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The walls for the first North Side station, which will sit beneath the West General Robinson Street parking garage near PNC Park, are nearly complete. They are being built with slurry-wall construction methods, in which the spaces for the walls are excavated and filled with a bentonite slurry to maintain their shape. Workers then lower supportive rebar into the slurry. Finally, concrete is pumped into the opening and slowly displaces the slurry. After the walls are finished, contractors will build the station's roof below ground level, and then the space beneath the roof and inside the walls will be dug out. "It's known as top-down construction," Mr. Thompson said. At the site of the new Downtown station beneath Stanwix Street, workers are relocating a 42-inch storm sewer line in the final phase of utility line relocation there.
EU poll shows three out of four Europeans worried about personal data ...
Almost 75 percent of the people surveyed said they were worried about the safety of their personal data online, Frattini said. He did not reveal the number of people surveyed or the poll's margin of error, but the standard Eurobarometer surveys usually are based on interviews with several thousand people across the EU. More than half said they trusted medical services, financial institutions, employers, police, social security, tax authorities and local government to handle their data. But less than 50 percent said they trusted market and opinion research companies, nonprofit organizations, mail order companies, credit reference agencies, credit card agencies and travel businesses. Frattini said people did understand the need to pry into private data to hunt down terror suspects and fight crime with almost 75 percent agreeing to their phone calls being listened to in certain circumstances and almost 70 percent happy about others monitoring their credit card use.
Retailer and manufacturer Tommy Bahama launches new e-commerce site
Apparel manufacturer and retailer Tommy Bahama has launched a new web site incorporating advanced imaging and shopping features as well as web 2.0 technology. The new Tommybahama.com was the result of several months of research and development aimed at building an online shopping experience that bridges the gap between traditional brand-focused sites and those that rely heavily on e-commerce applications, according to its developers. For example, the new site offers a magnifying glass function shoppers can drag over any product image to show details as small as the thread color on a pocket seam. The site is built on extensive Flash development as well as detailed, customized templates to facilitate easy movement throughout, Web 2.0 elements that streamline and facilitate product views.
Mir-El Antiques Transcends eBay With Judaica Auctions Website
Jerusalem ----July 30 ..... The past Christmas and Hannuka holiday proved that Internet on-line auction sites are among the most promising e-commerce operations on the Web today. Media Metrix, an e-commerce traffic measurement firm, reported that eBay saw its highest volume of unique visitors overall - 4,073 million - during the peak holiday season between Nov. 22 and Dec. 26. And Amazon.com, which also has auction services, took the number 1 spot, boasting 5,693 million visitors. Internet research company Forrester Research foresaw potent growth in auctions.
Analyst Evie Black Dykema made note of the growth possibilities for the then, new e-commerce industry in an Internet marketing research report she compiled back in March 1999. And the marketing, buying and selling of old and rare Judaica antiques on the Internet, which was once limited to eBay, is now taking on new dimensions with the launching of Mir-El Antiques new Website www.AntiquesAuctionsBuySell.com.
A.M. Costa Rica/José Pablo Ramírez Vindas
Michael Rivera Guillen had his head stuck out the window and was moving it back and forth, back and forth, like the pendulum on a grandfather clock. This was the 5-year-old's first time on a train.
"I wanted to share the experience with my grandchildren," said Rivera's grandmother, Xinia Durán Meza, who said it was her first time on the train as well. "It's enchanting," she said, "everything is so beautiful."
The Tren a la Tica is one of the oldest in Central America, opening to the public in 1903. It ran for the first time as an electric train in 1930 and is the second oldest of its kind in Latin America, according to train officials. At the height of the era, the train institute employed over 3,000 people. The train was shut down in 1995 under President Jose María Figures Olsen but finally reopened in 2001 with the help of a tourist organization called American Travel.
A.M. Costa Rica/José Pablo Ramírez Vindas
Michael Rivera Guillen had his head stuck out the window and was moving it back and forth, back and forth, like the pendulum on a grandfather clock. This was the 5-year-old's first time on a train.
"I wanted to share the experience with my grandchildren," said Rivera's grandmother, Xinia Durán Meza, who said it was her first time on the train as well. "It's enchanting," she said, "everything is so beautiful."
The Tren a la Tica is one of the oldest in Central America, opening to the public in 1903. It ran for the first time as an electric train in 1930 and is the second oldest of its kind in Latin America, according to train officials. At the height of the era, the train institute employed over 3,000 people. The train was shut down in 1995 under President Jose María Figures Olsen but finally reopened in 2001 with the help of a tourist organization called American Travel.
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