Sentences with phrase «centers of power by»

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It was powered by five Rocketdyne F - 1 engines arrayed in a quincunx (four units arranged in a square, and the fifth in the center), which provided it with 34,000 kN (7.6 million pounds - force) of thrust.

Today, that deal no longer looks sustainable, so a new, unspoken one now lies on the table: In exchange for a (further) loss of freedoms and (now) economic hardship, the Russian people will swell with national pride at a Russia — once mocked and belittled by the West — now retaking its rightful place at the center of global power politics.

The city's mayor, George Heartwell, has set the goal of switching to 100 percent renewable power by 2020, and the city has been recognized as a center of expertise in sustainability by the United Nations and the most sustainable midsize city by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Siemens.

The center in Maiden, N.C., produces 167 million kilowatt hours, the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year, from a 100 - acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.

That allows the software maker to concentrate on features and functions for customers, not racks of servers and power supplies in the data center running either in a dedicated corporate data center or in facilities owned by third - parties like Equinix (eqix), Digital Realty Trust, or Dupont Fabros.

But unless these announcements are 100 % marketing hype, they indicate that much more software power will be concentrated in fewer, albeit bigger, data centers owned and operated by just a handful of cloud computing giants.

Fatigued by years of austerity and swayed by promises of debt relief, Icelandic voters dumped the Social Democrats from power on Saturday, returning a center - right government that ruled over its financial collapse five years ago.

All of Apple's US facilities, including offices, retail stores and data centers, are powered by 100 percent renewable energy sources like solar, wind and micro-hydro power, which Apple generates or purchases from local projects.

Underwater data centers, envisioned to be powered by renewable marine energy sources, is expected to reduce the huge cost associated with cooling data centers that generate a lot of heat, and also to reduce the distance to connected populations.

The gameplay proper centers on capturing gyms scattered around the world, but to even try their hand at that, players have to have leveled their monsters quite a bit — most gyms I've checked out are held by monsters of over 1,000 combat power, which I haven't managed to build up over more than a month of casual but fairly consistent play.

Google has also incorporated some of the reinforcement learning techniques used by DeepMind in its data centers to discover the best calibrations that result in lower power consumption.

Apple says that all of its data centers have been powered by renewable energy since 2014.

Data centers, meanwhile, were designed by some of the smartest humans on the planet, but AI analysis identified improvements that increased power efficiency by 15 percent, Schmidt said.

Con artists are motivated both by a desire to be the center of attention and the power that comes with that ability to manipulate others, psychologist Maria Konnikova, author of «The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It... Every Time,» explained to me earlier this year.

There is even an instructional video cassette, «The Microcomputer: What It Can Do and the Power of VisiCalc,» by business microcomputer consultants Barbara and John McMullen (available for a $ 35 rental fee from Martha Stuart Communications Inc., Distribution Center, P.O. Box 246, Hillsdale, NY 12529).

q Proxy Solicited by the Board of Directors for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders — April 26, 2016 Virginia M. Rometty, Martin J. Schroeter, Michelle M. Browdy and Christina M. Montgomery, or any of them with the power of substitution, are hereby appointed Proxies of the undersigned to vote all common stock of International Business Machines Corporation owned on the record date by the + undersigned at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, One International Drive, Hutchinson Island, Savannah, Georgia 31402, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

Chicago, GenomeWeb — A new study by researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has demonstrated the predictive power of an AR - V7 protein expression test using Epic Sciences» non-EPCAM-based circulating tumor cell detection platform, which could help guide treatment decisions for men with metastatic castration - resistant prostate cancer.

This is the story of Coin Center, and the efforts by two of its members to help those in the halls of power understand what's at stake when trying to create policies that will govern the evolving future of online freedoms.

The briefing focused on a vision of STEM learning opportunities as a network of charging stations in which children power up their learning by plugging into activities at school, after school, at science centers and libraries, as well as online.

As an expert motivational sales speaker, Marc teaches the power of an objectives list, where every item is centered around the goals that make you money and is organized by priority and deadlines.

Cloud mining or cloud hashing allows users to buy mining power that of hardware in data centers build by mining -LSB-...]

This week's book is 3 Seconds: The Power of Thinking Twice, by Les Parrott, PhD., founder of the Center for Relationship Development at Seattle Pacific University.

A thousand things would never have crossed their minds as they drove through Colorado Springs toward New Life Church's enormous concrete worship center - including the prospect of being assaulted in their minivan by a young man with a high - powered rifle.

That a congregation is constituted by publicly enacting a more universally practiced worship that generates a distinctive social form implies study of that public form: What are the social, cultural, and political locations of congregations of Christians and how do those locations shape congregations» social form today (synchronic inquiry); what have been the characteristic social, cultural, and political locations of congregations historically and how have those locations shaped congregations» social forms (diachronic study); in what ways do congregations engage in the public arena as one type of institutionalized center of power among others?

He disputes the claims of nullifiers that the federal union was a compact between sovereign states, argues that the founders sought coordination between the branches of government rather than a stalemate between competitive, coequal centers of power, and offers a strict construction of the Second Amendment as an authorization for state militias rather than a charter for the private ownership of assault rifles by potential revolutionaries.

In the predella, or bottom border, it shows Martin Luther preaching Christ crucified to his Wittenberg congregation; in the triptych's left wing, Philipp Melanchthon baptizes an infant; in the right wing, Johann Bugenhagen exercises the power of the keys in confession; and in the center panel, Jesus feeds a morsel of bread to Judas (reception by the unworthy!)

He had no dreams of empire or national glory, the ends proclaimed by Hamilton in his effort to shift power and allegiance to the political center.

To me that kind of experience — inward, replenishing power to do and to endure what by myself would have been impossible — is at the very center of religion's meaning.

The leadership model which maximizes the growth - stimulating effects of groups is described by Thomas Gordon in Group - Centered Leadership, A Way of Releasing the Creative Power of Groups.

He said that it is probable «that the world will live, if it does not destroy itself, for a long time in a state of semi-anarchy in which certain centers of authority, power, and prestige will mitigate the anarchy much as anarchy was mitigated in nineteenth century Europe by the balance of power.»

The restlessness and criticism awakened by Jesus gave birth to the great nationalist and socialist revolutions of the twentieth century that have dramatically changed the map of the world and reduced Western Europe to one among half a dozen centers of power.

85 But characteristically he went on to praise America for its democracy: «Democracy is an ultimate norm of political organization in the sense that no better way has been found to check the inordinacy of the powerful on the one hand and the confusion of the multitude on the other than by making every center of power responsible to the people whom it affects.»

And at the heart of this huge calyx, beneath the pressure of its in - folding, a center of power has been revealed where spiritual energy, gradually released by a vast totalitarian mechanism, then concentrated by heredity within a sort of super-brain, has little by little been transformed into a common vision growing ever more intense.

Biblical faith, on the contrary, is centered in the existence and activity of a deity who is infinite in wisdom, power, and love, but who nevertheless cares personally for each of us, a God whom we can approach in prayer and from whom we can receive help and strength, a God who is always acting within the human scene and is known to us by his acts.

The Incarnation is a renewal and a restoration of all the forces and powers of the universe; Christ is the instrument, the center, the end of all animate and material Creation; by Him all things are created, sanctified, made alive.

Moreover, new power structures and established institutions invariably come to replace the old ones, and any initial glow of inchoate democracy can easily be undermined by the rising centers of symbolic power.

The decisions that a man makes about where he will live, how he will furnish his home (the women's magazines, of course, will make this decision in co-operation with the furniture manufacturers), how he will discipline his children, what radio and TV commentators he will listen to, what newspapers and magazines he will subscribe to, and what organizations he will join in his community — all of these daily decisions are, to an inestimable but unquestionable degree, influenced by the legislation, education, and plain ballyhoo daily propagated by these groups and the power centers that control them.

Others have noted that globalization has underscored and strengthened global control by old and new centers of power, economically, politically or even culturally and religiously.

The Heritage Foundation: «The Cultural Roots of American Power» March 15 A Russell Kirk lecture hosted by David Azerrad, director of the Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics.

This performative power of words to change a person's way of thinking, by providing a new center of attention whereby the pattern of his perception of facts is changed, by stimulating a way of looking on himself and his world, by evoking a disclosure of meaning for his life, should never be discounted.

On the first sack, which came on a first down in the middle of the first quarter (lotta firsts there), Dareus hit Lions left guard Rob Sims with a quick arm - over inside, then powered through the attempt by center Dominic Raiola to double team.

We are managed by Power Wellness Management, a company that specializes in managing state - of - the - art, medically integrated health and fitness centers.

Tough, whose new book is «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character,» will offer a free public lecture today as part of an education conference put on by the Oregon Social Learning Center.

Politicians on two New York state ethics committees raked in nearly a quarter of a million dollars from companies controlled by Glenwood Management — the developer at the center of corruption trials that ended in convictions for two of Albany's top power brokers.

The CPV Valley Energy Center, a 650 MW Gas - Fired power plant is now under construction by Maryland based venture capital firm Competitive Power Ventures despite intense local opposition and a lawsuit pending in the State Supreme Court of New power plant is now under construction by Maryland based venture capital firm Competitive Power Ventures despite intense local opposition and a lawsuit pending in the State Supreme Court of New Power Ventures despite intense local opposition and a lawsuit pending in the State Supreme Court of New York.

El - Rufai was fingered by Wikileaks as the center of corruption in OBJ government, Hell - Rufai headed the presidential committee on power which spent about $ 16 billion on electricity.

Today, the Final Scope is due to be delivered to the applicant (GlidePath) by the Lead Agency (Town of Ulster Town Board) in the proposed Lincoln Park Grid Support Center, a gas - fired power plant in the Town of Ulster.

However, it added «the Center continues to note with dismay, however, that governmental accountability and responsiveness have remained highly insufficient (despite delivery of considerable voice to citizenry under the 4th Republic); public corruption remains pervasive; progress of the constitutionally - mandated political, administrative and fiscal decentralization has stalled; the economy remains characterized by jobless growth; income and spatial inequality are on the rise in spite of poverty reduction; and the nation's two main political parties which have alternated in power in the 4th Republic have increasingly taken on the features of rival cults (whose primary purpose seemingly is to win elections, achieve «state capture» and practice «winner - takes - all» politics).

Politicians on two New York state ethics committees raked in more than a quarter of a million dollars from companies controlled by Glenwood Management — the developer at the center of corruption trials that ended in convictions for two of Albany's top power brokers.

California's history of infringing the fundamental right to bear arms has, since 1923, centered on the principles of local control, giving local elected politicians and city bureaucrats the power to decide, on a subjective, case - by - case basis, which law - abiding people can exercise their fundamental Second Amendment right to self - defense outside their home.