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Free public sector data with no-code platforms in 2023

Open Access Government - Technology News

Inevitably, siloed cultures lead to a disjointed workforce, competing or misaligned goals, poor decision-making, and, ultimately, worsening productivity which must be every organisation’s priority in 2023.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Although the disaster of 6 th February 2023 produced, in fact, stronger shaking than this, it should not have caused 5,500 large buildings to collapse. Source: Wikimedia Commons An interesting map was published by the US Geological Survey shortly after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes. [1]

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Presidential Scholars Program Recognizes Outstanding CTE Students and Teachers

Homeroom

In 2015, the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program began recognizing outstanding students in the field of Career and Technical Education. The move was designed to highlight innovation within CTE programs and the educators who empower these students.

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Washington Cherry Blossom Festival and event transit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Seeing the Washington Post article " 3 maps for getting to the 2023 Washington, D.C.,

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2022 in Libraries

Librarian.net

Previous years: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Not a big year for libraries though I did get to one new one in Fairlee. Kimball (56) – Once the library opened, it stayed open.

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Street Smarts: Tampa, Fla., Puts Smart Technology in the Driver’s Seat

State Tech Magazine

Department of Transportation Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program sites, the $27 million Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority pilot tested the technology from 2015 to 2022. Tampa, Fla.,

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Small college economic issues threaten their ability to function as a community asset

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many small towns have decent quality of life because of the presence of small colleges, their economic and social capital impact, the offering of special events that are attractors, etc. For example, Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia has a summer theater festival.

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Whatever happened to planning when it comes to civic assets, public facilities, revitalization?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But a failure to keep renewing the space, a fall off in tourism after the Freddie Gray riots in 2015, and the unfortunate occurrence of a lousy property manager buying the complex combined to drive it into ruin.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I have zero experience with transit in South Florida.

2017 52
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Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Young Investigator Program

iGrantWriters

ONR's Young Investigator Program seeks to identify and support academic scientists and engineers who are in their first or second full-time tenure-track or tenure-track-equivalent academic appointment, who have received their PhD or equivalent degree on or after 01 January 2015, and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research.

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Volunteer Expo, Asheville, North Carolina

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In " Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda " (2015), I suggested each city political district should sponsor a volunteer expo, based on the Hill Center effort, but of course, a city-wide event can be just as good.

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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 FHFA just recently announced the last such cross-subsidy changes in January 2023. 35] For full disclosure, I was a major participant in its development, especially in the earlier years of 2014 and 2015, and so am speaking from first-hand observation. [36]

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As it happens, for economic reasons that these days are mostly theoretical, I am not against raising DC's Height Limit.

2012 52
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CFP: Book About Teaching with Digital Storytelling

A Library Writer's Blog

This new book will be published in fall 2023 for the Innovations in Information Literacy series edited by Trudi E. Final drafts will be due by Friday, April 28, 2023. 2015). CFP URL: [link] CALL FOR CHAPTERS We are seeking chapter proposals for a book entitled Teaching Digital Storytelling: Inspiring Voices Through Online Narratives that will be edited by Dr. Sheila Marie Aird and Dr. Thomas P. Mackey.

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