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• 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, ...
  6 hours ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• An Average Week...for most of us

  
  The Kitchen Table — Authority: 120
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• 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 ...
  6 days ago

• Too Inexperienced to Command?

  
  Firegeezer.com — Authority: 488
  Do inexperienced lieutenants injure firefighters? That is one of the questions raised in Anne McCarthys SF Weekly article on the[...]
  6 days ago

• Rower has sights on 2012 Games - SLAM! Sports

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 144
  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: ...
  6 days ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• How Thermal Imaging can Shape Your World

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 560
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Drought affects 90 percent of Argentina

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  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. ...
  1 week ago

• RescueSim – Virtual Fire Team Traning

  
  gCaptain.com — Authority: 519
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• GMap Shows Poor Handicap Access

  
  Firegeezer.com — Authority: 488
  If youre blind or wheelchair bound, you may want to stay away from the intersection in front of the Takoma Park Seventh Day Adven[...]
  1 week ago

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

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  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 [...]
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• All Good Dogs...

  
  Switch 2 Plan B: Misadventures of a Firefighter — Authority: 117
  This Friday, wife-mom-nurse and I will be posting a Halloween Tale—two separate versions of the same story. One event, two totally different perspectives. It should have all the classic elements of a great ghost story: A brush with death, ghouls lurching through the streets, and emergency service workers ...
  2 weeks ago

• Square Peg

  
  Switch 2 Plan B: Misadventures of a Firefighter — Authority: 117
  Even after beating this thing to death for the last four posts, I’m concerned that my point still isn’t clear. The world needs right brain AND left brain types—the contemplative and the practical, dreamers and doers. As a former academic and current public servant, I feel like I have straddled both ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why America Burns

  
  Rescue US (Fire, Rescue and EMS in America) — Authority: 91
  by: Lou Angeli Note: This feature was originally written for a civilian audience. Wilmington, DE (October 25, 2009) -- Organized chaos . Thats how the fire scene is often described. The adrenaline charged atmosphere often resembles a battleground. But in this war zone theres no time to develop a battle ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
  2 weeks ago

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