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Rescue Olympics - forging contest rules

August 6, 2014

The Honorable Joseph A. Main
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health
Office of the Assistant Secretary
Mine Safety and Health Administration
Department of Labor

Dear Assistant Secretary Main:

For the last five years, the Rotary Club Manila East has been actively sponsoring the holding of a limited national capital region - Metropolitan Manila Philippines fire rescue contest at the Rizal Park in the City of Manila.

Our group in the Philippines, the Resource Recovery Movement (RRM) organized by the Center Humanes Societas Inc., has determined to hold an event of national scale similar to the Mine Rescue Contest of the MSHA of the United States. We would like permission to publish the adaptation of your rules into our contest rules for our targeted publics to be aware of them.

In this connection, we would like to utilize all of the salient points of the Mine Rescue Contest for the contest rules of the Rescue competitions that we will be organizing - hopefully in cooperation with the Rotary Club of the Philippines - under the Urban Rescue category.

Thank you so very much and we hope if you and your people have got the time to write us, kindly send us any useful suggestions on how to make our rescue competition event a real success.

Shown below is the draft of the rules as we adapted them that could still stand a number of corrections.

More power to MSHA!

Very truly yours,

Centre Humanes Societas Inc.
Philippines

Thank You to UN, ICRC, all the Countries and Relief Organizations!

Thank you ICRC and Philippine Red Cross for all your efforts after Yolanda in the affected Regions of the Philippines! More power to you! Godspeed and God bless you!

Thank you United Nations and United Nations OCHA (Director Khalikov), United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (Secretary Margareta Wahlstrom) for relief and recovery assistance, for your Flash Appeal world wide and to Excellency Ban Ki Moon for taking the time off his very busy schedule to visit Tacloban City! May God bless all of you and more power to you!

A very warm Merry Christmas and Happy New Year greetings to all your people, officers and workers all over the world!!! We love you all together with all those kind and generous ones from a myriad of countries and relief organizations that shared time, resources, blood sweat and tears for the victims of recent Philippine disaster!

Benefit Music Event

O N E

One is a rock music festival originally planned for April 2010 but was shelved due to the postponement of the Hazards Mapping and Environment Summit (HMES) 2010 - a sister project.

The HMES project is now revived and rescheduled to December 4-12, 2014, before the March conference in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture of the United Nations called the UN Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction.

On the fifth day of the hazards mapping and environment conference, One will be staged at Rizal Park, Manila beginning at past 5:00 pm Saturday, December 13, 2014 until the next day Sunday December 14, 2014.

One of the unique features of One is the use of biometric tickets, the technology for which will be negotiated up to final contract with a provider from the United Kingdom.

One is a concern of Center for Human and Society (Centre di Humanes et Societas, Inc.) a non-profit organization registered in the Philippines. The organizer's advocacy is pushing for and actively participating in the creation of resettlement sites far away from the ground zero where thousands of Tacloban City residents died as well as building Memorials for those that died in the places where the remains of those that passed away during the Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Haiyan codenamed Yolanda. These memorials will be where the relatives of those that died can express grief for their family, loved ones and bosom friends. Read more from here

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Fighting Climate Change distracts governments

After the 2005 Hyogo Conference, scientists urged the United Nations to consider that the various conflicting issues surrounding Climate Change is "distracting governments" from providing solutions to threats of disasters worldwide.

"The current UN focus on "fighting climate change," as illustrated in the Nov. 27 UN Development Programme's Human Development Report, is distracting governments from adapting to the threat of inevitable natural climate changes, whatever forms they may take. National and international planning for such changes is needed, with a focus on helping our most vulnerable citizens adapt to conditions that lie ahead. Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity's real and pressing problems."

A letter written to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon ventilated sentiments of scientists and technology experts on the issue of focusing deeper into finding means to adapt to the threat of climate change.

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