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Awards include a Gold Echo from the Direct Marketing Association, an IMMY from the Information Industry Association, two Southstar Awards, an American Corporate Identity Award of Excellence, the Standard of Excellence award from the Web Marketing Association, AWAI's Copywriter of the Year, and ETR's Lifetime Achievement Award in Marketing.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

In April this year, said Heyman, «World Productions, Britain's leading producer of drama, was awarded the British Academy of Film and Television Arts» Special Achievement Award for consistently high standards of programming and for the encouragement of new talent.»

The PIRSA grants are dollar for dollar voluntary contribution grants, and their purpose is to offer «support in assisting food and beverage businesses and industry associations to help attain industry standard third - party certifications that will support achievement of either or both of the following aims: (a) accessing new or higher value markets for product, or (b) contributing to premium positioning and achieving superior prices for products.»

«Green energy alternatives such as wind power and solar power get most of the headlines for their achievements, but anaerobic processes are even more suited to industry in many instances, given that it provides reliable base load power and simultaneously treats wastewater to high discharge standards.

Certification is not only a benchmark for personal and professional achievement but it has also become recognized as a standard of excellence in the industry.

Notwithstanding substantial increases in expenditure on education over the past decade, national and international assessments of student achievement in Australia show little improvement and in some areas standards of achievement have dropped.

Perhaps someone should make an image of Frimpong celebrating the fact he actually managed to play in one Premier League standard game during his career because that is a quite unbelievable achievement.

I have heard from food service directors who support the standards, whose schools were early adopters — and are certainly among the 95 % that are in full compliance — that they encounter problems in implementation that interfere with achievement of the underlying goal (healthier food, healthier kids).

Fox Valley has also earned a certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting by the GFOA in each of the past 16 years, and maintains an AA bond rating with Standard & Poor's.

To be sure, the new federal Smart Snacks and meal standards are a huge improvement in school food, and the passage of those rules is an achievement that shouldn't be diminished (or rolled back — ahem, SNA).

Like lighthouse parents, tiger parents set high standards of achievement for their kids, but unlike the former, they set strict rules and remain extremely involved in their children's lives to ensure achievement.

A very peeved Dr Afriyie Akoto continues to rebuke the journalist in the audio by adding that «I don't know how old you are but my son will be older than you, you understand, even the owner of your station does not come anywhere near my standard in terms of life achievement so you have to learn to be respectful, don't use those words on me»

In contrast to the stated modernising goals of his first two presidencies — the achievement of greater state efficacy and the improvement of living standards and prosperity for ordinary Russian citizens — Putin has been recast as the saviour of the Russian nation.

There is a hidden workforce in the UK, capable of the high - level achievements in the same vein as the Paralympians displayed, capable of producing work to the same standard as the able - bodied.

All can reel off a list of achievements by a coalition government that was dealt, by anyone's standards, an awful hand in May 2010.

For us, this is not only an endorsement of the humungous achievements of President Mahama whilst in office, but a clear demonstration of the fact that President Mahama's unique and selfless leadership has set a standard for political office holders on the whole continent.

High Achievement New York, a business - backed group that is supportive of the Common Core standards, is pointing to the «opt - in» rates of students in the state's urban areas.

«Two days of testing is a natural next step, as long as the assessments continue to cover the material needed to truly measure every student's strengths and challenges, and the changes are implemented carefully and with the input of educators and communities,» High Achievement New York, which advocates for higher standards, said in a statement.

He tells us «It was to integrate educational, industrial and agricultural programmes to bring full employment, and to make possible the achievement of economic independence and a big rise in our standard of living.

High Achievement New York, a group that has been supportive of the Common Core standards, praised on Tuesday the state's transparency in releasing some English Language Arts and math test questions this year.

«As this year's results demonstrate, sustained increases in investment in education over the last decade are paying off in terms of increasingly high standards of learning and achievement.

In 1984, Conservative Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph decided to proceed with a merger, on the premise that the new qualifications should be based on general and subject - specific criteria approved by himself; that the O Level exam boards should take responsibility for carrying forward the O Level A to C grade standards into the new scale, while the CSE boards should do the same for grades D to G, which were to be based on CSE grades 2 to 5 respectively; and that most subjects should be examined through tiered papers focusing on different parts of the grade scale, ensuring that each grade reflected «positive achievement» on appropriate tasks, rather than degrees of failure.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

Some universities will undoubtedly maintain teaching standards as they succeed in attracting the best students, but the rest will have trouble maintaining their current levels of achievement and attracting quality professors.

His achievements are impressive, but Añel acknowledges that he is failing to keep up his standards in one aspect of his life: raising bonsai trees, which he does for a hobby.

For the ninth year in a row, Loyola's Stroke Center has been recognized by the American Stroke Association with its Get with the Guidelines ® — Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for our commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of stroke care.

Even back in 2011, Metro achieved 24th annual achievement award for best performance in retails due to its high standards of quality.

If his considerable achievement in this long - awaited film falls short of his Olympian standards, there is a reason that ought to give Kubrick some satisfaction.

EVENING STANDARD — Stars of stage and screen are turning out in force to recognise the achievements of their peers at the 59th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards this STANDARD — Stars of stage and screen are turning out in force to recognise the achievements of their peers at the 59th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards this Standard Theatre Awards this weekend.

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Presented annually during awards season, the EDA Awards recognize outstanding achievement in all the standard categories, but add special Female Focus awards and Special Awards, including our quirky «Best Nudity,» «Actress Best Defying Ageism» and «Actress Most In Need of a New Agent» categories, all of which garner extensive media coveragin all the standard categories, but add special Female Focus awards and Special Awards, including our quirky «Best Nudity,» «Actress Best Defying Ageism» and «Actress Most In Need of a New Agent» categories, all of which garner extensive media coveragIn Need of a New Agent» categories, all of which garner extensive media coverage.

The double standard in film criticism and film awards diminishes the importance and achievements of the female director and the female voice on - screen.

Let us put this concern aside and consider the increment in student performance of 0.08 standard deviations of individual achievement that the committee presents as its best estimate.

Meanwhile, the average achievement in the new districts increased by 0.35 standard deviations (14 percentile points), and the shares of African - American and Hispanic students decreased by 14 and 20 percentage points, respectively.

While the word «accountability» never appears in Risk, its call for higher academic standards and its focus on student achievement as the main barometer of quality laid the intellectual groundwork for the rigorous curricula and tests envisioned by the promoters of standards - based -LSB-...]

A set of standards will never be, and were never intended to be, the silver bullet that will close gaps in achievement between groups of students.

After years of stagnation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, achievement began to rise again in the late «90s — particularly in the earlier grades and most notably in math — as states set new academic standards, started testing their students regularly, and installed their own versions of «consequential accountability» systems.

What might the economic impact of a 0.08 standard deviation improvement in average achievement nationwide be?

Our results indicate that, on average, New York City's charter schools raise their 3rd through 8th graders» math achievement by 0.09 of a standard score and reading achievement by 0.04 of a standard score, compared with what would have happened had they remained in traditional public schools (see Figure 3).

NU: Again tracking the student achievement we're seeing what's happening in terms of progress with our levels within the curriculum — you know at or below national standard.

In these days of high standards, accountability, and a focus on student achievement, Potter says, Paideia is an approach that warrants consideration.

In math, student achievement improves by 0.21 of a standard deviation, with teacher quality improving by 1.3 standard deviations.

A commonly proposed strategy for raising achievement levels in schools is to specify high expectations or «standards» of student performance and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year levels

In high - poverty schools, we estimate that the overall effect of all teacher turnover on student achievement is 0.08 of a standard deviation in math and 0.05 of a standard deviation in readinIn high - poverty schools, we estimate that the overall effect of all teacher turnover on student achievement is 0.08 of a standard deviation in math and 0.05 of a standard deviation in readinin math and 0.05 of a standard deviation in readinin reading.

In reading, student achievement is estimated to increase by 0.14 of a standard deviation.

In reading, student achievement improves by 0.14 of a standard deviation, with an improvement of 1.0 standard deviations in teacher qualitIn reading, student achievement improves by 0.14 of a standard deviation, with an improvement of 1.0 standard deviations in teacher qualitin teacher quality.

The specific patterns of achievement impacts vary across these studies, with some gains emerging quickly, but others, like those in the OSP evaluation, taking at least three years to reach a standard level of statistical significance.

Provides comprehensive data for individual states in the following categories: summary of grades, student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, resources: equity and spending.