Plumbers and Pipe-Fitters Recruiting Apprentices
Imagine a school that offers free tuition, guaranteed job placement, and a salary of $50,000 plus benefits. That's what awaits students of Binghamton's Plumbers and Pipe-Fittes Apprenticeship Program. Local 112 accepts apprentice applications the first working Monday of every month at its headquarters at 11 Griswold St. in Binghamton. Students get hands-on experience in everything from plumbing ...

Question:
Professional credibility is the consultant?s greatest asset. Malcolm Sleath discovers how to achieve it by observing a firm of jobbing plumbers who built their professional credibility without ever speaking at a conference, hosting an event or writing a single article.

Tune In | 1.07.09
OOH! OOH! KILL IZZY! IZZZZZZZY!! But he can't kill Denny, because he's already dead. Or a hallucination. Or something. IT'S NO MORE RIDICULOUS THAN PLUMBERS THAT HUNT GHOSTS: I suppose. JUST THINK OF ALL THE SEQUINS AT THE WEDDING! Karina...

Here's a look at hot jobs in Houston
Dan Zendejas with Workforce Solutions says that people are hiring. "We have skilled positions available for electricians, plumbers, people that have worked in general labor," said Zendejas.

January 6th, 2009
The Plumbers and Pipefitters Joint Apprenticeship Committee of Binghamton Northern Zone, Local 112, will conduct apprentice recruitment from January 7 through December 2, 2009 for four plumber-steamfitter apprentices, State Labor Commissioner M. P...

Grinders save the day for the Oilers
Leave it to the plumbers to fix a major leak.

Plumbing problems disrupt county assistance work
Scores of people waited outside the gates of the county Department of Human Assistance today, forced into the morning cold because of plumbing problems at the office building on the corner of 28th and Q streets. As many as 75 people seeking general assistance, food stamps or other public help were assembled in the agency's parking lot, crowding near the gated entrance. Department officials ...

Official: Pollock prison in desperate need of correctional officers
POLLOCK ? The U.S. Penitentiary at Pollock is in desperate need of correctional officers for its medium-security facility at the prison complex, an official said today, Jan. 7.

Martha's Vineyard Times : Our 2009 to-do, no, must-do list : Editorial
For several years, in the last newspaper of each year, we've asked Island leaders to write about the year ending and the one impending.

County recycling revenue halved
Tom Myers of Odenton disposes of electrical items at the convenience center next to the Millersville Landfill. The recyclables market has plummeted in the recession.

Uncle Kevin needs you: Defence spends up on recruitment
THE Defence Force has named the jobs it most needs to fill as it battles a serious skills shortage and recruitment crisis. Most of the shortfall involves tradesmen and engineers, who have been in high demand in the private sector and hard to attract because of the commodities boom.

Games | Pipe Mania
Let?s face it ? most of us don?t have hundreds of hours to invest in today?s lengthy adventure and role-playing video games, so it?s great to fi nd a fun puzzler that you can play whenever you?ve got a few minutes to spare.

Making the web talk on cellphones
IBM?s India Research Laboratory completes pilot project on ?spoken web? concept in Andhra. ?You will talk to the Web... and the Web will talk back,? predicts IBM in its latest list of innovations that ?have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years?.

DAVE LEWIS: Tournament time is finally here
The 106th MSUSBCBA Open Championship Tournament begins at Pro Bowl West in Lansing on Saturday, Jan. 10th.

A&E orders new 'Paranormal Cops' paranormal police officers series
A&E has announced that it has ordered Paranormal Cops , a new reality series about a group of police officers who also apply their investigative training to paranormal cases.

Rod Liddle: 'I've never had a go at Muslims, only Islam'
His outspoken Rod Liddle one of the UK's most colourful and controversial columnists. Ian Burrell meets him.

How to be less stupid in 2009
The title of this post was going to be 'How to be more smart in 2009' but three things changed my mind. First up several of my Twitter followers 'voted' for the 'less stupid' title, second several posts I saw in catching up on New Year reading had me groaning...

Grafton sees 2008 profit at lower end of forecasts
Wed 07 Jan, 2009 09:17

Towns rush ?To-do? lists for Feds
Town Administrator Mike Sullivan, DPW Director Ken Feeney and School Finance Director Charles Kellner are among many officials scrambling to submit ?ready-to-go? projects for funding under the anticipated federal economic stimulus bill.

Top Daley aides gave orders, witness says
From the time Mayor Richard Daley took office, dozens of city department managers gathered before elections at the plumbers' union hall or other sites to get campaign marching orders from top mayoral aides, a former Daley loyalist testified Monday in the City Hall corruption trial.