Thailand Hard Drive Flooding
A Thai woman struggles to walk as floodwater gushes through a marketplace in a riverside neighborhood near the Grand Palace in Bangkok, on October 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Severe flooding occurred during the 2011 monsoon season in Thailand. The flooding began at the end of July triggered by the landfall of Tropical Storm Nock-ten. These floods soon spread through the provinces of northern, northeastern, and central Thailand along the Mekong and Chao Phraya river basins. In October floodwaters reached the mouth of the Chao Phraya and inundated parts of the capital city of Bangkok. Flooding persisted in some areas until mid-January 2012, and resulted in a total of 815 deaths (with three missing) and 13.6 million people affected. Sixty-five of Thailand’s 76 provinces were declared flood disaster zones, and over 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 sq mi) of farmland was damaged. The disaster has been described as “the worst flooding yet in terms of…water and people affected.”
That was the opening paragraph to Wikipedia’s article 2011 Thailand floods.
Obviously you can find a lot of information condensed into that article, but this post is going to try and expand beyond just the 2011 / 2012 flooding. However, I cannot offer more of a description than that because it is presently 3:23 a.m. (Pacific Time Zone) on May 14, 2021 as I type these words, and I have only just begun working on this effort. By the time I finally have the post published, I expect that the date will probably be late in June, and there will be well over 30,000 words of information in what will be presented below.
So allow me to get started.
Thailand Hard Drive Flooding
26 Nov 2020 ─ Ceres Risk
How could a flood in Thailand stop car production in Japan and slow down laptop sales in America?
Well, a third of the world’s hard drives are made in the Bangkok area and some key auto parts suppliers are in the same area.
A flood hit Bangkok in 2011 and lasted for two months.
As a result, Toyota had to halt production in Japan (at a cost of $2.5bn) and Ford had to stop producing Fiestas. …
None of those companies realised the criticality of these dependencies, nor, apparently, that Bangkok was an area prone to flooding, which it is, owing to its tropical savannah climate and big rivers. …
https://ceres-risk.com/2020/11/26/know-your-dependencies-2/
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**Market participants will keep a lookout for fresh tenders from Thailand‘s PTT and Taiwan’s CPC Corporation for July delivered sweet crude April 19-23. …
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Many of the factories that made hard disk drives were flooded, including Western Digital’s, leading some industry analysts to predict future worldwide shortages of hard disk drives. Western Digital was able to get one of their plants, flooded on 15 October 2011, restored and operating on 30 November 2011. Western Digital’s flood-related costs were estimated at between US$225–275 million, however, an insurance claim of US$50 million for property damage, and another claim for business interruption would help lower the net impact. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods
Nov. 6, 2011 ─ The New York Times
The flooding has revealed to the world the scale of Thailand’s industrialization and the extent to which two global industries, computers and cars, rely on components made here.
A large share of the industrial growth in Thailand has occurred on the flood plain north of Bangkok. Rice paddies were paved over to make way for factories, suburban housing and shopping malls, blocking the natural path and absorption of water during the monsoon season. …
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/business/global/07iht-floods07.html
21 Dec 2011 … Computerworld.com is reporting that for the first time since the disastrous flooding hit Thailand back in October, hard drive prices have showed signs of dropping. Even though average prices will still remain at relatively high prices compared to earlier this year, it does indicate that inventories in the PC retail channel have started to stabilize, meaning that the worst is behind us.
While there was plenty of mass speculation and backed by conflicting reports in the last few weeks regarding this issue, it’s clear that the sudden price hike did nothing to help ship PCs globally, and certainly will have impacted the DIY market to some extent. …
https://gigabytedaily.blogspot.com/2011/12/hard-drive-prices-recede-for-first-time.html
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23 Oct 2011 … A flooding disaster in Thailand has hampered the hard drive supply chain and shortages may plague PC, server and storage vendors in the months to come.
Floods in Thailand have rattled the hard drive supply chain from component suppliers to giants like Western Digital and ultimately PC and server makers will be affected, say analysts. Thailand‘s disaster has shut down 14,000 factories, flooded hundreds of thousands of homes and put more than 660,000 out of work. …
https://www.zdnet.com/article/thailand-floods-to-lead-to-hard-drive-shortages-for-months/
Oct. 23, 2011 ─ ZDNet
A flooding disaster in Thailand has hampered the hard drive supply chain and shortages may plague PC, server and storage vendors in the months to come.
Floods in Thailand have rattled the hard drive supply chain from component suppliers to giants like Western Digital and ultimately PC and server makers will be affected, say analysts. Thailand‘s disaster has shut down 14,000 factories, flooded hundreds of thousands of homes and put more than 660,000 out of work. …
https://www.zdnet.com/article/thailand-floods-to-lead-to-hard-drive-shortages-for-months/
30 Sep 2016 … A blog by documentary photojournalist & travel photographer Jack Kurtz about photography & photojournalism.
In 2011, Thailand was devastated by historically bad flooding that swamped 65 of the country’s 77 provinces. Localized flooding started in July, by October huge swaths of central Thailand (including the parts of Ayutthaya that are again underwater) were submerged, the flood wasn’t declared over until January 2012. …
https://jackkurtzphotography.blogspot.com/2016/09/before-flood.html
Aug. 25, 2020 ─ CGTN
Flash floods caused by heavy rainfalls have wreaked havoc on low-lying areas in northern Thailand, government officials said on Tuesday.
Villages, farmland, roads and bridges across the capital district, Sisamrong district, Sawankhalok district and Kong Krailat district of Sukhothai province, about 426 kilometers north of Bangkok, were reported on Tuesday to have been severely hit by flooding.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-08-25/Northern-Thailand-provinces-hit-hard-by-floods-Tfut0E7KUM/index.html
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… during a tour of the hard-hit city of Lod on Sunday, condemned the burning … Capito, who is leading the Republican infrastructure drive, told reporters on … have flooded into critical care units, resulting in a chronic shortage of beds. … them speaking about canceling an adoption from Thailand resurfaced.
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25 Oct 2011 … Charles Arthur and agencies: Country is centre of world hard drive manufacture but factories have been seriously affected by floods, which could affect supplies early in 2012
Thailand is the world’s second largest maker of hard disk drives (HDD) after China, and makes about half of global output taking place there. The damage caused by flooding could keep factories closed or hobbled for months, analysts and executives reckon. …
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct/25/thailand-floods-hard-drive-shortage
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Oct. 18, 2011 ─ CRN
Major hard drive vendors and their suppliers have halted a significant portion of the world’s hard drives and related components in the face of severe monsoon flooding in Thailand.
The massive flood that hit Thailand last week is wreaking havoc on the hard drive industry and causing system builders to scramble for supplies. …
https://www.crn.com/news/storage/231900987/massive-thailand-floods-likely-to-cause-widespread-hard-drive-shortage.htm
6 Nov 2011 … Last week, while I was in Canada to give a seminar on perishable supply chains in health care at McGill University, I picked up a copy of The Globe and Mail, which is the national Canadian newspaper. …
I was very impressed by the coverage of the disruptions to global supply chains due to the horrific floods in Thailand by The Globe and Mail, a week ahead of coverage in The New York Times, I might add. …
https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2011/11/vulnerability-and-complexity-of-our.html
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… during a tour of the hard-hit city of Lod on Sunday, condemned the burning … Capito, who is leading the Republican infrastructure drive, told reporters on … have flooded into critical care units, resulting in a chronic shortage of beds. … them speaking about canceling an adoption from Thailand resurfaced.
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6 Nov 2011 … The flooding has revealed to the world the scale of Thailand’s industrialization and the extent to which two global industries, computers and cars, rely on components made here.
A large share of the industrial growth in Thailand has occurred on the flood plain north of Bangkok. Rice paddies were paved over to make way for factories, suburban housing and shopping malls, blocking the natural path and absorption of water during the monsoon season. …
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/business/global/07iht-floods07.html
Nov. 4, 2011 ─ CRN
Western Digital said the Thailand floods have cut about 60 percent of its total hard drive production.
Hard drive demand for the fourth quarter of 2011 had been predicted to be about 180 million drives, but industry projections now show supply to be limited to between 110 million and 120 million drives, and that demand will “significantly” exceed supply through at least the March 2012 quarter, Seagate wrote. …
https://www.crn.com/news/storage/231902425/thailand-floods-to-lead-to-30-percent-shortfall-of-hard-drive-supply.htm
1 Nov 2011 … Recent flooding in Thailand has interrupted the supply of a large number, and wide variety, of that nation’s exports. Early predictions are that these floods will disrupt hundreds of supply chains in industries all over the world, from the United States, to Japan, Taiwan and beyond.
Several industries have been hit particularly hard. In the electronics sector, for instance, computer manufacturer Asutek has publicly stated that they only have an inventory of hard disk drives to last through the end of November. …
https://cmuscm.blogspot.com/2011/11/flooding-in-thailand-disrupts-global.html
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re: inspiron – error code – please help! Unplug the system, remove the battery and hold the power button for 30 sec. Restart, press F12 and re-run the Dell diagnostics — if you see another error, the hard drive needs replacement. Re: Dell Inspiron error code Case you got some precious data on the disk – put it in a external USB enclosure and access it from a different computer. … Re: Dell Inspiron Error Code Error Code Hard Drive 0. Because of the major production plants for drives (in Thailand) being closed due to flooding, prices are now quite high. If you’ve gone through that many drives, something is wrong – either they’re being subject to too much heat, or too much shock — but if you’ve already lost data, you should know that all drives eventually . …
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Jan. 24, 2012 ─ The Verge
The floods in Thailand certainly had an effect on hard drive supplies and prices, and now Western Digital’s earnings report for Q1 2012 attaches some hard numbers to the impact. Although prices rose 47 percent to $69 per unit over last year, WD sold 23.7 million fewer hard drives, a 45 percent drop. …
https://www.theverge.com/2012/1/24/2729692/western-digital-prices-thailand-floods
1 Nov 2012 … Thai Navy divers were called in to salvage disk drive manufacturing tools. …
Washed Away: Workers at Western Digital scrub away the residue of a 2011 flood that inundated this hard drive factory and hobbled the global PC industry. Tawan Suppapunt stands outside the wall of the main building at Western Digital’s Bang Pa-In factory, where he is managing director of hard disk drive operations, pointing to a blue line above his shoulder. …
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-lessons-of-thailands-flood
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9 Nov 2011 … Wondering why the Hard disk prices have gone up 2 folds? Here is the reason and see what Seagate & WD are up to.
Well, Thailand produces around 70% of the world’s hard disk and the recent flooding caused the hard disk giants like SEAGATE and Wester Digital to shut the production causing global demand of hard disk to sky rocket. …
https://forumofthoughts.blogspot.com/2011/11/thailand-floods-make-hard-disk-dry.html
Nov. 1, 2012 ─ IEEE Spectrum
Thailand assembles about 40 percent of the world’s hard drives, and if you account for drive component manufacturing, it’s the global leader, according to Fang Zhang, a storage analyst at market research firm IHS iSuppli. …
Losing so much of the hard drive supply chain meant the flooding had an international impact. …
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-lessons-of-thailands-flood
9 Oct 2012 … The rain started in August and by mid-October 2011, violent floods in Thailand had damaged the factories that helped produce nearly half of the world’s hard drives. As an online backup company, Backblaze fills more than 50TB of new drives every day. To survive this crisis without raising prices or compromising service, Backblaze deployed every last employee, as well as friends and family, to acquire drives in what became known internally as “drive farming.” What follows is how we did it. …
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/
Nov. 23, 2011 ─ The Verge
Although Seagate’s factories weren’t directly impacted by the huge flooding in Thailand, the company has been affected by the inventory shortages of components crucial to its supply chain. All Things D recently interviewed Seagate CEO Steve Luczo, who assessed the road that lies ahead for the industry: supply shortages will continue until at least late 2012, and the industry may not return to normal until the end of 2013. And while manufacturers are adapting to the shortage by including fewer parts in their drives by using a single higher-density disk with two heads instead of two disks with four heads, Luczo says price increases are inevitable. …
https://www.theverge.com/2011/11/23/2582677/thailand-flood-seagate-hard-drive-shortage
18 Nov 2011 … Thailand’s worst flood in 50 years has swamped more than two-thirds of the country, shutting down many factories, businesses have been impacted and hundreds of lives have been tragically lost. Thailand is the world’s second-largest producer of HDDs and accounts for 45 % of worldwide hard–drive production, after China and is a major supplier of hard drive parts too. The major hit has been to 2.5in drives produced in Thailand and typically targeted at the notebook, rather than the larger 3.5in drives more commonly produced in Malaysia or mainland China facilities. …
https://itbizcharts.blogspot.com/2011/11/impact-of-thai-flooding-on-hard-disk.html
Jul. 17, 2018 ─ TechRepublic
Following the 2011 flooding in Thailand which disrupted the HDD market, analysts expected more geographic diversity in the future, though the opposite is occurring.
That has been a problem before. The 2011 floods in Thailand caused a major disruption to the hard disk industry, which caused disk prices to practically double overnight, and linger around those levels for about two years due to supply issues and difficulties bringing the flooded facilities back into production. …
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-hdd-factory-closure-means-you-may-need-to-migrate-to-solid-state/
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March 4, 2011 ─ olifa77
Организация терминала
Терминал НЖМД Seagate имеет строгую организацию. Команды терминала объединены в уровни по общности выполняемых функций. Определить количество уровней терминала очень просто для переключения между уровнями служит команда
/x
где х требуемый уровень. …
К примеру, для того, чтобы изменить имя модели накопителя, необходимо ввести в приглашении паспорта строку с именем модели. Все ключи вводятся в шестнадцатеричном виде. Пример: я хочу поменять название накопителя на This is myself hard drive.
Terminal organization
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/ x
where x is the required level. …For example, in order to change the name of the drive model, you must enter a string with the model name in the passport prompt. All keys are entered in hexadecimal form. Example: I want to change the name of the drive to This is myself hard drive. ─Google Translate
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Feb. 29, 2012 ─ Computerworld
Seagate technology for the first time in two years reclaimed the throne as the leading hard disk drive suppler, usurping Western Digital’s lead after the company suffered production shutdowns in the wake of Thailand floods last year.
Monsoonal flooding in Thailand last year helped Seagate Technology recapture the worldwide lead in hard disk drive shipments in the last quarter of 2011, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli. …
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2501937/thai-floods-catapult-seagate-into-hard-drive-market-lead.html
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Although Seagate’s factories weren’t directly impacted by the huge flooding in Thailand, the company has been affected by the inventory shortages of components crucial to its supply chain. All Things D recently interviewed Seagate CEO Steve Luczo, who assessed the road that lies ahead for the industry: supply shortages will continue until at least late 2012, and the industry may not return to normal until the end of 2013. …
https://www.theverge.com/2011/11/23/2582677/thailand-flood-seagate-hard-drive-shortage
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Thai school girls play and swim in the flood waters that have inundated the playground of their school in Ayutthaya province north of Bangkok.
Two months ago I was covering the drought that devastated rural Thailand and most of Cambodia.
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29 Oct 2011 … The massive flooding in Thailand is disrupting supplies of hard disk drives (HDDs) for the world’s personal computer makers, according to companies and market intelligence firms.
Around 40 percent of all hard disk drives worldwide are produced in Thailand, making it the second-largest exporter of HDDs after China.
John Rydning, research vice president for hard disk drives at technology consultant IDC, estimated that factories in Thailand currently affected by flooding account for some 25 percent of worldwide HDD production. …
https://phys.org/news/2011-10-thai-disrupting-hard.html
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Reasons why Seagate HDD Price Became Expensive?
1. Decrease Supply – Hard disk drive and hard disk component factories in Thailand was hardly hit by series of flooding last 2011 due to heavy rain of monsoon seasons with Western Digital (WD) suffering the most. …
https://gb-sb.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-does-seagate-hdd-prices-increase-or.html
Oct. 18, 2011 ─ InfoWorld
Flooding near Bangkok has taken about 25 percent of the world’s hard disk manufacturing capacity offline
Disk manufacturing sites in Thailand — notably including the largest Western Digital plant — were shut down due to floods around Bangkok last week and are expected to remain shut for at least several more days. …
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2621076/the-impending-hard-drive-shortage—-and-possible-price-hikes.html
Flooding of Rojana Industrial Park, Ayutthaya, Thailand October 2011: https://www.anandtech.com
7 Apr 2021 ─ PetaPixel
Backblaze releases 2020 data on hard drive failure rates revealing how different hard drive models compare to one another. …
Backblaze, one of the leading cloud storage and backup companies, has just released information on its hard drive failure rates throughout 2020, revealing which models fared better than others. …
Although such extreme implications, like those experienced due to the global pandemic, couldn’t have been predicted, Backblaze had already gone through a supply disruption in 2011 when severe flooding affected Thailand. Since then, particular attention was paid to improving supply strategies. …
https://petapixel.com/2021/04/07/seagate-takes-top-honors-in-backblazes-2020-hard-drive-failure-report/
Nov. 27, 2013 ─ ExtremeTech
HDD prices have returned to norms before the Thailand floods, even across the high-end 4TB product lines. …
Hard drive manufacturers like Western Digital, Samsung, and Toshiba had key facilities located in Thailand, as did some of the major component manufacturers. Hard drive prices skyrocketed in the wake of the floods and stayed up for months. …
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/171700-two-years-later-hdd-prices-settle-back-to-normal
24 Jan 2012 … The floods in Thailand certainly had an effect on hard drive supplies and prices, and now Western Digital’s earnings report for Q1 2012 attaches some hard numbers to the impact. Although prices rose 47 percent to $69 per unit over last year, WD sold 23.7 million fewer hard drives, a 45 percent drop. Some of that price jump can be attributed to increased manufacturing costs, but most of it went to towards profit with a gross margin increase to 32.5 percent over last year’s 19.2. …
https://www.theverge.com/2012/1/24/2729692/western-digital-prices-thailand-floods
Sep. 29, 2012 ─ Engadget
Last year’s floods in Thailand caused hard drive shortages after wreaking havoc on a number of electronics manufacturers, but new stats from IHS iSuppli indicate that the HDD market for PCs has fully recovered and is poised to hit an all time high. The firm expects 524 million units for internal use in PCs to ship this year, besting the previous record by 4.3 percent. …
https://www.engadget.com/2012-09-29-hard-drives-thailand-floods-recover-record.html
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The most affected companies is from Japan, dealing in automobiles, digital camera and hard disk drive businesses. So, Japanese companies may potentially swift their operations or supply chains, either temporary or permanently, to Malaysia due to its strategic location and labor markets.
Other than that, South Korea also is an ideal place for Japanese companies. …
https://financemalaysia.blogspot.com/2011/10/will-thailand-flooding-with-debts-after.html
Jan. 11, 2021 ─ Mongabay
Srongpol Chantharueang remembers his parents telling him as a boy always to protect the local wetland forest when he grew up. They told him that the ecosystem would be important for his life and that of his community. “I didn’t understand what they meant at the time,” he told Mongabay via a video call in December 2020. […]
In 2018, community members in Ban Boon Rueang, in Thailand‘s northern Chiang Rai province, successfully campaigned against plans to convert a wetland forest into a special economic zone. …
The flooding patterns that sustain the Ing River and its wetlands are determined by the natural flow cycle in the roughly 2,050-km (1,270-mi) stretch of the upper Mekong River, from where it rises in the Tibetan plateau to its confluence with the Ing River in Thailand. …
“We try to raise the issue among local people and petition decision-makers in China, but it is very hard to have our voices heard,” Teerapong said. …
Through BRWFCG, the Boon Rueang community has an active voice in such regional advocacy platforms and continues its drive to sustain a healthy wetland forest.
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/award-winning-thai-community-continues-the-fight-to-save-its-wetland-forest/
18 Oct 2011 … Major hard drive vendors and their suppliers have halted a significant portion of the world’s hard drives and related components in the face of severe monsoon flooding in Thailand.
The massive flood that hit Thailand last week is wreaking havoc on the hard drive industry and causing system builders to scramble for supplies.
The monsoon-related flood waters, which Reuters said have covered about one-third of Thailand‘s surface, are severely impacting the country’s manufacturing business, including the vital hard drive business, where it accounts for about a quarter of the world’s production. …
https://www.crn.com/news/storage/231900987/massive-thailand-floods-likely-to-cause-widespread-hard-drive-shortage.htm
Feb. 7, 2012 ─ TechSpot
The hard disk drive supply chain was hit hard late last year when a series of floods struck Thailand. The Asian country accounts for about a quarter of the world’s hard drive production, but thousands of factories had to close shop for weeks as facilities were under water, in what is considered the world’s fourth costliest natural disaster according to World Bank estimates. That’s on top of the human cost of over 800 lives. …
https://www.techspot.com/guides/494-hard-drive-pricewatch-thai-floods/
12 Feb 2012 … Storing digital music files on a hard drive is the most popular method of using your digital music files with your computer and your portable digital audio device. … The cost of hard drive storage has come down greatly over the past few years, the exception being a short temporary blip up in price over the last 6-9 months due to flooding of disk manufacturers in Thailand. Hard drives and enclosures are no longer a big investment for some who might spend several hundred dollars on interconnect and speaker cables. …
https://digitalaudiodirections.blogspot.com/2012/02/storage-is-cheap-increasing-your.html
Jul. 22, 2020 ─ The Bangkok Post
PATTAYA: An afternoon downpour flooded major roads in Pattaya on Wednesday afternoon, with one community particularly hard-hit. …
Mr Niyom said he was trying to drive his car out of the flood and to an alternative street to Sukhumvit road, but the strong current wrested control of the vehicle away from him and most of it sank beneath the water. … Keywords; weather · pattaya · rain · floods · thailand …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1955775/downpour-floods-pattaya-water-car-deep
- Символика ЛГБТ-движения [Symbols of the LGBT movement]
Dec. 14th, 2014 ─ 2 колеса и километры дорог. [2 wheels and kilometers of roads.]
Оригинал взят у ex_whitesto в Символика ЛГБТ-движения
“В ЛГБТ-сообществе приняты некоторые символы, которые помогают его идентифицировать и которые демонстрируют единение, гордость, общие ценности и преданность. ЛГБТ символика также помогает идентифицироваться в сообществе и среди основных субкультур”. …
Original taken from ex_whitesto in Symbols of the LGBT movement
“The LGBT community has adopted some symbols that help to identify it and that demonstrate unity, pride, shared values and loyalty. LGBT symbols also help to identify in the community and among the main subcultures.” … ─Google Translate
hard trance. … test-drive. trance music. Trip.
https://gerhard-stark.livejournal.com/45275.html
Apr 07, 2021 ─ PetaPixel
Backblaze releases 2020 data on hard drive failure rates revealing how different hard drive models compare to one another. … All drives saw notable improvements in failure rates.
As noted by DPReview, Backblaze reports that 39,792 hard drives were added to its assortment in 2020 and by the end of the year, the number of drives under its management reached a total of 165,530. …
Although such extreme implications, like those experienced due to the global pandemic, couldn’t have been predicted, Backblaze had already gone through a supply chain disruption in 2011 when severe flooding affected Thailand.
https://petapixel.com/2021/04/07/seagate-takes-top-honors-in-backblazes-2020-hard-drive-failure-report/
21 Oct 2011 … SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A looming shortage of hard drives caused by floods in Thailand threatens to disrupt computer manufacturers as soon as December and hurt tech giants like Intel <INTC.O>, Apple <AAPL.O> and Dell <DELL.O>.
Thailand is the No. 2 maker of hard drives, used in laptops, servers and TV set-top boxes, and damage caused by flooding across the region could keep factories closed or hobbled for months, analysts and executives say. …
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-floods-tech-idUSTRE79K76Z20111021
Feb. 1, 2012 ─ The Verge
Seagate acknowledged that hard drive shortages will most likely continue throughout the calendar year of 2012, with supply trailing demand by about 150 million units by the end of 2012.
Seagate released its Q2 2012 (fiscal year) results yesterday, and not surprisingly the company had some statements to make about the effect the Thailand flooding had on its business. The company acknowledged that hard drive shortages will most likely continue throughout the calendar year of 2012, with supply trailing demand by about 150 million units by the end of 2012. …
https://www.theverge.com/2012/2/1/2763289/seagate-hard-drive-shortage-thailand-flood
13 Dec 2014 … To protect against reputational damage and the effects of climate change, do companies need to implement sustainable business practices throughout their supply chain? …
Thai workers clean up flood damage.
Workers at Thailand‘s biggest semiconductor factory clean up after the 2011 floods; hard–drive prices soared afterwards. …
https://haccmarketing.blogspot.com/2014/12/why-sustainable-supply-chains-make.html
Jan. 12, 2021 ─ The Straits Times
Consumer News -Vendors said farms in Malaysia are flooded, resulting in poor crop output.. Read more at straitstimes.com. …
Mr Alex Zhou, 35, who runs a vegetable stall in the wet market in Pasir Ris Drive 6, said: “The constant rain in Malaysia has made it hard to transport goods, and we’ve lost a lot of supply due to the poor weather. …”
“I had to get vegetables from Thailand and Vietnam, which are flown in. …”
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/consumer/floods-in-malaysia-drive-up-price-of-fish-and-vegetables-at-wet-markets-in
29 Feb 2012 … Seagate technology for the first time in two years reclaimed the throne as the leading hard disk drive suppler, usurping Western Digital’s lead after the company suffered production shutdowns in the wake of Thailand floods last year. …
Seagate claimed 38% of HDD market share, compared with Western Digital’s 23%, according to the iSuppli report released today.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2501937/thai-floods-catapult-seagate-into-hard-drive-market-lead.html
Oct. 27, 2011 ─ Reuters
Manufacturers of car parts to computer hard drives are worst hit in Thailand and face a bleak key holiday selling season due to massive floods, which have shut down production.
Thailand is the No. 2 maker of hard disk drives (HDD) after China and makes about half of global output taking place there, meaning damage caused by flooding could keep factories closed or hobbled for months, analysts and executives said. …
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thai-floods-idUSTRE79R0QR20111028
15 Jun 2020 … 2021-2024 Business Plan and Budget
The City of Mississauga’s first Budget Committee meeting for the upcoming year will be done virtually and will take place on Wednesday, June 24. The presentation is an early look at how the City plans to invest taxpayer dollars to deliver programs and services. Council will be updated on the 2020 financial position and possible revisions to 2020 spending. …
https://web.mississauga.ca/city-of-mississauga-news/news/mississauga-2021-budget-preliminary-forecast-on-june-24/
Jan. 8, 2021 ─ Thaiger
Thousands of residents in Songkhla, Yala and Narathiwat, in the very south of Thailand, have been evacuated from their homes due to flash flooding from nearly a week of almost continuous heavy rain.
Local authorities say a total of 18,024 households across 19 districts have been impacted. …
https://thethaiger.com/news/national/thailand-news-today-southern-floods-face-mask-fines-thai-air-asia-woes-january-8
9 Sep 2020 ─ CenturyThailand
BANGKOK’S “BEACH” – BANG KHUN THIAN, THAILAND
Posted in Every Day Life,Thailand,Travel
Spirit House
What could be more Thai? A garlanded spirit house sits in an auspicious corner of a Bang Khun Thien seafood restaurant overlooking the Bay of Thailand.
As cosmopolitan a city as Bangkok is, there are still spaces where one feels as though one has been transported into the distant past. …
The children are happy to show us around.
Hammock
It is hard to believe that bustling, chaotic Bangkok is just a short boat-ride away! …
A concrete pillar in the bay designates the boundary between Bangkok and Samut Prakan provinces.
Shellfish Farm
Aquafarmers drive stakes into the seabed and seed them with clams. The clams cling to these stakes and grow until they are picked off at harvest. …
https://centurythailand.co/2020/09/09/264/
Sep. 12, 2020 ─ South China Morning Post
Chinese steel exports have been hit by 15 anti-dumping investigations in the first nine months of this year amid what experts say is growing pandemic-driven protectionism. …
China steel exports hit by surge of anti-dumping probes as coronavirus drives protectionism …
Thailand went a step further in August, slapping a 35.67 per cent anti-dumping tariff on Chinese hot-dipped galvanised coils and sheets. …
China, the world’s biggest steel producer, has long been accused of flooding the international market with cheap, subsidised steel. …
Chinese steel started flowing into Thailand in the early 2000s and has increasingly squeezed regional manufacturers, Korrakod said. …
Coronavirus turns Teflon Thailand’s wealth gap into a economic chasm Thailand’s industrial sector has been hard hit by the pandemic, with both investment and consumption plummeting.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/article/3101182/china-steel-exports-hit-surge-anti-dumping-probes-coronavirus-drives
29 Sep 2012 … Last year’s floods in Thailand caused hard drive shortages after wreaking havoc on a number of electronics manufacturers, but new stats from IHS iSuppli indicate that the HDD market for PCs has fully recovered and is poised to hit an all time high. The firm expects 524 million units for internal use in PCs to ship this year, besting the previous record by 4.3 percent. What’s giving the recovery an added boost? According to the analytics group, the extra demand comes courtesy of Windows 8 and Ultrabooks. …
https://www.engadget.com/2012-09-29-hard-drives-thailand-floods-recover-record.html
Aug. 6, 2019 ─ TechRepublic
Cloud storage company Backblaze offers a great deal of transparency into their deployments. Here’s what you need to know before buying your next hard drive. …
Typically, enterprise-scale cloud storage vendors use drives labeled explicitly for enterprise use, though Backblaze carried the distinction of using the least expensive drives they could acquire—at times, shucking external hard drives found on sale, especially in the aftermath of 2012 flooding in Thailand severely disrupting the drive market. …
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/seagate-leads-in-disk-drive-deployments-failures-in-backblaze-report/
28 Dec 2011 … ICY DOCK is a leading manufacturer of removable hard drive enclosures. Since our company has always been about the customers, we wanted to create an informal avenue for us to communicate with you! Hopefully, these blogs will provide you with insights and opinions about ICY DOCK products.
This is extremely useful during the current hard drive shortage. The increase of hard drives cost is very worrisome for many consumers and would strongly prefer to have a solution that reduce costs as much as possible, meanwhile, making full use of hard drives that they already own. …
https://icydock.blogspot.com/2011/
May 29, 2012 ─ Ars Technica
With supplies back on the upswing, HDD prices have found a new, higher normal.
Last October, flooding in Thailand took a huge bite out of hard disk drive supplies, taking out about a quarter of the world’s HDD manufacturing capacity. …
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/hard-drive-supplies-back-to-pre-flood-levels-but-prices-arent/
9 Jan 2012 … Some vendors also trim warranties; IDC expects shortages to persist into 2013.
Flooding in Thailand, where one-third of the world’s hard drives are produced, has had a domino effect on shipments of hard disk drives.
Almost all major storage vendors have raised the prices on their arrays and disk drives, citing the devastating floods as the source of their hard drive supply woes.
https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/hard-drive-prices-rise-due-to-thai-floods/d/d-id/1102133
Dec. 1, 2011 ─ Computerworld
The flooding in Thailand that has left the storage industry with a dearth of hard drives has also caused a temporary rush on solid-state drives, according to DRAMeXchange.
NAND flash prices for the second half of November 2011.
More than a dozen hard disk drive (HDD) factories have been shut due to flooding in Thailand. …
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2499725/thailand-floods-spur-rush-to-ssds.html
17 Jun 2020 … First to close, last to reopen – can nightclubs in the province survive pandemic?
Whether it is justified or not, Vancouver has been dubbed “No Fun City” because of its allegedly tepid nightlife and throwback liquor laws.
So just how joyless will it be if half of the nightclubs and live music venues permanently close?
https://biv.com/article/2020/06/march-17-day-music-died-bc
Oct. 8, 2020 ─ The Economist
The pandemic will not end globalisation, but it will reshape it | Special report …
The tsunami that hit Japan in 2011 cut Toyota’s production in America by nearly a third because of a shortage of parts, while flooding in Thailand inundated factories producing a quarter of the world’s hard drives.
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/10/08/changing-places
Amazon U.S. • Corporate Security in the Asia-Pacific Region: Crisis, Crime, Fraud, and Misconduct
As corporations and governments become more litigious and risk averse, international risk management becomes more complex. Corporate Security in the Asia-Pacific Region: Crisis, Crime, Fraud, and Misconduct examines real cases of corporate crisis, crime, fraud, and other misconduct that corporate security professionals need to be aware of to effectively protect people, operations, and assets within the region.
Current security threats and risks are addressed to help readers conduct an informed risk assessment and analysis of operational risk. Providing detailed guidance on how to address the unique threats and risks in this dynamic and growing business environment, the book:
- Presents an overview of the region, with relevant historical background
- Offers recent case examples of crime and common issues facing a given region or country
- Highlights the range and frequency of corporate security-related breaches and crimes specific to countries in the region
- Provides detailed write-ups of every country in the region including the major players―Japan, China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
- Outlines security best practices for navigating the political and law enforcement challenges involved with operating in the region
This book provides readers with the regional snapshot and geo-political background needed to understand the cultural differences, challenges, and the state of affairs for any country in the region. Filled with detailed cases of crime, theft of trade secrets, risk factors, and best practices, this book provides the real-world understanding you’ll need to conduct better-informed security management that will lead to improved decisions on how to protect your people and assets in the Asia-Pacific region.
Thu, Apr. 21St, 2011 ─ bacel
There was a plentiful helping of heebie and/or jeebie-inducing science available this week, but some of the deepest chills came from worlds where science has no sway. Worlds that intersect maddeningly with our ownâ¦
This Week in Terrifying Anti-Science
Biology professor Phil Senter saw a petroglyph in Utah that looked to him like a sauropod dinosaur. …
Apparently, Pakistanâs massive floods drove millions â Millions! â of spiders into the trees for safety. The heavy web coverage is killing the trees, because To Hell with Everything You Love is the international spiderhood motto.
On the upside, the spiders are catching the daylights out of all the mosquitoes that have been fostered by the stagnant, slowly receding floodwaters, which is keeping malaria rates down. …
https://bacel.livejournal.com/75789.html
Oct. 20, 2011 ─ MarketWatch
The flooding in Thailand that hurt Western Digital’s operations is also taking a toll on Dell and some chip companies led by Marvell Technology.
Shares of the hard disk drive maker were up 5% Thursday, but have fallen more than 9% this week.
Dell fell 5.4% to close at $15.05, making the stock one of the worst performers on the S&P 500 SPX, +0.12% , where the tech sector was the hardest hit. Intel closed trading down 2.6% while Nvidia was off more than 5% by the close. …
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/thailand-flooding-hits-dell-chip-makers-2011-10-20
4 Nov 2011 … Western Digital said the Thailand floods have cut about 60 percent of its total hard drive production.
One-third or more of the expected hard drive demand in the fourth quarter is in jeopardy of going unfulfilled due to the Thailand floods which have put much of that country, including a large part of its hard drive industry, under water.
https://www.crn.com/news/storage/231902425/thailand-floods-to-lead-to-30-percent-shortfall-of-hard-drive-supply.htm
Dec. 2, 2011 ─ Ars Technica
Drive shortages caused by massive flooding in Thailand have left Apple without …
The massive flooding in Thailand, which put a worldwide squeeze on hard drive supplies, is now affecting shipment of certain build-to-order iMac models. …
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/12/thai-flooding-finally-hits-apple-with-2tb-drive-shortage/
23 Oct 2011 … There are a half dozen 7-11`s within walking distance of my condo in Bangkok and all are out of bottled water, bread, milk, and Mama (the packaged instant soups Thais like best), and I’ve noticed that the Oreo supplies are running low. … Extremely heavy monsoon rains this season had filled rivers, canals and dams throughout Central Thailand. We saw a few flooded areas around the ancient city, which is on an island at the confluence of three rivers, and residents and businesses had stacked sandbags to prevent the waters from spreading. …
https://drwillajahn.blogspot.com/2011/10/waiting-for-water.html
Oct. 20, 2020 ─ Neuse News
Today, N.C. Senator Jim Perry and Kinston Mayor Don Hardy announce next steps in the effort to address Kinston’s flash flooding concerns. After flooding in August from an intense summer thunderstorm, Perry and Hardy worked to bring people together to discuss possible solutions. Senator Perry requested assistance from the Division of Mitigation Services and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), to discuss mitigation solutions for repeated flooding incidents in the area. …
“Environmental Defense Fund is excited to partner with local and state leaders, leveraging good science that drives innovative, community-supported flood solutions,” said Will McDow, Director, Resilient Landscapes, EDF. …
https://www.neusenews.com/index/2020/10/20/senator-perry-and-mayor-hardy-announce-funding-for-flash-flood-study
14 Dec 2011 … A shortage of hard drive disks in Thailand after the devastating flood that put Bangkok under water in October has started to show up in heavy losses for companies’ fourth-quarter outlooks. Now companies may be thinking about the ways that the risk of catastrophic disasters can set themselves apart from competitors in the aftermath.
Thailand, which houses production plants for a number of technology companies, is valued at between $20 billion and $40 billion by the insurance industry. …
https://www.forbes.com/sites/heatherstruck/2011/12/14/after-the-floods-companies-reconsider-risk/
Jul. 23, 2020 ─ Bangkok Post
An afternoon downpour flooded major roads in Pattaya on Wednesday afternoon, with one community particularly hard-hit. …
Mr Niyom said he was trying to drive his car out of the flood and to an alternative street to Sukhumvit Road, but the strong current took control of the vehicle away from him. …
VIDEO: This Week’s Top Stories May 14 · Indian Covid variant confirmed in Thailand.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/easy/1956243/flooding-hits-pattaya
June 24, 2020 ─ NHL.com
NHL.com goes Behind the Numbers to identify key statistics for the Stanley Cup Qualifiers. Today, a look at the St. Louis Blues, Colorado Avalanche, Vegas Golden Knights and Dallas Stars, who will participate in the Western Conference round-robin. …
The Blues power play finished third in the NHL at 24.3 percent, behind the Edmonton Oilers (29.5) and Boston Bruins (25.2).
https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-western-conference-round-robin-statistical-analysis/c-317255654
Nov. 7, 2011 ─ The Verge
The disastrous flooding in Thailand could mean a shortage of hard drives for the next few months, with an accompanying massive price spike. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard this news from the floods, but the effects are now beginning to show. According to DigiTimes, there could be a 10 percent shortage in hard disks from December until April as inventories will probably run out by the end of November, and production won’t gear back up to full capacity until February at the earliest. …
https://www.theverge.com/2011/11/7/2544091/hdd-prices-availability-thailand-floods
22 Jun 2020 ─ Indo Pacific Strategy
The pandemic has suddenly raised discussion around the world about us being ‘too dependent’ on China. There are a number of facets to this thinking.
The angry voices are saying that China needs to be punished. That their failure to share information about the virus allowed it to spread and cause significant damage to the world economy. …
With a leader who can’t stand to announce bad news and spreads disinformation, a disbanded pandemic task force, chaotic coordination between states and federal government, and a sizeable population of people who insist that no one can tell them what to do, it is hard to say that the outcome, including sharing timely information with the world, would have been better. …
The more serious consideration for both companies and countries is how to diversify overall trade and individual supply chains, to limit the possible impact of any one country.
In 2011, flooding in Thailand crippled global production of magnetic hard drives. Up to 40% of hard drives were produced there, with many factories clustered into a specific region. …
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https://indopacificstrategy.wordpress.com/2020/06/22/what-do-do-about-economic-dependence-on-china/
Friday, April 2, 2021 ─ Thaiger
A major water drainage system construction project in Jomtien has been completed on schedule according to Pattaya City officials.
Flooding has been a major problem in Pattaya for years, with some roads under up to 80 cm of rainwater last October, and a 2-hour rainstorm caused flash floods that brought the area to a standstill last July.
… they are encouraging medical staffers who are working hard during …
https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/weather/pattaya-water-drainage-system-construction-completed
20 Dec 2011 … Hard drive shortages peaked in October, pushing up prices by as much as 150%, but supplies and prices appear to be leveling off and may give online consumers much-needed relief in the weeks ahead.
The price of the most popular hard disk drives are beginning to drop as inventories climb out of a deep hole that began in October after massive flooding shut down major production sites in Thailand. …
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2500625/hard-drive-prices-slide-as-thai-flood-aftermath-subsides.html
Jan. 13, 2021 ─ AsiaOne
SINGAPORE – The prices of vegetables and fish are going up across the board at wet markets in Singapore, with some vegetables costing about twice as much as they were just weeks ago.
The Straits Times visited five wet markets on Tuesday (Jan 12) and vendors said poor weather conditions in Malaysia has caused a shortage in supplies as farms are flooded, resulting in poor crop output. …
Mr Alex Zhou, 35, who runs a vegetable stall in the wet market in Pasir Ris Drive 6, said: “The constant rain in Malaysia has made it hard to transport goods, and we’ve lost a lot of supply due to the poor weather. …”
A 45-year-old vegetable stallholder at Geylang Serai Market, who runs the business with her husband and wanted to be known only as Madam Rashidah, said: “I had to get vegetables from Thailand and Vietnam, which are flown in. …”
https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/floods-malaysia-drive-prices-fish-and-vegetables-singapores-wet-markets
16 Jun 2020 … Steve Paikin and John Michael McGrath take stock of where things stand in Ontario with COVID-19.
Three months after Ontario’s initial lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic, hosts Steve Paikin and John Michael McGrath discuss where we’ve been and what comes next.
John Michael McGrath: This week marks the three-month point in Ontario’s experience of the pandemic.
https://www.tvo.org/article/onpoli-newsletter-the-pandemic-three-months-in
Aug. 21, 2020 ─ WDBJ
The declaration of emergency is effective immediately.
(WDBJ) – Due to recent rainfall and flooding, Henry County has declared a local state of emergency. … The NWS has also issued a flash flood emergency for areas of Henry County, including Bassett, Stanleytown, Fieldale, Sanville, Oak Level and Collinsville. …
https://www.wdbj7.com/2020/08/21/henry-co-declares-local-state-of-emergency-due-to-flooding/
2 Nov 2011 … Manufacturing problems could cause a worldwide laptop shortage after a severe Thailand flood. This hard drive and laptop shortage has already affected prices. …
Prices for hard drives are jumping as flooding in Thailand creates a shortage of the major component used in personal computers and one big customer is complaining of price gouging.
Drive manufacturers have raised prices by 20 to 40 percent and international electronics distributor Avnet Inc in turn has raised its prices by a similar amount after water poured into factories this month, said Avnet Senior Vice President Chuck Kostalnick.
https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1102/Laptop-shortage-looms-after-Thailand-flood
Nov. 7, 2011 ─ The Hindu
A second reminder this year of the vulnerability of world supply chains.
Dale Schudel, managing director of IntriPlex Thailand, a company that makes components for hard disk drives, said his factory in nearby Ayutthaya had floodwaters almost six feet deep. …
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/thailand-flooding-affects-global-industries/article2607072.ece
22 Jun 2020 … The NHL and NHLPA are making progress on where the two hub cities will be located for a potential season resumption later this summer and may have a decision made by later this week, according to TSN Hockey Insider and Athletic columnist Pierre LeBrun.
LeBrun reports the two sides have shortened their original list of 10 hub cities down to six with Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Chicago all still in the mix. …
https://www.tsn.ca/hub-cities-decision-might-be-made-this-week-1.1488423
Oct. 27, 2011 ─ Bangkok Post
With 25% of global hard drive production in Thailand, a global shortage & 20% price hikes for many months projected.
Thailand‘s worst flooding in seven decades may lead to a global shortage of drives through the first quarter of next year, as Thailand is the world’s second-largest exporter of HDDs behind China, with 25% of worldwide HDD assembly facilities located locally. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/advanced/263456/floods-hard-drives-jump-in-price
Amazon U.S. • The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand
From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the dramatic story that gripped the world: the miracle rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave miles underground for nearly three weeks – a pulse-pounding account by a reporter who was there every step of their journey out.
After a practice in June 2018, a Thai soccer coach took a dozen of his young players to explore a famous but flood-prone cave. It was one of the boys’ birthday, but neither he nor the dozen resurfaced. Worried parents and rescuers flocked to the mouth of a cave that seemed to have swallowed the boys without a trace. Ranging in age from 11 to 16, the boys were all members of the Wild Boars soccer team. When water unexpectedly inundated the cave, blocking their escape, they retreated deeper inside, taking shelter in a side cavern. While the world feared them dead, the 13 young souls survived by licking the condensation off the cave’s walls, meditating, and huddling together for warmth.
In this thrilling account, ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman recounts this amazing story in depth and from every angle, exploring their time in the cave, the failed plans and human mistakes that nearly doomed them, and the daring mission that ultimately saved them. Gutman introduces the elite team of volunteer divers who risked death to execute a plan so risky that its American planners admitted, “for us, success would have meant getting just one boy out alive.” He takes you inside the meetings where life and death decisions were grimly made and describes how these heroes pulled off an improbable rescue under immense pressure, with the boys’ desperate parents and the entire world watching. One of the largest rescues in history was in doubt until the very last moment.
Matt Gutman covered the story intensively, went deep inside the caves himself, and interviewed dozens of rescuers, experts, and eye-witnessed around the world. The result is this pulse-pounding telling that vividly recreates this extraordinary event in all its intensity – and documents the ingenuity and sacrifice it took to succeed.
January 12 & 18, 2011
I have even lost my back up hard drive.
Floods suck …
This is the water down the street from my house.
Brisbane is flooding. It is so scary.
We soon won’t gave any power therefore no Internet and no iPhone.
https://alwayswithabook.livejournal.com/
Oct. 27, 2011 ─ Wall Street Journal
Thai flood damage is spreading to more of the world’s biggest manufacturers—including Ford, Apple and Michelin—as supply chains falter and break under the weight of the deluge.
undefinedBANGKOK—The damage from floods in Thailand is spreading to more of the world’s biggest manufacturers as supply chains falter and break under the weight of the spreading disaster. … Japan’s Nidec Corp. , which makes motors for hard disk drives, said it …
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204505304576655173294932528
7 Feb 2012 … The hard disk drive supply chain was hit hard late last year when a series of floods struck Thailand. The Asian country accounts for about a quarter of the world’s hard drive production, but thousands of factories had to close shop for weeks as facilities were under water, in what is considered the world’s fourth costliest natural disaster according to World Bank estimates. That’s on top of the human cost of over 800 lives. …
https://www.techspot.com/guides/494-hard-drive-pricewatch-thai-floods/
Feb. 9, 2021 ─ The Wrap
“Free Solo” directors E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have taken over for Kevin Macdonald for Nat Geo’s Thailand cave-rescue documentary.
With the “Thai Cave Rescue” documentary feature — which an individual with knowledge tells TheWrap Macdonald exited over “timing” issues, as it was originally set up at Nat Geo in March 2019 — “Vasarhelyi and Chin will bring their signature filmmaking and nuanced character portraits to the against-all-odds story of the dramatic 2018 rescue of a boys soccer team trapped deep inside a flooded cave in Thailand,” per Nat Geo. …
https://www.thewrap.com/free-solo-directors-thai-cave-rescue-nat-geo-unscripted-projects-jimmy-chin-e-chai-vasarhelyi/
2 Nov 2011 … By JAMES HOOKWAY
Asia Today: The flood crisis in Thailand is hitting some the world’s biggest manufacturers and disrupting the supply of tech components. …
Taiwanese personal-computer maker Acer Inc. on Friday said it is increasing PC and notebook prices as hard-disk costs rise because of supply uncertainties in Thailand. Chief Executive J.T. Wang said fourth-quarter sales are likely to fall 5% to 10%, compared with the third quarter, largely because of supply disruptions in Thailand. …
https://strategyclass.blogspot.com/2011/11/october-27-2011-thai-flooding-hits-big.html
Dec. 12, 2011 ─ WIRED
The slow-motion supply-chain tsunami caused by the Thailand flood has reached Intel. On Monday, the microprocessor maker revised its earnings estimates for the fourth quarter, dropping them by $1 billion. The company said the revenue shortfall is due to the hard disk drive shortage caused by the October flood. A large portion of the world’s hard disk drive manufacturing base is in the part of Thailand that was largely underwater for several weeks this fall. …
https://www.wired.com/2011/12/intel-flood-revision/
11 Nov 2011 … Heavy flooding in Thailand won’t hurt PC sales significantly this holiday season, research group IDC says.
Many factories that produce hard drives in Thailand have temporarily closed as flooding has gradually spread since August. Prices for hard drives have spiked, and computer makers such as Dell Inc. and Apple Inc. have been monitoring supplies. …
https://www.ctvnews.ca/group-expects-thai-floods-to-hurt-pcs-in-new-year-1.724765
Oct. 7, 2019 ─ GreenBiz
Is your business prepared to adapt to an increasingly volatile present?
Hotter summers and warmer winters drive changes in rain and snowfall, increasing risks at both ends of the spectrum — severe drought and extreme flooding. …
Consider how extreme flooding in Thailand in 2011 disrupted global production of hard drive disks (PDF), among other products, and doubled prices on the global market. …
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/climate-risk-you-may-not-be-thinking-about
16 Jun 2020 … Thailand‘s lockdown has kept the number of cases low. But the economic toll has led to a mental health crisis.
From a small corner storefront in Bangkok, Suchart Prasomsu, 53, a rice dealer, leads a rescue team of 30 volunteers. They rush to car crashes or crime scenes. They also retrieve the bodies of those who died in their homes, and since the start of the pandemic, part of their job has become trying to prevent people from killing themselves.
https://wamu.org/story/20/06/16/the-cost-of-thailands-coronavirus-success-despair-and-suicide/
Oct. 12, 2011 ─ PCWorld
Severe floods in Thailand have disrupted production of electronics including hard disk drives and semiconductors, with a number of factories suspending operations.
Hard disk drive maker Seagate Technology has warned that a disruption in its supply chain could affect production, although its factories in Thailand are still in operation. …
https://www.pcworld.com/article/241820/thailand_floods_may_affect_global_electronics_production.html
Thai floods: Expect months of hard drive shortages: https://www.cbsnews.com
1 Feb 2021 ─ Grafphoto
Cloud backup of your photos, and the principle of having 3 copies of all photos at all times. Test your backup strategy instead of waiting for a bad event. …
As I’ve already whined about on social media, I had a hard drive failure this past week. I’ve been pretty lucky when it comes to hard drives. …
A sign something seriously went wrong with the electronics of this drive, with little warning.
A Connection to the Massive Flood in Thailand?
The drive was a 3 TB Seagate Barracuda drive purchased in 2013 that apparently has a notorious reputation that I only came to learn about after the failure. …
http://www.grafphoto.com/2021/02/01/do-you-have-3-copies-of-your-photos/
More than 100,000 people are scheduled to attend Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month. The coronavirus has companies re-thinking their plans. …
Mirko Woitzik, a risk intelligence expert at German consulting firm Resilience360, which tracks global supply chains, points to the 2016 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami, which disrupted auto industry supply lines, and the October 2011 flooding in Thailand.
At the time of the Thai floods, the country produced 40% of the world’s hard disk drives. The deluge left many factories underwater and triggered a parts shortage that reduced PC production for months, in turn cutting demand for memory chips and other parts. …
https://www.barrons.com/articles/coronavirus-could-bring-tech-supply-chains-to-a-halt-51581125237
Western Digital said flooding in Thailand is having a \”significant impact\” on the hard-disk drive maker’s operations and its ability to meet customer demand in the current quarter, adding supply concerns to an industry already hurt by weak consumer spending on PCs.
The flooding in Thailand, the world’s second-largest exporter of hard-disk drives, comes during the key selling season for hard-disk drives, with PC makers obtaining supplies for holiday sales. …
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203658804576636951367373290
Jun. 6, 2012 ─ Computerworld
A new report from IHS iSuppli states that drive prices that skyrocketed after flooding in Thailand will remain high for the next couple of years.
The Thailand flooding that took place last fall caused a 29% plunge in shipments in the fourth quarter of 2012, IHS iSuppli has said. Production is rising and will recover completely by the third quarter of this year. …
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2504087/hard-drive-prices-to-remain-high-until-2014.html
4 May 2020 … The Saskatchewan Roughriders have announced the following roster moves: SIGNED:
- American defensive back Tony Lippett
- American defensive back A.J. Hendy
Lippett (6’3 – 200) was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the fifth round, 156th overall, of the 2015 NFL Draft. After two years with the Dolphins, he went on to spend time with the New York Giants and the Cincinnati Bengals. …
https://www.riderville.com/2020/05/04/riders-add-pair-dbs/
The world is warming. How will that impact your company’s business?
The macroeconomic costs of climate change and climate-related disasters will continue to rise alongside global temperatures. …
(… It sustained $199 million in losses when extreme flooding in Thailand severely impacted its suppliers’ hard drive production.)
3. Begin reporting GHG emissions and establish a net-zero emissions plan. …
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/esg-investing-prompts-a-slow-response-85741/
8 Nov 2012 … More than a year has passed since massive floods ravaged Thailand. The deluge put entire industrial parks underwater, including those responsible for manufacturing most of the mechanical hard drives sold worldwide. Production stalled as drive makers and their suppliers began the daunting task of mopping up the damage. Hard drive prices rose sharply in response, ending years of steady decline.
We’ve been watching their slow migration toward pre-flood prices ever since. …
https://techreport.com/review/23867/hard-drive-prices-one-year-after-the-flood/
Jun. 16, 2020 ─ WAMU
Thailand‘s lockdown has kept the number of cases low. But the economic toll has led to a mental health crisis.
Dr. Varoth Chotpitayasunondh, a psychiatrist and spokesperson for the mental health department of Thailand‘s Ministry of Public Health, says that now the threat of COVID-19 is under control, the government is faced with a different public health challenge: “The next wave of the problem will be mental health.” …
https://wamu.org/story/20/06/16/the-cost-of-thailands-coronavirus-success-despair-and-suicide/
28 May 2020 … May 29, 2020
On our last show of the 2020 winter/spring season, CNN 10 is covering a milestone in the coronavirus pandemic, a delay in a space launch, and the struggles of East Africans as locusts spread across their countries. And a giant kookaburra flies us into the weekend.
Thank you for being our biggest and best audience ever! We are grateful to have served you during this difficult season. …
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/cnn10/ten-content-fri/index.html
Jul. 23, 2020 ─ The New York Times
New research suggests climate change will cause humans to move in unprecedented numbers. The Times Magazine partnered with ProPublica and data scientists to understand how.
Now, though, under a relentless confluence of drought, flood, bankruptcy and starvation, they, too, have begun to leave. Almost everyone here experiences some degree of uncertainty about where their next meal will come from. …
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/23/magazine/climate-migration.html
Amazon U.S. • Viscoelastic and Viscoplastic Materials
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Mar. 19th, 2008 ─ Stay young. Stay foolish.
I’ve started to read “To Bless the Space Between Us” by John O’Donohue.
I’m not normally a poetry gal. But this…? This man hits home. So I want to share may favorite tidbit so far.
A Morning Offering
I bless the night that nourished my heart
To set the ghosts of longing free…
flood. food. forgiveness. … wow… that was harder than i thought it. writer’s block. yahoo article.
https://clennieg.livejournal.com/5371.html
Feb. 12, 2012 ─ Tom’s Hardware
Based on first quarter earnings reports, IHS has updated its hard disk drive (HDD) supply forecast. The company does not expect annual growth to return until the third quarter of this year. “A full recovery of production is still months away,” IHS said.
IHS said that the Thailand flood has caused the global average selling price (ASP) for HDDs to jump by 28 percent in Q4 2011. Prices are forecast to decline by 3 percent in Q1 and by 9 percent in Q2. …
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/hdd-hard-drive-thailand-flood-prices-shortage,14681.html
18 Oct 2011 … Flooding near Bangkok has taken about 25 percent of the world’s hard disk manufacturing capacity offline
Disk manufacturing sites in Thailand — notably including the largest Western Digital plant — were shut down due to floods around Bangkok last week and are expected to remain shut for at least several more days. …
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2621076/the-impending-hard-drive-shortage—-and-possible-price-hikes.html
Jun. 29, 2020 ─ MPR News
Heavy rain is causing flooding Monday morning, then the afternoon brings dangerous heat. Active weather stays through midweek, but the heat lingers even longer. …
A wide area of convection built up over southern Minnesota early Monday, bringing persistent thunderstorms with heavy rain to areas from the Twin Cities through the Minnesota River Valley.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/06/29/flooding-and-heat-concerns-for-monday
23 May 2020 … The total number of active COVID-19 cases in the province is now 17, the province said Saturday.
Nurses screen people for COVID-19 at a drive-thru test site in Toronto. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
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There is no longer anyone with COVID-19 in hospital in Manitoba. …
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-covid-19-1.5578774
Nov. 3, 2011 ─ The Wall Street Journal
Are companies in Thailand partly to blame for some of the economic cost of the disaster? Some experts say yes, and that the international impact of Thailand‘s floods should serve as a warning to other companies world-wide.
Thailand‘s flooding disaster has ricocheted around the world in ways few businesses expected. About a quarter of the world’s hard–drive output …
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203804204577013820324555942
20 Oct 2011 … The firm, which manufactured a third of the 166m hard drives shipped globally in the third quarter, has closed all of its facilities in Thailand, after …
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https://www.ft.com/content/f0f9a234-fb33-11e0-8756-00144feab49a
Nov. 19, 2020 ─ ASEAN Today
Southeast Asia has been hammered by storms in recent weeks, with flooding displacing thousands and destroying homes. In Laos, residents already displaced for the construction of dams now say they face added dangers from severe weather.
As a wave of storms drives flooding across Southeast Asia, a community in northern Laos displaced by a hydropower dam says their new homes are no longer safe due to the threat of landslides. …
Inland Laos hasn’t been hit as hard as coastal Vietnam, but low incomes among the country’s rural population mean that damage to people’s livelihoods can be catastrophic. …
https://www.aseantoday.com/2020/11/severe-storms-show-how-dams-displacement-magnify-climate-impacts-in-laos/
29 Jun 2020 … Heavy rain is causing flooding Monday morning, then the afternoon brings dangerous heat. Active weather stays through midweek, but the heat lingers even longer. …
A wide area of convection built up over southern Minnesota early Monday, bringing persistent thunderstorms with heavy rain to areas from the Twin Cities through the Minnesota River Valley. Here are some of the highest rain totals reports as of 9 a.m.: …
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/06/29/flooding-and-heat-concerns-for-monday
Jun. 25, 2020 ─ Resource Recycling
Here’s a look at which processing facilities have recently attained or renewed their data destruction and recycling industry certifications.Continue Reading→ …
After completing successful audits, the following organization achieved one or more of these NAID AAA certifications: physical destruction of hard drives, physical destruction of solid state devices, over-writing or degaussing of physical hard drives, over-writing of solid state devices. …
https://resource-recycling.com/e-scrap/2020/06/25/certification-scorecard-june-25-2020/
12 Apr 2020 ─ COVID and Supply Chains
Fantastic advice. Read the whole article.
Once again, though, they underestimate the impact this will have on consumption and production for the next year.
Critical shortages of medical equipment in the U.S. from the Covid-19 outbreak show the weakness of global supply chains. Some manufacturing needs to be done domestically. — Read on www.barrons.com/articles/domestic-manufacturing-coronavirus-supply-chain-emergency-supplies-masks-51586549335
The U.S. can’t afford to lose its manufacturing base. …
Planning and preparation are crucial. After the 2011 monsoon flooding in Thailand, which inundated several of the country’s manufacturing regions, the hard–drive maker Western Digital quickly restored operations thanks to contingency planning. …
Supply ChainsEconomic Impactcash flowcascading cross defaults
https://covid19online.wordpress.com/2020/04/12/covid-19-pandemic-exposes-severe-weaknesses-in-u-s-domestic-manufacturing-barrons/
Dec. 12, 2011 ─ ExtremeTech
Hitachi, seemingly in defiance of the weather gods, has launched the world’s largest 3.5-inch hard drive: The monstrous 4TB Deskstar 5K. …
We can only speculate why this is the case, but it’s probably down to the Thailand floods and uncertainty about continued production. The hard drive’s label clearly states that it’s made in Thailand (pictured below), and it would seem foolhardy to announce a brand new product when component availability and pricing is so variable. …
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/108665-hitachi-ships-worlds-first-4tb-hard-drive-sticks-it-to-thor
27 Nov 2013 … HDD prices have returned to norms before the Thailand floods, even across the high-end 4TB product lines. …
The late 2011 Thailand floods sent shockwaves through the market and demonstrated how fragile the modern manufacturing ecosystem can be. Hard drive manufacturers like Western Digital, Samsung, and Toshiba had key facilities located in Thailand, as did some of the major component manufacturers. …
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/171700-two-years-later-hdd-prices-settle-back-to-normal
Thailand produces 60 per cent of the world’s hard-disk drives, while many Japanese car manufacturers rely on key assembly plants and …
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https://www.ft.com/content/03cf32e4-beb0-3147-aa26-12629ba4337d
25 Jun 2020 … A 29-year-old man from Iqaluit was arrested and is facing several Liquor Act related charges, including selling liquor to a minor.
On Wednesday, Iqaluit RCMP executed a search warrant at a home in relation to an ongoing Liquor Act investigation, according to a news release Thursday.
Police seized 21 bottles 60-ounce liquor bottles and a large amount of cash, the release states. …
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/iqaluit-rcmp-bootleg-charges-arrest-1.5627228
Dec. 23, 2020 ─ Vancouver Sun
Edwin Padilla gets strange looks as he collects bottles and busks with his ukelele. But he doesn’t care because he’s doing for others.
“It’s a hard job. …”
Tough for all, it has been devastating for the poorest who drive motorized “tricycles” — what we know as tuktuks in Thailand — or make a living reselling items they have picked from the garbage. …
Last month, Ulysses swept through, causing massive flooding in Mabitac.
https://vancouversun.com/news/daphne-bramham-a-reason-to-believe-in-christmas-angels
1 Nov 2011 … Hard drives, notebook PCs, cameras and other consumer electronics could soon be in short supply due to the flooding in Thailand.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Just when the electronics industry had finally recovered from Japan’s massive earthquake earlier this year, devastating flooding in Thailand has once again stymied production of several key consumer electronics components.
https://money.cnn.com/2011/11/01/technology/thailand_flood_supply_chain/index.htm
Nov. 26, 2020 ─ TechRaptor
Nintendo Switch production has reportedly expanded into Malaysia in a factory owned by Sharp Corp., helping to combat any potential future problems with shortages of the hybrid handheld console. …
The addition of a new Malaysian factory also protects Nintendo Switch production against any future disasters. The consequences of having all of a product’s in one place was most evident back in 2011 when flooding in Thailand resulted in severe shortages for hard drives, ultimately inflating prices for drives already on the market and causing delays in the delivery of new stock. …
https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/nintendo-switch-production-expands-with-new-malaysia-operations
8 Nov 2011 … Clyde Prestowitz in Foreign Policy on the downside of globalization :
The Japanese tsunami and the Thai flooding have not only caused enormous human tragedies, but have also underlined the fragility of the global supply chain and the risks attached to it. In the wake of the events in Japan, auto and electronics production was substantially reduced not only in Japan but also in the U.S. and Europe as well because critical parts that were made only or mostly in Japan could not be obtained. …
https://michaelturton.blogspot.com/2011/11/just-in-time-on-global-scale.html
Oct. 26, 2011 ─ Reuters
Global electronics firms expect supply disruption caused by flooding in Thailand to continue for several quarters and the Thai operations of Japan’s Toshiba Corporation are expected to resume in January at the earliest, executives said.
Seagate Technology’s operations in Thailand are running as normal and its production is not constrained by either internal component supplies or by its ability to assemble finished products, it said in an emailed response to Reuters queries. …
Seagate, which competes with Western Digital for the title of the world’s largest maker of hard drives, has two production plants in Samutprakarn and Nakornratchasima provinces, away from the flooding in central provinces and northern Bangkok. …
Lenovo Group Ltd, the world’s second-biggest PC maker, said on Wednesday it expected some constraints on hard disk drive supplies through the first quarter of next year after severe floods in Thailand crimped global supply. …
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-floods-electronics-idUSTRE79P2P420111026
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- Восстановление (разблокировка) SSD диска OCZ Vertex [Recovery (unlocking) of SSD OCZ Vertex]
Feb. 3rd, 2014 ─ Айван [Ivan]
Впервые я это опубликовал тут , а в ЖЖ делаю репост:
У дисков OCZ серии Vertex есть неприятная особенность (возможно, присущая дискам и других производителей), с которой пришлось мне столкнуться.
Иногда при отключении питания (например, кончился заряд батарей ноутбука, или комп завис и пришлось его перезагрузить) эти диски блокируются ATA паролем (ATA password). …
Что интересно, так это, то, что теперь при команде “sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda он стал показывать другие показания, выглядело следующим образом:
ATA device, with non-renovable nedla 500 Sertal Number Standards: Likely used: 1 Configuratton: hard sectored not MFM encoded Logical current Max 2648 e cylinders 4579 heads sectors/track 24946 bytes/track: e bytes/sector: 8 512 bytes …
For the first time I published it here, and in LJ I repost:
The OCZ Vertex series drives have an unpleasant feature (perhaps common to drives from other manufacturers) that I encountered.
Sometimes, when the power is turned off (for example, the laptop’s batteries ran out, or the computer froze and had to be rebooted), these disks are locked with an ATA password. …
What is interesting is that now when the command “sudo hdparm -I / dev / sda” it began to show different readings, it looked like this: ─Google Translate
https://ayvan.livejournal.com/39258.html
Nov. 18, 2020 ─ Science
A new satellite will monitor coastal hot spots, where currents amplify global trends …
But the number, based on satellite measurements taken since the early 1990s, is a long-term average. In fact, the global rate varied so much over that period that it was hard to say whether it was holding steady or accelerating. …
Tanzania, United Republic of, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau …
But Dangendorf believes currents in the open ocean drive much of this variable sloshing, routing rising water from the open ocean—where there is more water to warm and expand—to the coastlines. …
Aimée Slangen, a climate scientist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and colleagues are integrating recent projections from climate models to predict when sea levels will rise 25 centimeters above 2000 levels, a point when 100-year floods on some coastlines could be a near annual occurrence. …
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/seas-are-rising-faster-ever
21 Oct 2011 … In the market for a new hard drive? Better buy it sooner rather than later, as a global shortage will probably jack up prices on the devices soon.
That’s because the once-in-a-lifetime floods that have inundated a third of Thailand and displaced nine million people are also causing major disruptions in the hard disk drive (HDD) industry supply chain.
Most notable is the massive hit that the world’s top HDD producer Western Digital (NYSE:WDC) took when floodwaters burst into its two Thailand factories at Navanakorn and Bang Pa-in industrial estates outside Bangkok.
https://www.techinasia.com/thailand-floods-hard-drive-supply
Sep. 17, 2020 ─ Thaiger
Agencies are on high alert after Tropical Storm Noul is set to hit the country tomorrow through Sunday.
The Thai Meteorological Department has warned that the storm could turn into a typhoon causing flash floods and winds that could take down trees and power lines. …
https://thethaiger.com/news/national/disaster-plan-in-place-as-tropical-storm-noul-puts-agencies-on-high-alert-2
23 Apr 2013 … The Thai Baht’s increase in value is hurting anyone who has US Dollars, UK Pound Sterling or Euros.
One of the challenges I constantly face in Bangkok is thinking about the prices of everything in two currencies.
I pay for almost everything with Thai Baht.
https://jackkurtzphotography.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-cost-of-cash.html
Dec. 20, 2011 ─ The Verge
Eight months and $1.4 billion of stock and cash later, Seagate has finished purchasing rival Samsung’s hard drive business. As originally announced in April of this year, there are many repercussions to the deal. …
Assuming the Western Digital / Hitachi hard drive takeover also goes through, and SSD manufacturers don’t improve capacity fast, warranty reductions on hard drives might only be the beginning. Not that hard drive prices weren’t pretty low already, mind you, before all the Thailand flooding.
https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/20/2648216/seagate-samsung-hdd-deal-complete
16 Dec 2011 … An industry wakes up to heavy reliance on flood zone factories.
California-based Western Digital, the world’s largest maker of hard disk drives, took an even harsher beating. While not quite a household name, the firm supplies many firms that are: Dell, Intel, Apple and others. Roughly 30 percent of all the world’s disk drives are made in Thailand, where cheap-but-skilled labor and tax breaks have attracted foreign-owned factories to the industrialized provinces north of Bangkok. …
https://www.pri.org/stories/2011-12-16/tech-world-still-shudders-after-thai-floods
Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) is organising Thailand MICE Virtual Expo during 24-25 February 2021.
The overarching goal is to drive Thailand to become a global MICE and mega events destination that can drive the country’s strategic industries and national economy. …
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tceb-invites-join-thailand-mice-020000726.html
11 Sep 2013 … The fashion industry is a typical example of a very complex supply chain. How does a retailer in the fashion industry mange inventories considering the volatile nature of a “trend”? …
If the apparel industry has managed their inventory so effectively with such small windows of change, why is it that the Thailand floods in 2011 almost crippled hard drive suppliers? Why did the hardware industry not anticipate and build in correction mechanisms in its supply chain?
https://cmuscm.blogspot.com/2013/09/planning-and-managing-inventories-in.html
Oct. 23, 2020 ─ Bangkok Post
It is hard to imagine more devastating effects of climate change than the fires that have been raging in California, Oregon, and Washington, or the procession of hurricanes that have approached — and, at times, ravaged — the Gulf Coast. There have also been deadly heat waves in India, Pakistan, and Europe, and devastating flooding in Southeast Asia. But there is far worse ahead, with one risk, in particular, so great that it alone threatens humanity itself: the rapid depletion of Arctic sea ice. …
This extreme scenario would drive climate change forward by 25 years, and it is hardly farfetched. … a Japanese business leader has warned. 21:25. Thailand …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2006863/far-worse-is-coming-for-world-with-climate-change
Partially-submerged factories in floodwaters in Pathum Thani, outskirts of Bangkok, on October 20, 2011: https://phys.org
12 Apr 2020 ─ sfurbanwanderer
This piece was written shortly after arriving to do tsunami relief work in Thailand, intending to stay for a week as part of several month trip around Asia. This began what ultimately became an almost two-year commitment to this stretch of Southern Thailand coastline between 2005 and 2007. Since I ultimately learned to speak—and read (some)—Thai, and settled into the rhythms of working and living and having relationships in the country, some of this reportback seems a little naïve, even to me who wrote it. …
This makes for a very fuzzy division of work and non-work time, but then I think everyone here has a hard time drawing—or justifying—boundaries when it comes to how much to work in a day. …
https://sfurbanwanderer.wordpress.com/2020/04/11/the-stinging-water-march-8-2005/
Oct. 3, 2012 ─ Insurance Journal
Lloyd’s has published an analysis of the floods that hit Thailand in October 2011, which notes that “after weeks of slowly spreading their way through many of Thailand’s provinces, flood waters eventually reached the capital city, Bangkok. …”
Lloyd’s points out that “as a major producer of hard drives, the floods meant producers of PCs and servers were unable to access component parts as easily. …”
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/10/03/265190.htm
3 Nov 2011 … We have received this advisory from Hewlett Packard’s Personal Systems Group
Thailand Floods- Potential Impact to HDD Supply and Risk Mitigation
Recent severe flooding in Thailand has led to loss of life, 2.2m people evacuated or made homeless and 14.8 million acres of land flooded. Damage is currently estimated at over $3B. …
https://www.thinkit.co.nz/news/1019/update-from-hp-on-hard-disk-drive-shortages-due-to-flooding-in-thailand/
Jan. 14, 2021 ─ Yahoo News Canada
Two blocks from the White House, a group of uniformed National Guard troops emerged from a tour bus and headed into a hotel as a state of lockdown descended on Washington that will last through the Jan. 20 inauguration. …
Yahoo seems to have pulled the article. Nevertheless, it can be found at numerous other sources such as https://www.ctvnews.ca here. ─GHGB
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/expecting-trouble-dc-locks-down-054729890.html
23 Oct 2011 … My generation was told that these topics could not be discussed in polite company. But times have changed. …
Since the last big flood in 1995, thousands of factories have been built on former rice fields in the flood plain and most are now under water. Thailand is the world’s largest producer of hard-disk drives, the biggest exporter of rice and rubber, and the second largest supplier of sugar, according to Bloomberg. …
https://drwillajahn.blogspot.com/2011/10/
Aug. 22, 2020 ─ Sky News
Sky’s Siobhan Robbins meets Sompong Chanraksa, who keeps a collection of more than 700 helmets from crash sites as a memorial.
Thailand‘s roads are some of the most dangerous in the world. …
It’s hard to describe Sompong Chanraksa’s garden. When you walk in the drive, in front of a small shrine is a motorbike which at first glance appears to be carrying an adult and child. …
Thailand: Buddhist monk rescued after four days trapped in a flooded cave …
https://news.sky.com/story/thailands-killer-roads-the-man-who-collects-helmets-of-dead-motorbike-crash-victims-as-safety-reminder-12052245
Thailand Floods affecting the HArd drives industry, through Q4 2012.
- Hard Drive Related
- All capacities and interfaces are affected as well as downstream supply partners
- Q4’11 volumes will be short approximately 25-30%
- Q1’12 could be worse as inventory dries up
- This is happening in conjuction with industry consolidation (WD/Hitachi & Seagate/Samsung)
- This is an ongoing and volatile situation …
https://www.backupworks.com/hard-drive-impact-assessment-thailand-flooding.aspx
Feb. 12, 2017 ─ Wall Street Journal
Western Digital restarted production at a Thailand facility a week ahead of schedule and sharply raised its revenue outlook for the quarter, showing progress in recovering from devastating floods in the country.
The announcement suggests the hard-disk-drive maker, which typically makes about 60% of its products in Thailand, may stem market-share losses to rivals such as Seagate Technology Inc.
… in Thailand, well in advance of our earliest expectations when the floods hit,” …
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204826704577074241528673350
Note: All times are ET. …
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Jul. 18, 2012 ─ The Wall Street Journal
Following last year’s earthquake in Japan and floods in Thailand, global manufacturers are looking to Penang and elsewhere to broaden their supply chains for everything from car parts to semiconductors to hard-disk drives.
At the height of the disasters in Japan and Thailand, companies … was hit especially hard by the months of flooding in Thailand, with disk-drive …
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444464304577534951125374274
Amazon U.S. • Building Resilient Cities: An Assessment of Disaster Risk Management Policies in Southeast Asia
Asian cities are particularly vulnerable to risks associated with natural disasters. While they are exposed to various types of natural hazards, flooding and other water-related disasters pose particularly significant risks and undermine long-term economic growth, especially in coastal cities. Managing such natural disaster risks is an essential component of urban policies in fast-growing Southeast Asian cities, especially as the impacts of climate change worsen.
In addition to providing a framework for assessing disaster risk management policies in cities, this report also presents the results of assessment and locally tailored policy recommendations in five cities of different institutional, geographic, socio-economic and environmental contexts in Southeast Asia. They include Bandung (Indonesia), Bangkok (Thailand), Cebu (Philippines), Hai Phong (Viet Nam) and Iskandar (Malaysia). The study highlights that Southeast Asian cities are largely underprepared for natural disaster risks.
Through an assessment of disaster risk management (DRM) policies at national and subnational levels, the study aims to enhance urban resilience by: i) identifying policy challenges related to DRM; ii) assessing the impacts of current DRM policy practices; and iii) proposing more efficient and effective policy options to enhance urban resilience.
January 4 2006 ─ xalexploitedx
my first day of work in buriram thailand.
what am i doing?
eating deep fried bananas, watching narnia (the pirated version) and playing on the computer.
life is hard.
thailand is really great.
im “forced” to eat tons of delicious vegan food all the time.
the people i live with tell me that it is there goal for me to gain 7 kilos (about 15 lbs) before i leave. …
there have been continual attempts by the old people in my village to set me up with thai boys.
one of them looked like a thai david bowie.
Drooool…
https://xalexploitedx.livejournal.com/59046.html
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand‘s central bank said on Saturday it did not see an impact on business or its ability to implement macroeconomic policies to safeguard financial stability after Washington kept it on a U.S. currency monitoring list.
The BOT also reiterated that Thailand has never used the exchange rate as a tool to gain an unfair trade advantage or a competitive edge over its trading partners, Assistant Governor Chantavarn Sucharitakul said in a statement.
The comment came after Washington kept Thailand on its watch list of countries … is that it’s going to be hard to get supply up to a place where it matches … Most goods are flooding in from China, where government figures last … and unstable,” pledging further efforts to drive a rebound in domestic demand.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/thailand-expects-no-broad-economic-040320446.html
8 Jul 2020 … Across the country, about 3.6 million people were advised to evacuate, although evacuation is not mandatory and the number of people who actually took shelter was not provided.
Though the rains were causing fresh flooding threats in central Japan, flooding was still affecting the southern region. And search and rescue operations continued in Kumamoto, where 14 people are still missing. …
https://globalnews.ca/news/7151642/japan-flooding-july-8/
Aug. 8, 2020 ─ Bangkok Post
OTTAWA: Ottawa will hit American aluminum products with C$3.6 billion (US$2.7 billion) in counter-tariffs, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Friday, in response to “absurd” US levies announced on Canadian goods. …
US President Donald Trump said Thursday he was reimposing a 10% tariff on Canadian aluminum, accusing Canada of flooding the US market with the metal. …
Auto parts manufacturers said they would be hit particularly hard by increased aluminum costs. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/1964835/canada-to-slap-2-7bn-counter-tariffs-on-us-aluminum
27 Oct 2011 … Chances are good you have heard about the recent flooding in Thailand – as Yahoo puts it: “The country’s worst flooding in half a century, caused in part by unusually heavy monsoon rain, has killed 373 people since mid-July and disrupted the lives of nearly 2.5 million.” Obviously this is a horrific disaster and we feel for the people affected by it.
But there is a tech angle to the story that has been showing up in many of our discussions as late and is the impact this disaster has had on the production of spindle-based hard drives. .
https://pcper.com/2011/10/hard-drive-prices-spike-on-thailand-flooding/
March 24, 2021 ─ Macleans.ca
In March of 2020, Canadians started dying of COVID-19 and the country shut down. This is a comprehensive report on the country’s mishandling of the crisis of the century.
There were four cases outside China, in Thailand, Japan and South Korea. …
I moved my boat to storage, rented a car and made the long drive north, 2,400 km, from palm trees to snow, past many golden arches and Exxons, up Florida, through Georgia and the Carolinas, around Washington, D.C., then up through Pennsylvania and New York state. …
But the part of the narrative that is less well-known is that the local council had complained for decades about the slag heaps, which repeatedly flooded parts of the village with dirty water. …
“ … They figured if we do it hard and we sustain it and we stick to our goals . . . until it is very clear we can reopen in the long run, we will be better off, not just health-wise, which is incontrovertible, but also economically.” …
https://www.macleans.ca/longforms/covid-19-pandemic-canada-year-one/
18 Nov 2011 … Dell, Apple, Lenovo and HP are the biggest customers in the hard drive market, so it’s likely that nearly every drive that rolls off the line will end up in their PC’s and notebooks. No PC manufacturer wants to raise prices, especially as they approach the holiday season, so if you’re in the market for a new laptop, don’t worry, you’ll be fine. If you were planning on building your own desktop, or populating a network storage device, then expect to pay much more than just a month ago. …
https://www.anandtech.com/show/5127/thailands-flooding-and-our-hdd-needs
Apr. 13, 2017 ─ Supply Chain Management Review
The new map can make initial loss-prevention and site-location decisions significantly easier.
Because Seagate’s HDD manufacturing plant in Thailand was located on high ground, the company was less adversely affected by the floods, and it was able to continue supplying hard drives when its competitors could not, which led to market leadership. …
https://www.scmr.com/article/new_global_flood_map_illustrates_supply_chain_risk
7 Dec 2016 … Koh Samui, Thailand daily weather update; 7th December, 2016 …
We had a dry night and early morning around Koh Samui but a few moments ago it started raining again, very hard and it continues right now. …
Some drivers still drive way too fast, causing a lot of structural damage to walls and houses with the water movement caused by their car. …
The road surface was wett but no floods but at some places there ist still a lot of water coming down from the mountains, this will continue for several days after all rain will have stopped everywhere else. …
https://samui-weather.blogspot.com/2016/12/koh-samui-thailand-daily-weather-update_7.html
May 4, 2011 ─ Bit-Tech
Seagate announces its first hard disk drive with individual platters offering 1TB of storage.
Flooding in Thailand has led to hard disk manufacturers warning of supply disruption. October 18, 2011 | 11:07. 37 …
https://bit-tech.net/news/tech/seagate-cracks-1tb-hdd-platters/1/
A Flooded Honda Car Factory in Ayutthaya Province Thailand: https://automotorpad.com
12 May 2020 ─ Far East Policy
Abstract
In one of the most tumultuous regions in the world, with governments that are either single party authoritarian dictatorships or unstable democracies, Southeast Asia defies the odds by rising in economic development. Looking from the economic history of the region of colonialism all the way to globalization and the “Asian Tigers”, Southeast Asia’s development has not been deterred and is on the rise. …
Combining this with the geopolitical conflicts of the US and China, the region is now going to start supporting the supply chain of billion-dollar businesses. I will be focusing on the country of Thailand. This paper answers the question of what policies, both domestic and foreign, are enabling positive economic development in the nation? …
From pursuing a dream of being a professional baseball player where they would drive over ten hours to see their son play, to working long hours so he could graduate from college debt free, all the work that I do is for them. …
The contemporary political landscape and how policy is shaped is hard to follow. The U.S. has a democratic republic, which has checks and balances in place so that not one branch of government has more power than another. Thailand’s system is different, being a constitutional monarchy (Grossman 17). …
business analysisSoutheast Asian politics
https://fareastpolicy.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/analyzing-the-success-of-thailands-economic-policies/
May 18, 2021 ─ Tom’s Hardware
Only certain types of HDDs will see hikes …
The market is experiencing a tight supply of HDDs, which is comparable to the situation in 2012 when flooding in Thailand stopped the production of hard drives in the country.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/analysts-expect-moderate-hdd-price-hikes
29 May 2012 … With supplies back on the upswing, HDD prices have found a new, higher normal.
Last October, flooding in Thailand took a huge bite out of hard disk drive supplies, taking out about a quarter of the world’s HDD manufacturing capacity. The impact of that disaster has passed, and supply levels are back to near where they were before last October’s disaster. But while the flood waters have long since receded, drive prices haven’t fallen nearly as much—as InfoWorld’s Woody Leonhard reports, retail hard drive prices are still about 75 percent higher than they were before the flood and show no signs of coming down. …
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/hard-drive-supplies-back-to-pre-flood-levels-but-prices-arent/
18 May 2021 ─ Yahoo News UK
Cars were submerged in floodwater past their tires after heavy rains drenched Lake Charles, Louisiana, on May 17, video shows.
Louisiana resident Justin Roberts captured footage of an inundated church and cars as he drove through the flooded streets of the city.
The National Weather Service said more than a foot of rain fell on Lake Charles in the space of 12 hours.
Louisiana Gov John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency on May 17, as flash flooding and severe weather hit the state’s southwest. Credit: Justin Roberts via Storyful
… Mr Cummings’s new-found zeal for public scrutiny is particularly hard to fathom. … Mr Paracha, who was captured in Thailand in 2003, was cleared by the …
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/louisiana-residents-drive-flooded-lake-204805125.html
10 Jul 2020 … We’d love to see a favourite photo! Email [email protected].
A sunset here, a sunrise there, a family outing involving some feathered friends … our latest audience photo gallery has it all.
The longer days and rich colours are inspiring, aren’t they? Enjoy these photos from across Newfoundland and Labrador, and come back later in the week: we’ll be updating the gallery with more shots.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/gallery-july-6-1.5630932
June 3, 2021 ─ Politico
Severely ill patients flooding hospitals can’t get it, and without a coordinated global response, the same nightmare may play out again and again in the coming months, or even years, while under-resourced countries wait on vaccines. …
As Serbia’s successful vaccination drive began slowing down, its government last month became the first to offer cold hard cash – the equivalent of $31 – to anyone getting a shot by May 31. …
In Northern Thailand, district officials are also embracing a lottery – but instead of cash, the prize is a cow, worth $320. …
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/global-pulse/2021/06/03/the-worldwide-scramble-to-prevent-the-next-oxygen-shortage-493094
16 Dec 2011 … Computerworld – Flooding in Thailand is wreaking havoc on hard disk drive ( HDD) manufacturers.
While vendors are expected to keep their most valuable customers – computer system manufacturers — supplied with inventory, the consumer retail market will likely be hit hard by shortages and price increases, analysts say.
https://www.lightedge.com/blog/the-butterfly-effect-flooding-in-thailand-impacts-hard-drive-prices/
Sunday May 16 2021 ─ The Times
As I pulled myself through the flooded tunnel the current pushed against me so forcefully that it felt as if the underground river — or maybe the mountain itself — was trying to keep me out. Thirteen young men had been the last to travel this path before me, and I had gone there to save them.
… of rock above them and 2,300 metres of flooding cave passage behind them. … Two Royal Thai Navy Seals were waiting by the water and, without pausing, … were up against and I wouldn’t have to work very hard to convince him. … The drive to Tham Luang on the first day of the rescue was largely silent, …
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tham-luang-cave-rescue-thailand-boys-rick-stanton-9bw6fw5zx
13 Feb 2012 … HARD DISK DRIVE
Riding the wave of recovery
The recent newsflow have indicated that the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) industry has recovered faster than expected following the Thai floods. …
Faster than expected recovery. The Thai flood disaster turned out to have a less severe impact on the HDD industry, evidenced from the resilient results produced by the two dominant HDD OEMs. …
http://kfc1973-stock.blogspot.com/2012/02/hdd-riding-wave-of-recovery-dmg.html
02 June 2021 ─ Evening Standard
A new report from WWF highlights species in the UK and around the world that are under pressure from climate change. …
Its home is expected to be reduced by almost 100% due to the combination of increased water levels, higher temperatures and extreme flooding events driven by climate change.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/wwf-scotland-highlands-scottish-highlands-sweden-b938324.html
Amazon U.S. (English)• Thai Garden Style
This Thai gardening book presents the finest luxury gardens of Thailand and is of enormous importance to the field of tropical gardening.
Containing over 250 photographs by world-renowned Italian photographer Luca Invernizzi Tettoni and authoritative text by gardening expert William Warren, Thai Garden Style is a unique book. Showcasing many of the finest contemporary Thai gardens in lavish color, it contains a wealth of botanical and other information. Some of the gardens are in private homes, others in top international hotels and resorts, and each is a fantastic portrayal of tropical luxury.
Rich in detail and superbly photographed, Thai Garden Style will be of great interest to professional landscape architects and weekend gardening enthusiasts alike, as well as to anyone interested Thailand’s extraordinary architecture and cultural heritage.
05/16/2021 ─ OMONA THEY DIDN’T! Endless charms, endless possibilities ♥
The Korean entertainment scene is experiencing a boom in audition programs.
Following the smash success of programs like “Superstar K” (2009-16), “K-Pop Star” (2011-17), “Produce 101” (2016-19) and “Miss Trot” (2019-2021) ― which not only scored impressive viewership ratings but also propelled numerous aspiring singers and lesser-known celebrities to stardom ― more producers are devoting themselves to creating similar shows. …
“It is hard to think outside the box and also quite risky. But a growing number of producers are attempting to make their works look distinctive.” In fact, TV Chosun’s “Miss Trot” and JTBC’s “Sing Again” are often cited as examples of creative deviations.
https://omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com/27622008.html
May 19, 2021 ─ Financial Times
The US border agency said it would deny entry to any Canadians attempting to drive into … multiples higher, given the lack of testing in hard-hit rural areas. … “A number of tourist attractions that have been opened are flooded with … …
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https://www.ft.com/content/e7855983-9db3-48f3-802f-dc4d3a11dae1
17 Jul 2018 … Following the 2011 flooding in Thailand which disrupted the HDD market, analysts expected more geographic diversity in the future, though the opposite is occurring.
That has been a problem before. The 2011 floods in Thailand caused a major disruption to the hard disk industry, which caused disk prices to practically double overnight, and linger around those levels for about two years due to supply issues and difficulties bringing the flooded facilities back into production. …
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-hdd-factory-closure-means-you-may-need-to-migrate-to-solid-state/
Nov. 22, 2020 ─ The Bangkok Post
SONGKHLA: A village with about 400 households in Sadao district was heavily flooded on Sunday morning after being hit by run-off from the Khao Nam Khang mountain range on the Thai-Malaysian border following a heavy downpour on Saturday.
The heavy rain began on Saturday afternoon and continued until late evening, water to cascade down the mountain to inundate Nam Lat, a village in tambon Sanmak Taew of Sadao district. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2023771/southern-village-hit-hard-by-flash-flood
13 Jun 2020 … SHANGHAI — China’s central bank said on Saturday it has given American Express approval to set up a bank card clearance business in the country.
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said the move reflected China’s further opening up and reforms of its financial industry, according to a statement on its website. (Reporting by Winni Zhou and Andrew Galbraith; Editing by Kim Coghill) …
https://business.financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/china-c-bank-approves-american-express-for-bank-card-clearance-business
Dec. 3, 2020 ─ Phys.org
Flash floods have claimed at least nine lives in southern Thailand and affected half a million people, officials said Thursday as the region braced for even more rain.
Six other provinces—Narathiwat, Songkhla, Pattani, Surat Thani, Chumphon and Phatthalung—were also experiencing flooding.
Heavy rain began a week earlier and was expected to continue over the coming days as a strong monsoon sits over the Gulf of Thailand and a low-pressure system in the Strait of Malacca. …
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-southern-thailand.html
5 Dec 2011 … Flooding in Thailand has caused a worldwide shortage in hard drives as manufacturers of platter based hard drives and hard drives components have gone underwater. Hard drive motor supplier Nidec (whom supply 100% of drive motors to companies such as Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital) have many factories that are offline and inaccessible, straining the supply. Consequently, hard drive prices have risen dramatically and products are seeing longer wait times. 14,000 factories in the region have shut down, suspending work and leaving 600,000 people without a job. …
https://www.macstories.net/news/thailand-flooding-affects-imac-shipments-western-digital-resuming-hard-drive-production/
09 Jun 2021 ─ Insurance Business America
The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing an extra layer of complexity
“There was flooding all the way over in Thailand several years ago, and at the time the world’s hard drive supply was largely manufactured in Thailand,” said the Los Angeles-based attorney with insurance recovery law firm Pasich LLP. …
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/catastrophe/whats-going-to-happen-next-with-business-interruption-257415.aspx
25 Jun 2020 … The Senate’s internal economy committee will appoint an “independent evaluator” to determine how much the alleged victims of former senator Don Meredith should be compensated for their experiences working in the Red Chamber.
Three years after Meredith’s resignation, Independent Sen. Sabi Marwah, the chair of the committee, publicly expressed “regret” Thursday over the experiences of some Senate employees while Meredith was in the Red Chamber. …
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/don-meredith-harassment-compensate-victims-1.5627181
June 9, 2021 ─ Barron’s
Analysts are ratcheting up their price targets on shares of Seagate Technology after the company increased its guidance.
What Chia does require is vast disk-drive capacity. … industry to the devastating flooding in Thailand in 2011, which almost overnight shut down …
https://www.barrons.com/articles/seagate-stock-51623263679
22 Sep 2020 ─ My Thailand
Isaan, Esaan or Esan. It’s is the northeast region of Thailand. Home of Thai silk, somtom and Angkor ruins. Follow me to an enchanted land. …
For many years now, I’ve traveled to this flat, parched, often remote area of Thailand on both business and adventure. Business because Isaan is where Thai pillows are made for my export business. …
Isaan rice fields are mostly watered by rainfall, not irrigation, and so the farmers are at the mercy of fickle Mother Nature.
Mother Nature is very harsh in this hard scrabble country. Climate change has come. As of this writing, Isaan is in a prolonged drought that has all but eliminated the last rice harvest. …
ThailandThai CultureNotes from Buddha LandThe BasicsThai fabrics
https://mythailand.blog/2020/09/22/a-vagabond-to-isaan/
Nov. 2, 2011 ─ Computerworld
While flooding in Thailand is affecting hard disk supplies worldwide, the customers most likely to be hit hard by price increases will be consumers in the retail market as manufacturers put enterprises and PC system manufacturers atop their lists.
Flooding in Thailand is wreaking havoc on hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturers.
While vendors are expected to keep their most valuable customers – computer system manufacturers — supplied with inventory, the consumer retail market will likely be hit hard by shortages and price increases, analysts say. …
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2499905/hard-drive-shortage-expected-to-hurt-consumers-most.html
4 Nov 2011 … The historic floods in Thailand, the world’s largest manufacturer of computer hard disk drives, could ripple across the global tech economy and disrupt an array of industries, from PC makers to cloud computing.
The rising monsoon waters, which began in July and have killed more than 400 people and forced thousands to evacuate their homes, have swamped seven major industrial parks housing many of the nation’s hard–drive factories, which supply critical components to companies such as Apple (AAPL). …
https://www.mercurynews.com/2011/11/04/silicon-valley-companies-may-feel-impact-of-thailand-floods/
Nov. 30, 2020 ─ International Banker
Thailand’s COVID-19 experience is not unique: lockdowns, closed borders, shuttered businesses, reduced exports, dropping property values—all adding up to a disastrous year. Tourism is a large component of Thailand’s economic prosperity, so its loss has hit hard. What do the country’s prospects look like as the pandemic grinds on worldwide, although not in Thailand, which combated the virus successfully? …
The hard decision to impose a lockdown has paid off, as the Thai government bit the bullet by prioritizing the health and well-being of its citizens over economic losses. …
Alarmingly, Thailand experiences floods and droughts often in the same year and in the same region. …
https://internationalbanker.com/finance/whats-next-for-the-thai-economy-after-the-covid-19-pandemic/
24 Jun 2020 … For the first time since match play was suspended March 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Major League Soccer action will resume July 8 with the historic and unprecedented MLS is Back Tournament. This one-of-a-kind competition will see all 26 clubs descend on ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, marking the emphatic return of men’s professional soccer in the United States after a near four-month hiatus. …
https://www.sportingkc.com/post/2020/06/24/countdown-mls-back-presented-childrens-mercy-sports-medicine-center-14-days-get
Nov. 7, 2011 ─ Forbes
The impact of the October/November monsoon floods in Thailand on many high technology industries have been considerable. Perhaps none have been as hard hit as the HDD industry where major plants for Western Digital and Toshiba were flooded and many major HDD component suppliers were flooded as well. Even non-flooded production facilities such as those of Seagate and Hitachi GST have been slowed by parts shortages from flooded suppliers. Overall about 50% of total hard disk drive assembly capacity is in Thailand with WD’s Thailand production representing about 60% of its total HDD output. …
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2011/11/07/capital-equipment-costs-to-repair-flooded-hdd-factories-in-asia-will-be-considerable/
13 Oct 2011 … Factories and supply chains in Thailand face disruption as some of the worst flooding in decades starts to affect the country’s economy.
On Thursday, Seagate Technology said its production of hard drives would be affected in the current quarter because of supply chain disruptions. US chip-maker Western Digital also said the flooding could hurt production due to infrastructure problems. …
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-15285149
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 ─ Thaiger
An American man, who tested positive for Covid-19, is back in the hospital after fleeing when the hospital denied him a shared room.
Thai social media was flooded with angry posts about the incident, with some calling for his arrest or deportation. In response, the Chanuman district chief has announced they will tighten security at the hospital to prevent any future incidents that are similar in nature. …
https://thethaiger.com/news/national/american-leaves-hospital-after-being-denied-covid-treatment-in-same-room-as-thai-wife
2 May 2020 … Two-time NBA champion David West has a solution to combine athlete compensation with education. The only caveat: players would lose their NCAA eligibility. …
West is the Chief Operating Officer of the Professional Collegiate League (PCL), slated to start in 2021. It’ll be a pay-for-play collegiate league, where players will be paid 50-150 thousand per year to play for one of eight teams along the US Atlantic Coast.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pcl-basketball-league-ncaa-alternative
Apr. 7, 2021 ─ Yahoo News
BANGKOK (AP) — A Buddhist monk who was trapped by floodwaters inside a cave in northern Thailand for four days has been rescued by divers, a provincial official said Wednesday.
The 46-year-old monk, Phra Manas, entered Tham Phra Sai Ngam cave in Phitsanulok province on Saturday to meditate, said Therayuth Chandithawong, chief of the provincial Office of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.
Hayes stung an opposite-field line drive in the first inning against the Dodgers’ Walker Buehler that narrowly cleared the right-field wall, just inside …
https://news.yahoo.com/divers-rescue-thai-buddhist-monk-071959976.html
Amazon U.S. • Bangkok Wakes to Rain: A Novel
“Recreates the experience of living in Thailand’s aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles.” —Ron Charles, Washington Post
“Important, ambitious, and accomplished.” —Mohsin Hamid, New York Times bestselling author of Exit West
A missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of nineteenth-century Siam. A post-World War II society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting her solitary fate. A jazz pianist in the age of rock, haunted by his own ghosts, is summoned to appease the house’s resident spirits. In the present, a young woman tries to outpace the long shadow of her political past. And in a New Krungthep yet to come, savvy teenagers row tourists past landmarks of the drowned old city they themselves do not remember. Time collapses as these lives collide and converge, linked by the forces voraciously making and remaking the amphibious, ever-morphing capital itself. Bangkok Wakes to Rain is an elegy for what time erases and a love song to all that persists, yearning, into the unknowable future.
- Туве Янссон “Всё о Муми-троллях” [Tove Jansson “All About the Moomins”]
четверг, 20 марта 2014 [Thursday, 20 March 2014] ─ @дневники: асоциальная сеть [@ diaries: antisocial network]
Здесь можно быть или не быть собой. [Here you can be or not be yourself.]
“Writing a children’s book about a great flood is not so common. In the Comet book, Moomintroll and Sniff go on this journey to find out when the comet is coming and if it’s coming to Moominvalley. …”
https://diary.ru/~mummric?rfrom=300
Dec. 13, 2011 ─ Wall Street Journal
Intel cut its fourth-quarter outlook by $1 billion, citing short supplies of hard disk drives as a result of severe floods in Thailand.
Intel had previously said the Thai floods wouldn’t affect its holiday quarter … companies with operations in Thailand, including hard-drive maker …
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203518404577094200200314384
17 Oct 2020 … The horrific flooding in Thailand is affecting more than just the automotive supply chain.
The electronics supply chain, most notably hard-disk drive manufacturer Western Digital, is experiencing all kinds of problems in its operations. The company said earlier today that it’s suspending its business in Thailand because of the floods.
https://www.supplychaindigital.com/logistics-1/thailand-flooding-impacts-electronics-supply-chain
Aug. 17, 2020 ─ Inside Edition
Catherine Ke, 18, was heading to her boyfriend’s house around 2 a.m. in total darkness, when she unwittingly drove into a flood zone. She clung to a tree as she waited to be rescued. …
“It was hard for them to find me, because the tree I was holding on to, the branches were drooping down, so a bunch of leaves and branches were kind of covering my face,” Ke said. …
https://www.insideedition.com/missouri-teens-tiktok-shows-terrifying-drive-into-flash-flood-and-the-dramatic-rescue-that-followed
3 Mar 2020 … A group of residents who live along Erie Shore Drive in Chatham-Kent are threatening legal action in response to a council decision that is forcing them to abandon their homes.
Emotions were high on Monday as Erie Shore Drive residents packed into council chambers to watch as councillors unanimously voted in favour of a bylaw that would close the road as of March 9. …
The state of emergency and a voluntary evacuation was issued after municipal administration revealed that there was a five to 40 per cent chance that the Erie Shore Drive dike could fail, resulting in catastrophic flooding. …
“I know it’s hard and it’s people’s life earnings and everything else but safety has to be the number one concern when we’re making our decisions around this table within our community, no matter how hard it is.” …
https://blackburnnews.com/chatham/chatham-news/2020/03/03/erie-shore-drive-close-notice/
May. 4, 2021 ─ KBTX
“You can adventure in our menu.”
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) – At the corner of Holleman Drive and Texas Avenue sits Taste of Thailand Restaurant and Grill, College Station’s newest Thai and Asian fusion restaurant. …
“We really work hard to make sure the quality of the food is perfect for our customers,” said Campbell. …
https://www.kbtx.com/2021/05/04/taste-of-thailand-restaurant-and-grill-now-open-in-college-station/
20 Oct 2011 … The flooding in Thailand that hurt Western Digital’s operations is also taking a toll on Dell and some chip companies led by Marvell Technology.
Shares of the hard disk drive maker were up 5% Thursday, but have fallen more than 9% this week. Dell fell 5.4% to close at $15.05, making the stock one of the worst performers on the S&P 500 SPX, +0.19% , where the tech sector was the hardest hit. …
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/thailand-flooding-hits-dell-chip-makers-2011-10-20
Nov. 14, 2011 ─ Expert Reviews
Thai floods shut down hard disk factories and send PC prices rocketing
Memory isn’t the culprit, though – it’s hard disks. Due to the vast flooding in Thailand, many thousands of homes and factories are under 6ft of water, which shows no signs of receding at the moment. …
https://www.expertreviews.co.uk/storage/internal-hard-drives/24579/hard-disk-factory-floods-cause-pc-prices-to-rise-by-up-to-60
17 May 2012 … President of Bluedial, online retailer of brand-name watches, anticipates a shortage in the supply of Casio watches due to the flood crisis in Thailand where many manufacturing plants, including watch parts suppliers, are stationed. …
Manufacturing companies are hit hard with the flood in Thailand that started in mid-July. … Thailand is home to many industrial factories that provide a great amount of supplies to the world including hard disk drives and automobiles.
https://rinxwatches.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-is-it-slow-season-for-casio-watches.html
June 11, 2021 ─ The Manomet Current –
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Track and trace solutions market is segmented on the basis of countries U.S., Canada and Mexico in North America, Germany, France, U.K., Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Rest of Europe in Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Rest of Asia-Pacific (APAC) in the Asia-Pacific (APAC), Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Rest of Middle East and Africa (MEA) as a part of Middle East and Africa (MEA), Brazil, Argentina and Rest of South America as part of South America. …
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Floodwater gushes into a manhole in the middle of a street in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011: http://www.dailystar.com.lb
13 Nov 2020 ─ Thongchai Thailand
ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE ALARMS OF 13 Nov 2020
SCITECHDAILY: LINK: https://scitechdaily.com/the-arctic-a-delicate-icy-ecosystem-video/ : CLAIM: The Arctic: A Delicate Icy Ecosystem. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA) OCTOBER 7, 2020, The Arctic is one of the most rapidly changing regions in the world. Diminishing sea ice, thawing permafrost and melting glaciers are all direct effects of rising global temperatures – driven by human-made emissions. …
NASA: GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE, VITAL SIGNS OF THE PLANET: CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSING HIGH TIDE FLOODING IN MARYLAND. LINK: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3041/beating-back-the-tides/ …
This particular section of asphalt in downtown Annapolis, Maryland, is among a growing number of areas prone to frequent flooding in the seaside town. The jellyfish had slipped in from the Chesapeake Bay through an opening in the seawall. … “I think we’re going to end up with certain locations that are going to take big actions— New York City and Miami Beach are examples—and we’re going to have other smaller communities that are going to have a hard time dealing with it,” he said. Building Defenses. Half a mile up the road from Downtown Annapolis, the U.S. Naval Academy is also beating back water. …
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/11/13/climate-alarms-of-11-13-2020/
Cold and wet through Thursday, flooding possible
Feb. 17, 2021 ─ FOX 5 Atlanta
ATLANTA – Another front is moving across the nation, bringing another round of unprecedented winter weather in already hard-hit areas. While they are battling snow and ice, most if not all of Georgia will just stay wet through Thursday evening as the front moves through the state.
The temperature across most of north Georgia is expected to remain above freezing overnight, in the upper 30s, and in the mid-40s as the high on Thursday as the front pushes through.
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/cold-and-wet-through-thursday-flooding-possible
27 Jan 2012 … Policyholders adversely impacted by the 2011 Thailand floods should focus on their insurance coverage promptly so that no rights or remedies are potentially compromised.
The New York Times, Nov. 6, 2011) (“Thailand Flooding Cripples Hard–Drive Suppliers”). One hard–drive manufacturer, Western Digital, reported estimated flood damage costs at between $225 and $275 million, with an insurance claim expected to lower the net impact. …
https://www.lawjournalnewsletters.com/sites/lawjournalnewsletters/2012/01/27/insurance-coverage-for-the-2011-thailand-floods/
Feb. 19, 2021 ─ Pattaya Mail
An unseasonal winter storm thrashed Pattaya, flooding major roads and carving out huge swaths of beachfront sand.
The Feb. 17 storm dumped heavy rain amid high winds across Chonburi, Rayong, Chanthaburi and Trat, with temperatures dropping up to three degrees Celsius.
All the usual places in Pattaya suffered dramatic flooding, from Sukhumvit Road to Beach Road and across East Pattaya. […] …
The Nong Yai Community was hit particularly hard, with storm runoff reaching 80 centimeters deep, snarling the after-school commute. …
https://www.pattayamail.com/news/unseasonal-storm-thrashes-pattaya-344063
23 Oct 2020 … It is hard to imagine more devastating effects of climate change than the fires that have been raging in California, Oregon, and Washington, or the procession of hurricanes that have approached — and, at times, ravaged — the Gulf Coast. There have also been deadly heat waves in India, Pakistan, and Europe, and devastating flooding in Southeast Asia. But there is far worse ahead, with one risk, in particular, so great that it alone threatens humanity itself: the rapid depletion of Arctic sea ice. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2006863/far-worse-is-coming-for-world-with-climate-change
Nov. 16, 2020 ─ The Bangkok Post
The Covid-19 crisis is adding to China’s food security risks as importers have been told to avoid frozen food imports from countries suffering severe outbreaks after positive tests on packaging of some imported seafoods.
On top of this, China’s corn crop was hit by floods and insect infestations, supply chains were disrupted because of Covid restrictions, and food imports from countries such as the US and Australia have been hit by trade sanctions. …
The pork crisis began a year ago when China’s pig herds were hit hard by African swine fever. …
· SEC to Review Market Structure as Meme Stocks Stir Frenzy · Heineken banks on tournament drive …
Thailand is in the fortunate position of being a major food producer and a net food exporter and so food production has been one of the few industries that have flourished during the Covid-19 crisis. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2020251/china-tackles-food-security-fears
30 Oct 2011 … Hard Drive manufacturers are keeping up with demand by switching production to other plants.
Thailand‘s worst flooding for half a century is unlikely to cause significant hard drive price rises despite shortages revealing weak points in the global supply chain, drive vendors have indicated.
For now the problems look to be acute but probably short term in a country that is number two in global drive production. …
https://www.pcworld.com/article/242833/thai_floods_unlikely_to_cause_hard_drive_price_rise_soon.html
Jul. 20, 2020 ─ The World Economic Forum
Trade tensions between the US and China and the COVID-19 pandemic, have highlighted that today’s global supply chain model is increasingly untenable. …
For products and tasks that are labour-intensive and add low value, businesses actively diversify their operations to other regional locations, such as Bangladesh, Cambodia and Pakistan with garment manufacturing, Vietnam with electronics, and increasingly Thailand and Indonesia with toys. …
For specialized electronic components such as hard disk drives (HDD), Thailand is already home to more than 70% of all production worldwide. …
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/evolution-supply-chains-picking-up-speed-asia-pacific/
20 May 2020 … Canadian Armed Forces members investigating the fatal Snowbirds crash in Kamloops are feeling grateful for people in the Brock neighbourhood of Glenview.
CAF public affairs officer, Lt. Alexandra Hejduk, says for two nights in a row people there have barbecued dinner for CAF members on the ground.
“They’ve made us feel like we’re their neighbours in these really tragic circumstances. …”
https://www.radionl.com/2020/05/20/60894/
Nov. 29, 2020 ─ Fox News
As the U.S. approaches the end of the Thanksgiving weekend, forecasters are eyeing a developing storm system along the northern Gulf coast.
“A developing storm system tracking along the northern Gulf Coast Sunday will bring locally heavy rainfall, potential for flash flooding, and a few strong to severe thunderstorms across the south and southeast states,” the National Weather Service tweeted. …
https://www.foxnews.com/us/storm-heavy-rain-potential-flash-flooding-southeastern-us
Amazon U.S. • Bangkok: Recipes and Stories from the Heart of Thailand [A Cookbook]
From one of the most respected authorities on Thai cooking comes this beautiful and deeply personal ode to Bangkok, the top-ranked travel destination in the world.
Every year, more than 16 million visitors flock to Thailand’s capital city, and leave transfixed by the vibrant culture and unforgettable food they encounter along the way. Thai cuisine is more popular today than ever, yet there is no book that chronicles the real food that Thai people eat every day—until now.
In Bangkok, award-winning author Leela Punyaratabandhu offers 120 recipes that capture the true spirit of the city—from heirloom family dishes to restaurant classics to everyday street eats to modern cosmopolitan fare. Beautiful food and location photography will make this a must-have keepsake for any reader who has fallen under Bangkok’s spell.
- 8 лучших программ для клонирования жесткого диска [8 best hard drive cloning software]
2018-10-21 ─ spayte
Главная проблема во время смены жесткого диска – необходимость установки и настройки операционной системы и программ с нуля. Это занимает много времени и сил.
Решение проблемы – автоматическое клонирование диска (HDD, SSD) с использованием специального софта.
Что такое клонирование диска …
2. … Разверните раздел « Disk Clone » и выделите пункт « System Recovery ». …
3. Отметьте раздел « Physical drive »: это ваш жесткий диск.
4. В следующем окне выберите хранилище для копии. В нашем случае это целевой диск. …
The main problem when changing a hard disk is the need to install and configure the operating system and programs from scratch. It takes a lot of time and effort.
The solution to the problem is automatic disk cloning (HDD, SSD) using special software.
What is disk cloning …
2. … Expand the “Disk Clone” section and highlight the “System Recovery” item. …
3. Check the “Physical drive” section: this is your hard drive.
4. In the next window, select the location for the copy. In our case, this is the target disk. …─Google Translate
https://spayte.livejournal.com/1584343.html
Jan. 18, 2021 ─ theleadernews.com
A drainage study from 1966 recommended that a 78-inch pipe be installed underneath 12th Street at its intersection with Seamist Drive, with the line expanding to 90 feet by the time stormwater runoff reached White Oak Bayou to the east.
Review: Thai market serves amazing food in low-key space Zarah Parker Managing Editor. Part market, part restaurant, Street Food Thai Market is easy to drive …
https://www.theleadernews.com/city_government/annexation-allows-flooding-issues-to-be-addressed/article_94ee0544-00f5-5677-aa15-fc725e0e9eb0.html
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10 Oct 2014 … In this paper we (i) investigate the impacts of floods on supply chains using the case of Thailand’s 2011 flooding focusing on automobile and electronics industries; and (ii) propose components that should be considered in measuring supply chain risk by proposing future research questions. …
In terms of the impact on the market price, even six months after all the inundated industrial parks completed water drainage after the flooding, most of the prices of both hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state disks (SSD) remain higher than the prices before the floods.
http://water.columbia.edu/files/2014/10/supply_chain_Thailand.pdf
May 30, 2021 ─ Yahoo News Canada
BANGKOK (AP) — The Ukrainian ambassador to Thailand collapsed and died on Sunday while on a resort island with his family, authorities said.
Andrii Beshta, 44, was declared dead on Lipe Island in southern Satun province, Gov. Ekkarat Leesen told The Associated Press.
Police quoted his teenage son, who was staying in the same hotel room, as saying his father vomited and fainted early Sunday. …
There are drive-thru and walk-in vaccination clinics in communities across the province. … Her mother is also hard of hearing, and Ens said someone needed to … in China, Vietnam and elsewhere have been flooding the market with …
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-ambassador-thailand-dies-resort-073114471.html
18 Oct 2011 … By Daniel Ten Kate and Suttinee Yuvejwattana
Oct. 18 ( Bloomberg ) — Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra appealed for more than a million sandbags to prevent flooding in the Thai capital as a “huge amount” of water from northern dams threatens to deluge inner parts of the city.
https://ki-media.blogspot.com/2011/10/bangkok-leader-calls-for-sandbags-as.html
Jun. 28, 2020 ─ The Bangkok Post
The upper North was ravaged by forest runoff and flash floods on Friday night after heavy rain dumped water in many villages, prompting residents to flee in the middle of the night. …
A 64-year-old villager said he found his house was hit hard by the torrential rain and mudslide about 2am. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1942024/runoff-mudslides-hit-upper-north
3 Nov 2011 … A boy and girl give rides for a fee to flooded residents in Bangkok November 2, 2011. The floods began in July and have devastated large parts of the central Chao Phraya river basin, killed nearly 400 people and disrupted the lives of more than two million. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
There may be a shortage of hard drives for the big Christmas retail season because of the catastrophic floods in Thailand. …
https://boingboing.net/2011/11/03/thailand.html
Jan. 9, 2021 ─ ABC
Thailand‘s controversial King is facing growing criticism from young protesters who are demanding reforms, one of which calls on the sovereign to rule from within the Kingdom he’s inherited.
When Thailand recorded its first cases of coronavirus, the King was nowhere to be seen in his kingdom. …
Afterwards, the Crown Prince developed a reputation for being a hedonistic jet-setter, a contrast to the genteel, hard-working style of his father. …
Since becoming sovereign, the King has continued to spend large parts of the year in the region, usually at his lakeside villa in Tutzing — a town that has long been a playground for the rich, about an hour’s drive south of Munich. …
Thousands go days without electricity after storms as power station under flooding threat …
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-10/king-vajiralongkorn-thailand-protests-germany/13017340
20 Jan 2017 … Santa Barbara apartments evacuated near Broadmoor Plaza; mud and rock debris reported in roadways all over county
About 20 Santa Barbara apartments were evacuated Friday morning after a mudslide off Broadmoor Plaza and Richland Drive, according to authorities.
Flooding was reported in the area and the Santa Barbara City Fire Department responded to start evacuating residents on the ground floor units and top-floor exposed units facing the hillside, said Battalion Chief Mike de Ponce. …
https://www.noozhawk.com/article/latest_storm_giving_santa_barbara_county_a_good_soaking
Oct. 15, 2020 ─ The Diplomat
As they grapple with COVID-19, Southeast Asian nations should not lose sight of the challenges posed by climate change.
Flooding in Vietnam has killed at least 36 people so far this month, up to October 14, a number that will most likely rise as Tropical Storm Nangka continues to batter the central provinces. …
Thailand‘s stimulus packages amount to more than 12 percent of GDP. …
Or, at least, it could lead more ordinary people to take a greater interest into how their hard-earned money is being spent by their governments (oftentimes corruptly and wastefully), which might increase demands for accountability and transparency. …
Behind the CCP’s horrific crackdown in Xinjiang is a desperate drive to …
https://thediplomat.com/2020/10/no-taxation-without-climate-action/
28 Nov 2020 ─ Real World Drive
Billy Liu succeeds Louie Zhang as Chevron Philippines, Inc. (CPI) downstream general manager and country chairman. Effective last October 1, Liu now manages the marketing of products under Chevron’s international fuels and lubricants business segment in the Philippines.
Press Statement of Chevron Philippines, Inc. (CPI), “Chevron names new downstream general manager and country chairman in PH,” 2020: …
Caltex was also quick to resume its retail operations in areas hard hit by the recent floodings from successive typhoons. Both Caltex fuels and lubes business have also recently launched promotions and new products for motorists such as the Fuel for Fuel promo and Delo 400 SLK, respectively. …
He led several notable projects in the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.
Liu earned his bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science from Northwestern University, Illinois. …
News ReleasesChevron
https://realworlddrive.wordpress.com/2020/11/28/new-chevron-downstream-general-manager-and-country-chairman-for-the-philippines/
Jan. 28, 2021 ─ National Geographic
Tens of thousands of people are flocking to a provincial southern temple, seeking hope in tough times.
Visitors to Wat Chedi, a temple in southern Thailand, have donated countless chicken figures to honor Ai Khai (or Egg Boy), a statue housing the spirit of a boy said to bring good luck. …
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2021/01/the-history-of-thailands-egg-boy-statue-and-how-it-became-a
8 Oct 2015 … A hard disk drive shortage following flooding in Thailand in 2011 prompted Amazon Web Services to rethink its supply chain. We recap the discussion from re:Invent, including the launch of Snowball, a 50 TV storage appliance to speed data transfer to the AWS cloud.
If it rains enough in Thailand, cloud storage could run dry. That’s why Amazon Web Services now looks differently at the supply chain for its massive data center operation, according to VP of Infrastructure Jerry Hunter.
https://datacenterfrontier.com/floods-thailand-aws-supply-chain/
Jan. 29, 2021 ─ National Geographic
Floods and the economic fallout from COVID-19 are pitting hungry fishermen against hungry hippos—with deadly results.
And they can be hard to spot since they can hold their breath under water for up to five minutes. …
Heavy rains that began in October 2019 caused Lake Naivasha to swell to its largest size in nearly a century, flooding the land upon which hundreds of hippos had grazed. …
A four-hour drive north of Naivasha in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, Lake Bogoria and Lake Baringo have flooded, displacing thousands of people and countless wildlife. …
A year without tourism: crisis for Thailand‘s captive elephants.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/hippos-flooding-fishing-covid-collide-kenya
22 Jun 2020 … In this week’s MMQB, CFL.ca’s Pat Steinberg finishes off his Money List with the defensive back field.
Over the last number of weeks, we’ve been putting together our list of players at each position on the field to start a team to win a championship right away.
Pat Steinberg · Cornerback – Delvin Breaux, Hamilton Tiger-Cats · Halfback – Richard Leonard, Calgary Stampeders · Safety – Tunde Adeleke, …
https://www.cfl.ca/2020/06/22/steinbergs-mmqb-completing-money-list/
June 15, 2021 ─ BBC
Homes need to be more resilient and the government is in a worse position than five years ago, report says.
For example, around 10 years ago, flooding in Thailand caused a global shortage of computer hard drives.
Rising temperatures will put supply chains at risk for food, medicines, goods and services. …
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57487943
12 Oct 2011 … Western Digital today announced that production of hard drives in its facilities close to Bangkok, Thailand, will be constrained in the current quarter due to the severe flooding in Thailand. The flooding is causing problems with the region’s infrastructure, including transportation and utilities, and has resulted in the inundation of some supplier facilities and employee homes. …
https://www.legitreviews.com/flooding-in-thailand-slows-western-digital-hard-drive-production_11649
Dec. 12, 2011 ─ The Verge
Intel announced this morning that the company is lowering revenue expectations for the fourth quarter to $13.7 billion. While its estimate was originally pegged at $14.7 billion, the chip maker cites hard drive shortages resulting from Thailand‘s flooding crisis as the direct cause of the reduced forecast. …
https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/12/2630222/intel-lowers-q4-revenue-expectations-thailand-flooding
1 Nov 2011 … This blog provides you the latest update from bloggers on financial news. 投资部落格 … Malaysian hard disk drive (HDD) component makers, which supply mainly to Seagate Technology plc, could well take pole position in the HDD industry after rival Western Digital Corp (WD) was beaten out by the flooding in Thailand.
And with a global HDD shortage looming, higher prices are likely to boost margins down the entire value chain, providing some relief for component suppliers hit by low prices and poor margins. …
https://talkaboutsharesmarket.blogspot.com/2011/11/seagate-benefit-for-jcy-and-dufu.html
Sep. 1, 2020 ─ The Guardian
Floods, droughts, avalanches and landslides are common in the mountainous, arid terrain
Less than a week after flash floods killed at least 116 people – including Zada’s 35-year-old son – and injured 120 more in Charikar, the capital of Afghanistan’s Parwan province, Zada’s house lies destroyed, each room filled almost to the ceiling with what is now dry mud. …
“We don’t have enough tools and shovels, but we work as hard as we can.” …
In Parwan, about an hour’s drive north of Kabul, about 15,000 people have been displaced by disasters including floods since 2012, according to the International Organization for Migration. …
peak in July with hospitals filling; Thailand vaccine supplies disrupted …
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/01/many-people-are-still-missing-afghanistan-flash-floods
Amazon U.S. • Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
The incredible true story of the 12 boys trapped with their coach in a flooded cave in Thailand and their inspiring rescue.
On June 23, 2018, 12 members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach were exploring the Tham Luang cave complex in northern Thailand when disaster struck. A rainy season downpour flooded the tunnels, trapping them as they took shelter on a shelf of the dark cave. Eight days of searching yielded no signs of life, but on July 2, they were discovered by two British divers. The boys and their coach were eventually rescued in an international operation that took three days. What could have been a terrible tragedy became an amazing story of survival.
Award-winning author Marc Aronson brings us the backstory behind how this astounding rescue took place. Rising Water highlights the creative thinking and technology that made a successful mission possible by examining the physical, environmental, and psychological factors surrounding the rescue.
From the brave Thai Navy SEAL who lost his life while placing oxygen tanks along the passageways of the cave to the British divers that ultimately swam the boys to safety to the bravery of the boys and their coach, this is the breathtaking rescue that captivated the entire world.
December 30th, 2010 – January 7th, 2011
7 Ways To Drive Floods of Great Traffic on the way to Your Website
Whether you’re an affiliate marketer, sell your personal services and products, or MLM, there are specific internet advertising techniques that you can use to get extra site visitors to your site.
It’s not that internet advertising and marketing strategies that fluctuate from trade to trade that make a distinction, however the way you apply them to marketing your business.
https://kentbh1asw.livejournal.com/
21 May 2021 ─ The Telegraph
Health officials are investigating a so-called “triple mutant” coronavirus variant in Yorkshire, but have told the public “please don’t be alarmed”.
Consumers flooded back to the shops, sparking a 9.2pc surge in retail sales. … Sweat-sniffer dogs make Thai debut as Covid detectors … told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “The police are working hard on it, we’ve got … which will join that developed by Pfizer in a vaccination drive that began in mid-February.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-covid-india-variant-astrazeneca-vaccine-lockdown/
17 Nov 2011 … Our friend at Probrand, Iain Bowles, who knows more about IT supply chain issues than anyone we’ve ever met, writes about the effect of the recent floods in Thailand.
As Thailand starts the recovery process and takes stock of the worst flooding on record, the supply of Hard Disk Drives (HDD) is forecast to become difficult and expensive. …
https://spendmatters.com/uk/thailand-hard-disk-drive-production-cost-supply-implications/
June 4, 2021 ─ Vulcan Post
Htay Aung, founder and CEO of Anywheel, is one of the Singapore individuals who made the cut for Forbes’ 30 under 30 Asia list in 2021. … Starting up amid the bicycle-sharing boom.
China’s powerhouses are well-funded — they quickly flooded the market with an ocean of bicycles. …
It expanded its service to Malaysia in late 2019 with both bicycle and e-scooter sharing, and launched in Chiang Mai, Thailand in January last year — just a few months shy before the onset of the Covid-19 outbreak. …
These are the numbers and impact that drive me, not money. …
We are constantly trying to innovate and work hard to make it a powerhouse in the transport industry (and) a transport mode that comes to everyone’s mind when they want to get to anywhere. …
https://vulcanpost.com/748069/anywheel-ceo-bicycle-sharing-singapore/
31 Mar 2012 … Currently, there are only 3 routes left for the water to flow into the Gulf of Thailand, namely, the Jeen River, the Bang Pakong River and the Chao Praya River. These rivers can only bring 2 000 000 000 cubic metres of water into the Gulf of Thailand which means that it will take 50 days for the water to be completely drained away. Despite the efforts taken, flooding still occurred in Inner Thailand. …
https://geography-project-floods.blogspot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html
Mar. 25, 2021 ─ ABC
The rain around NSW is going to hit some farmers hard, but food supplies will rebound quickly and most of us won’t feel it in the hip pocket.
In flooded areas along the Hawkesbury on the edge of Sydney, many people are cut off and relying on boats and helicopters for their supplies. …
Sean McInerney, a wholesaler at the Sydney Markets who buys fruit and vegetables from across the east coast, said individual growers had been hit hard. …
It had to import product from Thailand during the drought to supply Australian supermarkets but that will not happen this year as growers look like harvesting a crop a big crop despite the rain late in the growing season. …
‘War for talent’ drives unemployment below pre-pandemic levels.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-03-25/nsw-floods-signal-crop-losses-and-short-term-price-rises/13271940
27 Oct 2011 … Hard drive maker is wet wet wet… …
There is an eerie calm inside Western Digital’s flooded hard disk drive plant near Bangkok. It has been transformed into a silent lake.
Photo images sent to us and posted on Facebook show the plant rising out of a sea of floodwater. Here are three of the images. …
https://www.theregister.com/2011/10/27/wd_flooded_factory/
Nov. 21, 2020 ─ Voice of America
BANGKOK – Thailand’s “Bad Students” pro-democracy group took over a downtown Bangkok intersection Saturday night, deriding the country’s royalist government as “dinosaurs” as a kingdom bitterly divided by age, politics and attitudes toward the monarchy lurches deeper into crisis. …
Clashes with royalist “yellow shirts” last week saw the first wounds by gunshots—in a country flooded with weapons and a history of deadly street politics—while police have used water cannon and tears gas against protesters shielding themselves with giant inflatable rubber ducks. …
“But it is hard to see what measures they could employ that could both quash this burgeoning criticism and also avoid a backlash.” …
Medical staff prepare to take a COVID-19 tests at a drive through community based.
https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/thailands-bad-student-pro-democracy-protesters-slam-government-dinosaurs
28 May 2020 … Clarence Ethier passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 24, 2020 in Prince Albert, SK, at the age of 79.
Clarence was born on Friday, April 18, 1941, in Cudworth, SK. He spent his life in Domremy until he married. He worked for the City of Prince Albert for 29 years.
Clarence is survived by his wife, Madeleine (nee Carrier); his three sons, Lawrence, Roger (Jackie) and Kelly; one granddaughter, Shaquille; two brothers, Norman (Sonia) and Danny; one sister, Laura; numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. …
https://panow.com/listing/clarence-ethier/
Oct. 28, 2011 ─ Latest Headlines on CNN Business
Historic flooding in Thailand has led to production disruptions for Toyota, Honda and other automakers.
Other key sectors in Thailand, including electronics and hard disk manufacturing, have also been severely affected.
Moody’s Investors Service said this week that a continued production stoppage in Thailand could cut Honda’s profits this fiscal year by 10%, but that Toyota and Nissan should fare better because their plants in Thailand have not yet suffered direct damage. …
https://money.cnn.com/2011/10/28/news/international/thailand_floods_automakers/index.htm
Graph from February 7, 2012 article HDD Pricewatch: Three Months Into the Thai Floods: https://static.techspot.com
27 Oct 2020 ─ supplychainology.com
BSI recently announced the latest findings from its quarterly review and outlook of the top global supply chain security, business continuity, food safety and fraud, and corporate social responsibility threats and trends.
BSI’s Supply Chain Risk Exposure Evaluation Network (SCREEN) Intelligence found that while COVID-19 matters remain a primary concern, the impacts created a number of additional disruptions and risks which are impacting supply chains, including cargo theft, smuggling, and child labor. […]
Economic hardships worldwide hit migrants and children especially hard, with restrictions on movement stranding thousands. COVID-19 deterred some migration through border closures; however, the movement of migrants has continued, and stowaway detections picked back up during May/June. …
Similar issues of corruption occurred in supply chains throughout Q3 in Brazil and Thailand, with supply chain workers at ports participating in trafficking illegal drugs as well as border officials participating in illegitimate schemes. …
https://www.supplychainology.com/2020/10/27/covid-19-means-more-cargo-theft-and-labor-exploitation-says-bsi/
Sep. 12, 2020 ─ HAPPI Magazine
It’s not if, but when, says McKinsey.
Just a few months later, flooding swamped factories in Thailand that produced roughly a quarter of the world’s hard drives, leaving the makers of personal computers scrambling. …
https://www.happi.com/contents/view_breaking-news/2020-09-12/ready-for-supply-chain-disruption/
10 Feb 2012 … El Segundo, Calif., February 10, 2012—Although hard disk drive (HDD) supplies in the first quarter commenced their recovery from the disastrous floods that struck Thailand in late 2011, a full recovery of production is still months away, with unit shipments not expected to return to annual growth until the third quarter, according to IHS iSuppli Memory & Storage research from information and analysis provider IHS (NYSE: IHS).
Due to production disruptions at HDD suppliers and at component makers, global hard drive shipments in the fourth quarter of 2011 fell by 26 percent compared to the same period in 2010. . . .
https://www.electronicproducts.com/thai-floods-continue-to-impact-hard-drive-manufacturing-with-high-prices-and-short-supplies-lingering/
Oct. 3, 2020 ─ Daily Mail
A long-delayed flood barrier successfully protected Venice from a high tide for the first time today, bringing relief and smiles to the lagoon city following years of repeated flooding.
• The Mose flood barrier successfully protected Venice from high-tide flooding for the first time today
• 78 linked yellow barriers guard the entrance to the Venetian lagoon and hoist from sea bed as the tide climbs …
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8801869/Underwater-barriers-succeed-emergency-Venice-hit-floods.html
5 Jun 2020 … Drew Brees, the NFL and the fight over the American flag
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June 5, 2020
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https://www.detroitlions.com/news/the-daily-drive-lions-players-expected-to-march-in-detroit-on-friday
June 17, 2021 ─ Barron’s
The companies, which together control most of the world’s disk-drive production, could see a sustained boost to both pricing and profits from the Chia-driven acceleration in demand for high-capacity drives.
Disk-drive demand continues to be warped by the rapid adoption of Chia, a cryptocurrency that relies on large capacity drives to “farm” new coins. …
in the drive market was 10 years ago, when severe flooding in Thailand …
https://www.barrons.com/articles/crypto-mining-could-give-huge-boost-to-seagate-and-western-digital-stock-51623944488
11 Nov 2011 … As rescue and relief operations continue in response to the serious flooding in Thailand the focus has correctly been on human health and safety. Early reports estimated 317 fatalities, 700,000 homes and 14,000 factories impacted with over 660,000 not able to work. Good coverage mostly from the Bangkok Post is available at Newley.com authored by a reporter in the regoin. For example: http://newley.com/2011/11/02/thailand-flooding-update-november-2-2011-front-page-of-todays-bangkok-post/. …
https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2011/11/serious-hard-drive-shortage-expected-for-at-least-2-quarters/
June 18, 2021 ─ The Courier
All the data of research and analysis in the large scale Track And Trace Solutions business document are mapped in an actionable model with strategic recommendations from the experts. …
• Increasing number of products being recalled by various manufacturers and healthcare companies requiring better inventory management; this factor is expected to drive the growth of the market
• Increasing prevalence of generic and over-the-counter medicine products is also expected to drive the growth of the market
• Rising prevalence of counterfeit medical products and pharmaceuticals flooding the market …
China, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, … clients who reckon upon our services and rely on our hard work with certitude.
https://www.mccourier.com/global-track-and-trace-solutions-market-status-business-trends-competitive-analysis-growth-factors-and-forecasts-to-2028korber-ag-siemens-ag-systech-international-robert-bosch-packaging-techno/
28 May 2012 … IT Security, Virtualisation, and Performance postings from 360is.
In our 2011 end of year message we touched on problems in the hard drive supply chain due to the serious flooding in Thailand starting late July 2011 and running through the rest of that year. At the time, the expectation would be that we would see prices return to normal in Q2 or 2012. It now looks like hard drive prices will not return to pre-flood levels. The evidence is that higher hard drive prices are “the new normal”. …
https://360is.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-normal-for-hard-drive-prices.html
Oct. 21, 2020 ─ Philippine News Agency
PAGALUNGAN, Maguindanao – More than 10,000 residents here were displaced by flash floods that hit this low-lying town on Tuesday.
The affected residents are now staying in temporary shelters along the national highway. Floods are recurring occurrence every time a heavy downpour spawned by a low-pressure area affects eastern Mindanao. …
But life is hard for a Pagalungan resident who claimed she had been in the same situation many times in the past. …
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1119213
Monday, April 21st, 2003
… Last place I drove to: Danville. Last holiday I took: Well i went to Texas for Spring break, i don’t know if that counts, if not then my five days with Andre still count as a vacation to me
Most beautiful place i’ve ever been to: oh man thats hard…Thailand was nice, So was singapore, as was England, Germany, France, Saudi Arabia, Hawaii, Vancouver…I could go on forever…. …
Tuesday, January 7th, 2003
… Leisure days are over. My kitchen flooded this morning cuz the faucet broke so I missd the very first day of class…isnt that juts great lol. …
https://ruemeridian.livejournal.com/
Sun, 20 June 2021
Tropical Depression Claudette moved across Georgia and the Carolinas on Sunday, June 20, as satellite footage shared by the National Weather Service shows.
The weather bureau said Claudette continued to move across South Carolina, producing gusts up to 30 mph along the coast as well as thunderstorms in the Pee Dee region.
Claudette was downgraded to a depression from a tropical storm on June 19, but was forecast to re-intensify into a tropical storm by Monday, June 21, prompting warnings of heavy rains and possible flash flooding. …
It was the first official meeting since Iran’s hard-line judiciary chief won a … When Thailand tightened its border restrictions and enforced a strict 14-day … to all adults in an attempt to bolster its inoculation drive on Monday, …
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/satellite-captures-tropical-depression-claudette-020811411.html
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The World Bank estimates overall economic losses from the Thailand floods to be USD45.7 billion, making it one of the top five most costly natural disasters in the past 31 years. …
Thailand is the world’s second largest producer of computer hard disk drives and a key supplier to many global carmakers and digital/electrical goods manufacturers. …
Some Possible Consequences of the Thai Floods.
http://www.actuaries.org/HongKong2012/Presentations/MBR14_Philip_Baker.pdf
3 May 2021 ─ Yahoo News UK
Cars drove through flooded roads after a heavy summer storm hit northeastern Thailand today (May 3). Footage shows the vehicles slowly wading across the muddy deluge in Khon Kaen province. Some of the affected motorists were stranded while waiting for the water to recede after at least three kilometres of road were submerged. The flood also caused a traffic jam as most roads were unpassable due to the heavy flow of water. …
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cars-drive-flooded-roads-heavy-090000084.html
15 Jun 2020 … When spending a lot of time inside, having the right tools around to keep you productive, active and – last but not least – entertained, is key.
While staying active should be a mainstay of everyone’s daily routine, it’s important to enjoy some downtime every now and then and relax with your favourite TV show, game or movie.
Just link your Galaxy phone to your monitor using a USB C-HDMI adapter cable, click on the Samsung DeX prompt in your notification bar and tap ‘OK’ to enable Samsung DeX mode. …
https://news.samsung.com/ca/at-home-with-galaxy-tips-to-help-you-stay-entertained
May 22, 2021 ─ Pattaya Mail
The driver of a German luxury car discovered it wasn’t a U-boat during Pattaya’s latest floods.
The unidentified driver of the BMW stalled May 19 on the railway-parallel road, submerged in heavy storm runoff. It took police and another vehicle to push it out of traffic.
The storm hit four days into the official rainy season and dumped the wet stuff on Pattaya for more than two hours. […]
Drive through flooded streets at your own risk – a BMW (not shown) learned the hard way when it stalled on the railway-parallel road.
Police and emergency officials closed off the roaring rapids that sois Khao Talo and Khao Noi had turned into. …
https://www.pattayamail.com/news/bmw-no-u-boat-in-pattayas-floods-356467
17 Oct 2011 … Western Digital said its primary manufacturing facility in Thailand was flooded over the weekend, with its secondary site also at risk, raising the possibility of a global shortage of hard disk drives.
The floods in Thailand, the second largest exporter of hard disk drives after China , could potentially lead to a shortage of HDD supplies during the current quarter that may last into the first quarter of 2012, said research firm IHS iSuppli on Monday. …
https://www.macworld.com/article/214824/western_digital_extends_suspension_of_operations_in_thailand.html
June 17, 2021 ─ BBC
Homes need to be more resilient and the government is in a worse position than five years ago, report says.
For example, about 10 years ago, flooding in Thailand caused a global shortage of computer hard drives.
Rising temperatures will put supply chains at risk for food, medicines, goods and services. …
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57487943
19 Jun 2020 … OTTAWA — The federal government has made a move to try to help one of three Canadian markets become a hub city for the National Hockey League’s resumption of play.
A federal official told The Canadian Press on Thursday that the government issued an order in council that would allow one of Vancouver, Edmonton or Toronto to serve as one of the NHL’s two hub cities during the COVID-19 pandemic. …
https://www.tsn.ca/federal-government-clears-path-for-nhl-to-have-hub-city-in-canada-1.1487458
Sun, June 20, 2021 ─ Yahoo News
South Korea’s SK bioscience said on Monday it plans to expand vaccine production by investing about 150 billion won ($132 million) by 2024 to add production capacity, as well as equipping its plant to make newer mRNA and viral vector vaccines.
The vaccine maker said in a statement it has signed an agreement with the government of North Gyeongsang Province and the city of Andong, about 190 km (118 miles) southeast of Seoul, to expand its plant there and buy new land.
SK bioscience said it plans to add some 99,130 square metres of additional production space in the area.
Thailand‘s mass vaccination drive, which started this month, relies heavily on … Iran’s next president is a hard-liner who could cause problems for Biden, … Tropical Storm Claudette is in the Atlantic Ocean, leaving flooding and …
https://news.yahoo.com/koreas-sk-bioscience-invest-132-042018908.html
Image from Seagate CEO speaks about Thailand floods and resulting hard drive shortages (Nov. 23, 2014): https://www.theverge.com
4 May 2021 ─ hasi1bou48.wordpress.com
Movement knowledge helps organizations discover patterns of behavior for human mobility, store visits, and traffic routes. Understanding current and historic motion patterns might help you predict outcomes for future occasions. A social media tool that helps manufacturers connect with audiences on a deeper level. This multi-platform marketing campaign merged many social media channels with true crime for a one-of-its-sort social technique. …
On November 17, 2019, the banking data for 29,000 Facebook workers was stolen from a payroll employee’s automobile. The knowledge was stored on unencrypted hard drives and included checking account numbers, employee names, the final four digits of their social security numbers, salaries, bonuses, and fairness particulars. …
The company removed more than 1,800 accounts and pages that have been being operated from Russia, Thailand, Ukraine and Honduras. In October 2018, The Daily Telegraph reported that Facebook “banned lots of of pages and accounts that it says had been fraudulently flooding its web site with partisan political content – though they came from the United States as a substitute of being related to Russia.” …
movementStrategy
https://hasi1bou48.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/movement-strategy/
- The BTS meal launches in Singapore: ARMY recount their experiences, scalpers resell packaging online
After a gruelling wait and an unfortunate postponement last month, ARMY (fans of BTS) in Singapore can finally get their hands on the highly coveted BTS meal. …
the devil works hard but carousell works harder #BTSMeal …
Additionally, McDonald’s Singapore has also sponsored another 2,000 BTS meals for Changi Airport workers in Zone 1, which is deemed as the highest-risk area within the airport. …
https://www.bandwagon.asia/articles/bts-meal-singapore-launch-price-menu-sold-out-mcdelivery-grabfood-foodpanda-june-2021-butter-army-hybe-big-hit
5 Nov 2011 … The Newegg price charts on Camelegg sum this up illustratively:
Thailand manufactures 25% of the world’s hard drives, and the severe 2011 monsoon season floods affected some of its largest industrial parks, where many hard drive manufacturers and component suppliers are located, causing worldwide shortages and price increases. …
• 1TB SATA hard drives went from $50/TB to $140/TB, +180%, almost triple the price
• 1.5TB from $47/TB to $93/TB, +100% …
https://blog.zorinaq.com/1tb-hard-drive-prices-up-180-in-a-month/
… are flooded with new patients, prompting warnings that the Southeast … Data from federal sources also shows the drive to put shots in arms at … Rwanda, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, USA and China, … 600,000 — the largest on record in the world by far, ahead of hard-hit Brazil and India.
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https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/coronavirus-world-us-could-replace-astrazeneca-shots-to-meet-export-quota-commitment/news-story/3ff54fe8c5b1f355e2911b58cd14ec85
18 Jun 2020 … London’s Police Services Board approved a number of measures aimed at addressing problems of anti-Black racism in policing with Chief Steve Williams saying it’s a priority for his force. …
London’s Police Services Board has voted to take a number of steps to address racism in policing, moves that come in the wake of widespread calls for change.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/police-board-1.5618023
Mar. 9, 2021 ─ The Diplomat
Thailand’s protests have not yet caused a mass exodus of foreign investors. But continuing political unrest could drive multinational corporations away.
The anti-government protest movement which shook Thailand to its core throughout 2020 shows no signs of slowing down. …
https://thediplomat.com/2021/03/how-are-thailands-youth-protests-impacting-foreign-investment/
12 Dec 2011 … The slow-motion supply-chain tsunami caused by the Thailand flood has reached Intel. On Monday, the microprocessor maker revised its earnings estimates for the fourth quarter, dropping them by $1 billion. The company said the revenue shortfall is due to the hard disk drive shortage caused by the October flood. A large portion of the world’s hard disk drive manufacturing base is in the part of Thailand that was largely underwater for several weeks this fall. …
https://www.wired.com/2011/12/intel-flood-revision/
Jun 23, 2021 ─ Morningstar
A tsunami of cash continues flooding into a once obscure Federal Reserve facility, and the central bank official closest to it isn’t concerned in the slightest bit. …
Thailand‘s central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a record low, as the Covid-19 pandemic continued to weigh on the economy. …
The highly transmissible Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus is spreading so rapidly in the U.S. that it could become the dominant strain in the next two to three weeks, researchers said, adding urgency to the nationwide vaccination drive. …
SEOUL-In nuclear diplomacy with the U.S., North Korea is playing hard to get, for now.
https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/202106233367/european-midday-briefing-stocks-slip-as-pmi-2
27 Dec 2011 … Bobby Owsinski’s Big Picture Production Blog looks at music recording and production, offering the latest tips, song analysis and book excerpts. …
It’s true that solid state drives (SSD’s) made a big penetration into the market in 2011, but I think the big growth will actually happen in 2012, thanks to the recent flooding in Thailand which knocked out all of the plants make traditional mechanical drives. Tried to buy a hard drive lately?
https://bobbyowsinski.blogspot.com/2011/12/looking-at-last-years-predictions.html
June 23, 2021 ─ The New Republic
An internet huckster got rich selling a sex enhancement supplement named Stiff Nights. Then the FDA sampled his wares.
Erb traveled through remote bamboo villages in Thailand and the lush islands of the Philippines, spurred on by tantalizing myths: a magic root that instantly doubled a man’s length; a leaf that allowed him to please six women in one night. …
He’d just given the entire office hard-ons. …
Sexual stimulation—merely the thought of sex—can trigger the release of nitric oxide in the nerves, which boosts an enzyme, which spews out an organic molecule, which blocks some calcium channels; the lack of calcium relaxes smooth muscles that, finally, allow blood to flood the area. …
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, whose family’s financial fortunes were once saved by Mannatech, a religiously inspired supplement company that sells “Mannatech Men’s prime 7” (“may improve sex drive & libido” and “support healthy erectile function”)? By spring of 2016, the primary was tilting toward Donald Trump, a game-show host and born billionaire whose “Trump Network” health kit consisted of a dodgy health package of vitamins and a urine test. …
https://newrepublic.com/article/162632/herbal-viagra-scammer-fda
Amazon U.S. • Supply Chain Resilience
This book investigates individual companies’ and industries’ supply chain risk management approaches to identify risk drivers and verify effective risk-reduction measures and business continuity plans.
Typically, supply chain risk assessments focus on normative guidelines based on single best practice examples or vulnerability events, and there has been little work exploring how the concepts of supply chain risk management and resilience are related. However, since this relationship has implications for developing integrated response strategies, a clear understanding of the possible consequences is a fundamental step in building socio-economic resilience along the supply chain.
Against this background, the book addresses three main topics: firstly, it defines the conceptual and sectoral domains of supply chain risk management and resilience by examining the welfare effects of extreme weather events and other economic shocks on selected global supply chains. It then presents an in-depth analysis of the scope of public–private partnerships to tackle the risks, by empirically exploring supply chain risk effects and information management. Thirdly, it proposes a regional cooperation framework in the context of major supply chain vulnerability events such as disasters and global financial crises.
May 10 to April 26, 2005 ─ Freya Day
I have a hard time with gated communities in general, but the fact that this one has nothing to do with race, etc. makes me feel better about it. …
I was driving east on Kentucky Street about a block from my house and saw it to the northeast of me. …
The wind, hail, and driving, flooding rain made it one of the scariest experiences I’ve ever been through, much, much worse than the one a few days ago. …
https://freyaday.livejournal.com/
Dec. 21, 2016 ─ IEEE Spectrum
Thailand has become an increasingly important hub for the manufacturing computer components, especially hard disk drives, about a quarter of which are made there. So the devastating floods that have recently engulfed the Bangkok area stand to disrupt global supply of hard drives, very possibly sending prices upward and causing computer sales to dip over the coming months. …
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/a-flood-on-the-diskdrive-market
10 Oct 2012 … The hard drive shortage was caused by unprecedented flooding in Thailand, which produces about half of the world’s hard drives.
Backblaze offers unlimited cloud backups for $5 per month. They use a pod architecture based on off-the-shelf parts. They need about 50TB of new storage per day. Their business model depended on ready access to cheap hard drives. …
https://www.drsusansim.org/climate_change_drives_startup_to_hard_drive_farming/
Oct. 5, 2012 ─ Wall Street Journal
A year after massive floods in Thailand disrupted the global supply chain for cars and electronics, a new reality is becoming clear: Foreign companies are shifting production to other parts of Southeast Asia.
While Thailand remains a vital link in the global production of hard disk drives and automobiles, foreign companies are hedging their bets by …
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443493304578035823728376566
9 Jul 2020 … The sports field at the Minoru Oval, one of the city’s busiest, is getting a makeover. Preparations began this week to replace the field’s artificial turf, which requires that 10,000 square metres of the field be resurfaced.
The sports field at the Minoru Oval, one of the city’s busiest, is getting a makeover.
Preparations began this week to replace the field’s artificial turf, which requires that 10,000 square metres of the field be resurfaced. …
- https://www.richmond-news.com/news/replacement-of-richmond-s-minoru-turf-field-underway-1.24167790
Insurance Claims From Thai Floods to Run in Billions
Nov. 6, 2011 ─ Wall Street Journal
Thai and foreign insurers will likely face billions of dollars in claims from companies whose estates in major industrial complexes are battling the country’s worst floods in decades.
Hard-disk drive makers Seagate Technology Inc. and Western Digital Corp. have also halted production due to flood damage at their facilities.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203804204577013450707507944
May 17, 2020 … Starting in late July, the 2011 Thailand floods have been the regions worst in 50 years, and have had a huge impact on the local and global supply chain. …
Western Digital, one of the world’s largest hard–drive disk manufacturers, has closed production facilities in Thailand due to flooding. HDD competitor Seagate is having similar problems.
Samsung Electronics and Taiwan’s Acer are expecting bleak holiday season outlooks, as company statements surrounding the Thailand flooding have been released. …
https://supplychaindigital.com/logistics-1/thailand-flooding-supply-chain-breakdown
Nov. 5, 2020 ─ The Bangkok Post
Bangkok’s location leaves it liable to floods that affect more of us each rainy season and raise questions about its future. Will the city stay above water and how else might it change? …
Indoor City: Living conditions could collapse under an undesirable scenario if rising global temperatures and air pollution make it hard to stay outdoors. …
Thailand experienced 213 floods in the 20 years from 1989 to 2009. …
MEA teams up with EGAT and SRT in EV drive to achieve a clean-energy city and economic restart.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/pr/2014699/futuretales-lab-by-mqdc-reveals-four-scenarios-for-developing-bangkoks-future
15 Mar 2019 … Abstract
Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is a promising material for developing energy-saving “smart windows,” owing to its infrared thermochromism induced by metal-insulator transition (MIT). However, its practical application is greatly limited by its relatively high critical temperature (~68°C), low luminous transmittance (<60%), and poor solar energy regulation ability (<15%).
Positive or negative voltages applied through the gating electrode could drive the insertion/extraction of hydrogen ions into/from the VO2 lattice, resulting in the stabilization of the metallic VO2 phase at room temperature due to hydrogen insertion. …
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/3/eaav6815.full
Mar. 22, 2021 ─ The Hindu
Scientists have warned Australia can expect to see more frequent and more extreme weather events as a result of climate change. …
On Monday, eight million residents were told to avoid unnecessary travel and work from home if possible, as some hard–hit areas received 25 centimetres of rain in 24 hours. …
Health officials have said the rain and floods will delay the already halting roll-out of coronavirus vaccines in Sydney and surrounding areas. …
1hr Pakistan PM Imran Khan discusses polio eradication drive with Bill Gates …
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/fresh-deluge-worsens-one-in-100-year-australia-floods/article34128232.ece
Image from Overstromingen in Thailand treffen toeristen (13 oktober 2011): https://www.nd.nl
17 Aug 2020 ─ Flyingdog travel
Tourist areas are spread out along the beachfront and main road, meaning that the area never looks crowded or over-developed.
The area has some of Thailand’s best beaches, often with few if any people, increasing the sense of paradise and you walk through the warm water as it gentle meets the shore. …
Leek (English Peak District)
I thought long and hard about including Leek. I live here after all. However, unless I end up travelling permanently, I can’t think of anywhere that I would rather live. …
http://flyingdogtravel.com/2020/08/17/my-favourite-places/
Jan. 31, 2021 ─ Gloucestershire Live
The news comes as several flood warnings have been issued
A hard day’s work. Firefighters use High Volume Pumps to tackle flooding in Tirley, Gloucestershire, Saturday 30th January 2021. 4 of 15.
Firefighters were at the scene of flooding in the borough of Tewkesbury this afternoon as river levels rose to dangerous levels.
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/gallery/pictures-firefighters-tackle-huge-floods-4948151
7 Sep 2019 … Volunteers receive relief supplies at the New Providence Community Center bound for survivors on Abaco and Grand Bahama islands on September 4.Jose Jimenez/Getty Images
After unleashing its fury on the Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian has passed through North Carolina’s Outer Banks and to expected to hit Nova Scotia by Saturday, September 7. […]
In 2011, Tropical Storm Nock-ten flooded Thailand, resulting in more than 350 deaths. This natural disaster also delivered a blow to hard drive manufacturers. …
https://canadianalliance.ca/industry-news/natural-disaster-logistics-hurricane-dorian/
Feb. 16, 2021 ─ The New Yorker
During a hurricane, migrants in the Bahamas were told that they could seek shelter without fear. More than a thousand were deported, reflecting a global trend.
(After six months of negotiations, the government agreed to test-drive the shelters, but local protests brought the program to a halt, again.) …
In 2011, Thailand experienced its worst flooding in fifty years, and a million migrant workers lived in the flood zone. …
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/when-climate-change-and-xenophobia-collide
11 Jun 2020 … There’s the quid, and there’s the pro quo, right?
I mean, that’s the way it’s supposed to work.
It’s give and take — until you take, and discover there are things you just can’t give.
Let me explain. A couple of weeks ago, out walking, I went by the sporting goods store where I often go to buy trout flies.
“It’s good. Close. Big trout. Brown trout. But big. The water’s been high this year. Hard to fish.” He suggested I should try it. I nodded, said little.
https://www.theguardian.pe.ca/opinion/regional-perspectives/russell-wangersky-secrets-kept-close-460922/
Is it a mistake to return to a place you loved deeply and had to leave behind? Donal Conlon finds out…
In the mornings, I’d stand at the door of the slow-moving train and watch the passing scenes: water buffaloes wallowing in muddy ponds, elegant coconut trees arching in the wind, a man cycling on a narrow ridge between flooded paddy fields.
https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/travel/2021-05-23-can-you-go-back-again-a-lifelong-love-affair-with-thailand-is-hard-to-get-over/
14 Feb 2012 … CDC – Blogs – Public Health Matters Blog – The Great Flood of 2011, Thailand: A Firsthand Account – Sharing our stories on preparing for and responding to public health events
This flood not only affects Thailand, but the entire world. Thailand is the world’s largest manufacturer of rice, rubber, and computer hard drives, accounting for more than 25% of world production. …
https://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2012/02/the-great-flood-of-2011-thailand-a-firsthand-account-3/
Dec. 9, 2020 ─ The Atlantic
It’s time to revisit some of the most memorable events and images of 2020. Events covered in this essay include the mass protests against the killing of George Floyd, locust swarms in Africa, a terrifying explosion in Beirut, and much more.
Guests watch Trolls World Tour in the rain at the Four Brothers Drive In Theater in Amenia, New York, on May 15, 2020. …
Each time we went out on the streets, we had to work hard to assess and minimize the risk. …
An aerial view of the Kwanyin Temple in the middle of the flooded Yangtze River on July 24, 2020, in Ezhou, China. …
Thai kindergartners wear face masks as they play in screened-in play areas used for social distancing at the Wat Khlong Toey School on August 10, 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/12/2020-photos-look-middle-months/617314/
Disaster Report: Thailand flood has killed about 533 people. Due to flooding in Thailand, more than 5,000 people have lost their jobs as more than 20,000 companies in 16 provinces had been hit by floods. …
Global prices of computer hard drives are rising because of a flood-related shortage of major components used in personal computers since Thailand is the second-largest exporter …
https://disaster-report.blogspot.com/2011/11/thailand-flood-2011-death-toll-at-437.html
Nov. 13, 2011 ─ The Atlantic
The Atlantic covers news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more, through its articles, podcasts, videos, and flagship magazine. … The floodwaters soaking Bangkok are only likely to continue, and in 50 years much of the city may be permanently underwater …
Japanese companies in particular have made enormous investments in Thailand and have been particularly hard hit by the flooding, but all computer disk drive makers and many car manufacturers have been affected. …
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/should-thailand-give-up-on-bangkok-and-move-its-capital/248330/
Mar. 17th, 2008 ─ Aaron “Moose” Soule
(Originally posted in Facebook Notes at 11:15pm on Friday, Jun 29, 2007)
FOR SALE:
A used 250GB external hard drive from Western Digital (WD). Still in VERY good condition. Old files wiped clean from it. Package includes the hard drive, all required cables and a Firewire cable.
I am offering the hard drive for $50. Too good to be true?! Well, the price on this particular hard drive goes up and down every week and it is a clearance product in most retail stores.
https://asoule1987.livejournal.com/1208.html
May 6, 2021 ─ Science News
Misinformation about health is drowning out the facts and putting us at risk. Researchers are learning why bad information spreads and how to protect yourself.
The sheer volume of fake news, flooding across social media with little fact-checking to dam it, is taking an enormous toll on trust in basic institutions. …
One of the most insidious problems with fake news is how easily it lodges itself in our brains and how hard it is to dislodge once it’s there. …
In other words, lazy thinking rather than political bias may drive people’s susceptibility to fake news, Pennycook and Rand reported in Cognition. …
2004 tsunami in Thailand.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fake-news-misinformation-covid-vaccines-conspiracy
28 Oct 2011 … Manufacturers of car parts and computer hard drives are the worst hit in Thailand, and face a bleak key holiday selling season due to massive floods, which have shut down production.
Japanese car makers that had just started to recover from the March earthquake and tsunami that disrupted their supply chains are now facing shortages of key parts made in Thailand, a key manufacturing base in Southeast Asia. …
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2011/10/28/221972.htm
Dec. 3, 2011 ─ TechCrunch
The recent floods in Thailand have wreaked devastation on the factories in the area; some were under a dozen feet or more of water, and all manner of companies were affected by the damage. Nikon and Samsung delayed cameras and a shortage of hard drives has caused a spike in prices.
The recovery effort is progressing apace, and the affected areas are being pumped or drained clear of water. …
htttps://techcrunch.com/2011/12/02/western-digital-fires-up-first-flooded-factory-in-thailand-as-recovery-continues/
28 Jul 2020 … Mekong River Commission chief calls for stronger regional collaboration to address problems
The drought is being felt along the length and breadth of the Mekong Delta and in its latest weekly forecast the MRC’s Regional Flood and Drought Management Centre in Phnom Penh said other areas in the region are also suffering moderate to severe drought. …
https://www.ucanews.com/news/severe-drought-warning-for-laos-cambodia-and-vietnam/88933
Apr. 11, 2021 ─ FourStatesHomepage.com
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Health Ministry warned Sunday that restrictions may need to be tightened to slow the spread of a fresh coronavirus wave, as the country hit a daily record for new cases.
The ministry confirmed 967 new infections, the highest ever in a 24-hour period, bringing Thailand’s total to 32,625 cases since January last year — including 97 deaths. […]
https://www.fourstateshomepage.com/news/thailand-hits-new-daily-record-with-nearly-1000-virus-cases/
25 Oct 2011 … In consumer electronics, the hard disk drive (HDD) industry also felt the flood’s effects. California-based Western Digital is expected to see a 40 percent decline in its exports from Thailand, which are worth $6.5 billion a year, as two of its plants in Bang pa-in have been forced to close. Western Digital produces 33 percent of the world’s HDDs and sells to major computer manufacturers like Acer, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard. Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple has suffered supply chain snags due to factory closures as well. …
http://www.cogitasia.com/economic-damage-of-thailands-flooding/
Oct. 25, 2011 ─ Wall Street Journal
BANGKOK—Rising floodwaters shut down the Bangkok’s second airport and prompted the government to suspend some operations in anticipation of a deluge that has already hit a third of the country’s provinces and killed more than 300 people. …
The computer industry is expecting a slowdown in the global output of hard disk drives because of the floods.
I located the full (and very short) ‘bare bones’ text of the article for free at http://first.ijs.si here, but the visitor is expected to scroll down at least a third of the distance in the provided viewing field. ─Ye Editor
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204644504576651092118569026
22 Jun 2020 … Soybean futures and corn futures were lower in overnight trading Monday. …
Speculators raised their net-shorts in hard-red winter wheat to 27,655 futures contracts as of June 16, up from 18,849 contracts the previous week, the CFTC said in its report. …
Storms are expected to move across central Iowa into northern and central Illinois today with some bringing severe weather to the region, according to the National Weather Service.
https://www.agriculture.com/news/three-big-things/3-big-things-today-june-22-2020
Oct. 31, 2013 ─ The Guardian
To protect against reputational damage and the effects of climate change, do companies need to implement sustainable business practices throughout their supply chain? Craig Scott reports on a roundtable discussion
If you were looking to buy a hard drive for your computer around December 2011, you might have noticed prices had been steadily rising since October. …
That could be having to raise prices, as was the case with the Thai floods, or it could be reputational damage, such as Apple experienced when it was claimed workers in a Chinese factory, which manufactured some of the company’s products, were working in substandard conditions. …
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/sustainable-supply-chains-business-sense
11 Jan 2021 ─ Main News
• In 2018, community members in Ban Boon Rueang, in Thailand’s northern Chiang Rai province, successfully campaigned against plans to convert a wetland forest into a special economic zone.
• The wetland, which supports residents’ livelihoods as well as providing a haven for wildlife, remains under the customary management of villagers.
• However, it faces ongoing threats due to climate change and dam construction on the Mekong River.…
“We try to raise the issue among local people and petition decision-makers in China, but it is very hard to have our voices heard,” Teerapong said.
The recent inauguration of the Mekong People’s Forum, comprising civic groups from eight Thai provinces that border the Mekong, helps to address such issues at the policy level. …
Through BRWFCG, the Boon Rueang community has an active voice in such regional advocacy platforms and continues its drive to sustain a healthy wetland forest. Its approach has inspired nearby villages to take similar action to stand up against the pervasive threat of land grabbing. …
https://mainnews.net/environment/award-winning-thai-community-continues-the-fight-to-save-its-wetland-forest/
- Разобрался с засыпанием USB HDD Seagate® Expansion 500GB [Dealt with falling asleep USB HDD Seagate® Expansion 500GB]
June 26th, 2012 ─ keednex
Дано: два компа – ноут с win 7 x86 и стационар с win 7 x64, внешний жесткий диск Seagate Expansion 500GB
Давненько мне выносила мозг проблема с каким-то неуправляемым засыпанием внешнего жесткого диска.
Суть проблемы: Внешний жесткий диск от сеагейта засыпал при отсутствии обращения к нему и всегда, мучительно долго, просыпался в момент когда о нем вспоминаешь. …
Установил. зашел в настройки утилиты. Поставил настройку – не засыпать никогда.
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ссылка на страницу загрузки утилиты. авось еще понадобитсяУстановил.
http://www.seagate.com/ru/ru/support/external-hard-drives/portable-hard-drives/expansion-portable/.
Given: two computers – a laptop with win 7 x86 and a stationary with win 7 x64, an external hard drive Seagate Expansion 500GB
For a long time, my brain endured a problem with some kind of uncontrollable falling asleep of an external hard drive.
The essence of the problem: The external hard drive from the seagate fell asleep when there was no access to it and always, for an agonizingly long time, woke up at the moment when you remember about it. …Installed. went to the utility settings. I put the setting – never fall asleep.
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link to the utility download page. maybe you still need
http://www.seagate.com/ru/ru/support/external-hard-drives/portable-hard-drives/expansion-portable/. ─Google Translate
https://keednex.livejournal.com/19992.html
Flooding Risk Remains For Parts Of NSW As Heavy Rains Continue … “While it’s some good news for hard hit communities, it’s not the end of the story. … Wingham – Wingham Golf Club – 30/32 Country Club Drive, Wingham; … teeth as a freelancer across publications in Australia, Hong Kong and Thailand.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/nsw-queensland-floods-crisis-live-updates-critical-day-as-megarain-events-merge/news-story/483cbda885e0ad9b9fbad58399168a3f
9 Oct 2012 … To avoid breaking a promise not to raise its prices, the online backup company relied on employees and their families to scour the nation’s retailers for 3TB drives.
“Tim [Nufire], our vice president of engineering, first told us that the flood in Thailand had affected some factories and drives were getting expensive and hard to acquire. My first thought was actually disbelief: with Seagate, Hitachi, WD [Western Digital], and Fujitsu all producing hard drives through globally distributed manufacturing plants with multi-billion dollar businesses at stake, I assumed a single flood in a single area couldn’t bring the entire system to a grinding halt,” Budman told CNET. …
https://www.cnet.com/news/how-startup-backblaze-survived-a-349-hard-drive-price-crisis/
29 June 2021 ─ Nature
To help planners adapt to a warming world, find ways to make predictions practical.
In 2011, severe flooding in Thailand shut down factories producing 40% of the world’s hard disk drives, doubling prices and squeezing computer manufacturers.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01747-9
28 Jun 2020 … Squamish Search and Rescue volunteers are training with a hoist to make helicopter wilderness rescues safer and faster than fixed long-line rescues. …
Squamish Search and Rescue volunteers are adding a new tool to their backwood rescue toolbox: a helicopter hoist system.
The hoist uses a winch to allow rescue team members to lower to a subject, and raise them back up into the hovering aircraft.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/squamish-sar-helicopter-hoist-1.5629858
July 1, 2021 ─ VICE
The launch of the “Phuket Sandbox” coincides with the largest daily record of COVID deaths in the country.
At the height of the travel season, the Thai island’s white beaches were flooded with vacationers from around the world. …
But on Thursday, Thailand launched a comeback focused on the southern island, calling it the “Phuket Sandbox.” …
All have been hit hard by pandemic-related closures that have shrunk the economy by the largest amount since the Asian financial crisis more than two decades ago, Bloomberg reported. …
An outbreak could also scupper the vision, though Phuket has been on a widespread vaccination drive that has outpaced much of the country in preparation for the opening. …
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5db5n8/travel-thailand-phuket-covid-vaccines
13 Dec 2011 … Intel, the world’s largest microchip maker, lowered its sales forecast by $1 billion due to a shortage of hard disk drives caused by the recent severe flooding in Thailand, the company said Monday. Thailand is one of the world’s major production centers for hard disk drives, and if computer manufacturers don’t have enough supply of them, their PC production will slow, reducing their need for Intel microchips.
The technology bellwether said it now expects fourth-quarter revenue of $13.7 billion, down from the previous expectation of $14.7 billion. …
https://business.time.com/2011/12/13/how-flooding-in-thailand-hurts-intels-sales/
28 Jun 2021 ─ The Bangkok Post
The significant disruptions to supply chains worldwide caused by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic have highlighted the need for Asia Pacific countries to consider policies and strategies that will improve resilience.
Similar significant impacts were felt on hard disk drive production due to the flooding in Thailand.
The global scale of the Covid pandemic and the more interconnected nature of current global value chains means recovery post-pandemic will be longer and more complicated compared to the post-2011 period. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2139623/supply-chains-refined
6 Jul 2020 … Speedy running back John White IV is coming off a career year. It’s just one of 5 Things To Know about number 3 in orange!
White certainly left his mark on the Utah football program. Along with setting school records for rushing yards per game (106.7) and career 100-yard games (14), White left the Utes as the only player in school history to have back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons and graduated in sixth on the program’s all-time list with 2,560 career rushing yards. …
https://www.bclions.com/2020/07/06/john-white-iv-5-things/
July 01, 2021 ─ We Are The Mighty
Nuclear bombs come in all shapes, sizes and means of delivery. You usually only hear about one purpose. California highway engineers considered another.
At least the engineers were concerned with flooding. The planned blast would displace an estimated 68 million tons of earth. It would create a drainage basin and prevent flash floods from the Orange Blossom Wash. …
https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/california-almost-used-nukes-to-bypass-route-66/
Look at economic impact of country’s worst floods in decades
AP Archive
Flood video footage and soundbite interview excerpts spanning from October 16 – 18, 2011.
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