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From: Lance and Sources
Remote Name: 65.88.106.1
Date: 23 Mar 2004
Time: 00:51:34
Don’t be chicken !!! Put in a Car Wash? http://www.bordermail.com.au/newsflow/pageitem?page_id=705631 Serious co-branding, is it right for you? There are of course so many issues to discuss in Co-Branding. http://www.parthe.net/_oilchangeguys/00000028.htm and We have lots of thoughts on co-branding car washes: http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1003/00000057.htm . http://www.parthe.net/_cwg900/0000002c.htm . Do you understand which businesses most often co-brand with car washes? We do. --------------------------------------- Mercedes is interesting in there latest goals. http://www.autoweek.com/cat_content.mv?port_code=autoweek&cat_code=carnews&loc_code=index&content_code=06685802 . Interesting theory to curb pollution, and it could work very well too. No more terrible soot? Soot causes the Earth issues? Well that is what they say you know? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3333493.stm . Now what do we do? Oh know the whole world is going to crash and burn , oh help save us the sky is falling the meteor is coming the nuclear holocaust is next week, Y2K is postponed until mid 2004 now, the Mayan Calander has the answers? Global Warming will cook and then freeze us, the Space Aliens are after us? Just kidding because a Comet is going to hit the Earth tomorrow at 3 PM sharp on YOUR CURRENT Time Zone? Okay fine… Pollution in the Air; http://www.techcentralstation.com/031604E.html . Biosphere doing self tours now, which seems interesting. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-04v.html Meanwhile Hydrogen Toyota vehicle has been delivered for testing. ------------------------------------ SWARMS of UAVs protecting the borders? Could be? http://www.azbiz.com/AZBIZ/myarticles.asp?P=913832&S=358&PubID=12185 . Meanwhile the procurement offers are still coming in: http://www.uvonline.com/cgi-bin/view?t=N&r=N/1891 and of course they are still trying to work out all the bugs too: http://www.uvonline.com/cgi-bin/view?t=N&r=N/1892 . We believe that UAVs one day can swoop down once per week and get a car wash and we can bill the government for our serious? YAH? Charge the FTC UAV double? http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1003/00000022.htm UAV Technology slipping out of the country now? http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04493t.pdf As you know we are actively seeking more thought on this subject. Would you fly on a plane without a pilot ? Several UAV manufacturers say their technologies will eventually replace commercial airline pilots. Possibilities ... http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=70729 You can even buy your own RC UAV? http://www.rctoys.com/ . -------------------------------------------- RFID Imagination; http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/33159.html or could the RFID Tag be the elusive anti-Christ? You tell me? PRIVACY Fears Haunt RFID Rollouts CRM Daily - Although industry adoption of radio frequency identity (RFID) systems is rapidly ramping up, privacy fears continue to dog the technology. http://crm-daily.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml Tracking RFID use and data and perhaps US Visitors to the country? http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/05/2144242.shtml . But for now the line-up is in creasing: DOD, Wal*Mart, Safeway, Albertson’s, Target and we see now NESTLé UK, Safeway See RFID Gains RFID Journal - Companies at the forefront of RFID deployment in the United Kingdom are confident that a mix of corporate attitudes and government initiatives http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/822/1/1/ . UHF Band RFID? Surely; OMRON Successfully Develops UHF Band RFID Reader/Writer ...Source: Japan Corporate News - Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Mar 22, 2004 - (JCN Newswire) - Omron Corporation (TSE: 6645; NYSE: OMRNY) has developed an RFID reader/writer compatible with both UHF http://www.japancorp.net/Article.Asp?Art_ID=6879 One day RFID units will be on the windshields of our customers cars so we can employ robots to wash these cars and bill the customer direct. ---------------------------------------- Want to communicate using a human brain – computer interface but feel stupid talking to a machine? http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2004-03-19-3 Just don’t say anything. Know a lot, say little. Meanwhile there will be…. Robots, Robots every where, http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/ZDM/robot_conference_pcmag_040312.html . Even if some of the Robots crashed. ROBOTICS race wipeout! Redlands Daily Facts - Redlands, CA, Fifteen robotic vehicles took on the Pentagon's $1million-purse cross-country race Saturday http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/Stories/0,1413,209~23371~2016383,00.html We are not the only country having contests and events; http://www.jara.jp/en/en_labo/index.html . And some of those companies are doing research here too: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1549582,00.asp . Toyota to launch low-speed radar cruise control for traffic congestion Toyota Motor Corp. said on Tuesday that it has developed a new radar cruise control system with a low-speed mode to alleviate the driving burden during traffic congestion. All right, http://just-auto.com/nd.asp?art=43833&dm=yes . ------------------------------------- Is the drought in the West of the United States almost over? You wish and Wash Guys are prepared and moving ahead. EFFECTS OF WEST'S DROUGHT WILL CONTINUE FOR DECADES - Parts of the Interior West will continue their severe drought this summer and much of the region will need 20 years of normal precipitation to recover from the effects, according to federal experts. Source: Farmington Daily Times (AP); 3/10 http://www.daily-times.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=318&num=9315 . In Australia we are seeing another enemy which comes with droughts; Locust, plague spreads in Australia, adding to woes of drought-hit farmers http://www.terradaily.com/2004/040316093915.m9c7wyjz.html . Here we are seeing the Bark beetles attack the trees should we expect the locusts next? Some say yes? Hope not. AZ water drought plan and new Red Alerts? http://www.watertechonline.com/news.asp?mode=4&N_ID=46532 . Could it happen again? Locusts and all? Absolutely: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/climate-04p.html And you think this drought is only in the US and Australia? http://www.terradaily.com/2004/040319073538.7vdr5usd.html . It is basically world wide. ---------------------------- Source: Ward’s Auto: General Motors said on Thursday that its future health care obligation for retirees rose last year to $63.4 billion, from $57 billion in 2002. If not for the effects of the new Medicare legislation signed in December by President Bush, the obligation would have been $67.5 billion. The figures were disclosed in the company's annual report, which was released on Thursday. Many domestic manufacturers say that soaring health care costs have become their chief competitive burden. G.M., the largest automaker in the world, also has the largest health care obligation among the Big Three. In the first quarter of 2004, the company put $5 billion into a tax-free trust that it uses to finance future retiree health care, compared with $3.3 billion to the trust in all of 2002, G.M. said on Thursday. The company also expects to spend $5.1 billion to meet this year's health care claims for workers and retirees, up from $4.8 billion last year. "Health care is obviously an important issue for G.M., as well as any company that's doing business in the United States today," a company spokesman, Jerry Dubrowski, said. "A lot of our competition overseas doesn't have the same health care burdens as G.M. because their governments are funding their health care systems." G.M. is the largest private provider of health care benefits in the United States and the largest private purchaser of well-known brand-name drugs like Viagra and Lipitor. It pays benefits for 1.2 million workers, retirees and family members in the United States. The company says its health care costs are about $1,400 for each vehicle sold in the United States, more than the cost of steel. NY Times. ------ GM also going for a power play with Daewoo in India. It is getting to be a global war. Need to set a Spark? Surely? http://wardsauto.com/ar/auto_gm_india_buy/index.htm . Meanwhile in Iraq they are still interested even though Toyota pickups are cruising over the border coming all the way from Pakistan to flood the market there. http://wardsauto.com/ar/auto_turmoil_iraq_not/index.htm . PT Cruiser Turbo addition. http://cars.about.com/cs/testdrives/fr/ptcruiser_turbo.htm . Yet still the Average car price to group to 30K; http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=CARPRICES-03-08-04 ------------------------------- In a coffee shop conversation today a question was posed? Here it is? What if all those who wanted to be liberal, were taxed at a higher rate and could receive more services. And the people who wanted to live more conservative could pay less in taxes but not use those services without additional fees? Then what would happen? We would see that the liberal crowd would have no quality of life because they would be so over taxed and the entire system would collapse, and the conservative group which was free market based would prosper and eventually more people would opt out of the liberal system. Productivity of the liberal system would die off and everyone would want more until it collapsed? How do I know this? Well if you study civilizations you can see that is what happens then the group needs someone to work to support their lifestyle so they implement a class system and exploit the weak. The exact thing that they say the capitalistic system does. So this was a very interesting subject today? But people are really more concerned with their cars therefore maybe we might stick to car washing? Car Wash Damage is real; http://www.CarCareCentral.com/pgRenderSite.asp?SitePruuid=%7B22DD4D37-314C-4E84-83FC-4BC655392927%7D&Type=event&OverRidePagePruuid=%7B42A429C5-D712-47C1-8AB9-0588E4AB74B0%7D . And now Daimler Chrysler is working with Belanger so that the vehicles do not get damaged at car washes and the new Wal-Mart Locations. Speaking of new car sales light trucks are cooking along, but Ford cannot churn out the assembly lines fast enough for the new F-150 desires from consumers. Which some say was to be expected, this came in from NADA: New light-vehicle sales should hit 16.8 million units this year, says National Automobile Dealers Association Chief Economist Paul Taylor. He was ready to forecast fewer sales than that. Then automakers kicked off 2004 with a new round of incentives. "I would have predicted a smaller number had I not seen that surge of incentives," says Taylor. "Manufacturers are bringing incentives to market earlier this year, despite talk of reducing them." Citing Ward's data, he predicts sales of cross/utility vehicles - vehicles that look like SUVs but are on car platforms - will spur the most growth in 2004 as they did last year. He says automakers will try to sell all-new models with little or no incentives, but those enticements "will continue to be a key part of the industry." Costly incentives may be a necessary evil for manufacturers, who continue to decry them while using them to stimulate sales. Dealers seem to like incentives, period. "I haven't talked to a lot of dealers who dislike them," says Taylor. Stoked by incentives, auto sales of the last five years have set records despite a "mild recession" that started in 2001, the same year incentives took off. Despite the recession, consumers continued to buy vehicles at high levels. "It's been an extraordinary 5-year period," says Taylor. "That's why we anticipate some moderation of sales, but above the 16 million mark. I'd be remiss to say it will be as good for the next five years." It's good enough to keep dealer confidence levels high. Moreover, consumer confidence is coming back as the economy improves. That's evidenced by a 4.5% increase in the gross domestic product, says Taylor. -------------------------- Are you ever wondering about the US Congress and their attacks on the free theory economists? Imagine what Galleleo went through? http://www.techcentralstation.com/030404D.html . Spend, Spend, Spend, Spend, Spend, Spend? To the tune of Gomer Pile’s famous line: “Surprise, Surprise, Surprise” ------------------------------- Storm water changes in CA? Yep, in LA for one; COURT REJECTS CHALLENGES TO RULES ON URBAN RUNOFF - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge threw out over half a dozen claims in five lawsuits challenging the region's storm water permit. The County of Los Angeles, along with a coalition of cities and building groups, filed the lawsuits in an attempt to invalidate new requirements to control urban runoff, Southern California's top source of beach pollution. The stormwater permit, issued in 2001 under the Clean Water Act, requires measures such as drain filters, silt-removal basins and inspections, in addition to traditional measures such as street sweeping. The Los Angeles permit is one of the first in California to require results measured by reductions in pollution. A similar permit in San Diego was upheld last year and is now being appealed by the Building Industry Association. In the Los Angeles case, Superior Court Judge Victoria Gerrard Chaney dismissed all claims against the State Water Resources Control Board and rejected plaintiffs' attempts to introduce evidence that the regional water board lacked authority to issue the permit. http://www.eenews.net/Landletter/Backissues/030404/030404ll.htm#11 . ---------------------------------- Small Businesses are seeing more articles like this and feeling the pain. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/8020782.htm . ---------------------------- VR getting serious, wow, check this out? http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994737 . Here are some thoughts: http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0803/00000033.htm ----------- Fighting Fires with Steam, sounds good to us; http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994738 . We are interested in ways to fight fires; http://www.carwashguys.com/history/museum230.shtml and http://www.carwashguys.com/072302_5.shtml and http://www.carwashguys.com/tour_wyomingfireacad.shtml and http://www.carwashguys.com/08272003_1.shtml and http://www.carwashguys.com/fireseason.shtml ----------------------- Ryder buys Ruan Leasing? Wow, big power play so what’s up in the industry this is the third large acquisition in the Industry in 3 months. http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2004/03/01/daily25.html . Truck Leasing environment is changing and maturing? The next up and down cycle will be interesting? http://www.truckwashguy.com/etruckleasing.shtml Hey you know that reminds me; ''Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'' Oscar Wilde --------------------------------------------------- Looks like Airline pilots and their passengers will get no, golden parachute? Oh well, still an interesting concept, I’d love to see it in action. Hang on for that wild ride talk about Super “E” Tickets? Hello Disney, see yah Eisner? http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1058379.htm . As long as the plane is clean why jump out of a perfectly good plane? http://www.PlaneWashGuys.com . ------------------------------- Net Centric Warfare meets the bandwidth bandits? I can see issues in future with net centric warfare issues, satellites and time delays. Mission Critical issues must take precedence. http://www.packeteer.com/resources//prod-sol/MngAppTraf.pdf there are several white papers out on this subject from the business world. We like the net-centric theory too: http://www.carwashguys.com/050802_1.shtml ------------------- Here is the week end kicker. Resume Fraud at work? Lying applicants? Oh really? You mean a consumer might lie? NO? Tell me more? -------- Resume fraud gets slicker and easier Half of job seekers submitted false data in 2003, survey finds Updated: 5:22 p.m. Source: ET March 09, 2004NEW YORK - Simple misrepresentation of facts on a resume is passe. Lying convincingly is in. As companies, via background searches, try to call the bluff of less-than-honest job seekers, candidates are resorting to more complex, sometimes high-tech means to hoodwink potential employers. Some applicants are providing employers with toll-free phone numbers, which are answered by operators of Web sites that not only offer phony academic degrees, but also "verify" a job seeker's education. And, in an effort to put more credibility into embellishing their resume, some candidates are paying hackers to plug their names into a class list database of a university they claim to have attended. 'Candidates are allegedly breaking the law to get a particular job or promotion, and that is pretty much going to the full extent of the limit.' Scott Pustizzi. The Human Equation "Candidates are allegedly breaking the law to get a particular job or promotion, and that is pretty much going to the full extent of the limit," said Scott Pustizzi, vice president at The Human Equation, Florida-based human resources consultants.People could be charged with a felony for hacking into a university's database, according to criminal lawyers. And if a false degree leads to higher pay for a job candidate, he or she could be accused of criminal fraud by the employer. While the uncertain employment market is pushing job hunters to such convoluted extremes, inadequate security for database systems and a long list of Web sites offering fake degrees only serve to facilitate resume fraud. The background search firm ADP Screening and Selection Services, in a 2003 study, found that more than 50 percent of the people on whom it conducted employment and education checks had submitted false information, compared with about 40 percent in 2002. This has prompted an increasing number of companies to do more thorough background checks of candidates. A 2003 survey of more than 200 companies by Virginia-based Society for Human Resource Management revealed that 80 percent of them made reference and criminal checks on their employees. Related story High-tech background checks hit stores Still, some applicants continue to get smarter and slicker at defrauding employers and are crossing legal limits to snatch jobs away from otherwise equally qualified honest candidates. 'Transcripts - coming soon' Companies seeking to get a clearer picture of a candidate's qualifications via background checks are uncovering other new forms of deception. "In the past, people just lied," said Charles Wardell, managing director at executive search firm Korn/Ferry International. "Now, what they are doing is they are hacking into a class of a university and putting their name on the class list." Wardell said he has come across cases where some candidates are paying hackers to break into the databases of universities. If recruiting firms called the university to check the candidate's degree, the school would confirm it because the applicant's name would indeed appear on the list. Breaking into a database is relatively easy because most database servers are not password protected, said Alfred Huger, director of engineering at anti-virus company Symantec Corp. So, Korn/Ferry has started requesting degrees and, in some cases, even grades from potential candidates as proof of their academic claims. But as corporate investigations company Kroll Inc. points out, documents such as scholastic degrees and grades can also be concocted with the help of numerous Web sites that provide such services. Web sites such as fake degrees help job hunters cook the facts and even lists out-service enhancements. "Transcripts - Coming Soon" says one promotion on that site. Other sites such as easydiploma.com go a step further and offer verification service. "You can select the parchment paper, the insignia and the type of degree," said Bob Schlossnagle, president of Kroll's background screening division. "And one of the things they (Web sites) are now doing to enhance their service is they will give you a 1-800 number to give your potential employer. And when employers call they will actually confirm the degree." Background search firms admit their job is getting harder with the increasing level of sophistication in resume fraud. "A good liar understands that you have to have some basis and facts to pull off a scam," said Lester Rosen, president of California-based Employment Screening Resources. "But it's even more dangerous when employers unknowingly hire a fraud, thief or a crook." Source: Reuters. WOW, great story, to sign up online for their news go to; http://www.Reuters.com .
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