Sentences with phrase «charge of this new effort»

I initiated discussions with them geared toward expanding the signs available for mathematics and statistics, and in 2014 the center put me in charge of these new efforts.

In charge of this new effort is Michael Jester, the category manager for gaming and electronics, and while he is optimistic about the development, he is also aware that 7 - Eleven has a big hill to climb.

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Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein in an interview on Wednesday took a shot at the political efforts of the mainline conference in the state Senate, suggesting he should be put in charge of electing new members.

And while it's an uphill battle facing a heavily entrenched foe, outreach efforts will give Staten Island and Brooklyn voters — both old and new — food for thought the next time they go to the polls: ranging from alleged campaign finance fraud; to Grimm's threatening of a reporter with physical violence; to his latest federal fraud and tax charges, he is quite a colorful character with a very colorful history just begging to be lampooned.

Sajid Javid has been named as the new home secretary, in charge of the UK's immigration, security and counter-terrorism efforts.

The charges against the former aides, Joseph Percoco and Todd R. Howe, and the state official, Alain Kaloyeros, were the culmination of a long - running federal investigation into the Cuomo administration's efforts to lure jobs and businesses to upstate New York's limping economy by furnishing billions of dollars in state funds to developers from Buffalo to Albany.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara did not talk about (and was not asked about) Cuomo's latest efforts during an afternoon news conference to announce charges against the longtime leader of New York City's union of corrections officers.

He told CBS 2's Kramer the effort to keep him off the ballot represents all that's bad in the New York political process — a process that has seen dozens of elected officials charged in corruption cases.

Sheldon Silver, who held a seemingly intractable grip on power for decades as one of the most feared politicians in New York State, was found guilty on Monday of federal corruption charges, ending a trial that was the capstone of the government's efforts to expose the seamy culture of influence - peddling in Albany.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance on Thursday announced no charges would be brought following the investigation into de Blasio's efforts on behalf of Democratic state Senate candidates by seeding county committees in key legislative races as well as an inquiry into the Campaign For One New York, a non-profit that backed his agenda.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has had a difficult four weeks after his former top aide and eight others were charged in an alleged bribery and bid - rigging scheme that went to the heart of his key economic development efforts in upstate New York.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who held a seemingly intractable grip on power for decades as one of the most feared politicians in New York, was found guilty on seven federal corruption charges, ending a trial that was the capstone of the government's efforts to expose the seamy culture of influence - peddling in Albany.

WAMC's political observer Dr. Alan Chartock discusses President Trump's calls for arming trained teachers as part of an effort to fortify schools against shootings, comments by the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre and new unsealed charges against President Trump's former campaign chair Paul Manafort.

Thanks to our efforts, the New York State Senate voted in favor of stopping New York City from charging this five cents (5 cents) fee.

But he's in charge of a large Western New York county, and he's also been promoting local GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino's effort.

Off - topic questions included efforts at combating sex trafficking on Roosevelt Avenue, reports of criminal charges against a defunct arm of the Working Families Party, whether the mayor will veto proposed bills criminalizing police use of chokeholds and requiring police to advise people of a right to refuse before asking to search them, whether the mayor plans to see the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge when they visit New York, whether his message is getting lost in critical news coverage and his view of the Astoria Cove development deal.

The top New York official in charge of economic development efforts will face scrutiny at a hearing next week from lawmakers concerned about the effectiveness of the state's job creation programs.

In March, Joon Kim, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced that they would not file charges against de Blasio over a potential pay - to - play scheme involving de Blasio's now - defunct political nonprofit Campaign for One New York and his failed 2014 fundraising effort for the State Senate Democrats, respectively.

For every county in the first four voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, the Cruz campaign has locked down county chairs in charge of not just lending their names to the campaign, but of spearheading outreach and organizing efforts.

Of the $ 200 worth of gas he charged on Nov. 2, 2012, «Galante incurred those charges filling both [his] Nissan as well as gas cans used by the library during its recovery efforts in the Rockaways, as there was a gas shortage in New York,» his suit sayOf the $ 200 worth of gas he charged on Nov. 2, 2012, «Galante incurred those charges filling both [his] Nissan as well as gas cans used by the library during its recovery efforts in the Rockaways, as there was a gas shortage in New York,» his suit sayof gas he charged on Nov. 2, 2012, «Galante incurred those charges filling both [his] Nissan as well as gas cans used by the library during its recovery efforts in the Rockaways, as there was a gas shortage in New York,» his suit says.

In an effort to combat tick - borne illnesses, county Legislature Jay Schneiderman (I - Montauk) has introduced new legislation to step up pressure on Suffolk County Vector Control, which is in charge of controlling the spread of insect - borne diseases.

The move was greeted with skeptical guffaws from some members of New York's institutional left, who charge Cuomo has been absent from efforts to bring Democrats to control in the state Senate, and from the National Republican Congressional Committee.

The effort comes after bribery charges were filed against the mayor and deputy mayor of the Rockland County Village of Spring Valley in an alleged real - estate development scheme with ties to state Senator Malcolm Smith, who along with three others, was charged in connection with an alleged plot to rig the New York City mayoral race.

«Unlike the mayor, who has ceased operations of [CONY], this is a last - gasp effort by Eric Adams to rake in the dough before the new law goes into effect,» charged Dick Dadey, executive director of the good - government group Citizens Union.

Vilibić says he worries about ending up in prison — the charges carry a maximum sentence of 5 years — and says Šeparović's suit is a dangerous new development in an ongoing effort to weaken or end the committee.

To help with its re-engagement efforts, FirstMet will be offering free trials, as well as «open house» dates, which lets both new and existing users to experience the benefits of premium features free of charge.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

Steiner — an academic with Oxford and Harvard degrees who also had pioneered new teacher training programs as head of Hunter College's School of Education — had «charged out of the gate galloping,» observes Meyer, instituting greatly tougher benchmarks for the state's 3 - 8 tests and initiating a major effort to write a statewide curriculum.

A major new school - reform effort in Maryland ignores the needs of teachers and denigrates their efforts, the head of the state's largest teachers» union charged last week.

The Prize: Who's In Charge of America's Schools: Plenty of well - deserved praise and equally - warranted scorn has been heaped upon New Yorker writer Dale Russakoff's report on the very mixed success of now - former Newark Supt. Cami Anderson's effort to overhaul the New Jersey city's long - floundering district.

Two committees form the centerpiece of this effort: The Instructional Program Advisory Council, or IPAC, which will be charged with developing a Profile of the Niskayuna Graduate, and the District Curriculum and Accessory Council, or DCAC, which will be charged with guiding instructional decisions through working with new and existing committees and program review teams.

Carnegie Corp of New York — Andrew Carnegie's charge that the Corporation dedicate itself to the «advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding» has led it, over nearly 100 years of work, to support efforts to improve teaching and learning that have the potential to make a lasting and long - term contribution to the field of education.

He is a veteran of touchstone organizations behind the efforts to remake public schools — Teach for America and the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and its superintendent training program — as well as the hard - charging charter school efforts in New York City.

Andrew's efforts and processes ensured the successful delivery in new environment and charged all with possibilities of PBL.

In the grand scheme of things, Amazon's serial efforts are quite new, and charging for serials, even if only $ 1.99, makes their business model quite different from other established players in the space.

This new policy is in line with the CRA's recently enhanced efforts on cracking down on tax evasion and recognizes the seriousness of tax offences and puts persons charged with criminal tax offences on a level playing field with persons charged with other criminal offences.

The agreement was brokered in September by New York State's attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, in an effort to quell the turmoil that had engulfed the college as it struggled with severe financial problems, divisions among its trustees, the ouster of its president and outrage among students and alumni over a decision to charge tuition to undergraduates for the first time in the institution's 156 - year history.

That's why I've charged John Holdren and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy with leading a new effort to ensure that federal policies are based on the best and most unbiased scientific information.

But this is a charged issue for many environmentalists and some scientists (including Jane Lubchenco, the new under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere) who oppose such interventions with nature because they could produce unintended harms, falsely imply that we can engineer our way out of any problem or blunt efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases at the source.

Along with EV charging, Ebell said the inclusion of ethanol subsidies in the amended resolution could spell trouble for the effort if it is brought up again in New Orleans.

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With today's settlement, the State of New York finally commits to turn that right into a reality,» said former federal prosecutor Gary Stein, the Schulte Roth & Zabel litigation partner in charge of the firm's pro bono effort in the case.

The story quotes Lou Andreozzi, the new head of Bloomberg Law, on the company's efforts to persuade attorneys to consider at least replacing one of their «Wexis» accounts with Bloomberg Law, since Bloomberg's flat rate pricing (quoted at $ 450 per attorney) is preferable to the «more expensive and unpredictable sums» charged by the competition.

Despite the ongoing efforts of the top executives to wipe away the negative perceptions about SNC - Lavalin as a result of the allegations and the criminal charges, the task is likely to remain a difficult one for some time (the company declined requests for comment about its new compliance and ethics practices).

A spokesman for the American Tort Reform Association today called this morning's arrest and filing of federal corruption charges against New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver a «turning point» in the effort to combat abuses in the nation's # 1 judicial hellhole... → Read More: ATRA Calls Corruption Arrest of NY Speaker Sheldon Silver a «Turning Point»

I felt that the only way to justify the months of effort required for this development was to charge for the newest version.

Still no word yet on the possible merger with rival T - Mobile... Auto parts maker Delphi is buying autonomous car startup NuTonomy for $ 400 million... Overstock.com aims to hold the largest - yet initial coin offering, topping FileCoin's $ 257 million offering in August... Uber is adding a «long pickup fee» as part of an effort to make rides more attractive where drivers have to go a distance before starting the ride; the question is how it will go over with riders... AMD returned to profitability driven by sales of its Ryzen processor, per VentureBeat... Apple acquired New Zealand - based wireless charging firm PowerbyProxi for an undisclosed sum... TechCrunch reports that Honolulu has given final approval to a law that fines pedestrians who are looking at their phones while crossing a street.

These flashing green lights aren't new to anyone who has worn a Fitbit Charge HR or Apple Watch or Moto 360 watch before, but they're new to Pebble, and they're part of a larger effort around health tracking.

Joe Duffy is the director of engineering for that group, which is charged with «advancing the state of safe, productive, and performant systems programming, and developing core compiler technologies, like the Visual C++ compiler, new efforts like.