Sentences with phrase «such as big sisters»

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You might consider giving your time to a volunteer - driven organization, such as Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, Habitat for Humanity, or Court Appointed Special Advocates.

She has also worked extensively with nonprofits such as the United Way, YMCA, Big Brother Big Sister, and Boys & Girls Clubs of America while leading local strategic CSR partnerships with the Celtics, Red Sox, Nascar and more.

«Chief Collaboration Officer Rodney Youckton, as well as other executive team members, leads by example and sit on local nonprofit boards such as Community Youth Services, the Boys & Girls Club, Big Brothers Big Sisters or United Way,» Miles says.

Such a long walk from Seven Sisters Road down to the stadium, and as soon as you got off the tube you could feel the bigger presence of police, one or two lads I know getting cans taken off them.

Each page celebrates big sister's accomplishments, such as eating with a fork and riding a tricycle.

Consider giving your older child a gift that's from the baby, such as a T - shirt that says big brother or big sister.

In pursuit of a dramatic career, Zea subsequently moved to the Big Apple, where she enrolled in the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, and built a solid foundation as a theatrical player in such off - Broadway productions as Chekhov's The Three Sisters and William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

They are in talks with Emily VanCamp, who makes the leap to the big screen after starring in such series as ABC's Revenge, the WB's Everwood and Brothers And Sisters.

The plot has Alice going to significant events of the lives of key Underlandians, meaning the movie exists mostly explain things such as how the Hatter became a hatter, what happened to make the Red Queen's (Helena Bonham Carter) head become so big, and why the White Queen (Anne Hathaway) has a soft spot for her decapitation - happy sister.

Heckman and Carneiro also advocate the expansion of mentoring programs for disadvantaged teenagers, such as Big Brothers Big Sisters.

has a partial list of organizations — such as Opera Philadelphia, Philadelphia Futures, and Big Brothers / Big Sisters — that have ongoing partnerships with Philly schools;

The biggest engine available for the Grand Prix - and sister cars such as the Buick Regal and Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme - has 130 horsepower.

She has been in Development for 10 years with local organizations such as, Big Brothers Big Sisters, MSU Foundation, Classics for Kids and Thrive.

Over a year ago, I lost my life - long best friend Jennifer to breast cancer. I realized how lucky I was to be able to say I had such an incredible friendship, and though not intentionally, started evaluating my other friendships and quickly realized, there was no human who could ever replace what was lost to my heart, and there was a hole there, for a very long time, as a big chunk of my heart was missing. She was truly my sister.

PetSafe is proud to assist high - quality community programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters in reaching their goals.»

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Aha, may be time to pick the best posts of the week so far from big sister site Gamasutra and elsewhere on our Think Services sites / blogs - with a number of neat features such as the «Demystifying Portal» piece heading up the line - up.

Since her return to this country Jaime has become an active volunteer with organizations such as the Union Mission Hospice for Men, Pivot Legal Society, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and her local Food Bank.