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Electrician Still Fighting with City over Settlement in Massachusetts
2015-06-30 23:53:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
A former city electrician who was fired illegally in 2003 has filed a complaint for civil contempt against the city in Superior Court, saying the city has refused to pay him what he is owed. Content Classification: Curated read more
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Crews Busy Fighting Wildfires Across California
2015-06-22 14:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: Firefighters across the state are busy fighting at least a half dozen large wildfires and are keeping an eye on more than a dozen more. The largest is in San Bernardino County. It's burned more than 16,000 acres in a national forest. Five hundred structures are threatened, but none have been destroyed. That fire is now 15 percent contained. Just up the coast near San Luis Obispo, a large fire has burned 1,800 acres. Two structures have been destroyed and one person was injured. That fire is now...
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Research roadmap traces the path to 'smart' fire fighting
2015-06-19 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: When responding to the more than 1.2 million blazes reported annually, the nation's firefighters usually start with a dangerous disadvantage: They often lack critical information -- even something as basic as a floor plan -- that could be vitally important in mounting the most effective and safest attack. That information gap could be erased with today's communication, computing, sensor and networking technologies according to a new Research Roadmap for Smart Fire Fighting. Prepared by the National...
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Fighting Climate Change One State at a Time
2015-06-09 16:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Ontario recently announced plans to address climate change. Canada's most populous province thus joins a trend: Where national governments fail to act, states and cities are stepping up. Is that a good thing? It depends. Climate change is a global problem that will ultimately require coordinated international action. Well-designed plans on a smaller scale can make a difference, partly by setting an example for others to follow; Ontario's plan follows that of Quebec and 10 U.S. states. Badly designed...
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Morning Links: Orphan works. Fighting the bad guys. WiFi-powered camera and Big Brother.
2015-06-05 19:02:30| Wireless - Topix.net
The Report documents the legal and business challenges faced by good faith users who seek to use orphan works and/or engage in mass digitization projects. The TeleRead Take: Slow progress on this issue, but still, progress.
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