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Avalanche danger.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
I couldn't help but notice that a number of skiers were lost to avalanches in Utah the week of January 20, 2005. I think the ski resort industry should look into utilizing some technology that has been around for some time but is now being looked by Homeland Security agencies, that of Radio Frequency Identification or RFID as it is known.
RFID involves a very small and inexpensive "tag" that can be applied to virtually anything and is commonly used in the retail industry for addressing shoplifting. You yourself may have been subjected to what happens when a cash register operator forgets to cancel out the tag and you are stopped at the door by a security person because you have set off their alarm.
The web site, RFID Journal, lists a pretty good description of these devices: "Passive Tag: a tag without its own power source and transmitter. When radio waves from the reader (transmitter) reach the chip's antenna, the energy is converted by the antenna into electricity that can power up the microchip in the tag. The tag is able to send back information stored on the chip. Today. simple passive tags cost from 20 cents to several dollars, depending on the amount of memory on the tag, packaging ...
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- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 16, 2009 700+ words
...NARRAGANSETT, R.I., July 15 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard, 1st District office, issued the...press release: The Coast Guard rescued four people from a New Bedford-based fishing vessel that ran aground on Brenton Reef...
- Chuck Morse Urges Congressman Barney Frank to Resign from the Congressional...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 20, 2004 700+ words
BROOKLINE AND NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire...position on the Congressional Homeland Security committee, citing the "tragedy...resign from the Congressional Homeland Security committee. His presence there...
- New Bedford rallies to topple Catholic Memorial Wills (24 points, 7 steals)...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Mark Singelais, Contributing Reporter March 14, 1994 700+ words
New Bedford was in complete disarray during the...last night's Division 1 South final. New Bedford, taking bad shots and playing ineffective...What is the matter with us?" asked New Bedford coach Ed Rodrigues as he watched his...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Bob Ryan, Globe Staff December 4, 1994 700+ words
Well, another New Bedford Invitational is in the books. It...it was even nicer of them to make New Bedford squirm a teeny bit. But this Division...that doesn't involve skates, then New Bedford will win it? "It was ugly," declared...