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China Has Early Lead On Electric Commercial Vehicles (#GotBitcoin?)
Employees Work On An Electric-Bus Production Line At A Factory In Liaocheng In China's Shandong Province. Chinese makers produced 99% of electric buses deployed globally from 2014 to 2017. A national project to replace millions of gasoline-fueled taxis, buses and trucks with new electric models is boosting China’s ambitions to…
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California Rethinks Firefighting Tactics, Evacuation Routes for Future Wildfires (#GotBitcoin?)
The Camp Fire, California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire, has left communities around the state reevaluating everything from their evacuation routes to communications systems. California Rethinks Firefighting Tactics, Evacuation Routes for Future Wildfires (#GotBitcoin?) Communities across state work to improve preparedness for ‘new normal’ following devastating Camp Fire. James Gore,…
When Your Boss Steals Your Ideas(s) At Work And What You Can Do About It (#GotBitcoin?)
Nothing frustrates employees more than a manager taking undue credit—here’s how to navigate one of the trickiest elements of office politics. You share an idea with your boss, only to see him present it in a meeting as his own. Or you slave through the night on a presentation, and…
California’s Privileged Use Private Fire Departments To Save Their Homes (#GotBitcoin?)
When the Woolsey fire swept into the exclusive neighborhood of Bell Canyon, resident Yen Hsieh grabbed her late music teacher’s 200-year-old cello, some belongings and her son’s betta fish Sparky and fled, not sure whether her home would be destroyed. More than 30 homes in the gated Ventura County community…
A Warming Climate Brings New Crops To Frigid Zones
Longer growing seasons help lead northern farmers to plow up forests for crops such as corn that were once hard to grow in chilly territories. A Warming Climate Brings New Crops To Frigid Zones The farm belt is marching northward. Upper Alberta is bitter cold much of the year, and…
California State Board of Equalization vs DPL-Surveillance-Equipment.com LLC
This is just another example of how this government will do anything and say anything to ruin small and medium size businesses. California State Board of Equalization vs DPL-Surveillance-Equipment.com LLC The visit as mentioned above actually never took place. When I called the Board of Equalization as mentioned in the…
Life Sentence for British Student Draws Criticism For U.A.E. (#GotBitcoin?)
The U.K. Foreign Office said the verdict wasn’t what it expected from a friend and trusted partner. The United Arab Emirates sentenced a British academic it accuses of spying to life imprisonment, a decision that has drawn condemnation from Western academics and politicians against a Gulf nation that wants to…
Why The Home May Be The Assisted-Living Facility of The Future (#GotBitcoin?)
Most older Americans want to stay in their homes for as long as they possibly can. Put in negative terms, almost all of us want to avoid moving into senior housing, at least until we have no other choice. But most also agree that assistance may become necessary as our…
Downfall of Sears, Toys ‘R’ Us Gives Lift to Retail’s Survivors (#GotBitcoin?)
Gone are hundreds of Toys “R” Us, Sears and Bon-Ton department stores. Downfall of Sears, Toys ‘R’ Us Gives Lift to Retail’s Survivors Thousands of stores have closed this year, but that’s good news for other chains chasing Black Friday shoppers. As millions of Americans flock to stores on Thanksgiving evening…
VW Nears Commercialization of ‘Quantum Routing’ Technique (#GotBitcoin?)
Automaker is using quantum computing to tackle tricky traffic situations. VW Nears Commercialization of ‘Quantum Routing’ Technique (#GotBitcoin?) Volkswagen AG first experimented with a quantum computer about two years ago to see how the cutting-edge computing platform could optimize traffic in urban cities much faster than an ordinary, classical computer.…
Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) Rises As Banking Industry’s Overseer (#GotBitcoin?)
California lawmaker, a critic of big banks and President Trump, says she is ready to compromise as financial-services chairman.' Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) has demanded records of President Trump’s financial dealings and pilloried financial companies accused of abusing consumers. She has also cut deals with Republican lawmakers. The primary…