Sentences with phrase «early projects focused»

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Facebook rolled out an expansion of its Instant Articles project on Tuesday — that's the mobile - focused offering it launched earlier this year, which offers faster - loading pages to media companies who agree to publish directly to the social network.

It did speak up on the Stop Online Piracy Act earlier this year, but for the most part Google has been focusing its public muscle on uncontroversial projects like augmented reality glasses and robot cars.

As early as 1986, Mayor Oscar Goodman created a redevelopment agency to focus on downtown, but it initially chased after office buildings and other projects that would not have benefited an urban, walkable core, Steve van Gorp, an urban planner who was a senior planner with the city of Las Vegas, told me.

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As I wrote earlier this month, the NDP subtly shifted their messaging over the past few months, focusing on launching new programs and projects that they argue will «make lives better for Albertans,» rather than trying to out - flank the conservatives on economic issues.

WCB had earlier attempted to merge with GBM Resources and had little money to advance the Misima project, while Kingston has plenty of cash to advance the project and will focus on the 2.8 million ounce gold resource, rather than porphyry copper.

From the Puritans to the Projects is a compelling history of the treatment in Boston of «public neighbors» — needy people unable to provide fully for themselves — from the early 17th century to the present, focused on the construction and management of public housing in that city since the mid-1930s.

We visited a Plan project that focuses on early education through playgroups in rural schools.

To estimate additional resource use not captured on an individual level in the cohort study, we developed supplemental data collection forms after five focus groups held with midwives from all parts of England early in the project.

«This progress is happening in part because we learned the lessons from the difficulties of the early years — that it is better to focus less on the monumentalism of a project and more on hard and fast decisions like pragmatic design, construction milestones and budgets,» said Ward, in the speech.

He had focused, in Indianapolis, on making services cheaper — but also more effective — and on one of the early downtown revival projects.

The work of the CTF and TA will initially focus on bedding down the three RSAs for the project that were agreed upon to close the US$ 1.5 billion, and to assist the Ministry of Finance to document and negotiate the early disbursements that will free those subsidiary to implement the three projects.

To do so, he got the athletes involved early in the development process and framed them as advisers on the project instead of subjects in a focus group.

The Brain Activity Map project launched recently by President Obama — and funded to the tune of $ 100 million in the US budget announcement earlier this month — highlights the need for research that focuses both on how individual neurons work and the ways that different regions of the brain work together as a unit.

The study is also the largest research project in Finland that focuses on early detection, intervention and prevention of mental health problems in families with children.

These schools included «early college» high schools with a STEM focus (that offered both college and high school credits to students); tech - savvy schools that relied entirely on project - based learning (an instructional practice emphasizing student production of knowledge via projects and research); and career / technical education high schools that prepared students for careers such as agriculture or medicine through early experiences in those fields.

Note that a part of this call will focus on early involvement in integrative omics projects, see -LSB-...]

Scientists and vaccine developers involved in EVI projects presented project progress and research findings, highlighting one of the most important areas of EVI's activities; translation of research on diseases of poverty vaccines, focusing on early stages from preclinical to clinical development through harmonisation.

The project focuses on defects in the development of the early heart, including hypoplastic left heart syndrome and bicuspid aortic valve disease.

The first investigations are already in progress as part of the joint project BIOACID with focus placed on the early life stages.

Dr. Gusella was an early advocate of broad collaboration focused on conditions caused by the rearrangement of chromosomes, co-founding the Developmental Genome Anatomy Project in 1999.

On The Up: Because keeping an independent label afloat is far from easy, Timo Weiland has landed an investment from Project I, a boutique company focused on growing early stage apparel companies.

The Florida Project focuses on a mother, Halley (Bria Vinaite), likely in her early twenties, and her daughter, Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), who's 6 years old.

Well, probably a lot of giant monsters and robots punching each other, but considering the project brings in a whole bunch of new blood, from the young cast to director Stephen S. DeKnight (Daredevil), who took over at the helm of the sequel after Guillermo del Toro stepped away from the project early on to focus on The Shape of Water.

The project has a long development history: Focus was in talks to acquire U.S. rights with Keanu Reeves attached earlier in 2014; the Weinstein Co. ditched the project earlier after acquiring the rights.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

In the early days, just getting the partnership and resulting project up and running is understandably a major focus.

This initiative might focus its energies initially on three to five long - term projects in areas such as developing reading improvement programs or helping at - risk children make successful transitions from early - childhood programs into regular classrooms.

Specifically, this project has two key elements: (1) a one - day convening (12/12/14) that forges relationships among stakeholders in Hampden County's early education field with influential leaders and experts from across the nation, where they engage in mutual learning and dialogue around the goal of strengthening individual and organization capacities to advance early learning for all; and (2) a multi-pronged communication strategy, rooted in the convening and designed to provide guidance around the field's most pressing needs, with a particular focus on strengthening the quality of Pre-K for at - risk children, like many of those growing up Hampden County.

Earlier this year, during its annual conference, the American Industrial Arts Association unveiled an ambitious plan designed to shift the focus of industrial arts from hands - on skills and crafts projects to an applied - science approach involving laboratory experiments.

The webinar focuses on the Center's goals for the next two years; how CEELO will be supporting state early childhood goals in upcoming month; highlights signature projects building leadership and organizational capacity, birth to third grade data and policy, and financing and sustaining high - quality early learning programs; and, hallmarks state leaders from AZ, IL, KY, and NE discussing with their work with CEELO.

Lisa Guernsey is the author of Screen Time and director of the Early Education Initiative and the Learning Technologies Project at New America, a think tank in Washington, D.C.; her coauthor is Michael Levine, founding director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop in New York City, which focuses on educational media.

Chris Daniels is a Project Director with TNTP, where he focuses on early literacy academic strategy with a consortium of districts in Tennessee and cross-LEA collaboration on staffing policies in Washington, DC.

At High Tech Early College, for example, Principal John Frye said the focus is on project - based learning, dual enrollment in classes at Community College of Aurora and work internships.

These schools included «early college» high schools with a STEM focus (that offered both college and high school credits to students); tech - savvy schools that relied entirely on project - based learning (an instructional practice emphasizing student production of knowledge via projects and research); and career / technical education high schools that prepared students for careers such as agriculture or medicine through early experiences in those fields.

In a comparative analysis of five traditional funders and five recent entrants, traditional funders» recent grantmaking has focused more on university - based K - 12 projects and organizations doing state and national policy work in areas such as early learning initiatives and teacher preparation.

The Community Foundations of Texas, through the Texas High School Project in collaboration with the Texas Education Agency, is now supporting initiatives that create Early College High Schools (ECHS), which target underrepresented populations, particularly with a STEM focus.

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In her early years at the Mayor's Alliance, one of Coffey's core projects focused on temporary housing for the pets of domestic violence victims.

On top of that from left to right the projects take harder to acquire / make resources, so early on you want to choose where you're going to focus your attention.

It is possible that we see some of that work surface in a future project, but for now our focus will be on doing what we can to help put Repop into a position to succeed and getting Fragmented out of Early Access and into a console release.

It was sparked off by a conversation between ourselves and Brandon Rollins about how we could do more to reward game developers for focus on accessibility in the early days of their projects.

Cybernetic Walrus is a Company started in early 2017 with a focus on games and gamification projects.

«Therefore, in the early stages of the project, we made the difficult choice of focusing our efforts on the single - player experience.»

«We have introduced several new improvements to our production pipeline and validation process, which allowed us to focus on polishing, stabilizing, and optimizing the PC version very early on in this project.

Despite the game's development and three of the team's early members falling by the wayside in the early months of 2017 however, Rodin and Lundgren have pushed forward to transform State of Wonder into a full - fledged game project with focus appropriately shifted towards its marketing, business and public release.

The Plague will be available for PC and console, and will be unveiled at this year's What's Next de Focus, a showcasing event for all the projects currently in production at Focus Home, early this February.

The gallery's longstanding relationship with many of its artists will be highlighted by focusing on important early solo exhibitions at Art Projects International: Jian - Jun Zhang: Water and Fire (1995); Gwenn Thomas: Recent Work (1996); Il Lee - Line and Form: Drawings 1984 - 1996 (1997); Pouran Jinchi: Recent Paintings (2000).

Later this year or early next year, along with Dan Bourke and Gemma Weston, he will open «Pet Projects» an ARI based in Perth which will present exhibitions for smaller, focused audiences.

Highlights include Abbott's early studio portraiture from Paris and New York (1926 and onwards); photographs from her seminal project Changing New York (1935 − 39); American landscapes, including her abandoned book project focusing on U.S. coastal highway Route 1; her final published series, A Portrait of Maine (1968); and a large selection of her innovative scientific photography.