Sentences with phrase «from pilot areas»

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Frieden said battling Zika - carrying mosquitoes in this neighborhood will be especially challenging because the area's high rise buildings will prevent pilots from flying low enough to drop pesticides in aerial spraying campaigns.

On top of the discounts, Whole Foods has launched a pilot loyalty program as it looks to fend off stiffer competition from everyone from Walmart (wmt), which is overhauling the presentation of its fresh food areas, to no - frills, extreme discounter Aldi.

News of the shortfall emerges days after Eric Pickles, the communities secretary, named Barnet as a pilot for the government's «community budget» system to hand councils control of all spending in their area free of conditions from Whitehall.

But the growth in air traffic, coupled with slipups by pilots and controllers, has sparked a spike in anticollision warnings aboard the planes, especially in dense traffic areas such as Southern California, where the number of potentially serious controller errors rose 77 percent from 2007 to 2008.

The programme, titled Bikeability Plus, has been piloted across 18 areas of England and introduces four and five year olds to balance training, teaches older pupils how to fix and maintain their bikes and encourages safer cycling to and from school.

This message comes through even in the area where CCSSO is asking for new and important flexibility from federal rules (permitting states to allow districts to pilot new approaches to assessment).

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

She continued: «Coupled with match - funding from local authorities this means that over # 1.2 million is available for pilots in eleven areas.

We are just finishing our research and evaluation for the programs from our 2013/14 school year and in two of our major initiatives, we are seeing statistically significant gains in Mathematics - it's in Math that these two schools have focused their blended methods on (often we pick a specific subject area to do a small scale pilot).

The road safety training concept was piloted earlier this year to 3,300 primary school children in high - risk areas of Birmingham who learned safety messages from a Conies «Walking to School Safely» workbook.

«Coupled with match - funding from Local Authorities this means that over # 1.2 m is available for pilots in 11 areas.

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It follows similar warnings over the state of teacher recruitment and retention from the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee, as well as the closure of the National Teaching Service in December 2016 — designed to place middle and senior leaders in areas of high need — after too few teachers signed up to a pilot.

Jonas is proud of all that the Leading Educators community has accomplished, having grown from a single pilot program in New Orleans to becoming an innovative learning and systems design partner of districts in twelve geographic areas.

This pilot project, that will also include teachers at area public schools, is being supported by a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Parents have tended to clamp down on their students» data usage when told free wifi was going away, according to feedback district officials received from area school districts who have done similar pilots the last few years.

This article describes the Write for Your Life Project that was piloted in two courses with 45 teacher candidates, shares findings from the implementation process, and makes recommendations for more effectively integrating writing and technology across the content areas in teacher education courses.

Our customers come from all over the Dallas Fort Worth area including North Richland Hills, Arlington, Lewisville, Irving, Denton, McKinney, Mesquite, Bedford, Grand Prairie, Richardson, Plano, Euless, Rockwall, Pilot Point, Duncanville, Garland, Frisco, Carrolton and Waxahachie.

Already a leader in this area, Audi continues to expand its lead — with the first car - to - x services from Audi connect, with new infotainment modules and the high - precision digital map from HERE for piloted driving.

[2, 3] The group's commendable work, culminating in a pilot program based on their «ordinance and protocols for the management of feral cat colonies in wildlife - sensitive areas in Burlington County, New Jersey,» [4](available here) has, from what I can tell, received little attention.

Once the barefoot pilot drops you off after a 45 - minute seaplane flight from Nadi, you could spend the entire trip hiding out in one of the 26 oceanfront villas or hilltop residences, which have sun - soaked living areas, alfresco showers carved from rock, and heavenly infinity pools.

Experienced pilots will facinate you with their vast knowledge about the area as well as pointing out to your some of the most interesting sights there is to see that you can not gain other than viewing from the skies.

At this time, pilots from aircraft flying in the same area reported in, with one SkyWest Airlines pilot saying, «and he's just hit the water».

Placencia is proud to be one of three pilot sites chosen in the MAR area, working with the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN), supported by funding from the United Nations Foundation (UNF) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), in a collaborative effort known as ICRAN / MAR, working to halt and reverse the decline in health of the world's coral reefs, specifically the Mesoamerican Reef.

«We have received reports from pilots that volcanic ash has reached the area above the airport.

Volcano Observatory Notice for Aviation (VONA) has changed the color code for the area around Mt. Agung from yellow to orange, meaning that the alert level for pilots was raised one level.

This ancient site did not come to the attention of archaeologists until 1963 when pilot and amateur Mayanist Hal Ball noticed the area from the sky.

Pilot whales and killer whales migrate through the area from March through June.

GameSpire's free - to - play title is an area shooter which thrusts players into heavily armed vessels and pits them against scores of other pilots from around the galaxy over an internet connection.

With leadership and funding from the Air District and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the Bay Area Bike Share pilot project is a partnership among local government agencies including the City and County of San Francisco, SamTrans, Caltrain, San Mateo County Transportation Authority, the County of San Mateo, the City of Redwood City and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.

We're in the midst of expanding our Bay Area Bike Share program from a 700 - bike pilot to a 7,000 - bike robust new transportation option.

The Living Building Pilot program allows you to request additional departures from the Seattle Land Use Code through Design Review, and provides height and floor area incentives for buildings attempting to meet the Living Building Challenge.

«From this pilot study we conclude that local terrain and remotely sensed variables can be used to infer annual mean temperature and precipitation across the most populous, south - west area of Yemen.

However, they recommended the bar «should study the design of a pilot program, in one subject matter area» with early input from the California Supreme Court.

With a properly designed approach, we've helped organizations implement process design efforts from smaller scale pilot efforts focused on a single client relationship to broader lean six sigma programs to be deployed across entire practice areas or «centers of excellence» within in - house teams.

This adds Cardiff, Cynon Valley, Merthyr Tydfil, Miskin, Neath Port Talbot, Newcastle and Ogmore, Swansea County and Vale of Glamorgan to the list of pilot areas with effect from 30 March 2007.

The report identifies 60 reforms in the five noted areas covered [proportionality, experts, point of entry, discovery, caseflow management], ranging from pilot projects to changes that have already become permanent.

Nonetheless, looking up the location of Apple Park, Cupertino reveals that there is no official «no - fly» drone regulations listed for the area by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, although pilots are asked to keep 360 feet away from all structures and must fly no more than 400 feet above ground level.

US bank First United is set to pilot fingerprint authentication technology from Hawk Systems at six ATMs in the New York met area.

Current UK government policies recognise the need for universal parenting support to complement targeted and indicated approaches29 — 33 and the English Department for Education is currently piloting the offer of free vouchers for parenting classes (the CANParent initiative) to all parents in three areas of the country.34 Such recommendations derive from observations relating to the prevalence of suboptimal parenting, 35 the inefficiency of targeting on the basis of identifiable risk factors36, 37 and the potential for realising change in high risk as well as whole population groups by reducing the stigma which may be attached to targeted parenting support.36 — 38 Given the range and prevalence of health and social outcomes on which parent — child relationships have an influence, 2, 3, 5 — 16 universal approaches are appealing.

The # 19.3 million Adoption Support Fund — currently being piloted across ten areas before being rolled out nationwide from May 2015 — helps pay for essential therapy services for adoptive families as and when they need it.

Phase 1 consisted of initial item development based on previous research supplemented by semi-structured in - depth interviews, with piloting of the items in a sample of adolescents with type 1 diabetes from two endocrinology practices in one geographic area.

«I delivered checks to the wives of five victims — one woman from a very affluent area, the wife of the pilot whose plane went into Tower 2 and another working in a nursing home trying to make ends meet.

Multiple pilots will involve pools of various types of assets, including rental properties, vacant properties and non-performing loans, with the first pilot coming from Fannie Mae in some of the hardest hit foreclosures areas in the nation.

«Yes, after a two - year commitment of funds from NAR and with pilot testing still not started, NAR's CEO and leadership team determined that AMP was not a core area of focus for NAR or RPR,» [NAR spokesperson] Wiskerchen said.