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How the Iconic Flag Raising on Iwo Jima was Photographed

Nathan Rotenberg is a past Connecticut professional who serves as University of Pennsylvania Health System critical care transport coordinator. A published photographer, Nathan Rotenberg has a passion for reading about history and current events.

One of the most iconic photos of World War II is Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning black and white image of five Marines and a Navy sailor raising an American flag on the highest point of Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. Situated on the island’s southern tip, Mount Suribachi rises 546 feet above sea level and has an expansive view of the entire island, including the black sand beaches on which American troops needed to land to penetrate embedded Japanese forces. The summit was of extreme strategic importance to the Japanese, who used it to sight artillery and bombard American soldiers, and was one of the key areas of fighting.

The story of the flag raising is an intriguing one, as it was the second such event that day. Hearing that U.S. soldiers were climbing up the mountain to raise a flag, Rosenthal headed up in the morning. However, he was beat to the summit by Marine photographer Sgt. Louis Lowery, who snapped pictures of soldiers raising a first flag. Gun shots and cheers accompanied this feat, which stirred up remaining Japanese forces. When a firefight ensued, Lowery dove for cover, fell 50 feet, and in the process broke his camera.

Rosenthal reached the summit in time for the raising of a flag with a taller and sturdier pole that troops around the island would be able to see more clearly. Surprised to see the flag go up without warning, Rosenthal had a split-second decision to make: capture the smaller and the larger flags together in the photo or focus on the one being raised. He chose the latter option, quickly taking the image, and this gave the impression of a flag being raised in the heat of battle. When published, the image generated a huge outpouring of patriotism, as a hard fought war seemed to be finally coming to an end. To this day it captures a moment in time when American tenacity and purpose was rewarded by a resounding victory.

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The Purpose of Penn Rescue App

Nathan Rotenberg is a certified public safety communications professional specializing in air medical communications. His journey began in 2000 when he enrolled at the CFPC. He has since completed certification through the International Academy of Emergency Dispatch, The International Association of Medical Transport Communications Specialists, as well as APCO. Nathan Rotenberg is an air medical communications specialist at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System has developed the Penn Rescue App, a mobile app that streamlines access to its PennSTAR Flight Program services while mitigating the risk of adverse complications and death from traumatic injuries and critical illnesses. A nonprofit program. The PennSTAR Flight Program is a critical care air and ground transportation service that operates 24 hours a day within a 100-mile radius of Penn Medicine.

With the Penn Rescue App, first responders can minimize the amount of time they spend on tasks that do not address the medical needs of an emergency patient. According to the medical team at Penn Medicine, time lapses before medical intervention can impact treatment success in medical emergencies. The lesser the delay, the better a patient's chances of surviving.

The Penn Rescue App provides functionalities that facilitate injured people's access to appropriate care. These functionalities include patient assessment and care tools, GPS for locating the nearest hospital, EMS medications cross-referenced to protocols, single-touch and accurate directions to the hospital of choice, and social service reference tools. First responders can devote more attention to providing pre-hospital care to injured people while leveraging the app's functionalities to transport them to appropriate facilities.

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Audio Technologies Create Immersive Soundscapes

Nathan Rotenberg is a critical care transport coordinator with PENN Medicine who has professional experience in Connecticut. With a longstanding interest in electronics, Nathan Rotenberg has a particular focus on audio and video technologies.

When it comes to audio engineering, one major trend is immersive audio, which delivers a sound field that is three dimensional and, as the name implies, creates an immersive experience. Popular in live performances as well as music production settings, it is packaged in programs such a Auro-3D and Dolby Atmos. Among its uses are at DJ music events and in virtual reality (VR) experiences, movies, and video games. Within the virtual and augmented reality segments, spatial audio offers another technique of delivering a more realistically three-dimensional soundscape.

VR offers another level of immersion for these sounds, as listeners wearing a headset may experience a sound environment that responds organically to their movements, as well as position in a virtual space. AI algorithms are used to automate sounds and create a seamless aural landscape that can include everything from barking dogs to spaceships passing overhead.

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A Brief Look at the Focal-Plane Shutter

Originally from Connecticut, Nathan Rotenberg, a certified aviation communication expert, works as an air medical communication specialist at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia. He handles the critical ground care operations and medical flights in that capacity. When not working, Nathan Rotenberg focuses on photography. In photography, a device known as a shutter opens a camera’s lens aperture to admit light for a specific period, exposing the camera’s film to the light. Camera shutters date back to 1845, when Hippolyte Fizeau and Bernard Foucault (French physicists) tried to photograph the sun with a device based on a guillotine’s mechanism. The device consisted of a board with a hole in the middle. After taking a picture, the board placed the image at the forend of the lens. Following the principle of the French physicists, William English further worked on the device by including a moveable aperture, which people regard as the premiere focal plane shutter. One can find a focal plane shutter at the front of a camera’s image plane (plane of focus). As an inbuilt device (attached to the camera’s interior), the focal-plane shutter consists of a pair of metal blinds that maintain an organized motion across the camera’s film. In other words, one of the blinds opens to admit light to the film; almost immediately( the owner decides the time beforehand), the other blind prevents light from reaching the film.

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Three Boating Safety Tips

Nathan Rotenberg is a Pennsylvania-based air medical communications specialist. He works with the University of Pennsylvania health system, managing Medical Flight and Critical Ground Operations. Outside his work life, Nathan Rotenberg enjoys flying and boating.

Boating is a very popular hobby in the United States. According to U.S. Coast Guard recreational boat owner statistics, about 14.5 million U.S. families own some kind of recreational boat or engage in boating activities.

Boating is a great hobby and a good way to relieve stress. However, it comes with many risks, but you can avoid them by following these boating safety tips. For example, before boating, check out the weather to know if it's safe. Many boating stations give updates so you can check to know if it's safe to boat.

Another important safety tip is never to overload the boat. Adhering to weight restrictions is vital to maintain the boat's stability. These restrictions apply to both the number of persons you carry on the boat and the weight of supplies on the vessel. Finally, you must always have safety equipment on the boat equipment like a first aid kit, an anchor, and life jackets.

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80th Anniversary of Big Hunt in World War II

With experience working in Connecticut, Nathan Rotenberg is an air medical communications specialist presently based in Pennsylvania. Among Nathan Rotenberg’s passions is history, and he enjoys reading about events spanning politics and beyond. One neglected inflection point in World War II solidifying America’s commitment to the Allies was Germany’s attempt to set a naval blockade on the Eastern Seaboard. January 2022 marked the 80th anniversary of the first “Big Hunt,” or U-Boat submarine operations along the East Coast. Conceived by the German Kriegsmarine as a way of disrupting US shipments to allies such as Britain, the attack involved submarines making a 20-day journey from German-occupied France to America's Atlantic coastline. The 52-crew U-123 that made the first attack sighted the freighter Cyclops nearing completion of an around-the-world trip as a wisp of smoke off Nova Scotia. Within 10 hours, the U-Boat had intercepted the target and hit the ship with two torpedos. The result was a sunk vessel and 86 crew members dead. This dramatically launched Operation Drumbeat, which involved attacks ranging from Newfoundland to the Caribbean, and the sinking of about 500 ships within half a year. Nearly 7,000 passengers, naval gunners, and merchant sailors were lost and 142,373 tons of cargo destroyed. One major vulnerability proved to be the lights of major cities, which created a silhouette that made boats an easy target off ports at night. A part of the eventual solution involved ordering blackouts in major East Coast cities.

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Nathan Rotenberg is an emergency services communications specialist and technician. He has more than two decades of experience in medical emergency response. A dedicated first responder, Nathan Rotenberg started his journey when he enrolled at the Connecticut Fire Academy in 2000.

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Experienced in the emergency services and telecommunications, Nathan Rotenberg serves as an air medical communications specialist for PennSTAR Flight the Medical Flight and Critical Care Ground Operations of Penn Medicine, an academic medical center at the University of Pennsylvania. Rotenberg also supports and contributes to various nonprofit organizations, including the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in conjunction with Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.

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A graduate of the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch, Nathan Rotenberg holds an A-EMD, and currently serves as the air medical communication specialist at Penn Medicine. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Seach & Rescue Council (PSARC), Nathan Rotenberg is specialized in search and rescue and human remains detection.

In the event of a disaster, canine search teams and search parties start looking for survivors and human remains. Canine search teams are used to search and find human remains in any environment and are not distracted or limited by sounds. These search teams are used after an initial search was made by authorities. They can pick up human scent even from miles away and even if the survivors are buried well underground. The canines are trained to know the difference between many types of scents such as animal remains, human remains, and other distracting odors.

Canines that enter search teams all have a trained handler and must be at least 18 months old. They must earn certification, which is obtained by passing tests for agility skills, and command response. Canines must also be persistent enough to search by themselves for long periods of time and under any circumstance, even if that means passing through dark tunnels or facing extreme temperatures.

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Cancer Institute Administers Third Dose

A Philadelphia area resident, Nathan Rotenberg is currently a certified Advanced Flight Communicator of the International Association of Medical Transport Communication Specialists. With over 20 years of experience in medical emergency response which started at the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control, Nathan Rotenberg serves as the air medical communication specialist of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. He is also a supporter of the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute. The Dana - Farber Cancer Institute has announced on 1 October that its location in Chestnut Hill administers vaccine boosters. The location administers Pfizer BioNTech vaccines and they are only available to people that had their last dose of vaccine at least six months ago. Eligible groups of people are persons over 65 years old, people 18 or older who have medical conditions or are at risk to be exposed to the virus, or people that live in long-term healthcare facilities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the third dose booster of the vaccine to people that undergo cancer treatments. People that had stem cells transplants in the last two years are also advised to take the third dose of vaccine as well as people with CAR-T cell therapies.

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Nathan Rotenberg is an emergency services communications specialist and technician. He has more than two decades of experience in medical emergency response. A dedicated first responder, Nathan Rotenberg started his journey when he enrolled at the Connecticut Fire Academy in 2000.

Under the Connecticut Commission on Fire Prevention and Control, is a training center that offers training in fire control and rescue services. Fire prevention and control involves preventing, detecting, and extinguishing fires. It also includes research into common causes of fire, educating the masses about fire hazards, and maintaining and improving firefighting equipment.

Fire prevention and control also involves elements of fire safety such as appropriate strategies to fight and give fire warnings and appropriate methods of ensuring the safe evacuation of individuals through emergency routes and exits. In addition, it also includes fire risk assessment that identifies and eliminates hazards and proposes management and precautionary arrangements that ensures the safety of people.

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Nathan Rotenberg is an emergency medical technician with more than 20 years of experience in emergency response. In his current position, Nathan Rotenberg works as a flight communications specialist (CFC-ACS) in a hospital-based air/Ground EMS communications center. Professional management personnel and a dedicated communications team are at the heart of an EMS communications center. Below are five crucial elements that a high-performance EMS communications center should have. 1. Exceptionally skilled employees. Such employees should be aggressive at their work but approachable by the company’s clients. 2. Superior training programs. Poor decisions result from a lack of knowledge, whereas effective training helps to eliminate inefficiencies and save lives. 3. An open physical layout. An arrangement with flexible lighting and other ergonomic factors impacts communicators’ performance. 4. Routine feedback. Quality control helps to deliver communications as a product. Hence, communication should be scored and controlled. 5. A clear chain of command. Knowing exactly who to talk to and what the protocol is helping to give communicators a sense of stability.

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With a Connecticut background, Nathan Rotenberg is an air medical communications professional tasked with managing critical care transport for the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Some of Nathan Rotenberg’s interests are travel and flying. He also enjoys reading up on topics of history.

One historical question in aviation unlikely to ever be fully resolved centers on who was first in flight. Beyond the Wright Brothers’ pioneering December 17, 1903, flight with a heavier-than-air craft, two other pilots have a legitimate claim. One is Alberto Santos-Dumont, from a prominent Brazilian coffee-planting family, who made headlines in 1901 by flying a dirigible in Paris around the Eiffel Tower.

On October 23, 1906, Santos-Dumont achieved the first ever powered-flight in public, piloting a 14-bis biplane to a height of 15 feet for a total distance of 200 feet. Those who back the Brazilian pilot’s “first in flight” claim note that the aircraft took off entirely unassisted. This was not the case of the Wright Flyer, which depended partly on strong coastal winds for liftoff at Kitty Hawk.

Another pioneering pilot, Gustave Whitehead, a manufacturing plant night watchman, apparently flew for one-and-a-half miles at 150 feet over the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut, in August 1901. This feat, accomplished more than two years before the first recorded flight, made use of a bat-like design, the No. 21 “Condor.” Unfortunately, the flight was not verifiably witnessed and rests largely on the claim of the pilot himself.

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Trained originally the State of Connecticut Commission on Fire Prevention and Control, Nathan Rotenberg works within the University of Pennsylvania Health System coordinating critical care air and ground transport. With a passion for travel, Nathan Rotenberg enjoys partaking in marine activities such as boating in his free time.

One key concept to be aware of when boating in shallower bodies of water is draft. Measured in feet or inches, a draft is a distance from the waterline to the deepest part of the boat, traditionally the hull. It represents the depth of water the hull can safely travel through the water without scraping on the below-water surface.

Skiffs are designed for navigating extremely shallow water such as marshes and only require three to four inches of the draft to float. Those who traverse flats but also want to navigate choppy deeper water consider a bay boat with a 10 to 14-inch draft a good option.

For boats with propulsion systems, the draft often does not reflect the hull bottom but the lowest gear below the vessel, such as propeller or rudder. With sterndrive- and outboard-powered boats, the drive can be raised and lowered, depending on requirements. These boats, therefore, have “drive down” and “drive-up” draft specifications.

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Nathan Rotenberg is an air medical communications specialist, emergency telecommunicator, and has served with the University of Pennsylvania Health System since 2007. Rotor-wing and transport services cover medical centers within a two hundred-mile radius from the round-the-clock PennSTAR Communications Center.

At the commercial level, public safety companies provide services to private and public institutions, either on a full-time or consultant basis. The main job description entails guarding the staff, clients, and facilities. Also, they advise the companies on how to develop, upgrade, and maintain security systems in response to issues threatening public safety, such as terrorism, institutional shootings, wildfires close to the facilities, and infrastructure sabotage.

The primary organizations involved in the commercial network include law enforcement and security, emergency response and management, wildlife fire investigation, aviation evacuation services, and critical infrastructure protection departments akin to the Connecticut fire incident reporting system. All this happens through real-time inter-agency coordination dedicated communication channels.

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Understanding Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Nathan Rotenberg is an air medical communications specialist who coordinated the provision of critical care transport within the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Community focused, Nathan Rotenberg serves as principal and major gifts cofounder of the Sandra Lee Barry Rotenberg Fund for Adult Sarcoma Research. One form of this type of condition is adult soft tissue sarcoma, which involves malignant cells forming in soft tissues spanning muscles, tendons, blood vessels, nerves, and the tissues surrounding joints. While such sarcomas can form virtually anywhere throughout the body, they are most commonly found in the trunk, abdomen, arms, and legs. There are myriad risk factors for adult soft tissue sarcomas, including inherited disorders that range from retinoblastoma to tuberous sclerosis. Other factors that increase risk are past radiation therapy as part of cancer treatment and exposure to chemicals such as vinyl chloride, arsenic, and thorotrast. In addition, lymphedema, or extended swelling in the legs or arms, can encourage malignant cell growth. Signs of sarcomas include painless lumps that form under the skin, frequently on a leg or arm. Those that start in the abdomen may not present any symptoms until they grow very large. When the sarcoma becomes larger, it may press on other organs, muscles, or nerves, and cause pain or difficulty breathing. Diagnosing the condition requires a biopsy and, if identified, further staging tests focused on determining whether it has spread throughout the body.

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SARS Feted with a Mission Lifeline Gold Plus Award

A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based emergency telecommunicator, Nathan Rotenberg has vast industry experience that spans more than two decades. In his present role, he is in charge of coordinating emergency air medical evacuations with an aim of saving lives. Additionally, Nathan Rotenberg is also affiliated with Second Alarmer’s Association and Rescue Squad. Second Alarmer’s Association and Rescue Squad (SARS) of Montgomery County is one of the largest private nonprofit pre-hospital Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers in its region. In 2019, SARS was recognized with a Mission Lifeline Gold Plus award in honor of the implementation of clinical guidelines to ensure better outcomes for patients with acute coronary syndrome. It was the third consecutive year in which SARS earned the distinction from Lifeline, which supports hospitals, EMS agencies, regions, and communities to form and enhance collaborative and effective systems of care. Lifeline is an initiative of the American Heart Association aimed at promoting the care of patients suffering from acute, high-risk, and life threatening ailments such as cardiac arrest, stroke, STEMI (ST Elevate Myocardial Infarction) and NSTEMI (Non-ST Elevated Myocardial Infarction) heart attacks. Lifeline aims to bring all stakeholders together to ensure positive patient outcomes as well as lower mortality and morbidity levels are attained.