Sentences with phrase «from about face»

But the Everything Roof isn't just about the environment: «We really want to make this as much a community space as an urban farming education project,» says Natalie, from the About Face Collective.

You can assign yourself shops from the About Face website and to do so you will have to read instructions and pass a quiz to assign yourself different types of shops.

I'm brand new to the mystery shopping world and just received my first assignment from About Face to deposit a cashiers check into my account and let them know once complete so they can release the funds.

You will also get emails from About Face offering new assignments so you will be alerted when there is something that you might be interested in.

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Zuckerberg is on Capitol Hill this week to face a barrage of questions from lawmakers looking to probe the tech giant over concerns about privacy, data collection, and more.

The company will begin bankruptcy proceedings, it said, after losing clients and facing mounting legal fees resulting from the scandal over reports the company harvested personal data about millions of Facebook users beginning in 2014.

While the move will surely appease many angry customers, it does mark an about - face from a pledge two years ago by General Mills to remove artificial colors and flavors from its cereals.

Naturally, his response was that he was calling about a letter dated May 12th regarding the challenges sellers faced in migrating from selling products to business outcomes that could be achieved by making devices part of the IoT.

Facing opposition from internet pioneers, online companies, members of Congress and the vast majority of Americans — all of whom are worried about broadband providers offering cut - down packages of services rather than the full internet — he released a jokey video scoffing at their dire predictions.

As such, the chairman's proposal represents an about - face from his stance just a year ago.

You might have seen HappyOrNot's terminals at a restaurant or retail store already: Just four buttons, ranging from a bright green smiley face to a red frown, and a simple directive to push whichever one is closest to how you feel about your customer experience.

Not too long ago I wrote about «the entrepreneur's dilemma,» a clever formulation of the work - life balance tradeoffs faced by busy professionals from entrepreneur Randi Zuckerberg.

Since last year, Peninsula Shops has signed up about 80 businesses, many of which, facing competition from big - box retailers and feeling the effects of the recession, desperately needed a new tactic to get customers in the door.

Trudeau's about - face is rooted in the Liberal vision of a global economy at the beginning of a decades - long transition from fossil fuels to clean energy technology, says Jim Carr, minister of natural resources.

But small tech startups see the about - face (largely) as good news, since the order promises to protect them from noncompetitive practices.

«If the president wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have happened and maintain telling us how nothing is going to be done about it, I'm going to happily ask him how much money he received from the National Rifle Association,» Gonzalez said.

Does launching a YouTube channel represent an about - face from ineffectual bureaucracy toward new media savvy and transparency?

Despite having the most users (reportedly about 30 million), the music streaming service has faced growing competition from others, most notably Apple's (AAPL) own service which debuted that summer and already has more than 11 million paying subscribers.

After graduating from the first Imagine K12 incubator class in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior management.

I've written before about how Netflix is one of the few still doing that, but the mounting pressures the streaming company is facing from all corners don't bode well for this continued focus.

... [But] Japanese exporters... face weakening demand from the impact of the Euro - zone crisis, concerns about the economic health of China [and] the persistent strength of the yen... as investors seek a safe haven.»

The Vidyo team is from all walks of life, and our employees learn more every day about each other's diverse cultures, backgrounds and traditions, and face - to - face inclusion across the board constantly opens our managers up to new ways of approaching each challenge.

According to former employees, Facebook, Google and Twitter all worry that if they are public about their true level of cooperation with Western law enforcement agencies, they will face endless demands for similar action from countries around the world.

I sat down with Chesky for a wide - ranging chat about why investors ran away from Airbnb in the beginning, the pushback the company has faced from regulators, the challenges facing its sharing - economy peer Uber, and the company's plans for an IPO.

Rad's about - face is at least the third high - profile return by an ousted founder this year: Zynga brought back Mark Pincus in April to take over from Canadian Don Mattrick and Twitter replaced Dick Costolo with Jack Dorsey, albeit on an interim basis.

CNBC's Phil LeBeau reports the highlights so far from a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing where United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz and other airline executives face lawmakers about oversight for airline customer service.

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The «Squawk on the Street» news team talks about upcoming testimony from United CEO Oscar Munoz where he will face tough questions from a House committee hearing about passenger policy.

David Neeleman, the founder of JetBlue and current CEO of Azul, talks to CNBC about the PR problems facing United Airlines after a passenger was forcibly removed from one of its flights, setting off an online firestorm.

If the general drift of devices over the past four decades has been towards more personal computing — from the PC to the smartphone to the smartwatch — the Surface Hub marks an about face toward communal computing.

«Willpower gives you the energy and endurance to deal with challenges, the ability to persevere in the face of setbacks, and the strength to tolerate conflict or stress that might otherwise make us run away from goals or projects we care about,» says Kelly McGonigal, a Stanford psychologist and author of The Willpower Instinct (Avery, 2011).

Parcel, which was founded in 2013, had raised just $ 2 million from investors, and had pivoted from a consumer - facing startup to a business - to - business startup about two years ago.

Private - equity acquisitions of retailers have become increasingly rare, as the investment firms worry about increasing headwinds facing the industry and their portfolio companies struggle with the debt burden left behind from leveraged buyouts.

May's government also faced questions from the opposition Labour Party about why it awarded the company 1.3 billion pounds of state contracts after Carillion fell into financial difficulty in July last year.

Speaking of Novartis — the company's experimental CTL019, which is expected to be the first approved drug in a revolutionary new cancer treatment space that turns the body's own immune cells into cancer - killers, is already facing some apprehension from doctors and patient groups who are worried about its eventual pricing.

Powell faces repeated hectoring from House Democrats about discrimination in home lending and other non-Fed-related issues.

The company is facing questions from lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic about how it handles personal user data after a pair of weekend reports by The Observer newspaper in the U.K. and The New York Times alleged research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

It has received funding from the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, which will buy about US$ 500 million of the equity, and Canadian private equity firm West Face Capital, which will buy US$ 250 million of the new HBC equity.

Fisher faced resistance from Democrats during her confirmation over her alleged participation in discussions about policies at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Research from California Institute of Technology suggests that faces photographed from just 45 centimeters — about 1.5 feet — away are considered less trustworthy, attractive, and competent than faces photographed from 135 centimeters, about 4.5 feet, away.

Given the approach American political leadership has taken to the aftermath of the devastation in Puerto Rico, Musk provided a rare a glimmer of hope when he talked about rebuilding the destroyed electrical grid using solar power — though some have argued that his comments in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria may serve as a distraction from the enormous challenges the island faces.

In a recent conversation about the difficulties that black women face in the professional sphere, Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From The Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, pointed to the ugly mix of race and misogyny that affects the way black women are often perceived.

It has received commitments from the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, which will buy about US$ 500 million of the equity, and Canadian private equity firm West Face Capital, which will buy US$ 250 million of the new HBC equity.

In Gordon's view, Britain is not yet facing significant pressure from bondholders, making the austerity drive very much about the politics of the day.

I know this flies in the face of a lot of statistics about the rapid growth of leading - edge boomers and seniors using online and social media and is contrary to what you will hear from all the online media.

But his decision to do so while facing increasing scrutiny — the deepening FBI probe regarding his administration's contact with Russia and damning new Senate testimony from former acting attorney general Sally Yates about Trump's now - fired national security adviser Michael Flynn — instantly recalls Richard Nixon's infamous «Saturday Night Massacre» in which the 37th president purged the Justice Department during the Watergate investigation.

Taking this consultative approach to being a true adviser who cares about the challenges her prospects are facing during the inside sales process is what helps Dunn stand out from the pack of other salespeople who are just clamoring to close a deal.

So a player of an action game such as Call of Duty would be able to download an app to his (and, let's face it, we're usually talking about guys here) smartphone or work computer and crow about his scores or schedule a game with buddies through Facebook - like status updates even when he's away from his console or home PC.

With this news, VMware has performed an about - face on its AWS stance from three years ago when Gelsinger cautioned the company's partners that any computing workloads that went to Amazon were lost to VMware forever.

The respective bills would mark an about - face from Congress» National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which set the legal limit to 21 in 1984 to decrease drunk driving.