Sentences with phrase «homes as a model»

There are many theories on how to engage Millennial buyers, but some are giving up on the traditional home as a model and encouraging Millennials to buy for short term rental investments on platforms like Airbnb and VRBO.

Republicans and Democrats are selling their budget plans back home as models for how they would run Washington if they win the November elections.

Figure out the current market rate in the area, using comparable homes as a model.

Not exact matches

We've seen examples across all kinds of industries like software - as - a-service, home services, and other subscription businesses who have perfected this model.

But as with any other home electronic, you have to do your homework in order to find the model that fits your needs and your budget.

The imaginative — albeit symbolic futuristic illustration — smart car model is designed to exist as an extension of a home's living space, blurring the lines between utility, form and function.

It branched into Class B motor homes (also known as «camper» or «conversion» vans) in 2008 and added smaller Class C models that go for as little as $ 60,000 each.

As part of the VR training, prospective claims adjusters visit the company's facilities near Los Angeles to inspect a model home that is damaged by water leaks or fire.

Whole companies such as law firm Cognition LLP and accounting firm Numericanswers.ca, not to mention IT firms (Mob4hire, Fluidsurveys, Mercury Grove, Itteco Software), have moved to a completely home - based office model.

Now, personally, I leave my swimming trunks at home when the weather's cold, but then I don't imagine I could pull off this paradoxical combo as well as model Kate Upton, who rocks nothing more than a Canada Goose jacket and bikini bottom as Sports Illustrated's latest swimsuit edition cover girl.

As Apple added new services to those Apple TV models, it would litter users» home screen with app icons, regardless of whether or not the user wanted them.

If you plan to use your pet gate as a semi-permanent installation in your home, you should consider buying a walk - through model.

The Trump brand, as developed by The Donald, spans a wide variety of industries including real estate, hospitality, entertainment, mortgages, restaurants and catering, ice cream, online travel, menswear, fragrance, golf, home furnishings, transportation, model management, vodka and more.

For my idea, there is no national competition other than PaperlessSolutions.com but they have a different business model (everything is done by mail) which is more concerning for many people as the scanning is happening by strangers somewhere other than their home and the prices are far more expensive.

Other big predictions include the possibility that the iPhone's «home» button will double as a fingerprint scanner on new models, offering an extra level of security for wary Apple customers.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

[01:30] Introduction [02:30] Tony welcomes Alexandra [03:40] Launching in 2007 — it came from a place of passion [04:25] Establishing clear roles among founders [05:40] Flexing her multilingual skills in business [06:25] Adjusting how you speak to someone based on their objectives [08:10] The secret to Gilt's growth [09:20] Building a business that would thrive during winter [10:20] Finding the capital to purchase inventory [10:40] Moving from venture to private equity funding [11:20] It's all about smart money [11:40] The future of traditional retail [12:20] The subscription model [12:40] Catering to the time - starved customer [12:55] Bringing services into the home [13:10] Leaving Gilt to lead Glamsquad [16:10] Glamsquad started as an app [17:10] Vetting employees [18:10] Building trust with customers [19:00] Taking massive action — now [20:20] Launching the first sale on Gilt — without a return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The average person wears only 20 % of their wardrobe [23:00] Taking the time to understand your customer [23:20] Challenges as a woman in business [24:40] Advice to a female entrepreneur that's just getting started [25:25] The importance of networking [25:50] Knowing the milestones to hit along the way

Hardware-wise, Amazon has announced so many Echo devices in 2017 that it's hard to keep track of them, including updates to existing models as well as the Echo Show (with a 7 ″ screen), the Echo Look (which can take full - length photos of you and provide style recommendations), Echo Spot (a newfangled alarm clock), Echo Buttons (for Alexa - powered gameplay), and the Echo Plus (a speaker that doubles as a smart - home hub).

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

As a result — some consumers go in the opposite direction and hire home care consultants to avoid the restrictions of a franchise model.

Recognizing our nation's caring spirit, the Aga Khan cites Canada as a role model for the world and has selected Ottawa as the home of a new global centre for pluralism.

As consumers we have seen increased rates and cancelled home delivery as two public facing ways the public corporation has tried to make its business model make sensAs consumers we have seen increased rates and cancelled home delivery as two public facing ways the public corporation has tried to make its business model make sensas two public facing ways the public corporation has tried to make its business model make sense.

Hobby Quest's franchisee model has been developed as a home - based business.

However, in order to both keep the model as simple as possible and give predictions that are in reality a best - case scenario, our model simply assumes that each household's income grows at a steady, fixed rate each year, that retirement savings grow and accumulate returns at a steady pace, etc. (For more detail on the values used in the model for growth in home values, retirement assets, etc., see the Methodology Appendix below).

Furthermore, social trends such as greater freedom of choice and the tendency of pastors» spouses to be working outside the home have made the itinerant model increasingly difficult to implement.

Stephen Toulmin echoes these sentiments in an elegant statement on the cosmos understood on the model of our «home»: «We can do our best to build up a conception of the «overall scheme of things» which draws as heavily as it can on the results of scientific study, informed by a genuine piety in all its attitudes toward creatures of other kinds: a piety that goes beyond the consideration of their usefulness to Humanity as instructions for the fulfillment of human ends.

All noteworthy quests» from the persistent and annoying neighbor in the New Testament who knocks on the door for bread in the middle of the night (and serves as one model for how we should pray) to Homer's Odysseus, who seeks to return home» have something in common: They know what they want and love, and they shape their lives to the pursuit of it.

In fact., from one perspective, Home from the War constitutes nothing less than a direct attack upon the medical model as the organizing center of the psychiatric profession.

As Randall Stewart pointed out nearly half a century ago, Hawthorne's lifelong literary models and companions were the great Puritan moralist - seers Spenser, Milton, and Bunyan, and of the eighteenth - century writers, the great Augustan Christian humanists, especially Dr. Johnson, whose boyhood home in Lichfield Hawthorne visited on what must be called a pilgrimage of veneration.

When asked about it, Piper said, «I personally think that it would have been better for [Palin] to stay at home with her disabled child — both for the good of the family and as a model for moms.

Instead of proposing to negotiate a synthesis of «Athens» and «Berlin» on the «Athens» model's home court, as the proposals we have just examined do, a second current in the present discussion of theological schooling tries to negotiate between them on the «Berlin» model's terms.

If you have a heavy and well built one you can extend the burn as it gets warmed up and holds the heat but those home improvement store models are just destined to be a lot of work.

One item of note that we discovered on the way home: The model is life - sized, and the plastic is so wide, that in the event of rain Nick Saban can also be used as a hat.

Design the seating with Cameron Indoor as your model - it's a great place with the best home - court advantage.

Last week saw some satisfying predictions on Sunday, as Everton ran out comfortable winners at home to Arsenal - in line with the model's forecasts - and Liverpool won away at West Ham.

Griffin looked a lot better in the Models yesterday, before quarterback Deshaun Watson suffered a season - ending knee injury, but the Texans are still implied for 26.5 points as -7.0 home favorites against a Colts team with a league - worst 30.75 PPG allowed and -6.5 Vegas Opponent Plus / Minus.

● Tierney was speaking as he modelled the club's new home kit that commemorates the Lions» anniversary year.

They also tend not to be as portable as high - end models, but that's fine if you don't plan on pumping away from home anyway.

The American Association of Birth Centers defines a birth center as «a home - like facility existing within a health care system with a program of care designed in the wellness model of pregnancy and birth.»

Families that chose to birth at home or in the birth center tend to view pregnancy and birth as a natural process, not an illness, and therefore feel that the hospital or the «medical» model is not the appropriate approach to childbirth.

We also love when there ARE home birth families in these classes, as it helps normalize the home birth model that is making a come back in our birth culture.

I was inspired by this stay - at - home mom and her lunches, and I looked to her as a model for my own blogging experience.

It is important to model this at home as well.

I love the idea that we can harness the power of social media and combine it with a grassroots, community - based distribution model, including a network of home - based Ambassadors as well as retailers and schools, to create a global lifestyle brand around the concept of living Barefoot, and bringing art and story to children from all walks of life.

Respecting him as a separate individual not only models the value we need to place on others in our homes and communities, but also sets the stage for a mutually respectful relationship in his teen years and beyond.

• The need to exercising self - compassion as you process emotions • Emotional purging in a conscious way to move to an easier parenting journey • Moving passed mindfulness and consciousness to peacefulness • Functioning as a peaceful human being • Moving from «doing» to «being» • The value of peaceful presence, free of emotional trigger, for your kids • Modelling ownership of behavior for your kids • Peacefulness as a practice that takes time • Parenting as an extension of nature: gradually forging new pathways in your relationships and being expansive, not staying «stuck» • The healing power of authenticity with your kids • Aiming for perseverance and presence, not perfection • Exercising compassion for others and recognizing we don't know their struggles • Learning how not to try to control others and focus on self to remain peaceful • Journalling as a practice to release emotions • Finding opportunities for stillness • Releasing others from the responsibility for reading your mind • Shifting to a solution focus to create momentum • Fear: being curious about it to avoid being driven by it • Showing up in your own home to make a difference in the world • Practical ways to nourish yourself • Unconditional love — what does that look like?

If a child comes from a home where teasing and sarcasm is the norm or, if they watch a lot of television programs where the characters have barbed tongues, it's likely that the child will model the behavior and take it on as their own.

When children learn first hand that their feelings matter because their parents care, they are more likely to model that behavior outside of home such as at school or playgrounds.

Choosing your child's highchair can be quite a challenge as you have to look for a model with practical features and also one that will blend in with your home's decor.

No Tray Highchair, Scandinavian Selection, # 47 You might be familiar with this model of highchair from dining out in restaurants, but its simple, no - frills designs will work just as well in your home.