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Stop the Music! Chip Shortage Stalls Synth Makers

DRI Drive

The global chip shortage and supply chain nightmare is music to no one’s ears. But for synth companies it’s literally stopping the music. According to Synthtopia, boutique synthesizer maker Future Retro has been silenced by the shortage. The company’s last words: “Due to the current state of the world and global parts shortage, we are […]. The post Stop the Music!

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Uvalde School Shooting: Leadership Matters

Disaster Zone

Without leadership, sometimes nothing happens.

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FEMA and AARP on Protecting Older Adults

Recovery Diva

From HSToday: FEMA, AARP Release New Resources to Help Local Communities Protect Older Adults Before, During and After Natural Disaster s Older adults are disproportionately impacted by the types of weather-related emergencies and natural disasters that are becoming increasingly frequent and severe.

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Making the Case for a Systems Approach to Ballistic Security

Security Industry Association

In Bullet-Resistant Systems, Key Components Come Together to Build Something Greater. Jim Richards is the CEO of Total Security Solutions. For those unfamiliar with ballistic security, it would be easy to assume the process is as simple as a single piece of bullet-resistant glass. The terms themselves – “ballistic”, “bulletproof” and “bullet-resistant” – tend to inspire confidence, and the average person may not be aware of the various components of a ballistic barrier system.

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The Complete Guide to Mastering Business Continuity

The Complete Guide to Mastering Business Continuity is a step-by-step resource for developing an effective Business Continuity Management (BCM) program and navigating challenges. Whether building from scratch or enhancing a plan, this guide offers practical tools, expert advice, and strategies to ensure resilience. What You’ll Learn: Key elements of BCM and resiliency Steps to build and test your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Conducting risk assessments and BIAs Integrating cybersecurity into p

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DRI Updates Commitment to Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

DRI Drive

As a leading resource in disaster recovery and business continuity, DRI International has updated its written voluntary commitment to the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Recovery’s Sendai Framework 2015-2030. “The Sendai Framework created a shift from managing disasters to managing risks. For this purpose, it underlines the need to build the knowledge of government […].

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The Future of EMI, Training or Education?

Disaster Zone Podcast

Dr. Jeff Stern is the Superintendent of the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) , located at Emmitsburg Maryland. EMI is the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) center for the development and delivery of emergency management instructional curriculum that is delivered both in-person and remotely via technology. In this podcast we discuss the history of EMI and how it and the curriculum is constantly changing, just as our national threats have evolved over the years.

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Why It Makes Sense to Keep Mine-Hunting Dolphins on the Navy's Payroll

The Rand Blog

The mine-hunting abilities of the dolphin remain unmatched by human ingenuity. They make the seas safer for naval ships and other vessels. A single mine blast can incapacitate or even sink a warship costing billions of dollars. Yet budget cuts could spell the end of the program.

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Department of Labor’s O*NET Recognizes DRI Business Continuity Info for National Employment Database

DRI Drive

The Occupational Information Network (O*NET), developed under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, is the nation’s primary source of occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors on almost 1,000 occupations covering the entire U.S. economy.

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Finding Common Ground on Cyber and Elections Security

Disaster Zone

Elections are a critical infrastructure.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Evergreen//One Recognized as DCIG TOP 5 Storage as-a-Service Solution

Pure Storage

The Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) recently recognized Evergreen//One™ from Pure Storage as a DCIG TOP 5 solution in the 2022-23 DCIG TOP 5 Enterprise Storage as a Service Solutions report. This report looks at the benefits that STaaS solutions bring to customers, deployment options, colocation partners, and support. . DCIG provides informed third-party analysis of various cloud, data protection, and data storage technologies.

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New NAS Report on Infrastructure

Recovery Diva

New Report From the National Academy of Sciences: Equitable and Resilient Infrastructure Investments. The report is 60 pages long. Note that downloads are free from the NAS.

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Cyber Self-Defense: Prepare for the No. 1 Threat By Taking These Five Steps 

MHA Consulting

Cyberattacks remain the number-one threat to organizations’ ability to keep their mission-critical operations running. Today’s post lays out five key measures your company should have in place to harden its … The post Cyber Self-Defense: Prepare for the No. 1 Threat By Taking These Five Steps appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: The Future of EMI, Training or Education?

Disaster Zone

Emergency management's premier government educational institution.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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What Is a Home Protection Plan?

Constellation

Buying a new home or upgrading one of your home’s systems is a big investment. When it comes to these big-ticket purchases, it’s worth making sure they’re covered if something breaks or goes wrong. The post What Is a Home Protection Plan? appeared first on Constellation Residential and Small Business Blog.

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Fast Growing Cities at High Risk from Climate Change

Recovery Diva

From The Guardian: Alarm as fastest growing US cities risk becoming unlivable from climate crisis. Some of the cities enjoying population boom are among those gripped by a ferocious heatwave and seeing record temperatures. “The ferocious heatwave that is gripping much of the US south and west has highlighted an uncomfortable, ominous trend – people are continuing to flock to the cities that risk becoming unlivable due to the climate crisis.

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How Mercedes-AMG F1 and Pure Storage Put Safety First

Pure Storage

On the F1 track, cars are engineered to be faster than ever. Off the track, hackers are accelerating ransomware attacks. They’re both making headlines, and making safety and speed top priorities for consumers and businesses alike. . For both Pure Storage ? and Mercedes-AMG F1, prevention and response times are critical. You could say we’re both operating in “safe mode”: At Mercedes F1, it’s the uncompromising dedication to keeping drivers safe.

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Are we headed for a Cybermaggedon?

Disaster Zone

Move slowly and fix your stuff—is how we should operate in the cyber-world.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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What (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong About the Business Continuity Lifecycle

BryghtPath

Business continuity and crisis planning is not a one-and-done event. Still, I see a lot of businesses make this pivotal mistake. They put in a lot of work conducting their initial business impact analysis (BIA), identifying the resilience gaps, creating plans, policies, lists, and procedures, and distributing these throughout the organization. Then they quit.

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FEMA’s Public Assistant Alternative Procedures Assessed by OIG

Recovery Diva

From HSToday: OIG Assesses FEMA’s Public Assistance Alternative Procedures. The Office of Inspector General OIG assessed whether Public Assistance Alternative Procedures (PAAP) for permanent work projects sped disaster recovery, increased the accuracy of cost estimates to restore facilities, improved the effectiveness of financial incentives and disincentives, the cost effectiveness of PAAP, and whether the PAAP independent expert panel was effective.

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Pure Storage at VMware Explore 2022

Pure Storage

I’m thoroughly excited, for the first time in years, to attend an in-person VMworld. Honestly, I started to think that I might never attend one again. And as it turns out, I technically can’t. Because it’s now called VMware Explore! What’s in a (new) Name? If you look back, the buzzwords of past VMware events were largely centered on the virtual machine (VM)—VM backup, VM recovery, VM granularity, VM insights.

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64% Vacancy Rate for a 911 Call Center

Disaster Zone

Wow! That would be difficult.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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SIA New Member Profile: Texadia Systems

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Texadia Systems is a full-service design/build AV and technology firm that specializes in the consultative design, installation and support of complex audio, video, lighting, security and low-voltage technology solutions. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and works with clients across the United States.

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Book Review: Why Vulnerability Still Matters – The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation.

Recovery Diva

Why Vulnerability Still Matters -The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation , Edited by Greg Bankoff and Dorothea Hilhorst. Routledge, 2022. Softcover, 240 pp. List price: $35.96, ISBN 9781032113432. Reviewer : Jono Anzalone, EdD, Nonprofit Leader and Disaster Expert. Why Vulnerability Still Matters -The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of vulnerability, disaster risk, and political systems.

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Recovered, but Not Whole: U.S. Jobs Rebounded, but Not for Everyone

The Rand Blog

The U.S. labor market is on track to hit a milestone this month or next: It will have recovered all of the jobs lost in the pandemic recession. But the pandemic recession and its recovery treated men and women differently, and treated women of color differently from white women.

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Effectiveness of Small Police Departments

Disaster Zone

Uvalde could be an indicator.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha