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...Harrity are making progress, but Blakney's pupils are improving just a hair faster. Kid by kid, Blakney can look at any mathematical concept she's trying to teach--adding fractions with different denominators, for example--and see who understands it and who needs more help. "I can tailor my teaching accordingly," she says. "And I can show the kids. Children want to know 'How am I doing...
...tides, around 12 m, and during the Severn Bore, at the times of the spring and autumn equinoxes, tides of up to 15.4 m rush at 24 km/h up the funnel-shaped channel. But Ayre stresses that huge tidal flows are not essential to the system. "We will tailor the units to be site specific," he explains, "So that in areas with lower tidal flow we'd use larger blades and more of them than we'd need in areas with greater flow." Even with a modest tidal flow, the technology could still be used to desalinate sea water...
This was a more disjointed year—exciting, certainly, but nowhere near as tailor made to fit. There was adversity overcome, surely, with more physical pieces bruised and dented than a garden-variety Pinto. There were individual heroes and an exciting cast of newcomers—names like Klimkiewicz, Farkes, Brunnig and Salsgiver will grace these pages for years to come—and there were pressing, constant problems, like the infield’s downright scary propensity for misplaying grounders. But in the midst of all of this was very little to cling to and run with from...
Many companies try nonfinancial incentives, but clumsily. Team-building junkets (even to St. Croix) don't work, nor do positive-attitude lapel buttons. Successful motivation requires careful thinking about how to encourage accomplishments that make a difference to the bottom line and how to tailor incentives to individual employees. After a manager in the Tampa, Fla., office of Aetna, for example, started pizza parties tied to quality measures for rank-and-file workers, backlogs fell sharply. (Katzenbach does note that pay is the best motivator for upper-level executives, whose potential earnings from bonuses and stock options are enormous...
...arts are as valid and important to the University’s mission as any other academic subject. The practice and performance of the arts provide creative outlets for reflecting, critiquing and interpreting the world. Just as existing concentrations tailor their curricula to the subjects’ history, trends and real-world applications, arts concentrations focus on history, theory and performance. The University should not, nor would it ever, create an arts conservatory within Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but academic endeavors which aim to create art—not just interpret it—deserve far more support...