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Arkansas has become the first state to launch the Smart911 system statewide, ushering in a new era of public safety.

Smart911 is a service provided by Rave Mobile Safety. Smart911 is a public/private partnership which gives citizens the ability to create a free, private and secure Safety Profile that integrates with the 9-1-1 system. Endorsed nationwide by leading public safety and health officials, as well as local emergency responders and advocacy groups, the rapidly-growing Smart911 service is now helping emergency responders across dozens of states protecting millions of citizens.

In an initiative marked by bipartisan leadership, and the overwhelming support of public safety officials and public service groups, the Smart911 deployment will give 9-1-1 telecommunicators, police, fire and emergency medical services (EMS) more detailed information, enabling them to respond to an emergency in the right location, with the right personnel and right equipment to improve the incident outcome.

"With Smart911, we are providing our 9-1-1 centers and emergency responders with the best possible tool to protect all of our citizens. Regardless of political affiliation, there is no greater priority than the well-being of those we serve," said Senator Gilbert Baker of Arkansas. "Through new technology and at no cost to taxpayers, Arkansas is leading the way in public safety by helping front-line responders in each and every city and town to resolve emergencies more effectively and save lives."

Smart911 allows citizens to create a Safety Profile online (click here) that is automatically displayed to 9-1-1 during emergency calls. This can include home addresses associated with mobile phone numbers, medical conditions and disabilities, photos of family members, floor-plans and other rescue-related data.

This information enables emergency responders to have a comprehensive understanding of the scene before they arrive. For example, EMS will know about medical conditions, allergies and disabilities, facilitating precise life-saving treatment. Fire crews will know not only how many residents are at a home, but locations of bedrooms, residents with special needs and even if there are pets on-premise. Police will have instant access to a child's personal information and a photograph if a child goes missing.

"Arkansas' leaders understand that their citizens deserve the most effective emergency service possible and they're committed to helping responders improve incident outcomes," said Tom Axbey, president and CEO, Rave Mobile Safety. "While Smart911 is growing rapidly, Arkansas' statewide launch sets an important public safety example. We look forward to working with public safety leaders to quickly roll the service out across the state."

Citizens are encouraged to create their Safety Profile with Smart911 today to have their information immediately available to 9-1-1. Smart911 data is private and secure, is only used for emergency responses, and only made available to the 9-1-1 system in the event of an emergency call.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., and FRAMINGHAM, Mass., June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Today at the Capitol Building, Arkansas State Senator Gilbert Baker (R) announced that Arkansas has become the first in the nation to launch Smart911 statewide, ushering in a new era of public safety for all of its citizens. In an initiative marked by bipartisan leadership, and the overwhelming support of public safety officials and public service groups, the Smart911 deployment will give 9-1-1 telecommunicators, police, fire and emergency medical services (EMS) more detailed information, enabling them to respond to an emergency in the right location, with the right personnel and right equipment to improve the incident outcome.

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Smart911 is a service provided by Rave Mobile Safety, the trusted software partner for campus and public safety. Smart911 is a public/private partnership which gives citizens the ability to create a free, private and secure Safety Profile that integrates with the 9-1-1 system. Endorsed nationwide by leading public safety and health officials, as well as local emergency responders and advocacy groups, the rapidly-growing Smart911 service is now helping emergency responders across dozens of states protecting millions of citizens.

"With Smart911, we are providing our 9-1-1 centers and emergency responders with the best possible tool to protect all of our citizens. Regardless of political affiliation, there is no greater priority than the well-being of those we serve," said Senator Gilbert Baker of Arkansas. "Through new technology and at no cost to taxpayers, Arkansas is leading the way in public safety by helping front-line responders in each and every city and town to resolve emergencies more effectively and save lives."

Smart911 allows citizens to create a Safety Profile online at http://www.smart911.com that is automatically displayed to 9-1-1 during emergency calls. This can include home addresses associated with mobile phone numbers, medical conditions and disabilities, photos of family members, floor-plans and other rescue-related data.

This information enables emergency responders to have a comprehensive understanding of the scene before they arrive. For example, EMS will know about medical conditions, allergies and disabilities, facilitating precise life-saving treatment. Fire crews will know not only how many residents are at a home, but locations of bedrooms, residents with special needs and even if there are pets on-premise. Police will have instant access to a child's personal information and a photograph if a child goes missing.

"Arkansas' leaders understand that their citizens deserve the most effective emergency service possible and they're committed to helping responders improve incident outcomes," said Tom Axbey, president and CEO, Rave Mobile Safety. "While Smart911 is growing rapidly, Arkansas' statewide launch sets an important public safety example. We look forward to working with public safety leaders to quickly roll the service out across the state."

Citizens are encouraged to create their Safety Profile with Smart911 today to have their information immediately available to 9-1-1. Smart911 data is private and secure, is only used for emergency responses, and only made available to the 9-1-1 system in the event of an emergency call.

About Rave Mobile Safety

Rave Mobile Safety is the most trusted software partner for campus and public safety. Used by leading Institutes of Higher Education and State and Local Agencies, the award-winning portfolio of RaveAlert, RaveGuardian, Eyewitness and Smart911 enables millions to feel safe, secure and connected. Rave Mobile Safety is headquartered in Framingham, MA. For more information please visit http://www.ravemobilesafety.com

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DESOTO, Texas, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Southwest Regional Communications Center (SWRCC) marked the one year anniversary of its launch of Smart911 by encouraging those citizens that haven't yet created a Safety Profile to do so. Rave Mobile Safety's Smart911 is a public/private partnership creating a first-of-its-kind critical caller database that now helps citizens and emergency responders across 23 states. Currently, when 9-1-1 receives a call, only a phone number and minimal levels of location data are displayed. With Smart 911, citizens create a Safety Profile online consisting of additional data about themselves and family members which is automatically displayed to 9-1-1 call-takers during emergencies. The result is far greater emergency response effectiveness and saved lives.

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The SWRCC is a consolidated communications center that serves the communities of Cedar Hill, DeSoto and Duncanville, answering 9-1-1 calls and integrating with the Police and Fire Departments of each city. The SWRCC launched Smart911 in June of 2011, making Texas the 7th state in the U.S. to offer the service. As a result of such public safety examples, Smart911 has grown to protect millions of citizens in 23 states.

"All citizens should take a few minutes to create a Smart Safety Profile because it is going to help us be much more effective in helping them and their families," said Janet Sanders of the SWRCC. "These can detail medical conditions and disabilities that help dispatchers understand why a caller might be uncommunicative, expediting and supporting EMT response. They can let fire crews know how many residents are at a home, and, locations of bedrooms. Police can be alerted to potential threats and photos can facilitate the search for a missing child. In a 9-1-1 emergency, more information means greater effectiveness, saving invaluable time and lives."

Smart911 is a nation-wide service that is 100 percent private and secure. Paid for by the municipality, citizens can create their Safety Profile at http://www.Smart911.com, entering vital data they want made available on themselves and family members, a residence, even pets. This can include data on medical conditions, disabilities and/or special needs, children's photos, home addresses of cellphone callers, floor plans and other pertinent information. Smart911 delivers this information automatically to 9-1-1 call-takers, enabling responders to be more effective because they have access to critical health and logistics information before arriving at the scene of an emergency.

A number of public service groups advocating for persons with disabilities and/or special needs have strongly endorsed the SWRCC's use of Smart911, including the Epilepsy Foundation and Autism Speaks. "For citizens with epilepsy, it is critical that response teams have the proper information on their condition and treatment. The ability to include these details in their personal Safety Profile is a great benefit to these individuals because it gives both them and their families peace of mind that should an emergency occur, 9-1-1 and responders will have the information they need to treat them," said Donna Stahlhut, CEO of the Epilepsy Foundation Texas. "We encourage our families and their care-givers to create their Safety Profile to ensure first responders act promptly and appropriately."

"The SWRCC deserves a great deal of credit for adopting a system early-on that is fast-becoming a public safety standard," said Tom Axbey, president and CEO, Rave Mobile Safety. "Their commitment to delivering the most effective emergency services to area citizens is abundantly clear. Their example has helped other municipalities realize how detailed information can dramatically improve emergency outcomes. We thank the SWRCC for their vision, and as this public/private partnership expands, look forward to increasing public safety nationwide."

About Rave Mobile Safety

Rave Mobile Safety is the most trusted software partner for campus and public safety. Used by leading Institutes of Higher Education and State and Local Agencies, the award-winning portfolio of RaveAlert, RaveGuardian, Eyewitness, Smart911 and SmartPrepare enables millions to feel safe, secure and connected. Rave Mobile Safety is headquartered in Framingham, MA. For more information please visit http://www.ravemobilesafety.com

Contact:Marty Querzoli Davies Murphy Group pr@ravemobilesafety.com (781) 418-2433

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John Edwards crimes were tough to prove, even tougher to stomach.

Lets be real: Few honest observers doubt he did what they said he did use huge campaign contributions to hide a mistress and illegitimate child from view in the 2008 presidential election in order to convince the public he was every bit the gallant knight he portrayed himself to be.

He didnt know anything about it all. Yeah, right.

But the beauty of our criminal justice system is that, even in highly politicized cases, the burden of proof for the government is a high threshold. In this case, that bar couldnt be hurdled.

Yet, if what Edwards did wasnt a crime, it oughta be. Call it high cynicism or theft by suckering. It doesnt get much more brazen. Big donors were used to keep mistress Rielle Hunter both quiet and comfortable and off the publics radar, in order to further the false image he tried to get us all to buy.

John Edwards known for his pretty-boy looks and locks and a charm so seductive that an alternate juror was even accused of flirting with him is now the disgraced face of an American political system that couldnt possibly become more vapid and superficial but probably will, as a result of his getting off scot-free.

Much as Bill Clinton singlehandedly lowered the standards of a nation by having illicit sex in the Oval Office itself and perjuring himself under oath about another affair, only to survive impeachment, so the Edwards case ratchets down the already low public opinion and frequent narcissistic behavior of politicians.

Edwards even tried to play the self-flagellating victim on the courthouse steps after being acquitted on one charge and winning an apparently decisive mistrial on five others. Give it a few weeks. If this case follows precedent, the man who did all the above while his wife was dying of cancer will soon be lampooning his sins in funny commercials or on late-night television, and wont that just be endearing and redemptive.

Meanwhile, Edwards aide Andrew Young established a new low for toadies not only helping Edwards hide the mistress and child, but even publicly claiming the child was his. Somehow, he got his wife to go along with the embarrassment.

Note to self: No politician is worth that kind of prostration. Let the Edwards affair be a red flag to suckers and sycophants everywhere: Be careful at what golden calfs you toss your coin.

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I recently bumped into a cute story that seemed familiar. It suggested a switch to an 18-cent coin. I found it by way of Hacker News for my money ($0), the best news aggregator for the tech set. It was a fairly typical blog post: a summary of a paper that ran the math and determined that the average number of coins one gets from a cash register is 4.7. But the addition of an 18-cent coin would drop that to 3.89.

I like this sort of thing. Its quirky. Its math. It speaks to the stupidity of pennies. It makes me think about government inefficiencies and the very human affection for little hunks of inconvenient metal.

But I couldnt get past the familiarity. I reread the article and realized it was originally written in 2003. Hacker News usually is pretty current, but a story like this is sort of timeless and prone to resurgence.

Then I realized the byline was Roland Piquepaille, and you dont forget a name like that. For many years, Roland was incredibly active on Slashdot, the news website I founded. His submissions were often like this 18-cent-coin piece: off the beaten path and interesting.

Roland died on Jan. 6, 2009. Apparently, last week, somebody searched online for something or other and landed on a story nearly a decade old, written by a man who had been dead for more than three years; it hit the Internet again just as effectively as if it were written yesterday. A trivial but fun little story has a bit of immortality attached to it.

Roland took a lot of garbage from Slashdot readers over the years. He was incredibly effective at what he did, and his name appeared on the site a lot. A community has a habit of being hostile toward anything extreme, and Roland often submitted stories on the fluffier end of the news spectrum. And he succeeded a lot, which made him a target. That always made me a little sad.

But Id like to think he gets the posthumous last laugh. He found fun stuff that we enjoyed reading. I hope that the traces I leave behind after Im gone are still good for the occasional laugh as well. Ill never write the Great American Novel or direct an Oscar-winning film. But the Internet lets all of us live forever.

Rob Malda is chief strategist and editor at large for the Washington Posts WaPo Labs team. Under the pseudonym "CmdrTaco," he created the "news for nerds" website Slashdot.org.

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