Sentences with phrase «very core focused»

And inside the gym it's very core focused.

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The New York - based pioneer of boxed meals is still very much focused on its core online subscription model, but it's also considering selling single kits on its website and is in «active conversations with a variety of retailers» to put its meals on store shelves in 2018, said Louise Ward, a spokeswoman.

We don't need M&A to deliver our growth and we are very much focused on our strategy of driving growth by accelerating our core products, by continuing to expand into white spaces like chocolate in China, chocolate here in the US, and continuing to expand our position in all kind of — all retail channels including e-commerce.

Here are a few common «lack of focus» examples I see amongst founders all the time: — Doing shit that makes them look busy, but doesn't have significant impact — Trying to do too many things instead of one thing really well — Getting things done themselves instead of taking time to build the team — Fundraising when it's not time — Acquiring users when existing ones keep churning — Adding features instead of fixing or removing the ones they have — Having multiple audiences, rather than one very targeted — Paying attention to vanity metrics or too many metrics instead of core KPIs — Following the competition's every move — Obsessing with getting up on TechCrunch (or other press)-- Attending multiple networking events a week

Programs like No Child Left Behind and Common Core — with their focus on «hard skills» and the mastery of content, both very «carpenter» - like approaches to education — have failed children, and teaching has regressed to an emphasis on test preparation.

University of Amsterdam astronomers Roy van Boekel and Michiel Min and their colleagues used the European Very Large Telescope array in northern Chile to focus on the cores of three young protoplanetary disks, surrounding stars a few hundred light - years away.

While regular crunches are effective at defining the very outer layer of your core (the rectus abdominis) that's their only focus.

A: It's helped in immeasurable ways, but very specifically in developing core strength, hip flexibility, better proprioception and balance, stronger breath control, sharper focus, and access to a deep well of endurance.

Today's workout was very simple and it was focused on the lower body and core.

We can; t only focus on building muscles instead we need to strengthen our core strength that is very profitable in long run.

You can do all kinds of exercises like dips, push - ups, vertical knee raises, chin - ups, pull - ups, etc. you can very conveniently get a workout of 45 minutes so that the strength of your body is built upon while you also focus on your balance and the core muscles.

«So, we decided to adopt the lean startup model and focus on simplicity, concentrating on a few core features and creating a very clear and simple user experience.

He's jettisoned a lot of Pynchon's enjoyably plush padding (a Vegas side trip and surf music wanderings), focusing on the emotional core of the book — to the point of making it into one very tricky sort of romance instead of a flat - out fatalistic noir.

Although this decision might make the film more accessible to a wider audience, as it is easier to understand what Amin does when it seems to be a direct result of information that cuts to his very core, it does weaken the larger political story overall by making the focus more about crimes of passion than it is about crimes against humanity.

I had no idea what to expect going in, but was surprised and incredibly happy to find a beautifully crafted film made by passionate, talented people, all giving their hearts to a film that at the core focused on something very sweet.

That is the motto that has been at the center of Sony's marketing strategy for the PlayStation 4 from the very beginning, and quite rightly so; this focus on the core...

First, in its rehearsal of the responses, outcomes, and derivatives of Risk, the one advance since 1983 that gets short shrift from Koret (so short that it is virtually unmentioned) is the recent reform focus not just on teachers as linchpins of the education system but on teaching as the very core of what happens in schools and thus of school reform.

It's ironic: Education reformers are so united behind the Common Core standards, and yet 1) those very standards explicitly endorse scientifically based reading instruction, and 2) the focus on the importance of «reading complex text» appears to come at the expense of early reading instruction.

In our Integrated Science course we are focusing on the content requirements of the Iowa Core and 21st Century skill in a very hands - on and technology rich environment.

Today, the Common Core is not only on the public radar, but the focus of a growing nationwide resistance from an unusual coalition of right - wingers, liberals, teachers, and parents, for a variety of very different reasons.

We need a sharp focus on making sure that children, from the very early stages of reading, understand that the core purpose of reading is to get meaning from the words read.

Instead of focusing on the very real challenges associated with the successful implementation of higher standards, teachers are instead dealing with the political folderol that has followed the Common Core and the new assessments like an ominous storm cloud.

As we move into the Common Core State standards, it's apparent that we will need to scaffold student learning — in fact, you might have been in on a conversation focused on that very concept.

«What we were doing was attached to the old standards, but the thinking and the logic was very Common Core, very focused on conceptual understanding,» said Johnstone.

Just as importantly, by requiring English teachers to focus as much on nonfiction texts as on the novels they prefer, Common Core is actually allowing for kids to read some of the very texts conservatives and libertarians consider to be fundamental to understanding the world.

When finished covering the trails at Creekside Edge, it became very apparent that the 2011 Wrangler Unlimited Sahara had certainly not lost its core focus as a capable out of the box off - roader despite the additional focus on luxury.

In artisanal publishing, the words, the purpose, focus, structure, core meaning, originality, literary craft and artistic style of a book is actually a lot more significant than whether words are spelled correctly or a comma is out of place (although that's very important too!)

Between these two surviving Core i7 3930K PCs then, the Velocity Micro and its fast 4.7 GHz overclock, its pair of high - end, 1.5 GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 graphics cards, and two solid - state hard drives focuses on delivering performance computing at very high resolutions, with lots of fast data storage.

They are locked - in to the ecosystem or they are focused on the aesthetics or they identify themselves with Apple in their very core or they are focused on the status signalling aspects.

USMI continues to believe that FHA serves a very important role, but it has expanded its footprint dramatically since the financial crisis and should instead remain focused on its core mission of serving underserved borrowers.

The only way to do that is to get very focused on cutting expenses to the core and increasing income.

Thirdly, focus — while Keynes's portfolio consisted of up to 78 holdings at any one time, it was concentrated around a few core shares, which he traded very infrequently.

If you're getting started, chose a fund like a target date fund, retirement date fund, they go by a couple of names but you can start with just one mutual fund that's a collection of all the investments that might be appropriate for your goal and from that core, if you want to then start branching out into specific ETF's or funds that focus on just one index or individual securities, then you've got that base that you can build on to add those things in but at the very beginning, keep it simple.

Because travel, especially solo travel, I've found anyway, has a way of stripping you down to your very core, and you can focus on improving yourself from that point.

In order for kinect to really have viability for hard core gaming, it needed to go Hand in Hand with a motion control method where the optical lenses of the cameras could focus and track your users movements in a game development design that allows the camera to completely focus its compute on very fine focused body locations and points of body language in action.

While I can enjoy those aspects in the SP career mode of a game like Forza, basically crafting and creating a car from different upgrades and tweaking it all to handle as good as possible, Driveclub seems to really just focus on the core - aspect of RACING, and does that very well (IMHO).

It is very clear that Hidden Dragon wasn't trying to offer a sensible narrative, and was more focused on the core action / platforming elements.

Spiders have opted to play it very safe, and frankly that's a wise decision because if Mars: War Logs proved anything it was that the developers had potential, but that they needed to focus on improving their core skills rather than on trying to bring anything fancy to the table.

As a digital release it really is a superb title, focusing on its core gameplay and doing it very well.

Those who prefer not to have motion sillyness in their core games however can rest easy; traditional controls are very much the main focus for the still - stealthy actioner, it was stressed.

And the roster is very much changed and this time around, there is a focus on characters that are not the «Superstars» like Iron Man for example — Iron Man is still in the game however — but the core contingents you follow round are time sensitive because the story involves a lot of time travel.

«The last thing I want to do is just throw around a bunch of clichéd terms,» Ishii said, «but I honestly believe that our company DNA, high production development approach, and unabashed focus on the core community is going to be what separates us from the rest of the pack... So while it's true that the [mobile] marketplace is crowded, a big part of that crowd is currently made up of very forgettable factory processed gameplay experiences.

The Banner Saga 2 is a very solid combination of role - playing game and tactical turn - based combat, a title that manages to focus on the essence of both the core mechanics while emphasizing the effects that each player choice and move have.

That is the motto that has been at the center of Sony's marketing strategy for the PlayStation 4 from the very beginning, and quite rightly so; this focus on the core gamer is what has propelled Sony to the top of the next - gen gaming premiership in decisive fashion.

Dan: You mentioned that you wanted to go the non-combative route for the game's core concept, but with games like Dead Space 3, or even something like Call of Duty, that shows just how much gamers embrace title that are very combat focused.

Our dedicated team, which includes some very hardcore PC gamers within its ranks, is focused on providing relevant features that core PC gamers have come to expect.

While there are the historical likes of British artists Stanley Spencer, with a very small nod to Chaim Soutine and Indian transplant FN Souza, the focus of the show is the core London School.

Funnily enough the AGW proponents started to go very quiet about ice - cores when these sorts of challenges were made and then they focussed on secret tree - ring data and surface stations with back - filled datalogs.

Rather than provide a thorough summary of the proceedings, I will focus on what I thought was the key message that lays at the core of Economy's testimony, but was also touched upon by Lieberthal and Chandler - the need for measurable, reportable and verifiable (MRV) actions (< — very helpful WRI report, btw), as called for in the Bali Action Plan.

The Report's central conclusion is that, although traditional legal pedagogy is very effective in certain aspects, it overemphasizes legal theory and underemphasizes practical skills and professional development.5 By focusing on theory in the abstract setting of the classroom, the Report argues, traditional legal education undermines the ethical foundations of law students and fails to prepare them adequately for actual practice.6 Traditional legal education is effective in teaching students to «think like lawyers,» but needs significant improvement in teaching them to function as ethical and responsible professionals after law school.7 As I will discuss in greater detail below, in general, the Report recommends «contextualizing» and «humanizing» legal education by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.10