The health-care overhaul will change the way millions of Americans get health insurance and require nearly everyone to have health insurance or face penalties. A number of factors - including income, age, location and family size - will determine how it specifically impacts your life. The Washington Post has a very useful tool that estimates what it could mean for your health coverage and taxes based on your income, family size and current insurance status.  This tool is useful for individuals, not necessarily for businesses.

Exhibitor participation is on the rise for the Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (AAPEX) 2010 – scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 2 through Thursday, Nov. 4, at the Sands Expo Center, Las Vegas, Nev.

Reserved exhibit spaces have increased 18 percent for AAPEX 2010 compared to this point before the 2009 event, according to W.T. Glasgow, Inc., AAPEX show manager. The group facilitated the annual AAPEX Space Drawing, held May 20 through June 11.

“This year’s space drawing went smoothly, and the feedback from participating companies was overwhelmingly positive on the self-selection process for spaces,” said Bill Glasgow, Sr., president, W.T. Glasgow. “More than 750 companies participated in the AAPEX 2010 Space Drawing, including representatives from Brazil, China, India, Malaysia and Taiwan.”

As of June 22, a total of 995 exhibitors had reserved spaces at AAPEX 2010. This compares to 835 exhibitors on June 23, 2009. The exhibitor total includes all major domestic exhibitors that participated in the 2009 event. The total booth spaces reserved to date, which includes international pavilion spaces, is 4,310 – which exceeds the final 2009 booth space total of 3,835.

“We’re very pleased by the event participation thus far,” Glasgow said. “With the increase in exhibitor participation, the expectation of similar increases in buyer registrations, the strengthening business climate and enhancements to the event, it’s clear that AAPEX 2010 will be a strong event this year.”

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a notice expanding the list of acceptable substitutes for ozone depleting substances under their Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP). The substitutes are for use in several different sectors including bus and passenger train air conditioning. The majority of the acceptability decisions find substitutes acceptable as alternatives to the class II ozone depleting substances hydrochlorofluorocarbon or HCFC-22, HCFC-142b and blends containing one or both of these substances. EPA is also finding one of the alternatives, HFO-1234ze, acceptable as a substitute for CFC-11 in the aerosol propellant end use.

According to the agency, “The listing of additional refrigerant alternatives as acceptable will provide users in the refrigeration and air-conditioning sector with more options for replacing HFCFC-22 and HCFC-142b, which pursuant to EPA’s phase-out regulations, may generally be used only as a refrigerant to service equipment manufactured before Jan. 1, 2010.”

To view the entire Federal Register notice, visit http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-14510.pdf.

Yes, it's that time of the year again; time to order your 2011 calendars.  We wanted to bring you up to date on a couple of highlights of this year's program.

ORDER NOW!
TO GET THE EARLY-BIRD
SPECIAL PRICE,
place your order by July 1st

Last year's program was very successful with our change of vendors and we look forward to this year's program.  The calendar catalog is enclosed.  The offerings have been revised a bit to the most popular calendars.  There is no set-up charge for our members.  Orders placed now can be delivered and billed after October 10, 2010.

WAWA offers a complete calendar program.  Celebrate the year 2011 by getting your message into the home and offices of your customers...daily.  Calendars are effective.  Calendars are used where buying decisions are made: on the job, in the office, on the road, or at home. 65% of all calendar recipients write appointments/reminders on their calendar.  This daily involvement keeps your advertising sign working all day, every day.

 
Calendar catalogs were mailed June 4th.  To request a printed catalog or a pdf of the catalog, contact the WAWA office at 800-562-6520.

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