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EDIT:  Jan, I seem to recall that you actually already wrote about Ms. Merkel's possible reasoning for being willing to lower the auto tariffs. If I recall correctly, could you re-add you comments to this discussion?  Thanks.

The RfD is highly critical of Eskom’s control of operations and maintenance expenditure, stating that the utility’s consistent over-expenditure against what was allowed showed a “lack of cost-control measures”. “In reaching its decision, Nersa considered Eskom’s unwillingness to implement stringent measures to contain its costs. In light of this, Nersa has adjusted the expenditure, taking this into consideration.”

22 – A Winnipeg man was sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for at least 10 years for sending letter bombs to his ex-wife and two lawyers in 2015, one of whom suffered serious injuries. Guido Amsel, 52, had earlier been convicted on four charges of attempted murder and numerous other offences.

The electric car revolution has already begun thanks in large part to government regulations and incentives in China, Europe, and even the U.S., and also thanks to solid EV offerings from Nissan, Chevrolet, and Tesla.

You can separate eyelashes and use this two-pack of brushes to ensure mascara spreads easily with this portable option. It comes with a durable aluminum tube and an ergonomic handle decorated with rhinestones, and it definitely doubles as an eyebrow spoolie.

This is not necessarily true, depending on now you define the word 'costs'.  What Jan was trying to point out in his previous message was that there exist externalities which you have not completely accounted for in your economic, bottom-line calculations, and that the costs of these externalities (such as living in a Hobbsian world of the Indian shipbreaking industry) involve costs that are not completely offset by the lower price of inputs, which you desire and which you fear will lead to inflation if they are replaced by US labor and the OSHA laws and regulations that it entails.  

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SET50 was first published in August 1995 with the base value being set at 1000 points. The index sank to an all-time low of 636.07 points in October 2011 at a time when the global economy was just begin to recover from the aftermath of the worst financial meltdown in recent memory. However, SET50 shot back up in the next few years, hitting a lifetime high of 1079.78 in May 2013 as investor confidence strengthened amid strong returns by Thai companies.

According to Korea Times, Jaguar Land Rover has been talking with Samsung about using 21700 cylindrical cells, which Tesla has been manufacturing with Panasonic for the Model 3, touting the cell’s low cost and high energy density.

They are manufactured in a variety of sizes, from a sixteenth of an inch up to three-quarters of an inch, though alien wrenches larger than three-eighths of an inch are rare except in working with very large machinery.

19 – Ontario’s top court suspended what it said was a “dubious” lower court ruling that provincial legislation to slash the size of Toronto city council in the middle of an election campaign was unconstitutional. The ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal did away with the Progressive Conservative government’s need to invoke the notwithstanding clause and rush through reintroduced legislation on the matter.

2 – Canadian Donna Strickland became only the third woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics when she shared the prize with a French colleague and an American scientist. The associate professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and Gerard Mourou were honoured for their work in the field of pulsed lasers. Arthur Ashkin developed “optical tweezers” that can grab tiny particles such as viruses without damaging them.