Sentences with phrase «first community efforts»

EDSM (Elite Dangerous Star Map) was at first a community effort to store and calculate systems coordinates around the Elite: Dangerous galaxy.

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«Write to Play» heralded Playworld's first - ever social media giveaway, and the results are impressive: Not only did its Facebook fan base increase from 600 to more than 9,000 during the two months the contest ran, but as finalists rallied to gain community support for their campaigns, many local news outlets reported on their efforts, earning Playworld significant free publicity in the process.

Besides flashy screens and efforts at community building, the flagship mega-stores — such as the first, an 80,000 - foot space in the West Edmonton Mall — are also geared toward product performance and customization.

She is known in for her collaborative and mentoring efforts in creating impactful communities, and for creating COHIP, the world's first Coworking and Health Insurance Plan.

From making sure all children in Canada have access to a healthy breakfast to supporting first response efforts in the event of a disaster, Walmart Canada is committed to supporting families in need and building strong communities.

He first co-founded Brazen Careerist, a career - management site for high - achieving young professionals and ambitious college students, where he led the company's community development efforts.

Any effort to transform culture (Niebuhr's fifth and seemingly favored category) may do nothing of the sort if the Christian community does not first recognize the ways in which it is distinct from the culture it aspires to change.

These contortions distort the way the UN addresses reproductive health services and the efforts of the reproductive rights community, and have resulted in a column that is a disservice to the readers of First Things.

Many efforts brought PhilRice to this point with Golden Rice: getting permits of approval for the first confined test, engaging the support of local community leaders, establishing the field experiment, monitoring the experiment daily, and managing the harvested area for weeks afterward.

Little Rock and Los Angeles were the first two cities announced in the community effort.

«In anticipation of Breast Cancer Awareness Month coming up in October, «Take the First Step» hosted by HandCraft is a socially - charged, grassroots effort to spread awareness and support of those making a difference in their communities.»

In an effort to stay on top of trends and deliver relevant products and information to the foodservice community, Farmland Foodservice has formed its first Operator Advisory Board consisting of five celebrated chefs, each with a unique culinary style.

, President Obama established the first - ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to develop a national action plan to mobilize the public and private sectors and engage families and communities in an effort to improve the health of our children.

«We need to direct even more effort toward making sure mothers have the support they need in hospitals, workplaces and communities to continue breast - feeding beyond the first few days of life, so they can make it to those six - and 12 - month marks,» says William Dietz, director of CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity.

Community education efforts should focus strongly on increasing exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life, decreasing parental smoking and smoking during pregnancy and educating parents, non-parental caregivers and hospital staff about the dangers of non-supine sleep positions for infants.

Also at 10 a.m., NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray makes an announcement regarding the city's efforts to reduce mental health stigma and improve mental health care delivery in communities of color, City Hall, Blue Room, Manhattan.

At 1 p.m., de Blasio and NYC First Lady Charlane McCray will make an announcement about healthcare in Queens and discuss federal efforts to roll back healthcare at the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, 136 - 26 37th Ave., Flushing.

The Council's public tech division was a unit first created under Mark - Viverito as part of an effort to modernize the Council, increase outreach to communities of color and increase participation among communities typically less involved in civic activity.

Earlier this month, Governor Cuomo announced a series of new initiatives including the addition of 100 experienced investigators to the State Police Community Narcotics Enforcement Team; new efforts to make supplies of naloxone available to all first responder units in the State; and the launch of a targeted awareness campaign that will take place on all public college and university campuses.

Also at 2 p.m., NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray will visit South Brooklyn Community High School's Learning to Work program to see and hear more about their efforts to support youth in transitioning to secondary education or employment, 173 Conover St., Brooklyn.

In his first major initiative, Ryder said he would create the Commissioner's Community Council, an effort to «develop and reinforce trust» between the police department and various Nassau communities.

First, I want to thank all 48 of those candidates, not just for their extraordinary efforts, but for simply stepping up and dedicating 3 months of their lives to meet the voters across our communities.

In 2016, for the first time in more than two decades, NYC counted fewer than 1,100 shootings in a calendar year, a milestone that officials said was a result of the Police Department's efforts to focus on serious crimes and mend relationships with the communities it serves.

In an unprecedented appearance, First Lady Chirlane McCray will address the congregation at St. Patrick's Cathedral this weekend as part of #ThriveTogether: A Weekend for Mental Health, a nationwide outreach effort by over 2,000 faith and community groups in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. to highlight the need for education, compassion and open conversations about mental health and addiction.

Queen of Heaven is marking National Anti-Bullying Awareness Month with its first Run, Walk and Roll Against Bullying 5K and 1 Mile Fun Walk, being held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10 in conjunction with a national effort to promote anti-bullying measures in schools and the community.

For the first time, our community had rallied around one political candidate, and the result of our effort was intoxicating, along with the realization that our community was a «sleeping giant» and could make the difference in electing our public officials.

California: Carl DeMaio (pictured) is the second person vying to become the first openly gay Republican elected to Congress, but his effort has been lost traction — first, by failing to win the support of the LGBT community, and, second, by being waylaid by a former campaign aide's claim that DeMaio sexually harassed him.

Jose Rivera and the others hoped that every single leader of the Dominican community would put their personal interests aside and like good Dominicans, join the effort to help Guillermo Linares become not only the first Dominican City Councilmember, but also to continue making history as the first Dominican Senator.

«As we continue to support community development efforts that deliver health and wellness opportunities for residents, we are honored to be recognized by two of the world's most prestigious organizations for establishing New York as the first age - friendly state in the nation.»

Poughkeepsie... As part of the continuing efforts to get public input and increase community dialogue, Dutchess County Executive Marcus J. Molinaro will host the County's first live Telephone Town Hall meeting tomorrow evening at 6 pm, following the release of the 2014 Tentative County Budget at 11 am on Wednesday, October 30th.

Erie County Legislature Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo announces that Erie County is transferring a trailer to the Elma Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) to be used for storage of Citizen Preparedness Equipment in support of CERT's efforts to assist first responders and residents during emergencies.

«This is simply an effort to educate and empower the homeowner and first - time homebuyer community not only in The Bronx, but also the rest of New York City residents» said Assemblyman Crespo.

The mayor said he had reviewed the city's preparation plans with Commissioner Doherty to ensure snow removal efforts were being focused first in high - needs communities, like on the Rockaway peninsula in Queens.

After the ribbon cutting, Mr. de Blasio — whose first year in office was dominated by an effort to reform police - community relations after Garner's death and a subsequent City Hall feud with police union leadership — said he agreed some kind of national standard should be set.

Miner and Mahoney launched a series of friendly «fireside chats» early in Miner's first term, where they talked about mutual efforts to improve the community.

«This de novo genome assembly is just a first step in the battle against Zika, but it's one that can help inform the community's broader effort.»

The study, «Assessing the Potential Impact of State Policies on Community Health Centers» Outreach and Enrollment Activities,» is the first to examine efforts on the front lines to find and enroll uninsured people, many of whom are living in rural and urban communities that face high poverty rates, elevated health risks and a shortage of primary health care.

The first study to gauge the impact of state restrictions on the roll - out of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) indicates that community health centers across the country are engaged in an intensive effort to find and enroll eligible and uninsured patients and community residents.

One of the first assessments of rapid, long - distance dispersal, the effort reinforces that plant communities can recover from devastating events.

Parry and Greenhough suggest the first steps towards a fairer future, pointing towards community - owned biobanks and efforts to grant donors the legal right to access treatments and cures their tissues helped create.

However, registration of cardiac arrests was prospective and uniform, following the standardized Utstein style for reporting out - of - hospital cardiac arrest and revised for data quality assurance by the RACE - CARS team.18 Our results support efforts of other communities seeking to improve bystander and first - responder intervention, since they come from a quality - improvement database of a substantial portion of the state of North Carolina, with stable reporting over a 4 - year period during a broad implementation program that used a standardized protocol, as recommended by the American Heart Association.13, 20,40

And, hopefully, when that exo - Earth is discovered, we'll remember that the search and discovery was a large community effort, no matter who gets the first - author spot.

Aside from the lectures, Forum activities also included study tours and excursions to the region's tsunami - affected areas, offering participants a first - hand look at the recovery efforts there, and ways the communities are building back better.

First, I've been a long time reader of your site, have met you in person, and greatly admire the effort you put in to educating the community about how to achieve personal health and wellness.

In their first feature effort, Dyana Winkler and Tina Brown chronicle the history of the African - American roller - rink community, including the not - so - subtle racist policies they have fought against.

It's not a surprising limitation for a small developer, but for those of you hoping to jump in and take Andy Murray or Roger Federer onto the court, you may have to spend some time creating your own version of them first, or turning to the community to see if their efforts fit the bill.

What plot there is centres on Brooke's efforts to launch a restaurant - community centre - store called Mom's and Tracy's clandestine use of Brooke as a character in a short story, but for the first half at least we just hang out with the two girls as Tracy comes under the thrall of Brooke.

X-Men: First Class is a feisty prequel effort, effectively restoring badly needed snap into the mutant franchise, breaking away from Wolverine to fiddle with a colorful community of heroes and villains.

First, it argues for a «Community Schools Fund,» essentially a nonprofit harbormaster that would lead efforts related to school incubation, human capital, information - dissemination, and more.

It was one of the first five small, autonomous schools to be approved by the beleaguered Oakland Unified School District, the fruits of a nearly ten - year - long community effort to institute grassroots reform for Oakland's poor, mostly minority students.