Sentences with phrase «background document on»

The ACLU of Southern California also has a great background document on the LCAP, available in English and Spanish.

The Finance Department issued a statement and background document on Nov. 17, 2005, saying it planned to amend GST legislation to effectively overturn the judge's ruling, warning the amendments would be retroactive to the date of the release.

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The documents show the company intends to focus on commodities trading and e-commerce platforms, given its background in agricultural goods.

As the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy required?

Franchisors are required to supply a franchise disclosure document, which contains information on the backgrounds of the executives involved in the franchise company and other information.

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

«This document really puts together a full picture of the president's case to people of faith,» a campaign staffer close to the effort said speaking on background because the information was not yet public.

Here we meet for the first time history on a world scope; the tenth chapter of Genesis, particularly against the background of the preceding narrative, though made up of lists of names, is yet an astonishing document, revealing the writer's knowledge of the world of his time, and even more remarkable, his recognition of the essential unity of the entire human process.

According to the report, the documents provide background on a recruiting operation that could bring NCAA rules violations to as many as 20 schools and more than two dozen players.

You can read the background to these concerns in a PDF document that can be downloaded from http://www.aaimhi.org/key-issues/position-statements-and-guidelines/ before you make your own decisions on this issue.

These principles are the result of a background document that examined the feasibility to design adequate diets using locally available foods, and are based on consensus achieved during an informal meeting of experts held in Geneva in early 2004.

Jarvis» well - documented military background taught him all about refusing to back down when confronted by the enemy — and is one of the reasons why he is regularly touted as a future Labour leader by many on the party's moderate wing.

The group adds its document will have dynamic site locations, information on the region's existing and evolving innovation eco-system, and background on the area's 60 + colleges and universities — including the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), University of Rochester, and University at Buffalo,

But Western science dropped that theory in the 1870s, when a missionary named Father Damien, who had a well - documented and leprosy - free family background, caught the disease while working with lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.

The IMSD Program at Georgia State targets undergraduates from demographic groups that remain underrepresented in the sciences, including groups based on race or ethnicity, documented disabilities, and socially, economically, or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds (e.g., first - generation college students).

Sequins & Stripes started in 2011 as an outlet for Liz's background in fashion and textiles and a place to document her personal style on a daily basis.

Each module has four age specific lesson plans (k - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12) based on one or more of the primary map documents, curators notes that provide historical background about the map, and other resources including supplemental images.

The primary aims of this study are to document the process of moving towards new, integrated systems in each of these cities; to highlight which strategies moved the cities forward in creating these systems and what barriers the cities encountered; to examine how these cities incorporated the needs of students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from different economic backgrounds into their system designs; to understand how students, teachers, and parents, and others experience elements of the new system and how these experiences differed for students with special needs; and to document quantitative outcomes on a range of measures, disaggregated by student subgroup.

Several hundred experimental, control - group studies have documented the positive effects of SEL programming on children of diverse backgrounds from preschool through high school.

Discussion about the bill has largely centered on a provision requiring that applicants foot the roughly $ 50 bill for the background checks, with some worrying that it would dissuade potential teachers from applying in the midst of a well - documented teacher shortage in North Carolina.

«The fact that, on average, students from disadvantaged households perform less well in school than peers from more advantaged backgrounds has been documented at all levels of education,» said Fiske and Ladd.

Publishers also have the opportunity to post two sets of information on the EdReports.org website: a 1500 - word response to the educator report and a 1500 - word document that includes any background information or research on the instructional materials.

This document provides background information on the following legislative advocacy items that will be discussed in the 2015 Advocacy Institute

See the following supplemental document for background information on each company.

In this document, we provide background information on the ePub format and guidelines for optimizing your ePub to render well across the NOOK line of eReading products.

The three patents apply to a way to select text to make it larger or smaller; a way to put highlights or footnotes on copyrighted documents; and faster downloading of text from Web pages that have background images.

A document held on a computer which is commonly displayed in a web browser and which can contain alphabetic letters and numbers, images, coloured text and background and hyperlinks.

Features: — Browse your handset's file system using a web browser — View or download files from your handset over wifi — Host static web pages, documents and media on your device — Can run in background while you use other handset functions The web server provides a password to protect your data from random visitors; this password is displayed on the main screen of PortaServer.

Sequins & Stripes started in 2011 as an outlet for Liz's background in fashion and textiles and a place to document her personal style on a daily basis.

Also, there seems to be a secret message written in capital letters on the document in the background.

Exploration is still key, as you'll want to cover every inch of the game looking for collectibles like the Mr. Everywhere bobble heads, documents with all kinds of lore on them, video tapes that can be played through to give more of a background on what is happening, and Antique Coins which are used to purchase three items later in the game that you'll absolutely want to try and get.

Joyce's photographic approach to documenting her subject draws not only on her background of documentary photography but also upon the game of baseball itself.

Kyle's studio includes woodworking tools, a ceramic casting station, a portable spray booth, and a finished, gallery - style wall that he uses to document his work on a consistent background, mimicking the symmetry of how works are presented in some of his favorite monographs, such as Martin Puryear's.

Here's the text of the letter from the Carbon Tax Center (the full document, with background on the signers, is here):

Background On 1 December 2009 Phil Willis, Chairman of the Science and Technology Committee, wrote to Professor Edward Acton, Vice-Chancellor of UEA following the considerable press coverage of the data, emails and documents relating to the work of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU).

This is a background document prepared for the Second Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change, organized in Hanoi, Vietnam, from 3 - 7 September 2012.

This background document has been prepared for the Second Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change organized in Hanoi, Vietnam, from 3 - 7 September 2012.

This technical document provides background information on groundwater protection with particular reference to its use in emergency situations as result of natural hazards and hydrological extremes.

The aim of this document is to give background information and guidelines for tailored and consistent climate data and information for studies on the impact of the current and future climate for transnational road networks in Europe, suitable for National Road Authorities (NRA's).

The document provides background information on the matter, summarizes the developments under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, and highlights a number of options to address the implications of the establishment of new HCFC - 22 facilities seeking to obtain certified emission reductions for the destruction of HFC - 23.

The objective of this technical document is to provide the background to the methodology used to model the impact of climate change on runoff for the global track of the Economic of Adaptation to Climate Change (EACC) project.

This guidance document can be used as a tool for the preparation of background sections or policy documents, given their emphasis on climate change and health links.

In addition to providing legislative language, Neihaus provided talking points for the Senator's testimony on the bill, potential questions for opponents of the pro-chemistry industry bill, and background documents written by ACC staff and consultants attacking LEED green building standards.

The document can serve now as a background and training material for similar workshops and events on the theme of gender and climate change from a rights - based approach.

The professor says that the Powers Report should be «your «go to» document for background on the Enron mess.»

Click this button to search for background information on «entities» within a document or e-mail.

Most of the matters you work on are actually a collection of projects in GTD terms, like opening the file, getting up to speed on the background, creating documents, and so on.

Get background information on cited cases as you view a document in Outlook or Word (click image for larger view).

For more background on the three options considered by Council, see the following documents prepared by the Executive Committee:

For example, my background in large scale document production in litigation and Royal Commissions and my involvement with the development of eDiscovery led me to write and speak on the importance of good document and information management and defensible disposition of records to reduce discovery and litigation costs.