User:Elipongo
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| Elipongo Working, Editing, Bicycling |
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| Name | Elias Friedman (Hebrew: אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי ) |
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| Gender | Male | |||||||||||||||||
| Birth date | September 5, 1969 Hebrew: כב אלול תשכ"ט |
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| Birth place | Mount Sinai Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Current location | Upper West Side, Manhattan New York, |
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| Sexuality | Heterosexual | |||||||||||||||||
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| Marital status | Single & looking for my bashert. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Paramedic | |||||||||||||||||
| Employer | SeniorCare EMS | |||||||||||||||||
| Education | A.S. Mechanical Engineering | |||||||||||||||||
| College | Manchester Community College | |||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Connecticut | |||||||||||||||||
| High school | Ellington High School | |||||||||||||||||
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| Religion | Modern Orthodox Judaism | |||||||||||||||||
| Politics | Neoconservative Republican | |||||||||||||||||
| Aliases | Elipongo | |||||||||||||||||
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| Blog | Elipongo's Blog | |||||||||||||||||
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[edit] Bio
My name is Elias Friedman (Hebrew: אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי). I'm a paramedic living in the Upper West Side section of Manhattan in New York City. I moved here at the end of December 2008 from Connecticut.
I'm a 42 year old, single, Modern Orthodox Jewish male. I grew up in Ellington, Connecticut where I was the president of Congregation Knesseth Israel.
I got into EMS in 1997 when I started volunteering in Coventry. I got a job at a commercial ambulance service in 1999 when I was laid-off from my previous job as a Pellet mill operator in a feed mill. I got my Associate's degree from Manchester Community College in Mechanical Engineering in 2000 which was also the year I became an EMT-Intermediate. I was working on completing my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut when September 11th made me re-think my priorities. I entered Hartford Hospital's Paramedic program and graduated in April 2004. My precepting was delayed to September due to my father's death that July, and I've had med-control since December 2004. In the first week of September 2008 I was laid off from my job at the Ambulance service of Manchester, but since I was already in the process of getting reciprocity of my paramedic license for New York, it didn't let it upset me too much. I now work for SeniorCare EMS which has bases in both the Bronx and in Brooklyn and I'm quite enjoying working with my new squad!
The second half of my username is derived from my Dalmatian, Pongo, who died in March 2006, just a week shy of his sixteenth birthday.
I really enjoy my working in EMS, my friends have remarked (positively!) that I love to talk about my work. Getting up out of bed to go to work isn't an effort of willpower like it had often been at my previous jobs. My health and stress level are better than they have ever been, of course that's partly attributable to my taking up year-round bicycle commuting the eleven miles to work. I really think that I've found my niche.
I am a member of the Connecticut Chapter of Triangle Fraternity, the Republican Jewish Coalition, the Republican National Committee, and the NAEMT. I am a former member of the ASME
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N.B. These edit counts tend to move down over time as pages (and my edits) get deleted.
- My first (registered) edit diff. Awww, they're all so cute when they're young!
- My 500th edit diff. Just wikignoming around.
- My 1,000th edit diff. Wouldn't you just figure it would have to do with vandalism...

- My 5,000th edit diff. Yeah, a pretty dumb one...
- My 10,000th edit diff. Cleaning up incoming links to disambiguation pages.
[edit] Things I'm working on
Feel free to help out on any of these items!
[edit] Existing pages
- Bulkeley Bridge
- Captain John Bissell Memorial Bridge
- Congregation Knesseth Israel— I can't do too much more here because I have a conflict of interest, but I hope that others will help out.
- Connecticut
- Dexter Coffin Bridge
- Ellington Airport (Connecticut)
- Ellington, Connecticut
- Ellington High School
- Etiquette in Latin America, orphaned references etc from unfixed deletions of citations.
- Hartford, Connecticut
- History of Connecticut industry
- Icebiking
- List of beaches in New England
- List of Lieutenant Governors of Connecticut
- List of U.S. state songs
- Manchester, Connecticut
- Manchester Road Race
- Motorola#Trivia
- Neighborhoods of Hartford, Connecticut
- Nullification— Dab page that needs cleanup per MoS:DAB and has a whole article on its talk page that should go somewhere, if it hasn't already.
- Park River (Connecticut)
- Papoose
- Sean Sullivan
- The Shoppes at Buckland Hills
- Thomas Joseph Meskill
- WikiProject Connecticut— lots of work to do here!
[edit] Pages yet to be created
- History of racism in Connecticut
- List of U.S. state heroines— I think that only CT & MA have one.
[edit] To do
- Write up report on Lord & Taylor vandal for WP:LTA
- Create navigation template for Investment banks
[edit] Community
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