Sentences with phrase «city model does»

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It's an interesting model for rapidly educating software engineers, particularly considering that a recent study about the New York tech industry found that half of New York City's technical work force doesn't have a traditional college education.

They sent a survey to an email list of Kansas City residents that Howard had collected and conducted a focus group with six current loyal members to find out what they liked — and didn't — about Howard's current business model.

Travis Isaacson, senior director of organizational development at Access Development, a Salt Lake City, affinity marketing business, doesn't want anything that fancy, just an iPod Classic with 120 GB of memory instead of the old 80 GB model he has now so he can squeeze in more of the business books he downloads from Audible.com.

Home espresso machines are subject to derision from some coffee snobs, That's because most models «do a half - assed job,» in the words of 30 - shots - a-day drinker Danny O'Neill, founder of Kansas City - based coffee company The Roasterie (That's why he put professional grade machines in his kitchen and tree house.)

If done right, one U.S. city could transform its economy while setting a new model for corporate attraction.

But what we don't see is what it takes to construct a model of financial success that will allow us to house the best players in the world, in one of the most modern stadiums in the world, in one of the biggest football city's in the world.

British model Anara Atanes did the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on Saturday after being nominated by her boyfriend, Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri.

Alice Goodwin, the glamour model wife of former Stoke City, Liverpool and Arsenal winger Jermaine Pennant, did the Ice Bucket Challenge on Wednesday.

I accept City is run on petro - dollars Chelski on Russian money and Utd is a debt mountain.But to me Wenger AND the Board show no ambition to reach that last step up.Again I accept we run on a business model and operate within our means but tell me why Wenger with his stranglehold on the Club and the entire Board with the exception of Ivan Gazidis licking his balls he doesn't force the issue.Oh but he gets a pay increase with his new contract despite failing to reach the minimum of Champions League

City, Chelsea, PSG, Real Madrid, Barca and now Man United are all offering this type of model and yes it has a lot to do with global branding.

The other model is poaching heavy hitters from other clubs like, ahem, City did when they poached the front office from Barcelona.

i do nt get it folks.buying players is no guarantee to success.examples Tottenham and recently Manure.Mata is not going to change much at Man u.it takes time to blend a winning team.it took 4 yrs or so for Man City to win the league after they started to be spoiled by oil money.Arsenal FC is doing its things by its own way.it is following its self sustaining model and we still competing.

I wish they would use a magnetic closure like they did on the City Mini Elite model.

Now, if you need an adjustable handle bar, there is a City Mini GT model that is slightly heavier and more expensive, but it does have an adjustable handle bar.

While it does not fit the model of a college town, Garden City is also the site of Adelphi University, which has almost 8,000 undergraduate students.

On changes to the state's campaign finance laws, Skelos indicated he would be open to reforms that did not include a public financing system that is modeled after the New York City system.

The new effort does go further in attacking Ms. Glen, accusing her of bringing a Goldman Sachs model of development to City Hall.

«The borough president is looking at our borough and saying that we're doing great things in this borough and we can really be a model reflective of the entire city,» said City Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson of the Brcity,» said City Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson of the BrCity Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson of the Bronx.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer is moving key aspects of doing business with the city away from a paper - first model and allowing for quicker online function.

Just this morning, supporters of the bill released a counter analysis of the city's living wage study, which argued its modeling did not rule out other factors that could affect job growth (like an economic downturn).

He said he used a model resolution and added language specific to the city of Kingston to draft the legislation adopted by the Common Council, adding that while the resolution does not «have teeth» with which to be enforced, the legislation adds Kingston to the list of other municipalities opposed to the pipeline.

He also said, «I'm clear about the fact that I will do whatever I can to prevent this from becoming a clash and something to bash unions... I take this as a model from what happened in the 70s when there was a fiscal crisis in New York City.»

Fariña also heralded support from state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia who, the chancellor said, has «highlighted that what New York City is doing with struggling schools is something that should be a model for the state.»

The city of Buffalo's current Code Blue model offers shelter to anyone in need when the temperatures dip below 15 degrees, but does not force any individual to go to a shelter.

«We haven't seen a lot of big ideas coming out of the de Blasio administration over the past four years, and when there are some ideas, they typically don't have a funding plan,» said Tolkin, an entrepreneur with a $ 25 billion transit plan and a for - profit business model to raise city revenue.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — Mayoral hopeful and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said there is a model approach to the city's massive backlog of labor contracts in the work done by Governor Andrew Cuomo, while blasting what he called Mayor Bloomberg's hands - off approach to the issue.

When applied to the road networks in actual cities, Transims did better than traditional models at predicting traffic jams and local pollution levels — one reason why Transims - inspired agent - based models are now a standard tool in transportation planning.

The reason, it seems, has to do with Mexico City's unusual sensitivity to earthquakes and the efforts it has made to compensate, which could serve as a model for preparedness in the developing world.

But he was not feeling so affectionate back then as he attempted to explain the peculiarly irregular timing of radio pulses from this city - size star: «It was really a lot of pain because the pulsar didn't want to fit any standard models.

It's a simple model — for instance, it does not account for zoning restrictions or for the fact that some cities, such as London, emerged as polycentric entities hundreds of years ago when several smaller villages consolidated — but it is still a useful model for exploring polycentricity, says Michael Batty, an urban planner at University College London, who wasn't involved in the study.

These polishes were supplied by Model City Polish, but that doesn't affect or influence my opinion on them at all.

I have been super swamped with the annual Model City Polish sale but didn't want miss out on showing you my holo nails for the weekend.

It is still run by Lyle, and functions in a similar way as it did in Animal Crossing: City Folk, but there is no model room.

Kiki and Tombo are marvelous models of courage, drive and self confidence and her adventures have as much to do with real world situations, such as fear of failure and blows to her self esteem, as with the lyrical flights among the birds and over the forests and city streets (a lovingly detailed middle Europe seaport town of red tiled roofs and cobble stone streets).

Dioramas inside that museum play a key narrative role, as does the Queens Museum's Panorama of the City of New York — a miniature model of the city built for the 1964 World's Fair that becomes the centerpiece of a stunning, handcrafted sequeCity of New York — a miniature model of the city built for the 1964 World's Fair that becomes the centerpiece of a stunning, handcrafted sequecity built for the 1964 World's Fair that becomes the centerpiece of a stunning, handcrafted sequence.

The initial thought we had is, if you can create one turnaround model in Los Angeles and maybe one on the East Coast, that, in turn, creates a turnaround institute, and other people in other cities can come and learn just how you do it.

We already have a rich soup of internal governance models, in portfolio cities like NYC and Denver, and need to learn more about how they do and don't work.

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

«Several schools in each district are assigned as model schools and given a small amount of money from the district or the city to do some action research - style work.

In so doing, it followed in the footsteps of urban school districts such as Baltimore, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and New York City, all of which have in the past decade expanded their reliance on the once ubiquitous K — 8 model.

But, despite this breadth of teaching models and outreach to the most vulnerable student populations, and despite the fact that we represent half of the charter schools in NYC, we remain an unknown story within the city at large because our schools do their work diligently and without much fanfare in their communities.

Instead, we need to ask what mix of schools (of varying sizes and models) do we need as a city to serve all our students well?

«I will explore a model that takes responsibility for low - performing schools similar to what was done by the mayor in Los Angeles 10 years ago,» Turner announced at the state of the city address Tuesday.

But there are elements of what San Antonio has done that are very much a model for the rest of the nation: how we structured the actual classroom learning, how we did the campaign to get Pre-K for SA enacted, and the coalition of support that we've built across the city for early childhood education.

The city's experience, however, provides more of a model of what not to do than anything else.

Three New Orleans charter school principals gathered Thursday evening to discuss a just - released study that examined what school leaders do in response to competition — the foundation of the city's school - choice model.

And the city did just that, using chartering as a model to overhaul the system and create improved educational opportunities for its children.

HCZ Promise Academy students do perform better than students of their backgrounds attending a New York City public school but the charter school at the top of the list is a KIPP school [18] which calls into comparison two different models of education and their abilities to create achievement for historically marginalized groups.

Get to the city of Cape Town and a lot of activities also await, Cape Town has a little bit of everything from Ratanga Junction for the little ones to the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens for adults and nature lovers, learn about the stars and their formation at the Iziko Museum Planetarium; visit the Two Oceans Aquarium, home to more than 3000 species of sea creatures; let your little ones discover their inner Jamie Oliver's at Little Cooks Club, and don't forget to check out the Warrior Toy Museum where vintage toys, such as model cars, miniature dolls, teddy bears and more are kept.

Like before, a five - speed manual transmission is available with front - wheel - drive four - cylinder models, and it does even better than the automatics at the pumps: 22 mpg city, 28 highway.