Sentences with phrase «folks explain it to»

As I've said before, I don't know shit about basketball, so having you folks explain it to me is a big help.

Not exact matches

At Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored event last week in New York City, Paul English, the co-founder and CTO of popular travel site Kayak.com explained that when it comes to staffing his company with techies he prefers to hire folks with no travel industry experience who have shown exceptional ability in another area — say, Olympic - level athletics.

Outside of the fact that you happen to be reading one right now, I find that there are lots of smart, business savvy folks out there who when placed in the position of having to explain, strategize or build a blog (or decide if one should be built at all) are at a bit of a loss.

«The wonderful folks at Vapor Room recently came to meet with us because they wanted to find the perfect pizza to complement a new strain of weed,» explains a post on Eat24's blog, the Bacon Sriracha Unicorn Diaries.

As the Mission Statement explains, the goal was to create a space for those folks and tell their stories.

Bojan: My advice is to stop trying to explain Bitcoin to everyday folks.

When you have been the leader of almost 2 billion, then explain to us ignorant folks how to do so effectively in a manner that is effective and truthful.

You folks have a whole list of rationalizations you can throw out to explain apparent inconsistencies.

what is very interesting to me tonite is the folks who are positive there is no god... what is equally interesting is the snarling that appears whenever one does not «toe» the atheist line of no god... It has been said over and over here, «there is no proof of your God» ad nauseum I might add... OK... please, I am asking you in the nicest possible way... explain to me, without a Designed, where the universe and all it entails, first got its source... I really would like to know... from everything I see, I see beauty, design, tragedy, poetry, poverty, etc.... How did we begin to name or classify any of this... what intelligence gave us our intelligence... I have yet to see an anwer posited as to how it all came about, absent a Designer... I will wait for an answer... How did it ALL get here, and explain the precision and engineering of it all — right down to the last jot of DNA.

If «religion poisons everything it touches,» how do you explain the achievements of folks like Mother Theresa, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama, Gandhi, etc. and those who try to perpetuate their work even today?

Andy Stanley Explains His «Stinking Selfish» Parents Comment «As much as I wish folks would listen to the entire message, it really doesn't diminish the absurdity of what I said.»

«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.

the hate for those folks, which no one has been able to me explain in human terms, has driven many to suicide.

Without it, we need some smart folks to explain it to us because it get's real complicated trying to hold faith, the gospel, eternal life, salvation, repentance, and all the other teachings together with any kind of congruity.

Highlights for me included: 1) Belcher's call in Chapter 3 to find common ground in classic / orthodox Christianity (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) which, if applied, would dramatically reduce some of the name - calling and accusations of heresy that have been most unhelpful in the discussion between the emerging and traditional camps, 2) Belcher's fabulous treatment of postmodernism and postfoundationalism in Chapter 4, where he rightly explains that when talking about postmodernism, folks in the emerging church and the traditional church are using the same term to refer to two completely different things, and where he concludes that «a third way rejects classical foundationalism and hard postmodernism,» and 3) Belcher's fair handling of the atonement issue in Chapter 6, in which he clarifies that most emergering church leaders «are not against atonement theories and justification, but want to see it balanced with the message of the kingdom of God.»

«I think the transition really happens in production, because the songs — the way I'm expressing myself, the vocabulary I'm using, the structure — all still feel like folk songs to me,» Rogers explains.

========== @Smithsonian «The stories remain a part of folk traditions and were included in the Bible to illustrate and explain theological ideas such as: Where did humans come from?

I plan to keep it on my desk just to explain that God loves all people — which was what the Westboro folks objected to.

Shem, father of the Semitic peoples, Ham of the Hamitic folk, and Japheth for the rest, were enough to explain all the races with whom these early folk had contact.

I always have the feeling with the recipe redux column that they take a good, reasonable recipe and turn it into an avant garde difficult recipe that no one will ever have time for (I also note that while a dairy challah is delicious and would work with dairy meals even for kosher folks — it does seem weird to write an article on challah and never explain why they aren't traditionally dairy).

«The concept has the ability to attract folks of all ages and introduce them to hand - crafted, house - made brick oven food,» Tenner explains.

As the folks at the Michael Kohn Gallery in L.A. explain it, the art exhibit that opened last Saturday «takes the idea of the object — in this case the seductive shape of the surfboard — and attempts to trap the image beneath the fiberglass and resin surface.

I grew up eating it, but spent 20 years out of the area having to explain to folks what pork roll is.

And if you're surrounded by well - meaning folks who urge you to continue taking your placenta, now you've got a little stack of resources to explain why you'd rather not.

The folks at Marketo have put together a nice infographic explaining how Upworthy did it and what you can learn from them: the absolute keys are testing and being open to change.

They are policies that campaigners tire of explaining to swing voters; the very reason folks don't get out of bed on Saturday morning.

«Previous studies utilizing similar techniques have focused primarily on slowly evolving regions, such as exons, due to concerns with capture success,» explains Folk.

How do you explain that those folks were able to thrive on a diet that relied a lot on grains (rye and oats respectively)?

I think a lot of folks have heard of it by now, but I want to just take the chance to give a little bit of background, explain how LDN, low - dose naltrexone, works, what kind of conditions it's been studied in and might be effective for, and we'll talk about some pros and cons and things to keep in mind if you take it and how you might find a doctor that you can work with to take it.

My question relates to the idea of «metabolic damage,» which some folks online explain as an adaptation of the body to reduce the rate of metabolism during periods of starvation, i.e. calorie restriction.

The name is a good fit for folks who are prone to restless sleep and insomnia, he explains.

Sometimes it just takes small changes to make a big difference, as the brilliant folks from We Love Dates explain in this guest article.

Finally, someone explained to me that lots of folks just put out those «For Sale» signs sort of for sport.

But when they don't add a caption to explain who these folks are, their matches have no context — they just see random strangers.

There are always new factions, or factionless folk, to introduce and explain.

When I worked at Microsoft, editing the CD - ROM and web movie encyclopedia Cinemania, I and my colleagues at Music Central had a difficult time explaining to the marketing folks the qualitative differences between people's (I'm sorry — consumers») relationships to movies and music and, say, their relationships to their kitchen appliances.

It's disheartening to try to explain to folks that Napoleon Dynamite is comedy sprung from our basest bullying instinct — and it's that much more disheartening to have to point out that Nacho Libre is about how funny our musty stereotypes of Mexicans are because of the way they talk and the things they like to watch.

I can't wait for the Vita's February North American launch (and neither can Stephen Totilo) to get in on the fun of trying to explain to you folks exactly what I'm doing while I play games like Wipeout 2048 and Gravity Rush.

Then again, the filmmakers make no attempt to explain away the fact that no one in this town seems to care that Anton's folks are dead, as no one calls them on the phone.

Read aloud or ask students to read folk tales that attempt to explain the seasons or the weather.

«One of the things we're hoping to feature is folks who do this a lot — such as the SFMOMA — and have a team process for telling a story,» Smith explains.

If yes, welcome to a world of tests from gym to art — or worse, state test measures in math and English applied to folks who don't teach those two subjects (try explaining that to teachers or, for that matter, your neighbor).

This African folk tale explains how many African tales came to be known as «Spider stories.»

Yesterday, I had a long meeting with the publisher's marketing folks, and when I explained to them the concept for the cover — a mosaic of images of either each author's profile photo, or a montage of photos that remind them of the learning story they shared, or perhaps a combo of the two — I think we may have found our title:

I got in touch with the manager of the offending shop, explained the situation and he referred me to their corporate customer care folks.

Today I had to explain to everyone how buying reviews from folks unlikely to actually read my books wasn't a bad thing.

On Tuesday, Rachelle Gardner's blog post was titled «Author Marketing & Platform: * It's All About the Numbers *» She explained that when agents submit proposals to publishers, the marketing folk want hard numbers: blog page views, monthly unique visitors, Klout score, Twitter followers, Facebook friends, etc..

It constantly amazes me the way these folks continue to tie themselves into knots trying to explain how e-books are bad, or are a passing fad or a way for writers not good enough for traditional publishing to get their works into the hands of readers.

Historian Nelson, with coauthor Aronson, explains how he connected bits of information acquired in a larger research project to identify the actual story and person behind the John Henry folk song.

There have also been lots of folk in SFF writing to explain how Amazon's do not sell action has done extensive damage to authors.