Boasting one of the better rhyming straplines I’ve heard in a while, eBossWatch is a registry for bosses prone to sexual harassment. “Nobody should have to work with a jerk,” claims the National Sexual Harassment Agency, and if the testimonies are to be believed, it’s the best thing since Dolly did disco . Not content with merely being a…
While you were sleeping, innovation was doing things. Yep, things. I could tell you, but I’d have to kill you. 1. Remember the ocean floor seepage close to BP’s containment cap? Apparently it’s coming from another well and, says Admiral Thad Allen, a drip is not a leak. Something else that could be escaping from BP is Tony Hayward–not,…
This is a guest post on my request from DoDo , contributing editor at European Tribune , who works in the railway sector. In technical English (and many other languages), electricity generation is commonly divided into two basic load regimes: base load and peak load. However, other languages recognise three basic regimes ( for example German : Grundlast –…
The Peak Oil Crisis: Thinking About China Earlier this week, the International Energy Agency announced that China was now the world’s largest consumer of energy (oil, coal, natural gas, nuclear power and renewables), surpassing the U.S. for the first time. With 1.3 billion people, China is unlikely to reach current U.S. energy consumption per capita for some time, if…
This thread is being closed. Please comment on http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6762 . Update, 4:00 pm, EDT : Chuck Watson has a storm update, added to the end of this post. There is a certain frustration in hearing some of the officials who act as spokesmen for the management team handling the spill from the Deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico.…
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Bottle-top idea earns Kya teen-tycoon title
Young entrepreneur Kya Meylan has proved she has a real head for business at 13. Her innovative idea for bottle tops that add flavour to bottled water has won the fourth annual Oldham schools’ Fast and Furious competition.
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The New York Times online will be free until the end of the year, when the paper starts charging for articles. But readers of the Times of London no longer have such that luxury. U.S. newspaper executives will closely watch …
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Oil giant BP has reached an agreement to sell assets in order to fund its clean-up operation, relating to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It has sold $7 billion (£4.6 billion) in assets to US-based oil production firm Apache Corp. As part of the deal, BP will receive a $5 billion cash deposit at
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BP’s chief executive, Tony Hayward, will not be stepping down from the oil giant – despite a newspaper claim that he would be departing in the next 10 weeks. A spokesperson for the company said: “He [Tony Hayward] has full support from the board and will remain in place.” Fifty-three-year-old Hayward has faced severe criticism for the
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For those of you who are new SBSM readers & subscribers, here’s a list of noteworthy posts you probably missed from one year ago. I try to put together a post like this each month to introduce new readers to old content that might be worth reading. Update: Citysearch & Free Business Listings Citysearch Kills Free Business Listings Yahoo’s…