Sentences with phrase «convened last»

This year the magazine has made some refinements and design tweaks to deliver information in a more scannable, useful way, based in part on feedback from a focus group of brokers that we convened last November.

In the latter, at Mara McCarthy's gallery The Box, a month - long celebration bringing together 40 - years - worth of photographs, films, homemade instruments, artwork, and ephemera was convened last July.

The Building Brooklyn Awards judging committee — comprised of architects, planners, government officials, economic development experts and business leaders — convened last spring to select the winning projects.

Such a system «marks a major shift for Wisconsin,» according to a preliminary report from a state task force Evers first convened last December.

As current classroom teachers from across the United States, we convened last fall to develop recommendations on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

At a panel convened last week by the Public School Forum of N.C., a research and advocacy group in Raleigh, Tulbert was one of several principals at low - performing schools — many of them teeming with low - income children — who described how their children tend to arrive lagging behind their middle - class and upper - class peers.

Washington state teachers who are certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards would see a 15 percent pay increase under a proposal that Gov. Gary Locke plans to present to the legislature during the session that convened last week.

The advisers for the RTT evaluation were named and secretly convened last fall.

This is part of the message that emerged from a meeting of principals convened last summer by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.

The committee, which was convened last year at the request of the Food and Drug Administration, concluded that it is ethically permissible to «go forward, but with caution» with mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRT), said the chairman, Jeffrey Kahn, a bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University.

A broad consensus on the need to enable public access to all U.S. federal research emerged in a report published in January by the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, a panel of librarians, academic leaders and publishers convened last June by the OSTP and the House Committee on Science and Technology.

Convened last week in Sydney by the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research, the event brought together mining companies, robotics experts, lunar scientists and government agencies that are all working to make space mining a reality.

A federal board wanted study details redacted for biosecurity reasons but 22 experts convened last week at a WHO meeting disagreed and will create a system for more rigorous oversight of such research

That was the unexpected outcome of a meeting convened last week in Geneva, Switzerland, by the World Health Organization (WHO), which also promised to create a more rigorous oversight system for such research.

Lawmakers convened last week for a largely ceremonial first day of the session that included a state of the state address from Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The reforms were first proposed by a panel convened last year by Cuomo also include changes to arrest procedures, removing youth from prisons that include adults and an expansion of services that would provide assistance to juveniles after their release.

Those were the takeaways from a summit of the state's top Republican operatives, convened last week by new Manhattan Republican Chairwoman Andrea Catsimatidis at the Women's National Republican Club.

Two civilian witnesses, who did not testify before the grand jury that Abelove convened last year, told investigators they did not believe French was in imminent danger when he fired.

BY JOE KUHN The Rockland County Legislature convened last Tuesday to review the county's Capital Project Budget for the fiscal year 2018 and approve the purchase of supplies and materials necessary for the operations of various government departments.

Despite the political grandstanding that delayed action on this issue until the fourth quarter — the Assembly and Senate had compiled a list of proposals long before the governor convened a last - minute executive panel — lawmakers approved a comprehensive series of bills designed to address the state's insidious opiate crisis.

The Rockland County Legislature convened last Tuesday to review the county's Capital Project Budget for the fiscal year 2018 and approve the purchase of supplies and materials necessary for the operations of various government departments.

A meeting of black leaders was convened last weekend in Mt. Vernon by the Rev. Al Sharpton and attended by people like former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall (Cuomo's primary opponent in 2002), political consultants Bill Lynch and Roberto Ramirez (who got caught up in Cuomo's pension fund pay - to - play probe), Sen. Ruth Hassell - Thompson, Senate President Malcolm Smith, Rep. Greg Meeks and the NAACP's Hazel Dukes.

SARANAC LAKE A group of art, history and business executives convened last week to talk about ways the arts can spur economic development in the North Country.

The New York State Legislature convened last week for its six - month session.

The Terawatt Workshop, convened last year by the Global Alliance of Solar Energy Research Institutes, recently published its findings.

Brookfield is no stranger to the flexible space industry, having partnered with Convene last year to «elevate and amplify» their 8.6 million sq ft Los Angeles portfolio.

Transforming Teaching held its first two convenings last May, bringing together many of the top organizations in the nation to work on these problems.

The 27 - member task force began convening last fall, meeting several times to develop the principles and supporting documents.

Note: After this month, Pocket Utopia will close, but Austin Thomas and Norte Maar announced this week that they are working toward creating a Black - Mountain - like school called Pocket U which will convene the last two weeks of July, 2010, at Rouses Point, New York.

Not exact matches

Axel Riedel, head of SPDR ETFs for Germany at State Street Global Advisors, weighs in on last week's convening of central bankers at Jackson Hole, U.S.

It was a scene that the Wesleyan Methodist congregation of Toronto's Berkeley Church, last convened in the 1950s, likely never envisioned.

Last week, Global thought leaders convened in Stockholm, Sweden for the annual World Water Week.

Last evening her brother, Robert, appeared at a CNN Town Hall that was convened to discuss the shooting.

At last report the Caribou Habitat Restoration Committee had not been convened, had no terms of reference nor any members.

All of that is supposed to be off the table for the jury that convenes Monday in San Francisco Superior Court, for opening statements in a trial scheduled to last seven weeks.

Last week, the 15th annual Skoll World Forum convened with the theme «The Power of Proximity.»

There was a brief diversion over Francis's brilliant environmental encyclical, Laudato si», in 2015 — but that didn't last, as the fall Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops convened in October 2015.

Last December, a report by a specially convened parliamentary committee found the Eighth Amendment was not fit for purpose and should be repealed.

Around 80,000 professionals and 3,100 exhibitors convened in sunny Anaheim last week for the 37th annual Natural Products Expo West.

Fady Sharara, M.D., Contributes to Global Understanding of Fertility Breakthroughs at ASRM The world's most influential scientists and fertility specialists convened in Salt Lake City last month with one goal — to help men and women find a faster, more efficient path to pregnancy.

Last year, the Governor convened the first - ever New York State Industrial Hemp Summit and Working Group and committed $ 10 million to support industrial hemp research, production and processing.

To that end, we have convened a panel of some really smart and dedicated people to discuss how we can together shape the trajectory of Manhattan's last real neighborhood.

DiFiore first convened the panel last year leading up to this November's constitutional convention vote that failed.

A panel convened by Cuomo last year recently proposed charging drivers $ 11.52 in the most traffic - heavy parts of Manhattan.

Norris acknowledged his appearance before the grand jury to The News last week, as well as his late 2014 subpoena bringing him before a Manhattan grand jury convened by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

On Monday, the first day of the legislative session since the reunification announcement, the mainline Democrats and the I.D.C. still convened for separate conferences one last time.

ALBANY — After they walked away last week without taking action on mayoral control of New York City schools or renewing local tax authorizations, state lawmakers will convene Wednesday — at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's command — for a special session.

«The Director of Operations at Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Tetteh Ankamah Okyne, says the power cut the nation is currently experiencing is due to the activities of vultures and other birds... The company disclosed this last week when the Public Utility Regulatory Commission convened a meeting among the power producers, including VRA, Gridco, ECG, Asogli, among others, to ascertain the cause of the power cut being witnessed in Accra and certain parts of the country.

More than two dozen Democratic assemblywomen convened Monday afternoon in the offices of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) to discuss strategy about a stalled women's rights bill Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo introduced last year.

Last week, New Yorkers got a peek into the efforts to influence the upcoming question to be put to voters on whether they want to convene a state constitutional convention.