Sign Of The Times: Safety Maps Help You Plan For Catastrophe Most of us live in places saturated with comms signals. We carry phones in our pockets and we’ve come to rely on them for coordinating our movements. As Clay Shirky points out, we’ve basically replaced planning with coordination. We don’t make plans, we say, "I’ll call you when I get there." What happens when you can’t call? Safety Maps is a service designed to help people make a plan for meeting up in the event of a emergency. Safety Maps is an initiative of Do projects, a flexible "platform for collaborative making" with a shifting roster of collaborators. [The Safety Maps site] The core of Safety Maps is simple: by following the instructions on the site, you can create a nice-looking map that shows a meeting point along with instructions or a personal message. Kim’s original idea for the project grew out of fieldwork she did in India in the aftermath of the Gujarat earthquake. Something weird has happened with paper in the past decade. Kim says that this is partially the point.
How To Get A Visa: A Beginner's Guide To Travel Documents They're complicated, and they change by the nation. Here are the basics of how to get a visa. What exactly is a visa? Essentially, a travel visa is a document that shows you’re allowed to enter a specific country, for a specific length of time, to do a specific thing such as tour or study or work. With regards to American tourists, some countries require visas, some do not, and some base the need for a visa on your length of stay. Do I need one? Almost without question, countries in the Schengen Area -- a coalition of 26 mostly European countries as far north as Norway and as far south as Greece -- allow tourists to visit for up to 90 days without a visa. Lots of non-European destinations (China, Brazil, and Vietnam, for example) require a visa no matter how long you’re staying. What's my first move? After processing your documents, the consulate will mail you a visa that attaches into your passport. What will it cost? Can I make the process faster? Happy travels! Also on HuffPost:
ICD-10 Version:2010 Advanced search lets you search selected properties of the classification. You could search all properties or a selected subset only First, you need to provide keywords in the Search Text field then check the properties that you'd like to include in the search. The system will search for the keywords in the properties that you've checked and rank the results similar to a search engine The results will be displayed in the Search Results pane. If you provide more than one keyword, the system will search for items that have all the keywords. Wildcards: You may also use wildcard character * . see examples below. OR operator : It's possible to have the results that have either one or another keyword. Examples: 1. 2. 3. 4. Search Results After the search the results are displayed at the lower right area of the screen. Clicking on any result will take you to that category You may close the advanced search window by clicking the X at the top left corner of the window.
Worldconnections Mapping Mexico's drug war Diego Valle-Jones has created a powerful interactive map of the ongoing drug war in Mexico. The interactive map lets you compare homicides and drug-related homicides, with the option to examine marijuana, opium, and drug-lab-related homicides. If you click on a bubble, you can see the number of murders over time, dating back to 2004. Click to see the full interactive version of “Map of the Drug War in Mexico.” Valle-Jones writes: “To unclutter the map and following the lead of the paper Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War by Melissa Dell, I decided to only show the optimal highways (according to my own data and Google Directions) to reach the US border ports from the municipalities with the highest drug plant eradication between 1994 and 2003 and the highest 2d density estimate of drug labs based on newspaper reports of seizures. The data can be exported to CSV, and the source code is available on Github. This post is part of an ongoing series exploring visualizations.
How to Get a Duplicate U.S. Passport This post is relevant for readers with U.S. passports who travel frequently. If you don’t fit in that group, feel free to skip this one – or just read it for the entertainment value. I’ve mentioned a few times that I have two U.S. passports, and each time at least one person asks me how that works. Well, I’ll you exactly how I got the second passport, and what you need to do if this would help you as well. First, the need for a second passport. U.S. passports are good for a number of reasons: notably, they are valid for 10 years, and when you fill up the pages with lots of stamps and visas, the State Department in Washington, D.C. or any embassy abroad will issue more pages at no charge. As good as a U.S. passport can be, there are still two problems with having only one passport of any kind. When I recently came back to the states via Miami, for example, the immigration officer had a least a dozen questions for me as he flipped through the passport. Why did you go to Pakistan? 1. 2. 3.
Duplicate Passport Requirements Instructions Application Applicant must submit one completed passport application form (DS-82) by following the link below. The US State Dept web site "wizard" will walk you through the application. After completing passport application online, print by pressing "Create Form" button. DO NOT forget to sign and date the completed application in blue or black ink after printing. Note: While completing the application, the wizard will prompt you to select fees, shipping and processing options. > Click here to complete the passport application Note: Having trouble with the US State Department online passport application site?
Frequently Asked Questions Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID) has been used successfully along our land borders with Canada and Mexico since 1995 in the Department of Homeland Security's trusted traveler programs, such as NEXUS, SENTRI and FAST. U.S. border officials are able to expedite legitimate cross-border travel and trade of those trusted travelers who carry membership cards with vicinity read RFID chips that link to government databases. Membership in these programs currently exceeds 400,000. RFID technology has been commercially available in one form or another since the 1970s. It can be found in car keys, highway toll tags, bank cards and security access cards. The RFID technology embedded in documents will not include any personally identifying information; only a unique number that can be associated with a record stored in a secure government database will be transmitted.
How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Bor... Is it possible to become invisible without breaking the law? (Photo: gravitywave) Sitting on a plush couch in the neon-infused nightclub, I asked again: “What’s it about?” Neil Strauss glanced around and looked nervous, which I found strange. After all, we’d known each other for close to two years now. “C’mon, dude, give me a break. “Guilt. “I can’t let the meme out early” he said, “I trust you—I’m just paranoid,” he offered to no one in particular as he downed another RedBull. “What, are you writing about the 5 Flags or something?” “What do you know about the 5 Flags?” I was in. The 5 Flags Neil’s new book, Emergency, teaches you how to become Jason Bourne. Multiple passports, moving assets, lock-picking, escape and evasion, foraging, even how to cross borders without detection (one preferred location: McAllen, Texas, page 390)–it’s a veritable encyclopedia of for those who want to disappear or become lawsuit-proof global citizens… I’ll get stopped at the airport in a lock-down; Neil won’t.