AT&T
could see 40,000 wireline employees walk off the job Sunday morning if
the union can't reach an agreement with the telecommunications giant for
a new contract.
Harvard Students Stage Walkout in OWS-Like Protest Intro econ class walks out, criticizes professor as favoring the rich.
Malaysia isn’t the only country that should rethink whether it really needs a national airline. A warning strike by flight attendants forced the German flag carrier, Lufthansa, to cancel more than 80 flights into and out of Frankfurt and Berlin this Wednesday. The airline said short-haul and medium-range flights were affected by the six-hour walkout. Last week, a similar, three-hour strike led to more than 40 cancellations. The union that most of Lufthansa's 16,000 cabin crew, is seeking a 15-per-cent pay rise. Lufthansa has offered 10 per cent. Lufthansa cancels 500 strikes as pilots strike Lufthansa has cancelled more than 500 flights as members of the pilots union Cockpit hold a 24-hour strike at the carrier's CityLine and Eurowings units in an ongoing pay dispute. The walkout affects passengers at airports across Europe and in Germany, including Lufthansa's main hubs at Frankfurt and Munich. The union called the strike in an effort to secure better salaries and said that employers had not made any concrete offers in the ongoing round of negotiations. Warning strikes disrupted German air traffic in May and June. noun [C]t of leaving an official meeting as a group in order to show disapproval, or of leaving a place of work to start a strike: Senior union workers staged (= had) a walkout this afternoon at the annual conference over the proposed changes in funding. See also walk out. cockpit n.
This symbolic meaning of cockpit is reinforced by the primary definition of the word given in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary: 'a pit or enclosed area constructed for cock-fighting.' The popular meaning of 'cockpit' as the control centre of an aeroplane or automobile does not appear in that dictionary. Furthermore, among all the quite respectable definitions of the word cock in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary there appears penis, which the dictionary pointedly defines as 'vulgar'. Incidentally, one of the dictionary's non-vulgar definitions of cock as 'spout' seems to be the source of the common Jamaican name for penis as 'teapot.' cock・pitwálkòut[wálk・òut]
[名]
1 ストライキ(strike)
2 ((主に米略式))（抗議のための）退場, 欠場.
stage a walkout
ストライキをする. |
包圍華爾街式的翹課
Edible iPhone treats selling like hot cakes
BY ASAKO HANAFUSA STAFF WRITER
2010/12/27
Apple Inc.'s iPhone 3GS, left, and an iPhone cookie sold at bakery Green Gables (Asako Hanafusa)
Kumiko Kudo making cookies (Asako Hanafusa)
TOKUSHIMA--Hand-made chocolate cookies in the shape of the iPhone have become the latest must-have accessory for the tech-savvy gourmet.
The biscuits, which are about 12 centimeters long and 6 cm wide, are made by Kumiko Kudo, the 44-year-old owner of bakery Green Gables in Aizumi town, Tokushima Prefecture, replicating Apple Inc.'s iconic device on a chocolate base, with icons nicely drawn in red, green and blue icing.
Kudo said the idea for the biscuits came from one of her customers, who asked her to make a look-a-like of the iPod touch media player for her husband's birthday gift in October 2008.
Kudo mistook the gadget for the very similar iPhone, which had just appeared on the market, but the customer was delighted by the end product.
News of Kudo's creation did not spread widely until a message on the Internet micro-blogging site Twitter in January by the well-known economic critic Kazuyo Katsuma.
A few days before a 42-year-old female company worker in Tokyo had seen the iPhone cookie on the blog of Kudo's bakery and had ordered two to give to Katsuma and singer Komi Hirose, who coauthored a book on Twitter.
Katsuma immediately posted a message on Twitter heralding the "amazing iPhone cookie." Hirose also posted a message about the "edible iPhone."
Their many followers read the messages and news of the cookie spread quickly. Orders began to pour in.
When Kudo was invited to an event held by Softbank Corp. in March, she handed President Masayoshi Son one of biscuits, who had earlier posted his own Twitter message saying: "I want one!" Son was overjoyed: "I'm so happy. I cannot possibly eat this," he said.
Kudo, who makes all her own cakes and biscuits, says she can create no more than 20 iPhone cookies a day. One biscuit is priced at 2,730 yen ($33), including tax.
Kudo has received requests for iPad cookies. She said she has experimented, but "it turned out to be too big, heavy and difficult to make."
The biscuits, which are about 12 centimeters long and 6 cm wide, are made by Kumiko Kudo, the 44-year-old owner of bakery Green Gables in Aizumi town, Tokushima Prefecture, replicating Apple Inc.'s iconic device on a chocolate base, with icons nicely drawn in red, green and blue icing.
Kudo said the idea for the biscuits came from one of her customers, who asked her to make a look-a-like of the iPod touch media player for her husband's birthday gift in October 2008.
Kudo mistook the gadget for the very similar iPhone, which had just appeared on the market, but the customer was delighted by the end product.
News of Kudo's creation did not spread widely until a message on the Internet micro-blogging site Twitter in January by the well-known economic critic Kazuyo Katsuma.
A few days before a 42-year-old female company worker in Tokyo had seen the iPhone cookie on the blog of Kudo's bakery and had ordered two to give to Katsuma and singer Komi Hirose, who coauthored a book on Twitter.
Katsuma immediately posted a message on Twitter heralding the "amazing iPhone cookie." Hirose also posted a message about the "edible iPhone."
Their many followers read the messages and news of the cookie spread quickly. Orders began to pour in.
When Kudo was invited to an event held by Softbank Corp. in March, she handed President Masayoshi Son one of biscuits, who had earlier posted his own Twitter message saying: "I want one!" Son was overjoyed: "I'm so happy. I cannot possibly eat this," he said.
Kudo, who makes all her own cakes and biscuits, says she can create no more than 20 iPhone cookies a day. One biscuit is priced at 2,730 yen ($33), including tax.
Kudo has received requests for iPad cookies. She said she has experimented, but "it turned out to be too big, heavy and difficult to make."
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