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Culture, Energy, Power Collaborative Project Statement

This statement outlines our goals for the Biomass project, what materials we assembled, and our guiding theoretical compasses for analysis of our work during Dr.

Timeline of Biomass in Eastern North Carolina

This timeline documents the emergence and evolution of the biomass industry in Eastern North Carolina.

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Who does the policy apply to? (i.e. residents of California, globally, physicians)

The law is allow people over 21 years old to receive a concealed handgun license.

Such as Ohio Medics stuff EMS Department, and the staff of Bethel Township Fire in Ohio.

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FIRST RESPONDERS’ ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY DUE TO MASS DECONTAMINATION RUNOFF

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Describe the history of the policy. Was it created in response to or to support existing policy or legislation?

This was created to support the existing Good Samaritan Policy. The afformentioned policy would not be applicable during biohazard or chemhazard events due to the policy that involve such events. This could cause a delay in treatment that could potentially lead to the deaths of the affected community. In order to allow for treatment without delay the hazard issues would be 'ignored' by the EPA and the responders not prosecuted. They would also receives support from the EPA and FOSC for protecting themselves from any damages lawsuits coming from the potential contamination from the response.

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Nuclear Emergency Response: Atomic Priests or an International SWAT Team?

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What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the complexities of emergency response?

I read through some information about the Bhopal disaster that was referenced, as well as some other articles on Nuclear Emergency Response. I also found some protocol for Radiation Sickness. (Potassium Iodide, Prussian Blue, DTPA, Neupogen)

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Why doctors need stories

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What actors (individuals or organizations) are referred to? (Provide names and short descriptions)

The author speaks of Dr. Per Bech, a Dutch Psychiatrist, and his co-author Lone Lindberg, and his patient who suffered from mental illness over the course of his life, and how the vignette Bech wrote about this patient had value and relevance for understanding the use of Zoloft.

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Epidemics after Natural Disasters

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What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the complexities of emergency response?

More studies referencing corpses and their effects on epidemics

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/hygiene/envsan/tn08/en/

Emergency preparedness in developing nations

How EMS deals epidemics

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EMTs turn in NYPD officers who beat handcuffed patient

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What three points, details or references from the article did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the issues and actors described in the article?

EMS protocol for spit

Usual punishments for abuse by Police

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Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)

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What kinds of infrastructure and technology does this organization use?

Doctors without Borders has facilities in many countries already established for humanitarian aid. For instance, they had been in Haiti since 1991, so their assistance in 2010 was aided by their already established position there. In that case they upped their projects within the country in response to the disaster.