Sentences with phrase «numbers of cities using»

The theme of surveillance will be a particularly interesting theme to explore according Guay, with the increasing numbers of cities using security cameras to prevent crime, to how everything from traffic lights to entire power grids are connected.

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Ninety - three of the smart city projects are focused on transportation, according to SCMP, and could potentially use its connected infrastructure to build the number of driverless cars and shared - driving models on the road.

Philips, for its part, is working with a number of European cities on an urban lighting system that uses sensors to determine optimum lighting levels for the amount of street activity, saving energy while still providing a safe civic environment.

The corporate watchdog has told the public to steer clear of a potential scam website that uses the same registered business name and the same business number as the recently privatised Market City.

In 2013, the number of use - of - force complaints in Oakland, California dropped by 1,350 compared with four years earlier before VieVu equipped every officer in the city with a camera.

Using open data from 7,236 cities, researchers looked at factors like affordability, access to jobs, frequency of service, quality, and number of stops.

Soon after, a number of Chicago cab companies jointly sued the company, alleging Uber is in violation of a number of city and state regulations, and that by allowing any cab driver to use its service, Uber is cashing in on established taxi brand names and reputations to further its own business goals.

The credit comparison site looked at 30 of the world's most popular cities and used data from TripAdvisor and the Michelin Guide to find the number of theaters, concert halls, museums, art galleries, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and Michelin - starred restaurants in each one.

The new law, which received initial approval from the city, is expected to take effect in February and comes with a number of requirements for hosts using the site.

The personal financial site used metrics ranging from the number of teams per city and the winning percentage of each to stadium capacity and social - media engagement.

Annual budgets in most of Canada's major cities are a mess — excluding key activities, using inconsistent accounting, burying crucial numbers where only experts can find them, and often voted well after the fiscal year has started, according the 2016 edition of the C.D. Howe Institute's Municipal Fiscal Accountability report.

«Despite its successes in attracting both customers and in - demand tenants,» the statement reads, «there are still a number of challenges that need to be solved in order to maintain its prominence in a city that is quickly evolving with increased density, mix of uses, and depth of character.»

For example, a number of states, counties and cities have enacted menu labeling laws requiring multi-unit restaurant operators to disclose certain nutritional information to customers, or have enacted legislation restricting the use of certain types of ingredients in restaurants.

West Hollywood: The city will issue eight licenses for adult - use retail stores, and a number of them opened on Jan. 2.

Uber spokesperson Chelsea Kohler told USA TODAY that the vehicles, whose number remains unspecified, are «for internal use only, have a safety driver up front and are not part of our ride - sharing service in the city.»

The ABS also publishes an Australia - wide measure, while the RBA constructs national measures using the REIA and CBA city - based data, using the number of capital - city households as weights.

Whatever problems the Negro had in the North — and he had problems — he could exercise the franchise and by the late 1950's he could use a large number of public facilities in northern cities.

I am writing this article before Arsenal and our Premier League rivals like Man City and Leicester City kick off for the first matches of the new year, so the numbers in the statistics I am using to compare our assist king Mesut Ozil with other players doing well in the same position will have changed by tonight.

As much as I believe our side will look to predominantly use the 3 -4-2-1 formation for the remainder of the campaign, Arsene Wenger will be forced into making a number of changes following our hard - fought 120 minute victory over Man City on Sunday, and I think he'll opt to temporarily switch back to his former system for today.

In a city of about 200,000 people, 93,000 youngsters and adults per week use the schools in afternoons, evenings and on Saturdays — a greater number than are enrolled for the regular school day.

In 2014, City was found to be in breach of Financial Fair Play protocol, with UEFA questioning a number of figures used in the club's break - even calculation.

Under the mayor's plan, slated to start September 3, the city will keep a record of the number of bottles that hospitals stock and use.

So when I used my random number generator on Friday to select one of the two winners of Eat Your Vegetables, I was pleasantly surprised to see that one of them, a reader named Andrea, was located here in my city.

Lhota, who served as a deputy mayor under Giuliani at City Hall, chastised David from the podium, saying it was inappropriate for him to «disparage the 107th mayor of the city of New York with the words that you used when you look at what he did during those eight years in office where you saw, you actually saw the economy expanding, jobs expanding, I imagine even... the number of Crain's subscriptions actually increased very nicely in that period of time.&raCity Hall, chastised David from the podium, saying it was inappropriate for him to «disparage the 107th mayor of the city of New York with the words that you used when you look at what he did during those eight years in office where you saw, you actually saw the economy expanding, jobs expanding, I imagine even... the number of Crain's subscriptions actually increased very nicely in that period of time.&racity of New York with the words that you used when you look at what he did during those eight years in office where you saw, you actually saw the economy expanding, jobs expanding, I imagine even... the number of Crain's subscriptions actually increased very nicely in that period of time.»

While there are a number of expenditures that raise questions, several experts consulted by City & State made the point that the legal definition of what constitutes a legitimate use of campaign funds in New York State is extremely broad, and that even expenses that seemed like personal use on their face could actually be allowable based on the letter of the law.

Manchester city council will be opening up a number of empty buildings to be used by rough sleepers from next month.

But community advocates, city planners and business groups have expressed concerns about the changes for a number of reasons: from how much manufacturing space needs to be set aside and who will make sure that the space is being used how it's intended, to the affordability of those spaces.

A large number of Syracuse children have been poisoned by lead paint — which was banned for commercial use in 1978 — while living in old, deteriorating housing in the city.

DOB Commissioner Rick Chandler said on Wednesday that the city will use ID numbers rather than personal information to keep track of workers who have gone through the necessary training, Crain's reported.

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

Stringer was getting immediate Monday help from that very establishment, with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn dismissing Spitzer and Weiner as a pair — demonstrating the two - birds - with - one - stone strategy a number of Democrats are planning to use.

Question topics included the estimated time for completion of all of the Sandy recovery home rebuilding, the implementation of new flood maps, whether de Blasio's reported future endorsement of Hillary Clinton is tied to a longterm need for federal government assistance, whether in Secretary Castro's view the City could do better on any element of Sandy recovery efforts, communicating an increased sense of urgency to City agencies, significant variations in the reported number of Build It Back applicants, how the City will continue its increased rate of repairs, details on the construction firms used in the program and praise for developer Gerry Romski.

Question topics included the recent rollout of the City's municipal ID program, an internal PBA meeting reported to have degenerated into yelling and shoving over PBA President Pat Lynch's demands for an apology from the mayor and whether that provided «consolation» to the mayor, whether he takes comfort from the low number of PBA members reported to have signed «stay away from my funeral» statements, Bratton's comment that the «well was poisoned» by de Blasio's bring of former Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, a potential Teamsters strike at Hunts Point market, Governor Cuomo's consideration of legislation allowing public access to grand jury minutes, the mayor's objections to a City Council proposed bill outlawing police use of chokeholds, a reported Cuomo / Lynch meeting and what role the governor should fill in the Lynch / de Blasio dispute, whether the mayor is willing to acknowledge «missteps», the reports of Legionnaire's Disease in Co-op City, de Blasio's reaction to a possible 2016 Mitt Romney candidacy and when he last spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Buses were the focus of questions on transport, due to declining numbers on local services and the high number of people in the city region using private vehicles.

The CDBG program — which the city of Syracuse has used to fund a number of social programs and economic initiatives — is facing its end in President Donald Trump's latest budget proposal.

«She was coming with us to Albany when there were no cameras,» said Ansari, who runs the New York City office, «and using her celebrity to help elevate the voices and stories of parents and students that, like myself, have been coming up there for a number of years challenging New York State, to say, «When are black and brown kids gonna get their fair share of these dollars?

Cuomo has used a number of the incidents to back his claim that the facility should be shuttered, saying it poses a danger to New York City.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

An article in some editions on Monday about the ease with which Letitia James uses the courts to further her role as New York City's public advocate misstated the number of lawsuits that Mayor Bill de Blasio filed when he held that position.

The city will use the 1962 Speigel law, which allows it to cease rent payments on behalf of tenants living on public assistance should their building have a number of housing violations, as a «back to the future kind of solution» to dealing with bad landlords, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

Steven Matteo (R)- D50 - in Brooklyn, parts of Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, and Bath Beach; in Staten Island, Arrochar, Bulls Head, Concord, Dongan Hill, Emerson Hill, Fort Wadsworth, Grant City, Graniteville, Grasmere, Island of Meadows, Midland Beach, New Dorp, Prall's Island, Richmondtown, South Beach, Todt Hill, Travis, Westerleigh, Willowbrook - Sandy relief is still the number one priority in Staten Island, but Matteo has identified other issues affecting residents, including rampantprescription drug use.

The city has defended the figures saying the numbers would be even higher if it wasn't for some of the programs the de Blasio administration have put in place, including using temporary shelters.

Ms. Chin called plastic bag litter «one of the most pervasive environmental problems facing our city today,» claiming New Yorkers use 5.2 billion plastic bags per year: a mass that requires an annual $ 10 million in city funds to transport to landfills.The bill aims to reduce the number of bags used by up to 90 percent.

Although the individual number may sound small, when added up, Facebook's — and the world's — use of row after row of computer servers stored on racks in massive, refrigerated, windowless warehouses in places like Prineville, Ore., and Forest City, N.C., consumes a growing share of the globe's energy.

Indeed, a number of Scandinavian cities, including Stockholm, use bodies of water as heat sinks and have been doing so for more than a decade.

Instead, locations are identified using a hierarchical system of numbers designating apartment, building, block and district, which are then nested within cities and prefectures.

With pollution from particulate matter at potentially lethal levels early last December, city officials took a drastic step: they announced that they would temporarily restrict the use of private vehicles by allowing owners to drive only on alternate days, based on the sequence of their number plates.

The research uses factors such as the area of a city, the number of taxi trips made, and the average traffic speed, to determine what proportion of rides are shareable, given some modest assumptions about the flexibility passengers might have in terms of waiting for a ride.

Dr. Loren Fishman, Medical Director at Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in New York City, is a pioneer in the use of yoga as therapy for a number of health conditions, including rotator cuff syndrome, lower back pain, osteoporosis, arthritis, scoliosis, and more.