Sentences with phrase «include small talk»

Building a rapport will come naturally as a result of the conversation, especially if you take time to include some small talk.

Its events include Small Talk Thursdays, which take place on select Thursdays each month through the end of October.

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Perhaps company policies could include 45 - minute lunch breaks, since American researchers found that this length of time spent in substantive conversation — not small talk — fosters a sense of closeness between mere acquaintances.

The benefits of trade should be shared more widely, he said, with a system that does more to include poor countries, small firms, marginalised groups and entrepreneurs — an apparent nod to anti-globalisation activists who say that secretive trade talks are exclusively aimed at helping big business.

Congress, too, talks a good small - business game, but the legislative history is replete with efforts to enlarge the definition of small — currently 37 separate standards apply to nearly 1,200 different industries — to include ever more constituents.

With a small book run professionally printed she started approaching bookstores including Barnes & Noble, which let her give talks and sell her books in its stores.

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In an internal memo from Goldman in May, when it hired Harit Talwar, an executive from Discover Financial Services, to head up is online lending division, the bank talked about its opportunity to participate in disrupting traditional finance, including with small business loans.

Trending hashtag today include #Riccing, Christina Ricci's hashtag used to show her fitting in small spaces; #LeBroning when someone is being a tad overdramatic; or #Eastwooding when talking to an empty chair inspired by Clint Eastwood's 2012 Republican Convention speech.

We've talked to 8,000 consumers over that period of time and examined their shopping behaviors at physical stores large and small across four retail segments — mass merchants, including department stores, grocery, apparel and health and beauty.

«The green activists pushing drink deposits always like to talk about multinational drink companies, but the reality is that a deposit scheme would hurt the whole sector, including many small and family run businesses.

In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

In order for the class to learn effectively, we do not allow children to attend workshops unless they include infant participation (i.e. Baby Massage or Small Talk).

Perfectly sized for small hands, this durable board book also includes a «Let's Talk» section with conversation starters to help parents begin a fun discussion with their kids.

Just try to include a bit of small talk (introduction to yourself and / or your blog) for newcomers to learn a bit about you.

Participants include: US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack; First Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray; MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews, Joy - Ann Reid and Krystal Ball; talk show host Wendy Williams, the parents of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis; parents of Sandy Hook shooting victim Ana Marquez - Greene; Harvard University Professor Dr. Charles Ogletree; NBC News legal analyst and author Lisa Bloom; William H. «Billy» Murphy Jr., Esq.; Essence Magazine notables Michelle Ebanks and Susan Taylor; Viacom's Marva Smalls; The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel; actor Malik Yoba; and members of Congress.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders made the second stop in his «Where Do We Go From Here» tour in Albany Friday afternoon, where he told a small but loyal group of supporters that he'll fight to get key items into the national Democratic Party platform, including a nationwide $ 15 minimum wage, and has been in talks with Hillary Clinton's campaign over a greater focus on progressive issues.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about the University at Albany / CDTA bus incident and school funding for eight small city school districts including Kingston and Poughkeepsie.

In small departments like the ones you'll find at an LAC, most of the people you'll be talking to — including the members of the hiring committee — will bring similar nonspecialist perspectives.

«We are talking about a small group of children with a lot of social factors, including that these kids are very conspicuously different from your average Swedish child, and being assessed by people who are from very different culture.»

It includes Pluto, it includes Eris and all the other smaller things that I've been talking about.

Nixon also included a small section that talked about pets and a plant - based diet, how to eat on the road, how to deal with cravings, how to deal with temptation, and how to live in a mixed household.

We will be offering organized activities and classes, including Flow and Gentle Hatha Yoga classes, meditation and pranayama (breath) workshops, a yoga philosophy talk, and small - group personalized restorative yoga classes.

I just want to make sure i understand:) when you talk about «meal post and pre workout» are you saying an extra meal like whatever the time of the day like a small snack we eat really close to the workout, or is it like what lunch and dinner should include if i workout in the afternoon

This MD in Australia talks about cholesterol and the fact that the way it is tested today is incomplete and does not tell the whole story when you just look at A1c, LDL, HDL, and Triglycerides, this diet raises your cholesterol but there is a small dense LDL that is not accepted by the liver for servicing but rejected and ends up in your arteries as plaque... and this is what needs to be included in a Lipid panel because this diet pre-diet shows a lipid panel that is not to bad but when you look at the SDLDL it is at 20 which is very high, and when on this diet for 6 or more weeks your lipid panel is higher but the SDLDL is 0 Zero... so your doctor flips out and yells at you but in fact you are much less prone to heart failure...

For a lot of people, myself included, small talk doesn't come naturally, so tips are always welcome.

The dinner starts off with small talk, which exposes the kids (including a young Jonah Hill) smug superiority masking the very ignorance they mock.

She cuts through phony layers of small talk and penetrates everyone's psychological defenses, Lily's included.

With THE VISIT, Shyamalan returns, and with some success, to the smaller scale of his first films, including the perfectly wonderful WIDE AWAKE, but with a savage disquietude about the disruption of the nuclear family, and a message about not hanging on to anger that might just be Shyamalan talking to himself about how to deal with the spate of viciously bad reviews into which his career careened.

Lidia Yuknavitch — author of beloved books including The Small Backs of Children and The Book Of Joan — writes a love letter to misfits in the book version of her popular TED Talk.

Running for mayor in 2005, after losing his first bid, Villaraigosa began talking with a variety of activists, including Maria Brenes, who runs Innercity Struggle, a group that fights for small, more rigorous high schools.

When talking about motivation, student responses included: «break down large assessments into smaller chunks and goals» and «share exemplars of student work to show success and to inspire».

Ask participants to talk in small groups about what evidence they saw of a good project (for example, the project revolved around a real - world topic; students were involved in project definition by suggesting questions; experts were included).

This is a great way to include key stakeholders in your classroom, whether it be reading to a small group, preparing crafts, talk about a career and so much more!

Fortenberry does not explain how this particular small mastiff was able to reproduce itself — perish the thought that it was bred to the lowly spaniel — but one of the traits one discovers in talking with breeders of American pit bull terriers is that they consider the dog capable of almost anything, including virgin birth.

I set up and run the Veterinary ECC Small Talk project, including hosting the podcasts and continuing to grow the Facebook page, as a way of educating about small animal Emergency & Critical Care with a major focus on the NON - REFERRAL / FIRST OPINION environSmall Talk project, including hosting the podcasts and continuing to grow the Facebook page, as a way of educating about small animal Emergency & Critical Care with a major focus on the NON - REFERRAL / FIRST OPINION environsmall animal Emergency & Critical Care with a major focus on the NON - REFERRAL / FIRST OPINION environment.

Ship Historian Peter Knego weighs in on some of the great ships of the past, including the Normandie, and talks about the benefits of small ship cruising.

- starts you off in a small town - in town you can visit shops, talk to people and accept a quest - the quest puts you in the middle of a volcano - your end goal is defeating the gigantic fire beast Ifrit - team up with a Goblin and Chocobo - fight multiple enemies, including some unfriendly Chocobo - enemies leave behind loot like recovery items and materials for crafting - by pressing L or R, you get access to four attacks - attack names include Plunder Slash, Mercurial Thrust and Trinity - charge a power meter and then hit L+R at the same time for special movies - one special lets you change into Cloud with very powerful attacks - run with the B - button - camera switching is handled by the D - Pad - info on the upper screen that gives you constant battle updates - bottom screen shows the status of all the characters, plus a map

Oh, and you remember at the beginning of this review how I talked about the developer's including a small note in the options that stated how key rebinding was labelled incorrectly, but otherwise worked?

Those contracts typically include non-disclosure agreements that make it difficult to talk much about the work small studios contribute to big - name games.

We also talk about the small news week of gaming, including the -LSB-...]

My goals for Level - UP included talking to every small indie development studio that had a booth on «Indie Alley,» as well as anyone else I ran into that might be interested.

These events include an artist talk from photographer Elle Perez at Daniel Cooney Fine Art on Tuesday, a peek at Georgia O'Keeffe's personal style at the Brooklyn Museum on Friday, and the Silent Barn's Paper Jazz Small Press Festival all weekend long in Bushwick.

The focus part of the fair features a huge number of exhibitions, talks, performances, outdoor installations and other various projects, with our recommendations including Arcadia Missa showing Hannah Black, 47 Canal with a group show of drawings and small - scale sculptures, VI, VII with Than Hussein Clark, Carlos / Ishikawa showing Lloyd Corporation, Emalin featuring Russian artist Evgeny Antufiev's first project in the UK, Kraupa - Tuskany Ziedler showing Anna Uddenberg, Proyectos Ultravioleta showing video and photography by Regina José Galindo and Union Pacific presents a collaborative sculptural installation by Ben Burgis and Ksenia Pedan.

This year's programme includes major historical exhibitions such as Beyond Caravaggio at the Scottish National Gallery, a variety of smaller exhibitions including one of our July picks — Jac Leirner's show at the Fruitmarket Gallery — plus talks, tours, walks and film screenings.

Think of the abstractions being done around Europe at that time, many of them small and even clumsy and half - hearted or half - assed in their approach to pure abstraction — I'm talking about you Robert Delaunay — and I am bringing this up because when MoMA organized their 2012 survey exhibition, Inventing Abstraction: 1910 - 1925, they included Delaunay, but not Klint, of which exclusion more later.

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.

I talked to Paul about his thoughts on joining the Rocket Lawyer team, including his insights about what it takes for a quickly growing company to successfully go from small to big.

Bob Ambrogi: John, I am just curious, I'm not even sure listeners would know the full range of what we're talking about here but you've got a conference that will include legal executives, the legal women's forum, legal pros which would be knowledge managers, law librarians, other types, legal marketing, legal CIO, there's a small firm component to this.

From Lemons to Lemonade (which I didn't purchase, by the way — this was a free review copy) starts by talking in detail about the «untapped legal job market,» which includes things such as JD - preferred jobs, «hidden» jobs that aren't necessarily advertised but can be uncovered with some due diligence, and less commonly considered options, including small town lawyering and teaching outside of law schools.