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How Shall We Communicate Risk in an Era of ‘Manufactured Reality’?

Emergency Planning

We might further tie these concepts into the model of information dissemination propounded by Herman and Chomsky in their book Manufacturing Consent. However, we live in an age in which, increasingly, information is manufactured and thus so is reality, simply because people believe the information. Further reading Chomsky, N.

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In Memoriam: Ron Spiller, Principal, R.F. Spiller & Associates

Security Industry Association

In 1974, he became vice president and general manager of Morse Products Manufacturing, and when the company was acquired by Optex in 1992 he became president of Optex-Morse USA. Lippert Memorial Award in 1993 and was inducted into the Security Sales & Integration Industry Hall of Fame in 2004. He received SIA’s George R.

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SIA New Member Profile: Total Security Solutions

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Total Security Solutions (TSS) is the leading nationwide custom bulletproof barrier manufacturer and installer. Jim Richards : I founded Total Security Solutions with my dad in 2004. SIA spoke with Jim Richards, CEO of TSS, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

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SIA New Member Profile: Leonardo/ELSAG ALPR Systems

Security Industry Association

Nate Maloney : In 2004, Italian aerospace-defense group Finmeccanica (now Leonardo) and Remington Arms started a joint venture to design, manufacturer, install and support automatic license plate recognition systems (ALPR) in the U.S. Tell us the story of your company.

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SIA New Member Profile: PureTech Systems

Security Industry Association

The initial portfolio of technologies used to launch the business came from a Canadian company by the name of Pure Technologies (Pure) in 2004. Camera manufacturers are faced with the challenge of designing camera products that have a reasonable life; say at least five years. Tell us the story of your company. Larry Bowe, Jr. :

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IRM, ERM, and GRC: Is There a Difference?

Reciprocity

For example, retail is now “e-tail,” manufacturing plants are increasingly automated, and nearly every step of the hiring and contracting process happens online, from application to background checks to payroll. The advent of the digital age is partly to blame.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). Personal protective equipment has been improvised when it should have been either stockpiled or subject to pre-arranged accelerated manufacturing contracts, and some of it has proved unusable.