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United Kingdom: Batten the hatches as summers to have more heavy downpours
2016-06-21 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: The state of the British summer has always been a constant source of fascination and irritation, if only for its fickle nature. Now the latest prediction is for more heavy summer downpours. Our study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows the first evidence that summer downpours in the UK could become heavier with climate change. We used a very high-resolution model more typically used for weather forecasting to study changes in hourly rainfall. Unlike current climate models, this...
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U.S. Grocers Battening Down The Hatches As German Retailers Roll In
2015-09-11 21:10:02| Grocery - Topix.net
The U.S. grocery market has seen a wave of consolidation over the past few years as regional grocers work to stay afloat in the ever-changing food retail market. Deep discounters like Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and high-end specialty grocers like Whole Foods Market, Inc. have reduced the market share for long running chains that used to serve regional markets.
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Walmart hatches an exceptional partnership
2015-07-24 12:17:28| Livestock - Topix.net
Months after urging its food producers to improve their animal welfare practices, Walmart has decided to expand distribution of the leading free range egg brand in the U.S. The happy egg co. is the only U.S. egg brand that is 100% free range with a hen welfare program that covers everything from living conditions to feed to the expertise of the caregivers.
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Nordic Bulk Carriers ship to feature plastic composite hatches
2015-01-22 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Panama's flag authority has approved the use of a combustible, fibre-reinforced, lightweight composite on a SOLAS ship owned by the Danish shipping company Nordic Bulk Carriers.
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WhatsApp Battens Down the Hatches
2014-11-19 23:04:10| TechNewsWorld
WhatsApp has added end-to-end encryption and enabled it by default in the latest version of its Android messaging application, partner Open Whisper Systems announced Tuesday. The new feature taps Open Whisper's open source TextSecure encryption protocol to ensure that only a conversation's participants can read the messages they exchange. WhatsApp itself won't be able to decrypt the messages.