Sentences with phrase «new pioneering effort»

Adding to the list of reform - oriented alternatives is a new pioneering effort that appears to have merged the above - mentioned innovations, at least to some degree.

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According to a recent article in the New York Times, the coalition, called the Center for Humane Technology, has brought together an impressive group of social media pioneers, leaders in tech, F500 partners, and media in an effort to educate and lobby against what they call «tech - addiction» among youth.

But despite its best efforts, VMware itself is not a big player in the brave new world of public cloud computing, the shared data center infrastructure pioneered by Amazon Web Services (amzn), which is now facing heated competition from Microsoft (msft) and Google (googl).

However, as in the seventeenth century the various later theories were not produced independently of each other but came to be developed by working through, and in divergence from, the first great attempt at a philosophical structure built upon a profound insight into the problems at issue, namely, that of Descartes, so in our time the new efforts which are required in the philosophy of nature will need to come to terms with the pioneering work of Whitehead.

Essentia, the pioneer of ionized alkaline bottled water in the U.S., today unveiled striking new packaging and multi-pack designs as part of its next phase in their brand evolution efforts.

The State of New York's pioneering efforts to make health data publicly available and to facilitate the data's use in apps, tools, and services is bringing the data to life in meaningful and innovative ways.

SETI pioneer Jill Tarter and Berkeley researcher Dan Werthimer talk about how the discovery of nearby exoplanets is inspiring new efforts to gain info about these galactic neighbors.

Today Friedman is a leading proponent of the seasteading movement, an effort to create permanent floating communities in international waters that would allow «the next generation of pioneers to peacefully test new ideas of government,» he says.

As part of that effort, rheumatologists and cardiologists established Mayo's Cardio - Rheumatology Clinic two years ago to pioneer new heart disease diagnostic, prevention and treatment tools for patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other rheumatic diseases.

A team of University of Michigan scientists who have helped pioneer this approach will now work with researchers around the country, in a $ 15 million national effort to take the research to a new level.

Steiner — an academic with Oxford and Harvard degrees who also had pioneered new teacher training programs as head of Hunter College's School of Education — had «charged out of the gate galloping,» observes Meyer, instituting greatly tougher benchmarks for the state's 3 - 8 tests and initiating a major effort to write a statewide curriculum.

At the New Branches School here, staff members and parents are struggling to keep alive their pioneering effort to create a new kind of public school in the face of a court ruling striking down Michigan's charter - school lNew Branches School here, staff members and parents are struggling to keep alive their pioneering effort to create a new kind of public school in the face of a court ruling striking down Michigan's charter - school lnew kind of public school in the face of a court ruling striking down Michigan's charter - school law.

Each year nominations are accepted and evaluated by a selection panel that chooses new honorees based on: their pioneering efforts in the development / growth of charter schools; their long term commitment and contributions to charter schools and education; their innovative ideas and successful implementation of those ideas; and their inspiration to others in the charter school movement.

Notable, too, is the positive attention paid to — and adoption elsewhere of — New York State's pioneering efforts to supply its teachers with curricula aligned to the Empire State's (Common Core) academic standards.

This flood of legislation, along with new rules in many states allowing for more charter schools, pioneering union contracts in several cities and a state - led effort to rewrite the nation's academic standards, have made this spring a watershed period, said Jon Schnur, an education adviser to the Obama campaign who helped design Race to the Top.

«We are very pleased to see the pioneering effort that you have organized taking shape,» said Pryor, a former New Haven alderman and founding member of New Haven's Amistad Academy charter school.

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«We are excited to be part of Hatch's pioneering effort to deliver entertainment in a new and frictionless way,» says Naoki Kameda, COO, SEGA Networks.

This year, Maura Reilly has published Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating, a handbook of new curatorial strategies, based on pioneering examples of innovative recent efforts to offset racial and gender disparities in the art world.

Despite the efforts of the above pioneers, along with those of inter-war artists Marcel Jean (1900 - 93), Joan Miro (1893 - 1983) and Andre Breton (1896 - 1966)- see their respective works Spectre of the Gardenia (1936, plaster head, painted cloth, zippers, film strip, Museum of Modern Art NYC); Object (1936, stuffed parrot, silk stocking remnant, cork ball, engraved map, Museum of Modern Art NYC); and Poem - Object (1941, Museum of Modern Art NYC)- junk art did not coalesce into a movement until the 1950s, when artists like Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008) started to promote his «combines» (a combined form of painting and sculpture), such as Bed (1955, MoMA, New York) and First Landing Jump (1961, combine painting, cloth, metal, leather, electric fixture, cable, oil paint, board, Museum of Modern Art NYC).

The evening also recognized Adrian Grenier, who brought home an award for his work with SHFT.com, a media outlet pioneering eco-friendly life style; Steve Elfman, Sprint President of Network Operations and Wholesale, on behalf of Sprint for their eco-friendly phone, the Samsung Replenish, which is made from 82 % recyclable materials; Arthur Rubinfeld, Starbucks President of Global Development, on behalf of Starbucks for the company's global sustainability initiatives, including achieving LEED certification for all new company - owned stores beginning in 2010; and Bill McKibben and May Boeve, co-founders of 350.org, for their «efforts to raise awareness about the most threatening issue of our time: climate change.»

Claire's efforts inspired the creation of a local non-profit, New Pioneers for a Sustainable Future.

In announcing this new feature, the Google engineer who spearheaded this project, Anurag Acharya, appropriately acknowledged the prior efforts of the «pioneers who have worked on making it possible for an average citizen to educate herself about the laws of the land: Tom Bruce (Cornell LII), Jerry Dupont (LLMC), Graham Greenleaf and Andrew Mowbray (AustLII), Carl Malamud (Public.Resource.Org), Daniel Poulin (LexUM), Tim Stanley (Justia), Joe Ury (BAILII), Tim Wu (AltLaw) and many others.»

In announcing the new feature, the Google engineer who spearheaded this project, Anurag Acharya, acknowledged the prior efforts of the «pioneers who have worked on making it possible for an average citizen to educate herself about the laws of the land.»

Both this work and the efforts at system change pioneered earlier in New York are featured in Working With Families of the Poor, which Minuchin coauthored with Patricia Minuchin and Jorge Colapinto.