The network also wants to require communities participating in the National Flood Insurance Program to adopt stronger building codes and conduct a vulnerability assessment of critical facilities.

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In Leicester QR codes are being used to promote the cultural quarter and National Space Centre.

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"They play the tax codes one against the other, " Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton told national broadcaster RTE.

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These initiatives are under the supervision of national institutions or authorities which shall work for the strengthening of the enforcement system of mandatory building codes, protecting critical facilities such as schools, hospitals and historic buildings, and promoting the development of more affordable retrofitting techniques and the use of available seismic isolation or energy dissipation techniques.

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And the Safe Schools Improvement Act, sponsored by Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Representative Linda Sanchez of California, would require school districts to adopt codes of conduct specifically prohibiting bullying and harassment, including on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, and religion.

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