Sinkhole swallows car with Rockville Centre resident Gayle Sorrentino inside - News 12 Long Island Published: February 21, 2014 2:15 PM <img src=" class="" height="431" width="768" alt="Gayle Sorrentino's car in the sinkhole." title="Gayle Sorrentino's car in the sinkhole...."/><p class="flash">You need the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player to view the video related to this article. Gayle Sorrentino's car in the sinkhole. (2/21/14) ROCKVILLE CENTRE - A Rockville Centre woman escaped injury this afternoon after a large sinkhole swallowed her car as she was pulling into her driveway. Gayle Sorrentino says she was simply trying to park the car when it suddenly started sinking into the ground. “The sand around started to come down a little bit,” said Sorrentino about her ordeal. READ MORE: Long Island Top Stories Sorrentino used her cellphone to call 911. “She remained calm throughout the whole event,” said Rockville Centre Fire Chief John Thorp.
Technology News - CNET News Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 28, #178 iPad Pro: Analyst questions imminent arrival of 12–inch tablet Apple’s super–sized iPad Pro is unlikely to launch in the next few months, amid reports that shipments of the slate's 12–inch displays are not at high enough volumes to point to an imminent release. That’s the word from IHS analyst Rhoda Alexander. She queried whether Apple was even set on a specific screen size for the device, throwing into doubt previous reports that Tim Cook and co were working on a 12.9–inch model. Interestingly, she said that ‘various sizes’ of screen were being discussed, pointing to Apple not being nearly close enough to scale up production for a spring launch. Following the launch of Samsung’s 12–inch Galaxy Note Pro at CES, it was widely thought that Apple would not be long in following the lead of its biggest rival. However, Alexander’s caution shows that we could be looking at an autumn launch of the iPad Pro at the very earliest. Source:
Massive sinkhole stops transit tunnelling in downtown Ottawa Jon Willing, QMI Agency , Last Updated: 3:07 PM ET OTTAWA — LRT officials on Friday couldn’t explain why the road above a downtown tunnel excavation caved in, forcing workers to pull their equipment to safety. Tunnelling at the city’s east portal is on hold until the Rideau Transit Group, the city’s LRT contractor, determines the cause of the road collapse on Waller St., south of Laurier Ave. “We can only confirm it was located directly above when tunnel excavation was occurring and at this point we cannot confirm its root cause,” deputy city manager Nancy Schepers said during a press conference. Geotechnical experts haven’t identified other safety concerns, Schepers said. “I can assure you that all steps are being taken to, first, protect the public and all physical assets in the immediate area. Around 10 p.m. According to RTG construction director Tim Stewart, the collapse happened above the crown of the tunnel, which is about five metres down from road level.
Facebook WordPress Plugin: Aprenda como o utilizar com este guia! Você tem um blog? Então você deve ter acompanhado a notícia que o lançou um plugin bem abrangente para o WordPress. Com o novo plugin, você pode fazer publicação para sua Timeline e adicionar várias funcionalidades do hospedado. Isso faz com que avançados recursos de compartilhamento no Facebook sociais sejam acessíveis a todos. Este artigo detalhado, originalmente publicado no site Social Media Examiner , descreve como instalar e usar este poderoso plugin. 1: Instale o Facebook Plugin em seu blog De dentro de seu painel de administração do WordPress, vá para a seção Plugin e procure por “Facebook”. Depois, clique em “Instalar Agora” e O WordPress irá guiá-lo através dos passos necessários. 2: Crie seu próprio aplicativo no Facebook Para perfeita utilização de seu recém-instalado plugin Facebook para o WordPress, você precisa criar seu próprio aplicativo do Facebook. Para começar, vá para aplicativos do Facebook e clique no botão Create New App no canto superior direito da tela.
iPhone 6: Large-screen phablet coming May 2014, claim sources Apple is readying a larger-screen iPhone 6 for release in May 2014. That’s according to ‘sources from the upstream supply chain’, speaking with the notorious rumour hounds at Digitimes. While details of the device remain sketchy, the insiders say it’ll use a 20nm processor made by Taiwan Semiconductor. Previous chatter has suggested Apple is looking at using a 5-inch display with the iPhone 6, breaking with its traditional stance of using smaller screens. The sources also back up other chat about a so-called iPad Pro. A May iPhone release would be highly unlikely, with Apple’s launch cycle tied to an October timeframe. Source Digitimes Sinkhole Nearly Swallows Garbage Truck The temperature warm-up and snow meltdown may have contributed to a string of water main breaks across the City of Philadelphia on Friday. The largest of 10 active water main breaks in the city occurred on the 1300 block of N. Wanamaker St. in West Philadelphia, where a sinkhole opened up on a flooded street, nearly swallowing a city garbage truck. "I could feel the pipes rumbling beneath my feet and the ground shaking," resident Zahir Yancey said as he described the moments before the hole opened up. "It looks like a cave. Gladys Holliday, who also lives on the block, says she saw the entire incident unfold. "This morning around six you could hear the water running down the street and then it's like, with little creases, you could see the water coming up," she said. "He (the garbage truck driver) got right here and then boom, he went down, water came gooshing out and the man jumped out. Several residents have been left without water or gas while the break is being repaired.
TechCrunch The top 10 emerging technologies for 2013 Find out about the top 10 emerging technologies for 2014 here. New challenges need new technologies to tackle them. Here, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies identifies the top 10 most promising technology trends that can help to deliver sustainable growth in decades to come as global population and material demands on the environment continue to grow rapidly. These are technologies that the Council considers have made development breakthroughs and are nearing large-scale deployment. OnLine Electric Vehicles (OLEV) Wireless technology can now deliver electric power to moving vehicles. 3-D printing and remote manufacturing Three-dimensional printing allows the creation of solid structures from a digital computer file, potentially revolutionizing the economics of manufacturing if objects can be printed remotely in the home or office. Self-healing materials Energy-efficient water purification Carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion and use Remote sensing
911/93/noplane.htm American Free Press visited Somerset County to look into some of the questions surrounding United Airlines Flight 93, which allegedly turned over and crashed in a refilled strip mine between Lambertsville and Shanksville, Pa., taking 44 lives with it. Many local residents believe the plane was shot down, which they say would explain why parts of the plane and its contents were found strewn over a large area. One question, “is what happened to the physical wreckage of the plane?” “There was no plane,” Ernie Stull, mayor of Shanksville, told German television in March 2003: “My sister and a good friend of mine were the first ones there,” Stull said. “They were standing on a street corner in Shanksville talking. “They had been sent here because of a crash, but there was no plane?” “No. When AFP asked Stull about his comments, he disagreed about when he had gone to the crash site. “I never saw that smoke,” Paula Long, an eyewitness, told AFP.