Not exact matches
As the U.S. slid into the
Great Depression, two members
of Congress introduced a bill whose
goal was to protect struggling American farmers by
raising tariffs on agricultural imports.
Wide distribution over the internet • Low cost, efficient, transparent capital • The «
great equalizer «• Media / PR, awareness • Increase customer engagement and • Evangelize backers into investors (customer acquisition) • Reduce risk by getting feedback on new launches (product or ventures) • Market research Access to Capital Marketing Platform Validation •
Raising funds via crowdfunding markets is a very public and transparent • Protect your IP and speak to a lawyer • Crowdfunding takes a lot
of effort and commitment • The majority
of Ideas fail to reach their funding
goal • How will this affect your companies brand?
[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out
of everybody [18:30] How to
raise your probability
of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20]
Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious
goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop
of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance
of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting
of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth
of the top 1 %
of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?
Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition
of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release
of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state
of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in
goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid
of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy
of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid
of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid
of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction
of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return
of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort
of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative
of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition
of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle
of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any
of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind
of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack
of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result
of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest
of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands
of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none
of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club
of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid
of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field
of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version
of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history
of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet
of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival
of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone
of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players
of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that
of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part
of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish
great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to
raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet
of those who were well aware all along
of the potential pitfalls
of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...
It was Ronaldo's 400th career
goal and his 20th in La Liga this season but there was only one thought on his mind —
raising his eyes and arms upwards an emotional Ronaldo dedicated his
goal to the
great man whose passing has left Portugal in a state
of mourning.
Called The
Great American Salad Bar Project, the program has already
raised $ 680,000
of its $ 750,000
goal.
Once mastered the hanging leg
raise will give you a
great deal
of control over your body, improved flexibility and amazingly strong lower abs which will soon help you obtain the six pack if that is your
goal.
Fat acceptance, a.k.a. the combination
of colossal, fat, and past imposing women into the overall population and
raising protection is by a wide edge the wonder that felt the
greatest impact from BBW dating
goals, in a positive sense.
If we can work with the administration in
raising the discussion from the zero - sum game
of testing to the
greater vision
of «where are we going and how should we get there» — maybe we can actually get some
of the district - charter collaboration that was also one
of the original
goals of the charter movement.
One
of the
greatest potential benefits
of expanding the time and place for learning is the chance to experiment with the kinds
of «out -
of - the box» approaches to high school education which are sorely needed if we are to reach our
goals for
raising student achievement and eliminating inequities in achievement and graduation rates.
When James Coleman, the
great sociologist
of education, analyzed the school characteristics that had the
greatest impact on educational achievement and equity, he found that schools with
greater academic intensity — a persistent,
goal - directed focus on academics — produced not only
greater learning, but also narrowed the achievement gap between ethnic groups.30 That such academically focused schools would
raise general achievement is obvious since an intense focus on academics is self - evidently the most likely means to
raise academic achievement.
Responding to responsible criticism
of the current law, this proposal outlines ambitious but achievable state - level
goals for
raising achievement and closing gaps, while calling for
greater state flexibility to devise systems that will prompt schools and districts to move toward these
goals.
I'm in an indie anthology done by a
great group with the
goal of raising money for a veterans» help organization.
This book provides new insights into the nature
of political bias with regards to evidence and critically considers what an «improved» use
of evidence would look like from a policymaking perspective.Part I describes the
great potential for evidence to help achieve social
goals, as well as the challenges
raised by the political nature
of policymaking.
The auction has
raised the funds necessary to make an ever
greater difference in the lives
of these wonderful dogs, and our
goals are set to continue this success.
Following a
great calamity on ancient earth, your
goal is survival as you fight other dinosaurs,
raise your battle strength and attempt to become the dinosaur king, perhaps even taking on the evil dinosaurs who've taken control
of the planet.
If we reach our target
goal we'll invest every dollar
raised into the development
of 7 Days to Die and we have a
great list
of features and improvements outlined in our stretch
goals which we'd love to add.
The
goal of PAL programming is to strengthen the Pratt community, empower students to seek and secure
greater educational and professional opportunities, and
raise the public profile
of the Pratt MFA program.
Driving
Goals Ultimately, the road trip is to
raise the funds needed to build
greater awareness and further the development
of hydrogen gas as a fuel source.
«It's
great if you can get businesses to take ownership,» Nunez said, adding that her
goal is to
raise awareness
of the issue.
The players truly are a
great group
of people who come from all different walks
of life but come together with a common
goal of raising funds, so we can make an impact on the lives
of local children.