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City light shows: architectural lighting events

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Few cities have lighting master plans and even fewer address lighting as an element of special events and programming (" Philips changes name to Signify "). I've written about events like Glow in Georgetown DC, Dlectricity in Detroit, and Chestnut Hill's "Light of Night" in Philadelphia. 19 ," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ).

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Why another shutdown would be bad for the U.S. military

Partnership for Public Service

25, 2019—shows that when our government closes up shop, both the economy and the ability of agencies to serve the public suffers. During the 2018-2019 shutdown, 42,000 members of the Coast Guard worked without pay —a first for active-duty service members—because the Department of Homeland Security’s appropriation lapsed.

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

CSS built and now operates the largest and most advanced mortgage securitization platform in the US, supporting Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s 70 percent market share of the industry with flexibility, scalability, and security at its core. Thisarea also includes the ability of IT to roll out new and updated services faster.

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Enable strong name-based mapping in government scenarios

Microsoft Public Sector

Starting with the September 10, 2024 Windows security update, you can use strong name-based mapping on Windows Server 2019 and newer. Updates to current event logs The current event logs now include policy OIDs found on the certificate used for authentication. Track these events through Event ID 311.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). The same is true of some of the earlier events, such as the Hillsborough stadium disaster of 1989. It lacks a national emergency operations centre.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. At an event yesterday, I asked and they estimated that probably 10% or less of glass is recycled in the area.

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Pittsburgh Learns How to Govern Its Data

GovLoop

We would be sent through these educational programs, and then the team did something really cool: They used a very rapid build, measure, learn cycle,” Norman said during a recent GovLoop event. Insights from Heidi Norman, Chief Information Officer and Director of the Department of Innovation & Performance, city of Pittsburgh.