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Fire Engineering ,” The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the adoption of 11 NFPA standards for emergency responders by DHS. The newly adopted standards will set requirements to assist federal agencies and state and local officials responsible for procuring equipment and services used by emergency responders. [...]
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Via WikiNews: Hamas claims Israel assassinated commander in Dubai A senior Hamas commander was “assassinated in Dubai” by Israel on January 20, according to the Palestinan group. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the 50-year-old founder of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, according to a statement, “died a martyr on 20 January, in suspicious circumstances”. No further details were [...]
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Seth Woody reports from the Green Inc. blog at the Times Samsung, the Japanese conglomerate best known to Americans for its televisions and cellphones, is jumping into the American solar business. Pacific Gas and Electric, the California utility serving much of the northern and central parts of the state, asked regulators last week to approve [...]
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Solar power’s incremental steps forward keep coming faster and faster, and not on a single vector: large arrays to power the grid, specific installations where wiring is inefficient or impractical, and for small devices. Cassie Rodenberg, writing at PopularMechanics.com, writes about another step forward with solar power for relatively small devices. From Solar-Powered Circuits Breakthrough [...]
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
In Morse, the letter "K" is represent as Dash - Dot -- Dash.
The ICS also has a subset, the Medical Signal Code, which uses three-character phrases to communicate brief medical messages.