Sentences with phrase «tipping point of a year»

Battlefront II, which came out last November, will be remembered forever as the tipping point of a year full of controversy over companies charging extra dollars for features in $ 60 games.

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The state - owned oil firm is expected to list on the Saudi stock exchange in the second half of this year, but an international listing — which was at one point tipped to happen at the same time — is said to have been temporarily shelved.

The challenge of preserving and conveying this unique institutional knowledge has been intensifying for several years and is now reaching a critical tipping point as more companies are transitioning to the freelance economy.

The arguments for deleting your account as your 2017 New Year's resolution are strong indeed, as Jake Swearingen points out in Select / All: Facebook was the chief venue for the spread of misleading fake news and pro-Russian propaganda that confused voters and may have helped tip the presidential election to Donald Trump.

In this in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.

We've had roughly 20 years of hand - wringing about this tipping point, but now it's here.

In this all - new in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.

About five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell, author of bestselling books like The Tipping Point and Blink, made this prediction, basically writing off the power of social media for businesses: «In about five years, everyone will head back toward traditional advertising.»

The strong showing of Canadian companies on this year's Global Cleantech 100 list affirms that we've reached a tipping point,» says Joshua Wong, President and CEO of Opus One Solutions, a 2018 Global Cleantech 100 winner.

«But it appears we've reached a tipping point where the housing market is likely to slide toward improved affordability over the next couple of years.

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The tipping point seems to have been the release of the January jobs report, the highlight of which wasn't the change in nonfarm payrolls and the unemployment rate, which they usually are, but the 0.3 % (2.9 % annualized) growth in wages, which was the strongest year - over-year gain since June 2009.

For those of use who have watched the changes in the last 20 - 40 years one thing is clear — the non-religious have turned the corner and we're at the tipping point.

As Andre Leu, President of IFOAM pointed out «this year was outstanding in that it is a tipping point for agriculture.

This year pundits were tipping us to win the league if we come 6th i will be surprise, we are already 4 points behind chelsea and in a couple of weeks the title will be over for us.

link it back to the point i made earlier» this is rubbish, my point is that the premier league wasn't very competitive this year, Chelseas easy win giving proof to this point.What you've done is talk a whole load of rubbish about wins of 2 goals or more.A quick tip mate people judge the competitiveness of a competition by how close the top teams are, not the mid table ones

The table also predicts that there will be no St Totteringham's Day to come this year, with our noisy neighbours tipped to finish ahead of us by five points.

The recent injury to 16 year - old Jack Jablonski proved to be the tipping point in reigning in a culture of intimidation and the hit first, play second attitude that has come to permeate high school hockey in Minnesota.

In time, perhaps three or four years, the foreskin will loosen naturally to the point where it can be pulled back over the tip of the penis.

Though online video technology has been in use for years, he cited three recent moments — Macaca, Saddam Hussein's hanging and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign announcement — as examples of web video reaching the tipping point in the popular mind.

They warned: «We have a window of only ten to 15 years to take the steps we need to avoid crossing catastrophic tipping points.

The winner will represent one of the larger geographic districts in Queens that was redefined during last year's district process and spans from the tip of the College Point neighborhood to Little Neck bordering Long Island.

They found they were able to detect those signals in data from California before the 2014 - 15 Disneyland, California measles outbreak, which showed early warning signs of a tipping point two years before the outbreak occurred.

A 2.2 - inch spear point found in his hip probably did not kill him, but it may hold crucial clues connecting the skeleton to other known cultures of the West — particularly one identified by Cascade points, spear tips that date between 9,500 and 5,000 years ago.

But in a new modeling study of 56 glacier drainage basins worldwide, roughly half the studied sites have already reached a kind of tipping point — after which the amount of fresh water that runs off each year begins to decline.

Tim Lenton of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, cautions that there may be a more distant tipping point for year - round ice.

Yet by 320,000 years ago, Acheulean handaxes were gone, replaced by more carefully designed tools, including refined stone points that would have served as the tips of projectile weapons.

I agree with Mark van Vugt's well - reasoned, sensible and logical proposals for overcoming the environmental tragedy of the commons by everyone working together (22 August, p 40), but I doubt that this will spontaneously happen within the few short years we have left before we become overwhelmed with tipping points.

After correcting for this error, the Science - Metrix group concluded that open access reached a 50 % «tipping point» in 2011, meaning that one - half of the papers published that year are now freely available.

From studies of changes in temperature and sea level over the last million years, we know that the climate system has tipping points.

With further sea level rise, nuisance flooding could reach a tipping point, defined by NOAA scientists as the point when there are 30 days of such floods a year.

Before I get started on my porch design for this year, I've got five simple tips for you today to help you create your very own beautiful fall front porch and then I'll show you how I've incorporated all of these elements into my own porch to achieve these points.

«The theme of this year's Crystal + Lucy Awards Gala is «Ignited,» referencing the tipping point we're living in and Women in Film's responsibility as a thought leader to keep the flame burning for a sustainable future — freed from the constraints of gender bias.»

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point, suggests that our public schools would benefit from a spirit of innovation rather than one of regimentation.Those of us who have been hanging around public education for more than, say, 15 years may remember a time when words like creativity and imagination were an important part of our conversations about curriculum design, teaching, learning, and lesson planning.

For those in the charter movement who have viewed chartering as a systemic reform strategy (not just an escape hatch for some kids), the prevalent theory of action for the last ten to fifteen years has been a «tipping point» strategy.

Whether you're in your first or 15th year of teaching, here are 10 tips for staying energized, at any point in the school year:

Ten percent of the school year — or about 18 days — seems to be a tipping point.

Even now, in my third year in the classroom, Mr. Miles continues to be my first point of contact when I need a tip or want feedback on a lesson or a technique that I plan to use.

(Denver, CO, July 25, 2011) Alexander Ooms, CSDC Board member and Managing Partner at ClearCreek Partners, comments on the evolution of education reform in Colorado in the following commentary in the Denver Post: A tipping point for Democrats on education In multiple elections over the past year, at the state, district and city level, Colorado Democrats are winning elected office...

Author Elissa Nadworny notes, «The latest national numbers suggest that more than 6 million students are «chronically absent,»» and emphasizes comments made by Phyllis Jordan, who authored a recent FutureEd report on the subject, that, «Research tells us that kids shouldn't miss 10 percent or more of the school year, that's the tipping point for kids, but there isn't really research that tells us how many chronically absent kids are too many for a school.»

The localization movement has reached a tipping point and bookstores have been in the forefront of this for years.

The growth of tablet sales has been outstripping that of more traditional desktop and laptop personal computers for a while, and now it looks like we are finally approaching the tablet / PC tipping point, where the cheaper, more portable tablet is becoming the de facto PC: 2014 will be the year that tablets account for 50 % of all «PCs» shipped globally, according to researchers at Canalys.

Whether you're considering a motorcycle trip or have committed to one and just need some final pre-departure advice, the 12 basic points addressed in this guide can save motorcycle travelers time and money, and ultimately make their journeys safer and more enjoyable!Stemming from over 80,000 miles of motorcycle riding experience through 14 countries during 3 + years, the advisory tips within are intended to help people enjoy their motorcycle travel more by being better prepared for the obstacles that come their way.

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The proliferation of e-books over the last ten years has been nothing short of staggering ---- sales of e-books in the United States last year more than doubled to $ 441.3 million from $ 169.5 million, according to the Association of American Publishers.1 The share of adults in the United States who own an e-book reader doubled to 12 percent in May 2011, up from 6 percent in November 2010.2 This may well indicate a kind of tipping point not only in where publishing is headed, but in what our patrons will want from us.

In the last few years, there's been a great deal of discussion about where the tipping point would be with e-books.

The Kindle had already become the best - selling item on Amazon.com for two years running and last week the company said it had «reached a tipping point with the new price of Kindle.»

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MacDonald says his survey of historical data suggests five - year growth in the private - debt - to - GDP ratio of 17 percent is a «tipping point.»

But if we save 10 % to 15 % of our income every year for 10 or 15 years, we should amass a substantial sum — and hit a financial tipping point, where the investment earnings we collect each year start to rival the dollars we sock away.