Sentences with phrase «which session leader»

Other events included a panel on building your indie author team, and a session about e-book pre-orders, which session leader and Smashwords founder Mark Coker called, ``... probably the most exciting tool today for self - published authors,» citing more effective advance marketing and the opportunity to break onto the bestseller lists as reasons to provide pre-orders.

Not exact matches

Markets in Asia had closed higher in the prior session as investors digested a historic inter-Korea summit, which saw leaders of North and South Korea pledge to achieve peace.

The latter session is interrupted twice for an Integrative Management Exercise, during which students apply their skills to real — world business problems while working with local or internationally located business leaders.

McMaster's Alex Sevigny said there was no surprise to see opposition leaders and MPs at the lower end of the scale, which was determined after «coders» were trained to watch sessions of Question Period and identify the level of rudeness based on factors such as aggression and anger.

From easing the sale of water utilities to private companies to telling transgender students which bathroom to use, many high - profile — and controversial — legislative proposals have little chance of passage after the Assembly last week completed what leaders say was the final major floor session day.

Even the NASDAQ, which opened the session substantially higher behind strong earnings from a slew of industry leaders, fell back to its breakeven line as the day wore on and well into the afternoon.

Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee, a rising - star in the NDP, will travel across the province this summer to consult with municipal leaders about the changes proposed in this bill, which only passed first reading during this session.

Opposition leader missing on emergency vote The first day of session saw the NDP call for an emergency debate on emergency room waiting times which failed after Liberal leader David Swann and Lethbridge - East MLA Bridget Pastoor went AWOL.

The terms «seeker service» and «believer's service,» which originated at Willow Creek Community Church (located northwest of Chicago in South Barrington, Illinois), show up in the discussions of many congregation leaders and at planning sessions of Willow Creek - inspired churches.

His «repentance» and counselling sessions were broadcast on the Internet through programmes in which he was interviewed «chat show» style by church leader Rick Joyner.

Another effective approach, which is easier for leaders with limited experience, is to build sessions around book chapters which the couples agree to read together between meetings.

Rugby NorCal has begun to lay the groundwork in creating Rookie Rugby leagues by holding a Rookie Rugby Course Leader Training session, which took place in Vacaville and included administrators from local rugby clubs, Boys and Girls Clubs and sports facilities.

I was very proud to be chosen as leader of the Labour delegation to the Convention, and participated actively throughout the Convention sessions, which ran from December 2012 — February 2014.

Flanagan said business leaders should weigh in on the plan, which is expected to dominate the 2018 legislative session.

The New Legislative leaders are eager to put their stamp on the session and get some things done, and Governor Cuomo was out Sunday pushing for one of his priorities, which is the newly improved Education Investment Tax Credit.

says, «While we applaud the good faith attempts of the loyal Dems and the progressive labor leader, Hector Figueroa, to unify their party, wrest control of the Senate from the joint control of the Party of Trump and the IDC / Trump Dems, all in order to advance the people's agenda, and while we would support an honest and fair deal for an immediate rapprochement, we must object to this cynical and calculated ploy which unnecessarily perpetuates the disgraceful status quo until effectively the end of the budget process and possibly even the end of session.

George Albro of New York Progressive Action Network (NYPAN) says, «While we applaud the good faith attempts of the loyal Dems and the progressive labor leader, Hector Figueroa, to unify their party, wrest control of the Senate from the joint control of the Party of Trump and the IDC / Trump Dems, all in order to advance the people's agenda, and while we would support an honest and fair deal for an immediate rapprochement, we must object to this cynical and calculated ploy which unnecessarily perpetuates the disgraceful status quo until effectively the end of the budget process and possibly even the end of session.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says in a legislative session in which the leaders of the state Assembly and Senate are both indicted on corruption charges, the need for ethics reform in Albany is shockingly clear.

It's hard to imagine there'll be a more interesting PMQs this year, although these things take you by surprise, like the Baby P session, which came from left - field but became one of the most memorable clashes between the two leaders since Brown took over.

Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, the former leader of the I.D.C., spent the hour before the session rearranging décor in his new office on the sixth floor of the legislative office building, three floors beneath the spacious office from which the Republicans had wasted no time in ejecting him after his defection.

Which puts her somewhat at odds with her leader, the subject of the session.

Someone with the power to ask rude questions and elicit answers ought to look into «the list» that legislative leaders compile in the final days of each annual session to reach a consensus on which bills will pass and which ones will die as the clock ticks to the mandatory adjournment.

That provoked a quick response from the governor's office, which released, to some news outlets, an unattributed statement that said Mr. de Blasio's appearance «in the Capitol a few days before the end of a session with controversial and untested ideas» was not «how leaders get things done.»

But support from the labor movement comes a coalition of groups backing the bill make a major end of session push for the measure, which is sponsored by Minority Leader John Sampson, D - Brooklyn, in the Senate.

The exchanges marked a colourful session of prime minister's questions, which saw Mr Cameron ridicule Labour leader Ed Miliband's speech at the TUC march, when he compared protesters to the civil rights movement, the suffragettes and the struggle against apartheid.

The session will include presentations from the discussion group leaders, followed by breakout groups in which participants will apply the skills and tools with a real case study.

Senate Republicans are laying into Stewart - Cousins, elected the Senate Democratic conference leader on Monday, for her comments on Fred Dicker's Talk - 1300 show this morning in which she endorsed the public financing of political campaigns, listing it as a top priority for her in the coming legislative session.

The measures are being pushed for nearly two months into the legislative session, which comes after a year in which both the former speaker in the Assembly and ex-Senate majority leader were convicted in separate corruption cases.

Asked last week about his own priorities in the post-budget session, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos named the education investment tax credit, which had been tied to the DREAM Act in the state budget.

But Flanagan does not expect Skelos's legal troubles to push new reform measures even as Albany faces an unprecedented session in which two legislative leaders have resigned their posts due to separate arrests only months apart.

... Those words were just spoken to me by Deputy Senate Majority Leader Jeff Klein, who assured me that a repeat of last week's extraordinary session, during which the Democrats didn't have enough members on hand to pass any deals — had there been any, which there weren't — is not in the cards.

Marcellino on Friday was the announced appointment of Majority Leader John Flanagan to chair the education panel, which will take up a number of high - profile school - related issues in the remaining post-budget legislative session.

He then reverted to his usual fiscal discipline talk, explaining why he's unwilling to negotiate with legislative leaders and reiterating that he still might call lawmakers back to Albany for a special session if they don't agree on an FMAP contingency plan or if the budget deal on which they eventually settle is out of balance.

But the fact that Flanagan did not mention the issue in his priority list statement released yesterday was not a good sign, though he has said since ascending to the majority leader's post that he expects both the rent laws and New York City mayoral control, which is also set to sunset next month, will likely be extended before the session's scheduled end on June 17.

At the start of session, Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle introduced four new Democrats to colleagues on the floor as the newest members of the Democratic conference, which runs the Assembly and decides everything from state budget issues to what bills get sent to the floor for passage.

But after a four - hour closed door meeting with Republican senators, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said he has not decided to allow a vote in the Senate during this session, which is scheduled to end Monday.

In a press conference, he also said that he'd suggested to Democratic leader Malcolm Smith and Republican leader Dean Skelos that an extension of the current session, which is scheduled to end on June 22, might be necessary to resolve all bills that are still outstanding.

For a state capitol that began the legislative session shellshocked by the convictions on corruption charges of two of its most powerful leaders, Sheldon Silver and Dean G. Skelos, the most significant action was perhaps the pension - forfeiture measure, which had fizzled last year.

Erie County Legislature Minority Leader Joseph Lorigo speaks Thursday prior to a session during which his peers voted unanimously to hire a special independent counsel to investigate claims related to a pending rape case against former Social Services Commissioner Al Dirschberger.

Cuomo is also expected to push for his ethics reform measure, which is being negotiated with legislative leaders in closed - door sessions.

Speaking at a press event in Albany, and joined by State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Mr. Cuomo cited the failure of the two houses the State Legislature to come to an agreement on the handling of law enforcement homicides by the end of the legislative session, which was supposed to have been last Wednesday.

Other county leaders across the state were caught somewhat off guard by the proposal, which a source said was first floated last December as part of a potential special session and was rejected by lawmakers.

In the final days of the New York legislative session, which ended last week in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders reached an agreement on a two - year delay in the teacher assessments to be based on the Common Core testing.

In Hartford, Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R - Fairfield, opened the afternoon session in the Legislative Office Building by calling for a moment of silence for the victims of Newtown, which is part of his district.

The Legislature approved Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo's resolution at the June 11, 2015 session requesting that the County Executive issue a Declaration of Need, which is necessary in order for the Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority (ECFSA) to borrow the 2015 Revenue Anticipation Note (RAN).

Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos says the hasty manner in which New York's strict new gun control laws, call the NY SAFE Act, were passed during the first full day of the legislative session this year was «wrong,» and he hopes not to repeat that when deciding key end - of - session issues in June like siting casinos or approving an anti-corruption package.

A Democratic takeover of the Senate now would probably plunge its leaders into a morass of questions about how to allocate funding and staff for the final weeks of the session, which ends in June.

After the routine session of Thursday, the Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan moved for an adjournment which was seconded by the Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio.

According to him, the development, which has become of great concern to many countries across the world, should be key on the agenda for African leaders attending the African Union (AU) Ordinary session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The reduction may be an aberration, though it occurred during a session that included federal indictments against the Legislature's top two leaders, which seemed to blunt the donations from at least one major donor.