Sentences with phrase «of leap 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).

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

The advantage of a leap year proposal might be that such anniversaries would only be celebrated once every 4 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.