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CUSEC participates in St. Jude Dream Home® Groundbreaking
January 2012 - St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, CUSEC, the Insurance
Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), Southern Serenity Homes, and State Farm®, recently
participated in the groundbreaking ceremony to construct a new St. Jude Dream
Home®. The Dream Home® is a fundraising
effort for the Hospital, with proceeds directed to research programs which increase
the knowledge and treatment of childhood cancer and disease. The house will be the fifth St. Jude Dream
Home® built by Southern Serenity Homes, whose efforts have helped raise more
than $5 million for St. Jude.
This will be the first St. Jude Dream Home® built using
IBHS’ FORTIFIED for Safer Living® building standards. These standards increase a building’s
strength and overall resistance to disasters.
In this Dream Home®, earthquake and high wind events will be the focus
of the FORTIFIED standards. FORTIFIED disaster resistant upgrades are being
provided courtesy of State Farm®. For
more information about the effort, visit the IBHS webpage, which has press
releases, and other information available for download.
Great Central U.S. ShakeOut recognized in Washington, D.C. for Disaster Preparedness Awards
January 2012 - Recently, the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut was awarded "Outstanding Exercise, Drill, or Event" as part of the 2011 FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Awards. CUSEC, the lead coordinating organization for the ShakeOut, accepted the award on behalf of our Member and Associate States in Washington, D.C. on January 18-19, 2012. Along with 16 other programs from around the nation, the CUSEC and the ShakeOut were also honored to be recognized by the White House as "Champions of Change". This program is part of President Obama's initiative to recognize individuals, organizations, and groups who are leading the nation in their respective areas of work and community service. As part of the program, a blog post "Disaster Preparedness is a Partnership Effort" was featured on the White House website and honorees were assembled for a panel discussion on Disaster Preparedness with U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and FEMA Deputy Administrator Rich Serino. CUSEC is honored to have the ShakeOut be considered one of the top disaster preparedness programs in the country. You can read more about the FEMA awards here.
Online Registration is now OPEN for the National Earthquake Conference
Dates: April 10-13, 2012
Location: Peabody Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee
Registration Fees:
Early Bird Registration ends January 31: $395
January 15 to March 15: $450
After March 15: $550
With the theme of "Learning from the Past to Protect the Future," the
joint National Earthquake Conference and Earthquake Engineering
Research Institute (EERI) Annual Conference program commemorates the
200th anniversary of the historic series of strong earthquakes that
struck the New Madrid seismic zone in late 1811 and early 1812. It will
feature many lessons from recent and historic earthquakes that are
applicable to the practice of U.S. professionals. The meeting is jointly
hosted by EERI and the NEHRP consortia*, and will consist of both
plenary and concurrent sessions to ensure an abundance of offerings for
engineers, scientists, emergency managers, and policy makers.
Visit http://2012am.eeri.org/
for information about the program, the hotel, and how to submit
abstracts for one of the poster sessions (deadline January 23).
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