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Rush Limbaugh held forth yesterday on the subject of Robin Williams's suicide. Most of his critics are seizing on one aspect of what Limbaugh said -- that the Williams suicide was linked to a left-wing "worldview" of "pessimism and darkness" -- but I think Digby was right to refer to Limbaugh's pronouncement as "Palinesque word salad." It's not just hateful -- it's hateful and incoherent. A sample:
Now, what is the left's worldview in general? What is it? If you had to attach not a philosophy but an attitude to a leftist worldview, it's one of pessimism and darkness, sadness. They're never happy, are they? They're always angry about something. No matter what they get, they're always angry. ....This comes shortly after an even more incoherent rant from Palin herself, on her new TV channel, in response to an Elizabeth Warren speech calling for better pay for fast-food workers:
He had it all, but he had nothing. He made everybody else laugh but was miserable inside. I mean, it fits a certain picture, or a certain image that the left has. Talk about low expectations and general unhappiness and so forth....
Well, that is a constant measurement that is made by political leftists in judging the country. It's outcome-based education: 2 + 2 = 5. "That's fine until the student learns it's 4. We're not gonna humiliate the student by pointing out that he's wrong. If he figures it out, cool. We're gonna take the fast learners and we're gonna slow them down so that they don't humiliate the kids that don't learn as fast as they do. It's just not fair."
"We believe"? Wait, I thought fast food joints...huh. Don't you guys think that they're like of the Devil or somethin'? That's what -- Liberals, you want to send those evil employees who would dare work at a fast-food joint that ya just don't believe in, thought you wanted to, I dunno, send them to Purgatory or somethin' so they all go vegan and, uh, wages and picket lines, I dunno, they're not often discussed in Purgatory, are they? I dunno, why are you even worried about fast-food wages because.... Well, we believe an America where minimum-wage jobs, they're not lifetime gigs, they're stepping stones...."
But possibly the most incomprehensible right-wing rant I've encountered in the past couple of days is this one, from ex-Navy SEAL and current NRA spokes-hunk Dom Raso, which is a couple of months old but was plugged on Twitter this morning:
It's no secret that most liberals want and love peace. Guess what? I'm not a liberal, but I want peace, too. I'd love for the world to have less tragedy in it. I'd love for American citizens to never have to fear someone shooting up their workplaces. I'd love to leave my doors unlocked because I know I'll never have to face an intruder. And I'd love to be able to send my kids to school knowing they're absolutely safe.So, um ... what? The enemy of all True Patriots is ... Facebook? Or craft beers? Or pot? (Because we know no one but a liberal ever smoked a pipe with something other than tobacco in it, just as all of Facebook is liberal.) And I guess if everyone in the free world had a private arsenal, not only wouldn't there have been a 9/11, there wouldn't have been a Madrid train bombing, or the 7/7 attacks in London, or the Boston Marathon bombing, or any attempts at blowing up airplanes or Times Square with explosives, because open-carried handguns and AR-15s would have prevented all of that. Right? And liberals don't call for gun control because of school and workplace massacres, or an epidemic of routine shootings, but to appease the terrorists. Have I made some sense of this rhetorical mess?
Every true warrior wishes for peace. Unfortunately, that's not the world we live in. I don't care how many love and harmony parades you've walked in, I don't care how many Facebook posts you've made about guns being evil, or how many ying-yang [sic] bracelets you've wrapped around your wrists.
Put down the peace pipe for a second. Right now, all over the world, dangerous people are dreaming up new ways to kill you. I'm not talking about crazy people. I'm talking about the most cold-blooded calculated killers you can imagine, ruthless people who wake up every day hating the fact that you're alive, hating that our country exists.
Did you know that? Or do you only think about the things that directly affect your life? It's easy to walk back in the kitchen and pop open your microbrew and get distracted checkin' Facebook to see what your friend had for dinner and forget about the world's realities, because obviously there are much more interesting things going on. Yeah, that's what I thought.
Wake up, America. You think taking guns away from people like me is gonna make our enemies hate us less? You think they're gonna wake up one day and go, "You know what? Cancel that attack. They got rid of the Second Amendment"? Hell, no.
I've had the great fortune to travel and see places all over the world. It's a dangerous place. There are people everywhere who are determined to harm others -- especially determined to harm people from a country that enjoys greater freedom than theirs: America. It's no fun to think about, but it's the truth.
Of cxourse I'd love to have peace. But that's only possible in a dream world. I want to be able to protect myself and my family from people who threaten us -- and that means I'm keeping my guns.
I think I know what's going on. Day in and day out, right-wingers are are fed so many negative impressions of liberals, on so many subjects, from our ideas to our leisure choices to our purchasing preferences, that when they think about us they're filled not merely with rage, but with multi-level rage. Robin Williams makes them think about "outcome-based education"! Elizabeth Warren sticking up for low-paid workers at McDonald's makes them think of our tyrannical anti-meat-ism! And pretty much everything makes them think of us as pusillanimous hippie pothead metrosexual effeminate hedonists!
At this point, it's like the end stage of a celebrity drug addiction, where the addict is not just hoovering up powdered drugs but washing them down with Jack swilled by the liter and chasing all that with weed, prescription painkillers, bath salts, and hallucinogenic plant derivatives\. It's not enough for these guys to be angry at us concerning one thing at a time. THEY NEED MORE.


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During our earlier unboxing review of the new OnagoFly 1Plus drone, we promised to flight test it and that is precisely what we completed today. Continue reading OnagoFly 1Plus Drone Flight Test Review (Part 2)
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OnagoFly 1Plus Drone Unboxing Review (Part 1)
OnagFly struggled with their first attempt at a small-scale autonomous drone but are about to launch their next model; named the OnagoFly 1Plus, and we have been sent one to test. Continue reading OnagoFly 1Plus Drone Unboxing Review (Part 1)


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Skiing on high quality groomed trails on the Grand Mesa requires modern and capable equipment. With this in mind, GMNC launched the Capital Equipment Reserve Fund (CERF) in 2014. Through the generous contributions of members and the Jean Thomas Lambert Foundation, GMNC was able to purchase a new Pisten Bully 400 in December, 2016. As a result, we have enjoyed a quantum leap in quality of grooming and exceptional ski experiences.
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Queen Ann Nzinga Center, Inc. presents its annual Music from the African Diaspora concert at 7 p.m. on July 25 at the Theater for the Performing Arts at the Learning Corridor in Hartford.
Nzinga's Daughters headlines the show, and other performers are Third Tabernacle Choir, Nzinga's Daughters R&B Band, Changes, Relentless, Crystal Blue Project and the world-renowned soul singer Betty Harris. David Mayes of Plainville, who mentors young vocalists in the Queen Ann Nzinga Center programs, will perform a solo. The free concert is geared to all ages, and children are welcome.
"We create a place for people to come together to sing, dance and experience the music. We are all transformed – the artists, the audience, the community, the world. The show invites active audience participation," said Dayna R. Snell, L.C.S.W., the concert's musical director. "Everyone wants in and we want everyone to be a part of this good time."
This year, concert goers will enjoy a preview of Betty Harris performing with back-up singers she has mentored from the Queen Ann Nzinga Center's Watoto program. Two of them will be traveling to Spain this summer to perform with Harris at the Euro Ye Ye soul music festival, where Harris is the headliner. Aaleya Hardy, 18, of Bristol, Sabrina Jones, 12, of East Hartford, and Dillyn Caruso, 18, of Plainville, will perform at the Music from the African Diaspora concert with Harris; and Hardy and Savannah Freitas, 16, of Plainville, will join Harris on stage at the four-day festival, along with Snell, executive director of the Queen Ann Nzinga Center.
Doors to the theater at 359 Washington St. open at 6 p.m., and prior to the concert, artwork and photography will be sold at a silent auction to benefit the Queen Ann Nzinga Center's youth arts and enrichment programs. For information, contact Queen Ann Nzinga Center at email@example.com or 860-229-8389.


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If you've been following this column in recent months, you'll know that we've been discussing the six Essentials of Leadership; six things that are essential for every leader who wants to be a fruitful leader.
But I need to come clean, I've been deceiving you all this time! (Sorry Lord!) Because this is part seven, though it is not the seventh essential of leadership - it is the essential of leadership that pervades all six of these essentials. It is the foundation of, the reason for and the result of all leadership.
What is it? Hope. Hope is the thing the permeates and encompasses every other leadership essential. Hope is the driving force that keeps us leading our young people when it would be so much easier to throw in the towel, and the result of our persistence when we resolve to keep going. Hope.
What does our relationship with God give us if not hope? The hope of salvation; the hope of glory; the hope of eternity. The hope that we can be free of the destructive behaviours that once restricted us, the sinful patterns that imprisoned us. The hope that we can have life, and have it to the full. The equation is simple: The closer to God we are the more hopeful we become!
Did you know that 'hope' is one of the three things that Scripture instructs us to be 'overflowing' in? 'Be overflowing with confident hope!' (Romans 15:13). That's why I believe for the leader, hope is not a personality trait, but a spiritual discipline.
What is one of the first signs that our spiritual disciplines have faltered; or that we are too busy - that we are failing in our self-leadership? Is it not that we begin to lose hope? And instead of being hopeful we find ourselves becoming cynical.
But as a leader, if you find yourself thinking cynical thoughts about another person, or the church, or even the institution, that thought should set alarm bells ringing in your heart - and not that there is something wrong with them, but there is something wrong with you.
Cynicism in intellectually cowardly. It takes no courage what-so-ever to tear down other people's activities on social media with a sceptical remark. It takes no creativity to sit on the sidelines and poke holes in things that others are working so hard to accomplish.
And yes, maybe they're making some mistakes. No, they don't have it all right. But at least they're giving it a go! Cynicism is the enemy of hope. You must ruthlessly eliminate cynicism from your life. It's a self-leadership responsibility.
Is it not the great privilege of a leader to see something in our young people that they do not see in themselves and to call it out of them? To encourage them by saying, 'I can see this in your future, I believe God has great plans for you,' and to see hope rise in their hearts because of the words you have spoken to them?
In our communication with our young people - our mentoring, our preaching and our Bible studies - may the result be they leave feeling more hopeful than when they came.
What is vision if not believing in a better future? The hope that things can be better tomorrow than they are today, and the faith that it is not an impossible dream, but a potential reality. Vision is all about hope!
Why do we act? Why do we work hard? Why do we consistently serve Jesus and do this youth ministry thing that we do regardless of the paycheck (or lack thereof!) at the end of it all?
Is it not because we hope that God can do something special in the lives of others through us? Is it not that we hope our young people will authentically encounter Jesus for themselves and build a lasting relationship with him? Is it not because we hope for a better world? Is it not because we hope for his kingdom to come and his will to be done on earth as it is in heaven?
We act because we have hope, and we put our hand to that which we hope for.
I conclude this series by saying, leadership is all about hope. Simply put, if you inspire hope in others to dream more, learn more, do more and to become more, then you are a leader.
Tim Alford lives in Malvern with is wife Jen, son Tobijah and daughter Aria.
He is the National Director of LIMITLESS, the youth movement of Elim Pentecostal Churches in the UK and Ireland. He is a passionate communicator of the gospel, having spoken at churches, conferences, schools and events all over the world. Tim is the former frontman of [dweeb], a frustrated supporter of Arsenal, and has on more than one occasion been to the cinema in Star Wars fancy dress.


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Books are a great way to make history come alive for kids. There are so many stories behind the American Revolution, and there are lots of wonderful children's books that explore the people and events that shaped a nation. This list explores the men and women who changed history, as well as some curious stories that kids may not have heard before.
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- American Revolutionary War # 1 – War is Brewing
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- American Revolutionary War #3 – Declaration of Independence
- American Revolutionary War #4 – Freedom at last!
American Revolution Books for Kids
Meet the Men Behind the Revolution
George vs. George: The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides was written and illustrated by Rosalyn Schanzer. This book introduces the Revolutionary War through a comparison of the two Georges at the forefront: King George III and George Washington. The author compares the two men, their lives and their beliefs, and shows the problems leading up to the war from both viewpoints. This book is a great way to remind kids that there are two sides to every story.
I am George Washington (Ordinary People Change the World) was written by Brad Meltzer and illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos. This early age biography of George Washington introduces readers to the founding father through easy text and cartoon style illustrations. The story follows Washington through childhood, making him relatable to young readers and laying the foundations for the history making decisions he would make in his life.
Paul Revere's Ride was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and illustrated by Ted Rand. This retelling of Paul Revere's story pairs the classic poem with beautifully detailed and vivid illustrations. The lyrical poem pairs well with the illustrations, capturing the reader's attention and encouraging kids to want to learn more.
Those Rebels, John & Tom was written by Barbara Kerley and illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham. This book introduces readers to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The author outlines their many differences, but shows how their similar dislike of King George and their love of the colonies lead them to make history. The illustrations paired with the text are striking, using varying shades of red, white and blue to illustrate the men's lives.
Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? was written by Jean Fritz and illustrated by Tomie dePaola. Meet George, the young boy who will grow up to be King, and see the struggles he faces when the American colonists start to rebel. This book makes King George easily relatable, first introducing him as a young boy. The illustrations are done in dePaola's classic and comforting style, making it easy for kids to enjoy the history in the story.
John, Paul, George & Ben was written and illustrated by Lane Smith. The entertaining book blends fact and fiction as it introduces readers to John Hancock, Paul Revere, George Washington and Ben Franklin. The text is simple and often hilarious, while the illustrations are both nostalgic and entertaining. Adults will find this just as funny as the kids!
The Inspirational Women of the Revolution
Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution was written by Laurie Halse Anderson and illustrated by Matt Faulkner. Meet the strong women and girls who played a large part in the American Revolution in this engaging book. There are lots of women whose actions during the Revolutionary War made a large mark on our history. This book shares their stories, pairing them with entertaining and vivid illustrations.
Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies was written by Cokie Roberts and illustrated by Diane Goode. There are lots of women who affected great change during the time of the Revolutionary War, and this book outlines the lives and accomplishments of some of the women who influenced the outcome. This engaging book includes letters, quotes, interesting tidbits and recipes from the time period, introducing the reader to some amazing women and the men they influenced.
They Called Her Molly Pitcher was written by Anne Rockwell and illustrated by Cynthia von Buhler. This story of the determined Molly Pitcher introduces readers to the brave woman who would become legend during the Revolutionary War. The descriptive text shares her remarkable actions, while the incredible illustrations use texture and color to mimic painting styles of the time period.
The Scarlet Stockings Spy (Tales of Young Americans) was written by Trinka Hakes Noble and illustrated by Robert Papp. This tale follows the journey of a young girl named Maddy Rose who gets involved in the transfer of secret messages to George Washington's army. The suspenseful story is paired with breathtaking illustrations.
Learning about The Boston Tea Party
You Wouldn't Want to Be at the Boston Tea Party!: Wharf Water Tea You'd Rather Not Drink was written by Peter Cook and illustrated by David Antram. This entertaining book puts kids into the shoes of colonists during the start of the Revolutionary War. Through informative text and funny, colorful illustrations, this book gives kids important facts about this time in history while also entertaining them.
The Boston Tea Party was written by Russell Freedman and illustrated by Peter Malone. This beautifully illustrated book introduces readers to the events of the Boston Tea Party. The text explains the event and it's aftermath in great detail, while the incredibly detailed illustrations bring the story to life.
Different Perspectives of the Revolutionary War
Katie's Trunk was written by Ann Turner and illustrated by Ronald Himler. This story follows a young girl named Katie, whose family are Loyalists living in the American colonies. Unlike most books in this genre, this one focuses on the Revolutionary War from the Loyalist side, sharing how Katie was forced to hide in a trunk to avoid rebel soldiers. This book is a great way to introduce the other side of the story.
Samuel's Choice was written by Richard Berleth and illustrated by James Watling. This story follows a young enslaved African American boy named Samuel who finds himself in the middle of the clash between the British and American soldiers. The story gives a new perspective of the war, from the eyes of a young slave, and the illustrations paired with the engaging text are beautiful.
Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak: The Outbreak of the Boston Tea Party Told from Multiple Points-of-View! was written by Kay Winters and illustrated by Larry Day. This book outlines the events of the Boston Tea Party through the point of view of various onlookers in different occupations. The text is written in prose style formatting, paired with richly detailed illustrations.
Interesting Stories from the War
Henry and the Cannons: An Extraordinary True Story of the American Revolution was written and illustrated by Don Brown. While George Washington was camped out in Boston, a determined bookseller named Henry Knox vowed to bring 59 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga – almost 300 miles away. This brilliantly illustrated book tells the reader of his remarkable feat through an engaging text and brightly colored illustrations.
for Liberty!: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution was written by Mara Rockliff and illustrated by Vincent X.
Kirsch. Soldiers at war need food to sustain them, and this story tells of a
baker who provided it, and so much more. This tale follows the journey of
Christopher Ludwick, a German baker who helped George Washington and the rebel
troops. The story is told in an engaging tone, while the illustrations are
heavily inspired by gingerbread.
Learning the Facts
DK Eyewitness Books: American Revolution was written by Stuart Murray. This nonfiction book is full of facts, artwork and photographs, making it a great reference for kids. Each page is stocked full of text, with each photo or illustration paired with informative captions and annotations. From the detailed explanation of the reasons behind the war, to the clear photographs showing the weapons and artifacts from the time period, there is a lot for kids to learn from this one.
The American Revolution for Kids: A History with 21 Activities (For Kids series) was written by Janis Herbert. This book serves as a great reference book for kids, with lots of information about the major players in the Revolutionary War. The book also includes 21 activities to help kids get into the shoes of people living during the time. From reenacting important moments to creating items of their own, kids will get a hands on approach to the Revolution.
Let It Begin Here!: Lexington & Concord: First Battles of the American Revolution was written by Dennis Brindell Fradin and illustrated by Larry Day. This beautifully illustrated book follows the lead up to the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The text is easy to read, pairing well with the incredibly detailed illustrations. The book also includes a breakdown of all the important players during the battle, helping the reader to better understand the story.
Explaining the Constitution
We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States was written and illustrated by David Catrow. This illustrated version of the Preamble to the Constitution, introduces kids to the important text through brightly colored and entertaining illustrations. The author starts the book by breaking down the text of the preamble and explaining the meaning behind each phrase. The illustrations that are paired with the Preamble provide a great opportunity to talk to kids about the ideas that the Founding Fathers had, and the meaning behind the words.


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For most kids, the first day of summer is the ultimate thrill of freedom. But after approximately one day of being out of school for the summer, they start complaining about being bored. Camp Tiger Tails on the Jackson State University campus is the just the right cure for summer time boredom. The wellness camp for ages 5-16, now in its seventh year, offers all-day age-appropriate, yet challenging activities designed to combat poor diet habits and lack of exercise—two major factors in Mississippi's childhood obesity problem.
"It's a fun camp. It offers academics, recreational activities, life skills and a fitness component," says Rachel Cowan, director of the Walter Payton Recreation and Wellness Center.
Campers enjoy both indoor and outdoor activities including games, trips and special events. Past field trips have included outings to the local museums, a Mississippi Braves game, the art museum's Curious George exhibit and other children's events happening in the city.
"(The camp) is run by JSU students," Cowan says. "For the academic part of it, we use elementary education students. For the fitness part of the camp, we use recreation students. So the students are getting trained and experience, and the (campers) are getting quality."
Camp Tiger Tails also hires tennis students or golf students to teach the fundamentals of those sports to the campers. "What we try to do is to expose the kids to sports other than football and basketball," Cowan says. "Because whenever you ask the kids 'What do you guys want to do?,' the kids typically say basketball and football. We try to expose them to a sport that they normally wouldn't be exposed to."
At the end of camp is a big celebration for the kids. This year, other JSU departments will partner with the camp to do a bike rodeo—a clinic to teach children the skills and precautions to ride a bicycle safely.
Camp Tiger Trails runs May 26-June 27. Camp sessions are 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. The cost is $70 per week or $350 for the five-week session. Costs include special activities, arts and crafts, field trips, a camp T-shirt, breakfast, lunch, and two snacks and drinks each day. To register, visit jsums.edu/paytoncenter/youth-services, or call 601-979-1368.
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Agreed, and how nice to get further confirmation from the team that regular strides are to be made:cparmerlee wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2020 2:48 pmI suppose most people would say [realistic playback] should not be the ultimate objective for any notation program. But I suggest it actually should be one of the measurements of success long-term for all the reasons you mentioned... ...Auditioning music (or better yet, evolving music iteratively) is most effective when it sounds realistic. And honestly, we aren't that far off already.... ...What' I'm trying to say is that I agree with what you wrote, but just wanted to point out how far the technology has come already.alindsay55661 wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2020 12:25 amDorico aspires to be more than an exceptional notation tool, it aspires to be an exceptional writing tool. Notation is just the anchor
Dorico has come out of the gates running and done such a great job advancing music writing and publishing. I have already moved most of my workflow into Dorico and look forward to continued improvements in the playback space. Thank you Daniel and team!Daniel at Steinberg wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2020 10:59 amIt's still absolutely our goal that you should ultimately be able to produce a great-sounding mock-up in Dorico without needing to send the project to Cubase... ...Notation software necessitates additional layers of abstraction between the music notation and the resulting MIDI, which I think is always going to be perceived by some users as awkwardness or lack of flexibility. But there is a lot more we can do to develop the software in this area, which we will do, but it cannot and will not come at the expense of balancing the development of features that address other use cases. Playback is just one facet of Dorico's feature set. We cannot do everything at once. But you can expect every version of Dorico to take significant steps forward in the area of both automatic playback and providing more tools for you to shape playback as you wish – just as you can expect it also to include features to improve workflow, make the notation more beautiful, and make it more efficient to produce publication-quality graphical output.


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Content Cloud from Thismoment Turns Marketers into Brand DJs
New Platform Transforms User Generated Content and Existing Digital Assets into Real-Time, Creative Playlists that Enhance Consumer Interaction and Improve Marketing Performance
Mar 04, 2014, 10:33 ET
SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Thismoment, Inc. today took the wraps off of the industry's first open cloud-based content marketing platform designed to make it easy for brands to build and deliver rich content experiences to consumers across any mobile device, brand website or social channel. Thismoment Content Cloud™ is a new SaaS platform that allows major brands to source and mix content into 'playlists' and then share them with consumers to drive higher levels of engagement and marketing ROI across all screens and channels. Content Cloud will be demoed live for the first time in the FleishmanHillard black box Lounge at SXSW from March 7-11th.
A pioneer in the content marketing space since 2010, Thismoment's enterprise-class system has powered digital brand experiences for some of the world's most recognized companies, such as Coca Cola, Microsoft and Kia. Building on this leadership position, Content Cloud is the next generation of content marketing platforms – where brands can create 1-to-1, collaborative story arcs with their consumers.
"Content Cloud empowers marketers to deliver content-rich, responsive experiences that consumers will love and want to come back to over and over again," said Vince Broady, CEO of Thismoment. "We're making it effortless for brands to mix content from any source– whether earned or owned, photos, videos or apps –into dynamic playlists that can be easily shared wherever audiences are. We are excited to bring to market the first truly open end-to-end content marketing platform for our customers."
The average consumer views around 3,000 brand impressions per day across multiple devices and channels, making it harder than ever for brands to attract attention and foster engagement. In addition, brands face the daunting task of turning existing content into engaging, timely programs that look fresh and relevant to today's attention-strapped consumers. Thismoment Content Cloud helps with the following unique features:
- Centralized Content Discovery and Management – through integrations with existing Digital Asset Management Systems, APIs, UGC sources, and cloud-based content systems, brand marketers can access, obtain usage rights and leverage all their branded and user-generated content in one unified view. This allows for faster content discovery and makes it easier to build and produce programs in real time – all while ensuring the enterprise-level governance required by big brands.
- Branded Playlist Creation – enables brand managers to create unique multimedia playlists combining content and apps from the brand, users and agencies. These curated playlists can be easily mixed and reorganized for specific audience segments or even individual users. As a result, enterprises can enable global brand management and program development in real-time and at scale.
- One-Click Sharing Across Mobile Devices and Social Channels – once playlists are created, they are automatically rendered via cards, a mobile-first format that combines consistent display logic with simple social functionality. Cards can be managed and distributed across any consumer device or social channel via a centralized management dashboard. This provides brand managers with great control and minimizes the resources and investments traditionally required by multi-channel marketing programs.
"Thismoment has enabled us to combine the incredible creativity of our loyal customer base with our best owned content to create new, compelling stories across multiple social feeds and devices," said George Haynes, Social and Digital Media Manager for Kia Motors America. "By giving us a simple way to empower customers to contribute to our brand story, we are able to achieve the ultimate user engagement and strengthen brand affinity in entirely new ways."
The Content Cloud platform from Thismoment is now available to existing customers through a gated free trial at www.thismoment.com. The new platform will be generally available to all brands and agencies in early Q2 2014.
About Thismoment:
Thismoment offers the leading content marketing platform for finding, mixing and sharing digital content everywhere. The world's most recognizable brands use Thismoment's platform, Content Cloud, to effortlessly source the best brand and user-generated content, create original brand playlists, and distribute them to cards and feeds that are optimized for every device and social channel. Content Cloud integrates with leading social media and digital asset management systems to seamlessly enable enterprise workflow and collaboration. Hundreds of top brands and agencies choose Thismoment to power their digital marketing programs, including Coca-Cola, Intuit, Kia Motors, Levi's, Lionsgate, FleishmanHillard and Digitas. To learn more visit www.thismoment.com.
Sonia Bercel, Director of Corporate Communications, 415-837-8945, [email protected]
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Guess what? My birthday is coming! And because we'll all have Holiday then, I chose to celebrate it earlier with the girls. We had a perfect night, and I got a perfect present: a black bag. I just love it!
Incetisor se-apropie ziua cea mare, ziua mea! Si pentru ca vom fi in vacanta pe-atunci, am sarbatorit weekendul asta cu fetele. Am avut o seara perfecta, iar eu am primit un cadou perfect: o geanta neagra, care-mi place enorm!
I chose to wear it with my new blazer from H&M, which instantly caught my eye due to its details in the front.
Am ales sa port geanta cu noul meu sacou de la H&M, care mi-a atras atentia imediat, datorita cusaturii din fata.
H&M dress & blazer / Deichman boots / DSUK bag
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Last week we joined industry partners at Rocketspark's Partner Awards. The night ended well with Metro Marketing taking out the award for Best Branding package for The Kollective. Rachel, our Waikato Manager was proud to accept the award on behalf of our Senior Designer Nikita.
The Best Branding package award evaluated the quality of a branding project completed by a Rocketspark Design Partner. Rocketspark cited the clever use of hand drawings and iconography woven through each section of the site as well as the vibrant pops and use of colour adding design interest.
This award is well earned recognition for Nikita who drove this branding project for The Kollective. It's a fantastic result for a project we're really proud of.


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To get satisfied of boat trip the proper safety procedures have to be made.
Power boats are feeling great on the rough sea if you are skilled enough to handle properly it. The most important are to be familiar with powerful engines. When you know how to operate properly, you can sail safely. All the time you have to keep in mind how much fuel is left to reach a shelter in case of sudden weather changes. Never touch to the spare fuel cans, except emergency.
Keeping this in mind, I started my sea voyage from Riga on Baltic to Lowestoft in Great Britain most easterly port as a skipper on the board of Jeanneau Prestige 36 power boat.
It was middle of July 2009. Starting point on Lake Kisezers and heading to first refueling point in Bolderaja on left bank of river Daugava to fill up about 700 liters of diesel oil.
What the coincidence, luck or failure but after first ten minutes the temperature of one engine was critically rising and I had been forced to stop one engine and return to the home pier to check out the failure. I think that it was a very good lesson learned and, at least, I became a bit familiar with the engine room. The failure was a wear of Water Pump Impeller.
It was Saturday morning about 9 o'clock, but I found a local Volvo marine engine dealer and after a speedy car ride to the opposite side of town, in a couple of hours, spending the first €150, two new water pump impellers were on board. It took another hour, and we were ready to sail.
Slightly hurrying forward, I have to say that later I found this impeller in spare parts box on the boat which had already been purchased in the past. It's all because I did not have enough time to explore everything. Luckily, I did not to spend my money.
We filled up our Jeanneau Prestige 36 fuel tanks to the top and passing Riga Freeport breakwaters, the marine adventure has begun.
The weather was 2-3 SE and seas up to 1 meter. Distance to the first stopover in Pavilosta is about 150 n.m. so I decide to check out real comfortable speed and fuel consumption. Maximum speed in calm weather was 30 knots and fuel consumption reaches about 130 lt/hr. It is an emergency maneuver, just to know the digits.
I made my sea voyage legs calculations based on average 18 kn speed and maximum distance between refueling stops 180 n.m. , assuming that it is safe marine calculation.
Running high speeds, we reached the first waypoint (WP) next to Kolka Lighthouse about in 3 hours covering distance for about 65 nautical miles. I enjoyed this marine flying mode. Everything works, and the weather was great.
As an experienced mariner, I was ready for sudden weather changes, even though the weather forecast was regularly updated. It happened, as soon as we entered in the Irbe Strait. The dense fog has reduced the visibility to maximum half a cable (about 90 m). No more high speeds, radar on and keep the sharp look out. It was not new for me as I used to sail such a visibility many times.
So I forgot to mention radar in my first boat overview. Raymarine boat radar, I do not remember a model. I had an experience with boat radars and knew that of them have little benefit for shipping. Only when a ship is at anchor. Anyway, big targets as merchant ships or big fishing boats could be spotted on screen.
And then I realized a real lack of AIS (Automatic Identification System) transponder. Today almost all boat owners have fitted his pricey boats with AIS, which are widely available even in Amazon.
Today almost all coastline is covered with volunteer private Marine Traffic AIS. So, as far as you have smartphone internet connection an AIS equipped ships are visible on the phone screen. But it was about six years ago, and AIS has just SOLAS ships and even fishing boats has no such a great safety tool.
Nowadays a situation is much better. EU regulations have forced owners of the commercial fishery boats, to equip their vessels with an appropriate AIS equipment. Mainly because for checking fishing restrictions and violations. It helps to increase the safety of navigation as fishermen's frolicking sailing habits are well known.
Now let's resume our sailing to Pavilosta. I kept clear of shipping lanes and navigate with safe speed about 6 to 8 knots. Luckily fog was disappeared in an hour, and we still had a chance to reach our destination until 11 PM after Gas Station is closed.
Pāvilosta district is like unpolished amber, lying on the west coast of the Baltic Sea. The salinity of the sea, the brilliance of the sun, and the rustle of the wind glistens in its shade.
Take it in your hand, and you will feel its tranquillity and calmness. How very light, unconstrained and relaxing it all is!
Have a look at it, and you will see the white sandy beaches, stately pine forests, and the old fishermen's houses, which are still surrounded by the smel of the smoked fish.
Listen and hear the winds play with the waves throwing them against the seashore, and the gray stony jetties that stand there to protect the mouth of the River Saka.
Get to know it, and it will reveal the ancient fishermen's traditions, the nature of tenacious seamen, pride and grandeur of peasants, skills of craftsmen and hositality of tourism entrepreneurs.
Each edge of this amber reveals something new, interesting and exciting. Draw its strength, energy and healing power.
Put it in your pocket, and take it along! (www.pavilosta.lv/en)
Next hours were ordinary navigation mode, just adjust autopilot to ease my job. In reality, properly adjusted autopilot in more or less good weather can execute a splendid fuel saving navigation.
We entered Pavilosta harbor in time and immediately started refueling. In an hour tanks were full again, and we were ready to go. Previously, we thought that not sailing in a dark time, but, taking into consideration the relatively good weather and lost time for repair, I decided that we can go in the night I had already trained guys with autopilot operation and had hoped that I will be able to sleep a little.
The next stop Leba, Poland. Distance about 180 n.m. and the longest leg and most offshore one. Luckily wind direction was favorable E-NE and keeping speed about 15 knots I hoped to reach Poland before midday.
The only I worry a bit was fishing boats and nets. Although such a high seas fishing nets are usually not spotted and, as I checked before, our route is not crossing an active fishing zone.
Everything was as we thought and I had an opportunity to sleep for about six hours.
The Polish Border Guards
We crossed Leba marina breakwaters about at 10 a.m. but suddenly was stopped by the Polish Border Guards. They ordered us to moor at Check Point pier.
"The Baltic Sea town of Leba is located in Middle Pomerania, 110 km from Gdansk, on the right bank of the river from which it takes its name. To the east lies Lake Sarbsko, while to the west is Lake Lebsko. The town is surrounded by beautiful pine woods and has a population of 4,000.
Leba is a health resort with a mild sea climate, with iodine and salt in the air, a high sunshine record, strong winds from the sea as well rapid changes of atmospheric conditions."
I remember it was rather a funny situation. The Guards asked us to show our passports. As soon as they look at them a strange question was asked : "Why Latvian Citizens are sailing under the Germany flagged boat?"
I even did not know what to say, just answered that the boat is registered in Germany, and we have all ownership papers, power boat insurance and other required documents for the boat. Nothing new as it is common practice in maritime business and so on. I was not sure that they understood me clear. None of us speaks Polish, but Polish guys just his tongue. Then they simply gave us back our passports, said nothing and we resume to cover remaining ten minutes trip to Marina fuel pump.
We poured in about 700 liters of fuel and were forced to buy new mooring lines, because my super sailors. They had left them in previous port.
The weather was good, and we were ready to next, very tricky inshore 165 nautical miles' boat trip stage to Stralsund, Germany.
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Barnard Park is Barnsbury's largest green space and a valuable resource for local residents. Bounded by Richmond Avenue, Barnsbury Road, Copenhagen Street and Hemingford Road, the park has a fascinating history and, hopefully, a bright new future. The Friends of Barnard Park is a community organisation dedicated to preserving and developing the park and most of the following is taken from their extensive website.
A brief history
Like much of Islington, the area now occupied by the Barnard Park was originally pastures and pleasure gardens. Believe it or not, the park can claim to be the birthplace of cricket! The White Conduit Club (WCC) was established here, moving in 1794 via Marylebone (MCC) to Lords.
The early 19th century saw a period of intense housing development but unlike neighbouring areas the streets now buried beneath the park – Pulteney Street, Reid Street, Gainford Street and Boxworth Grove – became overcrowded and over the next 100 years suffered a gradual decline. The map below shows the area in 1868. The handsome lady on the right is Ellen Jane Bradbrook, who was born at 10 Pulteney Terrace in 1869. Her father, William Bradbrook, moved there from Thornhill Street, but the family moved to Poplar soon after Ellen was born. Ellen is the great-great-grandmother of Elly(!), now living at Barnsbury Park, who kindly shared this information with us.
Then in December 1940, at the height of the blitz, the area was levelled by enemy bombs and remained as a bombsite for the next 20 years when clearance began. The new park was eventually opened in 1975 and named after Islington Councillor George Barnard.
Barnard Park today and tomorrow
Today, the park boasts several amenities including:
• A large football pitch, now rather dilapidated
• A children's playground
• A larger adventure playground bordering Copenhagen street
• The One O'Clock Club for parents and infants
• And, of course, plenty of grass, trees and plants – the park's volunteer gardeners have won prizes in the Islington in Bloom contest.
But over the years the park has become somewhat run down and the time is right for a major regeneration project. Great news, then, that following several years of consultation and planning, Islington Council are proposing a new "Masterplan" for the park and a final decision will be made at a Council planning meeting at Islington Town Hall on May 9, 7.30pm. Full details of the plan, the consultation process and guidance on attending the meeting can be found here. The Friends of Barnard Park fully support the new plan and so do we at the Cloudesley Association. Watch this space!
The Regeneration Plan - latest developments
In the event, the Barnard Park regeneration plan was approved by the Council at the meeting on May 9, but in a highly unwelcome development, the application has now been "called in" by the Secretary of State following intense lobbying by a group backed by Sport England who want a larger football pitch. The Friends of Barnard Park are therefore urging local residents to support the plan yet again by commenting via this website: https://acp.planninginspectorate.gov.uk (under "Search for a Case", enter case reference number 3183311 then click "Make Representation" to enter your details and make your comments - it's fairly straightforward!). You can read the Friends' arguments for supporting the plan and why it's important to keep fighting for it to go ahead here: http://www.barnardpark.org/news/?p=1439
The Cloudesley Association is firmly in support of the plan. Amanda and Florence recently asked members to vote for or against and the results were overwhelmingly in favour of supporting the application. Here's their email explaining the results:
Dear Residents:
Cloudesley Association – Barnard Park Voting Results
Thank you to everyone who responded to our request to vote earlier this week. Results of the vote are as follows:
• We received 33 votes (from 24 households) who voted in favour of supporting the application.
• We received 3 votes (from 3 households) who voted against supporting the application.
Consequently, we intend to provide the Association's support to the application.
However, in order to ensure complete transparency, please note that we will articulate to the Secretary of State actual numbers who voted for and against, as well as highlighting the number of residents/households we have email addresses for who did not respond. We will also include some of the comments you kindly provided.
Best wishes
Amanda and Florence
For and on behalf of the Cloudesley Association


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From TV commercials and in-flight entertainment to digital advertising and direct marketing campaigns, All Nippon Airways (ANA) uses video to raise brand awareness, drive customer engagement and online sales, and communicate critical travel information. For Japan's largest airline, video is key to attracting customers to their site, where 90% of domestic airline tickets are purchased. But as their video usage consistently expanded, managing distribution and providing a consistent viewer experience became increasingly difficult.
Hoping to simplify their processes, reduce costs and simultaneously improve the quality of the video experience, ANA moved to Brightcove. Once the airline moved to a single platform for all of its video including mobile and social, Apple TV and Roku, ANA quickly saw results:
ANA has streamlined their video processes, reduced operating costs by 33%, and cut their video upload days in half.
ANA is now able to manage projects that span across multiple teams and partners in a single place, simplifying cross department video production.
- With highly detailed analytics on their videos, they now track increased traffic to its various assets, providing critical feedback on content engagement, viewership and customer reactions.
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10:42am PT by Eriq Gardner
AMC's Talent Deals Will Remain Secret in 'Walking Dead' Profits Fight
Frank Darabont's lawsuit against AMC over The Walking Dead profits won't make public the network's talent deals or its revenue from other shows — at least not in the next round of filings.
During a Friday hearing to determine what will remain confidential in summary judgment papers, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Eileen Bransten allowed a wide range of redactions relating to profits of other AMC shows, talent deals and names of third parties who have been referenced.
Still, the parties had plenty to fight over.
One example: During his deposition, Glen Mazzara (the showrunner who took over for Darabont) spoke about misbehavior on set — involving one individual in particular. Bransten remarked it was "disquieting conduct," but not outside the realm of Hollywood history.
Another example: One document references a merger that AMC is actively negotiating. The network's lawyer said the details could "move the company's stock price."
Bransten won't allow the parties to file excerpts of depositions — she wants all or nothing — so avoiding embarrassment for that person could significantly delay the progress of the case. She gave the lawyers a tongue-lashing for not resolving this stuff.
In an effort to avoid further delay, Bransten suggested the parties should meet on Monday, get comfortable, have some coffee and a Danish or two and come to an agreement.
The legal battle began in 2013. Darabont, co-creator of the massively successful zombie series, was fired during the second season and claims AMC robbed him of contingent profits by producing the series and then licensing it to its cable network affiliate for not enough money.
It was revealed in court Friday that Mazzara, who was also booted from the series, came to his own settlement with AMC — which included language that prohibits him from disparaging the network.
The summary judgment hearing is expected to happen in June.
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The rumoured $400 million cut to the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) budget would be disastrous for Australian science, for the intellectual health and international stature of our leading universities, hospitals and research institutes, and for the personal futures of that bright cadre of young, enthusiastic researchers that has been nurtured here since the significant increases to funding that occurred under recent governments.
Most NHMRC and Australia Research Council-funded researchers have completed 10-12 years of training, including a science honours degree, a PhD and time spent overseas before they receive salary support from what tends to be a five-year, renewable fellowship.
These fellowships, and the research dollars that pay for lab supplies and so forth, are probably the most rigorously reviewed and competitive federal disbursements in the country.
Then there are the dedicated young physicians, who make major financial sacrifices to pursue research-based solutions to major medical problems. Taken together, they place Australia in the cutting-edge, international biomedicine community, and pass on the knowledge that feeds back to give better healthcare and drive real advances - such as the HPV vaccine against cervical cancer in women and the bionic ear, which were developed here. There is a great deal more in the pipeline. Lose the scientists and you lose the discoveries and the investment benefits that follow.
By the time professional researchers achieve any level of stability and success in their early to mid 30s, they have earned very little and are financially way behind their age cohort who went into the law, plumbing, banking or clinical practice. Science has long been a way ''up and out'', and scientists are generally strong-minded, independent spirits who may have already had a very positive experience of working outside Australia. Do we really want to compromise such people, or drive them back to the northern hemisphere? Both US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have done what they can to protect research funding, even though they face much more difficult budgetary circumstances. In addition, unlike the situation in Australia, the US and Britain have many substantial sources of private support, such as the Howard Hughes Institute and the Wellcome Trust. And countries such as Singapore are investing massively and are very happy to hire bright Australians. Top scientists will not stay where they cannot function effectively.
The latest ''Australian'' Nobel prize in medicine (2009) went to Elizabeth Blackburn at the University of California, San Francisco. After a couple of drab experiences in Australia, I spent most of my scientific life in the US. Returning near the end of my career (and I won't be applying for further NHMRC, or other, federal grants), I had thought that political attitudes had changed and that we were finally starting to acknowledge scientific excellence and discovery. Coming from a Labor/government school background, I value the Australian tradition of ''a fair go'', including for those with real intellectual ability.
It would be very dispiriting to see an ALP administration abandon that vision and drive yet another generation of young scientific stars into exile.
Peter Doherty won the 1996 Nobel prize in medicine and was 1997 Australian of the year.


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Your help needed to avoid a fixture backlog
Neal Ardley has called on AFC Wimbledon's supporters to once again do the club proud by helping to get Thursday's Port Vale match on.
With Wimbledon well renowned for the help it receives from its volunteers, manager Neal Ardley is hoping supporters will step forward again to help clear snow from the pitch tomorrow – and avoid a potential fixture backlog.
Speaking to Dons Player, Neal Ardley said: "Myself, 'Coxy' and 'Bass' came down and did some shovelling before the Oxford game, but we kind of wished we hadn't after that result (3-0 defeat). But it is really important to get this one on. If this game gets called off then we will end up with seven games in February and eight in March. That will mean we are playing Saturday, Tuesday for over a whole month. That is not going to help when you are trying to get away from the bottom of the table.
"If everyone does put so much effort into getting it on, then we have to make sure that we put on a better performance than we did last time. Hopefully, we can carry some momentum from our last three games into this match. It is live on Sky and we are playing against the side at the top of the table so hopefully that will bring the best out of us."
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Leader of men is a trope that hasn't been true in years, if ever.
Immoral people can be excellent at coaching a sport, as good men can be bad at it, and there's nearly no direct correlation that the morality play of sports people want so badly to be true has any other impact on events than as to how we weave a story.
Brian Kelly needs not worry about people enumerating his great feats of positive reinforcement or putting forth a false set of altruistic traits that would leave a prom date's father salivating over the possibilities.
Notre Dame hasn't exactly been celebrated as the gold standard for conduct under Kelly. There was the death of student manager Declan Sullivan in 2010, Kelly's first season, for which UND was cited for violations. There have been high-profile instances of academic fraud, the most notable involving 2012 starting quarterback Everett Golson. Kelly's also been criticized for his sideline demeanor, which he defended last falling by saying, "I'm just being Brian Kelly."
He enters the 2017 on the mythical hot seat, if college football previews are correct — but not for any of the above. If Brian Kelly were having more success at his job, his role overseeing all this would be easily be overlooked.
This isn't abnormal in any level of sports. Rick Pitino has a plethora of scandal left in his wake. He also happens to be one of the best college basketball has ever seen, to the point he is essentially the John Gotti of the sport. Pitino has become the Teflon Don whenever issues arise.
Examples lie everywhere. By most accounts, Bobby Petrino isn't exactly the next Pope Francis, yet he is swell enough at his profession that all those missteps — pursuing an Auburn job that wasn't open, leaving the Atlanta Falcons in a questionable way, hiring his mistress to a position in the Arkansas athletic department — are swept under a rug; Dave Bliss, whose star dimmed in one of college sports' most heinous episodes, landed another coaching gig; and so on.
Obviously, each level of sleaze is different for each coach and their given situations. Kelly has never had 13 of the most embarrassing seconds ever spent at a chain restaurant like Pitino, nor has he been a key figure in the midst of an attempt to cover-up murder like Bliss.
He is, however, still burdened with a pile of baggage that might make Notre Dame fans feel uneasy while watching him coach their favorite team.
The Ohio State basketball program recently let go of a known good coach in Thad Matta. From every corner of the college basketball community, not only was Matta's coaching acumen praised, but so too were his endearing personality traits.
As touched on here, the latter of the two doesn't matter all that much – though, it can be argued, with a dash of his previous success also factoring in, that it is partially what inspired Gene Smith to give him a last chance on the recruiting trail before letting him go in the late stage of June.
During the press conference that announced Matta's departure, Smith cited something that many athletic directors fail in realizing when it comes to evaluating their coaches. That, sometimes, you just know when it is time to part ways with a coach – even if that coach is liked, otherwise successful and history says an AD should wait another season.
To be Camp Crystal Lake Clear: Brian Kelly has nowhere near the football-equivalent resume of Thad Matta. The latter has two Final Four appearances under his belt, as well as a handful of Big Ten titles. Kelly's claim to fame, outside of succeeding in lower levels of football, is taking a Notre Dame roster to the BCS Championship game and getting embarrassed by the Alabama Crimson Tide.
That was five years ago. A time when Kelly's misgivings can be looked over because of the potential for greatness he was presumably bringing to the Fighting Irish.
Since that 2012 season?
Notre Dame has a 31-20 record over the course of those four maligned seasons, with 10 of those wins coming over the course of one season (2015).
It has been so bad that at the end of last season people were willing to accept Notre Dame firing Kelly without there being much backlash. After all, a 4-8 season isn't par-for-the-course. Not at Note Dame. Not at most any university looking to compete at a national level.
Having a quarterback, DeShone Kizer, who some projected to be a first-round draft pick in the preseason, didn't help matters either. Going 4-8 is bad enough. But doing so while "experts" expected greatness from the most important position on the football field would be like going from Alien and Aliens to Alien Resurrection. It just doesn't mesh with what is supposed to happen.
Formerly considered a quarterback-whisperer – Tony Pike, Ben Mauk, etc. all helping in making it so – he failed in utilizing and getting the most out of the best gunslinger he's ever coached. An expert in a specific position, supposedly, failing to peak when he's acquired the best? Maybe he's not as much a great quarterbacks coach as he is a solid designer of offensive systems – a trait great for lower-tiered football, not so much for big, bad Notre Dame.
After the season was over, when Kizer decided to turn pro and well after Malik Zaire got out of dodge, Kelly went on the radio to discuss how Kizer was not ready for the NFL.
To be fair to Brian Kelly, the backlash that came was a result of the quotes being advertised without context. There was more to it than some bitter man hurling his former QB under the boss. Still, the coach should have known better.
He's a man who should know people have long grown tired of his sideline antics. A coach who people still point blame towards after the tragic events during a windy practice in 2010. A 55-year-old wannabe leader of men who has no public perception of leading and developing kids into men; or the behavior that would suggest either are in his future.
Also, he appears not to be the other-worldly football coach Notre Dame was hoping for when the university originally hired him.
Fair or not, realistic or not, Notre Dame believes itself as a sleeping giant.
Year-in and year-out we hear versions of a Fighting Irish team attempting to stir the echoes of previous greatness. It eludes the program season-after-season, but it hasn't stopped everyone involved from trying like hell to recapture the glory days of yesteryear.
Coaches with far less concerns than Kelly were granted much shorter leash. People can argue about the why and how for that, and it is mostly unimportant in this specific hot-seat discussion, though that context should trouble people within the Notre Dame bubble for the upcoming season.
For one reason or another, not all deserved, Kelly has magically been given the benefit of the doubt. That he would, at some point, figure something out that every coach since Lou Holtz has failed at.
The Irish have a schedulethat can easily put them in a position to start the season 6-0 heading into their rivalry game against the USC Trojans.
This is a big deal for one monumental reason: If Notre Dame finds itself in that spot, and with a few correct bounces off the ball in its favor, the Fighting Irish fan base can find themselves in a position where the team was just – even if barely – good enough to warrant yet another season of Kelly at the helm.
A never-ending cycle of calamity, uneasy feelings of watching Kelly on the sideline berate players, and football just not good enough to elevate the Irish beyond competence.
This could happen despite most people readily accepting that Brian Kelly is not the right man for the job or a person with the correct temperament to be in charge of young people at a school like Notre Dame . And, hell, I'd make the argument that his temperament doesn't belong alongside any job title in which he's in charge of teenagers and early-20-somethings, at least not unchecked.
Still, the athletic department would have to bring him back because of semantics like being "good enough." That is unless it has the guts and foresight to do something like Gene Smith did with Thad Matta.
Kelly isn't a lame-duck coach. At least not yet and in full.
Considering Notre Dame's track record for off-field tomfoolery, and an inability to be consistently good enough to warrant a head coaching position at a blue-blood program, Fighting Irish fans wouldn't be unwise to actively root against their favorite team for just a singular season — even if it goes against instinct.
It doesn't mean the success-grass is greener on the other side without Brian Kelly. But it sure as hell will be inherently cleaner.


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What's up muthafuckas?!
While you are all trolling the halls of Gen Con you may need some sweet-ass-sweet podcast talk to get you by. At least maybe for that drive home.
In this week's episode Brendan and Ben are winding down from con season and the disastrous LepreCon while you guys are out there enjoying it's zenith. They are joined by the Mysterious Jeff for the first half and then by their homie Keith in the second half. It's our longest episode yet, and really it's pretty not bad. Except for the technical issues we had recording Keith, that was terrible!
We talk about what we've been up to, what's new with our favorite lines and the past, present and future of pulp fiction with our friend Keith Shaw.
Anyway, pull up a chair, crack a beer, paint some models, whatever. Here's to episode 25!
Portrait of a playa: KB Shaw.


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Ladies. Let's have a quick chat. Working with skin conditions and ailments for the past 6 years I have noticed one common trend I would like to bring to your attention. Then I want them eradicated from your home and possession asap. Here they are, in no particular order:
St. Ives Apricot Scrub.
St. Ives Apricot Scrub.
I know, I know, you may have been using this stuff for ages now. I also know that the packaging claims the product contains natural milled walnut powder. Believe me when I tell you this, those milled walnut granules are like tiny sharp fingernails raking across your lovely face. Don't do this to yourself. There are other, more effective exfoliants out there. I will talk about those later in another post. And if you have said other, better exfoliants at home, remember too much of a good thing…sometimes is no longer a good thing. Stop exfoliating daily.
But hey it's not all bad, if you are old school, you can still have your Pond's.
Okay here it is. Drum roll please..the final item I want you to let go of is this:
Your magnifying mirror.
I cannot tell you how many times my female patients come to me and point out some obscure wrinkle or spot or blemish that I have to get close to them to see. Inevitably, as I am squinting at them, I will stop myself and ask "Do you have a magnifying mirror at home?"
They will look a bit sheepish and confess and say "Yes, how did you know?" That is when I say, very gently to them and now to all of you…put this mirror away now. It is not your friend.
Now repeat after me:
No one sees you in real life under magnification.
Save yourself from undue worry about small blemishes that appear larger than life under magnification. If you need it to tweeze or apply makeup, that's okay, by all means help yourself. Uneven eyebrows are not a thing. However stop using this mirror to scrutinize flaws seen in 10x magnification, nothing biologic looks that good blown up except maybe the iris of the eye.
Well, that's it! Just a few things to help save the world and your vanity…ahem sanity. I hope some or all of it was enlightening. Now carry on, as you were.


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