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Graham Wiles has continued to add more and more elements to this, turning waste streams into schemes that create value.
Now, that's probably making some folk in this room uncomfortable, because that idea is associated with the extreme left wing and with fairly radical schemes for redistributing wealth.
You think about rewards schemes, air miles.
Well, in the savings and loan debacle, our agency that regulated savings and loans, OTS, made over 30,000 criminal referrals, produced over 1,000 felony convictions just in cases designated as major, and that understates the degree of prioritization, because we worked with the FBI to create the list of the top 100 fraud schemes, the absolute worst of the worst, nationwide.
You look at a lot of data, and you try to simulate different predictive schemes, until you get better and better at it.
CA: So these different predictive schemes can be really quite wild and unexpected.
All the buses' passengers fan out into rooms using unique room-assignment schemes based on unique prime numbers.
And, as we've learned with the money-printing schemes, whatever concerns we have can be allayed by rules.
It reminded me that these illegal extortion schemes aren't being run somewhere in the shadows, they're being run out in the open by our public officials.
She completed two of the community infrastructure schemes.
You know, women, community infrastructure schemes ... Some people think this is men's job.
Poisoning is happening to flocks that like to stick together, especially in places like rice schemes.
They're investing in congestion pricing schemes, in climate reduction emission targets, in biodiversity, in parks and bikeways and walkways and everything in between.
Pyramid schemes are illegal in most countries, but they can be difficult to detect.
The distinction between pyramid schemes and legitimate multi-level marketing can be particularly hazy.
In theory, the difference is that the members of the multi-level marketing companies primarily earn compensation from selling a particular product or a service to retail customers, while pyramid schemes primarily compensate members for recruitment of new sellers.
And many pyramid schemes, like Vemma Nutrition, disguise themselves as legal multi-level marketing businesses, using a product or service to hide the pay-and-recruit structure.
Many pyramid schemes also capitalize on already existing trust within churches, immigrant communities, or other tightly knit groups.
Others in their network follow their example, and the schemes balloon in size before it comes clear that most members aren’t actually profiting.
Pyramid schemes entice people with the promise of opportunity and empowerment.
Some victims keep trying, investing in multiple schemes, and losing money each time.
Pyramid schemes can be incredibly destructive to individuals, communities, and even entire countries.
Those top-down schemes are alienating to just about everybody, even if you mean well when you build them.
Some of the things that emerge from it are local food projects, like community-supported agriculture schemes, urban food production, creating local food directories, and so on.
Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 square miles of southern California desert.
And what you find when you go to these schemes is that they use people and places in incredibly creative ways.
The growth of tax funds and sale-and-leaseback schemes has led to a raft of unsaleable films that are gathering dust in laboratories and vaults all over the British Isles because they seem to be made purely because they fit the financial criteria rather than had any potential audience.
The "plot" revolves around the Youngers newly released on parole attempting to go straight but being pursued by a vengeful ex-Pinkerton man (a scenery chewing Fred Clark) and a femme fatale determined to involve them in her bank robbery schemes whether they want to or not.
She draws him into her schemes, and the movie climaxes at a Saratoga resort.
I liked the cinematography, I liked the wild color schemes, I liked the costume designs.
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