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Regional and multi-state inter city bus transportation. Thanksgiving is a time of big travel.

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Common sense dictates that intercity bus lines start using public transit terminals with around-the-clock security, restrooms and indoor waiting areas. This was in the Thanksgiving entry, but should be separated out. = One overlooked segment in regional transportation planning is inter-city bus service/travel.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. About the same time, 2007, Dr Michael Leavitt of the US Department of Health and Human Services wrote: "We don't know when a pandemic will arrive. McCaw 2007. PLoS One 2007:2(11): e1220, 1-6. Mathews et al. References Mathews, J.D.,

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Civil protection, when it works, is a form of participatory democracy, in which the citizen has an active stake in his or her own safety and security.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

She completed her second mission in 2007, as the first female commander of the International Space Station, on Expedition 16. 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. As CTO of New York City, Matthew C.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). Residents of “late modern” society find themselves increasingly responsible for elements of life such as economic security, risk management, and identity maintenance that once were delivered by social institutions (Beck, 1999; Bennet, 1998).