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Other reasons for the rebound in deforestation include illegal logging and the invasion of public lands adjacent to big infrastructure projects in the Amazon, such as roads and hydroelectric dams.

This week on the Campbell Conversations, we're joined by Jack Kelly, who has written an intriguing new book on one of the biggest infrastructure projects in American history, and the biggest in upstate New York; the Erie Canal.

«For some reason I can't understand, the governor thinks the Thruway Authority can sponsor one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the country ($ 3.9 billion) and not impact price,» said McMahon.

The Crossrail project is the biggest infrastructure project in the history of Britain, a new subway line running right under London.

Our firm has participated in the biggest infrastructure project in Croatia, namely the granting of the concession for the construction and operation of the new passenger terminal of the Zagreb Airport.

Not exact matches

Huawei, the biggest telecom infrastructure maker in the world, can't bid for U.S. government projects or large U.S. telecom contracts.

Many of the countries included in China's Belt and Road initiative are in infrastructure deficit and require big project development efforts, says Sonal Varma of Nomura.

Much of the leveraging occurred in emerging markets, specifically China, which is spending big on international infrastructure projects.

It's highly unlikely that 2014 will be nearly as big a year for stocks, but it could be a good year for job growth if Congress will take action — invest more in badly - needed transportation and other infrastructure projects, approve immigration reform and tackle tax and entitlement reform.

Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi, a low - profile minister with a high - impact portfolio, must hammer out huge bilateral deals with all the provinces for their slices of $ 33 billion in federal funds for ribbon - cutting - worthy projects like big public transit expansions.

This project is the largest ever for the Black & Veatch's Smart Integrated Infrastructure Team, which also supports Tesla Motors and their channel partners in design and construction of stationary storage systems nationwide.Working with Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), Black & Veatch is building the biggest connected electrical vehicle charging system in the world.

However, Cele points out that the lack of infrastructure remains the biggest hindrance to growth in African iron - ore projects.

Although I don't pretend to understand all the «ins & outs» of banking, public financing, etc., it seems to me to be self - evident that if Canadian governments at all levels were able to borrow, at low or preferably no interest rates, to finance infrastructure projects and other issues such as health care and education, rather than indebting Canadians in perpetuity in order to pay big interest payments to the greedy Big Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary Canadiabig interest payments to the greedy Big Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary CanadiaBig Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary Canadians.

In his current role as Infrastructure Minister, he has a big influence over which public projects get funding.

So again whether that's simply weaker growth equals less money in the exchequer's coffers and therefore a bigger deficit to finance — whether that is more pressure for well, «this isn't going very well... so we better now distract by building an infrastructure project here, or doing something else.»

Initially, the bank's program for alleviating global poverty was dominated by a strategy of economic growth, measured primarily in terms of GDP and channeled largely through big projects aimed at infrastructure development that benefited the rich more than the poor.

Debney has growth plans for just about each of the five pillars, including upgrades to berries infrastructure, the avocado vertical integration, a $ 65 million expansion of its biggest mushroom farm in South Australia and existing growth projects in China and Morocco.

These investments in New York's infrastructure are the shot in the arm our economy needs with the promise of a return to the big projects that make New York an industry leader.

«If you add up the Tappan Zee Bridge, the LaGuardia (airport), Penn Station and all the other capital projects he had in that budget, and then you say we've got a record - breaking $ 22 billion for the state of New York for infrastructure, that isn't even (the value of) one of the projects that he mentioned for downstate,» said the Syracuse - area lawmaker, referring to some of the other big - ticket infrastructure items on Cuomo's agenda.

Big ticket items include funding to refurbish Lake Placid's sagging Olympic venues, $ 700,000 for a hotel project in Schroon Lake and millions in infrastructure funding and revolving loan programs.

«It is fitting that New York's most ambitious infrastructure project of the 21st century includes one of the world's biggest floating cranes,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement.

George Osborne in particular was wanting to have Chinese investment, big infrastructure projects to show off to the Tory backbenchers.

And he stressed the need to improve infrastructure in New York State, noting the need for federal input on many of the big projects he wants to get done such as improving LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports and the «dramatic improvement» needed for the subway system.

State government has utilized design - build to save time and money on big infrastructure projects and New York City wants similar power to streamline the process by awarding one contract for project design and execution, instead of engaging in separate processes and contracts.

Mr. Cuomo pressed his support in a series of radio and television interviews Tuesday morning, linking the idea of closing Rikers to other big and expensive infrastructure projects he has embarked on, like a new La Guardia Airport and a new Tappan Zee Bridge, and dismissing the suggestion that it would be too mammoth, complicated and costly.

The first big hurdle in implementing Smart City projects is to work with the existing municipal services, infrastructures, databases and other resources.

In particular, the board balked at the projected $ 480 million cost of the lab's infrastructure, especially when the biggest project in the lab would be a gigantic particle detector built by DOIn particular, the board balked at the projected $ 480 million cost of the lab's infrastructure, especially when the biggest project in the lab would be a gigantic particle detector built by DOin the lab would be a gigantic particle detector built by DOE.

As the fifth biggest company in the world in the library sector, working with more than 1000 public libraries and 3,000 school libraries throughout Scandinavia and the UK, Axiell has vast experience with creating and managing large - scale digital infrastructure projects.

To that end the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and others have been calling on governments to orchestrate, essentially, a repeat of 2009 fiscal stimulus programs — this time with a focus on big infrastructure projects that pave the way for growth in decades to come — alongside structural reforms to promote global trade, research and education and an overhaul of inefficient tax policies.

In April, Kinder Morgan, the nation's biggest energy infrastructure company, dropped its plan for the Northeast Energy Direct project because of a lack of assurances that electricity ratepayers would pay for the $ 3.3 billion pipeline.

Heartbleed drew attention to just how underfunded this critical piece of software was, so big tech companies committed to chipping in money every year to fund the development of OpenSSL and other important projects as part of the «Core Infrastructure Initiative ``.

Our own Magic Pocket infrastructure project — the biggest bet in our company's history — would not have paid off without HPE's and a few other strategic partners» ability to deliver on our server specifications.

There are four key trends within the market: 1) Application projects driven by digitization, paperless working and data - management trends (BI and Big - Data) 2) Financial Regulatory projects including banking transformation due to regulation (e.g. Mifid, Fatca, EMIR and Prybs) 3) IT infrastructure outsourcing: Luxembourg is one of top countries for datacenters with powerful players in the market (IBM, EbRC or CSC) and multiple «Tier IV» datacentres 4) Security and risk control consulting focused on control and governance.

A challenging position for development projects in the field of Big data infrastructure & ETL pipelines, Machine Learning (Deep learning), Natural Language Processing, Data mining & Analytics, Machine Translation which builds upon my 24 years of software development experience on Windows / Mac / Linux by using Python, C / C + +, Scala, JAVA, Javascript, AJAX, JSON, SQL, NoSQL, Cloud (Docker), Machine learning, Keras, Tensorflow...

My expertise is in both electrical and automation of big infrastructure projects.

General Electric (Stamford, CT) 2007 — 2008 Corporate Consultant — Infrastructure Systems & Network • Designed, developed, and engineered GE Treasury system's development, QA, Production, and DR environment • Hardware: Sun Fire V220, V480, V880, V1290, V6140, V6800, V6920; Sun Enterprise T2000, T5120 (Solaris 10: LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, Zoans, Containers), E10K, E15K, E25, M4000, M8000, M9000; HP ProLiant with Linux 5.0 (EMC and 3 PAR SAN) • Built servers from racking, cabling (Ethernet / fiber), connecting to network, setting serial connection to Avocent ports, and setting up server to the network through DNS • Performed massive installation of Solaris servers using both Jumpstart and Blade Logic and Red Hat using both PXE boot and BladeLogic servers to global distributed network of more than 6000 servers • Installed and configured Solaris 10 OS, recommended patches, hardening software, LDOMS, ZFS, and Container on Sun server • Installed and configured Emulex LPFC, EMC Power path, Navisphere, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Replicator, and Veritas Net Backup in heterogeneous environment • Partitioned and mirrored disks using Solaris LVM, disk suites, Veritas VxVM, mirrored root file system and set up alternate boot device and dump device • Installed application software for ITG, IDM, and Tibco etc. • Created and adjusted Oracle projects on oracle 9i and 10g • Configured operating systems, LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, network Multi Pathing, Cisco Switch 6309, Brocade Switch, EMC DS41000 fiber switch, EMC, 3 PAR and HITACHI SAN, DNS, NIS, NIS plus, LDAP • Created LUNs for EMC, 3 PAR, HITACHI SAN and set up RAIDS • Created zoning of Cisco 6309 switch • Provided connectivity of Ethernet ports and fiber channel by patching Ethernet ports from server panel to switch, and by patching fiber from server to Brocade switch then to EMC DS41000 switch through Cisco switch6300, 6309, Big IP • Performed alternate boot testing, crush dump testing and cluster testing • Vendor liaison for Cisco, HP, IBM, EMC, Symantec, Oracle Sun, and Red hat Linux resolving hardware and software issues • Scheduled changes and upgrades communicating with business owners and support team • Architected Disaster Recovery System conducted testing and resetting the systems as needed • Performed zoning and provisioning configured EMC / Power path LUNs on UNIX servers upon client's request • Resolved issues with NIS, NIS +, DNS, VxVM and VCS among other SA tasks • Created network topology of the internet and intranet security environment using Visio 7.5

In fact, our last big infrastructure project was in the 1980s, when the Tennessee — Tombigbee Waterway connecting Alabama's Tennessee River to the Mississippi waterway was completeIn fact, our last big infrastructure project was in the 1980s, when the Tennessee — Tombigbee Waterway connecting Alabama's Tennessee River to the Mississippi waterway was completein the 1980s, when the Tennessee — Tombigbee Waterway connecting Alabama's Tennessee River to the Mississippi waterway was completed.