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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

However, Angela McKee Brown, the consultant SFUSD hired to implement the recommendations, told Ackerman that IDEO failed to account for the operational and regulatory arrangements required for their implementation. We reject design thinking as a singular tool kit prescribed to solve social problems.

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The Impact of GDP shocks on Fertility Rates

The Lowe Down

births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44; in 2012, the rate was 63.0 Our research includes the changes in birth rates for the decade prior to the trough of the GDP shock to account for existing trends. Overall, 22% of the selected shocks are from 2009. births per 1,000 women. Figure 1: Fertility Rate Growth by Continent.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. 2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. Haynes 2012.

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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

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009).

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The primary reason is that it does not seem to account for the extremely high earnings volatility of the mortgage business 43 in contrast to the rather stable electric utility business – which I believe mainly drives the latter’s lower cost of capital rather than just the fact that it is price-regulated. Also, the 0.10

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