Sentences with phrase «making public performance»

The court concluded that because each Aereo user receives TV signals using a unique antenna, and because the signal from that antenna goes only to one subscriber, Aereo was not making public performances, and copyright law simply doesn't touch Aereo's system.

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And on Friday, the company made the paperwork public, revealing details about its financial performance, it's internal tech infrastructure, and plans to expand.

Second, performance of directors should be much more public so shareholders can make a more informed decision when they vote.

Barry Racey, AK Steel's public relations director, offered some explanation for Wainscott's pay bump: «2014 compensation decisions were made early in the... year, and were largely based on 2013 company performance.

Under federal securities rules, public companies aren't supposed to disclose «material information» about their business performance unless it's made widely available to the public, noted Stephen Diamond, an associate professor who teaches securities law at Santa Clara University.

Harvard is «reviewing» reports that University employee Eric Clopper made anti-Semitic comments and stripped to the nude during a public performance he gave in Sanders Theatre Tuesday evening.

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If these things offered great performance, the issuers would be falling over themselves to make that data public, right?

The selection of instruments is not random but follows a design known initially only to the composer and made public only in the performance.

But Walsh makes it a profound public performance that deserves attention because it is so popular while being so divisive.

From the pandemic of pornography to reality T.V., to the insatiable urge so many feel to make the whole of life a performance on Facebook and Twitter, the distinction upon which civilization has depended — a careful demarcation between the public and the private — is dissolving before our eyes.

«New Zealand Dairy Companies Review», published in April by TDB Advisory (TDB), reviews the performance of Fonterra's milk processing competitors in NZ, the four that make their financial reports public — OCD, Synlait, Tatua and Westland.

In collaboration with well - known artists, entrepreneurs, policy makers and the general public, Adopt the Arts is dedicated to improving the academic performance of every child, through the gift of making music and art.

And when you consider the side effect it had on Man City's performance when it was made public that Pep would take over, you can understand why things are being left until nearer to the end of the season, not that i think it would make much of a difference with the way our lot are playing, but there you go.

Dean should be objectively independently assessed on last nights performance with the results properly audited and then made public through the various news media.

«Rather than make a comparison to other parents and other kids, all you have to say is, «This is a public performance, and we'd love to be part of the public,»» he suggests.

Part of musical performance involves narcissism, just as some part of writing or acting or painting or sculpting or making film is deeply self - absorbed, but we don't condemn musicians or artists for daring to put their creations out in public for people to see.

But at the same time it makes longer - term assessment of performance possible — enabling just the sort of independent evidence - based policy for public management that governments constantly say they want.

Quality of Official Indicators: A significant aspect of NPM was the concept of «management by numbers,» that is, the development of quantitative performance indicators, with the aim of making public policy and management more analytic and evidence - based.

The High Bridge Festival included a public art installation, walking tours of the bridge, a «Bridge Making Workshop» presented by the Bronx Children's Museum, and live entertainment, including a performance by Jose Peña Suazo y La Banda Gorda.

He rebuffed demands by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that teacher - performance records be made available to the general public.

«The Chancellor made many welcome announcements in the Spending Review, including the 1 % limit to public sector pay growth and the intention to curtail automatic pay progression - regardless of performance - within the public sector.

The money came tied to some fundamental changes in public education, among them the adoption of a statewide teacher evaluation system that could make it easier to fire those who log years of poor performance.

In Part II, I explain why the school budget provided to the public makes a performance evaluation difficult.

Mr. Cuomo has hinted occasionally at the makings of a broad, if workmanlike, agenda for the next four years: creating jobs, particularly upstate; rebuilding infrastructure, including upgrading New York's aging airports; demanding better performance from the state's public schools.

I graduated from a public university with a very good performance during my career and could have made an investigation career in my country, however a had a dougther and I needed to suspend my studies.

-- The Secretary shall, as part of the program established pursuant to subsection (a), collect and make available to the public information regarding the cost, performance, and other technical data regarding the deployment and integration of plug - in electric drive vehicles.

In a report made public on Thursday, reasons citing «performance, organizational, and technical» failures led to the White House intrusion.

It is easy to imagine Rock being surrounded by constant public attention, made uneasy by his celebrity, and disappointed by his film's reviews and box office performance.

Seeing a lucrative opportunity in challenging King to a one - off, winner - take - all, televised exhibition match, Riggs» public performance as a «male chauvinist pig» (putting the «show back into chauvinism») made it difficult, if not impossible, for King to reject Riggs offer without compromising her public persona as a women's rights advocate and a feminist icon.

He never does interviews, barely ever lets himself be seen in public, and he makes strange editing decisions, often editing the majority of an actor's performance out of the movie... And with The Tree of Life, he yet again delivers something baffling.

«Down here you make enemies for life,» spits the young public defender who's muffed Dee's case, bristling at the questions of her ACLU attorney (Tim Blake Nelson) and the conflicted local lawyer who's signed on to represent her (Will Patton, in the film's best performance).

In the film, Bateman stars as Baxter Fang who, with his sister Annie (Nicole Kidman), took part as children in their parents» performance art projects that mostly found them making awkward public spectacles of themselves.

There will also be an exclusive special guest performance by four - time Oscar - nominated Danny Elfman himself, making his first public singing performance in 18 years.

Not long ago, she appeared on Public Radio International's Studio 360 to discuss her long career (born in 1939, she made her initial mark on Rowan & Martin's Laugh - In in 1970), and I was reminded of all of the quirky humor she brings to most of her performances.

The equity - rankings industry should examine its performance and make the changes necessary to provide the public with an accurate barometer.

With the current economic challenges, particularly in the public sector, the drive for efficiency is all - important and the performance of the FM / estates bursar function has and will continue to make a major contribution.

Educational leaders must acknowledge with compassion that fear abounds when it comes to receiving feedback; their greatest weapon in defeating that fear is their ability to make their own performance, and their own learning, visible for their public to see and reflect upon.

Under these policies, performance on standardized tests was not only made public but was also tied to rewards and sanctions.

Districts with schools that had persistently failed to make «adequate yearly progress» in their test - score performance were required to offer the students in those schools options ranging from a seat in a higher - performing public school to free tutoring services.

Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public / charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.

A unitary accountability system enables the state to fairly and transparently monitor program compliance and inform the public about performance; make difficult decisions about withholding funds, intervening with local boards, and taking over schools and districts; and uniformly and thoroughly administer federal programs.

The papers, slated to be made public early next month, define charter districts as systems of autonomous schools that are given regulatory freedom in exchange for meeting performance standards specified either in contracts or charters.

To answer this question we examine whether the annual changes in performance made by traditional public schools during this period were more positive in schools with charter schools nearby than in schools not facing charter school competition.

«I am struck realizing how much difficulty we have had making [his] ideas work,» Johnson said, citing the absence of a comprehensive performance - based pay system in American public education.

In an effort to make public organizations more efficient, governments round the world make use of hard performance targets, such as student test scores for public schools and patient waiting times for health - care systems.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Rigorous research on charter school performance (studies that make true apples - to - apples comparisons) shows that there is tremendous variation nationally; charter schools often outperform traditional public schools, though not the majority of the time.

A behavioral argument could also be made: that the state's reform policies, its public shaming and sanctions for low - performing schools, would most strongly influence the behavior of urban districts, which tend to have a history of low performance and mismanagement.