Sentences with phrase «between low effort»

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Between the size of the fees taken from the donations, the low limit on what donors can give, and the greatly reduced amount of information collected on each donor, online politics pros told techPresident weeks ago, the effort didn't seem worth the return.

At a press conference held Wednesday afternoon at the city (soon to be county) tourism office on Lower Broadway, Hein touted the merger saying that the city would no longer be forced to choose between funding its tourism promotion efforts or channeling the money into essential services.

Lower Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Cap by 30 Percent Between 2020 and 2030 - Cuomo «has called upon RGGI states to join New York in an effort to continue to lead the fight against climate change and drive the nation's transition toward a clean energy economy.»

The researchers then analyzed the data using a statistical model to explore whether there were links between social engagement in the community, and disaster preparedness efforts including following disaster - related news closely, preparing a family emergency plan or a disaster supplies kit, or planning to migrate to a lower risk area.

Establishing a relationship between low levels of second - hand smoke exposure and increased YLL offers further evidence that stricter legislation establishing smoke - free areas, together with education efforts in low - income and minority communities, is needed.

Lin's research effort emerged from a discussion last summer between her and the Climate Group, a nonprofit organization that works with corporations and governments to develop low - carbon technologies and economies.

The definition of a low rep range is anything between 1 rep with near - maximal effort and 5 reps in a set.

Often called HIIT, this style of working out involves alternating between intense and low effort workout periods.

That's why I recommend HIIT, which involves alternating between near - max - effort sprints and low - intensity recovery periods.

Essentially, you are shortening the window of rest between efforts as your body becomes adapted and more resilient to the lower volume phase.

He was only out of the director's chair for three years (though ubiquitous in every other aspect during the time in between), but «Pulp's» eventual follow - up, «Jackie Brown,» seemed like a concerted effort on Tarantino's part to lower everyone's expectations of him.

The release of the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in reading and mathematics shows widening gaps between the highest and lowest achieving students in America, underscoring a continuing need for investment in efforts to make education systems more equitable.

What our evidence does suggest is that efforts to create interactions between lower and higher types ought to maintain continuity of types.»

Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) had traditionally been a target for reform efforts thanks to a history of low - performing schools, a seemingly insurmountable achievement gap between student groups, and a relatively high proportion of state funding relative to local aid.

Many receive low grades year after year, not acknowledging the long - term progress they are actually making, and undermining their confidence in the relationship between effort and success.

In New York City alone, 44 low - performing high schools were closed between 2000 and 2014 as part of efforts by then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city's schools chancellor, Joel Klein, to eliminate so - called dropout factories and improve education for students who would typically attend a failing school because they lived nearby.

At last week's presentation, «Launching an Entrepreneurial Venture: From Cambridge to Tajikistan Using Raspberry Pis and the Sneakernet,» Beary shared her experiences with Entrepreneurial Lab (eLab)-- an entrepreneurship education program for high - potential, disadvantaged young women between the ages of 12 and 15 around the world — both in an effort to capture the early stages of a startup and to share how the organization has used low - cost technology to reach young women living in remote parts of low - income countries.

We need to STRENGTHEN School Governance Council Language (public act 10 - 111) We also have to continually hammer / promote the message of a «TEAMWORK» collaborated effort between the local district boards of education, turnaround committees and the SGC (school governance councils) in the reconstitution of our low - performing schools once they have been «accepted» into the state Commissioners Network.

Reform efforts in this state are paying off in higher test scores and lowering the achievement gap between minority and white students.

Calling North Carolina's school turnaround work «among the most ambitious in the nation,» Vanderbilt University researcher Gary Henry told members of the State Board of Education on Thursday that he's found significant positive effects resulting from the state's federally - funded efforts to boost the performance of some of its lowest performing schools between the 2011 and 2015.

In most states, there is a large and growing gap between the percentage of students of color1 and the percentage of teachers of color.2 Efforts to increase teacher diversity have led to marginal increases in the percentage of teachers of color — from 12 percent to 17 percent from 1987 through 2012 — but this positive statistic obscures other troubling facts, such as the decline in the percentage of African American teachers in many large urban districts and the lower retention rates for teachers of color across the country.3

* Assure a stronger focus on equity by (a) asking states not just about the amount of funding in education, but also about the fairness of its distribution to high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority districts and schools, and (b) asking states to document their efforts (required under federal law) to address gaps in teacher quality between high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority schools.

By ALAN J. BORSUK Posted: June 20, 2005 The nation's largest teachers union and a partner organization on Monday announced a $ 500,000 grant to support efforts in Milwaukee to close achievement gaps between racial minority students and white students and between low - income students and others.

Currently, education - policy debates in the United States are divided between two warring camps: On one side are «school reformers,» who argue that efforts to improve equity for low - income youngsters must focus on fixing failing schools.

If test results show significant widespread gains in student results temporally associated with district reform plans, if these trends are generalized across all or most schools, and if the performance gaps between previous groups of low and high performing students and schools are seen to be diminishing over time, the argument is made that district reform efforts are having a positive impact on student learning.

Steering wheel heft proves similar between each car, lightly tuned to make for quick, low effort turning.

It crystallizes the difference between Apple, which tends to keep prices (and profit margins) high, and Amazon, which likes to start low and drive lower in an effort to knee - cap the competition.

Overall, their pricing sheet for essay writing indicates a fair balance between quality and affordability, which makes this British essay service one - of - a-kind in its efforts to bring quality at the lowest rates.

According to a Guardian report, the three unions are set to explore campaign strategies including efforts to draw links between Amazon's European tax arrangements and the group's approach to low - wage workers.

A bigger challenge for young and middle - aged Canadians, added Vettese, is the low interest rate environment and the impact that the aging population is having on the balance between savers and borrowers, despite efforts by government to stimulate the economy.

On the theme of Davey's ruminations on process, Kolkata - based writer and critic Aveek Sen notes «a restless movement whose source lies in the convergence of two unresolved anxieties: the fear of low - hanging fruit and the fear of the opposite of low - hanging fruit; between risking what is too easy and risking what is too difficult; between obtaining something too effortlessly and losing something through too much effort; between the promise of immediate access and the denial of such access.»

The critical point is that an appropriate emergency climate stabilization program will require — in addition to a huge effort to reprioritize investment into low - carbon technologies — a substantial redirection of economic flows, between industrial sectors, between countries, and especially between North and South.

The bottom - up effort, he says, builds on key results from an Office of Naval Research project that uncovered important clues about interactions between the lowest levels of a storm and the upper layer of the ocean underneath it.

SRM4G is coordinated by Johannes Gabriel, Sean Low, Miranda Boettcher and Stefan Schäfer, and is a collaborative effort between the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies and Foresight Intelligence.

This report uses examples provided in the literature to illustrate the potential connections between extreme climate events and abrupt climate change, and highlights the need for a focused research effort to explore these climate events with high societal consequences but low probability.

For more information on the natural partnership between civil legal aid and philanthropic efforts to improve bedrock economic, social and health conditions for low - income people, see Natural Allies: Philanthropy and Civil Legal Aid by the Public Welfare Foundation and the Kresge Foundation.

Below, the parties presented conflicting declarations on the worth of the defense work efforts, with the lower court crediting the plaintiff's counsel's declaration that the worth of the unlawful detainer work by the defense was between $ 5,000 - 10,000 — especially with the plaintiff's attorney testifying he did U.D. trial work on a flat per - daily fee basis.

Purchasing low cost life insurance is a joint effort between you and your agent.

It can also lead to larger gaps between rates, either because some companies don't try to be competitive in those states or because they lower prices in an effort to gain market share.

In an effort to combat the lengthy period of time between releasing new versions of Android and OEMs updating their devices, Google has announced the biggest change to the low - level system architecture of Android to date — Project Treble.

Globeop Financial Services, LLC (Harrison, NY) 2005 — 2007 Manager Enterprise Infrastructures Group • Designed and implemented disaster recovery system for Reuiter's Kondor 3.0 on Solaris 10 and Sybase 12.0 — 15.0 • Installed, configured, and managed Reuiter's Kondor 3.0; Solaris 10 (LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, ZOANS, CONTAINERS); AIX 4.3 - 5.3, Red Hat Enterprise — RHEL 3.0 — 4.0, Sybase 12.0 — 15.0, Oracle 10g, MYSQL 2.7.1, Sun One Directory Server (LDAP), SUN IDM, Solstice Disk Suite, Sun Cluster 3.0 - 3.2, Veritas Storage Foundation 4.1 — 5.0, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas NetBackup 5.0 — 7.0, Storage Array A1000 — A3500, EMC SAN, HITACHI SAN, 3 PAR, Brocade switch 40K, Cisco switch 6309, SSH, SSL, RSA encryption, Emulex LPFC, NaviSphere, EMC, and Power path • Automated processes utilizing shell scripts (Bourne, Korn, C Shell, Bash, AWK, SED and Perl) • Strong technical expertise in all major server technologies (SUN / HP / IBM / Linux / Microsoft) experiment in managing mission critical, low latency, high availability and clustered IT systems and familiar with FIX protocol • Performed massive installation of Solaris servers using both Jumpstart and Blade Logic and Red Hat using both PXE boot and BladeLogic servers to global distributed network of more than 2500 servers • Conducted disaster recovery tests • Managed and supervised four technicians ensuring continuity of service and efficient operations • Coordinated effort among Development, System, Networking, Application Support, Backup and recovery team to ensure maximum up time and effective issue resolution • Planned & developed projects, performed user acceptance tests, and applied patches to repair bugs • Developed shell scripts for Bourne shell, Korn shell, C Shell, AWK, PL / SQL and PERL • Managed DNS, NIS, NIS +, LDAP, jump start, Send Mail, SFTP, FTP, HTTP, SSL, SSH, Telnet and HP Open View • Coordinated effort between Development, QA, Production, DR, Systems, DBA, Production Support and Network Administration, Applications group for project completion ahead of time and under budget • Managed DNS, NIS, NIS +, DHCP, LDAP, SFTP, jumpstart, Apache, Tomcat, Websphrer and HP Open View.

Although parallels do exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups, key differences and low rates of success from previous smoking cessation intervention efforts in Indigenous communities19 suggest a need for specifically tailored intervention programs.

Lowering the dividing line between what are known as conforming loans and jumbo loans is an effort by the government to expand the role of private capital in the mortgage marketplace and reduce the number of loans guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.