Sentences with phrase «at the base camps of»

Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one - way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long - term research project.

I firmly believe that we are located today at a base camp of sorts — a starting point of serious and exciting changes in the real estate industry as we take part in a morphing of property management and asset management, and we see property managers increasingly take a seat at the strategic table.

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Nuinsco will deploy about 10 geologists, along with a supporting cast of drivers, cooks and labourers, housed at a base camp near its targeted belt of rocks.

(Shackleton abandoned several unopened crates of this Scotch at his Antarctic base camp in 1909, and they were miraculously recovered from under the polar ice 98 years later, in 2007.

Poutsch started in Paris in the middle of 2012, then moved to Brooklyn at the beginning of this year following a six - month stint at Le Camping, a Paris - based startup accelerator.

In 2002, then President Bush sanctioned the establishment of the camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in order to house prisoners captured during U.S. military operations in the War on Terror.

Suncor says a «weather - related outage» at the company's base camp north of Fort McMurray, Alta., resulted in lower production and upgrader utilization in the first quarter, although operations returned to normal by the end of February.

Every year, David Kotok, chief executive of Sarasota, Fla. - based Cumberland Advisors, invites about 50 economists, money managers, former central bankers and others to a fishing camp at the northern edge of Maine.

When Bruno Bettelheim committed suicide in 1990 at the age of 86 he had a towering and broadly based reputation: as a wise and humane child psychiatrist in whose Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago hundreds of severely disturbed children had been restored to normal life, as an expert on child - rearing in the Israeli kibbutzim, as a survivor of Buchenwald and Dachau whose writings had established him as an authority on life in the concentration camps, and as a specialist in the treatment of autistic children.

Witness the ceremony at the dedication of the Holocaust Museum in Washington when soil was mixed from the sites of thirty - nine Nazi concentration camps and placed within the base of the eternal flame burning in that building.

We camp at the endof the day in a tumble of boulders at the base of Specimen Ridge, hoping thenatural shelter will keep us from getting stepped on and also provide somerelief from the rising wind.

Alongside my degree, I sought out new experiences; interning and volunteering with a variety of sports teams, universities and talent programmes along with getting involved in training camps based at MMU.»

In the summer she works as camp manager for Show Choir Camps of America, based in Downers Grove, which holds weeklong camps for students 13 through 18 and choir directors at Millikin University in Decatur; Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio; and Texas Woman «s University in DeCamps of America, based in Downers Grove, which holds weeklong camps for students 13 through 18 and choir directors at Millikin University in Decatur; Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio; and Texas Woman «s University in Decamps for students 13 through 18 and choir directors at Millikin University in Decatur; Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio; and Texas Woman «s University in Denton.

Depending on the camp and its unique schedule, campers can spend the entire week or a few days at one of the many locations being added on a regular basis.

At camps that don't have access to pools or air - conditioned buildings — including some camps based in Chicago parks — counselors must be even more vigilant about making sure children stay in the shade, take it easy and drink plenty of water.

Education is at the core of Drumlin Farm's mission, and our nature - based camps, workshops, preschool, and school programs cultivate environmental and science literacy in uniquely flexible and compelling ways.

Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole deployed at a Forward Operational Base in Benisheikh have uncovered a Boko Haram training camp where instructional training was provided to its foot soldiers.

At issue is which warring faction of a Brooklyn - based Hasidic sect called Satmar will operate four Jewish summer camps in Wawarsing this year.

The resulting musical is a surprising, and surprisingly humane and earthy, escapade based on the Greenham Common women's peace camp, a lengthy women - only protest at the siloing of nuclear missiles at the RAF Greenham Common airbase in the UK around the early 1980s — the height of the cold war.

«Base camps are not a destination unto themselves,» said Rob Chambers, one of the Lockheed engineers who spoke at the conference.

But everyone in the field at that time found it difficult to get past the «base camps» of precorrins - 1, 2 and 3.

«When it comes to brain tumor research, I picture our Northwestern Medicine team climbing a mountain and with every new discovery that shows the potential to prolong survival, we are establishing a new base camp,» said Andrew Parsa, MD, corresponding author of the study and chair of neurological surgery at Northwestern Memorial and the Michael J. Marchese Professor and chair of the department of neurological surgery at the Feinberg School.

It would be sited at an altitude of 5,000 metres and would be operated almost as a space observatory, with a base camp for the human operators nearby at a lower height of no more than 3,000 metres.

To make technical operations and everyday work easier, a base camp has been built at a lower altitude of about 2900 m.

After spending a few weeks up high on the flanks of Mt. Everest, just taking a shower down at base camp with real soap and shampoo felt like a day at a luxury spa (even though I was standing underneath a plastic tarp on a bunch of jagged rocks, and the water that was coming out of the portable shower spout had been warmed up by a burning pile of yak dung just minutes before).

Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Sam Worthington («Avatar») also turns up as a cohort of Hall, but the hasty manner in which he arrives at the Everest base camp after climbing a different, adjacent mountain seems like another way to cram in a famous face.

Based on his best - selling memoir, The Railway Man tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II.

Following that, you find yourself at the base camp, which is a small village whose name I forgot to take note of.

While the majority of the other characters at the base are indistinguishable fodder for the creature, there are Carter (Joel Edgerton) and Jameson (Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje), a pair of American helicopter pilots whom the rest of the camp inherently distrusts when all hell breaks loose because of their nationality.

Kyle Patrick Alvarez («C.O.G.») will direct a film «based on the landmark experiment conducted at Stanford University in the summer of 1971, in which randomly - chosen 19 and 20 - year - old students were divided into camps of either prison guards or prisoners.

The script by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy does an acceptable job balancing the plot between the climbers, the people coordinating rescue efforts back at base camp, and the families left behind, and Mick Audsley's editing hangs together well, though it gets hard to keep track of characters because there are a lot of them and their faces are covered by oxygen masks for much of the second half.

However, that doesn't count for the items inside the supply box at any of the base camps.

Upgrading Lara's skills can only be done at a base camp and the I must admit that the auto - save feature of the game is perfect.

Watch as some climbers return for lack of oxygen (at the summit Everest has only 1/3 of the air at sea level, causing nausea and dizziness) and others die, while at least one sportsman who is expected to die survives by digging out of the snow and forcing himself to walk to base camp.

You've got an ecological research scientist back at base camp, someone in charge of managing your bounties and delivery quests, someone that sells you basic gear and items, a forge for making your own equipment, cats that cook you food, and about a billion other things.

Fittingly, then, Jolie ceded the stage to Loung Ung, whose wartime memoir is the basis of the film, and to two of the young actors, Sreymoch Sareum and Kimhak Mun, who play the children at the center of the harrowing work - camp story.

The film is loosely based upon the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, the first of their kind in Germany, which ran from 1963 to 1965 and convicted 22 men for their roles during the Holocaust at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Based on a true story, The Railway Man stars Colin Firth as Eric Lomax, a British WWII veteran and a survivor of the horrifying conditions and treatment he experienced at a Japanese Prisoner of War camp.

While numerous reports document the extensive gender - based violence that women face at the hands of the Burmese military before arriving in the camps, there is less information about the domestic and gender based violence inside the camps as cultural shame and impunity make it quantitative data scarce (WEAVE 2011).

Stopping at different biodiversity hotspots, taking samples and measurements, not forgetting the catch of the day, participants are ready for a real scientific monitoring between rivers... A fixed camp base, camping at the end of -LSB-...]

Thom Markham, Ph.D., President of GlobalRedesigns, and Senior National Faculty member at the Buck Institute for Education, is a psychologist and educator who served as a Director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, California.

A fixed camp base, camping at the end of the day, staying up all night at the waterside, this activity is targeted at the adventurous spirit that lies within kids!

This play is about a group of boys and girls who are summertime campers at the National Sea Base camp in the Florida Keys.

The powertrain provided more than enough motivation on Nevada's freeways, state roads, and the delightful stretch of Highway 157, also known as Kyle Canyon Road, near our cozy and accommodating base camp at The Resort on Mount Charleston.

We drove the K900 V8 VIP from a base camp at Santa Barbara's recently refurbished El Encanto Inn to the college town of San Luis Obispo, and it was fitting that we had started out the morning on floors of heated marble: it helped us ease into thrones that are warmed, cooled, and power - adjustable at four positions.

I'm at the wheel of the Discovery Sport and the key here, in these conditions, is to venture out into such terrain, learn and also have some fun before heading back to base camp, unscathed (ideally).

The mood at the Pixel Qi camp is equally upbeat with their latest venture, something that can be summed up in what the CEO and founder of Pixel Qi, Mary Lou Jepsen had to say of the development: «Working with ZTE, a world - leading telecommunication company with a global customer base, provides us with an extraordinary opportunity to address a world - wide market.»

We had supplies with us for four months, and another two years» worth of supplies had already been stored at the base camp.

Rupee became the first dog to travel to Everest base camp with his owner, Joanne Lefson, at a towering altitude of 17,000 feet over a span of 10 days.