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Keeping your digital life safe on vacation

Keeping your digital life safe on vacation

Everyday, it seems, we hear about hacking, identity theft or some other invasion of our digital privacy.  Here’s how to protect your online life from cyber criminals on the road, because vacations are not the time to relax your personal safety, which includes taking internet security precautions. Before You Go Patch Up.  Check all your
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Safety Warning: Road De-icers Can Damage Brakes

Safety Warning: Road De-icers Can Damage Brakes

De-icing chemicals used to clear roads of winter snow and ice cost US drivers some $3 Billion a year in repairs to brakes and paint damaged by the corrosive road salt and liquid chemicals.

Scam Alert: Keep Hackers Out of Your Home

Scam Alert: Keep Hackers Out of Your Home

Now that your home is getting smarter, with internet-connected heating and cooling, webcams to check on the baby and babysitter, lock or unlock your door remotely, it’s more important than ever to keep hackers out. These tips will help keep the digital version of breaking-and-entering from creating mayhem, even endangering the health and safety of
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Asleep at the wheel: dangers of drowsy driving

Asleep at the wheel: dangers of drowsy driving

Spring ahead, fall back. The annual ritual of moving our clocks one hour forward means drivers are more sleep-deprived than usual. Avoid the dangers of drowsy driving yourself, and know how to recognize another drowsy driver. Read also how to avoid road rage Simply, fatigue affects our ability to respond. Nodding off at the wheel,
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How to Avoid the Flu When you Travel

How to Avoid the Flu When you Travel

The person next to you on the airplane, commuter train or movie theater sneezes, and you catch a cold, or worse, the flu. Whether you are traveling or close to home, here’s how to avoid the flu. First and most important, get a flu shot. It does not guarantee you’ll avoid the flu, but it
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How to avoid road rage

How to avoid road rage

The holiday driving season fast approaching means clogged roads, and road rage is a driving danger, along with drunk driving and texting while driving. These tips will help you avoid aggressive drivers, or become one yourself. How to avoid road rage is especially timely because of that awful road rage death of a four-year-old girl
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Takata Airbag Recall List

Takata Airbag Recall List

The Takata airbag recall is the largest in US history, affecting 33.8 million cars and trucks made between 2002 and 2011. Manufacturers include Toyota, Honda, BMW, Lexus, Ford, and Nissan. The official list of affected vehicles continues to grow daily as more makes and models are added. There are two ways to find out if
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Ebola virus and flu shots

Ebola virus and flu shots

It’s important to get a flu shot every year. Getting a flu shot is especially important this year because of Ebola. No, a flu shot absolutely positively will not protect you from Ebola. But since the first symptoms of Ebola and flu are similar, a flu shot will at least protect you from worrying that
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2014 Formula One racing season and Michael Schumacher update

2014 Formula One racing season and Michael Schumacher update

When the 2014 Formula One racing season gets underway today in Australia, the thoughts of many drivers, pit crews and fans will be with top-winning driver Michael Schumacher, who has been in a medically-induced coma since a skiing accident in France in December 2013. EuroSport reports there are small, encouraging signs of improvement  in his
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Older Driver Safety Awareness Week

Within the next decade, there will be 40 million drivers in the USA over the age of 65.  Normal aging affects our physical, mental and sensory abilities that affect how safely we drive.  December 2-6, 2013 is Older Driver Safety Awareness week, sponsored by the American Occupational Therapy Association. Here are some things to consider
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