The case for public ownership of basic utilities and services – including electricity, gas, water and communications infrastructure – is overwhelming.
When V Corps became the commanding element for the task force to rebuild Iraq, much of the invasion force, including the 130th Engineer Brigade, was sent to do jobs they had not been originally planned for, as basic utilities and sanitation conditions in Iraq were far below what was expected.
The Harvard findings indicate that health-care disruption for the elderly and the loss of basic utility services for the chronically ill had significant impacts, and the study criticized Puerto Rico's methods for counting the dead — and its lack of transparency in sharing information — as detrimental to planning for future natural disasters.
As The Washington Post's article notes, it includes "health-care disruption for the elderly and the loss of basic utility services for the chronically ill" after the storm (the U.S. territory experiences significant infrastructure problems, including, most notably, with its electrical grid).
That conference call, one of two a day LIPA is now holding with elected officials, offered a window into the frustrations shared by many here on the island and throughout the northeast as they struggle for answers with when basic utilities will return.
But given how new the Glass platform still is, there's room for really basic utility apps, too.
Lell E. Barnes III, the firm's design director and leading architect for Jian Ye Li, said basic utilities like plumbing, electricity and heating were missing from the houses, which dated from the late 1920s.
In addition to basic utilities to solve for order tensors and back calculate couplings from a given order tensor and proposed structure, a number of improved algorithms have been incorporated.
More often than not, they have two jobs, cannot afford to have all basic utilities, toil away for 60-plus hours a week, and sometimes still cannot even pay their rent.
