Sentences with phrase «stakes system does»

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If the video didn't show anything that raises the stakes for RIM's rivals, it looks like it may at least put BlackBerry's operating system in the same universe.

Even though Marin Luther introduced some reform from the roman catholic system, he was very much a roman catholic in that he favored the pope and had people burned at the stake who did not believe in infant baptism!

«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.

This system and the men operating it want you to know that they don't succeed so often and raise the stakes so fearlessly because they're that good.

If one wants to assess the effect of high - stakes testing, the obvious comparison is between states that adopted accountability systems and those that did not.

But as part of the mayor's plan to «lower the stakes on testing,» the de Blasio administration replaced the report cards with a «School Quality Report» system, which is based on similar metrics but does not give schools a letter grade.

But the stakes in this second year under the new system will only be higher, as the law gives school districts the power to bring tenure charges against teachers who don't fare well in a second consecutive year, putting new pressures on teachers and placing new responsibility on schools.

Grade inflation is natural in systems where politicians stake their careers on school improvement, as Mayor Bloomberg has done in New York City.

Far too little is still being done, however, to reform the high stakes accountability system that is the root cause of excessive workload.

For the last six months we've seen Governor Malloy and Education Commissioner Pryor stake their careers on tying Connecticut's Master Test to a new teacher evaluation system that they claim will allow administrators to determine which teachers are doing their job successfully and which need to be removed from the classroom.

Bloom's Taxonomy Don't throw out the multiple choice baby with the high stakes testing bathwater According to Edglossary «Blooms Taxonomy is a classification system used to define and distinguish different levels of human cognition — i.e., thinking, learning, and understanding.»

When using tests, and especially subjective indicators to measure «teacher performance,» one must exercise caution to ensure that those being measured do not engage in manipulation and inflation techniques known to effectively increase the scores derived and valued, particularly within such high - stakes accountability systems.

It's an oft - noted irony of the confrontation in Chicago that Mayor Rahm Emanuel sends his children to the private, $ 20,000 - a-year University of Chicago Lab School, which means his family doesn't really have much of a personal stake in what happens to the school system he is trying to reform.

To do this, we introduced a leveling system and higher stakes in the online gameplay, and later on, a «Play with Buddies» feature.

Our goal was to do much better than we did before - creating a deeper combat system, showing the world in a more cinematic way, and raising the stakes for the players.

These features are table stakes for a game planning to implement a trading system, and SimCity largely hits them, net of a few minor bugs (including one nasty one where the player attempts to purchase an item from the global marketplace that doesn't exist).

You mean dead because «there may be little at stake since the «fantasy of irresolubly rival systems of the world» doesn't get anywhere useful?

Engineering is something you do to a system you understand very well, where you can try out new techniques thoroughly at a small scale before staking peoples» lives on them.

When Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo found that science and observations did not support Ptolemy's clever and complex model of the solar system, the totalitarian establishment of their day advised such heretics to recant — or be battered, banished or even burned at the stake.

This analytical highlights the nature of the challenges that agriculture and food systems are facing now and throughout the 21st century, and provides some insights as to what is at stake and what needs to be done.

Significant matters / transactions include: Advised Xstrata South Africa (Proprietary) Limited on its offer to purchase Lonmin plc's entire issued share capital, # 5 billion Advised Telkom SA Limited on its unbundling of a 35 % stake in Vodacom Group (Proprietary) Limited, R35 billion Advised Edgars Consolidated Stores Limited on its acquisition by Bain Capital, R25, 5 billion Advised The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) on the introduction of BEE equity participation in Sasol Limited and their arranging financing therefore, R25, 4 billion Advised FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Nedbank Limited (acting through its Nedbank Capital division) as lenders to Richards Bay Titanium (Proprietary) Limited and Richards Bay Mining (Proprietary) Limited, R19 billion Advised Citibank N.A. on a bridge loan granted to Turquoise Moon Trading 427 (Proprietary) Limited by Citibank N.A. and JP Morgan Chase, R10 billion Advised British American Tobacco plc on its secondary listing on the JSE, R550 billion Advised Pioneer Foods Limited on its listing on the JSE Securities Exchange, R6 billion Advised the South African National Roads Agency Limited in respect of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project involving the construction and upgrade of the Gauteng freeway and the procurement of an open road tolling system, R44 billion Advised Absa Bank Limited (acting though its Absa Capital division), FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Vunani Capital (as co-lead arrangers) and the South Africa National Roads Agency Limited (as issuer) on the establishment of its South African Guaranteed Domestic Medium Term Note Programme and the subsequent issue of notes thereunder, R32 billion Advised Shoprite Checkers (Proprietary) Limited on the proposed Brait Private Equity private equity buy - out (this did not proceed), R12 billion Advised Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited and various shareholders on the acquisition by Capitalworks Private Equity SP GP (Proprietary) Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company South Africa Limited of a 20 % equity stake in Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited from various shareholders, R511 million Clients include: Multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and Government

Furthermore, if one system didn't work, another should have sufficed — multiple failbacks are only practical in high - stakes matters like driving on public roads.

Proof of Stake system would do away with traditional miners, and create virtual miners, or validators.

There are indications that Ethereum may instead move towards a proof - of - stake system, where block generation is done by coin - holders instead of miners.

For anyone doubting the analysis, not only does Professor Sirer have extensive experience researching and writing about distributed systems, but he also expertly analyzed the notorious hack on the DAO last year which led to Ethereum's hard fork, so he clearly understands the issues at stake.

Also we need the possibility of all - ontario participation as a lever toacquire a majority interest in your Matrix or to nego a best - poss deal w Stratus (PS if TREB doesn't own a maj stake in that system already... they should have a long time ago) rce