Sentences with phrase «testing of our new community»

I invited the adventurous types to give the beta testing of our new community site Home Love Stories a try and wow, over 300 of you did!

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It has a ton of features and the company lets select community members beta test new features as they're in development.

«Over the last 10 to 20 years, because of blogs and the applicant community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and how they manage the interview,» Vice Dean Karl T. Ulrich explained in an interview when the school announced the new test.

The Thiel Foundation has pledged «up to to $ 1,000,000» to the Seasteading Institute, whose stated purpose is «to enable seasteading communities — floating cities — which will allow the next generation of pioneers to peacefully test new ideas for government.»

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

Using the community, the Catalyst team was able to test the end - to - end migration experience of existing customer email services over to a new Telstra Mail platform.

VICTORIA — After the Christy Clark government refused to take the issue of lead in the drinking water of North Coast communities seriously, B.C. New Democrat MLA for the North Coast, Jennifer Rice, initiated water testing in three social housing units...

VICTORIA — After the Christy Clark government refused to take the issue of lead in the drinking water of North Coast communities seriously, B.C. New Democrat MLA for the North Coast, Jennifer Rice, initiated water testing in three social housing units in her community.

On top of testing their faith, the plant has also been a steep learning curve for the couple — settling their young children into a new city, forming a fledgling church community and learning how to lead together.

Women's stories serve not only as the testing ground for new theological proposals, but also as material for building new theological traditions that revitalize the entire community of faith.

So the community must also be a garden for heresy, or at least for the testing of new ideas.

In a column, Dame Sarah Mullally, who will officially be installed as the new Bishop of London on 12th May, said building lasting communities «which demonstrate our commonality and build resilience» would be the real test of a permanent tribute to those who have experienced the suffering from terror attacks.

If anyone at the corporate level, or among the franchisee community, has a new idea for a menu item, a kitchen in one of the corporate sites will create it, and then test it in three or four other corporate locations.

As such, I recognize and appreciate that there are some in the concussion community, especially scientists - who by their very nature are appropriately cautious in endorsing any new technology without validation via rigorous, peer - reviewed testing - as well as some of the helmet manufacturers themselves, who believe that impact sensor technology has not advanced sufficiently to warrant their widespread use in contact and collision sports.

But quality control problems shouldn't detract from the fact that in community - wide taste testing of the new food items at the central kitchen, over 300,000 comments were collected and 75 % of them were positive.

«Two days of testing is a natural next step, as long as the assessments continue to cover the material needed to truly measure every student's strengths and challenges, and the changes are implemented carefully and with the input of educators and communities,» High Achievement New York, which advocates for higher standards, said in a statement.

In addition to honoring Rockland County's artists, supporters of the arts and arts organizations, this year's celebration will include the new «Ars Longa» Award, created by Vanderhoef to recognize a Rockland County artist whose body of work has stood the test of time and who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the County's arts community.

The Clean Air Coalition of Western New York wants the DEC to allow for meaningful community input similar to how it handled air testing that exposed Tonawanda Coke for releasing illegal amounts of carcinogens into nearby neighborhoods.

«The test will be whether communities will recognize the value of and accept these new and improved facilities, and whether the city will pay nonprofits what they need to do these jobs right,» he said.

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

New York State officials are continuing to test public and private wells in the Rensselaer County community of Hoosick Falls as the village is beginning to flush contaminants from its water system.

The five pledges are: secure the recovery; raise family living standards; build a hi - tech economy; protect frontline investment in policing, schools, childcare and the NHS — with a new guarantee of cancer test results within a week; and strengthen fairness in communities through controlled immigration, guarantees of education, apprenticeships and jobs for young people and a crackdown on antisocial behaviour.

First author Professor Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Director of Institute of Experimental Genetics at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, who invented the mouse clinic concept, said: «Our findings with regard to the genes examined are now available to the scientific community as a valid data set, which can be downloaded free of charge from the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium) website, and form an excellent basis on which we and other research groups can develop and test new hypotheses.»

The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health's Project Accept — a trial conducted by the HIV Prevention Trials Network to test a combination of social, behavioral and structural HIV - prevention interventions — demonstrated that a series of community efforts boosted the number of people tested for HIV and resulted in a 14 percent reduction in new HIV infections, compared with control communities.

Today Friedman is a leading proponent of the seasteading movement, an effort to create permanent floating communities in international waters that would allow «the next generation of pioneers to peacefully test new ideas of government,» he says.

Within one month of announcing its Community Fiber Initiative, the company had received more then 1,100 responses from communities throughout the U.S. requesting to become test sites for Google's new network.

Improved diagnostic tests are on the horizon, but we need huge efforts to increase their accuracy, use them for active case finding in the community, and eventually make them available in low income countries so as to inform treatment decisions and preserve the efficacy of any new antibiotic drugs for TB,» says lead author of the Commission Professor Keertan Dheda, University of Cape Town.

Brain Canada invested $ 3 million toward this research program to develop the new drug - testing platform; in addition, ACHRI provided the matching dollars for this award from the support of community donations through the Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation.

GLP regulations and guidelines for the conduct of preclinical testing ensure the quality and integrity of data submitted in support to the development of new treatments, foster mutual acceptance of data in the international community, serves to minimise redundant testing, minimize animal use and maximise protection of human health.

New standards, methods and testing protocol for the clinical treatment of Hashimoto's Thyroiditis need to be addressed and implemented by medical community.

In March of 2015, the American Medical Association and the Centers for Disease Control joined the American Diabetes Association and launched a new program called «Prevent Diabetes STAT (Screen / Test / Act Today ™)» which promotes tools for healthcare providers to screen and refer people to diabetes prevention programs in their communities.

Empty Profiles - The Scourge of the Dating Website Prior to recently launching sugardaddyhaven.com I spent many weeks researching hundreds of dating websites, niche dating websites and dating chatrooms, and it became obvious to me that the main problem in trying to create a community of genuine and responsible members is the curse of the incomplete profile.Many dating sites offer a free trial period in order to give the prospective customer the opportunity to test the facilities available, and perhaps even make contact with new friends before deciding to join as a paying member.

To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA) test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community.

So we decided Early Access would be ideal to test the waters and break into a new genre with the help of our community.

This prequel to «The Purge» trilogy which looks at the very first time «The Purge» was implemented as the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community.

Citing low graduation rates and poor scores on basic - skills tests, New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has proposed that community colleges within the City University of New York system end open enrollment and eliminate remedial course offerings.

MDRC is currently partnering with community - based organizations in New York City to develop and test interventions that address each of these approaches.

The data generated as a by - product of the law's testing requirements have been a boon to the research community — and may ultimately yield a new body of evidence to inform education policy and practice.

• Continuing to enhance the Center's redesigned website by conducting usability testing and improving navigation and functionality, as well as exploring new platforms to connect and support a growing community of innovators interested in using science to catalyze new thinking and action.

The Hemera Foundation created an Innovation Fund to support the Center on the Developing Child as it pursues its goal of catalyzing the design, implementation, testing and potential scaling of new or improved intervention strategies for families, communities and community systems.

Those efforts must be supplemented by strategies linked to knowledge - based theories of change and a new generation of programs, communities, and states that are willing to co-design and test new approaches that will play a critical role in creating the future of early childhood policy and practice.

Without a doubt, I was convinced, he will look at this new flat world, where Americans must compete with people not from their own community or state but from all over the planet, and declare our patchwork education system — with its 50 sets of academic standards and tests — no longer up to the challenges at hand and say that the time has come for rigorous national standards and tests, political obstacles be damned.

The study, which was conducted at three community colleges at the City University of New York, represents the first controlled test of an alternative to traditional remediation.

In tandem with a new website that offers important educational resources, including thinking routines to stimulate learning, the paper solidifies Agency by Design's efforts to shape a set of research - based, educator - tested practices and to invite the broad community of maker educators into a conversation about the ideas driving and shaping the movement.

To that end, CZI is aspiring to foster «a collaborative community of leading researchers, practitioners, advocates, and policymakers committed to: continuing to explore and advance the science, including by testing new research methodologies that surface the unique needs of individual children; designing and providing the tools and systems of support necessary to help educators and school leaders implement SoLD - aligned practice shifts; advancing science - informed national, state and district policies; and working to limit practices and policies that the science makes clear are detrimental to children's learning and development.»

High Achievement New York, a statewide coalition of parents, teachers, administrators as well as community and business leaders in support of Common Core, is promoting the tests statewide, including statements from Brenda McDuffie, president and CEO of the Buffalo Urban League, and Samuel Radford, president of the District Parent Coordinating Council of Buffalo.

The article looks at alternatives to standardized tests as high school graduation requirements, profiling the East Side Community High School in New York City which has replaced standardized tests with a combination of projects and oral presentations which it considers more authentic as assessments.

Westwood's plan calls for dividing the school into multi-age, multi-grade «families» to create a sense of belonging in a large school, implementing a community building component called Township 2000 that mimics a small city, and experimenting with new teaching and assessment strategies that promise to raise standardized test scores, within a year, by 3 % for average students and double that for low achievers.

Alarmed that as many as 80 percent of community college students were taking remedial classes, lawmakers had recently passed a bill that required Kentucky to write new, better K - 12 standards and tests.

Unable to increase local property taxes sufficiently, the warped education strategy that has been developed by Malloy and his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, will continue to mean that many communities will face higher property taxes while actually being forced to reduce their education programs so they can shift scarce resources away from student instruction and toward implementing the new Common Core tests and the absurd new teacher evaluation program.