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Submission Deadline: April 10, 2015

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is pleased to announce that the application period for the 2015 Individual and Community Preparedness Awards is now open.

These awards highlight innovative local practices and achievements by recognizing individuals and organizations that have made outstanding contributions toward making their communities safer, stronger, better prepared, and more resilient.

To be considered for this year’s awards, all applications must be sent to citizencorps@fema.dhs.gov by April 10, 2015 at 11:59 P.M. E.T. and must feature program activities occurring between January 1, 2014 and April 10, 2015. FEMA will review all entries and select the finalists.  A distinguished panel of representatives from the emergency management community will select winners in each of the following categories:

• Outstanding Citizen Corps Council
• Community Preparedness Heroes
• Awareness to Action
• Technological Innovation
• Outstanding Achievement in Youth Preparedness
• Preparing the Whole Community
• Outstanding Community Emergency Response Team Initiatives
• Outstanding Citizen Corps Partner Program
• Excellence in Volunteer Sustainability

Winners will be announced in the fall of 2015 and they will be FEMA’s honored guests at a community preparedness roundtable event.

Emergency management is most effective when the whole community is engaged and involved. Faith-based organizations, voluntary agencies, the private sector, tribal organizations, youth, older adults, people with disabilities and others with access and functional needs, and other individual citizens can all make a difference in their communities before, during, and after disasters. Acknowledge the work you or someone you know has done to build a more resilient nation and apply TODAY!

How to Apply

Download and complete the FEMA 2015 Individual and Community Preparedness Application Form as well as frequently asked questions (FAQ), available at https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/103533.

If you have additional questions, please direct them to citizencorps@fema.dhs.gov.

Awards Application Deadline

Email applications to citizencorps@fema.dhs.gov by April 10, 2015 at 11:59 P.M. E.T. Please make sure to include “2015 FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Award Application” in the subject line.

We look forward to hearing about the excellent work being done throughout the country!

Sincerely,

The FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Division

A Maine Republican state senator is apologizing to his colleagues for a Facebook post suggesting President Obama’s family members are part of Islamic State, but he’s resisting Democrat calls for him to resign.

Sen. Michael Willette’s troubles began March 1 when he reposted a picture to his Facebook page critical of Obama.

“I’ve been very good over the last year and a half not posting things about Obama, but this one was too good to pass up. I promise this will be the last one for some time,” he commented when posting the image of Obama speaking into a microphone, appearing to say, “Why haven’t I done anything about ISIS? Because I’ll deal with them at the family reunion.”

The post, along with earlier ones publicized by a liberal blogger that reportedly expressed animosity to Muslims and accused members of the administration of being part of the Muslim Brotherhood, brought criticism from the state’s Democrat Party.
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

What is obviously a joke on the pResident has become a cause to make a state senator resign? Or is it too close to the truth? Obama’s Muslim’s ties are impacting our nation’s security.

David DeGerolamo

So much for the second Minsk ceasefire. A few hours ago, the US returned to its strategy of escalating Russian “costs” when it placed sanctions on eight Ukrainian separatists and a Russian bank, warning that recent attacks by rebels armed by Russia violated a European-brokered ceasefire in the war-torn country.

“If Russia continues to support destabilizing activity in Ukraine and violate the Minsk agreements and implementation plan, the already substantial costs it faces will continue to rise,” Adam Szubin, the Treasury Department’s acting undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement announcing the sanctions.

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The Russian response to the latest sanction pending, but the response may have been hinted at earlier today when an official from Russia’s Foreign Ministery said the nation has the right to deploy nuclear arms in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, however he added “he knew of no plans to do so.”

“I don’t know if there are nuclear weapons there now. I don’t know about any plans, but in principle Russia can do it,” said Mikhail Ulyanov, the head of the ministry’s department on arms control, was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.

And finally, indicating that the semi-hot escalation between the US and Russia is close to getting out of control, AP reported moments ago that Vice President Joe Biden told Ukraine’s president Wednesday the U.S. will send more aid to the country, which U.S. officials said will include small drones and armored Humvees.

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Do you sleep more peacefully knowing that the pResident has won the Nobel Peace Prize?

David DeGerolamo

Many people are celebrating a victory today concerning the BATFE’s reversal of the ban on 62gr green tip ammunition. The effort expended to have the administration reverse an executive fiat that would not stand up in court was impressive. But what if this was just a distraction. We must realize that this one battle will not win the war. The pResident will continue to attack the Constitution and the people on multiple levels.

Our weakest point is our honor. We believe in the Republic and the rule of law. This requires us to act defensively. As any soldier and strategist knows, wars are won offensively.

So the question is simple. If the Constitution and rule of law are no in place, what is our course of action?

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

As stated previously, there is no political solution to restore our freedom.

David DeGerolamo