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CEMA
Our conference sold out its block of rooms at the Newport Marriott, with over 180 rooms sold on the peak night. With retail room rates at the Marriott now exceeding $400, we negotiated a small block of discounted "overflow" rooms at the nearby Newport Harbor Hotel.
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CEMA
This year's keynote address is sponsored by NEFI. April M. Salas is a former White House energy advisor, and is currently the executive director of the Revers Center for Energy — Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth April brings nearly 15 years of public and private sector experience in global and domestic energy and international development.
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CEMA
Paul Nazzaro, Sr. of the National Biodiesel Board, the conference partner of the Southern New England Energy Conference, has assembled a panel of industry leaders to address the question of whether our industry is on course, focused on fuels that benefit retailers and distributors by selling products that consumers want and that meet the policy objectives of government and society.
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CEMA
The future of your business will be dramatically impacted based on the results of the November Gubernatorial election, so it is time to figure out who will best represent your interests. Last night, the two major party candidates debated for the first time drawing clear lines on a number of issues that should be of interest to employers.
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CEMA
CEMA will be holding OSHA/DOT hazmat training in October. These will be Awareness certification on Oct. 3 and Oct. 16, and Operations re-certification on Oct. 4 and 17.
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CEMA
After a few safety related incidents involving employees of the Department of Consumer Protection (DCP), the department have implemented a new policy while inspecting VTMs. The policy going forward is to require that the driver exit the cab of the vehicle being tested. A couple of DCP employees were injured when drivers began to pull away while a meter inspection was in progress.
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CEMA
The U.S. Department of Labor reported that the number of available jobs in the country exceeded the number of job seekers by 650,000 in July. This makes it very difficult if you're looking to hire more employees. This topic will be addressed in the session at the Southern New England Energy Conference entitled "Hiring and retaining employees in a full-employment labor market."
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The Wall Street Journal via CEMA
Derek Rawls from Gray, Gray and Gray will present at the Southern New England Energy Conference a breakout session on how the new federal tax laws affect businesses, especially so-called "pass-through" businesses like LLCs, with an additoinal discussion on state laws that seek to circumvent the federal cap on how much you can deduct for state and local taxes.
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CEMA
Tom Bandy, from Bandyworks, is a c-store consultant, and will present at the Southern New England Energy Conference on how to make individual stores more successful, and the challenges companies face as they add more stores to an existing chain. This is important for jobbers since store growth by individual store owners and lessees in turn fuel sales growth for you.
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CEMA
The Southern New England Energy Conference will feature a breakout session on the outlook for stocks and bonds, sponsored by Belpointe Asset Management, which will also have a booth at the conference. Whether you’re an individual investor or looking at your 401(k) plan portfolio, this session by market experts from Allianz and AQR Capital Management will describe the factors that are moving various stock classes either up or down.
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The Wall Street Journal via CEMA
One of the most popular presenters at the Southern New England Energy Conference is Al Levine of Powerhouse. He'll present in two weeks in Newport on his winter outlook for energy prices, including heating oil, gasoline, and propane. His colleague, Elaine Levin, will also present on propane hedging, which is nothing like heating oil hedging.
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Federated Insurance via CEMA
People toss around the word "disaster" quite freely these days. Even relatively minor incidents are promoted to disaster status. A missed two-foot putt, a burned dinner or an uncharged phone battery can all be considered disasters by those affected. But when a true disaster strikes, our reality changes — so does our concept of the word.
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CNN
The head of the US Food and Drug Administration took aim Wednesday at Juul and other e-cigarette manufacturers, warning that they must show in the next two months how they'll keep the devices out of the hands of young people. Noting an "epidemic" surge in teen use of e-cigarettes, Gottlieb warned the FDA might require companies to change their sales and marketing practices; stop distributing products to retailers who sell to kids; and remove flavored e-cigarette products from the market.
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The Associated Press
Sports betting is off and running in New Jersey, with three casinos and two racetracks taking in $40.6 million in wagers in July, the first full month it was legal. Those figures were part of a report that showed that Hard Rock debuted as Atlantic City's No. 3 casino in terms of gambling revenue out of the nine casinos in town. Ocean Resort came in last in its first full month of operation.
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The Hour
Connecticut ranks in the top half of states nationwide when it comes to energy efficiency jobs, according to a new report. The state is ranked 22nd with 34,743 jobs related to energy efficiency, according to the report, which was done for two groups. Environmental Entrepreneurs and E4 The Future. California is the state with the largest number of energy efficiency jobs with 310,433.
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Bloomberg
A $14,000 family vacation in Italy. Zipline rides for $399. Tickets to see "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" for $704. Dozens, if not hundreds, of purchases of groceries and sundries and meals out. The breadth of transactions in the 47-page indictment against Rep. Duncan Hunter for allegedly tapping more than $250,000 in campaign funds for personal use is matched only by their banality.
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MarketWatch
Oil futures fell sharply on Thursday, with U.S. benchmark prices dropping back from the nearly two-month high seen a day earlier, as an industry report showed global supplies at a record and Hurricane Florence weakened ahead of its expected landfall on the East Coast.
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Foley Carrier Services
Driver turnover is approaching an alarmingly high rate. According to Bob Costello, Chief Economist for the American Trucking Associations, turnover at the nation's largest fleets has jumped to 94 percent. Smaller truckload carriers have it only slightly better with a turnover rate of 73 percent.
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Federated Insurance
In this webinar, we will identify the employee-to-employee conflicts which are most challenging to employers today. We will also discuss hot topics, such as bullying, cyberstalking, and the workplace impacts of employee dating. The use and benefit of flexible policies and procedures will be explained, and we'll provide concrete examples from real life situations to illustrate what companies can, should and should not do.
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