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Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Titles from CRC Press -- A Leading Publisher in Counterterrorism and Homeland Security
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 ISBN: 9781420074208 Cat. #: AU7420 Pub Date: May 2009 Pages: 546 List Price: $69.95 Discounted Price: $59.46
This is the first core text that tackles the myriad recovery issues faced by federal, state, and local emergency managers in a long-term disaster recovery situation. Topics include recovery planning, housing, debris management, public and private sector recovery, and historical and cultural preservation. The author also discusses environmental recovery, social and psychological recovery and services, voluntary organizations, federal assistance programs, grant-writing, and donations management.
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The first book solely dedicated to the topic of pre-disaster awareness communication, this volume considers the best ways to communicate disaster risk factors, response plans, and emergency procedures to the public without fomenting panic. The authors provide a history of disaster preparedness education and discuss the design of an effective public awareness campaign. This resource provides public officials, emergency coordinators, and community leaders with the tools needed to design, and carry out effective communication for public preparedness..
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Surveillance Effort Draws Civil Liberties Concern
By Eric Schmitt
.A growing number of big-city police departments and other law enforcement agencies across the country are embracing a new system to report suspicious activities that officials say could uncover terrorism plots but that civil liberties groups contend might violate individual rights.
Here and in nearly a dozen other cities, including Boston, Chicago and Miami, officers are filling out terror tip sheets if they run across activities in their routines that seem out of place, like someone buying police or firefighter uniforms, taking pictures of a power plant or espousing extremist views.
Ultimately, state and federal officials intend to have a nationwide reporting system in place by 2014, using a standardized system of codes for suspicious behaviors. It is the most ambitious effort since the Sept. 11 attacks to put in place a network of databases to comb for clues that might foretell acts of terrorism.
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Baghdad Car Bombings over 4 Hours Kill 48
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)
 Six car bombings in four hours killed 48 people and wounded 81 in various Baghdad neighborhoods Wednesday, according to Iraq's Interior Ministry.
In a separate incident, five people were killed and three wounded by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad, a ministry official said.
Most of the deaths came when three car bombs parked at separate but nearby marketplaces exploded in quick succession in the eastern Baghdad Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, killing at least 45 people and injuring at least 68, the ministryofficial said.
Three other car bombings followed. Two of those, outside a Shiite mosque in the Hurriya district of northern Baghdad, killed three people and wounded eight. The bombs exploded in close succession shortly before 9 p.m. (2 p.m. ET). A third a few hours earlier injured at least five civilians in a predominantly Shiite area of southwestern Baghdad, according to the ministry.
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Assessing Cyber-Physical System Security
By Kate Rowland, Editor-in-Chief, Intelligent Utility Topic Centers, Energy Central  The electric power grid is a highly automated network, with a variety of communication networks interconnected to it in order to sense, monitor and control the electricity flowing through it. With that high level of automation, however, comes the challenge of protecting it. In March, at the 2009 IEEE Power & Engineering Society Power Systems Conference & Exposition in Seattle, a panel sponsored by the society's Power System Analysis, Computing & Economics (PSACE) Committee brainstormed the research challenges and opportunities in the emerging theme of cyber-physical systems aspect of cyber security of power systems. Discussion encompassed attack/defense models, risk assessment methods, attack prevention, and real-time mitigation algorithms, capturing not only the vulnerabilities of the cyber-based control systems, but also the resulting impacts on the physical power system in terms of capacity loss and stability. Bruce McMillin, a professor in the department of computer science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, noted there were complexities involved in the integration of computation with physical processes (i.e., information security in cyber-physical power systems). Concerns included the fact that "computers are in one world, and the physical process in another world," according to McMillin, the complex and unpredictable interactions between cyber and physical processes, and the flow of information across cyber and physical systems.
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WHO Raises Pandemic Alert to Second-Highest Level
 GENEVA, Switzerland (CNN) -- The World Health Organization on Wednesday raised its pandemic alert to 5, its second-highest level, warning of widespread human infection from the swine flu outbreak that originated in Mexico.
Dr. Margaret Chan, the U.N. agency's director-general, said the decision to raise the alert on the 6-point scale indicated that all countries should "immediately" activate pandemic preparedness plans.
"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharm industry and the business community that certain actions now should be taken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace," Chan said.
The announcement came as the number of confirmed cases increased rapidly across the world.
The WHO and national governments have confirmed 148 cases in nine countries. Most of those cases are in the United States, where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 91 cases.
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The 2009 South Florida Police & Security Expo is pleased to announce the partnership with Security Solutions International - SSI who will be hosting a one-day, Pre-Conference Training Class on Tuesday June 2nd, 2009, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, West Palm Beach, FL. For additional information, please click on the following link.
We are also excited to announce Sol Bradman, CEO of Security Solutions International, as the Keynote Speaker at this year's event. Mr. Bradman will be covering the topic: "Islamic Jihadist Threat to the World." This topic is designed to give First Responders a deep understanding of the terror mindset and an explanation of the reasons for the Global Jihad as well as practical tips for Law Enforcement in detecting, preventing and responding to acts of terror.
Sign up today to avoid long lines the day of the show. Registration is FREE on-line and a $5.00 door fee will apply the day of the Expo. Please visit our website at: www.SouthFloridaPoliceExpo.com and click on the "How to Attend" tab to register.
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Coast Guard to Regulate Waterfront LNG Terminals More Closely
By Jacob Goodwin, Editor-in-Chief
 In an effort to more closely regulate the construction or modification of waterfront liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied hazardous gas (LHG) facilities, the U.S. Coast Guard is proposing rules that would be similar to existing rules currently being imposed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on onshore LNG terminals.
The new rule would require the prospective operator of an LNG or LHG terminal to notify the Coast Guard at least one year before the start of any construction, by submitting what is known as a preliminary Waterway Suitability Assessment, or WSA, which describes its intentions.
"The Preliminary WSA, which is an outline of what the fully-detailed Follow-on WSA will contain, must provide an introductory explanation of the following: (1) Port characterization; (2) characterization of the facility and tanker route; (3) risk assessment for maritime safety and security; (4) risk management strategies; and (5) resource needs for maritime safety, security, and response," according to the notice of proposed rulemaking published by the Coast Guard in the Federal Register on April 28.
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Bombings Kill Nearly 90 in Iraq
By Jomana Karadsheh and Cal Perry CNN
Suicide bombers in Iraq launched two deadly attacks Thursday, killing at least 55 people in Diyala province and at least 28 people in Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said.
Four other people were killed in two other incidents, making Thursday the deadliest day in Iraq this year, with at least 87 dead and more than 120 wounded.
A Diyala provincial security official said an attacker set off a suicide vest at a restaurant in Imam Wais, about 70 kilometers, or more than 40 miles, northeast of Baquba, capital of the sprawling Diyala province, which is northeast of Baghdad.
Along with the 55 deaths, 67 people were wounded in the bombing, which targeted Iranian pilgrims, the Interior official said.
The Diyala security official said the pilgrims -- who had been visiting Shiite shrines -- had stopped for lunch at the restaurant when the attack occurred.
All but two of the dead were pilgrims, the official said. The other two were restaurant employees.
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Homeland Security Using Music to Protect the Border
By Meredith Yeomans
 PHOENIX - Can authorities protect the border with music?
Such a program does exist, but 3 On Your Side explains why the program has some people scratching their heads.
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a marketing campaign targeting a more mainstream audience.
While some say the approach is working, others claim it's a waste of taxpayer dollars.
In what may be one of the lesser known deterrents in battle against illegal immigration, the border patrol is adding music to its arsenal of weapons.
The CD is called "Migra Corridos" or " People in the Desert".
It's known as ranchero music, up-tempo, Mexican folk songs that have been around for centuries, but the message in this music is anything but traditional.
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The Mother of all Flu Pandemics
 By Victoria Gill
The flu virus is a survivor. It must continually evolve in order to evade its biggest threat - the immune system.
Mammals, including humans, make antibodies, which recognise and target the virus. "So it has to keep mutating to escape being destroyed," explains David Morens from the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Despite these tactics, most of the strains that make people ill during the eponymous "flu season" are sufficiently similar to infections most of us have been exposed to before.
Our immune systems recognise common parts that these new strains share with their ancestors, and can launch an effective defence.
Every so often, however, a different strain emerges and infects people - one that contains new genes from an animal virus.
Every so often, however, a different strain emerges and infects people - one that contains new genes from an animal virus.
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Terrorists Finding Safe Havens in East Africa By Lolita C. Baldor
 There is growing evidence that battle-hardened extremists are filtering out of safe havens along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and into East Africa, bringing sophisticated terrorist tactics that include suicide attacks. The alarming shift, according to U.S. military and counterterrorism officials, fuels concern that Somalia is increasingly on a path to become the next Afghanistan - a sanctuary where al-Qaida-linked groups could train and plan their threatened attacks against the western world. So far, officials say the number of foreign fighters who have moved from southwest Asia and the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region to the Horn of Africa is small, perhaps two to three dozen. But a similarly small cell of militant plotters was responsible for the devastating 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. And the cluster of militants now believed to be operating inside East Africa could pass on sophisticated training and attack techniques gleaned from seven years at war against the U.S. and allies in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. officials said.
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Report Warns of Future Chemical, Biological Threats
 The United States is likely to face a growing threat in coming years from biological and chemical weapons that are increasingly lethal and easy to manufacture, the Defense Department said in a report published this month (see GSN, March 13, 2008).
While some countries continue to seek out "traditional" chemical weapons, others might attempt to produce new materials that are "more difficult to detect, easier to disseminate, resistant to available medical countermeasures or have increased lethality," states the Pentagon's 2009 report on its Chemical and Biological Defense Program.
"The increased availability of related technologies, coupled with the relative ease of producing some chemical agents, has increased concern that CW production and employment may become more attractive to states or terrorist groups," the report says, according to Inside Missile Defense.
Biological threats are likely to grow over the next decade, the report states, noting that disease agents have been deemed "a valuable tool in nonstate arsenals" because they are "easier and cheaper to develop than nuclear weapons and are potentially for more destructive than [chemical weapons] to unprotected military forces or civilian populations."
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