Sentences with phrase «in these disaster zones on»

[I explored Marshall's work in these disaster zones on Dot Earth in 2012.]

Not exact matches

Had I decided to live in a hotel far from the disaster zone, I would have spent hours trying to commute on «roads» that were essentially broken paths filled with frantic people, smashed cars and cement ruins.

Federal agencies can also skip open bidding on larger contracts — those above $ 750,000 in disaster zones — if they can show that there's only a small number of vendors who can provide the service or product they need, or to extend a current contract, known as a «follow - on deal.»

Generally, experienced utility crews take on the daunting task of repairing power grids in most US disaster zones.

On top of that, there are a variety of challenges associated with conducting repairs in a disaster zone.

«Hurricane relief efforts depend heavily on action at the federal level, which can only occur if Texans residing in disaster zones have full and effective representation in Congress.»

In general, disaster management agencies determine coastal flood hazard zones based on studying the storm surge inundation.

«Today, not only are more people in harm's way than there were 50 years ago, but building in flood plains, earthquake zones and other high - risk areas has increased the likelihood that a routine natural hazard will become a major catastrophe,» warns a 2015 report from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which maintains an international disaster database.

The researchers say that such «on - site morphing» could allow similar robots to do construction work in difficult environments, such as disaster zones or space, giving a whole new meaning to the phrase «transform and roll out!»

Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on October 5 have found that the Chernobyl site looks less like a disaster zone and more like a nature preserve, teeming with elk, roe deer, red deer, wild boar, and wolves.

Bring on the message ferries A message ferry is a mobile device or Internet node that could relay data in war zones, disaster sites, and other places lacking communications infrastructure.

San Andreas actually apes The Day After Tomorrow so closely that at times, it feels like Cuse just took the latter film's script, cut - and - replaced all instances of «storm» with «earthquake» and «runs from cold» with «runs from opening fissures,» and called it a day — like Tomorrow, the film centers on a father's unlikely determination to cross a disaster zone to save an adult child, with only a minimal idea of where his kid might be in a city approaching a population of 1 million.

In January 2006, when the city was still a disaster zone, New Orleans Charter Science & Mathematics High School was the first high school to reopen on the damaged side of the river.

Disaster mitigation task force commander Lt. Col. Taufik Rizal confirmed there were no casualties although many farmers were in the danger zones when the eruption occurred on Wednesday afternoon.

All proceeds are going to Direct Relief, a charity based in Goleta, Calfornia, that focuses on distributing disease prevention materials in disaster zones.

Or instead — thanks to the extraordinary profusion of images, whether on the front pages of newspapers reporting from disaster zones or on Twitter feeds documenting everyday lives in excruciating detail — has photography shown us too much reality, freezing our sympathies and arresting our ability to act on what we see?

After touring disaster zones on the wave - swept coasts of Myanmar and in the crumbled hills of China's Sichuan Province, Secretary General Ban Ki - moon wrote an Op - Ed article urging the world's countries, rich and poor, to do far more to invest before inevitable disasters strike in ways that cut the chance of big losses of life or wealth.

Based on the current number of fires burning in the west, the obscene number of tornadoes this year, so far, the massive flooding that continues in our midwest region, the only assurance I have our current administration is paying attention is in their ability to announce a region officially declared a disaster zone.

I asked the report's authors about another problem I've been tracking at the World Bank — what some officials there say is a persistent lack of focus on investments that can limit losses in inevitable natural disasters (like reinforcing schools in earthquake zones).

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Of the 102 hacks that took the stage, a solid 30 were focused on leveraging tech to aid rescue and relief operations in disaster zones.

General Electric (Stamford, CT) 2007 — 2008 Corporate Consultant — Infrastructure Systems & Network • Designed, developed, and engineered GE Treasury system's development, QA, Production, and DR environment • Hardware: Sun Fire V220, V480, V880, V1290, V6140, V6800, V6920; Sun Enterprise T2000, T5120 (Solaris 10: LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, Zoans, Containers), E10K, E15K, E25, M4000, M8000, M9000; HP ProLiant with Linux 5.0 (EMC and 3 PAR SAN) • Built servers from racking, cabling (Ethernet / fiber), connecting to network, setting serial connection to Avocent ports, and setting up server to the network through DNS • Performed massive installation of Solaris servers using both Jumpstart and Blade Logic and Red Hat using both PXE boot and BladeLogic servers to global distributed network of more than 6000 servers • Installed and configured Solaris 10 OS, recommended patches, hardening software, LDOMS, ZFS, and Container on Sun server • Installed and configured Emulex LPFC, EMC Power path, Navisphere, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Replicator, and Veritas Net Backup in heterogeneous environment • Partitioned and mirrored disks using Solaris LVM, disk suites, Veritas VxVM, mirrored root file system and set up alternate boot device and dump device • Installed application software for ITG, IDM, and Tibco etc. • Created and adjusted Oracle projects on oracle 9i and 10g • Configured operating systems, LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, network Multi Pathing, Cisco Switch 6309, Brocade Switch, EMC DS41000 fiber switch, EMC, 3 PAR and HITACHI SAN, DNS, NIS, NIS plus, LDAP • Created LUNs for EMC, 3 PAR, HITACHI SAN and set up RAIDS • Created zoning of Cisco 6309 switch • Provided connectivity of Ethernet ports and fiber channel by patching Ethernet ports from server panel to switch, and by patching fiber from server to Brocade switch then to EMC DS41000 switch through Cisco switch6300, 6309, Big IP • Performed alternate boot testing, crush dump testing and cluster testing • Vendor liaison for Cisco, HP, IBM, EMC, Symantec, Oracle Sun, and Red hat Linux resolving hardware and software issues • Scheduled changes and upgrades communicating with business owners and support team • Architected Disaster Recovery System conducted testing and resetting the systems as needed • Performed zoning and provisioning configured EMC / Power path LUNs on UNIX servers upon client's request • Resolved issues with NIS, NIS +, DNS, VxVM and VCS among other SA tasks • Created network topology of the internet and intranet security environment using Visio 7.5

In the short term, yes, inflation, in the Euro Zone, where the disaster will occur, will render their money worth «less» than before, both locally and on the world money marketIn the short term, yes, inflation, in the Euro Zone, where the disaster will occur, will render their money worth «less» than before, both locally and on the world money marketin the Euro Zone, where the disaster will occur, will render their money worth «less» than before, both locally and on the world money markets.

I keep wanting to do something like this but with construction going on (um, at a snails pace) for the basement our garage is more of a disaster zone, not ahhhh welcome and come on in.