Sentences with phrase «past major events»

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O'Reilly, whose company produces technology books and events, has been at the forefront of nearly every major development in computers over the past three decades.

Reviewing data on major geopolitical events in the past 100 - plus years, Credit Suisse's former head of research and deputy global CIO Giles Keating and his team previously found that stocks generally bounced back after such shocks.

The past six months have been an extraordinary period for Chinese politics, with a steady series of high - level events and major changes unprecedented in recent history.

That diversity is on display in a major way at the Los Angeles Times» second annual L.A. Food Bowl festival, which runs for the full month of May and includes hundreds of different meal events from high - profile chefs like Nancy Silverton (Mozza), Curtis Stone (Gwen) and Yoshihiro Narisawa whose eponymous Tokyo restaurant Gold said made him «shudder with pleasure» in his review this past month.

Our Sun is more active than ever recorded and every major catastrophe on this planet in the past couple of years can be directly related to events in our solar system.

He notes (p. 110) that in one essay I argued that even remote past events can have direct efficacy, but I intended that this be viewed not as the major explanation of Jesus» efficacy but only as a relevant factor in understanding certain doctrines of his presence.

In addition to her past as a working chef, she has held posts in marketing, event planning, catering and on major national accounts involving commercial and non-commercial operations.

In addition to the Resort distribution, Perky Jerky will sponsor major on - mountain events throughout the year, starting with the Aspen Winternational World Cup hosted this past weekend and the Aspen Freeskiing Open presented by Perky Jerky on February 18 - 20, 2016.

But once you learn how to positiona baby easily for nursing, once the baby learns how to latch on quickly, once the early weeks are past, feeding just isn't a major event.

In addition to his cash flow, Garodnick's records show he spent about $ 34,000 over the past six months, mainly on campaign consultants, voter databases, and a major event at the Mexican restaurant Mojave in Astoria, Queens.

«Our first responsibility was to comply with the federal investigation,» said Arzt, adding that most of Liu's major fundraising events had come in the past three weeks.

McMahon says Cuomo's kept a lid on spending without making major changes to state government, because he's benefited from several events over the past few years.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has made mass transit a major focus of late, holding a series of events over the past year regarding airport redevelopment, railroad expansion, new transportation hubs and vehicles, and more.

The spotlight on dynamic systems is a major shift for agencies like the Army Corps, which in the past paid more attention to engineered solutions, Bostick said last week during an event at the National Academy of Sciences that focused on the state of resilience in the country.

However, more - massive stars penetrating the Oort cloud in the distant past might have triggered major comet showers that pummelled the planets and led to some of the mass extinction events on Earth, says Mamajek.

Rami Tzabar, development editor for BBC Radio Science and World Service, called the story «a forensic analysis of everything that is wrong with current (and past) attitudes to flooding, an innate misguided belief that every major event is a freak of nature and that we can engineer our way out of the problem whilst largely ignoring the cause.»

In fact, for temperature the major step toward the ice ages that have characterised the past two to three million years was a cooling event at 2.7 million years ago, but for ice - volume the crucial step was the development of the first intense ice age at around 2.15 million years ago.

«Although the regions experienced several major haze events over the past twenty years, the 2015 event was one of the worst,» said Shannon N. Koplitz, first author and Harvard graduate student.

The study of the Tunguska event is important because past collisions with extraterrestrial bodies have had major effects on the evolution of the earth.

During the past 8,500 years the fault has shifted some 1.8 meters (about six feet) and has produced three major earthquakes, of which the 1356 event was the most recent.

At baseline the participants reported the number of stressful life events that they had experienced in the past year, such as a divorce, serious illness, major financial problem, or the death of a spouse.

In the past, major bleaching events were most likely to happen when El Niño brought bands of warmer water to the tropics.

If proxy data can confirm that sea ice was indeed the major player in past abrupt climate - change events, it seems less likely that such dramatic abrupt changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive sea - ice cover will not be present.

Interestingly, the researchers found that the men and women who had experienced a major stressful event in the past year were overall less upset by smaller daily stresses.

Whether this anxiety is triggered by the fear of death in a major life threatening illness or whether it is a pattern of worrying about the future or dwelling in past traumatic events, it gets more intense at night as the unconscious mind needs to take over from the conscious mind for sleep to happen.

Promotional signs announcing Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, which took place this past weekend from July 14 to July 17, were spread around South Beach in the same way as they are in New York City, and most of the major hotels host events, retreats, and rent out suites to designers looking to show off their new collections.

Even though a BBC miniseries serves as its basis, «State of Play» has a scrapbook worth of major American news items from the past decade such that it might as well tout itself as inspired by true events.

Three major events of the past 100 years are so earth - shattering that inevitably people would ask: Where were you when...» For example, «Where were you when the Towers were brought down on 9/11?»

The exciting schedule, kept secret until Opening Day, consists of over two dozen filmmakers presenting their newest works, special Guest Director programs, three major Tributes to guest artists, special events and remarkable treasures from the past.

This one tends toward the latter, with the author emerging not as a journalist - observer at major education events of the past 40 years but more as a key mover in far more of those events than he actually influenced.

With a little over 100 test miles, this crowd pleaser received a full restoration over the past few years, and has been spotted at several major car shows and events, including on the grass the prestigious Automotive Concours at Monarch Dunes.

In the past 40 years, Michelin is the only tire manufacturer to have won events and titles in almost all of motorsport's major disciplines.

Volunteers from the Project Hart team were in Ferguson, Missouri this past Saturday to organize our first major donation event in association with the Ferguson Youth Initiative.

But stepping out of my end - user shoes for a second, I realize there's another perspective to today's Honeycomb event, namely, nothing major was shown today that wasn't either expected or previously announced as a «coming soon» bit from Google in the past.

Over the past decade, several major market events have offered opportunities to observe ETFs in stressed environments and gauge their risk to the market's stability.

«There has hardly been a major tourism - building event in Vancouver over the past 30 years that he wasn't involved in.

Over the past few summers with significant improvements made to our bike park and through hosting some major mountain biking competition events, Fernie is becoming more and more known as a top summer biking destination.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

He has scored a plethora of major top 8 placings over the past few years, including 1st place victories at events such as Get On My Level 2017 and CEO 2016.

There was a major Gears of War Pro Circuit event going down in Las Vegas this past weekend... But, how many competitive gaming fans actually knew about it?

QTEs allow players more control during major events and fight scenes that, in the past, would have delegated them to the sideline rather than having some control over the outcome.

Sourcing data from Wikipedia and DBpedia, timeglobe is essentially an online interactive globe of history, empowering users to peruse and bounce through major events of the past the world over.

Over the past year, a number of curators took on new appointments at major museums and also have been tapped for programming roles at art fairs and biennials, international events with increasing influence in the global art world.

In addition to the numerous solo exhibitions that have been devoted to the artist over the past thirty years, a number of major artistic events, such as Aurora Borealis in 1985, have included his work.

Organized by Sharon L. Kennedy, curator of cultural and civic engagement, and Brandon K. Ruud, curator of transnational American art, the exhibition presents major figures and events — along with some overlooked moments and people — from the past.

Our special annual issue, the Almanac, published in January, covers the major art events of the past year and forecasts the key trends of the year to come, and is included as part of the regular annual subscription.

«Cuba's Plaza of the Revolution is one such place — a stark, inhospitable arena where all the major political events of the past half - century have been marked by mass choreography, militarized displays and rhetorical flourish.

In addition to numerous solo shows in public museums and art halls including in Cologne, Geneva, and Amsterdam, in the past ten years he has participated in many major art events, such as the São Paulo Biennale, the Venice Biennale, and documenta 12 in 2007.

The Musée des Beaux - Arts in Lausanne is delighted to be hosting the first exhibition to showcase Kader Attia's art in the country as part of its series of solo exhibitions devoted to major contemporary artists, with past events including artists of the stature of Tom Burr, Alfredo Jaar, Renée Green, Nalini Malani, and Esther Shalev - Gerz.

In addition to numerous solo shows in public museums in the past ten years, he has participated in many major art events, such as the São Paulo Biennale, the Venice Biennale, and documenta in 2007.