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  • South African regulator gives nod for Eskom wind power project South African regulator gives nod for Eskom wind power project

    JOHANNESBURG - The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has granted power producer Eskom a licence for its Sere wind farm in the Western Cape, paving the way for the company to start construction of its $254.3 million (R2.4-billion) project. Sere is the Nama word for "cool breeze". The wind farm project is scheduled to become fully commercially operational by the end of ...

  • Tornadoes tear through central US

    Tornadoes tore through three central American states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa with baseball-sized hail and wind blasts ripping roofs off homes and turning trees to matchsticks, as severe weather swept the region. A large "violent and extremely dangerous" tornado was spotted Sunday night on the southwest side of Wichita, Kansas and a second confirmed one was seen near Edmond, Oklahoma, the ...

  • Country diary Coombs Dale Derbyshire

    The high limestone country north of Longstone Edge has its own strange energy, a consequence perhaps of the quarrying there, both ancient and modern. The land is scarred and nicked, like the face of a veteran fighter, a blue-collar countryside.It's also rich with tales of horror, now recruited for the purposes of tourism. The notorious highwayman Black Harry, hanged at nearby Wardlow Mires, ...

  • Environmental Working Groups 2013 sunscreen guide takes aim at high SPFs

    The Environmental Working Group is warning that some sunscreens may not protect people as well as they might have thought. The consumer watchdog's latest annual report of sunscreens comes at a time when beach goers can expect to see new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products easier to use. Despite those long-awaited changes mandated by the Food and Drug ...

  • Syrias makeshift oil refineries It is like hell – video

    As a result of the rush to make quick money, open-air refineries have been set up in al-Raqqa province. Crude is stored in ditches and heated in metal tanks by wood fires, shrouding the region with plumes of black smoke, and exposing the local population to the dangers of the thick smog and the frequent explosions at the improvised ...


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The Expendables 2

The Expendables 2 delivers precisely what you might expect from a sequel to Sylvester Stallones red-meat roundup of over-the-hill action stars from two years ago. There is plenty of the samefiery explosions, massive weapons, heavy artillery, deep voicesand what the film now ... ...

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  • Plague of deforestation sweeps across south-east Asia

    deforestation is dizzying, threatening the region's remarkable biodiversity, which includes more than 1,700 species discovered in the last 15 years alone. Many of the forests in Vietnam have been cut down for the furniture export market and the trees replaced by coffee bushes; in less than 10 years, Vietnam has gone from zero to number two in global coffee production. So much forest has ...

  • How Productive Meetings Are Like Bonsai Trees

    .' In other words, socialize your content before the meeting using quick huddles, office fly-bys, one-on-one conversations." By doing these small meetings, May says, you can gather a team's input and build a soft consensus. In this way, you can pay down the transaction cost of ...

  • Heartland Institute wastes real scientists time – yet again | John Abraham

    100,000 copies were sent out . What was it about this little book that got us talking? Many things. First, a coordinated mailing of a book is unusual. But what is more unusual is a book that purports to be the "real story" ...

  • Flight recorders from crashed U.S. military plane found in Kyrgyzstan

    Searchers found flight recorders from a U.S. military plane that crashed in Kyrgyzstan in early May, Kyrgyz's Transport and Communication Ministry said Monday. A ministry spokesman said the recorders were found in debris at the crash site and turned over to U.S. officials for analysis, RIA Novosti reported. The Boeing KC-135 refueling tanker with a three-member crew crashed into a gorge ...

  • Summit being held on beetle-killed trees

    Crew leader and head sawyer Tom Pryor checks the potential hazards of a large dead trees before attempting to cut them down. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post ...

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