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There is still time to enter the most prestigious competition for government communicators in the nation and qualify for the early bird rate. The National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC) submission deadline for the Blue Pencil & Gold Screen Awards competition early bird discount is Dec. 8, 2017. The NAGC Blue Pencil & Gold Screen Awards Competition is the standard setter for the best of the best in more than 40 categories. Whether you write, edit, design, broadcast, or create web and social media, there’s a category for the meaningful work that you do for your citizens. Demonstrate how your emergency management program communicates to the communities it serves. Download the call for entries and entry form.
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Todd DeVoe from EMweekly interviewed attendees at the 2017 IAEM Annual Conference for his weekly podcast. In addition to reflections on the IAEM conference experience, DeVoe provides an in-depth interview with Ellis Stanley, chair of the IAEM-Global Board. Stanley talks about his passion – emergency management – and how he sees the profession evolving.
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More than 34 practitioners, academics and students participated in the Poster Showcase this year in both competitive and non-competitive divisions at the IAEM 2017 Annual Conference. The participants in the competitive division were evaluated on content and display of their poster, as well as their oral presentation of research and findings. The following participants in the competitive division received recognition: Gold - Ray Chang, Ph.D., AEM, assistant professor, Dept. of Political Science, Oklahoma State University - Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Using the ICS; Silver – Lauren Stiger, planner, City & County of San Francisco, Dept. of Emergency Management - Leveraging Renewable Energy for Improved Continuity of Operations; Bronze - Jim Acosta, CEM, host of The Agitated Atom Podcast - Modern Emergency Management Must Embrace Nuclear Civil Defense; Bronze – Abdulmajeed (Majeed) AlShowair - Disaster Preparedness in Arabian Gulf Countries; Bronze – Gerard Arrotti, senior director of safety, health and systems, ESPN, Inc. - Closed POD Development in Partnership with Local Health Department; Bronze - Aaron Kenneston, Ph.D., CEM, Washoe County Emergency Management and Homeland Security - Applying High Reliability Organization Theory to Emergency Management; Bronze - David Leiva, economic development and site selection consultant, SE Region, Webster Global Site Selectors - What Went Wrong in Greensburg, Kansas? An Economic Development Perspective; Bronze - Rawan Tawalbeh, Ph.D. student, Oklahoma State University - Mental Health Consequences of Disasters: A Literature Review; Bronze - Norm Wrona, senior associate, Hassett Willis & Company - Preparedness Stand-Downs: Cost-Effective Means of Maintaining Community Preparedness Levels. For more information and highlights from this year, view our website.
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The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation 2018 Workshop will be held Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2018, in Hong Kong. The workshop will be hosted by Hong Kong Observatory at or near the HKO office and sponsored by IAEM-Asia. A CAP training session will be offered on Oct. 30, with two other side meetings anticipated. Prior to the CAP workshop, ASEAN countries will be invited to participate in a technical meeting at the same venue. The meeting will focus on an Asian component of the WMO Global Multi-hazard Alert System, and is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 29, continuing during the morning of Oct. 30. After the CAP Workshop, on Friday, Nov. 2, an all-day session will be offered on the Filtered Alert Hub technology, which is being used for a prototype of the WMO Alert Hub.
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Representatives from IAEM-Canada attended the Eleventh Canadian Public Safety Interoperability Workshop, widely known as CITIG 11, Dec. 3-6, 2017, in Ottawa. The workshop will break new ground on key voice and data interoperability issues facing today’s public safety sector. The focus on information exchange, topic-specific discussion and interactive break-outs aims to support and promote the transfer of best practices and experience, and the development of a more unified approach to public safety interoperability across the country, between nations, and internationally.
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A former Liberal cabinet minister and an Indigenous leader have been appointed to lead an independent review of British Columbia's response to this year's wildfire and flood disasters that forced thousands from their homes. Premier John Horgan said Monday the report by George Abbott and Maureen Chapman is due in April and will include recommendations to enhance government response strategies in time for next year's flood and wildfire season.
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Telecompaper
The Swiss Federal Council has taken note of plans for alarms and telecommunications systems for civil protection, reported InsideIT. The Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (VBS) has been commissioned to process documentation to have credit earmarked for the national secure data network. At the same time, the Federal Council has opened a consultation on a total revision of the Civil Protection Act.
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Government Executive
By a vote of 62-37, Senate lawmakers confirmed Kirstjen Nielsen to become the sixth secretary of Homeland Security, and the first with prior experience at the department.
Nielsen formerly headed the offices of Legislative Policy and Government Affairs at the Transportation Security Administration before serving as former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly’s chief of staff. She left DHS to follow Kelly to the White House to be his principal deputy after President Trump tapped him for the role of White House chief of staff.
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Bloomberg
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has informed employees who’ve worked extra hours battling a record wave of natural disasters in 2017 that they may have to pay back some of their overtime.
Federal law caps some federal employees’ premium pay and permits agencies to recover money paid in excess of the maximum from future paychecks. FEMA says the extraordinary year of hurricanes, wildfires and other disasters means it may have to take that step.
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Route Fifty
State and local governments should own the disaster recovery process by creating integrated, outcome-based mitigation plans like Puerto Rico post-Hurricane Maria, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s administrator said Thursday at a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill.
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UNISDR
A number of meetings and declarations in recent weeks have emphasized the importance of space technologies in supporting UN Member States to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the global plan to reduce disaster losses by 2030.
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Los Angeles Times
More than drought or heat, winds can determine whether California burns or doesn’t.
October’s devastating Northern California wildfires exploded on a night when Diablo winds raged across parts of eight counties, tossing embers into Santa Rosa and ultimately claiming 44 lives.
Southern California managed to escape major wildfires during the final years of the state’s big drought because the Santa Anas didn’t blow much.
But this year is different.
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Gambit
Meteorologists have long been aware of the limitations of the Saffir-Simpson scale, which ranks from 1 to 5 a hurricane's strength and the danger it poses, based on maximum sustained wind speed. Critics, meteorologists and the public know that hurricane danger is not limited to the speed of the storm's cyclonic winds.
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Domestic Preparedness
Analysis of terrorist attack and plot trends targeting transportation infrastructure in developed countries demonstrates a growing interest in rail systems. Over the past 13 years, European rail systems infrastructure have been the increased focus of successful terrorist attacks, failed attempts, and disrupted plots.
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Emergency Management
The commercials help educate residents about emergency preparedness in the communities near chemical stockpiles.
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Emergency Management
At a legislative hearing in Sacramento Monday, officials agreed that resiliency and redundancy were lacking in local emergency communication systems across the state.
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Route Fifty
When Hurricane Harvey hit, the social team at Texas Children’s Hospital anticipated only a few patient inquiries via Facebook and Twitter. We ended up working 16-hour days for one week, monitoring and answering patient inquiries on social media to ensure the community could access vital information.
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Science Daily
What if there was a better way to forecast and communicate hurricanes' damaging economic impacts, before they happen? Civil engineers have developed an innovative new approach to assessing the resiliency of coastal communities to hurricanes. They've created a 'multi-hazard hurricane impact level model,' which estimates economic damages to be caused by storms, before they happen.
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Tracking minor changes in gravity when an earthquake hits could buy us precious life-saving minutes, according to a new study published in the journal Science.
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Candidates due to recertify for the AEM® or CEM® in 2017 should submit their application by 11:59 p.m. EST on Dec. 31, 2017. Keep in mind that the recertification fee must be applied to the candidate’s account before submitting the application. Payments made online are processed the next business day, so plan accordingly.
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Doctoral student from Northcentral University, Debra Shiflett-Picardi, seeks volunteers to participate in her research study as she works to complete her Ph.D. in Business Administration in Homeland Security, Leadership and Policy. The study is “Inter-agency Collaborative Governance in Emergency Management: A Qualitative Case Study.” The research questions being explored are: 1) How are collaborative governance standards applied to interagency relationship building to improve collaboration and support the DHS emergency management mission and objectives? 2) Why do failures of collaboration occur in interagency collaboration efforts? 3) What are the participant’s perceptions on collaborative governance as it applies to emergency management? Participation would include a 30-45 minute interview by phone, email, or audio file. Participation would be confidential and details will be provided to demonstrate how identity will be secured throughout the process. Those who are interested should email D.Shiflett0491@email.ncu.edu and put “Research Participant” in the subject line.
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The National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC) seeks speakers for the 2018 Communications School being held in Fort Myers, Florida, June 19-21. Speaker applications are being accepted for half-day workshops, plenary speakers and 60-minute breakout session presentations. Speakers from all levels of government are being sought, including local, special district, state, federal, and tribal, as well as from the private sector. Topics of interest include: crisis communications, case studies, social media, internal communications, communications planning, and others. Learn more and apply via the NAGC website.
The Washington Post
Ferocious wildfires continued to rage across Southern California on Wednesday, destroying hundreds of homes and forcing thousands of residents to flee as forecasters and officials warned that dangerous fires could endanger the region for days.
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Xinhua
Landslides and floods triggered by cyclone in Indian Ocean last week have left 41 people dead, 13 wounded, and thousands more displaced in Java island of Indonesia, an official of disaster agency said Tuesday.
That compares with the agency's previous report on Saturday that 20 people died and five other went missing.
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The Catholic Register
A typhoon that rapidly developed on the southern Indian coast claimed the lives of at least 32 poor Catholic fishermen who were at sea and another 200 more were missing. Thousands of other coastal residents had relocated to relief camps by Dec. 4, ucanews.com reported.
The confirmed deaths were in Kerala and Tamil Nadu states, according to government sources.
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Phys.org
Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said Monday the volcano remains at its highest alert level but most of Bali is safe for tourists.
The exclusion zone around the volcano still extends 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the crater in some directions. More than 55,000 people are living in shelters.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-12-bali-volcano-emits-wispy-plume.html#jCp
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