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So Benchmark is setting things up where growing numbers of well - intentioned third parties, including early investor Shervin Pishevar, are demanding that it sell its Uber position, (lately worth about $ 8.4 billion), and get off the board.

The common wisdom is that the Valley is a very closed off little world and those Benchmark guys will never get a good deal done again.

Where investors can get confused and / or make mistakes, is that many total stock market index funds use the Wilshire 5000 Index or the Russell 3000 Index as the benchmark or, as Morningstar labels it, the «best - fit index.»

Concerns about global trade tensions between China and the U.S. and the fear that the stellar earnings could be as good as it gets for stocks are all combining to undermine the sort of confidence that was in abundance during last year's run of repeated records for equity benchmarks, as the U.S. economy enters it ninth year of expansion and as the Federal Reserve moves to normalize monetary policy from crisis - era levels.

To get a better understanding of the dynamics, let's look at some of the key features of crude oil, benchmarks and the fundamentals that drive the commodity.

That said, SLVP mirrors our neutral benchmark almost perfectly, so its exposure is as good as it gets.

He sends another letter a few days later, accusing Benchmark of working with Lowercase and trying to get Huffington off the board, as well.

Museums that best meet such benchmarks should get the goods.

So when it produces endless lists of things you'd like to do, unending lines of needs, you are willing to sink everything you have into hitting those benchmarks, raising funds and awareness, getting that good work humming!

Mesut Özil winning ballon d or seems a dream too big at present but if he manages to get even in d top five players even better if top 3, he will set a benchmark for others at arsenal fc.

i like podolski and do nt think wenger has ever really got the best out of him but even at his best he is no longer a top flight player... we need to sell him and bring in someone who can really add to the level of our attack... and carvalho is now a benchmark for gauging wenger «s ambition... the lack of proper defensive cover is one reason our attacks have become much less threatening as players do nt want to overstretch knowing what «s not behind them... i am pretty confident we will beat besiktas (a team that would be hanging around the bottom of the epl if not lower) but the fact that we are in this position again speaks volumes for the way the club is run and managed

Nonetheless, Peter Syverson, vice president for research and information services at the Council of Graduate Schools, says the survey is «as good as we've got» and that it provides useful benchmarks.

In the report, Educating School Teachers, Dr. Arthur Levine calls the teacher education system «chaotic» and out of touch with what should be the new benchmark for assessing teacher preparation programs: How well students do when a colleges graduates get in front of a class.

I'd urge all eLearning professionals to get involved with this benchmark; the more that take part, the better the data and the better the outcome for your organization and the industry as a whole.

It's securing quality, using benchmarks for the best possible solutions and getting the best quality products and services with what the budget allows.

Among those who fail to make the grade at the age of 11, they say only 7 % go on to get the benchmark measurement of five good GCSEs, including English and maths.

Maybe his time, given his varying roles, would be better spent a. Getting his Trust to produce a detailed case - study with a breakdown of all the cost - savings made, for other schools to scrutinise and benchmark against... and b. actually making sure that the folk setting up his much trumpeted «national deals brokered by the government to help schools save money on energy bills and hardware like printers and photocopiers» do a better job.

While over 85 per cent of Chinese pupils got five good GCSEs, only 59 per cent of black Caribbean pupils achieved the benchmark.

More formally, after we've got the RTI model implemented, well, parents are going to choose to be involved in varying levels, but as a school person I'd encourage parents to be involved as we look at the results of our screening whether we're screening annually, or maybe even three times a year, when we're looking at those academic benchmarks that would indicate how well a youngster is performing in class and then when we're conducting the progress monitoring so that students who are part of more intensive interventions will have their progress monitored, or will conduct those formative assessments to inform us how well that intervention is working.

And the government is said to be planning to scrap the traditional benchmark on which secondary schools in England are measured - the number of pupils getting five good GCSEs (grades A * to C), including maths and English.

Building on the exceptional Sierra platform, the Yukon gets additional rigidity thanks to its full body — versus a flexy bed structure — that makes it even quieter, smoother and better controlled than its benchmark pickup truck brother.

On the Linpack benchmark, the ASUS MeMO Pad got a single - threaded score of 28 and a multi-threaded score of 30, well behind the 37 single - threaded and 52 multi-threaded score of the Kindle Fire HD.

If we take these two as relative benchmarks for how thin tablets can get with today's technology, the Tab 8 is doing reasonably well, if not exceptionally so.

On Peacekeeper, a general - purpose browser benchmark where higher scores are better, the Nook Browser got 232 to the Kindle Fire's 317.

Although the Texas Instrument (TI) OMAP4 processor doesn't get any hype in the media, it does a good job in the benchmark.

For the first time ever, publishers and licensors can get a total view of their licensed and branded books to identify cross-industry opportunities, benchmark and track brand sales trends over time, and understand the formats, pricing, and categories that perform best in a license program.

It scored pretty good in the benchmarks and has got pretty positive reviews.

While amortization periods are typically used to get a better idea of what interest you will pay during the term of a loan it's also an important benchmark for lenders.

However, it's benchmark got 17.3 % returns, which means you'd still be better off with an index fund mimicking that benchmark, if one was offered.

But the closer you can get to that 15 % benchmark — or even exceed it — the better your chances of having a secure and comfortable retirement.

In a bull market especially, people get caught up with how well their stocks are doing but forget to compare it to a benchmark.

Well, clearly I'm trying to escape «home bias `, and I've got precious little time for benchmarking... The UK «s at 3 %?

Basically, you'd send a portfolio (text is fine - all that's needed is the full name of all of the investments and dollar amounts), and a time frame, and you'll get a custom benchmark portfolio shell comprised of the best available fitting indices for each asset class back, with returns looking back over any time frame (as long as the data goes back).

Your favorite pair of shoes got you the benchmark distance (the market, or index fund), the different pair of shoes got you an inch before the benchmark (ETFs), and the other pair of newfangled sport shoes got you two inches past your benchmark (well - screened mutual funds).

On the spending side, you get 2 points per dollar on every charge, and with the 10 % rebate, points are worth about 2.2 cents each, making it better than a 2 % cash back card, the usual benchmark.

The table above does not answer the question of whether you are getting a good deal for a particular opportunity, but it does give you a benchmark to check against.

Hitman, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of Mordor, Thief and F1 2016 all have their own benchmarking tools, so those were all used and therefore it's worth mentioning that they don't always provide an accurate representation of actual gameplay since AMD and Nvidia can cheat a touch to get better numbers, but for the most part they're a reasonable indicator of performance.

But in not only getting it to run on the system, but run well with an intuitive control scheme, developer CD Projekt has set a benchmark for other developers.

As you progress you'll be challenged with tougher jobs, be able to unlock the better parts from the pricier vendors, open up more workbenches to get those longer running steps like running antivirus or graphics benchmarks going concurrently, and other sorts of new features.

All of Ansel's features will be available, enabling you to capture Super Resolution and 360 ° screenshots, but to get the absolute - best shots from the FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION Benchmark, and other supported Ansel games, you should opt - in to GeForce Experience's latest beta.

This group focuses on in - firm self promotion and addresses how to get and keep the best work, be the best lawyer you can be, meet skills benchmarks despite billable hour pressures, build satisfying and politically advantageous in - firm relationships and earn client access by learning to treat the partner like a client and speaking the language of business.

After 6 - 12 months, we plan to use the data we've collected to start scoring and benchmarking our firms so we can get better value for money.

In the Quadrant benchmark test, it achieved a 20,000 which is up there with the best, and in the 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited test, it got almost 20,000 as well, which is a superb gaming score for a phone.

Specs-wise, it is modest but a good value, although it is somewhat less feature - rich than the ASUS ZenFone 2 Laser ZE551KL that is serving as our feature / performance benchmark, which we will get to in a moment.

In Antutu benchmark scores, it gets around 26,000 in our testing, which is well below where other phones in the price range are.

OnePlus has been caught cheating on benchmarks, OnePlus 3T owners have been getting annoying ads on their phone telling them to upgrade, and despite aping the design of the iPhone 7 Plus, the OnePlus 5 camera doesn't stack up well against Apple's oversized smartphone.

Benchmark tests are indeed one of the best ways to get an unbiased rating of any smartphones through various comparisons among different devices.

Furthermore, to make things even worse (or better if you've just bought an iPhone 6s), Apple's newest dual - core iPhone also beats Android - based devices in multi-core benchmark results, with the only exception being Samsung's octa - core S6 edge, which racks in 4401 points while the iPhone 6s only gets 4375, as measured by MobileSyrup.

What is nice is that companies are returning to the wisdom that a lower resolution saves battery life and improves benchmarks and that FHD is good enough for all purposes up to 7 inches as you already get a retina PPI.

Last year's Pixel had the best camera you could get on a smartphone, and not just in DxO benchmarks, but in real - world testing.