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San Joaquin County Supervisors will compare cost of public defender’s office with contract attorneys The Stockton Record – By Jennie Rodriguez-Moore, Staff Writer – February 13, 2012 12:00 STOCKTON – A year ago, the question came up: ... See the original post: California – San Joaquin County Supervisors will compare cost of public defender’s office with contract attorneys

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Earlier, HR Watchdog blogged about how employers and the California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet) are working together to educate eligible employees about the... Read more here: Hiring Veterans Is Good Business Sense

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Beware! Grease thieves are on the loose. San Francisco restaurants are the latest establishments to fall prey to these thieves. They come in the night, and siphon off used cooking oil stored in metal barrels behind the restaurants. When recyclers come to take the waste off their hands, it's already gone. Used cooking oil is worth about 50...

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Los Angeles Times – Op-Ed – by Ron Briggs We believed the Briggs initiative — the death penalty measure we wrote in 1977 — would bring greater justice. We were wrong. [for full article: http://defender411.us/zb9RV5 ] See the article here: Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: California’s death penalty law: It simply does not work

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(Reuters) - Global warming will get worse as agricultural methods accelerate the rate of soil erosion, which depletes the amount of carbon the soil is able to store, a United Nations' Environment Programme report said on Monday. See more here: Soil erosion increasing global warming threat: UNEP

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The cloud forests of the Andes mountains, bound between the Amazonian lowlands to the west and the peaks of the Andean uplift to the east, harbor worlds upon worlds. See the rest here: Rising Temperatures Push Andean Species Skyward

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ScienceDaily (Feb. 10, 2012) - Researchers at the University of Georgia have taken a major step in the ongoing effort to find sources of cleaner, renewable energy by mapping the genomes of two originator cells of Miscanthus x giganteus, a large perennial grass with promise as a source of ethanol and bioenergy. More: Grass to Gas: Genome Map...

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Last year the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth due to global climate change, experienced its warmest twelve months yet. Read more here: Arctic warms to highest level yet as researchers fear tipping points

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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- An endangered species of butterfly has been showing signs of a comeback in the Dunes Habitat Preserve at Los Angeles International Airport, officials said. See the article here: Endangered butterfly making a comeback