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Bunun石板石屋

Transitional Bunun slate stone house, it is indoor construction and discrip Bunun house setting and culture.

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Lead in Newark's Drinking Water

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What is the stated mission this organization today? How is the organization's mission explained (on its website, in public meetings, by individuals, etc)?

The Aim of this organization is to examine the dangers and amount of lead water in Newark. The article states that Newark water department exceeded the federal "level" for lead in it's water.

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Hurricane Sandy Oral History Project

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What kinds of information relevant to a community's vulnerability or resilience are unavailable or inaccessible?

This article explains the horrible effect Sandy had on the Shore area. The devastation to the entire area. People sufffered and are still suffering. This article shows interviews from many different people on how they over came and built back from Sandy.

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NJ is Storm Proofing In Response to Hurricane Sandy

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What forms of precaution were exercised regarding the hazard(s)?

This article explains that there is still desvestation from Hurrican Sandy. Raw sweage seeped in the Passica River and the efforts to remove it still exist. New Jersey's infrasture is very vulnerable. The DEP developed a 230 million system to build flood walls and hopefully this will help in case of future storm.