Sentences with phrase «training a year for»

It wasn't until I started playing Monster Hunter World that it hit me; I've been training years for this without realising.

Iditarod Training Math skills: multiplication, division Mushers train all year for the big race each March.

Some for - profits, like Edison Schools, the largest EMO, emphasize strong professional development by providing as much as three weeks of training a year for teaching staff.

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The Democratic candidate for president also attacked the company for last year laying off 250 technology workers after requiring some of them to train their replacements: foreign employees hired on temporary H - 1B visas for highly skilled technical workers through an Indian outsourcing firm.

This year marks the 50th anniversary with events being held in Seattle, Dallas, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.. Each city will offer tips, tools and trainings for small businesses to start, succeed and grow.

The last two years of my life, I spent a huge amount of time building a program for GE, where we've trained thousands of GE's top managers in the Lean Startup.

Andrew Yang is the founder and CEO of Venture for America, a New York City - based nonprofit organization focused on placing top - college graduates in startups for two years in emerging U.S. cities to generate job growth and train the next generation of entrepreneurs.

For its part, Google revealed in May that for over a year it had been secretly using its own tailor - made chips, called tensor processing units, or TPUs, to implement applications trained by deep learniFor its part, Google revealed in May that for over a year it had been secretly using its own tailor - made chips, called tensor processing units, or TPUs, to implement applications trained by deep learnifor over a year it had been secretly using its own tailor - made chips, called tensor processing units, or TPUs, to implement applications trained by deep learning.

A Wendy's restaurant in Fredericton, N.B., credited WLES training for reducing staff turnover to between 65 % and 80 %, down from between 125 % and 150 % two year earlier, saving the franchisee $ 5,000 annually in new staff training.

Programmers have, rather, fed the computer a learning algorithm, exposed it to terabytes of data — hundreds of thousands of images or years» worth of speech samples — to train it, and have then allowed the computer to figure out for itself how to recognize the desired objects, words, or sentences.

The fund provides up to $ 7,800 for each eligible 15 - to 29 - year - old worker to help cover wage and training costs and offset job - related costs like tools and transportation.

A great deal of spending on infrastructure, the One Belt One Road for example, which is a massive infrastructure project — trillions of dollars a year for the next ten years, and they are building roads, essentially think of Marco Polo on a bullet train, and that's what we're seeing.

This belief is held by other companies, as well: The Container Store is known for giving its new employees 300 hours of paid training in their first year at the company.

As I've been mentoring and training some young adults lately at a college, suddenly I've seen conflicts up close and personal, a reminder of the time I worked in the corporate world for about a ten year period.

Pinterest is almost four years old and it's big enough for its britches — big enough to pull the plug on its affiliate links program, a money - making gravy train that more than a few brands, bloggers and Pinfluencers will sorely miss.

Earlier this year, GP Strategies, a $ 400 million - a-year training and e-learning firm based in Maryland, snapped up a controlling stake in Prospero for an undisclosed amount.

When I purchased my new laptop last year I signed up for a year's worth of unlimited training sessions.

Last year started on a $ 2 million sour note for brain - training game company Lumosity.

Although I have and have had various part - time support for years, my business is essentially a one - person training company.

High Definition Video — In 2007, after spending a couple years teaching high school math and working in the non-profit arena, I went to work for an HD video conferencing start up developing a training and certification program.

Jassy earned positive reviews early on for leading Amazon's music sales efforts, and in 2002 he was chosen as one of Jeff Bezos's «technical assistants» — staffers who train for senior executive roles by shadowing Amazon's CEO for a year or longer.

I've used a variety of different ones on my commutes over the years, but the best ones for avoiding tangled wires and for blocking out the noisy people on the train are the Bose Quiet Comfort 35 Wireless Headphones.

For years, he'd been administering a test to help board members assess their decision - making skills, as part of a training program he'd developed for corporate directoFor years, he'd been administering a test to help board members assess their decision - making skills, as part of a training program he'd developed for corporate directofor corporate directors.

Years ago, my son Tim and I were waiting for a commuter train to take us home, from what felt like the middle of nowhere.

I've been using it for the last few years, and not only did it get me into audiobooks, but I am much, much happier to sit on a train for an hour and a half when I'm listening to a mystery.

Over the past decade, the number of two - year - old - in - training sales has risen, Wagner notes, a symptom of racehorse investors» looking for a quick route to the winner's circle.

I have known Jamie for many years and have been impressed with his dynamism as he has ramped up his restaurant business and built his worldwide brand through his various TV shows, all the while pouring his efforts into teaching people to eat better, drawing public attention to the poor quality of school lunches, and developing Fifteen, his restaurant and social enterprise that trains unemployed young people to become professional chefs.

The training is intense, lasting six days a week for 15 hours a day for almost a year.

Hitachi is also betting on the acquisition to ready it for battles with formidable Chinese rivals such as the $ 130 - billion behemoth CRRC Corp that was created earlier this year from the merger of mainland state - owned train manufacturers CSR and CNR.

For 10 years, Virgin Trains had been safely carrying millions of passengers all over Britain.

For example, I made a public vow last year to provide three scholarships for every educational training course I seFor example, I made a public vow last year to provide three scholarships for every educational training course I sefor every educational training course I sell.

They lived in London, where Sargent was a business psychologist for a business - training company and Farrugia was working in retail — until they left it all behind to spend a year traveling from London through Asia by land.

For the study, 86 women between 70 and 80 years old with MCI were randomly assigned to do one of three types of training twice a week for six months: aerobic (like walking and swimming), resistance (like weight lifting), or balanFor the study, 86 women between 70 and 80 years old with MCI were randomly assigned to do one of three types of training twice a week for six months: aerobic (like walking and swimming), resistance (like weight lifting), or balanfor six months: aerobic (like walking and swimming), resistance (like weight lifting), or balance.

I studied sketch and improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade training center in New York City for eight years.

Entrepreneurs will be trained to grow hydroponic, non-GMO food year - round and sell it locally, assisted by technologies like Freight Farms — which makes tools for fresh food production — and ZipGrow — which facilitates vertical farming.

Fliegel and the coach trained one - on - one for months, with the lanky 15 - year - old fine - tuning his shot, his footwork, and his on - court instincts.

Additionally, FWD.us's report advocates for the Optional Practical Training program, which allows students with F - 1 visas to work in the U.S. for a year after earning their degree.

The cost of the state government's Aubin Grove train station project has increased for the second time in the past year, with the cost now revised to $ 120 million.

But when the 26 - year - old Bay Area native showed up for his interview — after completing a lengthy online quiz — he was told there would be no training.

Opened two years ago, Potomac Law Group leans heavily on cloud technology and is itself a kind of cloud — a constellation of 40 lawyers who went to the best schools, trained at the best firms, and are now working, mostly from home, to their own schedules, for about half the price bigger firms charge.

Even a brief course of brain exercises can help older adults improve reasoning skills and processing speed for 10 years after the training ends, according to a recent federally sponsored study on cognitive training.

With this in mind, Business Insider asked 27 - year - old personal trainer Max Lowery, the man behind the 2 Meal Day diet plan, about his pre - and post-workout routines for getting the most out of his training sessions.

The second method is to have the equipment purchased and installed at the beginning of the business year or quarter closest to the time when you'll actually need the equipment, allowing time for training and working out bugs before the equipment is placed into full production.

The construction of a train tunnel under the Hudson River may tie up traffic on the west side highway for three years.

There was once a military training camp for the young in Europe, known as the Crimea Sich, that took place every year in August for two weeks.

Although Bombardier has been making and selling trains in Mexico for 20 years, its aerospace operations still smell new - plane fresh after eight years.

For Lumos Labs, which makes the brain training app Lumosity, the year started on a sour note.

The 35 - year - old company, which helps industrial clients keep their equipment running through a mix of lab testing, consulting and training services, outgrew the space it had occupied for the better part of two decades.

«The issue with [HIIT] is you become disconnected with how you feel unless, say, you've been training as a sprint athlete for years.»

Few of the people who apply to flying schools actually get in — Quebec schools, for instance, only train around 150 to 200 pilots a year, according to Service Canada.