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ICYMI: After Frying Thousands Of Birds, World’s Largest Solar Farm Catches Fire Matt Vespa May 21, 2016 I Ivanpah is the world’s largest solar farm located in the Mojave Desert in California. It has been responsible for mass killings of birds since the various mirrors that surround the complex literally fry them out of the sky. Temperatures above the $2.2 billion facility are said to have registered as high as 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. In October of 2015, The Wall Street Journal reported that not only has the site only generated 40 percent of the power it was supposed to generate after 15 months, it’s emitting 46,000 tons of greenhouse gas. Now, the site caught has caught fire (Associated Press): A fire shut down a generating tower Thursday at the world's largest solar power plant, leaving the sprawling facility on the California-Nevada border operating at only a third of its capacity, authorities said. Firefighters had to climb some 300 feet up a boiler tower at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California after fire was reported on an upper level around 9:30 a.m., fire officials said. The plant works by using mirrors to focus sunlight on boilers at the top of three 459-foot towers, creating steam that drive turbines to produce electricity. But some misaligned mirrors instead focused sunbeams on a different level of Unit 3, causing electrical cables to catch fire, San Bernardino County, California fire Capt. Mike McClintock said. Dead birds, underperformance of power generation, and now a fire—this is the world of so-called green, renewable energy. It’s inefficient power. Period. It has yet to meet its power output projections, but have no fear, Californians—the site has been given an extension until July 31, 2016 to get their act together.

Since the grandson works for Cat, he sent me this article from the Cat News Letter. http://www.cat.com/en_US/articles/customer-stories/agriculture/the-transformers.html?utm_content=gci&utm_source=eloqua&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=amnmaynewsletter2016&utm_term=catdozerstransform&elqTrackId=b26c21e3a97b48a6b5791cb7464671b3&elq=305a1f0cf3e340eba314cd2f06411b36&elqaid=4529&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=983

You thought the Big Gulp law was stupid? Checked this on snoops all true Safe Space law is copied from colleges in England and the U.S.A. for something called micro aggression (?) Note To people. . .grow up life's stressful! SAFE SPACE LAW NYC Mayor DiBlasi has through Executive Order, enacted a law requiring schools,colleges, and NYC government offices have “safe spaces” set up, complete with pillows, cookies and cocoa, to protect students and city workers from ideas, situations or duties they find disturbing. Ideas or duties that run counter to their social beliefs, social justice, that bring up facts or situations that they’d prefer not to consider or have to deal with, arguments or debates that are foreign to their beliefs or morals are also included. NYC Gender misidentification law Discrimination against a transgender individual could result in fines of up to $250,000, but these fines won't be handed out for accidentally misusing pronouns. According to the new guidelines, the commission can impose civil penalties of up to $125,000 for violations of the law and (in extreme circumstances) of up to $250,000 for violations that are the result of "willful, wanton, or malicious" conduct.

Think my first was a Tandy from Radio Shack and replaced it with an Audiovox, remember it was a big deal because you needed to fill out an FCC form for a call sign.

Interesting bit of history and I personally like the CJ-10. http://cj3b.info/World/AustraliaHistory.html

I recognize the Exit 39 sign, we have two here on Long Island

Probably helps quite a bit! Paul

French festivals ditch Eagles of Death Metal over singer's comments Jesse Hughes alleged he saw Muslims celebrating during Paris attacks and that Bataclan staff were involved in assault Jesse Hughes on stage in Paris in February. Photograph: Taylor Hill/WireImage Agence France-Presse in Paris Friday 20 May 2016 13.24 EDTLast modified on Saturday 21 May 201604.53 EDT Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ Shares 3,012 Save for later Two French festivals on Friday cancelled shows by Eagles of Death Metal, the band whose 13 November show in Paris turned into a bloodbath, after the frontman made remarks critical of Muslims. The Rock en Seine and Cabaret Vert festivals took issue with an interview by singer and guitarist Jesse Hughes, who renewed allegations that Muslim staff at the Bataclan club had been involved in the attack. “As we are in total disagreement with Jesse Hughes’s recent allegations given in an interview with an American media [outlet], both Cabaret Vert and Rock en Seine festivals have decided to cancel the band’s performance,” said a statement by the two festivals, which take place in late August. But Hughes has since proved controversial in his remarks. He is known for his rightwing politics and champions gun ownership as well as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.Eagles of Death Metal had briefly become heroes in France after jihadi extremists attacked their concert, killing 90 people in the deadliest of a series of coordinated assaults that claimed 130 lives across Paris. In an interview published last week, Hughes called for greater scrutiny of Muslims in the west and alleged that conservative Christians were unfairly being blamed for global problems “I saw Muslims celebrating in the street during the attack. I saw it with my own eyes. In real time! How did they know what was going on? There must have been coordination,” he told Taki’s Magazine, a publication from Greek-born conservative commentator Taki Theodoracopulos, which has faced criticism for its writings on race. Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam refuses to speak in French court Read more Trump has voiced similar allegations of US Muslims celebrating the 9/11 attacks, a claim for which there is no documented evidence. Hughes alleged that a Bataclan security guard had inquired about the background of his girlfriend, who is of Mexican origin, supposedly with an eye to warning her of the impending attack if she was Muslim. Hughes in March also gave an interview in which he alleged an inside job.

Start with check the sending unit ground wire and clean the mount points.

Glad to hear no one else was involved, also glad the truck went to a good home and not getting worked to death or exported. Paul

Certainly a different world. In the not to distant past when I raced my 55 chevy, I'd kick the timing, maybe change jets, add or remove a carb spacer and go. Now with my Mustang I get to sit with a lap top, check air temp, humidity and adjust anything from boost, fuel spray, shift points, different trigger points for NOX and a zillion other things with out even popping the hood. Newer trucks are the same, some need to "learn" a new job that puts different requirements on the Computer than what it is used to, so it needs a nudge to relearn it's limits. 21st century is an entirely different game.

Probably passed out from DD oil fumes and clatter.

There are still subsidies around for installing blend pumps and tanks, no interest loans and grants for agro equipment to produce corn and other bio fuels. Tax incentives for construction and operation of ethanol refineries. The ethanol cost at the pump is keep down because refiners federal incentives. The dept of agriculture helps foolish farmers who grow corn for food and animal feed with tax credits and incentives equal to the fuel farmers. The ethanol subsidies now are just called different names through different agencies and cost the average motorist up to $470 a year extra in hidden costs.

More like donations, pay offs picking our politicians and foreign investors making our laws.

The Damiler being RHD did have an advantage at Bridgehampton and Limerock.

Average mileage is actually better with out Ethanol. It is about 3 to 5 mpg higher with pure gas. Picture ethanol costs with out the Federal subsidies. Paul

We had a RHD 1953 MG and a 1962 Damiler SP250. We enjoyed them and the RHD wasn't difficult to get used to.

President Clinton signed the Executive Order designating 1.7 million acres of land in southwest Utah as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, his action placed the area off limits to mineral extraction and development. The New York Times reported that the monument encloses the largest coal field in the nation, the Kaiparowitz Plateau, which contains at least 7 billion tons of coal worth over $1 TRILLION in early 1990's dollars. Kentucky-based company Andalux Resources, which holds leases on 3,400 acres in the area, was planning to open a huge operation (underground, not strip mining) that would have generated 1,000 jobs, $1 million in annual revenue for Kane County, and at least $10 million a year in state and federal taxes, according to the New York Times. Folks living in the area wore black arm bands the day of the signing - but Clinton didn't see them. He chose to make his announcement in a neighboring state. WHY? An obvious explanation is he was hoping to secure the environmentalist vote. Though that was no doubt part of his reasoning, he had surely achieved such an objective earlier this summer when he declared the huge area outside Yellowstone National Park a World Heritage Area. Let'' look further. In the weeks prior to the past election, revelations surfaced almost daily regarding donations from foreign sources to the Democratic Party and Clinton's past campaigns. At the center of the controversy was another set of people to whom Clinton owed a few big favors too: the Lippo Group, a powerful $5 billion Indonesian conglomerate, founded and owned by the Riady family who, it turned out, had raised and funneled tens of millions of dollars into theClinton campaign coffers. What is so special about the coal at Kaiporowitz Plateau? It is a kind of coal that is not found "everywhere." It is very low sulfur, low ash - hence, low polluting -coal, the kind in high demand for power plants. There are only 3 known places it is found, Utah, Columbia and the LIPPO Groups coal fields of South Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia. 400.000 metric tons of this "clean coal" will be imported in 1994 into the U.S. by the Entergy Group of Little Rock, Arkansa, in partnership with the Lippo Group.

You know I looks at the Aero Flare on the cab roof and didn't register.

Optional through the dealer at the time. Factory or dealership installed. http://http://

The steering wheel on the wrong right side so it's from down under, might be MACK OZ sleeper? But it does look like a Western Star sleeper some what.

Here is the thread worth a shot. http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/44677-b-mack-fire-truck-turned-into-cool-truck/#comment-329656

Are you saying that people like Al Gore . . . Mr Greenie, telling us we need to cut our "carbon footprint to next to nothing" and that a single plumbers candle can warm an entire house, is lying?? ( as his motorcade goes to his helicopter, that goes to the airport to his private 747 is a hypocrite and may have skewed the facts to make money?)

Small Businesses and Nonprofits Ill-Equipped to Handle DOL's Overtime Rule Trey Kovacs • May 17 2016 Today, the Senate Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee discussed the Department of Labor’s proposed overtime rule’s impact on small businesses and nonprofits. As Politico reported, a final rule may be published as early this week. Hopefully, regulators at the DOL take to heart the concerns aired at the hearing. Such a dramatic change—the salary exemption threshold would increase to $50,440 from $23,660, a 113 percent jump—in the amount of overtime eligible employees will hit small business harder than their Big Business counterparts, which have law firms on retainer and numerous human resource officials to crunch the numbers. However, any changes to soften the blow on small business is unlikely, since the DOL views the rule changes as straightforward and easy to comply with. The DOL predicts that the 7.4 million affected establishments will only need a couple of hours at most to figure out and implement the rule changes. Tammy McCutchen, former DOL Wage and Hour administrator, in written testimony, raises issue with DOL’s cavalier attitude towards small business compliance: In reality, it will take far more than an hour or two – or even ten – to comply with the final rule. Since leaving the Department in 2004, I have assisted dozens and dozens of employers to reclassify employees from exempt to non-exempt. In my experience, reclassifications can take six months or more to achieve and hundreds of hours spent by business leaders, human resources professionals and outside attorneys. … Frankly, I am surprised that the Department would encourage any employer to spend so little time ensuring compliance with the FLSA. Unfortunately, it is likely the DOL will only give employers 60 days to comply with the rule once it is finalized. In 60 days, a business must inspect its entire workforce and determine how many salaried employees will no longer be exempt from overtime pay. Then an employer must undertake a fact-finding mission to determine how many hours these employees work, which is not easy task since they currently do not need to track these workers’ hours. Once the hours worked by the salaried workforce is established, a cost-benefit analysis is needed to figure out how many employees will receive a raise above the proposed salary threshold, demoted to hourly employees, or paid overtime at their current salary level. These are just a few of the many decisions an employer must make to comply with the rule. Another issue with the DOL rule is that it is one-size-fits all nature, which does not take into account the vast cost of living differences throughout the country. In McCutchens testimony, she attached a great graphic (p. 6), which is a U.S. map that illustrates the “Percent of Salaried Full-Time Workers Earning Below $970/week.” The map shows that businesses in low wage states will face greater hardships. In Connecticut, only 27.6 percent of salaried employees earn below the new $50,440 salary threshold. In contrast, in Louisiana, over 50 percent of salaried employees will become eligible for overtime pay. But low wage states like Louisiana also have a lower cost of living. According to PayScale.com, an online salary, benefits, and compensation information company, shows that it costs 23 percent less to live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, than in Hartford, Connecticut. Also at the hearing, Nancy Duncan, associate vice president of human resources at the nonprofit Operation Smile, said “the rule will increase the nonprofit’s payroll cost by close to $1 million a year.” To compensate for the increased cost, Duncan feared that Operational Smile could cut benefits to contain costs. Other nonprofits have voiced their concerns over the costs of the new overtime rule.Public universities, who face political pressure to keep tuition affordable, fear the added costs will force reductions to student services, cuts to employee benefits, and limits to hours worked in ways that will hinder their educational mission. Organizations that provide services to the disabled community, primarily funded via Medicaid, face an estimated $1.05 billion in additional costs, according to analysis by health research firm Avalere Health. These workers provide vital services to those in our communities most in need of help. However, without an increase in Medicaid funds, many of these nonprofits will not be able to increase the revenue they will need to deal with the increased labor costs from the new overtime rule. If small businesses and nonprofits decide the best way to handle the costs of the overtime rule is to reduce benefits, it contradicts the purpose of exempting salaried employees from overtime. Congress made white collar salaried employees exempt from overtime requirements because they were paid well above the minimum wage, received more comprehensive benefits, and had more opportunity for career advancement. All of that is still true today, but may not be the case under the DOL’s rule. Ultimately, the overtime rule is a poor mechanism to increase wages. All the rule does is add to the already huge regulatory burdens on employers. A better way to increase wages would be to provide regulatory relief to employers, which would free resources to invest in technology or research that increases productivity and would lead to higher wages.

And no degree required!