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Horizon, ConAgra flour mills to form new joint venture

2013-03-06 03:47:39| Agriculture - Topix.net

The joint venture that runs Canada's Robin Hood flour mills and baking mix plants is poised to merge into a bigger joint venture with a third major U.S. agrifood player.

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Transocean worker says still haunted by Deepwater Horizon blast

2013-03-06 03:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Transocean's Randy Ezell is still haunted nearly three years later by the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that killed 11 fellow workers and left him buried in a pile of debris, Ezell testified on Tuesday. In the second week of a civil trial to determine blame for the disaster, Ezell said his Transocean colleagues did everything within their power to control the well, but there was some misinterpretation of signs of trouble before the blowout. "I don't really like to talk about...

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Deepwater Horizon survivor tells of BP's negligence during trial

2013-03-06 01:00:00| Offshore Technology

In the second week of a civil court trial to determine blame for the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Transocean's senior toolpusher Randy Ezell has testified to BP's negligence.

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VMware adds app layering to Horizon Mirage for modular desktops

2013-03-05 18:31:47| InfoWorld: Top News

VMware's Horizon Mirage 4.0 allows IT departments to be more flexible when they put together centrally managed desktop images using separated application packages. VMware lives and breathes desktop virtualization, but enterprises still want and need to run traditional desktops where applications execute on the PC. To address this fact, VMware last year acquired Wanova, a company whose software was used to centralize and simplify the management of physical desktop images while letting users get the native performance of a PC, it said at the time.

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