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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by detteam, Nov 8, 2006.
Stern has to GO! I'll offer a few of my choices...pick one or feel free to write-in your candidate.
I think that they need to bring in a hockey guy. It is true that the crowd likes to see scoring, but it can't be manufactured by touch fouls and techs. They need to get a higher % of live ball action in an NBA contest. The crowds love fights in hockey, why do they have to sterilize the nba? ... and that's why I nominate Laimbeer as the new commish.
The NHL commissioner is David Stern's apprentice, and is even more hated and reviled than Stern himself. Mini me's name is Gary Bettman. No one likes him. I don't even think his owners like him. I have been posting on Cuban's blog that he should get the job. He's a self made billionaire, hip, fan friendly, passionate and smarter than a horse whip.
I mean a hockey guy like Bob Probert, not Bettman.
I posted to 'I love the new nba' tonight...I'm really starting to like his perspective.
I am around post # 134.
I didn't see your post until after I posted at 137. Stern's gotta go lest the NBA becomes the 'good ole boys' club.
I picked Dave Bing, but would rather have someone like Bill Russel.
I will back anyone who champions a fair game and does not crave attention. A good commish should be working behind the scenes quietly keeping the league running well.
Bill's a good call...Dave is probably too busy running his business to consider a return to bball...I was just throwin names out.
Dave would be great. He obviously has a great business sense. I think Cuban is WAAAY too involved to be a fair commish. Plus, he would have to sell the Mavs (I think) to avoid any conflicts of interest. I vote for Sir Charles. He's a clever guy, he cares about the game, and he will call it like he sees it.
Damn Dave is a good choice... a comprismise between businees sense and player understanding.... very level headed...but yeah he is a busy millionaire.
I want Sir Charles! He is right up there in the Tech hall of fame. He would be good to the players and he knows the game. Why can't they have a separate business manager and a commish who knows the game! I read Charles's book, Who's afraid of a big black man. It was good and a good discussion of racism here in America. Charles has some good insight on people and basketball.
I hate to "play the race card", but it is relevant. How many black owners are there? And how many black commissioners have there been in the 4 major NA sports (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL)? The odds of a black man getting the job, representing 25+, old money, Caucasian conservatives, are slightly worse than my getting together with 6 playboy bunnies on fantasy island this weekend. Now I am a big fan of the "best man for the job" but I don't think the NBA works as a meritocracy.
Boy, I sure ruined this thread... :(
if talking about hookin up with 6 playboy bunnies on and island is ruining a thread... haha
Dave Bing would definitely be a great choice. However, the fans and the owners may not see eye to eye on this one.
Its all about the Big Ben (jamins!)
Isiah is probably going to be available soon. Let's see what he can do with the league.
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There was some bad news for wrestling this week. That jerk CM Punk pulled a sucker move on The Rock on Monday Night RAW and made off with the WWE Championship belt — ahead of the Elimination Chamber match on Sunday! Oh, and in other news, wrestling was dropped from the 2020 Olympics.
Ho ho. Except, of course, I'm serious. If you asked most people in this country to name a champion wrestler from recent years, they would be more likely to name The Rock, Triple H or Stone Cold Steve Austin than they would be to talk at length of the giant Uzbek Artur Taymazov, the greatest freestyle wrestler in modern Olympic history; or Kaori Icho, the Japanese seven-times world champion who won her third Olympic gold at London 2012.
'Real' wrestling's profile has — in this country at least — been wholly overshadowed by the popularity of the American pantomime in which juiced-up crackers wearing eyeliner pretend to hurt each other. (And before all you WWE heads write in — yes, I know it's harder than it looks. I did see that Louis Theroux documentary. Thank you.)
Therefore, when it was announced this week that wrestling is almost certainly off the Olympic roster after Rio 2016 — barring an unlikely reprieve at an International Olympic Committee vote in September — most of us just shrugged. Is it? Oh well. We weren't that good at it anyway.
The few cries of outrage came from predictable quarters. The head of British Wrestling, Colin Nicholson, called the news "extremely disappointing".
But a more interesting sports-philosophical point came from the 2004 gold medallist, American Cael Sanderson, who said: "Wrestling and the Olympics go hand in hand. When you start taking the original sports away from the Olympics, you really change what the Olympic Games are."
It is true that wrestling has been in the Games almost non stop, ever since their modern revival in 1896.
The only Olympics at which they were not included was the 1900 Paris Games — a whimsical event that was true to the character of its host nation, in that it disdained a macho sport like wrestling but included ballooning, croquet and an underwater obstacle race in the Seine.
It is also true that wrestling's Olympic history dates even further back: to the ancient Games, where it produced such legendary champions as Milo of Croton, a pal of Pythagoras who was said to maintain his superhuman strength by eating cockerels' gallstones and carrying cows about on his back.
It is thirdly true that wrestling may be replaced on the Olympic roster in 2020 by something risible.
The shortlist for new events includes kung-fu, squash, karate, climbing, softball, wakeboarding and roller sports. Forgive me for descending into flippancy but it's slightly unedifying to imagine Milo of Croton rollerblading off into the sunset with an olive-wreath on his head thanks to his victorious impersonation of Patrick Swayze in Skatetown USA.
And yet. Sports have no inherent value by simple virtue of historicity. If they did, then the Olympics would still include tug of war, jeu de paume and polo. Lacrosse and hurling might still be on the slate. Perhaps we would even still watch the pankration, the brutal ancient form of mixed martial arts which was a showpiece of the Games in ancient times.
We do not. Ancient it may be but wrestling has no special claim to Olympic status, any more than do modern pentathlon (an old Olympic sport) or taekwondo (a new one), both of which survived the cull. Wrestling's popularity was perceived to be waning; its shelf-life approaching. Sometimes it's just your time to go.
I say this with the rider that, from the perspective of pure personal interest, wrestling would not have been my first choice to axe. I would have preferred to see the abominable sport of table-tennis dropped (see Standard columns, passim) and I have my doubts about whether golf, football and rugby sevens really belong in the Games.
But that's neither there nor there. We are now in the most painful stage of the Olympic cycle: that where funding is reduced for individuals and sports, where cuts are made and budgets tightened, where "tough decisions are made", to use the euphemistic language of the bean counter. Every choice made upsets one group as much as it delights another. Call it the Zero Sum Games. Zing!
Gatland shares my fear of the English
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17th or 18th? QPR place a £12.5m bet
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At last, Lampard has signed a new deal
Frank Lampard's big new contract is not with Chelsea but the publisher Little Brown. Frank is writing a series of children's books, entitled Frankie's Magic Football. Let's hope they have a bit more longevity than Theo Walcott's 'T.J.' series, which petered out after four instalments. Walcott's big mistake came in volume three, entitled 'T.J. and the Cup Run', in which Theo… sorry, T.J.'s team brought their supporters happiness by finally winning some silverware. I mean, come on: who's ever going to believe a plot like that?
Tyson's no show ignites my fury
Tyson Fury pulling out of the purse bid process for a heavyweight fight with David Price is totally maddening. There is a chance to make the most interesting British heavyweight title decider in a generation, and Fury won't play. It's all well and good for him to try conquering America and getting a shot at a Klitschko. But right now, it just serves to annoy, frustrate and disillusion an already sorely tested British boxing public. This sort of nonsense is precisely why the heavyweight division sucks so much right now.Reuse content

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The Foundation's Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program was designed to support the career development of outstanding young faculty in academic departments/divisions of family practice, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics. This grant supports a study of the determinants of uncompensated care, a comparative study of a not-for-profit, an investor owned, and a public health care institution. This will be a case study of the determinants of uncompensated care at three large urban academic medical centers, each representing different organizational control types. While variation in access to uncompensated care according to institutional control is well documented, the policies and institutional practices accounting for those differences have not been examined. The purpose of this project is to examine, comparatively, the circumstances under which patients in three different health care environments obtain uncompensated care. Nationally, uncompensated care is estimated at 80 percent debt and 20 percent charity care. Based on preliminary investigations of medical center policies and practices toward nonpaying patients, a four-part conceptual model has been developed to explain variations in bad debt. The methodology is designed to test the conceptual model as follows. First, following a formal review of written policies at each site, interviews with relevant personnel (registration clerks, cashiers, clinicians, social workers, billing, et. al.) will elicit how policies related to prepayment, screening for medical necessity, referral, payment agreements, and collections are implemented. Second, a sample of uninsured patients at each site will be surveyed for risk factors for medical indigence, and to ascertain how they selected their site of care. At one year, payment outcome data for these patients will be analyzed. And third, the financial records of a representative sample of patients owing co-pays, deductibles, and full charges will be sorted using a spreadsheet program to ascertain the numbers of patients and charges for various categories of care, including inpatient, outpatient, primary, and subspecialty care.
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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Hank Blalock makes his money as a power hitter, but on Sunday a 75-foot single was good enough for the Texas Rangers.
Blalock's pinch-hit infield single drove in the winning run in the ninth inning, giving the Rangers a 2-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins.
Phil Nevin had a one-out single in the ninth off Jesse Crain (9-4) and went to second when pinch-hitter David Dellucci walked.
Rod Barajas reached on catcher's interference to load the bases and Blalock, held out of the starting lineup by manager Buck Showalter because he was in a 13-for-63 slump, hit a dribbler on a 1-2 pitch that popped out of the glove of shortstop Jason Bartlett as Nevin crossed the plate.
"I got behind in the count and I was in a defensive mode," Blalock said. "I was just trying to put the ball in play and luckily it was soft enough. It doesn't matter what kind of hit -- a squibber, a double -- as long as we get the 'W'."
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire had his infield playing a little farther in than double-play depth, and Bartlett didn't have enough time to make a play.
"You're playing in between so if he hits the ball hard you have a chance to turn a double play," Gardenhire said. "But he hit a little topper that you're not going to be able to do much with."
The catcher's interference ruling turned out to be a key play, with Barajas' bat barely nicking the glove of Twins catcher Joe Mauer for an error.
"You'd love to get a hit in that situation, but loading the bases with Hank Blalock at the plate is a good option," Barajas said.
Doug Brocail (5-2) pitched a scoreless ninth for the win.
Crain allowed one run and three hits in 1 1/3 innings.
Rangers starter Chris Young gave up three hits in seven shutout innings and left with a 1-0 advantage, but Texas' bullpen couldn't hold the lead.
The Twins tied it at 1-all in the eighth off Erasmo Ramirez when Bartlett singled, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt, advanced to third on a groundout and scored on Mauer's single.
Young struck out six and walked two in a duel with reigning AL Cy Young winner Johan Santana.
Santana gave up one run and three hits in seven innings. He struck out six -- increasing his major-league leading total to 195 -- and walked three.
"I knew it was going to be a low-scoring game because of his track record," Young said.
Minnesota, which began the day 12th in the AL in runs, couldn't score after loading the bases with one out in the first as Young retired Matthew LeCroy and Jacque Jones on popups.
"It's been our Achilles' heel all year long," Gardenhire said. "We have one of the best pitching staffs in baseball and we just can't support them offensively."
Young retired 11 straight until Lew Ford led off the fifth with a double.
"(Young) teetered a bit in the first, then found his step," Showalter said. "He got better as the game went on. His best innings were his last two."
Santana set down eight consecutive Rangers from the second through the fifth before Texas broke through for a 1-0 lead on Michael Young's RBI single.
Barajas singled and went to second on Gary Matthews Jr.'s walk. Right fielder Jones fielded Young's single and fired toward the plate in an effort to cut down the slow-footed Barajas, but first baseman Justin Morneau cut off Jones' throw, had trouble getting the ball out of his glove, and his throw to the plate was too late.
- The game started with temperatures in the low 90s after several days in triple-digits.
- Hunter Wendelstedt was scheduled to be the third base umpire but bypassed the game to return to his home in New Orleans in anticipation of Hurricane Katrina. The game went on with three umpires.
- Mark Teixeira of the Rangers went 0-for-3 to end his 12-game hitting streak.
- Texas starters have a 1.00 ERA in the first six games of the current homestand and haven't allowed a run in 18 innings over the last three games.
- The Twins have scored one run in four of Santana's last six starts.


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Millionaire's Bacon – Cookin' With Marilyn
As if bacon wasn't good enough already, this will make even better! Check out Marilyn's recipe for Millionaire's Bacon.
As if bacon wasn't good enough already, this will make even better! Check out Marilyn's recipe for Millionaire's Bacon.
Don't you love a recipe that is easy to make, but tastes as though you worked on it all day? This is one of those recipes. Sweet and tangy, the glaze compliments the delicious taste of fresh salmon...
This is a great way to finish off leftover mashed potatoes.The combination of cheese, potatoes and golden crust are quite tasty.
It's a little complicated for someone like me, but I love even just reading the recipe. Maybe I'll try to tackle it in 2014!
I met Mr. Bob and Ms. Joyce Sevin, authors of 'The Black Pot Talks Back', many years ago and have used their recipes over the years to create some amazing meals.
According to The National Enquirer, Paula Deen (in a recorded deposition) admitted to racists actions.
Here's a delicious way to enjoy local vegetables in season! Tomatoes are getting ripe and are great for this quick tasty dish.
So far, only positive reviews on this one! My version of Vidalia Onion Quiche was adapted from a recipe in Southern Living magazine, which sounded delicious, but I wanted to use cheese I already had in my fridge and create a lower calorie, lower fat version...
I am not certain how accurate this recipe is (because if I am not mistaken, the REAL recipe for Popeye's chicken is more guarded than Colonel Sanders' secret!), but I stumbled upon it while perusing the internet this morning.
When the weather's nice in South Louisiana, there's nothing like sitting outside with something good on the grill, an ice chest full of cold drinks, and a bunch of good friends.
I learned to make vegetable soup from my Mom and it's one of only a handful of things I cook. Mom never used frozen or canned vegetables and neither do I...
Marilyn said to be sure to thank her dear friend Verline Bernard for sharing this wonderful recipe.You will be so glad she did after trying it! Hope you enjoy it. It is great to serve while cheering for UL or Saints football!


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Hey Fella's
I'm thinking about putting in for a weeks worth of leave around Turkey day and want to come back to SD. How much of the potholes do you think will be frozen up late November? I can remember chasing pheasants in late November but can't recall seeing anything frozen up that early. Also how are the bird numbers looking in the middle of the state? I'd most likely be around the Peirre area as I know a few spots there to hunt but mostly public land. Any info would help and so noone gets it twisted I AM NOT AKSING FOR A HONEY Hole just want overall site picture for SD for late Nov.
Thanks in advance!


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Melissa is just an average thirteen-year-old with a semi-average life until she moves into a nineteenth-century farmhouse. There she discovers that the house is haunted by two ghosts-one good and one evil. With the help of her stepsister, they unravel an age-old mystery and solve an unsolvable crime; one that was never intended to be solved. Many evil hauntings attempt to prevent the girls from discovering the truth. It's a race against time and a battle of wits to see which will prevail - the living or the dead.


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Welcome to another installment of The Sunday Brunch Buffet! My week was busy as usual and included one massive kitchen failure. You'll hear about that later this week. Here's what caught my eye around the web this week. What caught yours?
Kind of a wild idea, obviously.
I'm doing this. Will you?
This dude knows what he's talking about.
A great go-to for a busy week night.
I know what I'm doing tonight.
Can we have a doughnut party? I really shouldn't eat them all myself.
Woah, geek out now.
This may be the trendiest thing I've ever purchased. Wish me luck!
Here's a round-up of the recipes I shared with you this week. It was much more savory than the week before, but don't worry, there's some chocolate coming your way soon!
Baked Rigatoni alla Bolognese – A hearty, comforting meat sauce baked with pasta and cheese.
What to Do With a Mango – Your greatest tropical fruit fears put to rest.
Chicken Tacos – This chicken is great in tacos or served over rice. You can also eat it straight off the bone, standing over the oven like a hungry maniac.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend and make sure to check back tomorrow to see what's on The Monday Menu!


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_mbsnbset, _mbsnbset_l
Set the first n bytes of a multibyte-character string to a specified character. More secure versions of these functions are available; see _mbsnbset_s, _mbsnbset_s_l.
unsigned char *_mbsnbset( unsigned char *str, unsigned int c, size_t count ); unsigned char *_mbsnbset_l( unsigned char *str, unsigned int c, size_t count, _locale_t locale );
The _mbsnbset and _mbsnbset_l functions set, at most, the first count bytes of str to c. If count is greater than the length of str, the length of str is used instead of count. If c is a multibyte character and cannot be set entirely into the last byte specified by count, the last byte is padded with a blank character. _mbsnbset and _mbsnbset_ldoes not place a terminating null at the end of str.
_mbsnbset and _mbsnbset_lis similar to _mbsnset, except that it sets count bytes rather than count characters of c.
If str is NULL or count is zero, this function generates an invalid parameter exception as described in Parameter Validation. If execution is allowed to continue, errno is set to EINVAL and the function returns NULL. Also, if c is not a valid multibyte character, errno is set to EINVAL and a space is used instead.
The output value is affected by the setting of the LC_CTYPE category setting of the locale; see setlocale for more information. The _mbsnbset version of this function uses the current locale for this locale-dependent behavior; the _mbsnbset_l version is identical except that it use the locale parameter passed in instead. For more information, see Locale.
Security Note This API incurs a potential threat brought about by a buffer overrun problem. Buffer overrun problems are a frequent method of system attack, resulting in an unwarranted elevation of privilege. For more information, see Avoiding Buffer Overruns.
Tchar.h routine
_UNICODE and _MBCS not defined
_MBCS defined
_UNICODE defined
Required header
For more compatibility information, see Compatibility in the Introduction.
// crt_mbsnbset.c // compile with: /W3 #include <mbstring.h> #include <stdio.h> int main( void ) { char string[15] = "This is a test"; /* Set not more than 4 bytes of string to be *'s */ printf( "Before: %s\n", string ); _mbsnbset( string, '*', 4 ); // C4996 // Note; _mbsnbset is deprecated; consider _mbsnbset_s printf( "After: %s\n", string ); }
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Archive for '• Workshop':
A Few From Yesterday's OneLight ::
I'm Still A Photographer Right? :: Lots Of Pictures ::
I have a lot of images I want to share here on the blog and very little time to make specific blog posts about each shoot. This is a selection of some of the things I've been shooting. I had three more assignments with Nylon Magazine since shooting Living Things for them. For the record, they prefer natural light as opposed to lit photos.
Dallas Austin ::
Vistoso Bosses ::
B.o.B ::
Animation guru Craig Hartin for Relevant Magazine ::
Atlanta music legend Butch Walker :: His band :: His BMW
My friends Mike & Priya got hitched ::
Been shootin' a lot of headshots like these of local actress Brenda Weitzer. ::
Mark Adams of LaCour Photo came in to speak to the three day Photo 101 workshop I held a week before last :: Uh-Maze-ing time to be had. Thanks to you fine folks who traveled in for the workshop!
Here are some images from that workshop. We set up some chatoic real world situations that beginning photographers may run into. Like… Shooting a family of seven at 10am in the front yard.
And how to take on headshots without a flash and without a studio. It's an exercise in finding light for portraits of any kind really.
Shot some pictures for local musician Jeremy Agers ::
Had a great OneLight workshop after the Photo 101 with our friends Jonathan Baker and Julia as our clients to photograph ::
Oh man… I had Phive Starr in for a shoot. This production duo is un-freaking-believable. Super stoked to work with them. ::
I haven't even talked about my experience at Twitter and Google yet! This is @ded. He brought me to Twitter because he works there, he is awesome, and he is a kick ass photographer.
I did a OneLight workshop for a bunch of google folks at the Googleplex. I can't even begin to describe what an amazing place that is filled with amazing people who love their jobs. Here's a few from that workshop. ::
Lastly, another one from my shoot with Stephanie Lawrence a few months ago ::
I have yet to catch my breath and we leave for Australia tomorrow. That flight is going to suck but the experience there is going to make up for it I'm sure. Sorry for sucking up your bandwidth with this post! I just had to purge.
Cheers, Zack
PS – While I'm gone somebody keep the photography campfire lit!*
*Twitter ref. this week.
New OneLight Workshop Site Launched! ::
The new OneLight Workshop site has just launched! You'll find all the dates and cities for the OneLight for the rest of 2009 there as well as information about our new three day intensive Photo 101 workshop. I've made the site with a mouse in one hand and our new baby boy, Hawke Danger Arias in the other! Yes, Danger is his middle name.
Now that Hawke is here and he and Meg are doing well, we are ready to announce the schedule for the rest of the year. The new registration system for signing up is dope! Thanks to EventBrite for making such a great registration system.
Hope to see you at a workshop or mixer soon!
Cheers, Zack
PS – The "resources" page still needs content. We are off to Grandma's house so I'll be working on that later tonight as well as getting to more questions from the PDN presentation post below. Have a great weekend everyone!
Virtually Speaking @ PDN's Virtual Trade Show ::
I'm giving a presentation on creative lighting May 21st for PDN's Virtual Trade Show. The event is free! I'll be on at 3pm EST and will be talking about dramatic lighting to change the entire mood of a portrait or environment. I'm required to phone in from a land line. I haven't had one of those in about eight years so I'm going to be broadcasting from my father-in-law's house!
Many thanks to my friends at B&H for being a sponsor of this!
Visit the PDN's Virtual Trade Show site to register.
They are having another one on June 11th. Tune in!
In other news… We will have the new OneLight site up and running by the 21st!
Cheers, Zack
Dubai Workshop Photos ::
Above :: From the Photo 101 class. Working with available light.
The number one problem we had in Dubai (aside from crappy Internet service) were the horrible models we had to deal with. We really did our best to work with what we had. I mean, you know, you can only do sooooo much with beautiful people!
Above :: Left – Nikon SB25 in a 50″ Westcott softbox. Right – Available light.
Above :: Left – Nikon SB25 with 20 degree grid. Right – Nikon SB25 straight. No modifier.
Above :: Nikon SB25 with 20 degree grid.
Above :: Nikon SB25 zoomed to 85mm shot with 24mm lens.
Above :: Available light.
Can't wait to go back next year!
Cheers, Zack
PS – We are very close to launching the new OneLight site with workshop dates for this year. Stay tuned!
GPP Group Shot = Pressure That Can Make Diamonds
On the next to the last day of Gulf Photo Plus I was informed by GPP organizer, Mohamed Somji, that I had the "privilege" of shooting the group shot of all the GPP staff and photographers. I would be given 15 minutes to set up and execute the shot with 25 to 40 people.I have done countless group shots in my young career but never one that had folks like Joe McNally, Drew Gardner, David Hobby, Chase Jarvis, David Nightingale, and on and on and on. No pressure.
Last year David Hobby shot the group photo. He did it available light and had the photo posted on the web in 30 minutes. He was smart. David kept it simple. I however had could not leave "well enough" alone. I wanted to make a picture that was a tribute to some of the photographers in the photo and I wanted to keep with the OneLight theme so I decided I would get everyone in the auditorium and light them individually with one light and then comp them together in post. I have "painted with strobes" a few times in my life but never on this scale. It isn't the most technically brilliant photograph I've ever made in my life but I had fun doing it. Everyone in the room had fun bustin' my chops for taking this on. Hobby had a GRAND time playing with his wizard in his pocket while I was setting this up too.
How I did it = Pretty simple
• I set my camera up on a tripod so that each shot would align in the final image to be created.
• I had my studio manager, Erik, walk around the room with a Nikon SB-25 mounted on a tripod. On the SB I placed a Lightsphere that I have painted black. I call it my Darksphere. I then bunjee'd a 20º grid on the front of that. I like to have my grids placed off of the flash tube to get a cleaner circle of light.
• I exposed somewhere around 5.6 at 250th of a second to kill the ambient light in the room. I just needed the light on each person. There are 29 people in the final shot and I used 28 frames to capture them all. Chase and his wife, Kate, were lit together for one shot.
• I tried a quick multiple exposure shot on the back of the D3 to see if my idea was going to work. In this you can see Erik holding the light on the stick.
This is what each individual shot looked like…
This is what the group shot looks like without the auditorium showing through…
Here is the auditorium. I would use this image to mask parts of the ambient back into the group shot.
Once the people were together I could then bring in the image above and again, using layer masking, I painted in just enough of the ambient light to mix in with the lit shots. The final shot was 34 layers tall. 28 layers of people and 6 layers of ambient light and details like the the strobe painting on the back wall panels. Here it is again…
So…To Joe McNally – I know you eat 30 Speedlights for breakfast every morning so excuse me while I meagerly try to pull it off with one.
To David Hobby – My light rig for this shot not only has a bunjee cord on it, but it has a LightSphere that I spray painted black to keep with the DIY / Modify philosophy you preach so well.
To David Nightingale – 30+ exposures to make one final image! How do you do it so well? You can see how much of a hack I am.
To Drew Gardner – If only I had a water buffalo and 300 gallons of strawberry jam then you too would have a tribute here. Maybe next year I'll shoot it on a Phase One. Oh wait! I don't have to shoot it next year! Some other light monkey will have to do it!
To Chase Jarvis – You talk about pushing yourself. Well… I pushed myself on this one!
I could have done this or that or the other to make this shot better but I had no time to really think it through. It was a good exercise for me though. I'm glad I did it this way.
I have one more Dubai post to make this week and then we are back to regularly scheduled blogramming.
Cheers, Zack
A Few From Dubai ::
Above :: From my first OneLight here in Dubai.
Above :: Joe McNally in old Satwa
Above :: I'm being interviewed for an Arab television station.
Above :: A friendly TV repairman in Satwa.
I'm having an amazing time here at Gulf Photo Plus. The Internet sucks here in our building. I can get online a few minutes a day right now. More to come!
Cheers, Zack
Scott Kelby Is My Homeboy ::
I just want to say that Scott Kelby is my homeboy! Brad emailed me today to let me know that Scott was wearing a OneLight shirt on this week's episode of Nikon's new video podcast called D-Town.
I'm waiting for the next critique episode to export so I can start the upload. I bust some chops and get all introspective and interpretive about some fine art. It's a good episode despite the fact that I picked the wrong Internet station to listen to during the recording. I'm really glad everyone is enjoying these critiques. I really enjoy doing them.
Cheers, Zack
Photo 101 :: Call For Questions
I'm deep into the planning and preparation for my new workshop series that I will be launching in Dubai at the end of this month. This is a photo 101 course for people who are pursuing this craft to turn it into a living. This isn't a workshop for the enthusiast. This isn't a workshop that will tell you how to be passionate and create an experience around your photography. While all of that is important in this day and age, none of it matters if your photography sucks and you have no idea what you are doing outside of aperture priority mode.
I'm going to break down the technical aspects of photography to the bare essentials of what you need to know as a working photographer. I will not be spending a minute of time on the scientific technical math of the craft. You open your camera bag in front of your client. You need to know what lens to grab and how to use the environment in front of you. You need to find the GOOD light and not waste your time in the crap light. I will be teaching you how to trouble shoot as much as I will be teaching how to shoot. I've made a lot of mistakes in my career and I will be drawing a lot on my mistakes more than my success because failure has been key to my success. The problem is, I could have avoided a lot of my failures. I'm going to help you avoid the same problems.
As I finalize the curriculum for 2 days of teaching this in Dubai and bringing it home as a 3 day workshop here in Atlanta, I want to get some questions from you; the aspiring photographer.
What are you struggling with in your young photographic life? What brick walls are you running into? What part of theory or application bugs the crap out of you that makes you want to hang the cameras up and walk away? Is it the technical? Is it the business?
I need some things from you.
1. Your questions that you would want answered in a course like this. I'll turn some of these questions into blog articles as well.
2. Your images that you would like open and honest critique of. In public. On this blog. Send me a link to your work at firstname.lastname@example.com if you want honest feedback on your work. This is only for people pursuing this craft as a viable career option. I want to see where people stand in their technical skills and give some feedback to you. While I give honest critique, I'm not a nail spitting jerk. You are safe with me. ETA – I'm already getting emails! Note that when I critique your work here I will be sensitive to search engine indexing of your name and your site. I will host your images on my server without hot-linking. This way you get critique of your work, everyone gets to learn, and google won't point your clients to my blog critiquing your work.
3. If you are a struggling photographer based in Atlanta who wants to learn more about this craft and get out of your day job, write to me. Tell me what your day job is, why you want to leave it, and what type of photography you want to do. I'll talk to you offline about an idea I have.
If you have questions about photography, just start leaving them in the comments. Thank you!
Cheers, Zack
Teaching @ Gulf Photo Plus :: Dubai :: New Workshop! ::
I'm excited to announce that I will be teaching for 5 days at Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai, March 30th – April 4th! Not only will I be teaching two OneLight workshops, I am also launching my two day Photo 101 course there as well. As if that wasn't enough work, I will be having a lecture about knowing if it is time for you to get a studio space and how to build one out and simple lighting techniques to get you started shooting in your own space. Can you say "The many uses of white seamless?"
Dubai has been on the top of my destination wish list for a long time and now I am just a 15 hour plane ride away from it! So not only am I getting to teach in Dubai, I'm getting to teach along side Chase Jarvis, David Hobby, Vincent LaForet, Drew Gardner, Joe McNally, Bobbi Lane and others on this amazing list of photographers.
I almost didn't take this opportunity because Meg is going to be 8 months pregnant and I'm going to be gone for 12 days. Despite her raging jealousy, she said it was absolutely stupid if I didn't take this opportunity and she would be very mad at me if I let this one slide by. She talked me into it pretty quickly!
I will be bringing the Photo 101 course home with me as a two day or three day workshop here in the states and, possibly, the UK and Australia. The idea behind my 101 course is this… You have a camera. You might even have a web site. You know that you either want to be a part time photographer to supplement your income OR you are hoping to make this your full time job. You have a basic understanding of fstops and shutter speeds. You shoot aperture priority a good bit because you have learned about the depth of field "thing". Your friends and family LOVE your pictures and you think, you are fairly certain, you are ready to start doing this but your understanding of the craft ends here.
Without diving into technical numbers and boring theory, I am going to be helping people lay a solid foundation of knowledge and practical skills to get started in this industry. You sure as heck won't know everything because that is impossible. You will learn about quality of GOOD natural light and how to find it, modify it, and add to it. You will be drilled with camera skills. You will learn where to spend money in this industry and where to save. Making the most with a little is key.
My good friends over at FloSites are working on the new OneLight site as I type. That will be live in a few weeks with more info on the Photo 101 workshop and dates for the OneLight.
If you are in the Gulf or have some sky miles, you really should consider coming on out to GPP next month.
Cheers, Zack
Checking In From New Jersey
Yo. Ay. I'm shootin' 'ere!
I have had a great time up here in Jersey teaching a double header OneLight. BIG thanks to Bryce York for bringing me up and opening his home to all of us. Meg and I are now heading into NYC for a few days. I'm really looking forward to meeting many new folks and connecting with old friends at Jason Groupp's pre Photo Plus party tonight!
Cheers, Zack
DVD – Full Shipping Capacity!
We are pretty much at full capacity right now (read that as I'm in this studio for the next three days without seeing the sun.) That brings us to the end of what we have on hand for stock. Orders for more were already placed last week. That should have us shipping again by mid to end of this coming week. If you ordered before 6:45pm tonight, your order will be out the door by Monday at the latest. You can choose to order and be held in the que until all our stuff gets in or you can order once we go live with it again.
You can order the DVD here…
Cheers, Zack
PS – I hate Windows. We have to use a PC for shipping. I hate it with every fiber in my body. Yes, it is Vista. Yes, I know I should get XP. Do you hear any OS X users talking about how much better OS 9 was? Nope. You don't. I hope I survive the weekend.
OneLight DVD Launched!
The OneLight DVD has launched! Get all the info here…www.OneLightWorkshop.com
Cheers, Zack
DVD Pre-Release & Your Initial Thoughts…
I have been in Seattle and Portland all week while Erik was working 14 hour days shipping the pre-sale orders of the DVD out into the world. I've been on the edge of my seat waiting to hear the initial thoughts from all of you who got in on the pre-sale. They are now coming in. Here are a few of my favorites…
"Zack,I just received my DVD's in the mail. I just finished reading the booklet that came with them. The part about your family kicked me right in my heart, it brought tears to my eyes. I put my booklet down and wrapped my arms around my two year old little boy. Thanks for so much more than a DVD on photography."
"I just got my dvd in the mail today….wow!!! I just wanted to tell you that I have bought other educational dvds….and then felt cheated over what I got compared to what I spent. Not so with you!!! Everything about the package…the presentation, the quality, the information- top notch!! I feel like I got more than my moneys worth…and it is incredibly obvious you put your all into this. Thank you!" –
"I am on disk two of the DVD already. Man this is the best investment I ever made. I have been a real TTL advocate for some time now but I am going to see what Manual mode can offer me in my shooting style.Thanks for such an amazing DVD. You're the man!"
I would love to hear from you! Hit me in the comment section!The DVD will be released to the public next Thursday. I'll announce it here, to the email list, and on the OneLight Workshop site.
Cheers, Zack
Checking In From Boulder, CO
I have had an amazing time out here with the Boulder OneLight! Big thanks to Stacy Z and her awesome husband, Brad, for bringing me out to the Rockies for a great workshop. I'm exhausted and I have to be up early to catch my bird back to Atlanta. More later.
The photo above was shot after Midnight. Great skies today and tonight!
Cheers, Zack
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Gator Baseball Preparing for Super Regional
After sweeping through with three-straight wins in its own NCAA Gainesville Regional, #9 Gator baseball team (42-20) will host #17 Southern Miss (38-24) in a best-of-three series at McKethan Stadium this weekend. The winner will advance to the NCAA College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, that begins on Saturday, June 13. The Golden Eagles beat host Georgia Tech twice to claim the Atlanta Regional, including a 12-8 victory on Monday in a winner-take-all showdown.
The series opener will be on Saturday at 3pm. Game two will be at 7pm on Sunday on ESPN2, with the third and deciding game to begin at either 1 or 7 pm on Monday if necessary.
Florida and Southern Miss have met just once before on the diamond, a 3-1 victory by the Golden Eagles on April 18, 1990, as part of the Diamond Club Classic in Mobile, Ala. USM is an even 2-2 against Southeastern Conference opponents in 2009, splitting a pair of meetings with Magnolia State rivals Ole Miss and Mississippi State.
The Gators will be making their third Super Regional appearance in school history, all in the past six years. UF was swept in Coral Gables, Fla., in 2004 by Miami and then rebounded the following season to oust Florida State in two games in Gainesville to punch its first ticket to Omaha in seven years. Southern Miss will be playing in the Super Regional round for the first time in school history.
In its Regional opener last Friday, top-seeded Florida rallied from a 7-5 deficit with three runs in the bottom of the ninth to stun fourth-seeded Bethune-Cookman, 8-7. The Gators defeated second-seeded Miami (Fla.), 8-2, in a winner's bracket matchup on Saturday and then dominated the Hurricanes on Sunday night, 16-5, to secure their seventh Regional title.
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Prince Edward Island is floating a plan to delay the launch of an expanded Canada Pension Plan to 2018 in a bid to forge a consensus among the provinces, and to push the federal government to act in reforming retirement benefits.
Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty played host to his provincial and territorial colleagues at a dinner Sunday night at the Governor-General's guest house in Ottawa.
The casual discussion will be followed by a day-long meeting Monday at Meech Lake, in Quebec's Gatineau Park, with CPP reform at the centre of the agenda.
Ottawa and the provinces have been debating CPP reform at their annual meetings since at least 2009, usually concluding with promises to study the idea further.
Changing the CPP requires the support of Ottawa and two-thirds of the provinces representing two-thirds of the population. Over the past five years, the positions of Ottawa, Alberta and Quebec have shifted at times – making it unclear whether the required level of support exists.
After last year's finance ministers' meeting, PEI and Ontario put forward a plan to begin increasing both CPP benefits and contributions starting in 2016. Now, PEI Finance Minister Wes Sheridan plans on suggesting 2018 as a start date, part of a push by several provinces to pin down Mr. Flaherty as to when exactly the Canadian economy will be strong enough to support an increase to the Canada Pension Plan.
For his part, Mr. Flaherty is saying he is open to debating the question, but is remaining non-committal. "My view has always been that we need to make sure that the economy is stable and we have stable, solid economic growth before we impose more and more taxes on people because it's basically "a payroll tax," said Mr. Flaherty Sunday. "We have to be cautious about that, but I'm open to the discussion."
One factor that could change the dynamic of the meeting is that Quebec has adopted a new position that is clearly supportive of an expanded CPP. "We are in favour of moving forward for a gradual and fully capitalized improvement of our public regimes," said Quebec Finance Minister Nicolas Marceau.
When the country's finance ministers met last December, they agreed to look at specific triggers – such as a lower unemployment rate or a higher rate of economic growth – that would be used to show the economy was strong enough to absorb some of the negative economic effects of higher CPP premiums. In recent weeks, Ottawa's position on CPP has hardened considerably. Federal Conservatives say now is not the time for change because the economy isn't strong enough.
Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa points out that Mr. Flaherty's own forecasts expect the economy to be significantly stronger in the years ahead. "If we only start dealing with it then, then you're back into another economic cycle and another downturn and next thing you know we're just kicking the can down the road and hoping somebody else will deal with it," he said in an interview.
Alberta Finance Minister Doug Horner told The Globe Sunday that he is open to that discussion and doesn't think Ottawa has completely shelved the idea. "I don't think it's died from where it was last year," he said.
Nova Scotia Finance Minister Diana Whalen, attending her first federal-provincial meeting of finance ministers, said she plans on listening to both sides of the debate over enhancing the CPP. "We're interested, but we're not on board yet," said Ms. Whalen. In the run up to Monday's meeting, those advocating both for and against a CPP increase have intensified their campaigns. Mr. Flaherty's former policy adviser, Sean Speer, co-authored a commentary for the Fraser Institute arguing there is not a broad savings problem when assets like home values are taken under consideration.
"As finance ministers prepare to meet to discuss a CPP expansion, they should consult the available evidence which does not support claims of a retirement crisis," wrote Charles Lammam and Mr. Speer.
Meanwhile, Canadian Labour Congress President Ken Georgetti said if ministers do nothing, younger Canadians will be forced down the road to subsidize those who aren't saving enough. "If we don't pay now, we'll pay far more later," he said. "Those without adequate pension retirement incomes will be dependent on the government's Old Age Security and the Guaranteed Income Supplement. … That's an intergenerational tax transfer to young people. They'll bear the brunt of our inaction."Report Typo/Error
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Join the most comprehensive and popular Angular 2 course on Udemy, because now is the time to get started!
From Setup to Deployment, this course covers it all! You'll learn all about Components, Directives, Services, Forms, Http Access, Authentication, Optimizing an Angular 2 App with Modules and Offline Compilation and much more – and in the end: You'll learn how to deploy an application!
But that's not all! This course will also show you how to use the Angular 2 CLI and feature a complete project, which allows you to practice the things learned throughout the course!
And if you do get stuck, you benefit from an extremely fast and friendly support – both via direct messaging or discussion. You have my word! 😉
With Angular 2 being in release candidate phase and almost released, now is the time to jump in and take the advantage of being amongst the first to fully use the power and capabilities Angular 2 offers! Learn all the fundamentals you need to know to get started developing Angular 2 applications right away.
This course will be kept up-to-date to ensure you don't miss out on any changes once Angular 2 is finally released!
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Absolutely fantastic tutorial series. I cannot thank you enough. The quality is first class and your presentational skills are second to none. Keep up this excellent work. You really rock! – Paul Whitehouse
The instructor, Max, is very enthusiastic and engaging. He does a great job of explaining what he's doing and why rather than having students just mimic his coding. Max was also very responsive to questions. I would recommend this course and any others that he offers. Thanks, Max!
As a person new to both JavaScript and Angular 2 I found this course extremely helpful because Max does a great job of explaining all the important concepts behind the code. Max has a great teaching ability to focus on what his audience needs to understand.
This Course uses TypeScript
TypeScript is the main language used by the official Angular 2 team and the language you'll mostly see in Angular 2 tutorials. It's a superset to JavaScript and makes writing Angular 2 apps really easy. Using it ensures, that you will have the best possible preparation for creating Angular 2 apps. Check out the free videos for more information.
Why Angular 2?
Angular 2 is the next big deal. Being the successor of the overwhelmingly successful Angular.js framework it's bound to shape the future of frontend development in a similar way. The powerful features and capabilities of Angular 2 allow you to create complex, customizable, modern, responsive and user friendly web applications.
Angular 2 is faster than Angular 1 and offers a much more flexible and modular development approach. After taking this course you'll be able to fully take advantage of all those features and start developing awesome applications immediately.
Due to the drastic differences between Angular 1 and Angular 2 you don't need to know anything about Angular.js to be able to benefit from this course and build your futures projects with Angular 2.
Get a very deep understanding of how to create Angular 2 applications
This course will teach you all the fundamentals about modules, directives, components, databinding, routing, HTTP access and much more! We will take a lot of deep dives and each section is backed up with a real project. All examples showcase the features Angular 2 offers and how to apply them correctly.
Specifically you will learn:
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This is an evolving course! Angular 2 currently is in beta and this course will therefore be expanded and reflect futures currently not fully implemented or documented. You won't lose out on anything!
Don't lose any time, gain an edge and start developing now!
Let me introduce myself as well as this course.
The most important question first: What is Angular 2? This lecture will give you an overview what Angular 2 actually is, why you would use it and what its advantages are.
Time to get started, let's create an Angular 2 project and our first app!
Don't want to use the CLI or got problems with it? Try this project.
It's nice to have an automatically-created application, but it would be nicer if we could also change something in the code. Well, let's do that then.
What did the CLI actually create there? This lecture explores our project structure.
This course uses TypeScript. Why? What are its advantages? Learn more in this lecture!
Never saw TypeScript before? Let me guide you through the code you saw thus far.
Let's explore what Components actually are and how they work.
How does an Angular 2 app actually get loaded/ started? Let's find out in this video!
What are AppModules? What does the AppModule do? Let's learn more, in this lecture.
We got some options when it comes to using Templates and Styles. Let's see which options that are.
That was a lot – time for a first summary about Components and how the App starts!
One Component is okay, but two is certainly better. Time to learn how to add a new Component to the Party!
Why do I name the Selectors the way I do name them? Because they should be unique! Why? Have a look at this lecture!
Let's add another Component and see how all our components can work together.
This is a must watch! There are some slight changes since I recorded the videos. It's not hard to adjust – but you need to watch this video to learn what you need to do!
Remember the lecture about Styling? I mentioned that Styles are only applied to the Component for which the Styles are defined. How does Angular 2 do this? It's View Encapsulation what you're seeing here! What's that? Learn more in this video.
Components can not only display static content. Indeed they have many ways to render dynamic content. This lecture teaches one way how to display content passed to a Component.
Components, Components, Components… Cool to see all that in Action, but you certainly want to make them a bit more dynamic and flexible, right? Databinding to the rescue! Databinding allows you to let your Template/ View with your Code/ Component Body as well as with other parts of your App.
Databinding #1: String Interpolation. String Interpolation allows you to output text content in your template. You'll use that very often. Learn how it works here.
Databinding #2 & #3: Property Binding & Event Binding. Property Binding & Event Binding allow you to pass data/ fetch data to/ from HTML Elements (DOM Properties & Events) as well as Directives and Components. Learn more about it in this lecture.
Property Binding allows you to pass data INTO something (DOM Properties => HTML Elements, Directives, Components). That's something you'll often use, learn how to implement it in this lecture.
Let's set up our own Property Binding on our own Component!
Event Binding kind of is the opposite of Property Binding. It's all about getting Data OUT of something (DOM Events, Directives & Components). Learn more in this lecture.
Time to create our own Event Binding with our own, custom Event.
There are things to add about Property & Event Binding. This lecture covers those extra information pieces.
Databinding #4: Two-Way Databinding made Angular 1 popular. Angular 2 doesn't use it by default. WHAT??? No problem as you'll learn in this lecture. And you can still use it. Learn that, too, in this lecture.
Components have a Lifecycle which Angular 2 runs through. Learn more about it in this lecture.
Lifecycle theory is great, seeing it in action is even better though. This lecture takes care about this!
How can you work with your HTML Elements in your templates? This lecture explains which easy & quick possibilities of referencing and accessing them Angular 2 offers you.
Let's start working on our course project in this lecture!
Definitely watch this lecture to learn more about required changes.
Let's create the first Component (besides the Root Component) => The Header.
Only seeing a Header isn't that awesome. Let's add another Component to the Party!
The App is taking Shape, but now we're making a big jump and add a couple of other important parts to it!
Time to make everything a bit less static and use Databinding to work with Data in our App.
To finish the first part of the Course Project, we'll add another Component to it.
Components are important. But Angular 2 is not only about Components. And Components are Directives, remember that? What are Directives then? And are there Directives which aren't Components (Answer: Yes!). Learn more about it in this lecture.
Example Time! See some built-in Attribute Directives in Action to understand how they work and what they do!
Built-in Directives are cool, custom Directives are awesome! Learn how to build your own Attribute Directive here. This also shows you how Directives work under the hood.
How do Directives interact with the HTML Elements to which they are applied? Learn it in this lecture!
You may also pass the Event Object when using HostListeners. This Article explains how to do this.
Directives may use Property Binding as well. Learn how to set it up and use it in this lecture.
Structural Directive Time! Learn how to use the built-in ngIf Directive.
Structural Directive Time! Learn how to use the built-in ngFor Directive.
Structural Directive Time! Learn how to use the built-in ngSwitch Directive.
What does the "*" mean in front of all those Structural Directives? This lecture explains what Angular 2 does behind the scenes.
Can we build our own Structural Directives? Yes! This lectures explains how to do that and what happens under the hood.
Let's practice all that Directive stuff in our course project. First, we'll use ngFor to output the ingredients of our recipes.
I think a Custom Directive would also fit in great! Let's build a Dropdown Directive.
A brief introduction to this module
The Chrome Developer Tools offer great Debugging support. This lecture shows how to use the Chrome Debugger with TypeScript code.
Augury is a Chrome Extension which helps you with Debugging Angular 2 Applications. Let's have a look at it in this video.
Components & Directives are important. But until now it's sometimes difficult to connect everything. Also, you might have duplicate code. If only there was a place to centralize certain tasks…
Oh…there is! Learn what Services are and how they work!
Time to see Services in Action, let's build a little Logging Service.
We have Service. How do we use it? We need to inject into the places where we want to use it. What's Dependency Injection? This lecture helps you!
Let's inject our Logging Service from one of the last lectures.
Dependency Injection is really powerful. Learn how you may use it to control the instance it creates for you.
Learn how to set up Application-wide service instances with AppModules.
Sometimes you also need a Service inside a Service. That's of course possible, too. Learn how to inject a Service into a Service here.
Services may also be used to let Components communicate efficiently with each other. Learn more about that in this lecture.
Project Time again! Time to add some Services to it. A Service to manage our Recipes for example.
Or let's also add a Service for our Shopping List.
As explained in the Service Module, Services are also great for Cross-Component Communication. Let's take advantage of that here!
There are some things which can be cleaned up/ improved in our project. Or some missing parts. This lecture takes care about these things.
What is the Angular 2 Router, what does it do and why do we need it? This lecture should help you with these questions.
This module explains how to create Routes in an Angular 2 application.
Time to load our components – otherwise our Routes don't do that much, do they?
There are a couple of options when it comes to creating Navigation Paths. Learn more about them, in this lecture.
Sometimes you don't want a clickable link, but instead trigger a Navigation Action in your Code. Learn more about your possibilities regarding this, in this lecture.
A lot of routes also pass some data to the target component. This lecture explores how to setup Route Parameters.
Passing Parameters is nice, but you also want to extract them, right? Learn more about your possibilities, in this lecture.
Sometimes you only optionally pass some data. That is typically done through Query Parameters. You may learn more about them and how to use them in your routing, in this lecture.
With the latest Router version (rc1), the way you access QueryParams changed. Though the old approach still works for now. Check out this article to learn more.
Passing them is nice – but how to use them? This lecture explores this question.
You learned how to pass Query Parameters using Imperative Navigation. But how do you do it using Links (routerLink)? This lecture should help you.
Fragments are another (possible) part of your URL. This lecture shows you how to pass Fragments and also how you can ensure your active Query Params and Fragments to persist upon a URL change.
You want to use a Fragment in your Code? This article quickly explains how to extract it.
We got Routing. That's great! But sometimes you want to use some nested Routes. This lecture shows you how to do that.
You may also redirect certain requests to other routes. Learn more about it, in this lecture.
Showing the user where he currently is in your application is very important. Therefore, Angular 2 helps you with that by allowing you to place your own CSS classes on currently active Route Links.
There's one adjustment you need to make, to use Guards with AppModules. Let's see which one that is.
Guards help you to control Route Access. This lecture teaches you how to control who's allowed to access a Route / Component, using the CanActivate Guard.
Guards help you to control Route Access. This lecture teaches you how to control who's allowed to leave a Route / Component, using the CanDeactivate Guard.
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Starting web development on the backend (PHP with Laravel, NodeJS) I also became more and more of a frontend developer using modern frameworks like Angular 2 or VueJS 2 in a lot of projects. I love both world nowadays!
As a self-taught developer I had the chance to broaden my horizon by studying Business Administration where I hold a Master's degree. That enabled me to work in a major strategy consultancy as well as a bank. While learning, that I enjoy development more than these fields, the time in this sector greatly improved my overall experience and skills.
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The four men's soccer staff members are predicting four different nations to win the World Cup.
Men's Soccer Signs Clark, Hay, Krovel and Garcia
Cincinnati-area high school All-Americans Jack Clark and Christian Hay joined by Norwegian Vebjorn Krovel and junior college All-American Alejandro Garcia.
During his time at Cincinnati, part of McNally's coaching responsibilities have included leading UC's international recruiting efforts. His products have paid immediate dividends on the field, highlighted by Norwegian Vebjorn Krovel earning American Athletic Conference All-Rookie Honors and a spot on the TopDrawerSoccer.com National Top 100 Freshmen list in 2014 after starting every match on the back line for the Bearcats.
As a head coach at Montana State-Billings (NCAA Division-II), McNally had an overall record of 71-63-10 in eight years at the helm of the Yellowjacket program and led the team to five winning seasons. He completed his tenure in Billings as the all-time leader in coaching wins and the only men's soccer coach to record a winning season in the 19-year history of the program. During his tenure as the head coach at Montana State – Billings, McNally recruited the 2009 NCAA D-II Daktronics National Player of the Year and the 2007 and 2009 Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) Conference Player of the Year. Under his direction, the Yellowjackets also received the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Team Academic Award five consecutive years (2007-11). He also served as chair of the MSUB Soccer Facility Steering Committee, which raised over $450,000 for the school's soccer facility.
Prior to his stint at Montana State-Billings, McNally spent four years as an assistant coach at NCAA D-II Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where his responsibilities included recruiting, fundraising, coordinating travel and coaching. During his time in Ft. Lauderdale, McNally helped Nova Southeastern to an overall record of 54-17-8 which stands as the most successful period in the program's recent history.
McNally's playing career initially started in England, where he was a youth academy player for the English Premier League's Blackburn Rovers from 1990-93. From 1993-94, he played for the England Independent Schoolboys National U-16 team, taking the pitch alongside Chelsea and England star Frank Lampard. He then signed as an apprentice professional player with Bury FC (League 2) where he played in the reserves (2nd team) as a 17 year old.
McNally then came to the United States to play collegiately at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. With Embry-Riddle, he earned NAIA Honorable Mention All-America Honors, while also twice earning first team All-Florida Sun Conference honors and earning a pair of team most valuable player awards. In 1999, as a senior, he captained the Eagles to the Florida Sun Conference regular season championship. Before the start of his coaching career McNally played for 2 seasons in the Professional Development League (PDL). In 1999 he played for the Orlando Nighthawks and in 2000 he played for the Palm Beach Pumas.
He has been an active member of the NSCAA. McNally served as the NSCAA technical director of soccer coaching for Montana (2008-12). He received the NSCAA Premier License (2010), NSCAA Advanced National Diploma in (2005) and NSCAA National Diploma in (2003). He passed both his National and Advanced National Diplomas with distinction. In addition, McNally coached for the Magic City Soccer Club (2006-12) in Billings. During this time, his club teams won five Montana state championships.
McNally received his bachelor's degree in communications from Embry-Riddle in 2000 and his master's of education in school counseling from Montana State-Billings in 2012. He and his wife, Jennifer, have two sons, Liam and Kellan.