Sentences with phrase «from living systems»

While other groups have harvested energy from living systems, Shepard and his team are exploring how to do this at the molecular level, isolating just the desired function and interfacing this with electronics.

You can then reboot and boot those USB drives to use the Linux distribution from the live system.

Not exact matches

And while many gamers may have chosen to focus instead on console offerings from Microsoft and Sony, Miyamoto says he regrets the system will likely never live up to its full potential.

That means managing your time in a way that allows you to prioritize your action steps, removing as many distractions from your life as possible, allotting budgetary resources to your goals, breaking ties with people who discourage your efforts to change, and cultivating a strong support system of people who want you to succeed and will help hold you accountable to your goals.

Both Amazon and Google are building out a new voice - powered operating system that can control everything in your life — from your lights to your garage door to the music and video you stream.

This book focuses on how one needs to manage oneself before attempting to manage one's external business or relationships, and how it stems from building a value system for positive living.

The new Steam Machine and Linux - based operating system (SteamOS) essentially move PC gaming from desk to the more popular — and potentially more profitable — living room couch where video game consoles from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony have traditionally dominated the industry.Whether those companies should be worried is a matter of some contention, but the timing of Valve's announcement — just several months before powerful new consoles from Microsoft and Sony are due for release — doesn't seem entirely coincidental.

Working at home is amazing for the first 6 months, great for the first 2 years, and can be tough after that unless you come up with your «system» for separating work from personal life.

Instead of living in overdrive, train your nervous system to bounce back from setbacks.

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

From novel scheduling systems, to exhortations to invest in health, and even spiritual reminders that «work - life balance» is really a modern spin on the ancient and fundamentally difficult question of what constitutes a life well lived, you can spend hours upon hours neither working nor living but simply reading through posts and columns on the topic.

Living with hundreds of other young adults getting their first (or fourth) year away from home out of their system is even more cluttered and messy than it seems.

Michael Leip founded the Panda Planner system to try to get his life back on track when he found himself mired in anxiety and depression after suffering from Lyme Disease, cancer, and traumatic brain injury.

A system that identifies and differentiates friendly individuals from unfriendly ones can potentially save lives.

«We used to live in an open market system that was protected by regulations to prohibit robber barons from defrauding the nation... these regulations were killed by Congress,» Celente says.

The way he sees it, there's a «tremendous amount of money in the system, making everything incredibly expensive, from salaries to the cost of living.

If you live near Joint Base Elmedorf - Richardson, you've likely heard the sounds of the military base in action; the guns firing, the planes taking off everyday like clockwork, and the base - wide sound system relaying everything from alert messages to the national anthem.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations; pricing actions; and other factors.

The things about our cities that make you want to move here are the same reasons many of us live here — we have great systems of higher education, museums, and infrastructure that helps move people and things from one place to another.

The banks also would be excused from submitting plans called «living wills» that spell out how a bank would sell off assets or be liquidated in the event of failure so that it wouldn't create chaos in the financial system.

This led to a kneejerk reaction from automated systems following the desperate words of a European socialist who can not live without Britain's sponsorship.

Starting from scratch, Living Goods helped CGSGI choose their product mix, hire and train their agents, and set up an effective inventory control system.»

Living Goods has begun using its smartphone system in four of its eight branches, training 100 % of the agents from three of them on the Android platform in October 2014 (as of this writing), with plans to move the rest to the system in the coming months.39

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the business and operations of the Company in the expected time frame; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; tax law changes or interpretations; and other factors.

One study found that the CRH system and HPA axis got stuck in overdrive in adult rodents that had been separated from their mothers too early in life.

The Red system allows each guest to customize his or her inflight experience through a host of entertainment options, including 17 channels of free live television and six pre-recorded channels, on - demand current movies and premium television programs, a free music library with approximately 3,000 MP - 3 files from which each guest can create customized playlists, interactive video games and moving map technology that allows guests to track their flights» progress.

Yet, even with all increasing red flags that suggest that assets held within the global banking system could be devalued, frozen, or seized, or all of the aforementioned, including warnings of possible negative interest rates applied to commercial and corporate bank accounts in the near future from big global banks like the Royal Bank of Scotland, most of us go about our daily lives without giving a second thought about taking preventive actions to prevent such mind - blowing and negatively impacting life - changing events from happening.

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

Dan graduated from UVU with a degree in Information Systems, and currently lives in Lehi, Utah with his wife and two sons.

JS: What really blew my mind was when we went live with Vaultoro and started getting a lot of people from Greece exiting the euro banking system by securing their wealth in gold using bitcoin.

Their stories will provide surprising insights, startling observations and wisdom from facing off against the system, every day of their working lives, and still succeeding.

However, not only is life irrelevant to the 2nd law, but order from disorder is common in nonliving systems, too.

Although Islam is not a religion in the conventional sense --(it's a System of life)-- like other religions, it has suffered from a terrible and tragic dichotomy at the hands of the extremist, orthodox, closed - minded and tunnel - vision priesthood.

The novel's protagonist, Jeffrey Lockhart, is a thirty - four - year - old New Yorker who has been drifting through life, from one vague and interchangeable job («cross-stream pricing consultant,» «implementation analyst,» «systems administrator at a networking site») and relationship («She lived on First Avenue and First Street and I didn't know whether her name was spelled Gale or Gail») to the next.

Within the classical liberal tradition, there is desire for a political system to respect the right to live free from physical force, for a government of limited function in the protection of rights, and for powers to be exercised in accordance with laws objective and universal.

If we were slightly closer to the sun, if our solar system was slightly closer to (or further away from) the center of the galaxy, life could not exist on earth.

As others have pointed out, he was talking about panspermia, the idea that «life could spread from planet to planet, or from stellar system to stellar system, carried on meteors.»

And what about the entire ecological system of things, that works in harmony with us as humans for life to exist, from our atmosphere at 78 % nitrogen, 21 % oxygen down to the magnetosphere that comes from within the core of the earth and protects us from the sun's damaging electrically charged particles?

The Death and Life of the Great American School System BY DIANE RAVITCH BASIC BOOKS, 283 PAGES, $ 26.95 Catholic schools reap one benefit from poverty,» the high - school principal hiring me commented ruefully (I'd just glimpsed my pay package).

What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.

We are not to intellectualize in a way that removes our focus from the very practical concerns of tending the sick, caring for the vulnerable, participating in community life (like Calvin, who concerned himself with the sewage systems in Geneva) or voting, getting the car fixed, recycling old newspapers, making meals.

It may be that when one develops a system of thought and life around some set of such patterns it turns out to be quite different from the system developed elsewhere around other patterns.

I'm not keen on evangelism from any quarter — it would be great to live in a world in which one's spirituality and one's belief system aren't things you must insist that others join in order to feel that they are valid, or in order to hold that other person in high esteem.

We live today with the new realities of the twentieth century, a century that has separated procreation from sexual activity, stretched the time between puberty and marriage to ten years or more, removed the chaperon system, and to a large degree taken away the fear of infection.

I have called this the coup de culture, in which Judeo / Christian moral philosphy (which is different from religious faith), the once generally accepted value system of the West is being supplanted by a (roughly) utilitarian / hedonistic (not in the sensual sense) / scientism - radical environmentalism view of life.

But the point is that IN THAT CONTEXT Calvinist theology was a much - needed pastoral and communal approach that helped people to break from the shackles of long - established systems of spiritual abuse by offering a different story to live by and a different kind of community to live in.

If your brain is merely a minuscule portion and intermediate result of a guideless process of self - existing particles that just happened to unpack themselves from an unexplained singularity and arrange themselves into various integrated systems of matter and life of increasing complexity over billions of years, which will ultimately disorganize and dissipate into nothingness, why should any value be attached to your thoughts, or to your existence?

In an essay on «The Theology of Religion» (I.T.C. Journal, I / 1, 1974), I have argued that a theologian can have his life and thought enriched by this experience precisely because he views the faith of other persons from within his own system of belief and thought.

What we have had in British political life under British common law is a procrustean class system, one of the most fixed in the world, confirming aristocratic and plutocratic class rule, rigidly preventing the overwhelming numbers of the lower class from gaining equality, representation in government, decent working conditions, the right to union organization, suffrage, and acceptable living standards until the end of the nineteenth century.