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Property Casualty 360
Human activity is making hurricanes worse, according to a pair of studies published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Climate change increased rainfall from 5 percent to 10 percent in hurricanes Katrina (2005), Irma (2017) and Maria (2017), wrote two researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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TIME
Kim Humphrey was sitting in a sea of chairs, surrounded by about 40 people he had never met, when the Phoenix police officer finally realized what a train wreck his life was.
He didn’t want to talk about it. Especially to a bunch of strangers. But his wife, Michelle, had researched addiction support groups online, found one at a recovery center across town, and dragged him here all the same.
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Route Fifty
With bitter cold weather sending temperatures downward across the nation’s midsection, cities have been scrambling to ensure they’re able to shelter their local unsheltered populations. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the city’s emergency shelter hasn’t opened yet as homeless advocates await moves by local service providers to finalize details of where it will be located.
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Forbes
The midterm elections, synagogue massacre and mail bombs have pushed Hurricane Michael out of the headlines, but its survivors are still digging out from the massive storm that crashed into the Florida panhandle on October 10. The Federal Emergency Management Agency describes Michael as “one of the strongest storms to ever make landfall in [the] Continental U.S.”
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By Dave G. Houser
 Celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, Thanksgiving leads off the winter holiday season in America. While it has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions — beginning as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of a harvest — it has evolved into a largely secular holiday. Thanksgiving has been with us since Europeans first landed on our shores, so there’s plenty of history, some mystery, and plenty of fun facts and figures associated with the holiday. So here’s a bit of turkey day trivia to mull over as Thanksgiving 2018 approaches.
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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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Governing
In the 1950s, while doing research for a book on political participation, the social scientist James Q. Wilson found himself attending a lot of citizen engagement meetings on urban planning. Eventually he reached a conclusion that seemed obvious to him, but that public officials, and especially political reformers, didn’t talk much about.
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Government Executive
For those who are curious about why they haven’t risen to the rank they feel worthy of at work, it may be time to start pointing fingers at pandas.
Yes, pandas. That’s the term Elena Lytkina Botelho and Katie Creaghof the management consulting firm ghSMART have given to problems that on the surface seem small and are likely easy to fix (think body odor, or a speaking style that colleagues find off-putting, for example) but can end up stalling a person’s career.
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Homeland Security Today
Throughout our environment of interdependent critical infrastructure, the distributed and indiscriminate risk to patient safety in the health industry due to cybersecurity vulnerabilities is ever increasing. Consider going to your health service provider to receive lifesaving treatment and being turned away because the medical devices and electronic health records in the hospital have been incapacitated by ransomware, rendered unusable until the ransom is paid – and even if the ransom is paid, there is no guarantee the data held hostage will be operational or recoverable.
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By Catherine Iste
 The end of the year is synonymous with so many unique professional challenges: reconciling the grandiose goals from the beginning of the year with the current status; closing out the books; prepping for more goals and challenges in the coming year, audits, taxes, annual reporting and more. Add to that angry customers, cranky co-workers and the weird time warp that seems to ensure days pass at a faster rate between Halloween and New Year’s than any other time of year and trying to manage stress at work seems almost impossible. Unfortunately, the end of the year is no less busy outside the office.
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Future Structure
Driverless cars will usher in a transport utopia, at least according to many of their proponents. Concept art for these futuristic vehicles often show passengers sat facing each other, reading, working or enjoying some other activity as their car does the driving for them. I would argue that one of the main attractions of an automated vehicle is being able to do something else while you’re safely and comfortably transported to your destination.
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Nextgov
The Homeland Security Department is devoting nearly $1.3 million to researchers trying to figure out how organizations can get the most bang for their bucks when investing in cybersecurity.
The agency on Thursday announced it would fund teams at the University of California, San Diego, and University of Illinois, Chicago, which are building tools to spot and measure the costs of potential cyber threats.
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By Lisa Mulcahy
 If you're like many companies, there's a good chance you have a workplace wellness program in place — maybe more than one — or a program that addresses multiple health components. But how well is what you're doing really working? Ideally, you want the program you're offering employees to not only improve their health and quality of life but also to cut healthcare expenses significantly and help your business run more effectively. Take an overview of how well your program is performing and make the changes it needs by using this advice.
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