Brown warned in September 2003 that FEMA's absorption into DHS would make a mockery of FEMA ’ s new motto, " A Nation Prepared ", and would " fundamentally sever FEMA from its core functions ", " shatter agency morale " and " break longstanding, effective and tested relationships with states and first responder stakeholders ".

OFTC currently develops 3 projects for its purposes: " oftc-hybrid ", the IRC daemon, " oftc-ircservices ", the IRC services suite, and " oftc-oftcdns ", a GeoIP DNS responder to handle user distribution across the servers.

The staff at Marineland was a " first responder " for hundreds of whale strandings along the southeastern Atlantic Coast during its existence.

During its development for fibromyalgia, milnacipran was evaluated utilizing a composite responder approach.

By invoking the Stayman convention, the responder takes control of the bidding since strength and distribution of the opener's hand is already known within a limited range.

HFD EMS strives to have an ambulance or first responder ( which usually consists of an engine company ), on scene within four minutes, with ALS support within eight minutes if needed.

The requestor then sent an acknowledgement packet containing a bit mask indicating which of the response packets it received, so the responder could retransmit the remainder.

Exactly-once mode was essential for operations which were not idempotent ; in this mode, the responder kept a copy of the response buffers in memory until successful receipt of a release packet from the requestor, or until a timeout elapsed.

In either case, a responder who rebids notrump over a response in a major suit promises four cards of the other major suit.

The only exception is when responder has 5-4 in the majors ; in that case, he would normally use Stayman, and in the case of a 2 response, bid the 5-card major at the 2 level ( weakness take-out ) or at the 3 level ( forcing to game ).

If the notrump opener responds to the 2 ( 3 ) response with 2 ( 3 ) to deny a four-card major, the responder bids three of the four-card major.

* A 2 response to a 1 NT opening forces the opener to bid 3, so that the responder may play there or bid 3, which the opener is expected to pass.

Even with a fast response time by a first responder measured in minutes, some medical emergencies evolve in seconds.

In some communities a fire apparatus, often a paramedic engine, will be used to carry first responder firefighters, paramedics or EMTs to medical emergencies because of their faster response times due to forward staging in the city compared to ambulances coming from hospitals Fire departments may also have lifeguards in places such as Los Angeles County, California.

If HostB is experiencing large amount of half-open IKE init connection, the responder will send an unencrypted reply message of the ike_sa_init with a notify message of type cookie. And the responder will expect a ike_sa_init request with that cookie value in a notify payload. This is to ensure that the initiator is really capable of handling a response from the responder.

Abbots Bromley has a community first responder group working with the West midlands ambulance service. This charitable organisation provides rapid response medical care to the village and surrounding areas. The group was the first in South Staffordshire and is run by volunteers.

She believes that interpretation of the modern style has a particular “ taming ” effect: reducing the freedom of a subjective response and placing limitations or certain rules upon a responder.

The first responder training is considered a bare minimum for emergency service workers who may be sent out in response to a call for help and is almost always required for professional firefighters who require valid CFR-D ( Certified First Responder-Defibrillation ) certification for all firefighters.

* Actuator ( s ), which effect a response to the sensor ( s ) under the command of the responder, for example, by controlling an energy input, as e. g. a gas flow to a burner in a heating system or electricity to a motor in a refrigerator or pump.

# Ivan's OCSP responder confirms that Alice's certificate is still OK, and returns a signed, successful ' OCSP response ' to Bob.

An OCSP responder may return a signed response signifying that the certificate specified in the request is ' good ', ' revoked ' or ' unknown '.

The Village has a Community first responder Group, a charity consisting of trained local people who provide emergency cover on behalf of West Midlands Ambulance Service in response to 999 calls and administer basic life support, oxygen therapy, defibulation and first aid whilst an ambulance in en-route.

Hatzolah's model provides for speedy first responder response times.

After a 1 ♣ opening and a response in a major, 2 < font color = red >♦</ font > is Odwrotka ( a " fit reverse "), that shows an 18 + hand, a fit, and asks responder to describe his hand.

General game try, asking responder to show 6 to 8 points via a step 1 to 3 response, or to bid 3NT with a flat maximum and 4M with any other maximum.

This mechanism allows the partnership to use the 1NT response for a greater variety of hands: in particular, invitational as well as minimum responder holdings.

There is no point in showing the spades, because responder has denied holding four spades ( having skipped the 1 spade response to bid 1 notrump ).

12 tricks ), a slam is possible so responder may bid straight to 6 if preemptive bidding seems appropriate or take a slower forcing approach.

The responder must obtain the consent of the patient, or of the legal guardian of a patient who is a minor, unless this is not possible ; failing to do so may attract a charge of assault or battery.

Consent may be implied if an unattended patient is unconscious, delusional, intoxicated or deemed mentally unfit to make decisions regarding their safety, or if the responder has a reasonable belief that this was so ; courts tend to be very forgiving in adjudicating this, under the legal fiction that " peril invites rescue " ( as in the rescue doctrine ).

In other jurisdictions any rescuer is protected from liability so long as the responder acted rationally.

For example ( using Acol or Standard American bidding ) if opener, with around 16-17 HCP, bids 1 and partner responds 2 ( showing 6 – 9 support points ) opener is in a quandary: if responder has a maximum strength hand, with well-positioned high cards, then game will probably make ; but the information revealed so far is not accurate enough for either partner to decide whether to play in game or only part score.

In forcing next step, opener will raise 1-1NT to 2 if she has support, so if she makes another bid, responder can happily give preference to 2.

With a strong hand, a responder and opener may be able to make slam on sheer strength, so splinters by responder are normally restricted to hands containing 10-12 high card points and a void or a small singleton in the splintered suit.

If the response data can be larger than a packet, the responder must also disable Nagle's algorithm so the requester can promptly receive the whole response.

After an opening bid or an overcall of 1NT ( 2NT ), responder bids 2 ( 3 ) ( artificial ) to ask opener or overcaller to bid a four card major suit headed by a Queen minimum if he has one.

However, if responder has 5 cards in the unnamed major, he may bid it at a convenient level in an attempt to find a 5-3 fit.

When the notrump bidder's partner does not invoke Stayman but instead calls 2 Hearts or 2 Spades, it is a sign of relative weakness ( since if responder held 8 HCP or more, he'd have invoked Stayman ).

But a Stayman responder can respond to his partner's 1 NT opening at level 2 if he has a 6 card non-club suit.

A responder is not required to withhold life-saving treatment ( e. g., CPR or the Heimlich maneuver ) from a minor if the parent or guardian will not consent.

" The responder may not reply unambiguously " Yes, I do mind ," if they do, or " No, I don't mind ," if they don't, a simple " No " or " Yes " answer can lead to confusion, as a single " No " can seem like a " Yes, I do mind ," as in " No, please don't do that ," and a " Yes " can seem like a " No, I don't mind ," as in " Yes, go ahead.

If the person exposed is an HBsAg positive source ( a known responder to HBV vaccine ) then if exposed to hepatitis B a booster dose should be given.

In such periods, Hatzoloh functions closer to a typical EMS crew setup, though the dispatchers may still seek non-on-call members to respond, and there will still often be a non-ambulance responder as first dispatched, even if that responder starts from the base.

Whichever method has been adopted, responder will evaluate the additional information and make one of the following choices: sign off in 3 of the agreed suit ; jump to game in the agreed suit ; jump to game in NT if the suit is a minor ; or make a counter try in yet another new suit.

In standard forcing notrump, responder with 5 spades bids 1 over opener's 1 but if she also has 2 hearts she does not then know whether to rebid 2 or 2.

Note that if responder and opener both have 4 spades, they can still play in 2 in spite of the artificial response.

This game has been used to test the homo economicus model of individual behavior: if individuals were only concerned with their own economic well being, proposers ( acting as dictators ) would allocate the entire good to themselves and give nothing to the responder.

In any request-response application protocols where request data can be larger than a packet, this can artificially impose a few hundred milliseconds latency between the requester and the responder, even if the requester has properly buffered the request data.