Sentences with phrase «people on a big project»

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With an entrepreneurial background that spans a variety of fields, including entertainment, fashion, technology and media, Aldridge created the original web series Project Luminary to shine a light on all the remarkable people changing the world one big, bold dream at a time.

No one quite has a number on how big the Downtown Project community is, but most people I met with estimated that approximately 300 entrepreneurs have flocked to the new city center.

According to researchers at McGill, using the data from the At Home / Chez Soi project, «Support services for homeless people with mental illness in Canada's biggest cities cost more than $ 55K a year per person on average.»

Hydro Quebec built that huge dam on the LaGrande, but so far its plans for even bigger dams have been stalled; across North America, people concerned about the rights of the Cree Indians, about the caribou, about the sheer existence of a vast wilderness, have scrapped and battled to rein in the project.

The way the AWPA sees it, that means the resources sector needs to get on with the task of training the people it will need to ensure it is not left exposed to the risk of the sort of wage inflation that has undermined the return metrics of so many of our biggest projects.

And that is usually the point where many people abandon all reason and project their biggest fears on the other, because even though they are not affected by the news (how could they?!)

«It was not all about the big projects only, that we would not overlook neighborhoods like Hamlin Park and the East Side and the West Side and the South Buffalo areas, that we would make sure that recovery, Buffalo's transformation, would also be seen on the street corners and the city blocks and that people's lives could be transformed by having simply a better quality of life,» Hochul said.

Among other findings, the report also revealed that while the total number of County residents on Medicaid has risen due to fuller implementation of the Affordable Care Act («ACA»), Erie County's portion of Medicaid costs is projected to drop by more than $ 6.4 million from 2013 due to the Act's implementation and the state's Medicaid cap, and is approximately $ 340,000 less than 2012; the biggest increase in Medicaid recipients was seen among whites age 18 - 64, while other demographics remained consistent; and that the number of persons on Medicaid continues to grow at an average rate of more than 4 % each year, a trend noted by the Medicaid Inspector General's office in his September 2013 report.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — There's an Ivy League professor who worked on many of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's biggest economic development projects with people and organizations now under investigation by federal authorities.

The graphic shows that Project Cameron's reassurance strategy (most exemplified by «disarming» on tax and the NHS) has produced a significant drop in the number of people who would be «dismayed» at the prospect of a Tory government and a big increase in those who «wouldn't mind».

«The silver that went into wastewaters when millions of people had their photographs developed taught us that small additions of silver to the environment make a big difference,» said Dr. Samuel Luoma, a former U.S. Geological Survey senior researcher who was lead author of a report by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies.

«One of the big challenges we always face in getting people engaged and take action on climate change is they keep thinking this is going to happen to someone else, somewhere else, or to someone in the future, far away,» said Susanne Moser, an independent social science researcher on climate change analyzing the project's results.

Washington Post: A big Harvard project that for the first time details how much weight individual foods make people put on or keep off.

Perhaps bloggers from different stages in their careers will be trailed to show what they do or even put them into a competition to gain a grant / sign with a big agency / work on big projects etc. «Fashion blogging» is essentially real people working in a new area of an industry which transfers well to the reality TV market.

Collaborating with people or brands on small projects usually makes a big impact as your work gets shared more and more.

And as much as people hate on Levy, with big names like Spielberg and Cameron trusting him with projects like this, I have faith in the guy.

The Big Short examines the 2008 economic collapse, and how it was spurred by predatory financial institutions taking advantage of people's hopes and dreams of succeeding in America, from the point of view of the banks that caused the catastrophe; The Florida Project shows us the swampy, brightly - colored, half - decayed Florida landscape briefly glimpsed in The Big Short, and centers on the very people who are struggling the most financially as a result of the greed of others and the desire to achieve the vaunted American Dream.

At the film's recent press day, Costner talked about the appeal of playing Coach White, Niki Caro's directing style, the bond that developed between all the actors during filming, the pivotal role a coach can play in a young person's life, the Jim White - type coaches who influenced Costner's life in a positive way, what he learned about Latino culture growing up in Visalia, why he waits for projects to come along that he can really respond to irrespective of genre, the biggest cultural gap he experienced on this film, and how sports movies allow us to address other issues within the wider society.

And judging from the projected box office tracking, people are interested in paying for the chance to see Jackson dance and sing on the big screen, for one last time.

Following his Emmy win for American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson and his role on the critically acclaimed NBC drama This Is Us, the actor has been setting his sights on several high - profile big screen projects.

When I work on big projects, such as a fountain, I like to include people who haven't yet developed their creative side — people yearning to let their creativity out.

«Karen is a big believer in making sure people are well fed,» Chung says, «especially when they're working on creative projects.»

There's been progress on several fronts — notably a big reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger — but none of these goals will have been achieved in full by next year, any more than the «goals 2000» project for American K — 12 education met its targets (e.g., «first in the world in math and science») by the stated end point.

Even so, «the amount of killing that goes on is often very surprising to people,» said Dickman, who runs a Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) project funded by the Big Cats Initiative of the National Geographic Society, which owns National Geographic News.

In addition to the potential for tick mapping and greater understanding about what is perceived to be a rise in the risks to dogs and people from Lyme Disease, the emergence in four dogs in Essex of babesiosis, a life - threatening disease transmitted to dogs by infected ticks usually found in Europe, has highlighted the need for a major investigation on the scale of the Big Tick Project, says Professor Wall.

Our goal is about the minimal level of funding that would be required to make a big difference on this project because it is enough where we can start to bring on some of our part - time people, full - time and guarantee them at least a certain duration of wages.

«When former members of Big Huge Games approached Epic last year, we saw the opportunity to help a great group of people while putting them to work on a project that needed a team,» said Sweeney today in a statement.

Wargaming are a big company who've made a lot of money on their freemium third person simulations so it came as a real shock when they took on an utterly alien project to their usual games and bought the rights to Master of Orion.

Moreover, we also came to know via reports that notable people associated with the last two games were coming back on the next big Borderlands project.

Opening: «Jonathan Horowitz: Occupy Greenwich» at the Brant Foundation Art study Center Though he scored a big hit with his project of paying 700 people $ 20 each to paint black dots on white canvases at last year's Frieze New York, Jonathan Horowitz is best known for his post-Pop art appropriations, consumerism critiques and politically engaged installations and videos.

To err is human, and if we're going to force people to live under such scrutiny, I propose that we run a 5 - year pilot project with all politicians having to record their every move on the road... But even without forcing anyone to do anything, the benefits of these cameras are big enough that many will voluntarily use them, especially once they are less expensive.

Cap and trade may seem like the big offer on the emission reductions table at the moment — one mention of alternatives like a straight carbon tax send many people (the average American in particular) into apoplectic fits — but Annie «The Story of Stuff» Leonard wants you to take a closer look.There are so many troubling details in how cap and trade is currently proposed — free permit giveaways to polluters, massive potential for bogus offsetting projects, the ever - present potential of distracting us from making real changes — that we really need to consider other options.

To be sure, most of the country still bikes — currently, only seven people for every thousand own a car, and massive public - transport projects are on the way in the big cities.

REDD, in addition to fomenting suspicions on the right about another big United Nations program, has picked up critics on the left who fear it will be hijacked for pay for tree - farming projects that actually harm real forests and may also undermine the rights of indigenous forest people.

The coal industry's efforts to export huge amounts of taxpayer - owned coal from Montana and Wyoming to Asia has generated unprecedented opposition in the Pacific Northwest - tens of thousands of people have rallied, attended public hearings, and called on their elected officials to oppose coal export terminals that would disrupt and pollute communities and pose one of the biggest threats to the climate of any fossil fuel project in the world.

All the funds will be used to develop the «Telegram Open Network» (TON) which is quite an ambitious project as Telegram claims it to be a «third - generation» blockchain that will be hosting the company's own «gram» tokens and in addition, it will be a complete ecosystem many times bigger the size of Ethereum allowing people to make their decentralized applications on its platform.

Even if you held the same roles, go an extra mile to demonstrate how you have gone on to undertake larger projects or handling more people or bigger budgets.

One of the biggest advantages of the website is that any one of the 10 companies working on the project can post a question, which is then answered by the appropriate person.

DIY people are unusually successful at selling their homes for - sale - by - owner because they're used to taking on big projects they've never done before.

That requires leaders who are able to lead with the head — focusing on the big - picture goal and business objectives; the heart — knowing how to engage, coach and motivate people; and with your hands — providing the tactical tools and skills necessary like a project manager,» she says.