Four at Four: These Go to Eleven
The indexes all go to 11. (Embassy Pictures) ... of Church Capital Management. “There are a lot of dollars floating around.” Weakness in Monday’ ... , and a couple of the transportation names in what certainly feels like a satisfying turnaround for those [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 11:45:00
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Banged Up Abroad S03E02 WS PDTV XviD-REMAX
This article has been published at RLSLOG.net - visit our site for full content. REMAX brings us the newest episode of this interesting show. If you don’t know what it is about, it is about people getting locked up on international soil ... to Miami. Although he initially refused, gang members threatened to kill him if he did not transport [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 13:38:52
Green Ink: Waiting for Gustav
Crude futures shot up on worries about Gustav’s impact on Gulf of Mexico oil and gas installations, Bloomberg reports ... companies a little bit more oil, in the WSJ (sub reqd.). China is also ditching most of its coal ... to curb transport-related emissions. The L.A. Times editorial page urges Gov. Schwarzenegger to sign [more...]
Date: 2008-08-28 12:11:22
Fun With Cabinet Consolidation
The UK and Canada have both recently rejiggered their cabinets in order to be better equipped to deal with the climate change issue, ... , HUD, Transportation, and Energy. Possibilities: Elevate EPA to cabinet level; put it in charge ... the Department of Agriculture of some of its less-aggy functions and giving them to Health and Human Services [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 21:22:52
Rail Service Demand Exceeding Seat Supply: We Need Trains!
The public (meaning us) seems to still be ahead of the curve on how important passenger rail is to our future economy ... a four hour car ride (radius) of Ohio. One more quote from the Chair of the Transportation ... congestion, higher fees and cuts in air flight services. People are choosing trains over planes now. Good [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 19:20:46
Ten Kentucky Stocks
Once a part of Virginia, Kentucky is today one of only four states that calls itself a Commonwealth. It is also known as the Bluegrass State ... produced to companies in the state.New and expanding service companies in the state may be entitled ... , trade and transportation utility employing 20% of the labor force.Canada is Kentucky’s top [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 06:21:00
Solar power: Just about ready for prime time
While John McCain calls for more offshore drilling and Barack Obama attacks energy speculators, ... for transportation needs. Sure all such predictions need to be taken with a grain of salt. But 40 percent annual ... : ... This deadline is from a president who hasn't lifted a finger to broker passage of legislation [more...]
Date: 2008-06-24 09:08:27
trucker or heavy haul carrier
trucker are required be able to read and speak English well enough to understand traffic signs, prepare required reports, ... . Specific endorsements, such as heavy haul loads, be required depending upon the companys needs ... rigging Reefer transport Double Belly and Pneumatics trucking has its own set of qualifications below [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 07:13:47
New Satellite to Predict Future Climate Change
A torpedo-shaped satellite - known as the gravity field and steady-state ocean circulation explorer, ... at a more accurate picture of the oceans' currents - the flows that transport vast amounts of heat around ... is equipped with a triple-accelerometer gradiometer, accurate to within one part in one hundred trillion [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 07:14:24
Palin's pipeline
By Libby What makes Palin so dangerous is she lies by implication and she does it really well ... of dollars in pipeline transportation fees as a “bridge shipper,” in case initial gas commitments from the major oil companies are not enough to run the gas line at full capacity. Do you feel…(READ LIST [more...]
Date: 2008-09-08 15:26:13
Obama cabinet picks
I just received a suggestion from amorris19 that Dow Chemical's Andrew Liveris should be picked as Obama's new Secretary of Energy. He (or she) ... resources; the need to focus on energy efficiency (starting from manufacturing to transportation ... in favor of energy companies (another Cheney in administration perhaps?) But whoever will be picked [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 16:20:37
More on a potential export plunge
By Fester: Last week, I argued that US exports were likely to cliff dive as heavy industrial capital equipment and raw materials used to make ... lower prices are dropping hard and fast. Now the international trade system is starting to freeze up as the large bulk carriers that transport the raw materials of the modernized world don't [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 12:47:12
Two-wheel revolution possible?
OVER a year ago, Mr Ian Bellhouse, 43, stopped taking public transport to work ... , stopped taking public transport to work. But it is not by car that he goes from his Bukit Timah home [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 18:29:00
Our last capitol city! - Montevideo, Uruguay
Jump to the full entry & travel map Montevideo, Uruguay The first thing that struck us about Montevideo was its bus station! ... , with odd bus companies scattered across town, but Argentina and Uruguay seem to have done the sensible ... , transport hubs aside, Monetvideo is a compact capital city, with River, Sea or Ocean on three sides [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 11:11:11
Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… G’Morning, Luv
Nice to you see again, too. A nippy start here on the Pharmalot corporate campus, where the heat seems to be missing in action. Nonetheless, we must persevere as we transport the short people to their schoolhouses. Meanwhile, we have found a few items that may generate some heat of their own… Indiana Woman Sues Pfizer Over [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 12:05:02
Real Innovation
Challenge: make a light bulb more environmentally friendly without sacrificing performance. Someone found a way to do it, and it’s so simple! Make the light bulb flat. unlike ordinary bulbs its volume is 1/3 smaller, reducing the cost of packaging and transport. its slim shape allows bulbs to be easily stacked and prevents breakage [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 18:46:59
Opinion: The Land of Eco-Opportunity
How America can revamp its energy infrastructure, recharge its economy and reshape its future by embracing three major green initiatives. The financial meltdown has rattled the U.S. banking system to its core. The unprecedented ... of the very rich, to a transportation method for the middle class. The nationwide maze of 75,000 miles [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 22:30:44
Ride sharing
With planning for Christmas holidays now probably front of mind here’s an interesting site that might appeal to some travellers ... transport, either for people or for goods. It’s a commercial site and relies on travellers negotiating a deal with each other and I don’t normally advertise individual companies. It’s a nice example [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 21:42:39
Major Vulnerabilities in Critical Infrastructure Exposed
Robert McMillan writes on Computerworld UK: Computer systems that run the world's critical infrastructure are not secure and the people running them ... , telecommunications, transportation, emergency services, chemical and the shipping industry. And that's bad news because more than half of them said that their companies had already been hit with [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 22:24:58
Today’s Headlines
Federal Transportation Spending: Pork or Priority? (Gotham Gazette) Drivers With Out-of-State Plates Escape Parking Fines (News) Time for Stroller Racks in Park Slope? (City Room) Times Blog Picks Up on Cycling Tax Credit (The Lede) Copenhagen Opens More Street Space to Bikes (Treehugger) Yglesias: DC Truck Gridlock Makes [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 12:56:49
Green Competition is a Good Thing
Yep, that’s a “duh” title. But worth mentioning since there’s some fun news coming from the Bay Area ... on what the city has done to green up. Both are working on getting clean tech companies to call their cities home, and both are pursuing greener options for everything from transportation to renewable energy. Both [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 15:59:14
‘Kerala IT companies closely monitor US economic crisis’
The IT companies in Kerala, many of which have huge business interests in the US, are closely monitoring the financial crisis in that country, ... to the transportation and logistics industry and its client list includes giants like Nippon Cargo ... million) mark in software exports earlier this year would be short-lived if the US finacial sector did [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 05:48:30
Competitive streak
Here then are Dalton McGuinty and Jean Charest making more damn-fool noise about a high-speed rail in Canada. Canada? Don’t they know Canadians throughout their history have resisted using railroads as a tool for economic development, transport and competitiveness? This corner, it must be said, inexplicably [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 22:39:33
From Isolation to Community
Our urban neighborhood was like many others. People living in isolation with little interaction ... looking for a solution. After years of wrangling with the City of Portland’s transportation department ... Services where we found a responsive city agency with vision. Green Street Project Since [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 20:33:41
Ten Indiana Stocks
Indiana is perhaps best known by its world famous Indianapolis 500 motorsports race, but there is indeed much more to this state ... manufacturing industries are: transportation equipment, chemicals, and primary metals ... 90,000 people. Indiana offers several attractive incentives to companies relocating to the state [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 06:30:01
Meltdown blues reduce techies’ marriage market value
Farmer O.P. Kurien, whose income has for ages depended on the fluctuating prices of farm produce, ... there is greater job protection," says Kurien. Early this year, the 150-odd IT firms in Kerala employing ... software company in the field of travel, transportation and logistics, have recently come under fire [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 05:17:45
Mark Buse: McCain's Lobbyist Insider
It certainly didn't turn out to be the biggest story of his day, but yesterday PBS ran an interview with John McCain's gay chief of staff Mark Buse ... , and Transportation Committee, a job he held until 2001. Then from 2002 until earlier this year, Buse worked ... other travel, communications, biomed, pharmaceutical and technologies concerns - all compani [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 17:27:01
Kuwait parliament okays independent body on foreign labour
Kuwait's parliament has approved a new proposal to set up an independent body to deal with issues relating to expatriate workers ... insurance, transportation or any other matters. Additionally, the National Assembly advocated setting ... of companies and individuals involved in dealing in residency permits for expatriates. The parliamentarians [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 11:25:45
If You Build It, Good Stuff Will Come
by publius China doesn’t care much for Roy Blunt’s theories of economic stimulus ... . Just as the U.S. Interstate Highway System radically altered the American economy, China's new expressways are starting to change lives in ways big and small. Roads have cut transport times, driven down costs [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 18:46:19
Oxford clean fuel firm snaps up Velocys for £56m
Clean tech company Oxford Catalysts Group has bought US firm Velocys for ￡56m in a move that will enable their combined technologies to produce next ... (pictured) said in the press release: “This is a transformational event for both companies and marks ... sufficient supplies to produce hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of transportation fuels [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 09:58:55
Will gas prices drive buyers downtown?
My colleagues over at the Bottleneck blog posted an interesting item today asking if rising gas prices will make downtown real estate ... straddles a light-rail line, which the 25-year-old insurance broker rides to and from work in Los ... , transportation officials and industry surveys indicate that home buyers are placing more importance [more...]
Date: 2008-06-18 23:44:40
Australia - Budget blow-out: NSW to reveal $915m deficit
The New South Wales Treasurer, Eric Roozendaal, is expected to reveal a deficit of more than $900 million when he hands down the Government’s ... . Several major transport projects have been shelved including the $12 billion North-West Metro plan ... At a time of international and national economic problems, Nathan Rees doesn’t understand [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 00:22:35
Trippin’ With Trip: One Man’s View Of Carnage To Come
Every month, Trip Chowdhry, the one-man band who covers all things tech under the moniker Global Equities Research, ... in almost every vertical, including financial services, retail, transportation and public sector. “Many ... companies are shutting down…the Web 2.0 fad is now coming to an end.” He has a similarly dark view [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 14:47:00
Trippin’ With Trip: One Man’s View Of Carnage To Come
Every month, Trip Chowdhry, the one-man band who covers all things tech under the moniker Global Equities Research, ... in almost every vertical, including financial services, retail, transportation and public sector. “Many ... companies are shutting down…the Web 2.0 fad is now coming to an end.” He has a similarly dark view [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 07:22:02
Video: Brits Blow Up Their Own Plane (Updated)
Recently, Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians from the U.S ... up a chance to set off that big of a boom. Flight International has details on the detonation ... injuries on evacuating the stricken transport, which was subsequently "deemed unrecoverable due [more...]
Date: 2008-09-02 14:01:40
Osprey in Iraq: The Report Card
Presidential candidate Barack Obama's flight on a V-22 Osprey marks a new high point for the tilt-rotor's publicity machine -- and a further indication of its transformation from assault transport to prestige VIP taxi. But photo ... %. According to Flight International, things have slipped a little. "On its initial seven-month [more...]
Date: 2008-07-31 12:27:11
Green Ink: Bailout Blues and Midnight Regulations
Crude oil futures slumped to $63, on track for the biggest one-month decline since 1983, Bloomberg reports. U.S ... rate cuts to give crude a boost next week. Western oil companies finally get some resolution ... the NYT’s own edit page. Spending money to build transportation infrastructure, from highways to railways [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 12:14:01
The "Bernson Plan"
The country of Bubblia has a problem. It's a fairly large country, and there are 100 million cars in operation ... . Unfortunately, however, the companies recently came out with new models boasting the latest technology ... on the freeways, streets, etc. and it completely clogs up transportation - this is a country that relies upon [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 07:15:00
Neil Hrab: Russia and China get behind the Roosevelt option for saving the economy
The world is rushing to offer advice to President-Elect Barack Obama. A few days ago, for example, a former South Korean ambassador to the U.S ... , transportation, health/education, industry, the environment and disaster reconstruction. Income ... . Commercial lenders will benefit as loan ceilings are abolished, and medium-sized and small companies [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 18:30:00
From Denver: Dems Discuss Funding Woes; Biden Says “Amtrak”
Last night saw what might one day qualify as an historic moment in transportation circles, ... that new investment in American infrastructure -- including freight and commuter rail -- is sorely needed ... among the elected officials. One key issue was that the current system for infrastructure funding [more...]
Date: 2008-08-28 16:17:12
Carbon Nanotubes as Ultra-Fast Membrane Transport Channels
At Lawrence Livermore, scientists have developed carbon nanotubes that can in a basic way selectively pass a number of different materials ... appeared in the June 6 online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ... -freight trains of chain-bonded water molecules flying at high speed through a narrow nanotube tunnel [more...]
Date: 2008-06-13 06:16:44
Shuffleu(ff)(p)agus v2.0 – Sources say the darnedest (and most contradictory) things.
Good morning, speculators! With just over two hours to go until the show gets underway at Rideau Hall, ... Baird to move to Transport – which seems to be a near universal prediction at this point – but it’ ... . International Trade, meanwhile, would be handed off to - in reverse order of wild unlikelihood [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 12:43:29
Visions of Vietnam - Hoi An, Vietnam
Jump to the full entry & travel map Hoi An, Vietnam Multiple shades of green. Deep verdant greens, luminescent greens, dull dirty greens ... , penetrating blast announces the uncommon passing of a truck or bus. Old people, young people, entire ... of all time) tending fields, transporting immense loads of produce through heavy traffic on rickety [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 09:14:43
No winners in New York's budget game
The election drama that turned Albany blue last week is now yielding the stage to an ugly budget battle ... did. "We may have reduced social services, but maybe fewer families will fracture." Paterson ... virtual budget. An online calculator program lets you slash funding for schools, transportation [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 22:09:58
Betting on Climate Change
Today was not a good day for the TSX - down 500 points at the time of writing and its lowest close in four years ... - alternative energy, water, transport and emissions technology. The German bank estimates long term ... , it says. The International Energy Agency estimates that about $45 trillion will be needed between [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 22:01:53
Sun shines on solar sails for giant cargo ships
Hello sailor! Shipping, along with aviation, is one of the world’s biggest emitters of CO2 but global trade is still massively dependent on this mode of transport for the flow of goods around the world. Anything that can reduce shipping’ ... spotted this story about tankers with solar-powered sails. Chinese shipping firm Cosco has signed [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 09:55:21
Carbon Hero Looking for First Funds For GPS Carbon Calculator
When we profiled mobile entrepreneur Andreas Zachariah and his GPS-based carbon footprint application in April, his company, Carbon Hero, ... info to automatically monitor your transportation. The app can tell if you drive, fly, take the train ... . With the coming of more carbon regulations, Carbon Diem could help companies identify ways to cut [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 16:05:32
Australia to Develop Electric Vehicle Recharging Network by 2012
US Firm Better Place is working with Australian power company AGL and investors Macquarie Capital Group to develop a $667 million Australian ... this project is being developed solely by private companies, it has received some high-level attention ... in the transport sector and welcomes this innovative approach to help make broad adoption of electric [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 01:00:53
HALOWEEN AFTERNOON AND EVENING - BEIJING, China
Jump to the full entry & travel map BEIJING, China Our Chinese lunch was pretty good, or some of it was ... it, but as you all know neither like tea. Back in the car and off to the Ming Tombs. This is a very nice park ... transport in desert and tropics. Xiezhi was put there to keep evil spirits away, because [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 13:09:22
Casino concerns in California and Nevada
The horrible bus crash this week in Northern California -- which killed eight casino-bound passengers -- is prompting a new look at the booming ... a growing trade of mom-and-pop companies ferrying thousands of gamblers daily to local casinos ... a casino next to a curvy highway is suing the California Department of Transportation. The Jamul Indian [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 19:03:38
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