AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 27, 2022

In early 2019, we estimated that processing whole genome samples for this megaproject would imply a scale-up of over four times the production workload of our center. We used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support our new pipeline demands, which saved time, reduced costs, and created new opportunities for future development.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 3, 2024

One highlight has been the generous grant of over $1 million from JP Morgan Chase to support our Developers of Color initiative. This initiative, led by our Director of Engagement Odetta Macleish-White, creates opportunities for marginalized local developers and promotes equitable development in underserved communities.

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Google Public Sector

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It is important for our students to obtain and develop real-world workforce skills and experiences,” says Ashley Triplett, innovation and training strategist at the University of Louisville. “By Findings are from a survey conducted with Google Cloud certified individuals in May 2019 by an independent third-party research organization.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

My entry on arts districts and arts as consumption versus arts as production is about this kind of approach (" Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" ," originally 2009, revised 2019). Can murals be a gateway to a more developed revitalization program? Springfield Missouri Museum of Art.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

Utah Business magazine claims that the economic development impact of the Game will be as much as $250 million (" The 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend could boost Utah’s economy by $250M+ "). But what earns him the most press is the work he oversees estimating the economic impact of marquee sporting events on their host cities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

Prior to 2019, NPD’s on-premises system was failing the agency in workflows and other important day-to-day agency tasks. SOMA’s intelligent pre-built applications and solutions are built to empower agencies to solve complex software modernization challenges with little to no training, as evidenced by NPD’s quick and successful deployment.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 22, 2023

Although other events also contributed to this, including the University of Pennsylvania graduation. SEPTA ridership was higher, and some food establishments had stronger business.

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Super Library Marketing

AUGUST 5, 2024

She ended up at the Natrona County Library in March of 2019, working as a part-time Children’s Librarian. “I In October of 2019, I stepped into my current role as head of Marketing and PR.” We also have integrations with LibCal for our event calendar, room booking, appointments, and Library of Things.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 7, 2024

Despite Artomatic playing host to — and in some cases advancing the careers of — many amazing, well-respected artists, there’s a long history of the event being trashed by the art-reviewing press, often unfairly, because it has no bar to entry. The work is not curated. Is it any good? When I go to Artomatic , I’m making my own decisions.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2022

The Government of Canada (GC) is turning to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support increased agility and speed of delivery of new solutions especially as it responds to events like COVID-19. In 2019, AWS signed a framework agreement with the GC to host workloads on AWS. Achieving ATO is essential to public sector operations.

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Super Library Marketing

MARCH 27, 2023

Connecting with conference attendees and speakers ahead of time makes it less intimidating to walk into an event full of strangers. And you never know… you may find your next boss at the event. I was hired by NoveList in 2019 after meeting my current manager at the Library Marketing and Communications Conference !

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CRA Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

At some point in your journey as a Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) officer, you will likely find yourself involved in a community-based public-private partnership economic development project. In this model, the various sources of capital are stacked on top of each other to enhance community development financing projects.

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Let's Talk Parks

JULY 15, 2020

They also offer a mentoring program; ProConnect, Professional Development School, Supervisor Symposium, a web series, and during the pandemic we had an excellent series by Jamie Sabbach, “Call to Action,” provided by IPRA as well. She was 2018-2019 Chair of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Ethics Committee.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Hot, humid weather and developing storms made me wonder whether my house was about to suffer the effects of the kind of concentrated microcyclone storm which has come to be known colloquially as a 'water bomb' and scientifically as ‘explosive cyclogenesis’. The potential for extreme weather events is increasing fast.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Affects relationships with friends and family Conflicts can occur with family and friends if we are overusing the phone and not joining in with family events, gatherings and social functions in the normal fashion. Disturbed OFC function is thought to contribute to the development and maintenance of addictive behaviour.

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GovLoop

JULY 18, 2023

I worked on a project to put on a training event. Three months before the event, the budget was cut to $10,000. We had to figure out how to keep the event going with a significantly reduced cash (“oxygen”) flow. In projects, “breathing” can be whatever stops the flow of resources to the project.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 15, 2023

Many small towns have decent quality of life because of the presence of small colleges, their economic and social capital impact, the offering of special events that are attractors, etc. For example, Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia has a summer theater festival. Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The problem is that even though we talk about restaurant or sports events patrons (like attendees of baseball games) also spending money on retail as part of their trips, increasingly people aren't interested in doing so. see It's Hardly Sportin' ). But it has to be very focused. It's even harder with the effect of e-commerce.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Part 1: Conceptualising Cultural Quarters " ( Planning, Practice & Research, 18:4)," to music as a performing art in terms of developing "music as production" as opposed to "music as consumption." Owner Matt Vaughan founded West Seattle’s Easy Street Records during what he terms the “slacker era” of the late ’80s.

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Librarian.net

OCTOBER 21, 2023

I gave my first talk in person to librarians since 2019 this week. I drove home same day which may have been a stretch since it’s over two hours each way; it’s been a long time since I was at a big event with library people, in person. It was basically the Fair Use talk, rejiggered to be relevant to library workers.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This is worth $20 million per year off football based on a study for the Buffalo Bills, it could be more for other sports because of more events. It mentioned how the RFK campus planning effort by Events DC did mention an arena, but the point never got much play. Other areas too.) (Other areas too.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Agglomeration economies and the biotech cluster in Cambridge Massachusetts.The Globe article explains why I am such a proponent of face to face, cluster development and agglomeration economies. Attendance at Thursday night programs and networking events at Venture Care have drawn an average of 419 people this fall, up from353 in 2019.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

MARCH 24, 2020

NRPA is actively monitoring developments around the current COVID-19 pandemic and how it is impacting parks and recreation — head to our Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) web page for the most up-to-date information on our response, as well as resources from NRPA, health organizations and federal agencies One in three young people in the U.S.

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GovLoop

JUNE 2, 2023

Despite a Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Strategy that’s been in place since 2016 and a Federal Cyber Workforce Management and Coordinating Working Group dating from 2019, governments continue to struggle to find enough qualified cyber personnel. Grow Your Own Finally, there’s the option of developing your own internal tech pipeline.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Transit oriented development is economic development. Complementary improvements for the transit network and economic development. Japan Railway Journal recently featured a new episode on it, " Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen: Half a Century since its inception. Watching the program was seeing TPAS in action. Wkipedia photo.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

In a study for the Bridge Park project in Washington, DC, one team came up with a nice hierarchy for programming for seasonality: -- Season -- Month (July 4th, Christmas, New Year's, etc.) -- National Events (Public Lands Day, Earth Day, etc.) -- not included but should be] -- DC/city events (e.g., But this is more about major events.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

From the BBC article: Mr Khan rejected the development, citing the amount of light pollution that it would cause for Stratford residents, its huge electricity bill and associated lack of "green" credentials, and the impact it would have on heritage sites in the area. Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ").

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Another element could be treating schools as "neighborhood cultural centers" too, the way I describe how neighborhood libraries should be positioned (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019). but it fell off. I think this is an element of their " expeditionary learning " approach.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

Currently, TheBus system is the least well developed of the suburban transit agencies (" By choosing coverage over frequency, Prince George’s caps what its buses can accomplish ," GGW). Change the name of the service and the graphic design of the bus livery. This has been discussed in depth here, " Will buses ever be cool?

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Although older adults previously trailed behind younger generations in online engagement, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) , “Internet use for 65-to 74-year-olds’ has increased from 71% in 2019 (before COVID-19) to 98% in 2022.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 27, 2024

From the article: “We have big ambitions for the arts program here, which is to be New York’s pre-eminent public art destination,” said Clare Newman, the president and chief executive of the Trust, a nonprofit organization created by the city to develop and operate the island as a recreational and cultural resource. Photo: Donald Yip. “We

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

There would be plenty of benefits for DC, discussed here, "" If DC had visionary elected officials and planners it could use the new WMATA "BOS" study to push through the development of a separated Silver Line in DC (and Northern Virginia) ," 2019). Extending the Silver Line to Leesburg. Extending the Yellow Line south on Rte.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2023

Riffing off of " Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando ," that entry mentioned that Brightline is developing a similar railroad service between "Los Angeles" and Las Vegas, called Brightline West. Service was suspended in 1997.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Note that the in Cleveland supported the development of the HealthLine, a bus rapid transit line serving a number of neighborhoods, including the University Circle district and Cleveland Clinic and the University Hospital system and Downtown. HealthLine in Cleveland.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. The affordable housing specialists in the School’s Development Finance Initiative (DFI) regularly assist local governments with these preliminary steps. 157-3(12)(c)).

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