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In a First Since Nuclear Disaster, a Japanese Reactor Restarts New York Times Since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that set off the nuclear disaster, a popular backlash against nuclear power has halted the reopening of reactors closed due to damage at the time or unrelated glitches, or for routine inspections. ... See all stories on this topic »

Climate experts: Expect more weather disasters CBS News (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File) WASHINGTON - Freakish weather disasters — from the sudden October snowstorm in the Northeast US to the record floods in Thailand — are striking more often. And global warming is likely to spawn more similar weather ... See all stories on this topic »

'Disaster' Strikes in New JoJo Video PopCrush JoJo shows that she's all grown up in this new clip for her latest breakup single, 'Disaster.' The singer revealed a new, more rock-based sound on the track — and some fierce eyeliner. The video features JoJo clad in all black fronting a band and in ... See all stories on this topic »

Shrewsbury area declared disaster zone by Obama The Shrewsbury Lantern The president's declaration authorizes FEMA to coordinate all disaster relief efforts. The declaration coverage includes Berkshire, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, and Worcester counties. Emergency protective measures, limited ... See all stories on this topic » The Shrewsbury Lantern

Congressional debt panel is told to be bold or risk economic disaster MiamiHerald.com By DAVID LIGHTMAN WASHINGTON -- Experts from recent bipartisan debt-reduction commissions gave Congress' debt "supercommittee" stark, sobering warnings Tuesday about imminent economic disaster unless lawmakers act quickly and boldly to cut federal debt ... See all stories on this topic »

Children among victims of asylum seeker boat disaster ABC Online TONY EASTLEY: A number of children are amongst the dead after a boat overloaded with asylum seekers foundered off the Java coast yesterday. Four girls and a boy drowned and at least ten adults on board the fishing boat are also believed to have died. ... See all stories on this topic »

Criminal probe launched into Sabah train disaster Malaysia Star KOTA KINABALU: Criminal investigations are under way into the state's worst rail disaster that miraculously saw no one dying when a train with 200 passengers collided with a fuel tanker at an "unmanned" crossing in Kepayan here. ... See all stories on this topic »

Deadlines extended by FEMA to register for disaster assistance Times Herald-Record 15 to register for federal disaster assistance. To register, call the FEMA Helpline at 800-621-3362. Phone lines are open from 7 am to 10 pm ET, seven days a week until further notice. People with hearing disabilities can use the TTY number, ... See all stories on this topic »

Acronis Arms Channel Partners With New Global Training Programs MarketWatch (press release) WOBURN, MA, Nov 01, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Acronis, a leading provider of easy-to-use disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today introduced new professional education programs to bolster ... See all stories on this topic »

The disaster that wasn't The National About 200 emergency crew members took part in a plane crash drill in a remote area between Al Aweer and Al Ruwayah yesterday. Crash site during the airplane crash drill which was participated by elements of the Dubai Police, Dubai Civil Defence, ... See all stories on this topic » The National

Disaster averted as US plane crash lands in Poland Contra Costa Times By AP A Boeing 767 of Polish LOT airlines makes an emergency landing at Warsaw airport, Poland,Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. The plane was en route from Newark with 230 people onboard but no one was injured. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) (Czarek Sokolowski) A ... See all stories on this topic »

Web Host GoGrid Offers Private Link for Backup and Disaster Recovery Web Host Industry Review According to the announcement, CloudLink is an ideal solution for corporate environments that require disaster recovery and data replication. CloudLink is priced based on bandwidth rather than metered traffic, according to the press release. ... See all stories on this topic » Web Host Industry Review

ECB 'stands between Europe and total disaster' Globe and Mail "The ECB is what stands between Europe and total disaster," Uri Dadush, director of the international economics program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, said on a conference call Tuesday. "The ECB is probably the single ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

Pennsylvania Residents of Two Additional Counties Eligible for Disaster ... Sacramento Bee 1, 2011 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Federal disaster unemployment assistance (DUA) benefits are now available in two additional counties to individuals, including self-employed workers, unemployed due to the effects of Tropical Storm Lee in September ... See all stories on this topic »

Webster eligible for FSA disaster assistance Marshfield Mail The US Department of Agriculture designated 101 counties in Missouri — including Webster County — as natural disaster areas due to losses caused by drought and excessive heat that occurred July 1 through Aug. 30. Those counties are: Adair, Audrain, ... See all stories on this topic »

EQC levies collected through rates - Labour TVNZ Labour Leader Phil Goff today announced Labour's plan to rebuild the Natural Disaster Fund and reform the EQC to secure the fund's ability to respond effectively to future disasters. The collection of EQC levies would be through rates rather than ... See all stories on this topic »

RIM honored by disaster relief group Waterloo Record WATERLOO — Research In Motion is being honored by International Medical Corps after its aid workers used BlackBerry smartphones to co-ordinate recovery efforts following the earthquake in Haiti and other disasters around the world. ... See all stories on this topic »

Allstate Suffers $1 Bilion in Disaster Losses in Q3 Insurance Journal Allstate Corp. posted a sharply smaller profit for the third quarter, as the largest publicly traded home and auto insurer in the United States lost more than $1 billion due to natural disasters. Allstate also said it completed a $1 billion share ... See all stories on this topic »

New Google Reader: Improvement or Total Disaster? TIME By Keith Wagstaff on November 1, 2011 Google just released the new version of its popular RSS reader, Google Reader, and the Internet is, well, not too happy about it. The online petition to bring back the old Reader currently has more than 9000 ... See all stories on this topic »

'Paranormal Activity' Director Sets Up Post-Nuclear Disaster Thriller First Showing ... continue the trend in horror as Deadline reports Peli has just started filming a new untitled thriller in Europe which follows a group of friends stranded in an eerie and desolate city that was abandoned in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster. ... See all stories on this topic »

Missouri farmers seldom use Farm Service Agency emergency loans Columbia Missourian BY Emily Garnett COLUMBIA — The words "natural disaster" often evoke vivid images of hurricanes and wildfires and the devastated landscapes they leave behind. But 101 out of 114 counties in Missouri, including Boone County, have been federally ... See all stories on this topic »

Honda production is disrupted by another natural disaster Los Angeles Times ... Los Angeles Times Just as Honda Motor Co. was recovering from a production disruption and inventory shortage caused by the Japanese earthquake, it has been hit with another natural disaster: flooding in Thailand that is causing a parts shortage. ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

LSC Awards Disaster Grant to Program in Vermont Legal Services Corporation (press release) Legal Services of Alabama received a disaster grant of $68629 to assist victims of the April tornadoes that destroyed communities in that state. "Civil legal assistance can be critical to victims of natural disasters who are rebuilding their lives. ... See all stories on this topic »

Sourcing supplies in a disaster Arab News He saw that the "unstructured" approach taken by many NGOs in dealing with disaster had the unintended consequence of delaying supplies reaching those in need. Such delays may have resulted in loss of life and surely compounded the misery of survivors. ... See all stories on this topic » Arab News

FEMA: Be Prepared for Future Disasters - Get Ready Now 7thSpace Interactive (press release) Disasters will happen again…Get Ready Now. Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) urge residents throughout the state to focus their attention on the weather, assemble and ... See all stories on this topic »

GLOBAL: The risk of "warning fatigue" in disaster preparedness IRINnews.org But that extra time also allows for uncertainty, mixed messages, and "warning fatigue", complicating how well people prepare and, ultimately, how many lives and livelihoods are spared, say disaster workers and researchers. ... See all stories on this topic »

Rena disaster creates big business for BOP firms New Zealand Herald Conveniently for the geography of the maritime disaster, Hose Supplies is the only firm in the country capable of dealing with the demands of the salvage mission. Mr Bourke said they have had a business increase of at least 50 per cent in the past ... See all stories on this topic » New Zealand Herald

Jojo's 'Disaster' is Anything But TheInsider.com Her Disaster music video, which we exclusively previewed last month, has officially dropped and it packs an emotional -- and lyrical -- wallop! Focusing on Jojo's rocky relationship with a bad boy (played by Life Unexpected's Bug! ... See all stories on this topic »

London Underground has drawn up a blueprint for disaster The Guardian The attack on tube services, jobs and safety is in parallel to the McNulty report on the national rail network that also proposes massive cuts in staffing and maintenance to pay for the disaster of privatisation. We know that passengers want to see ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Disaster prone areas also some of the most inhabited People's Daily Online More than 70 percent of Chinese cities and upwards of half the country's population are exposed to natural hazards, such as extreme weather events plus seismic, geological and marine disasters, said a Chinese scientist. Guo Huadong, director of the ... See all stories on this topic »

The Disaster Left by the Northeast Snowstorm Associated Content This disaster is affecting everyone in the Northeast, whether your power has been restored or not. I have been staying in a small city in New Jersey for just a little over a month now. After years of desert winters, I was not prepared for this chaos. ... See all stories on this topic »

The European Disaster Is Far Larger Than Greece Right Side News Spain teeters on the brink of a fiscal and monetary disaster that rivals Greece's. The difference is that Spain is much bigger and a Spanish implosion would put paid the euro and perhaps the EU as well. The elites are staving off the inevitable because ... See all stories on this topic »

BC/DR spending not a top budget priority Network World By Joan Goodchild, CSO Organizations continue to spend on business continuity and disaster recovery, but BC/DR is still not a budget top priority, according to newly-released data from Forrester Research. Forrester researcher Stephanie Balaouras, ... See all stories on this topic »

Double-overtime disaster for Brockport field hockey The Stylus Brockport field hockey ended its season 9-8 after a loss to University of Rochester. The Eagles missed SUNYACs by one game. Brockport field hockey dropped a double-overtime decision to University of Rochester Saturday, Oct. 29 by a score of 3-4. ... See all stories on this topic »

Blunt wins support for an extra $400 million in disaster aid Springfield News-Leader (blog) Roy Blunt applauded the Senate's passage Tuesday of a massive spending bill Tuesday that includes an extra $400 million to help disaster-stricken communities, such as Joplin, rebuild and recover. Blunt, a Republican from Springfield, ... See all stories on this topic »

Congressional Roundup: Hanna announces deadline extended to register for ... Auburn Citizen (blog) The residents in eastern New York and the Southern Tier affected by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee now have until December to register for disaster assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The deadline is now Dec. 15, 2011. ... See all stories on this topic »

New Hampshire Governor Asks President For Help With Storm Relief StateImpact New Hampshire If the request is granted FEMA would give the state federal disaster aid to help deal with storm with damage. The governor said in a press release that the federal aid would help to expedite recovery from the storm which caused power outages to 300000 ... See all stories on this topic » StateImpact New Hampshire

AIR Worldwide introduces new disaster model for China's agriculture industry. Live Insurance News Prices are expected to rise in places prone to typhoons and other such disasters, while they will sharply decrease in areas that have had few natural disasters in recent years. AIR may introduce changes to the model in the coming months depending on ... See all stories on this topic » Live Insurance News

Disaster assistance fund gets donation San Antonio Express (blog) "It's been an extremely difficult wildfire season, but thanks to Farm Credit and the spirit of generous Texans, we are able to provide assistance to those who provide for us," Staples said in a news release. The STAR Fund was established to accept ... See all stories on this topic » San Antonio Express (blog)

North Dakota flood disaster aid tops $400 million Valley News Live BISMARCK, ND (AP) - Federal and state disaster aid doled out in the wake of major flooding in North Dakota has topped $400 million. The Federal Emergency Management Agency also says more than 1200 people are now living in temporary housing the agency ... See all stories on this topic »

Mobile Medical Disaster Relief Supports Earthquake Stricken Orphans in Haiti PR Web (press release) Mobile Medical Disaster Relief, http://www.mmdr.org, provides medicines and funding for orphans who were devastated by the January 2010 earthquake. To better enable others to help support these children, they have begun a "Support an Orphan" campaign. ... See all stories on this topic » PR Web (press release)

November 1, 1755: The Earthquake of Lisbon: Wrath of God or Natural Disaster? Scientific American (blog) Philosophers, naturalists and even some theologians had argued already since ancient times against this simple view of the world and proposed naturalistic explanations of volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters: the most common hypotheses ... See all stories on this topic » Scientific American (blog)

'Left Behind" Christian Book Series Behind Remade As 'Classic Disaster Film' ScreenCrave.com Moreover, they are looking for a director who can make the movie "more in the mold of a classic disaster movie," rather than the boring and pedantic original films. Also, they are looking to build a car with a Flux Capacitor so that they may travel ... See all stories on this topic »

Farmers, ranchers in southwest Nebraska's Dundy County eligible for federal ... The Republic The US Department of Agriculture announced Monday that it has designated Dundy County, Neb., as a federal disaster area because of storms that struck the area Aug. 8-10. The disaster declaration includes seven counties in Kansas and two in Colorado, ... See all stories on this topic »

Lawmakers seek reduced assessments for heavily damaged Essex Co. properties Lake Placid News Betty Little and Assemblywoman Teresa Sayward are working on a broader bill that will address all forms of disaster, including fires, landslides and flooding. Scozzafava noted that currently, a person's home could burn to the ground and they could ... See all stories on this topic »

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