Sentences with phrase «for public chain»

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Many Chinese government offices have been public about their interest in taking advantage of the blockchain technology for tasks like tracking people and products moving through industrial supply chains.

The chain was able to keep refinancing its debt for years, but attempts to take Toys «R» Us public fizzled and its stature as market leader kept eroding.

Public health and consumer groups applauded the move, which does not go as far as the company's policy for the United States, where already for a year suppliers have provided the chain with chickens raised without antibiotics deemed important to human health.

Often these tokens are a sort of public IOU intended for redemption in a future new chain, or some other digital good.

(Reuters)- U.S. supermarket chain Albertsons Companies Inc is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering in late September or early October that could value it as much as $ 24 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.

Wingstop Inc.'s shares are headed for their biggest loss since the restaurant chain went public in June 2015.

The challenge right now is to get the scalability of public chains higher, and come up with better answers for privacy challenges.

In the days leading up to the holiday weekend, Coin Center briefed four major DC organizations on how blockchains work and about important considerations for making decisions as they apply to public chains.

Neiman, purchased by private - equity firms TPG and Warburg Pincus LLC for $ 4.9 billion in 2005, had been looking for an outright buyer for the retail chain while simultaneously laying the groundwork for an initial public offering of stock.

For example, it took only one day to make the Pundi X system work on the NEM Blockchain for both the private and the public chains.&raqFor example, it took only one day to make the Pundi X system work on the NEM Blockchain for both the private and the public chains.&raqfor both the private and the public chains.»

While Abra has shown public support for the SegWit upgrade to Bitcoin as well as the currently pending SegWit2X plan to implement both SegWit along with a base block size increase to 2 MB, we will ultimately support the Bitcoin blockchain representing the longest chain with the most historical hashing power and difficulty associated with it.

We saw in 2008 how weak links in the mega banking chain spilled out across Wall Street because of the invisible linkages to other banks and financial firms unknown to the public — like the fact that the big insurer, AIG, was the backer for tens of billions of dollars of credit default swaps while having no money to pay off the bets it had accepted from the biggest Wall Street firms.

«Making calorie information available on chain restaurant menus and vending machines is an important step for public health that will help consumers make informed choices for themselves and their families.»

Firehouse Subs ® is a fast casual restaurant chain with a passion for Hearty and Flavorful Food, Heartfelt Service and Public Safety.

Through the Consumer Goods Forum, the CDP / We Mean Business Coalition, and the public - private Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, hundreds of major companies have committed to eliminating commodity - driven deforestation from their supply chains by 2020, including companies that account for 90 percent of the global trade in palm oil.

Stuart says the money will help pay for more events to put the issue in the public eye, as well as fund the group's investigations into where waste occurs throughout the food chain.

Metcash says, in the alternative, that there is a market approximately within the geographical region comprising NSW and the ACT for the supply of such grocery products to the consuming public by way of integrated retail chains and independent wholesalers supplying independent grocery retailers.

As I have said, Metcash and Pick n Pay contend for a national market for the supply of packaged groceries, fresh products, general merchandise and health, beauty and cosmetic products to the consuming public by way of integrated retail chains and independent wholesalers supplying independent grocery retailers.

[129] Metcash contends... that there is a national market for the supply of packaged groceries, fresh products, general merchandise and health, beauty and cosmetic products to the consuming public by way of integrated retail chains and independent wholesalers supplying independent grocery retailers.

The organic sector's integrated value chain not only delivers organic products from seed to shelf, but helps to capture consumer demand for the benefit of the farmers, the economy, and the public.

MomsRising.org members, joined by advocates at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, urged the chain to improve the nutritional quality of its kids» meals by removing soda from the kids menu.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

(WASHINGTON, DC) In comments today before the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's public meeting on the import safety provisions of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, Dr. Leon Bruner, Chief Science Officer for the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), stressed the importance of enhancing the safety and reliability of the supply chain for imported food and food ingredients.

The Western Montana Scientists» Committee for Public Information reported: «Since 1080 remains stable and does not degrade easily, it is extremely hazardous to animals higher in the food chain.

The Miami - based fast food chain, which re-launched as a public company in June, has been putting real pressure on McDonald's for the first time in years, in part by adding versions of products already available at the Golden Arches.

Looking at 15 Kids LiveWell participating chains, researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that the average restaurant kid's meal in 2015 still contained twice the calories recommended for small children and more than 60 percent of their recommended daily allotment of sodium.

Not many restaurant chains, according to a report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest that was released Monday.

Meanwhile the supermarket chains have given far less, opting to use their money for a PR campaign to convince officials and the public of the benefits of the idea.

Even for those not surprised, there is still a desire to see and hear de Blasio think through whether as mayor, and at the top of the chain of command, he should react differently than he would as a council member or public advocate.

Questions - Foreign Office Ten minute rule motion - eradication of slavery (UK company supply chains) Debate - transport and the economy Debate - preparations for the Rio Plus summit Adjournment debate - supermarkets and public land in Scotland

The co-chairmen of the General Assembly's Labor and Public Employees Committee cheered the recommendation from a wage board in New York to phase in a $ 15 minimum wage for workers in large fast food chains.

ALBANY — The State Legislature has adjourned for the year without coming to an agreement on mayoral control of New York City's schools, leaving a looming question mark over the chain of command for the nation's largest public school system and its 1.1 million students.

Nteranya Sanginga, Director General of IITA, said that the symposium aimed to bring together different stakeholders including public institutions, private partners and donors along with scientists, researchers, industry partners, farmers and other stakeholders across the value chain to draw a roadmap for a sustainable cocoa sector in the region.

City Council candidate Heidi Harrison Chain said she will decline public matching funds for her campaign and said the money should instead be used to better the community in a rough economy.

City Council candidate Heidi Harrison Chain's announcement last week that she will decline public matching funds has prompted others in the race for Councilwoman Melinda Katz's (D - Forest Hills) seat to criticize the move, saying she is ditching a program meant to level the financial playing field and could now far outspend her opponents.

Mulgrew said he was «perplexed» that so many upstate Republican senators — many who receive contributions from the charter industry — took so much interest in creating «more free space in New York City public schools» for charter chains.

«If the Conservatives are genuinely committed to not for profit education then they should, now, prior to the General Election, open up the books of the multi academy chains to public scrutiny, a facility so far denied to Ofsted and the Public Accounts Committee.&public scrutiny, a facility so far denied to Ofsted and the Public Accounts Committee.&Public Accounts Committee.»

We've never understood why anyone in public office, or with aspirations for it, would risk their reputation by forwarding racist chain e-mails, but for whatever reason — maybe they're just too hilarious not to share — they keep doing it and they keep getting in trouble for it.

Under the reforms, outside organisations could bid for work including» mutual» companies formed by public sector workers and based on the John Lewis Partnership, the department store chain partly owned by its staff.

But in writing for the lay public, Milgram omitted statistics — the numbers that would show how few of his chains were in fact completed.

Also needed, says Merrill Goozner, director of the Integrity in Science Project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, is an elaborate system that monitors drugs at various points in the supply chain.

«Although the policy is encouraged in the U.S. and U.K. for large chain restaurants to present caloric content for menu items, this study reminds us that there isn't any legislature for cafeterias at universities, schools or workplaces to display this type of information,» says Sara Bleich, PhD, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, speaking on behalf of TOS.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has released its annual Xtreme Eating Awards, which features nine of the unhealthiest meals from American chain restaurants.

I fantasize about being chained up for hours while my girlfriend goes shopping, or being humiliated in public for being a bad boy.

Before becoming a professional critic, Mondello spent more than a decade in entertainment advertising, working in public relations for a chain of movie theaters, where he learned the ins and outs of the film industry, and for an independent repertory theater, where he reveled in film history.

At the moment, consideration of embodied carbon hasn't entered the mainstream for public procurement, this means that placing a requirement on the supply chain to reduce embodied carbon levels will encourage consultants and suppliers to step up to innovate and deliver a project that breaks new ground.

Aspire Public Schools, for example, is a nonprofit seeking to operate a large chain of public schools, at least initially in CalifPublic Schools, for example, is a nonprofit seeking to operate a large chain of public schools, at least initially in Califpublic schools, at least initially in California.

Falling short in its efforts to raise new capital to finance a proposed national chain of private, for - profit schools, the Edison Project has announced a scaled - back plan that will focus initially on managing public schools.

What this means, for the education sector in particular, is that public bodies are increasingly looking for contractors to not only deliver projects, but also support local supply chains and learning and skills programmes within schools and colleges.

Before taking the role, Sir David was a positive advocate for openness, claiming during a presentation at the Independent Academies Association conference in October 2014 that the individual votes of headteacher board members — who advise regional schools commissioners (RSCs) on academy chain takeovers — would be made public.