, 2023, without making any attempt to contact us or verify the factual matrix. The report is a malicious combination of selective misinformation and stale, baseless and discredited allegations that have been tested and rejected by India's highest courts," the CFO said in a statement.
The timing of the report by Hindenburg Research, the CFO, in his statement, said "clearly betrays a brazen, mala fide intention to undermine" the Adani Group's reputation with the "principal objective of damaging" the upcoming Follow-on Public Offering from Adani Enterprises, the biggest FPO ever in India. (ANI)


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By Farouk Chothia
BBC News
For critics of US President Donald Trump, escalating tensions between two long-standing American allies, Egypt and Ethiopia, over a mega dam on a tributary of the River Nile marks the biggest diplomatic failure of his administration in Africa.
Mr Trump said last week that Egypt might "blow up" the Ethiopian-built dam, despite boasting in January that he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize because he had "made a deal".
"I saved a big war. I've saved a couple of them," he said, shortly after Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abi Ahmed was awarded the prize.
Mr Trump's comments were vague, but seemed to be a reference to his intervention – at the request of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, whom he once reportedly called his "favourite dictator" – to resolve the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd).
Egypt sees the dam as an "existential threat" to its survival, a concern shared, albeit to a lesser extent, by Sudan. Ethiopia, on the other hand, regards the dam as vital for its energy needs.
Trump a 'hate figure for Ethiopians'
Kenya-based Horn of Africa security analyst Rashid Abdi said US mediation over the dam had worsened tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia.
"Ethiopia is stepping up security around the dam," Mr Abdi said.
"Its defensive measures include declaring the Benishangul-Gumuz region, where the dam is located, a restricted airspace, and there are also reports that Ethiopia is putting up anti-aircraft batteries around the dam. It probably fears reconnaissance flights by Egypt."
He said this showed Mr Trump's failure to understand how global diplomacy worked.
"He has this misconceived notion that you can cut a deal like in business. So he left the US Treasury to play the lead role in negotiations, when foreign policy is supposed to be conducted by the State Department. The consequences have been to aggravate an already bad situation," Mr Abdi added.
Accusing Ethiopia of negotiating in bad faith following its decision to press ahead with filling the dam before addressing Egypt's and Sudan's concerns about the flow of water to their countries, the US has decided to cut a reported $100m ($$77m) in aid to Ethiopia – Africa's second most-populous state, and a key US ally in the fight against militant Islamists in the volatile Horn of Africa.
"Ethiopia feels betrayed by America, and Trump is now a hate-figure for many Ethiopians," Mr Abdi said, adding that they would be hoping for a Joe Biden victory in the 3 November presidential election.
W Gyude Moore, a senior policy fellow at the US-based Center for Global Development, said the Trump's administration decision to side with Egypt was not surprising as its most prized international goal was rapprochement between Israel and Arab League nations.
Trump's diplomatic coup
As Egypt had long-standing diplomatic relations with Israel, the Trump administration was not going to antagonise it at a time when it needed Mr Sisi's help to lobby other Arab states to recognise Israel, Mr Moore said.
"So, the administration became a party in the dispute over the dam, on the side of Egypt," he added.
Its focus on achieving Arab-Israeli rapprochement also shaped its policy towards Sudan, which gave Mr Trump a major diplomatic coup by agreeing, less than two weeks before the US election, to the normalisation of relations with Israel.
Although Sudan's acting foreign minister later said that the decision was subject to ratification by a still-to-be-formed legislative body, the announcement was particularly significant as the East African state had hosted an Arab League meeting in 1967 which famously declared that there will be "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it".
In exchange, Mr Trump, if he wins a second term, is expected to keep pushing Ethiopia to address Egypt's and Sudan's concerns over the dam, while also ensuring that Sudan is removed from the US list of "sponsors of terrorism", opening the way for the country to get badly needed economic aid.
Mr Moore said that while the Trump administration would deserve credit if the US Congress removed Sudan from the terror list, its decision to link this to the recognition of Israel was risky for Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok's government, which took power last year following the overthrow of long-serving ruler Omar al-Bashir.
"The issue of regularising relations with Israel has deeply divided Sudanese society. It could be a destabilising factor at a time when the government already has its own security challenges, and the peace is fragile," Mr Moore added.
Tensions with China
For Mr Abdi, a further concern about the effects of Mr Trump's policies on Africa was "the new Cold War" between the US and China.
One example was the fact that China has put up its first foreign military base in Djibouti, near the American base used for air strikes against militant Islamists in Somalia, the focal point of its counter-terrorism operations in Africa, and Yemen.
"Recently, American fighter jets were coming to land. The Chinese beamed experimental laser weapons that temporarily blinded the American pilots. It was what you'd expect in a James Bond movie," Mr Abdi said.
"Under Trump, the US has pursued an aggressive anti-China policy while China is increasingly becoming an assertive power. It has created a dangerous situation in the Horn of Africa," Mr Abdi added.
As part of its efforts to counter China's growing economic influence on the continent, the Trump administration unveiled Prosperity Africa in 2018 as the centrepiece of its policy for the continent.
"They want to double the amount of trade between the US and Africa, both ways. So it is a very notable objective and could be of huge benefit to Africa, more than what any other administration did, but they are still trying to figure out among themselves how it is going to work," Mr Moore said.
He added that US investments in Africa used to be primarily in Africa's oil and gas sector, but this has fallen sharply because of the growth of fracking in America.
The Trump administration set up a state-funded Development Finance Corporation in 2019 to help American companies gain a foothold in Africa.
"They want to provide financing to US firms, which have been complaining that they can't compete because Chinese firms come with financing. If you just look at the IT sector, almost 70% of Africa's IT backbone is built on Chinese components," Mr Moore said.
'Undermining' the African Union
The Trump administration has also decided to scrap the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) when it expires in 2025. It was the signature Africa policy of US Democratic President Bill Clinton, and gives African states preferential access to the US market.
Mr Moore said the administration's focus was on bilateral trade deals, and it is already in talks with Kenya – the economic powerhouse of East Africa which is part of China's Belt and Road Initiative that the US believes is aimed at building a series of trade routes that will link the Asian giant with Africa, thereby strengthening its global dominance.
"The Trump administration wants a deal with Kenya, which it will then use a template for a plethora of deals with other African states," Mr Moore said.
"Kenya has agreed to it because it has exploited Agoa to its advantage, and does not want to lose out on trade with the US," Mr Moore said.
This is despite the fact that African Union (AU) Trade and Industry Commissioner Albert Muchanga has expressed a preference to negotiate with "one voice" an "agreement between the whole of Africa and the US".
Mr Moore said the US' decision could undermine AU efforts to integrate the economies of African states with the aim of turning the continent into the world's largest free trade area.
"It's an extension of the Trump administration's policy of not working within multilateral framework agreements."
Kenya's decision to enter into bilateral talks was not a surprise either, Mr Moore said, adding: "The US holds the cards here because it is the market that African states want to access. No matter who is in power [after the 3 November election], Kenya will push its case for a bilateral deal unless its current access to the US market is guaranteed."
He added that Mr Biden, who served as Mr Obama's vice-president, had not yet spelled out his policy towards Africa if he won.
"A Biden administration might revert to what existed under Obama. But compared to China, whose foreign minister has started each year since 2000 with a visit to Africa, there are few high-level exchanges between the US and Africa.
"The Trump administration is not new in giving this low priority to Africa. It has just been worse," Mr Moore said.


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"Yes, it is a good morning" is his reply as he gently squeezed that nipple.
A soft moan escapes my lips. My nipple was ultra sensitive from the quick 2 hour play session SG and I had Saturday morning. So the way he was playing with it was enough to wake up my pussy.
He squeezed it a bit more firmly resulting in another moan from me, then he would start circling the nipple lazily again until he grabbed it for another squeeze and another moan. This cycle of nipple play and moan continued until he reached over and took hold of the other nipple doing the same thing.
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Our elected class — federal division — is spending more time arguing about the mess on the border than fixing the mess on the border.
They have been able to solve other problems. The response to Hurricane Harvey was bipartisan and, as these things go, fairly smooth. And even within the gridlocked debates over immigration policy and enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico border, lawmakers were able to pass a $4.6 billion aid package as stories of horrible treatment of migrant children and families came to light this spring.
Overall, though, the political class hasn't had the chops to address the border at all — except as a platform for rhetoric, fundraising and posturing.
If results are the measure, there's not much to measure.
A devoted observer might get a bellyful of this and become a cynic — or go the other way and try to figure out why the pinheads in Washington, D.C., are doing what they're doing.
But even a cursory glance at the polling in Texas shows Republican and Democratic voters deeply divided in a way that makes it difficult for the people they elect. If the partisan voters don't overlap much, their representatives can get into political danger by entertaining certain ideas, or anything that even looks like negotiating, with the other side.
Or so it seems if you look at poll results and then watch how the people in Congress have acted — and not acted — on immigration problems that have compounded for years.
In the most recent University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll, completed last month, 28% of Texas voters said that either border security or immigration is the most important problem facing the country. But look inside the numbers: Among Republicans, 46% put those two problems at the top. Among Democrats, only 7% did.
Those two problems top most important issues facing the state, too, with 37% of voters picking one or the other. But among Democrats, 12% chose border security/immigration (14% chose health care and 13% chose political corruption/leadership); among Republicans, 59% said border security and immigration are problems No. 1 and No. 2.
It goes on like that.
Remember President Donald Trump's proposal to impose tariffs on imports from Mexico if that country didn't crack down on migrants bound for the U.S.? Among Democrats, 76% opposed that, and among Republicans, 74% were in favor of it — even though Republicans were split evenly on whether that policy would help or hurt the Texas economy. Would a policy like that curb immigration to the U.S.? While 70% of Republicans said it would be effective, 79% of Democrats said it would not.
It's not a shocker that Republicans and Democrats disagree. But suppose you were an elected official, one who wanted to find a solution that both your opponents and your supporters could agree upon. Hard to find the overlap, except when children and families are in the center ring.
A year ago, when family separations dominated the news and the administration was trying to squeeze off the stream of asylum seekers on the border, voters weren't willing to support taking kids away from families — particularly when the government agencies splitting families were unable to say which children had been separated from which adults. Trump backed down, signing an executive order halting those separations.
A year later, the country's immigration enforcement apparatus faces government reports of terrible conditions where migrants are being detained, and the current policy has forced Mexico to hold asylum seekers in camps that almost make the U.S. facilities look good.
Look at the practice, and look at the political conversation. The first is a gnarly and messy problem, but a solvable one. The second has become a way for each set of elected officials — and the people who would like to become elected officials — to appeal to partisan voters on both sides.
It looks like everyone thinks the political gains come from their opposition to their hated opponents — and not from their ability to attack and solve a complicated and frustrating problem plaguing the U.S. and Mexico, not to mention other countries all over the planet.
The leaders are waiting for their followers to tell them what to do, instead of the other way around. While they wait, they're playing political games.
Disclosure: The University of Texas has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune's journalism. Find a complete list of them here.
Author: ROSS RAMSEY – The Texas Tribune
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"I my clinic ran very late yesterday as I had to spend a lot of time discussing HSCT with several patients. Interestingly all these patients had early progressive MS and were realising that the DMT they were on was not doing the trick in that they were clearly getting worse. This is when pwMS look elsewhere and HSCT is one of the treatments out their with a lot of 'evangelists' singing its praises. I say evangelists because we still don't have a well-defined risk:benefit ratio with which to compare HSCT with our other high efficacy therapies. Unfortunately, both grant applications that we submitted to the NIHR for funding earlier this year were rejected. The NIHR wants the UK MS Community to come together and to submit only one application."
"It is clear from our blog analytics (page views and comments) that HSCT (hematopoietic stem cell transplant) is a hot topic at the moment. The BBC Panorama programme earlier this year on this topic has a lot to answer for. It is interesting to note that as far as Google Trends go interest in HSCT appears to be quite country specific; notably the British are searching frequently using the search terms 'HSCT' and 'multiple sclerosis'"
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"The treatment in the BBC programme was non-myeloablative HSCT (NM-HSCT). This is why the treated MSers didn't look too bad. The chemotherapy that is used for NM-HSCT is less toxic. Many in the field believe that if you are going to treat MS with HSCT you need to go the more aggressive route and use the more toxic and risky A-HSCT. They argue that NM-HSCT is not really better than the current high-efficacy drugs we are currently using to manage MS, i.e. alemtuzumab and/or natalizumab and/or ocrelizumab (still to be launched). One of the NIHR grants was to compare NM-HSCT with A-HASCT and the other NM-HSCT with the best high-efficacy DMTs as defined by the investigators (Nz/Alemz/Ocrz)."
"Please note the chances of dying from the NM-HSCT is in the order of 0.5%-2%; i.e. 1-in-200 to a 1-in-50. In addition there is the toxicity associated with the chemotherapy; nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hair loss, bleeding, infections, infertility and neurotoxicity to name a few. The more disabled your are the worse the neurotoxicity. If you have lost a lot of nerve fibres already and have reduced brain reserve you handle chemotherapy poorly. The chemotherapy worsens neurological function. This is why a large number of BMT units have stopped treating people with progressive MS."
"The seemingly miracle treatment effects of people in a wheelchairs getting up and walking is not unique to HSCT; we see this commonly with other highly-effective DMTs. Provided you have sufficient reserve capacity in the brain and spinal cord you will see spontaneous recovery from relapse-related disability once inflammation is switched off and recovery mechanisms are allowed to proceed. Anecdotes of Lazarus-like treatment effects has created unrealistic expectations for pwMS with more advanced disease. Please note that o nce you have fixed or progressive disability it is likely that you have lost much of your neurological reserve and hence even if you switch off inflammation with HSCT, or any other anti-inflammatory DMT for that matter, it is unlikely that there will be a major recovery of function. This is one reason why progressive MS trials have failed in the past. Therefore the benefit:risk ratio of HSCT changes with more advanced disease and its the reason why most HSTC trials are going to have age and disability cut-offs. This will need to be done to maximise the chances of getting a positive result."
"So would I refer pwMS for HSCT? No, not as part of routine clinical practice. I would however be prepared to refer my patients to participate in a well-designed clinical trial to compare current treatments with HSCT. As part of the trial I would not expect my patients to pay for their treatment. The situation where HSCT is indicated as part of routine clinical care is the rare patient with MS with malignant, or very aggressive, MS that has failed all licensed treatment options. In this patient the benefits of HSCT out way the risks of the disease."
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Vernier Software & Technology Launches E-Book to Support Hands-On Science Learning for Middle School Students
The free Light & Matter: Vernier Supplement to OpenSciEd Unit 6.1 helps teachers incorporate data-collection technology into OpenSciEd's NGSS-aligned lesson
BEAVERTON, Oregon, July 27, 2022 — Vernier Software & Technology has launched Light & Matter: Vernier Supplement to OpenSciEd Unit 6.1 to support engaging, hands-on science learning for middle school students. This free e-book incorporates data-collection technology into the first lesson in OpenSciEd Unit 6.1, which is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), to help students gain a deeper understanding of the initial scientific concepts being taught and to motivate their learning throughout the remainder of the unit.
"It is so important for teachers to have high-quality content to help build students' STEM literacy at an early age," said John Wheeler, CEO of Vernier Software & Technology. "Our partnership with OpenSciEd gives middle school teachers access to free, standards-aligned, technology-integrated instructional materials to support this work. The new supplement, in particular, helps set the stage for the following lessons in the unit by encouraging students to collect and analyze data as they engage in three-dimensional learning and explore how light interacts with matter in the world around them."
After watching a perplexing movie involving a one-way mirror, Light & Matter: Vernier Supplement to OpenSciEd Unit 6.1 prompts students to use a Go Direct® Light and Color Sensor to quantify amounts of transmitted and reflected light, then compare the sensor readings with what they perceive with their own senses. Using various models, students develop an understanding of two of the ways light interacts with matter. They also answer the question, "How can something act like a mirror and a window at the same time?"
OpenSciEd Unit 6.1 features a total of eight lessons. In addition to "What happens when light shines on the one-way mirror?" (featuring the Go Direct Light and Color Sensor), lessons include:
●"How do similar amounts of light transmit through and reflect off the one-way mirror?"
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Private Edwin Bunyan
19th Battalion AIF
Serial Number: 4672
Born: 3 October 1891, Emu Plains, NSW
Died: 8 October 1917, Passchendaele, Belgium
Edwin (known as Edward) Bunyan was born at Emu Plains, the seventh son and tenth child of William and Sarah Ann (nee Poll) Bunyan. He attended Emu Plains Public School and after leaving school, Bunyan worked as a grocer's assistant for six years for A Chapple at Emu Plains. According to his obituary in the Nepean Times, Bunyan was a keen sportsmen and a good rifle shot. In April 1916, on the eve of leaving for the war, he was presented with a money belt and other mementoes by the people of Emu Plains, and also a safety razor and pocket book by A Chapple.
Bunyan enlisted on 27 January 1916 at Casula and was allocated to the 12th Reinforcements, 19th Battalion. His brother, Irwin and two cousins also enlisted at the same time. Irwin was killed on 11 May 1917 and a cousin, Leslie Victor Poll, who served with the 36th Battalion, was killed on 3 October 1917. Bunyan left Australia aboard HMAT Ceramic on 4 April 1916 and arrived in Alexandria on 29 May. He was transferred to England aboard HMT Megantic, arriving in Portsmouth on 7 June. After several months training at No 5 Training Battalion, Bunyan joined his unit in France during September. The 19th Battalion attacked near Flers between 14 and 16 November, in conditions that Charles Bean described as the worst ever encountered by the AIF.
In January 1917, Bunyan was attached to the Lewis Gun School and during his time there he was awarded 10 days forfeiture of pay for being found out of bounds at the English Bar in Cucq. In 1917, the 19th Battalion was involved in the advance on German forces after their retreat to the Hindenburg Line, and was one of four battalions to defeat a counter-stroke by the Germans. The Battalion took part in the second Battle of Bullecourt between 3 and 4 May 1917.
In August, Bunyan was attached to the Corps School as a batman for short period. At the end of August, he took leave in England and on his return to the front, was attached to the Bomb School as a batman. On 8 October 1917, Bunyan was killed in action, one of 310,0000 casualties suffered by the British Expeditionary Forces during the Battle of Passchendaele. According to his family he had many close calls as a despatch runner.
Memorial Details:
- Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium
- Honor Roll, Emu Plains Public School
- War Memorial, Emu Plains
- National Archives Australia: B2455 BUNYAN E
- Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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The Salient Aspects of Quality Construction Overalls
The Salient Aspects of Quality Construction Overalls The concept of providing corporate uniform has been gaining increasingly more significance and momentum during the recent past. In almost any modern industry, the safety of skilled and unskilled laborers has become a factor of primary concern. Not just for avoiding accidents and untoward incidents, construction overalls play a significant role in establishing a corporate identity as well.
The Appropriate Attire for Construction Workers
Construction sites are notorious for unexpected incidents. Involving temporary structures, working at heights, and heavy machinery, the potential for accidents in the construction industry is high. Here's where it becomes imperative to provide safe and suitable outfits to workers associated with construction activities. The role played by industrial uniforms manufacturers here cannot be understated.
Key Factors That Influence the Quality of Construction Overalls
Any contemporary industry is required to carefully consider its workers' clothing. It is more so in the case of the construction industry with its own exposure to workplace-related risks. The construction workers' clothing needs to be of high quality and ensure work efficiency while providing absolute safety.
The following salient features need to be considered while choosing the right workwear for construction workers:
Safety is the primary need
One key aspect of providing the right uniform to construction workers is their safety. Employees involved in any work related to construction sites must be provided uniforms that allow them to work efficiently while assuring their safety. The construction overalls designed by experienced industrial uniforms manufacturers will ensure that they offer protection and ease of work.
Comfortable workwear is imperative
The work uniform needs to offer complete comfort and allow the workers to move around freely. It must not hinder their activity or cause any difficulty in their work. The design of construction overalls must be such that there are no loose or too long parts in it.
Corporate uniform with durability
In the case of corporate uniforms for industrial workers, workwear manufacturers have to consider the various factors that may lead to wear and tear of the uniform. Being put on for the entire workday, and subject to severe activities, this type of workwear has to withstand a lot of external factors while safeguarding the workers.
Appearance cannot be neglected
In several present-day organizations, the uniform matches the workers' designation. Employees are normally addressed according to how they are dressed. Branding of your company's log on the uniform influences its reliability. It is an effective way of describing your company's brand and attracting investors.
Visibility leads to publicity
It is the age of publicity. The reputation and standard of a company are more visible if your employees are wearing clothing with select colors and customized designs. The company's name and logo, when inscribed on your staff's workwear, is an indigenous way of advertising your brand.
The Key Factors That Necessitate Corporate Uniform
Implementing workplace uniform at the workplace has significance from both brand awareness and professional standpoint. The following are a few of the key reasons why wearing a uniform has been gaining significance in the contemporary business world:
- Promote brand identity: When your employees wear a corporate uniform, it ensures that your organization's branding is projected at the forefront of customers' minds. It creates a link that the consumers can identify with. Corporate uniforms come handy as advertisement material.
- Demands of the industry: Certain industries are more focused on the customers; they require the employees to look united and eager to be of service to the customers. When customers see the workforce wearing a uniform, they approach them confidently. Each industry has its own specific requirements related to uniforms.
- A sense of belonging: The important factor of feeling a sense of belonging and a feeling of commonness can be achieved by providing uniforms to the workforce.
- Mutual growth: The persons who wear corporate uniforms tend to care more for their colleagues. They consider their peers' growth as their own.
What Qualities Make Good Construction Overalls
Different professions associated with varied industries necessitate workers and executives to wear specially prepared gear for enabling them to perform their duties safely and efficiently. It is also required to protect workers from occupational hazards by providing secure and comfortable workwear.
Workwear manufacturers have to come up with the specific design and create protective overalls that suit the purpose of the industry they serve. The overalls worn by employees must ensure that they can perform all of their functions efficiently. They must complete their work safely and leave the worksite happily and in good health.
The following are the important factors that need to be satisfied by the workwear:
- Protection: The overalls must protect both the dress that workers wear underneath and their body parts.
- Skin protection: Protective overalls can be made with specific materials that keep the workers safe from the threats related to their workplace.
- Body temperature: Workers may not be able to take their workwear off most of the day. The overalls need to be designed in such a way that workers get comfortable warmth. The workwear must be water-proof and ensure that workers stay healthier.
- Increased visibility: High-visibility fabrics are used for making protective overalls to render enhanced visibility. Construction workers, engineers, and cleaning employees are required to be visible at all times during their work.
The Responsibility of Business Owners
Entrepreneurs and business organizations have the onus to provide personal protective equipment to their employees at work. Protective workwear includes garments, goggles, and helmets. Protective overalls are a major component that influences the safety and health of workers, thus gaining immense importance in the contemporary workplace.
In addition to other requirements, providing the right work clothes is imperative from the legal point of view as well. Adherence to the law set by the government is required. The construction and other industries where workers are subject to risk have to follow the clothing as specifically recommended by the authorities.
The Salient Aspects of Quality Construction Overalls Business organizations must partner with the right industrial uniforms manufacturers in order to provide protective workwear to their employees. Workwear manufacturers must have a clear understanding of the processes performed by the individuals for whom the clothing is prepared. Corporate uniform must allow employees to work efficiently while ensuring their safety.


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Anyone in advertising can tell you that the "name of the game" is to create a brand word or phrase that becomes popular jargon. In the United States, industry-defining success stories include the brand-name Kleenex, which is used almost universally instead of the generic term: tissue. Then there's Jell-o, which has come to mean any gelatin, to the chagrin of their competitors. Can anyone tell me the generic name for a Q-tip? (see answer at bottom)
Ad agencies not only try to achieve such success for clients, but also to rename their own most "commonplace" tactics – names to make them more "sexy" or "disruptive" – meaning more expensive. Examples include renaming video production as "digital" (to the chagrin of video production companies) and renaming web development as "interactive" (to the chagrin of both web and interactive media designers).
In the case of 360º video, I suspect that in their neo-faux-industrial meeting space at the agency Bull & Shite, a conversation went something like this:
B: We need a new name for 360 degree video.
S: How about "360º is hot!"?
B: Good idea, but we need a new name, not a tag line.
S: Hmmm. Surround-o-vision?
B: 50's. Sounds 50's.
S: How about Virtual Reality Video?
B: Oh you're good! But can we lose the "video?" Sounds old, like blue jeans.
S: You're right. It's a tactic. We're Brand Strategists.
B: No no no. We're Cultural Disruptors. Where've you been?
S: I forgot. Ok, Digital Virtual Reality. Or, hey, let's just drop "digital."
B: Virtual Reality?
S: Virtual Reality.
B: Who'll go for that? Isn't there an entire culture dedicated to VR that will resist this? Like NASA or something?
S: Naa. They're getting de-funded. Let's see if we can find a media sponsor that's losing money, or needs a lift – some company that doesn't care that much about accurate definitions.
B: A Media Company. OH! A TV network! They've been trading dollars for dimes. OR a NEWZ-paper! Oh that would be good!
S: Most newspapers are big on accuracy, but yeah, that would be good … but who?
And so it came to pass, that the definition of VR changed from flight simulators for astronauts, full-scale architectural walk-throughs and large-scale visualizations for molecular scientists to … a 360 video. The definition before: "a realistic and immersive simulation of a three-dimensional environment, created using interactive software and hardware, and experienced or controlled by movement of the body." The definition now: a 360º video, which isn't a simulation, isn't interactive and takes no software or hardware to interactive with. In other words, a video. Shown through goggles. As in New York Times Virtual Reality. Go figure.
But hey! I'm in! 360 videos are now VR. So what else is Virtual Reality today?
Stay tuned.
Qtip is a Cotton swab.
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image by Tomislav Šipek, 24 February 2017
Here is flag and coat of arms of Drangedal. Administrative center is Prestestranda.
Source: https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1989-04-21-240?q=flagg
Tomislav Šipek, 23 November 2015
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Blazon: I grønt to gull furukongler, 1-1. In English: Vert two pine cones or
in pale.
Approved by the crown prince-regent's resolution of 21 April 1989.
I found nothing more then the most obvious, as stated on http://ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Drangedal "The arms show two pine cones, as a symbol for the many forests in the area."
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This past spring, (New England Patriots Head Coach Bill) Belichick was the guest of the Celtics and Stevens court side at the end of the regular season and in the three home playoff games against Atlanta.
In the fall, Belichick invited Stevens to speak at his foundation's event and said it was actually the 39-year-old Celtics coach who provided "a lot of insight" into coaching. Stevens said Belichick was very supportive and offered advice.
On Friday, one of the people Belichick respects the most in the coaching ranks, Gregg Popovich, was in town. The two have had lengthy conversations in the past about coaching and what it is to manage modern-day pro athletes. Belichick and Popovich are the two undisputed kings of coaching in their respective sports and Brad Stevens has a relationship with both.
Popovich has five rings and six NBA finals appearances with the Spurs, and Belichick has four rings and six Super Bowl appearances with the Patriots.
Now that Stevens — in his fourth NBA season — is the coach of a team with expectations to make a run into the NBA stratosphere that includes perennial power San Antonio, Friday provided a good chance for Stevens to measure up to what Popovich has built over the last 20 years in San Antonio.
"I talk to him occasionally," Stevens said before Friday's matinee. "But I've said this before, he's always been very kind, open and helpful whenever I've called or needed something. Couldn't respect a coach or a person more."
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"Mirella is an engaging speaker with a superlative palate. I enjoy that a woman takes such a prestigious role as an expert within an industry dominated by men."
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Mirella's consulting work also includes the creation of navigational tools, insights and recommendations for start-ups that are working in the craft beer space.
Mirella is always striving to further her beer knowledge and sensory evaluation repertoire. She was the first Canadian (and fifth person ever) to earn the title of Master CiceroneTM. Mirella is a Doemens Bier Sommelier, she has completed advanced brewing certificates at both Maska Laboratories, Québec and UC Davis, California and passed the WSET Intermediate Certificate in Wine & Spirits with honours.
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Mirella is involved in many projects that focus on promoting local beer, and the art of beer appreciation. She was a board member for the Canadian Amateur Brewers' Association from 2007 to 2010. Mirella is a founding member of Cask! She also founded the Toronto Chapters of Barley's Angels and The Pink Boots Society.


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While it's been a decade since the last album from M.O.D., it's been thirty years since their debut breakthrough album, U.S.A. For M.O.D. A crossover thrash classic, there's no way that the mostly politically incorrect lyrics, courtesy of outspoken frontman Billy Milano, would pass muster today, but the riffs persist. An offshoot of S.O.D. (which featured Anthrax's Scott Ian and Charlie Benante and Nuclear Assault's Dan Lilker), Method of Destruction have released seven studio albums, with the last being 2007's Red, White & Screwed.
The band had taken some time off in 2009, but the band's eighth, Busted, Broke & American, will be released on Megaforce on July 7th. With titles like "You're a Fucking Dick" and "All Out of Bubblegum," it's obvious that Milano's outsized personality is still intact. As we premiere the title track, "Busted, Broke & American," we asked Milano a few questions about where the band's been, and as a proud Republican, what he thought of our current President. The answer may not surprise you.
Where's MOD been for the last decade or two?
We honestly have been active, but just for shits and giggles. I didn't really have an agenda until I started to see there was enough reason to consider recording a record
Times have changed since S.O.D. and M.O.D.'s first albums. Has your attitude towards, I guess what we'll call political incorrectness, changed at all? Do you think people have become more sensitive?
I am certainly wiser but I have brass balls. These little sickos running around rioting and burning shit are gonna find themselves shit out of luck when people in this country finally stand up and start shooting.
It's not like M.O.D.'s music is super political in nature, but you're a proud Republican. Any thoughts on our current president?
Love him. FUCK EVERYONE. Hillary Clinton is the disaster that sunk the Democrats. The country sees the sickness in both parties. All we want is to get spending under control, end these wars and find and Hang George Soros for sedition . Then its time for the lil commies. We'll be ready.
Busted, Broke & American will be released on July 7th, and can be preordered here or on iTunes here.
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A weld broke on one of the rear stabilizers (what a surprise) as I was heading out of the Burros. I really need to get a more practical trailer for this lifestyle, maybe a 18 footer with aluminum framing, insulation(what a treat that would be!) and decent ground clearance (not just another 2").
That evening I packed up and was all set to get an early start. This is where the 'not meant to be' comes in. The other day in Silver was pretty rough on M&M. It was hot and I had a lot of errands to run. Apparently Meadow remembered what it was like the last time she was in the truck and when she picked up on my getting ready to leaveshe ran off. It was 2:00 before she jumped up on the spare wheel and meowed to be let into the casita, too late for me to go looking for another place to camp. I had rolled the awning back out and unpacked and set up the window cage. It was too hot for me to spend time in the casita and the bugs were somewhat unpleasant when trying to do stuff outside. It was not a good day. I can't blame her since she might have had the worst day of her life back in Silver but at times during the day I was contemplating wringing her neck. I didn't let her out the rest of the day nor in the morning. I chanced letting Mesa out in the morning and thankfully he soon came back in and we got an early start.
I've been having some nice scenery lately while driving along on the asphalt. Most RVers seem to be quite content with this. I've talked with people who have driven up to Alaska and many do it because Alaska is near the top of the 'sights to see' lists. They drive hundreds of miles a day, day after day to get up there. Then drive around Alaska for a couple weeks and head back south. Granted that they see absolutely stellar scenery but someone would have to hold a gun to my head to do that. I can't see myself going to Alaska but if I did, with the way I travel, it would take me months just to get up there. That would entail leaving the rig up there for the winter; then travel around Alaska the next summer; store the rig up there for another winter; and spend the third summer traveling back to the states. Don't think so.
My favorite traveling is along single tracks in the mountains. Preferably running the trails (if it's one of my strong months) just before sunrise. If not running, then hiking or mountain biking. I need to be more in touch with 'traveling'. It needs to be a physical endeavor. I get a charge out of this body's ability to move along at a decent pace while taking in the scents and sounds, the sights and the wildlife. There's a sense of fulfillment in the simple pleasure that comes from physical activity. It's one of the reasons I try to stay in decent shape. I do not want to be huffing and puffing and have to stop to rest as I travel the single tracks. That would definitely put a big damper on the experience. Been there, done that, didn't like it. Different strokes. I don't think I've ever pulled over at a scenic overlook to look around. It's almost like I didn't earn the view. Besides, the best sights are definitely not seen from the asphalt.
Emily gave me a heads-up about the 'travel management' program that the forest service is putting into effect. It has been put on hold in the Gila's due to the fires so I have not run into it yet. All because of the damn porker carts. It is one of those instances where a relative few ruin things for the many.
I was talking with a ranger who stopped by to make sure I knew about the fire restrictions. We had a great conversation as we got off on other topics. Something new I had not heard about was how some people are using their camping spot. Rangers are coming across people out in the national forests cooking up methamphetamine. Guano. I asked if one can smell it if they get close enough and the ranger said it depends how they are cooking it. He generally picks up on the situation by looking at the 'camper's' pupils and the fact that they are WAY hyper. Sometimes they are not even in an RV using the galley but just tent camping and using a camp stove. I wonder if the fire restrictions this summer will have them looking for other places to set up rather than out in the national forests. But then again, these are not the most law abiding citizens we have in our society.
After groceries at the Safeway in Springerville, I headed west along rt260. I thought the Fort Apache Indian Reservation was all south of rt260 but found out that was not so as I was driving along a narrow spur road north of the highway and ran into an Apache Wildlife officer. It went well; he set me straight and directed me towards national forest land. Well, I'll see what these White Mountains are like and hope I don't come across any rangers or seasonals who keep track of 14-day stays.
Cutting down on calories: If you eat something and no one sees you eat it, it has no calories.
If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar, the calories in the candy bar are cancelled out by the diet soda.
When you eat with someone else, calories don't count if you eat less than they do.
Pieces of cookies contain no calories. This is because the process of breaking causes calorie leakage.
Foods that have the same color have the same number of calorie. For example: spinach and pistachio ice cream; mushrooms and white chocolate, etc.
There was a series of questions about something in an AARP article. One asked which is better: Getting $100,000 at once or Getting a penny that's doubled every day for a 31-day month? Since the later sounded so bizarre, I figured it must be the right choice but I had to do the math to see it for myself. Yep, nearly $11 million is better. Very strange.
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Frequently, at a National (or other) Rally, I will hear comments similar to "Were you at Oshkosh? What year was that?" Here is a quick reference to the locations of all the BMWMOA National Rallies:
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Ho, ho, ho! We are gearing up for Christmas, and New Year's right beyond it. We'll be open and serving you delicious barbeque (AKA an easy and fun meal for the whole family) the following hours over the next ten days:
Christmas Eve — all locations close at 4 pm. Plan to pick up those holiday orders accordingly!
Christmas Day — we are CLOSED, so our terrific team can spend the day with family and friends.
Boxing Day (Saturday, December 26) — we'll be open until 8 pm at all locations.
Regular hours Sunday, December 27, through New Year's Eve, when all locations will close at 8 pm. Happy New Year, and stay safe, friends.
Our catering crew will be out delivering holiday meals to all you lucky folks who ordered 'em, so wave when you see the Rocklands sleigh on the roads. (We've equipped the reindeer with flip-flops for the current weather.) And Monday, January 4, the catering crew will be back at the phones ready to talk wedding planning with everyone who got engaged over the holidays!


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Sunday, 23 March 2008 03:53 PM EDT
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was nailed by longtime GOP political strategist Roger Stone, the New York Post reported Sunday.
According to the newspaper, the former Nixon strategist famed for his hard-nosed and often ingenious political gimmicks sent the FBI a letter detailing Spitzer's use of high-class call girls -- four months before the story made headlines.
The Post reported that Stone's information was so complete that it included such details as Spitzer's bizarre habit of wearing calf-length black socks while having sex with prostitutes.
Apparently ignoring the adage that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, Stone threw his despite his own sexual indiscretions.
The Post noted that Stone is no stranger to scandal, adding that he was dumped as an operative from Bob Dole's 1996 GOP presidential campaign after he and his wife placed a personal ad in a swingers magazine. Stone has denied the allegation and insists he was the victim of dirty politics.
A letter written by Stone's lawyer, Paul Rolf Jensen, alleged that Spitzer "paid literally tens of thousands of dollars for these services," and added that he "paid not with credit cards or cash but through some pre-arranged transfer."
The Post wrote that Stone's lawyer wrote to the FBI after investigators asked to speak with Stone, although they didn't specify for what purpose. He refused to talk to them, but sent the letter about Spitzer.
"It is also my client's understanding from the same source that Governor Spitzer did not remove his mid-calf-length black socks during the sex act. Perhaps you can use this detail to corroborate Mr. Stone's information," according to the letter, which was first reported by the Miami Herald.
Stone refused to comment on the letter, but asked the Post: "What kind of guy does it with his socks on?"
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
New choice of law article on the SSRN
Dean Symeonides has published another article on choice of law, and posted it on the SSRN. In it, he analyzes how states have been dealing with the choice of law question over the past 40 years in "cross-border" torts (torts where "the injurious conduct and the resulting injury occur in different states or countries"). Here's a clip from the abstract:
This Article is the first comprehensive study of how American courts have resolved conflicts of laws arising from cross-border torts over the last four decades. This period coincides with the confluence of two independent forces: (1) a dramatic increase in the frequency and complexity of cross-border torts generated by the spectacular expansion of cross-border activity now known as globalization; and (2) the advent of the American choice-of-law revolution, which succeeded in demolishing the old regime in forty-two U.S. jurisdictions, but failed to replace it with anything resembling a unified system.
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Weakening the CAFE auto standards could delay action on climate change for a generation — and launch a legal battle with California now.
By hitting the brakes on the decades-long drive to reduce automotive carbon emissions, President Donald Trump's administration has taken its most consequential step yet toward undoing his predecessor's legacy on climate change.
Scott Pruitt, the embattled chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced the reversal on Monday in a "final determination" that President Obama's plan for the 2022-2025 model years went too far and would be revised.
Pruitt did not yet announce a replacement for the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, which dictate fuel efficiency and therefore emissions. And even after he does—after more consultations and debate—it's likely to be challenged in court.
So would another aspect of his plan: his threat to refuse a waiver to California, which is intent on setting its own tough standards.
"Cooperative federalism doesn't mean that one state can dictate standards for the rest of the country," Pruitt said. "It is in America's best interest to have a national standard, and we look forward to partnering with all states, including California, as we work to finalize that standard."
California immediately pledged to "vigorously defend" the existing rules. "EPA's action, if implemented, will worsen people's health with degraded air quality and undermine regulatory certainty for automakers," California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols said. "This decision takes the U.S. auto industry backward."
If Pruitt prevails on auto standards, it would be at least as significant as the other main rollback of climate rules set in motion by the Trump administration—the attempt to dismantle of the Clean Power Plan limits on emissions from power plants. That one, too, is entangled in protracted litigation.
But there's a big difference that could makes the move on automobiles more damaging to the fight against global warming.
Even with the Clean Power Plan stuck in limbo, it's becoming increasingly evident that electric companies are going to meet the plan's overall targets anyway, because renewables, natural gas and conservation are all overpowering dirty coal in the marketplace for electricity.
Not so for cars and trucks, according to the experts and the lessons of history. Fuel efficiency, alternative vehicles and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are unlikely to progress without some kind of forceful federal action.
One Giant Step
When Obama first set the standards, the EPA calculated that they would prevent more than 6 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases—more than one year's worth of total U.S. carbon emissions—over the lifetime of the vehicles sold in model years 2012 through 2025.
"It's the single biggest step to date that any nation has taken to address global warming," said Daniel Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, who has been a leading advocate of fuel-efficient cars for decades.
But not if the steadily tighter standards are lifted—even temporarily.
"It's important not just where we end up in annual emissions. How we get there really matters," said Samantha Houston, a consultant to the system dynamics group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, who has been studying the implications of a rollback for eventually meeting the world's climate goals set out in the 2015 Paris accord. "If it looks like we're going to have only a modest decline in the short run, we're going to have to drop off a cliff steeply in the future."
Until now, the auto industry, on average, has out-performed the federal vehicle standards.
But greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector are increasing with strong vehicle sales, led by SUVs and other light trucks, and a rise in miles driven. Carbon dioxide emissions from the transportation sector last year reached their highest level since the 2008 economic downturn, now accounting for 37 percent of U.S. emissions from energy consumption, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
For the second consecutive year, transportation surpassed the electric power sector (34 percent of U.S. energy-related emissions) as a contributor to greenhouse gas pollution; prior to that, power plants had been the largest U.S. emissions source since the late 1970s.
Market forces, meanwhile, helped drive U.S. electric power sector emissions last year to their lowest level since 1990, as generators switched from coal to less carbon-intensive natural gas and renewable sources like wind and solar continued their rapid growth. Electric power sector emissions are down more than 27 percent from 2005 levels. The Clean Power Plan's aim was to reduce emissions 32 percent by 2030.
Meanwhile, oil prices, which were about ">$100 per barrel when both the federal and California light-duty vehicle standards were being developed, are now just over $60 per barrel, and ">not expected to increase over the next two years as global production exceeds consumption. Relatively low gasoline prices mean that there's less incentive for consumers to seek out fuel-saving vehicles.
"There is no momentum in the right direction," said Becker, "and a lot of momentum in the wrong direction right now."
Original CAFE Deal Was Unprecedented
The history of the fuel economy and emissions standards is a lesson in compromise, not confrontation.
The fuel economy of the U.S. vehicle fleet had stagnated for two decades before Congress, seeking in part to address the pain of consumers grappling with record-high oil prices, passed legislation to force improvements in 2007. Soon after taking office, President Barack Obama announced a plan to accelerate that progress with standards based for the first time on greenhouse gas emissions. At a Rose Garden ceremony, he was flanked by representatives of 10 automakers, their unions, and then-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger—an unusual show of partnership brought on by unique circumstances.
GM and Chrysler had just accepted billions of dollars of assistance from taxpayers to rescue them from the brink of collapse due to the economic downturn. The automakers also were facing the unwelcome prospect of two sets of fuel economy standards, since the Obama administration seemed prepared to allow California to exercise its authority under the Clean Air Act to set its own, more stringent auto standards.
Obama used the opportunity to forge a three-way agreement with automakers and California to reduce oil dependence, carbon emissions, and transition to a new fleet of cleaner vehicles.
"In the past, an agreement such as this would have been considered impossible," Obama said at the time.
It took three years for the details to be hammered out, along with an agreement by California officials to accept the federal standards as equivalent to their own, and a pledge by the automakers and their trade associations to end more than a dozen pending lawsuits challenging California's right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The standards as finalized required automakers to double the average fuel economy of passenger vehicles to the equivalent of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
"It was an unprecedented process that heavily included consulting with the auto industry," said Jody Freeman, who was counselor for energy and climate change in the Obama White House and an architect of the deal. "They agreed because they were getting something of real value. They were getting the uniformity and clarity that had been lacking for so many years."
But in a letter submitted at the start of the Trump administration, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers said that their cooperation with the program was contingent on the federal government's promise to conduct a thorough midterm review of the standards and continue its consultation with the industry. Instead, commenters were given less than a month to respond when the Obama administration's EPA proposed to maintain the targets on Nov. 30, 2016. The automakers' association said the government had "abruptly abrogated" its commitments.
The Obama administration had concluded that the savings to motorists of $1.7 trillion in fuel costs over the life of the vehicles would outweigh the cost to the auto industry, which it put at about $200 billion over 13 years. But the automakers' alliance said that "staggering" sum was an underestimate. Although the Obama administration had concluded that the standards could be met mainly with improvements to gasoline-powered internal combustion technology, the auto industry's assessment was they could not be achieved without a rapid transition to electric cars at much higher cost. "Adjustments to the regulations are needed to allow automakers to build vehicles that consumers want and can afford," the automakers said in comments submitted to the EPA.
All of the carmakers have plans to expand their offerings of electric and alternative-fuel vehicles—GM plans to launch a new family of electric cars in 2021 on which it expects to make a profit. But to bolster their argument for less stringent standards, their Alliance last month submitted to EPA a report co-authored by Joseph D'Aleo—a consultant for the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank that challenges mainstream climate science—citing studies funded by the American Petroleum Institute.
InfluenceMap, a nonprofit that tracks corporate lobbying, calculated that the auto industry spent at least $49 million lobbying in 2017, the most since it sought federal bailout money in 2008.
California's Special Influence Over Automakers
In the wake of Pruitt's determination that the Obama standards were too stringent, the most important question is what will happen to California's standards. Dating back to the Clean Air Act of 1970, Congress recognized a special role for California, which was ahead of the nation in tackling pollution.
California was permitted to set its own air pollution standards, as long as it received a waiver from the U.S. EPA certifying that the state standards were at least as protective of public health and welfare as federal standards and that the state had shown they were necessary to meet "compelling and extraordinary conditions." Over the years, California has received more than 50 such waivers and has led the nation in requirements for catalytic converters, unleaded gasoline and other air pollution advances.
More than a dozen states—accounting for more than 40 percent of the U.S. car market—have set their light-duty vehicle standards based on the California standard, as they are permitted to do under the Clean Air Act.
Pruitt's action today does not undo that—and it's not clear that it ever will.
"The auto industry will only make one 'car'," said David Bookbinder, chief counsel for the Niskanen Center. That means that the California standard serves as a de facto national standard. "California is the whole game," he said.
And California has made clear its commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions from autos, with Gov. Jerry Brown in January setting a new target of 5 million zero-emission vehicles in California by 2030, up from the state's prior target of 1.5 million by 2025.
The automakers, said Freeman, may end up "like the dog that caught the car"—getting something it really doesn't want: more litigation and uncertainty.
Weak Targets Now, Higher Costs in the Future
But if regulators today set targets that are not aggressive enough, the risks and increased costs will be passed to future generations. If the United States rejoins the world's other nations in the effort to hold the world's temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius, it will have to play catch-up—and seek steeper, more costly increases in vehicle fuel efficiency to achieve the same cumulative carbon cuts envisioned under the Obama plan, explained Houston. "If we chipped away at it little by little, there would not be the need to make such drastic reductions in the future," she said.
That would be penny wise and pound foolish, the paper said.
"The additional effort—and cost," it said, "should give automakers and policy makers pause."


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I am heading down the home stretch on my first Gint-A-Cuffs adventure. It has been a lot of fun and I will do it again next year if I decide to go after the set.
Scoring Cards:
Evan Longoria (Starting Points insert) - +2
Pack Total = +2
Running Total = +118
If I am not mistaken, this is my first pack with only 1 scoring card - ugh!
Scoring Cards:
Philae Probe (Philae Probe) - +1
Kelia Moniz (Framed Mini Red Autograph) - +22
Matt Harvey (Starting Points insert) - +2
Bald Eagle (Birds of Prey mini) - +2
Pack Total - +27
Running Total - +145
Boom - a nice red mini auto of a girl in a bikini, serial numbered 02/10 to boot. This is one of my best Ginter pulls ever, probably second to a Cap Anson rip card with a mini Ken Griffey Jr. inside from the early days of Ginter. This will at least help my score be in the respectable range. I also love the Bald Eagle mini, one of my favorite birds since seeing a ton of them a few years back on a cruise to Alaska. Great pack!
Scoring Cards:
Bernie Williams (Bernie Williams) - +1
Elf (Menagerie of the Mind insert) - +2
Pack Total = +3
Running Total = +148
I am kind of surprised the Michele Beadle mini isn't a scoring card. She is one of my favorite TV sports personalities and not too back to look at. One more post to go.


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Not even a week after the Federal Reserve published an economic white paper urging government action on REOs, word has trickled out of Washington that the government, in cooperation with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is planning a pilot program to sell REOs to investors as rentals.
As reported by CNBC's Diana Olick, many of the program's specific details, such as what markets the program will target, what pricing structures it will follow, and especially, who will manage the rental properties, still need to be worked out, but what is known is that officials will focus on addressing areas with the greatest flow of foreclosures with infusions of private capital.
Laurie Goodman, of Amherst Securities, told Olick that though demand for such units is available in the marketplace, it must be concentrated.
"I think there is a fair amount of money in the wings waiting to buy, investors doing cash raises to buy properties on a large scale," Goodman said. "But that means they have to build out a rental organization; it means they build out a management company, because if you're accumulating a hundred homes in Dallas that's very different than running a multifamily building."
According to Olick's sources, interested investors are expecting large-scale sales from the government, in the range of 50 to 500 properties per deal worth upwards of $1 billion or more in assets. Though Fannie Mae did orchestrate a sale last June worth $50 million, such a transaction is relatively minuscule compared to the negotiations currently underway for the government's 250,000 or so REOs.
Jaret Seiberg, of Guggenheim Securities, said to Olick that the pilot program could have distinct advantages for housing.
"We expect several pilots that will involve both local investors and institutional investors. The goal here is to reduce supply by converting foreclosed homes into rental units," Seiberg said. "Less supply — even less fear about a flood of foreclosed homes hitting the market — could stabilize [home] prices."


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A little easier content contributions?February 18th, 2009
As readers are submitting quite interesting content, I would like to try and see if by setting up a drop.io account it will make it even easier. It looks like easier submissions are a requested feature, but I am not completely sure by how that can be achieved. Drop.io/wireframes will hopefully make it easier to submit larger files. Is more guidance needed in terms of what should be submitted? Are people resistant to submitting source files? If you have any ideas or comments, feel free to let me know. :) Cheers. Jakub


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Four favorites to win Amazon's HQ2
The tech giant has narrowed the competition for where to build its second headquarters down to 20 cities
While there are officially 20 cities Amazon is deciding between, economists have singled out four stand-out contenders.
The four cities, all located in Southern states, are being called favorites by the Wall Street Journal due to their labor-markets and employment growth. Known as Sunbelt cities, they have the right mix of capable, highly-educated workers minus fierce competition from whom Amazon might have to fight to hire them away.
"There are some places like Boston that have a lot of well educated workers, but if you look at the unemployment rate…it would have a difficult time accommodating 50,000 new workers," said Oxford Economics' Matthew Mowell. Here are cities the that seem like the front-runners in the quest to bring Amazon to town:
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Community: Rosedale – 9th St and 11th Ave NW
Parking: free street parking
Note: This is a school playground, you may be asked to leave during school hours.
Gordie's Review (3.5 years old) – "what was the best part?" "that. and that and that and that. and that and that." (I guess he liked it).
Age Range:2-12
Ground Cover: pour-in-place recycled tire flooring
Features: merry-go-round spinner, 2 saucer swings, bowl spinner, climbing wall arch, activity panels, school aged climber with balance beam, slides, twisty slide, standing spinner, bridges,
Surrounding Park Area: fenced in area, school fields, the school is at the opposite end of the park.
Shade: good shade just outside the playground from mature trees.
Seating: several benches, a few picnic tables.
Accessibility: Despite having no ramps, this playground is accessible in a number of other ways. Accessible flooring throughout the play area. There are a number of panels that are accessible from the ground level. There is also steps up to the climber and wide landings that will help kids with lower motor skills. There are a number of things that swing or spin for kids who benefit from vestibular stimulation.
Overall Assessment: This playground has nice park-like setting and tons of equipment with a lot of variety. It would be a great playground if you are trying to entertain kids of a wide variety of ages and ability levels.
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