Duck and Cover NDSU

This Duck and Cover exhibit a the North Dakota Statue University, as described below in their student newspaper (The Spectrum: For the Land and It’s People) has wisdom.The Spectrum FOR THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE
Duck and Cover
Rosario Perezguerra January 17, 2019
NDSU’s library is revisiting a rocky historical period with its new Brittany Hofmann 
THE SPECTRUM If a nuke was launched, ducking and covering is still the suggested thing to do. 
The North Dakota State Library is taking us back in history to a time of fear, crisis and a desperate need for civil defense. After six months of planning by Susanne Caro, Jeremy Kopp, John Hallberg and Lindsay Condry, the “Duck and Cover” exhibit is up and ready for students to come and take a closer look at the procedures and artifacts from the Cold War. 
From archives to artifacts, the “Duck and Cover” exhibit features carefully researched pieces of history from right here in North Dakota. With the video game series “Fallout” by Bethesda coming out with another post-apocalyptic game, Susanne Caro, the government information librarian, hopes that that will encourage students to delve into the Cold War.
Caro said the most interesting component of this exhibit to her is the psychological component. “There was such a large effort to survive,” Caro said. “They had children hiding under desks, and really what was that going to do? Even in a time that seemed like we were doomed, there was so much positivity. The government was assuring that even if something happened, we would all be okay.”
Caro said she believes it is important for students to care about history, especially when it is pretty recent. “It is helpful to come see what has happened in the past,” she said. “We still have many concerns today with North Korea and nuclear threat. Many seem to have forgotten.”
After students come to see this exhibit Caro said she hopes they take away how to be prepared in case of emergency. “There might not be a large concern of being bombed, but other disasters are important to prepare for with having enough food and water.”
As Caro said, there is a benefit to looking into our history. She said history majors, political science majors and architecture majors would especially benefit from seeing this exhibit. With the importance of building the structures to keep people safe, looking into government planning and understanding the overall picture, these majors could really benefit from taking a look into the exhibit and discovering more about the past that shapes their future.
Caro also added that because this is recent history you can still stumble across information and artifacts from it. She said she is still researching more information due to her interest in the topic. Caro even recently discovered that St. Luke’s hospital here in North Dakota won an award for their fallout shelter.
Are you prepared? Do you want to learn more about the Cold War, including its impact in North Dakota? Head over to the NDSU Library and take a look.
For background, see the Wold War Museum and the Titan Missile Museum websites.
My note: With the the Minot Air Force Base located in North Dakota, residents there had greater reason to take Civil Defense seriously....then and now.
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Hoaxed Crucifies the Fake News Narrative

It's as old as the Bible. What is truth? As when Pontius Pilate spoke to Christ before His Crucifixion.
"Pilate said, "So, then you are a king?"
"Jesus answered, "It is you who way that I am a king. I was born for this, I came into the world for this, to bear witness to the truth; and all who are on the side of truth listen to my voice."
"Truth? What is truth?!?    Pontius Pilate   John 18:37-38   33 A.D.
"Quid est veritas?!   The Media   2018 A.D.
Hoaxed - Everything they Told Us is a Lie

I attended the Washington, DC pre-party and movie screening of the documentary Hoaxed on December 6, 2018 that explores truth and it's opposite, lies, as the "media" delivers it everyday to our TV's, websites, cell phones, iPads, to our eyes and ears, hearts and heads..
While there, I enjoyed meeting Mike Cernovich, the producer of Hoaxed. Humble guy.
Just remarkable on so many levels and in so many ways.
It makes the case that the corporate media has been lying to us for decades...and worse, getting away with their lies. And more worse, people have died and continue to die due to their lies.
More importantly, it presents proof...turning the tables in interview after interview to show how they lie and to what end.
When I was in the USAF I was taught that war was the rational application of violence to succeed toward a predetermined end.
When I watched Hoaxed I came away with the knowledge that the corporate media has been rationally and irrationally applying lies to succeed toward a predetermined end. That predetermined end is the lies they present as truth as they present it, convey it, create it, support it, and maintain it.
But Hoaxed, and other trends, have gone beyond old media and are creating alternative.
I cut the cable cord three years ago and get basic antenna TV.
Most TV bores me.
But there is wonderful alternative news out there providing creative, critical thinking, content.
For example, I watch Mike Closer on TheBestCloser show via the Periscope app on my cell phone in the morning and the evening.

He amalgamates content from hundreds of websites, YouTube videos, TV shows, guests and viewers.
The show is completely interactive with viewers contributing much of the content.
It is real, authenticated news because he actually verifies his sources, stories, and guests.
Contrast that to the 60 Minutes interview that Mike Cernovich has in Hoaxed with pervy Scott Pelly who just drips with disdain, anger, evil, and deceit. Everything about Scott is smarmy...the way he tastes his eye glasses during the interview, the affectations and phony voice tonality, the "gotcha" after "gotcha" questions, the slimy defense of obvious false narratives about Hilary Clinton...
As evidence of the change, a month after that interview 60 Minutes got 3 million Twitter impressions. Mike Cernovich got 83 million. Who do you think is winning the future of who controls the news?

More Links of those interviewed in Hoaxed. All are worth looking up.
"All Media is Narrative. And We Are in a War of Narratives" Mike Cernovich
"The Media is Designed Not to Inform You But to Keep You Uninformed"
"Everything Flows from the Media" James O'Keefe
"This is political warfare" Alex Jones
"They (The Media) Want Control of the Narrative" Lauren Southern
"We Are Told by the Media What the World Is" Stefan Molyneux
"They Are Much More Interested in Finding Villains" James Damore
"They Want Power and They Want You to Go Away" Gavin Mcinnes
"We are Not OK with You Lying to People and Misleading Them"   Tom Poole
 "Falsehoods have consequences. That's what makes them falsehoods."   Jordan Peterson
"One thing that is interesting is to have someone like Mike making a documentary about fake news is that it's owning the term that has been directed at him."   Ryan Holiday
"Until it happens to you, you can't really understand how powerful the fake news is."  Scott Adams"
"They plant these ideas in your head."
"People who have been printed in the media a lot can start to identify who is fake news."  Cassie Jaye
"I've been lied about repeatedly. My friends have been lied about. I don't have to frame them. I just have to talk about what they've done." Mike Cernovich
And read Who is Mike Cernovich here.

Bruce Curley Poetry Biography

"It is difficult

to get the news from poems

yet men die miserably every day

for lack of what is to be found there"

William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greey Flower and Other Love Poems

Poetry Lab Bruce Curley live poetry reading here.

Live readings of Bruce Curley's poetry may be found here.

Screaming Like a Banshee, Feile-Festa Literary Arts Journal, Edited by Frank Polizzi, Spring 20010m Paradiso-Parthas Press, LLC, 214 Mulberry Street, New York, NY 10012, http://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/v005/poetry/curley.html

Girl at the Deli, Feile-Festa Literary Arts Journal, Edited by Frank Polizzi, Poetry Biography Bruce CurleySpring 2009, Paradiso-Parthas Press, LLC, 214 Mulberry Street, New York, NY 10012. I read this at KGB in NY, NY.Here's my blog post on this event,
http://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/v004/poetry/curley.html

With No Apologies, Sarah Bernhardt poem, My Double Life, Musings on Sarah Bernhardt, Eric Finzi Art Publication, Heineman Myers Contemporary Art Gallery, Bethesda, MD, March 1, 2008 - April 6, 2008, www.heinemanmyers.com

Weavings, Maryland Anthology, The Kind of Woman to Marry.

The Pannus Index, New American Romanticism issue, The Fruit of the Orchard, The Last Rose, A Return to the Oul Sod - Irish & Irish American Writers issue Vol. 2 No.2 Seamus Heaney's Greatest Poem, Lie Down Red Hugh, Lie Down, Giving Speech to the Silence, Jack and Red Hugh O'Donnel, Sometimes I Get It, Spring 1997, Pgs. 50-62, Vol. 1, No. 3; Poem to the Scholars of These Poems, Vol. 1, No. 1, pgs. 12-13, Vincent Bator, Publisher, 160 King Street, Northampton, MA, 01060; home.earthlink.net/~bgpress/.Messages From the Heart, The Kind of Woman to Marry, POB 64840, Tucson, AZ, 85728, p.20.Whelks Walk Review, The Irish Brigade Memorial, Vol. 1, No. 2, August 1988, Southampton, NY, pgs. 64 - 66.Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust, Marguerite Striar, Editor, This Broken Silence, p. 240-244, Northwestern University Press, Fall, 1998.Under a Gull's Wing, Poems and Photographs of the Jersey Shore, On What the Future of Civilization Depends, Frank Finale, Rich Youmans, Eds., Down the Shore Publishing, Box 3100, Harvey Cedars, NJ, 1996, pgs. 169-171.Poems from Farmers Valley, The Fruit of the Orchard, D. M. Prell, Editor, 18989 Hilltop Road, route 3, Box 191, Sparta, WI, 54656-9536, prellpubl@century internet.netAnthology, The Last Rose, Clara Barton at Antietem, and Cream Donut, July-August, 1997, POB 4411, Mesa, AZ, 85211-4411, 602 461 8200, http://elwood.pionet.net/`wberger, tavara@primenet.com.Apocalypse 2, Tomato Madness, Thomas H. Hall, Editor, Northeaster Illinois University, 5500 N. St. Louis Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60625, p.2.Baltimore Review, Timing It Right, Barbara Diehl, Editor, POB 410, Riderwood, MD 21139, Vol. II, No.1, Winter, 1998The Neovictorian/Cochlea, Binary Star Dance, Spring-Summer 1996, p.13; Beatrice Cameron, Editor, POB 55164, Madison WI, 53705.Lynx Eye, The Kind of Woman to Marry, Fall 1999, Vol. VI, No. 4, p.28; At the Diner II Vol. IV, No. 3, Summer, 1997, p. 56 (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize XXIII; The Need for Saturday Night Poems, Vol III, No.4, Fall, 1996, p. 12 At the Diner, Vol. III, No. 1, Winter, 1996, pgs. 79-83, Pam McCulley, Editor, 1880 Hill Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90041.Mad Poet's Review, To Believe in Angels Vol. 14, Fall Issue, Timing It Right, Vol. 12, 1998 Annual Issue, p.5; The Comedians Choice, No. 8, Fall 1993, p. 16; Poetry in Wood, and Of Your Earthen Body, No. 7, Spring 1993, p. 15.Pudding 30, Dreaming of Maytag, June, 1996, p.30The Poet's Page, Capitance, and The Last Rose, Summer, 1996; Silenced Bird Song, Jan./Feb./Mar. 1995, p.3; Ione K. Pence, Editor, 821 South First Street, Princeton, IL, 61356.Potomac Review, The Electric Life, Winter 1999-2000, Vol VII, No. 1, p. 60; The Splendid Routine, Vol. IV, No. 3, Summer 1997, p. 69; Mid-Night Milk Run, Vol. III, No. 4, Spring, 1996, p. 69; Coffee Money and Coyote's Lament, Vol. III, No. 1, Winter 1996, pgs. 40-42; Mid-Night Milk Run, Vol. III, No. 2, Spring 1996, p. 69; The Sleep of the Angels, McLean, VA, Fall 1995; Eli Flam, Editor-Publisher, Box 354, Port Tobacco, MD 20677, www.meral.com/potomac
Voices Israel, Into the Swale, Vol. 23, Fall, 1995, p. 68-69, POB 5780, Haifa, Israel.Rain Dog Review, Coyote's Lament, L.S. Gunn, Editor, Vol. 2, Issue 1, Winter, 1997, Gunn Communications, 547 South 12th Street, San Jose, CA 95112.The Rockford Review, Everybody Should Have an Aunt Pat, Winter, 1996; Larry Joe Bird, Fall, 1995, p. 14-15; Michelangelo and the Pope, Vol. XIII, No. 3, Summer, 1994., pg. 13; Cindy Guentherman, Poetry Editor, POB 858, Rockford, IL 61105.RACS/Rent-a-Chicken Speaks, Poetry in Wood, Spring, 1995, p.14; Garth Coogan, Editor, POB 1501, Wappingers Falls, NY, 12590.
The Endless Mountain Review, The Clown and the Elephant Trainer, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1995, p. 6, Just This Morning, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1993, p. 8Toast, Domestic Bliss for the Manic Depressive, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring, 1995, p. 10, Wendy Renee, Editor, 1320 Standiford Ave., #4-258, Modesto, CA 95350.American Man, Returning Home in Fall, Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 20; The Life Cycle, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1980; Wedding Poem for Brother Bob, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1981.The Arden, Albert Einstein's Light, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1994, p. 55I Am the Serbian Sniper, Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall/Winter 1993, p. 64-65.Festival, Wedding Poem for Brother Bob, Fairfield Ltd. Press, PA, 1992, p. 4-5.Home Planet News, Reflections on New Surroundings, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 23; After Leaving Rita at the Airport, Vol. 5, 1979, p. 15.S.L.U.G.fest, The Life Cycle, Spring 1994, Vol. IV, No. IV, p. 14.Spring, Moments Stolen in Between, No. 1, 1979, p. 14.Text-Sounds-Text, Factory Mishap, Richard Kostelanetz, Ed., Wm. Morrow, NY, 1980, p. 372.

The Federal Poet, The Blind Can See, Vol. XLI, No. 1, 1984, p. 7; So Serve Acme Ideal Love Christmas Mourning, Vol. XL, No. 3, 1983, p. 2; Your Eyes, Vol. XXIX, No. 2, 1982, p. 20; The Question That Should be on Every Law School Admission Test, Vol. XXVII, No. 4, 1981, p. 20; The World Will End Tonight, Vol. XXVII, No. 3, 1981, p. 7; Children Stoning a Dog, Vol. XXVII, No. 4, 1981, p. 3; Words Never Die, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4, 1981, p. 3; The Comedians Choice, Vol. XXVII, 1980, p. 5; The Second Transition, Vol. XXCXVI, No. 3, 1979, p. 9-10.Bardsong, The Journal for Celebrating the Celtic Spirit, Republican, Vol. 2, Issue 2, Midwinter 2005, p.15.

WordWrights!, Argonne Hotel Press. Downed Wires Along the Track, Elegy for Bobby Sands, The Wonder of Poetry, Domestic Bliss for the Manic Depressive, p. 53, No. 19, Sept. - Oct., 2000.

Viking Demons, Screaming Like a Banshee, Permanently Bent Back, Girl at the Deli, No. 16, summer 1999, pgs. 16 and 17 www.wordwrights.com

Web Poetry

Girl at the Deli, Feile-Festa Literary Arts Journal, Edited by Frank Polizzi, Spring 2009Paradiso-Parthas Press, LLC, 214 Mulberry Street, New York, NY 10012

http://www.memorialdaywritersproject.com/PoetsPages/Curley.htm, Screaming Like a Banshee, Future Dust, Lament for American Hearts and Minds. www.xeximian.com/brcurleypg.htm (2000) On What the Future of Civilization Dependswww.poetrytonight.com (1999) Permanently Bent Back www83.pair.com/oncue/poetry.html OnCue Poetry Website (1999) The Meaning of Space Silence, Permanently Bent Back, Screaming Like a Banshee

http://wtp62.com/rbr.htm Red Booth Review 1:1 (1999) Roy Orbison Lament

www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/1998/june/curley.htm Poetry Magazine 1998, Celebrating the Plumbing, Lashed to the Rigging, St. Francis Bedside Lament, When Fish Crywww.sergie.com/paulo/vistante.html San Paolo, Brazil (1998) When Fish Cry

http://www.writersbbs.com/ Backyard Quiet Salvation, Beating the Black Plague, Coyote's Lament, Eamon's Poem, My True Home, Old American Ways (A Valentine), St. Francis Bedside Lament, The Need for Saturday Poetry

http://wiredheart.hispeed.com/july03/bruce_curley_703.html, Civilization, From the Shithouse to the Penthouse, July-August 2003, http://wiredheart.hispeed.com/august/bruce_curley_poetry.html, Screaming Like a Banshee, Early Warning System, August-September 1999

24.3.130.761/scars/ccdissues/ccd007.htm Children, Churches and Daddies (2000) My Father - Vol. 9, Excerpt from Wedding Poem for Brother Bob - Vol. 6

ZINES

KYEzine, Meeting, Gene Kelly, Blizzard 96, Number 5; My Poetry Hangs in Donut Shops, Number 4; Eric Zassenhaus, Editor, Vassar College, 7803 Maple Ridge Road, Bethesda, MD, 20814.
Flatired, The Serbian Sniper, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1995, p. 6-7.
Insomnia & Poetry, Into the Swale, 1995, p. 8.Second place in the 1994 Frederick County Poetry Contest for The Clown and the Elephant Trainer; POB 623, Walkersville, MD 21793. Guest poet on WTRI, 1520AM, Where the Local Stars Shine, Brunswick, MD, 7/29/95 and 8/5/95.

Film

Factory Mishap and The Need for Saturday Poetry,accepted for SLAM , Inverse Productions, Mark O'Brien, Producer, 4223 Pacific Avenue, #413, Stockton, CA 95207-7607.

Listed in Poets & Writers (NY) Directory of American Poets and Writers.

Church Tabletop Exercise Template - Category 4 Hurricane

Resilience is the ability to absorb the impact of an interruption, disruption or loss while continuing to provide an acceptable level of uninterrupted service. This exercise helps build resilience.

Name
Title		Email	Phone
Functional Area
Date

  

Rules for Players

·         Relax…this is a no-fault, low-stress exercise

·         Respond based on your current capability

·         Feel free to improvise 

Purpose

This scenario will consist of an exercise during which members of the Crisis Management Team (CMT) will be challenged to determine the actions you would take for a specific disaster scenario. Our test disaster in Scenario Two consists of a power outage due to a hurricane. You will walk through the actions you would take per our disaster recovery plan.  The objective of this exercise is to assess the viability of the plan, find flaws and missions and improve the plan. It also educates staff and recovery team members about the plan strategies, limitations and assumptions. 

Scenario

In this scenario, on a Sunday morning, a hurricane that was predicted to travel east and north suddenly shifts west for a direct hit to the area. With little official warning, it goes from a Category 2 to Category 4 in the hours while people are arriving and leaving for church. Given the ferocity of the storm, you must decide if you will shelter in place or let parishioners go home. Conduct the exercise based on which you choose.

Crisis Management Testing

This crisis management testing exercise process works to establish a clear procedure is available if we have to escalate from an incident response to full crisis management. This exercise helps to train crisis team members are trained in their role so they know what to do if the CMT is activated. The CMT must manage the details of the crisis situation so that it has minimum impact of business operations. At the end of the exercise, we will have a better idea of what measures need to be in place for all critical objects and assets. This will guarantee continuity of processes in an acceptable time after a crisis.

Scenario Test Record

Test	What	Who	Date	Y/N	Comments
Crisis Management Team	Advise Coordinator of major event
	Serve as adviser for coordination of tasks
	Evaluates event
	Declares event a disaster
	Activates Disaster Recovery Plan
	Maintains event log
	Monitors and provides status of all events
	Identified problems and issues
	Escalates problems and issues
CMT Coordinator	Notify Crisis Management Team Coordinator
	Draft and submit Working Objectives Report
Activate CMT	Chair meetings and ensure appropriate attendance.
	Contract the CMT
	Determine response strategy, priorities and action plans
	Ensure effective internal and external communications to key stakeholders
	Oversee prioritizing of resources across the business to support response
	Minimizing disruption and return to routine operations as quickly as possible
	All Employee Email distribution?
Activate Social Media Control Plan	Establish who's in charge of social media?
	What is the plan to manage social media before, during and after the disaster?
Activate Human Resources Assistance	Employees concerns/impacts
	What do you tell staff/parish/Archdiocese
	Supplies needed
	Evacuate or shelter in place
	Confirm evacuation routes
	Water may be contaminated…do we have enough bottled water for everyone
Activate Call Tree	A test designed to teach who to call first and to validate the currency of contact lists and the processes by which they are maintained
Activate Facilities Support	Evaluate facilities Impacts Monitor news via TV and radio
	Server room impacts
Activate Finance Department Process	Ensure funds are available for recovery
	Ensure that all recovery expenditures are properly documented
	Authorize placement of orders and invocation of emergency procurement agreements for equipment
CMT Coordinator	Performs post event review, writes lessons learned and assigns issue resolution

What have you learned from this exercise?

Name three strengths to handle a disaster recovery.

Name three organizational gaps we have for handling an event?

What should be the next steps in planning and preparing for an event?

List three short- and long-term actions to this exercise for follow up (in order or importance).