je.st
news
Tag: countryside
Countryside opposes UPS expansion
2015-10-02 02:09:59| Air Courier - Topix.net
The Countryside City Council last week unanimously agreed to pass a resolution that opposes the expansion of the United Parcel Service facility in neighboring Hodgkins. Mayor Sean McDermott said the expansion, 'Would have a detrimental impact on residents in the cut-off.'
Tags: ups
expansion
countryside
opposes
300 libraries for China's countryside
2015-01-20 19:15:08| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Children gather outside the library at the Mai Di Village Elementary School in Jianyang city, Sichuan province, last year. The library was the 300th donated via a project funded by United Technologies Corp in partnership with The Library Project.Provided to China Daily More students in China this year will experience the same thrill that has captivated pupils in other rural elementary schools when a new student library opens as part of a project funded by United Technologies Corp .
Tags: libraries
countryside
chinas
United Kingdom: Who will David Cameron listen to on building in the countryside?
2014-01-09 21:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: A Conservative MP complaining about the Government's planning reforms is hardly as rare as hen's teeth these days. Grumbles about what many MPs fear is a free-for-all that favours developers form a low-level backing track to Tory party life. But it was still remarkable when Nadhim Zahawi, the MP for Stratford-upon-Avon, decided to attack the National Planning Policy Framework this week. Mr Zahawi was simply repeating what many colleagues feel when he said the reforms were causing "physical harm'...
Tags: the
united
david
kingdom
Fixed, mobile broadband go head-to-head in UK countryside
2013-11-11 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
EE switches on LTE in Cumbria while BT trumpets Superfast Cornwall achievements.
Tags: uk
mobile
fixed
broadband
Japanese maglev train begins public testing, buzzes peaceful countryside at 313 mph
2013-08-30 16:29:54| Extremetech
The longest, largest, and fastest maglev train in the world, situated at the Yamanashi test track in Japan, has restarted public testing. The test track has recently been extended to 42.8 kilometers (26.5 miles), allowing for a five-car prototype train to be routinely pulled at speeds of over 500 kph (310 mph). The train accelerates to max speed in under three miles, and according to the Japanese journalists the ride is very smooth. On the inside, anyway: Externally, according to one journalist, the L0 Series train created "a shock wave and a massive gust of wind ... a deafening sound that made conversation all but impossible" as it passed by at 310 mph.
Tags: public
japanese
testing
train