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NBC News
The U.S. government is slacking off on preparing for the next big pandemic or biological terrorism attack and is not only endangering its citizens but also missing out on a great opportunity to score political points, experts said.
Protecting the United States from the next pandemic of killer flu, or from a bioterrorist strike, is something Republicans and Democrats can easily agree on, a top congressional appropriator told a biodefense panel.
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By Lucy Wallwork
 Once upon a time in the 1960s, the "master plan" was king in urban planning circles. The modernist approach to designing cities at the time saw the urban designer as supreme — utopian plans were designed in an architect's office and imposed upon unsuspecting residents. But fast-forward to 2017 — following a number of failed modernist projects like St Louis' Pruitt-Igoe — and participatory approaches to planning are becoming something of a prerequisite for urban redevelopment.
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Insurity’s SIMS Claims is the next generation in claims software: fast, flexible and functional. As a comprehensive solution, SIMS manage multiple lines of insurance with seamless integration, business intelligence, mobile and cloud capabilities. Through rapid deployment and elegant design, SIMS boosts examiner productivity, efficiency and focus.
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Route Fifty
Detroit’s revitalization, since filing for bankruptcy in 2013, has centered around the idea that startups are nothing without the right space to attract customers.
Nothing epitomizes the sentiment more than Motor City Match, a program offering $500,000 in grants each quarter to startups or expanding businesses looking to move into vacant commercial space in town.
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Campus Safety
Campus administrators know the importance of severe weather safety, and new technologies have made it easier than ever to predict and prepare for severe weather.
Those advancements are important because the number of preliminary reports of severe weather across the United States so far in 2017 is 5,372, more than double the average from the same period over the past 10 years.
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By Catherine Iste
 Yelling, swearing, tantrums. It is amazing and surprising sometimes the types of behavior adults exhibit at work. It is rarely appropriate to act like a jerk at work, and it is often rarer that someone does it to us as leaders. As managers and leaders, we may be experienced at helping employees work through such situations, but what do we do when it happens to us? In the moment, our first response might be to engage and yell back.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The wildfire that started in southeast Georgia earlier this month has burned almost one-fourth of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, officials said Saturday.
Known as the West Mims Fire, the blaze now has torched 94,664 acres and is just 8 percent contained, according to a statement from the team that is battling the blaze.
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Los Angeles Times
At least 13 people were killed in weekend storms that brought tornadoes and flooding to the South and Midwest and also dumped a rare late-season blizzard in western Kansas.
The victims included four people killed when tornadoes hit several small towns in East Texas, and three killed by flooding and winds in Arkansas, where officials said two more people were missing.
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Forbes
Marshall Shepherd writes: As a meteorologist and professor of atmospheric sciences, I am very weather-attentive. This morning I am watching another weekend of potential severe weather in the United States. Wildfires have ravaged parts of Florida and even Georgia's iconic Okefenokee Swamp.
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Government Technology
Some people are afraid to wake sleeping giants, but it's the giants that may not wake the next day that keep government IT personnel up at night. These silent legacy computer system behemoths are a force that disproportionately affects IT departments at all levels of government.
As Dave Rey, a vice president for Salesforce, recently told Government Technology, “Government at all levels remains shackled to legacy systems, which can account for 70 to 80 percent of IT dollars.”
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By Linchi Kwok
 We have seen more robots and machines are replacing humans in the service sector. This trend is irreversible, but the good news is there are ways to cope with such changes at work. What if these changes also take place in the macro level? Then, what can businesses do to embrace this wave of innovations? Indeed, the cities where we live have also become "smarter" than ever — using data to make people's living safer and healthier and the cities' operations more efficient.
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Los Angeles Times
The budget deal reached in Congress this week penciled in $10.2 million for an earthquake early warning system for California and the rest of the West Coast for the budget year that ends in September.
The funding represents an increase from the last fiscal year’s federal budget, which allocated $8.2 million for the system.
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Texas Tribune
Almost a decade after Hurricane Ike killed dozens of people and caused $30 billion in damage, a group of Texas politicians and business leaders say they finally have "all the support necessary" to break ground on a massive coastal barrier that would protect the Houston area from another devastating hurricane.
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