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令和元年台風 15 号で被災した千葉県多古町支援について(報告)
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令和元年 9 月 16 日(月)から 9 月 19 日(木)まで、 -
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名称:千葉県多古町中村小学校体育館 所在:〒289-2257 千葉県香取郡多古町南中 349 番地2 -
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台風15号で被災し停電と断水が続いている千葉県多古町に、茨城県境町(町長 橋本正裕)とWOTA 株式会社(本社東京都文京区、代表取締役北川力)、北良株式会社(本社岩手県北上市、代表取締 役笠井健)、一般社団法名協働プラットフォーム(本社 東京都千代田区、代表理事長坂俊成)が連 携し、循環式シャワーを 2 セット、灯油式可搬給湯器 2 セット、LP ガス発電機及び投光器を無償 提供するとともに、設置と運営を行いました。 -
支援経過
(1) 9 月 15 日(日):以前から自治体間で交流のある境町から多古町支援の可能性について打診受けた協働プラットフォーム(以下、協働 P)長坂理事長が多古町役場に赴いて多古町副町長に今回の 支援内容の説明を行った結果、翌日からの循環式シャワー等の無償提供について正式に要請を受け、 境町と調整して支援を決定しました。
(2) 9 月 16 日(月、祝日):午前 8 時前までに多古町中村小学校体育館に循環式シャワー及び付帯設 備 2 セット、灯油式給湯器 2 セット、LP ガス発電機、発動発電機などの搬入を完了、設置及び照 明・案内板などのセッティングを行い、午前 10 時半に入浴サービスを開始しました。その後、夜 10 時のサービス終了までに 55 名が利用しました。境町から 2 名、協働 P から 1 名、その他ボラン ティア1名が運営に従事しました。
(3) 9 月 17 日(火):午前 10 時に入浴サービスを開始し、午後 10 時のサービス終了までに 35 名が 利用しました。平日のためか 16 日に比べ昼間の利用者が減少しました。境町から 3 名が運営に従 事しました。
(4) 9 月 18 日(水):午前 10 時に入浴サービスを開始し、サービス終了までに 28 名が利用しました。 中村小学校区内で停電と断水が解消されたエリアが増え利用者総数は激減しました。が停電が続い ている一部家庭では需要があり終了時間は午後 11 時となりました。境町から 3 名が運営に従事し ました。
(5) 9 月 19 日(木):午後 3 時に入浴サービスを開始、午後 5 時に多古町役場災害対策本部から「本 日午後 8 時までに多古町のほぼ全域で停電と断水が解消される見込みとなった為、19 日いっぱい でシャワーによる入浴支援を終了する。」旨通知がありました。この日の利用者は多古町長の体験 入浴を含め4名でした。副町長を通じ、他自治体に利用を打診いただきましたが希望が無いため 20 日で撤収することに決定しました。境町から 2 名、協働 P から 1 名が運営に従事しました。
(6) 9 月 20 日(金):午前 11 時から機材搬出を行ない、境町の野村理事が多古町災害対策本部(所 多古町長及び青柳副町長)に挨拶をして午後 2 時までに撤収を完了しました。
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Investigators are still trying to nail down hundreds of details about the crash last Saturday that killed two people and injured dozens. NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman has cautioned against reaching conclusions.
The technology failure that shut down Nasdaq for more than three hours Thursday exposed a weakness in the plumbing of the market that critics say reflects years of neglect by U.S. exchanges and regulators.
Another factor, unique to California, helps him fund luxury flips, said Brzeski. Because of a 1978 voter initiative law knows as Proposition 13, the tax assessments of California houses have increased dramatically less than home values since the law was enacted, as long as the home has remained unsold.
By the time Flight 214 reached 200 feet, the PAPIâs were all red, indicating that the aircraft was perilously low, according to the instructorâs reported testimony. He also stated that the auto-throttle had not maintained the necessary speed.
Sue Falsone, the team's head athletic trainer and physical therapist, has left after two seasons. She became the first female to work as a head athletic trainer in major pro sports. Falsone first joined the Dodgers in 2007 as the first female physical therapist in the majors, and she worked in that role through the 2010 season.
Mr Johnson recently appointed an advisor Dame Ruth Carnall, who as head of NHS London attempted a major reorganisation of hospitals across the city, which would have closed some A&E and maternity units, and made plans for a network of polyclinic GP clinics.
@Mac-329110 -- BOY...you're as dumb as dirt. Do your parents know you're on the computer again? Probably not. Think they need to pound some sense into you BOY!!! Stay off the computer until you grow up and learn how to reason. Another thing...there is a lot of adult content in cyberspace, I don't want your little thought process to get any more warped than it is already.
With FIRREA complaints, whistleblowers such as O'Donnell are entitled to a range of awards. But they are capped at $1.6 million, much less than the multimillion-dollar prizes whistleblowers in False Claims Act cases have earned.
"The episode is called 'The Quarterback,' and Cory really was that to that group of people-and to me particularly," Murphy continued. "He was the most kind, the most generous-never a bad word for anybody."
Billabong said on Tuesday it was issuing Altamont CapitalPartners share options for 15 percent of the company in exchangefor a A$325 million bridging loan facility and was also sellingthe private equity firm its DaKine business for A$70 million.
“The president listened carefully. He said that some of the elements were issues we could work on but he certainly did not endorse,” Collins told reporters as she returned to the Capitol. “It was a good exchange but it was an inconclusive exchange.”
Italy has had 61 different governments since 1946 and is about to try for a 62nd. While the financial press is attempting to whip everyone into a state of frenzy over the âcrisisâ, this situation is fairly typical of Italian politics. Governments in Italy only last about 13 months on average, and this one is already six months old. Usually Italy can get by without anyone ruling the country because the civil service is running the country. This time is different because Italy requires its duly elected government to enact budgetary and economic reforms.
Milliner, who was benched against the Patriots in Week 2, returned to the lineup after missing three games with a hamstring injury. . . . Not since Carl Lewis serenaded the Meadowlands for a Nets game had there been a national anthem as poor as Sundayâs.Kate Rockwell and Tommy Kessler, from the musical âRock of Ages,â performed.
“Another relevant factor is battery life; while one dayâs battery life may be acceptable in the developed world, it may well not cut it in developing markets. It is important to remember that the criteria against which app performance is judged can change by region, not simply by device.”
A new chief executive with retail banking pedigree could lead to a strategy more focused on the UK and further reshaping of the markets operations, which would reduce risk-weighted assets, volatility in income and tail risk. But Ulster Bank will remain a drag on capital, as it is not expected to become fully profitable until the medium term.
Relatives of Bulgerâs victims said they would ask the U.S. Attorneyâs Office in Boston for a share of the money. The families won a $6 million lawsuit against the federal government several years ago after proving rogue FBI agents passed along information that led to the murders of their loved ones. However, a U.S. Appeals Court overturned that verdict.
A regional Galicia health official, Rocio Mosquera, told reporters at a press conference early Thursday morning that 141 passengers from the train had been treated at area hospitals, with their conditions ranging from light injuries to serious. Some were still in surgery hours after the crash.
The report acknowledges a darker side - the fears among hi-tech companies about the theft of their intellectual property. One business leader said "we don't feel ready yet to develop our 'crown jewels' IP in China". But he nevertheless supports long-term engagement there.
The administration members who testified at the hearing — Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — at times struggled to make convincing arguments to the Senate committee.
Intel's business has struggled lately as PC sales remain very weak. Worldwide, shipments of PCs fell by 11% last quarter, according to Gartner. Tech consultancy iSuppli found that laptops turned in their worst year-over-year sales performance in 11 years.
"It is clear that the Sri Lankan government has failed to uphold the Commonwealth's core values, which are cherished by Canadians ... I will not attend the 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Colombo," he said.
Opinion polls suggest the two main blocs in parliament have roughly equal support among voters and under Italy's widely criticized electoral system, any new election would probably produce another stalemate.
The portal is home to an extensive repository of guides, explaining everything from how to cultivate employees to driving continual process improvements and even how to beef up business reporting controls ahead of an initial public offering.
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency recommended against marketing tofacitinib in April. Pfizer is seeking a re-examination of the recommendation and working with the committee on “the next steps of the process,” Pfizer announced.
Bertsche could not agree more. For example, the newspaper blew the lid off a Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal that continues to reverberate around the globe. The paper's reporting staff and management threw a lot of resources at getting impounded court cases unsealed. Those records shed light on how the Catholic Church was sheltering pedophile priests.
Meanwhile, in increasing numbers, dispatchers described the system as a mess, and Gonzalez uncovered internal documents in which supervisors and staff reported both that conflicting addresses for calls were showing on their screens and that calls were being transmitted to dispatchers with partial information.
"It was very, very hot, and we were in a really tough place," he says. "I couldn't sleep, so I just laid there restlessly thinking about what I was going to do for a living when we got back home.
"The global backlash is only beginning and will get far more severe in coming months," said Sascha Meinrath, director of the Open Technology Institute at the Washington-based New America Foundation think-tank . "This notion of national privacy sovereignty is going to be an increasingly salient issue around the globe."
Kathryn Spica, a mutual fund analyst for Morningstar inChicago, said valuing Facebook has been a common problem formany fund managers. As with other young Web companies, it hasnot been clear how well the young company could monetize theheavy traffic to its site.
Here is the line he began his speech with: “Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield.” He then traced the history of slavery and oppression. He spoke eloquently about the American Dream denied to so many. He spoke about the fundamental right to vote as part and parcel of what it meant to achieve equality and basic dignity.
ASTERIA I is the final pivotal registration study for omalizumab in CSU to be announced. Results of the study were presented Saturday for the first time at the 22nd Congress of the European Association of Dermatology and Venereology or EADV in Istanbul, Turkey.
âIn recent years, increased public awareness around organ and tissue donation has helped people understand how they can save and vastly improve the lives of others through donation after their death.â
"We think we have the potential once again for an earningsseason where expectations are a little too low, and when theearnings finally do come out, we could have a little bit of anupside surprise," said Ryan Detrick, senior technical strategistat Schaeffer's Investment Research in Cincinnati.
"We'd all like to see cleaner transport but this dictatorial plan is completely mad-cap. Electric vehicles are extremely expensive and this simply is not the kind of ludicrous thing the people of Scotland want to see its government doing."
That will raise the cost of financing in these situationsand will encourage governments to get to grips with their woessooner, rather than simply floating another bond or engaging ina speculative interest rate swap and hoping that the sweep ofhistory starts breaking their way again.
DURHAM, N.C. â Bloody Tuesday, a demanding period of football preparation at Duke University, commences with a devotional led by the teamâs chaplain at 7:05 a.m. each week. A meeting follows at 7:10 and players later march down the paved path onto the practice field, a secluded swath of turf lined by black fences bordering Wallace Wade Stadium, the Saturday battleground, on West Campus. Chaos reigns around 10 a.m. as loudspeakers blast âSeven Nation Army.â Players form a tight circle around midfield as coaches call for physical one-on-one combat. Whistles blow; helmets and pads crash.
"There's too many times I leave the office real late at night, and you grab something â and I've had it happen to me â drop it on your lap or do something else. That's stuff we all need to learn from."
The first set of designations will not come as a surprise to the financial services industry. AIG in particular was expected to be tagged 'systemically important' after it received a crisis-era bailout amid fears its size and interconnectedness could bring down the financial system.
In his first public comments since taking the top job atVivus, Zook said overcoming barriers to patients' access to thediet drug, Qsymia, will be among the company's top priorities inthe next few months.
I suspect the engineer set nary a single brake at all because he trusted that the engine would keep running and keep the brakes set via air-pressure. He got into this lazy habit because 1. “tired. wanna go to bed” 2. The engine has never stopped running before.
Having holidayed with friends a few times, my conclusion is that the key to harmony is ensuring each family has its own space (however small) and can close the door without causing offence when there is a need for sulking or napping.
- Keep your money safe. Regardless of where you get youradvice, make sure your assets are held in a bona fide brokerageaccount insured by the Securities Investor ProtectionCorporation. That will prevent the big rip-off - an adviser whoposes as a fiduciary but steals everything you have.
"It wasn't so much that as wanting to give me something Jim didn't have," Maggie admits. On their biggest night of the year, can anyone put their personal vendettas aside to just do their jobs?
But juror Scott Hotyckey told Boston TV station WBZ Tuesday that deliberations were marked by jurors slamming doors, walking away from discussing the case and fears that a conviction would result in retaliation from Bulger's associates.
However, it is still only at two-thirds of the levels seenin summer 2011, during the last major debt ceiling crisis,prompting some brokers to point out the potential attraction ofbuying options to position for large market moves as the Oct. 17deadline on the debt ceiling approaches.
"I have Malala Yousafzai on top," Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of Oslo-based peace research institute PRIO, told reporters. "The EU (European Union) got the prize last year and the EU prize was poorly understood and fundamentally questioned in many quarters."
The spike in U.S. production will allow total nonâOPEC supply to grow by an average of 1.7 million barrels per day in 2014, peaking at 1.9 million in the second quarter, the highest annual growth since the 1970s, the IEA said.
Six of the names, which were not released, are elected school board officials. The 109 people underreported their household income by more than $13 million altogether over the three years of records and 15 school districts that Boxer's office examined, according to his report.
LONDONâCrude oil and gold pared overnight losses in London Monday but both remained lower for a third successive session as U.S. plans to delay a possible military strike in Syria eased concerns about the oil supply while upbeat manufacturing data from China and the euro zone briefly pushed traders out of gold.
Ranjit Singh left his family behind in India in 1997, to work as a priest at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin. He always planned to visit Gurvinder, his only son, whom he last saw as a 7-month-old. But last August, two months before the father was to go home for the first time in nearly 14 years, Singh and five others were fatally shot by a white supremacist at the temple. The gunman's motive still eludes police.
Defense attorneys have said in court filings they have audio recordings and documents showing the child's mother had dealings with Gerber Life Insurance Co. According to its website, Gerber Life sells life insurance policies for children starting as early as infancy. Coverage runs from $5,000 to $50,000.
ProFootballFocus.com, which tracks the performance of individual players, has rated Cromartie poorly â 103 out of 104 cornerbacks â thus far this season. The website has Cromartie allowing 22 receptions on 41 targets (53.7% catch rate) for 388 yards and three touchdowns. Opposing quarterbacks have a 110.6 QB rating against him.
The big showers like the Perseids, and later the Leonids in November, are caused when Earth and its atmosphere travel through a region of the sky filled with leftover debris lost by a particular comet. In the case of the Perseids, the small fragments were ripped off the tail of comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 130 years.
Sound is much better with speakers on the left and the right side of the tablet, held horizontally. Although they are technically back facing, the speakers are placed along a curved edge in such a way that sound seems to project outward and not away from you. On the old Nexus 7, I can't even tell where the speakers are.
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But this year, the $60 Ninja Master Prep Professional QB1004, a blender and food chopper, shares the top spot — and a score of 91 out of 100 — with its much more expensive competitor. That Ninja Master out-scored the more expensive $650 Vitamix Professional Series 750, which scored 81 and scored “excellent” for its ability to puree, crush ice and in the durability test.
But prior to that the group said today that its results will benefit from a lower interest charge, compared with the same period last year, although profit expectations for the full year remain unchanged.
His brilliant seven for 12 in the West Indies in 2004 marked him out as one of the most feared fast bowlers on the planet, and he carried his form through to England's memorable win over Australia a year later.
Scientists at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland are investigating whether an antibody called IgNAR, which is found only in sharks and helps them fight off disease, could help slow the growth of cancerous tumors.
The latest proposal "has some adjustments, aimed at strengthening the educational issue and prohibiting driving under the effects of cannabis," ruling coalition deputy Sebastian Sabini said. "There will be self-growing clubs, and it will also be possible to buy marijuana in pharmacies" that is mass-produced by private companies.
She spent spells working at her father's lodge alongside members of the Boranas tribe, and shot a short film there in which she plays a hostage who escapes into the bush. Her mother Corinne took inspiration from the natural surroundings for her acrylic paintings exhibited in top Nairobi art galleries.
âWe strive to deliver seamless, efficient and customer-friendly EV charging installation, extending excellent service into the provision of domestic electric car charging systems.â
Nordex said in June it would stop production of turbinehousings at its plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas, citing uncertaintyin the U.S. market and global overcapacity. Last year, it alsocut 130 jobs at its Chinese rotor blade operation.
There's no longer "this overhang that this struggling parentcompany is going to use Activision and its resources to its ownbenefit to the detriment of Activision's shareholders," R.W.Baird analyst Colin Sebastian said. "That makes the shares worthmore."
Every so often, drivers get to pick route assignments. They do so by seniority, and thatâs fine. The âpickâ requires submitting notice. This should be easy enough. You could do this by, hmmm, mail or email or fax or telephone. But no. The Manhattan-Bronx contract says drivers can pick in person at specified locations.
The last multi-day rainfall to spawn widespread flooding in Colorado's Front Range occurred in 1969. But a single-night downpour from a 1976 thunderstorm triggered a flash flood that killed more than 140 people in Big Thompson Canyon.
"The result of the election should not be a big market moverin the short term as it was largely as expected. ... But themid-term market implications loom large," Societe Generale saidin a note, forecasting that a continuation of recent policiescould push up inflation and erode competitiveness.
Hagel, on a four-day visit to the staunch U.S. ally, visited the heavily fortified Korean border on Monday and said there was no plan to cut the number of U.S. troops stationed in the South from 28,500.
âIt was just a simple zone coverage,â Morgan said. âI just dropped back and did what I was coached to do, kind of read off his eyes and lo and behold he threw it that way so I was just trying to jump up and make the play on it. Once I got the ball in my hands I was just trying to follow the blockers.â
Last year's sexiest woman, according to Esquire, was American actress Mila Kunis. Barbadian pop singer Rihanna, British actress Kate Beckinsale and South African actress Charlize Theron have all been given the "sexiest" distinction by the magazine.
The app, funded by UK's Environment Agency, accesses data from water companies on combined sewer overflows, which allow untreated sewage and storm water into the sea in periods of heavy rain to prevent sewers backing up.
Had Hundley -- who threw for a touchdown, ran for a touchdown and caught a touchdown pass Thursday -- gone into a shell after the pick-six, he might never have had the idea for the draw. But he shook it off, just as the rest of the Bruins shook off their mistakes to grind out a win. "Everyone's going to have a bad play. They might have a bad series. Heck, they might have a bad game," Mora said. "But the ones that are really special, they find a way to come back. It's just in them. Brett's demonstrating that."
ARLINGTON â Nelson Cruz returned from his 50-game Biogenesis suspension Monday and went right into the Rangersâ lineup in a do-or-die Game No. 163 against the Rays for the final AL wild-card berth.
The film covers Taylorâs role in the ascent of the Giants under Bill Parcells in the 1980s and his transformation of the NFLâs defensive game. But the story is just as interesting as it explores the way Taylorâs life spiraled out of control when the games were over.
In an open letter sent a day after Savage's call for a boycott, Val Mendeleev, chief executive of Stolichnaya's parent company the SPI Group, distanced his enterprise from the Kremlin's policies and emphasized that the Russian government has no ownership stake in the Luxembourg-based company.
"I don't think there's going to be a radical change," she said on Radio 4's Today programme, adding that the changeover was unlikely to alter the timing of the Fed's withdrawal of economic stimulus.
Amazon is trying to turn itself from an online retailer into a broader technology company offering consumer gadgets like tablets and cloud computing services to corporations and governments. It is doing this while expanding in competitive overseas markets such as China.
Every day at about 4.30 p.m., my stomach cried out in hunger pains. I couldnât concentrate. On my route home, neon signs of pizzerias taunted me. My neighborhood, Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, offers few options for gluten-free grocery shopping, so our dinners were almost entirely based on cooked vegetables and fruit â similar to our regular evening meals, minus bread. To compensate, Martina concocted delicious smoothies, but I went to sleep hungry every night.For Shabbat dinner, I decided to splurge at Pomegranate, an upscale Brooklyn supermarket serving Orthodox Jews.âAbout four and a half years ago we started a gluten-free section,â said general manager Avi Gantz. âIt grew a little bit upon a little bit, and today it is a half an aisle. It keeps growing.â
In addition, it is still early days for the supported apps and content in the UK. There is reportedly a good amount of content already compatible via the officially supported apps, but itâs expected that once Google releases a final build of the GoogleCast SDK for developers many more apps and much more content will become available.
Gold also rarely appeared pure; most often it was mixed with copper and silver to create alloys known as tumbaga – goldsmiths blending each metal according to how much of a reddish or silvery tinge they wanted.
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The Wall Street Journal has called Sequoia Capital “one of the highest-caliber venture firms” and noted that it is “one of Silicon Valley’s most influential venture-capital firms”. It invests between $100,000 and $1 million in seed stage, between $1 million and $10 million in early stage, and between $10 million and $100 million in growth stage. The firm has offices in the U.S., China, India and...