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- Global warming makes you sick
- Global warming makes you sickActually, reading blogs like this, makes me sick.Global warming is a farce, with last years average temperature down by a full degree, the same temperature average as 100 years ago.Climate changes happen...From ice ages to tropic ages. A couple of good volcano eruptions put out...
- Tags: global warming
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- Google updates maps after Katrina 'airbrushing' incident
- Google updates maps after Katrina 'airbrushing' incidentInteresting how Congress can get so hot and fast on the ballexcept for help care, cost of living, where tax dollars get wasted, etc etc. Guess this was an easy target, Google will want to maintain its earned imagine. Now back...
- Tags: INTERNET, Google Inc., Katrina, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2007-04-02
- After Katrina, meeting discusses online education in disasters
- After the Hurricane Katrina disaster brought the Louisiana school system to its knees, experts on emergency preparedness in higher education decided it was crucial to incorporate online education into school curriculum, reports CampusTechnology At a meeting last week in New Orleans, experts in disaster preparedness discussed the uses of...
- Tags: online education, education
- Blog posts 2006-09-29
- American Red Cross CIO: Steve Cooper
- Dan Farber: Now, it's the year 2006 I can remember in the past five years when we used to talk about cost cutting and consolidation, and now all of a sudden we're talking about innovation again. Now, you've been at Corning Inc, you were in the Dept. of Homeland...
- Tags: Innovation, CIO, Recommendation, Cooper, Red Cross, Technology, American Red Cross, Identity Management, Katrina, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- Nagin praises edtech for N.O. schools
- Modern education technology could be just the ticket to put New Orleans' school on track, a year after the devastation of Katrina, Mayor Ray Nagin told eSchool News. "[Students] embrace [technology] very easily, and they use it on a regular basis," he said. "[Technology] is going to be the...
- Tags: Mayor Ray Nagin, Katrina
- Blog posts 2006-08-08
- Burning Man vets bring Wi-Fi to Katrina region
- Burning Man vets bring Wi-Fi to Katrina regionThe Right IdeaHere is a perfect example of what technology is able to achieve. With the initiative that the Burning Man volunteers show, here, we receive a glimmer of hope. I concur, that means should be developed to make such resources available to...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Burning Man, Katrina, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2006-03-02
- NY mayor's $100 million for stem cell research
- NY mayor's $100 million for stem cell researchGood going Mayor Bloomberg, The Bush administration hasn't the guts to.....stand up for what's good for all Americans. This quote from the article hit the nail on the head..........."The Bush administration has not supported federal funding of embryonic stem research which would include...
- Tags: Bloomberg L.P., John Kerry, stem-cell, Katrina
- Discussion threads 2006-02-03
- Tools for the ultimate high-tech survival kit
- Tools for the ultimate high-tech survival kitHigh tech is the way to go...These kits were designed to give the user the ability to make rational, possibly life saving decisions without having to spend time or energy thinking about your most basic needs of food, water, continuous light and communication. Other...
- Tags: Nanotechnology, Engineering, Channel management, High Tech, hand-crank, survival kit, Katrina
- Discussion threads 2005-09-30
- Katrina may push agencies towards telework
- Katrina may push agencies towards teleworkExamples of telework during diastersAnyone interested in how telework is put into action in an emergency can look at how managers coped during the La Prieta earthquake and during a newspaper fire. See www.joannepratt.com/publications.htm
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Katrina, agency
- Discussion threads 2005-09-28
- Katrina may push agencies towards telework
- Earlier this summer, the Cyber Security Industry Alliance released a paper detailing the federal government's "puny" uptake of telework telecommuting to some and the inadequate reasons for this slowness. Now, in the wake of Katrina, the need is great for government employees to work, even though offices may be closed...
- Tags: Telecommuting, Wolf, agency, Katrina
- Blog posts 2005-09-19
- FBI warns about fake Katrina charity Web sites
- FBI warns about fake Katrina charity Web sitesKatrina's "Off Site" Potential Identity Theft VictimsYou don't have to be in New Orleans or the Gulf Coast to suffer from identity theft, as a result of Katrina's devastation. You only have to do business with a company that houses your name,...
- Tags: Federal government, Web site development, Web technology, Web, Katrina, Dunning Letter, FBI, Web site
- Discussion threads 2005-09-14
- Katrina shows need for e-health records
- With no medical records available for the vast majority of Katrina victims, the work of medical practioners has been made immeasurably more difficult, Mike Leavitt, secretary of Health and Human Services, told an e-health conference today, Government Health IT reports. “If there was ever a case for [electronic...
- Tags: health, Katrina Victims, e-health
- Blog posts 2005-09-08
- Can tech industry rise to Katrina's housing challenge?
- Can tech industry rise to Katrina's housing challenge?One efforthttp://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp
- Tags: Katrina, tech industry
- Discussion threads 2005-09-04
- Can tech industry rise to Katrina's housing challenge?
- Apparently, my wife and I aren't alone. We know we can donate money to various organizations like the Red Cross. We also know that we can help in some other direct way as well. For example, the idea of offering up some space in our home and the...
- Tags: Katrina, tech industry, industry
- Blog posts 2005-09-02
- Is administration to blame for comm failures during Katrina?
- Is administration to blame for comm failures during Katrina?AdministrationSure, it,s got to be Bush, doesn't it?You guys really scrape to cover up problems caused by that wonderfull,honest,upright etc.etc.Clinton.blame,blame, blamethe first thing that happens after a disaster is the blame game. in this case blame the current administration in washington,d.c....
- Tags: Workforce management, Financial Planning, sea level, Katrina, C.B., administration, insurance
- Discussion threads 2005-09-01
- Online scams emerge in Katrina's wake
- Online scams emerge in Katrina's wakeWe have people dead, dying and living is sub humanconditions and there are scum on-line taking advantage of this and using it as a tool to make a dishonest buck!?! To take what might be life saving funds away from those truly in need...
- Tags: Spam, Katrina, online scam
- Discussion threads 2005-09-01
- Recovering from Katrina
- Recovering from KatrinaI object!Never before in the history of mankind has there been SO MUCH advance warning of a disaster. I read many good articles about how New Orleans was a sitting duck and that steps were NEVER taken to fix the problems. Earthen levees that were built in...
- Tags: business resumption, Katrina
- Discussion threads 2005-08-31
- Recovering from Katrina
- Katrina has taken a terrible toll in human life and devastated communities. In the aftermath of the disaster, recovery firms are helping getting business back online. The effectiveness of business continuity plans and the best laid disaster recovery systems are being put to the ultimate test. Given that Katrina won't...
- Tags: Backups, Katrina, information technology, Hurricane Warning, backup
- Blog posts 2005-08-30
- Images: Deadly Katrina hits Gulf Coast
- Images: Deadly Katrina hits Gulf CoastKatrinaMy deepest sympathy and heartfelt prayers go out to everyone affected by this awful storm. As I have watched the progression, I've tried to put myself in that area, and imagine how horrible it would be, and I can truly say that everyone going...
- Tags: Katrina
- Discussion threads 2005-08-30
- Bloggers record Katrina destruction
- Bloggers record Katrina destructionCan George Bush become a president?He's not very good at dancing so this time he won't be able to dance around the destruction that Katrina has caused. He's already got the political bullshit machine hitting the airways. Figure next will be the censorship of the...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, George W. Bush, Katrina
- Discussion threads 2005-08-30
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