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	<title>The Homeland Security Blog &#187; Homeland Security</title>
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		<title>The Targeted Classroom and Creating Deterrence Through Publicity</title>
		<link>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2010/08/24/the-targeted-classroom-and-creating-deterrence-through-publicity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Van Dyne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Public Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campus Shootings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clery Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crisis Response]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the All Hazards Training Center, we train and consult in a myriad of safety and security areas. Those areas include both counter-terrorism and assisting in the protection of college campuses and schools. Recently, we’ve started to consider those two areas as overlapping circles.
Americans are accustomed, sadly, to a series of ‘lone gunman’ events at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Inland Waterway Invitation To Terrorism</title>
		<link>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2010/07/27/the-inland-waterway-invitation-to-terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2010/07/27/the-inland-waterway-invitation-to-terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Van Dyne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inland Waterways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[River Locks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Congress is now considering a bill that would give security at American ports a much-needed shot in the arm.  The homeland security appropriations bill now in debate would, if enacted, provide $350 million for the port security grant program.  That’s a major jump over last year, increasing spending in that area by $50 million.
The bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual USA Gulf Coast Tour &#8211; Conclusion</title>
		<link>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2010/06/16/virtual-usa-gulf-coast-tour-conclusion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2010/06/16/virtual-usa-gulf-coast-tour-conclusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homeland Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil Spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vUSA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Virtual USA Gulf Coast Tour &#8211; Day Four
Thursday, June 10, 2010
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Virtual USA (vUSA) initiative is all about ensuring decision makers have access to real-time, detailed information during an emergency, and we are seeing it happen firsthand during our visit to the Louisiana State Emergency Operations Center in Baton Rouge. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual USA Gulf Coast Tour &#8211; Part Two</title>
		<link>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2010/06/15/virtual-usa-gulf-coast-tour-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2010/06/15/virtual-usa-gulf-coast-tour-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oil Spill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virtual USA Gulf Coast Tour &#8211; Day Two
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Greetings from Day 2 of our Virtual USA (vUSA) trip to the Gulf. Our work in the Unified Command (UC) Center in Mobile has been a real eye-opener. More than 24,000 personnel are responding to the oil spill and hundreds of them are physically working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual USA Gulf Coast Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2010/06/11/virtual-usa-gulf-coast-tour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2010/06/11/virtual-usa-gulf-coast-tour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homeland Security]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oil Spill]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/?p=491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is endangering the livelihood of the environment and economy, the affected states are using Virtual USA, an information sharing tool. Joel Thomas is traveling in the Gulf, offering technical expertise and assisting with the emergency response efforts. He has been blogging about his experiences on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Responders Connect Online</title>
		<link>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2010/04/08/first-responders-connect-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2010/04/08/first-responders-connect-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlee Hess</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/?p=476</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in Federal Computer Week online featured the Department of Homeland Security’s First Responder Community of Practice, an online collaboration tool for the emergency preparedness and response community. The social media site allows practitioners to join and create communities based on interest areas, disciplines and projects. On the site, practitioners have several resources [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memo To President Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2009/01/22/memo-to-president-elect-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2009/01/22/memo-to-president-elect-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Greenberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of discussion (okay, there has been some discussion) about what kind of changes your Administration and/or Congress should make regarding the Department of Homeland Security. In general the discussion has centered on a few issues: What should happen to FEMA – should it be separated out from DHS to become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How The Federal Government Can Help Communications Interoperability</title>
		<link>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2009/01/22/how-the-federal-government-can-help-communications-interoperability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2009/01/22/how-the-federal-government-can-help-communications-interoperability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Simay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first responders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seamless radio communications is a necessary and achievable goal for our first responders. Natural disasters and acts of terrorism do not respect physical boundaries. And so, jurisdictional boundaries get crossed as well.  When they respond to an event, first responders from different agencies need to work together, and fast. To do this, they need a [...]]]></description>
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