Sentences with phrase «systems of power in»

Since the mid-1990s, she has used lesbian feminist and craft traditions to investigate systems of power in institutions of art and education.

But I can give you freedom to overcome any system of power in which you find yourself, be it religious, economic, social, or political.

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With the use of simple systems, techniques and the power of true focus, Winfield teaches business owners how to get 40 hours of work done in 16.7 and much more.

In the United States, those systems, the backbones of our highways, bridges, levees, power grids and pipelines are crumbling.

But the situation also gave Sonnen the chance to showcase the potential of renewable energy systems as a way to provide immediate power to people in need.

Writing in the Independent, Eliza Anyangwe wrote that «the debate [Daum's] prom pictures have prompted is justified,» and that «cultural appropriation is about power, and to many she's the embodiment of a system that empowers white people to take whatever they want.»

Whether it's in the public sector or the private sector, utility managers are in charge of the facilities, plants, and distribution systems that bring the power to the people.

The backup power system recently installed by Tesla in Australia — the world's largest lithium - ion battery — has already responded to two major power outages after just weeks in use, an encouraging sign for the future of renewable energy.

«We appreciate the Secretary reinforcing the resilience of the bulk power system as an important issue that warrants further attention,» the agency said in the order.

But, that could change, especially in the case of Google, which has been focusing on its Android Auto software to power the car entertainment systems of auto companies, like Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

The answer to that concern came in the form of the technology that now underpins crucial parts of Estonia's system, as well as some of its most successful startups, and that, in the years ahead, could help power the country's future growth: the blockchain.

The two nuclear - powered probes launched 40 years ago and became the first and only robots to take close - up photographs of Uranus and Neptune, the planets» moons and rings, and other objects in the outer solar system.

Although this arrangement makes sense in many cases, as it can be more efficient, there are many networks where a centralized source of power poses significant threats to the health and fairness of the system.

Consumer Reports rated the power and fuel systems of the 2012 3 Series among the worst in the industry and gave the model year an «orange» overall rating — or two out of five — on its ratings scale.

The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO - E), which runs the grid powering 25 separate European countries, disclosed recently that «frequency deviations» in power supply have been experienced across the network since mid-January.

Known as Mr. Fix - It by some of his cabinet colleagues, Kenney has pledged to bring in major reforms to the system, including beefing up the auditing powers of federal inspectors who are hunting down abusers.

• V5 Systems, a Fremont, Calif. developer of self - powered computing and security platforms for the outdoors, raised $ 12 million in funding.

«Emerging market powers eager to move away from being tied to the monetary policy of the U.S. and the banking system as well as to adopt the block chain as a payment system prove willing adherents as they adjust to zero interest rates and the decrease in systematic risk.»

A MPUC representative declined to comment and instead directed us to contact the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO)-- a nonprofit organization that oversees high - voltage power grid infrastructure and reliability across Minnesota, 14 other US states in the Midwest (in whole and in part), and parts of Canada.

NVIDIA»S NEW COMPUTER FOR LEVEL 5 AUTONOMOUS CARS: Nvidia, one of the leading players in the self - driving space, announced a new computing system, dubbed Pegasus, which the company says could power a a Level 5 autonomous car, The Verge reports.

The graph of founder - density by city suggests a classic power law, which we see in network effect systems where «the rich get richer.»

Tesla has issued a worldwide recall related to the power - steering systems in 123,000 of its electric Model S vehicles.

One where a group of terrorists or «disgruntled insider» hackers break into the power system and bring 50 of the almost 700 generators in the northeastern U.S. offline, resulting in a blackout that lasts about 4 days.

In appropriate cases, small business owners who have been victims of crime can use the power of the criminal judicial system to recover financial losses at little or no additional expense.

Rossello highlighted how the island's electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.

In his role as Ethereum's chief scientist, Buterin looks to Linus Torvalds, the firebrand inventor of Linux, an open - source computing system that powers many operating systems today, as inspiration.

After the Carnival Triumph cruise ship caught fire and subsequently lost power in the Gulf of Mexico in 2013, the plumbing system pooped out — literally.

More likely, there are still nuclear plants running, and there may even be some natural gas plants lingering in the system — not running at full capacity, but they have the ability to power up quickly when there's not a lot of sun or wind.

So I think as long as readers — whether they admit it publicly or not — as long as readers have a hunger for true, critical, funny stories about how the system works and about the concentration of money and power in modern society, as long as they have that appetite, then a site like Gawker.com is going to have a continued purpose.

«As soon as the storm passed, Tesla began sending hundreds of Powerwall battery systems that can be paired with solar panels to the devastated island in an effort to restore electric power there,» reports Fortune, «and the shipments of Powerwall battery systems are continuing.»

This year, we expect it to be almost one in five TVs — almost 20 % of the Smart TV market this year will be powered by our operating system.

The nation's largest chain of drive - in restaurants saw system - wide same - stores sales rise 2.2 percent during the first quarter, powered by a 2.3 percent increase at franchise drive - ins, the corporation reported Monday.

Lafley had installed a complex «matrix» organizational system that shared power among executives in charge of functions such as HR, marketing, and finance; executives overseeing geographic regions; and executives for product categories such as beauty care.

Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in HaPower to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hapower system in Hawaii.

The research suggests video games could become a kind of hippocampus training gym: they might some day help older people restore lost memory power and «keep that [memory] system in top form,» as Stark says.

While Kobo will exist as a store in its own right, its system will also power the e-book concerns of an array of other partners worldwide, from other retailers to computer and cellphone makers.

In Texas, the system has held up well considering Harvey's size and power, said Jamie Barnett, a partner at Venable and a former chief of the FCC's public safety bureau.

According to a fascinatingly nerdy deep dive into the subject in the New Yorker, the current mania for the word «hack» all started way back in the 1950s at MIT, where members of the model railroad club were already warning those «hacking on the electrical system turn the power off to avoid fuse blowing.»

They want to unbundle a financial system grown «too interconnected to fail,» and they prescribe solutions for the global good in a world where the G20 outstrips the G8 (including an IMF reorganization to reflect that shift in the balance of power).

John Collison, the Irish cofounder of Stripe, the payments processing company now powering many in - app purchase systems, has been proclaimed the world's youngest self - made billionaire by Forbes in its new world's richest list.

Based on a concept originally hatched by Musk, SolarCity was founded in 2006 by brothers Peter and Lyndon Rive and is provider of solar power systems to the U.S.

SolarCity provides nearly one out of every three new residential solar power systems in the U.S., and now has more than 300,000 installed residential and commercial customers across the country.

This spring, an investor closed on the warehouse for $ 30 per square foot, well below the going rate for the area, and started upgrading the power, water, and ventilation systems in a speculative bet that a new marijuana law would spark a wave of demand from growing operations.

Baher Abdulhai, director of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Centre in the University of Toronto's civil engineering department, is a believer in the healing powers of traffic technology.

Of the more than 300,000 solar power systems the company has installed, the majority are under leases and PPAs and are contracted to generate more than $ 8 billion in customer payments over the next 20 years, and up to $ 4.8 billion more with customer renewals after year 20.

The same round received another infusion of cash in a deal led by Intuit, with which Revel has an existing partnership — the two offer a checkout offering called QuickBooks Point of Sale, powered by Revel Systems.

EMC is the leader in storage systems but has seen that power base under siege by more nimble players that got into flash storage faster than EMC did and don't have to protect an aging base of disk storage the way EMC does.

«The high level of combined hash power in the Ghash pool is concerning to many participants in the system,» said one such member, BitFury, an industrial bitcoin mining firm.

«As a leader and trusted partner in the bitcoin system, BitFury has decided to transfer some of its hashing power away from Ghash to help reduce these concerns.»

Under the 2010 Dodd - Frank Act, which toughened financial regulations in an effort to avoid a repeat of the 2008 crisis, the oversight panel had the power to designate non-bank institutions such as AIG as systemically important financial institutions, meaning that their failure could pose a risk to the entire financial system.