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Biodiesel and Ethanol Investing (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
MRW reports that biofuel firm INEOS Bio has begun a study discussing the possibility of building a plant to convert biodegradable household and commercial waste into transport fuel and electricity in the North East of England. The study provides engineering details to build a plant at its Seal Sands site in the Tees Valley. Once [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Professor Stuart Hazeldine warns only Scottish Power can deliver carbon capture and storage within the government's timetable. From BusinessGreen.com , part of the Guardian Environment Network The UK's carbon capture and storage (CCS) competition is "dead on its feet" with only one of the three projects in the running capable of delivering a full scale working demonstration plant by the...
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John Wix (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
A new direction? A detour? I don't know.... What I do know is this... I am a teacher who wants to better. I want to teach better... more creatively... more personally. I want to get to know the children and understand where they are in their learning. What do they think of it? I don't know where I'm going to go with this blog. I might become this guru who people seek out for sage advice. Alternatively...
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Baristanet (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
This afternoon in front of Applegate Farms, Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. joined the Township of Montclair and the New Jersey Tree Foundation to announce that trees are being planted along County roads in Montclair. The county and the New Jersey tree foundation worked collaboratively to receive the free trees from the NJ department of environmental protection division of community...
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reCareered (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Consulting firms, Defense, and Health care top IT hiring, based on job advertisements open for 30 days from the top job boards. In addition to IBM’s advertisements for Developers, Sales Professionals, Technology Architects, and Development Engineers, IBM recently announced they are opening a new Technology Delivery Services Center in Dubuque, IA and planning to hire 1,300 professionals to “support...
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Mark Harrop - Photography (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
redleaves , originally uploaded by Markonmersea . There is some autumn colour around at the moment, captured this at Mark's Hall in Essex today. Not sure what the plant is called, but loved the way it has a succession of berries from the branch. This was taken with the Sigma 24-70mm lens and processed in CS4.
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Random Ramblings (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
I might have mentioned before that I work a 'nine day fortnight' effectively allowing me a day off on alternate weeks. The premise is that I work the 75 hours I should work over ten days over nine instead – in reality I work a lot more than that but my conscience is clear when I do take the day off. Anyhow, today started rather rudely with John jumping out of bed with an expletive because he'd...
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Community News - Leicester Mercury (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
Countesthorpe: After a lot of hard work, the day nursery at the community college was successful in getting grants of £63,000 from Leicestershire County Council earlier this year. This money has been split between buying information technology equipment for the nursery and the £57,000 renovation of the nursery garden to promote outdoor learning and play for the nursery and the Before and...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
Some good news from the IBM plant in Essex Junction: After years of cutbacks, the plant is hiring hundreds of new workers.
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Somerset Seasons (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
The Song of the Blackberry Fairy" My berries cluster black and thick For rich and poor alike to pick. I'll tear your dress, and cling, and tease And scratch your hands and arms and knees. I'll stain your fingers and your face And then I'll laugh at your disgrace. But when the bramble-jelly's made You'll find your trouble well repaid Cecily May Barker I am so enjoying not being at work this week...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
• John Wright: The water companies must clean up • Timeline: The key dates in the Fat Duck food poisoning The family-run fishery that provided the oysters blamed for an outbreak of food poisoning at Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck restaurant has blamed poor sewage treatment at a nearby plant for the contamination. Graham Larkin, the operations manager at Colchester Oyster Fishery, which harvests...
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The truth will set you free (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
For a short day out we went to Hyde Hall , the Royal Horticultural Society's garden in Essex. It is only 11 miles away. Today was a nice day too, overcast and not too warm, but comfortable. We were taken to Hyde Hall years ago because we won the bid for the visit in a promises auction. It has changed a lot. There is even a new entrance which my Sat Nav does not know about. The long road leads into...
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Drinkin' the Franklin Kool Aid (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
"The Real News" refers to a comment made by someone calling themselves ... "The Real News," where heaps of praise are piled onto the current - unelected - 3rd Ward Alderman for suddenly pulling out this important, otherwise unobtainable meeting of the minds between the State and City regarding the Essex plant. And then I had to listen to a prospective 3rd Ward candidate tell me...
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Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
Teddy The Senator's connections to NJ, from Berkeley Heights' Mary Jo Kopechne , to later electoral victories here. Property Taxes Monmouth U.'s poll put this #1 on voters' minds . Are the candidates addressing it? For a law and order fella ... Christie's 2005 speeding ticket in Lambertville leaves us scratching our heads and counting the unanswered questions. Something does not add up. Health Care...
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My Doubts (Free subscription) | 16/08/2009
It is the silly season, and the Independent on Sunday is taking the opportunity to dig well into the Conservatives . Of course the story is quite without news value, as Tim Montgomerie of Conservative Home explains. After all what possible relevance does the value of accrued wealth of those benefactors have? It is hardly as if a member working in an Essex car plant is going to donate a flight to Mr...