Sentences with phrase «series of changes at»

Mayer is implementing a series of changes at Yahoo, as she bids to bring the once mighty content firm back to form.

Commissioner Ray Kelly's top intelligence official handed in his resignation this month, part of an expected series of changes at the top of the NYPD as Bill Bratton prepares to take the helm in January.

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The changes are part of a series of updates expected in the coming year to improve privacy, security and transparency at Uber, Sullivan said.

The second installment of Fortune's #SaveTheSeaport series looks at the changing marketplace in South Street Seaport post-Sandy.

Last week, the Academy announced a series of changes to its membership and governance structure aimed at «doubling the number of women and diverse members of the Academy by 2020.»

«NationBuilder is that rarest of products that not only has the potential to change its market, but to change the world,» Ben Horowitz, general partner and co-founder at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, said in a press release announcing NationBuilder's series A funding in March.

And this happens, at least partially, because of a series of complex biological changes that occur when you diet.

This acclimation process gives the software a chance to record your brain waves and trains you to use them consistently before it throws a series of increasingly difficult challenges at you, such as reconstructing simply via thought a fallen bridge needed for a mystical journey while a fiery sky changes hue in response to your emotional state.

With an entrepreneurial background that spans a variety of fields, including entertainment, fashion, technology and media, Aldridge created the original web series Project Luminary to shine a light on all the remarkable people changing the world one big, bold dream at a time.

To determine the national average wage index for 2016 at a level that is consistent with the national average wage indexing series for prior years, we multiply the 2015 national average wage index of 48,098.63 by the percentage change in average wages from 2015 to 2016 (based on our tabulated wage data).

Venture capital activity in India, particularly at the Series A level, hasn't changed much even though the number of angel...

All the animals completed a series of cognitive tests at the start of the study and were injected with a substance that allows scientists to track changes in their brain structures.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

If we look to federal jurisdiction, the National Energy Board has issued a series of decisions since 2010, with input from Environment and Climate Change Canada, requiring offsetting for caribou and other species at risk and rare or sensitive habitats.

BURNABY — New Democrats say a series of troubling recent incidents show how the B.C. Liberal government's changes to emergency response policies are putting patients at risk.

Net Change is a week - long series of events at the MaRS Centre in Toronto exploring the intersection between technology and social cChange is a week - long series of events at the MaRS Centre in Toronto exploring the intersection between technology and social changechange.

Simon Potter, Executive Vice President (Speaker) Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 Time: 8:00 PM EDT (5:00 PM PDT) Subject: Money Markets at a Crossroads: Policy Implementation at a Time of Structural Change Event: Distinguished Guest Speaker Series Organizers: UCLA Master of Applied Economics and UCLA Master of Financial Engineering at the Anderson School of Management Location: UCLA Melnitz Hall, James Bridges Theater, 235 Charles E. Young Dr. East, Los Angeles, CA

In his next of a series which looks at the challenges of change, culture and technology, Gerard Kelly asks whether our most basic assumptions about family life are really true.

In his next of a series which looks at the challenges of change, culture and technology, Gerard Kelly asks whether our most basic assumptions about family... More

It also inspired CENTURY editors to inaugurate the well - known «How My Mind Has Changed» series at the end of the decade.

That all changed recently when, through a series of events, I arrived at a place where I got honest with myself (as I mentioned previously), dropped my religion and chose to trust what my heart was telling me, namely that God exists and he is loving.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Treasury chairman Paul Rayner has been under intense pressure after a series of missteps at the world's largest stand - alone wine company over the past 15 months, with a change of ownership now highly likely for the owner of Penfolds, Rosemount, Wolf Blass, Wynns and Lindemans.

Tickets will be discounted for the series at Miller Park and due to last minute staffing issues because of the change, attendance will be capped at 10,000 for Friday's game and 23,000 for Saturday and Sunday.

But perhaps the tone of the series will change in San Antonio, where the Spurs are 11 - 0 SU and 10 - 1 ATS over their last 11 games.

Last weekend Pittsburgh moved into Milwaukee for a scheduled three - game series, the first of at least two dozen crucial ones that should pop up this year, and the picture began to change.

Maybe the high school classes of 2013 and 2014 will change that, because at Bay Area World Series 2012 (BAWS) there are going to be quite a few catchers who will get strong attention from Division I colleges, and eventually develop into professional prospects.

The result has been a remarkable series of innovations that have changed the sport and (so far at least) kept everyone alive

A whole raft of rule changes this year turned the DTM from a series that was - let's be honest - slightly boring at times, to one that was an absolute must watch.

Other, more minor changes include the introduction of Nascar - style two - lane rolling starts at every race, the addition of a series of complex mirrors and cameras to the Halo in order to make it appear invisible to the naked eye, and bonus points being awarded to the driver who can exceed the pit lane speed limit by the smallest margin over the course of the weekend.

Paul metropolitan area during the 2009 - 2010 school year to a series of five questions about muscle - enhancing behaviors, two healthy (changing eating patterns and exercising more) and three unhealthy (using protein powders or shakes, taking steroids, or employing another muscle - building substance such as creatine, amino acids, HMB, DHEA, or growth hormone), researchers at the University of Minnesota and Columbia University found that almost all students surveyed (90 % of boys, 80 % of girls) reported doing at least 1 behavior with this as the goal, and up to one - third reported the use of unhealthy methods.

Through a series of unlikely events, they had an experience at Story Land and in the Mount Washington Valley that changed their family forever — that helped them get through Belle's pediatric cancer treatment in a way nothing else could.

At the end of the November, Bummis released the Pure making a series of significant changes to their already pretty awesome all in one cloth diaper.

The Chicago Park District unveiled plans Thursday to increase staff levels and extend hours at 22 of the district's summer day camps, the latest in a series of changes in the district, which has been criticized for not adapting to the needs of city residents.

The series Through The Ice, Darkly currently on show at the Peggy Notebaert Museum as part of the Weather To Climate exhibition is specifically about the subjective change in the landscape, the shift of mood apparent to an artist's eyes, a lost ice world.

Many pregnant women in week 38 notice that they have gained anymore weight nor is there a change in the size of their bellyl However if the baby has dropped further into the pelvis then the belly appears to be at a lower position than beforer Pregnancy week 38 symptoms include a swelling in the ankles of the pregnant woman and also an anxiety about the entire process of labor and birtht It is advisable that woman in pregnancy week 38 visit their birthing center to ensure that they are aware where everything is available so that there is no confusion on the day of the deliveryr Another common pregnancy week 38 symptom experienced by most women is what is commonly known as «false labor» wherein a series of contraction are experienced in the back, abdomen, pelvis and various other parts of the bodyd

He will be speaking at Siena College's Marcelle Athletic Complex on Thursday, March 26 at 7 p.m. as part of Siena's Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King Lecture Series on Race and Nonviolent Social Change.

CITY HALL — Calling Rikers Island a «dehumanizing environment,» Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a series of fixes Thursday he said would change the atmosphere of «neglect» and reduce violence at the troubled jail.

Although his office can not mandate repairs to the voting system, de Blasio announced that the city would spend $ 20 million to improve the Board of Elections, provided it would agree to a series of changes aimed at addressing the problems with last week's primary.

The Tomlinson report published in October 2004 proposed a series of radical changes, including replacing GCSEs, A Levels and vocational qualifications with a single diploma available at four levels - entry, foundation, intermediate and advanced.

The change drew fierce criticism from African - American leaders, who in October rallied in protest at the SolarCity work site and have held a series of community meetings since then.

I would rightly have stood condemned had I sought to resist a series of changes that were urged on us as we pooled our collective wisdom from all sides of the House, at both ends of the building, to achieve a better bill.»

Responding to recent scandals at public - job sites, Milwaukee aldermen signed off Tuesday on a series of policies that could eventually change the way contractors do business with the city.

Richard Schrock, a chemist now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and colleagues changed that picture in the early 1970s when they came up with a series of molybdenum -, tungsten -, and tantalum - based catalysts that were highly active and efficient.

Saey said the series is «not just a «woe is me» summary of the bad news on climate change, but a clear - eyed look at how conservationists are preparing for the reality of altered climate while still maintaining biological diversity and saving jobs.»

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

«This kind of long - term time series is really essential to understanding global environmental change,» says Carrie Masiello, an Earth systems scientist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, who was not involved in the study.

Cancer begins with a series of genetic changes that prompt a group of cells to overreplicate and then invade surrounding tissue, the point at which true malignancy begins.

At the same time, Acemoglu has conducted a wide - ranging series of studies analyzing and modeling political change in many countries, often with political scientist James Robinson of the University of Chicago.

Gene expression changes gradually at each stage of treatment, as illustrated by the color changes in this series of heat maps.