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• SPOT personal GPS tracker: the argonaut's lifeline

  Published: August 7, 2007, 5:54 pm

  Tags: Emergency, Help, Personal Tracker, Personaltracker, Rescue, Rugged, Safety, Satellite Messenger, Satellitemessenger, Spot, Track, Tracking, Waterproof

  relatives, friends, and emergency personnel of your status. Among the features are a 911 button that automatically calls in help and gives them your exact location, an Ask for Help button that beams up friends / family, a Check In selection that informs contacts that you're a-okay, and a Track Progress option that sends your location to a

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• In Brief: Reader C.J. writes: “OMG its George ...

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:18 pm

  Tags: Emergency Wonk D, Footballs, George Allen, Wonk D

  Reader C.J. writes: “OMG its George Allen With his wife at Austin Grill in Old Town. Right now. Both of them are having beers which is actually kinda awesome. NO VISIBLE FOOTBALL. Man oh...

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• Emergency Wonk'd: Reader C.J. writes: “OMG its George ...

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:18 pm

  Tags: Emergency Wonk D, Footballs, George Allen, Wonk D

  Reader C.J. writes: “OMG its George Allen With his wife at Austin Grill in Old Town. Right now. Both of them are having beers which is actually kinda awesome. NO VISIBLE FOOTBALL. Man oh man….Mrs Allen is a total SWILF!!!! Damn.”

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• Melbourne Airport security scare delays 100s

  Published: August 13, 2007, 7:28 pm

  Tags: Emergency Incidents, Melbourne 3000, Melbourne Airport 3045

  Hundreds of passengers at Melbourne Airport have been delayed after a parcel was not screened at the Qantas terminal.

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• Peanuts vs tree nuts (hint: one is a legume)

  Published: August 16, 2007, 5:35 am

  Tags: Action, Allergic To Nuts, Allergictonuts, Allergy, Bean, Cashew, Cashews, Children, Children S, Death, Emergency Room, Emergencyroom, Epi Pen, Food Allergies, Foodallergies, Gasping, Good Fight, Goodfight, Legume, New Research, Newresearch, Peanut, Peanut Butter Cafe, Peanut Bu

  gasping, more trips to the emergency room and, you know, more possibility of DEATH. Well, I could have told you that! See, I have that allergy--the one that gets no press because everyone is so concerned about peanut allergies. I'm allergic to nuts. Tree nuts, to be exact, like our pal the cashew. This is not to say that I'm dismissing those

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• Video Demonstration: Make an emergency light source from a pencil

  Published: August 19, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Car, Diy, Emergency, Video, Video Demonstration

  is all you need, and voila! Emergency light source. It's an excellent option if you've ever been stuck on the side of the road with a flat tire and you don't have your handy dandy emergency car kit packed. Turn a pencil into an emergency light source

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• Felix weakens, Henriette crosses land in Mexico

  Published: September 4, 2007, 8:00 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Cyclones, Emergency Incidents, Weather, Cyclone, Storm, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua

  As Hurricane Felix continues to lose strength, it is Mexico's turn to endure the latest hurricane of the season, Henriette.

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• Investigator blames mining activity for Beaconsfield rockfall

  Published: September 5, 2007, 12:23 am

  Tags: Mining, Workplace Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Courts Trials, Judges Legal Professionals, Beaconsfield 7270, Launceston 7250

  An independent investigation has found that mining was to blame for seismic activity which led to last year's Beaconsfield Mine disaster.

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• Lead contamination report finds 'litany of failures'

  Published: September 5, 2007, 11:19 pm

  Tags: Mining, Maritime Accidents, Workplace Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Environmental Management, Air Pollution, Water Pollution, State Parliament, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Nationals, Democrats, Greens, One Nation, Minor Parties, Esperance 6450

  The State Government has apologised to the people of Esperance after a parliamentry committee attacked several agencies for allowing lead contamination in the town.

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• Villa Del Sol En Toa Baja Muestra Del Desastre De Vivienda En Puerto Rico

  Published: September 6, 2007, 11:21 am

  Tags: Educaci N, Me Da Asco, Diario Vivir, Politica, Anibal Vega Borges, Autoridad De Tierras, Beneficios Puerto Rico, Derrumbe De Casas, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Fema, Necesidad De Vivienda En Puerto Rico, Pragmatismo, Programas Estatales Puerto Rico, Programa

  a FEMA, el Federal Emergency Management Agency. Y es que en Puerto Rico hay una gran necesidad de vivienda de inter s social y en Puerto Rico tenemos la mala costumbre de pensar que, sin pasar trabajo alguno, el gobierno nos TIENE que proveer no ya un apartamento, sino una casa. (more…) anibal vega borges, autoridad de tierras,

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• DPI takes precautions over horse manure spill

  Published: September 7, 2007, 4:34 am

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Rural, Quarantine, Sport, Horse Racing, Australia, Nsw, Berkshire Park 2765

  A major street in Sydney's north-west was blocked off as hazmat teams decontaminated a horse manure spill on the road, because of fears it might spread the horse flu virus.

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• British tourists missing in red centre

  Published: September 7, 2007, 10:00 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Emergency Incidents

  Northern Territory police are continuing their search to find two missing tourists in Central Australia.

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• Woman, 76, survives two weeks in US wilderness

  Published: September 7, 2007, 9:15 pm

  Tags: Emergency Incidents, Offbeat, United States

  A 76-year-old woman was found alive after being stranded for two weeks in a remote mountain region of Oregon, police in the northwestern US state said.

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• Wreck access reviewed after diver trapped

  Published: September 9, 2007, 8:47 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Australia, Darwin 0800

  A Northern Territory dive operator says it is not safe to dive on a ship which was sunk as an artifical reef in Darwin Harbour last month.

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• Emergency: Landing Airplane Collapses, Smashing Engine Blade into Cabin

  Published: September 10, 2007, 8:40 am

  Tags: Airlines, Blades, Emergency, Haviland, Q400, Sas, Scandinavian, S Ta Svenska Flickor, Turboprop

  This is what happens when big toys go wrong: watch as this SAS Haviland Q400's right landing gear collapses, putting the engine on fire and smashing one of its turboprop engines' blades into the cabin. Fortunately, like the stunning explosion in Okinawa, all passengers and crew survived. Next time the Scandinavians should kill a couple goats to

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