Sentences with phrase «public conversation from»

SoA served that purpose beautifully; it kicked off XBLA's «triumphant return» and changed the tone of public conversation from «XBLA is full of crap» to «XBLA is the only place you can find games like Castle Crashers and Braid.»

Still, says Toll, these schools «change the public conversation from «you can't educate these kids» to «you can only educate these kids if...»» When it comes to closing the achievement gap, this is surely a change for the better.

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And while these words are commonly found in everyday conversations, Steven D. Cohen, an award - winning speaker who leads career and academic workshops on public speaking at Harvard Extension School, argues that «they often detract from the listener's ability to understand a particular message.»

For nearly five hours the conversation ranged from Moerdler and Datskovsky's personal and business goals to their fantasies about one day going public to their frustrations with the tax system and their bank.

Aside from the political spin, I welcome a wider public conversation and am excited about the potential for a real debate about downtown.

Or in his words, «to bring the conversation down a couple thousands of feet» for the business communities and general public from both sides.

My son found his way into pick - up games on a public plaza with adults and kids from Germany and the Czech Republic and conversations in stadiums with Italians and Spaniards.

Though this interchange was a small part of Konigsberg's story, the words provoked an uproar from the league, the fans and the media, and it renewed a public conversation about Christian anti-Judaism.

Anyway, yes, this is all rather ugly in some very unpleasant ways, but I think the overall conversation here has been relatively civil — at least within the framework I'm working from that all public leaders / figures / role - models who are authors, speakers, event sponsors, etc., commit themselves to public scrutiny and accountability.

That means talking about androcentrism, patriarchy, sexism and misogyny in the scriptures and in the church from the pulpit, in the theological classroom, in congregational conversations, in public theology and the scholarly literature.

In a blend of words from his public speeches, imagined conversation, and fictional situations, the book highlights Obama's real stance on social justice and, in particular, economic and political empowerment.

Europe now has dozens of laws to stop Christians from speaking out on controversial issues, not just in public spaces but in pulpits and private conversations as well, enforced vigorously through the criminal code.

I've heard or read varying degrees of that same attitude when it comes to some of the conversations about «biblical» womanhood as people heap guilt on mothers or fathers for everything from choosing public school education to relying on babysitters or daycare, from Sunday School to family structures.

Meanwhile, the shrill tones of public intellectuals such as Richard Dawkins and the New Atheists have dominated the conversation from the secular side.

NOSB is continuing the conversation on seed purity and continues to invite comments from the public.

I have struggled sometimes with conversations with other parents about what school is best, as my kids have moved from an amazing public elementary school to public middle school that has more challenges.

Drawing on a wealth of research (including the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk & Adaptation), Paul challenged the ways we often try to predict or measure success and helped change the public conversation about the kinds of experience and environments children need from infancy to adulthood.

Every day hundreds, thousands, millions of people are having public conversations debating everything from Justin Bieber's haircut to what «healthy school food» really means.

By contrast, the conversation about Trump is about TRUMP... and if he fades from the conversation, he may find nothing left but the public memory of a flash - in - the - pan (if a notably coiffed one).

You do not want a user to think you are trying to hide a conversation from the public on a contentious issue or «sweep them under the rug.»

Among the Buffalo Billion related questions were the review of Joe Percoco's disclosure form revealing outside income from Buffalo Billion vendors, details of Cuomo's last conversation with Percoco, the recent disclosure by Solar City of a reduction in the expected number of jobs, why the Public Authorities Control Board delayed a decision of funding certain payments related to Solar City and whether public money funding the Buffalo Billion was treated «as sacred» and if so, why an investigation is occuPublic Authorities Control Board delayed a decision of funding certain payments related to Solar City and whether public money funding the Buffalo Billion was treated «as sacred» and if so, why an investigation is occupublic money funding the Buffalo Billion was treated «as sacred» and if so, why an investigation is occurring.

The conversation also explored his decision to step away from public office after he found himself on the wrong side of a leadership fight in the minority conference.

(GR): This has been a conversation from WRVO Public Media with the two candidates for Congress in the 24th District of New York.

«I really wan na have that conversation with our police chief as to from his standpoint in looking at an infrastructure investment that would improve public safety and improve the safety of our police officers.

Mobile messaging and field reporting allows public safety employees to remotely have a text conversation with the E-911 Communications Center or perform field reporting remotely from a law enforcement patrol vehicle.

Conversation frequently turns to who could lead the party after another defeat in 2020: the former paratrooper Dan Jarvis; the shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna (who withdrew from the race after just a few days); the former director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer; even David Miliband.

My impression was, from both public statements and conversations, that it was not an enthusiastically received recommendation [by] the city,» Milliken said.

The organization said that, «As a government presumably pursuing a change - agenda, Buhari should do things differently from the former Jonathan administration including by proactively engaging the Nigerian people in an honest conversation about the fight against Boko Haram and the use of the public funds so far invested to prosecute it.»

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Assemblyman Steve Otis will be the featured guest at the New Rochelle League of Women Voters» monthly «Coffee and Conversation» on Friday, November 22, from 9:30 am — 11:00 am, in the meeting room of the New Rochelle Public Library.

New York, NY — Reshma Saujani, founder of the national nonprofit Girls Who Code and a Democratic candidate for New York City Public Advocate, today launched Up to Us, a new campaign to empower women voters to shift the political climate and conversation away from the sex scandals that have turned New York City's summer campaign season into a national spectacle.

In the spirit of Mad Men's Don Draper, we didn't like what was being said about Labour (that the party can't be trusted with public money), so we changed the conversation (by fronting up to enough cuts to create fiscal room for a set of policy priorities distinctly Labour and different from those of the Tory - led government).

This year, the conversation moved from wonkish to very public, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo declaring that upstate needed ride - hailing because «upstate matters» and with special interest groups pouring money into public awareness campaigns to try to either have the bill killed or passed.

Phillips suggests limiting the power of «Internet trolls» — and encouraging meaningful conversation with the rest of the public — by deleting anything they (the trolls) post on your blog, banning them from your site, and using word filters.

Though the researchers can't disclose the results for individual outlets for confidentiality reasons, they could show that removing larger outlets from the analysis didn't change the effect on public conversation much, suggesting that no single large news organization was responsible for the increase.

As part of National Science Foundation - funded research, Rachel Greenstadt, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Computing & Informatics and director of the lab; Vaibhav Garg, PhD, a former postdoctoral researcher at PSAL, Rebekah Overdorf a doctoral researcher in the lab; and their associate Sadia Afroz from the University of California — Berkeley; broke down several years - worth of conversations between members of four cybercrime forums that were anonymously made public a few years ago.

Aside from its impact on sea levels, weather and the economy, researchers say climate change is also an urgent public health concern, a matter that has been largely left out of the global climate conversation until recently.

[7] Themes emerging from focus group conversations corroborated the findings of the national survey, but yielded particular insights into how the public views different technologies.

«BBSRC has a long and continuing history of engaging the public in conversations about science and so welcomes the recommendation for a constructive conversation about what we want from food and agriculture.»

Microarray data from an experiment looking at oral - cancer development prompts a conversation in the Public Health Sciences lab of Dr. Chu Chen by (from left) Drs. Lue Ping Zhao, PHS investigator; Chun Cheng, PHS postdoctoral fellow; Chen and Eduardo Mendez of the University of Washington Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.

My hope is that this can become a more public conversation so that people struggling with withdrawal don't feel ashamed or alone and can learn from the experiences of others.

We're moving the conversation away from BMI and weight loss and teaching the public on the importance of fat loss and muscle gain.

But as I discussed with my clients the horrific implications this had on our food guidelines, public health and the perception of nutrition research, there was a theme that emerged from each conversation.

GALLERY LINK Public Appearances > Public Appearances from 2016 > June 9 SAG - AFTRA Foundation Conversations with «Bates Motel»

These two public figures couldn't have been much different from each other, but the script (Joey and Hanala Sagal, and Cary Elwes) finds a way to have these two icons hold a conversation... bonding over their mutual hatred of The Beatles.

FILM COMMENT sat down with Poitras after a public screening for a conversation that ranged from what revelations still surprise her, to the role of narrative in documentary and journalism, to how she knew she was being followed in Hong Kong.

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point, suggests that our public schools would benefit from a spirit of innovation rather than one of regimentation.Those of us who have been hanging around public education for more than, say, 15 years may remember a time when words like creativity and imagination were an important part of our conversations about curriculum design, teaching, learning, and lesson planning.

Further, he hopes to generate conversation around the Lab's mission and a high level of engagement from education leaders in reimagining what public education can be.

Yassine's dedication to working on literacy problems both real and theoretical led her to a collaboration between a group of HGSE students and the litigants of the first federal case asserting a right to literacy based on gross inequity in Detroit Public Schools (DPS) that culminated in an on - campus event where parents, teachers, and students from DPS led a conversation.

The goal of the EL Summit was to elevate the conversation around equity for English learners by bringing together diverse stakeholders practice and policy — from universities, public schools, charter networks, community organizations, and nonprofits.

Important to our family engagement work is active participation from our partners: By joining the conversation and contributing insight and lessons learned, our partners will enable us to document promising transition processes, establish a public dialogue, and develop capacity building tools.