Sentences with phrase «about cycles of time»

Most recently my work has been about the cycle of time, about the death of my mother, about the birth of my granddaughter, and my own aging.

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They hope to be able to amass enough data about women's menstrual cycles, sexual behavior, mood, and diet that they can help any woman know exactly when to conceive, warn her about early problems like potential endometriosis, and over time, promote better health care for women in general by collecting large amounts of information that hasn't been collected before.

The answer, suggest institutional investors like Mark Wiseman, CEO of the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, is to align pay to longer industry and product cycles, and to use restricted stock units (rather than stock options) that vest over time — even after the CEO retires — pushing executives to think seriously about what happens after they're gone.

That led to what Piotrowski calls a miserable existence — an endless cycle of unfulfilling contracts that had Capy working on four to five games at a time, spending about four to five months on each.

Thinking back to her time with Apple, Thompson says it's easy to see why Lululemon has been so successful, because both companies «think about the experience they want to create through the whole life cycle of the product.

Far from being perma - bearish, our present methods of classifying market return / risk profiles encourage a leveraged long position about 52 % of the time in market cycles across history, encouraging a partially - hedged stance about 12 % of the time, fully - hedged about 31 % of the time, and hard - defensive as we are today about 5 % of the time.

The benchmark index SPX, -0.23 % has posted a record close 151 times so far during the latest cyclical bull market, which is about half of the number of all - time highs during the 1990 - 2000 cycle, according to Stovall, who said the high number of all - time highs is not an indication of future disappointments.

Meanwhile, I've been my own harshest critic — particularly with regard to the unfortunate timing of my stress - testing decision in 2009 — and have been very open about the challenges that QE and yield - seeking speculation have posed for the methods that resulted: deferring market losses that resulted much more quickly following extremely overextended market conditions in prior historical cycles.

The primary mistake that those who were bearish on profit margins made in earlier phases of the current market cycle — and I would have to include myself in that group, at least for a time — was not the mistake of having «wrong» beliefs about the subject, but rather the mistake of assigning too much confidence to those beliefs.

Therefore, if the fourteen - year cycle was in operation at this time, we can estimate the date of Jesus» birth to be about 8 B.C..

In the 2008 cycle, when he was asked about health care policy, he would sometimes try to shift the discussion to the time he lost lots of weight.

I wonder if they will ever care if you talked about your mother's menstrual cycle and how many times she changed tampons, or how often she had a break out of herpes.

This time around, I think the combination of having to set aside plans repeatedly due to weather, feeling trapped at home, and the end of a successful training cycle and race (my first marathon), all culminated in a bit of feeling glum and fearful about the what's next — as I inevitably tend to be fearful that there's no way I can possibly live up to my own expectations in each new year.

The brewer automatically provides the user with information about the status of the current brew cycle indicating how much time is left in the brew cycle, when the brew basket is dripping and when the brew cycle is complete.

Before I finally settled on this method, I fretted about all sorts of things: bake time and temperature, whether to pre-mix everything per Elana's directions then use only the bake cycle on the Homemade setting, etc..

Hi Christine, if you turn off the dough mode after 20 min of kneading and start again, wouldn't the total kneading time be about 40 min if you let the second dough cycle complete.

If Barca make a cash + Rafinha bid for Bellerin we should sell him.We should also demand a satisfying amount.In the future if Rafinha wants to go too we can let the cycle continue.All we have to do is make sure we benefit from their talents.I still imagine what if Wenger had accepted the Thiago Alcantara and Bojan + cash bid for Fabregas.They could've have been far better than they are today under Wenger had he accepted the offer years back.Let's not make the same mistake with Bellerin.I don't know if he'll even be staying beyond next season.Bellerin is very expensive as of now and to me we should cash in.A player like Rafinha will definitely become a great player in Arsenal.He just needs his chances and can do that.At times you need to have foresight in business.It's not just about keeping the player you want to keep but also about doing everything possible to make sure you're always profiting.

Every time we play West Brom I think about my friend Edward who cycled all the way from Anfield to West Brom's ground (The Hawthorns), a total of 107 miles in 2 days.

Hallow's Eve is a really spiritual day * for us anyway... they learn more about the veil being lifted, a time of transformation and magic, a shift from one cycle to the next.

So I found myself in a time cycle of pumping for about 15 — 20 minutes and feeding for about 45 minutes.

About 9 out of every 10 couples will achieve a pregnancy within a year, assuming they are timing intercourse to the fertile period of the menstrual cycle.

Each cycle lasts about 50 - 60 minutes for a young baby, consists of a set of lighter and deeper sleep phases and is repeated several times a night.

Becoming parents occurs in the life - cycle just when we are the busiest with occupation, our own parents, establishing new homes, worrying about money and a host of other things sapping our time.

After reading a bit about worms and slugs, picking up the life cycle of butterflies and ladybugs, and delving into various books about insects in general, it was time to hit some hard topics.

Through the guidance of a highly experienced Waldorf early childhood educator, you'll delve into child development; learn about rhythms, transitions, and the cycle of the year; explore the importance of play; examine the inner development of the teacher; experience circle time activities and lessons in handwork, art, and movement; go though an early childhood student's morning routine; and develop a true practical understanding of Waldorf early childhood education.

But, yeah, if your teenager, you know, comes home on the back of the motor cycle with her first tattoo with her, you know, boyfriend, you know, 5 years older than she is, yeah, you know, that's the, sorry to stereotype this, I mean, that's the time, start talking about HPV vaccine, make sure Hepatitis B vaccine, you know, it's already been administered.

A similar argument broke out when Danielle wanted to invest more of her time in the cycle studio, but Adam was worried about daycare costs.

There's a lot of general talk and buzz about Foursquare — we've discussed it at length on the NMS Blog (At SXSW Last Year's Next Big Thing Was This Years Actual Big Thing) but with Foursquare and Gowalla gaining more traction and greater acceptance by small and big businesses, it's time to start thinking about the 2010 and 2012 election cycles for geo - social.

They spent a lot of time talking about microtargeting, particularly for direct mail, a skill at which the Republicans have excelled over the past few election cycles.

«After four cycles of Participatory Budgeting it's clear that residents of my district are enthusiastic about this opportunity for grassroots engagement and won't be running out of great project ideas any time soon.

Indeed, he spent a lot of time in his campaign talking about participatory budgeting, an innovation introduced by Council newcomers from recent election cycles who invite constituents to help plan the allocation of member item dollars each district receives.

The deficit in campaign mechanics Republicans have faced in the past two election cycles have largely come about because of a lack of time between winning the primary and the general election.

In the early 1960s Jrgen Aschoff, then at the Max Planck Institute of Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen, Germany, and his colleagues showed that volunteers who lived in an isolation bunker — with no natural light, clocks or other clues about time — nevertheless maintained a roughly normal sleep - wake cycle of 25 hours.

Side rails hold the logs steady, and the ram returns automatically for a total cycle time of about 10 seconds.

Measuring - Temperature and Thermometers Classifying Components of Mixtures Predicting - Surveying Opinion SAPA Part C, Directions for the Multiplication Game SAPA Part C and E, Multiplication Game SAPA Part D 1st Draft, c. 1972 The Whirling Dervish The Bouncing Ball The Effect of Liquid on Living Tissue Rate of Change Observing Growth from Seeds An Intro to Scales Forces on Static and Moving Objects Observations and Inferences Using Punch Cards to Record a Classification Using Maps to Describe Location A Tree Diary SAPA Part D 2nd Draft Observations and Inferences The Bouncing Ball Rate of Change A Tree Diary An Intro to Scales and Scaling Observing Growth from Seeds (The Bean - It Came Up) Forces on Static and Moving Objects Using Punch Cards to Record a Classification Relative Position and Motion Inferring - The Water Cycle Predicting 4 - The Suffocating Candle The Big Cleanup Campaign 2 - D Representation of Spatial Figures Using Maps to Describe Location SAPA Part D Tryout Draft, 1972 Observations and Inferences The Bouncing Ball Measuring Drop by Drop Rate of Change Predicting 4 - The Suffocating Candle Forces on Static and Movign Objects Observing Growth from Seeds Using Space / Time Relationships -2-D Representation of Spatial Figures Using Punch Cards to Record a Classification An Introduction to Scales and Scaling The Effect of Liquid on Living Tissue Inferring - The Water Cycle Relative Position and Motion Using Maps to Describe Location The Big Cleanup Campaign A Tree Diary SAPA II Module (s), c. 1973 1, Tentative Format Sample, Perception of Color 9, Sets and Their Members 6, Direction and Movement, Draft 34, About How Far?

Bouchard's definition of «vigorous» was any exercise that caused metabolism to increase by six times or more over resting metabolism (which can be achieved by running about 4 to 6 mph or cycling about 12 to 16 mph, or doing other activities that produce rapid breathing and sweat within a few minutes).

Cumulatively, they slept for the same amount of time, about 12 hours each 24 - hour period, like normal mice, but there was no pattern to the cycle.

But for the other half of the picture — what happened in the oceans during that time — there is only a relatively short record extending back about 20,000 years to the last glacial cycle.

Much smaller black holes (typically weighing several times as much as the sun) result from the explosive death of ultrabright stars, so these dark objects reveal secrets about the stellar life cycle.

He argues that traces of eclogite cropping up in diamonds about 3 billion years ago do not necessarily mean that a more modern supercontinent cycle (also known as the Wilson Cycle) had to have started at that cycle (also known as the Wilson Cycle) had to have started at that Cycle) had to have started at that time.

Just as the quartz crystal in a Swiss watch keeps time by vibrating at a steady frequency (about 32,000 cycles per second), the maser coaxes a supply of specially selected hydrogen atoms to emit radio waves at an unwavering 1.42 billion cycles per second.

If the cycle continues to run ahead of time, it would hit its maximum about 1999, rather than 2001.

Even long - term climate cycles are short relative to geologic time, where «we're talking about hundreds of thousands to millions of years for plate tectonics,» Olive says.

By measuring a foraging bird's position 10 times each second, the researchers discerned that each lengthy flight was made up of repeated cycles lasting about 15 seconds each and made up of four distinct phases, they report today in PLoS ONE.

Daniel Schrag gets visitors all the time — graduate students in despair over their dissertations, fellow faculty members dropping by to chat about the Cretaceous sulfur cycle or some equally abstruse topic, or visiting scientists collaborating with him on one of the scores of scholarly papers he has churned out in a career that has earned him a professorship in Harvard's department of earth and planetary sciences and a MacArthur genius grant.

Cyclists were asked about their bike type, saddle type, saddle angle, frequency of wearing padded shorts while cycling, percent of time standing out of the saddle, handlebar height, and the type of surface on which they usually ride.

The researchers produced a power density of about 60 watts per square meter over multiple cycles, which is six to 10 times higher than the power density produced by other liquid - based thermal - electric energy conversion systems.

For example, 2005 is near solar minimum in the 11 year cycle, and radiance now is about 1 - 2 W / m ^ 2 less than a few years ago, which means Pluto and Mars are getting LESS solar radiance on the time scale of the atmosphere and polar cap changes, EVEN IF the radiance averaged over the whole cycle was higher.

Scientists used data about the magnetic activity and X-ray emissions of stars to determine that WASP - 18 is about 100 times less active than it should be at this stage in its life cycle.

Virtually every organism on the planet — from bacteria to humans — has a circadian clock, a biological timing mechanism that oscillates with a period of about 24 hours and is coordinated with the cycle of day and night.