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A paratrooper assigned to1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, prepares to conduct a parachute landing fall, during a Joint Forcible Entry exercise that is a part of Swift Response 15 on Hohenburg drop zone in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 26. 2015. More than 1,000 paratroopers from Germany Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, the U.K and the U.S., conducted an airborne operation as part of exercise Swift Response 15 on Hohenburg drop zone in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 26. 2015. (U.S Army photo by Sgt. Juan F. Jimenez/Released)
United Kingdom soldiers of 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, pose for a group photograph as part of morale building during Swift Response 16 training exercise at the Hohenfels Training Area, a part of the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, in Hohenfels, Germany, Jun. 18, 2016. Exercise Swift Response is one of the premier military crisis response training events for multi-national airborne forces in the world. The exercise is designed to enhance the readiness of the combat core of the U.S. Global Response Force â currently the 82nd Airborne Divisionâs 1st Brigade Combat Team â to conduct rapid-response, joint-forcible entry and follow-on operations alongside Allied high-readiness forces in Europe. Swift Response 16 includes more than 5,000 Soldiers and Airmen from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United States and takes place in Poland and Germany, May 27-June 26, 2016. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Rachel Wilridge/Released)
JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. -- Airmen from the 818th Contingency Response Group, 621st Contingency Response Wing, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. perform sling load training with a CH-53E Super Stallion transport helicopter assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 772 at JBMDL Feb 9, 2014. Sling load training enables both air and ground units the opportunity to practice moving large or urgent cargo into areas where aircraft cannot reach, such as aid supplies inside disaster areas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Parker Gyokeres)
U.S. Air Force Reserve and a U.S. Army personnel load vehicles into a C-130 Hercules during Exercise Swift Response 17 at Papa Air Base, Hungary, July 17, 2017. Swift Response links to Exercise Saber Guardian 17, a U.S. Army Europe-led, multinational exercise that spans across Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania with more than 25,000 service members from 22 allied and partner nations.
Photo by Maj. Jolene Bottor-Ortiona, 302nd Airlift Wing Public Affairs
Florida Fish and Wildlife Law Enforcement response in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.
October 2, 2022.
FWC photo
A French paratrooper aims his Anti-tank weapon at an emeny tank after an airborne operation in Hohenfels Germany, during Swift Response16, June 15, 2016. .
Swift Response 16 is one of the premier military crisis response training events for multi-national airborne forces in the world. The exercise is designed to enhance the readiness of the combat core of the U.S. Global Response Force - currently the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team - to conduct rapid-response, joint-forcible entry and follow-on operations alongside Allied high-readiness forces in Europe. Swift Response 16 includes more than 5,000 Soldiers and Airmen from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United States and takes place in Poland and Germany, May 27-June 26, 2016. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Juan F. Jimenez/Released)
Paratroopers with the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade complete an airborne operation as part of Exercise Anakonda 2016 in Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, June 6, 2016. Anakonda 2016 is a Polish-led, multinational exercise taking place in Poland from June 7-17, and involving more than 25,000 participants from more than 20 nations. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Whitney Hughes)
Le club de rugby malouin entretient des relations privilégiées avec ses homologues du village de Penclawdd, près de Swansea, au Pays de Galles. Vendredi 29 mai, une délégation forte de 55 personnes a été reçue à l'Hôtel de ville par l'adjointe de la municipalité chargée des sports, Claire Guinemer.
Après avoir visité le château et le traditionnel échange des cadeaux le responsable gallois Andrew Williams s'est déclaré « ravi de l'accueil ».
Une rencontre entre les Ă©quipes des U14 des deux clubs aura lieu Ă l'hippodrome ce samedi, Ă 16 h.
L’école de rugby de Saint-Malo reçoit le club gallois de Penclawdd / 29 – 31 mai 2015.
Après avoir rendu visite à Jersey mi-avril, les joueurs et joueuses de l’École de Rugby de Saint-Malo poursuivent leurs échanges internationaux en accueillant une vingtaine de jeunes du club gallois de Pen-clawdd, du 29 au 31 mai prochain.
À l’initiative de cet échange, Jeremy Taylor, un ancien joueur d’origine galloise, aujourd’hui bénévole au pôle Jeunes du XV Corsaire. La saison dernière, ce fervent supporter du XV du poireau, avait emmené les enfants du club malouin découvrir « son » club et « sa » région.
Pen-clawdd est un village de 3 000 habitants, en bordure de l'estuaire de la Loughor River. C’est une zone de pêche littorale très réputée dont la spécialité culinaire est le bara lawr (algues hachées, présentées sous forme de pâte, que l’on peut déguster avec du lard).
Sur le plan rugbystique, le club de Pen-clawdd a été créé en 1888 et a formé, tout au long de son histoire, des joueurs dont quatre sont devenus internationaux. Seul pub de la commune, le club house du Penclawdd RFC a une véritable fonction sociale. Sportivement, l’équipe locale se classe en deuxième division Ouest (ce qui correspond, en France, au niveau de Fédérale 2).
« L’an dernier, les enfants avaient passé un magnifique séjour. L’accueil chaleureux de nos hôtes gallois n’est plus à démontrer», se souvient Laurent Hoste, directeur de l’E.D.R. Et d’ajouter en souriant : « Là -bas, la mer est au bout du terrain. Un luxe qui ne laisse pas de marbre des corsaires comme nous ».
Au cours de ce séjour, les jeunes rugbymen français avaient joué contre leurs homologues gallois. Ils avaient également assisté à la rencontre Pays de Galles / France, dans le cadre du tournoi des six nations et ils avaient pris le temps de visiter la région, notamment une ancienne mine de charbon.
Le week-end prochain, les jeunes corsaires du XV malouin auront à cœur de faire découvrir la côte d’Émeraude à leurs correspondants. Par ailleurs, ils ont déjà préparé les crampons pour en découdre avec les jeunes donks de Pen-clawdd, surnom qui leur est donné en raison des nombreux ânes vivant à l’état sauvage dans les herbus de l’estuaire.
Il y a fort à parier que les rencontres ne manqueront pas d’engagement de part et d’autre !
Penclawdd (Welsh: Pen-clawdd) is a village which is situated in the north of the Gower Peninsula in Swansea, Wales. Penclawdd is most famous for its local cockle industry which goes back for many years to Roman times. It falls within the Penclawdd electoral ward. It is one of the larger villages on the Gower Peninsula. Part of the village is perched on a high location, enjoying panoramic views over the Loughor estuary and surrounding Gower countryside, while the main part of the village stretches along the edge of the estuary. Being so close to an estuary, Penclawdd is thriving with wildlife. It is plentiful in birdlife and with wild horses that roam the estuary.
Up until the end of the 19th century Penclawdd was a thriving sea port. The village was renowned for coal mining and its extensive tinplate, copper and brass works. There was a time when Penclawdd had a forge, twenty grocers, three butchers, three drapers, four fish and chip shops, eleven pubs, a cinema, the still remaining three chapels and a church and a busy railway station. The original railway platform still remains today. Also, built in 1807, a now derelict Hermon Chapel was used to help ships navigate the estuary.
Composer Karl Jenkins was born and raised in Penclawdd.
Penclawdd RFC
Penclawdd RFC, nicknamed the Donks, have a long history in rugby union. Penclawdd RFC officially formed in 1888, but rugby has been played in the village since the 1880 / 1881 season, the same year as the founding of the Welsh Rugby Union. In its formative years the club had no permanent pitch, but played on suitable available ground in various areas of the village. Haydn Tanner is one of the club's most famous players, playing for Wales and the British Lions in 1938. Willie Davies, another famous Penclawdd international went North and played for Bradford Northern in the 1930s, and also went on to represent Britain in rugby league.
The club is still thriving today, recently celebrating 125 years of rugby being played at Penclawdd and the first team is currently competing in the Division 2 South West league of the WRU, the 2nds in the Swansea and district league, and the Youth play in the osprey rugby trust leagues.
Local delicacies
Cockle harvester and donkey in 1951
Penclawdd is most famous for its local cockle industry which goes back for many years to Roman times. This is one of the only industries to survive. These cockles are collected from the extensive sandy flats in the Burry Estuary and the cockles harvested there are sold worldwide. Samples of these famous cockles can be purchased at the stalls in Swansea Market and locally in the village itself. Up until the 1970s the cockles were gathered by women using hand-rakes and riddles (coarse sieves) with the help of donkey carts, often braving very hard conditions. Now they are harvested mostly by men, still by hand but using tractors or Land Rovers. The original small, family-owned factories in Penclawdd have been demolished and cockles are now processed in two large, modern factories in the nearby village of Crofty; the product is largely exported to continental Europe.
Other local delicacies include laverbread (laver seaweed Porphyra umbilicalis washed and boiled; it is eaten dipped in oatmeal and fried in bacon fat) and salt marsh lamb. All of these and more examples of Welsh cuisine are sold at an award winning local Penclawdd produce market.
There are various industrial units in Crofty nearby, which are in various stages of decay, being very run down, especially on the New Rd, as they are in desperate need of repair..
A tense situation at Bathurst and King Street West has a man barricaded near the McDonalds and the Armed Response team brought into action.
The Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN) sent volunteer nurses to Butte County, California to assist in responding to the disaster created by the deadly Camp Fire.
Volunteer RNs were deployed to local shelters and clinics, in conjunction with the Butte County Public Health Department, from Saturday, November 17 through Friday, November 23. Lead RN for the deployment, Tammi Bachecki of Kaiser Walnut Creek, previously deployed to Puerto Rico and to Florida for hurricane relief work with RNRN, and says she didn’t hesitate when the call went out to help closer to home.
As of Friday, November 16, 2018, the death toll from the Camp Fire had risen to 68, with the list of missing at over 600. At 45 percent contained, the fire had destroyed 9,844 residences and 336 commercial buildings. Bachecki said that this is an unprecedented disaster, and that her heart breaks for those who have lost their homes, their loved ones, and their pets.
“I’m just hoping we can help out and make a difference, make their holiday a little better,” said Bachecki.
Photo credit: Jaclyn Higgs, National Nurses United
US Gun ownership (in percentage of households with at least one firearm) has been trending downward since roughly 1977. The gap between the two lines signifies non-response to the question; we don't know whether those people had guns or not.
Notice that there is not data for every year. This data comes from occasional polls, and the polls were conducted in various years until they settled on a pattern of conducting them in every even-numbered year. The 2012 results have not yet been released. The poll data can be retrieved here:
sda.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/hsda?/var/www/cgi/cgi-bin/harcsd...
Compare to US Murder Rate: flickr.com/photos/91128695@N07/8283560518/
US Fatality Rate: flickr.com/photos/91128695@N07/8281162948/
And US Violent Crime Rate: flickr.com/photos/91128695@N07/8298646211/
A Paratrooper assigned to 127th Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, removes the chains from a bulldozer after an airborne joint forcible entry exercise on Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 27. 2015. Swift Response 15 is the U.S. Army’s largest combined airborne training event in Europe since the end of the Cold War. More than 4,800 service members from 11 NATO nations - Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States - will take part in the exercise on training areas in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, and Romania, Aug. 17 - Sept. 13, 2015. Swift Response 15 is designed to integrate multiple Allied nations’ crisis response forces into a cohesive team and demonstrate the combined ability to rapidly deploy and operate in support of maintaining a strong and secure Europe. To learn more about Swift Response, visit the U.S. Army Europe homepage at www.eur.army.mil. (U.S Army photo by Sgt. Juan F. Jimenez/Released)
U.S. Soldiers of Bravo Company, 1st Brigade, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division provide security while conducting defensive operations during Swift Response 16 training exercise at the Hohenfels Training Area, a part of the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, in Hohenfels, Germany, Jun. 17, 2016. Exercise Swift Response is one of the premier military crisis response training events for multi-national airborne forces in the world. The exercise is designed to enhance the readiness of the combat core of the U.S. Global Response Force â currently the 82nd Airborne Divisionâs 1st Brigade Combat Team â to conduct rapid-response, joint-forcible entry and follow-on operations alongside Allied high-readiness forces in Europe. Swift Response 16 includes more than 5,000 Soldiers and Airmen from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United States and takes place in Poland and Germany, May 27-June 26, 2016. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Gage Hull/Released)
Paratroopers from Italy, Spain, and the U.S. jump from aircraft to seize an airfield on Smardan Training Area, Romania. XVIII Airborne Corps led a Combined Joint Task Force during a joint forcible entry training exercise as part of Operation Swift Response 15 (photo courtesy of European Press Agency).
Through a new partnership with the government of Denmark, UNOPS is providing electricity generators and heating devices to people living in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region.
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has caused significant damage to the country’s infrastructure and energy networks. In November 2022, the Ukrainian government reported the destruction of 40 per cent of Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Damaged infrastructure has also affected energy and heating supply to 15 regions across the country.
In response to the crisis, the government of Denmark tasked UNOPS to deliver $18 million worth of much-needed electricity and heating equipment – including electricity generators, boiler houses, power banks and other essential items that will provide communities with access to electricity and heating during the cold winter months. Initially focusing on the Mykolaiv region, the project is expected to expand to other areas across the country.
“Working at the college has not been the same since we shifted to online learning. We train nurses, ambulance attendants, and pharmacists, who have to learn ways to perform practical manipulations, and teaching that through a screen is nearly impossible. We are all looking forward to welcoming our students back, and we want that to happen as soon as possible,” says Olena.
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Airmen of the 154th Combat Comm. Squadron, Hawaii Air National Guard, assist members of the Guam National Guard with emergency communications equipment following Typhoon Mawar in Barrigada on May 28, 2023. The Category 4 storm brought torrential rains and winds of up to 150 mph, temporarily degrading internet and cellphone service on the island. (Photo by Mark Scott)
This was pretty impressive. Alexander Hayes and crew here set up a system where he could send a SMS to all of the registered participants, and when they replied, his software does a summary. This is more or less the equivalent of clickers, but better, as it is not just multiple choice.
See the responses to Question 1. I had showed them a fake add for a new technology and asked what resources would they tap into to delve it more:
Florida Fish and Wildlife Law Enforcement response in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.
October 2, 2022.
FWC photo
Citizen-Soldiers with the Missouri National Guard's 294th Engineer Company are assisting local law enforcement in Branson, Missouri following the community's run-in with a Leap Day 2012 tornado. Missouri Guardsman will stay on duty in Branson until released by civil authorities. (Ann Keyes/Missouri National Guard)
Hurricane Michael storm response from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Division of Law Enforcement.
As first responders, FWC officers’ activities have included locating missing persons, enforcing curfews, distributing humanitarian aid to residents, clearing debris from roadways and houses, assisting with medical calls, law enforcement patrols, escorting supply trucks and assisting local police departments and sheriff’s offices with general law enforcement duties.
Members of FWC’s Special Operations Group are working with USAR teams to create highly specialized urban search and rescue units. Officers are providing aid to areas of greatest need in Mexico Beach, Panama City, Marianna, Blountstown, Port St. Joe, Alligator Point and other areas that were severely affected by Hurricane Michael.
FWC photo by Tim Donovan
An U.S. Army paratrooper from the 173rd Airborne Brigade packs his parrachute on the Piaskowi Drop Zone in Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, June 6. Anakonda 2016 is a Polish-led multinational exercise, taking place in Poland from June 7-17. This exercise involves more than 25,000 participants from more than 20 nations. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Antonio Lewis / Released)
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Corporal Matt Schneider from 38 Combat Engineer Regiment working as a member of the Arctic Response Company Group fires the Remington 12 Gauge shotgun during a familiarization shoot..
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The 31 of November saw the first of many 2014 gatherings of the Arctic Response Company Group. This ARCG is primarily concerned with Northern sovereignty and Ex. Komotic centered around meeting new members of the Company and familiarization with equipment such as .303 rifles and arctic tents. .
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Photo by MCpl Cameron Skrypnyk. Copyright 2013 DND/MDN.
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Champ de tir St. Charles, Ă Winnipeg, au Manitoba.
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Le caporal Matt Schneider du 38e Régiment du génie de combat, membre du Groupe-compagnie d’intervention dans l’Arctique, fait feu d’un fusil de chasse Remington de calibre 12 pendant un tir de familiarisation..
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Le 31 novembre a eu lieu le premier de nombreux rassemblements de 2014 du Groupe-compagnie d’intervention dans l’Arctique. Ce GCIA est principalement préoccupé par la souveraineté dans le Nord et l’Ex Komotic qui est axé sur la rencontre de nouveaux membres de la Compagnie et la familiarisation avec l’équipement comme les fusils .303 et les tentes arctiques. .
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Photo prise par le Cplc Cameron Skrypnyk. Tous droits réservés 2013 DND/MDN.
taken with my Canon AE-1 using 400 Kodak TriX b+w 35mm film.
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Sgt. 1st Class Randy Angel, an observer-controller with U.S. Army Euope's Joint Multinational Training Command, gives instructions to members of the Montenegrin army as they an ambush training during exercise Immediate Response 2012 in Slunj, Croatia, June 1. IR12 is a multinational tactical field training exercise involving more than 700 personnel from U.S. Army Europe’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment and Croatian armed forces, with contingents from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Slovenia. Macedonia and Serbia will send observers to the exercise. (Photo by Spc. Lorenzo Ware)
A British paratroopers p[rovides security for stryker vehicles during operation #Swiftresponse in Torun, Poland, June 8th 2016.The Paratroopers from the MRZR platoon are assigned to1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. The exercise is one of the premier military crisis response training events for multi-national airborne forces in the world. The exercise is designed to enhance the readiness of the combat core of the U.S. Global Response Force-currently the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team-to conduct rapid-response, joint-forcible entry and follow-on operations alongside Allied high-readiness forces in Europe. Swift Response 16 includes more than 5,000 Soldiers and Airmen from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britian, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United States and takes place in Poland and Germany, May 27-June 26, 2016. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Juan F. Jimenez/Released)