Hydro One was awarded one of the Edison Electric Institute's 2012 Emergency Assistance Awards for supporting the recovery efforts from the June 2012 Mid-Atlantic and Midwest derecho,and Hurricane Sandy.Photos below! "Our employees'skills ...
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One of the frustrations of Hurricane Sandy is that even our best efforts could not prevent a huge amount of destruction. Consider my friend Adam Wexler, owner of Resolution Audio Video in the waterfront section of Red Hook in Brooklyn. ...
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The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 1.7 percent in November from October, rising after a one-month decline, according to the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics' (BTS) ...
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Medicare beneficiaries whose lives have been upended by Hurricane Sandy will be allowed to sign up for Medicare health and drug plans after the open enrollment deadline of Dec. 7, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has ...
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Natural gas output in the US Lower 48 states rose 0.4%, or 320,000 Mcf/d in October compared with September, the US Energy Information Administration said Monday in its monthly gas gross production report. The report had been delayed by a ...
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Investment in smart grid improvements (such as smart metering, outage management and distribution management systems) by utilities companies in the US could have enabled Hurricane Sandy to be handled more effectively. Outages could have ...
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The Ford Focus ST has blown onto the hot-hatch scene. Will it cause a hurricane to rip through the rock-solid Volkswagen Golf GTI and Renault Megane RS265? Words: Jez Spinks. Photos: Chris Brasher. Hands up if you still think you can only ...
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IDG News Service-President Barack Obama,currently on the campaign trail ahead of the upcoming November elections,c,a popular online discussion site,on Wednesday. The president appeared on a forum entitled"I am Barack Obama,President of ...
Network World-Canonical community manager Jono Bacon has announced that testers and developers are needed to help bring Ubuntu 13.04 to the Nexus 7 tablet,as part of an effort to move the Linux-based operating system onto multiple ...
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About 19 percent of cell sites in the area hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy were still out of service on Thursday morning as recovery was slowed by other network failures and power shortages, according to the U.S. Federal Communications ...
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There's real-time drama unfolding at one of the data centers operating at 111 8th Ave. in NYC, a Google-owned building that occupies a full city block. There are a number of data centers housed in the nearly 3 million square foot building ...
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Devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy forced at least two major hospitals and a data center in lower Manhattan to resort to backup generators fueled by diesel for power. In these cases the backup processes failed. In two of the outages, ...
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Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy knocked out mobile, phone and cable service in many parts of the eastern U.S. on Monday, with about one in four cell sites affected in the hardest-hit band of the country between Virginia and Massachusetts, ...
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The classic quote from Warren Buffett about a financial crisis is also true for data centers. It's "only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked," the multibillionaire businessman said. Hurricane Sandy brought the ...
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When seawater flooded streets in lower Manhattan Monday night, it filled the bottom floors of the basement of an office building at 75 Broad St. and its lobby up to four feet. This was not a good development for the data center ...
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