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Why another shutdown would be bad for the U.S. military

Partnership for Public Service

22, 2018, until Jan. 25, 2019—shows that when our government closes up shop, both the economy and the ability of agencies to serve the public suffers. Although members of both the House and Senate have introduced bills this year to ensure that all service members get paid in the event of a shutdown, none have passed.

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DC Artomatic is a big arts exhibition: but not oriented to building the arts and culture ecosystem long term

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Despite Artomatic playing host to — and in some cases advancing the careers of — many amazing, well-respected artists, there’s a long history of the event being trashed by the art-reviewing press, often unfairly, because it has no bar to entry. The work is not curated. Is it any good?

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S7 Episode 06: Partnerships and Progress

ParkTalk podcast

Community cooperation that makes District programs and events happen, program growth and new programs in 2018 and 2019 are discussed. Guests: Brad Wilson, Director of Recreation; Andrea Coates, Superintendent of Recreation

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NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But what earns him the most press is the work he oversees estimating the economic impact of marquee sporting events on their host cities. Especially when many might attend special event dinners by sponsors, etc. Sports Events Tourism. But events tourism is still an important element of community identity building and marketing.

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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. Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) I suggest the following five:- (a) Natural disasters, caused by extreme natural events. Field 2018). and this might give us some basis for distinguishing phenomena by the magnitude of their impacts.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). The same is true of some of the earlier events, such as the Hillsborough stadium disaster of 1989.