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The demographic data firm Sperling's BestPlaces based its predictions on factors including cost of living, access to transportation, infrastructure, and education, updating its analysis as the e-commerce giant continues to tease new information about the massive project called HQ2.

Every day of the week, even Saturdays and Sundays, since urgent care is a 365 - day - a-year business, I look forward to hearing from our caregivers about their day — where we exceeded expectations or saved lives, as well as where we fell short of our goals or saw process or infrastructure breakdowns, so that we can learn from those experiences and deliver even better care the next time.»

Some green optimists portray this fossil - fuel infrastructure as itself a fossil — a relic that renewables are about to render unnecessary.

Alan Joyce, Qantas Airways CEO, talks about the company's recovery strategy as it becomes the first carrier to connect every continent with Australia non-stop, invests in infrastructure, and leads the world as the safest airlines.

«Think about this as a software stack that lets you build and consume things in the cloud or on premises,» Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president of technical infrastructure tells Fortune.

Finally, a stage - four deal is the easiest to attract funding partners, as the venture can look to either expand internal infrastructure, acquire additional capabilities, create a formal alliance with another firm, or approach potential buyers about purchasing the firm.

«Some EU members, especially Germany, are concerned about Chinese investment in the so - called periphery of the union, as well as about the acquisition of strategically sensitive infrastructure such as ports, power plants and key technologies,» Igor Rogelja, a researcher at the Lau China Institute at King's College London, said.

About 90 % of the work of Swedish county councils concerns healthcare, but they also deal with other areas such as culture and infrastructure.

A decade ago, residents of northern European countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden were going online at a faster rate than in just about any other area in the world, thanks in part to substantial investments in broadband infrastructure.

The retailer has been pouring huge investments into technology and innovation — about 30 % of its capital expenditures are earmarked for developing its Internet infrastructure — and until recently, it had a secret Innovation Lab that was meant to function as a lean startup within the company, developing groundbreaking tech innovations that could be pushed out chain - wide.

Through this process we learned about many new communities across North America that we will consider as locations for future infrastructure investment and job creation.»

As the previous points illustrate, there is a compelling case (wholly apart from any ideas about aggregate demand) for increased infrastructure investment.

We need to think about key national infrastructure issues as a country, rather than as isolated provinces

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

What also was expected universally fifty years ago — indeed, until about 1980 — was that governments would play an increasingly important economic role, not only as forward planners but as direct investors in infrastructure.

But with the Senate still locked in negotiations over what to do about Obamacare, an infrastructure deal looks as if it's months if not years away.

GM's Marry Barra pointed out that our planners need to think about where the future of EVs fit into the picture, ranging from charging stations to funding the infrastructure bill via a gas tax as these vehicles become more prevalent.

Workday originally built out its own datacentres and infrastructure, but as the company looked forward to the ten next years, it thought about where the world was headed and decided on - premises was not the best option scale out its increasingly successful platform.

In this session, Author Kim Zetter will talk about Stuxnet and the security issues around the digital systems that control our critical infrastructure — trains, planes, water treatment plants and the power grid — as well as the products of our daily lives, including cars and medical equipment.

The company's free online platform essentially serves as an outsourced logistics arm, enabling small businesses to grow without worrying about logistics infrastructure, shipping minimums, and contracts.

As we have spoken about previously, this new payments infrastructure will provide Australians with the ability to make real - time, information - rich payments on a 24/7 basis.

We're talking about a debt - financed tax cut and we're not talking about a revenue - neutral infrastructure plan, just as we were not talking about a revenue - neutral stimulus package in 2009.

Individuals living in Japan, the United States, or Germany don't worry about rampant inflation, a national infrastructure that is at the point of collapse, or the availability of basic necessities, such as food and medicine.

And then lastly, we feel great about the amount of cash that this business continues to kick off, allowing us to reinvest in this low risk, high return new unit growth and the infrastructure to support it, while continuing to pay a competitive and over time, growing dividend, as well as consistent, robust share repurchases.

Thanks to information measures, the awareness of the population about the biological importance of the sanctuary was increased, and as a result the area has converted into a high - priority conservation area for ecotourism, governmental and private investment in infrastructure, promotion and conservation of natural resources80.

As we discussed last week, the athletic department seems to be attempting to address its own infrastructure (read: funding and staffing) before worrying about the head coaching position.

Most postpartum doulas are a natural at this, but you will want to ask her how she feels about hospitals and working with the infrastructure there, as they will be taking on all the medical needs while the doula covers the emotional, physical, and logistical needs.

This report presents findings about the challenges districts face in implementing the updated meal standards, specifically as they relate to equipment and infrastructure needs.

As the village's existing transmitters have been failing, village staff have replaced them with the new SmartPoint transmitters, and about 1,500 have been installed since 2012, said Orland Park Infrastructure Maintenance director John Ingram.

Passionate about his country and committed to building an enduring legacy, President Mahama who is inspired by such heroes as Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Mahatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela and Prof. John Evans Attah Mills revealed that his vision from inception was to focus on five areas: Electricity, Education, Water, stabilizing the economy as well as restoring social and economic infrastructure.

Railway tunnels and depots may not be as snazzy as bridge and airport dedications, but it has become a much delayed lesson for you to learn about the relevance of all transport infrastructure.

Nixon underscored that herself this week in her two - minute campaign announcement video on Twitter, mentioning such issues as crumbling infrastructure, income inequality and sagging upstate economies, but not a word about gay rights.

As Josh Robin reports, it has some saying it could be among the governor's most lasting legacies, but there are major ifs about whether all his infrastructure dreams can come true.

As a strong NPP fanatic, when did you know building of infrastructure such as roads and schools are not to be the priorities for Ghanaians to cherish abouAs a strong NPP fanatic, when did you know building of infrastructure such as roads and schools are not to be the priorities for Ghanaians to cherish abouas roads and schools are not to be the priorities for Ghanaians to cherish about?

«Crumbling or tumbling» — that was the subject of a Hudson Valley non-profit's conference today on infrastructure issues, a week after it released a report on the topic as President Obama visited Westchester County to talk about the need for infrastructure investment.

Rebuild NY Now is a coalition with a mission: to raise public awareness about the issues impacting New York State's infrastructure, with its eye on $ 5 billion - described as «unexpected cash» - a «windfall» of revenue from recent settlements against overseas banks to pay for infrastructure upgrades.

David Jones announced that Wales would get an extra # 161 million to spend on infrastructure — but we all remember that this is just putting back some of the # 500 million cut in capital spending that was made in 2010 budget and even in the terms of this Budget it's not quite as simple as the Welsh Secretary would have us believe, because a further # 59m is cut out of the Welsh Government's revenue funding, forcing hard decisions about cuts to services on which we all rely.

As President - elect Donald Trump is about to take office having promised a burst of infrastructure spending, it's worth taking a look at the newest,...

In a reference to Cuomo's Start Up New York initiative, Teachout said that «when [Cuomo] sees tech policy all he can think about is tax giveaways, as opposed to... what is needed to build true infrastructure for the next generation of entrepreneurs.»

He also spoke at the meeting about maintaining provisions that protect the safety of highway workers and bus operators, as well as maintaining «Safe Streets» language, which, according to the release, aims to ensure that new infrastructure is designed in a manner that helps protect pedestrians.

As mayor of one of the snowiest cities in America, Miner has the credentials to complain about crumbling infrastructure; how cold, snowy conditions can crack water pipes and create craters in roads.

After his re-election in 2014, Cuomo reinvented himself as a full - throated economic populist, pushing through a minimum wage hike and a paid family leave program, and unveiling massive infrastructure spending plans and a proposal for free public college tuition — though he has been light on details about funding.

Those things have added up to a mayor that takes her message to Washington, to complain about delays in replenishing the Highway Trust Fund; to Albany, looking to get more state spending on infrastructure; and to the Clinton Global Initiative, as a member of the infrastructure working group.

People with legitimate concerns about their standard of living, a standard of living that many of them will have invested a lifetime of hard work into, should not be dismissed as ignorant and selfish by those of us who will benefit from rail infrastructure improvements or renewable energy investments or whatever.

«Now more than ever we need to think creatively about how to address our transportation funding needs as well as how to generate reliable consistent funding for our state's infrastructure.

Cabinet meetings are now about how trillions of Naira are to be used to provide long delayed infrastructure such as roads, bridges, railway, power, drugs and equipment for hospitals.

De Blasio gave up a chance to push New York City's agenda directly with Trump by pulling out of what would have been his first White House meeting with the president, citing a Justice Department notice about a crackdown on sanctuary cities as the reason for skipping the 100 - plus mayor sit - down, where infrastructure and the opioid crisis were on the agenda.

«And communities asked to accept intrusive new renewable energy infrastructure such as wind farms will ask how serious the government is about reducing greenhouse gas emissions when it is still prepared to allow carbon intensive opencast mining.»

During that rally, speaking before a crowd of about 100 people, Walsh said he was confused as to why Syracuse was stuck in the past and cities such as Pittsburgh were preparing infrastructure for self - driving cars.

Though Landrieu flew with Obama on Air Force One to New Orleans, the incumbent senator did not appear with the President as he toured the Port of New Orleans and delivered a speech about infrastructure spending.