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Business Backlash Descends on Mississippi
2016-04-07 02:24:15| Chemicals - Topix.net
Major tech, hospitality, and automotive companies are speaking out about Mississippi's new anti-LGBT law, which Gov. Phil Bryant signed Tuesday. The law, known as House Bill 1523 or the "Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act," will allow businesses, individuals, and religiously affiliated organizations to deny service to LGBT people, single mothers, and others who somehow offend an individual's "sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction."
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Google April Fool prank sparks backlash
2016-04-01 11:06:37| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Google removes an April Fool's Gmail button which sent a comical animated gif to recipients after reports of people getting into trouble with their employers.
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Servo Motor Brakes feature zero backlash design.
2016-03-03 14:31:06| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
With Eclipse Servo Motor Brakes, no energy is consumed when brake is disengaged, unlike electrically released brakes that consume power continuously. Spring-engaged/air-released design keeps brake cool until it is needed and supports holding and E-stop applications. Supplied in square-shaped housing, brakes mount to shaft end of servo motors up to 20 hp, including NEMA 23, 34, and 42 frame sizes. Units offer torque range of 2–125 Nm with high torsional rigidity and no system wind-up.
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Bangladesh sticks with coal power plant project despite major backlash
2016-02-17 00:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Bangladesh, regarded by many as the nation most vulnerable to the impacts of global climate change, is on track to construct two coal-fired power plants that critics say are dangerously close to the worlds largest single tract of mangrove forest called the Sundarbans. A major driver behind these new power power plants is to increase electricity resources for Bangladeshs 157 million people and achieve its goal of becoming a middle-income country by 2021. Currently, the country produces 8,000 megawatts...
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Lego changes policy after Ai backlash
2016-01-13 14:00:41| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Lego stops asking bulk buy customers what they want to use the bricks for, following a backlash over its refusal of bricks to Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
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