Sentences with phrase «cautionary tales from»

These cautionary tales from the plugged - in crowd at Inman Connect this year reveal ideas and practices that practitioners should ditch as they move toward a more connected world.

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Here are some cautionary tales from the world of webpage evidence.

Armed with statistics, examples, and cautionary tales from Scandinavia to Japan, James H. Stronge and Xianxuan Xu have written a book that can help educators better prepare students and close that gap.

About this Book: The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution Ian Tattersall Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

In May, three more corrupt New York State lawmakers are expected to join the jumpsuited ranks, three more cautionary tales from a State Legislature with no apparent shortage of them.

Not long ago he shared a cautionary tale from the work of Chuck Brodsky, whose 2002 album The Baseball Ballads includes the story of Fred (Bonehead) Merkle, who cost the 1908 Giants a chance to win the pennant when as a base runner he failed to tag second base on what would have been a walk - off single.

Image of seven - armed octopus courtesy of video by oceancontent Today we're returning to the deep to meet an octopus that, at first glance, hardly seems to earn that eight - limbed designation.Its very name sounds like an oxymoron — or a cautionary tale from a fishing accident.

That's the cautionary tale from a new study in the journal Parasites & Vectors, which found that ticks in urban parks in Delaware dominated by an invasive rose bush were nearly twice as likely to be infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, as compared to ticks from uninvaded forest fragments.

In The Shadow Of Women, an unexpectedly funny relationship cautionary tale from the doomy and poetic Philippe Garrel, centers on a hypocritical documentary filmmaker who cheats on his wife, but can't stand the thought of her with another man.

Here's a cautionary tale from Jordan McCollum.

I forget how many Democrat candidates last night identified «climate change» as the principal global threat - I think it was 97 per cent of them - but for those minded to question the consensus here's a cautionary tale from France's top weatherman.

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I think some teams also want to use Kaepernick as a cautionary tale to stop other players in the future from doing what he did.»

From the best and the brightest new ideas and innovations to the most gruesome cautionary tales, it was an unforgettable year in business

There's also a cautionary tale in the form of Munchery, a California startup that, like Maple, also runs the «full stack,» but has reportedly suffered from food waste and other issues despite raising more than three times the amount in Maple's coffers.

From a tulip craze to a dotcom bubble, read the cautionary tales of the stock market's greatest disasters.

This may particularly be true in Iraq where Saddam Hussen's brutally repressive secular regime is viewed by some as a cautionary tale of what happens when religious influence is absent from government.

After all, lightning rarely strikes twice, as the old saying goes, and Leeds are a glaringly obvious cautionary tale illustrating that fallen giants can endure protracted exiles from the top flight due to precisely the combination of on - field failure and off - field folly and mismanagement for which our club has become renowned.

Of course there was great deal of «well, if you had the baby at home none of this would have happened» from many friends an acquaintances... and complete strangers who had heard my story second hand as a cautionary tale about hospital birth.

My pal Jenn from Crazy Speech World has a Speech & Language pack in her Teachers Pay Teachers Store for the book Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale.

Besides noting that predicting the death of email is a sure - fire way to get media attention (particularly if you're a company that might stand to benefit from such a development), I'll just close with a cautionary tale for would - be futurists — if I remember correctly, online guru Seth Godin predicted the death of email advocacy within five years at the GetActive user conference... in 2005.

The fate of the Social Democratic Party — which saw centrist MPs defect from Labour to form an ill - fated moderate rival in 1981 — offers a cautionary tale of what can happen to those who leave the safety of an established major party to go it alone in the British electoral system.

Gibson's cautionary tale points to the alarming rise in diseases like diabetes, asthma, and Alzheimer's, warning that more than half of us will die from our genetic vulnerabilities if we stay the course in our do - nothing, eat - a-lot lives.

A cautionary tale in evolutionary theory is coming straight from the horse's mouth.

Charles Wang, with the Hawaii ECO Project, at a solar conference in San Diego earlier this month warned people from other states that Hawaii is a «cautionary tale» and «something that you will face down the road in your marketplaces.»

From the squishy world of butterfly genetics, a cautionary tale about the importance of taxonomy

Away from the hype, Jurassic Park was at heart a cautionary tale about the dangers of doing science without thought for its consequences.

«The Post» works on many levels, from polemic and thinly veiled cautionary tale to fun period piece and rip - roaring newspaper yarn.

The ambiguity Mr. Naranjo has stripped away from Ms. Zúñiga's cautionary tale is hardly made up for on the back end.

There is so much to love here, from the US Customs - type method that is used to determine who is permitted to leave the Land of the Dead, to the story's cautionary tale on the price of fame.

Like many tales about the good vs. the evil, the evil mostly steals the show from the good in «The Devil and Daniel Webster» (1941), a cautionary moral tale based on Stephen Vincent Benét's short story which is sort of a New England version of the tale of Faust.

It's a cautionary tale of collective malpractice and personal greed all converging at a moment which helped set about the global economic downturn, and the production design (by regular Wong Kar - wai collaborator William Chang) opts to remove all walls from the aesthetic equation as a way to emphasise that, even though it's a culture which thrives on secrets and subterfuge, there really is nowhere to hide your dirty laundry.

That it simultaneously spawned a genre of crap in a devolution chart from its already low bar to the bonding - over-cannibalism flick Fried Green Tomatoes to the bonding - over-coprophagia flick The Help functions as a cautionary tale about what happens when you, Titanic - like, find a new field to strip - mine.

While this eagerly - anticipated cautionary tale of Orwellian dimensions does address a litany of timely themes ranging from greed to loyalty to exploitation to corruption, it nevertheless remains, at heart, a high attrition - rate, splatter flick designed to satiate the bloodlust of kids weaned on gory computer games.

From the creators of Despicable Me comes the animated feature film adaptation of Dr. Seuss» The Lorax, a beloved cautionary tale of environmental conservation wrapped up in a colorful children's story.

And since the film is told from David's point of view, there are also similarities to «rise and fall» / «cautionary tale» Scorsese films like Goodfellas and The Wolf of Wall Street in particular.

Though the film's narrative never fully develops and fails to explore the deepest parts of this cautionary tale, the full commitment from the directing style and its performers transform a seemingly A-typical story to something new and dynamic.

It may have more bite as a cautionary tale if Belfort hadn't essentially gotten away with it and was profiting from it even to this day (even if he is still in arrears to the US government).

Glacial, but unexpectedly funny in spots, the latest from the reigning king of «style for style's sake» is a cautionary tale about beauty and the fashion industry in which everyone looks like a vampire and every scene sounds like it was recorded in a mausoleum.

The film adaptation of the musical combines characters from several stories including Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and others in a cautionary tale about being careful what you wish for.

The tale is fictional, but the events, from the fall of the Third Reich to the Kennedy - era Cold War are real, and their fine - tuned depiction gives an air of both gravitas and authenticity to this cautionary tale.

Whatever the case, «Every Secret Thing» is a misfire on multiple levels, only slightly redeemed by yet another good performance from a Fanning and some strong supporting work on the fringe of this cautionary tale.

Fresh from making his film debut in the wild party found - footage Project X, Jonathan Daniel Brown then took the lead in another hedonistic tale, but one based on a cautionary true story.

Despite the fact that you can never change a first impression, Hello Games is proving you can do a hell of a lot in terms of repairing an image and is turning No Man's Sky from a cautionary tale of hype and over promises into an example of how a game can redeem itself over time.

«Cautionary Tale: The Science of I Am Legend» (21 minutes) has comments from scientists who talk about the nature of viruses and the actual risk of a pandemic.

Debuting at the Boston Underground Film Festival, «Love on the Rocks» walks the delicate balance between a dark, cautionary horror tale and black relationships - from - hell comedy, by and large succeeding.

In some ways Gaghan, working from a script by Lara Croft: Tomb Raider screenwriters Patrick Massett and John Zinman, wants to tell a cautionary tale reminiscent of what ends up happening to Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

In «Ready Player One,» he gives us a warning from the future — a cautionary tale, thinly disguised as a young adult adventure story.

But in plenty of other respects, this humorless science - fiction cautionary tale feels like a relic from an earlier era, pulled out of a dusty old box of zip disks and 56k modems.

I wish Stoller had been more willing to simply throw us full bore into the train wreck that is Aldous's life — you know, like This Is Spinal Tap did with its horrifying rock star idiots we couldn't look away from — but I'm struck with a terrible certainty that Greek believes that it needs to spell out, in no uncertain terms, a cautionary tale about how the «glamorous life» ain't so glamorous and «ordinary life» as lived by us mere mortals is far better.