The hit parade of Google Driveupdates continues. As of today, account holders can publish web content to their Drive storage in a public folder accessible from any browser; it can even host JavaScript for those who want to run web apps from their personal space. Lest we rush to toss out our existing web hosts, however, Google has some inherent ground rules. Content has to be static, and any links to other pages or files in the folder need a special approach to show web addresses that make sense to mere humans. As such, Google Drive won't quite relive the glory days of 1998 and simple web tools; at least we can still add a permanent "under construction" GIF.
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CFT's Predictions 101: This SEC championship game doubles as a national semifinal, but in our mind it?s also for all the marbles. Either the No. 2 Crimson Tide or No. 3 Bulldogs will earn the honor of winning the SEC?s seventh consecutive BCS title with a victory over No. 1 Notre Dame in Miami on Jan. 7.
More businesses are expressing interest in purchasing flood insurance coverage from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in the wake of Superstorm Sandy?s heavy rain, record storm surge, and resulting widespread flood damage, according to insurance broker Marsh.
Hoboken, N.J. Hurricane Sandy damaged hundreds of businesses and left most of the town under water. Photo: Marty Bahamonde/FEMA
Although most companies purchase commercial flood insurance through the private market, more are now inquiring about purchasing additional coverage through the NFIP, Marsh said. When used in tandem, NFIP coverage can mitigate or ?buy down? large deductibles associated with commercial flood policies or simply provide additional coverage.
Under the NFIP, non-residential businesses can purchase up to $500,000 in building and $500,000 in content coverage, while residential businesses can purchase up to $250,000 in building and $100,000 in content coverage.
Marsh said it can place up to $30 million in excess of NFIP flood insurance, including business interruption, with A-rated insurance capacity.
?NFIP coverage and commercial flood insurance policies are complementary in that they can be structured to work in concert with one another,? said Duncan Ellis, Marsh?s U.S. Property Practice Leader. ?That said, many businesses rely solely on the commercial marketplace and do not purchase additional coverage through the NFIP, despite the widespread availability and relatively inexpensive cost. Given the massive flooding from Sandy, businesses appear to be re-thinking their approach to flood coverage.?
?We are seeing an uptick in the number of calls inquiring about NFIP coverage since the storm,? said Patrice Collingwood, leader of Marsh?s Flood Service Center, which specializes in placing NFIP coverage. ?By purchasing NFIP coverage in addition to commercial flood, companies impacted by a flooding event can direct moneys that would otherwise be set aside to pay for deductibles toward other recovery efforts.?
NFIP Coverage
According to NFIP, almost 40 percent of small businesses never reopen following a disaster. Over the past five years, the average commercial flood claim has been about $75,000.
Out of NFIP?s more than 5.5 million policies, only about 283,000 are non-residential. The policy limit of $500,000 is often inadequate for businesses, so many turn to commercial insurers for flood insurance.
Many non-residential buildings in a moderate-to-low risk area qualify for NFIP coverage at a preferred rate for building and contents coverage. Contents-only coverage is also available. Commercial coverage provides up to $500,000 of insurance to protect a building and up to $500,000 to protect contents. Preferred risk premiums start at $584 per year for both building and contents, while contents-only coverage starts at $167 per year.
Businesses that do not qualify for a preferred risk NFIP policy may be able to purchase a standard rated policy. Standard policy premiums start at $1,535 for building and contents, and at $630 for contents-only. Premiums for buildings in high risk areas start at $1,750 for buildings and contents and $$850 for contents-only. NFIP charges higher rates for buildings in coastal areas: $2,280 to start for buildings and contents and $1,110 for contents-only.
HANS REY, RUTHIE MATTHES & MARLA STREB TO RIDE MTB AYITI STAGE RACE Five Day ?Build | Race | Explore? Event showcases an unexplored Haiti
?Port-au-Prince, Haiti ? MTB? Ayiti, the first international cycling event in Haiti, today announced a line-up that includes National & World Champions Hans Rey, Marla Streb, Ruthie Mathes, and Sonya Looney. General registration is now open and offers a unique opportunity for inspired amateurs to ride alongside icons and legends.? There will also be 15 racers from the Leogane Cycling Club, a local team that has produced several national champions in Haiti.
Ayiti literally means ?land of mountains? and is the perfect backdrop for a unique event that combines a once-in-a-lifetime cultural immersion experience with the opportunity to build the foundation for a sustainable adventure tourism industry.? All while racing an insanely challenging course through some of the most rugged and awe-inspiring terrain in the world.
?Our goal is to profoundly shift the perspective of what Haiti truly has to offer,? says Philip Kiracofe, the founder of MTB Ayiti, ?and to do that, we want to attract a broad range of mountain bikers, from ranked pro?s to passionate recreational riders.?
Participants can expect a world class course designed by Race Director Rick Sutton (co-founder of Sea Otter Classic & Plus 3 Network) and Steve Zdawczynski, former national age-group champion. ??Advisors include Stephanie Villedrouin (Minister of Tourism, Haiti), Steve Whisnant (Managing Director for US Olympic Committee), Chris Kehmeier (IMBA Trail Specialist) and Elayna Caldwell (Marketing Director, Interbike).
The first two ?stages? of this unique race format are ecosystem building days.? Participants will build a bike rental shop, map trails, and train mechanics to help kick start recreational mountain biking.? Biking begins with Stage 3. Starting in front of the former National Palace, riders will be escorted through Port au Prince to the base of the climbs, where they will ascend more than 8000? before reaching La Visite National Park, a vast protected forest with awe-inspiring views.? The final day starts with a 15+ mile single track course followed by a 6000? descent and a sprint along the coast into Jacmel, where riders will be greeted by thousands of revelers celebrating Carnival.? Total distance over 3 stages (2 days) is estimated at 75 miles.
Registration is strictly capped at 75 participants.
ABOUT MTB AYITI
January 29 ? February 3, 2013.? $1599 registration fee (all inclusive except for flights).? There are daily direct flights into Port au Prince from Miami, Atlanta, and NYC. ?Winners will have a bike provided in their name to a Haitian village by Wheels4Life. Event details, maps, photos and video can be found on the website at MTBAyiti.
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Tuesday Highlights: IDC statistics show Apple is making huge inroads in the enterprise market with iPhones being bought "in droves"; Apple, LG being sued over Alcatel-Lucent patents; European Union may be preparing to intervene in German case between Apple, Samsung; and Apple makes claim that Samsung's supposed workaround is still infringing on the pinch-to-zoom patent; Apple once again at the top of smartphone sales in the United States thanks to iPhone 5?more in our Apple/Macintosh section; and Darcy Travlos at Forbes examines the statistics surrounding huge use of iPads in online shopping during Black Friday sales; sources over in Europe claim that Apple has decimated their pro audio team, casting doubt on future of Logic; OSX 10.8.3 beta reveals new ATI graphics; Macworld reviews Little Snitch, an app which "snitches on misbehaving apps"; you may not expect this news to come from Microsoft, but apparently their data proves that we are, in fact, obsessed with iPhones; but on the desktop app store side, Microsoft's new Windows 8 store has already had 3x the downloads as the Mac App Store, yet just a paltry 1/5th of Apple's revenues; General Motors will integrate Siri into certain Chevy models; tablets are the future of gaming reports Fortune's Kevin Chou; over on Bing, Microsoft's search engine, Apple products have dominated searches in 2012; Apple announces the new 21" iMac will be available on November 30th, the 27" model ships in December?reports in our Hardware/Software section where you'll also find the latest in Apple's granted patents including a round up of 36 patents at Patently Apple, AppleInsider highlights OS X widgets, dashboard, and MacNews on Mac keyboard illumination; Kickstarter iPad keyboard case from Brydge reviewed by Techland, The Mac Observer; bloggers will find Macworld's review of WordPress for iOS of interest; is Apple losing ground to Google, Amazon, and if so, why?
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"Nexus 4 Returns To Google Play Store Tuesday: Those unable to snag a Nexus 4 when the smartphone went on sale Nov. 13 have a second chance beginning Tuesday afternoon."?InformationWeek?11:08 AM
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"Amazon Says Kindle Sales Set a New Record on Cyber Monday"?Mashable?9:37 AM
"Ericsson files patent lawsuit against Samsung"?ZDNet?8:30 AM
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"Microsoft's Top News Story On Bing For 2012 Was The iPhone 5"?Cult of Mac?9:29 PM
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"Five ways the Surface RT beats the iPad"?PCWorld?4:27 PM
"Apple Is Still Getting The Last Laugh"?Forbes?1:44 PM
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"Apple iPhone Surpasses Android in U.S. Sales for October"?The Mac Observer?8:16 PM
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A 40-foot recreation of a 19th-century lighthouse rises inside the atrium of Lockheed Martin?s Center for Innovation.
An exercise in planning for months proves timely in light of Hurricane Sandy
By Art Kalinski
I was going to write about the increasing presence of social media at GEOINT 2012, but I?ll cover that next month since Hurricane Sandy made an exercise I attended last week more significant in its timeliness.
The Disaster Response Integrative Logistics Exercise was a joint effort of the Institute for Defense & Business and Lockheed Martin. Heading up the effort was retired U.S. Ambassador David Litt of the IDB and Corey Cook of Lockheed Martin. The almost week-long event was held at the Lockheed Martin Lighthouse located in Suffolk, Virginia, near Norfolk. The 65,000-square-foot high-technology facility is designed for experimentation and prototyping using analysis, modeling and simulation. It?s a reconfigurable command and control operations laboratory that permits participants to test and analyze concepts in a gaming environment.
The stated purpose of the disaster response exercise was: ?Given the nature, frequency, location and severity of disasters, inter-organizational collaboration ? to include the private sector ? is becoming increasingly critical to the efficiency and effectiveness of logistics in disaster responses.?? The exercise involved more than a 100 participants from the private sector, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and military services. Lou Kratz, Vice president and managing director, Logistics and Sustainment, Corporate Engineering & Technology for Lockheed Martin, stated that ?Today?s crisis response efforts struggle with effective collaboration among participating organizations, especially in the domain of logistics. This trend cannot continue in an era of 21st-century logistics capabilities. With global resources available from public sector and private organizations, we all need to collaborate effectively to help our communities and businesses recover.?
The Lockheed Martin Lighthouse in Suffolk, Virginia, site of the Disaster Response Integrative Logistics Exercise.
And collaborate we did! The list of participants was quite extensive and quite diverse. To give you a sense of the attendees, here is a partial list of organizations represented:
commercial companies included DHL, Maersk, Florida Power and Light, Fluor, Home Depot, Walmart
federal government agencies included FEMA, DHS, GSA, HHS, USAID, State Department
military organizations included NAVSUP, NORTHCOM, USACE, USAF, USMC, USN, SOUTHCOM, National Defense University, USCG, NORTHCOM
NGOs included United Nations agencies, the Red Cross, Operation Blessing, Catholic Relief Services and many more.
Conference attendance was significantly impacted by Hurricane Sandy, which also highlighted its timeliness.? FEMA, USAID, USACE, and the Red Cross, who were confirmed attendees and were instrumental in the development of the DRIL exercise, were deployed to Hurricane Sandy just hours before the start of the event. Fortunately, attendance to the DRIL by multiple organizations and substitute personnel was still robust, allowing for a highly successful exercise.
The DRIL exercise had robust attendance despite Hurricane Sandy.
Some of the exercise objectives included defining and understanding different agency logistics capabilities, leadership structures, institutional and regulatory obstacles, differences in cultures, missions and operating procedures while developing metrics to evaluate performance in disaster response efforts. To accomplish the objectives, all the participants were organized into four integrated teams that were then separated at times into functional teams and then reassembled with representatives speaking for each team to the entire group of attendees.
Since this was the first exercise of its type, it was a learning experience for all involved and focused on the basics of personnel interactions and group consensus.? Each participant had access to his or her own computer, common computer resources and pre-developed exercise parameters. There were many artificial assumptions presented to the teams, and the team members made even more assumptions and guesses as they worked through the individual scenarios. Most of the exercise consisted of reviewing the effects of Category 5 hurricanes hitting the Dominican Republic, South Florida and Virginia, so there was a domestic as well as international impact. We participated in our groups, listening to individual team members with specialized knowledge and experience, then prioritized the delivery of needed resources and services. As the exercises ramped up, there were many animated discussions in which basics such as water, food, shelter, medical, electric power and transportation infrastructure were prioritized and justification documented.
I made several observations to myself as the exercises progressed. First, there are definite cultural differences between federal, military, NGO and commercial agencies. Not bad differences, just different. Second, individual personalities can steer the group dynamics and outcomes. And third, situational awareness is critical to effective disaster response. Geospatial technology was not part of this first exercise, but would clearly have been valuable to provide a common operational picture. That level of complexity would not have been practical for this initial exercise, but it does lead me to the ?Solutions? room next to the main exercise area.
In a space adjacent to the main exercise room was a ?Solutions? room that showcased potentially helpful technologies. The room was open to exercise participants toward the tail end of the week. It consisted of a diverse assortment of commercial and government solutions that addressed some of the issues? the teams struggled with during the week. Examples include a new computer-based system developed by the Navy Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) that is similar to the commercial Kayak flight search system. The Transportation Exploitation Tool (TET) was explained to me by Greg Butler, division director, NAVSUP GLS Transportation, who initiated the effort. He explained that all too often resources are wasted flying parts or personnel on dedicated aircraft that are duplicate trips of other aircraft or ships with available space traveling to the same location. The new geospatial network scheduling system optimizes transportation resources across all branches of service and already saved the Navy $23M on a $750k investment.
Lockheed Martin?s Hybrid Air Vehicle is a multi-mission capable airship.
Lockheed Martin displayed several technologies, including communications and data management technologies. One of the most interesting was its Hybrid Aircraft that was initially developed for military use. However, its ability to transport equipment and supplies efficiently to undeveloped sites while providing a persistent platform for communications and to collect and download imagery makes it a valuable asset for emergency response activities.? To learn more, view the following video.
A representative from NATO explained the NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center, including a map library and custom services. Several exhibitors demonstrated the use of social media, which can be a very valuable and timely source of information to build situational awareness during emergencies. A company I work with, Soft Power Solutions, integrates GIS resources such as Google, USGS, ortho and oblique imagery married to geographically placed social media to build situational awareness that is quite robust. It was especially dramatic that during demonstrations, a 7.2 earthquake was reported off the coast of Guatemala.? One could easily see the growing number of tweets that almost immediately confirmed the earthquake and level of damage. Here is a ShakeMap generated by USGS within minutes of the earthquake showing the level of impact on the Guatemalan coast (shown in yellow).
A USGS ShakeMap shows the impact of an earthquake on the Guatemalan coast (in yellow).
One of the exercise objectives was to develop metrics that would evaluate performance in disaster response efforts. There were many metrics developed that one would expect ? roads open, electricity restored, utilities restored, etc. However, the one informal metric that was developed through personal experience of Florida emergency responders was the ?Waffle House? metric. Waffle House is a ubiquitous restaurant chain with locations throughout the southeast. The Florida responders observed that driving from one county?s Waffle House to another open Waffle House was a good indicator that the location was in OK shape.? Since a Waffle House needs minimal staffing and utilities compared to larger restaurants, it was a good indicator as to how bad conditions were in the location. Perhaps someone will develop a ?Waffle House Open? type GIS layer as a metric to ?okayness.?? Sounds like a good thesis for a GIS graduate student.
Everyone who participated was enthusiastic about conducting another similar exercise. Planning is already underway to make that happen. I, for one, feel that this kind of exercise can have a significant positive impact on future disasters because it builds face-to-face relationships that are so valuable during actual events. I?m going to do what I can to help with a geospatial aspect in future exercises.
Written by: GPS World staff on November 27, 2012. Last revised by: bchambersNovember 28, 2012.
With 47 percent of the popular vote, Mitt Romney may become the president of nothing more than Ironystan. Yes, the final general-election tally is trickling in and, as fate would have it, Romney's total might look more like that mythical number after all. Well, according to David Wasserman of the Cook Political report, it's more like 47.49 and dropping, which, of course rounds down to 47 ? the same percentage of Americans?he said were moochers and takers in a video?that was one of the nails in the coffin of his presidential campaign.
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