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You might not have heard about this in history class, but it's a powerful post-Civil War story.

You might not have heard about this in history class, but it's a powerful post-Civil War story.

Interestingly enough, the exact origin of the holiday remains a hot topic of debate, with a number of locations around the U.S. taking credit for starting the tradition.

Was it in Waterloo, New York, in 1866 that sparked nationwide celebrations? Or maybe Major Gen. John Logan's May 30, 1868, observance that kicked things off?

Regardless of who celebrated it first, people have been honoring fallen soldiers in Memorial Day-like traditions for quite some time.  READ MORE

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You might not have heard about this in history class, but it's a powerful post-Civil War story.

For years, actor Tom Hardy has supported awesome women in action movies. Thanks, Mad Max.

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Saving Coffee From Extinction

Saving Coffee From Extinction
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Two billion cups of coffee are drunk around the world every day and 25 million families rely on growing coffee for a living. Over the past 15 years, consumption of the drink has risen by 43% — but researchers are warning that the world's most popular coffee, Arabica, is under threat.

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The Daily Digg Monday, May 25, 2015 BEAN NICE KNOWING YOU Saving Coffee From Extinction bbc.com Two billion cups of coffee are drunk around the world every day and 25 million families rely on growing coffee for a living. Over the past 15 years, consumption of the drink has risen by 43% — but researchers are warning that the world's most popular coffee, Arabica, is under threat. SHE'S NOT ALL THERE This Is What It's Like To Have Your Life Stolen By A Woman Who Doesn't Exist buzzfeed.com Leah Palmer was a high-flying fashionista with a jet-setting lifestyle and a host of admirers on social media. But her entire existence was a fraud — a multi-year hoax that depended on stealing someone else’s life. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND Stop Buying Expensive Wine, And Other News digg.com Cheap wine is all you need, dogs have been our friends longer than we thought and this whirlpool is very hungry. ADVENTURE CAPITALS The Secret To Vacationing In The World’s 'Most Dangerous' Places kernelmag.dailydot.com Vacation in Somalia. Really. It’s amazing. HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! VIDEO: Hula-Hooping Shadow Boxer Provides The Entertainment NASCAR Races Sorely Lack digg.com The cars zipping by do provide a great backdrop though. VALLEYGAG In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is In Demand nytimes.com “It just removes food completely from my morning equation up until about 7 p.m.” Get more stories on Digg.com → THE THIRST IS REAL A two month-old Black Howler Monkey named Gael by the zoo staff, is nursed in the Rescue Center at a National Zoo of Managua, Nicaragua, Sunday, May, 24, 2015. The monkey was rescued by hunters before being brought to the center. Credit: AP Photo/Esteban Felix

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Ann Pickard, Shell VP for Arctic drilling, is not a safe pair of hands

Ann Pickard, Shell VP for Arctic drilling, is not a safe pair of hands

May 24th, 2015 

by John Donovan. 

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“Having got its corporate fingers burnt once already, it is simply astonishing that the fate of Shell’s resurrected Arctic drilling campaign is being entrusted by Shell and President Obama to such an incompetent, unscrupulous individual, as Ann Pickard.”

By John Donovan

Ann Pickard replaced David Lawrence as Shell VP for the Arctic after Shell’s 2012 disastrous Arctic drilling fiasco, aptly described by the then U.S. Interior Secretary,Ken Salazar, as a Screw Up.

Lawrence of Alaska, the chosen fall guy, was fired.

Ann Pickard is now being presented as being a safe pair of hands.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

When she was a senior Royal Dutch Shell executive in Africa, Ann Pickard boasted to the U.S. Ambassador Robin Sanders that Shell had infiltrated spies into key positions throughout Nigerian government ministries and knew everything that was going on.

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Posted in: Alaska, Ann Pickard, Arctic, Climate Change, Environment, GoogleNews,John Donovan, Nigeria, Oil, President Obama, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell, United States.
Tagged: Alaska · Arctic Ocean · Chukchi Sea · Litigation · Oil · Royal Dutch Shell Plc

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Shell Shielded from Defamation Claim for Statements in Internal Investigation Reports

Shell Shielded from Defamation Claim for Statements in Internal Investigation Reports

May 24th, 2015 

by John Donovan. 

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Friday, May 22, 2015

Last week, the Texas Supreme Court joined the majority of jurisdictions in holding that a company enjoys an absolute privilege when providing the Department of Justice (DOJ) with an internal investigation report containing statements later alleged by an employee to be defamatory.

The decision in Shell Oil Co. v. Writt, __S.W.3d__ (Tex. 2015) should provide Texas companies comfort that cooperating with regulatory and law enforcement agencies will not expose them to liability for defamation.

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Posted in: Business Principles, Nigeria, Oil, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell, United States.
Tagged: Litigation · Oil · Robert Writt · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell

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Chief of Shell’s Arctic drilling program searches for ‘the prize’

Chief of Shell’s Arctic drilling program searches for ‘the prize’

May 24th, 2015

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By Hal Bernton and Coral Garnick: Seattle Times staff reporters: Published 23 May 2015

Chief of Shell’s Arctic drilling program searches for ‘the prize’

(Ann Pickard, Shell’s executive vice president for the Arctic)

Shell’s Ann Pickard says an offshore oil find in the remote Chukchi Sea could eventually yield 1 million barrels of oil daily, and she insists the company has learned from its messy Arctic exploration effort in 2012.

In a brief summer drilling season off Alaska’s Arctic shore, Shell’s Ann Pickard is on the hunt for a giant oil field, and she thinks she knows where to find it.

All of the vessels in the Arctic exploration fleet now gathering in Puget Sound will be headed to a spot in the Chukchi Sea where Shell first drilled in 1989 and 1990. At that site, called the Burger Prospect, the company found natural gas that Pickard hopes is sitting on top of the oil Shell seeks.

“We are going to focus on what I call the prize, and the prize to me is Burger,” said Pickard, Shell’s executive vice president for the Arctic. “If Burger works, then it opens up the whole area.”

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