In Oakland, California in the United States, the Citizens of Oakland Respond to Emergencies (CORE), is a City of Oakland program that provides free training for individuals, neighborhoods and organizations throughout communities. When a major disaster overcomes first responders most citizens will be on their own for the first 3 to 5 days.
The CORE program teaches skills for individual self-reliance and neighborhood establishment of an incident command center and response teams to care for the neighborhood until professional emergency personnel can respond.
CORE classes educate and empower through lectures and demonstrations. each teaches basic emergency preparedness and response curriculum. The curriculum is addapted to the needs of the elderly and the disabled, residents of apartments and condominiums, and public and private sector employees.
CORE provides manuals in Spanish and Chinese. Translators and interpreters assist in providing CORE to many language groups throughout Oakland.
About CORE
The mission of CORE is to promote the spirit of neighbor helping neighbor and provide the highest quality emergency and disaster prevention, preparedness and, response training.
Since it began in 1990, the CORE program has provided free, community-based training to more than 17,000 residents. CORE is a model for community and city-wide collaboration. It was one of the first community emergency response team curriculums developed.
Advisory Task Force
The CORE Advisory Task Force collects feedback from the community. Task Force members include neighborhood leaders, Oakland Fire Department representatives, employees of the city of Oakland, and business representatives. Each brings perspectives, expertise and resources.
History
The City of Oakland was rocked in 1989 by the Loma Prieta earthquake. The earthquake created significant damage in Oakland. This immediately strained resources of the first responder system - police, firefighters and paramedics.
The Oakland Fire Department's Office of Emergency Services responded by developing the CORE program to empower citizens and to increase self-sufficientcy in emergencies and disasters.
Oakland was again shocked when the Oakland Berkeley Hills Firestorm occurred in 1991. This destruction and trauma emphasized the importance of expanding CORE's curriculum to encompass fire prevention and suppression. Soon afterwards CORE became a multi-hazard training program to include preparedness and response to earthquake, fire, chemical accidents, severe weather, and terrorism.
The CORE program teaches skills for individual self-reliance and neighborhood establishment of an incident command center and response teams to care for the neighborhood until professional emergency personnel can respond.
CORE classes educate and empower through lectures and demonstrations. each teaches basic emergency preparedness and response curriculum. The curriculum is addapted to the needs of the elderly and the disabled, residents of apartments and condominiums, and public and private sector employees.
CORE provides manuals in Spanish and Chinese. Translators and interpreters assist in providing CORE to many language groups throughout Oakland.
About CORE
The mission of CORE is to promote the spirit of neighbor helping neighbor and provide the highest quality emergency and disaster prevention, preparedness and, response training.
Since it began in 1990, the CORE program has provided free, community-based training to more than 17,000 residents. CORE is a model for community and city-wide collaboration. It was one of the first community emergency response team curriculums developed.
Advisory Task Force
The CORE Advisory Task Force collects feedback from the community. Task Force members include neighborhood leaders, Oakland Fire Department representatives, employees of the city of Oakland, and business representatives. Each brings perspectives, expertise and resources.
History
The City of Oakland was rocked in 1989 by the Loma Prieta earthquake. The earthquake created significant damage in Oakland. This immediately strained resources of the first responder system - police, firefighters and paramedics.
The Oakland Fire Department's Office of Emergency Services responded by developing the CORE program to empower citizens and to increase self-sufficientcy in emergencies and disasters.
Oakland was again shocked when the Oakland Berkeley Hills Firestorm occurred in 1991. This destruction and trauma emphasized the importance of expanding CORE's curriculum to encompass fire prevention and suppression. Soon afterwards CORE became a multi-hazard training program to include preparedness and response to earthquake, fire, chemical accidents, severe weather, and terrorism.
FLOOZE is a funk-dance-lounge-electro project produced by Fabien Pinardon. Flooze's first album was released in November 2006 and distributed through CDBaby.
Parisian music producer Fabien Pinardon has one foot firmly in the "house" scene, whilst tentatively dipping his other into various musical realms with very pleasing results. An accomplished bass player and master of groove, Fabien's multi-instrumental compositions vary from laid back to dance floor pleasers.
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Parisian music producer Fabien Pinardon has one foot firmly in the "house" scene, whilst tentatively dipping his other into various musical realms with very pleasing results. An accomplished bass player and master of groove, Fabien's multi-instrumental compositions vary from laid back to dance floor pleasers.
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Fabien Pinardon is a musician-producer-arranger, born in 1976 in Paris.
Productions includes:
- Flooze 2006
- Alternative rock band 2006
- Actor, singer 2004: Prayer, CMon, Fast Love
Also appeared:
- Played bass with alternative rock band 2005-2006
- Played bass with soul/funk band Fluid 2004
- Played bass with soul/funk band Soulfuric 2002-2003
- Played bass with rock band Enola 2002
Studied music in conservatory of Pierrefitte near Paris:
- Piano, composition
Parisian music producer Fabien Pinardon has one foot firmly in the "house" scene, whilst tentatively dipping his other into various musical realms with very pleasing results. An accomplished bass player and master of groove, Fabien's multi-instrumental compositions vary from laid back to dance floor pleasers.
Productions includes:
- Flooze 2006
- Alternative rock band 2006
- Actor, singer 2004: Prayer, CMon, Fast Love
Also appeared:
- Played bass with alternative rock band 2005-2006
- Played bass with soul/funk band Fluid 2004
- Played bass with soul/funk band Soulfuric 2002-2003
- Played bass with rock band Enola 2002
Studied music in conservatory of Pierrefitte near Paris:
- Piano, composition
Parisian music producer Fabien Pinardon has one foot firmly in the "house" scene, whilst tentatively dipping his other into various musical realms with very pleasing results. An accomplished bass player and master of groove, Fabien's multi-instrumental compositions vary from laid back to dance floor pleasers.
The iPod Flea is the topic of a video clip parodising Apple's iPod advertising style. Scott Kelby (an Adobe Photoshop expert), Felix Nelson, Matt Kloskowski, and Dave Cross made the clip, David Pogue presented it in 2005 at a Mac Design Conference he was keynoting.
The object was presented as the next step of miniaturising, after iPod, iPod mini (it was before the iPod nano release) and iPod shuffle. The iPod Flea was an Ipod about the size of a Tictac, and if you wanted to buy a package of iPod Fleas they came in a redecorated Tictac box. The iPod Flea could only hold one song, and if you wanted it to hold more than one you would have to purchase a flea collar which held many iPod Fleas. Another concern discussed was battery life, if you wanted more power you would have to include an oversized power supply which defeats the purpose of the iPod Flea. This oversized battery was called the iPod Tic.
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The object was presented as the next step of miniaturising, after iPod, iPod mini (it was before the iPod nano release) and iPod shuffle. The iPod Flea was an Ipod about the size of a Tictac, and if you wanted to buy a package of iPod Fleas they came in a redecorated Tictac box. The iPod Flea could only hold one song, and if you wanted it to hold more than one you would have to purchase a flea collar which held many iPod Fleas. Another concern discussed was battery life, if you wanted more power you would have to include an oversized power supply which defeats the purpose of the iPod Flea. This oversized battery was called the iPod Tic.
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