In the first phase of her career, from 1954 through to about 1970, Fields mostly worked on smaller projects that gained little recognition.
The F-line extension is part of San Francisco's revitalization of the Embarcadero, a project that gained momentum when an elevated freeway over the waterfront boulevard was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and subsequently torn down.
Blissfully self-confident, the pension operators project that gains from private equity plus a nice showing on the less exotic securities that make up the bulk of their funds will deliver a blended return between 8% and 9%.
The community of developers creates a basic product platform that Sendmail can polish and enhance to make money.And there are many smaller, less well-known open-source projects that could gain momentum.
The leaders, David Dower and Polly Carl, will bring with them several online projects that have gained a following in theater circles nationally: the online journal HowlRound, the live-streamed New Play TV and an interactive New Play Map, in which theaters can use a database to share production histories for new plays, details about the writers and other information.
So while she set up a cash gift program for victims' families, which was novel for the Red Cross, she also seized the opportunity to beef up some expensive pet projects that had gained new urgency -- like the weapons-of-mass-destruction-preparedness program and the creation of a strategic reserve of frozen blood.
Several inquiry-based courses have been reported previously where students participate in semester-long guided research projects that produce learning gains (Hatfull et al. 2006; Call et al. 2007; Lopatto et al. 2008).
In addition to the two plants approved Tuesday, projects that are poised to gain approval by the end of the year include BrightSource Energy's proposed 370-megawatt Ivanpah facility, Tessera's 850-megawatt Calico project, NextEra's 250-megawatt Genesis Solar Energy Plant and Solar Millennium's 1,000-megawatt 1,000-megawatt.
The common argument for the value of Kickstarter is that it funds projects that would otherwise not gain support through traditional methods.
It is certainly not a sufficient condition for ensuring sustainability: repositories of open source software such as GitHub (https://github.com) and SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net) are littered with abandoned projects that have failed to gain the support needed to survive beyond the originator's initial enthusiasm and/or funding.
