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Driving this holiday season can be stressful. According to a report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, driver inattention is the leading factor in all crashes. However, you can make your trip a little easier and a lot safer by using a navigation system. On Star Turn-by-Turn Navigation is very simple to use. It’s like having a personal map reader in your car. It’s great to have a live person interact with you and download directions to your vehicle. Then you follow voice guided directions enhanced by GPS, turn-by-turn towards your destination. After that, there’s no need to take… Read More

Business travelers can’t seem to let the office go! More people than ever will be taking their work with them on their laptops as they travel this holiday season. While business travelers are on the road to visit family and friends, Ed McGarr, vice president at Senforce Technologies, offers some tips to make the voyage easier and safer this year for travelers and their confidential information. Senforce is expert at endpoint security. Senforce delivers solutions that enforce security policies on all endpoints everywhere all the time. For more information visit http://www.senforce.com

Watch how fast a DRY Christmas tree will burst into flames! From the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), this video demonstrates the how quickly the fire can develop when a DRY tree is exposed to an open flame. Trees used indoors for the holidays account for approximately 400 fires annually, resulting in 10 deaths, 80 injuries and more than $15 million in property damage. See http://fire.nist.gov/tree_fire.htm NIST has given permission to copy and/or distribute this video and requests that credit be given. See http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/disclaim.htm

This is Pedro, our new Beagle puppy. I haven’t had a dog since 1998 when my 15 1/2 year old Dachshund passed away. Just had to post this non-personal injury message to all of you. P.S. Happy Holidays to everyone! Lowell

Perils for Pedestrians is a monthly series promoting awareness of issues affecting the safety of people who walk and bicycle. Perils For Pedestrians appears on public access cable stations in many cities across the United States. We interview pedestrian and bicycling advocates and government planners about problems such as missing sidewalks and crosswalks, dangerous intersections, speeding traffic, and obstacles to wheelchair users and people with disabilities; and solutions to such problems. Contents of Episode #114 – Emergency Evacuations: Pedestrians on 9-11, New York City Pedestrians and the Blackout, Stamford, CT Evacuation planning, Albany, NY Evacuation Barriers Around Washington DC, Cabin… Read More

Here’s an interesting how-to video showing basic motorcycle controls (courtesy www.youtube.com).

Maybe not such a good idea to deprive your dog of food as this humorous dog bites owner video shows (courtesy of www.Youtube.com)

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The United States Supreme Court has its own website.  Click here to log onto the U.S. Supreme Court’s site where you can find: Recent Decisions, the Constitution, Biographies of the Current Justices, the Docket, Oral Arguments, the Supreme Court Calendar, Court Rules, Case Handling Guides and much, much more.  You could literally spend days or weeks on this site.  A wealth of information.

Massachusetts School of Law Question of Law Presents “Crime & Punishment: The Role of Juries” The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who are traditionally excluded from the legal profession. As part of its mission of providing high quality education and information for both law students and the general public, the Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public via television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit www.mslaw.edu.  MSLAW podcasts are… Read More