Archive | April, 2010
Guest Article: Economic Data, Oil Spill Push Crude Prices Higher at End of Week
Oil Market Summary for: 04/26/2010 to 04/30/2010 Stubbornly high crude oil inventories continued to stymie bulls through the middle of the week, but the market seized on positive economic data to push prices higher toward the end of the week. The oil spill from a collapsed rig off the Gulf coast may also have played [...]
Continue reading...Guest Article: Is the DOW getting ready to crater again?
30 April 2010 – 9:54 pm PST
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Is the DOW getting ready to crater again?———————————————————— The DOW has had a remarkable recovery from the lows that were seen in March of ’09. The question now is, are we headed higher, or is the move over for now? In this new short video, I will show you some important aspects that I think [...]
Continue reading...Turbine Truck Engines and Beijing Royal Aerospace Facilities Co., Ltd. Sign Cooperative Agreement
30 April 2010 – 9:15 pm PST
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Turbine Truck Engines and Beijing Royal Aerospace Facilities Co., Ltd. (ROYAL) have signed a Cooperative Agreement in which Royal will coordinate further funding, design, testing, technical evaluation, and other matters regarding building engineered prototype units of the Detonation Cycle Gas Turbine (DCGT) engine for the heavy duty trucking industry in China. (Earlier post.) Royal will [...]
Continue reading...Good Morning America – 25% of ABC Staff Fired
30 April 2010 – 9:00 pm PST
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Today ABC News, made the news, with massive job cuts. Please consider Job Cuts at ABC Leave Workers Stunned and Downcast. If “Good Morning America†or “World News†look any different in the coming weeks, it might be because ABC News is employing nearly 400 fewer people. Earlier this week, ABC News, a unit of [...]
Continue reading...The anatomy of an oil spill cleanup: What works and what doesn’t
30 April 2010 – 7:00 pm PST
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Preston Kott of U.S. Environmental Services moves oil absorbent boom into a warehouse at a pollution control staging area in Venice, La., April 27, 2010. Staging areas are being set up along the Gulf coast as the Deepwater Horizon spill continues to spread. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick Kelley. Photo [...]
Continue reading...NAACP President Ben Jealous Responds to Wells Fargo Criticism
30 April 2010 – 6:54 pm PST
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Filed under: Dr. Boyce Money, News I like NAACP President Ben Jealous. Being the youngest person to ever lead the 100-year old civil rights organization, Ben brings the fresh leadership necessary to make the organization what it should have been a long time ago, or at least what it used to be in the middle [...]
Continue reading...Bubble in Law School Tuition and Lawyers?
30 April 2010 – 6:30 pm PST
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Has excess capacity hit the legal profession? The Chicago Tribune discusses the situation in Law school tuition hikes spark talk of bubble The rising cost of law school is becoming a sore subject as the number of high-paying jobs shrink. With large numbers of unemployed or underemployed lawyers who borrowed heavily to pay for their [...]
Continue reading...Waiver for General James Jones
30 April 2010 – 5:06 pm PST
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Because our rules are so tough, they occasionally yield unintended consequences. We attempt to take a common-sense approach to those situations, as we did this week in authorizing the National Security Advisor, General James Jones, to give very brief remarks introducing President Clinton at an Atlantic Council event. The Atlantic Council is a non-profit 501(c)(3) [...]
Continue reading...Statement by the Vice President on New Recovery Act Recipient Reports Posted on Recovery.Gov
30 April 2010 – 4:12 pm PST
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Washington, DC – As mandated by statute, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board today posted on Recovery.gov quarterly reports required from some recipients of Recovery Act funding. The recipient reports provide more detailed information about a portion of Recovery Act activity during the first quarter of 2010. The Vice President issued the following statement: “The [...]
Continue reading...ClipperCreek and Silver Spring Networks Develop Level 2 EVSE Smart Charging Station
30 April 2010 – 3:15 pm PST
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ClipperCreek, Inc., a leading producer of plug-in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and Silver Spring Networks, a leading Smart Grid solutions provider, have jointly developed the first fully integrated, Level 2 Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) smart charging station. The companies are currently working with a variety of utilities to develop hardware and software needed to [...]
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30 April 2010 – 9:54 pm PST
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