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Business Insider via San Antonio Express-News
It's been nearly a year since Hurricane Harvey brought 130 mph winds and rain that fell up to four inches per hour on Texas' Gulf Coast.
While climate change didn't cause Harvey, scientists say a warmer planet likely made the storm worse. Plus, higher sea levels — due to climate change and human disruptions (like oil drilling) have changed the ocean and land levels — encouraged destructive flooding as the stormwater rose.
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Houston Chronicle
A top Federal Emergency Management Agency official testified that his agency has updated plans and procedures to prepare for the 2018 hurricane season after assessments, some of them internal, of failures during last year’s string of epic natural disasters.
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Government Executive
Imagine you’re speeding along on a highway. Suddenly, the traffic ahead of you slows, forcing you to hit the breaks. Eventually you arrive at the source of the bottleneck: a mattress lying in the right lane. One by one, your fellow motorists simply crept around it. No one stopped to move it off the road to relieve the congestion.
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By Lisa Mulcahy
 You're laser-focused on preparing for tomorrow's presentation — but the phone won't stop ringing. And the emails keep pouring in. Your staff members are popping in, one after another, to report fires you have to put out right this second. Yep, you're distracted. Juggling essential tasks doesn't have to result in chaos, though. Use these easy, science-driven multitasking tips to accomplish everything on your plate, without sacrificing accuracy or quality.
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Campus Safety
The Secret Service’s newly-released report on creating programs for conducting a threat assessment in schools provides a guide for officials to compare to their own systems.
The report was released by the agency’s National Threat Assessment Center, which was created in 1998 to provide guidance and training on threat assessments to criminal justice and public safety professionals.
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The Weather Channel
Numerous tropical downpours since the weekend have caused flash flooding in parts of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, where water rescues were reported and a disaster emergency was declared in at least one Pennsylvania town. Parts of the interior mid-Atlantic have been swamped with over 10 inches of rain, according to NOAA's Weather Prediction Center, prompting numerous water rescues and some evacuations.
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By Catherine Iste
 Once upon a time, there were clear career paths. Show up, learn the job, take courses, start managing, take on more complex projects and continue to earn increasing responsibility, with pay raises each step of the way. Yes, sometimes the other guy would get the promotion, but it was clear there was a promotion to get and it was clear what could be done for the next opportunity. Work has changed. Staying at a job for two years is no longer considered job hopping, and staying for more than five years can look like you are stagnating.
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Government Technology
Earlier this month, Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith added fuel to the fire on the facial recognition controversy, taking a surprising stand on the issue in a blog post.
Smith called for federal regulation of the technology and asked that a commission be created to study its use.
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Governing
As Americans do more and more of their shopping online, places like Plainfield, Indiana, are reaping the benefits. The town of 30,000 people, less than 20 miles from Indianapolis, has attracted two Amazon fulfillment centers along with e-commerce facilities for Walmart and Kohl’s. Meanwhile, UPS recently announced plans to expand its footprint there.
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By Thomas Wuttke
 The Agile Manifesto was published in 2001, but agile is still a hot topic in project management. In theory, agile project management is supposed to reduce risks by design, so that ultimately there are no risks any more. As a result, alongside backlogs, user stories and velocity in the agile approach, there seems to be no place for risks. For example, there is no risk backlog. So, where are all the risks in agile projects? Have they really disappeared?
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