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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Guardian has many stories based on the leaked documents. -- " The Uber Files ". Hailo didn't last long (" Hailo Shuts Down: How Taxi Drivers Sabotaged a Golden Opportunity and Handed Uber and Lyft the Keys ," Frommers, 2014).

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CFP: Place of Teaching in Academic Librarians Work - Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

A Library Writer's Blog

Many librarians identify as teachers or educators as well as librarians, but may not consider themselves as teachers in the same way as faculty, and may not consistently define their work as teaching (Davis, Lundstrom, and Martin 2011). For more information, please see the full CFP on the CJAL website: [link] l/announcement/view/872.

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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

The quote from Mayor Douglas Shere below comes from an award-winning short documentary, They Came From All Over, documenting the impact of potentially losing a local grocery store in a rural Iowa community. In 2011, Camden County, in far eastern North Carolina, had only one grocery. By 2016, it had lost that store.

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The Vajont Dam Disaster, Sixty Years On

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

At the time only about 60 examples of sturzströme had been documented in the world. In Longarone a documentation centre and small museum were built, along with a civil protection training centre. For years, efforts to create a documentation centre and memorial at the site were routinely blocked.

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A Study of Low-Income Communities and School-to-Prison Pipelines

The Lowe Down

Socioeconomic status is one of the most well-documented correlates with juvenile delinquency. In our analysis, we used total suspension rates by county from the California Department of Education for academic years 2011-12 through 2015-16.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

An example is the excoriating report produced by three eminent Japanese women after the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear release, which highlights the deficiencies of a response system in which decision making is in the hands of elderly males. [1] 1] Domoto, A., Ohara and H. Disaster risk reduction: a Japanese women's perspective on 3/11.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Rioting and looting occurred in London in 2011 and in Concepcion, Chile, after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami. It is likely to be polycentric (hoping that I am not taking too metropolitan view of the phenomenon). It may be therapeutic or it may be dysfunctional.

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