June

June is National Safety Month

Happy month of June everyone! The official start of summer, June 21, 2013, is right around the corner. Did you know that June is actually National Safety Month? The National Safety Council (www.nsc.org) is offering a ton of great safety tips including safety in the workplace, safety at home, and safety on the road. With summer right around the corner people will begin traveling even more. Therefore, I wanted to share some important driver safety tips to keep in mind. For more Safety information visit The National Safety Council official website, www.nsc.org

  • Avoid driving when you’re tired. Be aware that some medications can cause drowsiness and make operating a vehicle very dangerous.
  • Always use caution when changing lanes. Cutting in front of someone, changing lanes too fast or not using your signals may cause an accident or upset other drivers.
  • Check the weather. It’s best to stay off the roads if there is a threat of flooding, snow, ice or heavy thunderstorms.
  • Stay focused on driving. Is the radio too loud? Passengers too rowdy? Are you also trying to eat or apply makeup? Be sure to take care of these things before beginning your journey.
  • Keep your distance. Refrain from tailgating – staying back a few feet could protect in an accident. If someone is tailgating you, let them pass.
  • You should never use a cell phone while driving. It can be very distracting and is a leading cause of accidents in the United States.
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Weekend Events in Chester County

Below our some local events happening around Chester County this weekend!

Wine & Jazz Festival | Saturday June 1, 2013 

Longwood Gardens is hosting the Wine & Jazz Festival from 12:00pm till 5:30pm rain or shine this Saturday. Savor fine wines and sample fresh, local fare as you enjoy the sights and sounds of live jazz in the Gardens of Longwood. Tickets are available online, for more information click here.

Chester County Homebrew Festival | June 1, 2013 

Sample and judge over 15 different beers from local home brewers at this one-of-a-kind event supporting Elks charities. Tickets are $35 online, $45 at the door, and include a roast beef dinner, live music, a souvenir pint glass, and tokens for casting your vote. Click for information.

Annual Bonsai Show | June 1 & 2, 2013

An outstanding selection of bonsai (ornamental trees and shrubs whose growth is stunted using an ancient Asian craft) will be on display in the Brandywine River Museum Courtyard. Members of the Brandywine Bonsai Society will be present to demonstrate handling techniques and answer questions regarding special care of the trees. For more information visit www.brandywinemuseum.org.

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June is National Safety Month!
National Safety Council

National Safety Council (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Did you know that June is National Safety Month? “Each June, the National Safety Council encourages organizations and communities to participate in National Safety Month – an annual observance to educate and encourage safe behaviors around leading causes of preventable injuries and deaths. This year’s observance highlights the need to practice safe behaviors 24/7, as three times as many employees are injured off the job than while at work. Free materials including posters, facts sheets and quizzes are available at nsc.org/nsm to help spread these important safety messages.” For more information visit http://www.www.nsc.org.

Each week the National Safety Council will be focusing on a theme that reflects high rates of injuries, which include:

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Apple Announces iCloud
Apple Store

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Apple has confirmed maybe the worst kept secret in Silicon Valley: it’s been working on a cloud service, and will announce it at the June 6 Worldwide Developers Conference. So now we know annual developer’s conference will unveil “iCloud®, Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering,” but we don’t know yet what it is, or what exactly will reside at the domain name it may have bought for $4.5 million in April.

iCloud could be the mythical iTunes streaming service, a possibility that is looking increasingly likely now that Apple has most of the major record labels signed up for it, in a space pioneered by Amazon and Google, which has no such deals. Or it could be Apple’s version of DropBox, the amazing sync and storage service that currently glues together the whole iOS ecosystem along with its desktop service. Or it could be yet another abortion of an Internet service, like Mobile Me, iDisk and Ping before it. Still, this won’t stop endless speculation during the next week, as pundits work up theories but on Monday, we’ll know for sure. For more information check out the full article over at wired.com 

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