Don't Ignore our Cry for Help! #HeatstrokeKills

We're saving lives and we need your help!  The summer sun is heating up America, and it's only going to get hotter. With the sun comes heat, which can be a killer – especially for a child left alone or trapped inside a vehicle.  Tragically in the United States, every 10 days a child dies as a result of vehicular heatstroke. Since 1998, there have been 761 deaths, 18 of which happened this year.     The worst part? These deaths were 100% preventable.  Education is the first step in prevention, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is leading the charge.  On July 9, NHTSA is launching a Heatstroke Awareness Challenge on social media to help prevent kids from dying in hot cars. Please join us. We're asking you to share this message with your friends, families, and followers — specifically by creating 15-to-30 second videos about the dangers of heatstroke to kids and posting it on your social media channels (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram). Be sure to use the hashtag #HeatstrokeKills and tag or mention NHTSA (on Twitter and Instagram, @NHTSAgov). Heatstroke Prevention Day is July 31, and we will be tweeting from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET about the dangers of heatstroke and sharing prevention tips. We'll also continue to share any Heatstroke Awareness Challenge videos, and we invite you to share your own message this day, too. Let's blast a powerful, loud, and unified safety message all over the social sphere.  Encourage your social network to share your video with their friends, too. Each share gets us closer to eliminating these senseless tragedies. Please don't ignore our cry for help. Join NHTSA in spreading the message. Let's stop this tragic trend, stop the heartbreak, and stop children from dying in hot cars.  #HeatstrokeKills Follow NHTSA on Facebook and Twitter to keep up to date with the latest recalls and safety campaigns.    Be a change driver. Use these resources provided by NHTSA to promote heatstroke prevention and awareness to your friends and followers.  Additional Resources >> The Heatstroke Prevention Campaign on NHTSA.gov >> Heatstroke Information on NHTSA.gov >> Resources from the National Safety Council  You are subscribed to Child Safety News from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Update your subscriptions, modify your password or e-mail address, or stop subscriptions at any time on your Subscriber Preferences Page. You will need to use your e-mail address to log in. If you have questions or problems with the subscription service, please contact subscriberhelp.govdelivery.com. This service is provided to you at no charge by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). This service is provided to you sajanram.shrestha@blogger.com at no charge by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) · 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE · Washington, DC 20590 · 888-327-4236

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Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page.   BTS 2-Week Outlook   Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases July 2 through July 13   The Bureau of Transportation Statistics will release the following data sets in the next two weeks:   Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, May 2018 Tuesday, July 10, 2018 - 11:00am ET BTS Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption database to be updated with May data. Last month, US airlines April fuel cost was $2.08 per gallon, up nine cents from March ($1.99) and up 43 cents from April 2017 ($1.65). Industry summary of airline fuel consumption, total fuel cost and price paid per gallon are available on the database. Individual airline numbers through December are available on the BTS website. Airline Industry Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, May 2018 Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - 11:00am ET BTS Airline Employment database to be updated with May data. Last month, U.S. airlines April employment (711,817 total full-time and part-time)) was up 0.7pct from March and up 2.5pct from April 2017. Monthly full-time and part-time employment statistics reported by U.S. airlines that operate at least one aircraft that has more than 60 seats or the capacity to carry a payload of passengers, cargo and fuel weighing more than 18,000 pounds. Includes passenger and cargo airlines. Database Transportation Services Index (TSI), May 2018 Thursday, July 12, 2018 - 11:30am ET The Freight TSI measures the month-to-month changes in for-hire freight shipments by mode of transportation. The Passenger TSI measures the month-to-month changes in travel that involves the services of the for-hire passenger transportation sector. In the previous release for April, BTS reported that the Freight TSI fell 0.1 percent from March, falling after reaching an all-time high in March. Previous release Transportation Services Index background and data     Airline Traffic Data, April 2018 Friday, July 13, 2018 - 11:00am ET U.S. airlines monthly passengers, revenue passenger-miles, available seat-miles and load factor for systemwide, domestic and international. Numbers are seasonally-adjusted and unadjusted. In the previous release for March, U.S. airlines systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passenger enplanements rose 0.2 percent from February, rising to 73.1 million to reach a new all-time seasonally-adjusted high, rising for the second consecutive month. Previous release Data     BTS Previously   BTS has released the following:   DOT Announces Competition on Advancing Innovative Ways to Analyze Crash Data Monday, June 25, 2018 The Department of Transportation has launched the Solving for Safety: Visualization Challenge, a national multistage competition for local government, data scientists, technologists, academia and safety experts to analyze risk on the surface transportation system through advanced data analytics.  Release   North American Freight Data, April 2018 Tuesday, June 26, 2018 BTS reported that truck was the most used mode for shipping freight between the U.S. and other North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in April 2018: Most-used mode: Truck moved $65.7 billion of freight, up 15.3 percent compared to April 2017  Second mode: Rail moved $14.7 billion of freight, down 1.5 percent compared to April 2017 TransBorder Freight Data    Release   See BTS Release Schedule       BTS Contact: Dave Smallen 202-366-5568 david.smallen@dot.gov     You are subscribed to DOT email updates. Subscriber Services: Manage Preferences Questions for BTS? Contact BTS  STAY CONNECTED             U.S. Department of Transportation | 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE | Washington DC 20590 | 202-385-HELP (4357)

Latest shipwrecks off Libyan coast claim 170 lives

The Refugee Brief, 2 July

By Kristy Siegfried @klsiegfried   | 2 July, 2018 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Latest shipwrecks off Libyan coast claim 170 lives. A boat carrying 123 refugees and migrants sank off the coast of Tajoura in Libya on Friday. Survivors said they were in the water for an hour before the Libyan coast guard rescued 16 of them. UNHCR’s Libya office tweeted that another 63 people went missing at sea on Sunday after their boat capsized. In a statement on Saturday, UNHCR said it was appalled by the loss of life and called for concerted international action to avoid further tragedies. On the same day, the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms said one of its ships had been refused permission to dock in either Italy or Malta after rescuing 59 refugees and migrants near the Libyan coast, Reuters reported. Barcelona’s mayor, Ada Colau, stepped in on Sunday and said the boat, called the Open Arms, could dock in her city. The vessel is expected to arrive there on Wednesday. An agreement reached by EU states on Friday does not oblige them to share responsibility for refugees and migrants rescued in the Mediterranean. Fighting in Syria leaves thousands stranded at borders with Jordan and Israel. Efforts to impose a ceasefire in south-west Syria broke down at the weekend, and were followed by further airstrikes and fresh displacement. The UN estimated that 160,000 people had been displaced between 17 and 29 June. The Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations put the figure at 217,000 on Saturday, calling it “the largest and fastest displacement in Syrian history”. It said that it had lost three staff members in the past week and that seven medical facilities had been put out of service. Aid agencies reported that the situation was quickly deteriorating at several spots along the Jordanian border where thousands of families have fled and lack shelter, running water or sanitation facilities. Some 11,000 people are also thought to have reached the Israeli border in Quneitra province, close to the Golan Heights. While Jordan and Israel have provided aid to the displaced, neither government has yielded to pressure from aid agencies to open their borders. In a statement Friday, UN Secretary General António Guterres called for an immediate cessation of the military operations. WHAT’S ON OUR RADAR German interior minister offers to resign over migration policy. Interior Hoorst Seehofer offered to resign both from Cabinet and as head of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union late on Sunday, making the future of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government uncertain . Her Christian Democrats Party relies on the CSU to maintain the coalition government formed three months ago. In an interview with ZDF television, Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had secured verbal and formal commitments from a number of EU countries to take back asylum-seekers who arrived at Germany’s borders after having been registered in other member states. But Seehofer reportedly told colleagues that measures agreed in Brussels did not go far enough. He agreed to further talks on Monday afternoon. Spain struggles to manage increase in sea arrivals. The Guardian reports that the arrival of thousands of refugees and migrants in Spain in recent weeks is placing pressure on the country’s migrant reception infrastructure. With reception centres full, the authorities have turned to groups like the Red Cross to shelter and feed the new arrivals, while the port city of Málaga has resorted to housing 250 people in a sports centre. Pakistan grants new extension to Afghan refugees. As the deadline for some 1.4 million registered Afghan refugees to legally remain in Pakistan expired on Saturday, the country’s caretaker government granted an interim extension of three months . Last year, the government declared that all Afghan refugees must return to their home country, but there have been several extensions of the deadline when refugees’ Proof of Registration cards would expire. The prime minister’s office said on Saturday that the incoming government would take up the issue following elections scheduled for 25 July. Arrival of 500 Yemenis on South Korean island leads to furore. The Financial Times reports that South Korea’s Jeju island has become the focus of a backlash against asylum-seekers following the unexpected arrival of 500 Yemeni refugees over the last two months. The Yemenis arrived on Air Asia flights from Kuala Lumpur while the island was operating a broad visa-waiver policy to encourage tourism. Yemen has since been removed from the list of nations eligible for the waiver. After more than 500,000 South Koreans signed a petition calling for the Yemenis’ asylum applications to be revoked, Seoul announced plans to tighten the country’s Refugee Act on Friday. GET INSPIRED Mercy Akuot was only 15 when her family in South Sudan forced her to marry a much older man and drop out of school. She fled to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, where she advocates for women’s rights through music and an empowerment programme for women and girls. She was one of the speakers at the recent TEDxKakumaCamp. “As women, we have the right to make choices,” she says in this short film by Now This. “We have the right to pursue whatever dream that we have.” DID YOU KNOW? In June alone, almost 6,800 refugees and migrants reached Spain by sea, more than the combined number of those who reached Italy, Greece and Malta.

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