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	<title>Irked Magazine &#187; emergency response</title>
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		<title>From No Home to Back Home on Broadway: Spotlighting stage veteran Terri White</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9230/from-no-home-to-back-home-on-broadway-spotlighting-stage-veteran-terri-white/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bum Deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broadway]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finian’s Rainbow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Bum Deal
An overwhelmingly moving story&#8230;after the jump!

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Quoting the New York Times, in an article by Susan Dominus titled From No Home to Back Home on Broadway:
Midway through “Finian’s Rainbow,” which opens Thursday on Broadway, the stage veteran Terri White delivers a bluesy, rasping version of the song “Necessity.” The character wants to play, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spotlighting Gilbert Smith: a former police officer who has turned disability equality into his life&#8217;s mission</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9046/spotlighting-gilbert-smith-a-former-police-officer-who-has-turned-disability-equality-into-his-lifes-mission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Wheelchairman of the Board

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Even sitting in a wheelchair, his hands not fully functional, there&#8217;s a physical presence about Gilbert Smith, the former police officer who was shot on duty and left paralyzed from the waist down.
Maybe it&#8217;s left over from his rough-and-tumble days as a bouncer in his dad&#8217;s bar. Or maybe it&#8217;s just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support Hal Newman&#8217;s 250km &#8220;Fat Man On Trek to Conquer Cancer&#8221; bike ride</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/8169/support-hal-newmans-250km-fat-man-on-trek-to-conquer-cancer-bike-ride/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/8169/support-hal-newmans-250km-fat-man-on-trek-to-conquer-cancer-bike-ride/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tumour Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cycling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ride to Conquer Cancer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Tumour Humour, Campaign Watch

Quoting Hal Newman, current managing editor at BigMedicine.ca, former firefighter and paramedic with 3+ decades of experience in emergency services who &#8220;reinvented&#8221; himself after leaving the streets by becoming a Network Accelerant:


If you had to pick someone who would be the least likely to become addicted to road cycling more than 30 km [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Firefighters Assistant Robot: a mini firefighter helper bot that can enter burning buildings to conduct reconnaissance and check for people</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/8085/the-firefighters-assistant-robot-a-mini-firefighter-helper-bot-that-can-enter-burning-buildings-to-conduct-reconnaissance-and-check-for-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assistive technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Uncategorized
From Tim Hornyak article on news.cnet.com:


South Korea&#8217;s Hoya Robot is developing a mini firefighter helper bot that can enter burning buildings to conduct reconnaissance and check for people. The Firefighters Assistant Robot can apparently operate for up to 30 minutes in fires, and can withstand temperatures up to 320° F. It can also survive falls of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Crime of Being Homeless</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/7628/the-crime-of-being-homeless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bum Deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[british columbia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://irkedmagazine.com/?p=7628</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Bum Deal
Quoting Jane Armstrong, writing for The Globe and Mail:

A proposed provincial law that would give police the right to force homeless people into shelters during bad weather has angered civil libertarians, who claim the move is a back-door bid to clean up Vancouver&#8217;s streets in time for the Olympics. The proposed law, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you and your dirty car are in Halifax today&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/6652/if-you-and-your-dirty-car-are-in-halifax-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bum Deal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[car wash]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hope cottage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hungry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Bum Deal, Campaign Watch

Quoting the Friday, August 28th edition of The Chronicle-Herald:

The Saint Mary’s Huskies football team is hosting a car wash Saturday in Halifax to raise funds for Hope Cottage. The team, along with the Halifax RCMP, Halifax Regional Police and Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service, will wash cars, with all proceeds going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign Watch: Because Heroes Are Human &#8211; The Tema Conter Memorial Trust</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/4387/campaign-watch-because-heroes-are-human-the-tema-conter-memorial-trust/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/4387/campaign-watch-because-heroes-are-human-the-tema-conter-memorial-trust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Campaign Watch, Irked Videos

“This is my way of doing something for Tema. Although I was unable to help her in any way, this award will ensure her memory lives on.” —Vince Savoia
Excerpted from Tema.ca:

The first people to arrive on the scene, emergency services personnel witness traumatic events with every shift. Yet they continue to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Socks, by Hal Newman</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/2757/socks-by-hal-newman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Uncategorized

Socks
by Hal Newman
Cynthia is nine years old. She was rescued from her home after floodwaters reached the second floor. Her mom and dad and sister and their two cats all made it out safely.
However, right at this moment, in the middle of an overcrowded Red Cross shelter, among hundreds of other evacuees, the only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Drownproofing: Requiem for a Care Provider, by Hal Newman</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/377/the-art-of-drownproofing-requiem-for-a-care-provider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seemed to be a wave of air that came out of nowhere and hit me right in the gut. I felt an enormous weight slam into my shoulders that forced me down to my knees. I heard myself mutter, "Sweet Jesus." And then I was kneeling on the carpet in the corridor fighting the urge to hurl vomit and bile out of my mouth. 

Jen and Boris were by my side in a heartbeat. "Hal, are you all right?!"

<a href="http://irkedmagazine.com/wanderingagoraphobe/leah/377/the-art-of-drownproofing-requiem-for-a-care-provider">CLICK HERE</a> to read full article.
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