Sentences with phrase «n't more communities»

Following, Tony argued that we should challenge people to overcome the institutionalized split between parks and farms and questioned why there aren't more community gardens in London's parks.

Not exact matches

Not only can stories help to build a community (that becomes a source of more stories), but storytelling is also a proven technique that allows your audience to see how they can benefit from your product or service without you blatantly selling.

The community rallied, and Kepler's reopened later that year with a new business plan and more than $ 1 million invested by locals who didn't want to see the family - owned business perish.

«Write to Play» heralded Playworld's first - ever social media giveaway, and the results are impressive: Not only did its Facebook fan base increase from 600 to more than 9,000 during the two months the contest ran, but as finalists rallied to gain community support for their campaigns, many local news outlets reported on their efforts, earning Playworld significant free publicity in the process.

It's always seemed like more socializing than business, but you can't deny that it's a massive community and a place to reach people.

More challenging was figuring out what should happen in the square — an architectural style alone isn't enough to create a community.

Designers will be free to do more experimental work, even community service — and their compensation will go up, not down, because of the increased revenue per employee (not to mention the commensurate increase in profitability).

People who can't afford traffic tickets should be required to do community service instead of having to pay fines, and we need more programs to help people deal with debt.

As part of its attempts to satisfy community concerns, Alcoa has also bought more than 27 residential houses in the Wagerup area, however the company spokesperson said this was not unusual in an industrial area.

Not only will you reach a whole new audience of shoppers, but these customers can also give you glowing merchant reviews within that community, which will persuade even more shoppers to buy from you.

«Where we need innovation and where I think we are going to finally see social entrepreneurs spend more and more time is the public sector, because the big challenge that is facing every community on the planet is that government and public policy are not moving at the pace of technology or even meeting expectations of constituents,» says Blumenthal.

This year's awards are open to all Australian business women that meet the entry criteria in the following categories: * Westpac Group Business Owner Award (owners with a 50 per cent share or more in a business, with responsibility for key management decision making); * Australian Government Private and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above criteria).

Canadian startups are enjoying more and bigger venture capital deals (in the first quarter of 2016, venture capital investments reached $ 838 million, nearly double what they were for the same period the year before), but the VC community, lacking size and versatility, is not keeping pace with their funding needs.

If the US withdrew those troops, Kim Jong Un wouldn't feel as pressured and China or the international community could more easily sway him to denuclearize.

As more companies and brands monitor and participate in community dialogues, they need to be aware that the loudest consumers don't always represent the majority.

The IRS RMD rules can be a bit confusing, and failing to satisfy your annual RMD can be expensive, costing you an excise - tax penalty of up to 50 percent on the amount not distributed as required, warns Manisha Thakor, director of Wealth Strategies for Women at Buckingham and The BAM Alliance, a community of more than 140 independent registered investment advisors throughout the country.

«We're not going to increase the cost of internet service; we're not going to impose more taxes on Quebecers, on taxpayers,» he said during a visit to a Montreal community organization to promote this week's federal budget.

If an interoperating system allows a lot more diversity, creativity, and meets the real needs of communities while at the same time not shutting them out of the greater network effect, then Facebook will certainly have to change.»

Asked why the Congressman wasn't prepared to accept the intelligence community's assessment that Russia hacked and leaked the DNC emails, Grubbs replied: «Because over time he's learned that the intel community has not been completely reliable and that its «assessment» of the leaks was more of a subjective consensus than hard evidence.»

It may be difficult for a locksmith to post about something more than locks and keys but if you can't find a way to connect in an interesting discussion with your community, social media might not be the best tool for your marketing.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

As a business leader, you probably shouldn't treat your employees better or give more to your community just for the publicity value.

This will require not only helping people connect with existing meaningful groups, but also enabling community leaders to create more meaningful groups for people to connect with.

Not to mention, an MBA from UT Austin comes with a network of more than 92,000 McCombs School of Business alumni around the world, bonding graduates to a lifelong community.

«We are far enough from Vancouver and the mountains to get much more sun, but close enough that commuting into work isn't an issue,» says Myron, who has lived in the community for more than two decades.

This not only supports diversity but has the added benefit of creating a tighter, more invested community among the workforce.

Hardy explained that the adults she worked with expected the services to be free and, while working with kids was rewarding, the youth programs were more of a community service — one her company couldn't afford.

«If you look at more current information, you will see that these data points are not demonstrative of our current network, community impact, and both the direct and indirect job creation near fulfillment centers,» a company representative said previously, adding that «Amazon's investments led to the creation of 200,000 additional non-Amazon jobs, ranging from construction jobs to healthcare industry positions.»

Many hope that this new version of Windows will be a sharp departure from Windows 8, which was intended more for tablets than desktops and was not well - received by the tech community.

Designing more resilient communities and infrastructure and protecting people more effectively are not onetime goals - they are constant.

-- Ashley Hunter, president of HMRiskGroup, Austin, Texas Community Banks «The representative at the big bank we used to finance the purchase of a new building said he would see about getting us more business referrals, but four years later, we haven't had a single referral from him.

More than 30 Indigenous communities along the pipeline's route support the project, but many other communities in B.C. do not.

«We don't know specific plans for Minecraft's future yet but we know that everyone involved wants the community to grow and become even more amazing then it's ever been,» Hill wrote.

That system includes not just the providers of modern medicine — the people and institutions we mostly focus on — but also our families, friends, social networks, search engines, online communities, and more.

And while its reach may not be broad, Reddit is clearly a substantial digital - media entity when measured by its sheer size: The site gets more than 200 million unique visitors every month, and typically has about 4 million logged - in users every day, looking at or commenting on one of the community's more than 8 billion active pages.

We're not only supporting companies, we're also building a community around us, opening our space to middle - and high - school students in an effort to create more entrepreneurs and makers.

The 10 - week program started in June 2009, and Ms. Cannon began building relationships with Austin's angel investor community (she believes most start - ups don't need venture capital funding, which typically is for larger amounts and requires the entrepreneur to surrender more control).

When he and Beyoncé appeared at a vigil for Trayvon Martin that same year, his presence alone wasn't enough for some, who called him out for not taking a more outspoken position on the issues affecting the black community.

While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea - change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice.

It's a raw and true expression of community that I could not be more grateful for and will never take for granted.

We haven't even touched upon how many people can save a ton of money going to a public school like I did or attend community college for two years and then transfer to a public school for even more savings.

In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed $ 440 million to charitable and not - for - profit organizations and volunteered more than 6.8 million hours of service to local communities since 2000.

He says more and more housing developers realize there is a huge market potential for these types of green buildings; buyers understand there will not only be lower operating costs, but they will also be in a community of like - minded people.

«No one will ever have more than 15 or 20 percent of the committers, so you can't dominate the community,» says MapR Chief Executive Officer John Schroeder, using the industry term for programmers who have permission to alter a program's source code.

We also don't view it as a money - maker for AngelList — more of a community service.

«I could not be more proud to stand with President Trump as he continues to stand shoulder to shoulder with communities of faith,» evangelical preacher Paula White told Religion News Service, «This order is a historic action, strengthening the relationship between faith and government in the United States and the product will be countless, transformed lives.»

Facebook sees local news as an opportunity to push community - building and more positive content — a way for its users to interact about something that isn't Donald Trump.

With a community of more than 2 billion people, all around the world, in every different country, where there are wildly different social and cultural norms, it's just not clear to me that us sitting in an office here in California are best placed to always determine what the policies should be for people all around the world.

Andrea Banducci, 31, co-owner of Pure Barre St. Paul, attributes her success at a young age to the community of Pure Barre owners, «I think it would be a lot more intimidating -LCB- to open my own studio -RCB- if there weren't such a great group of owners that have provided support along the way.»

Suzan and I lived here early on, back in 2002 and now we're back... we just can't find a better, prettier, or more welcoming community... Everything you need is here, and because people from the U.S. and Canada have been retiring here for generations, almost all the locals speak English and many services (especially medical and dental) cater to older expats.