22 February 2013/11 Raby’ ath-Thani 1434/04 Esfand 1391
Jamestown, North Dakota, will lose their Kmart in May. Sears Holdings officials said they will not renew the lease because sales at the Flickertail State store sucked! 45 people out-o-work.
Calumet City, Illinois, losing the River Oaks Center Sears store in May. Company officials called it “a business […] Continue Reading…
22 February 2013/11 Raby’ ath-Thani 1434/04 Esfand 1391
12 years ago an Egyptian scientist moved to Japan, to work with the National Institute for Material Science to create new water filters with nanotechnology. Sherif El-Safty’s motivation was to help North African countries filter well water, which has a high rate of arsenic contamination.
After the 11 […] Continue Reading…
In Nevada geothermal energy producer, Ram Power, eliminated almost all its positions at its HQ. The CEO is also said to be quitting. They are also trying to sell off their California geothermal project. The company is moving operations to Nicaragua.
In Missouri, Renewable Environmental Solutions laid off a couple dozen employees. One manager said […] Continue Reading…
21 February 2013/10 Raby’ ath-Thani 1434/03 Esfand 1391
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the results of their own vaccine study, and it has them shocked!
First off, for overall effectiveness this year’s vaccine is 56% effective, not 62% effective as has been claimed since the beginning of the season. Secondly, when […] Continue Reading…
20 February 2013/09 Raby’ ath-Thani 1434/02 Esfand 1391
In Columbia, South Carolina, a Kmart on Saint Andrews Road will close down by May. Another South Carolina Kmart, on Wade Hampton Boulevard in Greenville, will also close down in May. Leases were not renewed.
Today “…multimedia financial-services company…”, The Motley Fool, advised against investing in Sears Holdings: […] Continue Reading…
13 February 2013/02 Raby’ ath-Thani 1434/25 Bahman 1391
In Kunar Province, provincial government officials say a U.S. led NATO home invasion operation resulted in four men killed (dubbed “militants” by U.S. led forces), four women killed and five children killed. It happened in Chopan village. U.S. led NATO and Afghan National Army (ANA) forces […] Continue Reading…
After only a few months in business, Canadian-American Structured Solutions (CASS) has laid off half of its employees at its Montana modular homes operation. Good news, they say it’s temporary: “This is a temporary situation as we wait for materials to arrive for our next projects. And this is a very common practice within […] Continue Reading…
“I was shocked. We knew the store was going to close sometime, but they kept telling us it wasn’t going to happen until later.”-unnamed Sears employee
19 February 2013, reports out of Hawaii saying that the employees at the Honolulu Sears were just told (on 18 February 2013) their store will shut down in June. Local […] Continue Reading…
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Kit Bashing: SUPERCHARGING THE OLD AMT OPEL GT KIT
18 February 2013, fish being caught off the Pacific coast of Chiba Prefecture, in Japan, are contaminated with 130 becquerels of cesium per kilogram! The new (higher) official safe limit is 100.
The area is 200 kilometers (124 miles) south of Fukushima Daiichi, where several GE designed reactors melted down in March 2011.
This is the first time […] Continue Reading…