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Springwoods Village's second hotel breaks ground
2015-06-05 14:05:04| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Developers began construction this week on the second of three hotels they plan to build in Springwoods Village, home to the new Exxon Mobil Corp. campus. Dallas-based Woodbine Development Corp. and Louisiana-based InterMountain Management broke ground on the Courtyard by Marriott on June 1. It is expected to open in the second quarter of 2016.
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NY Times: Villages Near Nepal Earthquakes Epicenter Are Desperate as Death Toll Tops 3,800
2015-04-27 16:34:43| PortlandOnline
News story posted to nytimes.com April 27, 2015.
Artificial Glaciers in India Help Drought Villages
2015-03-08 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Villagers of the high desert of Ladakh in India's Jammu and Kashmir states used to harvest bountiful crops of barley, wheat, fruits, and vegetables in summer. An artificial glacier made in the form of an ice stupa in Ladakh in an effort to help with water shortages. But for years the streams have run dry in spring, just when farmers needed water to sow seeds. They had water when it wasn't needed during the rest of the year, such as in winter, when Ladakhis let water gush from taps to prevent pipes...
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Ballpark Village's Winning Homebrewer to Debut His First Beer January 18
2015-01-16 17:30:08| Beverages - Topix.net
For the first time ever, Anheuser-Busch has brewed a beer created by a local home brewer.
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Climate smart villages help women farmers in Nepal
2014-12-02 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Seven years ago, Tanka Maya Magar, who lives on the outskirts of Belbari, a town in Morang district in eastern Nepal, suddenly had to do something she had never done before. Her husband had moved to Qatar to earn money and so it was now up to her to run their family farm, a job traditionally done by men. Since then, she has ploughed the fields for hours at a time. And at harvesting time, she spends weeks cutting, threshing and cleaning the crops by hand. She has learnt to handle the water pumps...
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