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New York Port Was Closed Due to Strike

January 31, 2016 By Marlene R. Litten

"a dock filled with cargo"

Friday, the 29th of January all of the unionized dock workers stopped working.

Friday, the 29th of January 2016, the New Jersey and New York port was closed due to strike. The unionized employees were demanding the termination of the Waterfront Commission interference on the collective agreement that the NYSA (the Shippers Association in New York) managed to bargain with the ILA (the International Association of Longshoremen).

The New Jersey and New York Port Was Closed Due to Strike

Friday, on the 29th of January approximately 1,000 unionized dock workers from the New York port stopped working and left their positions. This immediately affected the New Jersey and New York Port Authority shipping terminals. The agency operates a large number of terminals in Brooklyn, Elizabeth, Staten Island and Newark. The facilities are rented to more than 40 shippers.

An official statement of the New Jersey and New York Port Authority confirmed the unionized dock workers strike and pleaded the members of the ILA to come back to work as they will solve all of their demands in time.
The Port Authority is not responsible only for the safety of the dock workers, but also of the stakeholders that are at the port. The agency strongly urged the workers to return to their posts because the delay was costing them extraordinary amounts of money. That and, according to the NYSA, the strike is illegal because the workers are currently under a binding contract.

ILA Could Not Be Contacted

The headquarters of the ILA from North Bergen could not be contacted via telephone. But a spokesman for the association declared that they were enraged by the continuous interference of the Waterfront Commission in the collective agreement that was bargained between NYSA and the ILA. The Waterfront Commission was founded in the 1950s and its sole purpose is to fight crime related to ports and water shipments.

The New Jersey and New York Port is the busiest one on the East Coast, and the third largest on a national scale after the ones in Long Beach and Los Angeles, California.

The Cargo That Passes Through the Port Adds Up to $200 Billion per Year

The latest available data on the logistics of the Port are from 2014. According to those, the New Jersey and New York Port handled approximately 73, 6 million metric tons of cargo per total, out of which 18.1 million were incoming as import goods, and the rest of the 55.5 million metric tons were export goods.

The port allegedly handles approximately $200 billion worth of goods in a single year. And since the New Jersey and New York Port was closed due to strike, even for a day, the damage could be substantial.

Image source: www.nyt.com

Filed Under: United States Tagged With: dock workers strike, ILA, new york, NYSA

Facebook Launches”Place Tip”: A Location Based Recommendation Feature

January 30, 2015 By Carol Harper

Facebook Place Tips

On Thursday, Facebook rolled out a new feature known as Place Tips. The feature is specially designed to offer location based recommendation to the users. The tool will display posts and photos of users’ friends who visited the same place.

For instance, if a user is visiting a certain place then Facebook will show feeds from friends who have already visited that place. It will provide complete information to the users about any particular place or restaurant.

The social networking site has also given a disable option for the convenience of users.  It will allow users to hide their location from their friends

The new feature will be visible on the top of the home page of iOS users with a name “Place Tips”.  As soon as users tap on Place Tips, it will begin to show cards of millions of locations.

However, users have to give Facebook access to their location in order to get benefits from Place Tips. The new tool will make use of cellular networks, Facebook Bluetooth settings, GPS and Wi-Fi  to find the exact location of the user.

Currently, the company is testing the feature in few major cities of New York.  Hence, visitors of Central Park, Times Square and Brooklyn Bridge would be able to view notifications.

The move will leave a great impact on the cell phone users of Facebook. Analysts believe that the new tool can generate a large amount of revenue for the company. It will attract numerous firms from the advertisement industry.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Advertisment, facebook, location based recommendation, new york, Place Tips, test release

Elon Musk’s Next Venture: ‘Hyperloop’ Test Track In Texas

January 16, 2015 By Denise Ehrlich

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Elon Musk is a busy man: Tesla lately disclosed the all-wheel-drive Model S with auto pilot, SpaceX just crash-landed its Falcon 9 rocket, and the billionaire this week affirmed more plans for an excursion to Mars.

So its not astonishing that Musk’s plans for a $6 billion Hyperloop giving high speed journey between US cities has been put on the backburner.

Until Thursday, that is, when the entrepreneur tweeted about a Hyperloop test track “for organizations and student groups to test out their pods.” The course will probably be developed in Texas.

“Also, considering of having an annual student Hyperloop pod racer contest, akin to Formula SAE,” Musk said.

The Hyperloop stood out as truly newsworthy in August, when Musk depicted a framework whereby travelers would be transported at top velocities through tubes developed above or beneath the ground.

Preferably, this Hyperloop could move 840 travelers every hour and connect cities less than 900 miles apart — San Francisco to Los Angeles, maybe; or loops between Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. It would most likely cost about $1.35 million every traveler capsule, or $6 billion altogether, Musk said a year ago.

While Hyperloop features are worked out, in the meantime, Musk is turning his attention to artificial intelligence.

The Tesla and SpaceX’s founder has given $10 million to the Future of Life Institute to run a worldwide AI research agenda, supported by a long rundown of driving AI examiners, including the leader of Facebook’s AI Laboratory, Google scientists, and IBM Watson Group representatives.

The program will be managed by the non-profit Future of Life Institute; research will be carried out all over the globe, with trusts of awarding funds to AI analysts and related research including economics, law, ethic, and policy.

The moves comes after Musk said in October that artificial intelligence is “calling the devil.”

“I’m progressively prone to think there must be some administrative oversight, possibly at the national and global level,” Musk said amid the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department’s 2014 Centennial Symposium. “Just to verify that we don’t do something extremely stupid.”

Filed Under: Science, Technology Tagged With: Boston, Elon Musk, Falcon 9, Formula SAE, Hyperloop test track, new york, Philadelphia, SpaceX, Tesla, Texas, Washington DC

NY Police: A Child Dies After Swallowing Liquid Nicotine

December 14, 2014 By June Harris

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A 1-year-old kid in Fort Plain, New York, has died after police said he ingested liquid nicotine. Police officials are calling it a ‘tragic accident’.

Police were called to a home Tuesday evening, where the kid was found inert. He died after 2 hours of swallowing the liquid nicotine.

Police said they don’t anticipate any charges to be filed, yet called it a continuing investigation.

Liquid nicotine is lawful in New York, and is utilized in e-cigarettes – yet is considered profoundly poisonous.

At present, liquid nicotine containers are not obligatory to be childproof.

One store close by Fort Plain that sells liquid nicotine said childproofing is an essential provision.

“Vapor Geekz has a childproof cap and like I said, we need to make sure the safety as best we can to our public, and I know a grown-up should utilize this, however, stuff happens,” said Molly Brick with Vapor Geekz.

New York legislators are pushing for tighter regulations on fluid nicotine, and a bill tending to the issue of security is anticipated to soon become law.

The New York State Assembly and Senate have officially passed a bill obliging child-resistant packaging on liquid nicotine.

The senator is anticipated to sign it by the end of this month.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Baby, Child, e-cigarettes, Fort Plain, Liquid Nicotine, Molly Brick with Vapor Geekz, new york, police, tragic accident

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