I was particularly interested to see that struggling district schools that partner with proven charter school operators or other nonprofit operators will get a two -
year pause from state accountability rules.
Not exact matches
Reflecting on the past three
years, I couldn't help but
pause and think how far we've come
from our first class of 17 students.
Service exports have since
paused at a high level as the impetus
from the Rugby World Cup has waned, rising in value by 1/2 per cent in the March quarter; this is in line with ongoing strength in overseas arrivals relative to that in recent
years (Graph 48).
From a technical perspective the Nikkei is now trading at a 15
year high and while that might give you
pause, it is also now above a downtrend line that had capped the market for 20
years.
According to the chart, silver peaked in 2011 when it ran
from $ 33 to $ 50 without much
pause, before collapsing and experiencing the two
years of soft prices, bringing the metal as low as the $ 18 handle.
In the
year 1215, at a place called Runnymede, the barons of England, having
paused from their usual pastime of bickering with one another, allied themselves with another brotherhood, the bishops of the Church, to checkmate their own king.
But I can't help but wonder if, after eight
years of unblinking decisiveness
from George W. Bush, America isn't ready for a guy who will
pause before committing billions of dollars and thousands of lives to a cause, and who recognizes the importance of thoughtful give - and - take when it comes to making policy and pursuing diplomacy.
How Billionaire Bill Koch Fights Fake Wine Maybe it goes back to my childhood, Koch says by telephone
from his ranch outside Paonia, Colorado,
pausing to say goodbye to his 8 -
year - old daughter as she leaves for school.
Former U.S. Attorney Preet BhararaPreetinder (Preet) Singh BhararaPreet Bharara weighs in on report of Cohen wiretap Daily Beast to «hit
pause» on Joy Reid columns; MSNBC host backs off speaking event Bharara: We owe Mueller «incalculable thanks» MORE said Friday that if a recent report in The New York Times that Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsChris Christie compares Mueller investigation to «Bridgegate» probe Oakland mayor fires back at Trump: «It's my duty to protect my residents» McCabe lawyer fires back at Trump: «You need to stop lying» MORE sought negative press coverage of former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien ComeyTrump - Russia probe marks one -
year anniversary: This is what it has accomplished Trump: McCabe should be under investigation for ties to Clinton The Memo: Trump team stokes fight over Mueller MORE is true, he must be ousted
from the Justice Department.
Senator Brad Hoylman, a Democrat
from Manhattan, said that the package «really will create fundamental change and root out corruption,» and
paused to thank Governor Andrew Cuomo for his promises to also fight corruption this
year.
Environmental microbiologist Jed Fuhrman of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles calls the situation a «nightmare» adding that his lab
paused a 10 -
year project of collecting monthly virus samples
from the waters between Los Angeles and nearby Catalina Island.
For the past 23
years, with a
pause between 1998 and 2004, a hole has been gradually drilled down
from this location into the ancient layers of ice.
The research also supports a theory that a parallel
pause in air temperature rise in recent
years may result
from storage of heat in the deep ocean.
So, as we welcome a brand new
year, let's
pause to reflect on some of Penn Medicine's biggest newsmakers
from the last 12 months.
So, all of that being said, I am taking a
pause from the blog until the New
Year so that I may come back refreshed and renewed.
The one stat that does give me
pause for Three Billboards is its lack of support
from the Film Independent Spirit Awards, which has seen its Best Feature win Best Picture five of the last six
years.
Johnson, the Harvard professor,
pauses when asked if minorities will make up a larger percentage of public school teachers 10
years from now.
As states and cities turn the page on that particular set of reforms, I wanted to
pause and reflect on what we can learn
from the last eight
years.
SB 1882 provides two incentives to districts and charter schools to collaborate: students in the partnership school are funded at whichever per - pupil rate is higher (the charter school's or the district's) and turnaround schools receive a two -
year pause in sanctions
from the accountability system.
D.C. schools officials said they do not believe that they need permission for the one -
year pause and did not formally seek a delay
from the federal government, but they did notify the Education Department of their intent.
For many of us, this
year's Show was a mix of past and present, of new beginnings and a moment to
pause and consider memories
from years past — all within the greater understanding that the our industry trade week in Las Vegas is about important business in the
years ahead.
The long
pause in my series is a little different
from those juggernaut properties listed above in one key way — that five
year delay isn't just in the publication dates, it's also in the story itself.
Sound off in the comments below, and have a great New
Year from all of us at Short
Pause!
However, Ernesto emerged
from the humblest of origins: Daniel needed to press
pause and get some perspective on the three -
year development cycle of IGF Nuovo - winning Storyteller.
Even dedicated fans of his work have inevitably faltered at one or another of his forking paths over the past twenty
years, while Bradley, on the other hand, shifts gears without
pause:
from starkly minimalist to gestural abstract paintings with stops in between,
from discomfiting assemblage sculptures to boldly graphic silkscreens, and
from jagged, sometimes comic drawings to obdurate geometric sculptures.
Wisely, they have chosen to group the images thematically, rather than according to nationality; but almost immediately I am looking hungrily for Pakistan (my homeland), largely ignoring India, and
pausing longest at pictures of Bangladesh
from 1971, the
year in which it ceased to be East Pakistan.
Adams spent eight
years as a key member of indie darlings The Low Anthem, effortlessly zipping
from hammer dulcimer to clarinet to bass to vocals, sometimes barely
pausing to take a breath.
That's what I've gathered
from KX13 and discussions of it (especially John Nielsen - Gammon's), and I've been using it against a couple of «15 -
year pause» parrots elsewhere.
I don't mind taking the prudent steps to wean ourselves
from petroleum because that has beneficial effects beyond global warming but before we enact big subsidies for non competitive electricity generation, a couple of
years pause couldn't hurt.
It isn't a
pause in global warming trend (GT Warming) which you need more than 10
years (around 30 will do fine) but a drift
from the trend (which CAN be seen in 10
years, if barely) that added to the trend which hasn't
paused and gives an * appearance * of the climate (30
year) trend of having stopped.
otherwise one always could claim a
pause, because one always can find a time period of x
years from the present point in time backward, for which the trend isn't statistically significant.
A The Hadcrut 4 figures that show a «
pause» in warming lasting nearly 16
years are drawn
from more than 3,000 measuring stations on land and at sea.
In our article, we illustrate the consequences of seepage
from public debate into the scientific process with a case study involving the interpretation of temperature trends
from the last 15
years, the so - called «
pause» or «hiatus».
What any atmospheric scientist knows (I suspect even Judith knows this) is that these brief shallow «
pauses» in - between the stronger upsurges are noise
from the periodic decadal and multi-decadal oscillations (PDO, AMO) plus strong ENSO
years.
We often hear
from the media that the (surface air) warming has slowed or
paused over the past 15
years.
From interviews and postings I've read by Trenberth, it appears that he wants the oceans to be a deus - ex-machina, explaining The
Pause now that it's exceeded the «easily up to 15
years in length»
pauses he perceives in climate models.
Based on the same flawed reasoning to conclude an absence of a trend
from the non-detectability of a trend in the limited data sample
from 1997 to the end of 1994, I could claim a «global warming stop» or «
pause» for that 16 -
year period.
They are not likely to buck the 97 % konsensus all of a sudden, what with Obama today revealing the tragic news that his daughter caught asthma
from man made global warming ten
years ago, right in the middle of the
pause.
There is, after all, no significant surface temperature
pause on the 84 % of the globe that is interpolated
from weather stations on climate timescales greater than seventeen
years.
15
years before the
pause the temperature rose 0.3 C per decade, not a peep
from the skeptics on that internal variation.
If I had to pick a handful of topics that deepen my skepticism every
year it would be Climategate, The
Pause, the «Its Worse Than We Thought» brigade, the 97 % Consensus and the unrelenting barrage of insults that flow
from the AGW «scientists» and media.
Future forecasts
from the CESM DP indicate that we should expect a
pause in decadal Atlantic winter sea ice loss over the next 5 to 10
years.
There has been warming
from the Little Ice Age (LIA) for three hundred
years but that warming has been interrupted by
pauses.
The impetus for the new publicized fears of cooling comes
from the indisputable empirical evidence that global warming is suffering a non-predicted «hiatus» (i.e. warming is stalled,
paused, stopped, etc.) these last 15 +
years.
From the «let's call it The Pause» department: While the number of climate laws and policies worldwide has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, from just 72 in 1997 to 1,500 today, the pace of passing new legislation has recently significantly slowed, according to a new st
From the «let's call it The
Pause» department: While the number of climate laws and policies worldwide has increased dramatically over the past 20
years,
from just 72 in 1997 to 1,500 today, the pace of passing new legislation has recently significantly slowed, according to a new st
from just 72 in 1997 to 1,500 today, the pace of passing new legislation has recently significantly slowed, according to a new study.
«A reduction in the rate of warming (not a
pause) is a result of short - term natural variability, ocean absorption of heat
from the atmosphere, volcanic eruptions, a downward phase of the 11 -
year solar cycle, and other impacts over a short time period,» Cleugh says.
These are hardly a «
pause,» just a slight slowdown
from the long - term trend for the last 50
years (+0.16 C / decade).
We've had 6 stops, or
pauses if you prefer, in the last 40
years, so is the latest one any different
from the previous 5?
The whole argument for a «
pause» basically rest on the data
from one
year... 1998 (as well as looking at trends over short time periods without bothering to compute the uncertainty).
But the turnover suggests strongly that the
pause has the same «cause» as the related «
pause»
from the 40's to the 70's — the downward half - cycle of the 67
year periodic variation that I have no explanation for.