The National Incident Management System (NIMS) was developed by the Secretary of Homeland Security at the request of the President to integrate effective practices in emergency preparedness and response into a comprehensive national framework for incident management. It guides departments and agencies at all levels of the private sector‚ nongovernmental organizations‚ and the government by using a proactive and systematic approach to prevent‚ protect against‚ respond to‚ recover from‚ and mitigate
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Joshua Tree National Park By Luz N Silva My essay is on the Joshua Tree National Park. I chose to write about this particular park because it is special to my husband. He visited there several times while stationed in Arizona back in the late 90’s. I physically have never been there but feel as if I have‚ due to his descriptive love and appreciation for nature. We both love the outdoors and are always curious to learn and explore things we don’t get to see and enjoy on an everyday basis
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E-WASTE and Environmental Impacts of Computer Hardware Electronic Waste (E-waste) is a generic term embracing various forms of electric and electronic equipment that is loosely discarded‚ surplus‚ obsolete‚ or broken. When e-waste is improperly discarded as trash‚ there are predictable negative impacts on environment and human health. E-Waste is a popular‚ informal name for discarded electronic products‚ such as computers‚ VCRs‚ and cameras‚ which have reached the end of their useful life. Discarded
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A Summary of the National Response Framework Amber Coté Pikes Peak Community College Abstract The purpose of this paper is to become acquainted with the evolution of national incident response over the last twenty years in America; and henceforth‚ gain a better understanding of the current multi-agency/multi-discipline approach to national disasters and emergencies. This summary briefly reviews the history of federal planning documents over
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common goal; to build an environment that would change the way people live in America. Top of the list is St. Augustine‚ which happens to be the oldest colonial town in the United States‚ as well as the first planned city‚ and the first to use the “grid” as a settlement
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Jim Corbett National Park—named after the hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett who played a key role in its establishment—is the oldest national park in India.[2] The park was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park. Situated in Nainital district of Uttarakhand the park acts as a protected area for the critically endangered Bengal tiger of India‚ the secure survival of which is the main objective of Project Tiger‚ an Indian wildlife protection initiative.[2] The park has sub-Himalayan belt
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Frank Cavazos MGMT305-1302A-08 Cast Studies May 4‚ 2013 Article 1: Smart Grids Smart grids have plenty to offer and are very much different from the current electricity infrastructure that the United States runs on. The current grid is only a one way communication path which sends electricity from the power plant to the home or business (The smart grid‚ 2013). The new smart grid is a two way communicator which allows consumers to know how and where their electricity is being used vice versa
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been made‚ such as cell phones. The power grid however has not stayed current with what technology has to offer. Resolving the gap between the existing grid and the smart grid is an area of fervent research. Much of the success of the smart grid relies on new communication architecture to allow for smart metering‚ quality of service implementations‚ and distributed power generation. In a way there is an opportunity not just to incrementally change the grid‚ but to architect it intelligently for current
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ISIMADE‚ Baden-Baden‚ 1999 Hydro Turbine Design in a VR Environment E. Goede 1) ‚ A. Kaps 1)‚ A. Ruprecht 1)‚ U. Woessner2) 1) 2) Institute for Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery (IHS)‚ University of Stuttgart Computing Center (RUS)‚ University of Stuttgart Introduction Usually hydraulic turbines have to be designed individually according to the local operating conditions of power station such as discharge‚ head and given geometrical situations. This requires a tailor-made design
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These days "cloud computing" is the buzzword used to describe the direction in which information network infrastructure seems to be leaning towards. The authors reasoned that cloud computing sprouted from grid computing‚ distributed computing‚ and parallel computing‚ which resonated with the works of Foster‚ Zhao‚ Raicu‚ & Lu‚ 2008 [1]. And like many‚ they found it a challenge to provide an encompassing definition for cloud computing. Foster et al. defined cloud computing as‚ “A large-scale distributed
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