It might be a musical stretch to even think of the British rock-pop band Queen and U.S. folk-rock singer John Sebastian in the same thought bubble. But it’s really an ironic numbers thing about them both that just came to mind. As Sebastian once sang in a Lovin’ Spoonful song, “there’s thirteen-hundred and fifty-two guitar pickers in Nashville.” And, of course, there aren’t that many Queen tribute bands in the world.
Parents and children, once separated from each other through the child welfare system, joined judges, attorneys, social workers and others at Riverfront Park in Little Rock on Saturday for an event billed as the first Arkansas Reunification Day Celebration.
how to prepare for the impending tsunami. safety procedures as well as links to emergency agencies. what we are seeing right now are two major efforts. one is to help those preparing for the tsunami, and the other still, let s not forget, to help those in chile. a short while ago i reached out via web cam to one woman in d.c. from chile. she has been using her technology and resources and connections to share information online. perhaps we don t have that for you at this moment. we have another group that is doing it on a bigger scale. you may remember a group called usea haiti. they were instrumental of crisis mapping. they took part in daily webcam conference calls. we just reached out to patrick myer who tells me what similarities these two efforts share. take a listen.
2,200 submissions have been sent. also you see this interactive map they created. they plotted locations of the first quake incident and the subsequent aftershocks. we mentioned another group taking part in this. it s called crisis mapping. they were instrumental in doing this after haiti s devastating quake and took part in daily web cam conference calls with the u.s. state department and help connect all the dots popping up online. one of their directors patrick myer tells me what similarities these efforts share. we are going to be mapping for the chile platform using the same categories and indicators we did for haiti. these categories and indicators include emergency collapsed structures, aftershocks, medical emergencies, issues having to do with vital lines like power outages, blocked roads and issues having to do with