Documents. 1  Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action for a Safer World: guidelines for natural disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation. 2  Report of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, 18â22 January 2005 in PDF format. 3  Timetable for Kobe conference in PDF format.
Bessie Blount, was a physical therapist who worked with soldiers injured in W.W.II. Her war service inspired her to patent a device, in 1951, that allowed amputees to feed themselves.
âThat was one of the men who opened Moses Cone to everyone.â. Dr. Alvin Blount, 94, who died Friday, left a legacy found in legal books, but also through people whose lives he touched. A jovial but soft-spoken man, he was a mentor of sorts to people like Levette as well as former N.C. Supreme Court Justice Henry Frye.