Crack in hill near shopping center may be caused by cutting too far into hill ...

Edit Penn Live 05 May 2016
The large crack in a hillside near an Altoona shopping outlet may be the result of cutting too far back into the hill when the mall was built a decade ago ... Thursday, he added ... But what, exactly, is going on there?. Dr. Jennifer Sliko, a lecturer in earth sciences at Penn State Harrisburg, said it appears to be what geologists call "mass wasting," and this particular form is called a "slump." ...   ... ....

The Need for Liberty and Dignity at the End of Life

Edit Huffington Post 04 Mar 2016
The bill failed, and this year was reintroduced as the End of Life Options Act ... February 25, 2016 ... I'm Dr ... In spite of all her best efforts, she continued to waste away, losing 30% of her body weight over the next three months ... She knew there was no return; her appetite was gone, anti-depressants had no effect, and as her muscle mass wasted away, so, too, did her brain soon follow suit ... None of that, however, changed her desire to die ... ....

Ringaskiddy locals and students join Cork incinerator protest

Edit The Irish Times 03 Mar 2016
“Our first main concern is the health issue - there’s a plethora of research highlighting the health dangers associated with mass waste incineration - we have no idea what’s going to be going into this incinerator, so we have no idea what is going to be coming out ... The Antwerp plant was dealing with petrochemical waste which would not be dealt with ......

Waste paper from DIXY saves 650,000 trees (OAO DIKSI Grupp)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Feb 2016
WASTE PAPER FROM DIXY SAVES 650,000 TREES ... The DIXY chain of stores has computed the mass of waste products delivered to be recycled in 2015 - over the 12 months the stores delivered over 39,000 tons of waste paper, thereby saving 650,000 trees ... There, these materials undergo preliminary processing, get pressed or fragmented and then delivered as secondary waste for recycling and reprocessing....

More ways to less waste

Edit The Hindu 13 Jan 2016
Among many other issues, the excessive rains brought up issues associated with garbage disposal, as floating piles of unmanageable waste littered our streets ... Five years since, Ulhas practices simple segregation, separating plastics, paper, bottles and organic waste ... By throwing out waste en masse, the waste that can be recycled or composted gets mixed up and goes straight to the dump....

Congress sends health law repeal to Obama for first time

Edit Denver Post 07 Jan 2016
GOP bill approved, heads for fast veto ... The nearly party-line vote in the House was 240-181. Colorado's seven representatives voted along party lines ... "We are confronting the president with the hard, honest truth," said Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin ... Jim McGovern, D-Mass. "This is just a waste of everyone's time." ... ....
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GOP-Led House Passes Obamacare Repeal, Send Bill To President For Likely Veto

Edit WorldNews.com 07 Jan 2016
In a near party-line vote Wednesday, the U.S. Republican-led House passed and sent legislation to President Barack Obama repealing his signature health law and fulfilling a promise to Republican voters in a presidential election year, The Associated Press reports. A veto by the president is considered a fait accompli ... Jim McGovern, D-Mass. "This is just a waste of everyone's time." ... – WN.com, Jack Durschlag....

Congress sends health-care-law repeal to Obama for first time

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 07 Jan 2016
WASHINGTON — The GOP-led Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama on Wednesday repealing his signature health-care law, fulfilling a promise to Republican voters in a presidential election year but inviting a certain veto. The nearly party-line vote in the House was 240-181 ... “Obamacare doesn’t work.” ... Jim McGovern, D-Mass. “This is just a waste of everyone’s time.” ... But they said that is the point ... ....

Health law repeal sent to Obama

Edit Longview News Journal 07 Jan 2016
WASHINGTON — The GOP-led Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama Wednesday repealing his signature health law, fulfilling a promise to Republican voters in a presidential election year but inviting a certain veto. The nearly party-line vote in the House was 240-181 ... "Obamacare doesn't work." ... Jim McGovern, D-Mass. "This is just a waste of everyone's time." ... But they said that is the point ... Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington ... ....

House GOP sending health law repeal to Obama for first time

Edit The Oklahoman 06 Jan 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans prepared to cast their 62nd vote Wednesday repealing President Barack Obama's health care law, with a difference. It's the first time their bill will end up on the president's desk ... "We are confronting the president with the hard, honest truth," said Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. "Obamacare doesn't work." ... Jim McGovern, D-Mass. "This is just a waste of everyone's time." ... ....

House vote to send health law repeal to Obama for first time

Edit Business Insider 06 Jan 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans prepared to cast their 62nd vote Wednesday repealing President Barack Obama's health care law, with a difference. It's the first time their bill will end up on the president's desk ... "We are confronting the president with the hard, honest truth," said Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. "Obamacare doesn't work." ... Jim McGovern, D-Mass. "This is just a waste of everyone's time." ... More from Associated Press. ... ....

NUREG/CR-7199, ANL-15/06 Radionuclide Release from Slag and Concrete Waste Materials – Part 3: Testing Protocol ...

Edit Public Technologies 29 Dec 2015
The system of discrete pieces of waste material forming the pile is modeled as a fractured matrix to express properties that depend on the surface areas of particular phases as average values for a representative volume or mass of the waste material ... Most important, values of κ are expressed in terms of waste material mass rather than the surface area of the host phases....

Blue Sphere Completes Acquisition of Multiple Biogas Facilities in Italy

Edit Stockhouse 17 Dec 2015
Blue Sphere Corporation operates in the fast growing clean-tech sector as a waste-to-energy project integrator ... Helios Energy Investments is a group of infrastructure funds investing in distributed power generation and renewable energy plants, managing over EUR 150 million. Helios' investment portfolio includes more than 80 MW of solar PV, bio-gas, bio-mass and waste to energy power plants located in Europe and Israel....
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