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From: Lance
Remote Name: 65.88.106.1
Date: 04 Apr 2004
Time: 00:45:08
Zero-Zero-Zero Backfire, Las Vegas and Colorado Water Supplies, Aquatics Fundraisers and RFID Advances. Remember when Mitsubishi did the Zero-Zero-Zero plan and were betting on the election year gold rush to help pay for any of the fall-out in loans? Well that never came because the US interest rates stayed down, job recovery came late and Domestics along with those other foreign automobile companies did quite well. So what is happening now due to this decision to go 0-0-0, well loans have gone South, and the Yen is high against the dollar and now Mitsubishi is about 2 billion in the hole at last count. This article sums it up: Mitsubishi bail-out to cost at least $1.9 billion DaimlerChrysler and the Mitsubishi group are set to spend at least $US1.9 billion to bail out ailing Mitsubishi Motors, but the German carmaker will have to provide any extra support alone, a source close to the deal told the SOURCE: Reuters news agency and Just Auto: http://just-auto.com/nd.asp?art=44015&dm=yes . We had warned about this back in 2003 last year this time. All good things which are not reality based do come to an end. We knew there was going to be a problem as the sales winded down and we were being strung out on our payments from a few dealerships out there. ----------------------------- We see that Southern NV is in the news now and is recognizing and awarding water-smart landscapers. Source: Las Vegas Business Press - Las Vegas, NV. With Southern Nevada still working through one of the worst droughts in its history and water-shortage apparently not hindering growth, water-smart landscaping http://www.lvbusinesspress.com/articles/2004/04/02/news/news09net.txt . We have talked about how low tech businesses could be well served with high tech sensor monitoring: http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1003/00000031.htm . And in Colorado? Grim is not good: COLORADO has 'grim' water outlook. Source: Washington Times - Washington, DC. DENVER, April 2 (UPI) -- Coloradoans were making ready Friday for their fifth year of drought after a "grim" report on the state's fresh water supplies. http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040402-013529-5338r.htm ------------------------------------- Glad to see the Dive Team is using Car Wash Fundraiser to come up with needed funds: Dive team to hold car wash during city-wide sale. SOURCE: Neosho Daily News - Neosho, MO. The Newton County Emergency Management Dive Team will be holding a car wash during the city of Neosho's citywide garage sale Saturday. http://www.neoshodailynews.com/articles/2004/04/02/news/news04.txt . As you know we believe in Car Wash Fundraisers for the funding of many community projects involving aquatics: http://www.carwashguys.com/fund.html . ------------------------------ Tracking RFID Tags for people: Homeless? HOMELESS to be Implanted with Subdermal RFID Tags. Source: Slashdot – USA. An anonymous reader writes "Politech has the scoop on the Bush administration's plans to forcibly implant RFID tags into homeless people in participating US. http://slashdot.org/articles/04/04/01/2216224.shtml?tid=137&tid=193 . We have been watching these homeless issues: http://www.lancewinslow.org/homeless.shtml . Good idea and why not also for Illegal Aliens, resident aliens, visiting VISA students, etc? As well as the luggage which goes on Planes, Buses and Railway Passenger cars too? For instance: Luggage? Delta Airlines begins second RFID bag tag test. SOURCE: ComputerWorld. Delta starts its second test of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to track bags today in hopes of improving accuracy over the 96.7% to 99.9%. http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/technology/story/0,10801,91826,00.html . Passengers on Rail, Buses and Airlines? Could be? Why not questionables on Aircraft too? TSA eyes RFID to track airline passengers . Source: ComputerWeekly.com – UK. Passengers with RFID will assist communications security technology lead at the TSA, said the agency believed the use of boarding passes with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips. http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=129708&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=1&liChannelID=13&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1 . RFID Tags could significantly help the situation. Of course you can always protect your own car by armored plating: Ford launches armoured Lincoln Town Car; http://just-auto.com/nd.asp?art=44020&dm=yes And to protect you from those other dubious half asleep drivers or domestic terrorists, well Nissan has a new program too: Infiniti Line To Add Lane - Departure Warning Systems. SOURCE: Information Week - Nissan is the first car manufacturer to offer the lane-departure warning system with optical sensor in the United States. The technology will become an option with a little extra cost too: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18700396 . Any comments on newsworthy events effecting car washing or any of our related industries. Send us an email: Lance@carwashguys.com
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