Taking the time to study how you spend and finding just the right card that
best rewards your level and type of spending can yield big savings.
Not exact matches
Using an unlimited policy for your entire staff may make it impossible to use extra vacation time as a
reward or perk for senior -
level staff or for those who perform exceptionally
well.
Good merchandising is a beautiful thing: A customer gets excited about the product, recognizes the value the retailer has added (
rewards, high service
levels, special privileges, etc.) and makes a purchase.
If you can tolerate its collar - style design, the wireless Samsung
Level U will
reward you with an impressively strong, balanced sound, a
good 10 or so hours of battery life, and freedom from any sort of cord tangling.
Many directors — particularly CEOs — express frustration that their boards lack the
level of industry expertise and innovation experience necessary to make
well - informed risk -
reward assessments about proposals.
At a higher, almost philosophical
level, the government wants to disrupt the long - standing mechanics that enable a small business to both get through challenging times without resorting to layoffs or bankruptcy, and then reap their
rewards during those precious, and often short, «
good years.»
«A startup's ability to issue stock options
levels the playing field by giving potential employees something unique: the ability to share in the company's
rewards as
well as its risks and participate in the upside of a new and exciting venture.»
Generally, it is recommended that if you spend at least $ 24,000 + per year with your credit card, the FlexPerks Travel
rewards card is the
better card between the two (U.S. Bank grants a 3,500 FlexPoints bonus at this
level that can cover the annual fee).
Even if things work out
well over the short term, it is rarely
rewarding to chase such advances, since prices typically retreat to the same or lower
levels a few months later (and in some cases, can remain below those
levels years later).
There's really no telling what the price of a coin will be once mining
rewards are in fractions of a coin
level, but it seems that during that time more and more people will enter the market with interest and vigor, and those people will help raise the price as
well as stabilize it by having a far greater number of people who can decide if and when Bitcoin is losing value.
It is
better to remain in cash to invest at lower
levels, which offer a
better risk -
reward ratio.
They may need a gentle reminder that their success is not an unambiguous
reward for virtue; rather, each new achievement stands as a challenge to learn to do
good on that
level of accomplishment or proficiency.1
«We want to be «uniquely yours» for our franchisees as
well, and connect with them on a deep and emotional
level while providing them a rich and
rewarding experience interacting with our brand,» Lester adds.
It is
well - known for its ability to assist in increasing
levels of dopamine and serotonin — neurotransmitters that control the brain's
reward and pleasure centers, reduce stress and stabilize mood.
We feel
good that speciality coffee
rewards farmers and producers at a greater
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They are playing at a decent
level where they still get
well rewarded.
There may not be an instant fix, but gambling on Porter, who might be the
best scorer in the draft, could be a meaningful risk /
reward move and terrific fit for a franchise long in need of a high -
level wing.
In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer
good and bad years for a company sharing risks and
rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and
rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low
levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable
levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.
Good ideas and valid protocols were
rewarded with grant money, despite the high
level of competition.
I find this position very
rewarding in that I get to meet very interesting academics as
well as people at all
levels in industry who are experts in fascinating fields of science and technology.
The range of topics explored as
well as the
level of expertise in the room (each room) has made for a consistently
rewarding conference experience with tons of takeaways.
These data are challenging for existing theories of the role of dopamine in interval timing, but are perhaps
better explained by supposing that tonic dopamine
levels code for average
reward rate, as suggested in recent reinforcement learning models.
Although three out of four primary care doctors support the use of financial
rewards as an incentive for
better medical care, most of these physicians oppose public reporting of such quality assessments at the individual or group
level, report researchers from the University of Chicago in the March / April issue of Health Affairs.
But once the animals had learned the
best route, the firing pattern was starkly different: high -
level electrical activity appeared as the animals entered the maze, and when they ate their
reward, but in between — while following the now - learned route in a more automatic fashion — neuronal activity was much lower.
Yoga and meditation can boost *
levels of the feel -
good brain chemicals such as GABA, serotonin and dopamine, which are responsible for feelings of relaxation, contentedness, and the way the brain processes
rewards and enjoyment.
So we need tryptophan, which makes serotonin and melatonin, we need GABA, which makes GABA, and that calms our nervous system down, we need tyrosine, which makes dopamine, this is a feel -
good hormone that helps us seek
rewards and feel motivated, and energized, also tyrosine gets made into thyroid hormones, again, which helps us feel energized and keeps our energy
levels stable and our metabolism revved up, and the catecholamines, norephinephrine and epinephrine, which we need for that fight or flight response and that we're going to be burning through a lot more quickly when we're in that fight or flight response.
Ostensibly the same again, then, LocoRoco 2 nevertheless pulls its charm tight and burrows deeper into the mechanics,
level layouts and set - pieces, presenting more elaborate
rewards in visuals and gameplay, and doing a
better job of sharing them with you so that you don't always feel as though you're searching for cuddly needles in a Teletubbies haystack.
After the bug fixes with a patch this sequel exceeds the original in every aspect.Better graphics, gamplay and story along with 2 completely different playable protaganists give Dishonered 2 more replay value then almost every triple A title this year.And this time around I did nt feel pushed to play the game in any specific way.I felt that playing stealthily was alot more
rewarding then the first entry but i never felt that i was playing wrong or was being punished when i played a full on assault playthrough.Also there are several ending for every playstyle for both characters which really drive you toward a second, third or even forth playthrough and in all the chaos or silence of each
level, even on my forth run, I reimagined every situation and experienced different outcomes every single time.Dishonored 2 also contains some of the
best level design I have ever seen with the likes of the amazing and masterfully thought out Clockwork Mansion
level being among my all time favorites.Dishonored 2 truly is a masterpiece in almost every ascpect!!!
Level design could have been just a tad
better and the musical score isn't great: however, it succeeds in delivering a fun and
rewarding experience, keeping high the challenge and entertaining the player.
Speaking of which, the
level design is
well done with speed feeling like a
reward for playing
well, but also occurring through flashy roller coaster - like segments.
On the other hand, one awesome feature is the medal system which
rewards you according to how
well you did against other players in the
level.
An in - game tier
level shows the size of your collection, and higher tier players get access to
better rewards.
An RPG
leveling system that
rewards those who invest time with
better weapons?
Veteran action - RPG players
well schooled in the mechanics of their favorite genre face a bit an un-learning curve in Monster Hunter, because the usual tactics of
leveling a character and squaring off against an enemy for a frantic battle to the death will not be
rewarded for long.
Planning and executing a
good defensive strategy does feel
rewarding and when you're trying to clear out one room while another is under attack, there's a
level of chaos that just adds to the fun.
Aside from the addictive blend of mechanics,
well - implemented learning curve,
rewarding progression systems, and satisfying
level of challenge, the core gameplay is fairly decent, too.
«So, professionally it's been very
rewarding but incredibly difficult because sometimes they will think «
Well I actually don't know what the next step is if they're [at this
level]» and so that's involved teachers having to research.»
In 1999, Michigan increased the
reward for
good academic performance by offering the Michigan Merit Award, a one - year $ 2,500 scholarship for any student who scores at
Level I or
Level 2 on the Michigan Educational Achievement Program (MEAP) tests in reading, mathematics, science, and writing.
• There was a widespread,
well - justified concern that prior accountability measures based primarily on achievement
levels (proficiency rates) unfairly penalized schools serving more disadvantaged students and failed to
reward schools for strong test score growth.
In this
level, gamification that
rewards team development works
well.
The criteria are set up, and students are
rewarded district - wide at the trimester in the elementary
level and at semester end in high school and middle school, as
well as a year - end drawing for larger prizes.»
Once that's all set up, you can take things to the next
level by offering group
rewards to the
best performing teams.
In my last post we took a look at a checklist for designing
good gamified eLearning and saw how the story and look and feel that games provide engage learners on a deeper
level; competition,
rewards and challenges offer motivation, and feedback, both positive and negative, helps learners master information quickly.
U.S. News made this adjustment again to
reward schools in their state for exceptionally high performance on state assessment tests, regardless of their poverty
level, as
well as to prevent schools in their state with exceptionally low state assessment test performance from being able to win a gold, silver or bronze medal.
Game mechanics like badges,
levels and leaderboards work really
well as a
reward structure.
We consider the available evidence in more detail in order to establish the case for significantly higher pay for teachers as a necessary step in addressing the teacher supply crisis, establishing fair
levels of
reward for teachers and supporting the delivery of the
best possible education for pupils.
Schools making
good progress but not yet reaching desired average
levels of achievement are not
rewarded, and schools with high - achieving students have no further incentive to improve if they've already reached the mandated proficiency
level.
Related, and on this point we agree, «teacher pay incentives is one area that we know a
good deal about, based on analysis of actual policy variation, and the results are not terribly promising... experiments generally show performance bonuses, a particular form of pay for performance, have no significant student achievement effects, whether the bonus is
rewarded at the individual teacher
level» (p. 89).
However, schools that have done this have reaped the
rewards in terms of increased skill and confi dence
levels in pupils, as
well as reducing the amount of teaching time for duplicate ideas between subjects.