Trusty Course

 

  • An engineer or an artist - who would you rather work for? (Contractor UK)Who would you like to work for? Contractors, of course, ostensibly work for themselves - free spirits, answerable only to themselves - but it's an unfortunate fact of life that for the duration of your contract you'll probably have to answer to someone if you want your timesheet to be signed off.


  • Man pleads in Russia nuclear cash case (AP via Yahoo! News) A former nuclear engineer accused of helping a former Russian official steal more than $9 million earmarked for improving the safety of that country's Chernobyl-style reactors pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and tax evasion.


  • Engineer Says Pier 34 Had Structural Problems for Years (KYW News Radio 1060)The prosecution has presented evidence that the owners of Pier 34 knew as early as 1994, after another section of the pier collapsed, that the pier?s condition was deteriorating and needed major repairs, but the owners failed to make those repairs.


  • Man deported to Syria had no link to terror, Canada told U.S. (International Herald Tribune)When the United States sent Maher Arar to Syria, where he was tortured for months, the deportation order stated unequivocally that Arar, a Canadian software engineer, was a member of Al Qaeda.


  • William E. Hall, 49, electrical engineer (Baltimore Sun)William Everett Hall, an electrical engineer and amateur radio enthusiast, died of metastatic colon cancer Sept. 18 at his home in New Windsor. He was 49.


  • Omagh bombing suspect said to be 'engineer' of atrocity (AFP via Yahoo! News) The trial of a key suspect in Northern Ireland's deadly 1998 Omagh bombing has resumed with prosecutors accusing him of being the "engineer" of the worst atrocity in decades of troubles here.


  • Software engineer talks at Meet the Geeks event (Asheville Citizen-Times)ASHEVILLE - The Blue Ridge Entrepreneurial Council, Meet the Geeks and the Media Arts Project are sponsoring a talk with a leading software developer at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Broadway Arts Center, 49 Broadway.


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