Sentences with phrase «scaled up to close»

In addition, the report analyzes selected areas where enhanced action can be taken and how these actions can be accelerated and scaled up to close the «gap».

Not exact matches

The global network of business leaders was supposed to help emerging - market entrepreneurs scale up, but now the organization is needed closer to home.

Once virtually placed, the product appears to - scale and the consumer can get up close to look inside items with an opening, like a vase, or view intricate but minuscule details like stitching on clothing.

You can see him reaching for another slice in the first photo up top... On a scale of 1 to Trader Joe's Cornbread (my Dad's FAVORITE breakfast item) this banana bread came in at a very close second, which is really saying something since there's been times I've flown home with half my suitcase filled with that dang cornbread.

Investments and collaborations to promote environmental sustainability: Through global alliances such as the Trash Free Seas Alliance, founding of the bio-PET NaturALL Bottle Alliance, and investments in large - scale organizations like Closed Loop Fund, Keep America Beautiful and start - ups like RecycleUp, Nestlé Waters is collaborating with stakeholders across the PET value chain to create shared solutions to one of the world's most pressing environmental issues.

With a casual table - top set - up, this is your chance to get up close and personal with the best small - scale importers and uncover some of the world's most exciting wines.

This time it's a smaller scale affair, allowing littler ones to get up close to the «Tales From The Shed» gang.

Fishing up to that 12 mile limit is small scale - fisherman catching crab and lobsters in bay areas, that type of thing.There might arguably be some marginal effect off the south coast of England because it's so close to France.

«With a scaled up solution, not only will we no longer have to think about the dangers of storing radioactive waste long - term, but we will have a viable solution to close the nuclear fuel cycle and contribute to solving the world's energy needs.

The 2016 movie «Suicide Squad,» rated PG - 13, includes «lots of action violence, from close - up execution - style murders to large - scale battles and widespread destruction that leads to the deaths of innocent bystanders,» Common Sense Media told parents in its review.

In the 1990s Donoghue and others began to use Feynman's theory as a working, or «effective,» theory; though not the final word, it closes up the crack between gravity and the other forces on medium to large scales.

«If some of these systems we've seen with Kepler were scaled up to the size of the Earth's orbit, then the two planets would only be one - tenth of one (astronomical unit) apart at their closest approach.

«With both this performance and the atomic visualization of the reaction sites, we are closing the gap to replace platinum with a high - performance catalyst poised to be scaled up for potential application in fuel cells for automotive applications,» said Karren More, ORNL microscopy team lead.

LONDON, United Kingdom — As other luxury brands shift their focus away from wholesale and scale up their direct - to - consumer channels, BoF has learned that Marc Jacobs is set to close its last remaining London store on Mayfair's Mount Street.

Then scale it down and crop to get the nice close - up that you need.

Another factor is that the trailers and other advertisements leading up to the release of the film already show you the climaxes of the best scenes, from the aforementioned traffic jam, the zombie horde working in unison to scale a great wall, as well as jumping onto helicopters that foolishly get too close.

It begins in spring with a close - up of a face locked in abject misery: Asked by a counselor how happy she is on a scale from one to 10, Janet (Imelda Staunton) says one, in effect setting the tone for much of the film.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that he rarely frames them in wide shot, instead intercutting close - ups with all - CGI spreads of crumbling destruction, the scale thrown further out of whack by 3 - D.

«Performance as a whole is good — particularly given the sheer scale of the environments — although, on a standard PS4 set - up, that Tallneck encounter did suffer some major judders as the game seemingly struggled to render the shambling behemoth in close - up.

He attempts to capture the large - scale dilemma they faced by the many overhead shots that look straight down into a never - ending crevice and the close up shots of the rickety ladders and ropes that are used.

Scaling to the Top to Close the Gap Special education and general education teachers teamed up to implement Marzano's proficiency scales and improve student skills.

Montgomery County Council member Nancy Navarro (D - Mid-County), a former school board member, said increasing Hispanic enrollment points to a need to take a close look at early education efforts, English - learner programs and the «scaling up» of best practices in schools.

One important data set that we all need to be looking closely at — educators trying to close the achievement gap, administrators trying to scale up best practices, and parents trying to make the best choices for our kids — is the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC).

There already exist model catch - up programs and policies that systems and institutions can learn from: California State University at Long Beach has pioneered a partnership to deliver bridge courses to close student - readiness gaps; Illinois has passed legislation requiring the development of transitional math courses across the state; and Tennessee has increased the scale of its Seamless Alignment and Integrated Learning Support, or Sails, program from a single district in 2012 to over 17,000 students statewide in the 2016 - 17 school year.

i3 funds are competitive grants (Development, Validation and Scale - up) given to LEAs and nonprofit organizations that have significantly closed the achievement gaps between economically disadvantaged students, students from major racial and ethnic groups, students with limited English proficiency, students with disabilities; or have demonstrated success in significantly increasing student academic achievement for all groups of students; or have made significant improvements in other areas such as graduate rates or increased recruitment and placement of high - quality teachers and principals.

This brings essential information closer to the driver's field of vision, but because of the small scale and the busy calibration, you may nonetheless feel compelled to buy the optional head - up display.

Given that you're a student, and you might not have built up your credit profile or be making significant income, you'll like have to pay closer to the higher end of that scale in interest.

Take close - up photos of slight imperfections — ideally next to a ruler to show the scale of them — so buyers can inspect them, as they're more likely to buy if they have a good idea of what the flaws are like and may leave you good feedback for your honesty.

We have a very special gallery whereby I take photos up close to the canvas with Nicholas» hand and brush to show scale.

Light City — a free large - scale light, music, and innovation festival — take overs the waterfront in Baltimore, Maryland from April 14 to 21 with a full line - up of performances and free concerts (ranging from a 10 - piece brass ensemble to hip hop legend Grandmaster Flash), an opening night parade, closing night fireworks, and 21 brand new juried light installations by artists from around the world.

- 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

I ended up going for the Vita version over the 3DS version mainly because it's closer to the console counterparts graphics wise, but I think it was a right decision after hearing about the lack of World Tour content and scaled back music /» track coolness.»

And like O'Keeffe, Lawlor uses the pictorial scale of a photographic close - up to generate both intimacy and a brooding sense that something lurks beyond the work's edge.

Nick Hackworth's Paradise Row, formerly of Bethnal Green, took up residence close by in a Mayfair house; 23 - year old Henry Little filled a disused chapel in St John's Wood with 17 young artists, and on a smaller scale, Sarah Bejerano and Kate Sapera (both 23) persuaded a housing trust to lend a former shop space to their coterie of recent graduates.

Pressed up close to each of her works in the two - floor show, similarly large - scale sculptures in small confines, you notice the artist's time - consuming transformation of lowly materials, one factor in maintaining an accessible feeling in imposing formats.

He has that command of scale that invites one to approach up close.

Although sharing formal explorations with older painters like Dana Schutz and Nicole Eisenman, Kasey has developed an idea of space and light that owes its complexity to traditional shading, shadow, and tonal control, but is nevertheless obviously artificial in its eccentric color, cinematic scale, and close - up framing.

Inouye's large - scale paintings, luminous at certain moments of day, abstract in the close - up, loosely realistic at a distance, populate the gallery with characters and motifs from the television show, offering kitschy wisdom, cautionary moralistic prescriptions for living, and a reminder not to forget your dreams.

It's a large - scale projection, shot on black - and - white 35 mm film transferred to DVD, of a close - up, navel - to - thigh view of a man and woman having rear - entry sex, which runs repeatedly for a little over four minutes.

Samuel Colman and George Henry Smillie opted for close - up studies of nature; Martin Johnson Heade focused on the effects of light on water; John Henry Twachtman and Childe Hassam applied the French Impressionists» bright palette and vibrant brushwork to thoroughly American subjects; and April Gornik provides a visceral experience of the landscape with her large scale paintings.

While Gill's immense nine - metre decorative calico scroll may prompt the viewer to stand back to take in the piece's extensive figures and patterns in their entirety, the minute scale of Hutchinson's drawings in contrast require the microscopic detail be studied up close and with the aid of a magnifying glass.

For this year's iteration of the public art installation that brings crowds to the park by the (currently closed) Bass Museum of Art, 20 artworks ranging in scale from large to momentous have set up shop for selfie - seeking tourists along Collins Ave between 21st and 22nd Streets.

A close - up of the scale model of the Menil Collection hints at exhibitions to come when the museum reopens this fall.

Viewing elements of the Maine landscape from different levels of scale — from great distance to close - up, each artist explores a different aspect of the boundaries and interrelationships between human activity and the natural world.

Smaller in scale than those paintings of her 2014 debut exhibition, the new work matches in surreal ebullience their predecessors, praised by Roberta Smith as «big, boisterous semi-abstract canvases (that) exude an impressive confidence... like close - ups of billboards or a tour through some outsize undergrowth in which nature has merged with several brands of abstraction, from early American Modernism to Color Field painting... (Silva) is already is tackling a lot with an astuteness and aplomb that make her a painter to watch.»

Expanding her range of mark making in scale shifts and close ups, Ferris couples syncopated brushstrokes with airbrushed oil paint to create surfaces that combine the topography of textiles with the banter of gestural mark making.

Works range from still lifes and extreme close - ups to large scale cityscapes and landscape paintings, all the work celebrates the meticulous fashion of photorealism.

The Solarize program is part of NY - Sun, Governor Cuomo's $ 1 billion initiative to advance the scale - up of solar energy and move the state closer to having a sustainable, self - sufficient solar industry.

It just so happens that shares of Tesla, as a pioneer in scaling battery storage for commercial use, also soared Wednesday — up $ 10, or 4.79 percent, to close at $ 219.44 a share.

About NY - Sun NY - Sun is Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's $ 1 billion initiative to advance the scale - up of solar and move New York State closer to having a sustainable, self - sufficient solar industry.