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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Launching the CSP with AWS CSS worked closely with AWS from the outset of the CSP project launch in 2014. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who was with AWS at the time, operated as an executive sponsor for the engagement, providing a direct escalation path to prioritize the project’s success.

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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

While I haven’t read the book yet, a New Year’s Day review in the New York Times Book Review got me thinking. After all, I’ve co-authored books about the strategic uses of causal mapping with titles like Visual Strategy (Wiley, 2014) and Visible Thinking (Wiley, 2004). What might compass over map mean?

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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I was critical that they were mostly window dressing, but I did attend one, and if they were organized to engage people in substantive ways, they could be very effective. Note that William Bratton's latest book is very good (" Bill Bratton Explains His Ideas of Good Policing ," New York Times ). And I don't see things changing.

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

That means that schools need to invest resources in engaging with the neighborhood beyond the school grounds. I found this bookmark, promoting volunteering in the schools, in a book at a Library book sale. This post is a little late, National Community Planning Month ended yesterday, the end of October. It dates to the 1980s.

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CFP (and Reviewers): From Chaos to Order: Addressing Cognitive Overload in the Learning Journey (Rowman & Littlefield)

A Library Writer's Blog

When cognitive load is surpassed, it can be much more difficult to process, encode, and retain new information (Paas and Ayres, 2014). 2 (June 1, 2014): 191–95. Kern (she/her), Engineering Librarian, Pennsylvania State University Please send questions to : addressing.cognitive. Educational Psychology Review 26, no. Sweller, John.

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Uphams Corner, Boston: revitalization "without" gentrification

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And that it was adjacent to the Dudley Street neighborhood, which had its own community improvement organization too, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, documented in the book Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood. When neighborhoods become attractive at the scale of the metropolitan area, prices go up.

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Public restrooms: single versus multiple-occupant

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many places have installed them, as they are often specified as part of street furniture/advertising projects (" City Room City Room Blogging From the Five Boroughs In 9 Years of Work, Just 3 Public Toilets Go Live ," New York Times , 2014, " JCDecaux wins San Francisco's iconic Street Furniture contract ").