Ben Adams

Jan 20, 2025 | securityinfowatch.com | Ben Adams

The fire alarm industry is full of rules. I’ve previously explained each of the six categories of rules, which apply, respectively, to manufacturers, what to install, how to install, to individuals, to companies, and as specified by contract. With the foundational rules now in place, let’s bring them all together and show how they work in real life.

Oct 21, 2024 | securityinfowatch.com | Ben Adams

This article originally appeared in the October 2024 issue of Security Business magazine. Don’t forget to mention Security Business magazine on LinkedIn and @SecBusinessMag on Twitter if you share it. The United States does not have a federally mandated set of rules for the fire alarm industry; instead, we have a patchwork of rules that vary across all 50 states and more than 80,000 jurisdictions. Over the last year, I’ve explained five essential types of fire alarm rules.

Sep 22, 2024 | inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |John Miles |Ken Haley |Ben Adams

Impressionism is probably the most widely known and loved of all art movements. Crowds flock to exhibitions by its greatest artists: Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgard Degas, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. What most of us don’t know is the political and social background that led to this movement and how it was born out of a time of tumult in Paris. We all know French politics is complicated – just look at the current situation.

Sep 17, 2024 | inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |John Miles |Ken Haley |Ben Adams

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Sep 16, 2024 | inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Ken Haley |Ben Adams |John Miles

What Clancy was to the Overflow, Thomas Scott Townsend was to Australia’s loftiest reaches. Yet few have heard his name. He ought to have been famous in his time and ever since as Townsend was the surveyor who from 1831 to 1854 put one town after another on the map. Towns like Portland, Eden, Albury, Tumut and Wagga (twice). He also, as this new study argues, might have been the first European to reach the continent’s highest point.