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PRIMA
The Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA) honored public risk managers during its 2017 Awards Luncheon, held Monday, June 5, in conjunction with the 2017 PRIMA Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
PRIMA President Amy Larson, Esq. presented awards for achievement in public risk management programs, products and pools to the following entities.
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By Denise A. Valenti
 Distracted driving contributed to the deaths of 3,477 people and injured an additional 391,000 in crashes reported in 2015 by the National Highway Safety and Traffic Administration. According to the NHTSA, an estimated 660,000 drivers on our roads use cellphones during daylight hours. While teens make up the largest age group of drivers distracted at the time of a fatal crash, older adults are also included in this risky category of drivers.
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Route Fifty
Experienced cyclists know that short jaunts are often more quickly accomplished by pedal power than horsepower — especially in ultra dense, ultra congested New York City. But as the Big Apple strives to cut carbon emissions through reining in car traffic and ramping up expansion of its bike-share program, city leaders might do well to remind short-distance backseat travelers of that fact.
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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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Reuters
Nearly 1 in 3 people around the world is already exposed to deadly heatwaves, and that will rise to nearly half of people by 2100 even if the world moves aggressively to cut climate-changing emissions, scientists warned Monday.
If emissions continue to rise at their current pace, however, three in four people in the world will face deadly heat by the turn of the century, a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change said.
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By Dr. David Hillson
 It is clearly important for us to understand the nature of a risk properly if we are to manage it effectively. Many people only consider a limited number of risk characteristics, leading to a limited ability to manage risk. Effective risk management requires a deeper understanding. One way to improve understanding is to explore the "anatomy of risk." If we separate and divide risk into its constituent parts, we find seven elements.
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Governing
Urban mobility is undergoing its starkest transformation since the first Model T rolled off the assembly line more than a century ago. Emerging services like car, bike and ride-sharing have provided city dwellers with a vast — and often confusing — array of options for getting around. And it's too early to predict the impact of technologies that are on the horizon, such as driverless cars.
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Government Technology
YouTube is stepping up its fight against online terror and abuse, laying out four new steps it’s taking amid recent terrorism-related incidents around the world.
The moves also come a couple of months after advertisers began pulling their ads from YouTube and other Google properties after learning they were appearing beside extremist content.
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Newsweek via Raw Story
Yellowstone supervolcano has been hit by a series of earthquakes, with more 30 recorded since June 12. The latest was recorded on Monday, June 19, with a magnitude 3 earthquake striking 8.6 miles north north-east of West Yellowstone, Montana.
The swarm began last week, and on June 15 saw a magnitude 4.5 earthquake take place in Yellowstone National Park.
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Popular Science
Natural forces shape every inch of our globe, but in California, the two big players are water falling out of the sky (or the lack thereof) and earthquakes.
For a long time, many researchers figured that the two were unrelated. Earthquakes can mess with groundwater levels and aquifers, but not rain, and for the most part, it was assumed that rain and snow didn’t make enough of an impression on the Earth to really affect earthquakes either.
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Scientific American
Public health emergencies are a fact of life in a world as interconnected as ours. In just the past five years we have witnessed unexpected outbreaks of devastating diseases — Ebola, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika — each of which has spread far beyond its historical geographical range. No one can say what the next large-scale emergency will be, whom it will affect or when it will strike, but we do know that it is inevitable.
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