Sentences with phrase «in a given week for»

Another student added that completing all required tasks in a given week for online teaching was too overwhelming:

The things that matter, such as average hours expected in a given week for the salary, etc — are not part of this.

Not exact matches

In one experiment, people who were randomly assigned to give up Facebook for a week ended that time happier, less lonely, and less depressed than those who continued to use Facebook.

These employees are given a maximum of 15 months of on - the - job education in a classroom setting, typically for three two - hour sessions each week, Kreiter said.

In an interview this week, Williams gave one of the clearest indications yet that he sees the site's future as being a content - agnostic hosting service for publishers of all kinds.

Last year, Mihaly gave water to people from a $ 10,000 turnkey campsite because they hadn't sufficiently prepared for a week in the desert.

Elan Morgan, mentioned earlier for her experiment in quitting likes for 2 weeks, found an additional benefit to prioritizing commenting over «Liking» — it effectively retrained the Facebook algorithm to give her more of the content she wanted.

That's one of the interesting questions for delegates to consider at next week's Diggers & Dealers forum in Kalgoorlie, given an apparent willingness of the new Indonesian government to relax its hard - line treatment of mineral exporters.

The online showcase Before the Label gives independent designers a platform for both sales and beta testing — designers get approval to run their designs on the site, and then list them in campaigns ranging from a couple weeks to a couple months.

In a pair of follow - up tweets Musk further explained that «Mary Beth was an amazing assistant for over 10 yrs, but as company complexity grew, the role required several specialists vs one generalist,» and «MB was given 52 weeks of salary & stock in appreciation for her great contribution & left to join a small firm, once again as a generalist,&raquIn a pair of follow - up tweets Musk further explained that «Mary Beth was an amazing assistant for over 10 yrs, but as company complexity grew, the role required several specialists vs one generalist,» and «MB was given 52 weeks of salary & stock in appreciation for her great contribution & left to join a small firm, once again as a generalist,&raquin appreciation for her great contribution & left to join a small firm, once again as a generalist,»

In a speech I gave this week to a large room of directors in Montreal, I asked for a show of hands on how many directors use iPadIn a speech I gave this week to a large room of directors in Montreal, I asked for a show of hands on how many directors use iPadin Montreal, I asked for a show of hands on how many directors use iPads.

«It's incredibly important because lately, this market's been led in part by the financials, and an important Fed head arguing for four hikes would be music to their ears, especially given that we are going to get a lot of bank earnings at the end of the week,» Cramer said.

However, it's also unique in that Google gives learners a $ 250 AdWords budget to use over a three - week period, to run an online advertising campaign for a business or not - for - profit.

Echoing the sentiments she shared last week on their daytime talk show, Ripa gave her co - host / friend a proverbial pat on the back, saying, «Mark came in town for 12 hours and this is how we're spending it.

We also fly new remote workers to one of our offices for a week of training and give them a «remote buddy» to check in with for the first six weeks.

I did just that last week in Los Angeles — I got a SIM card from T - Mobile for the grand total of $ 11, which gave me $ 25 of credit.

Health insurance exchanges go online, the Guardian offers Masterclasses for creative types, SCORE gives treps the skinny on WordPress, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. wants a few good entrepreneurs, CreateTech conference draws an eclectic crowd in Brooklyn, Marc Andreessen sits down with the Pando Monthly... This week's notable news and startup events for entrepreneurs:

Building 8 has yet to unveil any of its products, but people familiar with the matter said the hardware group is expected to play a key role in Facebook's developer conference this week, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave his 10 - year vision for the company last year.

President Donald Trump has signed a bipartisan bill that gives three weeks of funding to the federal government in exchange for a promise that the Republican - controlled Senate will reopen negotiations on the future of «Dreamers» and border security.

«Ask for vacation schedules well ahead of time so you can determine the number of people that can be off in any given week,» Cardella says.

In Canada, the expansion of parental leave to 50 weeks in 2001 gave mothers, and fathers, greater freedom to care for their very young childreIn Canada, the expansion of parental leave to 50 weeks in 2001 gave mothers, and fathers, greater freedom to care for their very young childrein 2001 gave mothers, and fathers, greater freedom to care for their very young children.

In September, BlackBerry investor Fairfax Financial released a letter of intent to purchase the ailing Canadian tech company for US$ 4.7 billion, but gave BlackBerry six weeks to find a better offer.

A legion of Canadian corporations recently acquired new CEOs: Guy Laurence joined Rogers (which owns this magazine) last December, one month after BlackBerry brought in turnaround artist John Chen to fix its ailing smartphone business; at TD Bank, Bharat Masrani spent a year (some might say his entire career) preparing to take over for Ed Clark, while across the street at CIBC, internal candidate Victor Dodig was given just six weeks before he replaced Gerald McCaughey.

One study also found that LDL - cholesterol (the bad cholesterol) was lowered in 28 outpatients who were given olive oil supplements once a day for six weeks.

Sandberg told Zuckerberg that if she were going to work for him, they would need to give each other candid feedback and check in with each other first thing Monday morning and last thing Friday every week.

«It's astounding how little truth there is in Truth,» a CBS spokesperson said this week, via the same prepared release the network has been giving out for weeks.

Starting in 2016, the company is surging ahead of the industry by ramping up paid leave to two weeks for dads and adoptive parents — and giving moms ten weeks off following childbirth.

There's a couple reasons for this: after massive sleep deprivation and zero separation between work and personal life, taking a step back often reminds a founder of the things that they want in their personal life and gives motivation to the work life and while in a lull this can upset investors or look like avoidance, its in almost every case helped the company and lets be honest, if a company is going to die it isn't going to die in one week but be surprised at how much sleep a founder might need and you probably wouldn't want many friends around.

«Podcast rates are hard to come by, but I'm aware of a few podcasts a quarter the size that are earning somewhere in excess of $ 10,000 / episode; presuming proportionally similar rates (which may be unrealistic, given the broader audience) The Bill Simmons Podcast, which publishes three times a week, could be on a > $ 6 million run rate, which, per my envelope math in the footnote above, could nearly pay for a 50 - person staff a la Grantland.»

Gates, who is promoting his new book, «A Passion for Leadership,» sat down with Business Insider last week and gave his perspective on today's conflicts in the Middle East.

(Just last week, Splunk bought cybersecurity startup Caspida for $ 190 million, giving it even better prospects in the security market.)

«Given the huge amount of volatility next week in case of a Yes vote, the Bank of England would have put high pressure on the banks to move south for the purposes of preserving financial stability and confidence,» said Ronald MacDonald, a political economy professor at the University of Glasgow.

While I was in Europe for two weeks, another employee gave me a call to let me know how bad things had become with Bob.

This chart shows Prattle scores for FOMC meeting participants» speeches given in the weeks leading up to the FOMC meetings in September and December 2013 and March and June 2014.

Despite meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, U.K. prime minister Theresa May will not give written support for China's ambitious Belt and Road project, due to concerns that contracts under the scheme will unfairly favour Chinese companies.

If Walgreens can give me a walk - in, one - minute flu shot, why would I wait three weeks to make a pain - in - the - ass appointment with my regular doctor's nurse to get the exact same shot and pay a lot more for the «privilege.»

And earlier this week, in a self - penned essay for Time, he wrote, «On any given day over 400,000 people, convicted of no crime, are held in jail because they can not afford to buy their freedom.

Having been given a run - through of the new e-reader at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle earlier this week, and having had the chance to put it through its paces since, this is good news for book lovers.

This seems like a high threshold now, given that lumber prices fell below that for only six weeks in 2004 and four weeks last year.

New Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani's admission on Fox News this week (which Donald Trump promptly confirmed on Twitter) that the president had, in fact, repaid old Trump lawyer Michael Cohen for the $ 130,000 in hush money he gave to adult film star...

Ryan Detrick of LPL Financial has found that since 1950, the worst week for the S&P 500 has on average been the 38th week in a given year.

This week, when I asked for a book recommendation (http://on.fb.me/O7k7tQ), introduction to a public company CEO (http://on.fb.me/P9x6vR), and received an intro to an author I interviewed (http://on.fb.me/P9xb2C); it was generally the weak ties in my network who I had never met or hadn't connected with for years that gave the most support.

EBay Inc., the world's largest online marketplace, will give consumers an incentive to shop in stores after Amazon.com Inc. came under fire last week for offering shoppers a discount to do the opposite.

Still, the current return / risk profile features highly «unpleasant skew» - in any given week, the single most likely outcome is actually a small advance, yet the average return in the current classification is quite negative, because those small marginal gains have typically been wiped out by steep, abrupt market plunges that erase weeks or months of gains in one fell swoop (see Impermanence and Full - Cycle Thinking for a chart).

To get residency realistically I got to earn 300 dollars in taxable income a week for a year, and in the meantime am allowed to go to school part time given the fact that I can pay for school with the money I have earned within the period I began to establish residency, so no outside cash because my bank accounts will be audited at the end of the year.

Given last week's substantial broad market gains, it would not be surprising for stocks to pull back from their highs, or at least enter a period of sideways consolidation in the coming week.

Four Dogwood staffers give you their perspective on next steps in the fight for B.C.'s coast, air and democracy under a new government Lisa, on Dogwood's Ban Big Money campaign... What a week!

Thank you as well to Ivivva, Lululemon, Lohas Tenns Club and TMT Activewear for hosting Yoga at the Park and breakfast during the ITF finals, Tennis Canada, the ITF Junior Circuit, and of course, thank you to all the players for giving their best effort throughout the week and the volunteers for their invaluable time in putting on the show!

The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began to recede from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear global oversupply.

It has been sitting in my cupboard for a couple weeks so I thought I may as well give it a go, I have been using it since Thursday and some of my observations and thoughts are below.