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More than 180 Virginia Army and Air Guard personnel from a special response force of the Virginia National Guard conduct final training and preparations for an external evaluation exercise April 25, 2013, at the Virginia Beach Fire Training Center in Virginia Beach. The special response force is the Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear High Yield Explosive Response Force Package, known as the CERFP (pronounced “surf-p”), and it can conduct tasks associated with incident management, urban search and rescue, mass causality decontamination, technical decontamination, medical triage and treatment and fatality search and recovery. The force is made up of Soldiers and Airmen from units based in Petersburg, West Point, Rocky Mount, Danville, Virginia Beach The final exercise will validate response capabilities and improve operations for the response force and is scheduled to take place April 27, 2013. Role players simulating causalities took part in the final training to add more realistic conditions and will be included in the final evaluation exercise. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)
Focus on Eldercare's response to COVID-19
At the purpose when the noxious impacts of COVID-19 showed first in Wuhan, the entire city and therefore the entire of Hubei Province ground to a halt. The lockdown of Wuhan brought remarkable torment and threatening difficulties for several individual occupants therein first focus. Presently, COVID-19 represents those equivalent difficulties for individuals and social welfare frameworks all-inclusive. Especially, it tests our aggregate endeavors to believe one another, particularly the foremost defenseless among us.
As a populace, individuals quite 70 will generally have more fragile insusceptible frameworks and progressively fundamental conditions that obstruct their capacity to battle the infection. They're likewise sure to dwell on bunch day to day environments, nearby people. Floods of COVID-19 passings in nursing homes — first within the Seattle territory, at that time on the brink of Sacramento and now during the country — have underscored this inauspicious reality. Up until now, Californians quite 65 have made up, at any rate, a fourth of the state's affirmed instances of COVID-19.
Be that because it may, guidelines, especially for helping living offices, are unsafely failing to satisfy the expectations in protecting California's older folks from this infection. Luck, Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan on Aging activity, as of now ongoing, presents an opportunity to forcefully address this peril and find how to secure an enormous number of more seasoned Americans.
Helped living focuses are an aid to the Eldercare business and therefore the enormous corporate proprietors that currently command the market. Simultaneously, in any case, an absence of guideline and oversight of staffing levels and capabilities — particularly prerequisites for on-location doctors and much prepared clinical experts — has left the business defenseless against misuse and unfortunate results. One glaring issue that has got to be tended to: helped living focuses are directed by the state Department of Social Services rather than the Department of Public Health.
In any case, it helped to measure maybe a piece of social welfare and clinical consideration conveyance framework, not only a direction for living. Propelled a year ago, Newsom's plan on Aging has framed a warning advisory group, is holding open gatherings and within the fall is planned to offer a 10-year plan which will address issues from lodging and vagrancy to crisis readiness to manhandle and disrespect. The venture has made a "Value Committee" to urge a contribution from a progressively differing gathering of residents and associations, including agents of the crippled network, Native Americans and other ethnic minorities.
Considering the spreading coronavirus general wellbeing emerging, it's basic that the representative's plan on Aging takes on an expansive and genuine open arrangement job. We weren't bothered with elevated level clichés for tending to the wants of the old. We'd like solid arrangements, solid guidelines with implementation teeth and a guarantee to continued oversight.
The Age of COVID-19
Older people who get themselves out of the blue alone without authority over their conditions are at specific hazards for an assortment of serious, even hazardous, physical and psychological well-being conditions, including a subjective decrease. Limitations on the opportunity of development ought to be proportionate and not founded solely on age.
COVID-19, as different irresistible melodies, represents a higher hazard to populaces that live in nearness. This hazard is especially intense in nursing or matured consideration offices, where the infection can spread quickly and has just brought about numerous passings. About 1.5 million older people individuals live in the nursing homes in the US, barring helped living offices and different settings making nearness.
Twenty-three individuals kicked the bucket in a flare-up at an office in Washington State in February and March, and the US Centers for Disease Control detailed 400 additional cases in offices as of April 1. On March 31, wellbeing experts in the Grand East district of France detailed 570 passings of older people in nursing homes.
Older people often end up in nursing homes due to governments' inability to offer adequate social types of assistance for individuals to live freely in the network, approaches that have put millions at included danger of getting the infection as a result of their organization. Governments ought to guarantee the progression of network-based administrations with the goal that individuals don't wind up in organizations without different alternatives.
Expound now on the roles played via care laborers in continuing the lives of the old during that emergency, and who, however dreadful themselves, by and by remain day in and outing inside the bounds of their wards to offer fundamental consideration.
Care supervisor Chang, the woman in charge of the consideration laborers among whom I led my hands-on work, coordinated the change of her ward into a self-sufficient fixed of a unit of care. The passage to her floor is carefully monitored; just fundamental conveyances are permitted, for instance, nourishment and clothing. Since nobody can enter or leave the structure, the flask for the older was transformed into a dozing region for care laborers. Despite the very fact that a lot of consideration laborers have their circle of relatives to require care of, they put that piece of their life under the control of others. Care specialist Lin, whose spouse died at the start of the pandemic, did not have the chance to completely grieve his passing due to incessant understaffing at Sunlight. She came back to figure following the burial service, despite realizing that she not, at now expected to figure at Sunlight to hide her significant other's clinical costs. Lin's arrival says much regarding her promise to her calling, to her colleagues, and to the old she had come to understand so well. My examination with care laborers recommends that it's an enthusiastic association and an awareness of other's expectations that propels them to remain the end of the day in care work. This is often borne out immediately.
Carefully add China is often seen as being grimy and unfortunate, thanks to an excellent extension to its nearby hook up with the realistic consideration required by slight, skilled bodies. Chinese consideration laborers are for the foremost part provincial to urban transients or urban specialists laid far away from previous state-claimed processing plants. In any case, direct consideration is intricate. In any case, its unpredictability goes unrecognized, or maybe disregarded by institutional powers that organize benefits and generalize the old as bodies to chip away at, to the disregard of their social-passionate necessities. As is valid with Sunlight, things which might typically undermine the keenness of care laborers, for instance, the absence of institutional acknowledgment for his or her enthusiastic work, are required to be postponed. Care specialists are currently centered around a shared objective: ensuring the gift assistance of the older. COVID-19 propels care laborers to consider what kind of care is required and the way to offer that care. It fills in as a channel through which the elemental beliefs of care are observed. Care is about common human weakness and our intrinsic association. Care laborers at Sunlight, in their aggregate every minute of everyday endeavors to secure the older, typify this ethic through their consideration. May the respectful regard, they hold of the older in their consideration redound on them and everyone consideration laborers overall who are fighting this pandemic on the bleeding edge!
Like the consideration laborers at Sunlight, the laborers in numerous nations are regarded human life so that we cannot be embarrassed to return clean with the leading edge about ourselves. Salute the spearheading staff who salutes our purposeful endeavors to handle the pandemic in numerous settings around the globe, within the daylight, yet additionally to ensure that veterans are appropriately treated, took care of and washed.
We all hope and pray that the coronavirus will soon be controlled and subdued. And that when the crisis is behind us, that we continue the important work of protecting the elderly and other vulnerable segments of our citizenry.
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At first I was just going to describe it with words, but then I thought I would draw it and take a photo in response. That should be faster.
Except, as I started to draw it, I found my mind wandering as I tried to grab all the memories of exactly how we had played the game, what set of rules we followed.
I moved a lot as a child. Some people moved more, but I moved quite a bit. 18 schools attended during K-12 time, plus getting homeschooled for a short stretch. That is a lot of playgrounds and a lot of playground games. The rules usually varied from place to place, and nothing made a new kid more of a freak than not knowing the clearly established rules that EVERYONE knew.
So really, my memories of the hopscotch rules are no doubt something of an amalgamation, but the boards everywhere I went looked the same. Nine boxes and a circle at the top.
The rules as I remember them:
Each hopper chose a marker, anything was fair game, but I preferred flat rocks (like those that work best for skipping on a pond).
When it was your turn, you would throw your marker aiming first for box 1. If the marker didn't land in the correct box, your turn ended. If it did, you began to jump. You could hop one legged on whichever foot you wanted, but you couldn't switch once you started. One foot per box, and on the side by side (4&5 and 7&8) boxes both feet were touching at once, in adjacent boxes. Your foot had to be completely within the box, not on the line. You had to skip over any boxes that had markers in them (this could be ridiculously difficult if there were too many markers spread over the board). In the circle you would carefully turn around on one leg to make your trip back. On the space prior to your marker, you would balance and bend over to retrieve your marker. Once you completed the course, you would aim the marker at box 2, and so on. If at any point you messed up your turn was over (but your marker stayed on the board if it had landed in the right box to start with.
The goal was to eventually get your marker in the top circle and complete the trip up and back. The winner was the one who did it first. Of course this was easiest if you managed to make a complete run of it on the very first turn so there were no other markers on the board.
Some places I lived did not require you to skip other markers, but ended your turn if your hopping caused another's marker to move. Some places you called out the numbers as you landed on them (and you had to skip the numbers that you skipped).
So there is my hop down memory lane for the day.
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December 2018. The Oregon Department of Agriculture led a team of 22 Oregon volunteers to Butte County, California to take over the operations of the Small Animal Full Care Shelter. ODA organized 5 veterinarians, 6 veterinary technicians and 11 shelter management experts from all over the state to serve in a clinical and management role caring for more than 500 animals.
Those who complained were told the following "BART's policies allow for viewpoint advertising on the BART system. Because of this policy, and the free speech protections of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, BART is restricted from rejecting advertisements based solely on their point of view. Kindly consider that the distinction between an ad critical of the "Palestinian leadership" is different than something critical of the “Palestinian people” ... just as free speech protects the rights of US citizens to criticize the government. Criticizing Congress is not the same as demeaning or disparaging the American people" Michael Moran, Mmoran@bart.gov
Bay Area culture jammers ask the BART to kindly consider that the ads contribute to the climate of anti-Arab sentiment and Islamaphobia that is already pervasive in U.S. media. Israel and its supporters use this climate to cloak and justify their own denial of Palestinian human rights. Moreover, equating "the Palestinian leadership" with the U.S. Congress overlooks the fact that the Palestinian people are denied democratic self-determination.
Rocky Fire - Evacuees watch as the fire grows.
photo credit: American Red Cross/Virginia Becker
On Wednesday afternoon, July 28, ninety year old Ada Tate and her grandson, John Wilson, were at Ada's home when the Rocky Fire erupted. John had recently arrived to assist his grandmother with some home repairs and also to clear the area to make it fire safe. Ada was outside and noticed the fire burning just a few short miles away. She called the fire department. Within a few hours, Ada and her grandson, John, were told to evacuate. They spent the night at the Red Cross shelter in Clearlake, not certain if the family home had burned or not.
Portland Police and Multnomah County Sheriff's response to a bomb scare near 12th and Hawthorne in Portland as seen on my lunch hour.
Vježba Immediate Response 19 provodi se od 10. svibnja do 6. lipnja 2019. na teritoriju Hrvatske na vojnom poligonu "E. Kvaternik" Slunj i u vojarni "Josip Jović" Udbina, te na području Slovenije i Mađarske.
SLUNJ TRAINING AREA, Croatia – Observer Controller, Sgt. 1st Class Marc Turner from U.S. Army Europe’s Joint Multinational Training Command speaks to soldiers from the Alabamian Land Forces as they conduct an after action review during Immediate Response 2012 here, May 28, 2012. Immediate Response 2012 is a multinational tactical field training exercise that will involve more than 700 personnel primarily from the U.S. Army Europe’s 2nd Calvary Regiment and Croatian armed forces, with contingents from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Slovenia. Macedonia and Serbia will send observers to the exercise. The exercise is a part of USEUCOM's joint training and exercise program designed to enhance joint and combined interoperability between the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Croatian Armed Forces and partner nations, and will help prepare participants to operate successfully in a joint, multinational, interagency, integrated environment. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jose Ibarra)/released
Amina Humed, 13, is displaced after the conflict in Northern Ethiopia spills over to Afar region. She stays in the town of Chifra with her family. Her dream is to be a teacher. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2021/Mulugeta Ayene
A Kentucky National Guard Soliders and Airmen aided in flood relief efforts in response to a declared state of emergency in eastern Kentucky late July 2022. (Courtesy Footage)
A week on from the typhoon and some rebuilding is starting but there is still significant devastation.
The biggest needs on the Island are drinking water and food. They are drinking form a stream as the well is salty at present. Concern is that the stream might harbour bacteria so we have asked the Red Cross about water purifying tablets.
The Coast Guard Commander will be visiting the Island Tuesday to assess needs as supplies can be shipped to Conception Island then broken into smaller loads to go to Aljazeras on local fishing boats.
Aljazeras is more northerly from Conception and was harder hit by the storm as it is also the first Island in the chain from the direction the wind came.
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Crane's Classic Papers, hand lettered in Spencerian lettering style. Carrie Ratcliff, invitation graphic designer
U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Keene Nettles, an aircraft fuel systems repair technician with the 169th Maintenance Squadron at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C., decontaminates a member of the hydrazine response team during an exercise involving an F-16 fighter jet emergency power unit activation and simulated hydrazine leak, April 10, 2013. The hydrazine response team is demonstrating contamination control capabilities to the exercise evaluation team. Members of the 169th Fighter Wing are preparing for Phase I and II Readiness Inspection, which evaluates a unit’s ability to deploy, then operate and launch missions in a chemical combat environment.
(National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Caycee Watson/Released)
In the wake of Cyclone Nilam, Plan India has responded to widespread flooding in low-lying areas of Andhra Pradesh state. Nearly 100,000 people have been affected by the disaster.
South Carolina United Methodist Emergency Response Teams clean up after the 2015 Floods from hurricane Joaquin Photo by: Matt Brodie
Red Cross volunteer Al Barthel assessed damage during the flooding response. Photo credit: Dan Williams/American Red Cross
South Carolina United Methodist Emergency Response Teams clean up after the 2015 Floods from hurricane Joaquin. Photo by Matt Brodie
Soldiers from the Albanian Land Forces practice tactical drills as they conduct a movement to enemy contact exercise during the Immediate Response 2012 training event held in Slunj, Croatia, on Monday, May 28, 2012. Immediate Response 2012 is a multinational tactical field training exercise that will involve more than 700 personnel primarily from the U.S. Army Europe’s 2nd Calvary Regiment and Croatian armed forces, with contingents from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Slovenia. Macedonia and Serbia will send observers to the exercise. The exercise is a part of USEUCOM's joint training and exercise program designed to enhance joint and combined interoperability between the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Croatian Armed Forces and partner nations, and will help prepare participants to operate successfully in a joint, multinational, interagency, integrated environment. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jose Ibarra)/released
The Stranding Response Team released 3 rehabilitated turtles along the shore just north of Neptune’s Park at 31st Street. The rehabilitated turtles were cleared by veterinary staff to be released. Satellite tags will send information via satellite when the turtle basks and can be followed on seaturtle.org. Acoustic tags are part of a project in conjunction with naval biologists that uses an array of receivers in the Chesapeake Bay and coastal ocean to monitor the fine scale movements of sea turtles. Information is not generated in real time and the receivers are checked once a month.
• Wolverine, loggerhead sea turtle
This turtle came to the Virginia Aquarium with the help of the Virginia Marine Resources Commission as it was found floating by a Tangier Island fisherman in July. Upon admission to the Virginia Aquarium Marine Animal Care Center, Wolverine was lethargic, dehydrated and in shock with a crushing blunt force trauma to the head. A CT Scan at Sentara Hospital enabled staff to get a firm visual of the wound and treat it accordingly. Wolverine is outfitted with pit tags (similar to dog/cat microchips), rear flipper tags, a satellite tag and acoustic tag.
• Loki, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle
Also found by a fisherman, Loki came from Kiptopeke State Park in December 2013. This Kemp’s ridley was cold stunned and suffering from pneumonia. His treatment consisted of fluid therapy, medication and a gradually raising of the core body temperature. Loki is outfitted with pit tags, rear flipper tags, a satellite tag and acoustic tag.
• Lex Luther, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle
Hooked by a recreational fisherman at Little Island Pier in Sandbridge on July 30, Lex Luther initially appeared to be in normal body condition and alert. However, upon admission the Stranding Response staff found that he had a large hook in the esophagus. This was removed under sedation at Beach Pet Hospital. Further follow-up treatment was conducted by Stranding Response staff. Lex Luther is outfitted with a pit tag and acoustic tag.
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December 2018. The Oregon Department of Agriculture led a team of 22 Oregon volunteers to Butte County, California to take over the operations of the Small Animal Full Care Shelter. ODA organized 5 veterinarians, 6 veterinary technicians and 11 shelter management experts from all over the state to serve in a clinical and management role caring for more than 500 animals.
Vježbovne aktivnosti tijekom Međunarodne vojne vježbe Immediate Response 19 | Foto: OSRH/ V. Jovanovac
The United States Army Garrison Italy conducted a routine annual full-scale exercise Lion Response 2017 on Caserma Ederle May 10.
This year’s exercise tested the cooperation of Italian and American security forces and emergency Italian and U.S. personnel to react to an emergency situation, which included a terrorist attack and a mass casualty situation on Caserma Ederle and a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device at Camp Darby in Livorno.
Photo by Laura Kreider/USAG Italy PAO
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