.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... AlertMe BOSTON — Bitter cold is setting in after a major winter storm blanketed a wide swath of the country in snow, sleet and rain this weekend, creating dangerously icy conditions that promise to complicate cleanup efforts and make travel challenging on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Some of the coldest temperatures felt so far this season started to set in across the Midwest and Northeast Sunday and are expected to plunge further overnight. ADVERTISEMENTSkip Wind chills will bring temperatures into teens in the New York City area and down to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 40 degrees Celsius) in upstate New York, the National Weather Service predicted. In New England, they’ll fall to as low as 20 F (29 C) below zero around Boston and as low as 35 F (37 C) below zero in … [Read more...] about After storm, large swath of nation plunges into deep freeze
Transportation of dangerous goods training
Meet 100 of Suffolk’s most inspirational women
PUBLISHED: 18:02 13 November 2018 | UPDATED: 20:07 13 November 2018 Megan Aldous Goldie Sayers , Team GB Javelin Thrower and one of Suffolk's 100 Inspiring Women speaking at the event Picture: SARAH LUCY BROWN Archant This is a list that Suffolk should be proud of - 100 women who are positive role models for future generations, women who have achieved success in a diverse range of fields from business, the arts, sport and education to the third sector.The list was put together by a panel of judges this summer after we asked readers for their nominations. From top left: Jenna Ackerley, Anne Beckett-Allen, Katie Bannister, Jane Basham, Dayle Bayliss, Shayra Begum, Nicola Beach, Adele Bellis and Professor Emma Bond Pictures: WENDY AIKEN PHOTOGRAPHY/EDF ENERGY/BARRY ELEY/PHILIP MYNOTT/SUFFOLK COUNTY COUCIL/UNIVERSITY OF SUFFOLKJenna Ackerley, Events Under Canvas: A Felixstowe girl originally, 38-year-old Jenna now lives in East Bergholt with her husband and … [Read more...] about Meet 100 of Suffolk’s most inspirational women
Completion date set for GIZ dangerous goods training
With financing from the EU, the “Sustainable Freight and Logistics in the Greater Mekong Sub-region” project is aimed to ensure consistency of regulatory systems for the transportation of dangerous goods in every country in the region. The project has been in place since February 2016 and will end in January 2019. GIZ is supporting relevant government authorities, associations and SMEs in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam (CLMV) and Thailand. Thailand was the first country in the Asean region to implement the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR) following a gas explosion on Phetchaburi Road in Bangkok in September 1990, when a liquid petroleum gas tanker truck crashed on the expressway exit. GIZ spent two years on ADR translation and coordination with each ministry and this year started the training. Wilasinee Poonuchaphai, project co-director of GIZ Thailand said that so far the organisation has trained 15 … [Read more...] about Completion date set for GIZ dangerous goods training
How DHL Global Forwarding has remained the Ghanaian market’s logistics provider of choice
Since the 19th century, the logistics industry has undergone significant transformation. Technology has influenced the way in which we order, transport and store various goods, leading consumers to demand the ability to receive products solely at the click of a button. Since its inception in the late 1960s, DHL, (named after its founders Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn), has undergone rapid global expansion, transforming consumer expectations. With an unfaltering promise to deliver goods anytime, anywhere, the company’s core values – passion, entrepreneurship, excellence and teamwork – fully underpin its customer-centric approach across its operations. “There are many untapped opportunities that we are focusing on in the region, particularly with commodities and perishables which need our expertise” With group revenues exceeding €55bn ($64.3bn), its entrance into the Ghanaian market in the 1970s led the company to … [Read more...] about How DHL Global Forwarding has remained the Ghanaian market’s logistics provider of choice
The Declaration of Independence
Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page July 04, 2018 WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to … [Read more...] about The Declaration of Independence