Prep Tip - Terrorism Information - STRATFOR .

You cannot learn about terrorism in any meaningful way by reading many of the failing newspapers in the United States today.
Terrorists continue to persevere in their efforts to destroy the United States - they have plenty of willing participants and it appears plenty of financial assistance. In some instances, reporters themselves have been threatened with violence or killed if they reported the truth.

The folks at STRATFOR.COM are intelligence service experts....they are good at bringing out the fine details surrounding world events and report with dispassionate analysis -unlike the mainstream media. There are daily podcasts, videos and commentaries on matters affecting all of us from around the world.

Get the facts from this source as real time news. You may not like what you hear, but you owe it to yourself to at least find out.

Bookmark this link: http://www.stratfor.com/

ICE in Florida - Success Update 2-08!

Palm Beach Officials have experienced such success in rolling out their ICE Safety Program that they have exhausted their large supply of ICE Materials......sounds like success to us!Between the South Florida Fair and the local Fire/Rescue and Sheriff Stations, residents cleaned up.

PBSO advises today that additional printings are in progress and that the ICE Program is on a roll. Requests from communities within the county have exceeded expectations and continues unabated. So, if your community or organization is expecting to follow suit...just remember to plan on widespread enthusiasm....more as we get it.

Verizon Steps Up to the Plate - ICE Contacts

Some phones have it and some don't....this new LG phone shown here from Verizon demonstrates that someone is listening....somewhere. Verizon supports an In Case of Emergency title under the Contact folder.
Inside that group is room for 3 ICE CONTACTS and a Personal Info Heading.....inside the Info Folder you will find room for 3 NOTES! Now users can program that ICE info from the get go in this section as well as using a back up entry listed in alphabetical order (AA Emergency). This particular phone is not equipped with any SIM Card and relies on phone memory.

Another Phone Update - Apple Touch Screen Devices

In response to some inquiries about Apple products.....ICE4SAFETY stopped in to chat with two wireless consultants - James and Joshua at the AT&T Store in Shoppingtown. We learned about the latest touch screen phones also know as iPhones.

Apple also is the maker of another non-phone PDA-like and Wi-Fi Internet Access device known as the Ipod Touch. The Touch is a pretty slim unit capable of fitting in your shirt pocket. Despite not being a phone, it can store vital emergency contact information as well.

The original IPod is a non-phone/scroll wheel affair that stores music (iTunes) and video.

The IPod Touch and iPhone update their contact lists via a direct "synching" with a computer email program (Mac or PC). Synch is tech speak for "update". You can also update manually at any time too using your finger....the touch screen keyboard being infinitely more friendly than your cell phone.

You can create contact folders on the Touch and I-Phone and associate a picture or icon (ICE) with the contacts. You will need to update or synch the ICE4SAFETY Image into your devices or capture the image from the website (http://www.ice4safety.com/).

Latest software updates in January 2008 allow users to create new icons or widgets on your HomeScreen and place any four onto the Docket (see above)at the bottom of the screen. By creating an ICE Widget or Icon and placing it in the "docket" it will be displayed on all of your homescreens (you could create up to 8).

Update that ICE folder with contact information by manually inserting numbers into the list. You can rename each entry to reflect the order or type of contact - ICE1, ICE2, ICE DoctorSmith etc. If you have the earlier software you would need to access the existing "Contact" Icon or Widget on your home screen and enter a contact name using AA Emergency Contacts. The touch screen phones will list the contacts alphabetically by either first or last name.....you can select how using the set up menu option (e.g. Mark Smith or Smith, Mark). These entries scroll and can be longer than phone entries as the screens are larger.

New iPhones have 16 Gigabytes of memory - plenty of room for storing a photo of the owner (You) and the ICE icon as well. Remember - Redundancy....don't rely on this device alone.

If you might find yourself trying to use one of these someday - you should take a few moments to see one in action at the Apple link below...it is short and sweet.

Learn to use Apple iPhones Here!

Preparedness - Patient Empowerment

Elizabeth Cohen who has been writing about medical issues for quite some time now has created what amounts to a compendium of articles and vast array of information that people should avail themselves of to better understand the often complex and maybe less than glamorous issue of Patient Empowerment.

This issue is as much about preparedness as all the other topics we have here and on the website - probably more so for many of us with our own or relatives recurring medical issues. Once again - we need to spend time to save time.

Please check out Elizabeth's articles and the links as well....you may be able to get some of the items listed there free, ask at work if you have an HR Department or from your doctor.

Nice Job Elizabeth and CNN!