Follow the link to see pictures of rescued pets available for adoption!
Currently fostering 7 dogs, all up to date with their vaccinations, they are available for adoption through the Adopt a stray website at www.adoptastray.ws
:) they are all incredibly sweet and playful. I can send more pictures if you need them.
Our adoption center is in Aventura, Florida. Please send me a message for more information or feel free to call (786) 383-4772
I’ve got internet!
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Quick update:
-Deployment to Middletown NY. DONE, worked in logistics which means playing with the boys in the warehouse, driving big shiny trucks through the middle of Queens NY, (that’s right I said BIG TRUCK) loading and unloading vehicles with emergency supplies, Getting a killer workout. Worst part of deployment? I didn’t have time to get protein shakes in the morning so all that sweet muscle building work went nowhere.
-Tornado Relief in Ft. Lauderdale. DONE, drove around in the ERV again, opening case files and talking to folks about what their needs are. Cons? People running after your truck demanding that you come inside and look at their leak in the roof when you just visited a home that was completely shredded into bits. your patience is tested all the time.
-Flood Relief in Ft. Lauderdale/Plantation. Still in progress. Doing Damage Assessment.
Enough about work:
Here’s a photo of me playing scrabble.
Home life is good.
Working on another film set this weekend, and I might be joining a union to work at Art Basel set-up. :D we’ll see.
Headin’ up the Eastern side of the US. Currently in Middletown, NY.
There are about 15 ERV’s (Emergency Response Vehicles) here at the staging site.
We’ll hopefully get our assignments tomorrow morning after loading our trucks.
Just got into the hotel, over booked again, I’ll post up some pictures tomorrow when we load up.
gegendiewand replied to your post: deployed to fredrick marylandIf the hurricane reaches me and my apartment floods again will you come save me?
- Depends, are you in NJ yet?
lunadee replied to your post: deployed to fredrick marylandAw, stay safe!
- Thanks will do!!
Home video of some guys in North Carolina, experiencing Hurricane Irene. ( I had no sound on the computer I’m using so I’m pre apologizing if the sound quality is awful)
Hey Folks,
Posting from a Health and Safety computer here at the Frederick Red Cross Chapter office. So far, I’ve been on stand-by for my next assignment. Been following the news; hopefully we’ll be reassigned soon and head north to NYC/NJ or further south to NC/VI. We’ll see what happens.
Hope that all of you are safe!
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several mechanical problems through south carolina, currently en route through inland route to maryland. ridin through nc and into virginia by the afternoon. north carolina has experienced some power outages, power companies are working safely and quickly to gain power back. irene is still hugging the coast. five states along the ne coast of us have been ordered to evacuate coastal areas. nyc’s fifth state to be added to that list. buses and subways will be temporarily stopped starting this afternoon at 12:00 pm. hope everyone has stayed safe!! be careful out there on the roads folks! stay informed! erv 1134 out.
greetings from the emergency response vehicle. currently en route to fredrick maryland for a two week deployment, will be in the mass care team ( feeding, and bulk distribution). my partner and i are the youngest mass care- erv team to be nationally deployed! :) keep you updated on hurricane irene and our work for the american red cross. the storm is currently heading up the east coast of the united states, it will make landfall somewhere close to north and south carolina. so be prepated grace face!! ;) hope everyone else up the coast is following evacuation orders. visit ready.gov for preperation kit guidelines and other useful resources to utilize. be safe everyone! pics as soon as it hits daylight.
With the end of the year around the corner, I feel the need to really look back and dig into whether or not the non-profit world is for me.
I’m tired but, it’s a good kind of tired. I’m satisfied only because I really believe my work is touching people’s lives.
I feel only content, I am not sure that is enough to really quiet my hunger.
These past few months have been an incredible ride through film sets, battling hives of bees on a video set, dusting my old lighting skills and putting them to the test, watching as people’s spoken skills came to life before my eyes and produced more than amazing realities.
I feel perhaps I will follow this strange road to success, networking through odd jobs and picking up shows pro-bono to really indulge in my lost days behind the scenes.
The path into medicine seems to be a passion I felt for the adrenaline, the rush, the thrill of seeing work done in strange environments and the joy in learning new skills that can be utilized in more ways than just a job.
The time spent talking to other medics around the community has shed a new light on this fire; hours spent living away from home, the seconds spent fighting to win over the weight of death, minutes lost in limbo to spinning lights and sirens. Never remembering a patients name, only remembering them because of their incident, the way you touch these peoples lives and that’s all they become just another person. Some lady you saw in the street. A passerby.
I need to feel closer to the people I touch, perhaps, saving their lives for a second just isn’t enough.
Here it is! Finally released!!
Hope you all enjoy!
Marlon Alarm’s Double Diamond.
Sweet mash-up Ok go and Pilobolus dance group.
Nom my heart out.
Even better interactive page!
I was fired from my job today for being transgender.Hey fellas. Usually when I post here I’m in a relatively good mood, but today was rough.
It was the 2nd day of a new job, I informed management in beginning of Day 1 of my preferred name and pronouns and that I’m trans. It went really well and my supervisor was quite supportive.
Apparently my supervisor and coworkers were fine with it, but the HR representative, who I never even got to meet, was not.
They first had the person from my staffing agency contact me (instead of speaking to me personally) requesting that I not use the correct bathroom, because I might make people uncomfortable. When I asked him to please find out if there was a unisex bathroom in the building I could use (as I did not want to go to HR/my supervisor myself and make it a big deal) they informed him (and thus he informed me) that there is no unisex bathroom available and that I was no longer a good fit for the company.
When I contested that there was no issue, I would suck it up and use the wrong bathroom, they changed their tune to say that they didn’t interview “Aaron”, they interviewed “(legal name)”, and that I was “obviously” not the person I claimed to be.
What really disgusts me is that at 5:00pm, before I left, my supervisor was telling me how great I was doing, that I seemed like a really great fit and did so well with training, set me up my own desk and computer and told me when I came in tomorrow, I’d be on my own. At 5:40pm it was confirmed that they were not willing to work anything out, my “situation” made me an ill fit for the company, and they had already lined up someone else for my job.
It makes no difference that my skills, experience, and qualifications were the same, regardless of preferred name/pronouns. If I had requested to be called by a preferred traditionally feminine name, like say, a shortened version of my legal name or my middle name, I would still have my job.
There are no laws in the state of florida (or most other states) to protect transgender people from being terminated based on gender identity or expression. It was perfectly legal for them to fire me based solely on my trans* status.
For more information, please read the wikipedia article on the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and get involved in helping to fight for its passing.
You can also sign this petition to tell local lawmakers to support ENDA.
If you’d like to help me personally, I have a merch shop on my page where I’ve been selling trans* pride stuff to help raise money for my transition, but those funds will now have to go to my family’s living expenses. Check it out and spread the word.
I can’t even.
Please, reblog this.
One of the campaigns I worked on with HRC. I’m saddened to hear this is still happening.
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Nature’s hidden prime number code
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy writing for the BBC about how cicadas appear periodically but only emerge after a prime number of years:
You could just dismiss these numbers as random. But it’s very curious that there are no cicadas with 12, 14, 15, 16 or 18-year life cycles. However look at these cicadas through the mathematician’s eyes and a pattern begins to emerge.
Because 13 and 17 are both indivisible this gives the cicadas an evolutionary advantage as primes are helpful in avoiding other animals with periodic behaviour. Suppose for example that a predator appears every six years in the forest. Then a cicada with an eight or nine-year life cycle will coincide with the predator much more often than a cicada with a seven-year prime life cycle.
Image: Don Farrall / Getty
was just reading about this the other day…
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