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Please consider Moody’s warns of bankruptcy in Scranton as city faces $20 million budget gap . Moody’s warned investors that Scranton could be facing the threat of default or bankruptcy thanks to a $20 million budget gap for the fiscal year that begins Jan
2. The Bush Administration decreased enforcement of environmental and white collar crimes , and you can expect similar results at state levels. 3
Excerpt from: Black Friday Becomes Black Thursday; Thanksgiving Just Another Shopping Day; More Temporary Part-Time Jobs
In case you missed it, please consider my October 22, 2013 report on Japan’s Sexless Youth Here are some stats according to the Japan Family Planning Association (JFPA) 45% of women aged 16-24 "were not interested in or despised sexual contact". More than a quarter of men felt the same way. Population of 126 million has been shrinking for the past decade Population projected to plunge additional one-third by 2060 Survey in 2011 found that 61% of unmarried men and 49% of women aged 18-34 were not in any kind of romantic relationship Fewer babies were born in 2012 than any year on record
From KVUE TV in Texas TO FIND VICTIMS AND SHELTERS: Google launched a crisis and relief map including evacuation shelters, crisis areas and relief drop zones. Go here for the map. Google also launched a person finder
SEJ reports Google and 6 Other Same-Day Delivery Services . If you live in the Bay Area, you might be relaxing at home in your pajamas ordering all sorts of goodies and waiting until Google drops it off within the same day. If you haven’t heard, the tech giant is making life all that more instantly gratifying by expanding its same-day delivery service.
Tweet With the disaster in the Philippines wrought by super typhoon Haiyan , once again the unseemly arguments appear about exactly how fast the winds were blowing at landfall and aw gee there were worse storms , the damage to global GDP was minor . Eli however, and some others have another question. Would it be useful to reformulate the Saffir-Simpson scale? Actually two. Would it also be useful to coordinate the new Saffir-Simpson scale with the Enhanced Fujita scale for tornadoes? The argument, at least the one the Bunny is making, has nothing to do with climate change, and everything to do with policy, construction codes, public safety and history. Both the Saffir-Simpson and the Fujita scales were designed for public officials to use in determining how to react to cyclones and tornadoes. The ranks are set not so much by wind speed and other parameters such as precipitation, as to the expected damage that a storm would do
Tweet The letter’s here , with the operative sentence "As climate and energy scientists concerned with global climate change, we are writing to urge you to advocate the development and deployment of safer nuclear energy systems." I would change the ending of that sentence to safer nuclear energy systems if fiscally prudent . I personally couldn’t support the letter as written just as I couldn’t support the reverse, a letter urging unqualified opposition to nuclear energy.
Some employees of Sodexo , the "World’s largest quality of life services company" have been hit with a massive case of "Obamashock!" because of the way Obamacare identifies part-time employment.