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• Cellphone lights enable operation to proceed in blackout

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:01 am

  Tags: Argentina, Blackout, Doctors, Generator, Light, Medical, Operation, Power Outage, Poweroutage, Surgeons, Surgery, Weird

  failed to activate after the power went out whilst an appendix surgery was ongoing, but rather than panicking, a family member gathered up a number of phones in order to provide enough light for the surgeons and anesthetists to keep on keepin' on. According to the hospital director, the operation went on without proper lighting for no more than

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• Power outage halts Samsung's flash memory production, shortages expected

  Published: August 3, 2007, 3:27 pm

  Tags: Business, Flash Memory, Flashmemory, Industry, Nand, Power Failure, Power Outage, Powerfailure, Poweroutage, Samsung, Shortage

  production lines after a power outage occurred at a plant near Seoul," and while recent reports suggest that "operations should be restored within a day," the lasting effects could linger on for quite some time. Reportedly, the outage occurred at Samsung's Giheung complex and disrupted production of flash memory, DRAM, and logic chips, and

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• Samsung resumes chip production, minifies losses

  Published: August 4, 2007, 4:01 am

  Tags: Flash Memory, Flashmemory, Power Outage, Poweroutage, Price, Prices, Pricing, Samsung, Shortage, Supply, Supply Chain, Supplychain

  in losses from an unexpected power outage at its Giheung complex, the firm is now reporting that the half dozen production lines are "fully operational." Moreover, the outfit is now projecting losses to peak at around $43 million, which actually doesn't sound too horrific compared to prior estimates. It was noted, however, that the disruption

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• Samsung to receive insurance payout for power outage damage

  Published: August 6, 2007, 7:06 am

  Tags: Blackout, Flash Memory, Flashmemory, Insurance, Nand, Power Outage, Poweroutage, Samsung

  received during Friday's power outage." Reportedly, the firm's contract with Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance will cover the damage, which is currently estimated to be somewhere near $40 million. Of note, the exact cause of the outage is still unknown, and it was stated that it would take "considerable amounts of time" to look into before

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• Amtrak: in The Dark on Emergency Preparedness

  Published: October 20, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Philadelphia, Amtrak, Blog, Blogger, Culture, Electrical, Emergency, Media, Power Outage, Steve Rosenbaum, Train, Ugc, User Generated Content

  An Amtrak train station suffered a power outage yesterday, plunging commuters into darkness. Amtrak issued a press release touting their quick response. [q read more

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• Ameren UE Offers Power On' Billboard Irony

  Published: February 17, 2008, 6:56 pm

  Tags: Advertising, Advertising Agency, Ameren, Ameren Ue, Billboard, Bob Mccarty, Bob Mccarty Writes, Bobmccarty Com, Burying Power Lines, Outdoor Ad, Outdoor Advertisement, Power Lines, Power On, Power Outage, Project Power On, St Charles County, St Louis, Tech Amp Amp Biz

  If not for the large number of above-ground power lines partially-obstructing my view of it, I probably would have ignored the billboard which touts BURYING POWER LINES UNDER GROUND. Located along Highway 94 in...read more

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• Two Metro Fires, Power Outage Disrupt Downtown

  Published: June 13, 2008, 10:52 am

  Tags: Two, Metro, Fires, Power, Outage, Disrupt, Downtown

  Two fires along Metro's Red Line and a power outage through much of the center city this morning left commuters stranded, offices and tourist attractions dark and street traffic in chaos.

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• Karachi Hit by another Series of Power Outages

  Published: June 18, 2008, 5:33 am

  Tags: Temperatures, Summer, Karachi, World, Power Outage, Hot Weather

  In Karachi the summer temperatures have been fluctuating between 35 to 40 degree C and humidity is high too. High inflation, dug-up roads, scorching heat people have already got enough to be disgruntled and...read more

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• Downtown Vancouver without power for second day

  Published: July 15, 2008, 1:45 pm

  Tags: Vancouver, Fire, Bc Hydro, Public, Damage, Power, World, Power Outage, Dark, Electrical, Granville, Seymour, Davie, Polluted, Local Businesses, Vancouver Power

  We welcome more information about the continuing power outage in Downtown Vancouver. Please add your footage and comments below.Update 2:10 PST  Yesterday's fire was caused by a "failed splice" in a cable, B.C....read more

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• The Weird Light In The Backyard

  Published: August 10, 2008, 9:11 am

  Tags: The Paranormal, Light, Power Outage, Weird

  the binoculars back when the power went out. It was only out a few seconds but it was enough to scare me. If I had seen the light by itself, it would not have scared me but to see the light then lose power together was just too much. I thought of checking with the neighbors to see if they lost power the same time we did but I was afraid

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• Oh, What a Night/Day

  Published: August 27, 2008, 9:13 pm

  Tags: Everyday Babble, Exhaustion, Power Outage, Sleeping, Tired

  detector beeping…the power had gone out! They were working on stuff earlier in the day in the community and the power went out, but that one was planned. It only stayed out for a few minutes, but I then had to reset the clock and alarm for hubby that I had just set an hour before from the earlier outage. So it took me about another 20

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