Sentences with phrase «head of our project on»

Lauren Bates, head of our project on developing a coherent approach to the law as it affects persons with disabilities, participated in a web based consultation with the assistance of Citizens with Disabilities — Ontario.

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«Pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown...

«I can confirm that pending the outcome of the head - tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sublease all space in our recently leased Rainier Square building,» Amazon VP Drew Herdener told the Seattle Times.

«Instead of a watch list limited to actual, known terrorists, the government has built a vast system based on the unproven and flawed premise that it can predict if a person will commit a terrorist act in the future,» Hina Shamsi, the head of the ACLU's National Security Project, told The Intercept.

A retired admiral named Michael Hewitt, who was to head up the security services part of the project, struck out on his own in mid-2016.

As part of the heads of agreement, Clough will assume responsibility for the jobs and entitlements of the HWE employees currently working on the project.

It is unclear what special projects Deneve will be overseeing at Apple, which is still looking for someone to head its retail operations following the ouster of John Browett last year after less than a year on the job.

Investors may be dismayed by the headlines — on Tuesday Arthur Porter, former head of SNC's building project McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), was arrested in Panama on fraud charges — but analysts do not see the scandals harming the company in the long term.

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

«It is not easy for so many important companies to decide to bet [on] a project together from the very beginning,» said Alastria president Julio Faura, who also serves as head of blockchain research and development at Banco Santander.

On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.

In 2011, after 10 years as head of technology, Brin took on a new role as director of special projects, one of which is a robotics lab.

Google's parent firm Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been working to develop autonomous vehicles on its own for years, but the company's head of its self - driving car project John Krafcik said the firm has reached a point at which more partnerships would be beneficial to the project's...

«Pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sub-lease all space in our recently leased Rainier Square building,» said Amazon vice president Drew Herdener.

Dr. Richard Swart, who heads the Crowdfunding Research Program at the University of California, Berkeley, has cited several experts who project that the size of the securities crowdfunding market will range from «$ 3.98 billion (Nest, Neiss, Stralser & Fleming 2013) to as much as $ 300 billion over the coming years depending on the level of enabling regulation adopted by governments.»

The developers and founders have shown excellent leadership skills throughout time: Charlie Lee left Coinbase as the head of engineering with the intention of focusing full - time on the Litecoin project.

I would like to share with you the work of our senior economist Marc Lee, who heads up our Climate Justice Project, as well as the work of one of our research associates, veteran earth scientist David Hughes (who spent 32 years working for the Geological Survey of Canada, where he focused on unconventional gas, coal and oil research).

My plan is to do some freelance work as a designer, try my luck as a food photographer, keep on developing our apps, perhaps start working on another book and a bunch of other projects that I have sketched up inside my head.

«South Asia, an important beneficiary of IRRI's work, leads on global rice production, with India being the second largest rice producer and the first largest exporter in the world,» says Abdelbagi Ismail, who heads the Stress - Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia (STRASA) project.

Where he goes from here is a tee time on Saturday after posting a 1 - under 71 on Friday to go with Thursday's 73 heading into the third round at even - par — two shots north of the projected cut line and just seven shots behind Friday's mid-afternoon co-leaders, Louis Oosthuizen and Kyle Stanley.

On Christmas Eve, Bovada actually posted a prop which projected the number of head coaches on the chopping blocOn Christmas Eve, Bovada actually posted a prop which projected the number of head coaches on the chopping blocon the chopping block.

While mainstream sports media leans on these rankings as a projected measure of strength, betting odds provide a better window into how oddsmakers view these teams and how the betting market values them heading into the 2017 - 18 season.

Benefits of this project: — Motivates you to look into your scary box or bag of fabric scraps and use some and throw out some — If you are not the type of person who has fabric scraps in your house, motivates you to head out to a fabric store and buy some — Something to do while your partner is watching something you don't care about on tv or hogging the computer — Makes you appreciate the three naps a day your baby may be taking

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB773 (2013) authorizes the state department of education to use up to $ 1 million from its General Improvement Fund on a pilot project on concussion management.

so go raid the closets, dig through your donation pile, or head on down to your local thrift store, find a fun and funky patterned tie - this is one project that is sure to be lots of fun.

Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

At the start of the 2014 - 15 academic year, Shipley embarked on an ambitious project: The school wanted to track every head impact received by its athletes.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

Based on the published results, Legacy is now being pilot tested in a variety of community settings, such as the Administration for Children and Families» Early Head Start, Health Resources and Services Administration's Healthy Start, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration's Project LAUNCH, the American Academy of Pediatrics» pediatric primary care, and Tulsa Educare.

The new Demos booklet on democracy by Jonty Oliff Cooper, acting head of their Progressive Conservatism project, seems closer in spirit to this perspective than right communitarianism.

The head of Governor Cuomo's economic development programs says he doesn't think federal corruption trials now taking place will have any effect on the projects.

«As an expert on the history of our founders and the founding documents, Sen. Loudermilk understands that the only path to fundamentally restoring our constitutional republic is over the heads of leadership in both parties,» Madison Project President Drew Ryun said in a release.

The head of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development programs said he doesn't think federal corruption trials now taking place will have any effect on the projects.

Addressing the media during the registration exercise at Sege in the Ada West District on Thursday, Mr Thomas Boateng Quaison, Head, Monitoring and Evaluation, LEAP Project, said beneficiaries would be migrated onto the e-zwich platform where they would have greater control over the management of their funds as they would decide when to access their funds.

Since Gen. Obasanjo first hit on Nigeria, as Civil War hero, Federal Works commissioner under Gen. Gowon, Gen. Murtala Muhammad's chief of staff, Supreme Headquarters, and later military Head of State, he had always projected public high - mindedness.

In May, the former head of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Alain Kaloyeros, who spearheaded many of the governor's economic development projects, will go on trial for charges that include bid - rigging of state contracts.

As part of the project, the state will separate traffic on the Korean War Veterans Parkway heading westbound to the bridge from the merging West Shore Expressway by installing a concrete barrier between the lanes, the DOT said.

On or before the fifteenth day of August in each year, or such earlier date as the Budget Director may prescribe, the head of each administrative unit authorized agency shall furnish to the Budget Director an estimate of revenues and expenditures for the respective administrative unit or authorized agency for the next ensuing fiscal year, exclusive of capital projects.

The head of Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's economic development programs say he doesn't think federal corruption trials now taking place will have any effect on some of the projects.

Kyle Kimball, a Bloomberg appointee and one of the few top city officials to survive the changeover from a mayor focused on skyline - altering development projects to one more intent on building affordable housing outside Manhattan, is stepping down as head of the Economic Development Corp..

Zachary Muehe, a sophomore, headed to school thinking about the late work he was supposed to submit before the end of the school year, and settled into his art class to work on a drawing project.

Its head of science and ethics, Vivienne Nathanson, said: «There is no bottomless pit of resources to tackle health inequalities so it is essential that the government spends taxpayers» money wisely and on projects that will work.

Things came to a head, when Mr. Felix Addo, sitting in his capacity as the Board Chairman of GNPC issued a fiat asking that the processes leading to the award of contract for exploratory work on the Voltain Basin Project be stopped and reversed.

Speaking to the BBC, former head teacher and government consultant on the planned pilot project, Peter Walker said: «It doesn't cause any harm whatsoever, a child still has a right to say no, indeed so does a parent, it doesn't disrupt the running of the school, it's relatively cheap to do and brings great benefits like improved performances.»

Ian Danby, BASC's head of biodiversity projects, said: «This is a practical demonstration of the value of conservation work carried out on shoots and farms.

Following the recent presidential pardon granted some convicts by President Goodluck Jonathan, Socioeconomic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP has called on the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately «rescind the alleged state pardon granted former Bayelsa State Governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, and former head, Bank of the North, Shettima Bulama, as the said pardon is a fundamental breach of the country's constitution and international anti-corruption obligations.»

State records suggest that workforce diversity is also lagging on another Buffalo Billion project, also headed by LPCiminelli, that involved the addition of a seventh floor to the Conventus building on the medical campus.

«The project will not only deliver jobs and growth across the country, but will be a major step in tackling the capacity crisis on the UK's rail network,» said Civil Engineering Contractors Association head of external affairs Marie - Claude Hemming.

Following on from earlier pilot projects we have been training pastoral support volunteers and in 2016 hired our first full time Head of Pastoral Support to increase the availability of such care.

The billionaire head of IAC Corp. said he became particularly disenchanted with the project in the spring after a judge ruled that work on the park needed to stop because the Army Corps of Engineers did not view the site as a protected fish and wildlife sanctuary when issuing its permit.