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I live in Forde and I?m looking at renewing my house insurance. App?$500 for hounse insurance+flood cover Vs app $360 for house insurance with no flood cover.
I am rather new to Canberra so any info about flood history, sort of floods that damage homes, will be appereciated.
Thanks!
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The latest PS4 has been receiving much hype and attention. Following the release of its competitor, Xbox One, all eyes are on Sony (NYSE: SONY) to see what the company will bring on the table. Reports indicate that Sony is trying its hardest to deliver possibly the best gaming console on the market yet.
Sony wants to make sure that PS4's release and reception goes smoothly and successfully as possible. The gaming console's CPU and GPU go beyond its competition while the high-quality GDDR5 memory takes gaming to a whole new level. Sony is well aware that their next PS4 will add something valuable to the table.
The company earned every right to claim they have the most powerful gaming device yet. Fergal Gara, Sony VP and managing director, said in an interview to Techradar: "But secondly to design a piece of technology like that it's very easy to deliver one or the other, in particular I'm talking about the price and the performance trade off. It's very hard to deliver both and for me the balance that's been delivered across those two is outstanding. "
"So it's great to be going to market with what we believe is the most powerful gaming device ever conceived and certainly ever developed and at a price that feels very acceptable, certainly based on the pre-order volumes that we're seeing, " Mr. Gara added.
Sony is not stopping there. The hardware also caters to developers with X86 architecture. This allows the device to channel memory in one unified unit. Prices for the consol start at $399 in the United States.
PS4 sounds impressive but the market is not dominated just by being the best hardware. In fact, the best hardware always finds it hard to win the generation. Nintendo 64 was a standout and even had a better hardware compared to PlayStation 1 but PlayStation outsold it by 3:1. Sony PlayStation 3 had the best features but it was Nintendo's Wii that became a household staple all over the world.
The latest PS4 is one gaming console hard to miss. However, Sony will have to make sure it has a generation to cater to.
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Parents of Wang Linjia, center, are comforted by parents of some other students who were on the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 when it crashed at San Francisco International Airport, while they gather and wait for news of their children at Jiangshan Middle School in Jiangshan city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sunday July 7, 2013. Chinese state media have identified the two people who died in the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, 16-year-old students at Jiangshan Middle School in China's eastern Zhejiang province. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
Parents of Wang Linjia, center, are comforted by parents of some other students who were on the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 when it crashed at San Francisco International Airport, while they gather and wait for news of their children at Jiangshan Middle School in Jiangshan city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sunday July 7, 2013. Chinese state media have identified the two people who died in the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, 16-year-old students at Jiangshan Middle School in China's eastern Zhejiang province. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
This frame grab from video provided by KTVU shows the scene after an Asiana Airlines flight crashed while landing at San Francisco Airport on Saturday, July 6, 2013, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/KTVU) MANDATORY CREDIT
A fire truck sprays water on Asiana Flight 214 after it crashed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, July 6, 2013, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
This photo provided by Antonette Edwards shows what a federal aviation official says was an Asiana Airlines flight crashing while landing at San Francisco airport on Saturday, July 6, 2013. It was not immediately known whether there were any injuries. (AP Photo/Antonette Edwards )
This photo provided by Wei Yeh shows what a federal aviation official says was an Asiana Airlines flight crashing while landing at San Francisco airport on Saturday, July 6, 2013. It was not immediately known whether there were any injuries. (AP Photo/Wei Yeh)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? A federal safety official said the cockpit voice recorder from Asiana Airlines Flight 214 showed the jetliner tried to abort its landing and come around for another try 1.5 seconds before it crashed at San Francisco airport.
National Transportation Safety Board chief Deborah Hersman said at a news conference Sunday the recorder also showed there was a call to increase airspeed roughly two seconds before impact.
Before that, she said, there was no indication in the recordings that the aircraft was having any problems before it crashed Saturday, killing two passengers and injuring scores of others.
Investigators took the flight data recorder to Washington, D.C., overnight to begin examining its contents for clues to the last moments of the flight, officials said. They also plan to interview the pilots, the crew and passengers.
"I think we're very thankful that the numbers were not worse when it came to fatalities and injuries," Hersman told NBC's "Meet the Press." ''It could have been much worse."
Hersman said investigators are looking into what role the shutdown of a key navigational aid may have played in the crash. She said the glide slope ? a ground-based aid that helps pilots stay on course while landing ? had been shut down since June.
She said pilots were sent a notice warning that the glide slope wasn't available. Hersman told CBS' "Face the Nation" that there were many other navigation tools available to help pilots land. She says investigators will be "taking a look at it all."
Since the crash, clues have emerged in witness accounts of the planes approach and video of the wreckage, leading one aviation expert to say the aircraft may have approached the runway too low and something may have caught the runway lip ? part of a seawall at the foot of the runway.
San Francisco is one of several airports around the country that border bodies of water that have walls at the end of their runways to prevent planes that overrun a runway from ending up in the water.
Since the plane was about to land, its landing gear would have already been down, said Mike Barr, a former military pilot and accident investigator who teaches aviation safety at the University of Southern California.
It's possible the landing gear or the tail of the plane hit the seawall, he said. If that happened, it would effectively slam the plane into the runway.
Noting that some witnesses reported hearing the plane's engines rev up just before the crash, Barr said that would be consistent with a pilot who realized at the last minute that the plane was too low and was increasing power to the engines to try to increase altitude.
Barr said he could think of no reason why a plane would come in to land that low.
"When you heard that explosion, that loud boom and you saw the black smoke ... you just thought, my god, everybody in there is gone," said Ki Siadatan, who lives a few miles away from the airport and watched the plane's "wobbly" and "a little bit out of control" approach from his balcony.
"My initial reaction was I don't see how anyone could have made it," he said.
Inside the plane, passenger Vedpal Singh, who had a fractured collarbone and whose arm was in a sling, was sitting in the middle of the aircraft with his family. He said there was no forewarning from the pilot or any crew members before the plane touched down hard and he heard a loud sound.
"We knew something was horrible wrong," said a visibly shaken Singh. He said the plane went silent before people tried to get out anyway they could. His 15-year-old son said luggage tumbled from the overhead bins.
Passenger Benjamin Levy said it looked to him that the plane was flying too low and too close to the bay as it approached the runway. Levy, who was sitting in an emergency exit row, said he felt the pilot try to lift the jet up before it crashed.
He said he thought the maneuver might have saved some lives. "Everybody was screaming. I was trying to usher them out," he recalled of the first seconds after the landing. "I said: 'Stay calm, stop screaming, help each other out, don't push.'"
Wen Zhang said she could feel the plane's tail hit the ground. Baggage was falling around her, people were screaming and the aisle window broke.
Zhang picked up her 4-year-old son, who had hit the seat in front of him and broke his leg. Unhurt, she carried him through the hole where the bathroom was and went out onto the tarmac.
"I had no time to be scared," she said.
Shi Da, a product manager at an Internet company in Hangzhou, China, said he was sitting with his wife and teenage son near the back of the plane. When he felt the plane hit the ground, he said, oxygen masks dropped down.
And when he stood up in a cabin, he could see the tail where the galley was torn away, leaving a gaping hole through which he could see the runway. After escaping, they watched the plane catch fire, and firefighters hose it down. They suffered some cuts and have neck and back pain.
"I just feel lucky," he said. "We are so lucky we sit beside the tail and we can leave the plane in the first place."
By the time the flames were out, much of the top of the fuselage had burned away. The tail section was gone, with pieces of it scattered across the beginning of the runway. One engine appeared to have broken away.
The flight originated in Shanghai, China, and stopped over in Seoul, South Korea, before making the nearly 11-hour trip to San Francisco, airport officials said. The airline said there were 16 crew members aboard and 291 passengers. Thirty of the passengers were children.
San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White said 19 people remain hospitalized, six of them in critical condition.
She said at a news conference outside San Francisco General Hospital the two 16-year-old girls who died were found on either side of the plane near the "front middle." Investigators are determining whether they were alive or dead when rescuers reached the scene.
Hayes-White said first responders told her they saw people at the edge of the bay dousing themselves with water, possibly to cool burn injuries.
San Francisco General Hospital Chief of Surgery Margaret Knudson said at least two people injured that were treated there are paralyzed and two others suffered road rash-type injuries suggesting they were dragged.
She said doctors at the hospital have also seen abdominal and orthopedic injuries and head trauma. Patients with severe abdominal injuries and spinal fractures appear to have suffered them from being thrown forward and back while restrained by seat belts.
South Korean government said the passengers included 141 Chinese, 77 South Koreans, 61 Americans, three Canadians, three from India, one Japanese, one Vietnamese and one from France, while the nationalities of the remaining three haven't been confirmed.
Chinese state media identified the dead as two 16-year-old girls from China's eastern Zhejiang province. China Central Television cited a fax from Asiana Airlines to the Jiangshan city government. They were identified as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia.
At least 70 Chinese students and teachers were on the plane heading to summer camps, according to education authorities in China.
Asiana President Yoon Young-doo said at a televised news conference that it will take time to determine the cause of the crash. But when asked about the possibility of engine or mechanical problems, he said he doesn't believe they could have been the cause.
He said the plane was bought in 2006 but didn't provide further details. Asiana officials later said the plane was also built that year.
Yoon also bowed and offered an apology, "I am bowing my head and extending my deep apology" to the passengers, their families and the South Korean people over the crash, he said.
Four pilots were aboard the plane and they rotated on a two-person shift during the flight, according to The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in South Korea. The two who piloted the plane at the time of crash were Lee Jeong-min and Lee Gang-guk.
Yoon, the Asiana president, described the pilots as "skilled," saying three had logged more than 10,000 hours each of flight time. He said the fourth had put in almost that much time, but officials later corrected that to say the fourth had logged nearly 5,000 hours. All four are South Koreans.
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Lowy reported from Washington, D.C. Associated Press writers Terry Collins, Terry Chea and Sudhin Thanawala in San Francisco, Scott Mayerowitz in New York, Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea, and Louise Watt in Beijing contributed to this report.
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An independent Scotland is to have an expert commission on energy regulation, the energy minister has announced.
The commission, to be chaired by energy lawyer Robert Armour, will be tasked with finding options for consideration in finding the best operation model for the gas and electricity industry post independence.
It will explore various issues such as the role of a Scottish regulator; how an independent Scotland can efficiently participate in an integrated GB market and how to promote fairer energy prices and improve energy efficiency.
This work will build on proposals set out in the Scottish Government document Economic and Competition Regulation in an Independent Scotland, published in February this year.
The commission is to produce interim findings to inform the Scottish Government's White Paper on independence in autumn 2013 and a full report by the end of the year.
Scottish Government proposals show that an independent Scotland would look to continue a market for electricity and gas across Great Britain with Scotland gaining greater control over regulatory, fiscal and legislative aspects. A new strategic partnership with the rest of the UK on energy would also be sought according to the Scottish Government.
Fergus Ewing said: "Scotland's contribution to the UK's energy requirements is already considerable. And as we have witnessed by the figures released by Ofgem last week which show that projections for spare capacity in the GB system are now more critical than ever, Scotland's energy will be even more important in the future.
"Our position of a continued GB-wide market is therefore based on sound reasoning and is a model that will be in all parties' interests. It is important that we are in possession of all available detail, including independent advice, as the constitutional debate develops and the work of this commission will be a welcome contribution to that process."
Mr Armour, chairman of the expert commission, said: "Investment in low carbon generation and a modern grid, delivering meaningful advances in energy efficiency and tackling the growing problem of fuel poverty all depend on a clear, coherent and consistent policy environment.
"The Energy Expert Commission will draw on the extensive expertise of its diverse membership and the lessons from models in other jurisdictions in giving independent and considered views on what will deliver most for Scotland in the coming decades. The Commission welcomes evidence and submissions from parties interested in delivering the best outcomes for Scotland's energy future."
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) ? Shaquille O'Neal says the Los Angeles spotlight was too bright for Dwight Howard.
Speaking at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, Shaq hammered his former colleague as if they were battling in the post.
O'Neal opened his mouth agape when asked about Howard, who chose to leave the Lakers for the Houston Rockets late Friday, and joked about cheering on Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Danica Patrick in Saturday's race.
A few seconds later, he threw an elbow Howard's way.
"It was expected," Shaq said. "We've all been in LA, and not a whole lot of people can handle being under the bright lights. Everybody wants to do it, but when you get there, there are certain pressures. I think it was a safe move for him to go to a little town like Houston. That's right, little town. I said it."
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The virus is transmitted most commonly by bats in Washington State. It is very rare for a person to get rabies. Proper treatment can prevent rabies in a person who is exposed. Without treatment, rabies is always fatal to humans.?
If you find a bat in your home, do not touch the bat. Wear thick or leather gloves and capture the bat in a can or box. Seal the container and call your local health department. The staff will help you determine if any people or pets in your home may have been exposed. Human rabies is controlled by vaccinating dogs and cats and by giving a series of vaccines to people after they have been exposed.Source: http://www.crisisforums.org/discussion/1075/washington-bat-tested-positive-for-rabies
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Energy drink companies are promoting organic ingredients and making claims of cleaner caffeine. (Denver Post file)
ALBANY, N.Y ? Energy drinks are busting out of the convenience-store cooler and into the health-food aisle.
As energy drink sales soar like a caffeine-fueled rocket, more drinks are promoting organic ingredients, added juices, natural caffeine and so-called "clean" energy. A jolt from Rockstar not your speed? There's the "natural energy drink" Guru, and Steaz Energy, which, according to the can, is "good for the mind, body and soul." Or there's Runa's energy drink, made from something called Amazonian guayusa leaves.
Claims of cleaner caffeine boosts come as energy drinks find themselves under increasing scrutiny, particularly for their effects on children and adolescents. The word "organic" in front of "energy drink" might seem as incompatible as yoga pants with a backward tractor cap, but analysts say that as the market for energy drinks grows, it's diversifying too.
"I think we're going to see more beverages that offer energy functionality, but in nontraditional energy drinks," Beverage Digest publisher John Sicher said.
Energy drink sales hit $12.6 billion last year, representing a 14 percent jump from 2008, according to market research firm Packaged Facts. While Red Bull, Monster and Rockstar still dominate the U.S. market, part of the recent growth comes from new kinds of products, including diet and natural energy drinks.
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