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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The UMBS makes up 70 percent of the total MBS market in the US and was established in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to provide stability, liquidity, and resiliency in the US housing market. Leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) , CSS manages $6.4

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Three ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month | reprint with an addition about the US Civil Rights Trail (versus the Dixieland Trail)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

How about a month long "Doors Open" event during Black History Month. The Toronto Star even publishes an event guide. It's not exactly the same, but Georgetown Glow, an outdoor sculpture walk in December and January is growing into a great event. In North America, Doors Open Toronto is probably the biggest.

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SeloVerde uses geospatial big data and AI/ML to monitor deforestation in supply chains, powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

post-2008 deforestation). And to learn more about sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2023 and how we are working to make re:Invent a more sustainable event, please visit the AWS re:Invent webpage. SeloVerde 2.1’s A SeloVerde 2.1

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OUR CHALLENGE

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

On 12th October 2008 I attended a conference at which an epidemiologist stood up and said "My job is to tell you something you don't want to know, and ask you to spend money you haven't got on something you don't think is going to happen." It is by no means an isolated illustration. These root causes are also well documented.

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems. Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly.

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Weird intra-governmental spat in DC over the Washington Nationals stadium

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Events DC is a DC government instrumentality. -- board of directors -- staff Technically it's independent of the city government, but its top officer and board members are appointed by the Mayor and City Council. If no deal is reached, the dispute could threaten games, concerts and other events scheduled to be held at the ballpark.

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October 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

MC678311 — Microsoft Teams: Meetings Apps in GCCH and DoD 30-60 Days Microsoft Roadmap ID 166985 Microsoft Teams is now adding support for apps in meetings and enabling events/APIs for conversational Bots in GCC-High and DoD Meetings enable collaboration, partnership, informed communication, and shared feedback.