Sentences with phrase «on scaling efforts»

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Putting together a galactic - scale blockbuster is a global effort, involving not only this visual effects shop — Shore estimates his team is responsible for 250 of the shots cinema - goers will see once Star Wars Episode VII opens on Dec. 18 — but also ILM's head office in San Francisco, as well as branches in London and Singapore.

In Kenya, efforts to produce wind power on a grand scale are underway.

On a national scale, leaders such as Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, and California Senator Kamala Harris are trying to address the issue of gender inequality, including efforts to close the pay gap.

Every company that works on a global scale, whether a large or small organization, spends an enormous amount of time on compliance efforts, that do little to improve the bottom line, but can cost millions if ignored.

Gore says that over the next year, she will continue to advocate for entrepreneurship on a global scale, extending and amplifying the Entrepreneurs UNite effort.

The court concluded that Chinese efforts to create man - made islands on top of atolls and reefs, as well as its large - scale fishing in the disputed areas, are illegal.

However, some issuers opted to tackle diversity on a broader scale — which the study warns may wind up diluting their efforts.

When the CIA determined in late 2016 that Russia put its thumb on the scale during the election in a specific effort to aid the Trump campaign, his transition team released the following statement: «These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

Though the popularity of such efforts seems to be far - reaching on the global scale, some countries were more entrepreneurial on the social side than others.

These efforts include stuff I was working on like TechCrunch50 / LAUNCH Festival, Sequoia Scouts & the Open Angel Forum (where Uber Pitched), and notably, Naval's work on AngelList (TWIST # 244) and Paul Graham's scaling of YCombinator to mind - blowing heights (TWIST # 421).

Snap has been transitioning toward automated ad auctions in its efforts to scale the business, and made progress on this front in the fourth quarter.

Like you (but on a much lower scale), I'm invested in several different things to diversify, but my latest effort has involved value investing in sector ETFs.

In an effort to restart the securitization market, on November 25, the Fed announced the Term Asset Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF).14 In December, the FOMC announced that it would begin to significantly expand its balance sheet through purchases of long - term assets including agency debt, agency mortgage - backed securities and long - term treasuries — the Large Scale Asset Purchase or LSAP program.

Sorry for the rant, but this effort to be hyper local with local pages on Facebook will drive your marketing team and / or it's agencies crazy at scale and it's not worth the time, effort or money.

It's a great post to go through once you start experiencing some initial traction on your blog and want to start preparing to scale your efforts.

There will also be a parallel call for benefits, professional development, and compensation that smooths out the rough patches in this on - demand labor life, but such efforts will lag behind the exploitation of said labor because big business has more resources and big tech moves too fast for human - scale responses of accountability and responsibility.

Strong words - especially in light of a number of developers working diligently on layer - two technologies, such as lightning network, which push transactions off - chain in an effort to scale for an ever - growing user base.

We see this clearly in the huge scale of on - campus sustainability efforts.

On the negative side, virtually all the innovative social - capital - generating efforts Putnam mentions are relatively small - scale and isolated.

They were built mostly after Independence in 1948, when the new government's policies of providing primary schools on a vast scale wiped out the missionary institutional efforts prior to that time.

It is an effort to establish a theory that can then be tested on a broader scale.

Chobani's vision to make universal wellness happen sooner builds on the company's founding mission to provide better food for more people, while laying out how Chobani is defining wellness and where the brand will invest to achieve it: • Nutritional Wellness: Scaling our efforts to provide better food for more people.

«Our missions are very similar, to work with farmers and communities in an effort to protect the natural environment and help mitigate the effects of climate change on a global scale.

If you caught the first episode of ABC's War on Waste program earlier this year, two things may have jumped out at you: firstly, the scale of food loss and food waste in Australia; and secondly, the incredible efforts that Foodbank and the food industry, including Australian Organic members and clients, are making right across...

The aim of this strategy is for the values shared by the Basque community (such as a culture of effort, commitment, the ability to overcome, a will to transform, and equal opportunities for men and women) to become ingrained in the image of the Basque Country and to act as our «business card» on an international scale.»

«One of the questions about Pogba and whether he will realise his enormous potential is: Is he a nine or ten out of ten on the effort scale, week - in, week - out?

The MomsTEAM staff and I are still digging into the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council's three - hundred - some - odd page report on sports - related concussions in youth sports, [1] but one thing jumped out at me at my first pass: When I did a search in the report for a discussion of impact monitoring devices (a / k / a hit sensors), I found only one brief mention of sensors in the committee's recommendation that the Centers for Disease Control fund large scale data collection efforts for research purposes, including data from impact sensors.

In fact, some evidence suggests that focusing on weight loss can actually be harmful to an overweight person's health by tying too much concern to how much weight they lose or keep off — and then making them relapse when the scale doesn't budge despite their best efforts.

As a rule of thumb, on a scale of 0 to 10, where sitting is 0 and the highest level of effort possible is 10, moderate - intensity activity is a 5 or 6.

Some of these are very easy on the degree of difficulty scale and some require some more effort, so you can decide.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

In the US, the Democracy Collaborative has done much work on the challenge of bringing these efforts to democratise capital to scale with the aim of developing a new economic paradigm.

The leaders in the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly on Monday indicated they would push to change Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to require local governments to develop ways of sharing services and scale back his efforts to expand his office's powers over the state budget.

Scholars have variously described international climate efforts as constituting a «regime complex» and as an example of «fragmented governance» on overlapping scales and actors [3]; but governments continue to focus on a process premised on universal participation.

Efforts to reform the house of lords have foundered on disagreement on questions of scale - how big, what proportion should be elected and on what basis - first past the post, single transferable vote, alternative vote... a fresh start would make almost anything possible.

In the wake of that decision, 247 mayors across the U.S. announced that they would step up their cities» own efforts to combat climate change, and adopt the Paris climate agreement on a local scale.

Lex Club in - coming President Peter Borock had a simple slogan for the large - scale effort the Club Executive Committee has embarked on this year, «Be Active.»

I'm not in any way downplaying the effort of Mama Becky, our First Lady, she is doing her best, her contribution in those hospitals is going to save lives and bring relief to many families, but on the scale between pretty important and absolutely crucial, Auntie Lordina stands tall.

But investing in large - scale public works efforts has largely fizzled on the federal level.

Cuomo, who was then AG, and the DA were supposed to collaborate on that effort, largely because the DA's office didn't have sufficient resources to mount a full - scale probe.

The efforts have yielded some positive results including a moratorium on the issuance of new licenses for small - scale mining.

On the efforts by the President Muhammadu Buharu administration to improve electricity in Nigeria, Fashola said «Federal government is implementing off - grid renewable energy solutions such as rural mini-grids, standalone home solutions, IPP for Federal Universities, Teaching Hospitals and large - scale solar PV projects such as the Jigawa solar city.

He says he'll also improve the state's emergency fuel and water supplies and protect the subway system and other infrastructure from future floods, in what he says will be a massive effort that «requires immediate assistance on a grand scale.»

The Governor said the need to scale up the road improvement efforts arose from the fact that he had received many requests on rehabilitation of roads from residents, adding that many of the roads captured for 2017 were key roads that would have positive economic impact on the people.

By late 2012, it adds, «the department had largely stopped developing systems for national roll - out and concentrated its efforts on preparing short - term solutions for the pathfinder» (the small scale trial of the system).

The fire was discovered at about 1:15 p.m. on Thursday behind Nice Pak Products along Greenbush Road and firefighting efforts soon scaled up to become a regional effort that included volunteers from throughout Rockland County and received aid from fighters from Westchester, Bergen and West Point.

Citing the Trump administration's efforts to scale back national parks, Cuomo vowed to open the largest state part in New York City, a 407 - acre plot of land on Jamaica Bay.

These major players have been plunking down money for large - scale efforts (often framed as challenges) that engineer solutions to specific problems: Diagnose HIV at the point of care; prevent fatal, maternal bleeding after birth; help amputees get around tough terrain, and so on.

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

Meanwhile, purification efforts to clean up polluted rivers, lakes, streams, and wells can not meet the world's growing water needs, and water shortages are already causing human and ecological suffering on a haunting scale.