After 20 years of collecting, elder Jane Dragon now has fur from every animal in the NWT.Photo: Maria Church.
Fort Smith's Jane Dragon has been collecting wild furs from across the NWT for the past 20 years and this spring finally reached her goal of a complete collection.
Dragon now has at least one pelt or taxidermy from each of the territory's fur-bearing wildlife, from the small mouse – her final acquired piece – to the great polar bear.
Now, the elder hopes to share her collection with youth across the territory.
"It's not just to show the kids how big the furs are and how big our animals (are), but to explain to them that we respect our animals and it's part of our life," Dragon said.
Dragon first started collecting furs while working at Paul William Kaeser (PWK) high school in Fort Smith, where she was asked to teach the cultural aspect of the Northern studies class. As a part-time trapper with her husband, David, she felt fur was an important part of that culture.
"I got my Aboriginal teaching program and I can write and speak in my language, so I thought it would be no problem, but when I started I realized I had nothing to teach my students. That's when I said to my husband that if I can have one pelt of every animal we catch, I can share it with them," she said.
Many of the pelts were difficult to acquire, Dragon said. Most of the larger animals, like muskox, she had to buy, while some, like the polar bear, were donated to her.
Twenty years and many used-up paychecks later, the elder has 18 bins of wild NWT furs – so many that she can't even begin to count them.
Last month, Dragon took the full collection to schools in Hay River and Fort Resolution to share with the youth. In the past, she has brought the collection to students at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning and the FOXY retreat for young women.
"I've been sharing it with the kids the whole time," she said.
For the most part students are eager to learn, but Dragon said she has had a few express concern about killing animals. Once she explains the cultural importance of trapping and hunting, the students almost always choose to take a closer look, she said.
"If you explain to them this is how people used to live at one time, that they don't just run to the store and buy it and that it's keeping the culture alive, they thank me for sharing with them," she said.
Dragon, who was born in northern Saskatchewan before moving to Fort Smith when she was nine, was raised by her grandparents who were not trappers, so it wasn't until she was married that she took up trapping with her husband. That's where and when she learned about her culture, she said.
"My husband would get the moose and I'd help him do the moose hides and flesh beavers and whatever. That's because I wanted to learn, so it has to be what you want in life," she said.
"Culture is not just one thing. I learn about other cultures too. It's not just from one native culture; it's parts of everybody's culture and you put it together and that's how you live," Dragon said.


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Vomiting, often caused by mechanical intestinal obstruction, is common in dogs. Equivocal radiographic signs often necessitate repeat radiographs or additional imaging procedures. For our prospective, case-controlled, accuracy study, we hypothesized the following: (1) using computed tomography (CT), radiologists will be more sensitive and specific for detecting mechanical intestinal obstruction and recommending surgery compared to using radiographs; and (2) using measurements, radiologists will be more sensitive and specific using radiographs or CT for detecting mechanical intestinal obstruction and recommending surgery. Twenty dogs had abdominal radiographs and abdominal CT. Seventeen dogs had abdominal surgery and three dogs were not obstructed based on clinical follow-up. Confidence levels (five-point scale) of three experienced radiologists for mechanical intestinal obstruction and recommending surgery were recorded before and after making selected measurements. Eight dogs had surgically confirmed mechanical intestinal obstruction, and 12 dogs did not have obstruction. For detecting mechanical intestinal obstruction, CT was more sensitive (95.8% vs. 79.2%) and specific (80.6% vs. 69.4%) compared to radiographs, but the difference was not statistically significant. For recommending surgery, radiography was more sensitive (91.7% vs. 83.3%) and specific (83.3% vs. 72.2%) than using CT, but differences were not statistically significant. We reported objective CT measurements for predicting small mechanical intestinal obstruction. By incorporating these objective data, the diagnosis of mechanical intestinal obstruction changed in five of 120 instances (radiographs and CT). In no instance (0/120), did the objective data change the recommendation for surgery. Using CT or abdominal radiographs for the detection of canine mechanical intestinal obstruction is sensitive and specific when evaluated by experienced veterinary radiologists.


A bamboo shoot is the start of a young bamboo plant that, if not harvested, will grow into a tall bamboo plant. The leaves that cover the shoot are black and covered with tiny hairs. The black leaves are peeled off until you can see the off-white meat inside. The white meat turns yellowish after it is cooked. When the shoot is cooked on the day it is harvested it is very sweet.
There are many different types and sizes of bamboo shoots depending on the plant. Big ones are usually sliced and used as an ingredient in a main course dish. The little ones(half an inch in diameter) are cut into finger size pieces and eaten as a vegetable with sauces like nam prig gapi.
In Thailand, bamboo shoots are available fresh during the rainy season, May through October. Otherwise, they are available in cans and jars.
Outside of Thailand, bamboo shoots come in cans and glass jars, pickled or sour, non-pickled and with bai yanang. For the recipes here, unless otherwise specified, use the plain non-pickled shoots. Recently, I have seen fresh bamboo shoots at Asian Markets in the US.


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Cecil Jackson-Cole (1901-1979) was an English entrepreneur and humanitarian. He was associated with a number of charities including Oxfam, Help the Aged and ActionAid.

A devout Christian, Jackson-Cole set up charitable trusts including the Voluntary and Christian Service Trust that ultimately gave rise to the charities Help the Aged (1961), the Anchor Housing Trust (1968) and Action Aid (1973). He was a co-founder of the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief which became the largest charity of its kind in the British Commonwealth. He was the founder of the Andrews Charitable Trust (formally the Phyllis Trust and World in Need) the first modern Venture Philanthropy organisation.

In 1946, Jackson-Cole founded Andrews and Partners Estate Agents as a business with an ulterior purpose: the development of charities. In 1965 he created Phyllis Trust (later renamed to World in Need, and later to Andrews Charitable Trust), and the Christian Initiative Trust. The Christian Book Promotion Trust was formed in 1967. Andrews & Partners is 100% owned by Andrews Charitable Trust, who are its only shareholder.

Early life
Jackson-Cole was born on 1 November 1901 at 27 Knox Road, Forest Gate, the elder child and only son (there was another son from a later marriage) of Albert Edward Cole, a dealer in new and secondhand furniture, and his wife (who was also his cousin), Nellie Catherine Jackson. He had a sister called Winifred Gertrude Cole (born in 1906).
He had an unsettled childhood, as his father moved so frequently that he spent an average of only nine months at each of the many schools he attended. In 1911 they lived at Whitehall Road, Grays, Essex and his father was a Credit Boot and Shoe Dealer and his mother a Retail China and Glass Merchant.
In 1914, the family lived on Ashton Street, in Poplar, London and Cecil and Winifred attended Prospect Terrace School. Cecil's Father Albert, fought in World War One in the Birkenhead Bantam Battalion. Cecil decided to leave education to start working full-time and provide for his family at the age of 13. He got a job as an Office Boy at George and John Nicksons General Provision Merchants on Tooley Street, London and left in 1918.

Marriage
Cecil married Phyllis Cole in 1936 (who was also his cousin). When she died in 1956, he set up a Charitable Trust in her name; the Phyllis Trust.

In 1973, Cecil married Theo Handley. They married in the UK and had a blessing at Delhi Cathedral; India.

Education
At the age of 28 Cecil enrolled at Balliol College, Oxford, as an external student to study economics and improve his business skills. He attended lectures by G.D.H Cole.

Business

Cecil Jackson-Cole was a successful business man as the owner and manager of Andrews Furnishers with branches in London and Oxford. According to an advertisement in the shop window in 1976, the last day of trading for the furniture franchise was on 14 May 1976. The advertisement reads; 'Interment of a business: This business established in 1845 is closing down after 131 years of successful existence. For years past the dividends have been largely for the benefit of charity and now the shop is to be used entirely for charity work.'

In 1946, Leslie Swain and Raymond Andrews joined Jackson-Cole in business, both answering an advertisement from 'a Company which gives a third of its profits to the staff, a third to charity and the remaining third for the organisation'. The company was Andrews & Partners. Raymond Andrews was engaged to manage it, and Leslie Swain to set up its mortgage and insurance broking department. Jackson-Cole believed that, to be successful, a charity had to be run as a business. To transform Oxfam into a national body, Leslie Swain was seconded to Oxfam for a year from Andrews & Partners, where he had been since the business was set up in 1946. In 1962, Raymond Andrews set up the National Association of Estate Agents as a way of upholding good practice and high professional standards in UK Estate Agency. Raymond resigned as Chairman of Andrews in May 1986, and Alec Reed succeeded him. He put in financial controls and took out the unnecessary costs to transform Andrews from making a loss of £297,000 in 1985 to making a profit of just over £1 million in 1986. Alec Reed said; "In a way, he's my hero, although I never met him, but I liked the way he went about things, such as creating companies that could contribute to charities."

Jackson-Cole created a Trust funded through Andrews and Partners called the Voluntary Christian Service.

Andrews is owned by three charitable trusts which derive most of their income from annual dividends, and has helped to found a number of large charities including Oxfam and Action Aid.

Charities

Jackson-Cole first became involved in charitable work through the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Watford. The work carried out by Andrews' staff in the organisation of charities was mostly done through an informal committee set up in 1953 and known as the Help for Vital Causes Group. The title was later changed to Voluntary and Christian Service. Through the VCS, Jackson-Cole created and developed Help the Aged, several Housing Associations and the children's charity, Action Aid, to a point where they could be spun-off as self-governing charities. Jackson-Cole set up trusts not only to support charitable work but primarily to underpin his involvement in charity. He had an all consuming vocation to relieve suffering in the world and he constructed an elaborate alliance of businesses, trusts and charities to achieve his aims.

Help the Aged

The Help the Aged Refugees Appeal was set up in 1961 by Jackson-Cole in response to the needs of older refugees and other older people following natural disasters and conflict in the former Yugoslavia, former East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and Rwanda. The appeal raised £105,302 in its first year.

Jackson-Cole founded Helpage India. In March 1974, when Jackson Cole, founder of HelpAge International visited India, Samson Daniel, a philanthropist, approached him for financial help to set up a member organisation in Delhi. Cole instead offered to train him to raise funds. After a three-month training course in London, Daniel and his wife returned to India and organised a sponsored walk with schoolchildren in Delhi. It was so successful that in 1975 HelpAge International recruited more staff to cover Bombay, Madras and Calcutta.

Oxfam

The driving force behind the continued existence of the Oxford Committee was Jackson-Cole.

The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (subsequently Oxfam) was formed with Jackson-Cole as first honorary secretary. He became the business brain and dynamic driving force behind this relief and development agency. In 1948 the question arose of whether Oxfam should terminate its activities because Europe was felt to be on the road to recovery. The committee decided unanimously against this, and Jackson-Cole spearheaded the growth and expansion of the charity. For five years he virtually ran it himself. As a member of Oxfam's council of management he retained his interest and involvement until 1979, serving as secretary emeritus in later years. His vision led to the setting up of autonomous Oxfams in Canada, Quebec, the US, and Belgium.

Despite the improvements in European conditions, there was throughout the world great suffering and need, and as long as this was so – and surely it would indefinitely be so – 'the work' must go on. An efficient if modest vehicle has been developed. When the Committee met in September 1948 to discuss whether to close down, Jackson-Cole had laid the groundwork for a decision in favour of widening the scope of its activities.

Jackson-Cole's most important contribution to Oxfam, and to the charitable movement in Britain generally, was to discard this conceptual straitjacket. In doing so, he trod on toes, and ruffled feathers, but his vision and persistence, backed by his reliance on his own company to provide risk capital, eventually changed the face of charitable activity in the UK. His contributions to Oxfam were recognised in 2002 with a blue plaque outside 17 Broad Street, where he helped establish the first Oxfam gift shop.

Action Aid

Jackson-Cole founded Action Aid (then known as Action in Distress) under the Voluntary Christian Service in 1972 as a child sponsorship charity. He found 88 UK supporters to sponsor 88 children in India and Kenya. The focus was on providing children with an education.

Toc H
Jackson-Cole was on the central finance committee at Toc H for a number of years. In 1930, he bought Warden Manor in Sheppey, and let Toc H use it as a holiday retreat for the elderly and a resting place for soldiers.

Andrews Charitable Trust
Jackson-Cole endowed the Phyllis Trust with shares from Andrews in 1965. The trust changed its name in the 1980s to World in Need, and in 2005 to Andrews Charitable Trust.  It remains the largest shareholder and recipient of the business's dividend. Like Jackson-Cole, the trust practices engaged philanthropy, sometimes called venture philanthropy, by providing both grants and business advice to the grantees.

Christian Book Promotion Trust
The Christian Book Promotion Trust was founded in 1967 by Jackson-Cole. He created the charity because there was little Christian literature to help him when his wife Phyllis died, and limited information available when he was growing up. The trust is also known as Speaking Volumes. They help libraries and schools stock Christian books that are accessible to everyone.

Christian Initiative Trust
The Christian Initiative Trust was established in 1968 by Jackson-Cole as a grant making trust providing small grants to support Christian Initiatives that promote and share the Christian faith and provide practical help for disadvantaged and marginalised people within communities, as a demonstration of the Christian faith and principles.

Death
Cecil Jackson-Cole died of pancreatic cancer on 9 August 1979 at Burrswood Hospital in Kent.

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1901 births
1979 deaths
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20th-century British philanthropists
People from Grays, Essex
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Tag Archives: Cantebury Tales
ENGL 810: PAB #4: Daphne Grace: "Cognition, Consciousness, and Literary Contexts"
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Within feminist theory, and by extension feminist literary theory, the question of gender and gender identity is a conundrum that theorists attempt to reconcile, and Grace approaches feminist critical theory from the inside out. Rather than use the theory to prove the text, she uses the text to prove the theory. Within a heady discussion of consciousness and awareness, gender performance as normative and subversive, she points to women writers, particularly Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, who have subverted normative gender roles by writing strong women in Austen's case and male/female role reversal in Brontë's Jane Eyre (12). Grace even dips back as far as Geoffrey Chaucer to examine the subverted gender roles in Troilus and Criseyde and characterizing Criseyde as "[f]eisty and independent" (15). She asserts that authors seek to question or to challenge social, cultural and political hegemonies that restrict a women's freedom of speech or behavior, and to establish empowerment of women as individuals, as agents of action, and as writers" (11).
In my creative writing program, I wrote and watched others write as a way to tease out their own sense of themselves, grappling out our struggles on pages of story and poem. So, I can see why looking at literature is a valid way to explore the nature of human sexuality and understand how Grace would see that as a valid exploration as well.
In answering the question of gender, feminist scholars have looked to Michel Foucault and Judith Butler to suss out "[w]hether gender and sex are biologically or culturally constructed" (12-13). Grace asserts that "[a]n approach to knowledge from within the arts or humanities begins from the inner most core of creative inspiration" will lead to "manifest expression," which all ties into identity (19). Grace outlines how literary theory, using trauma theory, has shown real promise in determining the nature of trauma and extrapolates in the hope that gender theory applied in literature theory will add new insight to gender identity (20-21).
Furthermore, these English women writers are a testament to how different the culture was for American women writers. Yes, they did write anonymously, and their work was often regarded as inferior to the high art of male writers, but their writing was not timid or modest, particularly considering the work of Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft. Anne Bradstreet was writing at a much earlier time, but the rest of these women were writing in the 1800s and 1900s.
This may seem far afield of my focus; however, identity is the key to my current vision for my dissertation, to see how women define themselves and other women in their own writing, so exploring feminist theories of identity, particularly that which related to literature and poetry moves me significantly closer to understanding how my project fits in the ongoing conversation.
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Monday, Apr 01, 2019 04:39 PM
Cowboys QB Announces Twelve Cowboys Way
FRISCO, Texas – Roger Staubach already had a larger-than-life presence in the Cowboys organization – but this is something else entirely.
Already one of the most important figures in franchise history, Staubach will take on another level of permanence in 2020, as the Cowboys formally announced the opening of Twelve Cowboys Way.
Currently under construction across the street from the Cowboys' facility, the 17-floor apartment complex will be a towering addition to The Star – not to mention a large reminder of the legendary quarterback's legacy, as he famously wore No. 12 for America's Team.
"This is a big day for us. It's a big day for the Dallas Cowboys," said team owner/general manager Jerry Jones. "We think it will be memorialized for many years to come by its very being, that 17-story building that basically says 'This is about the Cowboys, this is about Roger Staubach.' We want the people living in it to, as close as you possible could, be involved in the fabric of what the Cowboys have been and what they're going to be."
Staubach and his partner, real estate developer Robert Shaw, teamed with the Cowboys on the project, which is slated to open its 158-unit building early next year. Residents will have exclusive access to amenities at The Star, located directly across the street.
"You get a membership here at the Cowboys Club, you get a membership at Cowboys Fit, you get an opportunity to be a part of Cowboys practices," said Cowboys Chief Brand Officer Charlotte Jones Anderson.
Obviously, Staubach put together an incredible resume as the quarterback of the Cowboys in the 1970s. Originally drafted in 1964, he didn't begin playing for the Cowboys until 1969 due to a four-year military commitment in the United States Navy.
From there, he embarked on a decade-long career that saw him selected to six Pro Bowls and help the Cowboys win two Super Bowls. Apart from his impressive football career, Staubach got started in real estate as a way to make money on the side – a testament to the ways in which the NFL has changed.
"When I came out of the Navy, we had three little girls and we added two more. I was 27, if I got hurt I was thinking 'What am I going to do?' So I went to work in real estate," he said. "So I really was involved in real estate for quite a while and then started my own company. So I've been at it, actually, for 47 years."
Now, he'll be partnering with the Cowboys to offer the latest amenity on the team's 91-acre development in Frisco. Within walking distance of the complex, there are countless retail and dining options, not to mention the recently-opened Baylor Scott & White Medical Center. And that doesn't even include the football features across the street.
"In this whole area, you can find anything you want," Staubach said. "If you've got kids, you've got good schools. It's got everything cooking out here right now."
Beginning next year, that list will include Twelve Cowboys Way – just another addition to Staubach's already impressive legacy.
Apartments are now available and can be leased today.


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NemoursOne EHR System Wins 2010 HIMSS Award of Excellence
HIMSS recently announced that Nemours, a healthcare system for children operating in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Florida, is a 2010 recipient of its HIMSS Davies Organizational Award of Excellence. The award is presented to healthcare systems and facilities that effectively use HIT such as EHRs to improve the safety and quality of patient care. Sentara Healthcare of Virginia is also a winner this year.
All Nemours clinics and the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children are linked to NemoursOne across four states. Nemours Children's Hospital in Central Florida will be online when it opens in 2012. NemoursOne, in combination with its data warehouse, has developed a streamlined medication reconciliation process, a challenge nationwide, with an outpatient systemwide rate currently at 88%.
— Source: Nemours
Cincinnati, Detroit Awarded Final Two Beacon Community Slots
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that Cincinnati and Detroit are the two final pilot communities selected under the new Beacon Community Program that is using HIT to help tackle leading health problems in communities across the country. At the same time, the program will allow HHS to look for new ways to share the lessons learned by funded communities and, working with local and national healthcare foundations, develop support networks for other communities that want to employ similar innovative approaches.
The two awardees, Greater Cincinnati HealthBridge, Inc in Cincinnati and Southeastern Michigan Health Association in Detroit, join 15 other projects selected in May for the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program. Beacon projects are expected to initially create dozens of new jobs in each community that pay an average of $70,000 per year for a total of more than 1,100 jobs up front while accelerating development of a nationwide HIT infrastructure that will eventually employ tens of thousands of Americans.
The Beacon Community awards are part of an overall $100 billion federal government investment in science, innovation, and technology the administration is making through the recovery act to spur domestic job creation in emerging industries and create a long-term foundation for economic growth. There has been significant interest in the program, with more than 100 applications for the final two Beacon program slots.
Greater Cincinnati HealthBridge will serve a 16-county area spanning three states surrounding the greater Cincinnati area. Under the Beacon program, HealthBridge and its partners will use its advanced health information exchange program to develop new quality improvement and care coordination initiatives focusing on patients with pediatric asthma and adult diabetes and encouraging smoking cessation. For example, not only will physicians and other providers receive more timely and accurate information about when their patients experience a medical complication or are hospitalized, but they will also have new support from care managers to use this information effectively to intervene early and assist patients in managing their health and avoiding further complications. This program will provide better clinical information and IT decision-support tools to physicians, health systems, federally qualified health centers, and critical access hospitals. As part of the Beacon program, this HIT community collaboration will provide patients and their families with timely access to data, knowledge, and tools to make informed decisions and manage their own health and healthcare.
The Southeastern Michigan Health Association and its partners in the greater Detroit area will use HIT tools and strategies to prevent and better manage diabetes, which affects a large percentage of residents of the city of Detroit. This community collaboration will leverage existing and new technologies across healthcare settings to improve the availability of patient information at the point of care, regardless of where the patient is in the health system. Furthermore, the community will provide practical support to physician practices to help clinicians, nurses, and others make the best use of electronic health data to catch potential health complications before they arise.
— Source: Health and Human Services
A-Life Medical, Inc Promotes President Jaye Connolly to Additional CEO Post
A-Life Medical, Inc, a provider of computer-assisted coding (CAC) products and services to the healthcare industry, recently announced that Jaye Connolly has been promoted to the additional post of CEO, effective immediately. Connolly had been serving as president since April and will continue in that role. Connolly was previously chief operating officer and chief financial officer at A-Life Medical for more than five years.
In addition to her role as CEO and president, Connolly will continue as a member of the board of directors for both A-Life Medical and A-Life Hospital, a wholly owned subsidiary of A-Life Medical.


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More concessions to the Palestinians?
Pamela Levene, Saturday, November 27, 2010
http://www.CatholicAmericanThinker.com
We tried it your way, Mr. President.
Israel is called intransigent when not acceding to President Obama's demands to make more concessions to the Palestinians. What about the concessions we already made?
In 1917 Britain declared that Palestine should be a national home for the Jewish people.
Then France took control of part of Palestine, which became Syria (Arab). A second part became the Kingdom of Jordan (Arab). Britain took another part and retained the name Palestine (Jews and Arabs).
In 1947, the UN voted for a two state division of Palestine. This would happen the following year, as the British gave up their mandate.
The Jews conceded. The Arabs embarked on a war of attrition which became a full blown war when the British left and the State of Israel gained independence, May 1948.
Israel lost the Old City of Jerusalem to the Jordanians. The Jewish holiest places were out of bounds. Not a single UN resolution protested this violation of the religious freedom of the Jewish people.
Gaza was in the hands of the Egyptians.
The Syrians were in control of the Golan Heights, an area comprising less than 1% of Syrian lands.
Jerusalem: The Jewish majority in the Old City were expelled from their homes which, together with 68 synagogues were systematically destroyed. For 19 years not one Jew was allowed to enter the city to visit the Temple Mount or pray at the holiest sites. Jordanians patrolled the walls of the Old City and randomly shot at the houses beyond.
Jews driven out of the Old City built new lives in their ancient homeland, alongside Holocaust survivors and thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab lands.
The Gaza Strip festered for 19 years under Egyptian rule. Refugee camps were maintained for Arabs who had fled from Israel and a new generation was born into deprivation and was taught hatred. The refugee camps became a breeding ground for terrorists.
The Golan Heights: All Jewish villages were destroyed. Little new building went on. However planting was carried out with zeal. The crop would be death, the planting was land-mines. Syrian soldiers posted on the Golan Heights had a clear view of the Sea of Galilee and the kibbutzim along its shore.
For 19 years the kibbutz farmers worked under the guns of the Syrians. Children spent more nights in shelters than in their own homes. Fishermen on the Sea of Galilee risked their lives to bring home their catch.
In 1967 five Arab countries went to war against Israel.
They lost the war and they lost lands.
Under Israel's control, Jerusalem became an open city to all faiths.
Gaza opened up and many Arabs found work in Israel. Jews lived in Gaza and the economy flourished.
Vines were planted instead of mines on the Golan Heights and kibbutz children no longer slept in shelters.
The Arabs tried again to destroy Israel in 1973. Again they failed.
So they decided on another tactic – peace negotiations. To take by manipulation what they could not take by force.
In 1995 a peace treaty was signed, and the bombings escalated. Thousands of Israelis lost their lives in buses, cafes, malls and discotheques while people like Thomas Friedman suggested that to make the peace stick Israel should give more.
In 2005 Israel pulled out completely from Gaza but left the multi-million dollar green-houses. . The Palestinians destroyed them. Egypt has a border with Gaza – apparently food and regular supplies can't make it but arms and weapons come through on a daily basis! To date, 11,000 rockets have rained down on Israel and children once more cower in shelters. When Israel launched a short sharp attack in 2009 to destroy terrorist bases, the UN condemned Israel.
In Israel today Muslims, Jews, Christians all live and worship in Jerusalem. The 70,000 Arabs who remained in Israel in 1948 prospered. In 2010 their numbers have swelled to 1,400,000.
Israel is told to give up the Golan Heights because this MIGHT bring peace with Syria. Forgive my being obtuse but what exactly would Israel gain in return for handing over the Golan Heights to the Syrians? At present the Syrians on the other side of the Golan Heights go about their business without any threat. The Israelis enjoy a peaceful and safe border. Things are blooming. The Druse community grows apples; the Jews grow cherries and grapes.
President Obama suggests that for the sake of peace Israel should make more concessions. Name a single concession the Syrians or Palestinians have made.
Thousands of new Palestinian homes are being built in the disputed territories and yet no-one suggests that this is an obstacle to peace talks. The Palestinians should be held to the same restrictions as the Israelis.
Why not demand the Palestinians put a freeze on their building?
Date: Sat Sep 13 2014


#G0400* – UKIP entering fray in North Down c/o Michael BOWER's Blog!
A constituent of mine has drawn my attention to the below leaflet which he received posted through his door in the Abbey area of Bangor yesterday.
Firstly I totally disagree with UKIP's narrow minded view of immigration and the EU. To basically label immigrants as people who simply drain our public resources is abhorrent and neglects the important role that immigrants play in helping support public service delivery eg as doctors, teachers, nurses, police officers etc and in helping support our economy eg shop workers, cleaners, entrepreneurs.
We even have in Northern Ireland an immigrant as an MLA and a very fine one she is too!
Bangor and North Down generally have good race relations with a number of very active ethnic minority community groups. The emphasis needs to be on helping support immigrants to adapt to life in Northern Ireland and to integrate them into our local communities. UKIP's "close the door" mentality only inflames tensions; appealing to people's fears rather than reality.
Secondly the leaflet demonstrates just how much commitment UKIP has to Northern Ireland. The White Cliffs of Dover – hardly a symbol that many people in Northern Ireland will identify with!
It also refers to 1000 people a day coming into Britain to settle. Last time I checked Northern Ireland wasn't in Britain, it was in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
A local UKIP member has simply handed out the same leaflet here as I am guessing that they delivered in Buckinghamshire in last year's Westminster election. I'm sorry but if you are serious about making gains in Northern Ireland then you are going to have to work harder than that.
UKIP will no doubt try to present itself as a "non-sectarian centre-right unionist party". Although these "non-sectarian" credentials can seriously be drawn into question given their previous dalliances with the TUV.
Whilst I have been out delivering leaflets introducing myself to the people of Abbey and informing them what their local Alliance team is doing and what help we can offer them, UKIP is delivering leaflets designed to inflame tensions about immigration with no mention of who they are locally or what they are offering local people.
Northern Ireland has suffered from being a rather insular society. I welcome those coming to settle here with fresh perspectives a different world views. Reminding us that the world is bigger than Northern Ireland can only be a good thing.
I felt compelled to respond but refrained from pointing out that if he aspires to politics he had well be minded that Northern Ireland is a part of these United Kingdoms and ALSO a part of The British Isles (Britain), in common parlance – A useful item of knowledge should he succumb to the bribes of the EU and have need of finding his way back to his roots when sickened!
you rather loftily start your blog 'a constituent of mine' yet I can see no constituency that you are seemingly elected to!
With regard to the sad despoilment of the countryside in your region by utterly useless windmills polluting the atmosphere with the huge amount of energy used to make them and the environment with their vibration and damage to the soil not to mention their catastrophic effect on some species of birds and all to no positive gain save as alarmism.
I am surprised you feature such a sad sight as your picture when just one discreetly placed Nuclear power station could more efficiently and much more safely supply the electricity needs of all of Northern Ireland and at times leave spare capacity to export to Eire.
You then continue with your rather inept comments on border control on a planet where population has more than tripled since 1945 and economic migrancy is becoming endemic – perhaps you can explain in what way open borders and the resultant invasion and destruction of culture can benefit a Country – ANY Country!
You seem blissfully unaware of any of the facts that might justify your aspirations to one day represent people. Perhaps a quick glance at the catastrophic effects of EU membership on Eire might help you understand perhaps even the simple fact that due to EU utter incompetence and centralised greed the obscene implementation of The CAP & CFP has rendered not just Britain but all of EUrope unable to feed itself and not content with destroying third world farmers with EU agricultural subsidies the EU is now stealing the fish from the mouths of Africans by fishing out and destroying fish stocks in the bite of Africa – as it has already done with the fish stocks of the waters around these United kingdoms.
You make no mention of the farcical contrivance of The EUro that has, together with the utter incompetence of economic illiterates bankrupt Ireland – now left with no ability to make a meaningful decision on anything and Britain close behind with a National debt of £4.8 Trillion – a sum that can NEVER be paid off let alone sustained in compound interest.
Do you hate your EU Region so much you would lead them ever deeper into the mire.
Do you really believe politics is the right place for you?
The disastrous effects of British politicians selling Britain into the thrall of foreign rule of The Franco German axis of the EU for their own personal rewards has damaged the well-being of Britain more than the armies of Hitler and the Franco – German – Italian axis of 1939 – 1945.
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Winter master classes - 2011 for chamber music teachers was held at the Jāzeps Mediņš Riga 1st Music school, 7th to 9th January, 2011. The event was opened by Professor Gunta Sproģe (pianist, Chair of department of chamber music and piano accompaniment of Jaz. Vitols Latvian Academy of Music).
This year's master classes led by teachers were violinist Petras Kunca (professor of Lithuanian Music and Theatre Arts Academy, Vilnius), violinist Alexander Kulikov (lector of Kungsvagen Music Institute, Espoo, Finland), cellist Juta Berzins (teacher of Pāvuls Jurjāns Music school, Riga, Latvia), and flutist Inga Grīnvalde (teacher of Jāz. Medins Riga 1st Music school, Latvia).
46 teachers from both the Latvian and Lithuanian music training institutions, participated and received certificates, as well as the ECMTA Chairman Evan Rothstein from Paris, who had a keen interest in our master classes and had decided to audit the courses. The four master classes teachers were also awarded certificates of workshop management. In total, the program consisted of four theoretical lectures, four open master classes, as well as 20 workshops with the ensemble that had been planned as individual master classes. But the interests of members turned out to be so great that it turned out well for the open hours.
The organizers had, as usual, carefully planned additional educational activities for teachers. This year's session included attending a performance of Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the beautiful state theater. Another exciting event was a concert of master class leaders at the end of the second day, in the Jaz. Medins Riga 1st music schools new, beautiful large hall. This concert gave the opportunity to go beyond only listening to the masterclass leaders' advice in workshops, but also to hear and see them enthusiastically playing ; it was like a kind of a practice session continued. It will remain for both the children and teachers as an inspiring experience.
At the end of the final concert the following day there was a presentation of the CD with the compulsory pieces of IX International festival – competition for young performers "We play music with friends". The recording was made in November, Jaz. Medins Riga 1st music school with the participation of students and teachers of the school.
30 students - 17 chamber ensembles of young performers – participated in the master classes. The children then performed at the Thanksgiving concert on January 9, which at the same time was also a tribute to our supporters and well-wisher. The Foundation "We play music with friends" organized all aspect of the session for teachers and young musicians – including coffee and tea breaks with sandwiches, biscuits, fruit - which made for a very intensive, but very pleasant, three-days of work.
To conclude the weekend, there was the traditionally large pretzels and refreshment table. Teachers will all received notebooks with the details of the course, the main points of the lectures, the concert programs for children and their chamber repertoire. Were able to obtain information on children's chamber festivals in other countries, to exchange sheet music, and books on the table to buy new music.


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Today is the anniversary of the 2014 Napa Earthquake, and as per our custom to use relevant disasters as reminders to get prepared for them, we were going to post a blog about the most significant earthquake to have occurred in the Bay Area since the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. But our plan changed in light of what happened in Italy. Just last night a powerful 6.2 Magnitude earthquake epicentered in Amatrice, Italy caused nearly 200 fatalities and immeasurable destruction.
Seeing the devastation Italy is experiencing today (and will for quite a while) is chilling, tragic, and heartbreaking. It's only natural to think about the 'what-ifs' when it comes to a significant earthquake happening here at home, only to push those dark scenarios out of our heads and move on to the next most pressing to do. We are here to tell you it is okay to set those scary thoughts aside; but please don't stop there. Do something constructive, productive, and proactive when it comes to being prepared for an emergency. Take stock of your supplies (and add to it if you can). Talk about your emergency plan with your family. Ask your neighbors what you all could do to respond and recover–together. Get creative. Keep it simple. Do what feels right for you and yours. It will feel good knowing what you have done before the earthquake will make a huge difference in the aftermath.
Please visit www.SF72.org to learn how to be prepared for just about any emergency. And as we take some time now to get prepared our thoughts, hearts, and prayers go out to Italy.
This DEM Quarterly Review captures DEM's spring seasonal highlights–which was a very busy several months that included special recognitions, commemorations, and graduations.
Supervisor Eric Mar (far left) presented Natalie (center), a resident of his District, with the Dispatcher of the Year Award.
Natalie Elicetche was recognized as Dispatcher of the Year for fielding a call from a San Francisco resident who reported the possibility of multiple murders in Tennessee. Natalie contacted local authorities in Tennessee which led to the arrest of the murder suspect. This was an incredibly complex situation, yet through it all Natalie exhibited compassion, strength and initiative which resulted in justice for the victims of this horrendous crime.
Janice Balodocchi is this year's recipient of the Toni Hardley Award for Excellence in Supervision–an award dedicated to the memory of Toni Hardley, a beloved supervisor of DEM who is remembered for her calm, cool, and collected nature. As one supervisor remembers her "She was the supervisor everyone aspired to be." Janice was awarded for her outstanding commitment to leadership, guidance, and support to her staff. She is revered on the 9-1-1 dispatch floor, and we commend her for her service to our dispatchers.
The 9-1-1 Heroes Award gives us the opportunity to recognize children who called 9-1-1 for family members in peril, and the dispatchers who answered their calls. This year we honored Allessandra Esquivel and Janaia McKinley who called 9-1-1 for family members experiencing medical emergencies; and DEM Dispatchers Celia Velasquez and Burt Wilson who helped them to save their loved ones.
Allessandra had to assist her non-English speaking parents when calling 9-1-1 because her baby brother was choking. DEM Dispatcher Celia Velasquez assisted Allessandra by instructing her to perform CPR on her infant brother.
Janaia called 9-1-1 to report her grandmother's heart attack. DEM Dispatcher Burt Wilson directed Janaia until an ambulance and paramedics were on scene.
Every spring DEM joins our fellow San Franciscans to commemorate the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire that took place on April 18, 1906 at 5:12 a.m. The early morning setting is stepped in years of tradition with revelers dressed in turn-of-the-century attire. Through song, speech, and a little spray paint we reflect on what happened that morning many, many years ago; and we celebrate how San Francisco rose from the ashes to become the resilient and beautiful city it is today.
The 1906 earthquake commemorations begins before dawn at Lotta's Fountiain, where many San Franciscans gathered in the early morning of April 18, 1906 after the earthquake struck.
DEM personnel at Dolores Park where the 'Golden Hydrant' (one of the only working fire hydrants after the 1906 earthquake ) gets a customary fresh coat of gold spray paint every April 18th.
This May we celebrated our San Francisco paramedics, EMTs and hospital providers with various events during National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week. For the first time City Hall was lit in EMS colors, as San Francisco joined the ranks of other major cities like Boston and New York that light iconic city structures in the EMS colors during National EMS Week.
San Francisco City Hall lit in EMS colors.
We also honored our EMS community by hosting San Francisco's EMS Day at Civic Center Plaza where ambulance service providers, EMTs and paramedics gathered to share apparatus displays and educational information with the public. San Francisco City College stole the show by exhibiting hands-only CPR skills and encouraging public participation.
San Francisco EMS Day on Civic Center Plaza.
Also a component of San Francisco's EMS Week is the EMS Awards–annual awards program that recognizes outstanding emergency medical services delivered to San Francisco. The awardees are nominated by their peers for a variety of emergency medical services including: emergency medical dispatch; field medical response; hospital medical service; community service; and the Raymond Lim Excellence in EMS award.We were thrilled to see DEM's very own Dawn Mahoney awarded with the EMS Dispatcher of the Year award.
Congratulations to the POST 51 Academy, DEM's newest group of dispatcher recruits who graduated from academy training. We wish you the best of luck in the next phase of your journey to become one of San Francisco's Public Safety Dispatchers!
DEM's 2016 first quarter Winter was a whirlwind for DEM: Super Bowl 50 (the Super Bowl of Super Bowls) came to San Francisco and our multi-year planning and preparations for this world class event came to fruition with a nine-day Emergency Operations Center activation. Concurrently, DEM coordinated the City's preparations for and response to the extreme weather that the most significant El Nino on record brought to San Francisco. Along with these two major initiatives, DEM's day-to-day operations and projects continued without disruption and this blog captures some of this past season's highlights.
Meanwhile, DEM looks forward to a spring season that includes National Public Safety Dispatchers Week, the 1906 earthquake anniversary, the 150th anniversary of the San Francisco Fire Department, and the National Emergency Medical Services Week (stay tuned for more information about these exciting events in the weeks to come).
On January 30th, we began a nine-day Emergency Operations Center (EOC) activation in support of the Super Bowl 50 (SB50) events taking place in San Francisco. Joined by fellow City departments, and our regional, state, and federal partners, DEM led the City's coordination and resource management for the exciting events (and City's regular, day-to-day activities) taking place in the nine days leading up to the big game.
In the months leading up to the extended activation, The Division of Emergency Services conducted many city-wide planning meetings; organized a series of exercises that tested our City's emergency plans and our ability to work with our community, local, regional, state, and federal partners; and conducted an immersive "EOC Bootcamp" for DEM staff and fellow City departmental staff to help everyone feel prepared and comfortable for the SB50 extended activation.
Getting ready for SB50 also included efforts from Administrative and Information Technology staff who prepared our systems, ensured our building's facility was at optimal functionality, , along with making sure the Department's day to day operations ran without disruption.
Our participation in Super Bowl 50 public safety operations was the result of a multi -year planning effort, and required intense execution for the entire staff. The Department of Emergency Management showed it was capable of handling an event of this nature to the world, so much so that rumor has it we may be seeing the Super Bowl again. Click here to watch us in action.
Congratulations to a successful Super Bowl 50!
Thanks to our emergency planners Amy Ramirez and Edie Schaffer, the City and County of San Francisco Tsunami Annex is officially close to completion! The Tsunami Annex contains plans City officials will use to guide our response efforts in the event of a tsunami. The next step in the process is to familiarize San Francisco communities that could be impacted by a tsunami with this Annex, along with tsunami preparedness education, beginning with Treasure Island. This spring we will be working in partnership with the Treasure Island Development Authority (TIDA) to help Treasure Island residents know how to prepare for a tsunami, and what to do when confronted with one.
To learn more about tsunamis, read our blog post in honor of the 2016 California Tsunami Preparedness Week.
Recently UASI participated in an exciting event known as Bay Area IV. Unlike most emergency exercises this operation involved 28 agencies and more than 600 participants. Bay Area IV is an annual exercise hosted this year by Golden Gate Ferry. The objective was to test the emergency preparedness and security of ferry operators, the USCG and other maritime first responders. Multiple-scenarios took place in the waters east of Treasure Island and the Jack London Ferry Terminal. UASI staff participated in the planning and execution of this exercise. Great work!
Welcome to our newest dispatchers to the Department, the POST 51 class! These individuals are in for some intense training in the months to come. Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a 9-1-1 dispatcher? To learn more visit our blog detailing the extensive training that dispatchers receive.
In March we were visited by the Mayor of Taipei, Taiwan and his delegation. They were interested in learning more about how San Francisco, a sister city, plans for and responds to emergencies. The delegation was very interested to talk to DEM staff to learn as much as they could about our approach to emergency management. Along with Mayor's entourage came very dedicated (and numerous!) Taiwanese media as seen in this photo of the Mayor being interviewed in force by Taiwanese reporters.
Robert Smuts received a 2016 SPUR San Francisco Good Governance award earlier this month for his work overseeing operations and the administration of the Division of Emergency Communications. He is being commended for bringing in Google analysts to assess the 38% spike in call volume to the 9-1-1 call center, as well as his efforts to improve the 9-1-1 call center response times, among many other things. Congratulations Rob!
As part of the Spring 2016 CCSF and MEA Leadership Development Program, Michael Dayton and Mitch Sutton completed a three month course designed to build skills to successfully engage with key stakeholders, colleagues, team members, and executive management.
Working as a cohort, they took part in a workshop series to practice models for communicating in a variety of situations in order to learn valuable skills, develop relationships with other City leaders, and receive coaching from program peers and alumni.
The San Francisco Neighborhood Emergency Response Team's (NERT) Disaster Corps Unit has won California's 2016 Governor's Volunteering and Service Award for the Disaster Volunteer Program of the Year for their work on the Valley Fire.
For command of the police service radio channel after an armed suspect led police on a foot chase that took a turn for the worse when the suspect stole a police vehicle resulting in pursuit.
For command of the police service radio channel during a pursuit with an armed suspect that lasted an hour and spanned several districts of the city. Her decisive voice and confidence radiated the airwaves as she assisted officers to safety.
For her command of the police service radio channel while working two different emergencies simultaneously.
San Francisco has its very own Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (VOAD) group, but a lot of individuals and organizations don't know what that means. We've summed up what that means for you and your community.
A VOAD is a coalition of nonprofits and businesses that meet the unmet needs of local, state, and federal emergency responders, communities, neighborhoods, and other organizations. They are basically a group of organizations that have access to either goods, services, or buildings that can support during an emergency in case the community has an urgent need.
VOADs are typically formed by organizations like a faith-based group, Salvation Army, or the American Red Cross because their community is at risk for a disaster. VOADs can be formed before, during, or after an emergency happens. Some VOADs have formal internal structures with an Executive Committee or Board, bylaws, and formal meeting structures, others meet on an ADHOC basis. VOADs can exist at the local level like the San Francisco VOAD, County, State (California has a Northern and Southern VOAD and they can be multistate), and a National VOAD.
VOADs organize in order to respond to emergencies and to communicate during emergencies the needs of the community. For example, in San Francisco during a large neighborhood fire, the local VOAD was requested by a shelter to help find more items of clothing for the survivors. It's as simple as finding a need, and working with a partner organization to meet that need.
Will the VOAD come knocking on my door during an emergency?
VOADs are not first responders, they will not put out fires, respond to crime, or put themselves in harm's way during an emergency. They typically begin working after the emergency has ended and the community needs to recover. These recovery efforts could look like cleaning up homes after a storm, providing emotional support or counseling, identifying food and clothing, managing donations and volunteers, delivering necessities to community members, or providing assistance with lost animals.
How can I join the local VOAD?
VOADs are open to all official organizations (private, public, NGOS, etc.), but sadly not to individuals. If you want to help out in an emergency, but are not affiliated with an organization with a response role, we highly recommend joining your local Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT or NERT in SF).
and getting involved at the next VOAD meeting.
Will it Work at 0200?
How do you write emergency plans that work at zero dark thirty hours? DEM's Lead Emergency Planner, Amy Ramirez, and I have been invited to speak on this topic at the International Association of Emergency Managers Annual Conference in Savannah, Georgia during the week of October 17, 2016. Consider this blog a preview of coming attractions, and a summary of some important lessons I've learned from Amy since I joined DEM in 2013.
So, how do we write emergency plans that actually help people in the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) quickly understand what they need to do to coordinate information and resources in support of field responders during a disaster? Emergency planners here at DEM use this question as both a spur and a touchstone.
Pictured Left to Right, Amy Ramirez and Edie Schaffer working on the 2014 Hazard Mitigation Plan.
Traditional emergency plans begin with a purpose and scope section, a list of assumptions the plan author made in writing the plan, and other introductory material. But after talking with the people who use our plans—other emergency managers—we realized the tools plan users need to hit the EOC running shouldn't be hidden in the middle of a plan. They should be front loaded for easy access; this is the purpose of the Critical Action Guide.
Edie Schaffer on the left with Treasure Island Development Authority stakeholders discussing tsunamis.
The Critical Action Guide is an abbreviated version of the plan, designed to function as a tear-away resource for San Francisco EOC and Department Operations Center (DOC) personnel. For example, a Critical Action Guide for a hazard-specific plan (e.g., an earthquake or tsunami plan) typically includes an overview of possible actions needed to successfully coordinate the incident; a critical decision matrix to assist users making significant decisions (e.g., do we evacuate the tsunami inundation area or not?); an event coordination task list of critical steps to take to coordinate the incident; and a roles and responsibilities table showing hazard-related duties of each department or agency involved.
Speaking of agency and departmental involvement one of the most important aspects of emergency planning is something we might miss if we focus only on the words on the page. It's the people who work together to develop and maintain the plan. It's the partnerships we forge as we work together on the plan. It's the challenges we face together as we finish and implement the plan. Without input and support from our partners, our plans are paper tigers. When they embody the collective knowledge, expertise, and experience of the departments and agencies involved, our plans become an essential blueprint for how we'll work together to protect and restore San Francisco after disaster strikes (even in the middle of the night).
Edie Schaffer joined the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management as an Emergency Planner in 2013. Since then she's revised San Francisco's Hazard Mitigation Plan and Tsunami Annex. She's now working on a revision of our Disaster Debris Management Plan. Edie's favorite thing about her work is going home at night with the feeling that she's done something to help make San Francisco safer and stronger.
San Francisco Pride is the pinnacle of all Pride celebrations. It draws the largest gathering of the LGBTQ community and allies in the nation. It is a weekend dedicated to love, equality, and diversity. Sadly, the recent attack in Orlando has cast a dark shadow of sorrow and fear over our beloved SF Pride celebrations. As someone who has dedicated her entire adult life to LGBTQ advocacy, this angers me. Greatly. However, as the department head of the organization responsible to coordinate a safe and secure San Francisco Pride weekend, this invigorates me.
Beginning the Friday of Pride Weekend through Sunday night, my team will run the City's Emergency Operations Center (EOC). We will be joined by many other City agencies with a role in Pride operations. Should the unspeakable happen, we will be poised and at the ready to provide situational awareness and meet any resource needs. We activate the EOC a lot—for both planned events like Super Bowl 50, and unplanned events like a five alarm fire. We know how to manage emergencies. As Executive Director of the Department of Emergency Management, providing this kind of support to our City's Pride celebrations adds a dimension to my LGBTQ activism, because I am a part of the system dedicated to the safety and security of all who will be celebrating the culture and heritage of pride in the days to come.
I can't wait to see San Francisco become electric with Pride this weekend as we welcome all who believe in the LGBTQ ideals to celebrate with us, stand with us, but most of all defy those who use hate as a weapon.
Anne Kronenberg (standing to the left of Mayor Ed Lee) on the front steps of the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management following the the SF Pride Weekend City-wide coordination meeting.
San Francisco middle school-aged students were invited to share their ideas on how they can make emergency preparedness part of their everyday lives. The contest was sponsored by the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management, San Francisco Fire Department, and the San Francisco History Association. San Francisco middle school students Leo Schutzendorf and Teresa Y. Lee were recognized as the winners of the contest on the 110th Anniversary of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. As co-awardees, Leo and Teresa received a $250 scholarship furnished by the San Francisco History Association and a future ride on the San Francisco Fire Department's new fire boat.
San Francisco is my home. I was born here and have lived here eleven years (so far!). I like living here because there are great restaurants and a lot of fun things to do. However, it is also a city spanning two tectonic plates: the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate (the Farallon Islands are on the Pacific Plate). Since it spans two tectonic plates, earthquakes are frequent and come with little warning. Preparedness is very important and that is what this essay is about.
Earthquake preparedness means getting ready by knowing what to during the quake and having supplies for after the quake. Most are too small to feel, but no one knows when a larger quake will strike. Unlike a hurricane, there is not much warning. The second the ground starts to shake people need to know what to do otherwise there would be a lot of chaos and more people would be hurt.
1. Get emergency supplies together. Have water, food, and a first aid kit. If possible, it is also good to have extra clothes, a flashlight, and a radio.
2. Practice earthquake drills often so people automatically know what to do during the quake. This is good for school and home.
3. Get to know your neighbors so you can help each other out if needed.
1. Drop to your knees. It is easy to fall over if you are standing.
2. Cover your head and neck with your hands and arms. Get under a table if possible. Also get away from windows. The glass might shatter.
3. Hold on until the shaking stops.
4. If you are outside, get to an open area so things don't fall on you. Then drop, cover, and hold on.
5. Get ready for aftershocks.
By doing these things, everyone will know what to do to stay safe. I think parents know this is important but they are busy working and sometimes earthquake preparedness gets put on the "I'll do it later" list. Kids will want to help their parents get ready so that they are not sorry when the quake happens.
When I tell people I live in the "Ring of Fire" it sounds very cool, but 90% of the world's earthquakes happen in the Ring of Fire. There is no avoiding earthquakes while living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Your best chance of surviving an earthquake is to be prepared for one.
Emergency preparedness is vital! To me, emergency preparedness is daily preparation for any disaster that may occur. At home, my family has kept an emergency backpack with our first aid kit necessary for an earthquake. Every year, my family and I would check our emergency backpack and review our fire evacuation plans.
I wish that one day, there will be a national holiday dedicated for emergency preparedness. People will learn about the possible disasters that can occur in their neighborhood and know how to prepare for it. On the national holiday, all adults will be trained at work by being aware of all the emergency exits in the building and knowing the safety procedures during an emergency. On top of that, they can share their knowledge to friends and family.
Meanwhile, students should be able to perform the basic steps during an emergency at school and at home. During a family gathering, parents and children should devote some time to discuss an escape plan and develop an emergency backpack.
To accelerate the awareness of emergency preparation, we should provide incentive to local stores to sell emergency backpacks with the basic items needed in an earthquake. In the stores, there could also be personalized emergency items such as prescription or baby formula that others might also need during an emergency. People who are busy can just buy a backpack and purchase other items they may need. Others can pack everything at home. If people already have everything set, they could help relatives or friends pack emergency backpacks.
I can also make other small changes that I believe is significant to others. For example, I can find a day to meet all my friends for emergency shopping. We can shop for emergency items to put in our backpacks. In addition, because I'm on the student council at my school, I can ask the principal if we can designate a day for earthquake preparedness at my school. On that day we can promote basic emergency supplies such as flashlight and bandages to students. Another idea to influence safety preparation to other teens is to create a thirty-second film and have all movie theaters show it before the movie. This can increase the awareness more rapidly, if the practice can be shown at all movie theaters nation-wide.
These small changes will have a big impact to the community. If everyone is well prepared, natural disasters will not be a scary event and if word about emergency preparedness is wide spread, many lives can be saved.
Feeling inspired? San Francisco provides a variety of resources to help San Franciscan's prepare for any emergency. The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management's SF72 program provides information about what to do in an emergency, simple steps to get you connected to your community, and useful guides to help you prepare. The San Francisco Fire Department's Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) program is a free training program for individuals, neighborhood groups and community-based organizations. Through this program, individuals will learn the basics of personal preparedness and prevention. The training also includes hands-on disaster skills that will help individuals respond to a personal emergency as well as act as members of a neighborhood response team.
For more information visit, www.sf72.org and http://sf-fire.org/neighborhood-emergency-response-team-nert.
Every spring DEM joins our fellow San Franciscans to commemorate the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire that took place on April 18, 1906 at 5:12 a.m.
The setting and run-of-show of this commemoration is consistent year-to-year. It incorporates elements of ceremony and ritual that when combined make tradition: DEM joins the community at Lotta's Fountain, and at 5:12 a.m. we reflect on what happened that morning many, many years ago; and we celebrate how San Francisco rose from the ashes to become the resilient and beautiful city it is today.
Along with the customary events in which we engage to commemorate the earthquake (you can read more about those details below), this year includes an additional event of special distinction: The 150th Anniversary of the San Francisco Fire Department kick-off event at Union Square.
So, please consider joining DEM and your fellow San Francisco enthusiasts this Monday for an early morning of camaraderie and San Francisco pride. Please see details below for when and where to attend these special events and we hope to see you there!
April 17, 2016 at the Marina Green, Marina Blvd. and Webster Street, from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
San Francisco Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) members from all over the city will meet to put their training into action in this three-hour drill. At the drill, NERT volunteers practice search and rescue techniques, triaging injured victims, setting up staging areas, and other essential disaster response skills. The drill commemorates the 1906 Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. NERT has held annual citywide drills since 1992 and approximately 300 volunteers participate in the April Drill each year. Since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, NERT has trained more than 22,000 San Franciscans to assist the San Francisco Fire Department after a severe earthquake or other major emergency by taking care of themselves, their families, and their neighbors.
At 5:12 a.m. we will mark the 110th anniversary of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. This disaster took the lives of an estimated 3,000 people and left the City in ashes as much of the destruction was caused by fires and nearly 300,000 people were left homeless.
Since the 1920's, residents have gathered at Lotta's Fountain to reflect on the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, and as DEM has done year after year, we will join our fellow San Franciscan's at this very early hour to commemorate what remains one of the worst tragedies in California history.
But Monday isn't a convening to remember destruction; it's a convening to remember connection. Because emergencies look more like cities coming together than falling apart, which is what happened here in San Francisco 110 years ago. It's also a time to honor all those who came before us by preparing for any emergency. Visit SF72.org to learn how.
So, if you are a very early riser, please join the commemoration around 5:00 a.m. at Lotta's Fountain. Look for people dressed in 1906 period attire and practice your singing voice as we follow the moment of silence at 5:12 a.m. with "San Francisco". If you can't make it to Lotta's Fountain, you can meet us at the Golden Hydrant (Church and 18th Streets) closer to 6:00 a.m., which gets a fresh coat of gold paint every April 18th to commemorate the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. For exact locations, check out the SF27 In an Emergency map, which has Lotta's Fountain and the Golden Hydrant marked.
Please join us to commemorate the kickoff of a year's worth of events to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of our San Francisco Fire Department!
Congratulations to Our Dispatcher of the Year!
As part of the National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (April 10-16, 2016) the San Francisco Board of Supervisors honored 9-1-1 dispatcher Natalie Elicetche with the Dispatcher of the Year Award. While serving as a call taker in San Francisco's 9-1-1 Operations Center, Natalie fielded a call from a San Francisco resident who reported the possibility of multiple murders in Tennessee. Natalie contacted local authorities in Tennessee which led to the arrest of the murder suspect.
The Dispatcher of the Year is elected by their fellow dispatchers for extraordinary performance while answering 9-1-1 calls or dispatching emergency services. Natalie shares this honor with her fellow dispatchers who provide vital ongoing support, which is indispensable to the entire San Francisco dispatchers team during crucial calls.
Natalie has served more than 13 years as a Public Safety Dispatcher in San Francisco. As a native San Franciscan, she was raised and currently resides in the Richmond District. Natalie attended St. Veronica's Catholic School in South San Francisco and Mercy High School in San Francisco before graduating from Long Beach State with a degree in management.
San Francisco receives more than 1.2 million emergency and non-emergency calls annually. 9-1-1 professionals dispatch police, fire, and medical assistance to the scene of accidents, crimes, fires, and other emergency and non-emergency situations. In addition to taking calls from the public, dispatchers act as the communications hub for emergency services and must quickly assess situations to determine the appropriate resources to dispatch, making them the San Francisco's first, first responders.
In honor of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (April 10-16, 2016) we celebrated two young heroes, Allessandra Esquivel and Janaia McKinley for calling 9-1-1 for family members experiencing medical emergencies. San Francisco Public Safety Dispatchers Celia Velasquez and Burt Wilson were also honored for their professionalism and compassion while working with these remarkable young people.
We were joined by the 9-1-1 for Kids organization's national spokesperson, Tim Brown, formerly of the Oakland Raiders to distribute awards.
Allessandra Esquivel and Dispatcher Celia Velasquez receive their awards.
Our first 9-1-1 hero was Allessandra, who had to assist her non-English speaking parents in reporting that her baby brother was choking. "Can you send an ambulance? My baby brother is choking…He's only nine months," said Allessandra to Public Safety Dispatcher Celia Velasquez.
Allesandra's poise was impressive. She answered dispatcher Celia Velasquez's questions in English, relayed information and reassured her parents in Spanish, and at Celia's direction performed CPR on her infant brother.
Dispatcher Burt Wilson receives his award.
Our other amazing 9-1-1 Hero is Janaia McKinley who called 911 stating "Nana can't breathe and she's about to have a heart attack," to Public Safety Dispatcher Burt Wilson.
Janiai and her grandmother were the only ones home that night. "Nana" was lying on her side and could not feel her arm. Janiai had be to both Nana's voice and advocate and Public Safety Dispatcher Burt Wilson's eyes and ears.
The 9-1-1 Local Heroes Medal of Honor is awarded to young people who call 9-1-1 to help save a life, protect property, or report a crime. The award also is presented to the 9-1-1 dispatcher who processed the call, and dispatched the appropriate emergency response help. The 9-1-1 Local Heroes Medal of Honor was created in 1999 and is now an international awards program.
*Special note of thanks to Paul Henderson, Office of Mayor Ed Lee Deputy Chief of Staff of Public Safety for being the Master of Ceremony of this very special and educational event.


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Ipswich Preview
Rovers head to East Anglia in search of three points against play-off chasing Ipswich.
Portman Road, Ipswich, awaits the arrival of Rovers this weekend as we look to get closer to securing our status in the Championship for next season. Unfortunately the last couple of games have seen a little blip but hopes are high going into the weekend that the job can be a closer to being completed with victory.
The Tractor Boys won't relish the prospect of Rovers coming to town after the last time the two sides met in Suffolk it was the team from South Yorkshire who emerged victorious.
Ipswich Town went into the game in mid-table with Rovers occupying bottom spot in the Championship so many expected a routine victory for the home side, however, the away team had other ideas.
Rovers started the game very brightly and had George Friend's touch not eluded him, they could have been in front within eight minutes of the start. Unfortunately Friend couldn't divert Brian Stock's pinpoint pass with the goal at his mercy, but it just served as a warning shot which the home side didn't heed and they succumbed to the early pressure just ten minutes later.
James Coppinger picked up the ball on the left flank and swung in a perfect cross for El-Hadji Diouf to nod home in acres of space to net his first goal for the club. Just six minutes from the restart the visitors were two goals to the good and there was an air of similarity with the goal, Coppinger was again the architect but this time Billy Sharp met his left wing centre to confidently nod past David Stockdale. There was a nice touch from the home supporters who applauded the goal acknowledging the strength of character shown by Sharp who was still mourning the recent loss of his son.
Ipswich fought back and did have the ball in the net thanks to Michael Chopra who finished Reece Wabara's cross neatly but the assistant's flag ruled out the goal, adjudging the scorer was in an offside position.
Rovers however had little trouble with the officials in the first half as Diouf netted his second of the game before the break, he combined with Sharp before advancing unopposed then slamming a shot into the net.
At the break Town manager, Paul Jewell, changed personnel and threw on teenager Josh Carson for Jimmy Bullard and the youngster netted eight minutes into the second half. Neil Sullivan couldn't keep hold of a fierce shot by Tamas Priskin and Carson pounced to prod home from close range.
Friend twice went close for Rovers in a second half where the home side tried to ramp up the pressure but failed to net a goal early enough to make a difference to the outcome of the game. Chopra netted what was to be a mere consolation of a second goal in injury time after being set up by Jay Emmanuel Thomas, but it was too little too late as Rovers more than deserved the victory.
Expect goals on Saturday, in the last five meetings between the sides there has been a minimum of three goals scored per game. In fact there has been an average of almost five goals per game in those previous five matches.
Rovers have only failed to score once in six previous trips to Suffolk and that was back in December 1957.
Overall there has been 51 goals scored in total in 14 games between the two sides in all competitions which is an average of 3.6 goals per game in total.
The odds of there being 5 goals exactly scored is priced by Football League Sponsors Sky Bet at 11/1.
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"Friday the 13th" Casts Female Lead
Posted: April 3rd, 2008 by WorstPreviews.com Staff
Amanda Righetti is in final negotiations to play the female lead in the Michael Bay-produced remake of "Friday the 13th," directed by Marcus Nispel (Pathfinder, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre). Filming will begin on April 21st in Austin, Texas and is scheduled to appear in theaters on February 13th, 2009.
Righetti also recently joined the cast of CBS pilot "The Mentalist" and her credits include "Return to House on Haunted Hill" and a recurring guest role on "K-Ville."
Paramount released the original "Friday" in 1980, introducing horror icon Jason with a brief appearance. The remake will focus on the serial killer, who will wear his now-iconic hockey mask. Jared Padalecki will play the lead, who investigates what happened up at Crystal Lake.
Click here to read more about "Friday the 13th."


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How could anyone look at this movie poster and not laugh?
Mardok45
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 12:58 pm Post subject: How could anyone look at this movie poster and not laugh?
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What is with this sudden emergence of taking childrens' novels and giving them dark, adult themes?
EDIT: OH MY FUCKING GOD! That's Jeremy Renner! I thought he had more self-respect than this.
Clad in Sky
Oh, good lord!
Kali Ma
Now it's autumn of the aeons
Dance with your sword
Now it's time for the harvest
It's about adults...that's what adults look like.
In any case, the original story is about two kids who are lured by an old woman into a house so she can eat them. They shove her into an oven and bolt the door shut. Fairly dark themes.
notageek
I like the woman in that poster, she's cute.
"Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated, until defeat has been accepted as a reality." -- Bruce Lee
notageek wrote:
Yes, rather nice pair of pacifiers.
sikpuppy wrote:
Seriously, I would expect something like this from The Onion or SNL.
You don't laugh because your brain is locked onto boobs.
No, I didn't laugh because breasts are no laughing matter. Honestly, if you think that poster is wrong then you must get out more.
wswartzendruber
Location: Idaho, USA
Uh, the poster's utterly hilarious!
EDIT: What's next? "Snow White: Deathraider!"
salahx
Its not that sudden, this goes back at least a decade. Just look what was done to at Alice in Wonderland and Strawberry Shortcake
Hollywood just keeps getting less and less original and does more and more copying (except when they do it, its art; when YOU do it a tort, crime and sin).
salahx wrote:
Hollywood just keeps getting less and less original .
There is fresh material out there, just need to have the courage to start using some of it.
BonezTheGoon
Location: Albuquerque, NM -- birthplace of Microsoft and Gentoo
John-Boy wrote:
There is fresh material out there, . . .
"fresh" and "out there" seem to be contradicting to me. Wouldn't something "fresh" need to be created, instead of found "out there" somewhere?!?!?!
mcgruff wrote:
I can't promise to be civil.
The greater evil is voting for the "lesser evil."
wswartzendruber wrote:
Actually it's called "Snow White and the Huntsman"
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BonezTheGoon wrote:
* Falls out of chair. *
Must I remind you about the book 'The Truth about Hänsel&Gretel?'
and that one was from 1963 (a parody which was so well made that people really thought he found the true story behind the fairy tale - the murder of a young women who invented modern nuremberg style lebkuchen and was killed by an envious cook and his sister. Includes excerpts from witch trials, 'archeological digs' etc pp).
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 12:27 am Post subject:
Apparently not all adults are thinking adults. </shocker>
Potential to be better than some of the other crap out there. I mean, has anyone seen Avengers?
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 8:01 am Post subject:
I had an old aunt who used to send her home made lebkuchen each year at Christmas. They were pretty old school. Not very good tasting and hard as a rock. My father broke a tooth on one.
Now I'd probably dip them in coffee and like them.
jonnevers
Location: Gentoo64 land
so TV promos for this movie are hitting my area as of today and my first thought was "FUCK YES". it seems to have zero to do with the children's story and everything to do with being awesome.
I think they need to go further. I think we need Rumplestilskin the hideous, daughter-raping, baby-eating, ax murdering dwarf, with gratuitous gore and taboo sexual violence.
True, the theme is dark, but it's all about presentation. Hell, we're now sitting our 10-year-old kids in front of a TV screen and make them control a dude with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle, blow the heads off of middle-eastern stereotypes, and allow them to dip their testicles into the mouth of a corpse. I fail to see how that's any less dark than shoving some old bitch into an oven.
Mardok45 wrote:
at least the latter encourages cooking as a useful life skill.
Hell, we're now sitting our 10-year-old kids in front of a TV screen and make them control a dude with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle, blow the heads off of middle-eastern stereotypes, and allow them to dip their testicles into the mouth of a corpse. I fail to see how that's any less dark than shoving some old bitch into an oven.
If that is actually in a game, then certainly parents should probably not allow their 10 y/o play it. Assuming they're mature enough to make that decision or even play it themselves.
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:54 pm Post subject:
Roight, like I said:
It's all about presentation! Put a little light fluffy tone to it, and you can make anything a kid's book. I betcha we can make a kids book about people shooting terrorists.


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