After collapse, jubilation, fear, and uncertainty Nov 9, 2009
As the bulldozers tore down the real wall, a new wall started rising in people s minds. Germany became divided into Ossis, the naive Easterners with their pokey habits and hokey dialects, and arrogant Wessis, who knew everything better and had lots of cash. (Boston Globe)
America is rusting because of free trade Nov 7, 2009
" Heilberg neglects to mention that the rebels led by Matip are suspected of having committed war crimes. Instead of buying stocks, the former banker is now speculating on the political future of South Sudan, which he insists will be an independent country in 10 years, at which point land will be far more expensive than it is today. Land acquisition is already a step further along in western Kenya, home to Erastas Dildo, 33, the kind of person the New York investors would probably characterize... (Salon)
The Forgotten Battle of World War II: Remembering the Aleutian Campaign Nov 7, 2009
It was a fight that could have been waged more efficiently with bulldozers and earth-moving machines. since the Japanese were dug in, the plan should have called for sealing them up in their holes. (Townhall.com)
What type of country the U.S. is Nov 4, 2009
I saw fields plowed up by Israeli tank bulldozers. I saw chicken farms, for egg production, completely destroyed. (Salon)
Bungled freight line 'staggering' Nov 4, 2009
Mr Truss said it seemed ''incredible'' that bulldozers had been sent in before the cabling had been moved. It has been in the pipeline for at least a decade and the route has been settled for five years It is a bungle and an important bungle,'' said Mr Truss, a former transport minister. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
NASA probe hits moon's south pole looking for water Nov 1, 2009
In August 2007, Al Gore, Nobel Prize-winning author of "An Inconvenient Truth," told Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times, "I can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants." By the time Gore made that statement, some young people had already started blocking bulldozers, and many more, young and old, would soon follow. Still, Gore can be excused for feeling that such measures were overdue. (Salon)
Gotcha: sexy Turnbull's dole spree Oct 31, 2009
According to this week's infamous leaked email from a Liberal Party spin doctor, the trick is to whip up public outrage about ''fat cat public servants not caring about taxpayers, pollies with snouts in the trough, special interest groups getting undeserved handouts from tax taken from hard-working Aussies, a favoured pro-Labor contractor who seems to be getting all the work for a particular job, etc". The author of this sage advice was allegedly one Peter Phelps, a flack for an Opposition... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Pineda add-on widely deemed 'good thing' Oct 30, 2009
"Estimated costs are roughly $20 million for the interchange and $7.2 million for the extended east-west roadway. Dan Bowman, a project manager with Halifax Paving Inc., said the road should be finished by the first week of August.Today, drivers turning westward from Wickham Road are greeted by 69 newly planted palm trees, each braced by a trio of wooden stakes. Bulldozers and earthmoving equipment are scraping and shaping lanes along the north side of the existing roadway.The Pineda interchange... (Florida Today)
Weak Dollar Is `Welcome Change' for McDonald's, PPG Fourth-Quarter Profit Oct 29, 2009
Caterpillar, the worlds largest maker of bulldozers and excavators, made 61 percent of its outside of North America last year, according to its 2008 annual report. They benefit in terms of competitive pricing, Blanton said. (Bloomberg -- US)
Split council agrees to save gym Oct 29, 2009
The bulldozers are at St. John as we speak, said Prickett, explaining that council needed to make a decision on the gym. Haigler and Carson raised concerns that, since the cost of the St. John gym project is unknown, there might not be enough money to save John Ford. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Massive $1 billion Freeport Project could help recharge San Joaquin County groundwater (1268) Oct 28, 2009
Diesel trucks rumble as they idle, while bulldozers and steamrollers reconfigure the landscape at the intake station of the Freeport Regional Water Project in Sacramento. The intake building is the combined effort of East Bay Municipal Utilities District and the Sacramento County Water Agency. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Boston Globe: Born Again Oct 28, 2009
The four-story brick apartment building at 42 Lomasney Way, shrouded in billboards and encircled by streets, escaped the bulldozers and wrecking balls of the 1950s and early 1960s. Behemoth public works projects - the Big Dig, the Green Line tunnel trenching, and the demolition of the old Nashua Street Registry of Motor Vehicles - have nibbled away at the tenement's surrounding turf. (Somerville Journal, MA)
Israel rations water Oct 27, 2009
A bulldozer clears rocks at a construction site in the Har Homa settlement in east Jerusalem. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has authorised the construction of more than 450 new houses. (iAfrica.com)
How everyday bloke took over an industry Oct 25, 2009
His grandfather was a blacksmith and logger, his father a bulldozer driver who owns his own earthmoving business. Both kept horses and Les, his father, has his own modest establishment, Serene Lodge, at Kendall. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
U.S. Economy Probably Grew as Stimulus Took Hold, Helping End Recession Oct 25, 2009
The Peoria, Illinois-based company, the worlds largest producer of backhoes and bulldozers, predicted on Oct. 20 that sales may rise as much as 25 percent next year. Bloomberg Survey =============================================================== Release Period Prior Median Indicator Date Value Forecast =============================================================== Case Shiller Monthly YO 10/27 Aug. -13. (Bloomberg -- US)
Hits and Misses Oct 24, 2009
HIT: The sound of progress as bulldozers began clearing the way for a long-missing 1. 5-mile link in the Delaware & Raritan Canal path in Trenton. (NJ.com -- Times)
AndyStaplesInside College Football Coach Robb Akey has performed a minor miracle with 6-1 Idaho. Oct 23, 2009
Now, opponents had to throw themselves in front of the bulldozer. And though Woolridge has slimmed to 229 pounds, he still accrues plenty of momentum before he hits the hole. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NCAA Football)
Caterpillar chooses new CEO Oct 23, 2009
The collapse of real estate markets, tightening credit markets and tumbling prices for commodities such as copper sapped demand for Caterpillar's yellow-and-black bulldozers, excavators and other machines. In response, Caterpillar announced plans to cut more than 22,000 jobs about 19 percent of its work force reduce costs and drastically scale back production. (MSNBC -- Business)
Great Lakes emissions proposal stirs waters Oct 23, 2009
Trucks are required to use fuel with no more than 15 ppm sulfur, and by 2015 locomotives, bulldozers and barges will have similar limits. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Quicker Rebound for Exporters to China, India Oct 21, 2009
FILE - In this March 19, 2008 file photo, a pair of Caterpillar D6 bulldozers work on construction. FILE - In this March 19, 2008 file photo, a pair of Caterpillar D6 bulldozers work on construction of a coal loading facility in Newcastle, Australia. (ABC News -- Wire)
Weak sales hit Caterpillar's profit Oct 21, 2009
- Caterpillar said Tuesday its third-quarter profit tumbled 53 percent as customers bought fewer of its bulldozers and other yellow-and-black machines. But the company said the latest quarter was its low point in the recession and raised its profit outlook for 2009. (MSNBC -- Business)
Mining the Mountain Tops Oct 21, 2009
The next step is for the huge shovels, excavators, and bulldozers to clear out the rubble and send it off in articulated trucks to the adjacent valley areas where they dump it out. The debris often rolls downhill and buries streams, destroys more habitat and sometimes contaminates community drinking water with heavy metals and toxic chemicals. (Suite101.com)
Tysabri sales drive Biogen Idec profit Oct 21, 2009
Caterpillar s results are considered an indicator of global economic health because of the company s broad reach and diverse products, including bulldozers and engines that run oil drills. -- ASSOCIATED PRESS. (Boston Globe)
African view Oct 21, 2009
Once the demarcation was done and the compensation paid, they waited for seven days and one fine Sunday morning, as people made their way to church, they brought out the bulldozers and by the time church was over, the houses and kiosks in their way had all been pulled down. No amount of shouting or pleading or threatening impressed them - they claimed they couldn't understand English. (BBC News -- Africa)
South Mtn. Freeway debate not over yet Oct 19, 2009
Only after the last parcel is bought and bulldozers arrive will neighbors know the freeway is coming. Transportation officials at the Maricopa Association of Governments will vote Wednesday to approve the complete route for the freeway. (AZCentral -- News)
Mass. town uses goats to clear meadow, save a buck Oct 18, 2009
Bulldozers last week began clearing out tons of trash, brush and sediment from channels in the Tijuana River Valley. Officials said they want to prevent a repeat of December's flooding, which drowned horses and goats. (Fresno Bee)
Will US factories show signs of life? Oct 18, 2009
Why it's important: Caterpillar makes bulldozers, motor graders and other machines used to build everything from highways to hospitals. Its engines power cargo ships that help form the backbone of global trade and pump oil and natural gas from the earth. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Sights along the line are still mesmerizing Oct 18, 2009
Edward Plumstead rescued that stone when bulldozers were running back and forth over the area during construction of apartment buildings. In Western Maryland, at Fort Frederick, which is near a town called Clear Spring, Mason and Dixon left behind 20 to 30 stones that were too heavy to be carried over Sideling Hill. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Ticked about tax Oct 17, 2009
Hunt s business typically pays about $40,000 a year in inventory taxes on the bulldozers, backhoes and other pieces of heavy construction equipment it keeps for sale or rent on its lot at 1000 E. Market St.. Harder to pay this year. (Louisville Business First, KY)
Thermometer For The Earth Oct 17, 2009
One testing process even requires the use of a bulldozer, which dredges up large tracts of land to be sampled and analyzed in a laboratory. Testing can be much simpler with Prof. (Science Daily)
District judge roundup: Stevanus Oct 16, 2009
Zachary Wayne Fundis, 23, Humbert School Road, Rockwood, was charged with driving under the influence by state police (Somerset Daily American, PA)
City considers rental inspection ordinance Oct 15, 2009
The board approved a lease-purchase agreement for a bulldozer from Puckett Machinery for 139,429 for 36 months with 1,998. 78 monthly payments and a 78,000 buy back provision. (Forest Scott County Times, MS)
Building chiefmay play fireinspector role Oct 15, 2009
Rented a bulldozer from Puckett Machinery for $5,900 a month to do work at the landfill. The city will be reimbursed by the Department of Environmental Quality. (Philadelphia Neshoba Democrat, MS)
ASHLEY SWEARENGIN AND GREGORY BARFIELD: City of Fresno's approach to homeless issue Oct 15, 2009
Place an obit: (559) 441-6228. Web Search powered by YAHOO. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Veteran firefighter heads into retirement Oct 15, 2009
Lehmann said he was always curious about driving the bulldozer since working in Sonora. I always wanted to run the bulldozer. (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
In the Tunnels: Gaza's Underground Economy Oct 14, 2009
On the outside, on the 3-mile (5 km) fringe of Rafah town, are sandy hills dotted with tents, tarps and bulldozers. Underneath lies what passes for commerce, the surreptitious journey of goods that help keep the territory running. (Time.com)
EDITORIAL: Fresno must stay on top of homeless camps Oct 13, 2009
The homeless in this community are having their shelters destroyed by bulldozers and their medicine thrown into city garbage trucks. They are constantly stopped and harassed by the Fresno Police Department. (Fresno Bee)
Rebuilding Addis Oct 12, 2009
Money is also an issue for those in the path of Mr Sun's imported bulldozers. With the widening of Addis Ababa's roads, thousands of ordinary people are being forced to leave their homes. (BBC News -- Africa)
Philippines toll rises above 600 Oct 12, 2009
Workers with bulldozers partly cleared one road, allowing cars but not relief trucks to pass, a disaster-response agency spokesman said. The US military was responding to a request from the Philippines to help deal with the aftermath of two major storms since Sept. 26. (Boston Globe)
ATMs stolen from bank Oct 10, 2009
According to published reports, suspects used a stolen dump truck and a bulldozer to steal two ATMs in Dallas in mid July. This followed similar incidents in March and April, also in Dallas. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Make the most of a change in fortune Oct 10, 2009
He sent out an email to all his contacts, which resulted in a job offer with bulldozer and excavator maker Caterpillar. That fell through when the company announced it would shed 20,000 jobs worldwide. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Flood Walls Going Up Around Boeing Facilities In Green River Valley Oct 10, 2009
While bulldozers scurry to fill the temporary flood walls with sand, inside the Boeing facilities in Renton workers are also scrambling to move computers and flight simulators off the first floor to avoid damage if the barriers can't hold the river back. "From Boeing's perspective we are taking this really, this risk really seriously in preparing for it," Cogswell said. (KIRO TV, WA)
Calif. bullet train critics ask for delay Oct 9, 2009
These are studies, not bulldozers or shovels that could harm the physical environment, lawyers for the state told Kenny in court filings. Moreover, state officials argue, halting the planning process would jeopardize the state of California s application for federal grants funds, which have been submitted in recent weeks, according to lawyers for the California. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
Daly should have been here Oct 8, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009. (10-07) 21:17 PDT -- When the U.S. team marched into the opening ceremonies of the Presidents Cup on Wednesday at Harding Park, the lads were in what you might call a missing-man formation. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Ostler: Cup missing Daly Oct 8, 2009
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Free land offer mostly fails in small Alaska town Oct 6, 2009
And the town is dead quiet, save for the hum of bulldozers rebuilding an eroded road along empty lots. "I hate to say it, but a lot of times it's very depressing," resident Kathy Miller said. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Deere: UAW Members Ratify 6-Year Contract Oct 6, 2009
Deere has been battered by the slumping global economy, which has depressed sales of its tractors, bulldozers and other products. But while the company has laid off hundreds of workers since the economic downturn worsened late last year, it has avoided the sort of large-scale job cuts seen at other large manufacturers. (ABC News -- Wire)
Indonesia calls off search for missing survivors Oct 6, 2009
"So we will speed up our search to find bodies and clean up the ruins with bulldozers.". The death toll from Wednesday's 7. (MSNBC -- International)
Cleanup continues in Italy mudslide's aftermath Oct 4, 2009
Rescue teams were digging with bulldozers, shovels and bare hands through the mud. Some rescuers were aided by sniffer dogs. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Italy mudslide deaths 'to hit 50' Oct 4, 2009
Sniffer dogs were being used in the search for survivors as rescue teams used bulldozers, shovels and their bare hands to dig through the mud. Although some 400 people had been evacuated from the area, continuing rainfall was hampering rescue efforts. (BBC News -- Europe)
Vandenberg blaze looking ‘pretty tame’ Oct 3, 2009
An amphibian with an injured tail crawls through the loose dirt of a bulldozer line Friday at the site of the Highway Fire on Vandenberg Air Force Base. Bryan Walton/Staff. (Santa Maria Times)
Groups sue state over Mauna Kea management plan Oct 3, 2009
"Despite extensive evidence on the record of our cultural, spiritual, environmental and recreational connections to Mauna Kea, the Board is now claiming we suddenly have no right to ensure it is protected from bulldozers.". The Land Board had approved the 299-page plan with amendments that made the University of Hawaii Board of Regents responsible for implementation, subject to land board oversight. (Honolulu Advertiser)
If only the IOC was still taking bribes Oct 3, 2009
And talk about one-stop shopping: In 2003, in the middle of a dispute with some civic and aviation industry leaders over his plan to turn a little-used, single-runway downtown airport into a park, Daley sent in bulldozers under cover of darkness and had the runway broken into concrete chunks. For better or worse, that's how we roll. (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
Old-style wrangler with a modern twist Oct 3, 2009
" One dog was killed in the battle. The rest suffered only minor cuts, but tests revealed the lion was rabid. Pratt didn't have money for rabies treatment and boarding fees required under quarantine. All but one of the dogs had to be destroyed. Predators on 2 legs Pratt says another breed of interloper may pose an even greater threat to her way of life: the developer. A group of Phoenix attorneys and other investors acquired a huge piece of land between the LF Ranch and Payson. For months,... (AZCentral -- News)
Deadly mud rivers flood Sicilian city Oct 3, 2009
Residents and firefighters used shovels and bulldozers to clear the mud, which in some areas reached as high as the door handles of cars and homes. advertisement. (MSNBC -- International)
American Samoa relief efforts build Oct 3, 2009
"What these people need are bulldozers and backhoes. That's what they need now," he said. Maj. (USA Today)
US storms troops into the Philippines Oct 3, 2009
Philippine defense officials countered that joint military exercises with US troops had long been planned and that their US counterparts would bring in heavy equipment such as bulldozers and forklifts from Okinawa, Japan, to help clean up Metro Manila and outlying areas of debris caused by recent devastating floods, recorded as the worst in 42 years. The US contingent would include 30 to 40 medical missions to attend to thousands of evacuees, they said. (Asia Times Online)
* Rescuers search for victims in Padang Oct 2, 2009
Officials said more heavy equipment such as bulldozers, excavators and concrete cutters were badly needed. Two Indonesian Hercules transport planes carrying medical aid, as well as 20,000 tents and 10,000 blankets, also flew to Padang yesterday, the state Antara news agency reported. (Taipei Times, Taiwan)
Africa: Heavy Vehicle Market Taking Off on Continent [interview] Oct 2, 2009
AB: African businesspeople are showing great interest in our machinery, especially in bulldozers and agricultural tractors ... The company also plans to launch production of heavy bulldozers in India this year and we are currently studying the possibility of entering the African market and opening an assembly line in Nigeria ... We are negotiating the possibility to supply these oil producing countries with CHETRA heavy machinery such as bulldozers and pipe layers. (allAfrica.com)
UPDATE 5-Indonesia quake death toll may be thousands-minister Oct 1, 2009
Officials said heavy equipment such as bulldozers, excavators and concrete cutters were badly needed. The disaster is the latest in a spate of natural and man-made calamities to hit Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago of 226 million people. (Scientific American)
A long time coming - Cedar Park Center opens today Sep 26, 2009
Bulldozers began clearing the site at New Hope Road and 183A in May 2008, preparing the site for construction. With construction underway, the hockey operations and business aspects of the proposed development needed to align. (Cedar Park Hill Country News Weekender, TX)
Habitat for activity Sep 24, 2009
A bulldozer continues flattening the hill behind the Habitat for Humanity homes on Mill Street in Hudson Wednesday. Work to create the Charles Williams Park is continuing virtually in the backyards of the houses. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
VEFOUNDATION advocates technical education in Africa Sep 24, 2009
"Until education in Ghana and Africa is directed at producing graduates equipped with the capacity and resources to produce made-in-Ghana or Africa engines, spare parts, tractors, bulldozers, cars, computers.the power of education and knowledge and enlightenment as vehicles for economic emancipation would continue to sadly elude us for generations to come." The statement hailed the efforts by government and other stakeholders to establish a technical university in the Volta Region. "There is no... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
More Valley crews fighting SoCal fire Sep 24, 2009
Some of the state's firefighters don't man a water hose, set backfires or operate bulldozers, but instead fight fires from 2,500 feet in the air. "I'm the airborne choreographer of the fire fight," said Pat Basch, the forest aviation officer for Sierra National Forest. (Fresno Bee)
A Primer on Bungie's Halo 3: ODST, Available Now Sep 23, 2009
The idea for ODST began as an expansion pack for Halo 3, just a couple hours of first-person run-and-gunnery devoted to the unsung heroes of the series, the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, aka the guys blown to smithereens as you piloted Master Chief around the last three games like a Jedi bulldozer. Somewhere along the way ODST became something more, something ostensibly capacious enough to warrant hiking the price tag from bargain expansion territory to full-blown $60 standalone game. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
