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bounce flash photography & white balance settings
A question that often comes up, is whether the white balance will change when bouncing flash. The answer is an obvious one – yes, the light will pick up any color cast from a non-white surface. But that is why we need to shoot in RAW. Then the decision about exact White Balance becomes less crucial.
The photograph above, is of Roz, and was taken during the recent flash photography workshops in Dublin, Ireland. Roz was Ireland's contestant in the 2010 Miss Universe contest, so it was quite a privilege to have her as one of our two workshop models!
The lighting in this image is simplicity itself: on-camera bounce flash, with the black foamie thing as a flag to block the light from the flash directly hitting her. Of course, the ambient light coming in through the window acts as a secondary light, helping with a bit of rim-light there and also in creating background lighting.
In getting the light from my on-camera flash to come in from a pleasing angle – short lighting – I had to bounce the flash off the wooden panelling in the room. This of course made for a far-too-warm white balance:
With this pull-back shot, you can see what the room looked like. For the photo at the top though, I bounced my flash off the wall to my right.
I knew the wooden panelling would make the color balance become very warm. So I guessed a 3700K white balance setting. It turned out to be fairly okay, but I still needed to fine-tune the White Balance as part of my normal RAW workflow for a pleasant color balance. The color of the background shifted as well, but this wasn't of any concern to me.
As a comparison, here is what my out-of-camera WB (at 3700K) looked like, with what it would've looked like as Daylight WB (set on the RAW file via ACR / Bridge)
Therefore my advice about off-color surfaces and bounce flash, is to try and get the WB as close as you can since it does help in judging the image's exposure from the camera's preview. But ultimately, don't sweat it – shoot in RAW, and concentrate on getting great lighting and also, keep the momentum and flow of the photo shoot going. Fussing over exact settings which can be finessed in post-processing, will only slow the photo session down.
camera settings & photo gear (or equivalents) used for these photos
- 1/125 @ f3.5 @ 800 ISO
- Nikon D4
- Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 AF-S VR II / Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II
- Nikon SB-910 Speedlight / Canon 600EX-RT Speedlite
- Nikon SD-9 battery pack / Canon CP-E4 battery pack
- a BFT (black foamie thing)
|I use the black foamie thing (BFT) as a truly inexpensive flash modifier to flag my on-camera flash to give me lighting indoors that truly look nothing like on-camera flash.The piece of foam (Amazon), can be ordered via this link. I cut the sheet into smaller pieces.
The BFT is held in position by two hair bands (Amazon), and the BFT is usually placed on the under-side of the flash-head.
The linked articles will give clearer instruction, especially the video clip on using the black foamie thing.
related articles
- bounce flash photography – short lighting
- tutorial: bounce flash photography
- bounce flash portrait – a consistent technique
- other articles relating to bounce flash photography


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UFC Fight Night 28 bonuses
Glover Teixeira, Piotr Hallmann, Rafael Natal and Tor Troeng each earned $50,000 bonuses for their performances at Wednesday's UFC Fight Night 28 event.
Teixeira earned the "Knockout of the Night," Hallman won "Submission of the Night" and Natal and Troeng picked up "Fight of the Night" honors.
UFC Fight Night 28 post-fight press conference
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Dig It (Beatles song)
|"Dig It"
|Song by the Beatles from the album Let It Be
|8 May 1970
|26 January 1969
Apple Studios
|0:51 (Let It Be Version)
4:24 (Get Back Mix)
8:20 (Full Version)
15:05 (Jam)
|Apple, EMI
|Phil Spector
|Let It Be track listing
"Dig It" is a song by the Beatles featured on their album Let It Be. The song is credited to Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey. It is one of the few songs to be credited to all of the Beatles; the others are "Flying" (Magical Mystery Tour), "Suzy Parker" (Let It Be film), "12-Bar Original" (Anthology 2), "Los Paranoias" (Anthology 3), "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)", and the Beatles' version of "Free as a Bird". This song and the 39-second "Maggie Mae" appear on the Let It Be album, but are not included on the Let It Be... Naked album, instead being replaced with "Don't Let Me Down". Glyn Johns' May 1969 version of the album, then titled Get Back, had a 3:59 excerpt of "Dig It", which was later reduced to the much shorter version in the final album.[1]
Several versions were recorded during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions, on 24,[2] 26,[3] 27,[4] 28,[5] and 29 January 1969,[6] at Apple Studio. The 51-second version on the album is an extract taken from the 26 January version,[3][1] which was a 15-minute jam that evolved from a loose "Like a Rolling Stone" jam. A segment of the jam session, 4 minutes and 30 seconds in length, appears in the documentary film Let It Be. The participants in that session are John Lennon on vocals and 6-string bass, George Harrison on guitar, Paul McCartney on piano, Ringo Starr on drums, George Martin on maracas and Billy Preston at the organ; also participating in the jam, but not heard on the released version, was Linda Eastman (soon to be Linda McCartney)'s six-year-old daughter Heather.[3][7]
In the early part of the jam, Lennon sings the main lyric with interjections from Harrison, while Heather adds wordless vocals. As the performance winds down, Lennon exhorts the others to continue. McCartney adds a baritone backup vocal of "dig it up, dig it up, dig it up" and variations, and Lennon begins to repeat "Like a rolling stone", then goes into the "famous persons" part (mentioning "the FBI", "the CIA", "the BBC", "B.B. King", "Doris Day", and "Matt Busby").[3][8]
The excerpt on the Let It Be album fades in on Lennon's second "Like a rolling stone" and concludes with Lennon speaking in a falsetto: "That was 'Can You Dig It?' by Georgie Wood, and now we'd like to do 'Hark, the Angels Come'." The second sentence of that line is cut off in Let It Be's film recording of the jam session. ("Wee Georgie Wood" was a 4'9" music-hall performer and child star.) The interjection actually comes from the first version, recorded on the 24th.[2] This version was much different, described by Beatles bootleg scholars Doug Suply and Ray Schweighardt as "sounding like a cross between the traditional 'Sailor's Hornpipe' and a slowed down rendition of Neal Hefti's 'Batman,' as played on slide guitar."[2] An excerpt from this version can be heard on the "Fly on the Wall" bonus disc to Let It Be... Naked.[9]
In another version, recorded on a different day (but very similar in style to the one recorded on the 26th) Lennon begins to shout songs that the Beatles were currently working on in the studio: '"Don't Let Me Down", "Get Back", "I've Got a Feeling", "Two of Us", "All I Want Is You", "Teddy Boy", "One After 909", "All Things Must Pass", "Dig It", "Let It Be", "The Long and Winding Road", "For You Blue", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Across The Universe, "I Me Mine", "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window"'. His voice then trails off into a muddled speech.
Cover versions[edit]
When Mojo released Let It Be Revisited in 2010, Beth Orton covered the track.[10]
- John Lennon – lead vocals, six-string bass – Fender Bass VI
- Paul McCartney – piano
- George Harrison – lead guitar – Fender Telecaster
- Ringo Starr – drums
- Billy Preston – Hammond organ
- George Martin – maracas
- Personnel per Ian MacDonald[11]
- ^ a b Sulpy 1997, pp. 313–316.
- ^ a b c Sulpy 1997, pp. 249–250.
- ^ a b c d Sulpy 1997, p. 276.
- ^ Sulpy 1997, p. 285.
- ^ Unterberger 2006, p. 258.
- ^ Sulpy 1997, p. 296.
- ^ Unterberger 2006, pp. 256–257.
- ^ The Beatles Bible 2009.
- ^ Beatle Brunch 2009.
- ^ http://www.mojocovercds.com/cd/328
- ^ MacDonald 2005, p. 336.
- "Fly on the Wall". Beatle Brunch. 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
- "Dig It". The Beatles Bible. 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
- MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Second Revised ed.). London: Pimlico (Rand). ISBN 1-84413-828-3.
- Sulpy, Doug; Schweighardt, Ray (1997). Get Back: The Unauthorized Chronicle of the Beatles' Let It Be Disaster. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-19981-3.
- Unterberger, Richie (2006). The Unreleased Beatles: Music & Film. San Francisco: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-892-3.
External links[edit]
- The Beatles bootleg recordings
- The Beatles songs
- Songs written by George Harrison
- Songs written by Ringo Starr
- Songs written by Paul McCartney
- Songs written by John Lennon
- Song recordings produced by Phil Spector
- 1970 songs
- Music published by Harrisongs
- Songs published by Northern Songs
- Music published by Startling Music


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Imagine if its insights were more proactively applied to the way we tell stories about teaching and learning?
Tag Archives: Empathy
This is what the future of storytelling looks like
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This is what building empathy in kids looks like
Imagine if every school did this? Watch Using Babies to Decrease Aggression, Prevent Bullying on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
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Making Sense of Steubenville
As educators, what are we to make of the ongoing tragedy in Steubenville, Ohio – a community in which one teenage girl was raped and publicly humiliated, two teenage boys are being shipped off to juvenile detention, and two other teenage girls are now under arrest after threatening to beat and kill the victim?
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This is what empathy looks and feels like
Imagine if we applied this same sort of in/sight to ourselves and our schools? How would our behavior change? How would our definitions of school, teacher and student success need to change? And what might we become more likely to engender as a result?
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The Monday After Newtown
This morning, my wife and I joined our son at a holiday breakfast celebration. The school's multipurpose room ("the puh-pus room", as Leo calls it) was filled with children between the ages of 3 and 6, who sat in a circle and sang songs while their parents leaned on walls and scanned the edges of the room for coffee. Then we broke bread together — each family bringing in dishes that represent "breakfast" to them: cranberry orange bread, hot tamales, donuts, fruit salad, and some delicious combination of onions and scalloped potatoes. The children quickly finished the food on their plates and then wove in and out of the groups of parents who stood and chatted, their teachers — all of them women — doing their best to maintain a small sense of order and decorum.
What's the difference between empathy and sympathy?
Glad you asked . . .
The Power of Outrospection
Did you get the memo? Apparently, introspection is out, and outrospection is in. Actually, as philosopher Roman Krznaric explains in this cool new RSA Animate video, what's really in is empathy, and what's really required is a systemic effort to drive social change by stepping outside ourselves. See for yourself — and see what you […]
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How Empathy Will Change the World
Skip to the 3:20:00 part of this video — a recent panel discussion at the University of North Carolina — for a further examination of this idea of an "empathy formula", or a way of thinking more intentionally about how we help educate the heart and mind.
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There's a lot of talk nationally about the importance of teachers, and the need to identify what great teaching actually looks like — and requires.
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A Five-Star Review from Kryztoff!
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Unbelievable! The Project has received a five star review from Peter Maddern of Kryztoff.com! "Extraordinary"; "The young guy with the mouse crawling around his neck as he recites a terrific joke about whales deserves a documentary of his own"; "Amongst all the stand up (so called) comedy dross of the Garden, on its last weekend, the Fringe 2012 has finally struck gold with a five star project to remember." WAHOO! Read the full interview HERE!
2012 Adelaide Fringe Premiere A Success!
March 17, 2012 § 1 Comment
Thank you to everyone who came to the two Adelaide Fringe premiere sessions of The Three Minute Project at the Mercury Cinema these past two days! We've had so many positive responses and we're thrilled that our audiences have loved this film as much as we've loved making it. Huge amounts of appreciation and adoration to everyone out there that's helped us along the way, too – without you none of this would exist. We're having a well-deserved break now but we've got plans for the future… So keep in touch and look out for us in forthcoming months!
TONIGHT! Adelaide Fringe Premiere
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The day has finally arrived… The Three Minute Project is premiering TONIGHT, 6.30pm at the Mercury Cinema! Tickets are still a-plenty for tonight but it's a completely different story for tomorrow's matinee session at 2pm – they're almost sold out! You can book HERE to secure your place for this brilliant night and simply pick up your tickets at the cinema, or take your chances on the door. Either way, the Project has Adelaide talking and waiting in anticipation for what it has to say… Don't miss it!
The Adelaide Collective 'First Photograph' Article Feat. The Project
March 13, 2012 § Leave a comment
A few weeks ago Director Genevieve Brandenburg was asked a few questions by Rebecca Hiscock of The Adelaide Collective about her photographs and The Three Minute Project. Check out her informative response as to why this artist not only filmed 221 people but photographs them regularly as well… And why she has no intention of stopping. Read HERE.
Radio Adelaide 'Streetcast' Interview Now Online!
March 12, 2012 § Leave a comment
For those of you who missed it on Saturday, here we have the online audio version of Director Genevieve Brandenburg's interview with Jennie Lenman and crew of Streetcast on Radio Adelaide! Listen HERE!
ThreeD Radio 'Voiceprint' Interview! Tonight at 7pm
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Need some last-minute convincing that our 3.5 hour film is well worth your attendance? Tune into ThreeD Radio tonight at 7pm for Voiceprint and an appearance by Director Genevieve Brandenburg! 93.7fm or listen online here. And while you're at it, nip on over to the Adelaide Fringe website and secure some tickets for yourself!


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Research in the Rohani Lab focuses on population biology, usually of host-natural enemy interactions, with a view to understanding fundamental processes in population ecology and evolution. First, we use a combination of mathematical modelling and data analysis to understand the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases of humans, including childhood infections and emerging infectious diseases. Second, we use a combination of laboratory experiments and statistical and mathematical models to understand the evolution, persistence and competitive coexistence of insect-parasitoid-pathogen assemblages.
Dynamics of human infectious diseases
Much of current research in the lab is based on understanding long term data sets on the spatio-temporal patterns of morbidity and mortality caused by the great childhood microparasitic infections (such as measles and whooping cough). The analyses of these data have provided interesting insights into the mechanisms of disease transmission and the ecology of infectious diseases.
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We have established laboratory populations of insect host-parasitoid-pathogen assemblages. This work is in collaboration with Dr. Steve Sait(Department of Biology, University of Leeds, UK). We are studying the Indian meal moth, Plodia interpunctella (a stored-product pest) and its competitor, the Almond moth, Ephestia cautella. Both species are subject to attack by a suite of natural enemies, including a solitary ichneumonid wasp (Venturia canescens) and and two species of baculoviruses (the P. interpunctella granulovirus and E. cautella nucleopolyhedrovirus; PiGV and EcNPV respectively).
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Court halts Schwarzenegger furlough orders
SACRAMENTO, Calif. A California judge on Thursday ruled that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had abused his discretion in ordering furloughs of state workers, dealing a blow to the administration's efforts to cope with the state's ongoing fiscal crisis.
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch said the administration must halt the furloughs for workers represented by three unions, including Service Employees International Union Local 1000, which represents 95,000 state employees.
SEIU spokesman Jim Zamora said the ruling could affect up to 50,000 employees across state government who work at so-called "special fund" agencies, or those that receive money from sources other than the state general fund.
It was not immediately clear whether the decision would apply to employees not represented by the three unions that brought the case.
Roesch ruled against Schwarzenegger's furlough orders on two fronts: He said the administration could not take the action against employees in special fund agencies. He also said Schwarzenegger had overstepped his authority by claiming the furloughs were necessary to deal with a budgetary emergency.
Roesch said the governor can overstep the Legislature's normal authority in an emergency only for a temporary period, a period the judge said ended once the Legislature approved the state budget.
"The Executive Orders themselves appear to recognize that the emergency necessitating them was the failure of the Legislature to pass the budgets, though the reach of the orders extended long after those budgets were subsequently passed and signed into law," the judge wrote.
Schwarzenegger this year forced most state employees to take three days off a month without pay as the state faced a massive budget deficit. The mandatory furloughs, which began in February and were extended over the summer, affected about 200,000 state workers and were expected to save the state $2 billion.
Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear said the administration would appeal Thursday's decision.
"In these tough economic times, there's no reason why state workers should be shielded from the same economic reality that the rest of the state faces," he said.
An appeal would automatically stay the ruling, although union leaders said they intend to ask the judge to immediately implement the order because state employees are suffering financially.
Union attorney Felix De La Torre said he and other union representatives were analyzing the ruling to determine whether it also would apply to workers in general fund agencies.
He estimated the state could owe workers at least $100 million in back pay if the ruling is upheld on appeal.
The ruling cannot be seen as a total victory for state employees, however. About two dozen lawsuits have been filed over the furloughs, and the administration has prevailed in the initial stages on some of them.
In January, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge found the governor had the authority to furlough state employees because the state was in a fiscal emergency. A San Francisco judge in December sided with Schwarzenegger in reducing work hours for employees at the state's public pension fund.
In a separate lawsuit, Roesch in December ordered the state to pay the 30,000-member California Correctional Peace Officers Association for the days its members worked without pay.


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Also offering "survival kits" for weather emergencies
Merwick Care & Rehabilitation Center in collaboration with Princeton Home Care Services will host an informational luncheon on Dec. 7 in Plainsboro to tell seniors how they can best prepare for and stay safe this winter.
A panel of professionals in geriatric care including Merwick Medical Director Dr. Harpreet Sidhu will lead the discussion. "Survival kits" provided by Princeton Homecare Services will also be handed out.
Sidhu, who has worked in geriatric healthcare for 10 years, will focus on simple tips for seniors to stay healthy and safe while living at home during the winter.
"I want seniors to realize that with cold weather and snow comes an increased risk of illness and injury and that it isn't difficult to prepare and take care of themselves," Sidhu said Friday. She encourages that seniors get flu shots and understand their limits when it comes to going outdoors. "Don't be too heroic. If it's slippery or there is a lot of snow outside, stay inside until the conditions are better."
The survival kits contain essential needs such as water, food, flashlights and first aid materials in case of a weather emergency that prevents people from leaving their homes.
Merwick is the newest addition to the Windsor Healthcare family of communities which consists of 10 care and rehabilitation facilities throughout N.J. A family-owned company, Windsor Healthcare attempts to help patients and residents maintain their quality of life.


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Andre, the Giant
Running back Andre Williams, a Heisman finalist, fell to the fourth round in the NFL draft. But when the phone finally rang, he couldn't have been happier
SCHNECKSVILLE, Pa. — The first phone call Andre Williams received during the NFL draft came at 7:59 p.m. last Friday. He was mid-squeeze of a lime wedge as he whipped up his homemade jerk ginger-lime BBQ sauce.
On the kitchen counter, a television showed the St. Louis Rams on the clock, preparing to make pick No. 41 in the second round. Williams wiped off his fingers, reached into the right pocket of his camouflage cargo shorts and pulled out his cell phone. This was a surprise.
"Mom?!" Williams called out. "What are you doing?"
A few feet behind Andre, Lancelene Williams glanced down at the phone she was holding. Accidental dial. Whoops.
"Calling you?" she asked. "I didn't mean to!"
Andre shook his head and slid the phone back into his pocket. Back to the sauce. Back to waiting.
Williams, the former Boston College running back and a Heisman finalist, was told he'd go anywhere from the second to fifth round, which meant any time between 7 p.m. Friday to about 4 p.m. Saturday—an impossibly long time to be expecting a phone call you can't miss.
He hunkered down at his parents' home in Schnecksville, Pa., a quiet community about 10 miles northwest of Allentown where one street sign actually reads "Rural Road." Twenty-five people circulated in and out of the house throughout the weekend—family, friends, even his little brother's senior prom date—and Williams was often the quietest one in the room. For the time being, his future was in someone else's hands.
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Williams stood in front of the television in the living room on Friday evening, three minutes before the second round began, holding the remote. The volume needed to be loud enough to hear the NFL Network broadcast over the din of the room, but not so loud that he wouldn't be able to hear his phone ring. He settled on level 48.
Though he rushed for 2,177 yards last season and won the Doak Walker award, Williams preferred to be at home rather than at Radio City Music Hall. After all, he keeps his trophy for being college football's premier running back on a nightstand in his childhood bedroom. The occasion brought Lancelene and Ervin Williams' four kids back together under the same roof: Ervin, Jr., 29, a barber in Atlanta; Krystal, 25, a third-grade teacher in New Jersey; and Kareem, 17, a senior at Parkland High School.
Being a guest of honor, though, doesn't come naturally to Andre. He spent most of the night acting more like a host: picking up cans and bottles, carefully brushing the chicken wings with his special sauce and preparing the mashed potato recipe borrowed from his girlfriend, Carolyn Jay, a senior at Boston College. He kept a white kitchen towel draped over his shoulder the entire night.
But his five high school football teammates who came bursting through the back door were a reminder that he's living out all of their football dreams. They still couldn't believe he got to meet Barry Sanders at the Heisman Trophy ceremony. "I went from nobody knew who I was," said Williams, who only ran for 599 yards as a junior, "to everybody knew who I was."
But what that meant for his pro prospects was still anyone's guess. As the living room filled up, guessing became the party game du jour: Where will 'Dre go? Who will be the first running back off the board? They tried to think with their heads, not their hearts.
"Tre Mason, he's going to be next," Lancelene decided, naming Auburn's running back.
"That's how you feel, mom?" Andre teased her.
"No, that's not the way I feel," she said. "That's what they are predicting."
"So, what do you predict?" he asked.
Lancelene waited until her son was out of earshot before confiding in a friend. "He was saying he really likes New York," she said, "so I'm hoping New York."
Williams, meanwhile, pulled out his phone to check Twitter. He found an @ mention from Mark Herzlich, his former Boston College teammate and Giants linebacker, saying he was looking for Williams to be drafted Friday night.
Williams quickly fired off a reply: "part of me feels like this is [an] omen Herz."
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"Ooh!" Lancelene yelped. "A running back!"
At 8:46 p.m. on Friday, the first running back was drafted: Washington's Bishop Sankey, No. 54 overall by the Titans. The NFL's shift toward aerial attacks and using running backs by committee has changed how teams value the position. After Sankey, finally, there was a run on running backs late in the second round.
LSU's Jeremy Hill was taken with the next pick, by the Bengals. Then the 49ers traded up to nab Ohio State's Carlos Hyde with pick No. 57.
"Another one?" Krystal asked.
"That means I'm not going out West," Williams said. "I'd be cool with going out West. But I'd rather stay here."
Williams headed to the backyard for some fresh air. His older brother, nicknamed Danique, spent almost the entire night outside grilling, with good reason: They cooked nearly 150 chicken wings. Plus, his cell phone was the secondary contact number Williams gave to NFL teams. Danique patted the front pocket of his jeans. "I'm staying out here where it's quiet," he said. Big brother move.
"I'm glad the running backs are starting to go," Williams said.
"Yeah, but it's not you," said Diab Hadeed, his best friend from Parkland.
"It's not me," Williams repeated.
By 9:30 p.m., when the second round ended, the energy in the house began to wane. Danique came inside to take a shower—his wife watched his phone while he was gone—and Krystal nodded off on one of the easy chairs. Lancelene busied herself with cleaning the pots and pans. Williams swapped his glass of Pinot grigio for strawberry-peach juice, and settled onto the couch with Carolyn.
Five more running backs came off the board in the third round: West Virginia's Charles Sims to the Buccaneers. Mason to the Rams. Towson's Terrance West to the Browns. Georgia Southern's Jerick McKinnon to the Vikings. Kent State's Dri Archer to the Steelers. Williams sat with his hand on Carolyn's knee. "Oh my gosh," he said softly when he heard Archer's name, the third running back in a span of four picks.
"This concludes Round 3," NFL VP Troy Vincent said at 11:17 p.m. Even though her son was still on the board, Lancelene clapped. The 20 or so people in the living room were slow to get up.
Williams' high school buddies asked about the plans for tomorrow. "I don't know what's going to happen," he said, but he wasn't in a bad mood. He knew he'd put in the work to make it to the next level. The wait would just simply last another night.
"What do you always tell me? The sun rises every day," one friend offered, and Williams laughed heartily.
"Don't worry, you'll go tomorrow," Lancelene said. "In the name of sweet Jesus."
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Cool story: perhaps he will be just what the Giants have been looking for, but he is going to have to beat out Jennings which will be no small task.
Jennings can pass block, runs the ball with authority, and can break it for decent gains [although he is not likely to beat a DB in the open field].
I have not seen any film on this kid, but if he can be a team player, does not mind playing special teams, he will find a home for the next couple-few years with the team.
Unfortunately for him, gone are the days of a single back, but there is still plenty of money to be made and plenty of glory to be garnered on the gridiron.
Best of luck to the young man.
Coach Coughlin...you have no worries about this kid (the facebook question) as a football Mom from Parkland that brought this guy home from practice a few times and had him over my house as friends of my son...he is a GEM! He was the kid all moms welcomed in their home! So glad he is happy!
No fan of the Gmen - but definitely a fan of Jenny's/MMQB & now this young man. What a wonderful foundation/family/friends. Best of luck with your pro career, Andre!
LOL, if he can get near 1000 and figure out how to catch a pass or 2 (it took Jacobs a little while but he turned several passes into big big gains) he'll get plenty of endorsements.
Wonderful article!
As a BC fan, I was hoping Andre would somehow end up in New England, but that wasn't meant to be. I'm hoping he has a wonderful career with the Giants. He's a first class player and a first class young man. I know he'll make the BC faithful proud. He always has.
Good story.. I wish him the best..
I like this stuff.
It was a great read, Jenny!
Jenny - you're the greatest. Giants fans are ready to love Williams. Just has to work his butt of and run over people.
cool article I think he'll be really good and i hope so, how cool would it be to call him "Andre the Giant"?


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Labor day weekend 1988 Wendy found us she had been abandoned we were just starting to build our home . We heard her cries on Saturday . On Sunday we found her . She was so scared she jumped from the 2nd story of the barn on Monday she climbed a tree . She wasnt afraid of us she was afraid of the dog that had also been dropped off - pregnant Fred rescued her and she went home with me that night she was helpless and defenseless and irresistible Freds words to convince me to take her home i had never had a cat before. There will never be another Wendy she was one of a kind. A week later the same thing happened again .. we got Tigger. The two kittens were instant friends we had no queen or king just two kittens that were the best of friends .they took the Christmas tree lights and drug the lights and the tree up the stairs the first Christmas . i decorated that tree 4 times that first year . Giving up and leaving it empty except for parties. ..The cats were with us as we were working on the house and a dog chased them away . we searched hi and lo and combed 100 acres in the rain with flashlights searching more nights than i want to admit but no Wendy or Tigger . a few months later Wendy came back . She was walking home down the street and i found her .about 2 streets away in the rain i was driving my car.... i cried tears of joy . . She lived with me again until we got married and then she became our cat . she woke us up each morning with kisses on the eyelids seconds each morning before the alarm went off . If we were home she was close . She literally sat on Freds shoulders as he hung every piece of siding shirtless . She lived with us until cancer took her to cat heaven in 2000. i cant begin to describe the bond i had with Wendy its beyond words. Silly me doesnt have pictures of Wendy and Tigger - this is the only one of them just before i lost Tigger in my defense it was before digital and the time with Tigger was just to short... Wendy is the beautiful Calico and Tigger well hes the tiger cat.....whose peeping out from under the stairway everyone knows its wendy and wendy has stormy eyes.....
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There's only one senior night in your high school career.
Tuesday night was that one for 13 Yellowjackets playing in their final regular season game in the Beehive.Â
Coach Greg Carter's boys opened in rather slow fashion when compared to their usual fast starts. The style of play and emotions of the evening simply affected the Yellowjackets.Â
"The way the game started, with the senior festivities, kind of left us emotionless in the first half, so we were a little flat," said Carter of his team that improved to 21-3 with a 76-44 win over Neshoba Central.
"The way they play they kind of take the air out of it a little bit, making you defend for long periods of time. That kind of keeps you from playing with a lot of emotion too. But we executed, we ran and still scored. We were able to fight through it and build a pretty good lead at halftime."
Starkville led at the half 40-22 thanks in large part to senior Jacolby Mobley who scored 16 of his 19 points in the first half.Â
In the second half, SHS began to push the tempo in transition and began to pull away.Â
"We've been playing against slower paced teams here lately that I don't know if we will be ready for a fast-paced game," Carter said with a laugh. "It seems like every team we've played here lately has slowed it down a lot, but we are getting ready to face Aberdeen and normally they like to get it and go."Â
The win secures the No. 1 seed in the first round of the playoffs to be play at Neshoba Central on Tuesday Feb. 7. The contest will be a rematch of Tuesday night's game and that's something Carter hopes his team made note of.Â
"The offense they run, they way they screen you, you've got to continually guard them," he said. "You've got to be talking on defense to keep up with all the cutting and screening they do. We need to make a mental note of that heading into next week."
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Senior night for the Starkville High School girls led to a thrilling ballgame that didn't end as they wanted.Â
The game was simply a game of runs.
The Lady Rockets opened the contest in aggressive fashion with guard Victoria Stewart setting pace pushing their lead to as many as eight. However, Brittany Brown, who led all scorers with 25 points, and the Lady Yellowjackets answered with a run of their own to take a one-point lead into the locker room at the half.Â
In the second half, Starkville extended its lead slightly before the Rockets took control of the game, but just like the first half, Starkville answered climbing to within three points with under 2 seconds remaining. Â
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South African cross-country mountain bike star Burry Stander has one overriding goal for 2012: a place on the podium at the London Olympic Games.
To help him achieve this, Stander has taken a different approach to his racing this year and is using scientific analysis and support from the South African Sports Science Institute in Cape Town.
The partnership between Stander and his coach, Doctor Jeroen Swart, an experienced cycling coach and former top mountain bike racer, started in 2011 and is relatively new, but the results have been very encouraging.
Besides the Olympics, Stander's focus for 2012 is the Absa Cape Epic - mark that one off as a success after he recorded a dominating victory with Christoph Sauser - and the RockyRoads UCI MTB World Cup.
'Everything else is secondary'
In his own words, though: "My main goal for 2012 is the London Olympics. Everything else is secondary."
Last year, he admitted, was a disappointing one, but the changes he has made for 2012 are paying off. So far, apart from the win in the Epic, Stander's achievements in 2012 have been highlighted by a second place finish in the UCI MTB World Cup Pietermaritzburg in front of a vocal home crowd.
Afterwards, he wrote on his blog: "This weekend was nothing short of spectacular - the organisation, atmosphere and support next to the track was amazing. I had some great prep coming into the event and was super motivated to do well."
Stander placed a strong fourth in Houffalize, Belgium at the second World Cup stop, even though it took place a mere two weeks after the very strenuous Absa Cape Epic.
Gold medal contenders
In round three, at Nové Mesto na Morave in the Czech Republic, he was back on the podium, trailing only Nino Schurter and Jaroslav Kulhavy, whom most would peg as the strongest contenders for the Olympic gold medal.
Round four, at La Bresse in France, earlier this month, did not go to plan, as Stander explained on his blog: "I managed to get over the first climb in fifth and felt good as we set up for the first downhill. This, however, would be where my weekend took a turn.
"I got rammed from behind and pushed off the track. Stunned, at first it took a while for me to get back up to the trail, and once I got going I realized my front tyre had come off the rim. So I rolled down to the technical zone and changed a wheel.
"Once I restarted I was pretty much last. I had to reset my goals for the day and just focus on scoring some points."
Ultimately, Stander finished 24th, which, given his misfortune, was not a bad result as he had been around 120th position when he crashed. In some ways, this result says more about his ability than his other top finishes.
Far from a pipe dream
Clearly, though, his three earlier results are more accurate reflections of his form. They indicate that his wish to medal in the London Olympics is far from a pipe dream. It's a distinct possibility.
Stander was able to train on the course that will be used for the London Olympics in April and deemed it a "worthwhile trip".
World number one Jaroslav Kulhavy is one of his team-mates at Team Specialized Racing and having two of the world's premier cross-country riders training together can only be good for improving their standards and challenging their limits.
Stander has experience of success on the world's biggest stages, with his victory in the under-23 cross country at the 2009 UCI World Championships being one of the highlights of his career.
In 2008, the South African star placed 15th at the Beijing Olympics. Four years later, he will enter the London Olympics as a far better rider.
Consider that since 2008 he has won the World Championships under-23 title, placed third in men's elite cross-country at the 2010 World Championships, and lifted the Absa Cape Epic title in 2011 and 2012.
Given those past successes and his present form, Burry Stander deserves far greater consideration as a potential Olympic medal winner, especially from South African Olympic team supporters.


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Thousands of people filled a normally busy road yesterday for a festive fair.
The third annual Clarendon Park Christmas Fair took place in the city's Queen's Road, which was closed to traffic for the day.
Instead of vehicles, the road was filled with 50 arts and craft stalls, entertainment stages and fairground rides. The event, which was put on by Leicester City Council and Clarendon Park Traders' Association, brings a big boost in trade for shops, cafes, restaurants and bars.
Event manager and ward city councillor Patrick Kitterick said: "There were thousands of people here, all having a good time. We had everything from the Lancaster Choir to Leicester University cheerleaders.
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Those that have been there, what do you all suggest as far as getting Midlands tickets - order ahead of time or buy them when you get there?
Those that have been there, what do you all suggest as far as getting Midlands tickets - order ahead of time or buy them when you get there?
You do the math..... I'll do the alfredo!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
I hope I don't offend anyone, but I love the tournament but I don't like the venue.
I usually just buy when I get there, and I've always had decent seats.
And you're definitely not offending me by saying you don't like the venue! Welsh Ryan does not feel like a college arena. It feels much more like a high school gym.
the high school gym is more than sufficient for a school with 8000 undergrads, especially considering about a quarter of the student population will never attend a single sporting event while they are at NU. enjoy the wrestling meet...if you want to see the best of NU attend a class
I spoke with my cousin, an NU grad with a degree in chemistry (he's working on his Ph.D at UC-Santa Barbara right now) about this very subject. He's part of that one quarter who never attended a game, and he was embarrassed by the "arena." Stanford has figured out how to balance athletics and academics; why can't Northwestern? NU insists on being a part of the Big Ten - a conference built on the idea of having strong academics and athletics. When their facilities are not up to the rest of the conference, it's going to get pointed out. Hiding behind academics doesn't work. What would work is pointing out that NU doesn't have the land to build a new arena, and that land in Evanston is hardly cheap. It also might be worthwhile to mention that Welsh-Ryan is NU's only arena, so since it is so heavily utilized, there isn't a good time to renovate it.
This is slightly off topic, but is there a published list anywhere with this year's Midlands participants? I could be wrong, but I believe that in past years they have published a list of those invited before the event. It's always fun to see which non-college athletes plan to wrestle in the Midlands.
Let me know if anyone has seen this information posted anywhere.
I think if NU is in the Big Ten confrence they should have nice sporting facilities. How do they expect to compete in all the sports if the facilities are lacking? On second thought they dont. Keep the facilities crappy.


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. With our textbook knowledge, we make distinctions between objects, make judgments and assign value. We get a good grade in biology by tagging each plant with its genus and species, by identifying similarities and making distinctions. We learn mechanics better when we can compute a formula for the movement of a steel ball rolling down an inclined plane. To learn literature, we analyze the theme, plot and character motivation of a story.
In our daily life, we also classify people the same way
. We measure people for their beauty, wealth, knowledge, confidence and skill. But for beauty to exist, we must also see ugliness. For motion to exist, we must also have stillness. For wealth, we must see poverty. These are all qualities of degree. We spend a lot of time assessing the degree of wealth, the degree of activity, the degree of beauty for whatever or whoever comes into our life.
Why You Feel Bad About Yourself
Academic knowledge is deconstructive
. It tears down the whole to identify its parts. When it comes to understanding yourself and the life you lead, the worst approach is deconstructive. You struggle to understand yourself, and you examine each aspect of your identity. You measure yourself against the social yardstick you learned. You question your motives. You judge your character. You compare yourself to your friends. You measure your wealth and your appearance and your success. Every day, over and over, you judge yourself. And as always, you find yourself coming up short.
You feel bad about your actions, too
. You also waste a lot of time second-guessing your choices. You thoughts are full of I should-have, I could-have, and I would-have. Your mind is like a brass scale, weighing and balancing, teeter-tottering back and forth in the world of ideas, trying to find equilibrium. It's hard to calm down your thoughts.
Other People Want You To Feel Bad About Yourself
I used to have a job at a small Internet company
. The work was right up my alley and I know that I did well. But every year, the owner conducted a job evaluation. The procedure was quite formal. I was asked to complete a written report of self-evaluation. The highlight of the report was this question: On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your performance this year?
My first impulse was to make a joke. For this kind of money, youll never find anyone any better, I thought to myself. Of course, the boss wanted me to criticise myself and feel bad about my work. But after some reflection, I decided that I could not answer this question, and I told the boss why.
The only way to rank my performance is to have a measuring stick for comparison. All activity is relative to the scale you use to measure it. With what yardstick was I to rank myself? If you compare my management skills to Hillary Clinton or Condoleezza Rice, I fall dismally short. But if you compare my work to the homeless lady who sleeps under the bridge, I look pretty darn good.
What Makes You Feel Good About Yourself
I don't feel bad about myself anymore
, because I have stopped judging myself and my actions. Now I have a better yardstick for my life than job evaluations, politicians and homeless people. Instead, when I want to feel good about myself, I ask myself how well I used my talents and resources. Have I found the best job for my skills? Does my work give me happiness and contentment? Have I looked in the right direction for personal fulfillment? None of these questions ever came up at my job evaluation, because the boss doesn't care. But I care and I want to feel good about myself.
Turn Off Your Negative Self Talk
So here you are again, feeling bad about yourself
. It is the result of analyzing, criticizing and deconstructing yourself. Your self-talk will always find something wrong if you let it. With your thoughts racing in your mind, the brass scale can never come to rest. Wont you turn off your negative self-talk before it tears you apart? Whats the point of it all? Is this the best way to live life? If you turn off your self-talk, if you stop picking on yourself, you won't feel bad anymore. Give yourself a chance to know the real you and to like the person you are. This person is someone you can feel good about.
Let Nature Teach You How to Feel Good
Ill tell you how you can feel good about yourself
. Dont work so hard at life. Dont judge yourself critically. Do not expect yourself to be a paragon of perfection. Do not blame yourself when things go wrong. Do not measure yourself against others. Trust your nature. Live peacefully. Just be.
Life is a mystery
. Time is a mystery. Growth is a mystery. Despite all the scientific research, the essence of life remains a profound mystery. There is no yardstick that can take the full measure of a human being. Instead of trying to understand, measure and criticize, recognize that you are like the sparrow riding the wind or the violet blooming in the grass. You are like the water spilling over the stones. Water does not judge the speed of the current. It does not measure the distance to the shore. It does not count the fallen leaves. You do not have to judge yourself anymore. You are one more creature of the world, living with self-awareness and introspection. Come to terms with life. Grow in peace with yourself.
So, today, just let life happen to you
, like the flowering of a violet. See yourself as a sparrow in flight. Think of yourself as a tree standing in the sunshine. Imagine yourself as the water flowing in the creek. The water does what fulfills its nature as it seeks its own level. You can be like the water. You can feel good about yourself. Life is life.
I hope life brings you much success.
I wish you a very happy day.
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WELL-KNOWN businesswoman and swimming teacher Karen Webb-Meek has waded in to the row over the closure of Scartho Baths.
As reported, North East Lincolnshire Council has said it will cost too much to bring the pool up to standard and plans to close it in two years' time, to be replaced with one elsewhere in Grimsby, although the new one will only have 25-metre lanes.
She said: "I have been a swimming teacher and waterpolo coach for many years, and I have taught swimming in Scartho Road pool and many swimming pools all over the country and overseas, particularly when I was running my company, Swim Kids.
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"With the huge roof and viewing area, it has always been popular with visiting clubs from other areas.
"I have seen pools that are smaller, or more interesting with flumes and lazy rivers, or much better fitted out, with all the mod cons and efficient plant systems, but not many can top Scartho's fantastic sense of space.
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"Wouldn't it be a shame to say to kids who complain about the lack of swimming facilities in the future, 'We used to have a huge pool with diving bay in Scartho...'?"
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