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Property Casualty 360
We live in a time when technology is enabling us to work more efficiently by leveraging big data for financial gain and increased quality of life. While this could be said of any decade over the past 50 years, some believe we’re on the verge of a technological renaissance that will dwarf all prior decades, leading to an increased ability to create wealth, significantly reduce accidents and eliminate diseases.
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Route Fifty
Cyberattacks increasingly target and succeed inside energy and utility companies’ IT networks, rather than their critical infrastructure, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Vectra.
In the past, the energy and utility industry’s cyber efforts have focused on preventing disruption of power availability via industrial control networks.
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Future Structure
The experience of moving through San Francisco in a car has gone from slow to crawl.
Congestion in the Bay Area flagship city has grown increasingly worse, and a new report by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority placed a sizable portion of that blame on ride-hailing services like Lyft or Uber.
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Nextgov
Drones are often a quality search and rescue tool. The Interior Department recently made excellent use of them in Hawaii to find and help people trapped by lava.
But drones aren't perfect at the task. Often, dense forests can block GPS signals that locate people. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe they have a solution.
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Governing
The passage of Michigan’s Proposal 1 marks a new frontier for marijuana advocates -- an expansion of legal recreational use into the Midwest.
The measure passed 56 percent to 43 percent, with 78 percent of the precincts reporting. Mason Tvert, a spokesman for the pro-legalization Marijuana Policy Project, said prior to the vote that this outcome "would be a very big victory."
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You can’t plan for a crisis while having one! We can all agree that “winging it” isn’t a successful plan, but relying on organizational charts for your internal FEMA claims crew may be just as unsuccessful. To identify the necessary traits, skills, and abilities ahead of a disaster, click here.
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By Catherine Iste
 The holidays are upon us. Among so many other challenges and festivities at work, it also means increased opportunities for blurred lines between business, eating and drinking. Here are a few simple rules to remember in some common situations. For example, even when they can feel like mandatory fun, group meals may be the simplest social scenario to understand and follow the rules. And rule No. 1 is follow the lead.
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Government Executive
When the psychologist Jessica Pryor lived near an internationally renowned university, she once saw a student walking into a library holding a sleeping bag and a coffee maker.
She’s heard of grad students spending 12 to 18 hours at a time in the lab. Their schedules are literally meant to be punishing: If they’re scientists-in-training, they won’t allow themselves to watch Netflix until their experiments start generating results.
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The Conversation
Over the last decade, the U.S. has seen an average of 70,512 wildland fires every year, annually burning about 6.8 million acres. With climate change, scientists expect fires to become more frequent and more severe.
However, some people are more affected by these events than others. Our work, published on Nov. 2, shows that racial and ethnic minorities are significantly more vulnerable to the effects of these natural disasters.
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Digital Communities
Lifesaving CPR measures in Eugene and Springfield, Oregon, will join the smartphone era Wednesday at the official launch of the PulsePoint app for the metro area.
The app alerts users to cardiac arrests within their location, so that people can provide CPR before paramedics can take over. The person using the app doesn't even have to be trained in CPR, as PulsePoint provides directions and a beat to perform chest compressions.
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