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Governing
Just under 400 people will be infected with the Zika virus by mosquitoes in Florida by mid-September, and about 80 of them will develop symptoms, according to projections developed by an international team of scientists from the University of Florida and half a dozen other research institutions.
The study's authors caution that the numbers, issued by University of Florida, are preliminary and subject to considerable uncertainty, but they say the projections provide reassurance that the current outbreak will be likely small and limited to Florida and other Southern states whose warm climates make them susceptible to mosquito-borne transmission.
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Government Technology
For years there has been the belief that cities have to unveil new websites in the same fashion they present their plazas or parks: In one swift reveal. From the start, every amenity has to be ready, each piece of content added and the design — with the exception of minor garnishments — should be set and final.
Often, for city officials applying such tactics, an unwanted discovery was imminent.
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NPR
As expected, the Zika outbreak in Florida is growing — though how fast is still difficult to say.
State and federal health officials say mosquitoes are spreading Zika in two neighborhoods of Miami, including Miami Beach. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told pregnant women Friday not to go into these neighborhoods — and to consider postponing travel to all parts of Miami-Dade County.
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Route Fifty
Each real-life disaster situation offers opportunities for various levels of government and other stakeholders to test their level of preparedness and response. This month’s unprecedented flooding in Louisiana, which inundated parts of 20 parishes, damaged at least 60,000 homes, killed 13 people and required the rescuing of more than 20,000 people, is no exception.
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Emergency Management
Federal weather forecasters have developed a new forecasting tool to simulate how water moves throughout the nation’s rivers and streams, one officials describe as the "biggest improvement in flood forecasting the country has ever seen."
The development, announced and launched last week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, comes as Louisiana reels from one of the biggest floods in its history.
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The Atlantic
More than 26 wildfires are currently burning nearly half a million acres in the United States as recent hot and dry weather has fueled their explosive growth, including one that now threatens to destroy an iconic monument in California.
One of the fires in California, known as the Chimney fire, started 10 days ago, burning between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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Campus Safety
A new Gallup poll found that more students fear for their physical safety in schools today than they have at any point since 2001.
Overall, 13 percent of K-12 students in the country were reported to be concerned for their safety in schools.
The poll also measured parental safety concerns and found 28 percent of parents are concerned for their children’s safety in school.
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Business Standard
Scientists have developed a way to rebuild homes destroyed by natural disasters within a few months, an advance that may especially benefit low-income residents in disaster-prone areas.
RAPIDO, a pilot program developed with recommendations from Texas A&M University's Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, dramatically reduces the time it takes to rebuild homes destroyed by natural disasters.
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Government Executive
More than 90 percent of federal interns, fellows and other non-competitively hired recent graduates planned to stay in government in the immediate future as of fiscal 2014, according to a new report from the Office of Personnel Management.
Additionally, 87 percent of the young workers hired through the Pathways Programs stayed in government for at least two years.
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NPR
The rain fell for days, sometimes 3 inches or more in a single hour, as streets became rivers and rivers ate up entire neighborhoods in southeast Louisiana.
Between Aug. 11 and Aug. 14, more than 20 inches of rain fell in and around East Baton Rouge, one of the hardest-hit parishes. And in some parishes in the region, as much as 2 feet of rain fell in 48 hours.
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