| 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.
What Does a Recession Look Like?
What does it mean for your life and your investments? We explore these questions and more in this week's letter. I have been working on this letter all week, and think you will find it interesting. The Starbucks Index But first, one interesting observation and a request for help on a fun project. Last week, I was in Europe. I walked across the street from my hotel in Geneva and was delighted to see a Starbucks. While I initially made fun of people who overpaid for a nickel cup of coffee (the price of my youth, which dates me), eventually I became hooked. I now have a venti decaf every morning on the way to work (venti being the Starbuck's code word for large). When I am feeling particularly adventurous I live on the edge and get a venti half-caf (half regular caffeinated coffee).
Wolves calm as fan fury grows
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy insists he does not fear for his Molineux future despite a rising tide of fury from fans at the team's ailing season. McCarthy's wounded side face bottom-club Scunthorpe at Molineux tomorrow night in a Championship match which some view as vital to the continuing welfare of the manager's reign. After Saturday's limp exit from the FA Cup with a performance McCarthy today labelled as the worst of his tenure, Wolves must begin eating into the seven point gap separating them from the play-offs line to keep their season alive. But it promises to be a challenging night for players and manager after Saturday's Ninian Park misery concluded with angry fans barracking the players with chants of “You're not fit to wear the shirt" during the “warm-down." .
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