Readings

Readings on the ideas of the ICE-help system

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1 From the book Super Freakonomics, chapter "Why should suicide bombers buy life insurance".
On the importance of having medical information easily available.
By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
2 How to Prepare for One Really Quick Getaway
By Damon Darlin, published October 1, 2005
3 In Case I Get Hit By a Bus:
Storing it [vital information...] in an encrypted electronic file on a flash drive is a good idea, as long as family members can recall the password for access
List of what to store, by an unknown source.
4 Canada-US border crossed by man using iPad as ID
A Canadian man who forgot his passport has said that he managed to cross the border into t he us using a copy of the document he had scanned on to his iPad.
BBC Mobile - News US & Canada, 3 january 2012
5 Who, What, Why: How is lost luggage found?
...the absent bag usually appears somewhere else in the world - either it didn't make it on to the departing flight, was too slow to make a connection and so is stuck in transit, or was mislabelled and ended up at a totally different airport.
BBC Magazine Monitor, 4 April 2015.
6 BBC Future: - did an airline auction offl ycur luggage?
For every 1,000 passengers who fly, there are 7.3 mishandled bags per 1,000 passengers today. In some countries, the [lost] luggage gets destroyed. In the UK, the airlines tend to send them to auction -Nick Gates.
From BBC Future, 9/8/2015