“We don’t have any hospital where we give birth,” Queen Aweto, one of the women tells Ripples Nigeria. “Some of our children have gone to the university but there is no work and some are done learning trade but no money to start a business. And all the people (IRDC) are stealing the money meant for the Itsekiri. We are suffering.”

For the past 11 years, these geotextile interlayers have worked well to prevent courses of new and old concrete from bonding together, which could allow reflective cracking from the old concrete to damage the new concrete, says industry expert Dale Harrington. 

Many cannabis companies find themselves in this position, and will attempt to solve the problem with what is known as a private placement in public equity (PIPE) shortly after completing a reverse merger. In a PIPE, the publicly reporting company sells restricted shares to a relatively small number of investors, and agrees to use a portion of the proceeds of such sale to finance the filing of a Form S-1 registration statement.

Then Slat made his pitch. In the next twelve months, he and a staff of engineers at the Ocean Cleanup, an organization he founded in 2013, would build the system they had designed, assemble it in a yard on San Francisco Bay, then set sail with it, travelling under the Golden Gate Bridge and out into the Pacific. Slat’s destination was the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, midway between California and Hawaii, an area within what is known as the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone. The patch is not, as is often believed, a solid island of trash but a gyre, twice the size of Texas, where winds and currents draw diffuse floating debris onto a vast carrousel that never stops.

"The plan at this point is once we’ve completed updating all five … sediment management options, then we’ll take that back to the public," Santiago said, adding that "would be the final step of information we would need so that the working group could go forward with their recommendation."

A greenhouse in the Coachella Valley in Southern California will need less supplemental lighting than a facility in Ohio, so each locale needs to be evaluated to understand the true operational and capital costs that should be expected.

Keeping rooms constantly on cycle, always having your next flip ready to go, always taking new cuts and making new mothers, getting new stuff ready for new breeding rooms. Because basically … right now … I have the full sun, and I’m doing all my breeding rooms. …

Nearly all of the world’s jute is grown and milled in the humid, swampy lowlands surrounding Kolkata — formerly known as Calcutta — and in neighboring Bangladesh, where the climate is right and labor is cheap.

Starting in 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government included the jute industry in a push to boost struggling domestic manufacturing. Operating with a modest $1-million annual budget, government scientists with the Indian Jute Industries’ Research Assn., working out of a lab in Kolkata, have developed food-safe bags made entirely from jute, with the aim of selling them in Western countries.

The company began drawing water on May 9 from its impoundment at the Possum Point power plant near Dumfries, about 30 miles south of the District of Columbia. It started draining a lagoon at its Bremo Bluff plant southeast of Charlottesville at the end of April.

If you heat the plastic and mix the waxy melted material with the plastic it actually improves the quality of the concrete mix and can be used in larger ratios, according to this study check out page five http://www.ijoser.org/Files/1401.pdf

Slat was born in Delft, a marine-engineering hub, and grew up in the historic city center, a few blocks from where Johannes Vermeer once lived. Slat’s mother, Manissa Ruffles, who worked as a city tour guide, brought him up alone. Slat’s father, a painter, lives in Croatia. Ruffles told me that, from a young age, Slat acted like a grownup and preferred D.I.Y. fairs to amusement parks. When he was two, he built a small but functional chair out of wood and nails.