Sentences with phrase «years dotted by»

After 12 long years dotted by numerous setbacks and progress, meetings with public officials, local fishermen and scientists, community rallies, and petitions to the Scottish parliament, Howard Wood celebrated the establishment of the No Take Zone in Lamlash Bay in 2008.

Not exact matches

The IPO market has swung back and forth since the dot - com boom in the late 1990s through the bust a few years later and on up to the most recent economic downturn, during which there were six venture capital - backed IPOs in 2008 and 12 in 2009 — compared with 86 in 2007, according to the Exit Poll report by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.

The central bank's latest «dot - plot» of interest rate projections implies three additional 25bp hikes in 2018, bringing its policy rate up above 2 % by year - end.

3) You can't gain an advantage in the financial markets by doing something that could be done by the average nine - year - old, such as drawing lines to connect dots on a chart.

Second, the FOMC has already retreated significantly from its earlier hawkishness; the median dot - plot projection was 1.25 % -1.5 % in December, and officials were promising four hikes by the end of the year.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

Santa is real and is tracked evry year by the North American Aerospace Defence Command (www (dot) norad.

And in addition, you can't tell me definitively that the yellow, black, and white striped 1000 year old, and 100 foot tall polka dotted vampire lady in black stockings isn't alive and doesn't exist, speaking perfect English even though she has never visited our planet, on the dark side of the moon, and has never been seen by the golden crown of creation, god's highest achievement, man, who dwelleths at the very epi - center of the universe, surrounded on all four sides by the heavenly spheres and angels, and overseen by god in heaven bless her extensive gold threaded wardrobe.

The festival has a successful 33 year history of celebrating Southern California Wine Country's finest assets of clear skies, dotted by hot air balloons, mild temperatures and rolling vineyards.

It's pretty simple, either you get him to sign on the dotted line or you move him before the close of the window... once again this club is a laughing stock on the world soccer stage... Wenger is simply overcompensating for the years of offloading our best players to our detriment... Wenger says he's going to sacrifice by keeping him and letting him go free if need be?

Big, fast, mean, and disruptive, Fatukasi has been described by The UConn Blog dot com as a «destroyer of worlds» and a «grown - ass man» over the years.

Instead of the standard orange pencils, Make and Tell shows how to make your child a set of multicolored confetti pencils for them to use at school this year by painting standard pencils with confetti dots.

Help your child start the school year off right by organizing their school supplies in a new clear pencil case with trendy gold dot detailing as made by Sarah Hearts so that they can keep all their school work essentials, such as pencils, a ruler, scissors, eraser, and markers all together so they can be easily found.

BY GAYLE M. HORWITZ Not many years ago, what is today's Battery Park City was the shoreline of the Hudson River, dotted with crumbling piers.

The 100,000 - light - year - long structure identified in the Hubble data is dotted with 19 young, blue star clusters like pearls on a string, evenly spaced and separated by 3,000 light - years.

Earlier last year, the PharmBio Growth fund — which is managed by the Economic Development Board * (EDB)-- Chiron Corporation (USA), and Blue Dot Capital Pte Ltd jointly started the nation's first drug discovery company, S'Bio.

The relationship also works the other way: by changing energy states of electrons in quantum dots, we can affect the respective magnetic atoms,» explains Michał Papaj, a student at the UW Faculty of Physics, awarded the Gold Medal in Chemistry during last year's national competition for the best B.Sc.

But analyses of rocks taken from one of the undersea ridges by teams in the past decade (samples obtained from sites marked with colored dots) show that the ridge's rocks are up to 1 million years older than Waianae is.

Located only 4.2 light - years from Earth, the so - called Proxima b was discovered by the ESO's La Silla observatory in Chile and astronomers of the Pale Red Dot campaign to much excitement in August.

Cassie from Southeast by Midwest and Christine from So Called Homemaker helped me to understand that difference between blogger / With blogger you only pay if you want a dot com, for instance over a year ago I switched from southernbeautyguide.blogspot.com to southernbeautyguide.com.

The scene will most likely use the same de-aging technology that Marvel Studios has developed a penchant for over the years, as evidenced by Douglas sporting motion - capture dots on his face during filming.

«Under the Skin»: «Interstellar» got lots of comparisons to «2001» this year, but the film that really connects the dots to Kubrick is «Under the Skin,» the long - awaited return to filmmaking by writer - director Jonathan Glazer («Birth,» «Sexy Beast»).

But by the end of the year, almost 90 of those seniors disappeared, and Green Dot officials don't know why or what happened to them.

The three - year pledge was conceived by Marco Petruzzi, a business consultant who was a Green Dot board member and now is Barr's chief executive.

A graduate of Harvard's business school, he spent five years leading Green Dot Public Schools, a Los Angeles charter school operator, and six years as CEO of a nonprofit founded by former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa that took control of 17 poorly performing public schools.

LOS ANGELES — Eight Green Dot Public Schools have been named America's Best High Schools by US News & World Report, the most in the non-profit charter school network's 15 - year history.

Number is most in charter school's history on annual list by U.S. News LOS ANGELES — Eight Green Dot Public Schools have been named America's Best High Schools by US News & World Report, the most in the non-profit charter school network's 15 - year history.

«We are very pleased by the Board's support for a new high school in Inglewood, a community Green Dot has been serving proudly for 15 years.

Over five years, proficiency rates for Green Dot students in English language arts actually decreased by 3 percent, while math rates at Alliance middle schools improved a total of 1 percent and English rates at the Alliance middle schools improved a total of 5 percent over five years.

«Dilbert 2.0,» by Scott Adams, will also be available in four volumes, respectively subtitled: «The Early Years, 1989 to 1993,» «The Boom Years, 1994 to 1997,» «The Dot - Com Bubble, 1998 to 2000» and «The Modern Era, 2001 to 2008.»

Amazon Devices Covered by this One - Year Limited Warranty: Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Voyage, Kindle (7th Generation), Kindle (8th Generation), Kindle Oasis (8th Generation), Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire HDX, Fire HD, Fire HDX, Fire 7 (7th Generation), Fire HD 8 (7th Generation), Fire TV Stick Basic Edition, Amazon Echo (2nd Generation), Echo Dot (2nd Generation), Echo Plus and Echo Spot.

According to page 35 of the 1040 instructions, you add this to the tax liability on your current year form by writing «ECR» and the amount you owe back on the dotted line next to line 44 of the 1040 or line 28 of the 1040A (these lines should be labeled «tax»).

The poor value investor who got out of the stock market in the mid-90s as the earnings yield hit hit lows unseen since the late 60s — almost 25 years prior — would have sat out much of the fantastic returns generated by the dot - com bubble.

For instance, the blue dot on the value factor scatterplot suggests that prior to March 2016 the valuation level of 0.14 — meaning the value portfolio was 14 % as expensive as the growth portfolio measured by price - to - book ratio, and lower than the historical norm of 21 % relative valuation — would have delivered an average annualized alpha of 8.1 % over the next five years.

Generation X is the most anxious about retirement by far, having weathered the collapse of the dot - com bubble in the early 2000s and the 2008 financial meltdown, as well as sluggish wage growth during their formative adult years.

St. Maarten / St. Martin is a tropical destination fringed by pristine beaches, dotted with scenic rolling hills and boasting an average tropical temperature ranging from 75 °F to 85 °F year round.

First discovered by vacation travelers 40 years ago, this paradise boasts white - sand beaches dotted with blowing palm trees, lush green hills and eating experiences that range from top - class restaurants to inexpensive food stalls.

Not only is this free - spirited fest famous for its musical roster of international eargasms, it's also where you'll find giant floating structures illuminated by lanterns and candy - coloured sunsets, sand - in - your - toes dance floors dotted with flower garlands and painted faces, and even a sacred fire burning throughout the night... Well, this year the boho beach party is coming to Bali, at no other than La Brisa!

In years gone by, shacks used by Wonthaggi Coal Miners dotted this section of the coast.

# Shigenori Soejima Art Works 2004 - 2010 # Demon's Souls Mini Poster signed by Takeshi Kajii (producer of Demon's Souls) # Luminous Art signed by Kaito Shibano (main character designer for Luminous Arc & Luminous Arc II) # Luminous Arc II Game # Demon's Souls Greatest Hits Game # Persona 3 Portable Hat # Persona 3 Portable Game # Zeno Clash Downloadable Game Code for Xbox Live Arcade # 3D Dot Game Heroes Game # Knights in the Nightmare Game # Trauma Team Game # Along with tons of cool swag, this year's fan winner is going to receive a plaque that tells the world that they are the ruler of all costumed Atlus fans!

Ferris: For years almost all my paintings began by being drawn out with silver dots that shimmer — that's a secret.

The painting, a series of vertical red and blue lines subtly graduated in width, went to a private American collector for # 2,561,250 ($ 5.1 million), almost double the record established at Christie's London earlier that year by the artist's dotted canvas Static 2, 1966, which brought # 1,476,500 ($ 2.9 million), far exceeding its # 900,000 ($ 1.8 million) high estimate.

Polke's works during these years were mainly «Rasterbilder» (paintings that mimic printing): Polke appropriated publicity images from newspapers and magazines, enlarging them and hand painting them onto a canvas, dot by dot, creating an abstract pattern.

For more than forty years Ackling has made all of his work by the same method: focusing sunlight through a magnifying glass to burn lines of tiny dots onto found and rescued materials: bits of driftwood, scraps of card, or most recently the contents of his garden shed: discarded wooden boxes and the handles of old tools.

So it is appropriate that he should be this year's featured artist at Storm King, where sculptures by Alexander Calder, Sol LeWitt, Louise Nevelson, Alice Aycock and scores of other famous artists dot the beautiful 500 - acre landscape.

The 86 - year - old «Polka Dot Princess» has just been crowned the world's most popular artist in 2014, as ranked by museum attendance.

That same year his book of poems and photographs, You and I was published, and by 1977 he had recorded for the Dot Label and earned a Masters Degree in Education.

The red line shows the observations (HadCRU3 data), the black line a standard IPCC - type scenario (driven by observed forcing up to the year 2000, and by the A1B emission scenario thereafter), and the green dots with bars show individual forecasts with initialised sea surface temperatures.

The other tune that Steve Forbert provided to Dot Earth is The Oil Song, which he told me he has updated year by year since he wrote it.

A Dot Earth reader from England and Joe Romm have recalled that last year Fox News ran a breathless «exclusive» about the National Science Foundation unleashing its Inspector General to investigate potential impropriety by Michael Mann, the Pennsylvania State University climatologist who for years has been a target of foes of restricting greenhouse gases.