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I can’t choose just one… I love each of these for a different reason and I consider each of them to be perfect :)When things are going bad for the Cowboys, Jason Garrett claps. When they’re going swimmingly, Jason Garrett claps. This consistency, while mocked relentlessly, ensures that opposing sidelines’ are incapable of jacking signals.
Cowboys offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, on the other hand, wears his signals on his sleeve. And he’s reportedly becoming the opponents most valuable asset.
The Saints defense, who held Dak Prescott to zero touchdowns and one interception to hand Dallas its first loss, looked to the first-year offensive coordinator’s past to predict the future.
I was just with the Saints, and players told me that when they played the Cowboys two weeks ago, they went back to look at Boise State tape when Dallas offensive coordinator Kellen Moore played quarterback there and they saw some of the hand gestures and some of the things he liked to do at Boise that he’s incorporated into the Cowboys offense. They were able to pick up some tendencies from that, so now maybe there’s some teams that are getting a read on what Kellen Moore likes to do, and that may be part of the reason why Dak hasn’t had it so easy.
Moore was Boise State’s starting quarterback from 2008 to 2011, so carrying on signals from a decade ago is almost as impressive as it is bold. Speaking of bold, I have no idea why Saints players would divulge this information seeing as there’s a chance they’ll reunite with the Cowboys in the playoffs. As if the Saints needed any help getting boned in the playoffs.
P.S. I would be remiss to write a Boise State post and not include the three most exciting plays in modern college history. The 2007 Fiesta Bowl.
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Once you have prayerfully considered to commit to St Stephens as a member of the church, you should return the completed Declaration Form to the church office to be passed on to the Senior Pastor. Your application will then be considered by the church eldership and you will be informed of the outcome of your application following the next sitting of the Church Council.At YC’s Startup School NYC, Shana Fisher brought up an amazing resource called SCARF.
SCARF stands for Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness and Fairness.
With these five areas, stands positive (approach) and negative (avoid) modes of interacting with people. As the title says, SCARF is based on neuroscience research to correlate human interaction & collaboration with physical brain activity.
When you are being threatened with a SCARF metric, you will perform worse (due to “less oxygen and glucose available for the brain functions involved in working memory“). On the contrary, when you have an opportunity to increase a SCARF metric, you perform better since you don’t have decreased cognitive resources.
There are lots of findings and useful applications, so I encourage you to read about SCARF.
This entry was posted in Culture and tagged autonomy, certainty, fairness, hn, nyc, relatedness, scarf, shana fisher, startup school, status, yc, ycombinator on June 29, 2014 by Rex.
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Earlier this month, I attended a talk at Adorama in NYC that provided great context to Vincent Laforet‘s career. As a photographer who saw the writing on the wall, Vincent transitioned his career from still photography into motion picture.
Vincent’s presentation was statistics heavy and illustrated the amount of content (image and video) that gets produced every day. The future holds even more consumer made content that reduces the role of big media as tastemakers. Also, viewer attention span keeps going down over time.
When Reverie came out in 2008, I assumed that Canon reached out to him to produce it. The reality is that Vincent was at Canon and happened to come across the 5d mk2 prototype. Vincent was rejected several times, but Canon eventually let him borrow it. And history was made.
Vincent said that he takes most (95%) of his photos on his iPhone. As someone who shot for the NYTimes and is a Canon Explorer of Light, I’m surprised he doesn’t use his DSLRs more often. It makes sense since convenience is king, and we always have our phones.
Another point that was brought up during the talk was Constant Photography. Instead of taking THE photo at THE right moment, you could just take a film of ALL the moments and cherry pick the photo that you want. Why would you need a photographer when you have a videographer that does both?
What I got out of Vincent’s talk was that passion and being open to change are important. Vincent could have kept working as a photographer, but changing to a Director/DP was a risky move that paid off in the long run. As a new DP, he doesn’t know everything, but he is able to hire great people with complimentary skills and get it done.
This entry was posted in Photography, Tech and tagged adorama, canon, change, dslr, laforet, nyc, vincent on July 27, 2013 by Rex.
In fact, all of the places whose clientele consists of more than 15 percent luxury spenders are on the Upper East Side, and all are low-key places like Mezzaluna and Bar Italia — not to mention a surprisingly large number of neighborhood sushi spots.
When diners do spend hundreds of dollars on dinner at a restaurant in the East Village (maybe after waiting in line, since no reservations are accepted), this data shows us it’s likely a significant investment. And the only way a restaurant will keep customers like that coming back is to offer them an exceptional experience with cutting-edge food.
Travelling interstate recently, I stayed with a friend. We had a tour of her garden and I spied the vegetable garden. For the first time in ages, dinner was provided fresh from the garden. It smelt so good. It tasted so good. It was a complete contrast, to my dilapidated plot at home.
A gnarled old artichoke that would look more at home on a salt lake sits amid my neglected herb garden. Also resident is a rampant boysenberry vine with withered berries, just hanging on. Down the hill and away from the garden, we catch yabbies, mulberries are picked from an old tree in a paddock, and figs near the well.
While there are healthy food sources on the farm, there is not enough to sustain a family. The irony is not lost on me. As a grain growing farmer, I grow food and yet I don't have a productive vegetable patch, and am not self sufficient. Most of my groceries are wrapped in plastic and come from Coles. Many of my female friends have similar experiences, working off farm to provide extra income, returning home tired, to what may or may not be a comfortable home. Garden gurus tend to be slim on the ground. Costa Georgiadis and Peter Cundall, where are you?
I don't have a solution to this dilemma and while there are clearly differences, urban and regional families have more in common than people might think. If only we could hurry up and slow down, if only we didn't need so much stuff.
Our culture perpetuates a number of attitudes towards sexual abuse, without our knowledge, but with our help. These exacerbate the problem and complicate the process of solving it.  Much has been said about this, and yet it remains important to say more: social attitudes towards sexuality and sexual abuse control how women live their lives, every minute of every day. In this