Thinking about a New Computer – What’s Ahead?

I have gone to WIN7, and it’s great compared to earlier version (never had to use  Vista), what's in store for computer users? Microsoft has announced the next Windows system to be out in about 2 years. Guess they need some more $. Should be geared towards the touch screen tablet computers? Will the ipad replace everything else? Other makers are getting their version of this out. Guess you are safe to get a new on for now. But as always something better will come along and we will all want it, not that we need just want it.

Windows 8 "About Two Years" Away from Debut [Windows]

from Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy

Microsoft marked the first birthday of its very successful Windows 7 release around the world last week. One such spot was a Dutch blog post, where keen-eyed Microsoft watchers noted a translation that indicated the company believed Windows 8 to be "about two years" off. Microsoft certainly has high hopes for Windows 8, more than the kind of iterative (but great) improvements seen from Vista to 7; one employee said Windows 8 would change the way people think about PCs." [WinRumors via CNET; image via Tested] More »

Right Change Site

 

This site has some interesting comment and content. If nothing else be informed when you vole in 8 days. Do not decide when you get in the boot. Please vote, one way or the other, but be informed! It's not just your local election issues, you are also part of the National election race too.

RightChange engages Americans through informed, fact-based content delivered in a creative format and through multimedia platforms to allow viewers to develop their own conclusions about the most critical economic and national security policies of our day. Right Change cuts through the political spin by using politicians’ own words, votes and actions to hold them accountable.

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The Obama Zone from RightChange on Vimeo.

Recent LODD’s From USFA

Notice of Firefighter Fatality: Marshall, MO

Randall Scott Davenport of the Marshall Fire Department in Marshall, MO has died as the result of an on-duty incident that occurred on 2010-10-24

Notice of Firefighter Fatality: Ghent, NY

William Akin, Jr. of the Ghent Volunteer Fire Company in Ghent, NY has died as the result of an on-duty incident that occurred on 2010-10-19

Notice of Firefighter Fatality: Sacramento, CA

Jim Saunders of the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District in Sacramento, CA has died as the result of an on-duty incident that occurred on 2010-10-03

Notice of Firefighter Fatality: Hindsboro, IL

Thomas Innes of the Hindsboro Community Fire Protection District in Hindsboro, IL has died as the result of an on-duty incident that occurred on 2010-10-02

NIST Releases Residential Fire Study

WASHINGTON D.C.--A landmark study issued today by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows that the size of firefighting crews has a substantial effect on the fire service's ability to protect lives and property in residential fires. LINK HERE

Uncle Jay Explains | October 24, 2010

UncleJayExplains | October 24, 2010

The First Amendment says speech is free, but Juan Williams just made it pay! The Amendment also says assembly is free, but won't Jon Stewart's rally have lots of bills? And Clarence Thomas wishes there was something in the Amendment about a statute of limitations. Uncle Jay explains!

Submitted for your review - You Make the Judgment

THIS IS WHY WE ARE THE WAY THAT WE ARE NOW…

THINK ABOUT IT.          

Start with a cage containing five monkeys.

Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it.

Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while another monkey makes the attempt with same result, all the
other monkeys are sprayed with cold water.
Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away.
Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one.
The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the Stairs.
To his shock, all of the other monkeys attack him.
After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one.
The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked.
The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm.
Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth,
then the fifth.
Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked.
Hang on…
Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs, nor why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water.
Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana.
Why not?
Because as far as they know, that is the way it has always been done around here.

And that, my fellow monkeys, is how Congress operates...

And that is why we need to replace ALL of the original monkeys this November.

Uncle Jay Explains | October 17, 2010

UncleJayExplains | October 17, 2010

33 people saved in the Chilean mine! But who will save all those victims in the Congressional House? They don't even WANT to be pulled out. Uncle Jay explains!

Really? You got to be Kidding me?

I now see where he gets his arrogance

from Knuckledraggin my life away by wirecutter

http://wbztv.com/local/obama.aunt.Zei...
For years she lived illegally in Boston public housing. She's unemployed, receiving nearly $700 a month in disability, and for nearly ten years was in this country illegally.
Despite what's she's been given, Zeituni Onyango said flatly that she owes this country nothing in return. "But, it's given you so much?" Elias asked. "So? It's a free country under God," was her terse response.
When asked why the taxpayers should be burdened with her needs, the feisty Zeituni said, "This country is owned by almighty God. You people who preach Jesus Christ almighty God and the rest of it, you are here to help people, help the poor, help other countries and help women. That's what the United States is supposed to do? And you have to give me my right light, every person's right."

BILL HAS DONE IT AGAIN.

BILL HAS DONE IT AGAIN? Found this several places on the internet, True of Not? you can judge it for yourself, it sounds like something he would say but may just be a copy of what his stand on this is??

BILL HAS DONE IT AGAIN. 

'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. 
I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you isn't, 
Where you is, 
What he drive, 
Where he stay, 
Where he work, 
Who you be...

And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth
In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living. 
People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around. 
The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.
These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. 
$500 sneakers for what? 
And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics. 
I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.
Where were you when he was 2?
Where were you when he was 12? 
Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?
And where is the father? Or who is his father?
People putting their clothes on backward: 
Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?
People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?  
Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?
What part of Africa did this come from?? 
We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about  Africa  .....
I say this all of the time.  It would be like white people saying they are  European-American.  That is totally stupid.
I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents.  I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to  Germany  ,  Scotland ,  England , Ireland , or the  Netherlands  .  The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to  Africa  .  So stop,  already! ! !

With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap ......... And all of them are in jail. 
Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
We have got to take the neighborhood back.

People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now. 
We have millionaire football players who cannot read.

We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.

Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.
We have to start holding each other to a higher standard..

We cannot blame the white people any longer.'
Dr.. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed..D.

WELL SAID, BILL
It's NOT about color...
It's about behavior!!!
PASS THIS ON AROUND THE WORLD!!!!!!

Links below have the same thing??

1. Palmetto Football Talk | View topic - BILL HAS DONE IT AGAIN

2. Bill has done it again ! ! ! - Patriotic Resistance

3. Bill Cosby has done it again | The Daily Reflector

4. BILL COSBY HAS DONE IT AGAIN !!! - Harvest Heartbeat International

5. Hoax/Scam Details - Bill Cosby Has Done It Again?

Has he done it NOW? In deep? Read Below

1. EXPLOSIVE: Our New Dictator May Be In Deep Trouble… (Chief Justice ... Oct 12, 2010 ... EXPLOSIVE: Our New Dictator May Be In Deep Trouble… ... Obama certainly did not help himself in the eyes of the Court when he used the venue of the State of the Union address early in the year to .... M, T, W, T, F, S, S ...
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   parkersburgwvteaparty.ning.com/forum/.../obama-may-be-in-deep - Cached

3. Our New Dictator May Be In Deep Trouble..... - Another World Is ...

   Oct 4, 2010 ... Next enter your keyword(s), making sure there is a space between the search string and your keyword(s). ... Our New Dictator May Be In Deep Trouble. ... of BarackObama by the U.S. Supreme Court may be inevitable. ...
   

Uncle Jay Explains

Uncle Jay Explains | October 10, 2010

Just as the miners in Chile get dug out, politicians in America dig to new depths. Most candidates are following a strategy of proudly proclaiming, "Hey, they're even worse than me!" Plus, Nobel issues this year's "Peace Potential" Prize. Uncle Jay explains!

CNN Poll results

CNN poll asks “who’s the better president”: Obama 47, Bush 45

See more at Hot Air TV by tips@hotair.com (Hot Air Network, LLC)

Margin of error.

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What they’re really measuring, of course, is which one’s the worst president. It’s still G-Dub — by a hair. By 47 to 45 percent, Americans say Obama is a better president than George W. Bush. But that two point margin is down from a 23 point advantage one year ago. “Democrats may want to think [...]

New FAA Medical Chopper regulation

FAA proposes regulations for medical helicopters

On the heels of a spike in fatal air ambulance helicopter crashes, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday a proposal to increase safety precautions for pilots, passengers and equipment. Proposed is a requirement that all air ambulance helicopters install an electronic system that warns the

Full story here

Resources on the WEB

I haven’t posted any resource links for a while. Here is an updated list of resources that are FREE.  Also been seeing some ICS software out there that cost $. Why I do not want to put down supply and demand, here are some government resources and others that you already paid for, why not use them? Information fro the EPA web site below!

EPA CAMEO MARPLOT, ALOHA Good software for hazardous materials, there are other programs here and databases of information.

• MARPLOT version 4.1.2 (for Windows) released (September 29, 2010)
• MARPLOT version 3.3.3.1 (for Macs) released (December 2009)
• CAMEOfm version 2.1 is released (November 2009)
• Tier2 Submit 2009 is released (November 2009)
• ALOHA version 5.4.1.2 is released (April 2009)
• CAMEOfm Training Schedule
• CAMEO Companion tutorial (PDF, 12.6MB)

Visit their Downloadable Programs page to download software and other electronic files, including the Chemical Reactivity Worksheet, an ArcView Extension for ALOHA (allows ALOHA threat zones to be displayed in ArcView), and various technical explanations of the CAMEO software suite.

ERG (Emergency Response Guide) From The D.O.T.

Internet interactive ERG2008 English version

Internet interactive GRE2008 Spanish version

Powerpoint training presentation on the ERG 2008 English and Spanish version

ERGO2008 free downloadable database in three languages

ICS FORMS  - FEMA NIMS compliant ICS forms HERE

USFA Publications USFA provides information resources in many formats, including books, pamphlets and DVD's,free of charge. Customers can use our online catalog to order from over 400 publications and other information products. You do not need to register to download products in this catalog.

Fire Instructor resources here at: 

NFA TRADE Repository- LSU FETI

TRADE's Virtual TRADEing Post. You can browse the CDs by clicking on its name. You can search by topic. The search result will locate the CD location of the topic you are searching for.

Uncle Jay Explains | September 04, 2010

UncleJayExplains | September 04, 2010

Uncle Jay has one more week of vacation, but explaining the news is a full-time job! So, since Arizona Governor Jan Brewer had some, um, trouble last week explaining her state's immigration law, let's see if Uncle Jay's episode from last spring does any better.

Notice of LODD’s

Notice of Firefighter Fatality: Lynchburg, OH

Robert Hall of the Lynchburg Area Joint Fire & Ambulance District in Lynchburg, OH has died as the result of an on-duty incident that occurred on 2010-09-27

Notice of Firefighter Fatality: Lynn, IN

Ronald W. Stephan of the Lynn Volunteer Fire Department in Lynn, IN has died as the result of an on-duty incident that occurred on 2010-09-24

Notice of Firefighter Fatality: Atlantic, VA

William Harold "Hal" Clark of the Atlantic Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company in Atlantic, VA has died as the result of an on-duty incident that occurred on 2010-09-24

Notice of Firefighter Fatality: McArthur, OH

Ryan Neil Seitz of the McArthur Fire Department in McArthur, OH has died as the result of an on-duty incident that occurred on 2010-09-24

Notice of Firefighter Fatality: Morgan, TX

Edward Mosely of the Steele Creek Acres Volunteer Fire Department in Morgan, TX has died as the result of an on-duty incident that occurred on 2010-09-14

Watch the Memorial Service Here

 You can watch the 2010 National Fallen Firefighters Candlelight and Memorial Services Live on the Web – I added a feed link below for you.   Live Broadcasts:

» Candlelight Service Broadcast: Saturday, October 2, 2010 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
   (Telecast Begins at 6:45 p.m.; Service Begins at 7 p.m.)
» Memorial Service Broadcast: Sunday, October 3, 2010 9:00 am - 12:30 p.m.
   (Telecast Begins at 9:30 a.m.; Service Begins at 10 a.m.)

FEMA Announces Adoption Of New Standard For Emergency Alerts

Common Alerting Protocol Key in Developing America's Next Emergency Alert and Warning Network

Release Date: September 30, 2010
Release Number: HQ-10-192

WASHINGTON,D.C.-- The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today announced the adoption of a new digital message format for the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), the nation's next generation emergency alert and warning network.  The goal of IPAWS is to expand upon the traditional Emergency Alert System by allowing emergency management officials to reach as many people as possible over as many communications devices as possible, such as radio, television, mobile phones, personal computers and other communications devices.  The current Emergency Alert System relies largely on radio and television to communicate to people.

The new digital message format being adopted by FEMA is the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) v1.2 Standard.  This open standard will enable alert messages to be easily composed by emergency management officials for communication with citizens using a much broader set of devices to reach as many people as possible.

"The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System will allow federal, state, territorial, tribal and local officials to get critical and timely information to the public that can protect communities and save lives," said FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate.  "People get their news and information from a wider variety of sources today than ever before, and it's important that emergency management officials are able to reach members of the public no matter what medium they may be using.  The Common Alerting Protocol gives us the opportunity to send one message over all IPAWS alert systems at the same time."

Under Executive Order, FEMA is responsible for establishing the protocols and standards for an integrated emergency alert system that can reach Americans over a variety of media in a timely manner.  The Federal Communications Commission is the lead agency responsible for adopting and enforcing the requirements to ensure that communications service providers have the capability to receive and transmit emergency alerts to the public.

Rear Admiral (ret.) James Arden Barnett, Jr., Chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau said, "The adoption of the new CAP standard will ultimately transform America's emergency alert and warning capabilities and better enable Americans to receive these potentially life-saving alerts over  television and radio broadcast stations, via the Internet, and on their cell phones.  The ability to receive alerts over multiple platforms will dramatically increase the likelihood that Americans are receiving this critical information timely and are better informed to take actions that will help protect themselves and their families during emergencies."

In order to assist officials in evaluating new alert and warning systems, FEMA is conducting an assessment program to ensure products adhere to the IPAWS CAP profile.  A list of pre-screened products that meet the profile will be published at the FEMA Responders Knowledge Base, to aide federal, state, territorial, tribal and local officials in purchasing emergency alert products that comply with IPAWS CAP.  Vendors can apply for these assessments at www.nimssc.org/ipawsconform.

The three documents defining the FEMA IPAWS technical standards and requirements for CAP and its implementation are:  (1) OASIS CAP Standard v1.2; (2) IPAWS Specification to the CAP Standard (CAP v1.2 IPAWS USA Profile v1.0); and, (3) CAP to EAS Implementation Guide.  Additional information and documentation on CAP technical standards can be found on the OASIS website.  The CAP to EAS Implementation Guide can be found on the website of the EAS-CAP Industry Group (www.eas-cap.org/).

FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.