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PRIMA
PRIMA, in collaboration with our 2017 PI sponsors, is pleased to offer scholarships to attend the industry’s premier risk management education program in San Antonio, TX, October 9-13th. Take advantage of the endless networking opportunities available at PI17 and apply now as the application deadline is Friday, July 28, 2017.
Click here to view the scholarship application requirements.
Governing
Among the many pieces of wisdom in Jane Jacobs’ 1961 masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, one stands out a half-century later as a near-universal urban planning truth. It’s the idea that healthy communities are built on the face-to-face contact of their residents. Routine daily meetings of neighbors on the sidewalk foster public safety and social cohesion.
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Route Fifty
Even if the cop who pulls you over doesn’t recognize you, the body camera on his chest eventually just might.
Device-maker Motorola will work with artificial intelligence software startup Neurala to build “real-time learning for a person of interest search” on products such as the Si500 body camerafor police, the firm announced Monday.
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By Sue Dyer
 You can't manage your team to success. It is only through leadership that your team will follow you, with a strong sense of purpose and commitment, and accomplish together what you set out to do. Why do people volunteer to follow? Because they trust the leader. When people follow, they make themselves vulnerable to the leader. In order to feel comfortable with this vulnerability, they need to feel confident in, respect for and admiration of the leader.
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NPR
A flash flood swept through central Arizona on Saturday, killing at least nine people who had gathered at a popular swimming hole for a birthday celebration.
The family was relaxing alongside a mountain stream in Tonto National Forest, unaware that summer thunderstorms had just dropped heavy rains upstream.
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Property Casual 360
Hurricanes can cause widespread devastation in just a few hours.
Extreme winds, harsh rainfall, floods, storm surges and even tornadoes can work together to create one of the most destructive scenes a community may ever see.
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Gizmodo
Tornadoes aren’t hurricanes. Hurricanes are long-lasting, low-pressure swirls that follow somewhat predictable paths. But tornadoes can pop up and disappear in just a few minutes. It hasn’t been easy to give people fair warning about tornadoes, especially those folks caught in the crosshairs of violently-rotating columns of damaging, high-speed winds.
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Government Technology
A century ago, a popular song sheet wondered, "How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree?" Would America's doughboys resolve themselves to the so-slow rhythms of rural life after they'd tasted cosmopolitan Europe?
In the generations since World War I, the question's been answered. Rural America has been losing its people without pause.
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NextGov
An important pitch to a client, potential business partner, or other outside party can prompt fits of late-night preparation and rehearsals. Internal meetings rarely get the same treatment. After all, you know these people and you’re all on the same team. How much prep work does the discussion really need?
Plenty, as it turns out.
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Government Executive
It’s important to know how to put your head down and work hard. In an increasingly globalized economy — in which we are competing not just with each other, but also with human-replacing technologies — those who embody grit and grind will have an undeniable edge.
But that’s only half the battle.
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