Sentences with phrase «while reflecting on this year»

It was while reflecting on this year's posts that I realized there was one epic event that somehow did not make it to my blog....

Not exact matches

While it's natural to take a breath, reflect, and count your blessings during the holiday season, it's still possible to also end your year with a feeling of real accomplishment, so that you'll start 2018 on a high note rather than with a horrifically backlogged to - do list.

While the value of M&A deals globally increased 67 percent year - on - year in the first quarter of 2018, the number of deals dropped by 10 percent to 10,338, preliminary Thomson Reuters data show, reflecting how deals on average are getting bigger.

While I believe markets are efficient when it comes to stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities and reflect all known information at the time, in the case of bitcoin, and a few other instances like the ONLY stock I've bought in over a year (now up big), when I start to see the mainstream media reporting on something, google search volume through the roof (chart below) and lastly, when your mom asks about it — it may be signaling mainstream acceptance and further expansion of a major bubble.

While falling world interest rates have reduced the servicing cost of foreign debt over the past two years, this has been offset by rising dividend payments on foreign holdings of Australian equity, reflecting the strong profit growth of Australian companies throughout this period.

Last year David Brooks offered a summary of the work while currently Ross Douhat and Damon Linker have reflected on whether or not Taylor's idea of the late - modern self as «buffered» describes our current predicament (Linker is unconvinced while Douhat seems open, but skeptical).

While the two presidential tickets this year reflect a religious pluralism, it remains centered only on Christian denominations - setting aside the question of whether Mormonism fits a traditional definition of Christian.

After retiring to rest and sleeping a little while, I awoke, and was led to reflect on God's mercy to me, in giving me, for many years, a willingness to die; and after that, in making me willing to live, that I might do and suffer whatever he called me to here.

In the spirit of Rosh Hashanah, I plan to spend the week reflecting on the past year and the year to come while snacking on apples and honey and attempting to track down a shofar.

I'm living in a different state than my family members and won't be attending synagogue tomorrow (sadly, I'll be at work)... but I plan on making this tomorrow evening to get in the spirit while I reflect on what an awesome year it's been, and contemplate my hopes and goals for the next.

Gervinho — Roma's star man last year has had a slow start by his standards, after his Serie A debut season involved him bagging 9 goals and assisting another 10 goals, the Ivorian has only scored 1 goal and assisted 3 so far this season, while the stats don't reflect his ability, Gervinho has had a lot of focus on him from opposition defenders this year, but is still Roma's # 1 threat.

Ghanaians must reflect on the birth of Christ this Christmas season while counting their numerous blessings over the year.

«While Californians across the state exchange gifts this month in celebration of the holidays, its worth taking a minute to reflect on the year - round, not - so - secret Santa happening in the state Capitol,» said Sarah Swanbeck, policy and legislative affairs advocate for CA Common Cause.

This symbolic «fresh start» gives many the opportunity to reflect on last year's performance while looking toward the future.

Window films reflects and disperses heat back into the room, they reduce cold spots inside your home, it improves comfort during the cold winter months, and it does this while saving on heating and cooling costs year round.

I always love my birthday, not so much for the celebration, while I do love that, as much as for the time to reflect on what I've done and been blessed with in the past year.

The year's best love story actually features the year's two best love stories, as a likable artist (Ewan McGregor) falls for a French actress (Melanie Laurent) while simultaneously reflecting on the affection he felt for his recently deceased dad (Christopher Plummer), a widower who had finally come out of the closet at 75.

In The Man On The Platform, Ben Whishaw (London Spy, Spectre) returns from the trenches of the First World War, while a hundred years later, Alan Cumming (The Good Wife) reflects on gay marriage in Something BorroweOn The Platform, Ben Whishaw (London Spy, Spectre) returns from the trenches of the First World War, while a hundred years later, Alan Cumming (The Good Wife) reflects on gay marriage in Something Borroweon gay marriage in Something Borrowed.

Britain fared better, with my favourite sci - fi horror film in a long time, Glazer's Under the Skin, and my favourite entertainment film of the year, the conventional, but charming Pride, while the flawed Mr. Turner impressively reflects the great painter's sun worship through Dick Pope's widescreen cinematography.Highlights of my year included being on the FIPRESCI jury at the Hong Kong IFF, where I admired Yang Hen's third feature, Na pian hu shui (Lake August), and a couple of first features among others, as well as attending the amazing HK film market for the first time, where I saw one of my three 2014 «films for the ages», Tsai's Journey to the West; and seeing a nitrate print of Hitchcock's Rebecca at the George Eastman House in Rochester (where they are doing a three - day all - nitrate festival in May, 2015!).

This type of redistribution is inherent in any plan that bases benefits on the three highest end - of - career years of earnings, while contributions reflect earnings over the entire work life.

While the articles in total tell the story of the year, many also seem to expose a collective state of mind: writers, in real time, reflecting on and trying to explain a seemingly inexplicable zeitgeist.

We are announcing this year the launch of Camp InMotion, a summer camp opportunity that reflects our commitment to whole child development, integrated learning and having fun while taking on challenges.

While reflecting on the past four years, Miller sat in the shade on NC State's campus on Monday as she worked through her memories and a mix of emotions — excitement at the prospect of joining a profession «where I get to have fun every day,» and also sadness for never having the chance to guide future teaching fellows who could have come after her.

While there is more work to be done, each year the socioeconomic diversity of our student body better reflects the strengths found in the rich diversity of our community and delivers on the mandate for NC charter schools to provide increased learning opportunities for those most in need.

A foreclosure will your reflect on your credit score for 7 years, while a bankruptcy will stay on your credit report for up to 10.

While you're reflecting on the past year, start planning for the future by reviewing your retirement contributions.

While information on your credit report stays there for several years, lenders are most interested in the last 12 months as it most accurately reflects your current ability to manage money.

You and your veterinary team can apply the same principles as you look to the New Year, reflecting on the past year while establishing your goals for 2Year, reflecting on the past year while establishing your goals for 2year while establishing your goals for 2018.

It's the perfect time to reflect on what your veterinary practice has achieved this year while preparing new veterinary marketing goals for next year.

While the fundamental recommendations — annual testing and year - round prevention — have not changed, the current guidelines reflect new information on lack of efficacy (LOE) and other issues.

It's a while since I have reflected on backpacking in Australia and my crazy life down under, which began almost 5 years ago now, crazy!!

As I admire a painting while munching on a pork pie I can't but help reflect on the senseless violence that I've been a part of over the years.

While we at SEGA Nerds have previously reported on some of the censored content, Games Nosh and Censored Gaming confirmed that the age increase of certain characters to 18 years old, such as Tsubasa, was not limited to their character's profile, but that the original Japanese audio track was also re-recorded to reflect this change to keep the translation consistent.

While our special 36 - page supplement reflects on the best of the past, our lead feature this issue looks to the future with developers talking us through some of the technology and trends that could shape the next five to 15 years of gaming.

While it's exciting to think of what we will get this year, let us take a step back and reflect on what we got last year.

While the developer prepares for its major console and PC debut later this year, the team was happy to reflect on its experience developing for Xperia Play, touted by many as a hardcore smartphone gaming device.

The programme, a key element of the Ireland 2016 Global and Diaspora strand, is one of celebration through contemporary arts while also reflecting on Ireland's cultural journey over the last one hundred years.

Index, the title for this year's Film Open, references the open call submission process while critically reflecting on the methods and approaches of many of the participating artists;

Spanning the last hundred years of the medium, the selections on view here reflect each collector's strong understanding of photography while also highlighting the singular sensibilities guiding the deeply personal act of collecting.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

The shows reflect the rigor of Merz and Durham, two singular practitioners of the past 50 years who have at once been central to the dialogue of their times, while making work on the periphery of dominant styles.

Over the past two years, Guccivuitton has staked out a unique position that meditates on the rich history of artist - run galleries while presenting content that reflects authentic regional material and vernacular culture.

Last year in an earlier post on asteroid impacts, Mr. Schweickart mused on an issue at the heart of Dot Earth — how political systems, reflecting human nature, still seem to be having a hard time integrating scientific understanding, uncertainties and all, in ways that result in policies and investments that could blunt risks while fostering prosperity.

Daily temperature ranges reflect difference between high and low on a given day while annual ranges contrast high and low monthly temperatures in a year.

While the location of the hottest place on Earth might shift from year to year, the conditions that give rise to it remain the same: Dry, rocky and dark - colored lands are good at absorbing heat, while lighter sand will tend to reflect more sunlWhile the location of the hottest place on Earth might shift from year to year, the conditions that give rise to it remain the same: Dry, rocky and dark - colored lands are good at absorbing heat, while lighter sand will tend to reflect more sunlwhile lighter sand will tend to reflect more sunlight.

While large firms saw a 4 % increase fuelled, in the main, by a 20 % increase in fee growth in the year and greater control on expenditure and overhead reductions, those with between 2 and 10 partners achieved an increase of 5 %, reflecting decreases in non-salary overheads and fee income increases.

«A 70 - year old couple has the potential to deduct over $ 10,000 each year and that should give one real pause to reflect on the value of planning while you can still health - qualify for this protection.»

These values reflect the reserve the insurer needs to accumulate in the early years of the policy's life so that they will have sufficient money (together with interest earned on the reserve) in later years to pay the promised death benefit while keeping premiums level.

«While we continue to see record new development prices, contracts for those apartments were, on average, signed over a year ago and do not reflect the current state of the market,» says Diane Ramirez, chairman & CEO of Halstead Property.

While his term on the council ended a couple of years ago, Jones, now principal and CEO of Healthtique Group, LLC, spoke with current FLC members, Amy Coppens of Senior Resource Group (SRG) and Melissa Owens of Elmcroft Senior Living, to reflect on his experience as a former member and chair while also discussing his career path within the induWhile his term on the council ended a couple of years ago, Jones, now principal and CEO of Healthtique Group, LLC, spoke with current FLC members, Amy Coppens of Senior Resource Group (SRG) and Melissa Owens of Elmcroft Senior Living, to reflect on his experience as a former member and chair while also discussing his career path within the induwhile also discussing his career path within the industry.