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A behind-the-scenes look at the 2022 Sammies gala

Partnership for Public Service

Senior writer and editor Ellen Perlman drafted remarks for the emcee, MSNBC anchor Alicia Menendez, as well as for Partnership President and CEO Max Stier and other high-profile award presenters who spoke during the program, a task she’s been doing since 2011. . Photos in blog post credit: Parker Schaffel.

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The economic impact of AWS’s investment in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

I’m humbled to share that since 2011, AWS has invested ¥1.35 In 2022, we invested ¥348 billion in capital and operational investments in our data centers in Japan. During 2011-2022, the investment in our AWS Regions in Japan resulted in ¥1.31 During 2011-2022, the investment in our AWS Regions in Japan resulted in ¥1.31

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Alzheimer’s disease research portal enables data sharing and scientific discovery at scale

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2011, PNGC Director Dr. Gerard Schellenberg met with Dr. Wang and his research team to begin exploring cloud technology for large-scale genomic computations. They began to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a small scale proof-of-concept of 36 exomes, or 1.1 terabytes (TB).

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

More background on the legal and tax aspects of CLTs in North Carolina can be found in this earlier CED Blog post. One-time investments in CLT properties can keep those properties affordable as long as the CLT exists, ensuring affordability for far longer (Institute for Community Economics 1982, Jacobus and Brown 2010, White 2011).

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How to Keep the Local Grocery Store Open: A Challenge for NC CED Professionals

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Almost 15 years ago, a brief CED blog post highlighted several resources for supporting or attracting local grocery stores, especially ones in rural areas. In 2011, Camden County, in far eastern North Carolina, had only one grocery. Source: Library of Congress – U.S. By 2016, it had lost that store.

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CFP: Book About Teaching with Digital Storytelling

A Library Writer's Blog

To learn more about the digital storytelling collaboration that inspired this book project, visit our Global Digital Stories blog at: [link] To learn more about metaliteracy visit: [link] Please send a 1–2-page chapter proposal and a current CV to Tom at Tom.Mackey@esc.edu no later than Friday, July 29, 2022. link] Mackey, T.

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's also complicated because some people in low income neighborhoods believe that local schools are always inferior to schools in high income areas (" DCPS middle schools in black wards, "positive deviance" and the pull of the attractiveness of schools in the upper income wards west ," 2022).

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