PEDERNALES, Ecuador (AP) — Rescuers pulled survivors from rubble Sunday after the strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast. Officials said the quake had killed at least 238 people and injured more than 1,500...Vice President Jorge Glas reported the death toll at a somber news conference, while PresidentRafael Correa flew back from Rome to deal with the crisis ... ___ ... ....
Prince William and his wife Kate went Saturday to the Taj Mahal in Agra. This final stage of their one week journey in India and Bhutan rekindles remembrances for the royal couple ... – WN.com, Ayite C. d'ALMEIDA. ....
It appears Netflix has dropped a tech-bomb on millions of Canadians who use VPNs to stream its U.S. service — rescuing Mary Ann Turcke’s daughter, and many of the rest of us, from a life of crime. Turcke is the Bell Media president who last year publicly snitched on her 15-year-old daughter for using a virtual private network (VPN) to access U.S. Netflix for movies and TV shows not available on Canadian Netflix....
photo: NASA / ESA, CXC, NRAO/AUI/NSF, STScI, and R. van Weeren (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI), and the HFF team
Stephen Hawking and his billionaire friends at Breakthrough gave us a glimpse into the development of a proposed exploration method this week involving nanotech spaceships, but when asked about actually finding alien life, the famed theoretical physicist admitted that he didn’t think it would be anytime soon ... (Note. The window to mission completion from announcement date is roughly 40 years.) ... [Image via Wikimedia Commons]....
In a major heist, robbers struck at the PrimaryAgricultural CooperativeCreditSociety (PACCS) at Thoruvalur near here and decamped with 412 sovereigns of gold jewellery after threatening the woman secretary of the society and gagging her ... Though the police had warned the officials to install CCTV cameras in all the 121 PACCS last year itself after ......
MANGALURU. South CanaraDistrictCentralCooperative (SCDCC) Bank on Tuesday made good a promise it made to farmers on the occasion of its centenary year celebration as well inauguration of its new head office ... The bank handed over benefits worth Rs 1.28 crore to next of kin of 459 farmers who had availed loans from 113 PACCS in DK. ....
PACCOffshore Services Holdings Ltd (POSH) has secured a one year contract for its POSH Xanadu semi-submersible accommodation vessel (SSAV). Under the terms of the contract, POSH Xanadu will continue to support the client’s oil and gas p ... ....
The judges were Amy Bell Kwallek, a UW-Platteville alumna who serves as the executive director of the LancasterChamber of Commerce; DJ Loeffelholz, a business banking officer at Mound CityBank; and Amadou Hanne, who is the founder of HiFit LLC, also a UW-Platteville alumnus who participated in PACCE's entrepreneurship events while attending the university....
Singapore’s PACCOffshore Services has secured a contract extension in Brazil for its POSHXanadu semi-submersible accommodation vessel. The company, also known as POSH, said the POSH Xanadu would keep on working in the Campos Basin for another year. The flotel, delivered by a Chinese shipyard in late 2014, has been operating in Brazil since […] ... ....
(Source. University of Wisconsin - Platteville). PLATTEVILLE, Wis ... - Andrew Schmidt, student ... Funding for PACCE is through a partnership of students, university, alumni and community members. PACCE projects are designed to enhance the community as well as provide students with hands-on service learning opportunities that allow them to incorporate classroom learning with projects and programs in a business or organization in the community....
Singapore’s offshore ship owner PACCOffshore Services, aka POSH, has sued a Saudi client seeking a $6.6 million sum. POSH on Monday said the company started legal action against Makamin Offshore Saudi, to recover approximately SAR24.4 million (approximately US$6.6 million) the Saudi operator owes. According to the shipowner which has vessels under contract with Makamin, […] ... ....