On 24 September 2008, Film London, the capital ’ s film and media agency launched The New Black, a two year funding and training programme that will expand opportunities for theatrical exhibition of Black film in London.

The programme of technical and military cooperation focused on a reform of the Guinean armed forces and police, including the repair of barracks and police stations, organisation of administrative services and technical and military training locally and in Angolan institutions.

During the two to three-year core training programme, doctors will sit the Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons ( MRCS ) examination.

Under the PSI, a 10th Special Forces Group training team carried out a one week border monitoring training programme in January 2004.

Historically the army has been poorly trained ; however Australia has recently made this the focus of the Enhanced Defence Partnership programme, supplying training, advisors and equipment.

São Toméan military officers have been receiving training in the US under the International Military Education and Training ( IMET ) programme.

Both men recognised that wars in Africa were changing markedly and the British Army needed to adapt ; so during their joint scouting missions, Baden-Powell and Burnham discussed the concept of a broad training programme in woodcraft for young men, rich in exploration, tracking, fieldcraft, and self-reliance.

The key focus of work undertaken by the Geneva office is contributing to the development of programme activities of the University in Africa and the Middle East, engaging with the academic community in Geneva to establish joint teaching and training courses on issues of particular relevance to the expertise available within the international community in Geneva and facilitation of relations within Europe and with the United Nations system, national delegations, donor community and academic institutions.

: See also Selection and training of the Vostok programme

Gagarin was further selected for an elite training group known as the Sochi Six, from which the first cosmonauts of the Vostok programme would be chosen.

LINX also carries on a number of non-core activities ( NCAPs ) from time to time, for example the LINX Accredited Internet Technician ( LAIT ) training programme.

Interpreters may apply for the status of " Junior Trainee Interpreter " after completing the Level III / NVQ 3 BSL assessment ( they must also be enrolled on a recognised interpreter training programme, have completed some initial training and have professional indemnity insurance to register ).

Moreover, a two and a half years residency programme leads to MCPS while a two-year training of DOMS is also being offered.

The government is now piloting Vocational Meister Schools in which workplace training is an important part of the programme.

Vocational education and training provided under the Upper Secondary Education Under secretariat includes three main types of programme:

A different pattern is to begin the programme with most of the time devoted to in-school education and gradually diminishing the amount of in-school education in favour of more in-company training.

* Bleeder ( nunchaku with sharp or dull razor blades ) and sharper ( nunchaku with nails ) are used as components of the basic training and grading programme ( Programme Verhille ) in French nunchaku de combat.

For a number of years, the Belgian Armed Forces have had an active programme of co-operation with Benin, offering training and coaching, donating redundant military equipment and using the county for limited military exercises.

Not to mention that 18 % students attending courses at École Centrale de Lille are international students, all students enrolled in the Centralien Programme have an international exposure with opportunities to perform industry training and internship in entreprises worldwide, study abroad for 1 year in selected partner institutes providing Master ( M2 ) courses, or be part of the 2 + 2 year TIME double degree programme.

Aided by the campaigns of the American Social Hygiene Organization, and with army regulations that placed such institutes off limits, he implemented a national programme to close so called segregated zones close to Army training camps.

In addition to the annual Festival, Aldeburgh Music also runs the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme ( formerly the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies ), Aldeburgh Residencies-a programme offering bespoke training and development opportunities to UK and international artists – Aldeburgh Young Musicians for exceptionally talented young people between the ages of 8 and 18, The Jerwood Opera Writing Programme, for the development of new opera, as well as an extensive education programme.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

His suggestion that the prestige colleges be made the training institutions for medical, law and graduate schools will run into strong opposition from these colleges themselves -- even though what he is recommending is already taking shape as a trend.

Ironic, is it not, that after completing years of costly scientific training he will receive a cut in pay from what he is receiving as an ordinary unskilled laborer??

Either it is lack of training, lack of proper screening when hiring, lack of management or possibly lack of interest on the part of the telephone company, which does have a Government-blessed monopoly.

What we need is more vocational training in high schools, not more dropouts.

Staley Hanover ( Knight Dream-Sweetmite Hanover ) is a little on the small side but a very compact colt and looks like one to stand training and many future battles with colts in his class.

It is more than just lack of dance training that is our problem, for just as gymnastics can learn from dance, dance has some very important things to learn from gymnastics.

The addition of endurance training later, when the body is mature enough to benefit from it without danger of injury, provides that final quality that makes the top athlete, soldier or citizen.

It is very important for parents to understand that early training is imperative.

The real question that follows is -- how are those four years used and what is their value as training??

Technical assistance in training middle- and upper-level management personnel is still needed in many cases.

The necessary step between diagnosis and training is acceptance of the validity of the criticisms.

the objective of this chapter is to clarify the distinctions between spontaneity theory and other training concepts.

Spontaneity training theory is unique and relatively new.

In most states, trade and industrial training is provided in a minority of the high schools, usually located in the larger cities.

The major training need of a new industrial plant is a short period of pre-employment training for a large number of semi-skilled machine operators.

The major weakness of vocational training programs in labor surplus areas is their focus on serving solely local job demands.

Moreover, the current information on what types of training are needed and possible is too limited and fragmentary.

There simply is not enough material available on the types of job skills that are in demand and the types of training programs that are required or most suitable.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 161 of 21 February 1961, called for the withdrawal of Belgian officers from command positions in the ANC, and the training of new Congolese officers with UN help.

* In the early 1970s, Ted Patrick — a man with plenty of street smarts but, at the time, no formal training in counseling — believed that members of his family were being brainwashed by David Berg, the leader of a group called the Family International, now known as " The Family.

In the U. S. and Canada, training for board certification in internal medicine, pediatrics, or gynecology after medical school is called residency.

Further formal training to subspecialize in adult, pediatric, or reproductive endocrinology is called a fellowship.

For Catholics, it is typical in the year of seminary training that a man will be ordained to the diaconate, called by Catholics in recent times the " transitional diaconate ".

These US Army Intrinsic Action ( later called Operation Desert Spring on 1 October 1999 ) rotations and US Marine Corps EAGER MACE rotations conducted combined training with the Kuwaiti Land Forces and other coalition partners.

Johann Sebastian Bach also wrote six surviving works he called motets ; Bach's motets were relatively long pieces in German on sacred themes for choir and basso continuo, thought to have been written as training pieces for the members of his choir school.

A supervised learning algorithm analyzes the training data and produces an inferred function, which is called a classifier ( if the output is discrete, see classification ) or a regression function ( if the output is continuous, see regression ).

These parameters may be adjusted by optimizing performance on a subset ( called a validation set ) of the training set, or via cross-validation.

In such a situation that part of the target function that cannot be modeled " corrupts " your training data-this phenomenon has been called deterministic noise.

When one tries to minimize this cost using gradient descent for the class of neural networks called multilayer perceptrons, one obtains the common and well-known backpropagation algorithm for training neural networks.

Rilke was called up at the beginning of 1916, and he had to undertake basic training in Vienna.

Shamans are normally " called " by dreams or signs which require lengthy training.

The east side of Seneca Lake was once home to a military training ground called Sampson Naval Base, primarily used during World War II.

The training grounds of Sampson have since been converted to a civilian picnic area called Sampson State Park.

Systems that do not use training are called " Speaker Independent " systems.

Systems that use training are called " Speaker Dependent " systems.

Increasingly realistic variations became part of military training in the 19th century in many nations, and were called " kriegspiel " or " wargames ".

However a recent review paper has called into question much of the " success " of working memory training studies.

During the 1993 Waco Siege of the Branch Davidians, elements of the Alabama and Texas Army National Guard were called in to assist the ATF and the follow on effort by the FBI ; the National Guard's involvement was limited to several specific areas ; surveillance and reconnaissance, transport, maintenance and repairs, training and instruction, helicopters, unarmed tactical ground vehicles.

The training college was founded in 1880 and by the 1950s was called the Manchester College of Housecraft.

In Finland, military-style semiautomatic rifles, or reservist rifles ( reserviläiskivääri ) as they are called in Finland, are popular among reservists who actively take part in volunteer defence training.

This is called " tequila cruda " and is sometimes referred to as " training wheels ", " lick-sip-suck ", or " lick-shoot-suck " ( referring to the way in which the combination of ingredients is imbibed ).

Though Schwimmer called himself an " optometrist " he was actually an optician ( an eyeglass fitter ) and he had no medical training.