atmosphere over Texas‚ killing all seven crew members on board. The disaster occurred minutes before Columbia was scheduled to land at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. An investigation later determined the catastrophe was caused by a problem that took place shortly after launch on January 16‚ when a piece of foam insulation broke off from the shuttle’s propellant tank and damaged the edge of the shuttle’s left wing. The Columbia disaster was the second major tragedy in the history of the space shuttle
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or human induced disasters. While some of these disasters are rapid‚ others are slow-onset‚ resulting in catastrophic situations leading to loss of lives and property‚ degradation of environment. These disasters occur in form of drought‚ desertification‚ flooding‚ epidemics‚ coastal erosion‚ dam failure‚ building collapse‚ oil spillage‚ maritime collision or accident‚ bomb explosion‚ communal clash‚ fire‚ air crashes and boat mishap‚ amongst others. Historically‚ salient disasters in Nigeria include
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Write after the Midterm Election: See American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Shuming Cao PART 1: INTRODUCTION It seems that the midterm election has judged for Present Obama and the Democratic Party by their activities during the last two years. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is the main policy of Present Obama’s administration to face the financial crisis so that the Act should afford a lot of duties for the low approval rate of Present Obama and the Democratic
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and poor farming technique created these problems and the dust that blew in to homes. In 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt after his election put in place reforms for economic recovery‚ job creation‚ and civic uplift to reverse the effects of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression called the New Deal. The New Deal offered economic recovery through the Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) and several other programs. These programs aided the bankrupt local and state governments and “injected a huge amount
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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning Definition Disaster: is a natural or man-caused event that damages property and assets‚ injures or kills people‚ and impairs the ability for organizations to continue operating. Business Continuity Planning: is the set of activities required to ensure the continuation of critical business processes when a disaster occurs. Disaster Recovery Planning: is the set of activities concerned with the assessment‚ salvage‚ repair‚ and restoration of
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at 2:46 p.m. local time‚ shaking buildings violently in Tokyo for several minutes and sending millions fleeing for higher ground. The media keep disaster in the forefront of our minds. TV‚ radio and the front pages of the press seem to revel in disaster because the public have a morbid curiosity in it‚ provided that it happens to other people. Disaster boosts TV ratings and sells newspapers. As we absorb the news of a famine‚ an earthquake‚ a hurricane‚ a tsunami‚ sometimes we tend to put ourselves
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TASK 3: DISATER RECOVERY PLAN Step One - Organize the Project Appoint coordinator/project leader‚ if the leader is not the dean or chairperson. 1. Determine most appropriate plan organization for the unit 2. Identify and convene planning team and sub-teams as appropriate (for example‚ lead computer support personnel should be in the team if the plan will involve recovery of digital data and documents). 3. At the unit level a. scope - the area covered by the disaster recovery plan‚ and objectives -
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data‚ by storing a backup configuration on site and off site as part of the disaster recovery plan. A third party will be used for cloud storage( of site backup) . The company First World Bank has chosen is a company called Barracuda. The Barracuda Backup appliance lets administrators quickly automate policies for backup and recovering servers and applications to regulations such as FINRA‚ HIPAA and others. If disaster strikes‚ the Barracuda Backup restores applications servers and files effortlessly
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that human-made disasters have consistently been caused‚ not by individuals‚ but by errors‚ misjudgments‚ failures or even negligence by senior management because they have failed to instill a culture of safety within an organization.” Critically discuss this statement‚ giving examples where appropriate. This essay question revolves around the one of the most pressing questions asked by media organizations at the scene or onset of a disaster‚ ‘what/who caused it?’ Was the disaster due to human
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WHITEPAPER Why Not All Disaster Recovery Appliances Are the Same Beware of “Fake” Appliances http://www.quorum.net/ © 2013 QuorumLabs‚ Inc. All Rights Reserved. Introduction Many disaster recovery solutions‚ including those from Axcient‚ Datto‚ Zenith and Unitrends‚ often categorize themselves as turnkey “appliances‚” touting ease of use and fully automated capabilities. Yet‚ not all of these solutions fit the true definition of an appliance and are apt to cause frustration when
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