Sentences with phrase «about initiatives which»

There are a number of common factors about these initiatives which struck me as remarkable when I was writing that paper for the NJI.

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During her tenure, Lee oversaw initiatives to improve Google's employee diversity, which she says is about more than just numbers and also factors in inclusion.

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

I've been pretty public about a failure that we had at the Case Foundation, which was a global water initiative in sub-Saharan Africa.

Brands nowadays are more and more concerned about going green, which can include everything from implementing sustainability initiatives to protecting animals with cruelty - free policies.

Kotick spoke exclusively with Fortune about Activision's highly anticipated online initiative, parts of which will come to market early next year.

I recently sat down with a lawyer friend who specializes in this stuff and he explained that the infrastructure is just about in place and, more importantly, some players in the field are taking bold initiatives, which is going to force the issue.

Triggers will help you know which targeted accounts have identified a need and have the budget, so you can focus your prospecting time and generate an organic conversation about your prospect's needs, wants, and current initiatives.

For example, the company's employee - initiated group HACEMOS (the Hispanic Association of Communications Employees of SBC), has started an initiative that will link thousands of students across the country via satellite for High Technology Day, which educates students about technology careers.

Although first reported in a local paper, it was left to BC - based The Tyee to break open this scandal, which includes a concerted federal government cover - up of information about the TFWP, including a new TFWP initiative called the Canada - Alberta pilot project — one that has been left almost completely unregulated and which likely paved the way for the dismissal of those 270 tradespeople.

For 2018 - 19, the fiscal cost of these initiatives is about $ 1.2 billion, which would only account for a minor portion of the difference between the two spending estimates.

As part of an ongoing initiative to better educate the broader community about Ripple technology, behind the scenes developments, as well as our take on the industry at large, Ripple Labs will be releasing a series a tech talks, the first of which is an introduction to Codius.

Pilot programs, which Bhojwani seems reluctant to talk about for now, are in the works and new digital distribution initiatives should also factor into getting the mix just right.

Local media in the state, tonight, is reporting that ballot initiative SQ755, which bars state courts from using Islamic or international law, is on the path to approval — Yes votes outweighing Nos by more than two - to - one, with about 40 - percent of the precincts in.

The right - wing faction has promoted the school prayer amendment to the Consitituion and similar initiatives to declare America a «Christian nation;» it is workingintently to bring about a constitutional convention at which its representatives could propose curtailments of various freedoms; is drafting laws to confer official favor on specific religious establishments.

This right - wing faction has promoted the school prayer amendment to the Constitution and similar initiatives to declare America a «Christian nation»; it is working intently to bring about a constitutional convention at which its representatives could propose curtailments of various freedoms, is drafting laws to confer official favor on specific religious establishments.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

I am wholeheartedly in favour of initiatives which support parents in teaching their own children about puberty, at home and in the way they feel is most appropriate.

[I think you wrote somewhere that you might create a closed Facebook group where people could write more openly about their health issues, which naturally would take a lot of time to set up if you were to try to create a private forum on your own site, so I do realize that some platforms are better for some initiatives / conversations than others are.]

RA rolled out an excellent implementation guide for Latin American coffee farmers, which I'll be writing about, and told me about a couple of other upcoming initiatives that I am excited about — in spite of what the expression on my face might suggest.

More than 4,200 schools across the UK are involved in the Food for Life initiative, which aims not only to put healthy food on the table but to teach children about its importance for their lives and the environment.

The primary objective of this initiative is to raise awareness about the risks related to campylobacter, which is a bug found on raw chicken and the biggest cause of food poisoning in Scotland.

Research shows that a majority of global consumers, and especially Millennials, support companies that are committed to minimizing environmental impacts and that prioritize sustainable approaches to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

Since I posted about this initiative, which offers only Smithsonian Bird - Friendly certified coffee, there have been a few tweaks and changes.

negatives -LRB--)-- terrible result — wengers team selection (arteta + ozil in particular)-- generally poor work - rate across the pitch and nothing like the backbone we showed against man city — handing dortmund initiative to top the group (we all know what finishing 2nd means)-- lack of hunger + desire — welbeck misses — still no joel campbell (who in my personal opinion is a big game / stage player)-- in all our «set - piece» training we totally forgot about the bread and butter of football which is making an impact in open play

This past June I was invited to a press event at the NFL headquarters, where representatives from a group of national governing bodies for team sports talked about their safety initiatives, which showed just how far behind the NFL and its youth football arm, USA Football, had been until recently.

This was a month during which there were no special initiatives or major news stories about infant feeding.

In India — where the Maggi Noodles controversy continues to rage — and the law forbids promotion of any products for babies under 2 years, Nestlé is boasting about its new Maternity Protection Policy, describing its Start Healthy Stay Healthy campaign as «a science - based educational initiative by Nestlé which, in partnership with doctors, focuses on the lifelong impact of breastfeeding and the first 1,000 days of life.»

The initiative, which concluded its work in 2014, contributed to the evidence base by looking at the effect of an innovative delivery model, Breakfast in the Classroom; produced the Breakfast Effect video series to answer common questions about school breakfast; and gathered and shared critical resources for schools and advocates.

We were talking about hospitals, cause she delivered in a hospital, and she was talking about, you know, you have all this now with the baby - friendly hospitals, which is a great initiative, but they are doing more and more to make it more and more difficult, if you will, for moms who really are choosing the formula route to get formula.

The use of this common indicator is «clinically significant because quality improvement initiatives about human milk feeding are undertaken to reduce the prevalence of specific morbidities for which a mother's own milk, but not donated milk, is protective,» Meier said.

In a bid to address this problem, the UK Youth Parliament is launching its Project Safe Space initiative tomorrow in Newcastle, which will give young people the chance to talk about terrorism and related issues.

At the event, MPs learnt about the NCC's services and initiatives, including the NCC Approved Code Schemes which provide additional consumer protection, the NCC Training Academy that aims to enhance skills of those working in the sector, and the Central Registration & Identification Scheme (CRiS), the national register for UK touring caravans, which provides a service similar to that of the DVLA for vehicles.

«One of the allegations [of an affair] I believe is [from] an intern, which is even more troubling,» Quinn said, answering questions about the probe after a press conference announcing an educational initiative at the Urban Institute of Mathematics in Throggs Neck.

The Assembly's proposed $ 76.6 billion 2018 - 2019 spending plan includes about $ 500 million in new revenues from the Transportation Sustainability Program, which would be used to fund «certain transportation and MTA initiatives,» according to a news release from Speaker Carl Heastie's office.

As a Southampton Town Board member, Ms. Fleming says she's helped to eliminate a budget deficit, thereby restoring the town's credit rating; focused on proper staffing and controls in the town finance department; and spearheaded economic initiatives such as the Farm Fresh Market in Flanders, which is run by teenagers and sells local produce, and the Youth Build Project in Riverside, which teaches young people about sustainable building methods while restoring blighted homes.

«Despite the mayor and first lady touting their mental health initiative, they continue to be silent about the repeated killings of people in emotional distress by police, which now totals at least 11 in the past four years,» Pierre said in a statement.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and first lady Chirlane McCray announced naloxone — which essentially reverses the effect of an overdose — will be sold in about 190 pharmacies in the city as part of an initiative to combat prescription drug and heroin addiction in the five boroughs.

The GOP senators are even less excited about one of the governor's top economic development initiatives originally known as START - UP, which they say should be shut down.

Beverly Usher of Rochester pointed to a «doughnuts for dads» and «muffins for moms» initiative at an elementary school there, which brings parents into the school for conversation about best practices for families and educators.

Certain aspects of the contract appear to be specifically intended to alleviate concerns about the independence of the probe, which will focus on contracting in the state - backed «Buffalo Billion» initiative, SUNY - backed upstate nanotech deals, as well as «other matters directly related to those programs» as determined solely by Schwartz, the contract says.

First Lady Chirlane McCray — who spearheads the ThriveNYC mental health initiative and the nationwide Cities Thrive Coalition that has 200 cities as members — said the initiative is «working hard» to change the manner in which individuals think about addiction and mental illness and establish prevention protocols.

In a statement by its spokesperson, Sen. Sabi Abdullahi, in Abuja, the upper chamber said that Fashola did not give the public details about the Lagos - Ibadan Expressway, which was on private finance initiative from the beginning.

The policy document, which by its own admission «is not about launching new initiatives», comes after it emerged Barack Obama was prepared to delay the deployment of a US missile shield in eastern Europe to help persuade Russia to begin cutting its stockpile of nuclear warheads.

Speaking about the initiative, climate change minister Phil Woolas said a «new currency» was being created which would have «huge implications» for the government and on judgments about the feasibility of various proposals.

The report warns lessons must be learnt in all of the government's other private finance initiative (PFI) schemes in the NHS, which so far involve about # 13 billion worth of capital investment - about # 4 billion more than the original estimates.

After a string of weeks in which City Hall has rolled out nearly a dozen new initiatives aimed at tackling the city's homeless crisis, New York City residents are starting to feel slightly better about how de Blasio is handling the city's homelessness problems, a new Q poll shows.

Howe, who has already pleaded guilty to eight felonies, opened his testimony by taking questions about the hiring of Lisa Toscano Percoco to work on an education initiative run by Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), which has been developing a controversial gas - fired power plant in Orange County.

The money, which brings the annual total for the HealingNYC initiative to about $ 60 million, will be used to amp up potentially lifesaving programs.

Mr. Liu said he was enthusiastic about his odds, and continued to pound Mr. Avella for joining the joint IDC - Republican Senate majority, which blocked left - wing initiatives like a minimum wage hike, the pro-choice Women's Equality Act and the DREAM Act,