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		<title>How to improve your disaster recovery preparedness</title>
		<link>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/how-to-improve-your-disaster-recovery-preparedness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most enterprises claim they fully exercise their DR plans at least once a year. However, evidence suggests the majority of these exercises are not comprehensive and thorough; enterprises often just exercise a portion of the plan.]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Central U.S. Shakeout is taking place on February 7, 2012</title>
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		<comments>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/the-great-central-u-s-shakeout-is-taking-place-on-february-12-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[200 years ago, a series of major earthquakes struck the Mississippi River Valley along the New Madrid Seismic Zone in the Central United States. Recent events remind us that damaging earthquakes can happen at any time. With more than 40 million people living and working in the region today, a major earthquake would cause widespread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency Exercises: The Neglected Tabletop</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the basic tenets of emergency planning is that a plan that has not been tested is not real. Unfortunately, while the best way to test plans is an operational exercise, the resource demands of functional and full scale exercises mean that we cannot hold them as frequently as we would like.]]></description>
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		<title>Formidable Footprint Tornado Exercise: October 29 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/formidable-footprint-tornado-exercise-october-29-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/formidable-footprint-tornado-exercise-october-29-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Response]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster Resistant Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Formidable Footprint]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rothstein.com/blog/?p=9962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new season of Formidable Footprint exercises continues and now is the time for neighborhood, community and faith based organizations to make plans to participate. ]]></description>
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		<title>How to Conduct an “End-to-End” Disaster Recovery Exercise in Real Time</title>
		<link>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/how-to-conduct-an-%e2%80%9cend-to-end%e2%80%9d-disaster-recovery-exercise-in-real-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/how-to-conduct-an-%e2%80%9cend-to-end%e2%80%9d-disaster-recovery-exercise-in-real-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disaster Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[application recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middleware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery time objectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shankar Subramaniyan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This article by Shankar Subramaniyan CISSP, ABCP illustrates the some of the challenges faced in an actual “end to end” Disaster Recovery  exercises conducted for applications which interfaced with external third parties and had  heavy reliance on middleware components and batch jobs. ]]></description>
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		<title>Formidable Footprint &#8211; A National Community / Neighborhood Exercise Series</title>
		<link>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/formidable-footprint-a-national-community-neighborhood-exercise-series/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/formidable-footprint-a-national-community-neighborhood-exercise-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster preparedness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergency Response]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster Resistant Communities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ONX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scenarios]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rothstein.com/blog/?p=9697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A team of national, regional, state and local agencies and organizations have undertaken an effort to develop, facilitate and evaluate a recurring series of disaster exercises entitled "Formidable Footprint,"]]></description>
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		<title>NEW BOOK: Emergency Management Exercises: From Response to Recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/new-book-emergency-management-exercises-from-response-to-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/new-book-emergency-management-exercises-from-response-to-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crisis Management and Crisis Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster preparedness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster Recovery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[978-0-9831143-0-7]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9780983114307]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crisis management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emergency management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regina Phelps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risk Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rothstein.com/blog/?p=9569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW BOOK! Emergency Management Exercises: From Response to Recovery. Everything you need to know to design a great exercise.]]></description>
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		<title>DVD: Multimedia Fire and Flood Exercise Toolkit</title>
		<link>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/dvd-multimedia-fire-and-flood-exercise-toolkit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/dvd-multimedia-fire-and-flood-exercise-toolkit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster preparedness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergency Response]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Offers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster recovery testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[scenarios]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rothstein.com/blog/?p=9608</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This exciting, new, PC-ready multimedia set provides Exercise Managers with all the creative content they need to run an effective and credible desktop exercise.]]></description>
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		<title>Business Continuity Training DVDs</title>
		<link>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/business-continuity-training-dvds-5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/business-continuity-training-dvds-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Offers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BS25999]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Institute]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dvds]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rothstein.com/blog/?p=9601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Business Continuity training DVDs: Practice Makes Perfect: Exercising Made Easy – a Comprehensive Guide to Exercising Business Continuity Plans and
Understanding Your Business: How to do a Business Impact Analysis.]]></description>
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		<title>This is NOT a drill&#8230; or is it?</title>
		<link>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/this-is-not-a-drill-or-is-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rothstein.com/blog/this-is-not-a-drill-or-is-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[disaster preparedness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Level Exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NLE 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[notification]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rothstein.com/blog/?p=9464</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Exercising your contingency plan? Make sure EVERYBODY knows it's an exercise! AMSA (American Moving and Storage Association) received a copy of the NLE 2011 National Level Exercise Scenario and published road closures as fact.]]></description>
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