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This morning was the fourth and final installment of the month-long Are You Ready series I have been doing on WNYC’s the “Brian Lehrer Show”. An audio file is at the Brian Lehrer Show website. It was really interesting and enjoyable for me to talk about citizen preparedness and in particular to get the comments and questions from [...]

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Tomorrow, for the last segment of the “Are You Ready?” series I have been doing in April on the “Brian Lehrer Show”, we are soliciting questions on emergency preparedness that I will try to answer on the show. There is a page now on the show’s website for listeners to send in their queries on any aspect of preparedness. I will try to [...]

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The third installment of the ‘Are You Ready’ series I am doing on the “The Brian Lehrer Show” is now available on the web. Just click thru to the show page and scroll down.
 
Above is a photo with my “Go-Bag” and ‘comfort items’ as we try to encourage submissions to our Flickr project. I am hoping we’ll get a lot of [...]

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Today, I will be on the The Brian Lehrer Show (820AM/93.9FM) between 10:40am-11:00am. I am appearing on the show every week in April to discuss emergency preparedness in a series titled “Are You Ready”. Last week, we introduced a Flickr ’Go-Bag project.
 
We are asking you to post the ’comfort item’ that you have (or plan to) put in your ‘go-bag’. A comfort item is a [...]

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Just a reminder to contribute to the Flickr photo project that WNYC’s ”Brian Lehrer Show” is conducting in conjunction with our “Are You Ready?” series this month.
We are asking listeners to post a picture of the ‘comfort items’ — things that are not essential but would make life a little better if you needed to evacuate — they have already (or intend to) [...]

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Tomorrow morning at 7:30, I will be on the “Bill Press Show” which can be heard on Sirius satellite radio, 1260am in Washington, D.C., or online at www.progressivetalk1260.com. The guest host is my pundit professor Rich Masters. 

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A brief detour from the usual topics this weekend to mention that NPR’s On The Media is replaying a story I did a couple years ago about my attempt to train for a career in television punditry. Among those who tried to help along the way are Nipsey Russell, Joe Nocera, Paul Begala, as well as “the Jedi Master to television pundits”. You can be the judge on [...]

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Yesterday’s installment of this month’s ”Are You Ready” series I am doing on WNYC’s “Brian Lehrer Show” is now on the WNYC website
As part of the Flickr photo project the show is conducting, below is a photo of the ’comfort items’ from my family’s ‘Go-Bags’. We are asking listeners to post a picture of the ‘comfort items’ — things that are not essential but would make [...]

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Today, I will be on the The Brian Lehrer Show (820AM/93.9FM) between 10:40am-11:00am. I am appearing on the show every week in April to discuss emergency preparedness in a series titled “Are You Ready”. Last week’s segment focused on my involvement in the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteer program. 
 
One of the topics we are going to cover today is how to [...]

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It was really interesting and helpful for me to hear and read the reactions from the listeners of the ”Brian Lehrer Show” to my first appearance of the month — even if many of them were skeptical about the topic. 
Although the spectre of having to deal with major disaster is somewhere in most people’s minds, particularly those of us in the New York area, the subject of public emergency [...]

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