Sentences with phrase «developing space age»

Featured in Forbes (June 2010) for developing space age material for Mount Everest team with the warmest and thinnest jackets using ZeroLoft insulation material.

Not exact matches

In developing countries, education and contraceptives can help the 120 million women of childbearing age who want safe, healthy timing and spacing of their pregnancies — and reduce the risk of maternal and infant death.

Dembele learned his trade at Paris Saint - Germain between the ages of eight and 16 before moving to London, and he has arguably benefited from the club's relegation in 2013, being allowed space to develop in the Championship that may not have been forthcoming in the Premier League.

I wish that as they play and develop, their caregivers realize the importance of «green» space and the calming effect it can have on all age groups.

Action Priority # 3: Develop additional recreation, fitness and cultural program space for aging adults.

Action Priority # 4: While improvements to the community centers are important in their individual geographic areas, none of the community centers is as important on a Park District - wide basis as renovating the Olympic Indoor Swim Center or developing additional recreational, fitness, and cultural program space for active aging adults.

The second evening (April 24th) will focus on how to set up your space indoors and out, how to develop routines and transitions that work for you and the ages of children in your care, how to set up experiences for the children each day (brief introduction to How Does Learning Happen?

There are in the 6 - 12 month old baby massage complex only those exercises for hands that help your baby develop support skills (remember that it is at this age he begins to move in space on his own — he starts crawling).

Since babies usually begin to actively move in space with the help of crawling at the age of 8 - 10 months old, the exercises that help develop arms in a crawling position are included in this complex.

-- because the fine motor skills that make for good brushing «don't really develop until about the age when a child can begin to tie shoes or write in cursive,» Miller explains; and start flossing when your child's teeth no longer have space between them, because then the toothbrush isn't able to reach plaque and debris between the teeth.

All of the scenarios that people had developed before the Space Age for going to the moon involved a reusable vehicle that goes to and from Earth orbit and a space station as a jumping - off place to go to the Space Age for going to the moon involved a reusable vehicle that goes to and from Earth orbit and a space station as a jumping - off place to go to the space station as a jumping - off place to go to the moon.

Gerard O'Neill the man who promoted the idea of space colonies and developed some of the practical technology needed to make them a reality, died in California last week, aged 65.

This may increase the likelihood that young athletes develop symptomatic lumbar disk degeneration — a natural degradation of disk, and narrowing of the space between vertebrae due to the aging process.

Coogler defuses this by shrewdly and strongly integrating women into the story — Nyong» o's idealistic Nakia, Danai Gurira as the ferocious head of T'Challa's all - female warrior security detail, his brainiac sister Shuri (Letitia Wright), who develops and deploys the country's space - age technology.

Great Denham Primary School was completed last year — a two form entry school that can accommodate 420 pupils and has been designed with the main space being split into four family groups creating small schools within a school to develop cross age teaching.

Growing up in the age of the developing space program, did you feel a personal connection to the early astronauts and specifically John Glenn?

Although there are no sharp bends in the body of Ford's new Probe V, the space - age concept car does have an edge.The Probe V is the result of Ford's quest to develop the most aerodynamic and drivable car in the world.

The idea for the project originated from reflecting on Erwin Panofsky's book Perspective as Symbolic Form (1927), which shows how every cultural age develops its own way of representing space.

Interested in engaging in non traditional venues, questioning the social implications of theatre space and developing work dependent on a collaboration with performers from a range of disciplines, ages and cultural backgrounds, his work encompasses sculptural installation, performance, video and sound.

The latter sought to develop a new music for the machine age and conceptualized his music as moving beyond the boundaries of space, while Sun Ra aspired to transcend the realm of the earthly with his experimental jazz.

Raimundas Malasauskas presents the group exhibition Sculpture of The Space Age, which he has developed over the last 12 months.

In the long run, much of the economic growth of developed economies is likely to involve less energy - intensive sectors because of demand - side factors such as 1) the amount of stuff people can physically manage is limited (even with rented storage space), 2) migration to areas where the weather is more moderate will continue, 3) increased urbanization and population density reduces energy consumption per capita, 4) there is a lot of running room to decrease the energy consumption of our electronic devices (e.g., switching to clockless microprocessors, not that I'm predicting that specific innovation), 5) telecommunication will substitute for transportation on the margin, 6) cheaper and better data acquisition and processing will enable less wasteful routing and warehousing of material goods, and 7) aging populations will eventually reduce the total amount (local plus distant) of travel per person per year.

A survey by the advisory firm EY predicts that Canadian adoption rates of financial services developed by financial technology firms could triple to 24.1 from 8.2 per cent in the space of a year, across all age groups and income levels.

The Chasm Group, LLC and Chasm Institute, LLC (San Bruno, CA) 1997 — 2008 Business Operations Manager • Managed all daily operational tasks for leading multi-million dollar high - tech market strategy consultancy, while providing executive administration to C - level executives and venture capital partners • Developed and managed the firm's annual budget, proposing and implementing expense cuts, producing monthly reports and financial statements, and coordinating with CPA firm for accurate and timely filings • Oversaw all client relationship management efforts while cultivating new business efforts from concept to implementation, providing high - quality service in sales efforts while utilizing new lead tracking system • Negotiated and managed all contracts, stock grants, and financing arrangements, working closely with outside counsel to draft legal documents and resolve LLC - and proprietary - related issues • Led three office space build - outs and two office relocations, managing all aspects of each process under aggressive timeline and budget expectations • Reduced firm telecom expenses by 22 % by streamlining IT objectives, including migration to VOIP phone system, software / hardware purchases, domain renewals, and outsourced technical support • Directed all phases of staff recruitment while creating and implementing all HR policies and programs, including comprehensive employee benefits plans • Supervised multiple administrative staff members, conducted performance appraisals and wage / salary surveys in comparison to incentive program guidelines, and maintained HR files in accordance with legal mandates • Produced all out - going client invoices in an accurate and timely fashion to increase, cash flow and reduce aging receivables, providing consistent attention to overhead costs and vendor arrangements • Administered all company insurance policies, including E&O, general liability, bonds, partner life and disability, conducting annual benefits reviews and employee / company insurance audits • Obtained necessary certificates for consulting contracts while processing federal, state, and local business reporting requirements to maintain licenses and incorporation status • Directed all marketing efforts and oversaw logistical aspects of national educational workshop series, utilizing sponsorship arrangements to offset production costs • Transformed «brochure» website into a dynamic tool to better illustrate company opportunities through relevant case studies, as well as maintaining all other promotional media, including press kits and video Association of California School Administrators (Burlingame, CA) 1993 — 1997 Issues and Planning Committee Coordinator • Executed all phases of event planning and implementation for a membership - driven organization including 23 state committees, 5 task forces, 6 strategic planning conferences, and a conference of 1,500 attendees • Focused on facility evaluations, bid requests, site visits, contract negotiations, and all pre - and post-conference planning processes • Produced statistical and financial reports, including budget projections and cost monitoring for developmental training efforts • Oversaw all participant - level responsibilities, including inquiries, eligibility, registration, correspondence, and billing statements • Managed all legal professional standards calls for Northern California regions, including the processing of attorney authorizations, the preparation of legal assistance letters, and liens on cause of action • Served as second point of contact for computer inquiries and troubleshooting efforts as well as provided back - up executive administrative support for Executive Director, Committee Chairs, and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction • Held responsibility for software installation and hardware configuration while performing weekly AS / 400 backup and report generation

They work to create a safe space for LGBTQ youth ages 14 - 22, to develop positive self - acceptance through life enhancing programs and character developing experiences.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.