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Why another shutdown would be bad for the U.S. military

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military, who would suffer financially and lose out on training, weakening our national security at a critical juncture in global affairs. 22, 2018, until Jan. 22, 2018, until Jan. A hit to our national security This would be unprecedented and harm our nation’s security in both predictable and unpredictable ways.

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Transit safety and security: Broken Windows theory and reality | and the state of transit safety today

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Controlling minor offenses, they argued, restored a sense of security, and identified petty criminals likely to graduate to more serious crimes. Louis Metrolink system commissioned a Metro Security Assessment and Strategy study. Louis Secure Platform Program The light-rail system in the St. Liverpool Echo photo.

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AWS investment in South Africa results in economic ripple effect

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Fast forward to 2018, when AWS announced plans to launch data center infrastructure in the country. AWS’s investment in South Africa from 2018-2022 has contributed ZAR 12 billion in gross domestic product (GDP), while supporting an estimated average of 5,700 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs locally on an average annual basis.

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Why World Backup Day is relevant everyday

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“Be prepared against data loss and data theft” is the slogan behind the World Backup Day 2023 campaign on the importance of data security World Backup Day shines a light on maintaining computer system security. The United Kingdom also saw one of the highest increases in data breach costs compared to 2021.

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Disorder | Fare evaders at Columbia Heights Metrorail Station, Washington, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Council decriminalizes Metro fare evasion: ‘I’m sad that’s Metro’s losing money, but I’m more sad about what’s happening to black people.’ ," Washington Post , 2018, " Metro cracks down on fare evasion in D.C., And it's a point missed by the social justice types who fueled the decriminalization of fare evasion (" D.C.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

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The 14 th August 2021 magnitude 7.2 In Haiti, a third of the population lacks secure access to food. In mid-2021, 40 districts are currently enduring a crisis of food availability, and 130,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition. million), but in mid-August 2021 only 0.1% doi: 10.1108/DPM-08-2018-0263

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Pathology digitization and the fight against cancer

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In 2018, we published a peer-reviewed paper in the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine about how we applied deep learning to improve breast cancer diagnostic accuracy, based on gigapixel-sized pathology slides of lymph nodes from de-identified patients. We work with de-identified patient data and use strong encryption.

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