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The weekend or trip has come to an end and now it's time to pack up your campsite and head home or to your next destination. If only you had a checklist. You do! Not only am I sharing a checklist with you, on this week's T@b Talk, I walk you through the process of […]
Oh, Deer: Deer Creek State Park Campground Review
Are you looking for a campground near Columbus, Ohio? In this week's T@b Talk, I review Deer Creek State Park.
Plan The Best Roadtrip Ever
Are you considering planning a cross-country trip? Over the last decade, I have planned numerous cross-country adventures. In this episode of T@b Talk, I am going to share how I plan a trip, my favorite tools, websites, and apps, and some tips I have learned so that you can plan the best roadtrip ever.
5 Secret National Park Locations
What if you could have some of America's most scenic locations, all to yourself? Join me on this week's T@b Talk where I will share five locations right outside of national parks that are great alternatives to beat the crowds and in some cases, the heat.
Earth, Wind, Fire, and Roadside Assistance
What do you do when your trip is interrupted by a blizzard? Do you pack up and go home? Fund a place to hunker down? Would you even know if your trip was about to be interrupted by inclement weather.
In this week's episode of T@b Talk, Amanda Evans and I resume our conversation about traveling with a T@b trailer and focus on safety related issues.
Is the Goal Zero Yeti 1000 Solar Generator Right for Me?
Maybe the weather turned bad and your solar isn't generating quite the output needed to recharge your T@b, or maybe you are a gear junkie and you want the peace of mind of being able to recharge all of your electronics without risking draining the house battery in your trailer. In this week's episode of T@b Talk, I review the Goal Zero Yeti 1000 lithium solar generator and discuss different use cases that might the Yeti a good option for you.
12 Tips to keep you safe when you travel
Do you have a gun? Is it safe? Do you worry about people? These are just a small sample of the questions I have been asked about safety since I began traveling. In this week's episode of T@b Talk, Amanda Evans joins me and we discuss 12 tips for keeping safe when you travel with […]


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Almost all the people in the world are into social media so that they can connect with different people online. Social media is a mean for us to know what are those life-changing things that are happening in an individual's personal life. No one could have ever predicted that these apps could help us socialize and interact better with other people. We can also use social media apps to dig people's information quickly.
Now that everything is almost one click away from your mobile devices, there are a lot of people who use Facebook. You can almost do anything with Facebook like using it for business purposes, watching videos and sharing photos, and even reading a lot of things. Facebook is also entertaining and addicting at the same time. So here are some of the things that you can do with Facebook.
Connect With Family and Friends
You must know how to connect Timeline to Timeline with the people you are familiar with. Facebook calls the connection friendships. When you find people that you're looking for, you add them to your friend's list. With that, it's easier to connect and communicate with them. Friends are the main reason why Facebook has many users, and it is useful.
When you connect with your friends and family on Facebook, you can send your message to them with style. For example, when you have a lit message for your friends, you send it with a fire emoji, and if you have a sweet message for your loved ones, you send it with a kiss or heart emoji. Those are just some of the useful things that you can do with Facebook.
Set-Up Your Timeline
After you sign up with Facebook, the first thing that you need to do is establishing your Timeline, formerly called Profile. The main reason why Facebook calls it a Timeline is because there's much more to look at than just a bio. Your Timeline is the history and summary of your life on Facebook.
When you set up your Timeline, you need to choose your privacy settings so that you can control what people see in your information. Many individuals find it essential to add pieces of their informations and to unveil each piece cautiously to their Timeline. It is much safer to share the information in your Timeline that you are willing to share with someone in reality.
Sharing Your Thoughts
You might be proud of your national team, maybe you are excited about the upcoming days, or maybe you saw something unbelievable this morning that you want to share everyone. Every day, there are a lot of things that will likely happen to us and if you want your friends to know all of that, then you can do it on Facebook. This app can give your eager audiences to listen to whatever you want to say.
Share Pictures
While memories fade and the only thing that we can keep is our photos. You can share your pictures through Facebook, and you can tag that person with you in the photo. You can also create an album and organize all your photos there. Facebook will also show and remind you of the images that you uploaded years ago on the same day.
While there are many social media apps in the market, Facebook is what people use and download more. It is addicting to use, and you cannot almost stop once you start exploring it. You can make use of Facebook to your advantage, like in your business and other things. This app is capable of making our life more entertaining and accessible.

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The Better Canada Initiative is an incubator of ideas, policy, and important conversations. As a non-partisan, nonprofit organization, BCI strives to be the civil-society place where all Canadians can discuss, understand and articulate public policy information in Canada. The Better Canada Initiative aims to bring the best minds of Canada to one central location. In order to do this, we require the knowledge of a diverse group of Canadians to frequently comment on current issues. Our policy and research teams work with opinion piece writers to ensure that all research is sourced, evidenced and well-reasoned. We also strive to create content in various forms, commentaries, podcasts, infographics and research papers. Our goal is to distribute materials produced by the Better Canada team to our key stakeholders and release them in our monthly roundups, where appropriate.
Our Values
Integrity – Conduct business and fundraising in an honest, transparent, and ethical manner that honours our core principle of pan-partisanship.
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Community – Building community through dissemination of high-quality policy content produced for Canadians, by Canadians. Leveraging institutional and civic thought leadership by offering a platform designed to engage communities that are often left out of important public policy discourse.


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Can these friendships, forged on the internet—the most controversial tool of the modern era—survive the "real world"… or will they drop like a bad connection?
Ideal for readers at least 14-17 years old.
Matthew Bogart is a cartoonist living in Portland, Oregon. He has been publishing comics since he was ten and his father let him loose on the office photocopier.
Jesse Holden is a writer, designer, and creative collaborator on comics, novels, podcasts, and video games. He lives in Portland with his dog, Fergus.


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TellGameStop Feedback in Survey to Win $100 Gift Card
In this article, you will learn how you can take part in a GameStop survey on TellGameStop.com to win a $100 gift card. Also, we will share what are the requirements of TellGameStop survey and how to contact the company.
Tellgamestop Survey
GameStop is an American company that has developed a large number of video games, it also has introduced some electronics and also some wireless services to the retailer. GameStop company was introduced in the year 1984. The two founders of the company are Gary Kusin and James McCurry. The company has its own customer satisfaction survey so that they can increase their service. Here is everything you need to know about the TellGameStop survey.
What are the requirements to participate in the Survey?
- You need to have one smart device that can be a laptop or a Smartphone or a PC.
- The user needs to have a good and strong Internet connection that can be through mobile networks or through Wifi.
- You need to have the receipt or bill from GameStop.
What is the procedure to create a new account in GameStop?
Step 1: Visit the official website of Gamestop that is www.gamestop.com
Step 2: As soon as you reach the official website you need to go to the option that will be available on the top corner of the page and the option will be to sign in.
Step 3: If you already have an account then you need to sign in otherwise at the corner of the page you will find an option to create an account then you need to click on that.
Step 4: As soon as you click on the option you will be taken to the new webpage and on that page, you need to provide your email address and choose a password and then you can click on the proceed option.
Step 5: Again you will be taken onto a new webpage and on this page, you need to provide your personal information and then you need to click on submit option to save you're filled in information.
Step 6: As soon as you will provide your information a new account will be created in your name.
Also Read Official Michael's Survey @MyMichaelsVisit
How to Participate in the GameStop Customer Experience Survey with tellgamestop.com?
If you are eligible then use these steps to complete the GameStop customer experience survey.
Step 1: First go to the official site of Gamestop that is www.tellgamestop.com
Step 2: The first thing you need to do is select the language in which you are comfortable. You will get two language options that are English or Spanish. You have to choose any one amongst the two.
Step 3: Then you will be taken to a new webpage and on that webpage. Here you have to enter the feedback number and associate number printed on your last purchase receipt.
Step 4: Then you need to enter your feedback number. (both Associate number and Feedback number you will find on the receipt of GameStop).
Step 5: Click on start and then give answers to all the asked questions. These all questions are related to GameStop store visit, GameStop staff behaviours and products.
Step 6: Once done and then click on submit.
What is the Procedure to participate in the survey by MAIL-IN ENTRY?
You can also send your survey by using email. In that email, you need to provide your name, mailing address, and share your contact details or any other necessary information that is asked on the postcard and then you need to send this to: TellGameStop.com Sweepstakes Entry, 625 Panorama Trail, Suite 2100, Rochester, NY 14625-2437.
Only those entries will be taken that will be legible to read and your mail should arrive before the due date of the competition.
In that, you are only allowed to put one and you can not send several entries with the same details that will be considered as void.
Also Read: Firehouselistens – Official Customer Satisfaction Survey
About the GameStop Company
The headquarters of the company GameStop is in Grapevine, Texas, in the U.S. At present this company has more than 8000 stores all around the world. The products that are developed by the company are Video games, Consoles, and they also have come into the Accessories market. Also, it has some retail stores, GameStop has a lot of Game Informers, and also has some of the video game magazines, that are available on all Apple devices.
The various brands that are developed by GameStop company are as follows Game Informer, Trade-ins, GameStop TV, Pre-order bonuses, MovieStop, GameStop Kids, and also Simply Mac.
The company is divided into two operating types: Video Game Brands and other one is Technology Brands. In the Technology Brands segment in all, there is a total of 218 retail outlets and whereas GameStop's Video Game Brands includes some other businesses that the company has that are as follows video game and consumer electronics retail shops.


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Watch this webinar with cybersecurity and insurance technology expert Brad Ruben. He will explain how hackers infiltrate your agency and offer simple steps you can take to protect your agency and data.
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Acclaimed golf course architect David McClay-Kidd, creator of the original course at Oregon's Bandon Dunes Resort, will be called upon to develop construction documents for a proposed renovation of the Rancho Santa Fe (Calif.) Golf Club course, the Rancho Santa Fe Review reported. The Rancho Santa Fe Association board approved the $165,000 expenditure to hire McClay-Kidd.
The board's October 1 vote was not a green light for the entire project, but rather just for the first step as RSF Golf Club Manager Brad Shupe hopes to get a better scope and budget for the proposed renovation, which is estimated to cost $6 million, the Review reported. The funds for the upgrade would come out of the RSF Golf Club's reserves and the club members would also need to vote to approve the project before it moves forward.
In April 2019, the board approved the golf club's plan to hire McClay-Kidd to help update the golf club's master plan, which is redone every 10 years, the Review reported. The master plan update involves making improvements to the course's playability as well as an irrigation system redesign—the "antiquated" system is at the end of its 30-year life cycle.
Shupe told the Review they have put in a lot of effort to gather member input on what is most needed at the course.
"The feedback we've got is that everybody loves the golf course," Shupe said. "Some people are frustrated with the turf on the fairways and the other frustration is being able to physically get your body in and out of our sand traps or bunkers because of the style that they were built with and over time how they developed."
The renovation plans would include reshaping the bunkers to make them more user-friendly and the biggest expense would be re-turfing the course, the Review reported. Shupe said they are evaluating different types of turf that require less water and survive on lower water quality as well as turf that stays green, not going as visibly dormant.
"We think that will be great for golfers but also for the community, to look at a greener, healthier-looking golf course," Shupe said.
The $165,000 expenditure will help the golf club develop construction drawings and get a more effective budget for the project, which by early estimates would take five months for construction with the goal to have nine holes open the majority of the time, the Review reported.
While he approved this first step, RSF Association Director Rick Sapp requested that the golf club come back to the board at a future meeting with a full description of the entire project that would include financial assumptions and impacts, the Review reported.


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Education and Training
2005-2009: B.S., Biology, summa cum laude, Howard University, Baltimore, MD
2011-2012: M.D., University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Post Graduate Education and Training
2013-2017: Residency, Anesthesiology (Categorical with preliminary year in Internal Medicine), University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
2017-Present: Fellowship, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Henderson is a native of the Maryland/DC suburbs, he graduated from Howard University and completed medical school training at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed his residency in anesthesiology at University of Maryland Medical Center, where he served as the Chief Resident in 2016-2017. He stayed on with the Department and completed his fellowship in Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology in 2017-2018. He will be joining the Cardiac Division, working primarily at UMMC.
Highlighted Publications
Williams B, Henderson R, Reformato VS, Pham T, Taylor BS, Tanaka KA. Hemostasis Management of Patients Undergoing Emergency Cardiac Surgery After Ticagrelor Loading. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 34(1), 168-174. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2019.06.028. [Epub 2019 Jan 24]. PMID: 31375405. 2020
Madathil R, Tabatabai A, Rabin J, Menne A, Henderson R, Mazzeffi M, Scalea T, Tanaka K. Thromboelastometry and D-dimer elevation in Coronavirus-2019. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2020.05.020 [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 32593588. 2020
Henderson RA, Choi S. History and Practice of Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution. Curr Anesthesiol Rep. 10, 282-288. 2020
Tanaka KA, Henderson RA, Strauss ER. Evolution of Viscoelastic Coagulation Testing. Expert Rev Hematol. 13(7), 697-707. PMID: 32310702. 2020
Chow JH, Abuelkasem E, Sankova S, Henderson RA, Mazzeffi MA, Tanaka KA. Reversal of Vasodilatory Shock: Current Perspectives on Conventional, Rescue, and Emerging Vasoactive Agents for the Treatment of Shock. Anesth Analg. 130(1), 15-30. PMID: 31348056. 2020
Additional Publication Citations
Kiefer J, Henderson R, Bernstein W, Non-infective Endocarditis of Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve Posterior Strut, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Poster. 2016
Henderson R, Bernstein W, Tracheal Sternal Fistula after Cardiac Surgery, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Poster. 2016
Henderson R, Bernstein W, Pre-Operative Optimization of a Patient for Urgent Cardiac Surgery, American Society of Anesthesiologist Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Poster. 2016
Henderson R, Deshpande S, Greeting From Down Under! Aortic Endocarditis From An Unexpected Source, American Society of Anesthesiologist Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, Poster. 2017
Henderson R, Williams B, Deshpande S, Halt The Bleeding Before It Starts: Utility of Intraoperative Viscoelastic Testing to Preemptively Reduce Coagulopathic Bleeding Associated With Prolonged Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologist Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, Poster. 2017
Research Interests
- Blood product utilization
- Coagulation profiles of cardiac surgery patients.
- Effect of blood products on endothelial function.
- Alternative blood product utilization
- Left ventricular and right ventricular strain assessment.
Clinical Specialty Details
- Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
- Transesophageal Echocardiography


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Say What?! You Want To Go Vegan? The Ultimate Beginners Guide & Recipe (E-book)
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Understanding that this is a LIFESTYLE JOURNEY and NOT A DIET we are in this thing for the long haul. All the myths you've heard get debunked and everything you need to know about how to eat to live will be uncovered here! No more are the days of struggling, we are tackling this plant based journey like a BOSS!
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This Tuna Mac and Cheese recipe is Kid Friendly, so gather the family and enjoy cooking together. We are updating a Kid Favorite with the benefits of adding clean protein and omega-3's. Tuna Mac n Cheese bites are great for a snack, appetizer, or finger food dinner entree. Snack Hack: freeze, then microwave (35 secs) for a fast kiddo snack anytime.
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Share with family and friends while warm, as these Tuna Mac & Cheese Bites are sure to become a family favorite for appetizers, game day, or even with a fresh green salad. Helpful Tip: Freeze Mac & Cheese Bites, so you have an easy Kiddo Snack ready in seconds. Simply microwave frozen bites for about 35 seconds and faces will be smiling in less than a minute.
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Just Sold! 5289 Crystal Anne Dr West Palm Beach FL
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West Palm Beach FL Real Estate - Just Sold 5289 Crystal Anne Dr West Palm Beach Florida Listed on February 4th, 2011 and Closed on March 22nd, 2011 for $105,000. This great 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 2 car garage West Palm Beach FL home for sale was located in the active adult 55+ community of Cypress Lakes. Cypress Lakes is close to shopping, dining and entertainment. The community has fabulous amenities, which include FREE golf and events for residents take place weekly. If you are looking to BUY or SELL a home in Cypress Lakes in West Palm Beach FL contact me today!
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MOSIP participated in the 'Global Virtual Summit on Digital Identity for Refugees' organised by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) held on May 29, 2019. UNHCR, in partnership with Immigration, Refugees, Citizenship Canada, launched this Global Summit to harness the experiences, perspectives and expertise of a diverse and inclusive group of stakeholders in considering how digital identity can facilitate greater empowerment, protection and solutions for asylum seekers and refugees. Together they aim to encourage a wider conversation in this area among forcibly displaced persons, host communities, the private sector, academia, humanitarian and development actors.
We presented our views on inclusive design solutions for interoperable, standards-based digital identity systems. MOSIP put forward its approach to foundational identity, which aims to develop an open source, modular platform providing the critical building blocks for user agencies to develop and own their identity systems. The recordings for these sessions are available here.
MOSIP allows for customization and configuration as per user needs. It has the capability to work both in online and offline mode, has a modularized credential management system, enables user-controlled privacy, and is capable of inter-operating with both existing and new solutions. It allows the user agencies like UNHCR to adopt a layered approach where they can govern the critical function of identity and authentication management while collaborating with specialized service providers to operate on top of the foundational layer.
In the run-up to the event, we also submitted a paper to the UNHCR establishing an approach for a platform like MOSIP to form the basis of a standards-based identity system for refugees. This paper was accepted and will be made available on the UNHCR website.
We believe MOSIP could serve as a reliable next-generation platform for UNHCR fulfil the critical function of building and managing their identity ecosystem and assist in their mandate of providing international protection and humanitarian assistance.


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Honolulu, Hawaii - A bill originally aimed at preventing animal abuse has turned into something entirely different and now suggests that Hawaii stop the sale of intact cats or dogs.
HONOLULU, HAWAII — A bill originally aimed at preventing animal abuse has turned into something entirely different and now suggests that Hawaii stop the sale intact cats or dogs.
The original House Bill 243, introduced Jan. 21, contained no mention of sterilization, and mandated only that intention killing of someone else's pet would be considered first-degree animal abuse.
But after several hearings in House committees, the bill was amended by the Senate, and the version now being considered contains no mentions of animal abuse. Instead, the bill blames feral cats for an explosion in the state's cat population, and says there are more dogs than there are people willing to care for them. As a result, the bill suggests the best way to help overpopulation is to "limit store-front retail activity of unsterilized cats and unsterilized dogs."
The bill would ban any pet retailer—considered as any person or business that sells animals through a store operation—from selling unsterilized cats and dogs. Violations would be punished by a $1,000 fine for each offense, according to legislation.
The bill has been approved by several committees, but it still under consideration by lawmakers. If passed, it would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2012.


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Note from BW of Brazil: In my two decades of experience visiting and living in Brazil, I have never been to the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Well, let me take that back. I have actually been there, but it was only a brief stop at the Internacional Salgado Filho airport in the capital city of Porto Alegre. I was returning from a brief trip to Montevideo, Uruguay, in 2012, and I stopped in Porto Alegre on my way back to São Paulo. So, as I was there for only a few hours, that trip to Rio Grande do Sul doesn't really count.
The furthest south in Brazil I've traveled up to this point is the state of Paraná, also located in the south of the country. One of these days, I would like to spemnd some time in Rio Grande do Sul to see if the differences between the south, southeast and northeast of the country are as different as I've read. I can say that I can feel significant differences between São Paulo and Bahia, for example, so I can imagine that these differences would be pretty obvious in comparison to Rio Grande do Sul as well.
One thing that Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná and another state, Santa Catarina, have in common besides being located in the south is that the three have the largest percentages of people who consider themselves white in the country. It's often said that the south is like Brazil's Europe and according to many reports, elites of these states want everyone to know that this is white part of Brazil. Although a state like Rio Grande do Sul does have its own black history, you'd never know it by the way the state is promoted.
Interestingly enough, the state does have the distinction of having one of the highest annual reports of one particular statistic that tells us a little about beliefs about race on the part of gaúchos, meaning natives of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. According to the Brazilian Yearbook of Public Security, the state has the most registrations of the crime of injúria racial, meaning racial injury or slur, with 1,404 cases in 2017 and 1,507 in 2018. In second place is another state in the south, Paraná, with 1,289 registrations in 2017 and 1,239 in 2018. According to the Secretariat of Public Security of Rio Grande do Sul (SSP-RS), a qualified injury is contemplated, besides racial, that of color, ethnicity, religion or origin.
In other words, the area of the country that received millions of European immigrants in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century also ranks high in anti-black sentiments. Considering the uproar back in 2018 when a black woman competed in the Miss Rio Grande do Sul contest, this all makes perfect sense. Go figure. Oh well. I still want to visit some day.
Where are the blacks of Rio Grande do Sul?
The black population has been in the state since the early days, but over time this presence has been erased from "official history". On the Dia da Consciência Negra, or Black Consciousness Day, learn more about this process, its consequences, and how to modify it
By Eduardo Amaral
"Throughout my career, and that of most of the black people, we never really saw ourselves represented, never had that black figure. In the history books, monuments, I never saw myself. " This is how people like the journalist Flávio Bandeira, 34, born and raised in Porto Alegre, grew up, without seeing people like them in the history of their city and state, and hearing all their lives that their role was far from professional success and the possibility of holding relevant positions because of their skin color, something that still hurts. "The first impact is vital and guides our life, our daily life, which is self-esteem. Not being represented in practically nothing makes one wonder, 'wow, can any of us get there?', even though some have. But then comes another question: what is the difficulty in showing that we can also get there? What is the fear of society that some black will reach a prominent position? This is something I think about a lot every day. We see that we are practically invisible in society," says Bandeira.
This lack of protagonism in the history books, the names of streets and monuments scattered around Porto Alegre and other cities of the state goes against the reality of the facts, since even denied, the black presence in the history of Rio Grande do Sul is very strong and it was fundamental for the state to become one of the most important in the country during the time of the Empire – until today a significant portion of the gaúcha population calls itself black. In the 2010 Census, 1.72 million people said they were black, representing 16.13% of the total population. In Porto Alegre alone there are 285 thousand blacks, or 24.18% of the inhabitants. Historians report that the first Africans to arrive in the state date from 1717, as soon as the colonization of the region began, they remained here throughout the imperial period and are still present today. Even so, this did not guarantee that their names would be engraved on bronze plates, worthy of homage in the streets.
Author of the book Rastros da Resistência, in which he tells the history of black characters forgotten by time, the São Paulo writer Alê Santos draws a parallel between Brazil and the United States that fits the relationship of gaúchos with their black personalities. "We look a lot at the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, we don't know that in Brazil our black heroes are alive: Hélio Santos, Sueli Carneiro, Vovô of Ilê Aiyê, are people who fought against the Dictatorship, against racism and against social repression," says the writer. Ignorance of the still-living Brazilian black heroes described by Santos is similar to what happens in the state, where blacks celebrate Zumbi dos Palmares but are unaware of the story of Manoel Padeiro, a quilombola leader who led revolts against slavery, and how, in Pernambuco, he amassed a series of followers among freedmen and fugitives from the torments of slavery. Historians analyze that the disappearance of references is not coincidence, but part of a process of invisibility that has crossed the centuries and with a clear objective: to create the image of a "different state" in which miscegenation would not have happened as in the rest of the country, where slavery was milder and blacks did not suffer so much.
The origins of whitening
Historians dedicated to reconstructing the narrative about the relationship and importance of blacks to the formation of the state do not point to a date and a specific movement in the who initiated this erasure from history. However, even without defining exactly when and for what reasons these characters were forgotten at the time of telling the history of Rio Grande do Sul, some facts are considered important to understand how black people were left out of the "official version". One of them is the arrival of the first European immigrants who landed on gaúcho soil in the late nineteenth century, coming to replace the labor that was no longer the slave.
Historian Jorge Euzébio de Assumpção points out that the migratory process followed by black invisibility followed an ideological line. "Rio Grande do Sul was one of the most slave-holding states, but this kind of thing goes unnoticed when it comes to the southern economy that values immigration, the valiant immigrant, and I'm not belittling it, but before the immigrant came we had the work of the enslaved and this was evaded. This weight of enslaved labor is ideologically evaded, because the history is ideological as well. It is part of this whole context of political scientism, embranquecimento (whitening) and also not wanting to be Brazilian like the others. 'We are the best because in our blood there is a little black blood', this is all an ideology of gauchism, from which here in the South a society based on free and non-enslaved labor was formed. If I start to demystify this, I will take away the myth of the gaúcho and this myth that is celebrated in the CTGs, and then it goes against the official ideology", explains Assumpção.
A Ph.D in History, Fernanda Oliveira is in the same line as the historian and in her analysis it is possible to see that in the myth of the gaúcho did not fit other ethnic groups than the European. "The ideal of Rio Grande do Sul dates back to the 19th century, when the first memorialists begin to narrate what this place is, and there will be created a whole myth of who is the gaúcho, who here in Rio Grande do Sul has no black and indigenous features, he is a white man of the field. So, we have an official story that will be constucted to speak of this place since the 19th century, and it will say that this is a white place," she says. This erasure of history has been accentuated over the years, generating an imagination also about blacks, who would not be qualified to occupy places of power or have prominence in society. Over time, these two imaginations will create spaces of segregation followed by the expulsion of black populations to make room for the new white inhabitants of the state. In Porto Alegre, this is registered when knowing the formation of the Rio Branco neighborhood, today considered one of the upper crust places of the city.
Where are the blacks in the history books of Porto Alegre? There is a total embranquecimento (whitening)" – Jorge Euzébio de Assumpção
During the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, Rio Branco was called the Colônia Africana (African Colony) and housed a large portion of freed and liberated people after the Golden Law of 1888. And so it was for a long time, with the black community creating there its space for housing and social interaction, so much so that it was recognized, already in the XXI century, the first urban quilombo of the country, the Quilombo dos Silva. However, the arrival of Europeans gradually made the area a region of conflict and it was not long before the place gained a new profile and the history of blacks who lived there erased from the region, all in a subtle way. In 1912, there came the change of name, which at first might seem like a tribute, because it referred to the author of the Law of the Free Womb, but for Assumpção it was a way to deny the former residents. "If I place Colônia Africana, I'm saying there were a lot of blacks there. Now if Porto Alegre is a white city, how am I going to have an Colônia Africana? From this moment that I change the name I am whitening, it is a subtle whitening that we have of the history, but at the same time something that marks," he explains.
But this would not be the only case of a black population removed from the space they inhabited. The creation of the Restinga neighborhood, in the extreme south of Porto Alegre, is, in Asumpção's view, another chapter of this history of erasingout and turning blacks away from the city's looks. "The neighborhood comes from the people of Ilhota who were expelled in the 1960s during the urbanization of Porto Alegre. A hygienic cleaning, Ilhota was removed and all were sent to the Restinga. So no wonder the neighborhood has this large black population, because it comes from those who were in Ilhota. Porto Alegre has always treated blacks badly, and it is not mimimi (whining), it's historical facts. Where are the blacks of Porto Alegre's downtown? They are all in the peripheries, the outskirts of the city. Where are the blacks in the historical formation of Porto Alegre? Where are the blacks in the history books of Porto Alegre? There is a total embranquecimento," he protests.
Author of the recently released Além da Invisibilidade: história social do racismo em Porto Alegre durante o pós-abolição (Beyond Invisibility: The Social History of Racism in Porto Alegre during the Post-Abolition), Marcus Vinicius de Freitas Rosa points out another important moment to understand the erasure of blacks in Porto Alegre history: the policy adopted at the beginning of the new Republic in the 1930s. "(President Getúlio) Vargas made an effort to construct a Brazilian regional identity, so it is a period that the provincial and municipal government here in Porto Alegre greatly encouraged the Carnival of the lower classes, where there was already a participation of the very massive black population. Carnival has always been a conflict, because while it is a symbol of Brazilianness, it was encouraged at a time when the regional identity of the gaúcho was being constructed under a notion of raça branca (white race). The identity of the gaúcho was constructed on the imagination of a white race, so this is also a criterion that differentiates us from regional to national identity. National identity is based on an idea of miscegenation between Indians, Europeans and Africans, and Rio Grande do Sul believes that it has a pure identity, which has never been evident," observes Rosa.
It was at this time that one of the places of the city officially marked by black history was renamed in an attempt to reinforce the formation of a regionalist culture. In 1935, the then Parque da Redenção (Redemption Park) was renamed Parque Farroupilha (Farroupilha Park). The year marked the centenary of the revolt led by gaúcho ranchers dissatisfied with the taxes levied on charque (beef jerky) produced in the state. To honor the date and reinforce the identity of Gauchism, the governments of the time decided to set aside the initial nomenclature of the space located between the Bom Fim and Floresta neighborhood, leaving aside the tribute to the end of slavery, as the original name referred to – and which is still the most popular among Porto Alegre and park goers.
The consequences of embranquecimento
With their forgotten role in official historiography and marginalized through policies considered hygienist, black gaúchos and Porto Alegre were gradually being forgotten when the state introduced its population to the rest of the country. Investing in the idea of a society made up solely of immigrants, the presence of black people here still amazes the inhabitants of other states, as Rosa says: "I am promoting the book in other regions of the country, so when I go to Salvador, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, people are still surprised to learn that there are black people in Rio Grande do Sul, because they continue to this day with an image of a state where there are only immigrants. They think everyone here is blond with blue eyes. But Rio Grande do Sul constructed an image of itself centered on immigration, we erased the history of slavery of Africans and their descendants in this region of the country, and consequently also the blacks of the state."
The feeling is not just that of the scholar. Flávio Bandeira also felt up close the surprise when he identified himself as a gaúcho. "One of the first times I went to São Paulo alone, I went to play futebol with a group of friends I met there, people said my accent was different and they asked me where I was from. I said I was gaúcho. I showed that there are black people in Rio Grande do Sul. My parents, when traveling to Porto Seguro on vacation, strolling there, left people surprised to learn that there are black people here. Those who study black history a little deeper see that its representation is strong, but it is at all times stifled," opined the journalist. Beyond the astonishment, the lack of representativeness is pointed directly as one of the causes of the great inequality between whites and blacks in the state. If racism exists in every country, the numbers of official organs make it clear that it is much more severe in the pay of gaúchos.
"This southern, gaúcho identity, excludes instead of including" – Fernanda Oliveira
In the study "Desenvolvimento Humano para Além das Médias" (Human Development Beyond Averages), released by the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) in 2018, Porto Alegre appears as the most unequal city for blacks and whites. The municipal human development index (MHDI) for whites is 0.833, while for the black population it is 0.705, a difference of 18.2%. This index measures the quality of life of the inhabitants of a region and the best result is the closest to 1. Across the state the difference between whites and blacks averages 13.9%, with whites always having the best conditions. What the numbers say, Bandeira felt in life-long practice. Passionate about racing and a rock fan, he spent much of his life going to places where black people are not common. "When I started to have more contact with karting and racing I noticed how the black doesn't belong there. It is there because it is present, because it wants to be. I have my kart friends, I'm the only black guy and I know that sometimes I need to speak firmly to be heard, respected and not let them try to diminish me in any way," he reveals.
Fernanda Oliveira evaluates that the impact of this disappearance of blacks in history is not only a problem of the affected population, but something that brings harm to everyone. "I believe there is a negative impact on every society, it loses what is most potent about it, which is plurality. You make a unique identity of the place where many people do not identify, we do not identify women, blacks, people with dissident sexuality, indigenous people. We do not have a plurality presence, so it is most perverse in what is the potential of places, which is what people are able to produce from their places and social positions. So this southern identity, gaúcha, excludes rather than includes."
Retelling the story
Alê Santos started with a series of Twitter posts to tell the story of great black figures that were forgotten by Brazil, and that's where the idea for the book Rastros da Resistência came from. With him, the writer wants to bring to the surface what has been historically hidden for years and see other people like him meet in the characters that were unknown until then. "It was an example of my own recognition, because I am constantly reading, watching documentaries trying to find some figure that I could identify with, because it makes me understand my part as black too. I found in these stories the answers to deal with all prejudice, answers that I did not find in life," he says.
In the evaluation of Marcus Vinicius de Freitas Rosa, the process of showing black characters with public honors is fundamental for the gaúchos to have a broader perception and more consistent with the reality of how the state was formed. "There is something called colonization of the imagination, which means that most people, when they imagine the past, exclude black people. The historical imagination is also permeated by racial criteria, we exclude black people and indigenous people from history, so it is important to make them visible through street names, building statues, re-naming avenues, building libraries and giving them the name of by black writers such as Machado de Assis, Lima Barreto and others. Doing so helps deconstruct black invisibility in history."
Some black personalities
Carlos Santos (1904 – 1989)
A native of Rio Grande, in the southern region of the state, he became involved with the trade union movement in 1930, shortly after the revolution led by Getúlio Vargas. He became an auxiliary inspector of the Ministry of Labor and Social Action, organizing the Union of Metallurgical Workers, a position in which he spent a short time. In 1935, he was elected state deputy (congressman) as a classist representative, being the first black to occupy a seat in the gaúcho parliament. He held the position until 1937, when Vargas contructed the Estado Novo, New State, through a coup. He became a newspaper contributor and majored in letters in 1945. In 1958, he was elected again as state deputy, holding the office until 1963. In 1967, Santos, then deputy of the MDB, assumed the presidency of the Legislative Assembly, a position that allowed him to assume the state government, having occupied the seat long before Alceu Collares (PDT) was elected governor. He remained in the Assembly until 1975, the year in which he ran for the position of federal deputy and was elected, holding the position until 1975 after a re-election. During his political career he stood out for denouncing and combating racism both in Rio Grande do Sul and directly in Brasília.
Aurélio Verissimo de Bittencourt (1849 – 1919)
A civil servant, he was one of the trusted men of the first Republican governments in the state, both under the management of Júlio de Castilhos and Borges de Medeiros. Born in Jaguarão in 1849, he died in Porto Alegre in 1919. In the Capital, he held important positions in public administration and was linked to groups of literate blacks, being one of those involved in the founding of the O Exemplo meaning 'the example, a journal that became the voice of blacks in the south of the country. The newspaper has had three phases since its foundation, the first circulating from 1892 to 1897. On Monday, the newspaper was edited for eight years, between 1902 and 1910. In the third, the longest, it circulated between 1916 and 1930.
Luciana Lealdina de Araújo (1870 – 1930)
Born on June 13, 1870 in Porto Alegre, Lucinda became known when she moved to the city of Pelotas. After contracting tuberculosis, she made a promise that in case of cure he would found a house to house exclusively black girls. At the time, at the end of the 19th century, the black children abandoned in the circle of the rejected had great difficulty in being adopted and were not accepted in most of the shelters that offered shelter. Cured of tuberculosis, Luciana founded in 1901 the São Benedito orphanage. In 1909, he repeated the action in Bagé, with the creation of the São Benedito Orphanage. In both institutions children of all colors were accepted, inside they were literate and had several other teachings. According to the Ph.D in history, Fernanda Oliveira, education has always been a very prominent area for black women.
With information courtesy of Correio do Povo
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November is Native American Heritage Month, and we continue our look at the Wyandot, who were so influential in the early days of Wyandotte County. The Wyandot were a matriarchal society and provided women prominent roles in the religious and political affairs of the tribe. Today we highlight three notable Wyandot women.
Nancy Quindaro Brown Guthrie
Nancy Quindaro Brown Guthrie was the daughter of Adam Brown, son of Wyandot Chief Adam Brown. Her name, Quindaro, in traditional Wyandot language, refers to the leadership role of a first-born daughter. Meaning "a bundle of sticks," Quindaro is often interpreted as "in union there is strength." Nancy Quindaro was of the Big Turtle Clan of the Wyandot and the Turtle Clan of the Shawnee.
When the tribe was still living in Ohio, Nancy met Abelard Guthrie, a land agent, and he courted her despite strong disapproval from her father. Brown disliked Guthrie, and their feud was so deep that Guthrie attempted to have Brown arrested when Brown shot at him. After the tribe moved to Kansas, Guthrie followed, married Nancy, and eventually aided the establishment of the town of Quindaro. The town that bore Nancy's name was the first free port on the Missouri River, an Underground Railroad site, and a temperance town. At the time of her marriage in 1844, she was said to be the most beautiful girl in the Wyandot Nation. William Walker, Jr., recorded in his journal that "she was tall and of faultless form, a faithful wife, a devoted Christian mother." Abelard and Nancy had four children: James, Abalura, Norsona, and Jacob.
After the Treaty of 1867, and despite her protestations, Nancy was declared a Citizen or Absentee Wyandot. The Wyandot Tribal Rolls show that Nancy wished to retain her tribal status as well as the tribal status of her children. She tried unsuccessfully to regain her tribal status and move to Canada to live among her relatives there. She died at her home on Russell's Creek in the Cherokee Country on April 13, 1886, and is buried in the cemetery at Chetopa, Kansas.
Margaret Clark Northrup
Margaret Clark Northrup was born on the Wyandot Indian Reserve near Lower Sandusky, Ohio, in 1828. The daughter of Thomas Clark, one of the Chiefs of the Canada branch of the Wyandot Nation, she moved with her tribe to Kansas territory in 1843 when they ceded their lands to the United States government. It was in Kansas that Margaret met Hiram Northrup, a wealthy merchant from New York. They were married at the Methodist Mission in Wyandotte by Reverend Wheeler when she was just 17, and it is said to have been the first recorded marriage in Wyandotte County.
When Margaret first met her future husband, she spoke very little English, and they required a translator during their courtship. Hiram Northrup became an adopted member of the Wyandots. He had come to Kansas from Ohio and had been living on the Missouri side, engaged in banking and merchandising with Joseph S. Chick. After their marriage, he erected a log cabin near the present intersection of Eighth Street and Minnesota Avenue. It was there the young couple went to housekeeping, and it was there they lived during the remainder of their lives, although they soon replaced the old log structure with a more substantial residence. Margaret was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for nearly 45 years, and their family grew to include four sons. She was known for her grace, refinement, and taste and was well-loved in the community.
Mr. Northrup was a friend and counselor of the Wyandots and made frequent trips to Washington in their interests. Northrup became a trusted member of the Nation, acting as their financial agent for many years. He was a banker in Kansas City, Kansas, up to the time of his death in the spring of 1893. Margaret Northrup died at their home in Wyandott City in 1887 and was buried in the Wyandot National Burying Ground.
Lyda Conley
Eliza Burton "Lyda" Conley is best known as the woman who saved the Wyandot National Burying Ground. One of the few female graduates of the Kansas City School of Law and the first woman admitted to the Kansas bar, she was also the first Native American woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court. In 1906, Congress authorized the Secretary of the Interior to sell the Wyandot National Burying Ground. To protect their ancestors' gravesite from development, Lyda and her sister, Lena, moved into a lean-to on the cemetery grounds (often referred to as "Fort Conley") and filed a petition to stop the sale. It went before the Supreme Court, where Lyda argued the case in 1910. Though the case was dismissed, she inspired Kansas Sen. Charles Curtis to introduce a bill making the land a national park. The bill passed in 1916, and the cemetery was preserved. In December 2016, the cemetery was named a National Historic Landmark.
Lyda Conley died in 1946, at the age of 72, after being attacked on her way home from the library. Her funeral service was attended by 500 friends, so many that they temporarily blocked traffic in downtown Kansas City. She was buried next to her parents in the cemetery she dedicated her life to protecting.
For more information about the Wyandot and other Kansas Native American tribes, the library has the following resources:
Wyandot Folk-Lore by William Elsey Connelley (available through Hoopla)
On the Back of a Turtle: A Narrative of the Huron-Wyandot People by Lloyd E. Divine Jr. (dárahǫk)
Land Too Good for Indians: Northern Indian Removal by John P. Bowes


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The internship in Max Planck Institute was the 5th internship I had done overall. You might think "why have you done that many?". The answer is simple – after my first internship, I understood that knowledge and practical experience gained during studies are too superficial and far beyond professional application. It allowed me eagerly to seek for other opportunities to dive into professional world during my studies and inevitable it paid off greatly. Along with expeditious professional growth, internships facilitate personal growth, invaluable experience of living abroad, a new perception of the World, new connections, understanding of different cultures and new opportunities.
A current situation I am at just proves the previous statement – I am an employ of Max Planck Institute. 4 months internship at aforesaid institution allowed me to lay a foundation for present position and feel comfortable with ongoing projects I have to carry out. A great deal of my internship time was dedicated to intensive learning of computer-aided engineering software and getting familiar with DEMO fusion reactor project and its requirements. Skills and knowledge gained during the internship not only will be competent for ongoing position but for future also. In addition, I had an opportunity to take a part in German language course, which I am going to continue further.
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El Burhan: 'Rumours and demonstrations hinder the work of the Sudanese government'
Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, chairman of Sudan's Sovereign Council, complained that "rumours and demonstrations hinder the work of the transitional government". He was speaking to the leaders of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) present in Juba, where the Sudanese peace negotiations take place, on Saturday.
Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, chairman of Sudan's Sovereign Council, complained that "rumours and demonstrations hinder the work of the transitional government". He was speaking to the leaders of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) present in Juba, where the Sudanese peace negotiations take place, on Saturday.
El Burhan stated that "the masses have an absence of awareness". "Providing them with misleading information that leads to demonstrations created a polarised political environment, which caused many not to believe in the military," he said.
He reaffirmed that the military is not interested in governing the country, but wants to work with the transitional government to reach a national compromise.
According to Yasir Arman, deputy head of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North faction under the leadership of Malik Agar, the peace negotiations between the government and the armed rebel movements are entering its crucial and final phase. He said both the SPLM-N and the Sudan Revolutionary Front rebel alliance are ready to resolve all outstanding issues and reach a final peace agreement.
Arman said the split of the SPLM-N into two factions headed by Malik Agar and Abdelaziz El Hilu and the lack of coordination on negotiating positions between the two rebel groups, is detrimental to the Two Areas (South Kordofan and Blue Nile). This will harm the whole of Sudan, he stated.
The Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) decided to send a large delegation to Juba. It will be divided into two. One delegation is to join the daily negotiations. The other delegation will facilitate the negotiation process and meet both the SPLM-N led by Abdelaziz El Hilu and the SRF to discuss all outstanding issues.
FFC spokesman Wajdi Saleh stated that the Sudanese government negotiation delegation now includes representatives of the cabinet, the Sovereign Council and the FFC.
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The Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement, signed the Sudanese government and the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) rebel alliance in Juba on Friday, allocates 30 per cent of all positions at the legislative and executive level in the eastern states to the Beja Congress (a political association of Beja and other tribes) and the Popular Front (a coalition of eastern Sudanese rebel groups). It also guarantees 14 per cent of all public positions in state institutions for local people. Imbalances in the civil service will be addressed.
The Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement includes both national and local issues. The most prominent national issue is the clause that those against whom the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants will be handed over. It was also agreed that Sudan will sign international treaties on the rights of women and children.
The agreement calls for the establishment of a Fund for the Development and Reconstruction of the East, with an initial budget of $348 million.
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HUSAR Teams
Heavy Urban Search and Rescue (HUSAR) teams are multi-disciplinary in nature. Personnel and equipment used by these teams can be deployed locally, provincially, and across Canada to provide the specialized search and rescue to free and recover trapped victims.
A wide variety of disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, typhoons, storms and tornadoes, flood dam failures, technological accidents, terrorist activities and hazardous material (hazmat) releases can signal a HUSAR requirement.
Toronto's HUSAR Team, also known as Canada "Task Force 3," has undertaken additional preparations to become designated as a cold weather specialist team, unique to North America. Funding for the team comes from the provincial Office of the Fire Marshal (OFM), from Public Safety Canada, and from the City of Toronto.
The events of September 11, 2001 prompted the Province of Ontario, the Office of the Fire Marshal (OFM), and the municipal fire service to accelerate the development of a comprehensive strategy to be better prepared for the consequences of terrorist-related activities.
In 2002, the OFM established a comprehensive fire service based response system for the province. Provincial and municipal resources are available and deployable throughout Ontario to mitigate significant hazmat and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives (CBRNE) emergencies. The system also provides response to emergencies requiring HUSAR capabilities.
The provincial-municipal partnership, established to create the system, is the most cost-effective way to deliver these vital services. The system seeks to provide an appropriate response to emergencies to save lives, reduce loss to property and minimize pain and suffering. It is intended to provide an optimum level of service to all areas of the province and its 12,500,000 residents.
Partnership Works
Municipalities are the primary providers of service and the province supports them by providing a combination of transfer grants, equipment, training and central support. The municipal delivery teams provide enhanced services within their jurisdictions, mainly through the availability of equipment and training supplied to them as part of this partnership.
The partners in this system respond to changes, solve problems, collaborate on issues, assess provincial and municipal needs and identify the resources required to meet those needs. This system aims to provide better planning and a comprehensive and cost-effective emergency response service to the residents of Ontario.
What is HUSAR?
The Department of Public Safety defines HUSAR as: "the location of trapped persons in collapsed structures using dogs and sophisticated search equipment; the use of heavy equipment such as cranes to remove debris; the work to breach, shore, remove and lift structural components; treatment and removal of victims; and the securing of partially or completely collapsed structures."
The department has prepared a Canadian Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Classification Guide to fulfill the need to list the continuum of USAR capacities in Canada. The premise of the classification system is that USAR is a composite of a myriad of technical rescue capabilities, from light USAR (carried out with few technical resources), to heavy USAR, (multi-disciplinary teams that integrate large amounts of technical equipment and diverse professional skills in demanding rescue scenarios).
In recent years, five core national teams were identified and developed to form a successful Heavy Urban Search and Rescue (HUSAR) response capability. HUSAR teams exist in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Halifax, and the Province of Manitoba. These teams were developed and designed to deploy on a nation-wide basis to provide surge capacity assistance to provinces, territories and/or municipalities upon request.
Why is HUSAR important?
Throughout the world, large-scale events caused by emergencies or disasters are on the rise. Invariably, these events require specialized expertise and equipment not readily available locally. Additionally, local resources tend to become quickly overwhelmed and require external support. Canada is not immune to these types of disasters and must be prepared to respond to these situations.
International experience with earthquakes demonstrates that the rate of survival for victims in a collapsed building drops dramatically over the first four to five days, after which the prospects of survival are extremely unlikely. According to one source, 81% of those rescued on the first day are likely to survive. This rate drops to 34% on the second day and falls to only 7% by the fifth day. These figures are not dissimilar to the Kobe HUSAR experience. In Oklahoma City, no live rescues occurred after the first 24 hours following the explosion.
In recent years, a number of events have focused attention on the need for a HUSAR capability in Canada.
- In Japan, the 1995 Kobe earthquake demonstrated that a large number of people can be trapped in structures without warning at a time when it is very difficult for first responders to cope with more than the most rudimentary of assistance.
- The 1995 collapse of the department store in Seoul, South Korea, illustrated the fact that there doesn't have to be an earthquake to justify needing HUSAR resources.
- The Oklahoma City bombing showed that an established, trained, and available national capacity for HUSAR can save lives, relieve the suffering of families and friends, and locate essential forensic evidence.
- The copycat bombing at the Charlottetown, P.E.I. legislature, and the 1995 Toronto subway crash, alerted Canadians to the fact that HUSAR resources are required in Canada.
- Studies done in 1989 for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation show that if the major earthquake predicted for the lower mainland of British Columbia were to occur, 10-30% of residential construction would become uninhabitable, and up to 30% of transportation routes would be unusable. Between 50 and 100% of un-reinforced masonry buildings would collapse or become unuseable, including older schools and hospitals (constructed prior to 1940) that have not been strengthened.
Toronto's HUSAR Capabilities
Specially trained and equipped search and rescue teams such as Canada Taskforce 3 (CAN-TF3) are available to respond outside of Toronto within six hours. Upon request, Toronto HUSAR will respond to any community, province-wide, or nation-wide request from those whose resources have been overwhelmed.
Protocols are in place so that when local capacity has been exceeded and additional assistance is needed from the Province, the fire co-ordinator can contact the Provincial Emergency Operations Centre of Emergency Management Ontario to request the assistance of the Toronto HUSAR team.
Toronto HUSAR can be deployed in part or as a whole to a variety of incidents. The team maintains a pre-determined 24/7 state of readiness, and is designed to be self-sufficient for up to 10 days. This readiness allows it to be deployed and react quickly to events, and to be deployable outside the City of Toronto, within the six hour mandate, when required.
Some specific capabilities of Toronto HUSAR include:
- Physical search and rescue operations in damaged/ collapsed structures;
- Emergency medical care to the injured;
- Reconnaissance to assess the damages and needs, and provide feedback to local, provincial, and federal officials;
- Assessment of utilities to houses and buildings;
- Hazardous material surveys and evaluations;
- Structural/hazard evaluations of government/municipal buildings needed for immediate occupancy to support disaster relief operations;
- Stabilization of damaged structures, including shoring, and cribbing operations on damaged buildings.
When a fully self-sustained deployment is required, Canada Taskforce 3 will deploy 65 multi-disciplined team members to the situation, complete with search and rescue equipment, base camp (base of operations), team management, and medical and logistical support. The team can also be deployed in lesser numbers for smaller requirements.
Team members have been carefully selected and trained from a wide-range of emergency expertise from within the City of Toronto including:
- Management, logistics, planning, administration, and rescue specialist capabilities from the Fire Services.
- Advanced patient care capabilities from Emergency Medical Services.
- Technical and canine search capabilities from Police Services.
- Water Services provide heavy equipment capabilities.
- Sunnybrook-Osler Centre for Pre-hospital Care (Base Hospital) provides trauma physician capabilities.
The team is designed to respond by road, rail or air. Vehicles include: 1/2 ton pickups; 5-ton box trucks; 2 tractors/trailers; a 40-passenger bus; Gators; an all-terrain forklift and Argos. The over 200,000 lbs of equipment include a base camp, power equipment, food and water, search devices, rescue tools, air monitoring and hazardous materials identification equipment, trauma and life support equipment, and satellite and other wireless communications equipment.
HUSAR Benefits
It has been established that municipal fire services in the Greater Toronto Area, and in the province, lack the necessary capability that Toronto HUSAR will be able to provide. HUSAR adds a wide variety of technical rescue specialties to the current arsenal. The very nature of the team enhances the emergency preparedness of the city and the province.
Within its boundaries, Toronto HUSAR provides a greater ability to the city to deal internally with any type of disaster or threat before requesting outside assistance. This ensures a more efficient and effective response by getting needed expertise and resources on the scene sooner.
Urban Search and Rescue operations are extremely labour intensive. The vast majority of individual communities cannot afford to operate and sustain the extensive level of equipment, training and other resources required to provide HUSAR capabilities. Hence, the provincial Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) provides access to Toronto's HUSAR team where local capacity has been exhausted. It is essential, therefore, that all jurisdictions with this capability share as much common information as possible with the various components. Joint training exercises are strongly encouraged.
HUSAR Deployments
The year 2003 was a busy one for the Toronto HUSAR team. It was involved in numerous child find and crime scene situations, providing technical search expertise, structural access, and logistical support to Police operations – including the searches for missing Cecilia Djhang, Holly Jones, and Alexis Curry. Also, a gas explosion occurred, completely destroying a second-storey plaza when a damaged natural gas line ignited. Toronto HUSAR assisted Ontario's OFM investigators, searching through the rubble for five days to locate and remove victims of the explosion. Also in 2003, Toronto's Uptown Theatre collapsed. HUSAR members assisted the local resources in building stabilization and with search operations.
HUSAR – Training
The heart and soul of this specialty rescue team are its people. Proper training is necessary for any rescue team to safely and effectively conduct rescue operations. No tools or technology can substitute for lack of training and experience. Other than the establishment of this project, training its the second biggest investment.
Considerable effort is placed on having every team member trained to a level slightly higher than is expected. The training for each member varies depending on his or her position and areas of responsibility.
Team member training covers skills development in areas that include technical search, structural collapse, building shoring, confined space and trench rescue, high and low angle rescue, water rescue, search operations, hazardous materials and emergency medical first response, crush injury awareness and treatment, logistics, advanced canine handling and first aid, and incident management.
All training programs comply with applicable standards for safety, consistency and thoroughness of the training. All training includes an evaluation component.
Deployment Exercises
Regular exercises are a key component of the HUSAR program. They test the skills and training of the teams, and improve the information exchange between team members. Examples of Toronto's HUSAR team in action practicing their skills include:
2005 – Whitby, Ontario – The Toronto HUSAR Team conducted an off-site deployment exercise. The Team operated from a self-sustaining "Base of Operations." The mock situation began at 04:30 hours with a tornado ripping through the Durham area along the Taunton Road corridor. Toronto HUSAR was requested to perform search & rescue operations in the urban area. Throughout this three-day deployment, patients were successfully extricated from five separate collapsed building sites, with support assistance from the local fire department.
2006 – Calgary, Alberta – Toronto's HUSAR Team participated in Canada's first national search and rescue exercise. Forty-two team members were deployed to several simulated disaster situations over a three-day period. Tasked to safely and efficiently extricate patients trapped under various types of building debris, under high wind and cold weather conditions, Toronto formed up and operated with the other search and rescue teams. The exercise scenario called for out-of-province HUSAR teams that had been requested through the Alberta Emergency Operations Centre (AEOC), to assist Calgary's Canada Taskforce 2 already supporting local responders. The exercise proceeded for 24 continuous hours and was, by all accounts, a great success.
2006 – Gatineau, Quebec – The Toronto HUSAR Team garnered its second gold medal as SARSCENE Games Champions at the annual competition. These games bring Canadian teams together to compete in various search and rescue events. The Competition involved several activities:
- Search management
- Navigation (map and compass skills)
- Emergency scene management/medical (boat accident with casualties)
- Evidence/clue search (lost child scenario)
- Relay event
- SAR questions
- Knot tying
- Map knowledge
- Shelter building
- Detection skills (locating pre-positioned clues)
2006 – Fergus, Ontario – This exercise challenged the logistical and technical aspects of operating in a realistic setting and tasked the Toronto HUSAR Team and one of the team's partners, the Ontario Provincial Police's Provincial Emergency Response Team (PERT), in a cooperative exercise deployment conducted over a five-day period in August 2006 in Fergus, Ontario.
Exercise scenario: as a result of a tornado, a local high school containing a large number of occupants had partially collapsed. Victims were situated throughout the building. CAN-TF3 and PERT were mobilized and deployed to assist local authorities. As a result, a total of 32 rescue tasks were performed, with the successful extrication of 21 victims.
Having a chance to come together and exercise using common equipment and shared procedures and resources is a great way to demonstrate the depth of training and knowledge contained within the various teams.
2007 – Toronto, Ontario – Toronto CBRN, HUSAR and PERT teams organized an annual off-site deployment exercise in June. The scenario began at a recently vacated hotel, with a series of explosions deemed "intentional" by first responders. More undetonated explosives remained in area buildings and the CBRN response team was deployed at the outset. The HUSAR and PERT teams then entered and conducted a series of search and rescue situations through the five-day exercise. The exercise included many partners; the Office of the Fire Marshal, St. John Ambulance, Toronto Emergency Medical Service, Toronto Police Service, and Emergency Management Ontario (EMO), as well as federal representatives, and other fire services in the Greater Toronto Area.
Wrap Up
There remains an urgent need for a strategy that takes into account the local, provincial and federal efforts to date and provides an over-arching, coordinated, and sustainable framework to enhance the country's readiness to manage both natural and man-made incidents of this nature. Canada Task Force 3 is ready to do its share!
Carol-Lynn Chambers is the Operations Manager with the Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal, overseeing the Provincial CBRNE/Hazmat/HUSAR program.
Doug Silver is the Division Chief, Professional Development and Training, Toronto Fire Services and Special Teams Coordinator – HUSAR.
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Is Netflix Developing an 'Overwatch' Animated Series? Here's What We Know!
There are rumors that the popular video games 'Overwatch' and 'Diablo' are currently in development with Netflix to become new animated series.
Get ready, gamers!
According to new reports, Netflix is possibly working on developing two animated TV shows for the popular game franchises, Overwatch and Diablo. Blizzard Studios President Nick van Dyk, currently states on his Linkedin profile: "Executive producer of Diablo, a TV adaptation of Blizzard's IP, rendered in an anime style. The show is currently in pre-production for distribution worldwide through Netflix."
As for the first-person shooter game Overwatch, Nick states on his profile that he "with [his] creative partner, developed and sold an animated series based [on] Blizzard's Overwatch franchise." With his close ties to Netflix already, it wouldn't be too far of a stretch to think the animated series would be bought by the streaming platform.
Fans react to a possible 'Overwatch' and 'Diablo' Netflix series.
After reports surfaced of the video games currently on track to become animated series, diehard gamers took to Twitter to share their thoughts.
"Okay just heard about a potential Overwatch animated series and I think it's a good way to introduce more people into Overwatch but I don't think it's necessarily the best way to tell a story. I don't want to have to watch a full season of a show just to know one character's story," wrote one person.
Another fan tweeted, "But I am SUPER EXCITED because Overwatch has the potential to make an interesting series bc it has such a beautiful, vibrant world and interesting characters and this would be the perfect opportunity to explore characters/orgs besides the 'main' ones... like Sym/Vishkar etc."
"An Overwatch Netflix series? I would love that, a LOT. I LOVE the story and lore of Overwatch. I can't get enough of the comics, stories, and animated shorts. With Overwatch 2 seriously ramping up the story element to the game, I think a series would be amazing!" posted an excited fan.
Unfortunately, fans may have to wait a bit for the premiere of the animated series as neither Netflix or Blizzard Entertainment have confirmed the news.
While gamers anxiously wait for a possible Overwatch or Diablo series, fans can binge the Netflix series The Witcher. Based on the popular video game by the same title, the story follows Geralt (Henry Cavill), a monster hunter whose fate is intertwined with a young girl named Ciri (Freya Allan), and a powerful sorceress named Yennefer (Anya Chalotra).
The popular Netflix series is currently in pre-production on Season 2, which will continue to follow the main characters as they try and stop Nilfgaard from taking control of the entire continent. Since Ciri and Geralt finally reunited in the final episode of The Witcher, we can assume they'll be on the hunt for the whereabouts of Yennefer, who went missing after the Battle of Sodden Hill when she unleashed her powers or "chaos" on Nilfgaard's army and successfully pushed them back.
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The Surfer's Journal Volume 22.4 did a little write up on the Luau. Check it out!!!
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
The Surfer's Journal
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Cheers Justin! I wish yall could have too. Next year?!
Nice write-up Mr. Black. Will have to attend this fine event sometime in the future.ReplyDelete
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Nice work Mr. Black. One of these years...ReplyDelete
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Stephanie and Dax are our friends in Houston and they are the salt of the earth. Great people!
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With multiple releases on Background Records, ~scape, and Ghostly/Spectral already under his belt, Alan Abrahams (aka Bodycode and Portable) presents a fabulous fusion of ultra-deep House and Afro-futurism on his Yore debut A Document of an African Past. Abrahams sounds positively unleashed on the twelve-minute A-side, "The Centre of Time," which pushes the Bodycode sound farther than ever before. After opening with scattered flurries of African percussion, a warbling bass line emerges, asserting some degree of control, before a skipping pulse and voice yelps send the track on its way. Abrahams has shown himself in the past to be a master builder when it comes to weaving layers into intricate masses and does the same here too. Halfway through the piece, a breakdown occurs, allowing percussion flourishes to re-appear, now accompanied by a voiceover, before the tune kicks into gear again even more ferociously for the ride home. Lerato\'s sweetly soulful vocals grace the B-side\'s "Body to Body," a mesmerizing deep house anthem that proves a perfect complement to the volcanic opener. With its swinging pulse, "Body to Body" is a little bit more in line with the established Bodycode style but is no less delicious for being so. Throughout its ten-minute duration, Abrahams stokes a funk house groove that\'s got club-ready written all over it and, when Lerato\'s "Let\'s get it on" appears halfway through and the tight beats turn even funkier, the moment is pure bliss. Abrahams continues to amaze, regardless of whether the material appears under the Portable or Bodycode guise.Note: unfortunately, the title of the record got \'twisted\' in the design process and, consequently, the label displays \'A Document of an American Past\' when it should be \'African.\'
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