I've spent the last several days sitting in a crowded, windowless Macy's classroom undergoing the first phase of elf training.

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It might get frustrating to trade small size, but during that initial phase you are training your hands, eyes, and, most importantly, your mind.

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So Louise will come away from this and tick a couple of boxes, but now she has to switch her focus going into this next winter training phase and pick another couple of events to focus on.

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The test phase will be followed by a revision, training, production and distribution phase, and then a final implementation and monitoring phase.

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More than half of those had less than a year in service and were still in Entry Level Training, a phase of development not even in a category that can be considered qualified, much less skilled.

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Belichick, with Scott Pioli, who runs player personnel, put together procedural manuals for the off-season, the draft, training camp and every other phase of the season.

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The partnership between UNESCO and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), which has assigned a Knight International Journalism Fellow to the project, will ensure that seven major media outlets that participated in the training programme will now advance to the third phase of the project, receiving personalized business coaching over the next several months, ending in August 2012.

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Experience has shown that without such a phase it may be difficult to reach the participants that are most in need of training.

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In New Jersey, the learner's permit phase now lasts for six months, and 16-year-olds must take six hours of professional training.

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