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Please Enjoy Coldplay - Adventure Of A Lifetime (Official Video)

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Notations From the Grid (Special WeekEnd Edition): On @FEMA Watch

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During this holiday season, we hereby present the following courtesy of the team at FEMA: In This Issue: Ready Tips CERT & Communities Children & Disasters Financial Preparedness Important Dates Ready Tips Let’s Get Ready for Winter Weather Parts of the Nation are already experiencing some winter-like weather and realizing winter will be here soon. Before the  winter  season arrives, get ready with some  tips to prepare for extreme cold, snow, and ice .  Share these tips  with your family, friends, neighbors, and other loved ones. Review Your Emergency Supplies : Keep supplies on hand at locations where you spend the most time like your home,  vehicle , and job. These supplies can include an alternate source for charging your phone, flashlight, blankets, food, medications, and more. Weatherize Your Home : Ensure your home is winter ready and take the time to insulate your pipes, caulk areas where cold air might ente

Notations From the Grid (Weekly Edition): #RandomThoughts

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Please enjoy the following re:  Vision Zero and Traffic Safety courtesy CityLab:  Hindsight 2020:  Over the past several years, dozens of U.S. cities have committed to a new principle in road safety policy, Vision Zero, which sets the goal of completely eliminating deaths and serious injuries. The basic logic of the policy, which takes inspiration from a road safety platform in Sweden: All traffic collisions that result in death or injury—whether for pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, or any other road user—are preventable through smarter engineering, education, and enforcement. Unfortunately, also over the past several years, pedestrian and cyclist deaths have been increasing nationally. Even cities that have adopted Vision Zero have struggled to budge the transportation status quo. A CityLab analysis of five early Vision Zero cities—Chicago, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City—found that, while some cities have bent their fatality curves more than others, non

#RandomThoughts On This #Thanksgiving2019

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Our Esparanza Initiative continues its' planning process to launch during Q1 2019 next year.    Our Initiative is in line with the admonition from Ted Turner, the Founder of CNN.    We have been witness to fires, hurricanes and other calamities like never before which requires us to be educated.  Part of this is the advent of Smart Cities--we released guidance on it in the Daily Outsider Visions Property that we hereby present here as well. Happy Thanksgiving & Best Wishes to all!! Each week alone, an estimated 1.3 million people move into cities, driving urbanization on an unstoppable scale.  By 2040, about two-thirds of the world’s population will be concentrated in urban centers. Over the decades ahead, 90 percent of this urban population growth is predicted to flourish across Asia and Africa. Already, 1,000 smart city pilots are under construction or in their final urban planning stages across the globe, driving forward countless visions of the future.

Notations From the Grid (Weekly Edition): ON FEMA

Please review and share comments with FEMA: FEMA-IGA@fema.dhs.gov Private Sector Advisory FEMA Releases Publication 1: We Are FEMA November 20, 2019 Today, FEMA  released the third edition of  Publication 1  (Pub 1) and invites the whole community, including individuals and organizations, to read the new publication to better understand our mission and role in emergency management. “Pub 1 is FEMA’s capstone doctrine, and explains the story of  who we are, why we are here, what we do, and how we do it,” said Acting FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor.  “ It unites us in our purpose because together, we are FEMA.” FEMA has a dynamic workforce comprised of different backgrounds and identities that strengthens our ability to help, relate, and support others during adversity. We face the unknown.  We have a distinct role shaped by unpredictable and ever-evolving threats and hazards. We are a team.  We unite to make a difference in the lives of others. We are leaders.  W