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Loot boxes: I blew my parents' savings gaming on Fifa
2020-07-09 01:12:06| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How one teenager spent nearly 3,000 on his "addiction" to video game loot boxes.
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They Blew It: Wall Street Reacts to Feds Emergency Cut
2020-03-16 12:39:00| National Real Estate Investor
Early reaction to the Fed moves on Wall Street was mixed.
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Rwanda: Turns Out You Do Need Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blew
2016-05-30 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Rwanda is known as "le pays des milles collines" EUR the land of a thousand hills. Weather varies by altitude; for farmers, detailed forecasts can make a huge difference. A key step to answering questions about the weather is to consult the historic record. But what if there were no record? That's the predicament that Rwanda faces. The civil war and genocide that devastated that country in 1994 also destroyed Rwanda's system for tracking weather. The result was that for a roughly 15-year stretch,...
U.S. Wind Energy Blew Away Records in 2015
2016-04-14 15:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: U.S. wind energy output hit record levels last year, producing nearly 5 percent of the nations electricity, according to a new report from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). Employment in the sector also rose 20 percent in 2015, with 88,000 workers now employed in wind energy across the U.S. More than 8,500 megawatts of wind capacity was installed last year, almost doubling the total from the year before. Texas continues to lead the nation in wind power, but other states are closing...
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Top Ten: How a major mutual fund blew it and other money stories to read this weekend
2016-04-02 18:59:08| Biotech - Topix.net
Howard Schiller, the interim CEO of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. in January and February, appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Feb. 4. long a darling among mutual funds, took a terrible hit from its heavy concentration in one stock, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. Here's how the fund and Valeant's stock have performed over the past year against the benchmark the S&P 500 Jaffe took a hard look at the dysfunctional management culture at Sequoia that led to such a risky bet and the fund's subsequent fall from grace.