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"In this comprehensive handbook, you'll learn essential knowledge like water sourcing and purification, long-term food storage, stocking a disaster pantry, creating a safe home, assembling evacuation bags, and ensuring your family doesn't drive each other crazy in the face of chaos.... Unlike other prepping guides, Survive and Thrive recognizes that what we need is a collaborative, sustainable, and family-friendly approach to preparedness. Say goodbye...

When A.J. and his friends sign up for Beaver Scouts, they find that their scout leader, Miss Blake, is only interested in preparing them for emergency disasters.

This video focuses on the activities of public health professionals and their partners as they illustrate the stages of emergency management: prevention and mitigation, preparedness, response to the disaster, and recovery following the disaster. Although these stages may be applicable with respect to any type of disaster, they are illustrated in this video by the example of the 2010 pandemic influenza outbreak (H1N1). Health professionals outline...

"When seventh-grader Eleanor reads an article online claiming that an asteroid will hit Earth in April, she starts an underground school club to prepare kids for the end of the world as we know it."--

El libro N°1 sobre inteligencia artificial en inversiones inmobiliarias. No importa en qué lado de la burbuja inmobiliaria te encuentres, pues podrás ver claramente la naturaleza despiadada de la industria inmobiliaria. Si está alquilando o buscando comprar una casa, verá el rápido aumento y disminución de los valores de los activos; casi como apostar en un casino. Parece un mal necesario si tienes una familia. Al mismo tiempo, ve que muchos...

Cape Safety, Inc. - Change of Climate, No. 5 in the Danger Dogs Series, takes us from land mine detection in Ukraine to refloating the Ever Forward in Baltimore, Maryland, from underground aquifers in California to entertainment submarines engaged in hostage exchanges, from preserving a historic Blue Riband contender; to choosing between lobsters or blue whales in Maine; the safety, health, and environmental specialists of Cape Safety, Inc., and now...

Cape Safety, Inc. – Where Problems Perish continues the global adventures of the expert men and women of a fictitious top-notch safety consulting firm, internationally recognized as the "go-to" safety, industrial hygiene, and disaster specialists.Proud of your designer clothes? Look behind the scenes at the factory conditions in Pakistan who tire over your designer duds and rethink it.Read a layman's explanation of how religious extremism results...

Before the outbreak of the Troubles, a typical firefighter's year might have included call-outs to chimney fires, the occasional house fire or road accident, and - even more rarely - a large factory or hay shed fire. While a firefighting career was always inherently exciting and risky, for most firefighters' moments of high drama were anything but a daily occurrence. Then everything changed, and Northern Ireland's firefighters spent almost every...

The nuclear safety expert shares a gripping, blow-by-blow account of how he led the response to the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan. On March 11, 2011, fifty minutes after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit eastern Japan, a forty-five-foot-high tsunami engulfed the nuclear power plant known as Fukushima Daiichi, knocking out electrical power and all the reactors' safety systems. Three reactor cores experienced meltdowns in the first three days,...

In developing this third revision of version 4.0 of the Field Operations Guide for Disaster Assessment and Response, the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) of the United States Agency of International Development (USAID) has drawn on the expertise of numerous state, national, and international agencies and organizations. Selected sources of information include the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' Handbook for Emergencies,...