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The new IAEM Digital Pass will give you access to several livestreamed and recorded keynote and plenary sessions, one recorded session in each spotlight and breakout session block, and the EMvision Talks session. Register today to receive your digital pass or register for the annual conference and receive a complimentary Digital Pass and view sessions you were unable to see in person. For complete details, view our Digital Pass page. View an example of recordings from last year to see what you can expect to receive in this year's Digital Pass.
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"IAEM to GO" is the official mobile app for the IAEM-USA 2015 Annual Conference & EMEX. It contains the complete conference program with information on session times, locations, descriptions and speakers. With the app, you will be able to navigate EMEX 2015 with exhibitor details and locations. "IAEM to GO" is the best way to stay updated on event information, including any last-minute changes. Once downloaded, the information stays within the app, even if you lose your cellular data or WiFi connection. Get the app today by searching "IAEM" in the Apple App Store or Google Play, or visit the app website on your mobile device. If you do not have a mobile device, you may use the app on your computer in your web browser.
The News International
National Disaster Management Authority presented the National Disaster Management Plan Implementation RoadMap 2016-2030 in a conference with all relevant federal, provincial stakeholders besides UN & development partners at the Prime Minister's Office.
The objective of the conference was to unveil the future plan for Implementation of NDMP focusing on Multi Hazard Vulnerability Risk Assessments, Community Based Disaster Risk Management, Capacity Building interventions including Emergency Responses Exercises for Government officials and volunteers, and public awareness.
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The Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction will host the 2nd ISDR Asia Partnership meeting in New Delhi, 2015. The main focus of the three-day IAP meeting will be to discuss the substantive preparation of the Asia Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction 2016 to be held in New Delhi next year. The IAP meeting will also provide an opportunity to discuss substantive issues related to the implementation of the Sendai framework at the regional, national and local level.
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The Manila Times
The United Nations lauded the Philippine government's preparedness for
Typhoon Lando that minimized the number of both casualties and affected communities compared to past typhoons that befell the country.
Although the United Nations Children's Fund expressed concern for children stranded in remote areas, the disaster risk reduction arm of the international organization credited the Philippine government's preparedness program for minimizing the typhoon's damage to life and property.
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The Weather Channel
A strong El Niño may raise the chances for an above-average tornado season this winter in Florida, according to meteorologists at the National Weather Service.
The Tallahassee office of the NWS says El Niño is known to push severe weather south in the winter, which leaves central and southern Florida in the bull's-eye. Upon studying El Niño years and otherwise, the NWS found a higher likelihood of tornadoes from November through April than with any other pattern.
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USA Today
The cost of U.S. hurricane damage has increased dramatically from 1900 to 2005 as a result of man-made climate change, an economic study released Monday concludes.
"The rise in losses is consistent with an influence of global warming on the number and intensity of hurricanes, an influence which may have accounted for 2 percent to 12 percent of the U.S. hurricane losses in 2005," according to the study, which was published in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature Geoscience.
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Campus Safety
Despite the fact that 86 percent of U.S. institutions of higher education have developed an emergency operations plan, more than 1 in 4 (26.5 percent) have never conducted a comprehensive hazard and vulnerability assessment critical to the development of appropriate all-hazard emergency planning. These were just some of the findings of Margolis Healy's 2015 Campus Safety Survey, prompting study authors to question the effectiveness and accuracy of American colleges' current EOPs.
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IAEM
At the IAEM 63rd Annual Conference, participants will play "human bingo," a networking game, at the Sunday Welcome Party, Nov. 15, 5:30-7:30 p.m. All attendees at the party who complete the bingo card will be entered into a raffle to receive one of several gift cards to local restaurants. Don't miss this opportunity to network, see old friends, meet new friends, and begin the conference on a high note. Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be provided. There will be a cash bar. Tickets are included as part of the full registration to the conference. Register for the conference today.
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NEC Corporation, has successfully concluded a series of trials in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, using innovative technologies and solutions to monitor the potential of natural disasters. These trials utilized NEC's innovative tool for landslide simulation and advanced warning, marking the first time these technologies were tested in Latin America. Moreover, the tests leveraged public data provided by the Center of Operations of Rio de Janeiro City and the know-how of NEC specialists who were dedicated to studying the region's geological conditions.
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Phys.Org
In 2010, soon after Haiti was devastated by an earthquake, a team from MIT Lincoln Laboratory collected and analyzed information to help the U.S. Southern Command, the lead military agency responding to the crisis, effectively dispatch vital resources, including food, water, tents and medical supplies, to the victims of this disaster. The laboratory's capabilities in advanced imaging also aided relief operations: A laser-radar imaging system, the Airborne Ladar Imaging Research Testbed, produced high-resolution, three-dimensional renderings of terrain and infrastructure that were used to generate maps indicating road trafficability, helicopter landing zones, and the changes in populations at camps for displaced persons.
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The New York Times
Stainless-steel appliances. Cabinetry hand-built by Amish artisans. A shower flush with the floor — both sleek and accessible. And gorgeous sunsets from a private balcony overlooking Cadman Plaza and the Manhattan Bridge.
This is not some new luxury development on the border of Brooklyn Heights. From the outside, at least, those passing by on the ramps to the Brooklyn Bridge might even mistake it for a set of buff shipping containers. Yet they could come to count on this home in a box. In the event of a disaster, New York City wants to deploy these stackable apartment pods as temporary homes.
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IAEM
The next online review of CEM®/AEM®, upgrade and recertification applications will begin on Nov. 2, 2015. Candidates must submit their applications by midnight (Eastern Time) on Oct. 31, to be included in this review. The certification payment must be submitted online at least 24 hours prior to the deadline date to allow for processing. Applications are sent to IAEM HQ once the candidate hits the blue "Submit Application" button on the candidate dashboard.
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The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) recently released its first toolkit for state chief information security officers (CISOs), the Moving Forward: Leadership Toolkit for State CISOs. The guide includes information on the tenure and critical leadership traits of state CISOs, examines survey responses, gives "advice from the trenches," and details other critical success factors for state CISOs. Each year, NASCIO conducts a survey of the state chief information officers (CIOs) to identify and prioritize the top policy and technology issues facing state government, and cybersecurity continues to top their list of concerns. The 2015 leadership toolkit and additional cybersecurity resources are available on NASCIO's Cybersecurity Awareness resource page.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office for Bombing Prevention, in collaboration with the Federal Interagency Joint Program Office for Countering Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), on Oct. 20 released the Catalog of Federally Sponsored Counter-IED Training and Education Resources for State, Local, Tribal, & Territorial Partners. The catalog identifies IED preparedness training and education resources that are provided directly by the federal government, or that are federally sponsored but delivered through a partner organization, such as the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium. The catalog provides a brief description of the courses, the intended audience, delivery mechanism, course length, and information about how to request or schedule the course. Questions should be emailed to the DHS Office for Bombing Prevention.
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Medscape
Pediatricians should collaborate with federal, state, tribal, local, and regional institutions to ensure that children are cared for physically and emotionally during a disaster, according to a policy statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council and the Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine.
The policy statement, published online in Pediatrics, emphasizes that disaster planning must address the unique physical, mental, behavioral, developmental, communication, therapeutic, and social needs of all children.
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NPR
"If there's anything that this outbreak has taught me, it's that I'm often wrong," says Dr. Daniel Bausch.
He's talking about Ebola. He's one of the world's leading experts on the virus — an infectious disease specialist at Tulane University and a senior consultant to the World Health Organization.
And as he makes clear, he's still got a lot to learn.
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The Washington Post
In modern records, the Northern Hemisphere has never had as many super intense storms as 2015. An incredible 21 category four or five tropical cyclones have formed in the Northern Hemisphere in 2015, shattering the record of 18 set in 2004.
Records for these storms date back to about 1980. Prior to that, tropical cyclone data is less reliable.
These 21 category four or five storms are comprised of both high-end hurricanes and super typhoons, which share the same characteristics, but are called different things. They are the fiercest storms that form on the planet.
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Big Island Video News
Hurricane Olaf has been strengthening, churning over the Pacific Ocean 1,235 miles east southeast of Hilo. The storm's maximum sustained winds have increased to near 140 mph with higher gusts, making Olaf a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Olaf the 6th major hurricane in the eastern North Pacific this year, and this is the farthest south that a major hurricane has formed in the basin "since reliable records began in 1971" forecasters say.
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CNN via WCVB-TV
Flooding unleashed by a deadly, slow-moving typhoon has invaded more towns in the northern Philippines, forcing people to clamber onto rooftops to await rescue. Typhoon Koppu began battering the region, driving tens of thousands from their homes.
At least 18 people — all but one in Luzon, the Philippines' largest and most populous island — died as a result, Philippines' disaster management agency director Alexander Pama said. Another 16 were injured, while one person was still missing
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CNN
After reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant suffered catastrophic meltdowns, thousands of workers were sent in to deal with the aftermath.
Now, more than four years later, Japan has confirmed the first case of cancer related to that dangerous work.
The country's health ministry said a former Fukushima worker who was diagnosed with leukemia was entitled to workplace compensation.
The unnamed man in his 30s worked at the plant from October 2012 to December 2013, and was exposed to high levels of radiation, the ministry said.
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The Associated Press via KTVT-TV
Nearly 70 homes have been destroyed by a Central Texas wildfire that's burned for a week and forced the extended closure of a state park.
The Texas A&M Forest Service reported the blaze in Bastrop County was 70 percent contained after blackening more than 7 square miles.
The Forest Service says 68 homes burned and 77 miscellaneous buildings were also destroyed since the Hidden Pines fire began Oct. 13. Farm equipment accidentally ignited tall grass.
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KTVB-TV
Raging wildfires are the fear every summer in Idaho, but this year it was an abnormal amount of fires on state land that have many concerned.
That's because Idaho taxpayers will be footing the bill for millions of dollars spent in suppression measures.
The Idaho Department of Lands says nearly 750,000 acres burned across the state in one of the longest fire seasons, that may not be over yet.
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The Olive Press
Rain has caused a landslide in Gibraltar.
The police have now shut the road outside the Rock Hotel and traffic is being diverted.
Instead cars are being diverted back down South Barracks or via the Old Queens cinema.
A Gibraltar police spokesman said, "After months of dry weather in Gibraltar, persistent heavy rain over the past 24 hours has led to a landslide."
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Business Insider
Flash flooding in southern California caused landslides that left dozens of cars stuck in the mud, The Associated Press reported.
The violent storms, which started on Thursday, Oct. 15, unleashed thick mud that trapped the vehicles along State Route 58 in Kern County. Many homes in the area were also flooded with water and mud. At least 30 still remain stuck in the now-hardened mud, but the California Department of Transportation hopes to have them removed.
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The Washington Post
The South Pacific nation of Vanuatu was shaken by a magnitude-7.3 earthquake, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake struck 335 kilometers (207 miles) north of the capital, Port Vila. It was a relatively deep 131 kilometers (81 miles), meaning it had less impact on the surface than if it had been shallower.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue any tsunami warnings.
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The Associated Press via Herald and Review
The crush and stampede that struck the hajj last month in Saudi Arabia killed at least 2,177 pilgrims, a new Associated Press tally showed, after officials in the kingdom met to discuss the tragedy.
The toll keeps rising from the disaster outside Mecca as individual countries identify bodies and work to determine the whereabouts of hundreds of pilgrims still missing. The official Saudi toll of 769 people killed and 934 injured has not changed, and officials have yet to address the discrepancy.
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