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Top 3 Emergency Notification Tips for Business Continuity Awareness Week 2019

On Solve

Business Continuity Awareness Week 2019 is May 13 ? Every day, events like the following happen with no warning: Hurricanes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters Active shooter Urban wildfire Power outages Cybercrime Disease outbreaks Workplace violence. Download The Poster.

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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

While the warmer months of the year signal a time when we can indulge in vacations, beach days, and outdoor activities, the summer and fall are also when hurricanes, thunderstorms, wildfires, and other potential natural disasters make their impressive mark across many areas of the United States, often disrupting the rhythm of our daily lives.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

The result is a communication process which has been termed chronic contagion (Pomerantsev 2019). Vast resources are now devoted to distorting the picture, and all three superpowers are busy utilising them (Druzin and Gordon 2018, Merrin 2019, Rudick and Dannels 2019). Dannels 2019. Hoskins and W. O'Connor, D. Dynes 1970.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 The report “The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019” also records major increases in other categories including drought, wildfires , and extreme temperature events. million lives, affecting 4.2 Floods and storms were the most prevalent events.”.

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What Science Really Says About Facial Recognition Accuracy and Bias Concerns

Security Industry Association

2019 NIST Demographic Effects Report. In 2019, NIST published its first comprehensive report on the performance of facial recognition algorithms specifically across race, gender and other demographic groups. But even NIST’s most significant work has been continually misrepresented in policy debates.

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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

While the warmer months of the year signal a time when we can indulge in vacations, beach days, and outdoor activities, the summer and fall are also when hurricanes, thunderstorms, wildfires, and other potential natural disasters make their impressive mark across many areas of the United States, often disrupting the rhythm of our daily lives.

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Uncovering Dell EMC’s PowerStore B.S. (Bogus Statements)

Pure Storage

Item 1: “Built from the ground up”¹ and “Native File Services”² If a system was “built from the ground up,” I’d expect it to look very different from an existing product that was released in April 2019. Item #3: “ Active/Active Controller Architecture”¹⁴ Is a Good Thing We see this B.S. The six PowerStore B.S.