“Clubby the seal”, the mascotte on board “Financial Crisis”, last night
went off on a violent rampage after reading a media report calling him a
“soft toy”. The Global Ocean Race team of Marco Nannini and Paul Peggs
feared for their lives as they were held hostages for hours on their racing
yacht after the seemingly innocent looking seal lost its temper over the
media slander.
The module will conduct docking experiments after entering orbit, which is the first step in China’s space station program.
Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 27, 2011
Engineers are conducting the final preparations before launching China’s first space laboratory module at the end of this week at a launch center in northwest China.
Initial indications are that traders remain unconvinced by the latest statements on Euro debt.
DB Schenker’s salt train is loaded at ABP’s aggregate rail terminal at the Port of Southampton
As the weather turns colder and transport operators once again begin preparations for another ‘big freeze’ this winter, Associated British Ports (ABP) has celebrated a double first in its bulk operations at the Port of Southampton. In a coup for both the port and rail industry, and working closely with customer Nationwide Gritting Services (NGS), rail operator DB Schenker Rail, and Southampton bulk terminal operator, Solent Stevedores, ABP Southampton has overseen the first long-distance rail shipments of salt from its newly-created aggregate rail terminal.
The nuclear option for three Euro Zone countries?
The Germans seem to have decided to bite the bullet and cast the weakest members of the Euro Zone adrift but as we have all been there before with grand economic meetings, the words may not match the deeds.
One disaster UBS had earlier
When the banking crisis and recession hit, politicians claimed that they did not expect the disaster. When it hit, even the dimmest politician could not fail to see the size of the problem or see how long it had been developing.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Boeing (NYSE: BA) partnered with Emirates Airlines and non-profit organizations to transport relief supplies on board its newly delivered 777-300ER (Extended Range) to victims of the civil war in Somalia.
Saudi Arabia has made a significant contribution to the IMO Djibouti Code Trust Fund, giving a welcome boost to the IMO-led project to implement the Code of Conduct concerning the Repression of Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in the Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden signed in Djibouti in January 2009 (Djibouti Code of Conduct).
This book is well written and illustrated, benefiting from the high production standard achieved by the publisher, and a very welcome coverage of the Linux operating system and associated topics. The book claims to offer everything necessary to getting started with Ubuntu Linux and this is a reasonable claim. The great feature of Ubuntu Linux is that most users will be able to do everything they ever wanted, without writing a line of code. This book, a computer and a copy of Ubuntu will open a new world without requiring any deep technical knowledge. In several respects it will require less time and energy than computers running Microsoft or Mac operating systems. All of that and its free of charge!!
More bad economic news for Italy and Greece. Satellite crop certification could lead to the EU cracking down on the widespread Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, fraud. It has long been common practice , particularly in Italy and Greece, to claim subsidies for crops that are never grown. The European Commission has turned a blind eye to this criminality but new satellite scanning facilities will provide the ammunition for MEPs who want to see the EU stamp out its widespread corruption.