Slides for the 10-Steps to Service Continuity Planning class created by Dan Wilson for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM). Feel free to download and use, but please credit the source.
Business and Government in the Network AgeKevin Werbach
The document discusses how everything is now connected in the network age with data available everywhere. It touches on topics like information, deregulation, regulation, evolution, revolution, and innovation. It provides contact information for the author to learn more about these topics through additional writings, Twitter, and website.
Presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association annual meeting about a partnership we had with the Library of Virginia to promote collaboration between public librarians and local emergency planners and community agencies.
This document discusses how emojis, emoticons, and text speak can be used to teach students. It provides background on the origins of emoticons in 1982 as ways to convey tone and feelings in text communications. It then suggests that with text speak and emojis, students can translate, decode, summarize, play with language, and add emotion to language. A number of websites and apps that can be used for emoji-related activities, lessons, and discussions are also listed.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, promising self-driving cars, medical breakthroughs, and new ways of working. But how do you separate hype from reality? How can your company apply AI to solve real business problems?
Here’s what AI learnings your business should keep in mind for 2017.
Study: The Future of VR, AR and Self-Driving CarsLinkedIn
We asked LinkedIn members worldwide about their levels of interest in the latest wave of technology: whether they’re using wearables, and whether they intend to buy self-driving cars and VR headsets as they become available. We asked them too about their attitudes to technology and to the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the devices that they use. The answers were fascinating – and in many cases, surprising.
This SlideShare explores the full results of this study, including detailed market-by-market breakdowns of intention levels for each technology – and how attitudes change with age, location and seniority level. If you’re marketing a tech brand – or planning to use VR and wearables to reach a professional audience – then these are insights you won’t want to miss.
Disaster preparedness and recovery, bioterrorism, chemical emergencies, earthquakes, fires, first aid, floods, heat illness, radiation emergencies, tornadoes and winter weather emergencies - is your library ready? Public library personnel serve in a significant way during an emergency or disaster through their public access computing and Internet access availability. They can also offer expertise in organizing communities, identifying and evaluating appropriate disease and health promotion topics, and planning and delivering outreach programs and services. This session will be presented by Marty Magee, Nebraska Liaison for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region.
The document discusses crisis intervention and response, including hazards first responders may face like danger, stress, and hypersensitivity. It provides examples of school shootings, natural disasters, and riots that required emergency response. Effective crisis response requires seamless communication between decision-makers, new technologies, and treating victims with compassion to aid in investigations.
Slides for the 10-Steps to Service Continuity Planning class created by Dan Wilson for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM). Feel free to download and use, but please credit the source.
Business and Government in the Network AgeKevin Werbach
The document discusses how everything is now connected in the network age with data available everywhere. It touches on topics like information, deregulation, regulation, evolution, revolution, and innovation. It provides contact information for the author to learn more about these topics through additional writings, Twitter, and website.
Presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association annual meeting about a partnership we had with the Library of Virginia to promote collaboration between public librarians and local emergency planners and community agencies.
This document discusses how emojis, emoticons, and text speak can be used to teach students. It provides background on the origins of emoticons in 1982 as ways to convey tone and feelings in text communications. It then suggests that with text speak and emojis, students can translate, decode, summarize, play with language, and add emotion to language. A number of websites and apps that can be used for emoji-related activities, lessons, and discussions are also listed.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, promising self-driving cars, medical breakthroughs, and new ways of working. But how do you separate hype from reality? How can your company apply AI to solve real business problems?
Here’s what AI learnings your business should keep in mind for 2017.
Study: The Future of VR, AR and Self-Driving CarsLinkedIn
We asked LinkedIn members worldwide about their levels of interest in the latest wave of technology: whether they’re using wearables, and whether they intend to buy self-driving cars and VR headsets as they become available. We asked them too about their attitudes to technology and to the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the devices that they use. The answers were fascinating – and in many cases, surprising.
This SlideShare explores the full results of this study, including detailed market-by-market breakdowns of intention levels for each technology – and how attitudes change with age, location and seniority level. If you’re marketing a tech brand – or planning to use VR and wearables to reach a professional audience – then these are insights you won’t want to miss.
Disaster preparedness and recovery, bioterrorism, chemical emergencies, earthquakes, fires, first aid, floods, heat illness, radiation emergencies, tornadoes and winter weather emergencies - is your library ready? Public library personnel serve in a significant way during an emergency or disaster through their public access computing and Internet access availability. They can also offer expertise in organizing communities, identifying and evaluating appropriate disease and health promotion topics, and planning and delivering outreach programs and services. This session will be presented by Marty Magee, Nebraska Liaison for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region.
The document discusses crisis intervention and response, including hazards first responders may face like danger, stress, and hypersensitivity. It provides examples of school shootings, natural disasters, and riots that required emergency response. Effective crisis response requires seamless communication between decision-makers, new technologies, and treating victims with compassion to aid in investigations.
The document summarizes a tornado that struck Ruskin Heights, Missouri in May 1957, killing 39 people. It describes the path and intensity of the tornado through eyewitness accounts. It also discusses the inadequate warning systems and lack of storm shelters at the time, and how responses to the disaster helped improve emergency management. The author analyzes how a better warning system may have reduced casualties given most homes lacked basements. The response was well-coordinated despite limited resources, and informed future improvements to radar, sirens, and public education.
This document outlines a 4 step systems approach to developing a disaster response plan for libraries: 1) Investigation - define types of potential disasters and conduct a risk assessment, 2) Analysis - assess importance of planning and available technologies, 3) Design - outline how to protect materials and digital resources, 4) Implementation - develop preparedness plans and identify necessary resources. Key aspects of an effective plan include identifying vulnerable collections, training staff, backing up digital resources, conducting regular drills, and ensuring plans are updated over time. Developing a disaster response plan can help libraries react more quickly and recover damaged materials in the event of a disaster.
This document provides an overview and summary of a Level 1 Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Course. The course aims to provide baseline knowledge and skills for volunteers assisting with emergency communications. It covers topics like communication emergencies, disaster scenarios in the Pacific Northwest, and the roles and responsibilities of amateur radio operators in emergency situations.
Presentation delivered by Sarah Stauderman, Collections Care Manager for the Smithsonian Institution Archives, at the Smithsonian Archives Fair on October 14, 2011 in Washington, DC.
Provides a short overview of ways to prepare for an emergency, and how to recover books, paper, and photographs after they get wet.
The document discusses media coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans from multiple perspectives:
1) Local New Orleans newspapers and TV stations like the Times-Picayune and WDSU provided on-the-ground, real-time coverage during and immediately after the storm.
2) National print and TV news initially provided ineffective coverage but later reported more effectively on the devastation, relief efforts, and human impacts.
3) Five years later, coverage has shifted to commemorating the anniversary and focusing on rebuilding progress, though some areas remain impoverished.
The document discusses media coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans from multiple perspectives:
1) Local New Orleans newspapers and TV stations like the Times-Picayune and WDSU provided on-the-ground, real-time coverage during and immediately after the storm.
2) National print and TV news initially provided ineffective coverage but later reported more effectively on the devastation, relief efforts, and human impacts.
3) Five years later, coverage has shifted to commemorating the anniversary and focusing on rebuilding progress, though some areas remain impoverished.
The document discusses media coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans from multiple perspectives:
1) Local New Orleans newspapers and TV stations like the Times-Picayune and WDSU provided on-the-ground, real-time coverage during and immediately after the storm.
2) National print and TV news initially provided ineffective coverage but later reported more effectively on the devastation, relief efforts, and human impacts.
3) Five years later, coverage has shifted to commemorating the anniversary and focusing on rebuilding progress, though some areas remain impoverished.
The document discusses media coverage of Hurricane Katrina. It provides evidence that the storm and its impacts were predictable based on years of warnings from scientists and officials about New Orleans' vulnerability. Local newspapers like the Times-Picayune and local TV stations provided more effective on-the-ground coverage during the storm and its aftermath by reporting continuously online and emphasizing the need to evacuate. However, initial national news coverage from sources like the New York Times and USA Today was ineffective, lacking detail and analysis of the full devastation.
The document discusses media coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans from multiple perspectives:
1) Local New Orleans newspapers and TV stations like the Times-Picayune and WDSU provided on-the-ground, real-time coverage and updates during and immediately after the storm.
2) National print and TV news coverage was initially ineffective at conveying the full scale of the disaster, but improved over time with in-depth analyses and a focus on impacts and relief efforts.
3) Five years later, coverage has shifted to commemorating anniversaries and focusing on rebuilding progress, rather than treating Katrina as a major news story.
The document discusses media coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans from multiple perspectives:
1) Local New Orleans newspapers and TV stations like the Times-Picayune and WDSU provided on-the-ground, real-time coverage and updates during and immediately after the storm.
2) National print and TV news coverage was initially ineffective but improved over time, with some outlets like the National Post providing more thorough analysis earlier on.
3) Five years later, coverage had shifted to commemorating the anniversary and focusing on rebuilding progress, though some areas remained impoverished.
This talk describes risk and resilience of engineering and enterprise systems to emergent and future conditions including natural and human induced hazards, technologies, regulations, behaviors, markets, demographics, supply chains, workforce, environments, etc. An emphasis is the quantification of risk, resilience, security, and trust as disruptions of systemic priorities. Examples will include a broadband wireless network for public safety, a maritime container port, airport runway safety, an energy grid of developing countries, and bidirectional chargers and microgrids for fleets of electric vehicles.
The document discusses lessons learned from past crises regarding the role of social media and communications. It summarizes several major crises including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, 2005 London bombings, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, 2007 Southern California wildfires, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Key lessons included the importance of social media and mobile communications in providing information when infrastructure is damaged, the need for interoperable emergency response communications systems, and challenges around misinformation or lack of authoritative information being addressed by citizen journalism on social media and blogs.
1) Human communities will always be at risk from natural and human-made disasters due to factors like geography and technology that can enable threats. 2) Major cities like New York and New Orleans are especially vulnerable due to their locations and infrastructure. 3) Rapid urbanization and population growth will exacerbate risks in the coming decades as more people and structures are exposed to hazards.
Epidemiology, as the applied instrument of public health interventions, can provide much needed information on which a rational, effective, and ?exible policy for the management of disasters can be based. In particular, epidemiology provides the tools for rapid and effective problem solving during public health emergencies, such as natural and technologic disasters and emergencies from terrorism.
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005. Local and national news coverage was initially ineffective due to a lack of on-the-ground reporting and a failure to communicate the severity of the situation. However, some local media like NOLA.com and Times-Picayune provided constant updates that helped guide relief efforts. In the aftermath, coverage increasingly focused on rebuilding efforts, though attention faded within a few years.
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005. Local and national news coverage was initially ineffective due to a lack of on-the-ground reporting and a failure to communicate the severity of the situation. However, some local media like NOLA.com and Times-Picayune provided constant updates that helped guide relief efforts. In the aftermath, coverage increasingly focused on rebuilding efforts, though attention faded within a few years.
Media frames and Memory: Social constructions of climate change following the...Erin Bohensky
This document analyzes media coverage and social memory surrounding the 2011 Brisbane floods in relation to climate change. It finds that media narratives either linked the floods to climate change (40%), denied any link (40%), said the relationship was unclear (14%), or that the floods proved climate change (6%). One year later, there was little media discussion. The analysis suggests media frames and short-term focus can hamper understanding of climate change and adaptation, as the issues require analysis over longer time periods. Building better "disaster memory" through research may support more effective climate adaptation.
Leveraging Learning To Rank in an Optimization Framework for Timeline Summari...Nattiya Kanhabua
With the tremendous amount of news published on the Web every day, helping users explore news events on a given topic of interest is an acute problem. Timeline summaries have recently emerged as a simple and effective solution for users to navigate through temporally related news events. In this paper, we propose an optimization framework and demonstrate the use of Learning To Rank (LTR) to automatically construct timeline summaries from Web news articles. Experimental evaluations show that our approach outperforms existing solutions in producing high quality timeline summaries.
Week 7 Emergency Simulation Assignment 2 page AMA format-cite a.docxcockekeshia
Week 7: Emergency Simulation Assignment
2 page AMA format-cite all sources
Using the link below, participate in the online public health simulation of an emergency to integrate the knowledge you gained from this course in responding to a hypothetical emergency.
· Dirty Bomb! After the Blast – A Public Health Simulation: https://cpheo1.sph.umn.edu/dbomb/index.asp
In the simulation, you worked as a public health professional and made decisions relating to communications, coordination, and response. In the assignment,
· Briefly describe your actions in the simulation relating to communications, coordination, and response.
· Consider how these same areas were handled during Hurricane Katrina as described in this week’s reading: Case Study Response to Katrina (attached)
· Identify one area where you feel you were able to appropriately communicate, coordinate, or respond in this simulation and contrast your actions to those taken by personnel in Hurricane Katrina in the same area.
Provide your responses and the last screen as appropriate to the simulation to the Week 7 Assignment.
Microeconomics – Week #5 Assignment
Costs Table
Directions: Fill in the table.
Units of Output
Total Costs
Total Fixed Costs
Total Variable Costs
Average Total Costs
Average Fixed Costs
Average Variable Costs
Marginal Costs
0
$1,000
1
1,200
2
1,350
3
1,550
4
1,900
5
2,300
6
2,750
7
3,250
8
3,800
9
4,400
1
*This case study accompanies the IRGC report “Risk Governance Deficits: An analysis and illustration of the most
common deficits in risk governance”.
The Response to Hurricane Katrina
By Donald P. Moynihan
1
Hurricane Katrina occurred four years after the attacks of 9/11, three years after the subsequent
creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and one year after the DHS had created
a National Response Plan. But despite the heightened attention to homeland security, the
response to Katrina was a failure. The world watched as government responders seemed unable
to offer basic protection from the ravages of nature. The titles of two congressional reports
summarised the sense of failure. A Select House Committee [House Report, 2006] identified “A
Failure of Initiative” while the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
[Senate Report, 2006] judged the United States “A Nation Still Unprepared.”
The poor response arose from a failure to manage a number of risk factors. The risks of a major
hurricane striking New Orleans had been long considered, and there was enough warning of the
threat of Katrina that declarations of emergency were made days in advance of landfall. But
responders failed to convert this information into a level of preparation appropriate with the scope
of the impending disaster. The dispersed nature of authority in the US intergovernmental
response system further weakened response, as federal responders failed.
This document discusses emergency planning for schools in New York State. It outlines the legal requirements for school emergency plans, the multi-hazard approach that plans should take, and the roles of various state agencies and organizations in developing and implementing plans. It emphasizes engaging stakeholders, evaluating hazards, educating staff, exercising plans, and enhancing plans based on lessons learned from real events. Schools are required to submit plans to local emergency responders and provide building schematics and floor plans.
Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
The document summarizes a tornado that struck Ruskin Heights, Missouri in May 1957, killing 39 people. It describes the path and intensity of the tornado through eyewitness accounts. It also discusses the inadequate warning systems and lack of storm shelters at the time, and how responses to the disaster helped improve emergency management. The author analyzes how a better warning system may have reduced casualties given most homes lacked basements. The response was well-coordinated despite limited resources, and informed future improvements to radar, sirens, and public education.
This document outlines a 4 step systems approach to developing a disaster response plan for libraries: 1) Investigation - define types of potential disasters and conduct a risk assessment, 2) Analysis - assess importance of planning and available technologies, 3) Design - outline how to protect materials and digital resources, 4) Implementation - develop preparedness plans and identify necessary resources. Key aspects of an effective plan include identifying vulnerable collections, training staff, backing up digital resources, conducting regular drills, and ensuring plans are updated over time. Developing a disaster response plan can help libraries react more quickly and recover damaged materials in the event of a disaster.
This document provides an overview and summary of a Level 1 Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Course. The course aims to provide baseline knowledge and skills for volunteers assisting with emergency communications. It covers topics like communication emergencies, disaster scenarios in the Pacific Northwest, and the roles and responsibilities of amateur radio operators in emergency situations.
Presentation delivered by Sarah Stauderman, Collections Care Manager for the Smithsonian Institution Archives, at the Smithsonian Archives Fair on October 14, 2011 in Washington, DC.
Provides a short overview of ways to prepare for an emergency, and how to recover books, paper, and photographs after they get wet.
The document discusses media coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans from multiple perspectives:
1) Local New Orleans newspapers and TV stations like the Times-Picayune and WDSU provided on-the-ground, real-time coverage during and immediately after the storm.
2) National print and TV news initially provided ineffective coverage but later reported more effectively on the devastation, relief efforts, and human impacts.
3) Five years later, coverage has shifted to commemorating the anniversary and focusing on rebuilding progress, though some areas remain impoverished.
The document discusses media coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans from multiple perspectives:
1) Local New Orleans newspapers and TV stations like the Times-Picayune and WDSU provided on-the-ground, real-time coverage during and immediately after the storm.
2) National print and TV news initially provided ineffective coverage but later reported more effectively on the devastation, relief efforts, and human impacts.
3) Five years later, coverage has shifted to commemorating the anniversary and focusing on rebuilding progress, though some areas remain impoverished.
The document discusses media coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans from multiple perspectives:
1) Local New Orleans newspapers and TV stations like the Times-Picayune and WDSU provided on-the-ground, real-time coverage during and immediately after the storm.
2) National print and TV news initially provided ineffective coverage but later reported more effectively on the devastation, relief efforts, and human impacts.
3) Five years later, coverage has shifted to commemorating the anniversary and focusing on rebuilding progress, though some areas remain impoverished.
The document discusses media coverage of Hurricane Katrina. It provides evidence that the storm and its impacts were predictable based on years of warnings from scientists and officials about New Orleans' vulnerability. Local newspapers like the Times-Picayune and local TV stations provided more effective on-the-ground coverage during the storm and its aftermath by reporting continuously online and emphasizing the need to evacuate. However, initial national news coverage from sources like the New York Times and USA Today was ineffective, lacking detail and analysis of the full devastation.
The document discusses media coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans from multiple perspectives:
1) Local New Orleans newspapers and TV stations like the Times-Picayune and WDSU provided on-the-ground, real-time coverage and updates during and immediately after the storm.
2) National print and TV news coverage was initially ineffective at conveying the full scale of the disaster, but improved over time with in-depth analyses and a focus on impacts and relief efforts.
3) Five years later, coverage has shifted to commemorating anniversaries and focusing on rebuilding progress, rather than treating Katrina as a major news story.
The document discusses media coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans from multiple perspectives:
1) Local New Orleans newspapers and TV stations like the Times-Picayune and WDSU provided on-the-ground, real-time coverage and updates during and immediately after the storm.
2) National print and TV news coverage was initially ineffective but improved over time, with some outlets like the National Post providing more thorough analysis earlier on.
3) Five years later, coverage had shifted to commemorating the anniversary and focusing on rebuilding progress, though some areas remained impoverished.
This talk describes risk and resilience of engineering and enterprise systems to emergent and future conditions including natural and human induced hazards, technologies, regulations, behaviors, markets, demographics, supply chains, workforce, environments, etc. An emphasis is the quantification of risk, resilience, security, and trust as disruptions of systemic priorities. Examples will include a broadband wireless network for public safety, a maritime container port, airport runway safety, an energy grid of developing countries, and bidirectional chargers and microgrids for fleets of electric vehicles.
The document discusses lessons learned from past crises regarding the role of social media and communications. It summarizes several major crises including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, 2005 London bombings, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, 2007 Southern California wildfires, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Key lessons included the importance of social media and mobile communications in providing information when infrastructure is damaged, the need for interoperable emergency response communications systems, and challenges around misinformation or lack of authoritative information being addressed by citizen journalism on social media and blogs.
1) Human communities will always be at risk from natural and human-made disasters due to factors like geography and technology that can enable threats. 2) Major cities like New York and New Orleans are especially vulnerable due to their locations and infrastructure. 3) Rapid urbanization and population growth will exacerbate risks in the coming decades as more people and structures are exposed to hazards.
Epidemiology, as the applied instrument of public health interventions, can provide much needed information on which a rational, effective, and ?exible policy for the management of disasters can be based. In particular, epidemiology provides the tools for rapid and effective problem solving during public health emergencies, such as natural and technologic disasters and emergencies from terrorism.
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005. Local and national news coverage was initially ineffective due to a lack of on-the-ground reporting and a failure to communicate the severity of the situation. However, some local media like NOLA.com and Times-Picayune provided constant updates that helped guide relief efforts. In the aftermath, coverage increasingly focused on rebuilding efforts, though attention faded within a few years.
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005. Local and national news coverage was initially ineffective due to a lack of on-the-ground reporting and a failure to communicate the severity of the situation. However, some local media like NOLA.com and Times-Picayune provided constant updates that helped guide relief efforts. In the aftermath, coverage increasingly focused on rebuilding efforts, though attention faded within a few years.
Media frames and Memory: Social constructions of climate change following the...Erin Bohensky
This document analyzes media coverage and social memory surrounding the 2011 Brisbane floods in relation to climate change. It finds that media narratives either linked the floods to climate change (40%), denied any link (40%), said the relationship was unclear (14%), or that the floods proved climate change (6%). One year later, there was little media discussion. The analysis suggests media frames and short-term focus can hamper understanding of climate change and adaptation, as the issues require analysis over longer time periods. Building better "disaster memory" through research may support more effective climate adaptation.
Leveraging Learning To Rank in an Optimization Framework for Timeline Summari...Nattiya Kanhabua
With the tremendous amount of news published on the Web every day, helping users explore news events on a given topic of interest is an acute problem. Timeline summaries have recently emerged as a simple and effective solution for users to navigate through temporally related news events. In this paper, we propose an optimization framework and demonstrate the use of Learning To Rank (LTR) to automatically construct timeline summaries from Web news articles. Experimental evaluations show that our approach outperforms existing solutions in producing high quality timeline summaries.
Week 7 Emergency Simulation Assignment 2 page AMA format-cite a.docxcockekeshia
Week 7: Emergency Simulation Assignment
2 page AMA format-cite all sources
Using the link below, participate in the online public health simulation of an emergency to integrate the knowledge you gained from this course in responding to a hypothetical emergency.
· Dirty Bomb! After the Blast – A Public Health Simulation: https://cpheo1.sph.umn.edu/dbomb/index.asp
In the simulation, you worked as a public health professional and made decisions relating to communications, coordination, and response. In the assignment,
· Briefly describe your actions in the simulation relating to communications, coordination, and response.
· Consider how these same areas were handled during Hurricane Katrina as described in this week’s reading: Case Study Response to Katrina (attached)
· Identify one area where you feel you were able to appropriately communicate, coordinate, or respond in this simulation and contrast your actions to those taken by personnel in Hurricane Katrina in the same area.
Provide your responses and the last screen as appropriate to the simulation to the Week 7 Assignment.
Microeconomics – Week #5 Assignment
Costs Table
Directions: Fill in the table.
Units of Output
Total Costs
Total Fixed Costs
Total Variable Costs
Average Total Costs
Average Fixed Costs
Average Variable Costs
Marginal Costs
0
$1,000
1
1,200
2
1,350
3
1,550
4
1,900
5
2,300
6
2,750
7
3,250
8
3,800
9
4,400
1
*This case study accompanies the IRGC report “Risk Governance Deficits: An analysis and illustration of the most
common deficits in risk governance”.
The Response to Hurricane Katrina
By Donald P. Moynihan
1
Hurricane Katrina occurred four years after the attacks of 9/11, three years after the subsequent
creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and one year after the DHS had created
a National Response Plan. But despite the heightened attention to homeland security, the
response to Katrina was a failure. The world watched as government responders seemed unable
to offer basic protection from the ravages of nature. The titles of two congressional reports
summarised the sense of failure. A Select House Committee [House Report, 2006] identified “A
Failure of Initiative” while the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
[Senate Report, 2006] judged the United States “A Nation Still Unprepared.”
The poor response arose from a failure to manage a number of risk factors. The risks of a major
hurricane striking New Orleans had been long considered, and there was enough warning of the
threat of Katrina that declarations of emergency were made days in advance of landfall. But
responders failed to convert this information into a level of preparation appropriate with the scope
of the impending disaster. The dispersed nature of authority in the US intergovernmental
response system further weakened response, as federal responders failed.
This document discusses emergency planning for schools in New York State. It outlines the legal requirements for school emergency plans, the multi-hazard approach that plans should take, and the roles of various state agencies and organizations in developing and implementing plans. It emphasizes engaging stakeholders, evaluating hazards, educating staff, exercising plans, and enhancing plans based on lessons learned from real events. Schools are required to submit plans to local emergency responders and provide building schematics and floor plans.
Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
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Temple of Asclepius in Thrace. Excavation resultsKrassimira Luka
The temple and the sanctuary around were dedicated to Asklepios Zmidrenus. This name has been known since 1875 when an inscription dedicated to him was discovered in Rome. The inscription is dated in 227 AD and was left by soldiers originating from the city of Philippopolis (modern Plovdiv).
Leveraging Generative AI to Drive Nonprofit InnovationTechSoup
In this webinar, participants learned how to utilize Generative AI to streamline operations and elevate member engagement. Amazon Web Service experts provided a customer specific use cases and dived into low/no-code tools that are quick and easy to deploy through Amazon Web Service (AWS.)
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How to Make a Field Mandatory in Odoo 17Celine George
In Odoo, making a field required can be done through both Python code and XML views. When you set the required attribute to True in Python code, it makes the field required across all views where it's used. Conversely, when you set the required attribute in XML views, it makes the field required only in the context of that particular view.
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Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering.pptxDenish Jangid
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering
Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
Text Books:
1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
13. USA Today: [Commission on
the Prevention of Weapons of
Mass Destruction] warns that
anthrax spores released by a
crop-duster could “kill more
Americans than died in World
War II…” October 21, 2009
14. In Washington, homeland security officials had little to say publicly about
the rationale for moving Dallas – along with Boston and Philadelphia –
into the top tier of cities facing potential threat.
The additions create a top 10 list for the first time. The Tier 1 list already
included New York and Washington, which were attacked on Sept.
11, 2001, plus Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Newark, N.J., and San
Francisco.
26. Preparedness Assessment Exercise
Are your staff trained on how to react & respond to the following
situations?
A tornado warning is issued for your area
Security calls to say that a violent person is in your vicinity
A patron rushes up to the desk to report that someone is having a heart
attack in the photocopy room
Security calls to say that you should shelter-in-place because a train has
derailed releasing chlorine gas
Someone reports that there is water on the floor in the basement
A construction worker rushes to the desk and tells you that you have
about 3 minutes to evacuate the library
It’s Saturday afternoon and a member of your staff reports that water is
pouring in from the ceiling onto your reference books
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33. Two Options:
1. Build in ample backup power on your
servers.
2. Provide access to your core resources on a
remote server, either at your institution or at
a remote site
36. Step 6: Proactively
plan for the rescue
and recovery of
your highly valued
materials.
37. Step 7: Develop a Communication
Plan
• Notification plan for
public and staff
• Library website
• Social networking sites
(Facebook and Twitter)
• Talking to the media
38. 8
Step :
Know How to
Obtain Outside
Assistance
The NN/LM National Emergency Preparedness & Response Plan was developed in 2007 as a result of collaboration among leadership in the 8 regions of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine and experts in the field of emergency preparedness and response. The emphasis of the plan is preparedness and service continuity, which are highlighted in this presentation.
Today’s presentation will provide an overview of activities that can help you prepare for and respond to emergencies and disasters. We are going to start with risk assessment and then proceed through safety and security, identifying core services and resources, protecting highly valued materials, and obtaining outside help. We will also talk about an essential tool, the one-page service continuity pocket response plan. Before we begin step one, please be sure to print off the supporting materials that includes the scoresheet for risk assessment.
Step 1: Assess risks. In order to be prepared, you need to find out about the risks in your area. Risk assessment is the foundation of all other preparedness and response planning.
As we go through several potential risks, please fill out this score sheet that you printed off with other supporting materials.
Disasters can be grouped into 4 major areas: natural, unintentional, intentional, and public health.
When we think about disasters, we usually think natural disasters. When we think of natural disasters we usually think of tornadoes, hurricanes and earthquakes.
We all know of the earthquake risk along the west coast. However, there are also earthquake zones east of the Rockies. Looking at this map, give yourself 5 points if your library is within a yellow zone, 10 if orange, and 15 if red.
Tornadoes occur in just about every state, though primarily east of the Rockies. Give yourself 5 points if your library is within a light tan zone, 10 salmon colored zone, 15 orange, and 20 red.
Here is a map of historic paths of hurricanes. Give yourself 10 points if your library is under any of these paths and more than 100 miles inland. 20 points if your library is under one of these paths and within 100 miles of the coast.
Flooding can occur almost anywhere there is a river. Give yourself 15 points if your library is within 5 miles of a river.
Unintentional events include railroad accidents, construction disasters, fires due to faulty wiring, and HAZMAT incidents. Train wrecks have caused HAZMAT incidents, such as a chemical spills, that can endanger people living in any area. Give yourself 10 points if your library is within 5 miles of a railroad track or a highway.
Give yourself 10 points if construction is taking place within 200 yards of your library.
Intentional disasters. Potential targets for terrorist attacks in the United States include nuclear power and chemical plants, ports, and oil refineries. A recent commission report stated that anthrax spores released by a crop-duster could “kill more Americans than died in World War II…”
A GOA report identified 120 US cities vulnerable to a terrorist attack and 10 that are most vulnerable, which are classed as Tier I cities. Give yourself 15 points if your library is in any of these cities. 20 points if you are in a Tier 1 city, which includes Dallas, Philadelphia, Boston, NY, Washington, LA, Houston, Chicago, Newark, NJ, and San Francisco.
Give yourself 10 points if you are within 20 miles of a nuclear power plant.
Your most likely risks are fire and water damage. Some of these events are accidental and some are intentional. In 1986, up to 500,000 volumes at the Los Angeles Public Library were destroyed in a fire set by an arsonist, while about 600,000 were damaged by water. Well over half a million wet books were frozen to protect them against mold. Drying and cleaning alone cost two million dollars.
Give yourself 10 points if you have open stacks. And everyone should give themselves 15 points for having water pipes in your library.
Wildfires can also start naturally (e.g. lightning), or set by man, either accidentally or intentionally. Give yourself 10 points if your library is located within any of the yellow areas on this map.
As we got a taste of in the summer/fall of 2009, pandemics can result in social distancing and can greatly reduce staff productivity. An influenza outbreak can also impact your provision of services. Give yourself 10 points if you are open to the public and provide face-to-face patron services.
Let’s add up your score. Less than 25 and you are at low risk. 25-50 moderate risk; 50-100 high risk; and above 100 extremely high risk. Use this score sheet to help you develop response procedures and for conducting drills. Drill for areas of high risk.
Step 2: Protect yourself, your staff, and your patrons. Once risk assessment for your library is complete, it is time to compile basic procedures to provide for the personal safety of your staff as well as patrons who may be in the building or library space when an emergency or disaster occurs.
On March 1, 2007, a tornado struck the Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, Georgia. Nobody was injured thanks to the action of nurses who went around the hospital telling patients and their families to move away from the windows.
On March 3, 2009, the Cologne Archives Building in Cologne, Germany collapsed in about 3 minutes. (Building before the collapse is pictured in the upper left.) Reports indicate that about 20 people were in the building when a cracking sound occurred, and that all of them escaped unharmed. In this case, it appears that the best preparedness activity was having an evacuation plan, and ways for people to get out of the building quickly.
This is a diagram of how to secure a shelter in place area. In the event of a HAZMAT incident, such as a chlorine leak, do you have a place in your building that can function as a shelter-in-place location?
Does your staff know how to respond quickly to a medical emergency?
How many of these situations are you prepared for?
Step 4: Create procedures for remote access to core services. Develop a list of core services and then develop strategies for maintaining access to these services from off-site locations, such as someone’s home (for example your ILL manager) or a temporary location away from your building
These are core services often attributed to libraries, and will vary based on type of library.
All libraries should develop a plan to keep their core services going when service is disrupted. Here’s a sample plan, which is part of the supporting materials for this presentation.
NN/LM recommends this strategy for continuing your services and resources if you need to close your library due to some kind of service disruption. Its focus is on access to online resources, reference assistance, interlibrary loan, and communication to patrons and staff. (Note: this brochure is available on the Toolkit.)
Step 4: Determine your core online resources. Which of your electronic resources would be needed by your users immediately following a disaster?
These can be determined by patron feedback, personal knowledge, and usage statistics. Keep in mind that there may be some resources that are not regularly used much but may be needed in the event of a disaster. Do these products apply to your library? Would you add any products to your list?
To keep your online resources available you have two options. One: you can build ample backup power on your servers. This option is expensive and is unlikely attainable in most libraries. Option 2 is more likely. Here you provide access to your core resources on a remote server, either at your institution or a remote site.
Sometimes following a disaster, Internet access is not available so it’s important to keep on hand core textbooks that might be needed by patient care professionals. Here are the core texts identified by members of the DIMRC listserv. DIMRC is the Disaster Information Management Research Center at the National Library of Medicine.
Step 5: Develop a Mutual Aid Agreement with another library or library network. This agreement would be activated in the event that you are unable to re-establish your services without outside assistance. Further information about mutual aid agreements can be found on the NNLM EP&R Toolkit, including sample plans that can be adapted for your needs.
Proactively plan for the rescue and recovery of your highly valued materials. Do you have any unique or hard to replace materials, such as institutional records or historical materials that would need to be recovered? If you do, are they in a secure location? Don’t forget to include paintings and other artifacts. Determine which of these items you would spend money (might be lots of money!) to recover. Contact a commercial salvage company (such as Munters, Belfor, or BMS) to get an idea about how much it would cost to recover your materials, should freeze-drying, mold abatement, or other services be required.
Step 7: Develop a Communication Plan to spell-out how to communicate with the public and your staff following an emergency. Your plan should include how to place emergency notices on your website and social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter. Finally, determine who is permitted to talk to the media and create a succession plan to be used if the head of your library is unavailable.
Step 8: Determine local contacts, such as a preservationist. Develop Mutual Aid Agreements with libraries in your region, and know how to contact your Regional Medical Library (1 (800) DEV-ROKS).
Some library networks, such as Lyrasis and Amigos, also provide emergency assistance.
This is the most important step, and involves creating a one-page plan based on the template created by the Council of State Archivists. It’s your game plan for when a service disruption hits.
The PReP for Service Continuity is very adaptable and provides libraries with a relatively quick and effective response tool. On the front page you list institutional contacts, contact information for your library disaster team and service continuity team, your communication plan, and your service continuity plan.
On the back page you list salvage information, vendor contacts, numbers to call to obtain help, and floorplans for emergency responders if they are the only ones allowed in your library. The template for this plan is included in your supporting materials.
Finally, your plan at work is only as good as your plan at home. If you are not prepared for disasters at home, then you will not be available to keep your core services and resources available at work.
Ready.gov is an excellent source for finding preparedness information for home, including at checklist for a 72-hour emergency kit.. It’s also the place to go to find links to state and local government resources, agencies and services.
Remember, the central feature of the NN/LM plan is preparedness. To quote Benjamin Franklin, “By failing to prepare, we are preparing to fail.” A library that is prepared for a disaster is more likely be able to maintain access to its core services and resources and will be in position to help other libraries, its parent institution, or the community.
Finally, become familiar with the NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit. In it you will find supporting resources for this presentation as well as disaster-related news. Thank you for participating in this presentation. Please contact me if you have any questions or need any assistance. You can also get regional support and assistance by contacting you regional medical library at 1800 devroks (rocks without a c)