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Programming for Success in Parks and Recreation

Let's Talk Parks

So I started back in 2008 working part time as an activity leader in one of our after school programs. So, yes, that’s definitely where I got started with parts recreation and after school programs. So definitely one way to determine what way you want to offer those programs. Chris: Yeah. Becky: Nice. Chris: Yeah.

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The impact of the worldwide recession on the tech industry 

Open Access Government - Technology News

Although there isn’t one definition that everyone agrees on, some have said that a recession is “two consecutive quarters of falling growth.”. It’s not as bad as 2008. Despite the forecasts, the worldwide recession is probably going to be shorter and less harmful to businesses than prior downturns, according to Morgan Stanley.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It describes how the GSE design defect had very publicly manifested itself in these institutions prior to their being taken over by the government via conservatorship in 2008. Together, parts 1 and 2 of the analysis are essential to understand the FHFA Report and how its proposed reforms are most definitely needed.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But the city has never developed the capacity to be particularly good at that, and definitely the energy to revitalize the communities in the Anacostia River community has been moribund ever since, which has been about 15 years. Transformational Projects Action Planning. What a waste. Design Method rather than Rational Planning 2.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

One result of having so many disciplinary perspectives is virtually to preclude consensus on the definition and classification of disasters and the concepts that go with them. Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. )

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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

That scandalizes my MIL, but I'm not about to get into a debate with her about how the car companies and their allies changed the definition of street to be car centric instead of people centered. Sometimes kids play in it, but with supervision. See Fighting Traffic:The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.

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Decrease geospatial query latency from minutes to seconds using Zarr on Amazon S3

AWS Public Sector Blog

ERA5 contains hourly air pressure, windspeed, and air temperature data at multiple altitudes on a 31 km latitude-longitude grid, since 2008. Choose the task with the Dask-Scheduler task definition. First, copy the private IP address of the Dask-Scheduler: 1. Sign in to the Amazon ECS console. Choose the Dask-Cluster.