Sentences with phrase «new racing performance»

Since the program began, the company has been busy working on this Compass360 Racing prototype that provides details on the company's new racing performance parts program specifically designed for the 2012 Civic.

After unveiling the Compass360 Racing HPD 2012 Civic Si Coupe Racecar, HPD provided details about its new racing performance parts program for the all - new Civic Coupe.

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Knicks fans were less than thrilled with the performance — much like Lakers fans last week — since it leaves New York with just a half game advantage over the Timberwolves (who play later Saturday night) in the race for the worst record in the league.

From events and festivals to enjoying a performance at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre or taking in horse races at Arlington Park, to trying out a new restaurant or enjoying a stroll around downtown or around Lake Arlington, we have loads of activities to fill your calendar.

OK, maybe not steroids for race horses, but Sen. Tom Duane is pushing a new measure that would ban the use of performance enhancing drugs in the thoroughbred industry.

Earlier this year, and as part of Race to the Top requirements, the state did direct New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), lest the districts risk losing additional available state aid.

It could be a routine hold for Labour in a constituency they have dominated forever, proving that rumours of the party's demise have been greatly exaggerated; it could be the route to Westminster for Paul Nuttall (for whom this is the fifth attempt to get into the Commons — still short of Nigel Farage's number), heralding the beginning of a big Ukip surge into working - class Labour heartlands; it could end up with a very close three -(or even four -, depending on Liberal Democrat performance) way race that shows the new divides in the electorate in the wake of the Brexit referendum.

The suit mentions the Common Core curriculum, noting additional federal funds districts have received through Race to the Top have constituted less than one - third of the amount needed for proper implementation, and the state has so far not provided additional funds to cover that cost, or the additional costs of the new teacher performance evaluation requirements.

New York Road Runners, one of the nation's largest road racing organizations, plans to expand its testing for performance - enhancing drugs to include the top runners in its local races, not just those in its top - tier events.

The Governor's framework outlined a reasonable and rigorous evaluation system based on multiple measures of performance and fulfilled the commitment made by New York in its application for Race to the Top grant funding.

Such new technology will enable advances in battery materials science, flexible battery charging rates, thermal and electrical engineering of new battery materials / technology and it has the potential to help the design of energy storage systems for high performance applications such as motor racing and grid balancing.

Cool tech pants, tech coats, hats, a bunch of really like high performance type of gear, it's the same stuff that I wear when I go to races and I will put a link in the show notes to the official new Ben Greenfield Fitness store where every piece of clothing is actually emblazoned with the same fire and water Ironman tattoo that appears on my back.

Debbie brings her experience as a trainer, coach, and athlete into her first book «Life is NOT a Race... It is a Journey» where she shares her story and the principles of her key program The WHOLESTIC Method, a new approach to improve fat loss, health, and performance for life and sports.

Many are pegging Spike Jonze's Her as the «critical darling» candidate in this year's awards race, and reviews out of the New York Film Festival praised Phoenix for his performance as a man who falls in love with his operating system.

The fifth column in our new seasonal series — if you haven't got the drill by now, we're rounding up the most Oscar - worthy work from the oft - overlooked first half of the year — wraps up the performance categories with by far the most competitive race of all.

Complete List of NAACP Image Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson, featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories Fiction - «In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou Debut Author - «Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper

Justice Kennedy offered what he regarded as acceptable methods of considering race such as «strategic site selection of new schools; drawing attendance zones with general recognition of the demographics of neighborhoods; allocating resources for special programs; recruiting students and faculty in a targeted fashion; and tracking enrollments, performance, and other statistics by race.»

But as the frequency, duration, and failure rate of these exams grew with the implementation of federal programs such as Race to the Top and new teacher - performance reviews...

To recap, thanks largely to Race to the Top incentives (a cool $ 700 million), a group of New York State reformers, including the state's Commissioner of Education and its Chancellor (the head of the Board of Regents) had pushed for teacher evaluation reforms that included linking those evaluations to student performance.

Such measures may include strategic site selection of new schools; drawing attendance zones with general recognition of neighborhood demographics; allocating resources for special programs; recruiting students and faculty in a targeted fashion; and tracking enrollments, performance, and other statistics by race.

Among other reforms encouraged by Race to the Top, Washington, D.C., adopted a new teacher contract that raised salaries across the board while adding performance pay, and New York City increased its allotment of public charter schools, to cite just two notable examplnew teacher contract that raised salaries across the board while adding performance pay, and New York City increased its allotment of public charter schools, to cite just two notable examplNew York City increased its allotment of public charter schools, to cite just two notable examples.

What the group came up with in that all - important category of teacher and leader effectiveness is a plan to give those districts that have endorsed the state's Race to the Top application 13 months to create new teacher and principal evaluations that will, at a minimum, link 30 percent of job performance to growth in student achievement.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

With $ 360 million in additional Race to the Top money, it is backing work by states to design new testing systems that it says will measure student growth — rather than capture a snapshot of achievement — supply real - time feedback to teachers to guide instruction, and include performance - based items to gauge more types of learning.

Driven partly by the Federal «Race to the Top» program that required states to adopt new teacher evaluation systems, how well students perform on the standardized test has in many states a direct influence on a teacher's performance evaluation.

A new paper by the Economic Policy Institute advances the discussion of these issues by analyzing trends in the influence of race / ethnicity, social class, and gender on students» academic performance in the United States.

Florida's revamped teacher - evaluation system is all part of the education reform agenda pushed by the Obama Administration, which is giving states $ 4.3 billion in its Race to the Top grant program to come up with new ways to grade teachers and tie student performance to their paychecks.

Race to the Top states are having differing degrees of success with what has turned out to be one of the toughest tasks required by the Obama administration's marquee competitive - grant program: crafting new teacher evaluations that take student performance into account, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office, Congress» investigative arm.

The Obama administration, with Race to the Top and the waiver process, decided instead to put their full weight behind the new Common Core State Standards, fund the development of new tests set to those standards, hold teachers individually accountable for the performance of their own students against the Common Core State Standards, implement the new tests and urge states to use teacher evaluations based on test results to fire teachers whose students did not perform satisfactorily.

The Obama Administration, using its leverage from the Race to the Top Fund, sought to encourage states to adopt new standards and hold teachers accountable for student performance on tests.

Freshman year course performance — more than background characteristics such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, or prior achievement — predict which students with disabilities are most at risk for dropping out of high school, according to a new report from the National High School Center at AIR and the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago.

In May 2010, the New York State Legislature — in an effort to secure federal Race to the Top funds — approved an amendment to Educational Law 3012 - c regarding the Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR) of teachers and principals.

An article on Tuesday about the move by New York City for new tests to grade teacher performance misstated the percentage of its $ 256 million in Race to the Top money the city would spend on developing the tesNew York City for new tests to grade teacher performance misstated the percentage of its $ 256 million in Race to the Top money the city would spend on developing the tesnew tests to grade teacher performance misstated the percentage of its $ 256 million in Race to the Top money the city would spend on developing the tests.

It was revealed at a brand spanking new Aston Martin Racing (AMR) Performance Center at the Nürburgring.

With its turbocharged engine tuned to deliver even more power than the standard JCW (which is rated at 208 hp for 2013), an adjustable GP - specific suspension, «race - spec» brakes, unique aerodynamic aids, and high - performance tires, the new GP achieves Mini's best - ever Nuerburgring time of 8:23 (besting the previous GP by nearly nineteen seconds).

Oily Rag: The New Immaculate — We report from our third Oily Rag Run, the most successful yet, based this year at P&A Wood in unspoilt north - west Essex / Ricardo Goes Racing — Harry Ricardo's work on high - performance diesel and petrol engines benefited from his pioneering research into internal combustion technology.

I'm eager to get into a final production Vantage on real roads — and a race track — but there's no doubt the new car is a step forward in both performance and depth of engineering.

Now, Audi plans for its two newest race cars to, in conjunction with the expanding road - car lineup, prove its commitment to performance product more than ever before.

Better still, Mate Rimac has an even greater desire to one day produce a car that isn't taking part in the performance arms race with Bugatti, Koenigsegg et al — the new Alpine A110 and products from Lotus both came up in conversation.

The turnkey nature and accessible performance of these new Audi race cars, however, really stand out.

The work is extensive and involves the expertise of Ralliart UK, Rampage Performance Motorparts, who source the engine components and put the FQ - 400s together, Flow Race Engines, who build the engines, and Owen Developments, the tuner behind the other FQ upgrades, who specified the new turbo and designed a cast stainless steel exhaust manifold.

It is available in two - wheel and four - wheel drive options and features a new dual intake «ram air» hood, rockers, spoilers, Honeycomb racing grille, rear bumper panel, Borla performance exhaust, and a tonneau cover.

Familiar Citroen Racing director Yves Matton leads DS Performance into the new season.

Similarly, though Porsche makes a big deal of the fact that the 996 is an all - new car, the company's old endurance - racing imperatives have shaped this 911's driver environment, its controls, and, ultimately, its performance.

Deriving its inspiration from the Nissan GT - R Nismo GT3 that competed earlier this year at the 24 - hour Nürburgring race, this new road - going GT - R Nismo is loaded with a slew of performance upgrades that are sure to shock and awe in true Godzilla fashion.

There was plenty of scope to lift performance beyond the standard 224bhp — the internals were good for a race - trim 550bhp — after all the RS500 was a product of its motorsport counterpart, like the new Ford GT.

The purpose - built, desert racing inspired truck joins the Ford Performance family as the new Ranger Raptor and will be coming to South Africa, with further information to be revealed in the future.»

Gazoo racing has introduced a new performance package (main image), which thanks to the addition of a small supercharger and turbocharger, raises power of the GT 86 from 200 to 325bhp.

Lightweight strength, supercar agility and race - inspired performance, the Alfa Romeo 4C makes its mark with an aggressive stance that's owed to innovative technology and new levels of efficiency.

14 June 2017, Gaydon: The Vantage name has long been synonymous with more extreme performance Aston Martins since the 1950s, so it's entirely appropriate that the Vantage AMR should be the first series production derivative of Aston Martin's new race - inspired performance range.