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Wonder what this is about - maybe more to come. If they are getting rid of non official staff at these levels, something may be brewing.
Durham police send out redundancy warnings
About 200 civilian jobs could be lost atDurham PoliceDurham police have issued redundancy warnings to all civilian workers in the force, includingpolice community support officers.
In total, 1,160 90-day notices have been sent out, although none have been sent to police officers.
About 200 posts will be lost at the force, the BBC understands.
The chairman of Durham Police Authority said the notices were to inform employees that their jobs were potentially at risk.
Peter Thompson explained that the force was facing budget cuts of between 25% and 40%.
He said: "This is just part of a process, and I can appreciate that some people will be extremely surprised to have receivedthis notification today.
"It doesn't meant everyone who has received one is going to be made redundant, but there is a process of legislation in our countrythat has to be followed and we are invoking the first stage of it."
'Devastating blow'Assistant chief officer at the force Gary Ridley said: "Despite undertaking a range of actions to save money, it is clear thatcompulsory redundancies need to be considered in light of likely futurereductions in the amount of government grants the constabulary receives.
"We are working closely with the police authority and trade unions to try and minimise the impact on our staff, whilst maintaining aservice to the people of County Durham and Darlington."
Unison branch secretary Arthur Dickinson said: "This is a devastating blow to our members.
"We have never had any compulsory redundancies in the force and we have been working very hard to make savings to avoid any in thefuture.
"There is a lot of fear and uncertainty over numbers, but the 90-day consultation suggests that the force are looking to axe morethan 100 jobs.
"Any redundancies will have a major impact on the quality of policing in Durham.
"We are holding meetings with members to discuss the notices and with management next week."
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Anyone who knows anything about algae, especially blue-gree algae knows that under nice condtions they function as single celled organisms. Under stress they coagulate and form algal mats and move together in unison forming a giant carpet. As a unitary entity they can survive better. They even have leader cells amongst them to prompt them to come together. The social structure of algae was even used to promote a social model of behaviour for humans not so long ago, along with ants and termites. Stress to algae is altered chemical or electric environments, adverse weather or lack of food. So, this giant mat we see suggests leadrers of algae are pulling their teams together to cope with this abnormal stress!!! px...A very large stress situation as we see. Algal mats are a sign to look out for as the geochemical composition of the earth starts to change.
http://www.vimeo.com/12348372
thought some of you might find it interesting:
http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/
If It Was My Home is a mapping tool for visualizing the oil spill. Viewers can “relocate” thespill over their own location to see how big it is. For example, ifcentered in New York City, the spill would currently blanket the eastcoast from about Philadelphia to Boston. (HT: FP Passport)
Sorry, I haven't learned how to do pictures yet.
I'll leave these here a few days, and then move the links over to Karen's blog where she is compiling all this data.
Crews Prepare to Evacuate Gulf
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/21/months-gulf-disaster-bp-says-relief-tunnel-reach-blown-weekend/
Workers on Doomed Rig Voiced Concern About Safety
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/us/22transocean.html?_r=1&hp
Alabama Shoreline Faces Economic Disaster Without Aid, Say Mayor
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/07/alabama_shoreline_faces_econom.html
China Oil Spill Doubles in Size, Called 'Severe Threat'
http://www.millennium-ark.net/NEWS/10_World/100722.CH.oil.spill.html
Not pretty, but hope it is functional enough, I hope...
OMG, Here it is folks... Now I know for sure I am not nuts... the second pic down is what happened to me.. I just had to post this here because anybody else would not believe... over Rt 80 going to NYC outside of Clarion, PA. 9.11.82. 5:30am.
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
Okay I checked this link and it works
We've been so busy connecting with each other all day, that I realized I had not yet looked at the IRIS.
Here it is, also, when you pull up the map, it looks like I've got a realtime link.
Click on EarthQuake Headlines
There's been a small swarm of quakes with over 20 aftershocks in Mammoth.
And there is an article there about a 5.8 in Iraq,
This is just what I noticed at first glance.
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1733&category=Environment
