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Announcing customer and guest speakers for Max Peterson’s Leadership Session at re:Invent 2022

AWS Public Sector Blog

Dr. Whitson, former chief astronaut at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), completed her first mission to space in 2002—with an extended stay aboard the International Space Station. She also served as the first female chief of the NASA Astronaut Office at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston from 2009 to 2012.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. It had been happening for decades (" Having a Longer View on Downtown Living ," Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania, 2002; Get Urban!: are topics I've blogged about over the years. And high grade amenities in upscale apartment buildings.)

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

Bush administration in 2002. ” Take a look at previous #SOTU (2009 – present) observations from Pew Center for Research. Looking at other SOTU firsts, we see the evolution of media in the 20th Century: First TV broadcast took place when President Harry Truman was in office in 1947. Bush in 2004. Why or why not?