California teamsters picket Orange County transit system in contract dispute

April 7, 2019 By

Sunday, July 8, 2007 In an ongoing labor dispute from May of this year in California, United States, Teamsters Local 952, which represents the Orange County Transportation Authority‘s 1,200 coach operators, went on strike at 12:35 a.m. (0035 hrs) PDT Saturday morning after a cooling-off period declared by State Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger expired. Sanctioned picket […]

How Business Brokers Can Help You Achieve A Profitable Result

April 6, 2019 By

More On This Topic: Foreign Earned Income Tax Specialist Asena Advisors byadmin Customers who receive services from knowledgeable and experienced consultants in the business selling and purchasing arena can ensure their transactions are carried out effectively and without costly errors. These consultants are often referred to as business brokers or advisors. These are the type […]

France votes no in EU referendum

April 3, 2019 By

Sunday, May 29, 2005 In a result predicted by polls, a 54.87% majority of French voters voted non in Sunday’s European Constitution referendum. Of France’s 42 million eligible voters, over 70% turned out at the 55 thousand polling stations across the country, which were open from 8:00 to 20:00 on Sunday (except in Paris and […]

Spirit Rover on Mars finds water made ‘silica-rich soil’

April 3, 2019 By

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 NASA’s Spirit Rover on Mars has found “silica-rich soil” in Gusev Crater that scientists say is so rich that it would require that water have been present at some point, in order for the deposits to be there. “You could hear people gasp in astonishment. This is a remarkable discovery. And […]

Protesters turn their backs on Australian PM

April 1, 2019 By

Friday, May 25, 2007 Protesters in the Central Western New South Wales city of Bathurst gave Australian Prime Minister John Howard a cold reception as he arrived for a Liberal Party luncheon in the city. Around 200 unionists and university students gathered to protest the Howard government’s new industrial relations regime called Workchoices, the lack […]

ACLU, EFF challenging US ‘secret’ court orders seeking Twitter data

April 1, 2019 By

Thursday, April 7, 2011 Late last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed objections to the United States Government’s ‘secret’ attempts to obtain Twitter account information relating to WikiLeaks. The ACLU and EFF cite First and Fourth amendment issues as overriding reasons to overturn government attempts to keep their […]

88th annual Brita Kongreso draws to a close

March 30, 2019 By

Monday, May 7, 2007 The 88th annual Brita Kongreso (British Congress) in Letchworth, England drew to an official close, Sunday, after a weekend of presentations, courses, lectures, and activities in Esperanto. With the final excursion to Cambridge (town of the Third Universal Esperanto Congress in 1907) taking place on Monday, the event will draw to […]

Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant

March 30, 2019 By

Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye. […]

System Software

March 28, 2019 By

More On This Topic: Earthmoving Equipment Perth Australia Mining Truck Submitted by: John Sting System software is any computer software that provides the infrastructure over which programmes can operate. It manages and controls computer hardware so that application software can perform. Operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, are prominent examples […]