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In political science, an initiative (also known as a popular or citizens' initiative) is a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote (plebiscite).
The initiative may take the form of a indirect initiative or an direct initiative. In a direct initiative, a measure is put directly to a vote after being submitted by a petition. In an indirect initiative, a measure is first referred to the legislature, and then put to a popular vote only if not enacted by the legislature.
The vote may be on a proposed statute, constitutional amendment, charter amendment or local ordinance, or to simply oblige the executive or legislature to consider the subject by submitting it to the order of the day. It is a form of direct democracy.
The Canadian province of British Columbia has a citizen initiative law known as the Recall and Initiative Act. The original proposal was put to voters in a referendum held in October 1991 and was supported by over 83% of voters. It was subsequently put into force by the incoming NDP government. Since it came into force in 1995, several attempts have been made to hold an initiative, but until the fall of 2010, none had succeeded in reaching the first of the thresholds – namely, securing signatures of 10% of registered voters in each riding throughout British Columbia. The first referendum was held under this legislation on September 2011 on the subject of repealing the Harmonized Sales Tax. Details of its use in BC are available on the Elections BC website.
Initiative is a process by which a referendum can be triggered by a petition of voters
Initiative or The Initiative may also refer to:
In most role-playing games and table-top wargames an initiative system determines in which order player characters and non-player characters take their actions, to avoid confusion on when a character gets to act. Methods of doing this vary from game to game.
In some games, such as Tunnels & Trolls, each faction takes its turn to act - and it is entirely up to the side acting who acts in which order for that side. This is one of the two most common systems in table-top wargames - with Malifaux having a variant of this by which each gang picks one member to act in turn, and the larger gang all acts together at the end.
The other common method, used by games like Dungeons & Dragons and Fate is for each character to be assigned an initiative number based on a relevant attribute plus a random factor, and for people to act in that order. Some games determine initiative order once, some once per round.
Feng Shui and Arcanis both use a shot-clock; Each round is divided into segments or shots, and each action takes a certain number of these segments. Actions happen whenever the character's next free segment turns up.
In the processing of photographic films, plates or papers, the photographic developer (or just developer) is one or more chemicals that convert the latent image to a visible image. Developing agents achieve this conversion by reducing the silver halides, which are pale-colored, into silver metal, which is black (when a fine particle). The conversion occurs within the gelatine matrix. The special feature of photography is that the developer only acts on those particles of silver halides that have been exposed to light. Generally, the longer a developer is allowed to work, the darker the image.
For black-and-white photography, the developer typically consists of a mixture of chemical compounds prepared as an aqueous solution. Three main components of this mixture are:
Developer is the fifth full-length album released by indie rock band Silkworm. It was their second and final album released on Matador Records before they switched to Touch and Go.
Oracle Developer Suite is a suite of development tools released by the Oracle Corporation. The principal components were initially Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports, although the suite was later expanded to include JDeveloper amongst others.
In the early 1990s, Oracle had two complementary, but quite different tools - SQL*Forms and SQL*ReportWriter. Both were character-based and there was some integration between the two although they were sold as separate products. The developer interface became more similar over time and they were eventually grouped together as Oracle IDE (Integrated Development Environment).
The suite was renamed to Oracle Developer and then to Oracle Developer/2000.
As with most products that had 2000 in their name, this was dropped after 1999 and the suite was renamed Oracle Developer Suite. Tools such as JDeveloper and Oracle Designer were added over subsequent years.
Most of the component parts of Oracle Developer Suite are now part of what Oracle calls Oracle Fusion Middleware.
The Black Developer Capital Initiative is a partnership of the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) and National Affordable Housing Trust (NAHT). The goal of the more than $95 million initiative is to provide flexible financing products to Black affordable housing developers, who have long been excluded from fair access to capital. Learn more about the Black Developer Capital Initiative: https://bit.ly/3Gfq8iB
These are the stories of Gina Merritt and Wendy Daniels, two affordable housing developers who participated in the Black Developer Capital Initiative led by the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) and National Affordable Housing Trust (NAHT). They share how access to flexible capital has been systemically denied to Black developers and how lending that looks at their experience and track record rather than their balance sheet is changing the trajectory of their businesses. The goal of the more than $95 million initiative is to provide flexible financing products to Black affordable housing developers, who have long been excluded from fair access to capital. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3AO4AbN LIIF: www.liifund.org NAHT: www.naht.org Gina Merritt, Northern Real Estate Urban Ventures: w...
"Software developers are changing our world," states Jake Ward, President and CEO of the Apps Alliance. "They hold the key to building life altering products and unlocking innovation within every company." At our recent Enterprise Development Workshop in San Francisco, Ward announced the Alliance’s newest campaign, the Developer Workforce Initiative. He explained that "the Initiative is a global effort to increase the size, expertise, and understanding of this critical workforce." As the first-of-its-kind, the Initiative is a campaign that will engage, educate, and support the world’s software developers everywhere - across all platforms, technologies, and industries. Partners include: Facebook, Google, Apcera, Ford, Ericsson, Intel, MapR, AT&T, and Built.io. To learn more, visit Develop...
IBM Academic Initiative Systems z Workshop Series. IBM Paul Newton's presentation on Rational Developer for System z (RDz). RDz is an alternative to TSO, ISPF, and SDSF for development and has the capability of a multiplatform development tool.
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The City of Gilroy, in partnership with Silicon Valley Clean Energy, held virtual community and developer meetings in April 2022 to discuss state-mandated changes to the City’s building codes and the possibility of adopting reach codes. The meeting included a brief presentation about the mandated codes and the possible reach codes followed by a Q&A. Feedback from the meetings will be used to develop a set of possible reach codes for consideration for adoption by the Gilroy City Council. We anticipate that this item will come before the City Council for discussion in the summer of 2022.
In political science, an initiative (also known as a popular or citizens' initiative) is a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote (plebiscite).
The initiative may take the form of a indirect initiative or an direct initiative. In a direct initiative, a measure is put directly to a vote after being submitted by a petition. In an indirect initiative, a measure is first referred to the legislature, and then put to a popular vote only if not enacted by the legislature.
The vote may be on a proposed statute, constitutional amendment, charter amendment or local ordinance, or to simply oblige the executive or legislature to consider the subject by submitting it to the order of the day. It is a form of direct democracy.
The Canadian province of British Columbia has a citizen initiative law known as the Recall and Initiative Act. The original proposal was put to voters in a referendum held in October 1991 and was supported by over 83% of voters. It was subsequently put into force by the incoming NDP government. Since it came into force in 1995, several attempts have been made to hold an initiative, but until the fall of 2010, none had succeeded in reaching the first of the thresholds – namely, securing signatures of 10% of registered voters in each riding throughout British Columbia. The first referendum was held under this legislation on September 2011 on the subject of repealing the Harmonized Sales Tax. Details of its use in BC are available on the Elections BC website.