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your decision making process, it is the weather. Interpreting the weather forecasts and understanding the information is key to successfully planning your day. How do you get your weather forecasts? Whether you get them from television networks or apps on your phone, the information is coming from one source. Believe it or not, the National Weather Service is the main source for all the weather forecasts in the United States. The National Weather Service has its roots deep into the early history

A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas - washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a storm, hurricane, or tropical storm or melt water from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields. Flash floods can also occur after the collapse of a natural ice or debris dam, or a human structure such as a man-made dam, as occurred before the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Flash floods are distinguished from a regular flood by a timescale less

included the State Bank of India, the nation's largest national bank; ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, and several foreign banks like Citibank and HSBC, stopped functioning from the afternoon of 26 July 2005 at all the centers of Mumbai. ATM transactions could not be carried out in several parts of India on 26 July 2005 or 27 July 2005 due to failure of the connectivity with their central systems located in Mumbai. * The Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India, the premier stock exchanges

Jiaying Gao Prof. Joseph CM 522 02/19/2015 Situation Analysis According to the National Weather Service, a significant winter storm is predicted to arrive on Saturday, and is anticipated to continue through the day on Sunday. The storm could drop up to 18 inches on Boston. The company may face widespread and perhaps prolonged power outages and system damage caused by the powerful storm. However, the snowfall and high wind may prevent access to making repairs. This not only will create huge workload

Volunteering for the Salvation Army When the f-5 tornado decimated the town of Smithville on April 27, 2011, a whopping 15 people were killed, 40 people injured, 18 homes destroyed, and two businesses were annihilated. (National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office) Without the help of various organizations, like the Salvation Army, Smithville would’ve never recovered from the horrifying disaster, which made me wonder what the Salvation Army does, what a volunteer needs to do, and what the benefits

factors that led to this event. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable causes of this accident were “the flight crew’s failure to discontinue the approach when severe thunderstorms and their associated hazards to flight operations had moved in the airport area, and the crew’s failure to ensure that the spoilers had extended after touchdown. Contributing factors of the flight crews determination to land in the inclement weather are: (1) impaired performance resulting

[Larson]. In addition, well-researched essays by Henry Demarest Lloyd and Emma Goldman back up Larson’s theory that the Gilded Age was actually a very dark time for the United States. Isaac’s Storm describes the historical aspects of the national weather service, weather

Military Service Should be Mandatory Americans, especially baby boomers, should be ashamed of themselves. How can the world's richest population let its military go begging for recruits? Each year, the military services -- Air Force, Army, Marines, Navy -- establish recruiting goals to maintain adequate numbers of personnel. The numbers change annually depending on, among other factors, service needs, recruitment figures the year before and retention of current troops. Most informed folks

can be carried throughout their whole life. What You Can Do for Your Country A few countries require every young person to serve two years of military service, and as we continue to face military conflicts across the globe, some have proposed that the United States adopt a similar policy of mandatory conscription. A two-year period of national service should be compulsory for all young people. However, making the commitment to serve that time in the military should be everyone’s choice. Mandatory conscription

I Introduction National service typically means compulsory military service during peace times. Otherwise known as conscription, but the term can also include service in the education and health sectors. National service is a contentious issue with the rise in terrorist attacks and resultant increased fear of different groups of people. This essay will argue that no form of national service should be compulsory. Following from this introduction, Part II will focus on the societal benefits of compulsory