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	<title>Len&#039;s News, Notes, and Stuff &#187; Emergency Management</title>
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		<title>Science or Not, Men and Women Communicate Differently</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of my colleagues and I attended a presentation by Dr. Schabas (by teleconference and remote Powerpoint) titled “Lessons of SARS, H5N1 and pH1N1: Pandemics or Panic-demics?” I thought it was a fantastic presentation. It was well-argued and with a clear conclusion and a strong, logical thought sequence supporting it all the way through. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pursue Excellence &#8216;Til It Hurts &#8211; Because That&#8217;s What It Always Takes</title>
		<link>http://www.leonardchu.com/blog/index.php/2011/pursue-excellence-til-it-hurts-because-thats-what-it-always-takes/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pursue-excellence-til-it-hurts-because-thats-what-it-always-takes</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excellence &#8211; and the pursuit of it &#8211; truly grab me emotionally. It&#8217;s why I like what I like. It&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve been interested in the hobbies and pursuits that I&#8217;ve done. It&#8217;s what I have sought in my professional life, and what I am now trying to build. It&#8217;s how I gauge cars, knives, guns, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Mix of Characters: PEMC 2011 in Kingston</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business continuity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For much of this week, I was in Kingston for the Provincial Emergency Management Conference. This is an annual conference organized by Red Cross Canada, bringing together municipal, provincial, and federal delegates from the field of emergency management. We had folks from Fire, Police, EM offices, provincial ministries, and even a few municipal administrators. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Is Worthless for Emergency Management Unless You Bring Your Brain with You</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just because lots of people are saying the same thing doesn’t make it right. That’s the problem with the open &#38; democratic realm of Twitter. I’m not advocating an elitist rule-by-experts world, but Twitter to me demonstrates how ludicrous things can get when you have lots of people with just a little bit of knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Happens If Your Key Network or Hosting Provider Is Knocked Out of Commission?</title>
		<link>http://www.leonardchu.com/blog/index.php/2010/what-happens-if-your-key-network-or-hosting-provider-is-knocked-out-of-commission/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-happens-if-your-key-network-or-hosting-provider-is-knocked-out-of-commission</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BCP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would happen if your key network or web hosting provider is knocked out of commission for over 12 hours? That is precisely what happened with my web hosting provider yesterday. While I do not have any business services dependent upon the provider&#8217;s uptime &#8211; this blog and my personal email are not even remotely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Someone Inevitably Never Gets the Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergency Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While everyone acknowledges that the H1N1 influenza pandemic of 2009 was far less severe than everyone had planned for &#8211; and indeed far less severe than it first appeared when it claimed lives rapidly in Mexico &#8211; you would think everyone knows about the pandemic. I would have thought that only people who lived under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demand Faster Emergency Communication from Your Government</title>
		<link>http://www.leonardchu.com/blog/index.php/2010/demand-faster-emergency-communication-from-your-government/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=demand-faster-emergency-communication-from-your-government</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergency Management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in an age of rapid, nearly-instant communication. Emergencies depend on the rapid exchange of information between those who are on-scene and those who can support them, between those who have information to protect others and the public who needs that information to keep safe and help themselves. Internet technologies are among the fastest, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hand Sanitizer Doesn&#8217;t Expire, So Why Do They Have Expiration Dates?</title>
		<link>http://www.leonardchu.com/blog/index.php/2010/hand-sanitizer-doesnt-expire-so-why-do-they-have-expiration-dates/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hand-sanitizer-doesnt-expire-so-why-do-they-have-expiration-dates</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the H1N1 pandemic at the end of 2009, the Province of Ontario was distributing kits of supplies to healthcare professionals in the field. Many of the kits being distributed contained hand sanitizer that was, technically, expired. We received calls from doctors&#8217; offices and medical institutions about the expired hand sanitizer asking us if it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logistics Makes for Successful Emergency Response Team Deployment</title>
		<link>http://www.leonardchu.com/blog/index.php/2010/logistics-successful-emergency-response-team-deployment/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=logistics-successful-emergency-response-team-deployment</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BCP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My academic instruction and my own continued readings reinforce the premise that logistics will make or break an emergency response effort. My experience and what I hear from other deployed teams strengthens my belief in the absolute importance of logistical considerations. The debrief session from one of our emergency response teams&#8217; deployment for the G8 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verify the Veracity of Advice You Receive by Email &#8211; Even When It Comes from Trusted Sources</title>
		<link>http://www.leonardchu.com/blog/index.php/2010/verify-the-veracity-of-advice-you-receive-by-email-even-when-it-comes-from-trusted-sources/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=verify-the-veracity-of-advice-you-receive-by-email-even-when-it-comes-from-trusted-sources</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News & Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emergency management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bad information flows around anywhere, even within networks of emergency management professionals. Just yesterday, there was an article credited to Doug Coup flying around the email system. It came to me from an individual in my branch, who got it from someone at another branch with a lot of emergency response experience, who got it [...]]]></description>
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