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4 Lessons Triathlons Teach You about Life
Last January, I shared that one of my 2012 goals was to train and complete in the multisport world of triathlon. I've been a runner for years, but as you might have read in my earlier post, Learning to Swim, my swimming skills were less than adequate for triathlon competitions. After several years of being tired of going to the gym and the inspiration of my good friend, Scott Rigsby (the first below-the-knee double amputee to complete the Ironman World Championship in Kona) I decided I needed a new challenge to push me mentally, physically and spiritually. Whether or not you consider yourself an athlete, an artist, a follower of Christ, or someone who is just interested in living well, there are plenty of things triathlons can teach you about life. Read on…
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Just this past weekend, I competed in the ITU World Championship in San Diego. Don't be confused. I wasn't in the elite world championship competing with the guys vying for a spot on the 2012 USA Olympic team. I raced in the sprint division (750m swim, 16.5k bike, 5k run) and let me tell you, this course was a lot more difficult than my first triathlon. Every race is an opportunity to learn something new. For example…
1. You Can Go Farther Than You Think You Can: When I first started training for triathlons, my biggest challenge was the swim. I have swam all my life, but with the wrong technique. Before I started taking swimming lessons, I could have never imagined swimming a mile in the ocean. But with the right technique and a commitment to learning the correct skills, I soon learned I could go much further than I thought I could. Believe me, there have been days when everything inside of me is screaming, "You're done! You're finished! Stop now…you can't go any further!" When the monkeys in my mind are screaming at me to quit, I do my best Dory-impersonation "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…"
You may be facing significant challenges right now–physical, relational, financial, or work-related–that are telling you to just quit. But I do know that many of life's most important lessons are learned when we don't quit. You can go much farther than you think you can. Lean into God, your family or friends for support. James 1 tells us that the testing of our faith develops perseverance to make us mature and complete. You CAN go farther than you think you can!
2. Fear Is Not Your Enemy: For years, whenever I'd see a photo of a triathlon swim-start with hundreds of people thrashing next to each other, I'd say, "Oh that looks fun…getting kicked in the face and drowning!" So you can imagine how I felt moments before my first race. The butterflies in my stomach were the size of vultures. My last will and testament had been signed…
Actually, I was nervous and a bit fearful about what it would be like swimming in the maelstrom all around me, but I have learned to not make fear my enemy. Whenever you take on a new challenge, fear is to be expected. In the right perspective, fear is a warning system that cautions us to pay attention. Stay alert. Know what's going on around you. We have to let fear have its right place, but if it starts to shout too loud, we also need to tell it to shut its yap.
3. Ask Questions & Be Teachable: I'm curious by nature (ask my wife!) and I like to take on new challenges, so when it comes to learning anything new, it's extremely important to ask questions and be teachable. Asking questions and being teachable applies to every dimension of your life. I'm a firm believer that whenever we stop learning, that's when we start dying. Whether it's changing a bike tire, learning a new skill at work, taking on a new diet, or letting go of your pride by asking for help, asking questions and being teachable will get you closer to your goal than going it alone.
4. Perseverance Rewards Those Who Stick With It: In our world of quick fixes and immediate gratification, perseverance is often underrated as slow, stodgy labor. Perseverance reveals our true character and what we're really made of. Ask any successful person and they will tell you that there is no such thing as overnight success. Perseverance comes from the things you and I don't hear talked about much today: character, discipline, work ethic, and a commitment to staying on task when no one else is looking.
For the past two and a half years, I've been working on one of the most difficult writing projects I've ever completed. My new book, Create: Transforming Stories of Art, Life & Faith is a video-enhanced ebook showcasing video, artwork and essays from 21 artists. I participated in the beta-test of a new online platform and as elegant as this new software is, the process of creation has required more perseverance on a project than ever before. Dealing with software bugs, losing data, re-uploading video four times and having to learn new technologies have tested my patience, my perseverance, and my willingness to creatively solve problems before I hurl my computer through my office window. In essence, my character has been tested. (But I can now say it's been worth the effort…we won a Best Design award out of 500 ebooks!)
All this to say, I'm glad I'm doing triathlons now. On many a day when I've been tired and discouraged, I've had to let go of the problem in front of me and tell myself to go for a run. You don't need to be doing triathlons to take a break and get perspective. For whatever creative challenge you're facing, take some time to step away. Go for a walk. Pray about it. Invite God to show you what you're not seeing. Talk to a friend. You just may find the perspective you need which will give you the perseverance to take the next step. That's all perseverance really is…just taking the next step.
Questions: What challenge are you facing right now that requires perseverance? What will help you go farther than you think you can?
I'd love your comments and questions.
I'd also like to invite you to check out my new book, Create: Transforming Stories of Art, Life & Faith. It's filled with incredible essays, artwork and video from 21 artists from across the country. Purchase your copy today and receive a free copy of my book, The Longing: Embracing the Deepest Truth of Who You Are.
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Mary-Kate Olsen | |
Olsen at the premiere of Whatever Works at the Tribeca Film Festival, April 22, 2009 | |
Born | Mary-Kate Olsen June 13, 1986 Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, USA |
Occupation | Actress, fashion designer, author, producer, businesswoman |
Years active | 1987–present |
Relatives | Ashley Olsen (twin sister) Elizabeth Olsen (sister) |
Mary-Kate Olsen | |
Olsen at the premiere of Whatever Works at the Tribeca Film Festival, April 22, 2009 | |
Born | Mary-Kate Olsen June 13, 1986 Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, USA |
Occupation | Actress, fashion designer, author, producer, businesswoman |
Years active | 1987–present |
Relatives | Ashley Olsen (twin sister) Elizabeth Olsen (sister) |
Mary-Kate Olsen (born June 13, 1986)[1] is an American actress, fashion designer, producer, author, and businesswoman. She co-founded luxury fashion brand The Row and the more affordable line Olsenboye alongside her fraternal twin sister Ashley Olsen. Olsen pursued acting independently as an adult until 2012.[2]
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Olsen was born in Sherman Oaks, California to David Olsen and Jarnette "Jarnie". Along with her twin, Ashley, Olsen has an older brother, Trent; a younger sister, Elizabeth, who is also an actress; and two younger half siblings, Taylor and Jake, from her father's second marriage.[2] Olsen's parents divorced in 1995.[3]
Along with Ashley, Olsen was cast at the age of nine months to share the role of Michelle Tanner on the ABC sitcom Full House. The Olsen twins portrayed Michelle throughout the series' 1987–1995 run. In the early 1990s, Olsen and her twin sister established a company, Dualstar, which produced a long string of TV movies and direct-to-video releases featuring the girls. The Olsens continued to release direct-to-video films up to the early 2000s, along with starring in the 1995 feature film It Takes Two. In 1997, the Olsen twins guest starred in an episode of Sister, Sister, alongside Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry. After Full House, the sisters starred in two other sitcoms (Two of a Kind and So Little Time) and an animated series (Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action!), each of which lasted only one season while So Little Time ran for two seasons. These ventures, combined with an array of licensing deals for their names and likenesses, made Olsen wealthy at a young age. In 2004, Olsen's wealth was estimated at $137 million.[4]
Olsen and her sister became co-presidents of Dualstar upon their eighteenth birthday. Olsen's first solo acting appearance was in the movie Factory Girl, released in December 2006. Olsen's one short scene was ultimately cut from theatrical release, but was included on the film's DVD. In 2007, Olsen and her twin sister said that if they became involved in movies together again it would be as producers.[5] Olsen had a recurring role on Weeds as Tara Lindman.[6] She appears in the 2008 film The Wackness as Union. At the Sundance Film Festival, co-star and Academy Award–winner Sir Ben Kingsley praised her.[citation needed]
Olsen made a one-episode appearance in 2008 on the ABC comedy Samantha Who?, playing a self-destructive girl whom Samantha tries to help while doing community service.[7] Olsen appeared in the movie Beastly, which was based on the book of the same name by Alex Flinn.[8] Olsen signed on to play Stacey in the movie Story of a Girl, but the movie appears to have been put on hold.[9]
In March 2012, Olsen and her twin sister expressed an interest in quitting acting for good in order to focus on their fashion career.[10] Olsen has expressed a desire to open up a fashion shop.[11] Olsen has said that she considers fashion, rather than acting, as her future.[12]
In 2004, both Ashley and Mary-Kate became co-presidents of their company Dualstar (created in 1993 following the success of Full House), the brand currently selling in over 3,000 stores in America and 5,300 stores worldwide. Their success has been marked on Forbes The Celebrity 100 list since 2002, and in 2007 Forbes ranked the twins as the eleventh-richest women in entertainment, with an estimated combined net worth of $ 100 million.[13]
Following a high volume of public interest in their fashion choices, Olsen and her twin sister work in collaboration on a string of fashion lines available to the public. Starting as young girls, the Olsen twins started a clothing line in Wal-Mart stores across America for girls ages 4–14 as well as a beauty line called "Mary-Kate and Ashley: Real fashion for real girls". In 2004 they made news by signing a pledge to allow all the workers that sew their line of clothing in Bangladesh full maternity leave. The National Labor Committee, which organized the pledge, later praised the twins for their commitment to worker rights.[14] In 2006, in an attempt to gain credibility in the fashion industry after their association with Wal-Mart tarnished their reputations, they were tapped as the faces of the upscale fashion line Badgley Mischka.[15] As adults, the Olsen twins have devoted much of their attention to the world of fashion. They head a couture fashion label, "The Row," as well as "Elizabeth and James", "Olsenboye", and "StyleMint"[16] retail collections. In addition, Mary-Kate has embarked on a solo fashion project with celebrity stylists Jane Belfry and Fred Holston. The line was reportedly in development as of 2009.[17] Mary-Kate's sometimes controversial fashion choices have often found her on both the best[18][19] and worst dressed fashion lists, particularly for her decision to wear fur.[20] Mary-Kate and Ashley designed an Olsenboye Change Purse in 2011 and donated the money to "Pennies From Heaven".[21] In 2011 Mary-Kate and Ashley teamed up with TOMS Shoes to design footwear for kids without shoes in more than 20 countries worldwide.[22] Mary-Kate and Ashley are now the creative directors for Superga (brand).[23] Mary-Kate and Ashley will release an Elizabeth and James perfume in Spring 2013.[24] The girls won the top prize at the 2012 CFDA Fashion Awards.[25] StyleMint is now available in the UK.[26] In October 2012 Mary-Kate and Ashley won the WSJ Magazine Innovator of The Year Award.[27]
In 2008, Olsen and her twin sister co-authored Influence, a book featuring interviews with fashion designers that have inspired the twins' fashion lines.[28]
In 2004, Olsen graduated from Campbell Hall School and began attending New York University with Ashley. Both of them withdrew from NYU the following year, a few months apart, and returned to California.[29][dead link] Also in 2005, Olsen ended her romance with Greek shipping heir Stavros Niarchos III. "I miss him and I adore him," Olsen said. "It's a hurtful and a painful subject." When asked if there was a specific reason for her leaving NYU, she replied, "I think we can all guess."[30]
Olsen dated Maxwell Snow, the younger brother of the late New York-based artist Dash Snow, from September 2006 until the summer of 2007.[31] In 2008 Olsen started dating artist Nate Lowman. The two split up in February 2010.[1] In May 2012, it was revealed that Olsen was dating Olivier Sarkozy, half brother of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.[32] During a 2010 interview with Marie Claire Magazine Mary-Kate revealed that she doesn't have fond memories of being on Full House.[33]
In mid-2004, Olsen announced she had entered treatment for an eating disorder, anorexia nervosa.[34][35] A Got Milk? ad featuring the twins was pulled following the announcement.[36][37] On November 20, 2007, she was hospitalized for a reported kidney infection.[38]
Mary-Kate was a close friend of late actor Heath Ledger.[39][40][41] After discovering Ledger unconscious in his bed in January 2008, his masseuse called Olsen twice before contacting police. Olsen sent a private security guard to the scene.[42]
Responding to a claim by an anonymous law enforcement official that she would not speak to federal investigators without a promise of legal immunity, Olsen's attorney Michael C. Miller said, "We have provided the government with relevant information including facts in the chronology of events surrounding Mr. Ledger's death and the fact that Ms. Olsen does not know the source of the drugs Mr. Ledger consumed".[43]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1987—1995 | Full House | Michelle Tanner | Shared with Ashley Olsen |
2007 | Weeds | Tara Lindman | Season 3 |
2008 | Samantha Who? | Karen McNeicep | "Help!" (Season 2; Episode 5) |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2006 | Factory Girl | Molly Spence | |
2008 | The Wackness | Union | Main role |
2011 | Beastly | Kendra Hilferty | Main role |
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Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has been confronted by an election challenger within his own party.
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Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has been confronted by an election challenger within his own party.
Scott Morgan, a Lawrence database editor, will be on the Aug. 5 Republican primary ballot.
Morgan said he wishes to restore the office's non-partisan agenda and focus on its responsibilities. Kobach has made strict voter laws a crusade in Kansas, and he serves as a lawyer for national clients pursuing similar laws.
"I'm trying to get that across to Republicans out there that we can't turn this into a partisan war office," Morgan said.
Drawing on his experience operating a publishing business for 17 years before he sold it, Morgan wants to update the secretary of state's office. The position is responsible for elections and filings for business and government matters.
"I have a lot of ideas in how we can make that more efficient," he said. "That's not terribly exciting to most people, but it really is what that job is, and (Kobach) has no interest in that."
Requiring more documents for voter registration has left approximately 19,000 people unable to vote, Morgan said. Kobach has boasted 72 percent of people were able to register.
"I'm trying to get back to where voting is viewed as a right, not a privilege, not something the government gives to you if you're one of the chosen ones," Morgan said.
Kobach's national reputation is "embarrassing" for Kansans, Morgan said. Voter fraud has been identified as an almost non-existent problem, but the secretary of state uses fear tactics to disenfranchise thousands of eligible voters.
"Kobach seems eager to spread this fear, this loathing, this hate," he said.
Morgan's resume includes serving on Senator Bob Dole's staff AND representing the U.S. Senate on the Federal Election Commission.
Morgan also worked for former Kansas Governor Mike Hayden as chief counsel.
Chapman Rackaway, political science professor at Fort Hays State University, said Morgan will struggle with name recognition.
"Kobach is a massive force in Kansas politics," Rackaway said. "He is a divisive figure who looms large over the Kansas political landscape."
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Birchfield is an area of Perry Barr, Birmingham, England.[1] It gave its name to the Birchfield Harriers athletics club,[1] now based at the nearby Alexander Stadium, also in Birmingham. It has a hyperlocal website for the area called Be Heard in Birchfield.
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Hawks take Game 1 win against Alpine
The Wall High School baseball team held off Alpine 6-4 on Friday in Game 1 of their bi-district playoff series at Midland's Ernie Johnson Field.
The Hawks scored three runs in the third inning and two in the sixth to take a 5-2 lead, but Alpine came right back with two in the bottom of the sixth to get within 5-4.
Wall scored an insurance run in the seventh then shut out the Bucks in the bottom half to preserve the win.
"I thought we swung the ball hard and we capitalized off their errors in the field," Wall head coach Jason Schniers said. "The only problem was they did the same thing when we committed errors. I give them credit for doing that. ...
"An ugly win is better than a pretty loss as the saying goes. Hopefully we come back and get better Saturday."
Peyton Brown, Connor McCrory and Grant Eubank has two hits apiece to lead the Hawks' offense.
On the mound, Brown gave up one earned run on six hits and had 12 strikeouts and one walk.
"He had good control and we weren't able to make plays behind him," Schniers said.
Wall's Austin Frye is slated to get the start in Game 2 at noon today.
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The Scottsboro Boys
Showing from 4th October 2014, The Scottsboro Boys
Following a sold out run at the Young Vic, the critically acclaimed The Scottsboro Boys has transferred to the Garrick Theatre for a strictly limited season.
Step right up and jump on board for this sensational musical which brings to life the extraordinary true story of nine young men, in a case that changed history forever.
Nominated for 6 Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical, and winner of the Critics' Circle Best Musical Award 2013 this is also the final collaboration of legendary composing duo Kander and Ebb (CHICAGO, CABARET) and is directed and choreographed by five-time TONY Award-winner Susan Stroman (THE PRODUCERS).
Don't miss this all-singing, all-dancing, exhilarating and bold new musical, and experience the show that everyone is talking about.
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Evenings: Monday to Saturday 7.45pm
Matinees: Wednesday and Saturday 2.30pm
Running Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
Age Restrictions: Suitable for ages 12+
Booking From: 4th October 2014
Booking Until: 21st February 2015
Important Information: There is no interval.
The Garrick Theatre
The Garrick Theatre was designed by Walter Emden, together with C J Phipps as a consultant to help with the planning on this site which included an underground river.
The theatre was built for W S Gilbert, who was responsible for the book and lyrics of all Savoy Operas with Sir Arthur Sullivan, opening on 24th April, 1889 and named after David Garrick, an 18th Century actor, and still to this day retaining its Victorian aspects. In 1889 Sir John Hare produced and starred in The Profligate with Johnston Forbes Robertson and Lewis Waller.
The theatre had 800 seats on four levels, when first built, but since then the gallery has been closed and the seating capacity reduced to 656. Also, the gold leaf auditorium was restored in 1986 by the designer Carl Toms and in 1997 the front facade also had a facelift.
In recent years, the theatre has largely been associated with comedies or comedy-dramas.
Recent productions include a No Sex Please We're British, which transferred to the Duchess Theatre in August 1986. Notably, since then, on 24th October 1995 the Royal National Theatre's multi-award winning production of J B Priestley's An Inspector Calls opened at the theatre, having played successful seasons at the RNT's Lyttelton and Olivier theatres as well as the Aldwych theatre, as well as a season on Broadway.
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QuinStreet Reports Financial Results For Its Second Quarter Of Fiscal 2013
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The galaxy NGC 6744, photographed by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer space telescope. (NASA image)
A NASA space telescope that has dazzled astronomers with spectacular images of distant galaxies for the past decade, and set an asset management precedent back on Earth, was finally turned off on June 28.
Galaxy Evolution Explorer has completed its mission, NASA officials said in a statement. NASA launched GALEX in April 2003 on a 29-month mission to study the history of star formation in the universe. During its decade of service, the telescope studied galaxies, with the distances of space providing a kind of time-travel. Even at the speed of light, the images of some of the structures GALEX captured are billions of years old. The telescope provided views of a black hole swallowing a star. It also aided in confirming the nature of dark energy, according to NASA.
GALEX met its prime objectives, NASA officials said, and the mission was extended three times before being cancelled. In what the agency said was a first-of-its-kind arrangement, NASA loaned GALEX to the California Institute of Technology in May 2010. The institute used private funds to continue operating the satellite while NASA retained ownership. Under the arrangement, investigators from around the world used GALEX in their own research.
According to NASA, operators at Orbital Sciences Corp. in Dulles, Va., sent a signal to decommission GALEX at 3:05 p.m. on June 28. The spacecraft will remain in orbit for at least 65 years, then fall to Earth and burn up upon re-entering the atmosphere.
"GALEX is a remarkable accomplishment," said Jeff Hayes, NASA's GALEX program executive. "This small explorer mission has mapped and studied galaxies in the ultraviolet light we cannot see with our own eyes across most of the sky."
"In the last few years, GALEX studied objects we never thought we'd be able to observe, from the Magellanic Clouds to bright nebulae and supernova remnants in the galactic plane," said David Schiminovich, assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia University and a longtime GALEX team member who led science operations in the past year. "Some of its most beautiful and scientifically compelling images are part of this last observation cycle."
Data from the mission's last year will be made public in the coming year, NASA officials said.
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This was a great success for NASA and the program with CIT was a good idea. I wonder if there was any effort to see if other organizations were interested in "leasing" this for the same purposes or work with schools to help promote a new generation of explorers. It just feels like another opportunity is being dismissed.
If the telescope was still working and someone else was paying the operating costs, why was it decommissioned? Did we learn everything we could from it? I think this was a wasted opportunity. Who knows how much more we could have gotten out of it.
Images to be delivered by next year??!! This is one reason folks have trouble staying excited about space. This is like going to see a preview of a movie you REALLY want to watch, but it won't come out till next year. By the time it does come out, the previews fade and you might even forget to go see it. We need human missions to deeper space. Let's go see what's out there and ask a human what it's like to go where no one has gone before. Let's build something big find out if our species really can live a long time beyond our earth orbit. Images are just eye candy (when they finally come out). Excellent value for the scientists, but fading interest to the public who must fund the missions. NASA management the worst I've seen in my life.


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Grip Associate Partner and MMA fan Ben Weinberg sat down to interview Canadian martial artist and UFC competitor Elias Theodorou. Topics ranged from fighting to branding, to romance novel cover modelling. No injuries were sustained and no medical suspensions were issued.
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Randy Stein – Partner, Creative – recently had the pleasure of talking to CBC Radio's investigative journalist Dave Seglins. Topics included the rapid change of how news is reported, and consumed, as well as some current affairs including, yes, Rob Ford.
Illustrator: Rodrigo Diaz Mercado
Grip promises to create remarkable connections by engaging our communities in the most inspiring, meaningful and enduring ways. We push the boundaries to build lasting bonds and maintain loyalty from an audience skeptical of most media messaging. We apply this thinking to every piece of business we touch, but also every relationship we manage internally.
Grip is a strong believer in the power of mentorship, recently launching a program to help young Griplings find their footing and develop their professional character during their time at Grip—and beyond—with the help of some of our most influential colleagues.
Grip's commitment to mentorship, combined with a love of beer and an emphasis on the importance of supporting Grippers' outside passions, lead to a recent donation to Paddle Royale, a ping pong tournament supporting Big Brothers Big Sisters Toronto. The event is organized by BBBST Young Leaders, of which myself, Jill Patterson and Ann Tsunakawa are proud members. To commemorate the donation, we decided to hold an internal ping pong tournament to get the agency talking and show some orange pride the day of the event. With over 55 Grippers including our CFO signing up, the competition was fierce and the smack talk ran throughout the agency. In the end, Director of Interactive Production Todd Harrison and Editor Duane Vandermeulen will officially represent our agency at Paddle Royale 2014, competing against top talent like myself, Jill Patterson and Ann Tsunakawa.
Paddle Royale takes place on August 21, 2014 at 7PM. Over 55 teams have signed up to compete in the tournament, raising a minimum of $500 each for the youth of Toronto. It's not too late to register a team for some light-hearted (unless you're Jill Patterson) competition, and it's definitely not too late to get your name on the guestlist by donating $30 to the cause. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter for answers to any of your questions. Hope to see you at the table or dance floor.
Illustrator: Rodrigo Diaz Mercado
"Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent."
- Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"Your ad is the comedian who comes on stage before a Rolling Stones concert. The audience is drunk and they're angry and they came to see the Stones. And now a comedian has the microphone? You had better be great."
- Luke Sullivan, Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Ads.
All Joking Aside
It's hard to get people to laugh. It's really hard to get seven uncomfortable people to laugh in an empty bar. Especially since they've already seen 15-20 comics perform. Laughing can be draining.
The host says my name incorrectly. He's managed to add both an "L" and an "R" to my last name. I walk onstage. Take the mic from its stand. An audience can smell fear, and once they have, good luck. So I pretend what I'm doing isn't a weird breach of social contract. I say my first joke. I hear a few chuckles. Not bad for midnight on a Tuesday. I finish my five minutes. Walk off stage and bike home.
I repeat this process three or four times a week. Why keep working at something so ridiculous? Something so absurd?
Because there are great shows.
Shows where the venues are packed. Shows where all the comics are your friends. Where the audience trusts you as a comic. They go on a journey with you. They accept your point of view. They want to hear your story. They know you're funny. These moments are to be savoured. It makes every bad show worth it. On nights like these, your instincts take over and you're able to step outside yourself.
And that's what doing great work in advertising feels like. You put as much effort into difficult clients and less glorious work as you do with the great ones. It'd be difficult to be proud of great work if you didn't have a dog walker ad to compare it to. It's all a part of the process. You put your head down because you look forward to the interesting/one-of-a-kind work. You do it for that one ad or campaign where the client trusts your instincts and lets you guide them towards a solution you believe in. And when that happens, a point is reached where the solution is bigger than both the agency and the client.
In comedy and in advertising, it's the great work that keeps you coming back for more.
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There's no secret formula to comedy or copywriting. Comedy and copywriting share a universal truth: one only gets better by doing.
And hoo boy, is it a big, empty universe until you get good.
But that's the fun part. Right? Challenging ourselves and discovering our strengths, weaknesses and everything in-between.
As far as I can tell, everyone fakes it for those first few years. And I've learned that the only way to get good at either is by trying again. And again. And again. And right when you think you can't, you try again. It's hard work that you have to love doing.
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The wonderful thing about comedy and advertising is the people. We take risks. We all come from different backgrounds. We push one another. We develop thick skins. We do and say things others only dream of. We push the boundaries of what's acceptable. We aren't afraid to fail. Well, when we can blame it on the occasional bad audience… the client… creative… or accounts. And that's something to be proud of.
If you want to get good at something, surround yourself with people that are better than you. I learned that from a fortune cookie. Not from a single cookie or a single fortune. I had to get about fifty cookies before I had the right combination of words to piece together my own fortune. Sometimes you have to take your destiny into your own hands. That, or get creative with the surplus of fortune cookies in your kitchen drawer left from years of getting takeout.
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Music festivals are no longer all about the music. They're about the lifestyle. Today music goes hand in hand with fashion, beauty, tech and partying. Kanye West calls himself an artist, a designer and God among other things. Now, he might be stretching it, but the truth is brands, like Kanye, should strive to be multifaceted, especially if they want to play a role on the scene. It's not good enough to just be there and sponsor a stage – the best brands are those immersing themselves as part of the overall experience.
For fashion and beauty brands in particular, music festivals are a great opportunity to engage with their target. Fans have already bought into the lifestyle, are wearing their clothes and using their products. Here's a quick look at how some brands are making good connections and impressions on the music festival circuit:
Knowing the audience
There's a ton of festivals out there, but they do tend to attract different crowds. Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee, for example is for the campers, while Montreal's Osheaga appeals to city dwellers. At each festival Garnier gave their fans what they needed. At Bonnaroo, that was clean hair. After a few nights of camping, all you want is a shower, so they set up a hair-washing tent with their products, and it could not have been a better fit. At Osheaga, the partygoers' needs are a bit more luxurious, so this year they partnered with Maybelline to give stage-side makeovers including hair styling, colour and make-up.
Getting them talking
Creating a game or a relevant giveaway like a water bottle is OK, but for more impressions the experience needs to be more impactful and worth talking about. This year at Osheaga, Diesel had an airbrush tattoo tent that encouraged people to hashtag their tattoo for a chance to win fragrances. Festivalgoers did the work for them and shared their artwork organically, and brand awareness went well beyond just the festival experience. Best of all, they now have great content for days to come.
Fostering a sense of community
Just as music can make connections with people, the festival grounds serve as a place where like-minded people can interact and form temporary communities. So much so, that these festivals continue to grow as fans come back year after year. It may look like brands are invading the music scene, but more often than not, people are depending on these brands to create unique experiences and connections. H&M bridged the gap between music and lifestyle by hopping on the trending DIY train. Their tent partnered with popular bloggers to encourage partiers to get creative with body-paint and bedazzle their clothing. On the way out, they could also create a custom mini-photo flip book as a festival memento.
At the end of the day, these brands still have to be cautious – as they fight for centre stage, the clutter can be overwhelming. It shouldn't be about bombarding festivalgoers with hashtags, sweepstakes and contests that make them sell-out for a pair of free sunglasses. Most of the time, fans will see right through that, and are only really open to engaging with brands that are adding something fresh or valuable to the event. When it comes down to it, the best way to leave a good impression is probably the simplest play of all: just host a killer after party.
Illustrator: Bailey Bremmers (Design Apprentice)
I love to compare my life to chapters in a book. I am a strong believer that we have the power to change, invent, write, and rewrite the stories of our lives as we move precariously through them. Each decision you make, or page you flip, can change the way your story reads.
Last year, I opened and closed a very big chapter of my life. One with many stories, some short and sweet, some drawn out with words scribbled in the margins, and some with sentences left unfinished. I thought of each country I traveled to in my six months of backpacking through Africa and Asia as stories within the chapters, within my life. Once I returned home, I had to start a new chapter.
Chapter 23: Start A Career
I spent a few weeks after returning home trying to adjust to everyday life. I woke up one morning and realized that I had been reluctantly looking for a job without a clear idea of what path I wanted to take. I found that when people asked me those typically daunting questions like "What do you want to do with your life?", "What's your passion?", and the worst: "Where do you see yourself in five years?", the only word that came to mind was travel. But of course, this was the answer! I had just backpacked through beaches and jungles, seen the Serengeti and Victoria Falls. I jumped out of an airplane over the desert in Namibia and climbed an active volcano in Indonesia. I had accomplished all these terrifying and exhilarating things, but stood among the rest of my generation perplexed by the idea of what was on the horizon.
I was at a loss for defining my 'dream job', struggling to translate my enthusiasm for travel and creativity into a respectable career and feeling discouraged by my fashion major, which no longer felt like my passion. I turned to a trusted confidante who has always been able to unscramble the complexities of my mind and the answer was there all along: my minor in marketing could help me jumpstart my career in advertising, an industry laced with creativity and inspiration from the outside world. I was no longer confused, but driven to start the rest of my life. When building my portfolio, I realized that I was able to use my experiences to show my strengths. I am able to pull design concepts from the memories of fresh fruits and handmade crafts spotted along my travels, face a new client with confidence as a result of the array of personalities I have encountered, and react quickly under pressure when things don't go as planned. My experience and knowledge of photography and film set me apart. Grip was ready for me. With a combination of networking and persistence, I landed a spot as the Social Content Apprentice!
Now I realize that the experiences I had are mine to draw upon for inspiration in work and everyday life. I believe that travel opens your eyes and changes the way you look at every situation. I now dive freely into everything I do. I have fears, but they don't hold me back. I thrive on adventure and exploring the unknown. I can easily adapt to people and places around me. I paint my experiences in the brightest light I can, no matter how dark they might seem. I have developed an eye for detail, and when everyone is looking right, I am looking left, and photographing it while I'm at it. My experiences are meant to drive my creativity; my story is filled with colourful moments.
It is essential for me to have those experiences being reflected in everything I do. I strongly believe the greatest education comes from travel. So I challenge you to strengthen your skills by treating every day as an adventure. Rediscover the beautiful city we live in, get lost and find yourself in a new adventure, keep your eyes wide and uncover the small beauties in the most unexpected places. You never know where inspiration lives. This is the start of a new chapter for me, and I am thrilled to have Grip be my first destination.
Illustrator: Bailey Bremmers (Design Apprentice)
A few years ago it would have been acceptable to build a desktop-only site or application. However, in today's landscape of smartphones, tablets and devices, building a desktop-only experience is a poor decision. One that will frustrate users and lead to high bounce rates. If someone was out shopping and saw a discount promotion available when visiting the store's website, they would likely take out their phone and visit the site. However, if the site wasn't optimized for mobile, that person would be frustrated and probably never enter the promotion on a desktop once they arrive home. Alternatively, if the site was built for mobile, users at the store or at home would have no problem accessing the site and entering the promotion. Often, clients today will still choose a desktop-only site because of budget concerns. In the event that one can only develop a desktop or mobile site, mobile is by far the best solution.
Responsive is a buzzword. People toss it around too often and without any merit. Building a 'responsive' website or application can be as simple or as complicated as you'd like it to be. The idea of building a responsive website isn't a new concept, there has always been a variety of screen sizes and resolutions for viewing content. The key concept is that you build content that everyone can access. Since the introduction of smartphones and tablets, this has become a larger challenge, but one that can be easily undertaken with the right amount of preparation.
Planning is everything. Without knowing exactly how you want your website to function, it's difficult to design and develop a fully responsive website. Some people may argue that since their mobile audience is small, there's little or no point to accommodate for those users. I don't believe in any scenario where you shouldn't accommodate for the mobile users. They are often the same people that use desktops or tablets, they just may be using their mobile device to check or confirm some information.
The most basic guidelines to follow while creating a responsive website are the following:
1. Identify and separate the needs of your mobile and desktop users.
2. Create a relatively simple, flexible/scalable design.
3. Use breakpoints and media queries to adjust the content and layout for desktop, tablet and mobile devices.
4. Remove or hide non-essential content on tablet and mobile devices.
There are of course many other things one can – and should – take into consideration when building a responsive website (Performance, optimized images, conditional loading of assets, etc.). However, since most websites are unique these considerations will be case by case.
Building a smooth-working, responsive site takes more time at the beginning stages of UX and design. Users definitely don't need the same user experience across all devices. In order to build the most user friendly and cost efficient website, it's necessary to identify the needs of your mobile and desktop users. Ask yourselves: What type of information will they need access to from their tablet or mobile device? They might not need to see a full screen image slider on their mobile device. Although, they'll definitely want to access the contact page, contact form or hours of operation. Separate the needs of desktop users and focus your mobile strategy to help users find information on your website quickly and easily. Once you've determined the most important information, you can begin to design and develop the site.
I would recommend taking a mobile first design approach. Begin the design with the most necessary information and progressively enhance the content as the viewport gets larger. Thus, giving mobile users simple access to the information they require and adding more complexity to the desktop parts of the site. Taking this approach helps distinguish the most important content from the inception and eliminates the difficult task of how to reduce, remove or redesign content for mobile at a later point.
Depending on how fluid your design and development is, using breakpoints may not be completely necessary. However, since the browsers on tablets and smartphones all support them, why not go ahead and use them. This way we can more accurately design and target specific viewport sizes or devices. We can show exactly what content is needed at the top of the page and move less important info down, or hide it altogether. This is where designing with a mobile first approach will save development time. As long as the pages have been thoroughly planned and well thought out, there will be limited changes to the mobile and tablet portions of the site. Alternatively, the mobile and tablet portions become an afterthought and end up causing many development changes. These changes are often time consuming and cause for complete re-coding of sections or the site itself.
In the end, it's about giving users the best possible experience. The best way to achieve this is to design and develop a responsive website. Developing a responsive website takes additional preparation and planning. It takes a basic approach and progressively enhances the concept for tablets and desktops. It gives the users access to the necessary information, no matter what device they're using. It gives the user what they want – content that can be accessed by everyone. The question you should ask yourself isn't 'if' we decide to design/develop responsively. The question should be 'how' and 'what' are we going to design/develop responsively.
Illustrator: Ihar Turtsou
We work in an industry laced with buzzwords that are engineered to award their users an air of respect, or resentment, around the office. A term frequently thrown around, though not categorized as a buzzword, is insight. With everyone from client to apprentice weighing in, insights can at times become convoluted. The reason? The interpretation, or definition, of an insight can be very different, depending on whom you talk to. A trusted strategist based in Toronto, Umar Ghumman, has compiled a presentation documenting the definition of an insight from industry leaders across the continent and pond, including one from Grip's Managing Partner, Bob Shanks. Without further ado, the round-up:
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Continue reading the main storyVodafone has confirmed it is in talks with US company Verizon Communications over the sale of its 45% stake in their joint venture, Verizon Wireless.
Reports earlier this year suggested that Verizon was looking to buy Vodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless for about $100bn (£64.5bn).
However, the latest reports say that Verizon may have to pay about $130bn for the stake.
Shares in Vodafone rose more than 7% on the news and Verizon climbed 3%.
How Vodafone and Verizon stack up
- Founded in 1985 in Newbury, Berkshire. Now has its headquarters in London
- Among the four biggest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange with a market capitalisation of £92bn
- One of the biggest telecoms companies in the world
- Operates in 30 countries, partners with other networks in 50 more
- Serves more than 403 million customers
Verizon Communications:
- Launched in 1983 in Philadelphia as Bell Atlantic
- Market capitalisation of $133bn (£86bn)
- Operates the largest 4G wireless network in the United States.
- Delivers services to customers in more than 150 countries worldwide
- Founded Verizon Wireless in 2000 as a joint venture with Vodafone.
Vodafone said in a statement: "Vodafone notes the recent press speculation and confirms that it is in discussions with Verizon Communications Inc. regarding the possible disposal of Vodafone's US group whose principal asset is its 45% interest in Verizon Wireless.
"There is no certainty that an agreement will be reached."
Verizon Wireless is the largest and most profitable phone operator in the US, with 100 million customers.
The deal would be one of the largest corporate transactions of all time if it goes through, and would provide a large cash injection for the UK telecoms firm, but would leave Vodafone without a highly profitable non-European partnership.
Verizon has been looking to buy out Vodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless for some years, however, price has been a consistent hurdle.
It is thought that because Verizon is not expected to be in a position to pay for the deal immediately in cash, it could be done as a 50% cash and 50% stock offer.
A potential problem with a deal, analysts say, is how to arrange it so that Vodafone is not landed with a huge tax bill.
Profit fallVodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless has become more important as performance in its key European markets has cooled.
Ronald Klingebiel, from Warwick Business School, said the deal would allow Vodafone to concentrate on improving its European businesses.
"If not passed on in forms of dividends, [the proceeds from the sale] could improve its debt position following the recent Cable & Wireless and Kabel Deutschland deals, and provides Vodafone some leeway to further expand its network presence in Europe.
"Such moves provide the capacity and level of integration necessary for competing effectively in a future pan-European market."
In May, Vodafone revealed a 90% drop in annual net profit after charges relating to poor trading in Italy and Spain.
Profit after tax for the year was £673m compared with £7bn the year before.
However, sales have risen in the first quarter of its financial year, helped by emerging markets in Africa and Asia.
In June, Vodafone agreed a deal to buy German cable operator Kabel Deutschland for 7.7bn euros (£6.6bn; $10bn).


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We look at what makes a security issue critical and how upstream developers and vendors respond by examining three incidents: CVE-2013-0156, CVE-2013-0333, and rubygems.org. incident response handling.
January 2013 was a bit of a rough month for users of Ruby on Rails and rubygems. org. Two critical security flaws were found in Ruby on Rails, and rubygems. org was broken into (luckily, not by a malicious hacker). In this article, I will look at exactly what caused these security vulnerabilities and the break-in to earn "critical" ratings, what the vendors did when a critical issue came up, and what users can do to help keep their software secure.
Critical Issues
One of the most important criteria in judging whether a security issue is critical or not is the severity of exploitation (see the "CVSS2 Scores" box). An attack that allows remote code execution as a privileged user or root is a whole lot worse than a simple denial of service condition. On the other hand, a denial of service that can be triggered remotely with a single network packet and make it through the Internet (e.g., not just on the same local subnet) might also be rated "critical."
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One of the ways that jobless workers have kept off the streets while upgrading their potential has been by going back to school for more training. Inevitably, that admirable tactic has attracted those looking for someone to cheat out of their money.
While there has been some benefit in training and self-improvement by the for-profit academies, a growing abuse of students, and funds intended for education, has been showing up in their aggressive selling programs and financing for their programs. The education department has instituted a program with matching aggression to cut off the abuse of finances that were intended for educational benefits.
For-profit colleges that pay recruiters on the basis of the number of students they sign up may lose access to U.S. government student aid, which provided the colleges with $26.5 billion last year and can account for as much as 90 percent of company revenue.
The Department of Education, seeking to strengthen oversight of the for-profit college sector, is considering boosting fines and disqualifying colleges from participating in federal-aid programs when they give bonuses to admissions officers for enrolling more students, said James Kvaal, deputy undersecretary of education, in a telephone interview.
For-profit colleges got about 23 percent of all federal student grants and loans that went to U.S. universities in 2008-09, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, while educating about 12 percent of all students.
The Education Department has never made a college ineligible for financial aid programs for incentive-compensation violations and stopped considering the penalty in 2002 under the Bush administration. Mr. Kvaal declined to say when officials would decide whether to restore the enforcement measure….For-profit colleges are permitted to get up to 90 percent of their revenue from U.S. student grants and loans.
Desperate for work, faced with endless unanswered applications, jobseekers have proved especially vulnerable by marketing that presents an improved prospect for students with shiny new degrees. The profits generated for the for-profit institutions bear no relation directly to the employability of the students that the institutions market.
There is a particularly egregious sheen to the shilling of education that the for-profit institutions exercise. When it cheats the educational system out of badly needed funding while taking advantage of potential workers, it is a crime.
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With the Internet of Things (IoT) expected to grow to $8.9 trillion and 212 billion devices globally by 2020 (according to IDC), even cows are set to be connected to the internet.
CBR looks at five chip makers making the IoT a reality today.
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Freescale Semiconductor makes microprocessors, microcontrollers, sensors and integrated circuits that are currently being used in connected cars, medical equipment, consumer appliances and energy management solutions.
The company released the 'world's smallest' Internet of Things (IoT) microchip, the Kinetis KLO3, which is 15% smaller than the earlier KL02 earlier this year. The chip is based on ARM technology and designed to work in very low power devices that need less than 2KB of memory.
Adib Ghubril, a research director of semiconductors at analyst firm Gartner, told CBR in February: "The MCU, whether it's Freescale's or not, is a fantastic enabler of the IoT. It's a low power, fully integrated processing device that operates in real time. It allows 'things' to capture and share simple, basic data from their environment in an optimal way."
The company also has a wearable platform that allows developers to rapidly prototype various types of wearable technology.
Ghubril added that Freescale has a "good focus" on system support and ecosystem development by working with service providers further down the supply chain.
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