Yet there's also a message to councillors that their attempt to work in partnership with other agencies is mired in complexity - "like the wiring diagram from a nuclear submarine".
Some people believe it is due to the cross-wiring of certain areas in the brain usually unconnected.
The FAA has said that in cases where the wiring smoked up the cockpits of other DC-9s, the flights were never in jeopardy.
Some home builders, such as Centex (nyse: CTX - news - people ), have started to include structured wiring in about 40% of their new homes, while Pulte (nyse: PHM - news - people ) has pushed that percentage to between 60% and 70%, says Michael Creeson, an analyst at Parks.
Fires caused by short circuits and sub-standard electrical wiring are common in Bangladeshi garment factories, which often have inadequate fire escapes.
Over the last few years, I've been inspired by the way philanthropy is advancing -- re-wiring itself for a revolution in giving.
This all-in-one design eliminates the need for a two-speaker system with all the messy wiring, microphones and unwieldy power adaptors along with their plugs and cables.
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Earlier this week, a separate investigation found faulty wiring of the lithium-ion battery in an ANA Dreamliner jet.
The U.S. consumes one-fifth of global copper production, primarily in wiring and plumbing.
In Afghanistan a private mobile phone company is wiring a devastated country--and daring to put women to work.
Until recent years suppliers in developing countries produced only the lowest-tech components--like wiring harnesses--that could be shipped elsewhere for assembly.
To survive, firms will need to keep cutting costs, especially in the non-panel parts of their product, including metalwork and wiring.
Multi-function composites could also reduce the amount of wiring in vehicles, says Dr Greenhalgh, allowing the rear lights, for example, to be powered by the material used to build the boot.
Earlier this year, dozens of Southwest Airlines (nyse: LUV - news - people ) planes were found to have missed federal inspections, and American Airlines (nyse: AMR - news - people ) grounded thousands of flights in order to inspect wiring.
The use of solar energy and wireless eliminates any need for re-wiring the hotel room meaning that installation is significantly simplified in existing hotel buildings.
In March, a top Army inspector said that thousands of buildings on U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan have such poorly installed wiring that American troops face life-threatening risks.
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The clips include him questioning the city workers who have come to turn off his water for non-payment and following around an electrician as he checks for faults in the wiring of his house.
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Eaton will be able to attach its sensors and connect all the wiring back to a flat-panel display running the Windows CE operating system in the cab.
Regardless of any innovation, pinball machines will never be completely reliable - in a contraption made from up to 3, 500 parts connected by half a mile of wiring, there's just too much to go wrong.
The A380, the superjumbo from Boeing's arch-rival Airbus, has had its own travails, both pre-certification, when the whole wiring infrastructure was called into question, and after service-entry when cracks were discovered in wing ribs.
Honda has indicated that it will recall about 554, 000 sport utility vehicles in the United States to inspect for faulty wiring in headlights while General Motors has plans to recall 6, 159 big vans and sport-utility vehicles in the United States for possible loss of steering.
In the largest study of its kind, researchers looked at every case of childhood cancer - and found no association whatsoever with EMFs, whether created by power lines or simply by wiring arrangements in the home.
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