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PRIMA
For many years, PRIMA has provided its members with an opportunity to further their risk management education by establishing several scholarships to a limited number of public risk managers attending the PRIMA Annual Conference. Each scholarship recipient receives $1,500 financial assistance to be applied to a complimentary registration along with three nights of lodging and a $250 stipend.
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Property Casual 360
Across the U.S., severe weather is on the rise. As winter draws to a close, Mother Nature will now phase into its next cycle: Spring storm season. Without insurance, damage from spring storm season will hit small business owners the hardest.
Nationwide's annual Small Business Indicator survey revealed that a majority of small business owners don’t have a written disaster recovery plan — even though about half said it would take their business at least three months to recover from a natural disaster.
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Government Technology
Mayors love dashboards and visualizations. It allows them and their employees to make sense of the huge volumes of data that come through city customer relationship relationship systems.
At SXSW on Saturday, mayors took turns exploring a virtual reality rendering of a city CRM system. It was a head-turning experience but didn't sell everyone just yet.
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Route Fifty
If your city has declared itself a “sanctuary city,” know that the term hasn’t been legally defined, and that’s just the first problem with President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to defund them.
Santa Clara County, California and two cities in Massachusetts have already sued to block the executive order, which State and Local Legal Center Executive Director Lisa Soronen called “short” and “unconstitutional” while discussing immigration reform at the National League of Cities Congressional City Conference in the nation's capital.
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Government Executive
Ask not what you can do for your country but what you can do for yourself.
Yes, President John F. Kennedy said the opposite at his inauguration in 1961. But times have changed and Zen masters say that to engage effectively during Donald Trump’s presidency, we must first turn inward.
Getting angry about Trump and his policies is easy for liberals.
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Governing
A recent Wall Street Journal article documented the increasing trend of liberal arts colleges in small-town America taking a much more active role in trying to build up their communities. The Journal highlighted two colleges that share their names with their towns: Albion in Michigan, where the school is giving scholarships to local residents and investing tens of millions of dollars into downtown, and Ripon in Wisconsin, where the college’s president has moved his office downtown to Main Street.
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Prevention Web
Social media can warn us about extreme weather events before they happen — such as hurricanes, storms and floods — according to new research by the University of Warwick.
Nataliya Tkachenko, with her supervisors in the Department of Computer Science, has found that photographs and key words posted online can signal weather risks developing in specific locations and times — for example, posts about water levels rising can alert the authorities to a potential flood.
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Reuters
What do you do if you are a disaster manager in a coastal city when a powerful earthquake hits offshore?
You start tweeting life-saving updates and safety information to the public, alert your volunteers via SMS and set up a helpline.
You host a conference call for rescue workers using open-source tools and provide them with access to key documents via an online file-sharing service before reaching out to emergency accommodation providers through lodgings websites.
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Huffington Post
On January 12, 2010, Haiti was struck by an earthquake that killed an estimated 230,000 people, generating one of the most devastating, dramatic, comprehensive and costly emergency response operations ever conducted in the Americas. A month and a half later, on February 27, Chile was struck by an earthquake that registered nearly 500 times stronger than the Haitian quake. Once the dust settled and the emergency response was completed, the death toll in Chile was 525.
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Government Technology
Despite the U.S. government’s steps to tackle cybersecurity threats, hackers continue to target federal agencies and they experienced tens of thousands of incidents last year, according to a White House report.
The Trump administration released the Office of Management and Budget’s annual report to Congress on federal cyber performance on Friday.
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Campus Safety Magazine
The U.S. Geological Survey released maps showing areas in the central and eastern U.S. at risk for potential ground shaking in 2017 due to human activity and natural earthquakes.
Around 4 million people live and work in the areas most likely to experience ground shaking this year, according to the USGS.
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