Sentences with phrase «earliest centers of power»

Scholars assumed that only here, in southern Mesopotamia, were the earliest centers of power and the origins of civilization.

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Early birds are poised to take full advantage of the power of compounding, said Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, a research economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

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.

«The power of international law is primarily reputational and measured in terms of legitimacy,» Mira Rapp - Hooper, a senior fellow in the Asia - Pacific Security Program at the Center for New American Security, told CNBC earlier this year, when China's island - building in the region came under scrutiny.

, the establishment of incipient Syrian power in Damascus under Rezon to the north (11:23 f.), and, from the very center, the early insurrection of the Ephraimite Jeroboam (11:26 - 28) who, upon Solomon's death, played a leading role in the North's secession from Israelite union.

Of course, one of the early documents of democracy, the U.S. Declaration of Independence, proposed just the opposite — that government derives its power from the consent of the governed, in other words, that power should flow from the periphery to the centeOf course, one of the early documents of democracy, the U.S. Declaration of Independence, proposed just the opposite — that government derives its power from the consent of the governed, in other words, that power should flow from the periphery to the centeof the early documents of democracy, the U.S. Declaration of Independence, proposed just the opposite — that government derives its power from the consent of the governed, in other words, that power should flow from the periphery to the centeof democracy, the U.S. Declaration of Independence, proposed just the opposite — that government derives its power from the consent of the governed, in other words, that power should flow from the periphery to the centeof Independence, proposed just the opposite — that government derives its power from the consent of the governed, in other words, that power should flow from the periphery to the centeof the governed, in other words, that power should flow from the periphery to the center.

He emphasized the active, integrating self (rather than the frail, victimized ego); held to a «soft» (rather than a «hard») determinism; had a strong interest in future, goal - directed strivings (rather than origins); emphasized the organism as a whole centered in the self (rather than a conflict view of personality); regarded the striving for worth and power (rather than sexual striving) as the central dynamic in mental health and illness; emphasized the possibilities for continuing change in the later years (rather than regarding the early years as utterly decisive)(2) It is clear from these motifs in Adler's thought that his vision of human beings was positive and growth - centered.

Early in the third period, 39 - year - old Jean Beliveau, the last remaining superstar of a tattered dynasty and probably the finest center ever to swing a stick, scored a power - play goal.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

U.S. Advocates Human & Property Rights Solely for Those Nations Who Have the Power to Demand Them Dean Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, took note this morning of the Obama Administration's perverse rationale regarding the compensation of the poorer nations bearing the earliest and worst effects of climate change, as spelled...

While de Blasio has taken up many important social issues — racial profiling, early childhood education, housing, and others — it remains to be seen if he can with the limited power of a mayor really affect the issue of economic inequality, that is the overwhelming power of capital in the world's preeminent financial center.

And when quasars [extremely bright, compact objects at the centers of some galaxies] were discovered in the early 1960s, it was obvious that the source of power had to be gravitational because even nuclear power, which powers the stars, is too inefficient.

«Using innovative data normalization and gene selection approaches, we combined the statistical power of multiple genomic studies and masked their variability and batch effects to identify robust early diagnostic biomarkers of pancreatic cancer,» said first author Manoj Bhasin, PhD, Co-Director of BIDMC's Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS.

The US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is collaborating with Oorja Protonics, a developer and manufacturer of direct methanol fuel cell technology (earlier post) on a two - year project to deploy and demonstrate methanol fuel cells for power pallet jacks in four commercial wholesale distribution centers.

Like Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind and Laputa: Castle in the Sky, this Miyazaki epic puts ecological concerns at the center of a human power struggle — but a decade on from those earlier films, the director's worldview had become much more complex.

In the early 20th century, factory managers powered their equipment using a system of axles, pulleys, gears, and crankshafts that connected to a large steam engine at the center of the factory and organized their equipment to maximize efficient access to the central power source.

Power Center Academy and the neighborhood began to see early successes through increased achievement scores and the elimination of community blight.

Speaking of power trains, the XF is only available with an eight - speed automatic transmission that, as I mentioned earlier, uses a novel rotary transmission selector that rises out of the center console like a giant chrome volume knob when the car is started.

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«The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography and Film» at the Frist Center presents images, films, and movie posters...

Management of the Rockaways» power grid has been taken over by PSEG Long Island, part of Public Service Enterprise Group, which in early October issued an updated plan called Utility 2.0 that aims to modernize the company's electric system and may open the door to a microgrid project, said Jackson Morris, formerly of Pace University's Energy and Climate Center and now director of eastern energy for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

In an earlier interview with Reuters, HQ business development director David Vincent said potential mining operators were looking at sites with energy demands ranging from those of data centers to that of power - hungry as metal smelting plants.

From the early days of mining using a laptop computer, now Bitcoin miners have industrial - sized data centers with hundreds of thousands of high - powered, specialized machines.

Texas Kincare Primer (PDF - 1,587 KB) Texas Legal Services Center, Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services, & Texas Kincare Taskforce (2013) Provides Texas kinship caregivers with information on caregiver rights and responsibilities, including documents kinship families may need in seeking services, legal resources, State and Federal public benefits for kincare families, power of attorney, and early childhood intervention services.