Sentences with phrase «urban changes do»

Instead of this evidence showing that there is no UHI increase in the main temperature indices, an alternative explanation for the empirical evidence is that, for whatever reason, actual urban changes do not result in a material difference in trend for calm Tmin than for windy Tmin.

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And while organizational change doesn't need to happen in such rapid succession as in urban combat for example, adaptability is key for success.

They were carried over from 2015 with no changes, because the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) felt that home prices in these counties did not rise enough from year to year to warrant higher loan limits.

The index doesn't reflect changes in the quality of items over time and can't tell us much about the spending patterns of the poor, or of people living outside of urban areas.

You don't need a Masters in urban planning or relocation into the heart of Detroit to have a shot at being a life - changing, Kingdom - building reconciler.

Urban ministry in today's America must be carried on in places where the church does not have the power to control or change the realities it confronts.

From a game - planning standpoint, I didn't change much, but from Urban I learned how to be a head coach.

While the company does not have its own online store, you can purchase Brooklyn Hat Company hats at a number of retailers throughout the company; places like Free People, Anthropology, Fred Segal, Rue La La, Urban Outfitters and online at Head Change.

By: Sheana Ochoa After getting married I knew my status as a blogger for The Next Family would have to change from «single mother by choice» to «urban dweller», which, I told my editor, didn't sound as sexy.

«I'm trying — as one of the leaders of urban America — to change the discussion, to get our candidates on all levels to talk about income inequality and what they're willing to do about it,» said de Blasio on Tuesday.

Citing as an example an urban infrastructure improvement project in a municipality of China, WRI researcher Milap Patel said, «without even a risk screening, we didn't know whether this project was vulnerable to climate change.»

«Our study shows that direct changes to vacant urban spaces may hold great promise in breaking the cycle of abandonment, violence, and fear in our cities and do so in a cost - effective way that has broad, citywide scalability,» said Branas.

What changes do planners need to accommodate in planning the next generation of urban growth?

If both spatial and temporal changes in storms continue, as they are likely to do as the world warms, there will be more destructive flooding across the world's major urban centres.

De Sherbinin notes the research did not tease apart how much these trends were caused by the urban heating effect versus climate change.

General seminar: Riikka Kinnunen - PhD Proposal: «The Ecology of Urban Wildlife: How do Species Respond to Rapid Environmental Change?»

Urban Decay All - Nighter Makeup - Setting Spray, $ 32 As far as I can tell, the packaging on this product changed, but the ingredients did not, so I still feel comfortable reviewing it.

Urban audiences that eat up everything Latifah does will surely be amused, but that doesn't change the fact that this hip - hop star - turned - actress has probably buried her career with this one.

Matt Chingos and his Urban Institute colleagues offer one clever way of doing that, adjusting the scores for demographic changes over time.

But, when it comes to catalyzing change across the entire urban Catholic school sector, the more interesting question isn't about what we've done at Partnership Schools to drive change.

The fact is, though Kozol ignores it, that changing the incentives of urban schools (with choice or accountability) yields much more of a change in performance than more money does.

In urban schools students come and go all day.No 45 minutes is like the time that preceded it or the time that will follow.Urban schools report 125 classroom interruptions per week.Announcements, students going, students coming, messengers, safety aides, and intrusions by other school staff account for just some of these interruptions.It is not unusual for students to stay on task only 5 or 10 minutes in every hour.Textbook companies and curriculum reformers are constantly thwarted by this reality.They sell their materials to schools with the assurance that all the students will learn X amount in Y time.They are continually dismayed to observe that an hour of school time is not an hour of learning time.Many insightful observers of life in urban schools have pointed out that it is incredibly naive to believe that learning of subject matter is the main activity occurring in these schools.If one observes the activities and events which actually transpire — minute by minute, hour by hour, day in and day out — it is not possible to reasonably conclude that learning is the primary activity of youth attending urban schools.What does the process of changing what one does every 45 minutes and even the place where one does it portend for fulfilling a job in the world of work?If one is constantly being reinforced in the behaviors of coming, going, and being interrupted, what kind of work is one being prepared for?

Mr. Weast, whose district is a finalist this year for the Broad Prize in Urban Education, has said he does not want to change the district's decade - old «peer assistance and review» system of evaluation, which the teachers» unions strongly support.

CCSSO Innovation Lab Network Resource Page CCSSO Every Student Succeeds Act Resources CCSSO Leading for Equity USC Center for Urban Education Changing the Discourse in Schools Educational Debt by Gloria Ladson - Billings Equity Chalk Talk Quotes The Problem We All Live With (This American Life podcast) How Do We Ensure Personalized Learning is a True Equity Initiative?

We did some rapid prototyping of ideas, worked in local urban districts like Trenton to see what worked, made changes based on what we saw, and tried again.

So, KIPP's high - intensity approach won't work for most students, but that doesn't change the fact that the students who apply and remain are predominantly from lower - income families living in urban areas.»

As a Broad Resident, I have the unique opportunity to effect change in urban education at a high level, and in so doing help give each child the opportunity to achieve.

To promote positive discipline, urban schools need to be clear about expectations, state them positively, post them visibly, train students to meet these expectations, and recognize students when they do (Designs for Change, 2003).

The suspension upgrades, however, do little to help tame body roll or improve in - corner performance, although the revised setup does lend a feeling of urban zippiness, inspiring confidence to make quick low - speed lane changes.

While programs advanced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) did not attract the attention of mortgage lenders, changes in the way the industry is approaching this problem — and the high risk of class - action lawsuits against those institutions that do not act — are leading more lenders to consider moving forward with mortgage modification programs.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development only states that you do not change the foundation.

- Link doesn't have much of a character in this game - they wanted players to relate to Link and play as themselves - Link's face doesn't have much expression in this game, and that was done on purpose - for Zelda games, the devs always try to make the player feel like Link - that was pushed even moreso for this entry - everytime a Zelda releases, Aonuma watches fan feedback and considers that for the future - the items Link uses to solve are always going to be important - regardless of the tech that Nintendo provides, exploration in the series is important - Link's growth through who he meets is also an important element of the franchise - Aonuma thought about Zelda freedom when considering Breath of the Wild, and was brought back to the days of the original Zelda - this was a big point of inspiration for Breath of the Wild - with Ocarina of Time 3D, Nintendo wanted to really utilize the 3D and had a desire to let players enjoy Ocarina of Time outside - the goal with A Link to the Past was creating more depth - Aonuma used to think that getting lost in a 3D world wasn't okay - this lead Aonuma to putting in tons of hints and guiding players - he has since changed that idea and convinced himself that it's okay to get lost - the first two years of development the devs created a game where just running around was fun - climbing is very important, because players can climb high and see destinations they want to visit - you can place your own markers to decide where you want to go - when the devs create a Zelda title, they consider not using the name Link - since they don't have anything else to go with, they choose Link - the name Link doesn't hold much value, since the player is the one creating the journey - when Nintendo first created Link, they wanted a character that is literally the link between people - that is why his name is Link - to think that the Zelda series has been around so long that there are all sorts of urban legends and myths makes Miyamoto really happy

The environment may change from urban to rural between the campaigns, but your primary goal of surviving does not.

Living Walls The City Speaks urban conference and mural - a-thon — now an annual event; some excellent and some awful big outdoor wall paintings done by artists from all over the globe, gallery shows of their work, a real change in public and institutional perceptions.

Rail: When in fact did your paintings begin to make a drastic change from the interior to the exterior, or urban experience, of the world outside?

NWS management did not allow work in evaluating Urban Heat Island (UHI), mainly because of the stigma of being related to what NWS viewed as the political and controversial nature of the climate change / global warming subject.

As part of the calculation it needs to estimate the difference between rural and urban trends — it does this for the whole time - series and so will change as more data comes in.

Likewise, they prefer to debate urban heat island effects rather than to discuss the rising temperature trends, other clear signs of rising temperatures, the positive feedbacks which are beginning to kick in so that climate change will take on a life of its own independently of what we do in the future if changes are not made now (# 111, «Storm World» post, comment # 141) and what such climate change will imply for humanity as a whole (Curve manipulation, comment # 74, A Saturated Gassy Argument, comment # 116).

By contrast, during urban walking trips, NK levels didn't change.

The» top ten» arguments employed by the relatively few deniers with credentials in any aspect of climate - change science (which arguments include «the sun is doing it», «Earth's climate was changing before there were people here», «climate is changing on Mars but there are no SUVs there», «the Earth hasn't been warming since 1998», «thermometer records showing heating are contaminated by the urban - heat - island effect», «satellite measurements show cooling rather than warming») have all been shown in the serious scientific literature to be wrong or irrelevant, but explaining their defects requires at least a paragraph or two for each one.

Even though the main arguments that gave their position some credibility (urban heat islands, discrepancies with the satellite data, the Medieval Warm period and so on) have collapsed, they don't change their views.

They conclude that «urban warming does not unduly bias estimates of recent global temperature change.»

Adjustments are done for many reasons: because there are gaps in the temperature recording stations, because recording stations break, because a new station differs from the old station, because recording stations must be moved, or because the time of day they're read changes, or they shut down because of funding cuts, or the person reading it retires or dies or can't do it as often as they once did, because of urban heat island effects, or because other stations are too close (or toop far) relative to the averge, etc.........

It is actually irrelevant to his point as to whether this has anything to do with actual urban changes as such (ref.

Without further argument or justification, Johnson et al 1991 do not support the asssumption that Tmin changes are a proxy for urban warming impact.

He does this by looking at whether windy days, with outside air mixed into the urban environment, shows a different change than calm days.

Having worked with many of the scientists in question, I can say with certainty that there is no grand conspiracy to artificially warm the earth; rather, scientists are doing their best to interpret large datasets with numerous biases such as station moves, instrument changes, time of observation changes, urban heat island biases, and other so - called inhomogenities that have occurred over the last 150 years.

This analytical report is a guide to help local governments in East Asia better understand the concepts of climate change; how climate change consequences contribute to urban vulnerabilities; and what is being done by cities in the region and worldwide to learn, build capacity, and invest capital to promote sustainable, resilient communities.

This analytical report takes as given the existence, probable course, and projected effects of climate change and explores the question: «How does one adapt the management of urban floods to the likely effects of climate change?»

Vote for Rain represents a growing clash between the realities of rural and urban life and denial that nature itself has changed, masked by demands that «The Government» do something.