Sentences with phrase «culture of the city at»

Immerse yourself in the unique culture of the city at the Renaissance Amsterdam Hotel.

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«It has called to attention the importance of having a work environment that is safe to speak up [in],» New York City - based Mila Singh, culture strategist at culture management platform CultureIQ, said of the #MeToo trend.

«That was just the tip of the iceberg,» says Kelts, a University of Tokyo professor and author of Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S. «I mean, [look at] the fact that sushi is available in mainstream supermarkets around the country; the fact that Japanese style, design and architecture are appearing in major cities around the country; [and] the popularity of manga and anime in bookstores and Wal - Mart and Target.»

Look closely at the city of Sant Cugat, Barcelona, one of the most business friendly cities in Europe that has created a culture where you feel the willingness to share and grow together, and where the ecosystem thinks really big.

Says Michael Williams, director of strategy and growth at Wine»n Dine, a food and restaurant app based in New York City: «We don't want to craft a culture.

But at the moment, the city of Hartford, a once - proud hub of art, culture and urban amenities, is staring down bankruptcy and struggling to become a destination for young, bright minds.

The guestrooms and suites at Marriott Vacation Club Pulse properties echo the cosmopolitan nature of their surroundings, each with an updated, modern look and feel that reflects the personal energy and unique culture of their host cities.

At the time there was a cult by Corinth in the nearby city of Eleasus (sp) who baptised for the dead, Paul was also warning the Corinthians (who were highly influenced by the other cultures around them) not to follow suit.

Any efforts at changing the culture of the inner city will have to intersect with the African - American churches here; learning from those who have weathered the last few decades and built institutions to serve the community.

Delores Williams is associate professor of theology and culture at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and a contributing editor of Christianity and Crisis.

During his sermon at the landmark, Dr Sentamu said: «In this re-designation, God by his spirit is doing a new thing - offering to all who receive it a fresh start with God and with each other in this City of Culture 2017.»

The two main cities of Greece were Athens, the center of philosophy, art, and culture, and Corinth, a wealthy and inclined - to - be-wicked city at the isthmus which connects the Peloponnesus with the mainland.

I believe that while God wants the church to lead the world in bringing out cultural change and redemption, the church is too often resistant to change, and so God turns to culture to be the primary leader of the change He wants to see, that's why some churches at City Central are always looking for a change, and to improve and make people improve.

Not only that: crime is running amok, abortion and out - of - wedlock births skyrocket, parasitic urban males are permanently at war with the culture by age fifteen, and city school systems seem incapable of delivering anything but multicultural trashings of societal values, and condoms.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

We explored how every city and culture was shaped by the presence of at least one committed follower of Jesus.

Alicante, one of the most beautiful cities in the Iberian penninsula, dominated by a hill - top castle, filled with historical culture, street side bars and restaurants, and the Mediterranean sea at hand.

Louisville is at the intersection of many different traditions and cultures that make up this historic city.

The 23rd annual Boston Wine Expo hosted at Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center, one of the country's biggest and most respected celebrations of wine, food and culture, is announcing this year's lineup of the city's celebrity chefs.

Located at the crossroads of local culture and global business within major gateway cities and resort destinations, each Grand Hyatt hotel is uniquely designed to reflect its own distinct environment and provides a hub for travelers and locals alike.

Indeed Man City moves certainly impeded the progress of a number of such players, most recently the likes of Jack Rodwell and Scott Sinclair, would the cultured midfielder perhaps be better off staying put at a resurgent Everton?

Not forgetting the Tower of London, this is a vibrant city which offers many differing cultures and opportunities for sightseeing; London is at the heart of British football.

The former Barcelona legend was actually very high on the list of potential replacements for Rijkaard after the 2007/08 season, but instead found himself at Barcelona B. Afterwards he had a stint at Roma which was short - lived and disappointing — he seemed lost, trying to implement somewhat of the Barca system with non-Barca players, and the non-Barca football culture in the club or city of Rome.

«In some cultures parents shave a newborn's head; in others it's customary to wait until a child can speak to cut his hair for the first time, so there's no hard and fast rule,» says Lyuba Konopasek, assistant professor of pediatrics at the New York - Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City.

It used to be culture,» said Jennifer Glass, a sociology professor at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

At 6 p.m., state Sen. José M. Serrano, Assemblywoman Latoya Joyner and New York City Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson host their African American History and Culture Celebration, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx.

I suppose, when Russian language and culture are native to 25 - 40 % of Baltic population and 5 largest cities in Ukraine, this article should have provided Russian language at least regional recognition.

Clinical Psychologist (USA) Dr Brooke Magnanti Feona Attwood, Professor of Media & Communication at Middlesex University Martin Barker, Emeritus Professor at University of Aberystwyth Jessica Ringrose, Professor, Sociology of Gender and Education, UCL Institute of Education Ronete Cohen MA, Psychologist Dr Meg John Barker, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University Kath Albury, Associate Professor, UNSW Australia Myles Jackman, specialist in obscenity law Dr Helen Hester, Middlesex University Justin Hancock, youth worker and sex educator Ian Dunt, Editor in Chief, Politics.co.uk Ally Fogg, Journalist Dr Emily Cooper, Northumbria University Gareth May, Journalist Dr Kate Egan, Lecturer in Film Studies, Aberystwyth University Dr Ann Luce, Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Communication, Bournemouth University John Mercer, Reader in Gender and Sexuality, Birmingham City University Dr. William Proctor, Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communication, Bournemouth University Dr Jude Roberts, Teaching Fellow, University of Surrey Dr Debra Ferreday, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University Jane Fae, author of «Taming the beast» a review of law / regulation governing online pornography Michael Marshall, Vice President, Merseyside Skeptics Society Martin Robbins, Journalist Assoc. Prof. Paul J. Maginn (University of Western Australia) Dr Lucy Neville, Lecturer in Criminology, Middlesex University Alix Fox, Journalist and Sex Educator Dr Mark McCormack, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Durham University Chris Ashford, Professor of Law and Society, Northumbria University Diane Duke, CEO Free Speech Coalition (USA) Dr Steve Jones, Senior Lecturer in Media, Northumbria University Dr Johnny Walker, Lecturer in Media, Northumbria University

«We need to marshal every resource at our disposal to uproot the culture of violence in the City's jails and engage stakeholders from across the country to identify and implement best practices here at home.»

Once you get past Barack Obama's «United States of America» speech in 2004, Pat Buchanan's thundering culture - wars declaration in 1992, Mario Cuomo's 1984 «Tale of Two Cities» masterpiece or Ted Kennedy's breathtaking «Dream Never Dies» manifesto in 1980, the only political players that have mattered at contrived conventions over the past 30 years have been the nominees themselves.

While much blame can be placed on Labour's regulatory system for both the banking crisis and abuses that are regularly unfolding before the eyes of an incredulous public, the chancellor's focus today should have remained on the reputation of the City being «at stake» - as put to him by shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves - and a culture change, something that all parties agree to be critical.

Also at 11 a.m., a ceremony his held to celebrate CualaNYC — NYC's first annual festival of Irish culture, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Students enrolled in public pre-kindergarten programs in New York City are more likely to take the city's exam for entry into gifted and talented programs, according to a new study by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human DevelopmCity are more likely to take the city's exam for entry into gifted and talented programs, according to a new study by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Developmcity's exam for entry into gifted and talented programs, according to a new study by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development.

It's great to be speaking here in Coventry, which has long been at the core of Britain's industrial heartland and is now set to be our next city of culture.

One year after entering office with a mandate for change, Mayor Shayne Gallo has pushed ahead with an agenda centered on revitalizing the city by battling blight, forming partnerships with state, federal and county government and ending what he calls a «culture of entitlement» at the highest levels of municipal government.

While the population of the city's jails is lower than ever, there has been an increased focus on them, following news stories about brutality at the hands of correction officers, a rise in inmate - on - inmate violence, efforts to end or reduce solitary confinement and a federal lawsuit that alleged a «culture of violence» in the city's jails.

Get a taste for Mexican culture this Cinco de Mayo at Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) on Fri., May 5th at 2:00 p.m.. The...

«My campaign has really been centered about quality of life, the issues that are plaguing the city and the fact that we're not getting the services we deserve as taxpayers but it's also been centered around the pay to play at City Hall and that there's literally a «For Sale» sign at the gates and we need to change this culture,» she said on NY1's «Morning on 1» show Friday morncity and the fact that we're not getting the services we deserve as taxpayers but it's also been centered around the pay to play at City Hall and that there's literally a «For Sale» sign at the gates and we need to change this culture,» she said on NY1's «Morning on 1» show Friday mornCity Hall and that there's literally a «For Sale» sign at the gates and we need to change this culture,» she said on NY1's «Morning on 1» show Friday morning.

All are expected to soon be signed into law by Mayor Bill de Blasio, with the package part of ongoing reforms aimed at changing the culture at Rikers Island and other jail facilities run by the city.

But it also left lingering ethical questions about the mayor's behavior and even confirmed the existence of a culture at City Hall in which the mayor considered it normal to make the case for donors in front of city agencies that report to him and acceptable to seek «an end run around» campaign finance limCity Hall in which the mayor considered it normal to make the case for donors in front of city agencies that report to him and acceptable to seek «an end run around» campaign finance limcity agencies that report to him and acceptable to seek «an end run around» campaign finance limits.

Mayoral spokeswoman Monica Klein previously said in a statement that the city's top priority is creating a culture of safety at its jails.

Biophysicist Hyungsik Lim at Hunter College, City University of New York, uses third harmonic generation (THG) microscopy to image myelin — the «insulation» around nerve «wires» — in live cultures and tissues without adding any labels.

Other green roofs have been installed at the Bronx County Courthouse (10,000 square feet), Ikea in Brooklyn (70,000 square feet), Ethical Culture Fieldston School (two roofs, measuring 5,100 square feet and 1,500 square feet, in the Bronx), a Con - Edison building in Long Island City (a quarter of an acre, or about 10,000 square feet) and Hackensack Hospital in New Jersey (about 5,000 square feet).

With funding from the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research and the Culture Division of the City of Vienna, Norbert Siegl spent months studying the «gender - specific differences in frequency and thematic content» of the graffiti in the toilets at the University of Vienna.

«The Philistines are an entangled culture from western Anatolia, Cyprus, Greece, the Balkans, you name it,» says Maeir, who has directed excavations at the Philistine city of Gath for 2 decades.

«Our research found that illegal cigarettes are regularly available over the counter in New York City,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor of public health at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and College of Global Public Health.

A 2,700 - year - old portico was discovered this summer on the site of the ancient city of Argilos in northern Greece, following an archaeological excavation led by Jacques Perreault, Professor at the University of Montreal's Centre of Classical Studies and Zisis Bonias, an archaeologist with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Out of 27 surveyed employees at Solar City headquarters in San Mateo, 98 % report feeling more relaxed and calm after practicing meditation at work, and report that weekly meditation positively contributes to the culture of the company.

Refinery29 hosted an interactive funhouse of style, culture, and technology in New York City on Thursday (September 7), where a number of PYTs came out to play at this 3rd annual 29Rooms event.

Newark has a high concentration of Portuguese residents, and they come together at the festival to celebrate their culture and showcase their cuisine in one of the city's most anticipated yearly events.