Sentences with phrase «island groups include»

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It began as a networking group and expanded to include a lifestyle blog, events and women - only retreats in luxurious locations such as Hawaii, Necker Island and Turks & Caicos.

The contractor in question, the Virginia - based US Corrections Special Operations Group (US C - SOG), has been stationed at Rikers Island since May, training the jail's nearly 200 Emergency Services Unit (ESU) officers in tactical techniques, including the use of Tasers and Kel - Tec shotguns loaded with rubber «less lethal» ammunition.

During the past decade, the island became an important outpost to online poker, and some of the world's biggest companies have relocated to the island, including Rational Group, the owner of websites like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.

The planned dessert features a map of the Korean peninsula, including a group of disputed islands that Japan also claims.

Sherwood Schwartz writes and produces a number of popular television series, including «Gilligan «s Island,» a comedy originated in the l960s in which a zany group of castaways manage to survive not only shipwreck, but each other.

Religious groups, expecially if they include signigicant cultural diversity within themselves, can be islands of civility, settings where, as Richard Mouw says, democratic interchange can be modelled, kept alive for the larger body politic.

Considered Cuba's largest and most influential institution outside the government, the Catholic Church today acts as both a force for reforms and a mediator between the government and opposition groups, including some of the island's boldest dissidents.

An undercover investigation led by a coalition of animal rights groups including Mercy for Animals, Turtle Island Restor...

Both Patrick van Aanholt and Leroy Fer have been capped by the Netherlands at most age groups including the senior team, but their parents actually hail from the tiny island Curacao.

Her awards include Fellowship in the American College of Nurse - Midwives and the American Academy of Nursing, the Lamaze International Research Award to the ACNM Optimality Working Group, the Margretta Madden Styles Award for Excellence in Nursing, the Rhode Island State Nurses Association President's Award for Service to Nursing, a Governor's Citation for Service to the State of Rhode Island, and the Irving Harris Visiting Professorship at the University of Illinois - Chicago.

The pre-primary list includes GOP Sen. Jack Martins, whose support by the NYLCV has sparked a bit of a war between the NYC - based organization and a Long Island environmental group.

In January, a bipartisan group of 19 legislators from Staten Island and Brooklyn, led by Senator Kavanagh and Assemblymember Simon, urged the Governor to include design - build authorization in the Executive Budget proposal.

It also featured an activist fair with groups including the East End Action Network, Indivisible North Fork, Let's Visit Lee Zeldin, the Long Island Progressive Coalition, Progressive East End Reformers, and the Southampton Town Democratic Committee.

The group also includes Buffalo Republican Sen. Mark Grisanti and Long Island Democratic Assemblyman Bob Sweeney, both of whom chair their respective Environmental Conservation committees in the Senate and Assembly.

The group of relatives, which included the mother of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man whose death in police custody set off a series of protests in New York and around the country, arrived at the Capitol demanding that the governor create a special prosecutor.

The fund «should help our efforts to create a «research corridor» on Long Island,» that utilizes research by institutions including Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory, said Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association business group.

The activists, including members of the Long Island Progressive Coalition, the Working Families Party and the Hempstead - based group, the Corridor Counts, staged rallies at Nassau Republican Committee headquarters in Westbury and at Sen. Kemp Hannon's Garden City office.

Chris McGrath, the GOP candidate for the Republican ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos» Long Island seat, is drawing heat from women's rights groups and others for bankrolling two R - rated sex comedies that include gratuitous nude scenes — «Surf School» and «Death to the Supermodel.»

Members of the region's most influential agricultural and environmental groups — including the Long Island Farm Bureau, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Long Island Wine Council, Peconic Estuary Program and Peconic Land Trust — are expected join the two politicians in the efforts at Wickham's Farm in Cutchogue Monday at 11:30 a.m.

On a visit to the troubled Rikers Island jail facilities a few years ago, Councilmember Daniel Dromm was taken aback by an unannounced companion accompanying a group that included council members and the corrections commissioner.

The group called for the Districting Commission to adopt a map that does not extend so far north into the Bronx and that includes Randall's Island and parts of El Barrio — such as portions of the Lexington and Carver Houses — that were removed.

Chris McGrath, the GOP candidate for the Republican ex-Majority Leader's Long Island seat, is drawing heat from women's rights groups and others for bankrolling two R - rated sex comedies that include gratuitous nude scenes — «Surf School» and «Death to the Supermodels.»

The evening protest outside the Koch estate was organized by a coalition of liberal groups, including MoveOn.org, the Occupy movement and the Long Island Progressive Coalition, a Massapequa - based nonprofit.

Until now, I've honored their request to abide by a press embargo and not write about Americans Elect until it was ready to go public, though as the group has been openly working to obtain ballot lines in several states since last fall (including Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Nevada, and Rhode Island, its existence hasn't been a complete secret — you just needed to know where to look.

The lineup of groups opposing a constitutional convention includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

The yearly stipends — ranging from $ 12,500 to $ 18,000 — went to a variety of Mr. Flanagan's political allies, including five members of his party, and the three senators from the breakaway group: Jose Peralta of Queens, Diane Savino of Staten Island, and David J. Valesky of Syracuse.

And Long Island commuters are already more subsidized than most: In 2012, LIRR fares are expected to make up 45 percent of the train lines» operating costs, according to NYPIRG, the umbrella group that includes the Straphangers Campaign.

Former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman announced the members of a commission he'll lead to study Rikers Island today — a group that does not include correction unions or management and that he vowed would take an independent and «no holds barred» look at the city's jails.

A group of politicians including the two hosts, State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, and Assembly Members Grace Meng and Francisco Moya called for reopening Elmhurst's Long Island Railroad Station, shuttered in 1985 due to low ridership.

Cuomo «needs to follow his word and include the New York Dream Act in his budget this year,» said Victoria Daza, immigrant rights organizer with Long Island Jobs with Justice, one of the groups involved in the march.

In November, Fortis Property Group dropped its plans to include affordable housing at the Long Island College Hospital development.

DeFrancisco has led a group of several Republican senators — including Andrew Lanza of Staten Island, Mike Nozzolio of the Finger Lakes and Mike Ranzenhofer of Erie County — in negotiating the issue with aides to Cuomo.

Supporters of conservation brought up strategies to stop the sale of the island, including lobbying Congress to revoke the act putting Plum Island up for sale, designating the island as property for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, selling it to New York State or a non-profit group that will focus on preservation, or — if necessary — filing a lawsuit against the goverisland, including lobbying Congress to revoke the act putting Plum Island up for sale, designating the island as property for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, selling it to New York State or a non-profit group that will focus on preservation, or — if necessary — filing a lawsuit against the goverIsland up for sale, designating the island as property for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, selling it to New York State or a non-profit group that will focus on preservation, or — if necessary — filing a lawsuit against the goverisland as property for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, selling it to New York State or a non-profit group that will focus on preservation, or — if necessary — filing a lawsuit against the government.

Business groups, including the Long Island Association, continue to push for action on the cap but acknowledge that it will remain in place so long as rent regulations do.

The same day Rhodes said he would run, a coalition of progressive groups calling itself Save My Care released ads attacking House Republicans — including ones targeting Faso, Lee Zeldin of Long Island and Elise Stefanik, of upstate Willsboro — who voted for the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.

The lineup of opposition groups includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

Now, Cox plans to explore whether small founding groups are characteristic of other early island settlements, including Hawaii.

They will compete for prizes that include $ 100,000 in scholarship funds, real - life experiences at CERN near Geneva, Google or the LEGO Group, a trip to the Galàpagos Islands courtesy of National Geographic Expeditions, and Chromebooks for their class.

A group of researchers, including Jantz, believe she died as a castaway on the island of Nikumaroro.

It undertakes practical conservation projects, surveys and scientific studies, conducts annual monitoring of seabird populations, rescues wildlife in trouble, publishes guides and information on many aspects of the Falkland Islands environment, and involves islanders of all ages in its activities, including running a WATCH group for children.

She is an experienced marine wildlife observer who has participated in both scientific and seismic surveys throughout the Southern Ocean (Antarctica), South Atlantic (South Orkney Islands), and the south and west coast of Australia for a variety of non-profit and corporative groups including the International Whaling Commission, Fundación Malpelo, and the offshore industry.

However, observations made as recently as 2013 and coordinated by the Portable High - Speed OccultationTelescope group from multiple sites including the 0.9 m astrograph at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) and the 1 m Liverpool Telescope on the Canary Islands, indicate that Pluto's atmosphere is not collapsing, but rather thickening.

This past holiday season, my family including my brother in - law, brothers, parents and grandmother were all staying at my sister's house in Whidbey Island, Washington, and I found myself spending most of the time in the kitchen creating recipes to feed the large group.

JCCA's programs in New York City, Westchester County and Long Island include: group and family day care, mental health and preventive serices, education programs, a residential diagnostic center, foster homes, group homes and residential services for children and adolescents.

Note: The Journey Church has some awesome Christian singles groups, and serves New York City and the surrounding boroughs including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island.

A sexy summer weekend turns into a blood - soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators in Shark Night 3D, a terrifying thrill ride featuring a red - hot young cast including Sara Paxton (Superhero Movie, Last House on the Left), Dustin Milligan («90210,» Slither), Chris Carmack («The O.C.»), Joel David Moore (Avatar) and Katharine McPhee (The House Bunny).

Other highlights in this strand include: the World Premiere of Thierry Poiraud's DO N'T GROW UP, a stylish and inventive film about a group of teens on an unnamed island who wake up to find their youth facility eerily abandoned; the World Premiere of Jon Spira's affectionate documentary ELSTREE 1976 about the bit performers who appeared in George Lucas» box office behemoth Star Wars; GHOST THEATER, the latest film from director Hideo Nakata, the forerunner of J - horror; GREEN ROOM, Jeremy Saulnier's latest exercise in edge of the seat suspense, starring Patrick Stewart, Imogen Poots and Anton Yelchin; returning for the third year running, Sion Sono screens LOVE AND PEACE, his tale of punk rock and talking turtles; and the fantastically prolific Takashi Miike's riotous, unruly gangster vampire concoction YAKUZA APOCALYPSE.

A sexy summer weekend turns into a blood - soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators in Shark Night 3D, a terrifying thrill ride from director David Ellis («The Final Destination», «Snakes On a Plane»), featuring a red - hot young cast including Sara Paxton («Superhero Movie»,» Last House on the Left»), Dustin Milligan («90210,» «Slither»), Chris Carmack («The O.C.»), Joel David Moore («Avatar»), Chris Zylka («The Amazing Spider Man») and Katharine McPhee («The House Bunny»).

More than 50 organisations, including EY, Penguin Publishing, The Berkley Group, River Island Clothing, Pimlico Plumbers and Pret a Manger took part in the research.

The PASA group of partners (including key network members like parents, funders, youth, educators, and program providers) reviewed and created a set of standards culled from such existing sources as the National Afterschool Association and from cities including Baltimore, Chicago, Kansas City, and Washington, DC, but that are reflective of the particular needs and priorities of Rhode Island and the city of Providence.