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Building courage, confidence and character: Susan Bowman and the Girl Scouts

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Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader) to change the world. Once, en route to a Virginia camp site to which they knew they would arrive very late, the scouts developed what Susan called a “Caper chart” to assign groups of scouts to different tasks to ensure the troop disembarked at set up the camp site quickly and efficiently.

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FEATURE STORY: High-Tech Hubs Are Moving To Their Markets

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However, technology companies are realizing that to be truly global, they need to tap innovation at more locations and in new high-growth markets. billion in venture capital was invested in emerging regional business and 300 ICT companies announced plans to add more than 8,600 jobs in the region from 2003-2011.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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Baton Rouge, LA has had great success in executing its strategy of bringing together business and higher education in innovative public-private partnerships that spur initiatives in new high-growth sectors. The Apple facility in Texas will become one of four global operations centers for the tech giant outside of its California HQ.

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Hard Hats & Crafts – Celebrating Women Leaders in Construction Safety

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My first project was a Wind Turbine project in the mountains of West Virginia. I love going back to Seattle and (preCOVID) giving/getting big hugs from the craft workers that were on my projects when I lived out there, catching up on their wives, kids, grand kids, retirement plans…and I haven’t lived there in 12 years.

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Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction

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It is currently building homes at Sea Haven , a 248-acre planned community in Marina, Calif., Through early August, Wathen Castanos had completed 150 homes at Sea Haven toward a planned build-out of more than 800 units. . The panelized and modular home producers we contacted for this article have big growth plans.

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GSA, LEED, USGBC, and Politics

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Campagna/Architecture + Planning PLLC. Breedlove Land Planning, Inc. Dover, Kohl & Partners Town Planning. E3 INNOVATE, LLC. Environmental Planning Associates. FILARSKI/architecture+planning+research. GR Planning. Green Innovative Design. AlturaSolutions Communications. Benike, Inc.

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Battle of Bayonne

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” The decision to use a single, innovative, arch-shaped truss to span the Kill Van Kull waterway was inspired in part by its beauty, said chief bridge designer Othmar H. In 1977, the 1,700-foot arch of West Virginia’s New River Gorge Bridge finally wrested the steel-arch length record from Bayonne.