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Learn to Create Professional Character Rigs in Adobe After Effects
Rigging is the unsung hero of Character Animation
Character Animation takes a lot of know-how and practice no matter how you dp it. But if you're working with 2D or 3D animation software, great character animation also takes something else: a well-built rig. A bad rig makes animation difficult, inefficient, and limits your range of movement. A good rig will give you a greater range of motion, but more importantly make the animation process easier and more intuitive allowing the animator to focus on the most important thing – the character's performance.
Become a rigging MacGyver
Rigging Academy is designed to teach you how to rig just about ANYTHING. There are some core principals at the heart of Rigging that you'll learn which can be applied to humans, animals, aliens, robots, cartoon characters… just about any type of creature you can think up. Once you know the basics, the trick is to know how to handle edge cases… and that's where this course really shines.
What will you learn in Rigging Academy?
Character Prep
Learn to prepare your artwork for rigging the right way so you can be animating in no time.
Rigging 101
What makes a good rig? How many controls do you need to build in? FK or IK? It depends.
Options Galore
Puppet-pins or jointed limbs? How about hybrid joints? Heel-roll? Hip roll? You'll learn 'em all.
DUIK Wizardry
Learn to use many of the functions in DUIK to automate tedious rigging tasks.
Facial Rigging
Facial rigging can be complex, but we'll break it down and show you how to pull off amazing facial rigs.
Advanced Concepts
What about 4-legged characters? Props? Level-swapping? You'll be a rigging wizard at the end of Rigging Academy.
Morgan Williams
Course Instructor
Morgan has been a professional animator and animation director for over 20 years. He has created work for numerous clients including Sony Pictures, the BBC, Comedy Central, and WGBH Boston and have been the recipient of several awards including a local ADDY®, a Telly, and a Best in Show award at Minnesota Siggraph. His short film work has been screened at festivals around the world including the Philadelphia International Film Festival and the Annecy International Animation Festival. Morgan is also a full time faculty member at Ringling College of Art and Design teaching and developing curriculum in the Department of Motion Design.
Morgan's Clients Include:
Course Format
Go at your own pace.
Rigging Academy is not a timed course like our Bootcamps. As soon as you purchase the course, you gain access to everything. We've designed the course to work as not only as an amazing training program for Character Rigging, but also as a reference that you can come back to whenever you need a refresher or a new technique.
You get lifetime access to the course once you purchase it, so go through it at your own pace and come back as often as you like.
It's all here.
This course is, in true School of Motion fashion, packed to the GILLS with information. We've organized everything neatly into chapters, and you can go through the course at your own pace as you see fit.
There are over 15 hours of video lessons, dozens of pages of PDFs to reference, and more project files than you can shake a puppet pin at. We were very thorough in building Rigging Academy.
Use it or lose it.
There is a ton of info packed into this course, and we want to make sure you're learning… not just casually watching. We've created some challenges for you to take on after each main lesson. You'll be able to test out your new knowledge to see if you can solve a rigging challenge, and the watch a Solution video to see if you got it right.
Sure, you can skip the exercises, but one of our core philosophies here at School of Motion is that we want our training to be EFFECTIVE, and frankly it won't be if you don't use the knowledge after learning it. So we suggest you do the exercises.
Got questions? We got answers.
Rigging Academy includes a Q&A feature, moderated by Morgan and the team, for you to ask questions related to the course. Having trouble grasping something from the lesson? Post a question up and and you'll get clarification.
This information is dense, so use this feature to make sure you're really "getting" the concepts. You can read through questions and answers that have been submitted already, and if you don't find what you're looking for you can post your own question.
Go even deeper into the Design rabbit-hole every Wednesday!
Tons of rigs to explore.
You'll be able to download complete character rigs for every character you meet in this course. You'll see Morgan rig in dozens of different ways, and you'll be able to open up his After Effects projects to dig deeper into anything you're curious about. You'll see bipeds, quadrupeds, and many different ways of rigging limbs, torsos, and even faces!
Bootcamp Schedule
Rigging for Rookies
Start by getting the lay of the land. Learning some rigging basics, make sure your tools are set up properly, and dive into your first lesson. Why do we even need rigs in the first place? You'll know soon enough.
Character Construction
Before you can rig anything, your character's artwork has to be prepped. How this is done depends on the character design, and there are many ways to skin this cat. You'll learn just about all of them in this section.
Arms to Hold You
You'll learn more about arms than you ever thought possible. We go into jointed arms, puppet tool arms, and even combination arms and blended joints. You'll have an arsenal of arm options at your disposal soon enough.
Hand Crafting
What good are arms without hands? As with any rigging task, there are options here. You'll learn how to build mechanical hands (hands that actually animate) as well as how to make replacement hands which are easier to implement.
A Firm Footing
Time to rig the legs. Legs are like arms with feet on the end, and feet can be tricky. Find out how to make everything work correctly and add some controls for things like heel and toe roll. Break a leg.
Core Training
Rigs often neglect the stomach, chest, and shouldersof a character. Learn a bit of basic anatomy and set up controls that will give your character a much greater range of movement and emotion. Don't neglect the abs.
Face Time
The eyes are the window to the soul, especially in character animation. Learn how to build a face rig that will give you the control you need to emote with your character. We go even deeper in the last chapter.
Limbs Unlimited
Now we start getting fancy. Find out how to add auxiliary controls for knees and elbows, how to add and work with props, how to deal with level-swapping, and how to utilize a handy feature called rotation morphing.
Advanced Topics
The final chapter goes to the next level of rigging. Learn about quadruped rigs, faux-3D facial rigs, alternative rigging tools, and how to clean up a rig for production use if you're handing things off.
And once you've reached the end?
At the end of Course you are inducted into the Alumni Facebook Group where you can post your final projects, meet students from previous sessions, and continue to keep in touch with your new compadres. The networking that takes place in this group is priceless, and many students have gotten freelance work from the connections they've made in this course.
Rigging Academy Alumni Testimonials
I have yet to find something similar that can come close to touching the comprehensive knowledge here. If you find character animation a portion of the motion graphics world you'd like to conquer I'd suggest this class as a necessity.
Rigging Academy is the course I've waited years for. No other course as thorough exists. Everything I wanted to know is all here and it's amazing! Morgan does a superb job in breaking down every element, every expression, and every meaning behind what he does and how he does it. The secrets of incredible character rigs are a mystery no more. I highly, highly recommend this course. It has absolutely changed my approach to character design & rigging for the better.
Morgan always shows many ways to achieve a result and this is really valued. I'm totally thankfull for that. Moreover, the characters and rigs in the course are beautiful and pleasant to work with. I would definitely recommand this bootcamp for people who are (as I was) scared to dig by themselves into this deep subject! This course is not easy but you'll definitely learn more than you can ever imagine. Morgan performed this feat to make rigging attractive and understandable.
What's included with the course?
There is a ton of content in Rigging Academy, but it's given to you in measured doses to ensure you don't burn out.
The Rigging Academy program contains
- 15 hours of video instruction
- 9 Characters created just for Rigging Academy
- Over 32 pages of PDF reference material
- A moderated Q&A Forum for the course
- Lifetime Access


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To us the most important thing is to ensure not only consistent and affordable service, but also reliable products for our customers. To that end, we recommend our users only send their products for repair at one of our authorized service centers for all their service matters.
However, for users who wish to undertake fault diagnosis and product repairs on their own, lower-level spare parts (PCBs, modules and speaker drivers) may be purchased from our authorized service centers. By ordering a spare part, the user accepts the below disclaimer:
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Gainesville Regional Utilities - Energy Efficiency Rebate Program (Florida)
Last modified on February 12, 2015.
Financial Incentive Program
| Florida
|Gainesville Regional Utilities - Energy Efficiency Rebate Program
|Incentive Type
|Utility Rebate Program
|Applicable Sector
|Commercial, Fed. Government, Local Government, Low-Income Residential, Nonprofit, Residential, State Government
|Eligible Technologies
|Building Insulation, Central Air conditioners, Comprehensive Measures/Whole Building, Duct/Air sealing, Pool Pumps, Refrigerators, Water Heaters, Tankless Water Heaters, Heat Pump Water Heaters, Cooking Range, Dryer, Solar Screens
|Active Incentive
|Implementing Sector
|Energy Category
|Energy Efficiency Incentive Programs
| Electric
Heat Pump Water Heater: $200
Natural Gas
Water Heater: $250 - $350
|Equipment Requirements
| Heat Pump Water Heater: 2.0 EF minimum, Energy Star
Central AC: 5 tons (60,000 BTU) or smaller, 8.2 HSPF, 15 SEER minimum, Energy Star
Ducts must be sealed using mastic or a combination of mastic and mesh, pressure sensitive foil tape (UL181AP) or heat sensitive foil tape (UL181AH).
|Installation Requirements
| All work must be done by a Partnering Florida state licensed Heating, Air Conditioning, Refrigeration and Ventilation (HARV) or mechanical contractor, with the exception of room air conditioners, which can be installed by the home owner. Insulation must be installed over or under conditioned space only.
|Maximum Incentive
| Insulation: $375
Duct Leak Repair: $375; 1 duct leak repair per HVAC system, 3 per location
|Program Administrator
|Gainesville Regional Utilities
| http://www.gru.com/YourHome/Conservation/Energy/Rebates/newRebates.jsp
Gainesville Regional Utilities offers rebates on a variety of energy-efficient technologies for its residential electric customers. Rebates are offered for central air conditioners, room air conditioning units, heat pump water heaters, insulation, duct sealing, refrigerator recycling, pool pumps and natural gas appliance rebates. GRU may require proof of purchase after installation before awarding the rebate. Eligibility and system requirements vary widely between programs and all equipment requirements must be met in order to participate. Gainesville also offers incenctives for comprehensive whole building measures through its Energy Star Home Performance Program and Low-Income Energy Efficiency Program. Visit the website listed above for more information on program guidelines and terms.
Incentive Contact
|Contact Name
|Information - Energy and Business Service
|Gainesville Regional Utilities
|PO Box 147117
|Address 2
|Station A114
|Gainesville, Florida
|Zip/Postal Code
| (352) 393-1460
- Incentive and policy data are reviewed and approved by the N.C. Solar Center's DSIRE project staff.[1]


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Mr. Richard Kerby
United NationsMr. Richard Kerby is the Senior Inter-Regional Adviser on e-Government in UNDESA. He provides policy advises and carry out technical cooperation missions to Governments on issues connected with e-government development, focusing on e-government environment readiness assessment; open government, open data, e-participation, citizen engagement, identifying e-government applications; benchmarking and measuring progress in e-government development (advocacy and awareness) and establishing networks of support.
Richard Kerby is an Expert in ICT for Development and Private Sector Management. Main specializations are E-Government Policy and Operations, E-Governance. His expertise also involved developing public policy for Information and Communication Technologies, developing national IT Policy and strategies and content management. In addition, he has also developed skills in Internet Governance, Development Economic and Planning, Private Sector Development, Public-Private Partnerships, Micro-Financing, Small and Medium Enterprise, and South-South Collaboration.
Richard Kerby has over 20 years experience in providing advisory services to developing countries in the area of ICT for development in over 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Middle East and Latin America. He has previously worked for UNDP - Africa Bureau, as the main interlocutor for ICT for development and in UNIDO, as an Investment Promotion officer for the Caribbean. Recently Richard Kerby has been one of the main authors of 2008, 2010 UN e-Government Survey reports and a contributor to the 2012 and 2014 UN e-Government Survey reports; assisting developing countries in developing the e-government strategies; working with a number of Gulf Coast Countries (GCC) to build their e-government capacities to strengthen their respective public sectors. Richard Kerby has Haitian and American citizenship and speaks English, French and Creole.
In UNDP, Mr. Richard Kerby was responsible for coordinating and formulating UNDP Africa's programme of assistance in developing Africa's Private Sector and Information and Communication Technologies sectors. He was the Private Sector and IT Adviser to the Regional Bureau for Africa in UNDP and was also the Principal Coordinator for the UNDP/CISCO Partnership on the Networking Academies in Africa
He has an MBA in International Finance and is a member of the Omicron Epsilon Delta, an honor Society for Economists. He also served on the African-American Institute's Advisory Board for Internet Development in Africa. He was also the Chairman of the Stitching Board for the IFC, AfDB and UNDP regional project African Training Management Services, a multi-million dollar donor led project for private sector development in Africa.


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Tweeting the Meeting: Twitter Use at The American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting 2013–2016
A healthcare social media research article published in Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2016
- Title
- Tweeting the Meeting: Twitter Use at The American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting 2013–2016
- Authors
- Attai, D.J., Radford, D.M., Cowher, M.S.
- Published
- July 6, 2016
- Journal
- Annals of Surgical Oncology
- Impact Factor
- 3.655
- 10.1245/s10434-016-5406-x
- Pubmed
- 27387677
- APA Citation
- Attai, D.J., Radford, D.M. & Cowher, M.S. (2016). Ann Surg Oncol, 23: 3418.
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Symplur Signals for Academic Research
Symplur Signals provides researchers with a simple research interface, rich datasets, powerful filtering, and algorithms with natural language processing capabilities optimized for our context of healthcare. Get access to up to 7 years of history from this trusted academic research platform.Subscribe Now
Healthcare Social Media Research
See the full list of healthcare social media research articles with data from or reference to Symplur.
#hcsmR is a collaboration between Stanford Medicine X and Symplur.
The Altmetric Attention Score is based on the attention a research article gets on the internet. Each coloured thread in the circle represents a different type of online attention and the number in the centre is the Altmetric Attention Score. The score is calculated based on two main sources of online attention: social media and mainstream news media.


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Do you have a new food products with export potential or for the Irish market?
Are you innovate, driven and want to bring your business idea in food or drink to the market place? If so, the definitely this course is for you!
This course is tailor made to provide participants with the professional tools and knowledge to start up a thriving food business. With a proven process and approach established by Ireland's leading food organisations Board Bia, Local Enterprise Organisations and Musgrave's Retail.
The course is directed by a qualified and experienced food professional working in the food and retail sector for over 32 years. This is a QQI Approved training programme recognised by the European and National Framework of Qualifications.
The purpose of this food innovation and entrepreneurship award is to equip a learner with vital skill, knowledge and competence for the food industry business. Engaging a practical approaches to entrepreneurship, by means of innovative thinking and activities with the support of direction for the marketplace.
Learning Outcomes
Learners will be able to:
- Examine food innovation and entrepreneurship principles.
- Portray local and global models of food business models with examples.
- Depict the importance of food historical development in business and its relationship to cultures.
- Develop a food product in practice.
- Assess the personal, social and technical skills, values and attributes that are needed by an entrepreneur in the food sector.
- Identify opportunities for food innovation in a particular area.
- Plan an innovative approach to a food business problem, task or project, to include identifying required skills, potential obstacles, strategies to handle risk, and coming up with an innovative response to issues/problems that arise.
- Calculate resource required for food production, to include human, financial, physical and technical resources.
- Engage in entrepreneurial work, to include implementing and monitoring innovative strategies and solutions.
- Demonstrate innovative, entrepreneurial skills, values and attributes while working on a your food product for the market place.


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With Core Fund Solutions you can outsource part or all of your operations today!
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Core Fund Solutions (CFS) offers three tiers of service: Full Administration, NAV Light, and Outsourced Operations. We tailor each of these to meet the needs of individual clients, and all three are designed to provide flexible, scalable and cost-effective solutions.
CFS employs the latest technologies including the Advent portfolio management system (multi-currency and fixed income) and the REX reconciliation system.
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Liaison services between all parties (traders, prime brokers, banks, attorneys, etc.)
Income statement, balance sheet, and partners' capital preparation
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Independent portfolio valuations
Subscription and redemption
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Investor services and monthly investor statements
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Audit assistance
Prepare Fund's Income statement, balance sheet, and partners' capital
Independent calculation of the management fee, incentive fee, and performances.
Monthly Investor statements
NAV shadowing service - this is considered the industry best practice. We'll review and approve your funds' Net Asset Value packages prepared by your administrator.
Daily trade and re-organizational activities, portfolio quantity, cost basis, market value, and cash reconciliations
Management Company / General Partner enitiy bookkeeping services.
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EVEN teachers suffer with bullying which can destroy a school, conference was told.
Although they are experts in spotting bullying among students, the NASUWT delegates heard that staff were not as good at detecting or putting an end to it when it affected them.
National executive member Peter Johnson said, "If a school is to thrive staff must share the aspirations of the school, but this only happens if they are treated with dignity and respect.
"Schools have enough problems and they need everyone pulling together, not negativity and conflict among the staff. "The damage that bullying does can destroy a school. It flies in the face of motivations that bring people into teaching. But sadly adult bullying is widespread and difficult to deal with.
"And it is no coincidence that the rise in bullying has occurred with the rise in pressures in schools with greater accountability."
Noele Kissack, of Sheffield, said, "We've seen the effects of bullying on pupils we teach, but how much harder it is to listen to our own advice and stand up to the bullies. Such attacks are devastating - and I use that word attack deliberately, it's an attack on you, your work, and your life.
"A year ago I was a victim of bullying and the support from my union and colleagues enabled me to go back to work six months later, but a year on not much has changed."
The conference voted to mount a high-profile campaign to highlight the issue. As part of the campaign it will give examples of management styles that are often referred to as "strong leadership" which conceal unacceptable practices.


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Chad Broussard
I built the Chad Broussard website several years ago as a place that I could use to express my views, thoughts and opinions on everything from simple day-to-day life issues, to politics etc. but most importantly my work related challenges and all that comes with dealing with real estate websites and various customer(s) projects (the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly).
What I love the most about having my own website here is that I never have to worry about offending anyone and having any of my social accounts turned off due to not being PC enough – its simple, don't like what I have to say? then just click on the exit-X link in your browser tab! – but if you're curious and want to keep up with my rants on life as "a politically conservative web developer" (you've been warned lol =) then follow me via the RSS link in the sidebar.
Chad Broussard Blog
RETS PRO – WordPress Real Estate Plugin
Only WordPress Real Estate Plugin for sale without limitations!
I've been so damn busy with life and getting out a ton of new code/features these last several months, that I've completely forgotten to do any SEO!
So here is the status as of today Sept 22nd for the main phrase – WordPress Real Estate Plugin
SO – what is the game plan?
- Evaluate the competition to see whats working for them and how my site stacks up.
(thus allowing me to see what I need to do to push up my rankings) – CHECK
- Dust off my article spinner and setup my ScrapeBox Automator to auto submit them to my sites.
- Schedule auto-reminders to remind me to manually publish spun articles to 3rd party sites.
- Buy some fiverr.com SEO gigs (not going to say which ones here – sorry)
- Setup my affiliate program on RETS PRO (then publish a few "Top 10 Real Estate Plugins for 2017")
(Note* doing the affiliates and Top 10 will show the other affiliate marketers how to market our plugin so that they will continue to include our plugin within their own reviews since they all are just looking for affiliates to market anyway = more free exposure + sales – cool right?)
- Finish up converting site to https:// as well as adding to the cloudflare.com CDN etc.
That's just and overview of what I'm about to do – I will continue to update this post every few days to discuss how many hours I spend doing each step as well as giving more details to each of the steps being taken so that all of you can follow along to see just what it takes to DIY your own SEO!
Step #1 – As of this post I've spent at least 4 hours today analyzing my competitors and then my own site in order to see whats what.
The process went something like this:
- First I ran a few scans on my site using various "free" seo tools to make sure the sites local SEO scores were within margins. I found that I have at least 2 to 3 hrs worth of "On-Site" SEO work to get done as well as converting over to https://.
- Next I ran some back-link checks on my site as well as most other competitor sites on page 1 and 2 of google search results.
- Spent another 2 hours reviewing competitors sites to mine and making a list of To-Do's, similar to my overview above.
Currently – working on creating and setting up my spun articles so that I can set them up for automation – also going to produce a couple of YouTube videos that I can black hat the shit out of and will go more into details on how that's done once I get them uploaded –
Chad Broussard Youtube Channel:
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The answer is: it depends on the platform.
I found ESET's Cybersecurity Pro/Cybersecurity/NOD32 to be cumbersome under MacOS. On network drives and WebDAV volumes, the access to files and documents were excruciatingly slow. Local scan times took an age too. So I had to give up and head over to BitDefender's Total Security for the Mac. While not quite as complete as it is for Windows, this is by far the best solution for Mac users. It's fast, unobtrusive and gets the job done, though it is a pity BitDefender Central couldn't tell the difference between two MacBook Pros. 🙁
The same cannot be said for the Windows version. I'd just taken delivery of part one of my Dell/Alienware order – an Alienware mechanical keyboard (oh so clicky!) and as it features programmable keys and lighting, it triggered a software install. BitDefender, without telling me, falsely declared the software to be malicious and quarantined everything. I could get stuff back from quarantine, but couldn't whitelist it – so the BitDefender is now gone from my Windows machine. In its place is ESET Internet Security.
Now, on lower end Windows machines, I've found ESET's Endpoint software to be a blight on system resources – especially if you configure regular scans. But on my current quad-core Alienware R3 machine, ESET Internet Security just flies. Scanning is still rather slow, but you can happily leave it running in the background without slowing things down. (Another reason for me to leave the MacBook/Mac arena and go back to the land of the Windows/Linux PC – it's just too bloody expensive to get a decent and powerful CPU with Apple – trying to get a Mac under budget for work was nearly impossible and I had to limit myself to dual core.)
I do have access to Sophos Home Premium, but the biggest problem I've found with that is that it's controlled almost entirely online. Give me local controls. I've found Sophos' business products to be excellent (especially Intercept X and their Ransomware protection) – but far too costly and complicated for the consumer.


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Rate of dementia has declined dramatically, but not in nursing homes, study findsJuly 17, 2013
The rate of seniors developing dementia decreased by nearly a quarter over the last 20 years in England and Wales, although the percentage of nursing home residents with dementia increased, according to a recently published study.
British health official: Cure for dementia could come by 2020July 11, 2013
Advances in genetics and pharmaceuticals could lead to a cure for dementia by 2020, according to United Kingdom Secretary of Health Jeremy Hunt.
Enjoying the royal touchApril 28, 2011
I'm not entirely sure if it's time to turn in my man-card yet, but I will admit to letting some of this royal wedding stuff get to me more than I would have ever imagined. (Bill and Cathy are getting married sometime around noon their time Friday, which means it's pre-breakfast-time fare for most of us.)


text: I just received my Ninjapass junior today as a passme for flashing mates DS's. Has anyone else tried this thing or is it just me?? I think it's really quite good. I have been giving it a test on all sorts of roms and so far they have all worked flawlessly. For $20 the passme is reasonable value. For $20 for a 512meg real DS flash cart + passme - it's brilliant. I have a supercard and neoflash also... this is easily the best value of the lot. Very very encouraging. Would be interested to hear other peoples feedback. As far as my experience goes so far. The single load thing is a bit annoying with bigger games since the transfer speed is quite slow compared with SC/M3 solutions (nintendogs takes someting like 10mins!). I'm still a bit dubious re it's claims to not patch since the software you use to transfer the roms to the DS cart (Which comes with USB dongle) is actually called "NinjaPass Patcher". Either way... it works pretty flawlessly. The system is ridiculously cheap. If you want a great little system and don't require loads of roms at once this is a really nice setup. It's especially nice if the non patching element is true. I would guess, going by my trials, that this has a very high if not flawless compatibility rate. Even if it's just a passme with extra flash space on it... someone has finally made a backup device that is just the size of DS cart... for that... my hats off to the makers. Cheers.


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NEH Events
Begun 20 years ago in Maine, Literature & Medicine offers scholar-led reading and discussion groups that use works of fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction to explore what's at the heart of healthcare.
During this one-of-a-kind tour of New Harmony, you'll meet geologists, archaeologists and historians helping to tell this story today, as well as see some of the original specimens and maps collected and created more than 150 years ago.
Motheread/Fatheread® Hawai'i is a nationally acclaimed family literacy program aimed at helping parents talk about the books they read to their young children, combining the teaching of literacy skills with child development and family empowerment issues.
Veterans Book Groups create an opportunity for veterans to explore books, poetry, articles, and short stories, with the goal of fostering camaraderie and a safe space to reflect and share ideas and questions.
Summit Players Theatre is a non-profit traveling theatre company producing free workshops and performances in the Wisconsin State Parks.
The 20th annual Tennessee Young Writers' Workshop is July 15-21, 2018 and will be held on the campus of Cumberland University in Lebanon.
An interpretive river walk focused on local water concerns, where our water comes from, and the value of the river to the community and beyond.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), in partnership with the Alabama Humanities Foundation, will present an informational grant workshop on Friday, June 15, 2018, 12:00 – 3:00 pm, at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama. The workshop, which features recent NEH grantees Dean Carla Jackson Bell and Dr. Lisa Bratton of Tuskegee University, is hosted by Alabama State University's Department of History and Political Science.
A monthly opportunity for veterans to develop writing skills and to tell their stories.
In partnership with the Nebraska Writing Project and the Veterans Administration, Humanities Nebraska launched a new writing program aimed at veterans and active duty military personnel in the autumn of 2014. Participants need only be interested in writing in any form – they do not need to have any previous writing experience to benefit from the workshops.
Learn best practices and tools for getting your message across, common budget errors, evaluation strategies, as well as general organizational readiness.
Traditional Russian icon painting has been a living and evolving art form for more than 1,000 years. This illustrated presentation by Marina Forbes deals with the spiritual and secular significance of Russian religious art from the 10th century to the present day. Icon-making involves the painting of stylized religious images on wood using traditional natural materials and techniques which are determined by longstanding conventions
This conversation provides an opportunity for participants to reflect on what stories and influences shape their thinking about death and dying and to hear perspectives and ideas from fellow community members. Facilitators of Talking about Dying programs are trained professionals working in the fields of chaplaincy, counseling, gerontology, facilitation, and hospice care around Oregon. Facilitator Jennifer Sasser will lead this conversation.
Get ready to put your debate skills to the test! Join us for our first all-girls debate tournament of the academic year. From abolitionists, Civil Rights Movement organizers, to Suffragettes – women have always been debaters. The Girls Debate League tournament strives to continue that history!
In every class session, participants read out loud from a children's book and learn critical literacy skills in a group structure that supports their own sense of worth and ability. This approach teaches the "why" of reading as well as the "how" and uses themes and issues culled from the book to strengthen the bonds between parent and child.
The Watering Hole Poetry Organization presents an annual winter retreat scheduled to take place December 26 – 30, 2017 at Santee State Park in Orangeburg County. It is the only retreat/residency program that targets poets of color. There will be two public readings during the retreat.
Join us for our monthly Genealogy Roundtable led by Genealogist Bill Stansfield. Library patrons interested in researching their own family histories get together to discuss problems in their research and share tips on sources and methodology. Both beginners and longtime researchers welcome.
Elizabeth Anderson will cover the basic "how to's" for getting started on researching your family roots.
This series is open to all women who have served in the U.S. military. The group is free, but pre-registration is required.
Veterans Book Groups create an opportunity for veterans to explore books, poetry, articles, and short stories, with the goal of fostering camaraderie and a safe space to reflect and share ideas and questions. Participants receive free copies of all readings, and lunch will be provided at each session.
The group is free, but pre-registration is required. The group is led by Michael Heaney, retired history professor and Vietnam veteran, and David Szelowski, retired US Marine and VA employee. Participants receive free copies of all readings, and a light dinner will be provided at each session.
The Arts Council of York County presents its 14th Annual Literary Competition, highlighting the best in short stories and poetry from across the Southeast United States; and the 6th Annual Youth Literary Competition, highlighting the best in short stories and poetry by students enrolled in K-12 programs from across York County, SC.
Library patrons interested in researching their own family histories get together to discuss problems in their research and share tips on sources and methodology.
Hosted by LaGrange College, and part of NHD Georgia's mentoring and outreach partnership, this workshop will focus on implementing National History Day in the classroom—from topic selection and research, to project development and presentation.
2017 marks the Centennial of Women's Suffrage in New York State, and in 2020 the nation will celebrate 100 years of the 19th Amendment.
Experienced family history researcher Elizabeth Anderson will cover the basic "how to's" for getting started on researching your family roots.
Summit Players Theatre traveling theatre company is producing free workshops and performances in the Wisconsin State Parks this summer.
Using literary and historical texts, we will examine how society's notions about aging have changed over time, explore how growing older changes our perception of ourselves and others, and consider where we find satisfaction in later stages of life.
Spend the day visiting local sites of significance to Dakota people and learning about them from Dakota perspectives. As you experience these places, you will challenge assumptions made about Dakota history and identity and gain a deeper understanding of the significance of places like Pilot Knob, Wakan Tipi, and Mounds Park to this land's first people.
Hollenbeck presents a trunk show of approximately 30 quilts made by members of the same family spanning 135 years. The stories behind both the quilters and the quilts themselves are shared and accompanied with some of Hollenbeck's own cowboy/cowgirl poetry.
Library patrons interested in researching their own family histories get together to discuss problems in their research and share tips on sources and methodology. Both beginners and longtime researchers welcome.
High School students explore local and regional history topics.
From the engaging sea shanties of the Eastern Seaboard to the haunting songs of the Appalachian Mountains, from the blues of Mississippi to the pioneer songs of the American West, Chris Sayre brings to life the rich and varied music of the continental United States.
Professional instruction, support, and skill development for veterans and active duty military, regardless of experience or writing style.
A Cartooning Workshop with author/illustrator/teacher Jason Deeble. Jason Deeble is an American author/illustrator. His first picture book, Sir Ryan's Quest, was published by Roaring Brook Press in 2009.
Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi is the author of Fra Keeler and Call Me Zebra (forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2018). She is the winner of a 2015 Whiting Writers' Award, a National Book Foundation "5" under 35" honoree, the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship in Fiction to Catalonia, Spain. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, GRANTA, Guernica, BOMB, and the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, among other places. She has lived in Iran, Spain, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, and currently teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame.
A writing collaborative at The University of Maine at Augusta, CREATED EQUAL, will explore the 14th Amendment, equal protection under the law, and the struggle for inclusion.
After months of research on a topic under the theme, "Conflict and Compromise," Anne Arundel County students will present their projects to judges in the district competition
Learn about a multi-month preservation project to digitize and make available online United Methodist Church documents from Kansas dating back to the 19th century.
These workshops build capacity in Montana's rural arts and cultural nonprofits and allow them to compete effectively for grant dollars from multiple sources.
The Workshop is free and lunch will be provided at no cost. Please register at least one week prior to workshop.
The public is invited to learn about a yearlong project to preserve, catalog, and index 2,500 school and alumni photographs from Northwest Kansas in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Mead Public Library hosts the History of Sheboygan series, presented by Beth Dippel, Director of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
Storytelling connects strangers, strengthens links between generations, and gives children the self-knowledge to carry them through hard times. Knowledge of family history has even been linked to better teen behavior and mental health.
Mead Public Library hosts the History of Sheboygan series, presented by Beth Dippel, Director of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
How do historians use primary sources to figure out what happened in the past? Children will have the opportunity to handle vintage letters or postcards and get creative trying to figure out what the people who sent them might have looked like or how they might have lived.
In the Kitchen With Laura mixes stories and information about Laura Ingalls Wilder's life with food history and hands on cooking. It's the 1930s and we find ourselves in Laura's kitchen as she's dealing with all the food coming in from a bountiful summer garden.
Veterans Book Groups create an opportunity for veterans to explore books, poetry, articles, and short stories, with the goal of fostering camaraderie and a safe space to reflect and share ideas and questions. This series is open to any former Service Member who served in a combat theater.
Mead Public Library hosts the History of Sheboygan series, presented by Beth Dippel, Director of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
Wyoming people embrace outdoor camping. This experience can be enhanced with the incorporation of a meal made using a Dutch oven. Jessica Flock explores the history and culture of Dutch oven cooking in this interactive presentation.
History of Sheboygan series, presented by Beth Dippel, executive director of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center, on the third Thursday, April through September, at Mead Public Libra
The two-day event will allow community members to come to our digital booth to scan and copy photos.
We will be recording oral histories and digitizing old photos, scrapbooks, letters, and other materials related to the history of Oceana County, Michigan.
Area residents are invited to bring up to 12 items of family history to be scanned. The Wiregrass Archives will upload the scans with index information to Alabama Mosaic.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's Library and Archives is asking the community to help preserve rock and roll history!
On June 11 at 10 AM textile conservation expert Alison Castaneda presents a Quilt Preservation Workshop.
Dana Chandler, presenter, discusses storage supplies, environmental conditions, reducing damage risks, and other solutions to physical preservation and storage of family historical materials.
The Wiregrass Common Heritage Project will host a workshop on African American Genealogical Research in Alabama.
Fishing community members are invited to bring photographs, documents and/or artifacts reflecting their fishing heritage.
Wonder how to keep your grandma's teacup in tact? What about your uncle's family album or sister's ticket stubs?
Mead Public Library is sponsoring this program. Beth Dippel, Director of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center, is the presenter.
On Tuesday, May 17, at 7pm, Mary Rice DeFosse will give an overview of Franco-American participation in the military, focussing on personal stories from World War I. Ms.
To celebrate its 100th anniversary, the Clearwater Public Library System will digitize historical documents, photographs, and artifacts held by residents of the city.
SAADA (the South Asian American Digital Archive) hosts a digitization event for family photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, home movies, and more in Artesia, CA.
This interactive presentation covers the sometimes hidden meanings of specific spirituals and poems, including how the art helped people cope as they were transported from another culture. During the discussion, audience members can learn how to connect directly with the tradition of spirituals in their local community.
A lecture given by historian Matthew Norman will focus on African Americans in Galesburg, Illinois from the mid-nineteenth to the early 20th centuries.
Join us for a sneak peak at the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center (opening to the public on June 25th).
"So many stories, all changing by the minute, all swirling and braiding and weaving and spinning and stitching themselves one to another," writes Brian Doyle in the novel Mink River. These words could just as well apply to LLyn De Danaan's book Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman's Life on Oyster Bay, about a pioneering Native woman whose extraordinary life swayed wildly between triumphs and tragedies. The book forms the foundation of her Speakers Bureau talk "History in your Backyard," a discussion of how she discovered this local history and how chance, perseverance, and interpretive storytelling can lead you to find fascinating history in your own community. Her talk shows the people and the artifacts that helped "stitch" Gales story together, and helps guide you in uncovering your own "backyard" tale.
Participants in the workshop will learn best practices for creating a digital archive of their personal and family collections.
The Anthropological Studies Center at Sonoma State University is launching the Amache Digitization Project.
MOCA and Queens Library present Living Memory: The Culture and Heritage of Chinese New Yorkers.
Mead Public Library hosts the Sheboygan History series, presented by Beth Dippel, Directory of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
The University of North Texas Libraries and Texas Archive of the Moving Image are collaborating to save Denton County's motion picture history.
The Oyster Bay Historical Society hosts a day-long event to digitize the cultural heritage collections of the Hood African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
This panel discussion will address the experience of receiving mail from the home front while participating in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr. Kristin G. Kelly of the English Department at the University of North Georgia-Gainesville will moderate the discussion with veterans of the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Unconscious prejudice can subtly influence our attitudes and behaviors. It inhibits our ability to authentically connect with students and can impede our effectiveness as educators. In these important sessions, you'll develop a profound awareness of your own unconscious bias and help your students' hidden stories be brought to light.
Antique Speak is an informational presentation about recognizing and preserving family and community heirlooms.
Twyla M. Hansen, Nebraska's State Poet -- Creative writing is a process that thrives on practice. This writing workshop focuses on the creative process for both poetry and short prose. Twyla will use readings of her own and others writing, along with guided writing exercises, to create an interactive and supportive workshop.
Presenters: Dr. Kay Sato, Director of Hutton House Lectures, LIU Post, Dr. John Lutz, English Dept. LIU Post, and Dr. Lynne Manouvrier, Director of Gifted and Talented Program, School of Education, LIU Post.
Seneca Nation community heritage materials digitization event.
Share Stories, Photos, and Memories of Everyday Life In Parramore
Food is more than the stuff of life; it is an important part of our heritage and culture that defines us as a people. How do we know what we know about food in colonial Florida? Cathy Parker demonstrates for her audience how information from the written historical record, together with evidence from the archaeological record, has answered this question time after time – giving us a more complete picture, for example, of early life in la Florida. She shows that careful comparison of archaeological evidence – in the form of bones, shells, and burned seeds; with appropriate documentary evidence – in the form of letters, inventories, requisitions, and church records – is very much like solving a mystery or a puzzle.
Bob Ferguson by using a large-screen TV, Ferguson displays high-resolution images of postage stamps commemorating the Civil War, the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam. Featured in each period are military heroes of various ethnic backgrounds; future presidents, actors and sports legends who served; organizations created by and for veterans; and memorials to honor the dead. He also presents stamps that showcase the history of the American flag and other patriotic symbols and ideas.
Why is the issue of capital punishment so divisive? Are Americans aware of the complexities of the issue? Capital punishment, more than any other public issue, has given rise to considerable differences of opinion in U.S. society. When a moratorium on executions in Washington state was announced in February 2014 by Governor Jay Inslee, it sparked a national debate about capital punishment.
What do we envision when we hear "American family?" How is the definition of 'family' changing and why? Whether nuclear, step, foster, extended, transnational, adoptive, or informal, American families are more diverse than ever. The structures of families are changing. Families, now more than ever, are influenced by other social and cultural shifts, such as the rise of single parent households, divorce, opting for cohabitation over marriage, and same-sex marriage. Each of these new definitions of family is rooted in broader economic and social changes that are underway in the U.S. and around the world.
What connections, what traditions could help people cope with being forcibly transported from one continent to another? The literary and artistic forms of spirituals and poetry not only tied communities together socially and artistically during slavery, but also continue to enrich the multicultural fabric of our state today through the work of contemporary African-American poets, musicians and artists. Award-winning poet, performer and distinguished scholar Gloria Burgess explores the rich, beautiful heritage of spirituals and poetry from the African-American tradition in a spirited sojourn through words and music.
For the past year, author Shawn Wong, along with a team of teachers in the Red Badge Project, has been teaching veterans at Joint Base Lewis-McChord how to construct the stories of their lives in writing. Through the project, soldiers are able to translate and articulate their lives away from home, their experiences and their traumas to themselves, their families and a wider audience.
"We Dig History!" invites participants to learn how to excavate in our mock dig boxes and explore Utah's diverse railroad history by uncovering and researching a variety of artifacts.
The City of Baltimore faced a period of unprecedented unrest last spring following the death of Freddie Gray. What role can the museum play in the contemporary conversation about race and diversity? This panel discussion, moderated by Homayra Ziad, scholar of Islam at the Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies, opens an important conversation about the intersection of race and the public discourse on Islam and Muslims.
Free and open to the public, the Unconference and Ignite talks will provide a forum to share insights and perspectives on the Openlab Concept and help frame the discussions of the formal planning workshop that will conclude the event on December 2, 2015. This planning workshop will bring together participants invited from a cross-section of organizations, scholars, GLAM and humanities practitioners, and members of the public to consider the tactics, goals, and underlying vision of the Openlab Concept.
In this inspirational presentation, musician and historian Hank Cramer will share how visionary poets achieved a goal that no military commander before them had been able to accomplish. Their victory was later commemorated in the popular ballad, "The Foggy Dew."
Poets Shanan Ballam and Star Coulbrooke will share and discuss their work at Weber State University.
On this one-hour walking tour of the Noho Historic District, promenaders will see 11 buildings designated as individual New York City landmarks. The tour begins at the 1832 Merchant's House and within a few blocks traces 100 years of social, economic and technological changes in New York during the 19th century, from a residential enclave for the wealthy merchant families of Old New York to a center of manufacturing and busy cultural center.
Clark County high school students in grades 9 – 12 are invited to submit original poems for the Vegas Valley Book Festival 2015 Spark! Poetry Writing & Recitation Competition by Sept. 30, which is modeled after the national Poetry Out Loud competition and the Scholastic Writing competition. High school students will have the opportunity to recite their own poetry during the Vegas Valley Book Festival on Saturday, Oct. 17. The first-place prize is $300. The second-place winner will receive $200, and the third-place prize is $100. Students will be asked to present three original poems to be judged by a panel consisting of poets, authors, educators and other community members. Panelists will use scoring guidelines to assign numerical values to the evaluation criteria.
Workshop to help people gather information about their family histories.
Entries open June 1 for Spark! Poetry Writing & Recitation Competition for High-School Students, with a submission deadline of September 30, 2015. Clark County high school students in grades 9 – 12 are invited to submit original poems for the Vegas Valley Book Festival 2015 Spark!
This presentation looks at the history and development of Indian music from the traditional to the contemporary and explores a broad spectrum of American Indian music ranging from blues to folk, country to gospel, and heavy metal to hip-hop. You may be surprised by how many of your favorite musicians are American Indians.
Learn about a multi-month project to catalog, photograph, label, and preserve the historical society's collection of wedding dresses, Halloween Queen gowns, and early 1900s dresses.
Presented by humanities scholars and author-survivors of childhood abuse, "How We Survive" engages multiple disciplines to consider one of life's most pressing questions: how do we survive the struggles we face, as individuals, families, and cultures?
The Appalachian Young Writers' Workshop (AYWW) is a seven-day residential writing workshop for rising 10th, 11th, 12th graders, and graduating seniors.
This event supports "The 1011th -A Story of Service Throughout the Years," a project to collect and preserve the images of veterans who served with the 1011th Quartermaster Company, US Army Reserve, during deployments to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Public workshop, led by a preservation consultant, aimed at helping veterans and their families preserve material related to military service.
"Lincoln on the Civil War" is a four-part reading and discussion series facilitated by John Schmeelk. During this fourth session, participants will be discussing: Cooper Union Speech, 1860, Speech at Independence Hall 1861, First Anaugural Address, 1861.
Music Director/Conductor David Bugli and guest soloists Sally Turk, flute, and Michael Langham, harp, will discuss the lives, history, and cultural context of the composers. The pre-concert talk will include discussion and demonstration of the evolution and mechanics of the flute and harp. The pre-concert conversation is provided free of charge.
A reading and discussion series for teens exploring the origins of racism to accompany an exhibit by artist Frohawk Two Feathers.
Philip Burgess uses his poetry and storytelling skills to describe a black family's experience as early settlers in the Missouri River valley of eastern Montana. Seeking refuge from the lynch-mob racism of the post-civil war South, they found dignity and independence on a beautiful and isolated homestead.
Presented by Marla Day, Curator at Kansas State University's Textile Museum. During WWII, war restrictions on clothing led to the "Make Do & Mend" campaign. Learn how homemakers were encouraged to recycle clothing due to fabric shortages.
See the results of a multi-month project to organize, digitize, and archive 500 photographs of Herington from the late 1800s to 1920.
Read from the Start participants will read and discuss children's books, explore extension activities, and review the role of the parent/caregiver in a child's language development.
Explore the rich diversity of folk music that has been a part of Nebraska's history from the time it was a territory to the present day.
This presentation explores the music in Carson's background and writing, and explores why music reflects her love of the natural world. Included are brief readings from Carson's work and a sampling of musical excerpts from works cited in Carson's writings.
Sessions will explore multi-cultural books and stories.
Learn about Kansas quilts from the early 20th century and the unique collaborations that sparked "the Emporia, Kansas phenomenon" and some of the finest quilts of the 20th century.
The program describes some of the early survey techniques and cartography and is illustrated with the maps of the period.
Follow in the footsteps of the many famous authors, poets, and editors who sojourned in Baltimore's cultural hub.
Through dance, songs and stories, audiences explore the traditions of Pennsylvania German music and dance.
This conversation invites children and families to discuss the value of friendship and the ways in which cooperation can help us persevere in the face of daunting odds.
Long before we learned how to download music from the Internet, people in Pennsylvania knew how to make music out of whatever raw materials were available.
Traditional songs, rich in local history and a sense of place, present the latest news from the distant past.
From the TALK series, Urban Indians: Native American Writers of the 1990s. Discussion Leader: Gene Chavez.
Louise Lippincott, Chief Curator of Fine Arts, Carnegie Museum of Art will lead the NEH Google+ Hangout on Websites, presenting on her experiences building the website and online archive for the NEH-supported exhibition Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story.
Watch a live interview with University of Richmond President Dr. Edward L. Ayers and his colleagues in the University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab.
Texas Veterans' Voices and Humanities Texas invite veterans, their loved ones, and the public to participate in group readings of classical texts on Veterans Day.
Veteran Programming. The group will read a modern translation of The Odyssey, the timeless story of challenges faced by a Soldier returning home from the war.
Congressional briefing on NEH and disaster preparedness and relief.
The tour will feature stories of famous as well as infamous residents and builders of these landmarks and the renowned architects who designed them. Stops will include Colonnade Row, the DeVinne Press Building, Astor Library, The Cooper Union, and the Bayard-Condict Building.
Congressional staff members, both in DC and district offices, join NEH staff for a webinar to explore NEH-funded, web-based educational resources available for teachers, tutors, parents, and homeschooling families.
Congressional staff members, both in DC and district offices, join NEH staff for a webinar to explore NEH-funded, web-based educational resources.
NEH Congressional Affairs and the Smithsonian Institution cohost a breakfast workshop for Congressional staff on NEH On the Road.
The Congressional Affairs Office hosts a workshop to introduce new Congressional staff members to the inner workings of the NEH.
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Posted by Mickey Harte
Friday 23 September 2011
There was a great atmosphere in Croke Park on Sunday, as there always is for All-Ireland final day, and as there always is when Dublin are playing.
The fact that Tipperary won the minor, making a breakthrough after so long, only added to the excitement and it put more pressure on the senior final as Dublin looked to get a win after failing to get a result in all their other finals this season.
But the game played out the way I believed it would, with Dublin being mean at the back and scores being hard to come by. In the first half they restricted Kerry to just three scores. One was a goal but it was a low return for a team like Kerry. Dublin were picking off their own scores at the other end and they must have been very heartened by that at the break.
Though Dublin got there in the end, it could have been very different. It just shows the fine line between success and failure. Kerry went four up with seven or eight minutes to go and it looked like their experience was going to tell.
But then an unforced error, combined with a little bit of pressure, caused the opening for the goal and they needed that to win the game. They won the ball and the direct running of Alan Brogan slipped in Kevin McManamon and that turned the game. Those are the little things that make the difference between being champions and just coming up short.
I have to say think Kerry were unfortunate to lose the game and probably deserved a draw because of their second-half effort. Kerry had taken control but even players as experienced as they are can begin to see the finish line and they would have felt the game was going to the script they had in their heads.
Kerry had a chance to go five up but lost possession at the crucial time and if they had secured that extra point they may well have won comfortably. It was that close. Dublin, of course, had themselves in a position to strike back through their hard work and they made the best of the opportunity when it arose.
Dublin's system served them well all year and it worked for them in the final too. I felt it would be around the 15-point mark that would do it and funnily enough that was exactly the winning tally in the end.
Dublin had a more experienced and mature bench than Kerry. That back-up strength did have an impact. Kerry's trump card from the bench was Paul Galvin but as I said last week if he was fit I would have started him. When he came in he found the pace of the game was ahead of him - it was very intense - and he made a few uncharacteristic errors. It left him not as comfortable as he would usually be and he did not have the desired impact that Jack O'Connor would have hoped.
Possession in the middle was at a premium and he did get his hands on some ball but he was just not as efficient as he would usually be. He just didn't fit in as seamlessly as usual and that can happen sometimes to even the best players.
For Dublin, their midfield duo of Michael Darragh MacAuley and Denis Bastick performed very well, and got themselves forward with purpose. They won a few important frees and Bastick landed a point. Pat Gilroy would not have been counting on that pair for scores but it ultimately made the difference in the end.
That said, Bryan Sheehan was in line to win man-of-the-match if Kerry had held on and he answered those who wondered if he could play that position with a fine display. As I have said all year, the role of midfielders has changed so much and with the exception of Anthony Maher, none of the midfielders on show on Sunday are traditional, high-fielding players. They have to do so much more these days.
It was no surprise to see Stephen Cluxton come up and convert the winning score, he has been doing it all year.
He has put the work in and it is a lesson to all young players and observers that prolific freetakers only get so good by hard work. Yes they have natural talent but they put in the hours and make it look like a gift.
However, Kerry were typically gracious in defeat and Dublin have been coming for a few years now. They took some serious hits and came back. The progression ended at the big prize on Sunday and now they are in a good place to win a few more with a relatively young age profile.
That is the challenge for Dublin now. They will have to work even harder next year. All-Irelands don't come easy and lots of people will be targeting them next season. They will be up there again and look as capable as anyone of retaining their title.
Back to the minor and I have to say Tipperary were fantastic. It was hard on Dublin, especially for the players who had lost the minor hurling final a few weeks before, but people will always root for the underdog. Both teams were very good but for Tipperary to start so well, fall behind, then claw it back, go behind again and then win it near the end was real Roy-of-the-Rovers stuff.
Like Dublin, their success hasn't come from nowhere. A lot of work has gone in at underage level and their senior team is improving too. Limerick have been very close to challenging Cork and Kerry in recent times so it would be great for the game to have Tipperary in the mix in Munster, and beyond, too.
Congratulations to Bryan Cullen on his new job with Leinster rugby and we should glad he has landed such a good job but to see the highest-profile player in Gaelic football in 2011 join up with a rival sport is something that will make some think should there not be something to offer him in our organisation.
Who knows, he may bring something from the rugby field into Gaelic games and we will all learn from his involvement. At least he is staying here and not joining the AFL.
Speaking of Australia, I have to say a quick word about Ireland's win in Auckland on Saturday. It felt so good to be from the same country as these men. It is what Irish sport is all about; backs to the wall, being the underdog, being efficient and effective.
They stifled the Aussie panache, winning their way and they held out at the end with their bodies when their minds must have felt they were there. I am so delighted for Declan Kidney and the squad and I felt so proud to be Irish on Saturday.
Predict this week to be in be in the running for All-Ireland tickets.
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Rhodes Project 17 November 2015
"Who do they think I am?" The Rhodes Project speaks with leading female surgeon Jyoti Shah about women's resilience
Female surgeons face 'hostile environment"
Mail Online 01 10 2015 and Daily Mail 02 10 2015
Operating theatres are an 'old boys' club': Leading female surgeon blasts sexist colleagues who call women doctors 'nurse' and ask them to make the tea
Leading female surgeon hits out at endemic culture of sexism
The Daily Telegraph 01 October 2015
Sexism in surgery: Females being put off becoming surgeons by men
Huffington Post 1st October 2015
Operating Theatres 'An Old Boys' Club,' Says Leading Surgeon Jyoti Shah
Leading female surgeon calls for cultural change in UK operating theatres
Top female surgeon: 'End old boys' club culture in operating theatres'
Health bosses look to kick Burton Albion fans into shape this season
Take Pride Burton Hospital June 2015
Asian Women of Achievement Awards
The British Medical Journal 29 May 2015
How do we address sexism in medicine?
Award for 'world class' surgeon from Queen's Hospital
Burton Hospital Website 22 May 2015
Burton Surgeon wins prestigious national award
British Medical Association Website 22 May 2015
BMA employee wins Asian woman of achievement award
The Guardian Women in Leadership 20 May 2015
Asian Women of Achievements 2015: Meet the Winners
Release_AWA Winners 2015_FINAL
Press Release
Medical Woman, Spring / Summer 2015
Women in Urology
Doctors Feature in Awards
Take Pride, Burton Hospital December 2014 Issue
Stardom awaits Queen's consultant
A&E Role for Varma: Dr Jyoti Shah's thrill as actress Indira plays character on her
Burton surgeon Jyoti Shah shares her role in NHS play with David Cameron
Cancer Culture Shock
The Standard, 06 November 2014
My Surgeon role made me love the NHS
Burton Mail Online, 17th September 2014
Games of Thrones star, Indira Verma shadows Jyoti Shah at Burton's Queen's Hospital for her theater role in Tiger Country.
Burton Mail, 17th September 2014
Games of Thrones heads to Queen's with actress