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Interestingly enough, the idea of improving one’s home is attractive to the “experts” of DIY as it is to individuals who’ve had no prior experience in do it yourself projects. Though it is everyone’s right to alter features of a home that they invested themselves, there still remains the fact that if the DIY home improvement is not carried to its logical conclusion, then loss, and not gains would be the consequence.
The pros
• In many instances, building chairs, small tables and cabinets from scratch will save you a lot of money, provided that you have the patience to design and execute specific DIY projects for these articles.
• Plumbing? No problem. Many devices that handle hot and cold water connections, for instance, can be installed manually. What are manuals for? However, there is the risk that you might not get it right the first time. But this shouldn’t stop you from trying your hand at installing that brand new shower heater.
• Repainting the house is achievable. All you need is the basic know-how of painting and the right equipment. In this case, you will save money, but you will have to set aside a weekend or two to finish repainting the whole house.
• A sense of achievement of course would be the greatest reward for any DIY project. If you execute a DIY project beautifully, and your work lasts for years, you’ll definitely feel good about the whole attempt at being a professional craftsman yourself.
The cons
• If a DIY project is in its infancy, and you’ve just begun to get a hang of finding the materials and designs yourself, there may be times that what resources you spent in finishing a DIY project would be more costly than a finished product that can be bought in a shopping mall or a furniture store.
• Failure is not an option, but a possibility. There may be times that you lose vital components of any DIY project like time, patience, and sometimes even cash. Be prepared to accept that some projects might not be that great after you’ve executed what you’ve planned. It’s all part of “doing it yourself”.
• DIY electrical projects can be executed flawlessly. But there is a risk factor especially if it’s your first time to deal with the electrical system in your house. Replacing wires that run through walls, up the ceiling and into rooms is tricky business- so refer to the original plans of the house before proceeding to knock out the original installations. Electrical installations are often secured, so make sure that if you’re laying out meters of new electrical wire, you know how to safely attach the wires permanently against the walls, or within the walls.
• Time constraints are often the biggest killers for DIY projects. Many beginners are often discouraged by how difficult it is to complete a medium size DIY project. Sometimes, multiple projects are started, but none are finished. This sometimes causes problems, because unfinished projects may clutter the house and render some spaces in the home unusable.

NFAAS (Navy Family Accountability and Assessment System) is designed to assess the needs of Navy families in case a disaster hit and NFAAS can be accessed by logging onto their website.

The importance of NFAAS has emerged in the wake of disaster preparedness exercise Citadel Rumble 10. The Citadel Rumble 10 will be exercised throughout Southern California involving all the Naval installations from August 30th to September 2nd 2010.

Citadel Rumble 10 is devised by Commander Navy Installations Command (CNIC) and US Fleet Forces Command (USFF) to gauge the disaster preparedness of Navy in case a disaster hit them and their families including the infrastructure.

Citadel Rumble 10 is the second of its kind as it followed Citadel Inferno that was modeled on the wildfire season of 2007.

The NRSW training and readiness program director Ed Caviness said that recently Naval Air Facility El Centro experienced an earthquake that made us realize that a disaster can hit any time without a warning and must be ready for that.

Citadel Rumble 10 would involve specific scenarios created for the exercise and that will include tow earthquakes in the Northwest and Southwest regions while Midwest region will exercise preparedness for wildfire and CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive) in the Midwest region.

NFAAS will play a huge part in the exercise according to Caviness who urged the family members of the naval personnel that they must use NFAAS to update information about them and their families.

The NRSW family emergency response coordinator, Jim Guerin said that sailors and their families should use the exercise for basic steps in the times of emergency urging that such exercises teach families simple lesson of how to prepare for the disaster in three simple steps; be informed, have a plan and make the disaster management kit.

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