news headlines: 11th NOvember 2005

Continuity Central pandemic planning survey results
The vast majority of business continuity managers believe that it is important that pandemic impacts are covered by BCPs - however levels of preparation vary greatly from sector to sector.
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•Date: 11th Nov 2005 •Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Beyond disaster recovery: becoming a resilient business
An object-oriented framework and methodology, by Richard Cocchiara.
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•Date: 11th Nov 2005 •Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Crisis Checklist: the press office
The first in a series of ‘print and keep’ checklists to provide a plan development aide-mémoire.
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•Date: 11th Nov 2005 •Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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Long term solutions to Britain’s energy short-fall explored
A multidisciplinary report which aims to provide the UK government with a coherent, feasible solution to the acknowledged problem of the UK's looming ‘energy gap’ has been published.
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•Date: 11th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Power managenent
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Experian study analyzes Hurricane Katrina's effect on small business
The study showed that professional and business services firms were the hardest hit by the disaster.
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•Date: 11th Nov 2005 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Airport protection guidelines to be distributed to US emergency planners and airport executives
‘Guidelines to Improve Airport Preparedness Against Chemical and Biological Terrorism’ is a 100-page document that makes concrete recommendations on improving security and assessing vulnerable areas.
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•Date: 11th Nov 2005 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Transport sector
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New technical discussion group launched
A Yahoo Group to discuss the specific issues of telecommunications and voice continuity has been launched.
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•Date: 11th Nov 2005 • Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• South Asia disaster management centre to be hosted by India
• FSA publishes Resilience Benchmarking update
• Ontrack Data Recovery introduces Powercontrols Version 4.0
• New earthquake warning system could provide enough time for immediate protective actions
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