This message was sent to ##Email##
|
|
|
|
| |
Victoria Advocate
Get ready. That's the message, as it is every year. Forecasters predict a near- or above-normal Atlantic hurricane season this year with a 70 percent likelihood of 10 to 16 named storms with winds of 39 mph or higher. A weak El Nino developing, along with near-average sea-surface temperatures across the tropical Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, are two of the factors driving this outlook. These factors are set upon a backdrop of atmospheric and oceanic conditions that are conducive to hurricane development and have been producing stronger hurricane seasons in the Atlantic since 1995.
READ MORE
|
Promoted by
|
|
|
|
 |
Route Fifty
The way school resource officers are trained, along with the very definition of the position, is left to each individual law enforcement agency, which means standards vary from place to place. There are no national standards, and in many cases no state standards, for SRO training, nor is there a national oversight body that governs the training or selection of the officers. This means that individual SROs, when faced with a school shooting or other crisis, may have vastly different responses.
READ MORE
Government Executive
A new study in The New England Journal of Medicine, conducted in part by researchers at Harvard University, sheds new light on what's really happened in Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria devastated the island. The team found that there were over 4,600 deaths potentially attributable to the hurricane, a 70-fold increase over official estimates. The survey also measured high rates of migration among people displaced by the storm and, after it passed, long periods where residents faced a loss of basic services.
READ MORE
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Governing
Hawai'i Electric Light Co. officials said that some lower Puna customers will be experiencing extended power outages after lava damaged or destroyed more than 400 poles and other equipment in the area. Hawaii County officials said Monday there was no release of any dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas from the wells buried by lava, as some feared might happen if lava breached the well shafts that tap steam and hot water several thousand feet down.
READ MORE
By Catherine Iste
Similar to organizations, when leaders carve out a niche, they open themselves to new opportunities. Specializing allows us to further strengthen our skills, grow our expertise and refine our approach. It also reinforces our position within the organization and our marketplace. Here are three ways we can create our leadership niche.
READ MORE
Route Fifty
When Frank Klipsch, the mayor of Davenport, Iowa, visited Washington, D.C., in May, his city was dealing with flooding from the Mississippi River. The mayor was in town representing not only his city, but also the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative, a group he co-chairs, whose members include mayors from about 80 communities along the 2,350-mile river, in states stretching from Minnesota to Louisiana. For the river cities and towns, the group offers a forum for cooperation about issues like flood control, water conservation, habitat restoration and advocating for policy at the federal level.
READ MORE
 |
|
States Self-Insurers Risk Retention Group, Inc provides quality, cost-effective excess liability coverage and superior, personal service to our public entity owners in order to promote a long-term risk management partnership. MORE
|
|
FierceHealthcare
As a Level I Trauma Center on Chicago's West Side, caregivers at Mount Sinai Hospital know just how bad the city's gun violence problem can get from the injuries they treat. But recently, that problem became even more real as it made its way to the hospital's front doors when an individual opened fire in a drive-by shooting on a group of people gathered just outside. Hospital staff, unfortunately, knew exactly what to do. Now, officials are struggling to figure out how to protect a place of healing without locking the community out.
READ MORE
Claims Journal
Uber Technologies Inc.'s self-driving vehicle wasn't programmed to stop for obstructions in its path, including the pedestrian it struck and killed last March in Arizona, according to federal investigators. The NTSB's preliminary report raises multiple questions about the company's autonomous system as well as the actions of the safety driver and the pedestrian felled in the crash.
READ MORE
Claims Journal
A medical emergency sets in motion a high-altitude calculation with human lives in the balance. While pilots are the ultimate decision-makers, airlines have earth-bound medical consultants that help bypass on-board volunteers — reducing expensive emergency landings, but with the potential of providing expert decisions in real time.
READ MORE
|
Missed last week's issue? See which articles your colleagues read most.
|
|
Don't be left behind. Click here to see what else you missed.
|
|
|
|
|
|
7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063
|
