If Gottfried were to be re-elected in 2016 and 2018 and serve the entire of these terms, the distribution
of leap years would let him beat Marchi by one day.
Because
of leap years, time zone differences and other factors, the exact day and time when the Sun changes signs varies from year to year.
The clock features a number of functions including the inclusion
of leap years and equinoxes; an impressive feat on a clock these days, let alone at the time of its construction in 1843.
On the eve
of the leap year day, we took some time to reflect on one of our favorite game series, Pokémon.
It is an edition of 366 (one for every day
of the leap year) and is currently shown in the Danish - Icelandic artist's commission at the Château de Versailles, where it's installed on a window, allowing viewers to gaze through it over the gardens.
Thankfully, it doesn't move around quite as much since the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar, but on short timescales (< 500 years) the impacts
of leap years and the variation of the vernal equinox can alias climatic trends.
The advantage
of a leap year proposal might be that such anniversaries would only be celebrated once every 4 years.
Christmas babies don't come often, as December 25th is the least common birthday in the United States (other than February 29, because
of leap years).
Not exact matches
That vision and his company's incredible financial performance — Nvidia has been growing profits at better than 50 % annually and its stock has
leapt from $ 30 to above $ 200 in two
years — make Huang the clear choice as Fortune's Businessperson
of the
Year for 2017.
(
Years later, he would describe his decision to accept the job as a «Vermont
leap of faith.»)
SBA Administrator Karen Mills said the program led average weekly loan approvals to
leap by 87 percent compared to the weekly average before the passage
of last
year's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Accounting technology has come on
leaps and bounds in recent
years, and using this sophisticated software business owners and managers can automate and balance their books without delving into the complicated world
of accounting.
The number
of distributed denial -
of - service (DDoS) attacks — which are designed to paralyze a target network with a deluge
of messages, often sent from a bevy
of hijacked computers —
leaped more than 170 % last
year, and Cisco projects it will jump again by a factor
of two or more by 2021.
Between 2014 and this
year, ransomware
leaped from the 22nd most common form
of digital malware attack to the fifth most common method, according to a 2017 Verizon Data Breach analysis.
Over the past four
years, readers have doubtlessly noticed quantum
leaps in the quality
of a wide range
of everyday technologies.
Over two
years, the price
of their policy
leaps by 30 % to $ 16,062.
Cboe launched the bitcoin futures under the «XBT» ticker symbol on Sunday following a giant
leap in the digital currency's price this
year and a surge
of investor interest.
CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, draws more than 180,000 people and 4,000 companies, all
of whom are eager to know: Will this be the
year [fill - in - the - blank technology] finally makes the
leap from science fiction to something people can buy, and might actually want to?
By the middle
of the
year, he hoped, a couple
of his clients might be ready to make the
leap up from a microloan to the 504.
Little do these skeptics, who rain on the home business owner's parade, know is that the number
of people working from home, and making very good annual incomes, has grown by
leaps and bounds in recent
years.
Her advice totally goes against conventional wisdom, Vigeland admits, and following it is likely to be terrifying, but nonetheless she urges «everyone who's ever dreamed
of setting fire to expense reports or tossing a uniform in the dumpster to take a flying
leap in the
year ahead.»
This marks a pretty big
leap over the amount
of people tuning in monthly just a
year before.
«Millennials make up the largest share
of those seeking starter homes, a portion
of the market that saw inventory plummet 14.2 percent and prices
leap nearly 10 percent
year - over-
year in Q1 2017,» wrote Cheryl Young, a senior economist at Trulia.
It will run around the clock, 365 days a
year, with an extra day during
leap year, and on the Fourth
of July, too.
Along with the rise
of its nuclear and missile programs, the Hermit Kingdom's hacking prowess has improved by
leaps and bounds in recent
years.
Los Angeles area game developer Giovanni Luis made the
leap to entrepreneur after 20
years of working for Electronic Arts and Sony.
That's a 9.6 percent gain from the $ 89,100 average
of a
year ago, and a big
leap from the $ 73,300 average
of five
years ago.
And in the past three
years, a few distributions have made stupendous
leaps in performance and usability, winning the affection
of millions
of mainstream desktop users.
When American Express sent Capen, a cardholder for the past six
years, a notice that she was preapproved for a $ 25,000 line
of credit, she
leaped at the offer.
U.S. bourbon and Tennessee whiskey revenue
leapt 47 % over the past five
years, totaling $ 2.68 billion in 2014, according to the Distilled Spirits Council
of the U.S..
Also, Apple and RIM's other smartphone competitors won't be sitting still: as they've demonstrated in recent
years, they're quite capable
of competing with RIM, and if RIM does build a BlackBerry that represents a «quantum
leap,» Apple and the Android manufacturers won't be far behind.
Several times over the past few
years, RIM's management has promised that the company's next generation
of products would be mind - blowing — Balsillie said the Torch, for example, would be a «quantum
leap» over the iPhone — only to have the reality disappoint.
As Warby Parker prepares to finally take the
leap and open its first flagship store in New York City this March, here's a look at some
of the experimental ways this nearly three -
year - old company has reinvented retail.
I feel like if I picked up my Android today, there hasn't been a qauntam
leap of change in the last couple
of years — a little bigger screen, a little more memory.
Consulting firm Spencer Stuart reports that last
year 43 %
of new board appointments among Canada's 100 largest companies were women, a
leap from 28 % in 2013 and three times the rate in 2009.
«The maximum size shall be 8,000,000 bytes at a timestamp
of 2016-01-11 00:00:00 UTC (timestamp 1452470400), and shall double every 63,072,000 seconds (two
years, ignoring
leap years), until 2036-01-06 00:00:00 UTC (timestamp 2083190400).»
Over the last six
years, Facebook investors have contributed extravagant sums during multiple rounds
of funding as the social network's own user base has grown by
leaps and bounds.
When it comes to medical treatment, the brain and central nervous system remain the darkest, most forbidding frontiers in the human body — and yet our knowledge
of how the brain and mind actually work seems to be growing by
leaps each
year.
On our shores, the
year - earlier period benefited from the launch
of All Day Breakfast (that quarter also had an extra day
of sales due to
leap year), so we expected comps here to be negative.
The fiscal cliff, off which U.S. taxpayers may have to
leap on Jan. 1, 2013, if the Bush tax cuts expire, is seen as being the inevitable consequence
of Washington lawmakers» infighting unless President Obama and Congress honestly confront this deadline in an election
year.
Emilie and Rory Golden were your average corporate employees until five
years ago when they recognized a business opportunity, took a
leap of faith, quit their jobs, and founded EF5 Tornado Shelters.
My 11 -
year - old self would never have believed that 50
years later our governments would be continuing to prop up the extraction and export
of fossil fuels, rather than
leaping to embrace the green future that awaited us.
If you're ready to take an evolutionary
leap of your own, check out this list
of 29 amazing PPC tools you need to try this
year.
A critical shortage
of houses for sale caused home prices in March to take the biggest
leap in four
years.
Although the cars will then need to
leap the hurdle
of regulatory approvals, which the exec and perennial inventor said would tack on another «one to five
years.»
In 2016, we began to see breakout companies develop and make the
leap to raising larger series A and even B rounds
of financing — 26 %
of investments made during the
year were for series A and B rounds.
China — a country that has grown by
leaps and bounds in expertise in recent
years — has aggressively funded development
of next - generation technology in ways that have alarmed some foreign governments and businesses.
[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's
leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid
of your fear
of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5
years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a
year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20
year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think
of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story
of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story
of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story
of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance
of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome
of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit
of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit
of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out
of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out
of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out
of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?
As we begin the first quarter
of 2017, we are mindful
of the comparison we face against first quarter 2016 results, which benefited from
leap year, favourable weather and continued momentum from All - Day Breakfast in the U.S.»
As Tom Bissell, a journalist, former Salon writer and lifelong gamer, explains in his new book, «Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter,» the graphics, storytelling and interactivity
of gaming have all made tremendous
leaps forward in recent
years, allowing players to intermingle with nuanced, fleshed - out digital characters in near - photo - realistic environments.