text: OctoberPersonal Security for Humanitarians (HEAT) Home Training & LearningRedR UK Training2018Personal Security for Humanitarians (HEAT) Training Personal Security for Humanitarians (HEAT) This is an intensive, dynamic hostile environment awareness training (HEAT) course where you will discuss, learn and apply approaches and measures to improve your personal security when living and working in insecure environments. Personal Security for Humanitarians has been designed specifically from an NGO perspective to provide the most relevant and challenging training for NGO workers. Essential theory learned in the classroom will immediately be put into practice in real-life simulation exercises, confronting key issues such as roadblocks, abduction, weapons, mines and crossfire. The course is designed to put you under stressful circumstances, preparing you for the worst case-scenario. The course will introduce a variety of measures to help you reduce the likelihood of security-related incidents taking place and enable you to respond appropriately to situations that could compromise your safety and that of your colleagues. What does the course cover? Gender and security Context assessment with a focus on urban contexts Assessing risk Threat and vulnerability Developing security strategies Security planning Radio,Field and Emergency communications Stress management Coping with sexual violence Vehicles and travel security Abduction Detention and kidnap with a focus on sexual violence Evacuation planning and procedures Terrorism Surviving hostile environments By the end of the course you will be able to: Explain the importance of understanding your role and the security environment Undertake a context analysis and a personal risk assessment Demonstrate immediate responses to hostile environments Effectively contribute to a security planning process Describe measures to reduce personal and team vulnerability to a range of threats Explain the importance of cultural awareness and sensitivity, team working, interpersonal communications and how diversity impacts on security Demonstrate immediate responses to threats in the operating environment How much does the course cost? Standard Individual - £687.00 Standard Organisation - £965.00 Early-Bird: Receive 10% off the course fee when booking at least 1 month before the start of the course.* *applies to both individual and organisational tickets Who should attend? Personal security training is crucial for anyone working in an insecure or hostile environment. The course is designed primarily for humanitarian personnel, but it is also applicable to anyone who is likely to be deployed to an environment that is, or has the possibility to be insecure. Course Structure: This three and a half day course is fully residential with a compulsory online component. Participants are required to arrange their own timely travel to and from the training venue, and manage to complete the online components prior to the face to face sessions. Details of how to get to this training venue shall be provided in the course joining instructions upon booking and participants are expected to arrive at the training venue on the Monday night before training commences. Accommodation and meals will be fully provided throughout the course. Online Learning The course begins with online materials and tasks that introduce various concepts and issues to participants which are mainstreamed into the face to face course. These modules include Gender and Security, Understanding Where You are working (with a focus on urban contexts), Assessing and Reducing Risk, and Terrorism. Participants will be actively encouraged to participate in classroom discussions and group work. The trainer will draw on both theoretical and practical knowledge in order to make the experience and learning applicable to the realities of the humanitarian sector. Any questions? Check out our FAQs here and our T&Cs here. If you have any questions about this course or require further information, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com. In case of any complaints, please email email@example.com RedR UK is committed to making sure everyone's needs are met, including people of different genders, ages and disabilities. If you have any specific access requirements or learning needs RedR are committed to try and make reasonable adjustments to support your needs, please email firstname.lastname@example.com or phone 0207 840 6000 at any stage of the booking process to talk directly to RedR about your needs. Course Overview 01 - 04 Oct 2018 Course Length 3 days Location Moreton-in-Marsh Timezone Europe/London Price £618.00 - £965.00 Sold Out Sign up to the RedR UK newsletterGet all the latest news, events and information about upcoming training courses from RedR UK. Newsletter sign up First Name Last Name Email Subscribe


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BOOK REVIEW: The Kingdom of Rarities by Eric Dinerstein
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Armchair naturalists will delight in following Dinerstein as he treks the globe to find uncommon species and figure out why they are rare. Through field investigations and other research, this conservation biologist with the World Wildlife Fund comes to a rather startling conclusion: The majority of Earth's nonmicroscopic species are rare — and probably always have been.
Unlike the dandelions and starlings of the world, he points out, most species consist of small numbers of individuals or are found only in a few tiny bits of real estate. People often take the blame for making species rarer, and Dinerstein by no means exonerates humans. Thanks to overhunting and a general despoiling of the environment, many once-common species are at risk of vanishing. One prime example: the lowland rhinos of Nepal that Dinerstein studied for five years.
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The arrival of multinational tech giants such as Google, Facebook and others in the five countries where most of Africa's early-stage tech start-up activities are concentrated (South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Morocco), seems to be spurring local innovation hubs to revamp their business models and offer fixed-period accelerator programmes targeting later stage start-ups – also known as scale-ups.
This presents them with the challenge of integrating with the rest of the continent's entrepreneurial ecosystem to provide their start-up entrepreneurs with access to corporate business opportunities, expert mentorship, team talent, as well as local and international capital.
Some credit Norwegian serial entrepreneur and Meltwater chief executive Jørn Lyseggen with being a key catalyst for the massive wave of start-up incubation and acceleration activities in the continent. Lyseggen launched Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (Mest) in Accra, Ghana, in 2008 to help "prove that a new generation of young, successful global software entrepreneurs can originate from Africa".
Apart from Ghana, Mest has a footprint in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa and last year welcomed its first Francophone entrepreneurs from Côte d'Ivoire into its Accelerator programme.
Two years after Mest launched, the American tech entrepreneur Erik Hersman and his team acted on "a need in Africa to create a nexus point for technologists, investors and tech companies" and launched iHub in Nairobi, Kenya.
iHub quickly became one of Africa's most-publicised tech hubs; a poster child for the African tech hub experience. iHub managed to secure notable partnerships with the likes of the World Bank Group's infoDev programme, with whom they launched Traction Camp, a six-month Accelerator programme that supports digital start-ups from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania.
In 2011, Nigerian innovation architects Bosun Tijani and Femi Longe launched the Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) in Yaba, Lagos, as Nigeria's first "open living lab and pre-incubation space embracing technologists, social entrepreneurs, government, tech companies, impact investors and hackers".
Last year, CcHub partnered with Google for Entrepreneurs in PitchDrive, a three-week 20million fund-raising tour of London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Zurich and Paris for 14 African tech start-ups. More recently, CcHub launched the Giving4Good challenge, designed to explore ways in which technology can increase individual philanthropy towards NGOs and CSOs.
When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made his first-ever visit to sub-Saharan Africa in 2016, he held town hall meetings with entrepreneurs working out of CcHub in Lagos and iHub in Nairobi. Since Zuckerberg's Africa call, the continent has seen a marked increase in global tech players participating in hub-based innovation programmes and within Africa's entrepreneurial ecosystem at large.
Following Zuckerberg's visit, Facebook launched NG_Hub in partnership with local innovation hubs in Nigeria to "bring together the Nigerian tech community, including developers and start-ups to enable them to collaborate, learn and exchange ideas."
The initiative has roped-in CcHub in Lagos, Ventures Platform in Abuja, CoLab in Kaduna, nHub in Jos, and Roar Nigeria in Enugu.
For Africa's innovation hubs to keep adding significant economic value within the ecosystem, they will need to accelerate moving away from their traditional, grant-maintained, self-contained "eagle flying solo" service delivery method of ideation, resourcing, and operations, and embrace a new "lions in a pride" outlook to value creation for their start-ups and scale-ups.
Personally, I'm partial to an Angel/Hub/Corporate curated scale-ups model.
Harry Tomi Davies is the co-founder and president of the African Business Angel Network.
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This policy defines professional conduct and ethical standards of conduct for Correctional Probation Officers, including conduct which is unbecoming and unprofessional. To accomplish the mission of this Department, all employees will adhere to the highest ethical standards and perform their jobs with diligence and honesty.
The Department's effectiveness depends upon the partnership developed with the community and the respect and confidence in our ability to protect the public and supervise offenders at a level of security commensurate with the danger they represent. Conduct that distracts from this confidence is detrimental to the Department and the public's interest. The policy of the Department is to investigate circumstances that suggest an officer has engaged in unprofessional or unbecoming conduct and impose appropriate disciplinary action.
This policy applies to all Correctional Probation Officers of this Department engaged in official job related responsibilities, on or off duty, or whether within or outside the territorial jurisdiction of this Department. Conduct not mentioned under a specific rule, but which violates a general principle is prohibited. This policy is organized into eight principles. The rationale explaining the principle and a set of rule follow each principle.
Principle One
Correctional Probation Officers, whether on or off duty, will abide by and follow all federal, state and municipal criminal laws, as well as those laws governing the conduct of state employees and ordinances and rules enacted or established pursuant to legal authority.
Correctional Probation Officers perform their duties pursuant to a grant of limited authority from the Legislature and the local community. Therefore officers must understand the laws defining the scope of their enforcement powers. Correctional Probation Officers may only act in accordance with the powers granted to them.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not knowingly exceed their authority in the enforcement of the law or in applying departmental rules and regulations to the offenders they supervise.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not knowingly disobey the law or rules of criminal procedure in such areas as arrest, detention, searches, use of force, use of informants and disclosure of confidential information.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not knowingly restrict the freedom of individuals under their supervision in violation of the Constitution, laws of the United States and the State of Florida, or court orders.
Correctional Probation Officers, whether on or off duty, shall not knowingly commit any criminal offense under any laws of the United States or any state of local jurisdiction in which the officer is present. Any officer who violates this procedure may be subject to disciplinary action and the imposition of applicable statutory penalties by the appropriate authorities.
Principle Two
Correctional Probation Officers shall refrain from any conduct in an official capacity that compromises the public's faith and integrity of the criminal justice system.
Effective and responsive community cooperation with the criminal justice system is produced when officers act with honesty, trustworthiness and impartiality. The officer must act in a manner that instills trust and respect from all with whom contact is made.
Correctional Probation Officers shall carry out their duties with integrity, fairness and impartiality.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not knowingly make false accusations.
Correctional Probation Officers shall truthfully, completely and impartially report, testify and present evidence, including exculpatory evidence, in all matters of an official nature to the sentencing or releasing authority.
Correctional Probation Officers must obey lawful orders, but must refuse to obey any orders the officer knows would require the officer to commit an illegal act. If in doubt as to the clarity of an order, the officer shall, if feasible, request the issuing officer or supervisor to clarify the order. An officer refusing to obey an order shall be required to justify his or her actions.
Correctional Probation Officers learning of conduct or observing conduct, that is in violation of any law or policy of this Department, shall take necessary action and report the incident to the officer's immediate supervisor. If the misconduct is committed by the officer's immediate supervisor, the officer shall report the incident to the immediate supervisor's superior. This directive includes reporting illegal or suspected illegal conduct by fellow employees, offenders and other persons with whom contact is made.
Principle Three
Correctional Probation Officers shall perform their duties and apply the law with impartiality and without prejudice or discrimination.
The effectiveness of the community based Probation Office, requires the trust and confidence of the community in which it operates. Diverse communities must have faith in the fairness and impartiality of all parts of the criminal justice system, including probation. Correctional Probation Officers must refrain from fostering disharmony in their communities based upon diversity, and perform their duties without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, sexual orientation or age.
Correctional Probation Officers shall provide every person in our society, including offenders under their supervision, with professional, courteous, effective and efficient service.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not express, whether by act, omission or statement, prejudice concerning race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, sexual orientation or age.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not allow their decisions regarding an offender, or the family and friends of the offender to be influenced by race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, sexual orientation or age.
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Correctional Probation Officer shall act in a manner that does not compromise their ability or that of other officers to perform assigned work and or duties in a efficient, unbiased and professional manner or which is detrimental to the proper discharge of the officer's duties, or which is in conflict with the mission of the Department.
A Correctional Probation Officer's ability to perform his or her duties is dependent upon the respect and the confidence the community has for the profession and the individual officer. Correctional Probation Officers must conduct themselves in a manner consistent with the integrity and trustworthiness expected of them by the public.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not consume alcoholic beverages or use illegal chemical substances, while on duty.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not consume alcoholic beverages to the extent that the officer is rendered unfit for duty. The officer shall not report for work with the odor of an alcoholic beverage on the officer's breath or person.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not use intoxicants, hallucinogens, or controlled substances except when legally prescribed. When medications are prescribed, the officer shall inquire of the prescribing physician whether the medication will impair the officer in the performance of the officer's duties. The officer shall immediately notify his or her supervisor if a prescribed medication is likely to impair the officer's performance.
Correctional Probation Officers, while on duty, shall not commit any act that, as defined under Florida law, constitute sexual harassment, including but not limited to, making unwelcome sexual advances, requesting sexual favors, engaging in sexual motivated physical contact or other verbal or physical conduct or communication of a sexual nature. This prohibited conduct includes, but is not limited to, peers, supervisors, offenders, families and friends of the offender, volunteers, contractors and any others.
Correctional Probation Officers, while off duty, shall not engage in any conduct that the officer knows, or should reasonably know, constitutes an unwelcome sexual advance or request for sexual favor, or unwelcome sexually motivated physical contact or other unwelcome verbal physical conduct or communication of a sexual nature. Officers shall not, in the course of performing their duties, engage in any sexual contact or conduct constituting lewd behavior.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not commit any acts that, as defined under Florida law, constitute sexual assault or indecent exposure.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not commit any acts that, as defined under Florida law, constitute (1) domestic battery/violence and or stalking, or (2) the violation of a court order restraining the officer from committing an act of domestic violence, having contact with the petitioner or excluding the officer from the petitioner's home or work place.
Correctional Probation Officers shall avoid continuous personal, off-duty, associations with persons who are known to engage in criminal activity. This rule does not prohibit those associations that are necessary to the performance of official duties, or where such associations that are unavoidable because of the officer's personal or family relationships.
Principle Five
Correctional Probation Officers shall treat all members of the public courteously and with respect, including offenders under their supervision, office visitors and colleagues.
Correctional Probation Officers are a visible and integral part of the criminal justice system. Correctional Probation Officers are role models for their communities, families and their peers. Therefore, officers must make a positive impression when interacting with the offender in the community, the public and with each other.
Correctional Probation Officers shall exercise courtesy in their dealings with offenders, office visitors, the public, fellow officers, supervisors and subordinates.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not ridicule, mock, deride, taunt, belittle, willfully embarrass, humiliate, or shame any person, including offenders under their supervision, or do anything reasonably calculated to incite a person to violence.
Correctional Probation Officers shall promptly advise any inquiring citizen of the Department's complaint procedure and shall follow the established departmental policy for processing complaints.
Principle Six
Correctional Probation Officers shall not compromise their integrity, nor that of the Department, by accepting, giving or soliciting any gratuity that could be reasonably interpreted as capable of influencing their official acts or judgments, or by using their status as a Correctional Probation Officer for personal, commercial or political gain.
For the community to have faith in its Correctional Probation Officer's, officers must avoid conduct that does or could cast doubt upon the impartiality of the individual officer or the Department.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not receive or solicit any gifts or compensation from offenders or any other source than the state, that would impair the independence of judgment, for services as a state employee.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not use their official position, identification cards or badges: (1) for personal or financial gain, for themselves or another person; (2) for obtaining privileges not otherwise available to them except in the performance of duty; and (3) for avoiding consequences of unlawful or prohibited actions.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not lend to another person their identification cards or badges or permit these items to be photographed or reproduced.
Correctional Probation Officers shall refuse favors or gratuities that could be reasonably interpreted as capable of influencing official acts or judgments.
Correctional Probation Officers shall:
(a) not authorize the use of their names, photographs or titles in a manner that identifies the officer as an employee of the Department in connection with advertisements for any product, commodity or commercial enterprise;
(b) maintain a neutral position, while on duty, with regard to the merits of any labor dispute, political protest or other public demonstration;
(c) not make endorsements of political candidates, while on duty.
None of these rules shall prevent the officer from engaging in the free expression of political speech in their capacities as a private citizen or the rights of fraternal police or labor organization to endorse political candidates or express views on political issues or matters of public concern.
Principle Seven
Correctional Probation Officers shall not compromise their integrity, the profession nor that of the Department by taking or attempting to influence actions when a conflict of interest exists.
For the public to maintain it's faith in the integrity and impartiality of the officer and the Department, officer's must avoid taking or influencing official actions where the officer's actions would or could conflict with the officer's appropriate responsibilities.
Correctional Probation Officers shall, unless required by law or policy, refrain from becoming involved in official matters, or influencing actions of other Correctional Probation Officers in official matters, impacting the officer's immediate family, relatives, or persons with whom the officer has or has had a significant personal relationship.
Correctional Probation Officers shall, unless required by law or policy, refrain from acting or influencing official actions of other Correctional Probation Officers in official matters impacting persons with whom the officer has or has had a business or employment relationship.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not use the authority of their position as Correctional Probation Officers, or information available to them due to, initiating or furthering personal and/or intimate interactions of any kind with persons with whom the officer has had contact while on duty.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not engage in any off duty employment if the position compromises or would reasonably tend to compromise the officer's ability to impartially perform the officer's official duties.
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Correctional Probation Officers shall observe the confidentiality of information available to them due to their status as Correctional Probation Officers.
Correctional Probation Officers are entrusted with vast amounts of private and personal information, or have access thereto. Correctional Probation Officers must maintain the confidentiality of such information to protect the privacy of the subjects of that information and to maintain public faith in the officer's and the Departments commitment to preserving such confidences.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not knowingly violate any legal restriction for release or dissemination of information.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not, except in the course of official duties or as required by law, publicly disclose information likely to endanger or embarrass victims, witnesses or complainants.
Correctional Probation Officers shall not divulge the identity of persons giving confidential information except as required by law or Department policy.
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The unique Morpeth Bouldering Wall is to close to help secure its charity owner's future.
Barnabas Safe and Sound has decided to close the attraction at its Wellwood House base in Morpeth town centre as part of a review of assets.
The wall was installed five years ago with funding from the former Castle Morpeth Borough Council, but interest has waned and in recent months, it has been down to hosting just one session a week.
While it was enough to cover costs, Barnabas has seen other income fall and has had to consider how to make best use of its resources.
It says that closing the wall will allow it to rent out the space for offices or other commercial uses, providing a regular income stream.
The money will be used to fund youth work at the charity's new Stobhill Centre and its housing-support services for young people in crisis.
Chief Executive Chris Menzies said: "At the moment, we are having to look very carefully at all of our income and expenditure.
"The bouldering wall was a fantastic initiative and a quite unique project in Northumberland, but the demand for the activities has been less and less and we were down to one session a week, which is not good use of the space.
"We need to maximise the income from our assets like Wellwood House. Doing that will make us more sustainable as a charity. Hopefully, we can generate income that we can re-invest in our activities."
The review follows changes to the charity's contract with Northumberland County Council for providing supported housing. Previously, it would receive a set annual sum, but now funding is only allocated as and when its accommodation is used. The referral system has also changed so that the charity can not accept tenants without going through the authority.
"We are getting less income than we expected from supported housing, which is due to changes in the way that referrals are managed by the council," said Mr Menzies.
"It is very difficult for us to plan ahead because we don't know how many tenants the council wants us to support so it means we have to be very prudent. We need to diversify to reduce our risks. We want to be there for the future."
Barnabas will continue to invest in the Stobhill Centre, where it runs youth sessions every Friday and after-school provision on Tuesdays. In the New Year, it will begin consultation with young people to identify other potential activities.
"We are still very committed to supporting young people in Morpeth and we are investing more in Stobhill," said Mr Menzies.


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I stopped at my local Target today and happened upon a new release for the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" figure line by Playmates. This is the second Shredder in the action figure line and if you bought him the first time around this figure would be a considerable upgrade.
I held out on the first release because I didn't like the fact that he didn't come with a cape. I'm glad I did because this guy is a perfect figure and one of the coolest toys on the shelves.
This figure comes with a removable helmet, giving you the ability to showcase his gruesome face, permanently scarred by Master Splinter (I hope that's not a spoiler). This second release also includes a cape that the first version did not have.
I really love the face sculpt and paint apps, they truly capture his disfigurement.
He doesn't have the same articulation as the Turtle figures, giving him a limited range in poses but I'm fine with that.
While I didn't take a picture of it, his cape is removable if the mood should strike you.
Besides being evil, it isn't explained why his eyes are so spooky in the show, not that I need an explanation, but he has creepy eyes that translated very well onto this figure.
I was looking forward to this figure and bummed I missed out on the San Diego Comic Con Exclusive version. I'm very happy with this version and think the overall line is tubular. I should mention that the show itself is pretty radical as well and worth watching. They've done a great job of creating a world for the Turtles to live in and have set up some great story arcs for the characters. Both the show and this figure are highly recommended!
Thanks for reading! Let me know if you dig the line? The show? Me?
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He's cool but the first version had "better articulation". A kitbash between the two would be perfect.
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((konexo))'s album, The Shortest Days, reaffirms my growing interest in modular synthesis. All the tracks were made using MakeNoise eurorack modules, in single takes. That's the beauty of modular synthesis and having knowledge on what the individual modules can do. Modular synthesis allows one to create their own unique instrument.
The first track (I'm going to shorten the names for the sake of typing them out) xmas jugband is pretty good start to the album. It introduces the odd mix of freedom and order that one will find using this type of instrument. loose ends somewhat highlights the frequency range of instrument and beckoned astray provides a fun random, yet organized, arrangement.
sharp signals is definitely one of those improvisations you hear in demo synth videos. It's blend of non-sinusoidal waveforms grabs your attention, the arrangement is recognizable but curious. Modular synthesis also allows for sonic opportunity. See how beeps can make a rhythmic progression, an organically made digital beat in beginners luck. Where guitar players use a wah pedal to alter the sound of the tone, a synth uses a filter while altering the cutoff and resonance. This can be automated on modular synths, which is most likely the case in march forth. Or it was done manually. Or I'm completely wrong.
While listening to evening snowstorms, I tried to imagine an orchestra playing it. It's a very dynamic piece, certainly lending itself to be transposed. home alone is also very dynamic. The phrasing and space in it, like the other songs on the album, is what keeps things interesting while still sounding repetitive at times. Ending with grey sunday, ((konexo)) displays how the modular synth can create a kick sound, bass and a high pitched flute.
This shit just makes me want a modular synth even more. I've been looking at the Lifeforms System by Pittsburgh Modular. So thanks, now I'm closer to making that purchase.
Essential Track: sharp signals


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it be nice if powerboats were as silent as
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The Main Caisson Stable at Fort Myer, VA
The Caisson Platoon is one of the Specialty Platoons of HHC Company of The 3d U. S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) and is housed at Fort Myer in Virginia. I recently visited friends at Fort Myer and was able to experience several events and opportunities for which I am so grateful.
Those of you who follow me on facebook know that for the past year I have been enamored with the horses of the Caisson Platoon. I have posted many pictures on facebook of the horses - especially my favorite one, Sarge. During my recent visit I stopped in the Caisson Stables several times. The stables are open to the general public from 12:00 noon until 4:00 PM Tuesday through Sunday each week. If you are in the DC/Virginia area or plan to be, you really should make time to visit the Caisson Stables. The Soldiers of the Caisson Platoon are always willing to give you a tour and tell you about the history and legacy of the Platoon. Plus you get to pet a lot of awesome horses. If you have a group you need to schedule a tour well in advance. You can do so by contacting the Public Affairs Office.
The link to the Caisson Platoon's website hasn't been updated with the name of the new HHC Company Commander, CPT Walter Tompkins. I first met CPT Tompkins and his wife when he was serving with the 173rd, 2-503d in Vicenza, Italy. I was ecstatic to learn that he had taken Command of the Caisson Platoon. It's such a small world.
I know, I know, where are the pictures? You all like pictures. Well, hang on they are coming.
I plan to write more posts about The Old Guard in the future but this one is a bit of a "fun" one in my estimation. I asked if I could watch as the farriers of The Caisson Platoon where shoeing horses and my request was granted. I'm fairly certain I squealed like a school girl when I found out I was approved to do this. I hardly slept the night before my visit. As a matter of fact I baked tons of goodies for the Soldiers as a small token of my appreciation to them. No goodies allowed for the horses - darn it.
On a Wednesday at 10:00 am I walked into the Caisson stables and stopped at the desk. A couple of the guys I had met on prior visits greeted me and welcomed me back. I told them I had come to watch the farriers shoe a horse so they took me to the farrier shop.
When I walked in the shop the farriers were already working on Trooper. I introduced myself and quickly learned that The Old Guard has 63 horses and two farriers. I took a seat to stay out of the way and began watching and asking questions. Because I have such a love for the horses and a huge interest in all the honorable things the Soldiers do, I'm always asking a million questions when I go to the stables. I was thankful at how open both of the farriers were to my questions and thrilled at how interested they were in teaching me about what they do.
SPC Charles Morrison and SPC Jordan Hoffman are the current farriers. SPC Hoffman is the newest of the farriers. Neither of these men had any experience in shoeing horses when they came to The Old Guard. They have learned, and as they told me, continue to learn on the job. That was pretty amazing to me especially as I watch both of them skillfully complete their work.
I learned that SPC Morrison and Hoffman work together on each horse. One takes care of the front hooves and one takes care of the back hooves. By the time I had arrived SPC Hoffman had already taken the old shoes off of Trooper's front hooves. SPC Morrison was about to begin the process of taking off the shoes on Trooper's rear hooves.
SPC Charles Morrison of The Old Guard Caisson Platoon removes one of Trooper's rear shoes
Still working on removing the shoe by taking out the nails.
Once the shoe is removed the farrier has to "clean" the bottom of the hoof taking great care not to irritate the sensitive areas of the hoof. The picture below shows the hoof before it is "cleaned".
The hoof before it has been "cleaned"
Cleaning the hoof
SPC Morrison showing me the hoof after he finished "cleaning" it.
After the bottom of the hoof is cleaned it is trimmed. I didn't get any photos of them trimming the hooves. I'm not sure why I didn't do that but I can assure you those clippers are huge!
The shoeing process is not rapid paced. As both SPC Morrison and SPC Hoffman told me, imagine standing on one leg for long periods of time. While horses have four legs it is still tiring to them to have one leg up for long periods of time. The farriers allow the horses to "rest" often during the shoeing process. This, of course, gave me time for more questions.
There are two massive charts in the farrier shop. One shows the last date each horse was shod. The other shows who needs to be shod. The farriers told me that some horses have "good" hooves and some have hooves that "aren't so good." The horses with the "not so good" hooves have to be shod more often. Generally speaking the horses are shod once every 4 to 6 weeks. They told me that Trooper has really good hooves and very mannered when being shod.
SPC Hoffman and SPC Morrison shoe two or three horses a day. It takes between one and a half hours and four hours to shoe a horse. It takes much longer to shoe the larger horses such as Sarge and King. It also takes longer to shoe horses who, unlike Trooper, don't have "good" hooves.
After Trooper had a few minutes to rest, SPC Hoffman, who had removed his front shoes prior to my arrival, began the process of replacing the front shoes by filing the hooves.
SPC Jordan Hoffman filing Troopers hoof
Continuing to file Trooper's front hoof
Finishing up the filing on one hoof
I was astonished at the amount of filings on the floor when SPC Hoffman finished filing one of Trooper's hooves. There was a huge pile.
While SPC Hoffman was working on putting the shoes back on Trooper's front hooves, SPC Morrison was working to "repair" or "rebuild" the worn down parts of the rear shoes he had removed. Each set of shoes is used two or three times before it is discarded. I found that very interesting. As much as I absolutely loved watching them shoe Trooper I wished I had been there on a day when they were starting out with a new set of shoes so that I could see the difference in the process.
SPC Morrison building up the worn parts of the shoe before putting it back on Trooper
After SPC Hoffman finished filing Trooper's hoof he began to "fit" the shoe so that he could nail it back on.
SPC Hoffman "fitting" the shoe
Once SPC Hoffman had made adjustments he began to secure the shoe back on Trooper.
SPC Hoffman nailing the shoe back on
Still working on that shoe
Trooper standing patiently as SPC Hoffman finished up the shoe
Right front - all done!
The men told me that, generally speaking, a shoe will last 18-24 weeks and can be used for about three times.
Fourteen of the Caisson horses are in Arlington Cemetery Monday through Friday each week. The horses work in the cemetery for two weeks then they are taken to the stables at Fort Belvoir for a week. While at Fort Belvoir they have acres and acres of pastureland where they can run, play and roam. After their week at Fort Belvoir they return to Fort Myer and are in training for a week before they go back into the cemetery for two weeks. The cycle continues to repeat itself.
I am extremely grateful to all who were involved in allowing me to watch this process. I am equally as grateful to SPC Morrison and SPC Hoffman for their genuine interest in teaching me about what they do. They could not have been more welcoming and professional.
A couple of days later I stopped back by the Caisson stable. One of the Soldiers took me out to one of the areas where the horses get exercise at Fort Myer. Trooper, sporting his new shoes, was out enjoying the day.
Trooper (in the middle)


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The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has given banks the green light to work with marijuana-related businesses.
That's what the FIN-2014-G001 memo says, at least. To be sure, marijuana is not legal in most U.S. states. But what about in Colorado and Washington, or the states where medical marijuana is legal?
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Reading FinCEN memo - a "marijuana limited" Suspicious Activity Report requires bare-bones information, banks should be able to handle it
— David Dayen (@ddayen) February 14, 2014
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Friends of the Library host "Addiction in Danville"
On Monday, March 13th at 6:00 p.m., the Friends of the Library will host Kathy Miles who will present "Addiction in Danville: Challenges, Opportunities, and Hope for the Future."
Kathy serves as the Coordinator of Boyle County Agency for Substance Abuse Policy (ASAP), the coordinating organization for addressing alcohol, tobacco, and drug misuse problems in Boyle County. She retired in 2015 as Director of Counseling Services at Centre College, after more than 40 years of experience in mental health, child welfare, and substance abuse counseling and administration. Kathy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor.
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Write From Your Soul
by Derek Blass
I'm reading Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian right now. I read No Country for Old Men before that and knew instantly I had to read everything this man had ever written. The title of the latter book is somewhat of an irony to me, because the violence in it pales in comparison to Blood Meridian. Blood Meridian is one of the first books I've ever read where I nearly had to put it down, the distaste and rawness pooling for too long in my mouth.
Which gets me to my point. There's nothing better than an author who writes from his or her soul. Conversely, there's nothing as unconvincing and trite as one who doesn't.
I wonder where to go from that conclusion. I'm not attempting to hold myself as an author that can deliver the stark human nature that McCarthy renders. I'm simply a reader that has seen the pinnacle on a few occasions, and who wonders at those who don't try for it.
Which...gets me to my point. I'm trying, I swear. Especially as an indie author, it's a confusing world. We hear about numbers of book sold and envy those authors. We see high Amazon rankings and we ache for the same. We see books that we know are churned out to create a "backlist" and we wonder if that's the path to success.
My point is that there's a light shining out in the middle of this waste. A light lit by the likes of Homer and maintained with the written pages of Shakespeare, Melville, Hemingway, and McCarthy. You can turn around one hundred and eighty degrees, and walk into the darkness. Or, you can strive to reach that light, despite the fact that it may seem to move further out every time you get close.
My advice to authors who are just putting pen to paper for their first or even twentieth book is to leave a little part of your soul in it, whether it be in a single sentence or the whole damn thing. We owe it to the people fending back reality with our novels.
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Genre - Thriller
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Foot tats are also popular. Did you know that foot body inks don't last long as compared to the tats located in other parts of the body? This happens because a new tat should not be rubbed so you can't wear shoes or tight jeans. The healing process for foot tats is slower and the tattooing is really painful. There are times when infections can occur and if you have diabetes, you can't have a foot tat. The most popular designs are star, flower, and letter tats.
Lower Back
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