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The United Kingdom's National Risk Register - 2023 Edition

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

This document was first published in 2008 and has been updated (somewhat irregularly) at roughly two-year intervals. It is the public face of the National Security Risk Assessment (NRSA), a document (and a process) that has various security classifications and is generally not available to citizens and organisations.

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: History and the Application of the Second Amendment

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

Constitution, "Keeping and Bearing Arms—A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. ". This changed in 2008, however, when Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the majority opinion in the 5-4 decision in District of Columbia v.

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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

In May 2021, the Eight h Circuit affirmed the denial of the City of Minneapolis’s and a police officer’s motion to dismiss dog owners’ unlawful search and seizure claim under 42 U.S.C. Officers Michael Mays and Daniel Ledman responded to conduct a residence security check. 2008); San Jose Charter of Hells Angels v. Mays , 18 F.4th

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Hence there is potential for floods that equal or exceed those generated in 2008, storms that may be more disruptive than Arwen was in 2021, heatwaves greater than that of July 2022, and so on. In addition, more than 60 universities teach and research on topics (hazards, risks, disasters, safety, security, etc.)

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Then again, there is a tension and balance for corporations between permeability and security (e.g., Over time, Minneapolis made complementary investments of its own, light rail was added to the program, and the city's decline was reversed.

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

CSS built and now operates the largest and most advanced mortgage securitization platform in the US, supporting Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s 70 percent market share of the industry with flexibility, scalability, and security at its core. CSS uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power their solutions in the cloud.

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Advancing connector technologies for multicore optical fibres

Open Access Government - Technology News

There were 36 million FTTH subscribers in Japan in 2021. Against this background, Japan established a “Technical Committee on Extremely Advanced Optical Transmission Technologies (EXAT)” in 2008, intending to further expand optical fibre transmission capacity.

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