Sunday, January 15th, 2012
The sprawling station, which dates to the 1890s, serves not only the AVE, or Alta Velocidad Espanola high-speed trains, but also the city’s metro subway and commuter trains. It sits amid a bustling district of offices, hotels, restaurants, museums and other businesses. Read More
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) – Central Visayas will fasttrack the cadastral survey in at least four municipalities in Cebu. For this year, DENR-7 Regional Executive Director Maximo Dichoso said they aim to cover 73,661 hectares with a total budget of P163,090,115.76 for certain municipalities in Central Visayas. Read More
Friday, January 13th, 2012
Politicians in the British capital are staunchly in favor of a high-speed rail project that would link London with northern England. But those who live near where the tracks would run aren’t so sure. Though the government gave the enterprise the green light this week, many are hoping to block it. Read More
Friday, January 13th, 2012
One of the more tenacious consumer groups in the residential energy-management realm has been the stop-smart-meters movement. In fact, there is a nonprofit called Stop Smart Meters! Based in California, Stop Smart Meters! is one of more than 50 groups and individuals nationwide advocating against utility-installed, wirelessly connected “smart meters.” These folks have been tirelessly calling
Friday, January 13th, 2012
The Russian news agency Interfax informed that from 2013 all new Russian-made cars will be equipped with the ERA-GLONASS by default, quoting Yaroslav Domaratskiy, Director of Customer Equipment R&D Centre at NIS-GLONASS. GLONASS is the Russian Global Navigation Satellite System. All new cars to be sold from the beginning of 2013 must be equipped with a navigation
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
The political map of Wales could change dramatically under new proposals by the Boundary Commission. The number of Welsh MPs will be reduced from 40 to 30 under the plans, with the remaining parliamentary constituencies re-drawn to include at least 73,000 voters each. Read More
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
A humiliating string of accidents that has beset Russia’s space program over the past year, and only seems to be getting worse, may be the result of foreign sabotage, the head of the Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos), Vladimir Popovkin, hinted on Tuesday. Read More
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
The problem is on distribution networks Water Supply Managers Associations (Asada) and because the diameters of the pipes are very small and insufficient flow. These organizations manage the water to about 1.2 million Costa Ricans. According to the Fire Department, 78% of the 1,500 Roast in the country that have no suitable networks and 15% have
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
The final report of the 39th session of the plenary meeting of the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) 2011 is now available online. CGMS-39 took place in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 3-7 October, and was hosted by the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, Roshydromet. Read More
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Health is an important issue not only for human beings, but also for civil infrastructures. Bridge collapses often result in a large number of casualties, as well as negative social and economic consequences, as was seen in the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, MN, in 2007.1 Structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructures can mitigate problems
