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Water cops to monitor water crisis and drought in California
2014-07-23 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Bay Area water agencies are considering hiring new temporary employees to keep water usage in the area under control, after residents were advised to conserve water to mitigate the effect of the worst drought on record that has been hitting the region since February. Santa Clara Valley Water District will decide whether to spend $500,000 (293,000) to hire up to 10 new temporary employees in order to monitor water usage and waste in the region, after attempts to make citizens save water did not...
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Oil crisis as refineries close for maintenance
2014-07-20 12:28:06| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
After coal for the thermal-electricity plants, the north region now is short of petrol and diesel for its filling stations because the oil refineries in Bathinda and Panipat are closed for annual maintenance.
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Stock Downgrades: Don't Kid Yourself, Mattel Has a Midlife Crisis With 55-Year-Old Barbie
2014-07-18 16:54:59| Toys - Topix.net
With apologies to Aqua, we no longer live in a Barbie World . Corporate parent Mattel is seeing Internet-era kids shun its old-school 11.5-inch piece of plastic that arrived in antediluvian 1959.
Crisis Intervention Training
2014-07-17 23:12:30| PortlandOnline
The Effects of Mandatory Training on Use of Force, Arrests and Holds for Mental Health (May 3, 2013) PDF Document, 617kbCategory: Crime Analysis
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Fossil fuels the 'new sub-prime crisis'
2014-07-14 19:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Staggering gains in solar power - and soon battery storage as well - threatens to undercut the oil industry with lightning speed ... Writing in the conservative UK newspaper the Daily Telegraph, influential columnist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes that the "fossil industry is the subprime danger of this cycle". Oil and gas investment has soared and production has peaked but has yielded very little financial return: "The cumulative blitz on exploration and production over the past six years...
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