| Dow and International Aid Announce Partnership To Address Global Safe ...
The Dow Chemical Company and humanitarian healthcare agency International Aid today announced a partnership that will help provide safer and cleaner water around the world. Dow will supply all of the plastic resin required to manufacture 300,000 HydrAid BioSand Water Filters, a lightweight water purification device currently being distributed by International Aid and its partners worldwide. The simplicity, affordability and effectiveness of the HydrAid water filter hold the promise to make a dramatic impact on the global water crisis, said International Aid President and CEO Myles D. Fish. We are delighted that Dow is joining with International Aid and our growing number of distribution partners to help bring the HydrAid filter to the many thousands of communities suffering from lack of clean water worldwide.
Dead-end street to get an urban makeover
How can we create an urban office campus that acts sustainably, improves the public realm and makes a beautiful workplace? This is the question that the Yale Campus development and design team asked itself at the beginning of the design process. The Yale Campus is a 776,000-square-foot office, retail, biotech and life-sciences project in South Lake Union being developed by The Blume Co. The campus has two parts. Yale Campus North will be located on two blocks between Eastlake and Pontius avenues, north of Mercer Street. Yale Campus South will be located on the full block bounded by Pontius, Mercer, Yale Avenue and Republican Street. The project will provide 201,000 square feet of office space in two existing buildings and 575,000 square feet of office and retail in four new buildings.
Harper to draw the line on Afghanistan
The election, of course, won't be fought over Afghanistan. That is Harper's wish because he knows that the government has shown such incompetence in governing over the past few months that his hawkish stand on Afghanistan maybe the only thing that parts of the population may see as positive. However, it also carries downsides. The handling of the mission by the Harper government has been as loaded with lies as any other part of their agenda and the opposition parties could argue that Harper can't be trusted to be handed a majority and be given a blank cheque on this or any other part of their agenda. It also presents an interesting conundrum. If Harper goes to the electorate with Afghanistan and wins a minority (polls show a Liberal minority right now but let's give him the benefit of the doubt on this), he either has to change his policy on Afghanistan or the Governor-General has to ask the LPC to form the government even if they have less seats.
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