Tiger finance, a banker’s effort to fund survival
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stuart Bray, a City of London financier turned environmentalist, is using his fortune and skills to develop novel ways to fund conservation, starting with teaching tigers to hunt in …
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Working mom regroups from back to back fires
A Lafayette woman displaced when her house caught fire twice in less than 24 hours is trying to move forward.
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Town Square: Byrnes team kicks off Relay for Life effort
On Jan. 8, Byrnes High School Cafeteria was rocking in a new year of teams that are working to raise money for American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. The theme for the event and for the Relay is “Hope Through the Decades.”
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Nokia Joins Forces With Microsoft; Shares Tumble
Nokia Oyj, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, said it’s forming a software partnership with Microsoft Corp., betting that together the two companies can challenge Google Inc. and Apple Inc.
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The Hobbit start date changed to March
Filming on Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’ has been pushed back by a month.
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Griffin’s Wonders in Wood
It’s a cold winter afternoon in the gently rolling hillsides and woodlands of Bethlehem. But there’s a warm glow inside a gray-shingled barn at the Russell Lumber Company, a third-generation operation that sits just off Hard Hill Road North.
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Officials: Hoosiers Should Prepare For Power Outages
Powerful winds and significant amounts of accumulating ice and snow are expected to produce widespread and potentially extended power outages across northern and central Indiana.
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Question by Puzzled: How to finish wood working project.?
Heres my situation: I just built a bar out of MDF board and it looks really good. I figured that I would just leave it the way it is because I know that if I paint it, I might mess it up. However, last night, I decided to put a nice cold beer on top of the MDF counter. Big mistake. Once I lifted the beer off the counter, I noticed that the water left behind started to create “bubbles.” Since I am completely new at carpentry, I was wondering how I should finish the bar. Since MDF is not “real” wood, how should I treat it?