Sentences with phrase «stories of other local»

I love the way Traction gives updates in the market and I love hearing the success stories of other local investors.

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Third and finally, the traditional story misses the real function of private banks, which is to solve an information problem in the purest Hayekian senses. That is, banks are or should be specialists in risk assessment and risk taking. They should know their client, understand the local market and have their pulse on the broad economy. Arguably, if properly structured, they can and should do this better than other entities such as governments. In other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this post.

I declined as I didn't want to profit from this gift I was given, but as I know from the story of the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4 that the Lord uses testimonies to draw others to Himself, so at my own expense I had my testimony printed at a local print shop for a few hundred dollars, and am distributing it with New Testaments to people as the Lord leads.

To say that the general backgrounds, the local color, the atmosphere of the environment, and even the existence of the patriarchs — to say that this is to the best of our knowledge true is not, on the other hand, to say that the stories are, in the usual sense of the word, history.

♦ One 5 / 9 - bushel box of vegetables (containing 7 - 10 items) and / or one dozen free - range eggs weekly or every other week throughout the growing season ♦ A weekly newsletter including pictures, stories and news from the field, recipes, and cooking and preservation tips (here are a few sample newsletters: June, July, August, September, October) ♦ Invitations to on - farm events and news about the local food community ♦ The opportunity to purchase other items, like storage and canning vegetables, for delivery with your weekly box ♦ New this year: A free gift for folks who purchase $ 300 or more!

«By sharing the compelling stories of Camp Sunshine and other charities with our guests who visit us in - cafe and on social media, we are remaining true to our core value of solid relationships with guests, amongst team members and within local communities.»

If you watch the local news any night of the week, chances are you'll hear a story about a fire, a shootout or some other emergency that makes you hug your kids a little tighter.

To make a long story short, earlier this week a question was asked by some nitwit official as to why there weren't more parents (of special needs kids) involved in the local PTA and other issues that have come up that directly involve our kids.

When consultant Lori Adkins picked up the phone in the summer of 2015, a local reporter was on the other line, chasing down a story on summer meals.

Casa Central offers a network of services including Head Start education, out - of - school time support, interim housing, violence intervention and other valuable resources to vulnerable members of the community.Words on WheelsWords on Wheels volunteers to go places in their local communities to engage with at - risk babies through bubbles, puppets, music and stories.

There aren't a bunch of Waverlys slamming lockers shut at the local high school or bumping into each other at story time at the library.

In particular, local media attention matters: it's often easier to get than national coverage, it lets you leverage your local activists and it can lead to much broader distribution of your story if it gets on a newswire (even local blogs can help, since they may be disproportionately read by elected officials and other opinion leaders and can also serve as a source for national blogs — see this article for details).

Wallace stories that became major fodder for the Rockland County Times and other local outlets include the uncovering of so - called «blockbusting» real estate tactics and the infamous Sloatsburg contaminated dirt pile.

Three men, three women, none of them household names to local Conservatives, all with little or no recognition factor to anyone other than dedicated followers of stories about candidate selection nationwide.

At 4 p.m., Assemblymember Didi Barrett and the Hudson Area Library will celebrate the life of Megan Carr - Wilks — a 9/11 first responder and local school resource officer — and nine other remarkable Hudson Valley women as part of the fifth volume of «Women's History in the Hudson Valley: Ten Stories from Columbia and Dutchess Counties.»

Images of other parts of the country told a story of broad indifference, as TV screens showing the funeral in town centres proved unpopular with locals.

The New York Times of January 31 has this story about the requirement that presidential candidates in France need 500 signatures of mayors or other local officials in order to get on the ballot.

Several of those residents shared their stories with ProPublica, while other information was found through court and local records.

Other newspapers found it difficult to give the story the attention it deserved; when Schrödinger gave a version of his lectures in Cork in January 1944, the local newspaper, The Kerryman, gave his talk equal coverage to the Listowel Pig Fair.

The other night at my local wine bar, I made the acquaintance of a woman who, upon learning about my job as an online dating coach, was very eager to tell the story of her and her husband, she whom met on Match.com eight years ago.

From the art to the music to the story to the tactical gameplay, and even to how they're all woven together so artfully, Pyre is an adventure that excels in every area of its design other than limiting its multiplayer to local only.

Players can also team up with other survivors in local and online multiplayer story and challenge modes to take on a growing array of the infected.

The story ends, «I wasn't able to save Dot because I was arrested by the local animal control shortly after I put Puddle in the cube, probably because of letting Goon run away... and the whole giving my other cat aids thing... or maybe it was the dead cat in the attic.»

Featuring a story mode and local and online multiplayer modes, the game will display a land of toy racing as well as other features.

Starring Matthew McConaughey «s sneer, «Free State of Jones» tells the true story of Newton Knight, a man who deserted the Confederate Army during the Civil War and created his own militia of other deserters and freed slaves who fought back against the Rebs and their predations on poor local land owners.

It tells the true story of a white farmer who led a rebellion against the confederacy with the help of other farmers and local slaves.

Other sessions at the show will take a look at emerging pedagogy, global and local education movements, practical considerations and, of course, inspiring stories.

* Bringing in a local veteran to speak of his or her experiences helps students in Remembering Pearl Harbor: The USS Arizona and in more fully appreciating the human story of that and other military engagements commemorated in local and national monuments.

Charleston's Post and Courier, the Herald in Rock Hill, Columbia's The State, and the Associated Press State & Local Wire, which serves numerous other South Carolina papers, regularly carried stories about the state of South Carolina's schools.

Imagine if we talked with the same conviction about stories like Montgomery County ~ Maryland or other districts like Union City ~ New Jersey ~ Cincinnati ~ Ohio or Springfield ~ Massachusetts - examples where professionals collaborated at the local level to raise the achievement scores and performance of all students as market - oriented reformers do about their success stories.

On the front page, the editor solicits board members from around the state to submit articles about local district programs they're proud of, in hopes that sharing these stories will be interesting, instructional, and inspirational to other boards.

The two - day teacher workshop brought together educators from the Los Angeles Unified School District and local charter schools, experts, and first - person voices to gain a better understanding of how listening to and learning about other people's stories is so important when teaching young people.

Bibliography 2014 Eyrie 2013 Shrine play 2012 Signs of Life, play 2011 Rising water 2008 Breath 2006 Small Mercies, novella 2005 The Turning 2001 Dirt Music 1999 Down to Earth, with photography by Richard Woldendorp 1998 The Deep (Children's) 1998 Lockie Leonard, Legend, (Children's) 1998 Blueback 1995 The Riders 1995 The Collected Shorter Novels of Tim Winton 1995 Lockie Leonard (Children's) 1994 Local Colour, photography and text by Bill Bachman; additional text by Tim Winton 1993 Land's Edge 1993 Blood and Water: Stories 1992 Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo 1991 The Bugalugs Bum Thief (Children's) 1991 Cloudstreet 1988 Jesse 1988 In the Winter Dark 1987 Scission and Other Stories 1986 That Eye, the Sky 1986 Shallows 1985 A Blow, A Kiss 1985 Minimum of Two 1982 An Open Swimmer

I've had two stories about libraries published this year, one in Eating My Words, the official anthology of National Flash Fiction Day, and the other in Change The Ending, which used flash fiction to foster positive outcomes for local government — an unusual and inventive use of fiction!

In addition, public libraries should be sources of recreation for young people and others and provide story - telling hours and other local programming.

There are numerous ways to go about this, and the strategies we use will depend on factors such as an author's background; how well he or she is already known; what the book is about; its selling scope — international, national, regional, local; who we'll be marketing the book to; current news, stories, trends; the author's availability to travel; and a host of other factors.

I was listening to a story the other day on my local NPR affiliate (yes, I'm one of those) and I heard something completely astonishing.

You may have seen some local new stories about other shelters in New Jersey taking in shipments of animals from down South and out West; those shelters are the same shelters that typically take our overflow.

The experience of learning from and hearing other no - kill leaders tell their stories has so inspired some attendees that they have gone home and engaged with their local shelters to help lead them to no - kill.

In addition to the discussion of the day the show will include Headliner News on Current Animal Campaigns, other Pending Legislation & Deadlines to Meet, News Tips, Local Stories, Habitat News, Action Tips, Petition Highlights and more.

If the blogger writing that story says, «hey look, we overstayed our visa because we worked at a hostel in this country x amount of days, and it was a hassle to get out of the country, but we did», but also writes about what they did to give back to the local community and what people in the States or other «developed» countries can do to help, then that would make a huge change.

The Fort Nelson Heritage Museum archives the local history of transportation, and preserves the machinery of the past, along with other artifacts, to tell the story of this Northern British Columbia community at the Mile 300 marker of the Alaska Highway.

First - time visitors tend to associate Buenos Aires with tango, steak, and wine — that trifecta of local passions — but the Argentine capital's French buildings, Italian food, and Spanish nightlife also tell the story of a city with one foot in Latin America and the other in Europe.

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Bamboo Beach Club is a relaxed 2 - story hotel strategically located a 3 - minute walk from Clearwater Beach, 2 miles from the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, Caladesi Island State Park, and close to several other local attractions, Most of which can be accessed on foot or by trolley.

There are stories about the fabled Mola Mola, giant sunfish that arise from the murky depths once a year for an annual clean by the local butterfly fish, and others of divers occasionally getting lost off someplace called Nusa Penida.

Aside from the story mode, these last two will be the other big spots that players will head to when playing FighterZ as it allows you to play local versus human opponents or AI in a variety of modes or tackle ladders of opponents.

There is no local or online multiplayer components which is not necessarily a bad thing in a story driven survival horror game; however it would have been amazing to play a split - screen or online multiplayer competitive variant based upon the core gameplay of the story in which one player would control Sebastian, while the other player would be able to strategically co-ordinate enemy patrols in search of preventing Sebastian from achieving his mission.

There is also no local or online competitive multiplayer which could have pitted one player or team against another in which one side is lead by Lara and the other is controlled by Konstantin with both sides reflecting their intentions from the story as they fight for a true find in the world of archaeology.

Each one can use one of 10 of the copy abilities available in the Story mode and someone can play alone or against three other people over local wireless.