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• Best St. Regis Princeville Pics on the Net

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  Best online pictures yet of the St. Regis Princeville:
  [www.watg.com]St. Regis Princeville Resort Interior Designers | WATGSource: www.watg.com11/18/2009 - Rhonda Rasmussen Project: St. Regis Princeville Resort New Look Magazine From the start, creating the St. Regis brand's first hotel in Hawaii out of the [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:08am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• KIUC outsourcing

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  From: [www.kauaiworld.com]
  
  KIUC outsourcing
  
  I just paid my KIUC bill. I noticed it goes to a P.O. Box in Honolulu instead of a local address.
  
  This could only mean that we are outsourcing jobs from Kaua‘i to Honolulu. Next step will be an address on the [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:44pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Hawaii's famous white sandy beaches 'are shrinking'

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  Telegraph.co.uk Hawaii's famous white sandy beaches 'are shrinking'
  Telegraph.co.uk
  By Nick Allen in Los Angeles
  They said that more than 70 per cent of beaches on the island of Kauai are eroding while Oahu has already lost a quarter of its sandy [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:33am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• China's Blunt Talk for Obama - WSJ.com

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  "...Liu Mingkang, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, said that a weak U.S. dollar and low U.S. interest rates had led to 'massive speculation' that was inflating asset bubbles around the world..."
  China's Blunt Talk for Obama - WSJ.com
  Source: online.wsj.com
  China's top banking regulator sharply criticized U.S. [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:56pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Small Wind Generators in Honolulu

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  SWECS! 16 X 1kW for $100,000...that's pretty good...equal to PV
  [www.honoluluadvertiser.com]State testing wind power at airport | HonoluluAdvertiser.com | The Honolulu AdvertiserSource: www.honoluluadvertiser.comThe state of Hawaii is testing wind-powered electricity generators at Honolulu's airport... [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:53pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Hanalei Bridge Closure...300+ hits today

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  Well, this blog got about 300+ hits today wanting to know about "Hanalei Bridge Closure." The only post I had was from August 12, 2009, with a link to here: [waterdata.usgs.gov]
  
  The bridge is closed and has not been opened yet, as of 11 pm 11/14/09 and it [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 5:55pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• The Weather, Wailua, and the Gods

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  From a taro (kalo) farmer in Hanalei today:
  
  My garden is in ankle deep water, the raised beds are flat. The taro is surviving. The cover crop is flooded and may not survive. We'll see.
  
  The river by our house has risen a few times today, threatening. We'll [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 3:50pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Release Our Water (East Maui Documentary)

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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 1:55pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Video: Hanalei Valley flooded 11/14/09

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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 1:48pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• St. Regis Princeville review in the LA Times yesterday

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  Renovated St. Regis Princeville Resort wears a Hawaiian crown, not a European one
  By Beverly Beyette, Reporting from Princeville, Kauai
  November 13, 2009
  
  The resort's new look pays homage to native culture. Most of the remodeled rooms lack balconies, but are otherwise well-updated. And the food is delicious.' [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 4:02am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• GMO Corn Developments in Europe

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  High Lysine GM Maize Withdrawn, Safety Concerns
  Monsanto withdraws maize from regulatory approval citing commercial reasons [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:47am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• H1N1 Vaccine news developments for Kaua'i

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  Most HI Health Care Providers Without H1N1 Vaccine
  State Sending 50 Doses To Remaining Clinics, Practices
  
  "Nearly the entire island of Kauai is without the vaccine. That is because nearly all health providers on the Garden Isle ordered preservative-free doses at first, but since those are not available," [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:41am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• New Report: Oil Reserve Numbers Deliberately Inflated

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  Whistleblowers Say Oil Reserve Numbers Deliberately Inflated to Avoid Panic [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:33am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Cap-and-Trade Scam, EPA Attorneys Speak Out Against the "Cap and Trade" Bill

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  Defying Gov't Censorship, EPA Attorneys Speak Out Against White House-Backed Climate Change Proposal "Cap and Trade"
  
  ...two longtime EPA enforcement attorneys who have publicly criticized a key component of the climate change legislation being considered by Congress. Last week the EPA directed Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel to' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:23am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Global Oil Speculation: 50 Times Bigger than Madoff

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  The Global Oil Scam: 50 Times Bigger Than Madoff [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:18am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Project Recon Recent Intel China's Plastic Bag Ban

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  From The PN China Blog of PlasticsNews.com/China:
  

  "China's bag ban enforcement challenged"
  by Nina Ying Sun on November 11, 2009
  

  A PhD student in Beijing is challenging the government's enforcement of the nationwide ban of free shopping carrier bags and ultrathin bags, joined by [...]

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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 4:01pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• BAXTER ADMITS CONTAMINATING 72 KILOS FROM POLISH MSM - TVN

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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:22pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Op-ed on Distributed Power Generation in Hawaii

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  From: [www.honoluluadvertiser.com]
  
  Tuesday, November 10, 2009
  Creating a new path to reduce energy footprint
  Decentralizing renewable energy efforts key to our preferred future
  By Henry Curtis
  
  We import billions of dollars each year to buy foreign petroleum from unstable countries around the world. We can [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:29pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• NSW, Australia passes a high Feed-in Tariff payment rate

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  Wow, Hawaii could use a Feed-in-Tariff like this:
  
  From: [www.energymatters.com.au]
  
  Breaking news
  
  The NSW Government has decided to switch from a net solar feed in tariff model that only pays for surplus electricity exported to the mains grid to a gross model where all power [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:16am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Report on Distributed Renewable Power Generation

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  From: [greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com]
  
  October 30, 2009
  "Report Argues for a Decentralized System of Renewable Power Generation"
  By Jim Witkin
  
  
  ...Most states could meet their demand for electricity with renewable energy sources inside their own borders, according to a new report from [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 11:04pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• What's happening with the dollar, oil, and commodities?

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  The following is a repost of a good article accurately explaining what is and will be happening with the dollar, oil, and commodities. The last three paragraphs are the best:
  
  From: [www.marketoracle.co.uk]
  
  "Jim Rogers vs Nouriel Roubini, Can The Commodities Boom Survive?"
  By Andrew McKillop
  Nov [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 6:27pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Official Unemployment 10.2%, Total Unemployment 17.5% October 2009

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  Referred to in the above video:
  [cop.senate.gov] [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:43am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Municipal bonding authority to finance solar on private property

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  This is in follow-up to the insightful Garden Island letters "We are all Keynesian puppets" (Nov. 5) by Ron Holte and "Solar is the answer" (Oct. 29) by Kawika Moke among the many letters on solar that Mr. Moke has written.
  
  Mr. Holte astutely wrote, "...we must take actions" [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:09am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Russell Blaylock, MD on "Swine Flu"

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  DR. RUSSELL BLAYLOCK ON SWINE FLU
  
  This is an email sent to a friend of Dr. Blaylock and is now being forwarded to anyone interested. Dr. Blaylock is a board certified neurosurgeon, author and lecturer. He attended the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans and completed his [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:20am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Project Recon Plastics Intel Update 11/05/09

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  Click on titles for full reports:
  
  Video: Material Insights: Nov. 2, 2009
  In this week's Plastics News' Material Insights: PP prices take a 10-cent plunge; Eastman's PET plant in South Carolina to close for a portion of the fourth quarter; Plastipure gets a $1.1 million federal grant for' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:14am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Update on Hawaii Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Task Force...no carbon taxes nor cap-and-trade needed

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  Tuesday, November 3, 2009, the Hawaii Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Task Force Investigative Committee met on Kaua'i to present the initial "Proposed GHG Reduction Work Plans for Hawaii" and take comments from the public on that. The report makes use of a baseline "Reference Projection" case and then attempts' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:01am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Kiwi's Disappoint...

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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:20pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Spanish Benedictine Nun MD Dissects "Swine Flu"

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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:23pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• What "Swine Flu"???

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  Swine Flu Cases Overestimated? - CBS NewsSource: www.cbsnews.com CBS News Exclusive: Study Of State Results Finds H1N1 Not As Prevalent As Feared
  Doctors speak out about H1N1 VACCINE DANGERSSource: www.youtube.comAre vaccines today more dangerous, in some cases, than the diseases? Medical Doctors speak [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:18pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Oil back above $80 per barrel again...

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  From: [www.google.com]
  
  
  The Associated Press: Oil jumps above $80 despite flat demandSource: (AP) 11/04/09
  NEW YORK — Crude prices bounced above $80 per barrel once again on Wednesday, a level that even OPEC leaders have said is too high given the fragile [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:14pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Kaua'i could be doing this...

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  Renewable Energy News THURSDAY 05 NOVEMBER, 2009
  

  "Solar Thermal Molten Salt Project For California"

  by Energy Matters
  

  
  Rice Solar Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of Solar Reserve, has filed plans to construct and operate a large solar farm in Riverside [...]

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:08pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Well...only 'Plutocrats' could have bought these...

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:36am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• The Mother of all Carry Trades

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  Fed Statement Translation: "Game on for the Carry Trade" ...Nov 4, 2009 ... After a bit of volatility, it seems that the Fed's decision to keep rates unchanged and not to warn of impending hikes has conveyed a clear...
  blogs.wsj.com/fed-statement-translation-game-on-for-the-carry-trade/ [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:07am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Comments on the "Recreational Renaissance Plan B"

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  First, the proposed codified Rule changes are not in OCR machine readable format, they are an image file, and therefore cannot be cut-and-pasted to comment and work with. The files can just as easily be posted online as OCR files by DLNR in the future.
  
  My comments in [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:41pm EST
  by Brad Parsons

• PUC Abandons Kauai? KIUC not included in recent Feed-in-Tariff Decision

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  None of this applies to Kaua'i and KIUC. This Feed-in-Tariff decision is only for the other Hawaiian islands:
  
  From: [dms.puc.hawaii.gov]
  
  Docket No 2008-0273 Docket Title INSTITUTING A PROCEEDING TO INVESTIGATE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF FEED-IN TARIFFS.
  09/25/2009' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:30am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Global Investigation: Finding the "Plutonomists"‏

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  To: ajay.kapur@miraeasset.hkCc: niall.macleod@ubs.com; priscilla.luk@miraeasset.hk; narendrasingh2@gmail.com
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  In reading your two "Plutonomy" reports, I find them badly written, with punctuation errors, containing repeated slang and colloquialisms, too many "I" and "we" first [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:18am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• This says it all about the Mortgage Industry and Economy over the next 2 years

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  This graph is worth looking at for a while. There are all kinds of insights from it for the next 2 years:
  
  Click on graph to enlarge.
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 6:59am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Koke'e and Ha'ena State Parks BLNR Public Hearing Tues. Nov. 3, 6pm

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  This re-post is from: Maka'ala Ka'aumoana, Community Advocate

  Please broadcast this message as broadly as you are able.

  Aloha,
  

  The Board of Land and Natural Resources will hold a public hearing on November 3, 2009, 6 pm at Chiefess Kamakahelei School in Puhi to discuss and make decisions on the [...]

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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 6:44am EST
  by Brad Parsons

• Plastics Intel 10/30/09

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  Calif. city bans PS carryout boxes
  RICHMOND, CALIF. (Oct. 30, 12 p.m. ET) -- Richmond has joined the list of northern California communities that have banned polystyrene takeout containers. Altogether, 25 California towns and two counties have banned PS takeout packaging...
  
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 4:59pm EDT
  by Brad Parsons

• Time for the Furlough Fridays FUG Button Rebellion

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  NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL Hawaii’s Children, Left Behind Saturday, October 31, 2009 [www.nytimes.com]
  
  The economic crisis has forced every state to scramble to get its budget in balance. This has meant torturous efforts to preserve essential services and minimize the pain and damage from slashed spending and [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 11:53am EDT
  by Brad Parsons

• St. Regis Princeville Video Tour

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  This is kind of interesting:
  
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 8:21pm EDT
  by Brad Parsons

• What can I do to reduce my chances of developing cancer?

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  From Bob Livingston of Liberty Alert:
  
  Dear Bob,
  
  What can I do to reduce my chances of developing cancer?
  
  A: The main things you can do are: get Omega-3 fats from krill oil, fish oil or cod liver oil; take up to 5,000 IUs of vitamin D3 [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 4:46am EDT
  by Brad Parsons

• "Big Crash Coming?" by Dave Cohen

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  Excellent article on the current state of the economy, oil, and the dollar. Only thing is, the writer assumes the dollar will be worthy of significant appreciation if/when interest rates are raised:
  
  From: [www.energybulletin.net]
  
  Published Oct 29 2009 by ASPO-USA, Archived Oct 29 2009 Big Crash [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 4:32am EDT
  by Brad Parsons

• Brewbaker: No recovery until 2011...varies from UHERO and DBEDT

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  Excellent article by Janis Magin. This is as optimistic as it gets:
  
  From: [pacific.bizjournals.com]
  
  Thursday, October 29, 2009
  "Brewbaker: No recovery until 2011" by Janis L. Magin
  Pacific Business News (Honolulu)
  
  Economist Paul Brewbaker has joined other experts in forecasting that the state won’t see meaningful [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 5:56pm EDT
  by Brad Parsons

• More Plastics Bad News and Dirty Laundry Today

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  Man, this plastics industry stuff is a cesspool of bad news:
  
  U.S. polypropylene prices fall 10 cents per pound in October
  AKRON, OHIO (Oct. 29, 1:40 p.m. ET) -- It’s true that what goes up must come down [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 3:38pm EDT
  by Brad Parsons

• Current Plastics Industry Intel

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  U.S. bottle recycling rate rises
  MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (Oct. 28, 1:20 p.m. ET) -- In absolute pounds, the number of high density polyethylene and PET bottles recycled continued to increase in 2008, and so did the HDPE and PET recycling rates. But the amount of pounds added to the [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 8:23am EDT
  by Brad Parsons

• Latest Roubini on the Economy

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  This guy's still got it..."Roubini on the Economy"...Nouriel Roubini, chairman of RGEMonitor.com, shares his outlook on the economy.
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 11:49am EDT
  by Brad Parsons

• KIUC, you ready for this?...Oil speculation taking hold again...Obama's done nothing on this...asleep at the wheel

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  "$110 Oil Coming?"...Daniel Dicker, an independent oil trader, shares his outlook on oil prices.
  
  
  From: [www.thestreet.com]
  "Oil Price Disconnect Hurts Us All" By Daniel Dicker 10/21/09 [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 11:08am EDT
  by Brad Parsons

• Debts loom as Hawaii hotels cut rates deeper

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  From: [pacific.bizjournals.com]
  
  October 19, 2009 "Debts loom as Hawaii hotels cut rates deeper"
  Pacific Business News (Honolulu) - by Chad Blair Pacific Business News

  Deep discounting of hotel rooms is helping occupancy during the visitor slump.

  But the rate cuts, averaging 16 percent from a [...]

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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 10:52am EDT
  by Brad Parsons

• Latest Intel on the Plastics Industry

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  Anipac planning pro-plastic ad campaign
  MEXICO CITY (Oct. 26, 10:05 p.m. ET) -- In its second major initiative within a week, Mexico’s national plastics industry trade association said it will launch a multimedia advertising campaign to stress the benefits and advantages of plastic in [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 10:48am EDT
  by Brad Parsons