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2021 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here are stats for the books that I finished. average read per month: 9.6. average read per week: 2.2. number read in worst month: 6 (February). number unfinished: 0.

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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I’ve been actively seeking out non-binary authors and trying to read print a little more. average read per month: 9.5 average read per week: 2.2 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

When Mitch Daniels took office as Indiana’s Governor in 2005, one of the top items on his agenda was reforming the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds. In 2021, the program exceeded 850,000, according to the 2021 annual report. Here is how they did it.

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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. I’m also retiring my “people of color/non-Western” category only because it relies too much on surface impressions/names. average read per month: 12.

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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

In May 2021, the Eight h Circuit affirmed the denial of the City of Minneapolis’s and a police officer’s motion to dismiss dog owners’ unlawful search and seizure claim under 42 U.S.C. 2005); Altman v. 6:18-CV-06772-MAT, 2019 WL 2192502, at *6 (W.D.N.Y. 2005); Warboys v. 28, 2019) (in turn quoting Dziekan , 376 F.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.). Vision Zero. How to measure and benchmark traffic deaths? The issues are unchanging.

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Pathology digitization and the fight against cancer

Google Public Sector

In 2019, we published a paper in Nature Medicine about using advances in 3D volumetric modeling and artificial intelligence (AI) to better predict lung cancer. In 2005, AFIP’s biorepository was transferred to the newly created Joint Pathology Center (JPC). During the transition, the DoD asked the U.S.

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