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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There were a series of articles by smaller communities, about how the quality of their city as an events-sports destination was high, despite the size of the community or whether or not they actually had a sports team, for example Fort Worth doesn't (" Here’s why Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena was named Billboard’s No. 1 venue in the world."

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Digital health in the Asia-Pacific: Making services more sustainable

AWS Public Sector Blog

Take the Asia-Pacific region, where spending on healthcare per person is now 80 percent higher than it was in 2009. Response to major health events such as COVID-19 includes contact tracing and distribution of test results. percent of total spending on cloud technology in the region in 2022. billion over the decade to USD 2.5

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

All the pundits say the biggest problem is the lack of a regularized funding source, like property tax or sales tax (" DC area transit commission board member thinks he has a brilliant idea on how to fund Metrorail: sales taxes ," 2022; " Metrolinx Toronto: 25 potential tools to fund transit-transportation infrastructure ," 2013).

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Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC streetcar advocates are holding a community event to advocate for expansion of the streetcar to Ward 7, which DC Council recently defunded. That there isn't enough social, organizational, community, and financial capital to take up the issue again--to expand it, improve it, etc. A perfect example is the DC streetcar.

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January 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

Newsworthy Highlights What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2022 These features currently available to Microsoft’s commercial customers in multi-tenant cloud environments are now rolling out to our customers in US Government Community Cloud (GCC), US Government Community Cloud High (GCC-High), and/or United States Department of Defense (DoD).

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Planning for Climate Change

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

for interpretation. . -- Guide to Climate Friendly Playgrounds , Western Sydney University -- " Outdoor playgrounds and climate change: Importance of surface materials and shade to extend play time and prevent burn injuries ," Building and Environment (2022) Shade screens can make a 20° or more difference between shade and direct sunlight.

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December 2022 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | November 2022. We will be retiring the Reports landing page from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal by the end of December 2022. When this will happen: Targeted Release: We expect this to begin rolling out in early December 2022. When this will happen: December 7, 2022.