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Hub Construction Supplies and Equipment can now assist our customers with a financing program on equipment
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Blue Cut fire in the Cajon Pass destroys
105 homes and 213 other buildings
The tally for California's harsh fire season ascended to even grimmer terrain Saturday, August 20, as officials announced that the Blue Cut fire in the Cajon Pass has destroyed 105 homes and 213 other structures.
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Post-Fire Treatment Effectiveness for
Hillslope Stabilization
This synthesis focuses on post-fire hillslope emergency stabilization treatments, including erosion barriers, mulching, chemical soil treatments, and combinations of these treatments.
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$1-billion Squaw Valley development plan
moves closer to approval
If approved, Squaw Valley Real Estate would be allowed to add nearly 1,500 motel rooms, condos, time shares and retail space in Olympic Valley over the next 25 years at an estimated cost of up to $1 billion. Plans also call for construction of a 90,000-square-foot indoor adventure center and water park at the resort.
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Pilot program would turn California
roads into sources of electricity
Imagine harnessing the power of millions of cars as they simply drive on the freeway using a sensor smaller than a quarter.
"When cars drive along roads, they vibrate the roads; and it sounds like science fiction, but scientists have developed a material that gets a charge simply from the vibration of a car or truck," Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Glendale, explained.
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Downtown's Broadway Trade Center
prepares for its epic transformation
The massive Broadway Trade Center, at 801 South Broadway in Los Angeles, takes up nearly two-thirds of the block bordered by Broadway and Hill, Eighth, and Ninth streets. Its planned transformation and renovation into what is essentially a little city-with a hotel, bars, restaurants, a rooftop park and pool, office space, a private club, and a food hall-is only in the early stages, but it's easy to see the incredible possibility of the 1,138,000-square-foot space, especially on the roof. Curbed toured the site earlier this week.
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Bendable concrete could speed up construction
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a new type of bendable concrete that they say could reduce maintenance and speed up construction work.
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You Think You've Had
a BAD DAY at Work?
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What's the Difference?
A New York lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by an Alabama cop.
He thinks that he is smarter than the cop because he is a lawyer from New York and is certain that he has a better education then any person in Alabama, much less a cop.
He decides to prove this to himself and have some fun at the cop's expense!
The cop says, "License and registration, please."
The lawyer says, "What for?"
The cop says, "Ya'll didn't come to a complete stop at the stop sign."
The lawyer says, "I slowed down, and there was no-one else around, so I kept going."
The cop says, "Ya'll still didn't come to a complete stop. License and registration, please"
The lawyer says, "What's the difference?"
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Getting the Safety Message Across
There are a number of strategies that can be used to compose funny workplace safety tips. For some people, a simple rhyme is easy to remember and keeps the idea of staying safe on the job fresh in the employee's mind. Here are some examples of safety rhymes:
- "Falling objects can be brutal, so wear your hard hat to protect your noodle."
- "A spill or a slip could mean a hospital trip."
- "Working in a safe way means you will live to see another day."
- "If you mess up, don't hesitate to 'fess up."
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California Competes
Tax Credit
The California Competes Tax Credit is an income tax credit available to businesses that are located in California and want to Stay in California and grow.
Please click " HERE" to read more about this program.
For additional information,
California Employee
Training Tax
Get State Funded Training Resources for your Business
Employment Training Tax (ETT) ● The 2016 ETT rate is 0.1 percent (.001) on the first $7,000 of each employee's wages (max $7 per employee).
These costs can be reclaimed by using approved training sources on the eligible training provider list or in some cases in house staff through approval by the Employee Training Panel.
To see the Fact Sheet, please click
Eligible Training Provider List
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My favorite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
. . . . . .Groucho Marx
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At San Onofre,
spent nuclear fuel is getting special tomb.
The pipes that roared when they sucked in 1.8 billion gallons of ocean water a day - pipes as wide as a Cadillac Coupe de Ville is long - are silent.
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Self-healing of concrete
America's bridges are falling down. Victor Li says he knows a better way to build them. The civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Michigan has invented a new kind of concrete that hardly ever cracks and, if it does, can repair itself.
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ENR 2016 California Top Contractors
The Top Contractors list, published annually, ranks the general contractors, both publicly and privately held, based on construction contracting-specific revenue.
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New trolley line will run from UTC mall to downtown San Diego
The workers are digging up and moving utility and sewer lines from the middle of the street and placing them off to the sides.
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Alternative offered to San Diego NFL stadium
As the Chargers' $1.8 billion stadium-convention center heads toward the November ballot, an alternate vision will be presented for downtown's East Village.
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The Beatles Played Their Final Concert 50 Years Ago
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