Sentences with phrase «hold their attention year»

They want more depth in their favorite games, and fresh content that can hold their attention year - round.

Not exact matches

As Dan Burrows, who attended last year's conference said, «Her content was top notch, her delivery for rather dry material held our attention, ad her ability to thoroughly answer questions was excellent.»

In the Roth, can I buy and sell stocks freely as often as I want and not have to pay attention to holding a stock for a year as I would in a regular brokerage acct.?

Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith.

The idea of Satan is something talked about frequently in Sunday School — largely because the concept of a mystical super villain is a good way to hold the attention of 7 - year - olds.

At a major tasting marking the 50th anniversary of the wine region held at the venue late last year, my attention kept wandering again — this time the glass of chardonnay in my hand had to compete for my attention with the magnificent Emily Kame Kngwarreye painting on the wall.

Not to skip the subject, but its not too much of a deviation, i watched the Toulon tournament where England played Guinea, in the last 25 minutes the center halves pairing was Chambers / Holding and i said wow this could be arsenal pairing in a couple of years, Holding who played the whole game looked about 2 inches taller than Chambers, looked to have good pace and technical skills, i hope we buy him because its an area arsenal does not play attention.

Over the course of her first year, a typically developing baby will learn how to: hold her own head up; roll (both ways); grab things with her hands and fingers; crawl; find your voice in a crowd; clap; wave; smile; laugh; get your attention; point to something interesting; eat solid food; grab her feet; grow teeth; recover from illness; some will learn how to walk and talk; and master countless other milestones.

And my 1 year old really still needs to be held all the time and he needs full on attention so I have experimented with having some high school students come in for 2 hours to be there.

«That is why we are holding this exciting competition next year: to draw much needed and deserved attention to the beautiful and diverse fishing spots in New York.

The prisoner, slumped immobile in his seat, visibly jerks to attention at the mention of his wife and then his 7 year old son, both held captive elsewhere in the building.

With Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan deciding against re-election, the attention on Wednesday turned to other Republicans who could run for the southeast Wisconsin congressional seat that Ryan has held for 20 years.

Some two thousand senior French researchers, many holding important administrative posts, have signed a «Manifesto for Research», which criticises Fillon for not giving scientists» views enough attention during his year of consultation.

A number of this year's films sought to draw specific attention to climate change, a move organizers» hoped would help the festival «serve as a signpost» on the route to the 2015 United Nations Climate Conference, which will be held later this year in Paris, France.

The first year of the trial, labelled by journalists as «the whiffy wheat» trial, caused significant public attention when Take the Flour Back was formed to campaign against the field trial and held a protest at the site.

The other is 18 - year - old Plummer — who as Charley is barely ever off screen, and holds your attention with a performance that gives nothing away easily, but feels as lived - in and resilient as an old pair of favourite jeans.

They've refined every single feature and mechanic — aside from a poor Battle mode — and brought it all together to create an objectively simple, but deceptively deep, racing game which will hold your attention for years to come.

Defiant & gutsy, ultimately moving but never completely sympathetic, she has no problem in holding your attention and neither does winner - of - ever - award - going - this - year Allison Janney who completely inhabits mother - of - Tonya LaVona to the point where you can't even remember that this is the woman who has brought to life countless other strong female characters over the past twenty years.

The release of The Kite Runner was held over into the New Year after originally being slated for Boxing Day, and for once this decision seems sound — competition for attention among the major releases may have meant this remarkably moving film was overlooked by most of those who hadn't read the Khaled Hosseini novel.

Charlotte Rampling's performance in 45 Years is a quiet storm of volatile emotions, holding attention with understated intimations that hint much more than show.

Once upon a time, I couldn't pick between Sonic and Mario — but now, years later, the seemingly endless stream of frankly mediocre - at - best Sonic games has jaded even my capability for nostalgia — I honestly didn't believe a 2D Sonic game could hold my attention in 2017, especially not after Sonic the Hedgehog 4.

James Gunn directs what looks to be a crass, CGI - filled romp that will at least hold your attention until Avengers: Age of Ultron releases next year.

The premise of his first truly big blockbuster — as fun as they were I always felt the Hellboy movies were held back by budget constraints — is pretty straightforward and will grab the attention and imaginations of the 10 - year - old in all of us.

Just before the end of last year, we featured Final Cut 2017 with one final look back at the dozens of movies that held out attention (or at least tried to) throughout the year.

Earlier this year, the House and Senate held three days of joint hearings to address public criticism of the Oregon Educational Act for the 21st Century, an expansive education - reform act enacted in 1991 that has received national attention.

If combined with a real growth model — holding schools accountable for making sure that all students make progress over the course of the school year — states can finally create incentives for schools to pay attention to their high achievers too.

In my second year, I was much better at getting and holding my students» attention.

Instead, they said, lawmakers should ask how to raise the bar of all programs, focus attention on student outcomes instead of inputs like certification and years of experience, and hold programs accountable for how well their graduates perform in the classroom.

After the Ferrari F40, no supercar had both the performance and mystique to grab and hold the attention of an entire generation until we met the Veyron, a mere six years after Volkswagen Group bought the rights to the Bugatti name.

Touted as the world's toughest critic, Kirkus Reviews holds an eighty - year - old reputation of drawing the mainstream industry's attention to the best new releases.

With Basillie selling off his stake, what remains to be seen is whether his former co-CEO and current Vice-Chairman in Mike Lazaridis will do the same, since both left the company's CEO positions after the board of directors dismissed them in a shock board meeting held on the evening of Super Bowl Sunday in 2012, in a bid to minimize media attention and scrutiny after years of splitting responsibilities in a bid to correct the increasing losses faced by the company, only to be replaced by current CEO Thorsten Heins.

Successful long - term trading — investing with the intention of holding a security for one year or more — means paying attention to the big picture, even when a grim, short - term outlook sends investors running for the exits.

As with 2011 and 2012, for various reasons the BTHG was unable to hold any formal «round the table» meetings and as in previous years, matters requiring attention were generally resolved by email.

Each year people in communities across the country hold hundreds of events on National Feral Cat Day to draw attention to the cause and make a difference in the lives of cats.

When the Westminster Kennel Club held their very first dog show in 1877, they couldn't possibly have imagined the huge success and worldwide attention that the show would earn over the years.

This year the third annual tournament will be held on July 28 - 30, in San Pedro Town. Of course, the initial organizers intention was to bring business to Ambergris Caye. But, they also wanted to bring much needed attention to BelizeÂ's catch - and - release law for tarpon, bonefish and permit.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

That game has held my attention for a year.

I showed it to my Godfather's 10 - year - old grandson C.J. and it didn't hold his attention.

The big money is no longer out to hold a player's attention for forty hours, but to hold a player's attention long enough to get the next game out, or to hold on to groups of players in the hope to pull in a few big spenders, or to hold the player's attention throughout the year with events crafted to maintain appeal and bring back those who are slipping away into other games.

While MIDI has long since gone the way of the dodo with most games, its charm still holds for many, and Square Enix has paid every bit of attention to revitalizing the classic soundtracks while still retaining the themes of their golden years.

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Lau, a Hong Kong real - estate tycoon and chairman of Chinese Estates Holdings, has collected art for over 30 years, and caught the attention of market watchers in 2006 for buying an Andy Warhol «Mao» painting for $ 17.4 million, a record for a work in that series.

Three years ago Chelsea Art Walk held its first annual one - night - only summer event intended to draw attention to these group exhibitions.

His expressionistic, grided abstract paintings have garnered significant (albiet long - overdue) attention — in the past four years, the now Chicago - based artist has held three solo exhibitions at Kavi Gupta Gallery in his hometown, as well as solo exhibitions the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston and Galerie Lelong in New York.

During these years, Zhongli held numerous solo exhibitions in Europe and US, which gained him huge attention and acclaim from both art critics and art audience.

During its five - year run, The Red Barn Atelier hosted hundreds of artist events, exhibited at art fairs held in China, and was no stranger to controversy, landing international attention from both a dinner party that hosted Rockefeller con artist Christopher Rocancourt, as well as law suits stemming from protests against the farm animals on the property which included roosters, goats and chickens.

Since the museum's early years, when art classes were held on the third floor of the house, significant attention has been given to educational outreach.

When the Heartland Institute held its gathering in New York City last year celebrating climate skepticism, Exxon Mobil made a point of saying it had stopped contributing money to that group, explaining that it did not want to support groups «whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.»