Sentences with phrase «things about this initiative»

One of our favorite things about this initiative is that it goes even beyond shelters and right into the homes of everyday pet parents like yourself.

The best thing about the initiative is that the digitization won't come as an additional financial burden on the policyholder.

Not exact matches

Strategy in cases like this is as much about saying «No» to things as it is about embarking on new initiatives.

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

While not contending with these headline - grabbing controversies, Clement has also quietly been pushing forward with initiatives with major implications across a host of sectors «One of the nice things about politics is you get to engage in a little bit of self - definition as to what your job is,» says Clement.

More importantly, executives had encouraging things to say about Sanmina's near - term future, pointing to new initiatives that could help push the company forward more aggressively during the remainder of the fiscal year.

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

Possible Napa County Oak Woodlands Initiatives Divide Wine Industry The only thing that seemed fairly certain as of Wednesday about a proposed oak woodlands and watershed protection ballot measure was that some version will appear on the June 2018 ballot...

In order to affect change, the first task is to take the initiative to pull together of sphere of people who are interested and concerned in the same things, and to then start conversing with the schools or feeder patterns in your community about how to help them improve in the areas of your concern.

to information about our conservation initiatives (award - winning butterfly restoration program), to volunteer information and fascinating educational resources, this site is your resource for all things Nature Museum.

The scariest thing of all about Danone's initiative is that it has skilfully infiltrated aspects of the official health sector.

Mr Cameron concluded: «This is not another government initiative - it's about giving you the initiative to take control of your life and work with those around you to improve things.

Compared to when he announced the Buffalo Billion, Cuomo spoke less about region specific initiatives this year --- but Upstate Mayors Byron Brown and Lovely Warren say the governor's focus on things like education funding, infrastructure and economic development remain important to their cities.

However, if Labour is to start winning over the doubters, it needs to take the initiative on these things, rather than indulge in wishful thinking about a front - loaded political deal.

As we make our disaster plans in the Pacific Northwest, there are things we could learn from them, both about the needs for individual initiative and community response.»

San Francisco Bay Area About Blog This blog is a repository and a reference to blog posts, initiatives, projects, conferences and any number of other things that would be of interest to the broader software testing community.

Being optimistic about finding a match is a great thing, but in order to find the right person you'd have to take initiatives.

But the good thing about the recently concluded marathon conference at the Hechinger Institute (sponsored by the MacAruthur Foundation, which has a major digital learning initiative) was that you didn't have to walk anywhere.

Funders get excited about things like small high schools, education technology, or a local teacher - pay initiative and they dive in.

The Fundamental Things We Aren't Teaching Our Kids (The Washington Post) Howard Gardner and Rick Weissbourd explain why initiatives to teach and raise students with an understanding of civic and civil life have failed to change things in a meaningful way, and what can be done aboThings We Aren't Teaching Our Kids (The Washington Post) Howard Gardner and Rick Weissbourd explain why initiatives to teach and raise students with an understanding of civic and civil life have failed to change things in a meaningful way, and what can be done abothings in a meaningful way, and what can be done about it.

I started things off by talking with Mel Ainscow (Professor of Education at the UK's University of Manchester) about his new book, Towards Self - improving School Systems: Lessons from a City Challenge, which documents how ten years of research and work was used to shape a highly acclaimed city - wide improvement initiative involving over 1,100 schools.

For the REC, it is about taking stock of the changing landscape and coming up with practical solutions that make things easier for schools — in particular through specific initiatives such as REC Audited Education.

Academic studies are one thing, but what about real - world examples of successful game - based learning initiatives?

Read the vignette about Christine Quinn and list the things that she did to begin a literacy initiative in her school district.

Read the vignette about Jalma Baker and make a list of the things that Jalma did to help everyone in the school get on board for the literacy initiative.

Professor Geoff Masters (Chief Executive Officer of ACER) joins me this week to talk further about the NAB Schools First school - community initiative, among other things.

The best thing about this new initiative is that all of the content is free.

The «we» in the title was deliberate because, while the seminars gave individual publishers pointers to getting their own lists into the digital realm, it was also about coming up with a roadmap for some shared initiatives — things we can do as an industry to jumpstart digital publishing and ebooks in New Zealand.

You have to want to do what is right and take the initiative to learn more about other things.

So we have that effort somewhat on hold while we work on a few other initiatives, «said Sweeney, adding, «The really interesting thing about Unreal Tournament is that once we've defined the game in this generation the community takes it and runs with it.

There are a few things you need to know about this new initiative.

But the genius of Büchel's work is that rather than try to stage vaguely edifying educational initiatives about Islam or mosques, making the kind of feel - good «social practice» art that is the bane of so many biennials, he just went ahead and helped make the real thing.

And, in general, Davidoff is spending a ton of money trying to get people like me and The New York Times to write about its arts initiatives, and I guess it's working because here's a story in the Times that mentions that Davidoff is «selling humidor boxes designed by the French artist Lison de Caunes, at 19,500 euros apiece» at Art Basel Hong Kong this week, and quotes a Davidoff executive at a lunch at Art Basel Miami Beach saying some mindless PR nonsense like «Art is part of corporate social responsibility» — and here I am writing this thing about Davidoff where I mention Davidoff a dozen or so times.

Recognized for thinking outside the box, championing new ideas, motivating people, and getting things done, Kristin is passionate about guiding purpose driven organizations through concept and experience development and communications strategies that build sustainable, thriving, powerful brands and initiatives.

Powered by the internet connecting consumers to the things they care about, crowdfunding is used for causes and initiatives of all sizes, affording individuals and groups the flexibility to set the terms of their raise, retain control of their project, and open up to as many potential backers as possible.

I promised at the beginning of this podcast that I want to talk about our member benefit initiative, just as voting and veterans and education are very basic, that's how we feel about member benefits, and we are going to be looking back to basics that the ABA does incredible things for access to justice for the legal community, for the court system, but we are going to also do incredible things for our members and potential members.

Developers are just beginning to explore the opportunities, but the really exciting thing is that we are talking about a technology with a relatively open and accessible framework and over the coming year we will see some very clever integration initiatives emerge.

Apple's work on augmented reality could find a place in its ongoing automotive initiative, with the company considering ways to use AR to show information about the road ahead, including things that are out of the driver's vision.

These are the types of employees will take the initiative to think about new and better ways of doing things, for the sake of improved productivity and output.

When employees are trusted to manage their own work and take responsibility for it, they are more likely to use their initiative and think through any decisions carefully without feeling they need to speak to their manager about every little thing.

Talk about those things that excite you in your career — those project, or teams, or initiatives that you ENJOY doing... or talk about what excites you about working in that industry... find something in your career to get excited about!!

If you do write about these types of things, concentrate on how your involvement has helped you to develop your skills: for example, lobbying for free tea could have increased your persuasive communication skills, your creative thinking and your initiative!

San Francisco Bay Area About Blog This blog is a repository and a reference to blog posts, initiatives, projects, conferences and any number of other things that would be of interest to the broader software testing community.

Commenting on the initiative, IGA Chair Professor Mick Dodson said «one of the unique things about this project is its ability to bring the whole town together — it's something beyond belief.»

San Francisco Bay Area About Blog This blog is a repository and a reference to blog posts, initiatives, projects, conferences and any number of other things that would be of interest to the broader software testing community.

«The goal is to have state and federal policymakers involved in following this project because we think we will learn things about planning that should be considered in future policy initiatives,» says Ervin.