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Italy disaster experts quit, upset by quake trial CBS News ROME Four top Italian disaster experts have quit their jobs, saying the convictions of several former colleagues for failing to adequately warn of a deadly 2009 earthquake means they can't properly perform their duties. A court on Monday convicted ... See all stories on this topic »

SBA Offers Disaster Assistance to Massachusetts Residents Affected by Severe ... Sacramento Bee WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Massachusetts residents and businesses affected by severe storms and flooding on Sept. 5, 2012 can apply for low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, SBA ... See all stories on this topic »

Italy disaster experts quit over quake trial The Associated Press ROME (AP) — Four top Italian disaster experts quit their posts Tuesday, saying the manslaughter convictions of former colleagues for failing to adequately warn of a deadly 2009 earthquake means they can't effectively perform their duties. A court in ... See all stories on this topic »

How Do You Handle a PR Disaster Like Greg Smith? New York Magazine How Do You Handle a PR Disaster Like Greg Smith? By Kevin Roose. Many, many people have weighed in on the story of Greg Smith, the former Goldman Sachs VP who resigned in a New York Times op-ed column and subsequently turned that column into ... See all stories on this topic » New York Magazine

FEMA offers disaster hotline WOWK Residents in the counties that will receive federal assistance may wonder whether the money they have already spent for this June's derecho damage repairs is reimbursable as disaster assistance. One way to learn more about this and other disaster ... See all stories on this topic »

PH resilience vs disaster cited Inquirer.net The three other Asia-Pacific nations cited by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) are Bangladesh, Vietnam and Indonesia, host of this week's 5th ... See all stories on this topic »

LETTER: Abortion invites disaster Richmond-News LETTER: Abortion invites disaster. Drought, fires, floods, tornados; as if natural disasters were not enough, your president's relentless expanding slaughter of the helpless innocent unborn future citizens with taxpayer money against our will. That ... See all stories on this topic »

Disaster Risk Insurance: NDMA likely to get plan approved by year-end Business Recorder (blog) The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) is likely to get the Disaster Risk Insurance plan approved by December this year, providing disaster risk cover to all people in the country. This will be the most comprehensive insurance plan in the ... See all stories on this topic »

Italy disaster head Luciano Maiani quits over L'Aquila BBC News The head of Italy's disaster body, Luciano Maiani, has resigned in protest at prison sentences passed on seven colleagues over the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila. Six scientists and an ex-official were convicted of multiple manslaughter for giving a ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

You're Kind of Screwed: Todd Berger on It's a Disaster Crave Online It's a Disaster premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival. We ran our interview with star Julia Stiles over the summer, and writer/director Todd Berger's news on Happytime Murders and Where's Waldo. Now It's a Disaster is opening the Friars Club ... See all stories on this topic »

Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Age Data Center Knowledge Disaster recovery procedures are nothing new, but the evolution of cloud hosting allows organizations to leverage aspects of physical and virtual technologies to ensure their information systems and internal business practices remain operational in the ... See all stories on this topic » Data Center Knowledge

A meeting of the National Disaster Committee which comprises all the relevant ... Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service A meeting of the National Disaster Committee which comprises all the relevant agencies was convened this afternoon as the nation prepares for the threat posed by Tropical Storm Sandy. Jamaica is now under a tropical storm warning as Tropical Storm ... See all stories on this topic »

The Blue Pine Disaster, Part 3: What Will the Future Bring for BKP? Canadian ... Core77.com (blog) It seemed like a good bet: Turn waste into biomass fuel. Faced with an enormous surplus of Beetle Kill Pine just waiting to be harvested, Colorado entrepreneur Mark Mathis gambled that pressing them into fuel pellets would be the way to go. The pressed ... See all stories on this topic » Core77.com (blog)

Feds call for weather warning changes in wake of disasters such as Irene BurlingtonFreePress.com Although National Weather Service meteorologists in South Burlington and Albany, N.Y., did an outstanding job issuing timely and accurate warnings of the impending disaster looming over Vermont, their format and variety sometimes were confusing to the ... See all stories on this topic »

As FEMA deadline for Hurricane Isaac relief nears, another outreach center opens NOLA.com As the Oct. 30 deadline for individuals and business owners impacted by Hurricane Isaac to register with the FEMA nears, the U.S. Small Business Administration on Tuesday opened a Disaster Loan Outreach Center in Chalmette. The center, at the First ... See all stories on this topic » NOLA.com

Hillsborough disaster police watchdog doubted ESPN.co.uk MPs have raised questions over the ability of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to cope with its own investigation into the Hillsborough disaster. There are concerns that the police watchdog does not have the resources or manpower to ... See all stories on this topic »

Hillsborough officer Sir Norman Bettison 'should stand down' BBC News Sir Norman previously defended his role in the aftermath of the disaster, saying he "never altered a statement nor asked for one to be altered" and he had "absolutely nothing to hide". Maria Eagle. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

This cancelled badger cull spells disaster for farmers. The Government doesn't ... Telegraph.co.uk (blog) The Government is going to postpone its plans for a badger cull. There are just too many badgers, and it's just a little too late, according to the Today programme this morning. This spells disaster for the Government – and above all for farmers. See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk (blog)

Disaster money misused: McClelland The Canberra Times Mr McClelland is also calling for the end to a handout mentality after natural disasters that allows $1000 of taxpayers' money to go to people who were only ''inconvenienced'' by a flood. He suggests the money has been used to buy luxury items rather ... See all stories on this topic »

HSU a $7m disaster, reports show Sydney Morning Herald OFFICIALS at the scandal-plagued Health Services Union oversaw a $7 million collapse in the union's assets in just two years, before it was placed in administration in June. Despite this, the union may still owe $565,000 to former general secretary ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

3 Detroit Lions Most to Blame for Offense's MNF Disaster Bleacher Report The Detroit Lions narrowly avoided getting blanked by the Chicago Bears on Monday Night Football. Detroit should have put more points on the board than the seven that they mustered, but mistakes by several players took the Lions out of position to score. See all stories on this topic » Bleacher Report

See a Trailer for 3D Disaster 'Empires of the Deep' with Olga Kurylenko First Showing Following in the footsteps of those two, another crazy creation was this, a $100 $130 million 3D underwater epic called Empires of the Deep. The project was apparently a huge disaster, kept running over its budget, losing stars, and in the end was made ... See all stories on this topic »

Disaster Tourism in New Orleans: Good Idea or Bad? Meetings Net (blog) ... Southwest U.S · West U.S. · Mountain U.S. · Canada · Europe/Middle East/Africa · The Caribbean and Islands of the Atlantic · South/Central America · Asia/Pacific. Advertisement. Home > Blogs > Disaster Tourism in New Orleans: Good Idea or Bad? See all stories on this topic »

Disaster response robot will inspect the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor ... YouTube There is no Interactive Transcript. Published on Oct 23, 2012 by Diginfonews. Disaster response robot will inspect the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor building http://www.diginfo.tv/v/12-0186-r-en.php DigInfo TV - http://diginfo.tv 19/10/2012 Japan ... See all stories on this topic »

Italian disaster body executives resign in protest after conviction of ... RTE.ie Senior members of an Italian government disaster assessment body resigned today, following the conviction of seven scientists and officials a day after seven scientists and officials were convicted of manslaughter. Article; Comments. 1 of 1. A ... See all stories on this topic »

The Disaster Business Scientists Denounce Dubious Climate Study by Insurer Spiegel Online Whether it's hurricanes, thunderstorms or tornadoes, extreme weather is big business for insurers. Now German re-insurer Munich Re claims to have found proof that man-made climate change is causing more weather catastrophes in North America. See all stories on this topic » Spiegel Online

Officials prepare for disaster drill at McCarran International Airport Las Vegas Review - Journal Instead, it will be one of the special effects of the disaster drill required by the Federal Aviation Administration once every three years. The exercise calls for an "emergency incident" to befall a Boeing 767 flown by the fictional Trans-Pacific ... See all stories on this topic »

Live Oak installs Post-Disaster Redevelopment Plan Branford News Live Oak — The Live Oak City Council met with several agencies on Friday for a special called meeting to develop a post-disaster redevelopment plan for the city that still feels the devastation of Tropical Storm Debby in late June. This plan will ... See all stories on this topic »

Bruce Greenwood And Several More Added To Cast Of Challenger Disaster TV ... Cinema Blend The BBC and the Science Channel team-up to tell the story of the 1986 Challenger explosion in a TV movie format seemed to be a bit of a weird one, but maybe that is because the Science Channel isn't exactly known for that sort of content. Regardless ... See all stories on this topic » Cinema Blend

City's disaster communications needs improvement, report says Colorado Springs Business Journal Better communication with each other and with residents topped the list of lessons learned from the Waldo Canyon fire, said city officials at a preliminary after-action report this morning. The fire started June 23 and raced into the Mountain Shadows ... See all stories on this topic »

Asia-Pacific suffered more in natural disasters: UN The Hindu The earthquake in Japan, the tsunami and nuclear disaster that ensued, and the floods in Southeast Asia, Thailand in particular, were major contributors to the staggering US $ 294 billion in regional economic losses during the year, says the Asia ... See all stories on this topic »

Amazon Web Services outages don't have to be a disaster in the making TechTarget "[It] requires implementation of [a] disaster recovery and business continuity plan and implementation, which is often ignored or deemed overly expensive and an unacceptable cost relative to risk," he said. "Only a very small number of our clients are ... See all stories on this topic »

Italy disaster body head quits over ruling Herald Sun THE head of Italy's top disaster body has resigned in protest after seven of its members were sentenced to six years in jail for manslaughter for underestimating the risks of a deadly 2009 earthquake. Luciano Maiami told the ANSA news agency on Tuesday ... See all stories on this topic »

Disaster declaration now covers Interior flooding Anchorage Daily News FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A disaster declaration has been expanded to include three regions of Interior Alaska impacted by flooding in late September. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://is.gd/Nd3PG2) says Gov. Sean Parnell has expanded an earlier ... See all stories on this topic »

Meeting to address natural disasters Lincoln Courier Local emergency officials say the severe drought of 2012 raised important questions. How vulnerable are Logan County residents to drought and other natural hazards such as floods and tornadoes? What are the most frequently occurring natural hazards in ... See all stories on this topic »

Rihanna flirting with a disaster (named Chris Brown) San Francisco Examiner As that wise sage Dr. Phil McGraw often notes, "The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior." Rihanna must not watch daytime TV, because she apparently has gone back to admitted woman-beater and all-around loser Chris Brown. They have been ... See all stories on this topic » San Francisco Examiner

Evessa disaster was predictable, coach claims The Japan Times Evessa disaster was predictable, coach claims. By ED ODEVEN. Staff writer. In the aftermath of Osaka Evessa coach Zoran Kreckovic's getting fired on Monday, there were many stunned players and coaches around the bj-league, what with Kreckovic only ... See all stories on this topic »

Fast Asian growth brings extra disaster risks: UN AFP "The region has been slow to be concerned by how the growth of disaster risks has been spurred by rapid economic growth," said the report from the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. The UN noted a "pattern of recent growth ... See all stories on this topic »

Homeland Security worries La. sinkhole irreparably damaged, more sinkholes Examiner.com "Until we figure out what is going on below the surface, it would be very negligent on our part to ask these people to come back into their homes," said Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Waguespack about the Bayou Corne sinkhole disaster, according to the ... See all stories on this topic » Examiner.com

Director of Emergency, Disaster Management and Special Services, Dr. Marion ... Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service Director of Emergency, Disaster Management and Special Services, Dr. Marion Bullock DuCasse is urging individuals who may be experiencing severe symptoms of dengue fever or dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) to visit the nearest health facility ... See all stories on this topic »

Analysis: Pension Reform Spells Disaster for Asset Management Sector The Moscow Times A government plan to slash compulsory retirement savings threatens to cripple the nascent asset-management industry without fixing a hole in the state pension budget, industry players and economic experts warn. Progress on pension reform is being ... See all stories on this topic »

From disaster chef to masterchef Reading Post Kirsty's mum answered the call for 'disaster chefs' – and after making superhuman progress through the rounds, the 24-year-old is now the Kenwood Chef 2012, with prizes worth more than £4,000. Trying to make one of Britain's favourite pies from crisps ... See all stories on this topic »

Red Cross and BC team-up for disaster response News1130 BC has signed a formal agreement with the agency that ensures its Canadian arm is regularly involved in planning for a natural disaster. This gives the Red Cross a seat at the table as plans are made for handling emergencies in this province. See all stories on this topic »

Precious Earth: Sustainable Disaster Recovery Conference FOX2now.com The conference aims to help cities hit by natural disasters rebuild strong, livable communities by identifying ways to efficiently and effectively weave elements of sustainability into the disaster recovery process, while increasing collaboration among ... See all stories on this topic » FOX2now.com

Ranchers Receive Drought Disaster Checks 5 News Ranchers in the River Valley and Northwest Arkansas affected by the drought this year have received state disaster funding. Bob Bond is a rancher who owns a farm just south of Ozark. He says this year was tough. "It was dry real early, pastures dried ... See all stories on this topic » 5 News

Jon Hamm Has A Serious White Powder Makeup Disaster (PHOTOS) Huffington Post Jon Hamm Has A Serious White Powder Makeup Disaster (PHOTOS). The Huffington Post | By Jessica Misener Posted: 10/23/2012 1:59 pm EDT Updated: 10/23/2012 2:02 pm EDT. reddit stumble · Share on Google+. Get Style Alerts: Sign Up. React: Hot ... See all stories on this topic »

More areas to receive state disaster aid for flooding Fairbanks Daily News-Miner FAIRBANKS — The state has expanded a disaster declaration to include three regions of Interior Alaska hit by flooding in late September. On Friday, Gov. Sean Parnell broadened an earlier declaration, issued Sept. 21 primarily for Southcentral Alaska. See all stories on this topic »

Downton Disaster? Our Theories On Dan Stevens' Possible Departure Quote VH1 Downton Disaster? Our Theories On Dan Stevens' Possible Departure Quote. by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher). Dan Stevens hasn't signed on for season 4 of Downton Abbey. Fetch the smelling salts, O'Brien! This quote from Downton Abbey's Dan ... See all stories on this topic »

Non-communicable diseases: Looming disaster Malaya 'Non-communicable diseases have emerged as the new global scourge causing 36 million deaths each year around the world. Ninety percent of these deaths (29 million) occur in low and middle-income developing countries.' WHATEVER the outcome of the ... See all stories on this topic »

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