Sentences with phrase «power of changing our environment»

Dave Asprey: I'm forty - four, and I'm literally... My brain works better now than it did when I was twenty - four, and this is the power of changing our environment so that our biology does what we want, and what you're saying is to parents, you change the environment in the home and the kid's biology will follow.

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We can expect NDP cabinet ministers to boast about achieving the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans - Mountain Pipeline expansion and Environment & Parks Minister Shannon Phillips to release further details of the plan to address Climate Change, including government support for communities impacted by the phase out of dirty coal - fired power plants.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

By turning manure and wastewater into a power source, dairy farms could curb their climate - change causing emissions and keep harmful chemicals out of the surrounding environment.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

«By seeking to repeal the Clean Power Plan — especially without any credible commitment to replacing it — the Trump Administration's campaign of climate change denial continues, once again putting industry special interests ahead of New Yorkers» and all Americans» safety, health, and the environment,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

Harness the power of a collaborative network — Working with collaborators improves the ability to anticipate a changing environment and access the latest evidence on disparities.

This powered - up version of Kirby's usual inhale ability allows Kirby to change the environment and open up new paths.

The character has total control over the molecules of his body, enabling him to alter his form as it suits him, such as allowing his body to become extremely malleable and flexible or change its size, enhance his physical abilities, transform his limbs into weapons, wings, or jets, regenerate from fatal injuries, adapt his body to apparently any disease or hostile environment, as well as give himself virtually any superhuman power.

Strike back against any attempt to silence the voices of change coming from the streets — to the contrary, do everything that it is in your power to ensure a democratic environment that allow a wide public participation in the political decisions of Brazil.

The power of this moment, the change in the learning environment, and the excitement of my fifth graders as they could not only understand but explain to others what the problem was about convinced me it was worth the effort to pursue visualization and try to answer these questions: Is there a process to unlock visualizations in math?

Yet, opponents of parent choice and other transformational education reform initiatives continue to place one obstacle after another in the path of parents seeking the power to choose the best educational environment for their children and / or to fundamentally change some of the systems that purport to educate their children.

RFK Project SEATBELT promotes the use of the RFK Center's human rights education program, RFK Speak Truth To Power, which is currently taught to more than 1 million students a year from Cambodia to California and empowers youth to become the agents of change in their environments and beyond.

This beginner's course is designed to help you discover ways to use digital communication technologies to enhance the inherent connective power of creative nonfiction — and will explore what changes and what stays the same, when you move stories from pure text to an interactive, multimedia environment, incorporating still images, sound, and / or video (and even video games).

It's all about power, both the renewable energy technologies that can help us live in balance with the environment, and the surprising power of each kid to reduce emissions, conserve resources and change the world.

Note: Mei Ling forgot that Samus was not just trained but literally enhanced, via Chozo genetics engineering; as such, Zero Suit Samus could possibly have the most changes compared to their own - universe counterparts, as she'd be very fast (probably only outrun by Sonic, who is himself much slower than he can be), quite strong, and (although rather irrelevant to Smash Bros.) highly tolerant of harsh environments, all without the Power Suit's aid.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

Throughout his career Rauschenberg showed us the power of art to raise awareness about the environment and create change that would improve the quality of life, and Ballroom Marfa's exhibition and symposium aim to continue that tradition apace.

The exhibition proposes an alternative perspective, a change of outlook based on the speculative power of storytelling and science fiction, as a means to rethink the ways we inhabit our environment.

They may celebrate nature, address our relationship to a rapidly changing environment, or mark in a personal and meditative way the passage and power of light in time and space; other artists» works concern narratives of access, migration and destruction, while others still test the historical weight of the tradition.

Drawn from the Tate Collection, which is itself a host of creative processes with its own laws of hospitality, Thresholds looks at the ways of understanding what art means in a wider realm of culture and society where hegemonic power structures and changing political and economic environments become the fabric of art rather than a mere context.

Here's Lovell on the basics of the geological argument for the power of carbon dioxide to cause enduring changes in climate and the environment:

WOODSTOCK, ON, July 18, 2016 / CNW / — The East Oxford Alliance has filed an urgent request to halt a wind power project with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change and the Environmental Review Tribunal.

The Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change is refusing to reconsider the situation at a Norwich Township wind power project, where it was acknowledged during the appeal last year that the endangered Little Brown Bat was present, and would die as a result of the presence of wind turbines.

As Yale Environment 360 reported in June, this is mainly a result of changes in the Chinese economy, where energy efficiency is improving fast, growth is shifting to low - carbon activities and public anger about smog is forcing the shutdown of coal - fired power plants in Beijing and elsewhere.

Carbon emissions from fossil fuel fired power stations are one of the main causes of climate change and ocean acidification and these are far greater threats to the Australian environment than are wind farms.

The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change had come down hard on coal - fired thermal power producers in 2015, setting a December 2017 deadline for meeting revised norms on emissions of particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury and reduced water usage.

The Trump Administration has tried to enable the dumping of dental mercury into water systems, to allow the use of a substance harmful to child brain development, to enable the environmental release of such dangerous toxins as lead, to let gas companies leak poisonous and climate change enhancing methane plumes into the local environment, to allow trucks and automobiles that spew smog, to halt the protection of key species like bumblebees, and to roll back the Clean Power Plan, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act.

It is clear from the above that the climate change disinformation campaign is only one element in an organized effort of corporations and free market fundamentalists foundations to limit the power of citizen movements to protect human health and the environment when these movements threaten corporate profits or unregulated markets.

The Scientific Alliance is either (using Stott's own «words of magic») «an organisation that promotes concern about the environment through rational science; while accepting climate change as a reality, the Alliance is critical of current methods proposed to manage climate change and energy production» or (using the New Statesmans «words of magic»), «an anti-environmentalist campaign group that denies climate change; opposes organic agriculture and promotes genetically modified foods and nuclear power»

Energy and Environment: Repudiate the Paris Climate Agreement Defund the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Overturn or at Least Defund the EPA's Clean Power Plan Repeal the EPA's Purloined Power to Legislate Climate Policy Repeal the EPA's Carbon Dioxide Standards for New Fossil - Fuel Power Plants Oppose Carbon Taxes Prohibit Use of Social Cost of Carbon as a Justification for Regulating Emissions Freeze and Sunset the Renewable Fuel Standard Require all Agencies to Meet Rigorous Scientific Standards Address Unaccountable Environmental Research Programs

«If the cap is above what power plants are emitting, we won't see any change in their behavior,» said Derek K. Murrow, director of policy analysis for Environment Northeast, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

It is humanity's intelligence that sets the species apart from the other animals and gives us the power to change the environment; yet many of humanity's actions are prompted by short - term desires, selfishness, superstition or emotion rather than clear - thinking and intelligence; sadly, this is greatly to the detriment of the planet.

My (I mean your) view is that it is likely that nuclear power will dominate the end result, and furthermore in the meanwhile I (you) will move heaven and earth to change the political forces and the regulatory environment that will determine the mix of energy production activities in line with my (your) preferred result in paragraph 1.

At the Conference on Sport and the Environment in Vancouver, B.C., VANOC, the Games» Organizing Committee announced extensive plans to green the Games with a sustainability declaration of its efforts to «harness the power of sport for change.»

In «Make a carbon tax part of reform effort» (Concord Monitor, 9/19/11), Holtz - Eakin argues for comprehensive tax reform to include a carbon tax so that more of the «true cost of burning a fossil fuel... in the form of air pollution, a negative impact on human health, harm to the environment or climate change [is a] component in economic decisions [such as] include whether to invest in a coal - fired power plant or a wind farm.»

He goes on to argue that stopping climate change will require great steps in developing renewable sources of power and, possibly, nuclear energy, but he also insists that «we must concurrently take action to preserve our forests so that we have an environment worth preserving.»

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General Electric (Stamford, CT) 2007 — 2008 Corporate Consultant — Infrastructure Systems & Network • Designed, developed, and engineered GE Treasury system's development, QA, Production, and DR environment • Hardware: Sun Fire V220, V480, V880, V1290, V6140, V6800, V6920; Sun Enterprise T2000, T5120 (Solaris 10: LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, Zoans, Containers), E10K, E15K, E25, M4000, M8000, M9000; HP ProLiant with Linux 5.0 (EMC and 3 PAR SAN) • Built servers from racking, cabling (Ethernet / fiber), connecting to network, setting serial connection to Avocent ports, and setting up server to the network through DNS • Performed massive installation of Solaris servers using both Jumpstart and Blade Logic and Red Hat using both PXE boot and BladeLogic servers to global distributed network of more than 6000 servers • Installed and configured Solaris 10 OS, recommended patches, hardening software, LDOMS, ZFS, and Container on Sun server • Installed and configured Emulex LPFC, EMC Power path, Navisphere, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Replicator, and Veritas Net Backup in heterogeneous environment • Partitioned and mirrored disks using Solaris LVM, disk suites, Veritas VxVM, mirrored root file system and set up alternate boot device and dump device • Installed application software for ITG, IDM, and Tibco etc. • Created and adjusted Oracle projects on oracle 9i and 10g • Configured operating systems, LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, network Multi Pathing, Cisco Switch 6309, Brocade Switch, EMC DS41000 fiber switch, EMC, 3 PAR and HITACHI SAN, DNS, NIS, NIS plus, LDAP • Created LUNs for EMC, 3 PAR, HITACHI SAN and set up RAIDS • Created zoning of Cisco 6309 switch • Provided connectivity of Ethernet ports and fiber channel by patching Ethernet ports from server panel to switch, and by patching fiber from server to Brocade switch then to EMC DS41000 switch through Cisco switch6300, 6309, Big IP • Performed alternate boot testing, crush dump testing and cluster testing • Vendor liaison for Cisco, HP, IBM, EMC, Symantec, Oracle Sun, and Red hat Linux resolving hardware and software issues • Scheduled changes and upgrades communicating with business owners and support team • Architected Disaster Recovery System conducted testing and resetting the systems as needed • Performed zoning and provisioning configured EMC / Power path LUNs on UNIX servers upon client's request • Resolved issues with NIS, NIS +, DNS, VxVM and VCS among other SA tasks • Created network topology of the internet and intranet security environment using Visio 7.5

Exactly what is changed and how it is changed depends on many things, such as the predicted effectiveness of the strategy, the fit for the child and those around him or her - as well as the environment, the resources needed, and the POWER OF PREVENTION: I n the past, children's challenging behavior was typically addressed with consequences (usually punishment) imposed after the problem behavior occurreof the strategy, the fit for the child and those around him or her - as well as the environment, the resources needed, and the POWER OF PREVENTION: I n the past, children's challenging behavior was typically addressed with consequences (usually punishment) imposed after the problem behavior occurreOF PREVENTION: I n the past, children's challenging behavior was typically addressed with consequences (usually punishment) imposed after the problem behavior occurred.

«I believe that people have the innate power to positively change the course of their lives with a supportive environment.

Our vision is for all RECEs and the broader early childhood workforce to experience decent work through fair compensation, supportive work environments, a strong professional community, public recognition, increased access to collective bargaining and adequate representation and power in the process of change in the sector.

enormous practical benefits in adopting the agreed statement of facts model... as well as broadening the jurisdiction for determinations to include a... power over non-native title matters, but these changes are very much at the back - end of any process and will not of themselves kindle a native title environment conducive to achieving negotiated outcomes.