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PRIMA
Haven't reserved your room at the Sheraton Grand Phoenix? Rooms at the PRIMA headquarters hotel are being reserved at a rapid rate and with the exception of a few upgraded rooms, the Westin is sold out! Book before May 11th to ensure your spot!
To make your hotel reservation online visit here for a link. If this is your first PRIMA conference and you are wondering when to arrive and depart, visit our conference schedule at a glance.
Emergency Management
Think outside the levee.
As concerns about the state's aging flood-control infrastructure grow, experts are seeking ways to address the San Joaquin River's big-time risks in less traditional ways.
We'll still need to strengthen our levees and dams in the future, of course. But a recently released draft plan contains some new and creative ideas that could help save hundreds of lives and prevent billions of dollars in damages.
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Property Casual 360
For companies and organizations, an attack by hackers can inflict financial losses, corporate embarrassment and legal action.
For insurers jumping into the brave new world of cyber crime insurance, it’s free marketing for what could be a $10 billion opportunity.
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By Bob Kowalski
 As the weather heats up across the United States, the threat of mosquitoes — and the Zika virus they carry — increases. If good things come in small packages, this potentially costly insect is an exception. While Zika does not harm most who are infected, it can be damaging to some, particularly to infants, according to the CDC. Among the risks are birth defects, including vision and hearing deficiencies and microcephaly, or an abnormal-sized head.
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Governing
It's easy to understand why the media is fascinated with autonomous vehicles. Scarcely a day goes by without another company's announcement of new driverless technology. The latest is Apple, which just received permission from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test self-driving cars on the state's roadways. This brings the tally to 30 companies, not only the likes of Google and Tesla but also a long list of traditional automakers including BMW, Ford, GM, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Volkswagen and Subaru.
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By Bambi Majumdar
 There was a time when body cameras were met with a lot of resistance. Now we are looking at a future when videos captured by these cameras could potentially replace traditional written reports. The rise in crime and terrorism has necessitated the growing use of technology for law enforcement work. Proponents stress how officers find it difficult to fight crime, quite understandably, without the right resources at hand.
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Campus Safety
For Hurricane Preparedness Week (May 7-13), Campus Safety sat down with Lawrence Zacarese, the assistant chief of police and director of the Office of Emergency Management at Stony Brook University.
In 2012, Hurricane Sandy forced university officials to overcome a series of challenges.
The biggest struggle for Stony Brook was losing its campus network.
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Popular Science
Yes, there was a tunnel collapse at a former nuclear processing facility. No, you don’t need to panic. What is Hanford?
In 1943, the United States government bought out an area in Washington State as a site for the Manhattan Project. The Hanford site was used to produce material (including plutonium) for nuclear weapons during WWII and the Cold War.
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Government Executive
Melody Wilding writes: When I’m doing email triage, I often feel as if I’ve fallen into a trance. Every so often, I’ll look up from the screen and think, Whoa — was I even breathing just now?
It turns out that I have email apnea — a term coined by former tech executive Linda Stone that refers to the habit of interrupted breathing while checking email. In observing others informally, Stone noticed that a lot of people unintentionally hold their breath or breathe shallowly when starring at a screen.
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