Sentences with phrase «biggest event of the past year»

Welcoming her little brother into the world this past September was probably the biggest event of the past year, and it has certainly had a resounding and lifelong impact on me.

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In fact, of the biggest sports — NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, college football, college basketball — only two or three of the championship events in the past two years were not dramatic or historic.

«Las Vegas has been such a great supporter of our events over the past five years, and it's because this city welcomes us with open arms that we are able to return year after year with a bigger and better event.»

«While I have been certified as a USA Triathlon Race Director for the past two years, and have produced a few youth events, I knew I didn't have the «big picture» when it came to youth events,» said Patrick Hight, the Owner / Race Director of Multisport Endurance Events, LLC in Austin, events, I knew I didn't have the «big picture» when it came to youth events,» said Patrick Hight, the Owner / Race Director of Multisport Endurance Events, LLC in Austin, events,» said Patrick Hight, the Owner / Race Director of Multisport Endurance Events, LLC in Austin, Events, LLC in Austin, Texas.

And that's just one of several big events the party generally puts on every year — events that have, in the past, been headlined by the Democrats» top office - holder, which, since 2006, has been the governor.

The independent conservative grassroots group, which has organized many of the larger tea party movement events over the past two years, is launching a campaign to expose «Jack Davis's record as a big government liberal.»

Fox, often a genre - friendly studio, have a few pictures which are kinda - sorta aiming for the Comic - Con crowd — the underpromoted «The Watch,» which opens two weeks later, plus «Taken 2,» «Life Of Pi,» the animated «Epic» and «Machete Kills» further down the line — but with «The Wolverine» only shooting right before the event, and the «X-Men First Class» sequel not shooting until next year, they don't really have the kind of big draw movie they've had in the pasOf Pi,» the animated «Epic» and «Machete Kills» further down the line — but with «The Wolverine» only shooting right before the event, and the «X-Men First Class» sequel not shooting until next year, they don't really have the kind of big draw movie they've had in the pasof big draw movie they've had in the past.

The biggest gaps can be seen in libraries offering afterschool programming and STEAM events, in which 52 % and 48 % of renovated libraries, respectively, offered these services compared with 33 % and 31 % for libraries without renovations in the past five years.

The Animal Rescue League of Boston (ARL) co-sponsored the event with several local and national animal welfare organizations, and with several big legislative wins in the past couple of years, the event is a reflection that there is strength in numbers.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

Critics Choose Their Favorite Shows of 2012 — Over 400 members from the International Association of Art Critics compiled their list of the best art shows from the past year, which includes a number of big New York blockbusters like Ann Hamilton's «The Event of the Thread» at the Park Avenue Armory and the Willem de Kooning retrospective at the MoMA.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Call this the year of institutional consciousness - raising: three major art centers, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Brooklyn Museum, have scheduled big events devoted to feminism's impact on art history — past, present, and future.

While much of the enthusiasm at the American Wind Energy Association's (AWEA's) WINDPOWER 2017 annual event in Anaheim, Calif., was focused on onshore wind technology and development, a number of industry experts noted that over the past year, the offshore wind sector has seen a surge that can be pegged on dramatic cost declines, policy initiatives, and a big leap in technical advancements.

For instance, there is compelling scientific evidence that our planet is about 4.5 billion years old (the theory of the origin of Earth), that our universe was born from a single event about 14 billion years ago (the Big Bang theory), and that today's organisms evolved from ones living in the past (the theory of evolution).

Only one of the past «Big Five» mass extinctions (the dinosaur extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous) is thought to have occurred as rapidly as would be the case if currently observed extinctions rates were to continue at their present high rate (Alvarez et al., 1980; Barnosky et al., 2011; Robertson et al., 2004; Schulte et al., 2010), but the minimal span of time over which past mass extinctions actually took place is impossible to determine, because geological dating typically has error bars of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.

Raffle prizes are announced via Twitter, and in past years there has even been a «hangover auction» of unclaimed raffle prizes conducted via Twitter a day or two after the big event.

No big news, but she showed off some of Apple's new store designs and «Today at Apple» event programs, which have launched over the past year.

News in over the past couple of days... Bitcoin Price soaring more than 10 % in the past week; China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) backed a blockchain event last week; The yuan headed for the biggest monthly drop since last year's shock devaluation; Hundreds of strains of cannabis exist and could be registered on the blockchain; Dubai and Norway to use the blockchain to redefine tourism; Zcash grabbed the lion's share of attention this week as it launched a couple of days ago... will this be an altcoin to rival Bitcoin?

Almost every major Android manufacturer has some sort of keynote at the event, with big names like Samsung, Huawei and LG launching high profile products in the past few years.

No I'm not big on education since I have a unique learning curve that in the past has frustrated many employers, and educators alike I have been to different events over time about real estate my uncle advice (who have been in real estate for years) «give up» but I'm not a very good listener I not only ignored the warning I literally opened an investment company I am just utterly determined to succeed but with 18,000 a year and 23,000 in debt I not want to but I must end this spinning rat wheel of living pay check to paycheck recently I was rear ended in a motor vehicle accident