Sentences with phrase «other infrastructure problems»

Almost every year, voters in that community are faced with ballot initiatives that must pass in order to fund critical enhancements to schools, such as fixing boilers or other infrastructure problems.

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Other facets of the Grylls plan include lifting the payroll tax - free threshold from $ 850,000 to $ 1.5 million, ensuring any money from privatisations is reinvested in infrastructure, and a renewed campaign aimed at fixing problems with WA's GST distribution.

However, a Reuters analysis of nationwide bridge data reveals the fretting over the safety of bridges and other road infrastructure is overblown and could distract from more serious problems elsewhere:

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

«The other problem is the security challenges around smart - contracts and wallet infrastructures, these pose a lot of risk and therefore foster a lack of trust.»

Why should a country that has a current account deficit of $ 9.5 trillion be spending money on other countries» water problems when we are so seriously neglecting our own infrastructure?

Whether it be our attempts to host a tournament and it going somewhere crazy like Qatar despite all their problems and our brilliant infrastructure, or other aspects of the game, I get the sense that they do not like us.

The problem is that with the internal infrastructure at Arsenal (Board, Kroenke etc), replacing Wenger will we very difficult, as oppose to if we had the internal structure of any other club in the EPL, and it is not a given that it will improve us.

Both Biden and Cuomo said the country's infrastructure problems are keeping the United States from competing with other countries that are investing in newer technologies.

The school like others, is also facing serious infrastructure problems due to the implementation of the free SHS programme, forcing some of them to sleep on the school's veranda.

The Bureau added that apart from youths employment, the state government's massive infrastructure programme such as new roads, schools construction, introduction of modern agricultural extension and practices, and other infrastructure projects, several thousands of indirect jobs have been created to reduce the problem of unemployment.

Common Council President James Noble, who recently formed an infrastructure committee to help track and coordinate the city's efforts to deal with an aging sewer and stormwater system and other problems said that he had received no word from the Mayor's office regarding the status of the sinkhole project.

Giambra says, «It is time we join with the other states that have moved to legalize marijuana and take advantage of the enormous opportunity we have to raise money to deal with our very serious infrastructure problems, including the subway system in New York City.

On the other hand, there were infrastructure problems.

There were many other infrastructure and bureaucratic problems, and I learned that the kindness and generosity of a few individuals could make a great difference.

The more detailed understanding of urban heat islands provided by the study can help health professionals and others target efforts to protect people and infrastructure from heat - related problems, according to project co-leads Tracy Twine and Peter Snyder, associate professors in the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences.

Experts, however, say that ransomware is less likely to cause major problems for infrastructure than other types of malware because it deals with data rather than interfering with control systems.

The Kavli IFN will provide people with the infrastructure to start understanding each other's problems.

Not to mention, any vendors trying to solve the broadband issue by themselves would also face a free rider problem, as others in the industry would stand to profit on the other end of this basic infrastructure investment.

The problems and delays were caused by your car, the road infrastructure, other road traffic conditions, or all of these factors; but neither you nor your supplier were to blame.

And again, while there are other pressing societal problems affecting the country's schools, like child poverty and infrastructure and funding (to say nothing of what or how students are taught), so far much of the debate has focused on these teacher evaluations.

In many countries deforestation, often together with other problems, leads to migration to the big cities, where the lack of infrastructure is another source of further conflict.

As a company that believes in making a meaningful difference in the life of others, AmeriFirst Home Mortgage has pledged $ 25,000 to the «Moving Michigan Forward» fund to help fix the underlying problems in the Flint infrastructure.

That model has worked for other environmental problems, most notably the Montreal Protocol reducing ozone - damaging chemicals, but it is badly suited to climate change, which is better seen as a problem of economics, infrastructure, and innovation.

Well then, is it responsible to spent billions of dollars, disrupt the economy, paralize developing nations and divert resources from other far more certain problems — infrastructure collapse, public health, funding social welfare programs, when more volcanos might be lurking?

But, the interconnected nature of roads and other infrastructure within political divisions mean that sea - level rise would cause problems even for the higher parts of these counties.

I also understand that as an American, we have a huge budget problem to resolve and it is not my responsibility to pay taxes so that corrupt politicians in other countries can skim their share before actually doing anything to improve infrastructure for their own people.

She found that she adjusted easily to work in developing countries (including Cuba and Guatemala), in part because the «third world» conditions she encountered − like problems with access to clean water and sanitation systems, and lack of other infrastructure − were not far removed from the conditions in Attawapiskat.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

Such a catastrophic downfall of the overall value of bitcoin has sparked debates over its future, with some traders associating the drop with a consequence of infrastructure related problems and others blaming it for the conflict it has generated in the crypto world.

The infrastructure needed to interface between bitcoin and ethereum, for example, is still in development, and «to make it even worse, these cross-chain platforms also need to solve some of the main problems other blockchains are trying to solve, such as scalability,» Castonguay said.

Objective To utilize my technical background and expertise in civil engineering and provide excellent skills in designing buildings and other infrastructures Personal Information Carmen Frazier 4962 Bloomfield Way Portland, ME 4101 (333)-769-9202 [email protected] Date of Birth: May 6, 1979 Place of Birth: ME Citizenship: American Gender: Female Profile Summary • Extensive knowledge in Building Engineering • Strong technical skills in AutoCad applications • MS Windows, Mac OS, Archicad, CorelDraw, Sage • Experienced working in large scale industries Education M.S. in Structural Engineering, 2006 Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA B.S. in Civil Engineering, 2002 Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA Employment History Chief, Civil Engineer, 2007 — Present DPR Construction Inc, Atlanta, GA Responsibilities: • Provided cost - effective solutions to recurring construction problems.

Strategies: Implementation of Homelands Policy; community participation in the design of houses and related infrastructure; lobby health authorities for better and more accessible treatment programs for renal and other serious health problems; encourage health education and disease prevention programs with local communities; ensure municipal services support Indigenous communities; ensure infrastructure and essential services are appropriate, well maintained and delivered by appropriately skilled services providers; encourage partnerships and joint funding for preventative and diversionary programs.

Pase has dedicated much of his professional life to problem - solving and building creative technological infrastructures with his background in IT and has tried to harness that knowledge in ways that benefit others.

The project is the first step in a goal to develop a national connected car network that would allow vehicles to «talk» to each other and a highway infrastructure, alerting one another to traffic or weather problems.