Roadside cameras helping stop cattle tick spread

The chairman of the Cattle Tick Advisory Committee says roadside cameras are proving effective in controlling cattle movements between Queensland and northern New South Wales.

Nick Keating says a two-day meeting being held at Wollongbar this week has studied compliance and eradication programs in the region.

Mr Keating says there were field trips to look at dip sites and the functioning of cameras set up to monitor traffic movements venta motos across the border.

He says the cameras are a significant weapon in stopping the spread of cattle tick fever.

“We saw yesterday how successful they are, because they’re now down pat, they’re catching people now nearly every week who are bolivia bringing in illegal animals or hay out of Qld, so they are working very well,” he said.

“We saw the program and we just want to go and look at them on the roads and just see where they’re placed and that they’re doing their job, that vehicles can’t get around and so forth.”

Lawyer says 58 women have filed discrimination claims against Bloomberg LP

NEW YORK: The number of women accusing the financial data and news service company founded by Mayor Michael Bloomberg of discrimination has risen from three to 58, with more likely to be added, a lawyer told a judge Thursday.

The disclosure widens the scope of a lawsuit against Bloomberg LP that became a distraction for the mayor during his second term.

Bloomberg is not a defendant in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming discrimination against women who take maternity leave — and he bristled as he was asked about it. He said he had “absolutely no idea,” berated the reporter who asked the question and abruptly ended an unrelated news conference.

Bloomberg resigned as chief executive officer of Bloomberg LP to run for mayor in 2001. He retains a 68 percent stake in the company.

EEOC senior trial attorney Raechel Adams told a judge presiding over the case Thursday that the number of women joining the class-action lawsuit will rise as the EEOC continues to interview 478 women at the Bloomberg agency who have gone on maternity leave since 2002. Read the rest of this entry »