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Building Construction & Facade Collapse is the third in a series of videos based on firefighting, search, rescue and survival. FDVT will bring you experts from all over the nation, narrated by Vincent Dunn, Deputy Chief in the FDNY. An author, lecturer, and contributing editor of Fire Engineering Magazine and Firehouse Magazine. Chief Dunn is a recognized expert on fireground training.
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In Collapse, Jared Diamond (Pulitzer Prize-winner for Guns, Germs and Steel) explores the demise of different civilizations throughout history and what omens that might portend for today's societies. He examines the lost civilizations of Easter Island, the Mayans, and the Norse colony on Greenland to show how a combination of pride, population, and lack of appreciation for their dependence on natural resources contributed to their collapse. Extending those lessons to today's world, it could ... explain how the environmental and population pressures affected present situations in Haiti and Rwanda, and how events in China and Montana could follow the same path. Collapse has received mostly positive reviews with The Independent saying, "Whether or not one agrees that Diamond has the definitive answer to why all past societies collapsed, he certainly has vitally important points to make about many of them, and especially about the present, which makes this a book that has to be read."
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"Taken together, Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse represent one of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation. They are magnificent books: extraordinary in erudition and originality..."
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Collapse initiation is considered as the point when an entire floor fails and falls on to the one below. After that, in the words of Shyam Sunder, the leader of the WTC investigation sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, "gravity takes care of the rest." Each falling floor causes the next to fail, driving a progressive failure, while ... simultaneously pulverizing a large portion of the concrete.
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For the mobile gamer, Real's award-winning Mr. Goodliving studios in Helsinki, Finland has developed Collapse! Quest, which will be available on major US and European wireless carriers beginning in December. This version was designed with the mobile handset in mind and captures the favorite features of the original in a made-for-mobile format. The previous mobile version, Collapse!, has been a top seller since its release in 2003.
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This is the game that took the Collapse!® craze into new realms of puzzle popularity. The goal: Eliminate colored blocks by clicking groups of three or more like-colored combinations. But now you'll have four modes to play in - Puzzle, Strategy, Relapse and Traditional.
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