ShadowFox wrote: » Flooding in Dublin and more to comehttp://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/heavy-rain-causes-localised-floods-in-dublin-601822.html Roof of of Mater Hospital was also damaged Clerys department store part of the roof collapsed
wolfeye wrote: » IBM scientists are developing a new software ecosystem that would be able to support cognitive computing systems. Rise of the machines!http://mashable.com/2013/08/08/ibm-cognitive-computing/
touts wrote: » Two years later and the most developed, organised and technologically advanced nation in the world still cant get a damaged nuclear power plant near their capital under control. Now imagine what would happen if it was Sellafield a few miles from Dublin and the Sir Humhries hundreds of miles away in London were still debating putting the clean up operation out to tender under EU rules.www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23776345
Tokyo Electric Power Company workers have detected high levels of radiation in a ditch that flows into the ocean from a leaking tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
"One of the biggest problems we have had is social media," Tuolumne Utilities District spokeswoman Lisa Westbrook said last week. The Rim fire has been burning in Tuolumne and Mariposa counties, spreading into Yosemite National Park as it grew to nearly 150,000 acres. Westbrook said people are posting fire information on Facebook about where the blaze is heading or which neighborhoods are being evacuated, and the information is wrong. Deputies and firefighters have to spend valuable time getting the correct information out.
A 15-year-old herder has died in Kyrgyzstan of bubonic plague - the first case in the country in 30 years - officials say. The teenager appears to have been bitten by an infected flea. The authorities have sought to calm fears of an epidemic and have quarantined more than 100 people. Bubonic plague, known as the Black Death when it killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe during the Middle Ages, is now rare. World Health Organisation epidemic disease expert Eric Bertherat told the BBC there were about 400 cases of bubonic plague reported in 2012. He said Africa accounted for more than 90% of cases worldwide - especially Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr Bertherat said that bubonic plague in Central Asia was usually transmitted by fleas attached to small wild mammals, which meant that only those who lived in rural areas and worked outside for long hours were in danger of being affected.
Part of a small but vocal group of survivalists in Menifee, some 80 miles east of Los Angeles, Jones, 46, has pushed for the right to build a bunker on his 1-acre property for nearly a year. He wants to be ready for anything, be it natural disaster or a nuclear attack. “The world is taking a change,” he says. “I want to be prepared. I want my family to survive.” Residents of the small city once known for its farming and mining can begin applying for permits to build their subterranean housing this month after the City Council passed a hotly contested ordinance allowing the practice.
The flooding was so intense it toppled buildings in some places the heavy rains began overnight last Wednesday. At least four people were killed, including a couple swept away in floodwaters after stopping their car northwest of Boulder. It was triggered by unusually heavy late-summer storms that drenched Colorado's biggest urban centers, from Fort Collins near the Wyoming border south through Boulder, Denver and Colorado Springs. National Guard troops have plucked stranded residents out of danger by helicopter and hauled them out of an inundated community in military trucks. Guard members rumbled into the hard-hit town of Lyons through waist-high water and went door to door to pull out up to 2,000 trapped residents. Elsewhere in the state, search and rescue teams used helicopters to hoist 200 residents to safety one by one.
ShadowFox wrote: » UNIONS AT THE Electricity Supply Board are to conduct a ballot for industrial action in a dispute over pension arrangements.http://www.thejournal.ie/esb-strike-ballot-action-1094879-Sep2013/?utm_source=twitter_self
The briefcase contains a first aid kit, a small whiteboard, radio frequency locaters, and a portable oxygen generator, the kind of technology used for emergencies in airplanes cabins, tools that support the State Department's "run, hide, fight" response to shooters, Montanari said. One solution would be a kit in every classroom, giving teachers access to the tools in the event of a shooting. Another option would be keeping the kits near main offices and taking them to sporting events.
