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Month: October 2012

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Disaster

Sandy Approaches- Useful Tweets

by Gloria Huang October 28, 2012October 28, 2012

As Sandy nears land, we’ve been watching conversations online to stay on top of the latest information, concerns, and topics related to the storm. Below are some tweets that may …

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Disaster

Hurricane Sandy Prep

by Gloria Huang October 26, 2012October 26, 2012

Hurricane Sandy is taking aim at a huge swath of the East Coast this week, and she’s got me pretty worried. One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned from …

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From the Archives

by Susan Watson October 25, 2012

 American Red Cross and Knit Your Bit   World War I knitting campaign poster Knit Your Bit was synonymous with the volunteer Red Cross knitting programs for the military and …

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“Lookout Fire!” Not “Lookout, Fire!”

by Kristiana Almeida October 24, 2012October 24, 2012

It’s all about where you choose to place your punctuation. The other day, we had a pretty serious looking fire scare when the Lookout Fire ignited in the sleepy Santa …

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International

GIS in Uganda: Update on Gulu and Lira

by Rob Banick October 23, 2012

Editor’s note: From August 30 – September 9, Robert Banick, a geographic information systems (GIS) analyst for the American Red Cross, traveled to Uganda as part of a project to improve …

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Health & Safety

Do the Steps

by Wendy Harman October 23, 2012October 25, 2012

Anna  Reid, a 15-year-old babysitter from Westfield, NJ wasn’t expecting to be a hero. It just happened. Anna was serving up French bread pizza to Matthew and Leia on a …

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Blood

A New Joint in this Joint

by Wendy Harman October 23, 2012

Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington just got a new hip, or as she put it, “there’s a new joint in this joint.”   She required a blood transfusion in the process, and …

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Health & Safety

Time to Carve Those Pumpkins!

by Erin Ferris October 23, 2012

With Halloween just a little over a week away, we decided it was time to finally carve the pumpkins that have been sitting on our front porch for the last …

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International

Blogs from the Field: From Alaska to Bangladesh

by Niki Clark October 23, 2012

This is a post by Wendy Brightman, who is a volunteer from Alaska spending four weeks in Bangladesh helping with cash transfer programming after severe flooding left millions displaced and …

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Health & Safety

It’s the Great ShakeOut

by Grant Hansen October 18, 2012October 22, 2016

Today, 10/18 at 10:18am, you can join over 12 million people around the world practice earthquake preparedness. Just this week an earthquake was felt in New England, so you don’t …

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