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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• Friday Gadget: The Recon Scout Rescue Miniature, Mobile Reconnaissance Device

  
  HorizonWatching — Authority: 118
  Here’s a simple looking device with a wireless-transmitting camera that can go where people can’t…or where it is safe to go. The Recon Scout® Rescue is a miniature, mobile reconnaissance device that will add greater safety and speed to search...
  2 days ago

• It’s Not My Fault; It was On Fire When I Got Here (Your Place, part 4)

  
  Switch 2 Plan B: Misadventures of a Firefighter — Authority: 117
  I know you think I didn’t do enough to stop this. That we didn’t get here fast enough. And after we arrived, we didn’t act quickly enough. Pausing to tug on the rest of our gear, pull heavy hose off the rig, drag it around the corner of the house, bust in the kitchen door. And now it’s ...
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• BLACK FIREFIGHTER ASSOCIATION SUES FIREFIGHTERS UNION

  
  First In — Authority: 130
  In a federal lawsuit filed yesterday, an organization of African-American firefighters accused the Philadelphia firefighters union of being “racially harassing and abusive” to blacks.You can read the rest of this garbage here: LinkI am not going to get into a lengthy blow-by-blow about how fraudulent this entire ...
  3 days ago

• In the news: School chaplains & flogging, police van assault, and inaccessible firefighting

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 136
  What’s grinding my gears today: WA Today: Poor parenting alarms schools Education Minister Julia Gillard has acknowledged that poor parenting is placing a heavy burden on schools and has promised principals she will give them more support to tackle violence, bullying and behavioural problems. [...] Gary Quinn, ...
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• "Howard Hughes"

  
  Switch 2 Plan B: Misadventures of a Firefighter — Authority: 117
  It’s never a good sign when the cops are standing around out front. They grin and nod at us as we walk past with our medical box, oxygen bag and heart monitor. Inside the front door of the cramped duplex, it nearly overwhelms us: The stench. We can hear the officers out front chuckling. We are wading ...
  5 days ago

• Supercapitalism and Enterprise Architecture

  
  User-Centric Enterprise Architecture — Authority: 111
  As a nation are we overworked? Are we just showing up, doing what were told, and making the same mistakes again and again? Robert Reich, the former Labor Secretary and Professor at University of California at Berkeley, says that we are more than ever a nation of workaholics . Reich’s book, Supercapitalism , ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• An Average Week...for most of us

  
  The Kitchen Table — Authority: 122
  During this week, there were on average, over 10,173 structure fires in the United States. According to NFPA statistics the following occur on average in the U.S; • A fire department responded to a fire every 20 seconds. • One structure fire was reported every 59 seconds. • One home structure fire was ...
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• Your Place (part 2): City Lights

  
  Switch 2 Plan B: Misadventures of a Firefighter — Authority: 117
  This is, without a doubt , the nicest house I’ve ever been in. Mid-century modern—what, with all this glass and steel. Looks like something Koenig might have designed, or Shulman would have photographed. A stunning view of the city lights below, there beyond your lap pool, cantilevered patio and futuristic ...
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• Too Inexperienced to Command?

  
  Firegeezer.com — Authority: 490
  Do inexperienced lieutenants injure firefighters? That is one of the questions raised in Anne McCarthys SF Weekly article on the[...]
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• Rower has sights on 2012 Games - SLAM! Sports

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 145
  Rower has sights on 2012 Games - SLAM! Sports The one she’s on now is the Olympic ladder. After being one of the last cuts from the 2008 Olympic rowing team for Beijing, Devos is gearing toward 2012 in London. She’s also looking in the next while to climbing some firefighting ladders. The London Source: ...
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• Your Place (part 1)

  
  Switch 2 Plan B: Misadventures of a Firefighter — Authority: 117
  I’ve been in your living room. I’ve been in your kitchen. I’ve been in your bathroom. And, unfortunately, I’ve been in your bedroom too. I’m a fireman. I go into strangers’ homes for a living. Most of y’all could stand to tidy up the place a bit before I arrive. I know you weren’t really ...
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• How Thermal Imaging can Shape Your World

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 541
  Have you ever watched the movie, The Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jessie Ventura? Do you remember the scene where the scary alien-creature was staring at them by using thermal vision? The future is finally here! Thermal Imaging has come a long way since this old movie. Now it is used in such ...
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• Drought affects 90 percent of Argentina

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Buenos Aires, Nov 2 (EFE) About 90 percent of Argentinian territory is affected by the current drought, although the situation is aggravated in certain provinces by the spread of forest fires, figures released Sunday by officials said.The most serious situation is in the central province of La Pampa and in Buenos ...
  2 weeks ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• RescueSim – Virtual Fire Team Traning

  
  gCaptain.com — Authority: 520
  We have shown you the video game Ship Simulator 2008 , a “realistic” (we haven’t tested this claim) simulator game for your PC, but today we point you towards another product from the company Vstep; RescueSim. Here’s the short description from the RescueSim website ; RescueSim allows emergency response ...
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• GMap Shows Poor Handicap Access

  
  Firegeezer.com — Authority: 490
  If youre blind or wheelchair bound, you may want to stay away from the intersection in front of the Takoma Park Seventh Day Adven[...]
  2 weeks ago

• Indian Oil fire continues to rage in Jaipur oil depot (Roundup)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Jaipur/New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) A massive fire continued to rage Friday at an Indian Oil depot in Jaipur nearly 24 hours after it broke out, killing five people and injuring150 others. Officials are waiting for the petroleum stock to burn off for the blaze to die out.The fire, which could be seen miles away [...]
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• A Scary Halloween Tale

  
  Switch 2 Plan B: Misadventures of a Firefighter — Authority: 117
  I am an engineer for the county. The story you are about to read is true… * * * October 31, 2008. The coming night has finally gathered all dusk’s tall shadows into one; the consummate gloom ushers in with it a growing sense of trepidation that is at once vaguely familiar and ...
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