BELLEVUE, Wash. /PRNewswire/ – Launching the “Emergency Preparedness +” Program, the team of local Citizen Corps Council and representatives from Symetra and NBC will facilitate educational forums on emergency preparedness in the classroom, by engaging the third grade students and their families… Read more…

Toledo, Ohio /Toledo Free Press/ – Owens Community College will open its $20.5 million state-of-the-art Center for Emergency Preparedness April 29, to offer concurrent training for multiple first responder agencies. The Center for Emergency Preparedness is built around different kinds of emergencies and accidents that most commonly occur and types of disasters Homeland Security handles Continue Reading »

I’m writing to you this morning from a laptop that took an Italian soda bath late last night. With a sugar high in full gear, I reached across the desk and tipped a glass (that should never have been near my computer) right onto the keyboard.

Within seconds the screen flickered, the speakers crackled and then it was over - I was sitting in front of a lifeless machine, oozing syrupy raspberry liquid from every port. Consequently, within fractions of a second, I thought what files do I have open, what hasn’t been saved and is it all gone!

If this were the end of this machine and all the critical information that I’ve put into it, what shape am I in RIGHT NOW. Will I be able to finish my taxes or access my online accounts? Will I be able to recover the one-of-kind digital photos from the family reunion that I just downloaded to my laptop? Continue Reading »