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POPSMajor Groundwater Loss in California's Heartland I've visited this area many times during the past three decades and each and every time have been forced to conclude that the current practices are not sustainable. When (not if, but when) it finally collapses, the "values" we now take for granted will come back to haunt us.
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POPS"Bison" (a flickr Gallery) flickr's recent introduction of their "gallery" feature is one additional way of uncovering images in this extremely large site.
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POPSOnline spending in America is rising These small graphs provide a quick comparison of one economic metric. It will be interesting to compare the relative numbers for "online" and "offline" (traditional) shopping consumer and business spending (since historically consumer spending is 2/3rds of the relative economic activity).
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POPS... Join a Credit Union ... My own relationship with Banks is complicated. (1) My impressions of Banks are clouded by my 46 year relationship with them. (2) Like most folks, I started out as a borrower, but now I'm a depositor. (3) Several of the "Big 5" are my Customers and one of these is even a "Client". (4) I've learned that Canadian Banks are very different than those in the United States. All of that being said, after meeting with my bankers this morning, I can't help but feel the best way to help them fight their own executive bureaucracies is to ... Join a credit union!
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POPSevery postwar olympic stadium... I was recently asked to express an opinion regarding... "Have the olympics become too expensive?" This is an initial bit of some background information I've started collecting.
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POPSCanary Terrace Canary Terrace is one of the areas in the Mammoth Hot Springs region of Yellowstone National Park.