Tag: earthquake

Japanese windfarm survives earthquake and tsunami
ecthompsonmd March 19, 2011

Amidst all the bad news coming out of Japan I thought this was a nice piece of good news. From CP: Despite assertions by its detractors that wind energy would not survive an earthquake or tsunami the Japanese wind industry is still functioning and helping to keep the lights on during the Fuksuhima crisis. Colleagues and I have been directly corresponding with Yoshinori Ueda leader of the International Committee of the Japan Wind Power Association & Japan Wind Energy Association, and according to Ueda there has been no wind facility damage reported by any association members, from either the earthquake or the

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President Clinton in NY hospital
ecthompsonmd February 12, 2010

President Bill Clinton had some short intermittent chest pain. He was admitted to the hospital and underwent several stents. From WaPo: Former president Bill Clinton was hospitalized Thursday in New York, where doctors inserted two stents into a clogged coronary artery after he complained of chest pains. The one-hour procedure went smoothly, according to his cardiologist, and Clinton could be released as soon as Friday. Clinton, 63, was recovering at New York Presbyterian Hospital’s campus at Columbia University, the same hospital where he underwent quadruple heart bypass surgery in 2004. The former president had recurring episodes of chest pain over the

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Haitians gave away their babies
ecthompsonmd February 2, 2010

I can’t think of anything that would be worse… feeling so helpless that you give your own children away. From CNN.com: In the devastating January 12 earthquake, he lost the meager home he had sitting on a hillside in Calebasse. “I can’t stand that they were suffering here,” Laurentus said. “I had confidence in the Americans. I trusted them.” So Thursday night, when Silsby came with a bus, he placed his girls, Soraya, 4, and Leila, 5, on two seats towards the front. He didn’t pack any of their things, he said. Not even their teddy bear. The American woman had

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