This report makes recommendations for emergency lighting in road tunnels longer than 500 m,to facilitate the safe evacuation of vehicle occupants in emergency situations such as fire. The recommendations may also be valid for tunnels ...
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that need to be considered in the design of,and the installation and wiring of,electrical emergency escape lighting systems,in order to provide the lighting performance needed for safe movement of people in the event of the supply to normal ...
Soil pollution is defined as the build-up in soils of persistent toxic compounds, chemicals, salts, radioactive materials, or disease causing agents, which have adverse effects on plant growth and animal health. The wars that hit the ...
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Apple raised CEO Tim Cook's salary by 55% for 2012 and awarded him a $2.8 million bonus, but said the chief executive's pay was still "significantly below the median" of comparable firms. "Mr. Cook remains significantly below the median ...
Hopefully,old planet earth is still spinning at this moment–due to a shortened Christmas schedule,this was written prior to Friday,Dec.21,2012,which is the ominous last day of the Mayan calendar,the December solstice and the first day ...
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CSO - Like all malls in the United States, the Arden Fair Mall in Sacramento is being overrun with shoppers as the holiday season kicks into high gear. Arden Fair is a 77-acre property and has 10 million annual shoppers. On an average ...
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Nobody is crazy enough to sit outside on a patio in Canada these days. Or am I mistaken? Toronto is covered in snow today and most other parts of the country are too. Montreal will be -15 tomorrow. Restaurant patios are closed, the ...
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Fugitive antivirus pioneer John McAfee could soon be released from detention in Guatemala where he is being held on charges that he entered the country illegally in an attempt to escape authorities in Belize where he is wanted for ...
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European chemicals output will contract by 2.0 per cent in 2012 compared with 2011, European chemicals group Cefic said. A lowering of its forecast released in September, the chemicals trade body downgrade reflects recent data showing a ...
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Parent advice From our panel of staff contributors Use the halfway house strategy. Put them in the attic or a box in a corner of a closet, and see if their absence is noted. After a suitable time period, you can then transition them ...
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Sterling Outdoor Products LLC is pleased to introduce its high tech entry into the world of performance ski wear. R-TEC BARRIER is an innovative approach to managing the loss of body heat often experienced from sitting on a cold surface ...
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Thursday,05 January 2012 14:47 A new brochure from Emergi-Lite Safety Systems detailing the LED emergency lighting ranges;Serenga escape exit signs,Sun-Lite downlighters,Horizon exit signs and luminaires and Aqualux exit signs and ...
What do the gold market and the weather have in common? You can forecast both, but predict neither, according to Brien Lundin, chief executive of Jefferson Financial and publisher of Gold Newsletter. Lundin, who also organizes the New ...
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Just days after a former employee blasted Mozilla for its frequent updates, the company on Tuesday shipped Firefox 14, patching 18 vulnerabilities and adding automatic encryption of searches passed to Google's search engine. The upgrade ...
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As 2012 winds down, we wanted to take a look back and see which new and used vehicles were most popular on ConsumerReports.org. Every day, potential car buyers look to our independent test scores and reliability ratings to aid their ...
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