We welcome more information about the continuing power outage in Downtown Vancouver. Please add your footage and comments below.Update 3:21 PDT Telus is struggling alongside B.C. Hydro to restore phone service...
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"This is Rachel Nixon. I'm calling on behalf of the NowPublic team about the Vancouver fires. It's Monday, the 14th of July. As previously reported on NowPublic there are severe power outages in Downtown Vancouver...
"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Murderer Pedro Medina was strapped into “Old Sparky” shortly after midnight on March 25, 1997, at Florida State Prison. Warden Ron McAndrew stood nearby as a guard placed a wet sponge to...
"Most people either love or hate the iPhone's touch screen, and based on a report on the LA Times, women with long fingernails are among the haters. Why? Well, since the iPhone's touchscreen only responds to...
" Although the renewable energy industry saw over US $100 billion in global market activity, 14 percent of global venture capital investment and accounted for roughly one-third of new U.S. electrical generation...
The brand new Dodge Journey is already being recalled. There seems to be a defect in the engine wire harnessin the V6 models. The car is only five months old. "Dodge's brand new Journey...
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Should we be on the look out for 4 horsemen?"DALLAS - In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards...
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UPDATE: 2:35PM EST - May 8There is to be an official probe into the explosion at a sub-station in Essex, England yesterday." A member of staff working for EDF Energy died at the sub-station in Chelmsford on Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters were called to Bishop Hall Lane in...
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This is the coolest thing I've heard in a while, scientists have used lasers to trigger electrical activity in clouds. I can just imagine a team of scientists in white gowns firing a big cannon into a cloud. Zap!"A...
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Reading, Righting, Rithmatic, and RageSummary and Conclusion by Albert N. MillironThere is a bit more going on in Waycross Georgia's Center Elementary School, then "the Golden Rule" and Reading, Writing, and...
With this technology, a pair of young lovers embracing on a cliff during a romantic windstorm could power the dead car battery that stranded them there in the first place."BOSTON (AP) — Someday, your shirt might be...
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Hey, Come on, were talking a 50" plasma TV here.Unless your wife or girlfriend is a Supermodel, why wouldn't a man go for the 50 incher? Pleasure comes in many forms Sex is just one of them. As Al Bundy...
"What is the essence of mobility (enterprise mobility) … is it not movement, the ability to move anywhere, anytime and be able to remain connected to the aid and information provided through technology?
What if...
A device simply amazing, one wonders why it wasn't thought of before. The applications are numerous, only limited by ones imagination. A Coup for SFU and most likely world wide attention for it's inventor...
Strong winds in North Texas caused a number of wildfires, as trees were pushed into power lines."AND JERRIE WHITELEY Winds near 50 mph knocked tree limbs into electrical lines igniting fires that destroyed a home and...