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"Superb, you're superb!"
Even if you've never watched this movie, you probably remember seeing the VHS case for it sitting there collecting dust on video store shelves years ago. That's back when it was known as The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak. Yes, a title that uses "the" three times.
I too used to walk past that old VHS rental tape back in the day. The video promised Indiana Jones-style adventure combined with sexy girls, but I never did get around to renting it, opting instead for, you know, good movies. And yet, I have to admit, the pop culture-obsessed geek part of me always did want to see the movie for curiosity's sake, to witness for myself whether it lived up to the sexy promise of the packaging.
Well, my day has come. The movie has now arrived on DVD with a new unrated director's cut, with its title shortened (re-shortened?) to Gwendoline. The packaging now promises a lot more sex and debauchery than it ever did, replacing the old Drew Struzan-inspired cover art with a stark shot of star Tawny Kitaen (Witchboard, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys) wearing nothing but a pair of handcuffs and some tiny underpants. But the time for looking at the cover art and wondering is over. Let's put this thing into the DVD player and find out just what we're in for.
Gwendoline (Kitaen) escapes from a convent and sneaks her way into the Far East, with the help of her serving girl Beth (Zabou, Billy Ze Kick). Gwendoline hopes to find her missing father, who has traveled into an unexplored land called the Yik Yak in search of a new species of butterfly. An innocent stranger in a very strange land, Gwendoline enlists the reluctant help of local tough guy and adventurer Willard (Brent Huff, Nine Deaths of the Ninja) to lead her and Beth into deadly territory. From there, it's one scrape after another for our heroes, including kung fu battles with slave traders, a showdown with some pirates, a fake-looking crocodile, superstitiously cannibalistic natives, poisonous desert winds, and more. Eventually, Gwendoline and company find a mysterious hidden city deep within the Yik Yak, one made up entirely of women — vicious, dangerous women with a thing for torture and murder.
As I noted above, this film is more widely known as The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak. The creators no doubt feel that just Gwendoline is a catchier and less unwieldy name, but you know what? The longer, geekier title really is more fitting, considering the light, cheesy tone of the overall film. Yes, you'll find a lot of female nudity and kinky bondage stuff going on here, but there's sense of gleeful goofiness to the whole thing that shows the filmmakers are more interested in entertaining you than merely turning you on.
The film begins by putting viewers right in the middle of the action, with little to no context about where we are or what's happening. We're in a seedy Shanghai-style marketplace with all sorts of unsavory characters running around. Some thieves tear open a crate and inside it is Gwendoline. This attention-getting introduction to the character shows that she's willing to go to any length to achieve her goals, including locking herself up in a box and shipping herself overseas. And yet, we see a different side of her personality when the crooks who find her try to sell her into slavery. Suddenly, she's innocent and virginal, knowing almost nothing about the world outside the convent where she grew up. It's a strange contradiction — at one moment, Gwendoline is a fish out of water, shocked and terrified by everything she sees, but then, at the drop of a hat, she switches to "tough girl" mode, getting her way by being headstrong and confident. This goes for her many, many nude scenes throughout the movie as well. Sometimes, she's all shy and insecure about revealing it all in front of others, and at other times, she walks around in the buff like it's no big deal.
It's not long before Willard arrives to rescue Gwendoline with some serious kung fu action. Once he shows up, there should be no question that this film is borrowing from the Indiana Jones series. Indy has a bullwhip, so Willard has a grappling hook. Indy has a brown leather jacket, so Willard has a black jacket. Indy has a fedora, so Willard has a dinky little sailor hat (no, really). Like Gwendoline, Willard also has a contradictory nature. Throughout most of the film, he doesn't want anything to do with her. He just wants to sail around on his boat without a care in the world, but she's always there, pestering him and sometimes tricking him into helping her. His frustration with her is potent, but at times he makes a complete turnaround and admits his undying love for her. This isn't like most romances of this kind, in which he gradually comes around. Instead, it's like he's always flip-flopping back and forth between wanting to spend the rest of his life with Gwendoline and wanting to feed her to that fake-looking crocodile.
Any horndogs interested in this movie only for the nakedness will be surprised to find so much of the story devoted to entomology. Remember that instead of buried pirate gold or a supernatural ark, the treasure desired by our heroes is a rare butterfly. Actually, you won't need to remember that, because someone will remind you every five minutes. Expect a steady stream of lines like, "We've got to catch that butterfly," and "What are we going to do about the butterfly?" and "I'm not going home without the butterfly." After a while, I thought they should have just named the movie Raiders of the Lost Butterfly and gotten it over with.
As our three heroes venture deeper and deeper into uncharted territory, I wondered just what sort of land this Yik Yak is. First, they're in a jungle, and when it starts to rain, Willard insists that Gwendolin and Beth remove their shirts to avoid "dying of thirst."
Yeah, okay. A few scenes later, they're in the desert, with nothing but untouched dunes as far as the eye can see. This is where the filmmakers throw in a confusing scene in which the characters cover their faces to protect themselves from poisonous wind, represented as a weird kind of purple light. And then it's back to another jungle to find the lost city that is the setting for the movie's final third.
Before that, though, there's an interesting series of events in which Gwendoline and company are captured by savage natives, who are covered with grayish mud, conveniently allowing extras of various ethnicities to be "native." Gwendoline and her two friends are tied up — not the last time this will happen in the movie — and locked in a cage. Believing they're about to be killed, Willard says he can't let Gwendoline die without knowing what it's like to make love. Swell guy, that Willard, always thinking of others. Problem is, he and Gwendoline are tied up and can't move. So he asks her to close her eyes as he describes their imaginary lovemaking to her. As he makes with the flowery sexual prose — helped by his husky, breathy voice — she moans and writhes with pleasure. Many viewers will find this scene laughable, with good reason, but the creators are actually attempting some genuine eroticism here. The easy way out would be to have the two break free of their bonds, peel off all their clothes, and roll around on the floor doing the sinful grunting yum-yum dance, but no. Instead, the creators attempt to take the high road. They know the brain is actually the body's most potent sexual organ, so they're playing on viewers' imaginings of what sex with Tawny Kitaen would be like. Now, does all this make the scene work? Not really. It's just as ludicrous as anything else that happens during the movie's runtime, but it's comendable that the director tried something more than just another sex scene.
There's an enormous tonal shift to the story when our characters get away from the natives and find the lost city, housing an all-female population. Okay, all you horndogs, forget everything I said in the last paragraph about the filmmakers trying to be high-minded when it comes to sex scenes, because here's where the movie's sleaze factor kicks into overdrive. Let's see, how do I describe the style of dress here? Most of the women in the city wear this suit of armor thing, that isn't really armor because it's incredibly tiny and barely covers them, like the stainless steel bikinis worn by so many women in Frazetta paintings.
Of course, it only takes one or two minutes to get Gwendoline and Beth into these outfits — and Willard wears one too! It's also here that all the weird bondage stuff takes over big time. As Gwendoline explores the city, she walks through a series of torture chambers, featuring nude and semi-nude women chained to walls, hanging upside down, and attached to all sorts of devious-looking devices. Everywhere you look, it seems like there's something twisted and fetish-y going on. Most of these women wear black metal helmets that obscure their faces. Plus, a surprising amount of them are bald. Seriously, I haven't seen this many bald women since THX-1138. The obvious argument is that women are being depicted merely as sexual objects, and not as well-rounded human beings. But then, that's what establishes the lost city as an evil place, where each woman has no personal identity, but is made to look exactly like all the rest, robbing of them any individualism. Who would create such a society, where women are treated in such a way? Why, an evil queen, of course.
Ah, the queen (Bernadette Lafont, Waiting for the Moon). She's the antagonist here, one who makes life very difficult for Gwendoline and Willard. She threatens to kill Gwendoline if Gwendoline doesn't bend to her will. Willard, meanwhile, is to provide his, uh, "seed" for the finest of the queen's warrior women, after which he too will be killed. The queen's sense of fashion is…interesting. Unlike most of the women in the movie, she actually keeps her clothes on, but wait until you see some of these outfits, including a tent-like monstrosity she dons during the movie's finale.
Amidst all the nudity and exploitation in the final third of the movie, there's some action here, too, notably a not-entirely-uncool fight between four women warriors. There's also the most ridiculous chase scene ever filmed. Seriously, it's even more ridiculous than the chase in Return of the Killer Tomatoes. My guess is someone looked at the chariot race in Ben-Hur, and thought, "You know what this classic action scene needs? A whole lot of half naked women." And that's just what we get.
As Gwendoline keeps getting captured, rescued, and captured again by the queen's forces, Beth is always there to help her out. Over the years, many fans of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings novels have argued that Frodo's sidekick Sam is actually the "hero" of the story. Frodo might carry the ring, but Sam is the one who sees to it Frodo reaches his goal. The same could be said for Beth. Gwendoline would be dead a hundred times over if it weren't for Beth's unwavering loyalty and willingness to do anything to help her. Beth also has some of the movie's funniest scenes, such as when she stands up to the savages. With one or two rewrites, the movie could have become The Perils of Beth quite easily.
A few other observations:
* The overall look of Gwendoline is tough to describe. At times, it seems like the producers spent multi-millions bringing this fantasy world to life. At other times, it looks embarrassingly low budget, with outdoor scenes clearly taking place inside a warehouse-turned-soundstage.
* What's new to this director's cut? The extras reveal that the added scenes aren't ones with additional sex and violence. Instead, the censors chopped a few of the comedic scenes. The director says in the commentary that he was forced to edit any scenes in which a woman slaps a man. But stuff like a scantily clad Amazon wannabe impaled on metal spikes was just fine, apparently.
* Just what is this movie's original language? I honestly can't tell. In English, the main characters appear to be speaking their own lines, while others are quite obviously dubbed. But then I watched the whole damn thing in French, and that seemed like some actors were saying their own lines, but others were still dubbed. Fortunately, it doesn't matter, because the DVD provides both languages, in 5.1 and 2.0 tracks for each, so maybe someone else can figure out which language is the "right" track.
A lot of DVDs claim to have "lovingly restored" picture and audio, but this is one case where those words are warranted. I doubt Gwendoline's transfer would look this amazing if the people who worked on it weren't in love with the movie. There's not a flaw to be found. Colors are bright and vivid, especially the all-important flesh tones. The 5.1 tracks are booming, and they'll ensure that you never, ever get the repetitive score out of your head.
The extras start off with a commentary track by the director, whose name is — are you ready for this? — Just Jaeckin. The impossibly-named filmmaker is joined by two journalists who have written about the film and are obviously big fans. Once you get used to everybody's accents, there's some interesting information to be found here. However, there are a few strange moments, such as how one journalist seems to be a walking encyclopedia of obscure bondage comic strips, but refers to Spielberg's adventuring archeologist as "Indiana Smith."
For more extras, there's a lengthy interview with Jaeckin, in which he talks about Gwendoline in detail, as well as his other famous films, The Story of O and Emmanuelle, both of which spawned countless direct-to-video sequels. The interview then reveals why Jaeckin retired from filmmaking at age 45 after completing Gwendoline, and it takes you to Jaeckin's home to show off some of his gigantic sculptures. Next, there's an audio interview between Dr. Alfred Kinsey — that's right, the guy the Liam Neeson movie is based on — and John Willie, creator of The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline, the comic strip on which the movie is based. I have to admit, the audio on this one was pretty much terrible, and I had a tough time sorting out what anyone was saying. Finally, there are two trailers, one of which features the longer Perils of… title, and some archived photos from Lui magazine from the time of the movie's release, featuring Kitaen in her revealing Gwendoline costumes. Why aren't these photos a DVD-ROM feature, so we can turn them into desktops and screensavers? Why? Why?!?
I can't believe this never got a sequel. Imagine Gwendoline visiting the Old West, where she gets tied up by evil cattle rustlers. Or Gwendoline in London, being chased through opium dens by Jack the Ripper. Or Gwendoline in space, where aliens with giant tentacles…oh, never mind.
If you want to buy this movie hoping that it'll be nothing but breasts, breasts, and more breasts, you should know that there's a lot more going on here. The filmmakers have multiple intentions. They're shooting for sexy eroticism, blockbuster action, sweet romance, and some slapstick craziness all mish-mashed together.
If I were to choose a single word to describe the Gwendoline experience, it'd be "silly." Everything is just outrageously over the top, but you can't help but be stunned by it all. This isn't a good movie in any way. If anything, it's trash filmmaking. And yet, I must admit I was entertained. It rolls along at a quick pace, and it's "out there" enough that you never know what crazy set piece is coming your way next.
I'm torn. I'd like to recommend this one because of its silliness, but I can't call it a good film because of that same silliness. I suppose, then, that viewers had best play it safe with a rental. If the movie gels with your own sense of humor, then it's one you'll want to watch repeatedly. But if you're turned off by the combo of sleaze and cheese, you'll know this isn't the one for you.


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Throughout my career in web development, I've taken on several freelance projects of varying size and complexity. These sites are usually heavy on front-end development, often simple portfolio or "About Our Business" sites.
A friend put me in contact with Kerry when he was beginning his first job search after graduating with his Master's in Architecture from Washington University. Kerry wanted a site with a clean look to showcase his work to perspective employers. I built the site in WordPress and used the default Twenty Eleven theme for a base.
The site has a highly customized look and feel, including extensive use of jQuery's animation features. The navigation bar is somewhat unique in that it maintains a fixed position a the bottom of the window while animating up and down to show different menu levels. Despite the high level of customization, WordPress's built-in navigation controls are still used to populate the menu in order to maximize the maintainability of the site.
Another friend looking for a site to showcase his architecture work, I also built this site using WordPress and the same Twenty Eleven as a starting point.
The major customization for this site is the addition of a unique sidebar for each page. For this site, I accomplished this by editing functions.php and registering a new sidebar for every page. I then created a series of page templates using each of the new sidebars. By setting the appropriate page template on the individual pages and editing the sidebars under "Appearance > Widgets" every page can contain its own unique sidebar content.
Meg is my wonderful wife, and I put this WordPress template together for her to use as an introduction to HTML and CSS as she prepares to start her Master's program at the University of Michigan School of Information.
The template is based on the Twenty Eleven theme (again), with just a few customizations to use as examples for CSS concepts. The navigation is fixed to the bottom of the left column, creating a pretty cool looking effect when the full width header scrolls away off the top of the screen. Most of the styling has been stripped out, making it a good starting point site that still looks pretty nifty.
Rehab Transportation is the transportation services subsidiary of Rainbow Rehabilitation Centers, brain and spinal cord injury rehabilitation specialists in Southeastern Michigan. This site serves as a simple web presence for said subsidiary, and also offers a contact form to request transportation.
The Rehab Transportation site is built a fairly basic WordPress site. The one major customization is the separate header.php used exclusively for the home page which includes the Flash animation header. I did build the Flash animation, but if I were to build this site again I would probably create that animation with JavaScript instead.

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I tried searching but I can't seem to find a similar question so I am hoping that as an amateur, I am just making a big simple mistake.
What I want
I want to install Font Awesome to my WordPress theme and I want to do it locally.
Folder structure
This image is my folder structure:
What I tried
I downloaded Font Aweesome 5.0.9 from the official website and followed their instructions. I placed the fontawesome-all.js file in /static/fontawesome and included this line of code in my header.php.
<script defer src="/static/fontawesome/fontawesome-all.js"></script>
I looked at a blog online and read another method. I took fontawesome.min.css and placed it in the CSS folder with the following line of code added to the header:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/fontawesome.min.css">
I then tried to create an action with the following code and it didn't work either.
function add_font_awesome() { wp_enqueue_style( 'style', get_stylesheet_uri() ); wp_enqueue_style( 'fontawesome', get_template_directory_uri().'TestTheme/css/fontawesome.min.css' ); } add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'add_font_awesome' );
Additional notes
For testing I shoved the following code in my main body and header but nothing ever appears.
<i class="fab fa-wordpress"></i>
I am unsure why this is not working, I believe I am probably making some crucial beginners mistake here but after reading multiple blogs and trying many different methods I have decided to try and ask for help.


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I don`t know how about you
but I just want to finish my blanket.
Since I`m not able to concentrate on new patterns
(due to the lousy chemo)
I have decided to finish with the basic pattern
from week 1.
As you can see in one color with a white border
(less threads to work away ;-)).
I hope you forgive me for not giving you new patterns.
I now have 130 squares
enough for a blanket.
So next post will be about joining them together.
I am not sure when I will be able to write this post
because tomorrow I have my fifth chemo.
And I am not sure when I will feel up to it.
Last chemo I ended up in hospital with fever,
I hope this chemo I will feel better.
I hope some of you are still joining me in this granny square challenge
and if you are behind you now have some time to catch up.


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Is the downward spiral known as the Gene Chizik era at Auburn over? Joe Schad tweeted that there will be a team meeting with Auburn players where they will learn Chizik's fate.
Auburn team meeting this afternoon; players expected to be told Chizik will not return
— Joe Schad (@schadjoe) November 25, 2012
This news is still somewhere between a fact and "the voices in your head don't count as reliable sources." But this story is developing.
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The Somali government is claiming victory in a month-long offensive to retake pieces of southern Somalia from the insurgent group al-Shabab. But as fighting continues and the death toll rises, the impact of the recent clashes remains unclear.
There has been relative calm in Somalia?s border regions over the past week as fighting between government forces and al Qaida-linked insurgent group al-Shabab slows and stabilizes. In late February and early March, fighting erupted as the government forces and the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeepers, AMISOM, launched an offensive to retake territory throughout southern Somalia and the capital, Mogadishu.
For nearly two weeks, fighting spilled over the Kenyan and Ethiopian borders near Mandera, raising international alarm and criticism of Somalia?s Transitional Federal Government. The rebel forces have since been pushed back into Somalia and the TFG troops are exercising some measure of control over the area, using it as a base to launch attacks into the Gedo region ? a stronghold of al-Shabab.
But according to International Crisis Group Analyst Rashid Abdi, the outcome of the recent violence is not so clear.
?Definitely both sides are claiming victory,? Abdi said. ?Towns have changed hands; they are now controlled by the pro-government forces. The government has managed to consolidate its control over two or three, four towns along the border. Now this is a very modest gain and it is by no way an indication that we are beginning to see a roll-back of al Shabab in these territories.?
While fighting does not appear to be finished in Somalia, members of the African Union are praising the operation as a success. Just last week, an AU representative to the U.N. Security Council claimed the government now controlled as much as 60 percent of Mogadishu, with about 80 percent of the population under the aegis of the TFG and AMISOM forces.
But the operation came at a heavy cost: Over 50 AMISOM soldiers were killed in less than a month of fighting. AMISOM?s troops come from Uganda and Burundi, and there is worry that continued losses on the battlefield could affect each nation?s commitment to the Somali mission.
But as ICG?s Abdi points out, there are also serious questions being raised about the long-term strategy underlying the recent violence.
?There is a clear absence of a political strategy,? he added. ?This is an exclusive military strategy in the hope that, at some point, there will be positive dynamics from the military offensive which will produce some kind of a political miracle.?
The Somali military is heavily dependent on the 8,000 Ugandan and Burundian troops fighting for AMISOM in Mogadishu. The force has, over the past year, requested funding for more troops to help take full control of the capital. But many observers question whether the TFG or its military is capable of administering and controlling those areas without AMISOM support. Speaking with VOA in Nairobi on Wednesday, Somali Parliamentarian Hassan Ibrahim put it more bluntly:
?The Shabab are much more organized than the government because they have vision, they have morale, they are motivated for their cause. But the government: not. The trooper who is fighting today for the Somali government ? who hasn?t been paid in more than a year ? his belly is empty. Do you think he can last one hour? No, he can?t.?
Such doubts are part of a growing chorus of discontent aimed at the Transitional Federal Government as it approaches the end of its original mandate in August. Seven years earlier, the TFG was tasked with delivering a new constitution and national elections by 2011. With neither of those goals within reach, the Somali parliament voted to unilaterally extend the government?s mandate by another three years, prompting condemnation from major Somali backers such as the United Nations and United States.
Ibrahim says the current military offensive in Somalia has more to do with validating the TFG extension than actually eliminating al-Shabab and stabilizing the region.
?We?ve wasted seven precious years,? Ibrahim added. ?You couldn?t do ? all of these seven years ? nothing and suddenly in three months or six months of your period you can do something. This is just propaganda and personal gain.?
The shifting lines in Somalia?s turmoil are more complicated than ever but, for now, the international community seems to be taking notice. In recent Security Council discussions, China has urged other nations to recognize Somalia?s instability an underlying cause of piracy, and a threat to international security. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has also warned the United Nations not to lose focus calling the AMISOM gains ?fragile? as ?violence continues to rage.?
Results Unclear as Somali Offensive Continues
The Somali government is claiming victory in a month-long offensive to retake pieces of southern Somalia from the insurgent group al-Shabab. But as fighting continues and the death toll rises, the impact of the recent clashes remains unclear.


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Lawyers for Life's Transitions
We at the Five Points Law Group strive to be there for our clients throughout all aspects of their lives from family, work and planning for the future. To that end, we have assembled some of the best attorneys and support staff in Birmingham, AL. Regardless of the problems our clients face, we are prepared to advocate for and defend their interests in and out of the courtroom.
Supporting StaffFrom the left: Courtney Howard - Paralegal, Alyson Akers - Assistant, Macaah Davis - Receptionist, Angelica Agee Prince - Intake Paralegal,
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Login with your Client ID to manage your bills or set up auto payment.
Once your service area has been released and you've submitted your pre-order, what's next?
We know each community has its own personality and process to Get Gigafied. Race specializes in bringing fiber directly to the home or business, giving you a dedicated symmetric connection at speeds of up to 1 Gbps (1000 Mbps). Some of our service areas require just a few extra steps before we can Gigafy your world. The following Need-To-Know section will explain the process from pre-order to final installation.
When Placing an order with Race, we first have to determine if your home is eligible for aerial or underground installation. If your home has not been previously determined as aerial or underground, then a site survey will be scheduled to gather information about your property to help us determine access and to locate any potential obstacles.
If utilities are being provided aerially to your home but you would like our fiber installed underground instead, you will be responsible for the underground trenching and laying of the conduit (See specs sheet – link below). Underground work must be completed before installation.
Underground installation means that your fiber cable can be installed using existing conduit, or by trenching and laying new conduit.


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New year, new tools for you and all the people in your content operation (present and future).
We're hitting the ground running in 2019, and to help you do the same for your content operation we'll be rolling out some new options for you and your teams in Kapost, including an improved feature that we've gotten a lot of input from many Kaposters about.
- New and improved Document Annotations are on the way. Highlighting, strikethroughs, and clear commenting are on deck to make revisions and approvals easy.
- Admins, Custom Field Prefills might be a good setting for your system. Prefills could be for you if you're looking for a way to help your teams tag content completely and accurately.
- Kapost is getting smarter with a new machine learning feature: Suggested Tags. As the name implies, this feature recommends custom fields on content in Studio to make tagging easy.
You asked, now it's time: the next generation of document annotations are coming soon.
We know it's a team effort when you're reviewing documents in Kapost, and it's a much smoother process when feedback is clear and documented.
Based on Kaposters' feedback, we're developing improvements for document annotations to provide more editorial clarity when you're revising certain content types in Kapost. These enhancements will give your teams a better way to collaborate on document revisions with more sophisticated annotation tools.
Highlighting, for when you need to draw attention to a word or section of text to revise:
Strikethrough, for when you need to indicate text that should be removed from the content:
Text additions, for when you need to add a missing comma, period, or another small something that's missing:
An edit mode, for when you need to edit text in a comment and highlight your changes:
If you'd like to be among the first Kaposters to get improved document annotations and give us feedback, let your CSM know today!
Admins: Custom Field Prefills are now available and might be right for your system.
Custom Field Prefills on content give you a way to tag content faster and more accurately in Studio.
This feature can help take the guesswork out of applying the right tags on content, ensuring clean, consistent data in your instance. Use Prefills to fill in custom fields with default values when new content is created or later to fill a number of custom fields on content with default values in a single click anytime. Admins, you can even set up multiple Prefills on a content type for different teams and scenarios.
Prefills are configured per content type and, in some cases, per team. To consider how they can best be applied across your organization and configuration, speak with your CSM.
We're introducing Suggested Tags—and machine learning—in Kapost.
As a Kaposter, you know that accurate, completed custom fields mean your content is findable and your data is clean. Suggested Tags can help make sure your taxonomy is rock solid by making tagging easier for the people who are responsible for tagging content in the Studio app.
Suggested Tags uses machine learning to learn about your Kapost instance's applied taxonomy on your existing content in Studio to recommend the right custom field tags for your entire content inventory, including your in-flight and future content.
When the feature can confidently suggest custom fields, it'll provide a suggestion at the top of the drop-down menus for single and multi-select custom fields. This will give you and your teams fast access to the most likely tag value for the custom field.
Ask your customer success manager if your system is ready for Suggested Tags (or the steps to take to get there!).


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729 State Route 3 North
Gambrills, MD 21054
New 2018 Keystone RV Passport Elite 27RB
This Passport Elite travel trailer 27RB by Keystone RV offers an outside kitchen, a rear bath, dual slides, and so much more!
As you enter you will see a wide open interior with dual opposing slides in the main living and kitchen area. There is a refrigerator, a counter-top with overhead cabinets, and a three burner range slide out to the left of the door. A pantry is adjacent and provides ample storage for all of your canned and dry goods. A much desired kitchen island also provides a bit of storage space too. This is where the double sink is located also.
The slide opposite the door offers plenty of seating inside with a booth dinette and sofa. Both can easily be made into extra sleeping space if needed at night, and they are perfect for viewing the entertainment center nearby.
A sliding door just off the entertainment center leads into the front master bedroom where you will enjoy a great night's rest on the queen bed provided. There are dual wardrobes for clothing storage, plus an overhead cabinet as well.
The rear of this unit is where you will find a convenient bath. Inside find a shower with glass door, toilet, vanity with sink, and linen storage.
You will also enjoy the outdoor kitchen that includes a refrigerator, sink, and counter space for the cook in the family. Near the front of the trailer there is a pass-through storage compartment where you can easily stow away all of your outdoor camping gear easily, plus so much more!
Arthur and Brandon were very thorough and polite - Sarah did a terrific job explaining everything. - Tom
Stock# 11175853
Interior Color: GRANITE
|31 ft 5 in
|Ext Width
|8 ft
|Ext Height
|11 ft
|Interior Color
|Hitch Weight
|750 lbs
|Dry Weight
|5880 lbs
|Cargo Weight
|1920 lbs
|Fresh Water Capacity
|43 gals
|Grey Water Capacity
|76 gals
|Black Water Capacity
|38 gals
|Tire Size
|Available Beds
|Refrigerator Type
|Two Door
|Cooktop Burners
|Number of Awnings
|LP Tank Capacity
|Water Heater Capacity
|6 gal
|Water Heater Type
|DSI Gas/Electric
|13500 btu
|TV Info
|Awning Info
|Electric with LED Lights
|Axle Count
|Number of LP Tanks
|Shower Type
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This proposal is part of a broader initiative that leverages the knowledge of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and its strategic partners in the mobile world, promoting digital inclusion for smallholders and family farmers in Rwanda and Senegal, both countries which represent the face of digital divide, rural poverty and malnutrition. Through adoption of mobile applications, initially four services will be deployed, aiming to change the way rural households do business, manage their assets and access essential information for their daily needs and opportunities.
Implementation methodologies
Discover and organize the best content in open and accessible repositories using the best and most suitable technologies, ensuring these FAO resources are available, timely, consistent, accurate, scalable and interoperable.Develop, implement and improve advisory and transactional services in and for the field, delivering knowledge, training and support to the extension teams (the last mile agents) or directly to the family farmers.Outreach, disseminate and create engagement for the services in each country, beneficiary and service, including development of online platforms and a media strategy but also tools able to engage farmers and extension agents in digital communities, in addition to promoting the mobile solutions in dissemination channels, like app stores.
Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer
In collaboration with the national governments, local and strategic partners, the main idea of this initiative is to offer, in near real time, a portfolio of these initial four mobile applications, providing services that support concrete daily needs of the farmers in an easy, hassle free and customisable way. Based on the knowledge gathered by FAO and local policies, the package of solutions will be delivered to ensure quality information and technical advisory services, using complementary and incremental approach between each one.FAO, strategic and local partners will support the development of mobile devices and ICT applications, broadcasting content, and literacy to deliver quality information about food production, nutrition, health, natural disasters and financial services inclusion and access to commercialisation market and agricultural credit for women farmers from Rwanda and Senegal.The capacity development will organise at least two workshops, use local radio programs in community broadcasting stations and other ways to communicate, inform and engage farmers, extension workers and rural leaders highlighting the benefits of the services and promote the apps.
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Connection and mobile devices, combined with useful digital content, make a difference at the time of seeding or when planning the next harvest as well as animal husbandry. FAO, strategic and local partners will support the development of ICT applications, broadcasting content, and literacy to deliver quality information rural households in Rwanda and Senegal.In collaboration with the national governments, local and strategic partners, the main idea of this initiative is to offer, in near real time, a portfolio of these four initial mobile applications providing services that support concrete daily needs of poor households in an easy, hassle free and customisable way. Based on the knowledge gathered by FAO and local policies, the package of software solutions will be delivered to ensure quality information and technical advisory services, using complementary and incremental approach between each one. The group of applications will be validated by the local communities and producers to receive suggestions for improvements of the portfolio.Goals of this project have continued progression, having a global nature, bringing together a large multi-stakeholder community using digital communication tools and platforms. It tries to do business in a different way, addressing global challenges and creating inclusive business models, leveraging the potential of digital innovations allowing a quick and challenging enhancements. It's about finding new scalable solutions to global issues, harnessing multi-stakeholder participation of governments, UN agencies, the private sector and civil society using the power of the internet to share knowledge.The proposed model and the strategy to implement these digital services ranging from basic information to more sophisticated services. They require intense consultation and articulation among the various partners starting with the national and regional governments to trained community leaders and extension workers supporting closer extension services for small farmers as well as professionals from private areas of telecommunications and internet.The project is in line and coordinated with national and priority programs in Rwanda and Senegal, FAO is addressing these challenges / problems with the coordination and support of local businesses of telecommunications and Internet access providers, launching digital services directly addressed for smallholder farmers, small scale agro-enterprises, subsistence farmers, and consumers groups in rural/Peri-urban areas. Communication through basic audiovisual aids (descriptive images, videos and audio in mobile formats) in local languages will reduce the communication time and gap between key players in the field.
Government of Senegal, Government of Rwanda, Global Framework Climate Service - Africa Office, telecom operators, local start-ups, District of Rulindo,
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Goal 2
Goal 8
Goal 9
Goal 12
Goal 15
Cure and Feed your livestock - A smartphone application will provide real time information and advice to poor family farmers involved in milk, poultry, eggs and small ruminant production. Using the app will reduce losses in assets and optimize productivity using locally available resources, thus contributing to higher income generation.
e-Nutrifood - An application combining information on production, conservation and consumption of nutritious foods.
Weather and Crop calendar - An application combining information on weather forecasts, crop calendars and alert systems.
AgriMarketplace - An application to connect producers, traders and consumers to facilitate trade and access to inputs.
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FAO staff
Basic information
Time-frame: January 2017 - December 2017
Government of Senegal, Government of Rwanda, Global Framework Climate Service - Africa Office, telecom operators, local start-ups, District of Rulindo,
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Maybe it's the season, or perhaps its this look back at the county's home rule charter by the Post-Gazette's Karamagi Rujumba. But I find myself waxing nostalgic for the political hacks of yesteryear.
A decade ago, voters remade county government by replacing the old county government -- led by a three-headed panel of county commissioners -- with an executive and part-time council. Those reforms also involved eliminating elected "row offices" like prothonotary, something long sought by good-government types. But according to the article, some reformers are feeling a twinge of remorse over how things have turned out:
Detractors say home rule has evolved into another political machine, complete with its own circle of insiders and a culture of patronage only slightly better than the entrenched interests voters threw out.
"It seems that all we did was change the legal structure of the government," said Mark DeSantis, a Republican who tried to unseat Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl in 2007.
So you mean changing the outward form of government did nothing to alter the underlying culture? No shit. Next you'll be telling me that Democrats and Republicans BOTH cater to entrenched financial interests. I mean, who could have seen this coming?
Well, Tom Flaherty, for one.
The former city controller (who is now a county judge) was a leading critic of the home-rule movement. And while the story doesn't mention him, it does confirm a few of his suspicions.
Some of Flaherty's fears were off-base: Flaherty was convinced that the whole reform was a Trojan horse to facilitate a Republican Party takeover of government. Obviously, that didn't happen ... or else DeSantis wouldn't sound so downbeat.
But I do recall Flaherty having sport with the part-time county council, mocking the notion that "citizens would throw down their plows, go vote on a multi-million-dollar budget appropriation, and then return to their fields." (That's not an exact quote, but it gets the gist.) Flaherty's critics like to portray him as a hack, but the guy understood power and how it works. And he clearly saw a problem identified in today's P-G: The county executive would hold all the power, and county council would be a joke by comparison.
Morton Coleman, who is about as saintly as you can be if you want to know something about politics, put it this way: "We made County Council a part-time body with very minimal pay because we wanted citizens who would not be driven by political ambition and would be genuinely interested in government. I think that was pretty naive."
Me too.
Here's the problem: People who are genuinely interested in government are rare to begin with -- because for the most part, government is often not genuinely interesting. Yes, there's a chance to make a difference in people's lives, to improve society, or to inflict your elitist secular humanism upon Americans whose values you despise. But the path toward such goals can be excruciatingly dull. Ask anyone who has sat through a zoning-board hearing.
Of course, many people do volunteer to serve on the zoning board, God love 'em, or to be school board members or township supervisors. But as miserable as those jobs are, I can understand a desire to take them on.
Those posts are narrowly focused on a particular community -- and often a particular sphere of community life. They deal in issues that hit "close to home" -- school-board members have to pay for any tax increase too. What's more, the job could be manageable even for a part-timer: You're focused on just one set of issues, just one community. And within that limited sphere, you have some genuine power. You get to be the final word on choosing a superintendent, or setting tax rates.
By contrast, consider county council. You represent numerous communities, many of which you probably have only a limited connection with. You will deal with issues of such breadth and complexity that staying abreast of them would be a full-time job. Which you aren't being paid for, beyond a small yearly stipend of $9,000. And even if you manage to stay on top of all those issues, you're just one vote of 15, subject to veto.
Coleman himself raised some of these concerns way back in 2001. And the miracle, really, is that council does as much worthwhile stuff as it does. (Council president Rich Fitzgerald mentions some accomplishments in the P-G story, and I'd add one he omits: It was county council that spawned an anti-discrimination ordinance that Onorato never proposed on his own.) We probably have more decent folks on the legislature than we have a right to expect.
But even if we didn't, would it be any surprise if the people attracted to council are attracted for the "wrong" reasons? If you were attracted to politics for the "right" ones -- to make a difference, to scoff at the values of regular Americans, etc. -- would county council be the first job you'd pick? I'm not sure even Mark DeSantis would. After all, he's been named as a likely GOP contender for county executive. I don't hear anyone mentioning him in connection with a $9,000-a-year council seat.
But at least he's thinking of running. No one in his whole party even bothered to run against Dan Onorato in 2007. The GOP also didn't run candidates for the countywide offices of County Controller, District Attorney, or County Treasurer.
DeSantis grouses that "the politicians and the system remain the same." But how can you blame the "system" when your political party doesn't field anyone different? The P-G quotes Jim Roddey griping that "the current council has essentially become a rubber stamp." So who's fault is that? Roddey has long been a GOP fixture -- chair of the party as well as a county executive in his own right. If his problem is that Republicans can't field viable challengers, maybe that says as much about him as about the people sitting on council.
If I'm singling DeSantis out here, it's only because he's an articulate spokesperson for a broader view. At one point, he tells the P-G that "There has always been this conventional wisdom in this region that if you change the structure of government, things will get better." That point of view was indeed espoused by the Allegheny Conference and others who pushed home rule. But when you think about it, the idea that "things will get better" simply by moving furniture around smacks of magical thinking.
Really, the Allegheny Conference crowd took the same approach to government reform as they did to local sports teams. In both cases, the idea was -- if you build it, they will come. If you build a new ballpark for the Pirates, the team will become more competitive. If you build a new government, meanwhile, people will compete to be a part of it.
Obviously, it isn't that easy. It takes more than some extra luxury boxes for the Pirates not to suck. And it takes more than a rejiggered office floorplan to get people invested in their government.
What it boils down to is a problem I've discussed in a post even longer than this one. We have an anemic, burned-out local political culture, one that lacks the critical mass necessary to serve as the "loyal opposition." Inside city limits, it's easy to chalk that up to the fact that it's a one-party system. But countywide there are plenty of GOP bastions ... so maybe the problem is bigger than some "city Democratic machine."
Don't get me wrong: I'm not opposed to reforms. Scrapping some row offices was a fine idea. But if you want to change government, you also have to run somebody for the offices that still exist.
Would making county councilor a full-time job change matters? My own logic suggests the answer is "no." Like I said before, the GOP can't drum up interest in running for county treasurer, a job that pays $66,500 a year. And the cynic in me assumes that creating a full-time paying job would just attract more hacks, except their very livelihood could depend on them toeing the line.
But saying "oh, that post just appeals to political hacks, not the people we need in office" seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy. And you really start upping the stakes once you talk about fusing city government into the county -- as some people are. Assuming that county voters can elect inept officials just as easily as city voters can, wouldn't you want a legislature that can act as a viable check on executive authority? Can we afford not to change a system, if even its original champions say is too prone to hacks?
What are these reformers -- afraid of change or something?
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While a bubbling zeitgeist, published theory, secret CIA promotion, institutional propping, market hype and bar booth collectives may be the most commonly understood forces by which art trends and made and made to move, one of my favorite and too often overlooked components of progress is the availability of new materials, and of how their introduction leads to new angles on of art-making. Whenever artists get their hands on something new, there are inevitably those who are able to take advantage of its particulars and create something really excellent, be it tubed oil paint enabling plein air impressionism or the Portapak putting video art in gear. In our own last few years, synthetic papers like Yupo have gradually move into use as a material in fine art, and its been interesting to watch the paper's beautiful and unique way of supporting paint experimented and capitalized on. If you haven't played with synthetic paper yet, give it a try and see what it can do. Chicago's own Kim Piotrowski certainly did, and in the latest show Crowns at 65GRAND, her wildly dynamic work proves it beyond craft novelty as a medium perfect for a renewed formal celebration of paint.
Like any good artwork based on randomly discovered jpegs, the work isn't so much representation as liberal dramatization; based on a true story, but barely. While each here painting centers on an image of a crown, pulled of course from the great digital image void, Piotrowski appears to use the crown less as its sign than as a formal skeleton for fleshing out in paint. Attachments of power and opulence are put to work as rich color pools and gold leaf applications, turrets and plumes opportunities for gesture and splash.
With so many materials at play, viewing the work is an experience wrapped in trying to pick out the individual media and techniques in each painting. To its credit, the ability of Piotrowski's synthetic paper to grip liquid materials without absorbing them made this all the more interesting, with wet pools of acrylic ink laid down without a weave to work into drying to look like something entirely different, more similar to the drawn media around it. Even with a materials list on hand, picking the enamel from the flashe from the gouache from the collage is a fun optical challenge.
If you'd like to try to pick them out yourself, the above image is composed of: acrylic ink, flashe, gouache, permanent marker and gold leaf.
I really enjoyed Crowns. The last few good painting shows I've seen in Chicago have shown various way of dealing with the problem of imagery in painting while being uncomfortable without giving it up, eventually arriving at a kind of formal content by way of representation. While the subject matter relationship between the image and the painting has been far more stretched and abraded by other painters, Piotrowski's Crowns could be looked at as a part of this conversation too, translating the elegance and power from the sign source of its images into painted materiality.
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Kim Piotrowski's Crowns opened Friday, January 8th and runs through February 13th @ 65GRAND, 1378 W. Grand Ave (entrance on Noble St).
(special thanks to the artist and Anni Holm for photos)
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Interesting article, but very poorly edited. I stopped reading after the 6th grammatical error.
It undermines everything you say when you can't say it well.


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Survival Tips
In the event of a disaster, water supply, gas and
Confirm Safety
power lines may all come to a stop. You will be
unable to get your hands on almost all the things
you need for daily life. You will have to live for about
three days to one week on just limited resources.
In this chapter, we have collected various types of
knowledge and ingenuity that will be useful when
a disaster occurs, and use illustrations to explain
them in an easy-to-understand manner. Why not
also take up the challenge of holding a practical
workshop as explained at the end of the chapter?
Resuscitation (CPR)
Chest compression
Place your hands on the center of the
person's chest, and press the chest down
Check to see if the person is
at least 5 centimeters for an adult. Do
about 100 compressions per minute.
When you are conducting both chest
In the event of a disaster, ambulances
compressions and artificial respiration,
will probably be late in arriving. If you
conduct cycles of 30 chest compressions
find a person who has collapsed, gently
and 2 breaths.
tap him on the shoulder and ask loudly,
"Are you OK?" Check to see if he
responds, can move his hands and feet, if
Artificial respiration
he is in pain from injuries, and whether
he is conscious or not.
Lift the person's chin to open the airway,
and use the thumb and forefinger of
your hand placed on his forehead to
Request cooperation from
pinch his nose. Using a mouth-to-mouth
others around you
resuscitation mouthpiece*, cover the
If there is no response, request the
mouth so no air leaks, and breathe in for
cooperation of people nearby by calling out
about 1 second. Check to see that his
chest rises when you do so.
in a large voice, "Someone, please come!
There's a person here who needs help!"
In addition, if the situation is safe, request
someone to bring an AED (automatic
external defibrillator) and give first aid.
Press the power button of the AED.
Apply the electrode pads to his chest, and
if a shock is needed the AED will inform
Check for breathing
you with a voice prompt. Stand clear of
Closely observe the movements of the
the person and push the AED's button.
person's chest and abdomen, and confirm
Follow the device's instruction and
within 10 seconds if his breathing is
immediately resume chest compressions.
irregular. When there is no movement of
the chest or abdomen, you can determine
that the person is not breathing normally,
and then begin chest compressions.
* The risk of infection is said to be extremely low even when a mouthpiece is not used, however,
from the perspective of preventing infection, it would be safer to use one.
Stop Bleeding
Direct pressure to stop
Directly apply sterile gauze or a clean
cloth to the bleeding and compress
strongly with your hand or a bandage.
The size of the cloth should be large
enough to completely cover the wound.
In order to prevent infection, always wear
rubber gloves or use a plastic bag, and be
careful to not come in contact with the
Arterial bleeding
Venous bleeding
Blood spurts out
Constant flow of blood
Indirect pressure to
stop bleeding
When it is difficult to stop the bleeding
through the direct pressure method, try
indirect pressure. Temporarily stop the
flow of blood by pressing down on the
Capillary bleeding
artery between the injury and the heart,
compressing it against the bone. For
Blood oozes out slowly
bleeding from the lower portion of the
arm, use your thumb to strongly press the
artery at the center of the inner side of the
Severe bleeding can be life threatening
upper arm. For leg bleeding, straighten
The total amount of blood in the human body makes up about 7 to 8 percent of the
the bleeding leg and strongly press down
body's weight, and losing one-third of this blood can be life threatening. Arterial
at the groin using your fist.
bleeding with bright red spurts of blood must be stopped immediately. Bleeding from
capillary veins will, in most cases, stop naturally.
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First-Aid for Fractures and
First-Aid for Cuts
Cloth, bandages, water, sterile gauze
Secure with a splint
Try not to move the part that has been broken and is painful. Prepare something that
can serve as a splint to support the broken bone, and immobilize the injury by binding
Prepare large pieces of cloth or bandages
If the wound has dirt or other debris,
the splint and the joints on both sides of the fracture with a cloth, etc.
that can cover the wound.
wash clean with water.
Triangular bandage
A triangular bandage can be used on any part of the body, and scarves,
furoshiki, and large handkerchiefs can also serve as triangular bandages. Use it
If the wound is bleeding, protect the
Wrap a bandage.
after rinsing the wound clean with water and applying a sterile gauze, etc. Do
wound by applying sterile gauze, etc.
not tie the knot right over the wound.
Lighten the Burden of the
First-Aid for Burns
Injured and Ill
Cool minor burns with
If the burn covers less than 10 percent
of the body (the area of the palm of
your hand is about 1 percent of the body
surface), as soon as possible, cool with
clean water for over 15 minutes until the
pain eases.
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Loosen clothing
Place the person in a comfortable position, ask if he is in pain, and if he wishes, gently
loosen his clothes, belt, and other constricting items.
Important points
Since tap water cannot be used when the water supply is cut off, use water from
a plastic bottle, etc. When tap water can be used, run cool water over the burn
for 15 to 20 minutes. Follow the points below when treating the burn.
- If the person is wearing clothes over the burn, do not remove, and cool over
the clothes.
- When the burn covers a wide area, take care to not overly cool the body.
- Take care not to break blisters.
- Do not use medicine.
Maintain body temperature
If the person has the chills, a low body temperature, is pale, or has broken into a cold
sweat, prevent heat loss by covering him with clothes, a blanket, etc.
Details → p. 194
Safely Positioning the Injured
or Ill
When there is abdominal pain or
When breathing is labored or
an injury to the abdomen
there are chest pains
Raise the upper body with cushions, etc., and
Put the person in a sitting position with
The basic position is laying face up
also place cushions under the knees to bend
his legs extended and place cushions, etc.,
between his legs and chest to support his
Laying the person on his back on a level place is the basic position to take. It is the most stable
upper body.
and relaxing position.
When the person is vomiting or has an injury to the back
Is breathing but unconscious
Lay the person on his stomach, facing one side. Take care that he does not choke on
To secure an airway, place the person on his side with his top leg bent at a right angle
his vomit.
at the knee.
When there is a head injury and breathing is labored
Heat stroke, anemia, hemorrhagic shock
Lay the person on his back and use cushions, etc., to lift the upper body.
Lay the person face up and place cushions under his feet to lift the legs up about 15 to 30
Transporting the Injured or Ill
Bandage Substitutes
Gauze, tights
Carrying on your back
Lean the person on your back and catch
his legs by passing your hands under his
knees, and hold both of his arms firmly.
This is not suited to injured people who
have disorders of consciousness, broken
bones, or internal injuries.
Use tights as a substitute for a bandage.
Wind the leg portion of the tights around the
First, place gauze, etc., over the wound
head and tie the ends. If this is washed and
and then cover with the body portion of
kept clean, it can be used repeatedly.
the tights.
Other items that can substitute for bandages
Tenugui towels
Disposable diapers
Sanitary napkins
Plastic wrap
*only items that are clean
Using a stretcher, etc.
When carrying a person on a stretcher, have his legs point forward and try to avoid
shaking the stretcher or causing it to vibrate. This is very important to prevent the
condition of the victim from worsening. If there is no stretcher, it would be possible to
use a strong plank, etc., instead.
How to Use the Fire
How to Use the Indoor Fire
The No. 1 model fire hose is to be manned by more than one person. Here it is
assumed that there are two people.
First response firefighting is very
Remove the safety pin on the top of the
important in a disaster. When using a fire
extinguisher, first confirm the source of
Press the start button. When the red
Open the cabinet and extend the hose.
fire. Stand so the exit is behind you.
light starts to blink, the pump will begin
Hold the nozzle and aim it at the flame.
Squeeze the handle and spray the agent
The other person opens the valve.
Aim the nozzle at the source of the fire
directly on the source of fire. If the
and spray water.
flames reach the ceiling, stop trying to
extinguish the fire and evacuate.
How to Use the Portable
How to Use the Standpipe
Fire Pump
This is a fire extinguishing tool that uses the fire hydrant or drain valve in the road.
Prior training is required to use it.
This is to be manned by more than one person. Prior training is required to use it.
This is a fire pump of a size that can be
Place the suction pipe in a fire cistern,
carried by people. First, close the drain
pool, etc.
This is effective in places like narrow
Join the standpipe to the water outlet.
cock and water hose outlet valve, and
roads inaccessible by fire trucks.
Turn the spindle driver, and after
attach the suction pipe to the pump's
First, insert the key, bend your knees
confirming that water is flowing, extend
water inlet.
to take a low position, and lift the lid.
the hose joined to the pipe.
Join the hose to the nozzle. Insert it
Straighten the hose, and after signaling,
Start the pump, attach the hose to the
Spray water in the direction of the fire
firmly until you hear a noise.
spray the water. Point the nozzle at the
outlet, and extend the hose to the source
target, and hold it firmly at the height of
of fire.
your hip.
Warm Yourself with
Make something to
Use with a plastic bag
Newspapers can be useful when you
Crumple newspaper into balls, place
aren't wearing enough to keep warm.
them in a large plastic bag, and put your
Place several layers of newspapers on
feet inside. It will be warmer if you
your shoulders, binding them at the front
loosely close the mouth of the bag.
with tape, etc.
Make a"haramaki"
Layer with socks
belly warming band
When your feet are cold, wrap newspaper
Yo u c a n a l s o w a r m y o u r b o d y b y
over your socks, and put on another pair
wearing a belly band. Use two sheets of
of socks over them.
newspaper and plastic wrap. Fold the
newspaper in half and wrap around your
abdomen, and then wind plastic wrap on
Other useful items
Use the effects of color to adjust your body temperature
To wear:
To put on the floor:
It is said that when people look at warm colors like red, their temperatures rise,
- Fruit protection net
- Handkerchief
- Cardboard
and when they see cool colors like blue, their temperatures drop. Try using
- Aluminum foil
- Bubble wrap
- Styrene foam
this effect in selecting your clothes or the color of partitions at the evacuation
- Plastic wrap
Adjust Your Body
You can adjust your body temperature by heating or cooling the back of your neck,
under your arms, and above your tailbone. Use this method to keep warm or prevent
heat stroke.
Warm/cool your neck
Wrap a muffler or towel around your
Back of the neck
neck when you are cold. If you are hot,
Just wrapping a muffler around the point
place an ice pack behind your neck and
on the back of your neck that improves
wrap a towel, etc.
blood circulation will significantly help
maintain your body temperature. It would
also be effective to cool this point when
it's hot.
Warm/cool your
Because there is a large artery near the
surface, warming or cooling this area will
Your whole body will be warmed if you
have effects on your whole body.
place a plastic bottle with hot water under
your arm. You should place cold packs
Above the tailbone
under your arms when it's hot.
Adjusting the temperature above the
tailbone is an easy way to adjust your
body temperature.
Make a hot water bottle
Warm the area above
Plastic bottle, water, hot water, funnel,
your tailbone
container such as a bucket, towel
Your whole body will be warmed if you
Mix equal portions of tap water and
apply a body warmer to the area above
boiling water to make lukewarm water
your tailbone. If you can obtain a body
about 60 degrees Celsius. Pour this into a
warmer, you should first use it on this
strong plastic bottle, and wrap in a towel
to prevent low-temperature burns.
Protect Your Feet
Prevent Dehydration
Water, sugar, salt
Protect your feet and
shoes from water
Materials Plastic bag, string
4 tbsp. sugar
In a disaster-stricken area where it
is difficult to walk, you will need to
0.5 tsp. salt
protect your feet. To keep your shoes
from getting wet, cover each shoe with
a plastic bag and tie it up with string
around the ankles.
Protect your feet and
shoes from rubble
Plastic bag, board, string
After placing plastic bags over your shoes
as explained above, place something hard
like a board under your shoes and tie it
with a string so it doesn't loosen.
1 liter water
Why protect your feet?
In order to prevent dehydration, it would be good to prepare an oral rehydration
In the event of a disaster it would be very important for you to not
solution, which has an absorption rate that is about 25 times higher than water. The
injure yourself. The disaster-stricken area will be strewn with rubble,
only things necessary are water, sugar and salt. Dissolve 4 tablespoons of sugar (about
have puddles of water, and will be harder to walk through than you can
40 grams) and 0.5 teaspoons of salt (about 4 grams) in 1 liter of water.
imagine. In order to prevent injury from nails and sharp materials, you
should learn in advance how to protect your feet.
How to Store Water
How to Carry Water
Items to carry water
Store as drinking water
When storing water, fill tap water up to the
mouth of a clean container such as a plastic
A polyethylene tank and carrying cart
bottle. If you store it away from direct
will be convenient in carrying water
sunlight, it can be used as drinking water
from a water supply point. Putting water
for about three days. However, you will
in plastic bottles and carrying them in
have to change the water every day if the
backpacks, etc., will also help when
water has passed through a water purifier
walking over rough roads.
as this will have removed chlorine and its
disinfecting effects.
Using plastic bags and
cardboard boxes
Cardboard box, plastic bag, adhesive tape
When you do not have a polyethylene tank
Store as domestic
or plastic bottles, spread a polyethylene bag
inside a cardboard box, and firmly reinforce
this by taping cloth adhesive tape on the
The bathtub at general households can
bottom and sides before use.
hold about 180 liters of water. If water
is stored in the bathtub, it can be used
for domestic purposes such as laundry,
Using plastic bags and
cleaning, toilets and sprinkling.
furoshiki wrapping cloth
Plastic bag, furoshiki wrapping cloth
Place water in a plastic bag and tie the
mouth. Place this in the center of a furoshiki
wrapping cloth that has its adjacent corners
tied together. If two people each hold one
of the knots, the water can be easily carried.
How to Use the Toilet When
How to Make an Emergency
Water Supply Is Cut Off
Existing toilet that
Western toilet
can't be flushed
For a western toilet, if the toilet can be
Plastic bags, newspaper
flushed even though the water supply is
interrupted, you can do this by pouring
Lift the toilet seat, and cover the toilet
about a bucket of water into the toilet
bowl with a plastic bag. Use a second
bowl. Don't flush urine every time, and
plastic bag to cover the toilet seat, and
don't flush down toilet paper but throw it
place torn pieces of newspaper in the
away as trash.
Portable emergency toilet
Japanese toilet
Large bucket (or cardboard box), plastic
For a Japanese toilet, if the toilet can be
bags, newspaper
flushed even though the water supply is
interrupted, you can do this by pouring a
Place two plastic bags inside the large
bucket of water all at once into the toilet
bucket or cardboard box, and place torn
bowl while pressing down the flush lever.
pieces of newspaper in the bag. After
Don't flush down toilet paper but throw it
using the toilet, remove the top plastic
away as trash.
bag and take it to a designated area.
How to Make Emergency
How to Make a Cloth Sanitary
Plastic supermarket bag, cotton cloth (or towel), scissors
Towel handkerchief, tissue paper (or cloth)
Cut the top of the grip portion and both Lay the baby down with his bottom on
Fold the two diagonal corners of a
If tissue paper or cloth is available,
sides of a large plastic supermarket bag, top of the cloth, and tie the upper grip
towel handkerchief (a clean, cotton
put some inside. You can rest
and open it. Fold a clean cotton cloth or portions over his stomach.
towel handkerchief would be best) to
assured at night if the napkin is
towel on top of this.
a size that fits your underwear.
worn with the wider side in the
Other items that can replace sanitary napkins
Wrap your underwear with plastic wrap.
Use folded pieces of toilet paper or tissue paper
If you have just one napkin left, place toile
paper on top of it.
Use clean towels or cloth that can be
thrown away after use.
Lift the lower grip portions and pass
Fold the surplus part of the bag down.
them under the tie around the baby's
Keep Clean with Little Water
Make a Fly Trap
Japanese sake, sugar, vinegar, plastic bottle, string, box cutter
Wipe your body with a
small amount of water
Towel, no-rinse or non-residue
If you wipe your body with a towel using
a no-rinse or non-residue soap (can be
purchased at a drug store, etc.), you can
keep clean with little water.
Place 70 cc of sake, 100 g of sugar, and 50
Open about a 3cm hole in the upper half
Brush your teeth
cc of vinegar in a plastic bottle, screw on the
of the bottle, and hang the bottle by a
without a toothbrush
cap, and shake to mix.
string under the eaves, from a laundry
pole, etc. Flies attracted by the smell will
Gauze, tissue paper
go into the bottle and not be able to get
Wrap a piece of gauze about 15x15cm large,
or tissue paper around your finger, and scrub
your teeth until they feel clean. Also wipe
your gums and tongue, and then rinse your
mouth with water.
Why is a fly trap necessary?
It is predicted that there will be an outbreak of flies in the summer. In order to
maintain a sanitary environment not only at home, but at the evacuation center
or temporary housing as well, it is recommended that you get rid of flies by
making a fly trap.
How to Make an Emergency
Change the Size of the
Change an AA battery
Use a plastic bag
into a C battery
Flashlight, white plastic bag,
AA battery, cloth, cellophane tape
Cover the flashlight with a white plastic
Cut cloth such as towels or handkerchiefs
bag and tie the grip portion around it.
to match the height of the AA battery,
The light will gently spread through the
and wrap it around the battery. When the
whole bag.
diameter becomes 2.6 cm, tape it with
cellophane tape.
Change an AA battery
into a D battery
Use a plastic bottle
AA battery, cloth, aluminum foil,
cellophane tape
Flashlight, plastic bottle, water,
Cut cloth such as towels or handkerchiefs
to match the length of the AA battery,
and wrap it around the battery. When the
diameter becomes 3.4 cm, tape it with
cellophane tape. Adjust the length of the
battery using crumpled aluminum foil.
Substitutes for aluminum foil
Anything that can pass an electric current can be used. If you don't have
aluminum foil, try using some other everyday item.
- Stack and tape together seven 1 yen coins
Cut an empty plastic bottle at a point about 5 cm Stand the flashlight inside the cut plastic
- Stack and tape together seven 10 yen coins
higher than the flashlight, and make cuts 1 to 2 bottle, and on top of it place another
cm long at four places along the rim.
plastic bottle containing water.
(Do not combine 1 yen and 10 yen coins.)
How to Make Plates and Eating
Make a plate from a plastic bottle
Plastic bottle, box cutter, scissors
Make a dish from newspaper
Newspaper, plastic bag
Use a box cutter to cut the top off of a
Cut the bottle along its length. The
Fold a newspaper into a triangle, and
Place a plastic bag over the folded
2-liter plastic bottle. Be careful not to cut
bottom of the bottle will be too stiff to
fold along the dotted line in the drawing
newspaper and tie the bottom of the
your hands.
cut with the box cutter, so use a large
to make a cup with a bottom.
bag. This can be used as plate or a
pair of scissors.
Make a spoon from a milk carton
Milk carton, scissors
Make a cup out of a plastic bottle
Plastic bottle, scissors (box cutter)
Cut off the top triangular portion of
Fold the cut portion and cut along the
the milk carton, and cut the carton
dotted lines in the illustration, to make a
Cut the upper portion of the plastic bottle
Make the cut edge as smooth as possible
into four pieces by cutting along its
spoon. By changing the angle of the cut,
using a box cutter or scissors.
to prevent injury.
length down the center of each side.
the depth of the spoon can be changed.
How to Make an Emergency
Cooking Stove
Aluminum cans, aluminum foil, string, toothpicks, scissors, vegetable oil
Bend the aluminum foil with the wicks
into a triangle, and place this inside the
ake 17 cm of aluminum foil, and fold
4 cm aluminum can. Place vegetable oil
he sheet into four, and then fold both
inside and let the wicks absorb the oil.
ides to meet in the center.
Use a tooth pick to open holes in the foil
Complete the cooking stove by evenly
in a total of 6 places: two in the center,
spacing the 5 cm aluminum cans around
and two each at about 2 cm from the left
the 4 cm can.
and right sides. Insert 10 cm long pieces
of string, and set them to emerge about
3mm from the top of the aluminum foil.
If you don't have any string, twisted
pieces of tissue paper can also be used.
Adjust the position of the 5 cm cans to fit
the size of the pot or pan.
Using a pair of sharp scissors, cut two
aluminum cans at points 5 cm from the
top and 4 cm from the bottom. Wear
work gloves when you cut the cans and
be careful. The 4 cm piece will be the
burner and the 5 cm piece will be the
trivet where pots or pans are placed
Making Partitions
How to Make a Knapsack
Cardboard box, tape, scissors
Long pants, string (about 2 meters long)
Open up a sturdy cardboard box, and cut
The resulting four portions will become the
Use the string to tie the bottom portion
Fold the pants at around the knees, and
so that the corner portion comes in the
stands for cardboard box partitions.
of the two legs of the pants. Tie the
pass the string through the belt loops.
center of the left and right sides.
string so that the two ends are equal in
Make triangular shapes out of these
Insert other opened cardboard boxes
Make the leg portions the shoulder straps of the knapsack so it can be carried on your back.
portions and tape together at the top, to
(partitions) into the stands. The space
Firmly tie the string that has been passed through the belt loop to prevent the contents from
create the stands.
between the stands is adjusted to fit the
spilling out.
size of the partition box.
How to Make Cushions and
How to Make a Bed
Large plastic sheets, cardboard boxes, polystyrene foam, newspaper
Make a cushion from a
plastic bag
Plastic bag, string
Fill one-third or one-half of a plastic
bag with air. The bag can be easily filled
by raising the bag and quickly lowering
it. Adjust the amount of air to your
preference, and close the mouth of the
Polystyrene foam
Use a ball as a pillow
Cardboard box
If the evacuation center is a school
or gymnasium, use the balls there as
Plastic sheet
pillows. Insert the inflator that is stored
with the balls into the ball's hole.
Remove air until you achieve the height
preferred for use as a pillow.
Place the plastic sheet on the floor, and place cardboard boxes and polystyrene foam
on top of it. This will create a bed that is cushiony and has thermal insulation effects
for protection from cold coming from the floor. Cover with newspapers.
How to Tie Ropes
Used to tie a rope to a column or pole. It is good for knots in crafts and tying
Can be used to extend the length of a rope by tying ropes of equal thickness
small things.
together, etc. Can also be used in tying triangular cloth.
Cross two ropes
Bring the ends together and cross again.
Place the rope around the pole twice.
Pull the ends to firmly tighten the knot.
Tuck the first loop under the rope.
Pull tight and make sure the knot isn't
Use of ropes
If you have poles or rods and rope, you can make a clothes line that will be
useful at evacuation centers or emergency housing, or in making partitions to
protect your privacy.
Exercises for Evacuation Life
These are exercises that people living in evacuation centers or temporary housing can
do to help maintain or restore their physical and mental capabilities.
Joint circles and bends/extensions (3 minutes)
Stretch exercises (3 minutes)
Neck circles (right
Wrist and ankle
Knee circles (right
Hip circles (right
Side extensions
Opening shoulder
Upper body twist
and left, 4 times)
circles (right and left,
and left, 10 times)
and left, 10 times)
5 times)
Lower back
Leg stretch
Calf/Achilles tendon
Knee bends
Leg/knee side extension
Ground stamp
Wide squat
(10 or more)
(right and left,
(10 times)
10 times)
Children Playing
A major disaster will leave mental scars on both adults and children. But while children
may be smiling or quiet even when they are under great stress, it does not mean that
they are okay. By playing, children will be able to reconfirm their feeling of safety, rid
themselves of the stress of evacuation life, and express feelings that they are hiding deep
inside (sorrow, anger, remorse, loneliness, etc.). If children can play well under the close
watch of supporters, they will be able to sense that they are controlling their feelings.
Devise ways for children to play that matches their age.
Physical activities
Dodgeball, baseball using hands to hit the
Making things with origami, newspaper,
ball, jump rope, etc.
clay, etc.
Hand games (small children)
Rock-Paper-Scissors train
Do simple hand games like "head,
A rock-paper-scissors game that can be played
Games that don
t need props
shoulder, knees and toes" or hand
by many children. First, two children do rock-
Quizzes, tag, hide-and-seek, red rover,
Reading picture books, playing with
clapping games.
paper-scissors, the one who loses stands behind
freeze tag, statues, follow the leader, etc.
dolls (puppets), games such as shogi, go,
the winner, and the winner does this with
cards, etc.
another person, and so on, to form "trains."
Good Ways to Use Everyday
Plastic Wrap
Use to keep warm
Protect a wound after the
As a splint for fractures
Place in clothes for thermal
bleeding has been stopped
Fold two newspapers and wrap around your
Layer newspapers like a board and place
After stopping the bleeding, wind the
If newspapers are placed between your
abdomen. Wind plastic wrap around this.
this on the broken bone up to the joints
plastic wrap around the wound. Plastic
under and outer wear when it is cold, a
This will help retain body heat and keep you
on both sides.
wrap can effectively protect the wound
layer of air will be formed to keep you
because it is very airtight.
Attaching a splint
Cover dishes
Use as a cover
Make playthings
Plastic wrap is effective in attaching a
When water supply is interrupted, it is
If there are no blankets or comforters,
Crumple one sheet of newspaper into a ball, and
splint, such as a rod or board, to a broken
difficult to wash dishes. If food is placed
just covering yourself with newspapers
layer newspapers over this. Adjust the shape
bone. Thoroughly wind the plastic wrap
on dishes that have been covered with
can make a big difference in keeping you
and secure firmly with tape.
to keep the splint from moving.
plastic wrap, you will not have to wash
the dishes.
Plastic Bags
Large handkerchief
Protect yourself from infection
Transport water in a hygienic way
As a mask
Attaching a splint
In order to prevent infection from treating
If you don't have a clean plastic tank or
Dust is expected to fly during a disaster.
A large handkerchief is effective in
a wound, it is important to avoid touching
plastic bottle, water can be transported in
Make a simple mask by covering
attaching a splint, such as a rod or board,
blood by using rubber gloves, etc. A clean
a hygienic way by covering a container
your nose and mouth with a large
to a broken bone. Tie in several places to
plastic bag can also be used.
with a plastic bag.
keep the splint from moving.
Cover dishes
If you cover dishes you can reduce the
For the toilet
As an arm sling
Stop bleeding
number of items that need to be washed.
When you can't use the toilet because the water
After attaching a splint to a broken arm,
When bleeding from an artery, use
You will also run out of paper dishes if
supply is interrupted, use plastic bags filled with
an arm sling, using a triangular cloth,
as a compression bandage to stop the
you dispose of them each time they are
should be used to immobilize the arm. A
used, so cover them with a plastic bag.
Refer → p. 201
Refer → p. 179
handkerchief can be used in place of the
triangular cloth.
Disaster Emergency
Disaster Message Board
Message Dial
(Mobile Phones)
Leave a message
Listen to a message
Post a message
Read a message
Choose"Disaster Message Board"on the main page
Press 1
Press 2
Choose "Register Messages"
Choose "Confirm Messages"
Choose your current
Enter the mobile phone number
If you are a disaster survivor, enter your home phone number.
situation / condition
of the person whom you wish to
If not, enter the phone number of the person in the disaster-stricken
(You can also enter your
confirm the safety of
area whom you wish to contact, starting with the area code.
Press 1#
Press 1#
Choose"Register"on the page
Choose"Search"on the page
Record your message
Message playback begins
Message registered
Search results displayed
(within 30 seconds)
Press 9# (end)
Dial 171 and follow the voice guidance (in Japanese) to leave or play back messages.
This message board service is provided by mobile phone carriers to enable people to
Because each recording is up to 30 seconds, prepare a brief message that contains
confirm the safety of each other via text messages. To use the service, visit the portal
necessary information only. Each message will be saved for 48 hours. You can practice
site of your carrier from your mobile phone. You can practice using the service on
using the service on days such as the 1st and 15th days of each month.
days such as the 1st and 15th days of each month.
Details → p. 272
Take Action to Get
Your Family Prepared
Try the disaster preparedness steps outlined in this manual with your family. Here is
Role-playing: 15 minutes
an example of how you could use one weekend day to prepare for a disaster with your
After you have imagined what the moment will be like, practice the
family, while also having fun.
actions outlined on pp. 17-25, assuming that a major earthquake
has just occurred.
Convene: 15 minutes
Gather your family and have each member talk about what they
Use the map to verify your evacuation area: 30 minutes
know about disasters and disaster prevention and what they hope to
See the accompanying map and actually go to the evacuation area
accomplish over the course of the day.
in your neighborhood. Also, confirm matters such as a safe meeting
place and how you will contact each other in case mobile phones and
Imagine what will happen when a disaster occurs: 30 minutes
other services are interrupted. Take down this information on the
If a major earthquake occurs, what will happen to your family? To learn
pages of this manual set aside for notes. You can also use the Bosai
more about what the situation will be like, read Chapter 1 of this manual
the Rhino cartoon flip book (bottom right corner of each page) to
"Simulation of a Major Earthquake" with your family. Then walk around
confirm the actions you should take when a major earthquake occurs.
your home and have each member of your family imagine what it will be
Things to confirm
Check points
Your evacuation area and evacuation routes
Details → p. 115
Where is a safe place to protect yourself?
Where to meet up
Take notes → p. 292
What will happen to the furniture and home appliances
in the living room?
How family members will contact each other
Details → p. 128
What if you're sleeping in the bedroom?
Contact information for you and your family
Take notes → p. 294
What if you're in the restroom or taking a bath?
Discuss what your family needs to prepare for a
Prepare: 1 hour
disaster: 30 minutes
Decide where to locate stockpiles and emergency bags, and arrange
Discuss what items your family need to stockpile, and make a shopping list.
1 5:00
them accordingly. Stabilize the furniture so that they will not fall,
See the household stockpile (pp. 86-91) and furniture stabilizing measures
topple over, or slide. Confirm that you have not missed anything by
(pp. 96-99) sections and find the disaster preparedness measures that best
referring to the furniture stabilizing checklist (pp. 100-103).
suit your family. In the afternoon, take time to go shopping. Prepare a list of
items necessary for your family, such as emergency supplies and furniture
stabilizing devices. The pages set aside to take notes in this manual will be
Check points
Confirm the location of stockpiles
Confirm the location of emergency bags
Check points
Stabilizing measures appropriate for your furnishings
List of emergency stockpile items for your family
and home appliances
List of items to be put in emergency bags
Furniture stabilizing measures for each room of your
Wrap-up: 15 minutes
To wrap up the day, have each member of your family give one to
Lunch and shopping: 3 hours
two minutes of feedback. Share your frank thoughts with each other
so that everyone in your family will be safe if a disaster strikes.
Have lunch and then go and buy necessary items.
1 2:00
Hold a Community Event
to Prepare for a Disaster
Program 2: Hands-on experience
This is the main event. Use this manual to practice solving problems that will occur when a disaster strikes.
We will introduce how to hold a hands-on event where participants can have
fun learning knowledge that will be truly helpful in the event of a disaster.
Practice solving problems that occur when a disaster strikes: 15 minutes for
Why not invite neighbors or hold an event at school, and build a solid
each exercise
community prepared for a disaster?
1. Present a problem
3-30 people
The moderator presents the first problem.
What to bring
This manual
1.5-3 hours
Exercise samples → pp. 234-235
Person who will serve as a moderator
A space large enough to accommodate the participants
Scissors, box cutters, glue, pliers, nippers
Table with a lot of materials on it
(Refer to pp. 234-235 for exercise samples and materials to prepare.)
2. Teams look for solutions
Members of each team cooperate with
each other to solve the problem, using
Program 1: Imagine the moment
the contents of this manual and various
Read the experience of survivors: 15 minutes
First, have all the participants read the experience of
earthquake survivors. It is important that everyone is aware of
what it is really like to experience an earthquake.
Experience → p. 72
3. Each team presents a solution
When the problem is solved, a team
Opening: 15 minutes
member raises his/her hand and the
Ask the participants to separate into teams consisting of four
moderator examines the solution. Once
or less people each. If possible, place people who have never
all teams find the answer, move on to the
talked to each other on the same team. After they are divided
next problem. Spend about 15 minutes on
into teams, have the members of each team share their names,
each problem.
occupations, and what they thought about the experience of
survivors, allowing each to talk for about three minutes.
Shuffle team members and closing: 15 minutes
We need dishes and spoons to distribute meals. Let's make
Getting to know many people is another objective of this event. After the exercises,
shuffle the team members. Once each new team is formed, members talk for three
Plastic bottles, milk cartons, newspaper
minutes each, giving their names, occupations and their thoughts on the event.
p. 208
Let's learn how to tie ropes tightly. Tie a clove hitch and square
p. 216
There is no light due to a power failure. How can we make a
Flashlights, white plastic bags, plastic bottles, water
p. 206
It's getting chilly. Think about how we can warm ourselves with
Newspaper, plastic bags, plastic wrap
p. 192
Exercise samples (pp. 192-217)
There is no D battery. Make a substitute using an AA battery.
Flashlight that works on a D battery, AA battery, cloth, aluminum
Having these versatile materials at the event could be helpful.
p. 207
- Newspaper
- Paper
- Rubber bands
There is no toilet. Make an emergency toilet using materials
- Cardboard
- Cloth
- Paper clips
available here.
- Plastic bags
- Plastic wrap
- Garbage bags
Bucket, plastic bags, newspaper
- Plastic bottles
- Aluminum foil
- Ropes
p. 201
- Paper cartons
- Sterile gauze
- Clothes you no
You have come to an evacuation center. Let's make a bed and
longer wear
Cardboard, newspaper, polystyrene foam, large plastic sheets, ball
pp. 214-215
If you prepare ample amounts of versatile materials,
such as those listed above, event participants might be
able to come up with their own versions of helpful items.
Cooperate with the members of your team and look into
various solutions.


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The 6th Extinction
James Rollins
Morrow, Aug 12 2014, $27.00
Inside of the U.S. Developmental Test Command station deep within the Sierra Nevada Mountains, people scream in anguish as Dr. Kendall Hess and Irene McIntyre know someone sabotaged Project NeoGenesis. They send out a warning message to TECCOM to insure all inside are dead before they release the fail-safe destruction of the army lab. For fifty square miles surrounding the doomed installation and widening nothing organic survived.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency assigns Sigma Force led by Commander Gray Pierce to stop the spread of this potential extinction event. The unit finds an ancient map that Charles Darwin studied with hints that in a far distant past when Antarctica was warm and green death reined on the unsuspecting ancient world. In the icy present someone targets Dr. Alex Harrington's cavern lab. Further answers can be found at Elwes Cutter's lab deep inside the Brazil rainforest as this terrorist-scientist works to trigger the sixth mass species extinction.
The terrific 10th Sigma Force drama (see The Doomsday Key, The Eye of God and Bloodline) is an adrenaline-pumping save the world thriller as once again James Rollins combines action and history with scientific theories (focusing this time on evolution especially species extinction). Series fans will relish the frantic pace as mankind's relatively small reign at the top of the food chain seems at a suicidal end.
Harriet Klausner


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Cuttack: After a star studded wedding ceremony of actor Arindam, his marriage reception was yet another glitzy evening. The star and his bride Anupa who tied the nuptial knot on December 4 were wished a happy life together by their well wishers from the film fraternity and outside on Wednesday at the reception party held at OCA club in the city.
While the party venue was lavishly decorated with beautiful exotic flowers, the bride and groom looked stunning too. The usually style flaunting actor went for a simple black suit while bride Anupa was decked up with a designer lehenga in red and contemporary gold jewellery.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had blessed the couple on their wedding day while many prominent politicians were also seen. At the grand reception party it was the turn of film celebrities who were present in large numbers. The couple's marriage was conducted at Swosti Premium Hotel in Bhubaneswar.
Cuttack boy Arindam who started his film career in 2006 "Prema Rutu Asilare", is known for his romantic and action performances in Odia film industry. He is immensely popular among Odia film lovers. His wife Anupa is the sister of Energy minister Pranab Prakash Das.