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lifeasdaddy - What happens when a bunch of famous dead people get together?

They get CMG Worldwide to be their agent. 

And a few of the living famous and talented too.

lifeasdaddy - Wikipedia featured article.

The featured article on Wikipedia today will tell you more than you ever needed to know about the Wonderbra.

Maybe it's Canada's greatest invention.

lifeasdaddy - Some good science fiction books.

Marc Andreessen has listed some science fiction recommendations here.

lifeasdaddy - Elmore Leonard's ten rules of writing.

Being a good author is a disappearing act.

"10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip."

lifeasdaddy - Audio and text of great American speeches.

There's this website I want to point out to you.  American Rhetoric.  From the site:

Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.

Examples?  Martin Luther King's I have a Dream speech.  John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Speech.  MacArthur's Duty, Honor, Country speech.  Roosevelt on the date that will live in infamy.

[ tip from Ian Griffin ]

Bonus link:  The U.S. National Archives page with Roosevelt's handwritten revisions to his Pearl Harbor address to Congress.

lifeasdaddy - How to make your Google searches more effective.

Want to use Google search more effectively?

Well, here's the official Google help cheat sheet.

lifeasdaddy - U.S. historical films on Google Video

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administraion has put up a small portion of its' historical film holdings on Google Video.

Here's the National Archives catalog notes of the 101 videos.

Here's the Google Video listing.

There's 19 NASA films, 61 United Newsreel motion pictures (1942-1945), and 24 Department of the Interior films. 

My favourites?  Man landing on the Moon in 1969, Signing of the Instrument of Surrender ending World War II,  and the construction of the Boulder Dam.

For something closer to home here, see highlights from the Film Australia archives on Google Video.

lifeasdaddy - anthologyrecordings.com & album cover art

There's this interesting website, anthologyrecording.com, which sells digital downloads of obscure yet seminal music of the past.

When I looked at their catalog page it made me realise that the artwork on album covers in years gone by was truly superb.

Some examples:

 

 

lifeasdaddy - Various links

The High Price of Creating Free Ads.  - US advertisers find pitfalls in using consumer generated content.

A Mesmerising Museum building in the Netherlands. - The Netherlands Insitute for Sound and Vision.

What to do in Moscow. - Going there?  check out this list.

Facebook founder Chris Hughes helps Obama with social network campaigning.

UK companies with women at the top perform better.

lifeasdaddy - Active Shooter Security at Australia's places of higher learning. Part 2.

UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Let's check the homepage.  Nothing directly linking to Security & Safety.  No quick links to there.

Try the Information page for Current Students.  I can't access this gated part of the site without a login code.

Try Information for Staff.  Nothing obviously relating to security matters from the front page.

Try the alphabetical index and find Security.

Finding my way to Emergency Management at the University, I see that Mr. Matt Bennett is the University's Emergency Management Coordinator, and his contact details are given with encouragement to get in touch with him on any issue.  I'll do so later.

Helpfully there's a menu at the side and navigating to Personal Threat emergencies (their Code Black) I see amongst the threats a confrontation with an armed person.  This is the essence of the clear advice:

Emergency Action

In the event of being confronted by an aggressive or potentially violent person:

1. Try to remain calm.
2. Alert supervisor.
3. Be firm but polite with the person and let them know that their behaviour is not acceptable.
4. If the behaviour of the person is such that outside intervention is required, contact or arrange to have contacted Security on 8344 6666.
5. You should not feel obliged to rectify the situation on your own. The Security staff are trained to handle these situations.
6. Abusive phone calls: hang up the phone and notify your supervisor. If calls persist, contact the Manager, Telephone Systems.
7. Security telephones, placed at strategic points on campus, are identified by a blue light and connect direct to security at central control 24 hours a day.

There is also the EMERGENCY ACTION GUIDE which is made available to staff to keep by their telephones, of which one of the sub-headings is Suspicious/Agressive People.

For Students, there is apparently not yet any similar publication.

For Building Emergency Controllers and Wardens there are a host of publications, none of which appear to add anything on the specific topic of Active Shooter Safety.

Through the FAQ there is some very helpful information, but again nothing specific about this issue.

Now, let's check other parts of the Uni Melbourne site.  Here's Environment, Helath and Safety. Nothing additional there, except for "New and Draft Procedures" .  Nothing new relating to Active Shooter Safety there.

Well, I'll email Mr. Matt Bennett and see what he has to add on the topic.