Sentences with phrase «raised less than an hour»

Despite being born and raised less than an hour from the city, I had never participated in fashion week before.

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In less than 24 hours, the advocacy group Equality Florida has raised more than $ 2 million for the victims of the Orlando shooting at a gay night club called Pulse that left 50 dead and more than 50 injured over the weekend.

Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin explains how you can raise boatloads of money on crowdfunding sites and what you can do to reach your goal with less than 24 hours to go before your deadline.

«For the vast majority of people, regularly getting less than about seven hours of sleep leads to concentration problems, lower energy levels, accidents, and, in the long - term, raises the risk of depression,» PsyBlog stresses.

In less than 24 hours, Stormy Daniels has raised over $ 100,000 in her quest to fight Donald Trump and the non-disclosure agreement she signed just months before the 2016 election.

July 25 (Reuters)- The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Thursday: ** Dell Inc founder Michael Dell raised his $ 24.4 billion bid by less than 1 percent just hours before it was to be put to a vote, tacking on...

** Dell Inc founder Michael Dell raised his $ 24.4 billion bid by less than 1 percent just hours before it was to be put to a vote, tacking on a controversial demand to change voting rules to make it easier for him to buy and take the No. 3 personal computer maker private.

Walmart pay most of their employees minimum wage, and those workers get less than 20 hours a week, earn on average $ 16,000 a year, and need to apply for food stamps to raise a family... and those Walmart employees on government help cost each US taxpayer $ 17.00 a year...

Most of the union support came from NYC - based organizations, which are more or less seeing what they wanted — $ 15 an hour in the five boroughs by the end of 2018, except for businesses with less than 10 employees, who get an extra year to raise their pay.

The project raised $ 2 million in less than ten hours and an additional $ 3.7 million over the next 30 days.

The latest in the long - running series of pay - what - you - want indie bundles has sailed past one million dollars raised in less than 24 hours after going on sale.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

Look no further than the recently announced TravelCard, a credit card - sized charger for iPhones and Android devices, whose Kickstarter campaign to raise $ 10,500 not only met its goal in a compact 48 hours, but has gone on to raise nearly $ 30,000 in total less than two weeks.

Metrics: — The Kickstarter campaign hit its initial goal in less than an hour and raised more than $ 1 Million in the first 24 hours — More than 36,000 people have backed the project so far — The average pledge per backer is over $ 65 (compared to Shadowrun Returns «average pledge of $ 48)

The Rareware platforming revival has smashed all of its initial stretch goals and raised # 1million in less than 24 hours.

Because I ride a bicycle and limit my car trips, and I've curtailed my airplane travel, and wear sweaters (I know when I've set the thermostat too low when I can see the dog's breath in the living room), and because I've opted into our electric utility's «Pure Power» wind power program (they pledge to buy 75 % of your power from wind farms in exchange for raising your rate a few cents per kilowatt hour), my personal «Carbon Footprint» comes out at less than 4 tons per year.

Can you also explain precisely how the required thermal energy gets into and raises the temperature of the Venus surface during sunlit hours, noting that the surface temperature rises from 732K to 737K and the direct solar radiation into the surface is less than 20W / m ^ 2.

Some changes are: compensation for flights of less than 3500 km raises up to 5 hours and for flights of more than 3500 km to 9 hours; extraordinary circumstances are now defined; or that passengers who buy a return ticket can take the return flight even if they didn't take the first one.

Following further intense hours of review and negotiation over the course of the weekend, the Sale & Purchase agreement was agreed and executed on time - less than 80 hours after the idea was first raised.

Its ICO took place in June 2017 and raised more than $ 100 million in less than three hours.

Status.im, an open source messaging platform that offers mobile browser payments and smart contracts to friends from within chats, raised 300,000 ETH in less than three hours in yet another massive token raise with over 20,000 participants.

When the fund released these tokens to the public earlier this year, the entire offering of 10 million BCAP sold out in less than six hours, raising a total of $ 10 million USD at $ 1 per token.

The main ICO opened on November 2 and raised the soft cap of $ 10M in less than ten hours.

Tezos, the startup whose recent ICO raised $ 109 million in less than 15 hours and a total $ 232 million in just three days, has announced its plan to open a $ 50 million venture fund.

The fundraiser, which was labeled the Andrew McCabe Legal Defense Fund, raised more than $ 400,000 less than 24 hours after its... Read More

On Dec. 15, the company was reported to raise $ 100 mln in less than 24 hours on its token sale for what it claims is «the first blockchain infused phone.»

RECEs working in Ontario Early Years Child and Family Centres and other family support programs that currently make less than $ 15 an hour and do not receive the government's Wage Enhancement Grant will finally get a raise with the transition to a $ 15 min wage.

I can not believe that a $ 20 challenge raised almost $ 1,800 in less than 24 hours,» says Deb Koeper, program manager at the Denise House.

A good night's sleep is crucial to proper brain function, and studies suggest that getting less than six hours of sleep per night can raise your cortisol levels, making you more stressed out.