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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Webinar Training Opportunity: Improving Resilience of the Nations Infrastructure. January 22, 2014

The Infrastructure Security Partnership

Improving Resilience of the Nation’s Infrastructure

January 22, 2014 -- 12:00 Noon Eastern

For our first program of the New Year, EMForum.org is pleased to host a one hour presentation and interactive discussion Wednesday, January 22, 2014, beginning at 12:00 Noon Eastern time (please convert to your local time). Our topic will be The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP) and its ongoing efforts to improve the resilience of our nation's built environment. Among its many achievements since its founding in 2001,

TISP has published the widely used Regional Disaster Resilience Guide and other related resources. The partnership was also actively engaged in the recent update of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan. Our guest will be William B. Anderson, TISP Director and Chief Operating Officer for over five years.

Please make plans to join us, and see the Background Page for links to related resources and participant Instructions. On the day of the program, use the Webinar Login link not more than 30 minutes before the scheduled time. As always, please feel free to extend this invitation to your colleagues.

In partnership with Jacksonville State University, EIIP offers CEUs for attending EMForum.org Webinars. See http://www.emforum.org/CEUs.htm for details.

Is your organization interested in becoming an EIIP Partner? Click here to review our Mission, Vision, and Guiding Principles and access the Memorandum of Partnership.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Training opportunity: RAND Corp. Community Resilience. January 23, 2014. Santa Monica, CA

Date:	Community Resilience January 23, 2014
Time:	6:00 p.m. – Registration 6:30 p.m. – Program
Location:	RAND Corporation 1776 Main Street Santa Monica, CA

Program

The 20th anniversary of the 1994 Northridge earthquake in January will bring fresh memories of a local natural disaster, while November's Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines still hits home for many Filipinos living in Los Angeles. These events remind us that it's important to build community resilience for the sake of long-term recovery, but how do we make resilience happen? Anita Chandra will distill the extensive body of research on resilience-building into simple steps that communities and organizations can take to help strengthen themselves against all kinds of disasters.

Featured Speaker

Anita Chandra
Director, Behavioral and Policy Sciences Department, RAND Corporation

Register for This Program

Register online by January 20. Reserved seating is available for members of the RAND Policy Circle. If you are not currently a Policy Circle member, visit Support RAND to learn more about the benefits of membership.

About RAND

The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND focuses on the issues that matter most such as health, education, national security, international affairs, law and business, the environment, and more. With a research staff consisting of some of the world's preeminent minds, RAND has been expanding the boundaries of human knowledge for more than 60 years.

Further Inquiries

Contact events@rand.org.

2014 Summer Programs for Students. Summer Language Programs

As students begin to make summer plans, be sure to share with them the following website that lists African language programs being offered in the US and abroad in Summer 2014. This list includes the Fulbright-Hays GPA Intensive Advanced Language programs in Swahili and Yoruba that the Association of African Studies Programs sponsors.

· Summer 2014 African Language Programs: http://bit.ly/AfLangSum2014

A list of African-based programs that students have in the past attended for language study with FLAS fellowships is here:

http://bit.ly/AfLangPastFLASok.

If your program is offering an African language in Summer 2014 and it is not already listed, you can include the information by completing the following online form:

· https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15t2Aa_Hh8uHtlYSvKQn7fpPVHhkCywAHYbhHvA2IN80/viewform

Sincerely,

Martha Saavedra

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Training Opportunity: Webinar. Transforming Oil and Gass with High Speed Data Transport

Complimentary Webinar:

Transforming Oil and Gas with High Speed Data Transport

Technology has transformed the oil and gas industry by improving the capability to find, extract, and process data more efficiently than ever before. These technological improvements have led to an explosion of data that, in most cases, still relies upon physical shipments of tape and hard drives.
Internet bandwidth has become more available worldwide, and when paired with the appropriate transport technology, data can be moved quickly and efficiently over WAN ( wide area network).

Join this free webinar to learn how Aspera’s patented fasp™ (Fast, Adaptive, Secure, Protocol) transport technology can leverage your existing WAN infrastructure to: