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KUALA LUMPUR: Heavy vehicles will not be allowed on roads during this festive season as authorities attempt to ease the congestion caused by the balik kampung rush. Under the Road Traffic (Prohibition on Driving of Goods Vehicles) Rules 2006, timber lorries, lorries transporting construction materials such as cement, iron, steel, stones, sand, earth and other materials as well as cement mixers, cranes and low loaders will not be allowed on the roads on Oct 20, 21, 28 and 29. Container/cargo lorries ferrying electric/electronic goods and those moving from ports to airports that are not in the same localities will not be allowed to use roads from midnight to 6am on Oct 20, 21, 28 and 29. Federal police traffic chief Senior Asst Comm (II) Nooryah Md Anvar said police would be employing various means to relieve the gridlocks expected nationwide. We will not be collecting fines on the spot for major offences like speeding, running red lights, cutting queues, misusing emergency lanes and overtaking on double lines because we dont want to worsen the traffic situation, she said, adding that the same rule applied to accidents.
VALHALLA - An annual $650,000 payment to the Valhalla schools for enrichment programs brings cutting-edge technology to classrooms, sends students to the Grand Canyon, buys discount orchestra seats at the Metropolitan Opera and provides a principal $50,000 a year to manage it all. The money comes from the WestHELP homeless shelter, which gives the town of Greenburgh $1.2 million a year. The town keeps $450,000, gives $100,000 to the Fairview Fire District and the rest goes to Valhalla to mollify opposition to the WestHELP homeless shelter in the Mayfair-Knollwood neighborhood. The deal has fueled praise and criticism. Valhalla parents such as Lori Adelsberg adore the partnership, which is used for enrichment and cultural activities for students and residents of the district.
CONSTRUCTION of a new home for Mak Hima Impis Rugby Club is set to begin soon. The Makerere based club that has been holding its training sessions and home games at the University's main ground, is to move to a new home to that is to be erected at Nsibirwa Grounds. This information was relayed to Daily Monitor by Makerere University's sports tutor Penninah Kabenge.
"Impis is going to shift to a new ground that is to be constructed at Nsibirwa grounds as a way of uplifting the sport and games at the institution in general," Kabenge said.
However, she was not certain when ground-breaking work would begin at the site. The Shs350m project is to be funded by the club's long time partners Hima Cement with whom the University has already finalised the budget requirements.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GS AgriFuels Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GSGF) today announced its execution of an agreement to acquire NextGen Fuel, Inc., a producer of modular continuous-flow, multi-feedstock biodiesel process equipment based on NextGen's patent-pending process intensification technology. Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, GS AgriFuels will acquire 100% of the stock of NextGen in return for about $20,000,000 in cash, about $2,000,000 of which is to be paid in line with increases in NextGen's sales. The closing of the acquisition is subject to GS AgriFuels' completion of financing and the agreement is terminable if the acquisition does not close on or before November 15, 2006. Process Intensification Technology NextGen's biodiesel process technology leverages innovative process intensification techniques to accelerate and enhance traditional biodiesel reaction kinetics, thus decreasing process time, reducing energy and raw material needs, and increasing product quality.
A simple yet revolutionary idea - in the form of a $90 loan - changed her life, pulling the Bangladeshi villager out of a devastating cycle of poverty. On Friday, that idea - lending tiny sums to poor people looking to escape poverty by starting businesses - won the Nobel Peace Prize for economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded. Nesa used the money she borrowed from Grameen in 2001 to buy egg-laying chickens and parlayed her investment into a business that today sells construction material. She's not alone. Yunus' notion - today known as "microcredit" - has spread around the globe in the past three decades and is said to have helped more than 100 million people take their first steps to rise out of poverty. Some bought dairy cows, others chickens.
LOGAN - Though it will play differently when it airs on national television, the arrival of the "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" bus in Logan on Sunday will hardly be a surprise to those involved.
Cleanup already has begun at the home of the winning family - whose identity is being kept hidden - to prepare for the project, which calls for removal of the existing house and construction of a new one in one short week.
On Friday the trees surrounding the home had been trimmed to make way for the heavy equipment.
When ABC's Ty Pennington and his crew roll up Sunday, operators and their bulldozers will be on site to raze the home. Construction workers and hundreds of student volunteers from Utah State University and Logan High also will help with the fast-track project.
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