GM’s Indy plant caught in UAW pay battle

Govt floats green mission
The government is setting up a new body, with a corpus of up to Rs 200 crore, that will help companies develop environment-friendly technologies for hybrid and electric vehicles, joint secretary at ministry of heavy industries said.

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Govt floats green mission
The government is setting up a new body, with a corpus of up to Rs 200 crore, that will help companies develop environment-friendly technologies for hybrid and electric vehicles, joint secretary at ministry of heavy industries said.

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Tapping the power of the sun
Laurie and Bob Brown didn’t care, frankly, if they ever got electricity. In their Upton camp-turned-home, they were perfectly happy reading by gas lamps, using a propane stove and running a generator to power her wood-burning tools. It was a simple, close-to-the-Earth lifestyle, and they loved it.

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1989 Ford Corsair Sedan review from Australia and New Zealand
What things have gone wrong with the car? When I first got it, I received a list of things from the previous owner of what was wrong with it.

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GM’s Indy plant caught in UAW pay battle
A General Motors Co. stamping plant here has become a battleground pitting rank-and-file UAW members against top union officials over whether autoworkers should accept pay cuts to save jobs and keep factories open.

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Plant Green Giants Not Leyland Cypress

Leyland cypresses, XCupressocyparis leylandii, are not fairing well in many landscapes. It is a fast growing tree used in boarders and screens that had relatively few pest problems. Now is has been suffering from branch die-back. Sadly, it can cause the death of the tree. Seiridium canker is the cause. This disease is not to the point of wiping out this tree, but I would recommend not planting this tree as it likely will in the future be a major concern. Why plant a tree that is not going to be healthy or is suspect?
Thus landscape designers should seek a replacement for the Leyland Cypress. One great choice is the Green Giant Arborvitae.
Green Giant arborvitae is becoming a superstar in the plant world. It is the most popular arborvitae next to the Emerald Green Arbor vita. The reason for its success is that it fills landscape needs that are important. It will help block large unsightly neighbors quickly and is basically pest free. It is also a plant that is in the public domain and not protected by a patent. Thus anyone can propagate this plant.
The original Green Giant got its name not from ancient lore, but from unusually extra large, hence “giant,” green peas. These “Green Giant Peas” were a new “strain,” a new species, introduced by the Minnesota Valley Canning Company in 1925. You see, these were huge peas when compared to the previously marketed baby peas early-picked in June (that’s sure early in co-o-o-old Minnesota). LeSueur baby peas are still sold today in their classic silver can as a gourmet vegetable.
Founded back in 1903, Minnesota Valley Canning was a pea company located along the Minnesota River, which was the Dakota Sioux name for “cloudy water,” just southwest of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the state capital. This is where there’s a bottom land “confluence” with the even cloudier, soil-rich, muddier Mississippi River. The whole area, including surrounding towns like LeSueur, got the title, the “Minnesota Valley.” Ohhh. And where did THAT name, LeSeur, come from you may be wondering? Lesueur is the name of the original explorer of the area, a Frenchmen of the early 1700′s.
Minnesota is amidst the land of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe, tall tales about them a part of he culture. Maybe the stories gave rise to ideas for how to advertise Green Giant Peas.
The “Jolly Green Giant” became incredibly popular as the way to advertise those Green Giant Peas and by 1950 he was an “icon” as we say today. There was a cartoon character created, ubiquitous TV commercials and print advertising, even “giant-sized” highway billboards, so the company changed its name to his.
So that is where the “Green Giant” comes from, 20th century modern marketing, not ancient lore. The Green Giant Thuja Plicata is in the same Juniper family as the original “tree of life” Arborvitae, but with growth rates as fast as three feet per year (gee, bamboo’s the fastest grower at five feet per, but it’s just grass). Thuja Plicata trees grow to heights beyond 200 feet in the Pacific Northwest, this Western Red Cedar is indeed worthy of also taking the Green Giant name.

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The Green Giant Arborvitae is more properly named by tree scientists the “Thuja Plicata,” with the other common historic names being, “giant cedar,” also “western cedar,” and “red cedar.” There’s only one other Arborvitae specie in all of North America, the “eastern cedar,” or “white cedar,” with “Thuja Occidentalis,” as the tree scientist’s Latin name, the botanist’s name. This short tree is actually what we usually think of when the “genus” juniper is mentioned.

Funny that the eastern cedar was given the Latin name for “west” which is “occidental.” You see? As I have observed before, what’s in a name? Highland Hill Farm is not located in a town called Highland Hills, or, on Highland Hill Road, etc. Scottish Highland Hills cows that we grazed on our first property provided our company with a distinctive name when we sold our first trees in 1978.

Green Giant Arborvitae ranges naturally all across the United States from Massachusetts, southwesterly to Texas and New Mexico, through northern Arizona, up the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the state of Washington, and British Columbia beyond.

What does arborvitae mean anyway? Now that we know about the derivation of “Green Giant,” here’s how the Latin name Arborvitae, or “tree of life,” came about. As the first explorers of Canada were mapping the St. Lawrence River in 1536, the tree was used for medicine which saved their leader and most of the men too. Jacques Cartier explored the islands off eastern Canada, and then sailed westward where he entered the St. Lawrence River and found Quebec and a Royal Mountain (Mont Real, which is now called “Montreal”). Cartier was searching for the passage to China so many other explorers would also fail to find. Cartier and his men had to spend a long winter inside a little fort, away from the any sun, where they subsisted on meat, fish, and bread, eating no fruits or vegetables. As scurvy was killing most all of them, a friendly Huron Indian gave Cartier’s crew tea made from the needles and bark of a tree which looked like the white cedars of Europe. So Cartier took some trees back to France with him, these Thuja Occidentalis Eastern White Cedars, naming them “Arborvitae,” the tree of life. How about that?

Arborvitae are native to the pacific northwest where they grow to 200 feet tall, usually 50 to 70 feet is the common height, even including here in Bucks county. Arborvitae do best in wet forests and swamps. The Green Giant appearance is due to this specie’s wide 15-25 foot wide base, the slightly tapering conical shape, and the dense branches and leaves casting great dark shadows. The Arborvitae grows in zones 6 to 8, environments with temperatures that get as low as 10 degrees below 0 Fahrenheit, such as in Missouri or Pennsylvania, to environments where winter temperatures get only as low as 20 degrees above 0 Fahrenheit, such as mid-Texas and northern Florida.

Green Giant Arborvitae have pretty, yet surprisingly tiny yellow flowers. The “pine cones,” the fruit actually, of the tree, follow the budding of the flowers and are also surprisingly small compared to the size of a mature tree, being no more than a half-inch in size. There are no problems with tree litter understandably, and so few animals are attracted to the Green Giant Arborvitae, perhaps because of this description.

The Green Giant Arborvitae is recommended for growing as a hedge or privacy buffer along a property line, or driveway. Thuja Plicata, Western Red Cedars are ideal “windrow” trees. In a row, they’ll truly diminish the wind. The Green Giant Arborvitae is justifiably considered wind resistant considering the windswept mountains of the Pacific northwest. The wood itself is weak, but it is very light. Green Giant Arborvitae do have better deer resistance than most arborvitae. These trees have been planted in high deer population areas. On our farm in Doylestown we have lots of deer and do have damage the Emerald Green Arborvitae. The Green Giants are eaten a nibble here and there but not very hard. Based on our own observations over the years we feel that the Green Giants will only be eaten by deer if there is no other feed available.

Now that you know all about ‘em, Highland Hill Farm has at least 50 or more Green Giant Arborvitae in our nursery ready for pickup at any time. They will range from 1.5′ to 12′ and be balled and burlapped or potted. We also have field liners and seedling Green Giant available. There are many more varieties of arborvitae available which we have in stock. If we don’t stock the variety you want we will find it for you if possible.
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Tyres Herco – www.herco.gr – Tyre Recycling Plant technology

Tyres Herco SA www.herco.gr is private, venture capital backed recycling company converting scrap commercial-vehicle tyres into rubber granules and fine powder products in a wide range of sizes and grades for marketing commercially. It is located in Patras, Greece’s third largest port. It has a capacity of approximately 20000 tons of tyres a year – about 400000 individual casings – producing 13000 tons a year of rubber granules and fine powder products. Tyres Herco’s plant is using Amandus Kahl state-of-the-art technology.

Hazemag Concrete Recycling Plant

Huge slabs of concrete with rebar is crushed with a Hazemag 1315 APPH Horizontal Shaft Impactor w/ 300 HP Motor. The metal is extracted by a belt magnet after the material is crushed. Also featured in this plant is a Deister Vibrating Grizzly Feeder and a Deister Screen. 1st Quality Equipment Company www.1stqualityequipment.com Atlanta, Ga. We are the exclusive dealers of Hazemag Horiztonal Shaft Impact Crushers and Deister Machinery Heavy Duty Vibrating Screens and Feeders.

A123 Systems battery plant lauded by Obama

Live Chat: How to Short Stocks Without Losing Your Shirt
Get all your shorting questions answered by one of the nation’s top equity researchers.

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Kelly: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf accused of more code violations on Union City building
Union City officials say they are so fed up with what they call Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s foot-dragging to repair dangerous code violations at a low-income apartment building that they want a judge to step in and appoint a special “custodial receiver” to run the place.

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Man accused of fatal stabbing at bus stop appears in court
A Victoria man charged with second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of 15-year-old Justin Wendland appeared in provincial court Monday while his lawyer fought for more speedy disclosure of Crown documents.

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United Way launches 2010 campaign with $6.2 million goal
The 2010 United Way campaign was launched Monday with a goal of $6.2 million to help with regional needs ranging from finding shelter for the homeless to strengthening families.

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A123 Systems battery plant lauded by Obama
A123 Systems in Livonia today opened the largest lithium ion automotive battery manufacturing plant on the continent.

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Norochcholai power plant to be commissioned on January 1

How Much Will Labor Day Road Trip Cost?
Find out how much money you’re likely to spend in gasoline on your road trip this Labor Day weekend by using this calculator.

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Tim Allen to be the Voice of Chevrolet
DETROIT, Sept. 3, 2010; Television and movie star Tim Allen will be the voice of Chevrolet, beginning with the TV advertising for the all-new 2011 Chevrolet Cruze. The first ads for the Cruze will air next Tuesday, Sept. 7, Chevrolet announced today.

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Friday’s TV Highlights: ‘Chinatown’ on Cinemax
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Aug. 29 – Sept. 4 in PDF format This week’s TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here NOSEY GUY: Jack Nicholson, above, plays a private eye in…

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Builder ties donations, education to green-construction project in Beaufort
Brad Pitt is helping to bring affordable “green” housing to New Orleans. Leonardo DiCaprio made headlines when he bought an apartment in an eco-friendly building in New York City.

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Norochcholai power plant to be commissioned on January 1
The Norochcholai coal power plant will be commissioned on January 1, 2011 adding 300 megawatts to the national power grid in its initial stage. Six-hundred megawatts and five-hundred megawatts will be added to the national power grid by 2016 and 2017 respectively.

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Small Space Gardening, How To Plant A Container For Summer: Life Around Home With William Moss

Life Around Home’s William Moss visits Hatcher Gardens Woodland Preserve to present a great Summer gardening project. Containers are the best way for people without yards, whether in the city or just in an apartment, to maximize their plant growth. Start with a good container and fill it three quarters of the way with potting soil, make sure to leave at least 3-4 inches at the top. Did you know most plants’ roots only grow within the top six inches of the soil? When deciding which plants to use, choose some flowers and some foliage – experiment and play with different arrangement until you find something you like. Think of the whole combination as a plate of food, so you need a meat, a vegetable and a starch – a focal point, a filler and something to hang over the side. For instance, you may use a Bell Pepper as a vertical focal point, Fountain Grasses as the filler and Polius to weep over the sides. Also, try to choose plants that will maintain throughout Summer all the way until the frost begins. Here William picks Pentas for butterflies, Squash as a trailer and Chili Pepper as an additional filler. As always, William uses organic soil, which you should especially consider when including edible elements in your container combinations, this maximizes nutrients and vitamins while minimizing toxins. For more helpful tips on green living, subscribe to our channel!

Siemens Receives High Efficiency Gas Turbine Order For An IGCC Power Plant In The United States

Time may really fly(video)
Everyone knows the adage, “Time flies when you’re having fun.” Some know the ancient  version, “Tempus Fugit” but there’s no fun in Latin.

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Butternut Farms recognized
GLENFORD — At her home on Butternut Farms Retreat and Educational Center, Patricia West-Volland is having a complicated morning.

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Private-sector job growth reasonably robust’ in July
Despite losing several thousand U.S. Census workers, Maryland continued its overall job gains in July, although more slowly than in the spring.

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New uranium deposits uncovered in Shoshong
Botswana-focused uranium hopeful, Impact Minerals, has discovered large quantities of uranium deposits in the Central District, adding impetus to the Australia Stock Exchange-listed miner’s quest to open a mine in Botswana soon.

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Siemens Receives High Efficiency Gas Turbine Order For An IGCC Power Plant In The United States
Siemens Energy has been awarded a contract from Mississippi Power Company, a subsidiary of Southern Company, to supply two SGT6-PAC 5000F gas turbine packages. These gas turbines will be installed in a coal-fired integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) power plant using Southern Company’s proprietary TRIGT gasification technology

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Go Green: Plant a Tree

Easy step-by-step instructions for planting your own tree. Planting a tree sounds easy enough, but many people overlook simple steps that ensure successful growth.

SPP MAIN RECYCLING PLANT

Lyns Ltd introduces the worlds first automated MSW recycling plant – the SPP Series. It will automatically sort Paper, Glass, Construction, Landfill, Plastic & Kitchen Waste produce recyclable materials for resale without pollution.

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