These include the new £ 12. 40 per hour home care charge for the elderly, sick and disabled, a nearly £ 600 increase ( over the four-year period ) in fees for meals on wheels ; a 50 % increase in parking fines and 55 % increase in parking tickets.

In the 2009 elections with two incumbents not running for re-election, Michael Goldberg was elected to another four-year term, along with newcomers Janine Bauer and Nancy Gould, by a nearly 2-1 margin.

In 1912, with the original campus nearly complete and three more schools ( the School of Fine and Applied Arts, the School of Apprentices and Journeymen, and the Margaret Morrison Carnegie School ) holding classes, the Carnegie Technical Schools changed its name to the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began offering four-year degrees.

A few years later, Sontag gained attention for directing a production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot that the London Daily Telegraph called " mesmerisingly precious and hideously self-indulgent " during the nearly four-year Siege of Sarajevo.

The four-year program of study, nearly all of which is mandatory, demands that students read and discuss the works of many of Western civilization's most prominent contributors to philosophy, theology, mathematics, science, music, poetry, and literature.

During the Second World War, British scientists studied the use of biological weapons, including a test using anthrax on the Scottish island of Gruinard which left it contaminated and fenced off for nearly fifty years, until an intensive four-year programme to eradicate the spores was completed in 1990.

Though a special student and not a candidate for a degree, he passed during his single year of residence nearly all the examinations in the four-year course and later graduated ; and in 1883-1884 he was engaged in advanced work at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

In other dayparts, Silverman also reintroduced game shows to the network's daytime lineups in 1972 after a four-year absence ; among the shows Silverman introduced was an updated version of the 1950s game show The Price Is Right, which remains on the air nearly four decades later.

Over the course of its nearly four-year run on television, Henry was portrayed by five different actors: Robert Casey, Richard Tyler, Henry Girard, Kenneth Nelson and Bobby Ellis, the only one to participate in the radio production as well.

The largest AFCG beneficiary by far is Child Advocates of Indianapolis, Indiana, a CASA affiliate — from 2001 through 2004, the organization received donations each year of between $ 194, 000 – $ 290, 000, with a four-year total of nearly $ 950, 000 ( over a third of AFCG's total contributions during those years ).

The school boasts a 100 percent ( in some years nearly 100 percent ) matriculation rate to four-year colleges, especially University of California schools and elite private institutions.

However, the performance is nearly always subscalar ( less than one instruction per cycle ).

A pipelined processor can become very nearly scalar, inhibited only by pipeline stalls ( an instruction spending more than one clock cycle in a stage ).

In astronomy and calendar studies, the Metonic cycle or Enneadecaeteris ( from Greek words for nineteen years ) is a period of very close to 19 years which is remarkable for being very nearly a common multiple of the solar year and the synodic ( lunar ) month.

Cyanobacteria inhabit nearly all illuminated environments on Earth and play key roles in the carbon and nitrogen cycle of the biosphere.

Since the brain is contained within the nearly rigid cranial cavity, the cerebrospinal fluid pulsation moves into the more compliant spinal canal having nearly zero net flow during each cardiac cycle.

Using vector control and strict vaccination programs, the urban cycle of yellow fever was nearly eradicated from South America.

The competition for oil wealth has led to an endless violence cycle between innumerable ethnic groups, causing the militarization of nearly the entire region that was occupied by militia groups as well as Nigerian military and the forces of the Nigerian Police.

One saros after an eclipse, the Sun, Earth, and Moon return to approximately the same relative geometry, and a nearly identical eclipse will occur, in what is referred to as an eclipse cycle.

Plots are frequently cyclical: for example, Endgame begins where the play ended – at the beginning of the play, Clov says, " Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished " – and themes of cycle, routine, and repetition are explored throughout.

The life cycle of A. fatua is nearly synchronous with that of Common Oat ( see also Vavilovian mimicry ) and in former times it could only be kept at bay by checking one's oat plants one by one and hand-weeding the wild ones when they were in flower but the grains had not ripened yet, lest the wild oats seeded themselves out.

With several cycle clubs and groups, Oak Park is considered a bicycle-friendly community and the tree-lined streets of the community as well as its proximity to trails in nearly communities attract cyclists to Oak Park, easily accessed by the Green Line, Blue Line, or Metra.

Among the changes: the primary election cycle would start nearly a year earlier than in previous cycles, states from the West and the South would be included in the earlier part of the schedule, and candidates who run in primary elections not held in accordance with the DNC's proposed schedule ( as the DNC does not have any direct control over each state's official election schedules ) would be penalized by being stripped of delegates won in offending states.

All eight plays from the history cycle were presented over a seven night period, with each play receiving one performance only, and with only twenty-eight actors portraying the nearly five hundred roles.

All eight plays from the history cycle were presented over a seven night period, with each play receiving one performance only, and with only twenty eight actors portraying the nearly five hundred roles.

All eight plays from the history cycle were presented over a seven night period, with each play receiving one performance only, and with only twenty-eight actors portraying the nearly five hundred roles.

These still appear as cliffs, of more nearly rectilinear front than the retreating escarpments formed in the previous cycle.

In addition to the basic four-week cycle of praying nearly the entire set of Psalms with each of the canonical hours, the Church also provides an alternate collection of hymns, readings, psalms, canticles and antiphons, for use in marking specific dates on the Roman Calendar, which sets out the order of celebrations for the liturgical year.

It is an eclipse cycle that is a triple saros ( 3 saroses long ), with the advantage that it has nearly an integer number of days so the next eclipse will be visible at locations and times near the eclipse that occurred one exeligmos earlier.

However, because very nearly all manifestations of the solar cycle are insensitive to magnetic polarity, it remains common usage to speak of the " 11-year solar cycle ".

Throughout 1974, moreover, the appearance of a new, nearly equally violent Trotskyite group, the ERP, sped the vicious cycle of violence.

At any rate, the efficiency and cycle power are nearly as good as an actual implementation of the idealized case.

The advantage of the bitboard representation is that it takes advantage of the essential logical bitwise operations available on nearly all CPUs that complete in one cycle and are full pipelined and cached etc.

" Over historical time spans there are a number of nearly constant variables that determine climate, including latitude, altitude, proportion of land to water, and proximity to oceans and mountains.

A few successful remixes of the song during the 1990s and 2000s along with new versions of the song by Lonnie Gordon, Diana Ross, Chantay Savage, rock group Cake and others as well as constant recurrent airplay on nearly all Soft AC and Rhythmic format radio stations have helped to keep the song in the mainstream.

A very serious narcotic habit can develop in a matter of weeks, whereas iatrogenic morphine addiction rates have, according to a number of studies, remained nearly constant at one case in 150 to 200 for at least two centuries.

The direction of the Earth's axial tilt, as well as its angle relative to the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun, remains very nearly constant over the course of a year ( both change very slowly over long time periods ).

It is often incorrectly assumed that he insisted that the rate of change must be constant, or nearly so, but even the first edition of On the Origin of Species states that " Species of different genera and classes have not changed at the same rate, or in the same degree.

As the probability that electrons and holes meet together is proportional to the product of their amounts, the product is in steady state nearly constant at a given temperature, providing that there is no significant electric field ( which might " flush " carriers of both types, or move them from neighbour regions containing more of them to meet together ) or externally driven pair generation.

Over the coming two decades of almost constant warfare it is estimated that somewhere in the vicinity of five million died — probably about half of them civilians — and France alone counted nearly a million ( by some sources in excess of a million ) deaths.

Resistors that are not thermistors are designed to have a ' as close to zero as possible, so that their resistance remains nearly constant over a wide temperature range.

From this time forward there is a nearly constant contention for the government of the Jaredites that continues for many generations, and ultimately the book ends with an enormous final war in which millions of Jaredites are killed and the Jaredite nation is destroyed.

A liquid is a nearly incompressible fluid that conforms to the shape of its container but retains a ( nearly ) constant volume independent of pressure.

Despite this he has several times attempted to quit, staying at home with his family as he realizes his constant absence has nearly destroyed his wife.

The field that the magnetometer observed was the super-position of a nearly constant spacecraft field and the interplanetary field.

Specifically, when the scale of the universe doubles, the density of matter is reduced by a factor of 8, but the density of dark energy is nearly unchanged ( it is exactly constant if the dark energy is a cosmological constant ).

He was able to keep the peace between the Indians and English in Rhode Island for nearly forty years because of his constant mediation and negotiation.

This results in nearly constant attenuation with frequency over two successive repeater sections, and eliminates the need for large slope equalization and adjustments.

Buffer solutions are used as a means of keeping pH at a nearly constant value in a wide variety of chemical applications.

For the next 300 years, Cyprus was ruled jointly by both the Arabs and the Byzantines as a condominium, despite the nearly constant warfare between the two parties on the mainland.

Nevertheless, in 2010 the UN reported that 925 million of the world's population of nearly seven billion people were in a constant state of hunger.

Because the charging voltage is nearly constant, constant-current charging delivers energy at a near-constant rate.

Algol variables undergo eclipses with one or two minima separated by periods of nearly constant light.

The lower boundary of the exosphere is known as exobase ; it is also called the thermopause as in Earth's atmosphere the atmospheric temperature becomes nearly a constant above this altitude.

The or Warring States period in Japanese history was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict that lasted roughly from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century.

However, it proved inadequate, and began nearly two centuries of what it had sought to counteract – constant fighting and disorder.