Marriott and SPG recently announced the first
major changes to their awards programs and the news is good!
In August, United announced
major changes to award booking rules as well as to their online booking engine.
Not exact matches
MTV is making a
major change to its big entertainment
award show.
With the 2017 Emmys a month and
change away, offshore sportsbooks have started
to post odds for the
major awards.
The
changes, which will go into effect with the applications that are due on June 1, will apply
to most
major award categories.
In February, NIH issued a notice announcing two
major changes to the agency's Pathway
to Independence
Award for postdocs, known as the K99 / R00 or «kangaroo» award, designed to satisfy the working group's recommendat
Award for postdocs, known as the K99 / R00 or «kangaroo»
award, designed to satisfy the working group's recommendat
award, designed
to satisfy the working group's recommendations.
I thought things had finally
changed, and the movies I loved were finally gonna be
major awards season players.
Hollywood's first
awards show of the new year included a visit from Wonder Woman Gal Gadot and a promise from Jessica Chastain that «
major change is coming»
to how women are treated in the industry.
The automaker defied critics just by making an
award - winning luxury car on the first try, but Hyundai doesn't want
to simply be in the luxury segment, it wants
to compete with BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, and Cadillac, and that meant
major changes for the 2015 Hyundai Genesis.
Our Killer Nashville Silver Falchion
Awards was, I truly think, the first
major literary
award to acknowledge that because publishing has
changed, the best book may not be a hardcover, it may not be even printed (digital only), and it may not even be traditionally published, all of which we got flack for at the time (though most others soon followed).
These programs haven't had
major Award / Reward chart
changes in quite a while, and I wouldn't be surprised
to see some kind of a
change over the next year.
I've already gone over the
major devaluations that will happen, I've discussed the
award chart
changes, I've shown how the new earning rates will affect top - tier AAdvantage members quite badly and I've called out American Airlines for announcing things without thinking things through or without having all the answers
to inevitable questions... but that's really just me letting off steam and, hopefully, providing readers with a few facts here and there as well.
If anything, thanks
to what's happened with fuel prices, the cost of flying passengers has decreased since the last
major award chart
changes in 2012.
Hilton made some
major changes to the program early this year, including eliminating the
award chart!
The
major changes are that (1) Executive Platinum members now earn 4 system wide upgrades instead of 8; (2) you need more miles
to book
award tickets on certain routes; and (3) the program became revenue based.
One
major advantage of the Rapid Rewards program is that you can make free
changes to all tickets — both
award and cash fares!
Ugly greens, a cumbersome lobby, and a table layout best described as «basic», PartyPoker was never going
to win
awards for looks, but that all
changed in 2013 when the site had a
major re-haul.
The new version of the game, V1.50, includes several minor tweaks and balances but also includes several
major changes to the game that are likely
to draw many fans back
to «the battlefield» that won numerous
awards in 2005 and 2006.
Keep reading
to discover news people are talking about including a
major gift
to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Sotheby's personnel
changes plus
awards, appointments and new public art.
TreeHugger recently did give Rudd a Best of Green
award, but I wonder if Rudd hasn't made a deal with the devil here: CCS Can Be Part of the Solution... Rudd rightly gets that, in his words, «Carbon capture and storage is not the only answer
to the climate
change challenge» and that it can certainly play a part in the transition
to a low - carbon future, but I just don't buy into Rudd's «cold, hard reality» that coal will remain (or at least has
to remain) the globe's
major source of energy for many years
to come.
In 2015, Founder and CEO Edward Mazria was honored
to receive two
major awards that underline Architecture 2030's effectiveness: the Kemper
Award from the American Institute of Architects for «catalyzing the architecture community
to address climate
change through design», and the Chairman's
Award from the World Green Building Council for «an outstanding contribution
to the global sustainability movement».