Debate over mail delivery continues
Elko Daily Free Press
ELKO — The debate over the efficiency of mail delivery in Elko continues between the U.S. Postal Service and its union employees in Elko, with one union official fearful of the long-term impact on postal jobs in the area.
Hervey rescues abandoned cats
Edmonton Sun
Dozens of cats abandoned in a west-end trailer park have new homes. Marjorie Hervey, with the Hervey Foundation for Cats, yesterday said volunteers rounded up 40 to 50 felines from the decommissioned Jasper Place Mobile Home Park north of 1...
Military milestone for war memorial's silent sentinels
The New Zealand Herald
The thousands of people who attended Anzac Day commemorations at Auckland's War Memorial in the Domain on Saturday also celebrated another milestone in New Zealand military history.
Around Scotland
Morning Star
The People's Charter won enthusiastic cheers around the conference hall in Perth last week, as Scottish TUC delegates heard powerful contributions from numerous speakers arguing in favour.
Zurlo looked up to his boss, Patton
San Antonio Express-News
Obituary: A Brooklyn native who worked for Gen. George S. Patton and later became a businessman and philanthropist in the Valley, Blackie Zurlo lived a life that could have filled a book.
Supertanker Rates to Jump on Losing Single-Hull Ships (Update1)
Bloomberg
April 27 (Bloomberg) -- The worst market for supertankers since the 1973 Arab oil embargo is setting the stage for prices to double by the fourth quarter as ship owners scrap aging vessels and delay orders for new ones.
Kenny in bid to develop airport
Sunshine Coast Daily
Sunshine Coast businessman Grant Kenny has thrown his hat into the ring with a consortium hoping to develop an industrial aviation hub and residential complex in northern NSW.
Pratt Rocketdyne taking technology from Cold War to moon
Journal Inquirer
In a space-age version of beating swords into plowshares, East Hartford-based Pratt & Whitney’s Rocketdyne division is working with NASA to convert Cold War rocket technology into the next-generation moon mission launch vehicle.
Scrapped ships must be broken safely, EU says
Reuters India
France was forced to recall a decommissioned battleship -- the Clemenceau -- from Indian yards in 2006 following widespread protests from environmental groups because the ship contained an estimated 270 tonnes of asbestos and other toxic su...
Anzac Day in the domain marks another military milestone
NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News
The thousands of people who attended Anzac Day commemorations at Auckland's War Memorial on Saturday also celebrated another milestone in New Zealand military history.
Tales from mean streets
Guardian Unlimited
There were Eastenders on screen long before there was EastEnders. Iain Sinclair on the small area of London that boasts a powerful, vital cinematic mythology The East End, as a concept, is as slippery to define as the cinema derived from it...
Wind, sea, coal and nuclear power. Yes please
Times Online
To crash an SUV into a Toyota Prius is the ultimate environmental faux pas - and in a memorable episode of The West Wing, the President's adviser, Josh Lyman does just that. He organises a low-carbon summit to atone, but finishes demoralise...
Proposed Provincetown wharf deal falls through
Cape Cod Times
In early October, the Cabral family sold and removed a hulking, decommissioned World War II vessel known as the "Provincia" partly due to the developers' plans, Vaughn Cabral said. Among business and town government leaders here yesterday, ...
Huge traffic problem on tiny road, Quidi Vidi residents say
CBC News
Residents of the area spoke up at a public forum on Wednesday night about plans to build almost 1,000 residential units — homes, condos and apartments — on the decommissioned federal lands in the nearby Pleasantville neighbourhood. Quidi Vi...
Navy nuclear carrier to dock at Jacksonville
Miami Herald
The Kitty Hawk, the last conventionally powered aircraft carrier in the Navy, was decommissioned in May and replaced by the USS George Washington, a nuclear-powered vessel. The Navy re-established its Fourth Fleet in July and based it at Ma...
