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You can see fires, but now Qwake wants firefighters to see through them

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A lot of projects were focused on predicting volcanic eruptions and looking at using sensor networks and different things of that nature to make people who live in those regions that are exposed to volcanic threats safer.”. During one project in Nicaragua, his team suddenly found itself lost amidst the smoke of an active volcano.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

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About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days.

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