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South star Ileana D'Cruz scored a massive hit with her Hindi debut Barfi! and received as much acclaim as Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra did for Anurag Basu's uplifting tale of a deaf mute boy last year. On the back of that film, she's bagged quite a few top projects, the latest being Sanjay Leela Bhansal's Gabbar which features Akshay Kumar in the lead.
A source told Mumbai Mirror, "Ileana started getting numerous film offers after being noticed for her role in Barfi!. Ramesh Taurani signed her for Raj Kumar Santoshi's Phata Poster Nikla Hero and now she has bagged Gabbar."
The film will go on floors by the end of the year after Akshay finishes filming Milan Luthria's Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai…Again and Ashwin Varde's Boss.
Talking about the film, the source added, "Akshay and Ileana's chemistry will be interesting to watch. It is quite an unlikely pairing, which Bhansali is trying to explore. Akshay plays the lead role in the film where he fights against corruption."
D'Cruz's next film Phata Poster Nikla Hero will see her with Shahid Kapoor and releases this August.


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Three teams confirm place in World Grand Prix Finals
China maintained their undefeated 2013 FIVB Grand Prix record when they beat Poland 3-1 (25-18, 25-21, 16-25 and 25-23). China is the only team still undefeated, with a perfect record of 23 points. On Sunday, they will face their biggest battle, against Finals contender Serbia, who has 22 points. If China wins, they will enter the World Grand Prix Finals undefeated, with their best World Grand Prix start ever.
Serbia, however, should give China a tough battle on Sunday, as the Chinese women are winless against their opponents in two matches at the World Grand Prix. On Saturday, Serbia swept Argentina with a 3-0 victory. Serbia finished in 11th place in the 2012 World Grand Prix, with their best-ever campaign dating back to 2011 when they won the bronze medal.
The USA, Brazil, Italy, Turkey, Bulgaria and Russia will all battle for the remaining three spots in the finals. Along with a definite win, teams will also need some luck to make the cut. Russia will need to win Sunday 3-0 and hope USA or Brazil lose by the same margin.
On Saturday, USA cruised past Japan 3-1 (25-17, 25-19, 21-25, 25-18) and improved their record to seven wins and one loss, while Japan dropped their second straight match after going undefeated in its first six. The win brings the USA to third place in the World Grand Prix rankings.
Japan is automatically qualified for the finals, as the host country. The team is currently in eight place in the rankings, tied with Russia for 17 points.
Brazil staged a straight-set victory against the Netherlands, 3-0 (25-15, 25-20, 25-15) on Saturday. Brazil, who placed second in the 2012 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix, now inch closer to making this year's Finals with 20 points and one loss. Brazil competes against World No. 30 Kazakhstan on Sunday, in the final match of the last day of preliminary rounds.
In Saturday's big thriller, World No. 4 Italy lost to World No. 10 Dominican Republic in a 228-point tiebreak match, 3-2 (21-25, 19-25, 32-30, 26-24, 25-11). The loss brings Italy down to No. 5 in the World Grand Prix rankings. While the Finals is out of reach for the Dominican Republic, the team recorded their most victories in one single World Grand Prix edition, with five wins. They recorded four wins in 2008. Italy plays World No. 7 Turkey on Sunday.
In their second meeting in World Grand Prix this year, Turkey swept debutants Algeria in three sets (25-12, 25-12, 25-12). The win puts Turkey, who finished third in last year's World Grand Prix tournament, in sixth place with 18 points – tied with Bulgaria. Turkey will need to win their match on Sunday against Italy to secure a place in the Finals.
In a match-up of two FIVB World Cup debutants, Bulgaria overcame the Czech Republic 3-2 (20-25, 25-18, 25-17, 22-25, 15-8) on Saturday. Bulgaria could become the second nation ever at the World Grand Prix with a top-6 classification in their debut season (inaugural season 1993 not taken into account). In 2001, Serbia finished third. Turkey, seventh in 2008, were the only other side to finish among the seven best teams as debutants.
Russia registered six victories in a row in the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix after pulling off a straight set victory 3-0 (25-8 25-16 25-19) against Puerto Rico on Saturday. Russia currently stands in ninth place in the World Grand Prix rankings and will need to secure a 3-0 win on Sunday against No. 13 Thailand to keep its hopes alive for the Finals. USA or Brazil will need to lose by 3-0 to open a spot in the Finals for Russia.
Germany, the Dominican Republic, the Netherlands, Thailand, the Czech Republic, Argentina, Poland, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Algeria will all end their 2013 World Grand Prix campaigns on Sunday.
Cuba, Puerto Rico have recorded their worst-ever World Grand Prix runs without any wins. Algeria, who made their World Grand Prix debut this year, has yet to win even one set. Only once has a country ended a World Grand Prix edition without winning a single set: Chinese Taipei in 2007 (9 straight defeats).
The final day of the 2012 World Grand Prix preliminary round resumes with Japan and the Czech Republic battling at 3:30GMT. The games between Russia and Thailand, and Sunday's last match of Brazil and Kazakhstan will be aired live on FIVB Web TV.
Top Scoring Performances
41 – Katarzyna Skowronska-Dolata of Poland v Russia (August 4)
32 – Zhu Ting of China v Netherlands (August 4)
31 – Tatyana Mudritskaya of Kazakhstan v Argentina (August 4)
29 – Valentina Diouf of Italy v Dominican Republic (August 17)
28 – Prisilla Rivera Brens of Dominican Republic v Italy (August 17)
28 - Seda Tokatlioglu of Turkey v Dominican Republic (August 16)
28 – Yukiko Ebata of Japan v Kazakhstan (August 10)
28 – Bethania De La Cruz of Dominican Republic v Czech Republic (August 4)
27 - Bethania De La Cruz of Dominican Republic v Turkey (August 16)
27 – Miyu Nagaoka of Japan v Germany (August 9)
26 - Dobriana Rabadzhieva of Bulgaria v Dominican Republic (August 11)
25 - Aneta Havlickova of Czech Republic v Argentina (August 11)
25 - Emiliya Nikolova of Bulgaria v Dominican Republic (August 11)
25 - Kelly Murphy of USA v Serbia (August 11)
25 – Bethania De La Cruz of Dominican Republic v Brazil (August 9)
25 – Gabriela Guimaraes of Brazil v Dominican Republic (August 9)
25 – Nataliya Goncharova of Russia v Brazil (August 3)
Top Blocking Performances
9 – Milena Rasic of Serbia v Puerto Rico (August 4)
8 - Robin De Kruijf of Netherlands v Algeria (August 11)
8 – Annerys Vargas of Dominican Republic v Puerto Rico (August 10)
7 – Cristina Barreto of Brazil v Poland (August 2)
7 – Strashimira Filipova of Bulgaria v Puerto Rico (August 9)
7 – Christa Harmotto of USA v Japan (August 17)
Top Blocking Performances by Team
24 - Russia v Germany (August 16)
20 - USA v Japan (August 17)
18 – Poland v Russia (August 4)
17 – Italy v Germany (August 4)
17 – Brazil v Poland (August 2)
17 – Kazakhstan v Germany (August 2)
16 - Serbia v Poland (August 16)
16 – Russia v Poland (August 4)
16 – Serbia v Puerto Rico (August 4)
16 – Dominican Republic v Puerto Rico (August 3)
16 – Brazil v Russia (August 3)
16 – Dominican Republic v Italy (August 17)
Top Serving Performances
7 - Saori Kimura of Japan v Poland (August 11)
6 - Neslihan Darnel of Turkey v China (August 11)
5 – Denise Hanke of Germany v Kazakhstan (August 2)
5 – Sana Jarlagassova of Kazakhstan v Germany (August 2)
Top Serving Performances by Team
13 - Turkey v China (August 11)
12 - Turkey v Argentina (August 9)
12 – Argentina v Kazakhstan (August 4)
11 – Germany v Poland (August 10)
11 – Serbia v Algeria (August 10)
11 – China v Cuba (August 3)
10 - Netherlands v Algeria (August 11)
10 - Germany v Kazakhstan (August 11)
10 - Japan v Poland (August 11)
10 – Germany v Argentina (August 3)
10 – Serbia v Czech Republic (August 3)
Highest Scorer by Round
Week 1: Katarzyna Skowronska-Dolata of Poland, 41 v Russia (August 4)
Week 2: Yukiko Ebata of Japan, 28 v Kazakhstan (August 10)
Week 3: Seda Tokatlioglu of Turkey, 28 v Dominican Republic (August 16)
Highest Set Score
Week 1: Poland v Russia, 30-28 (August 4)
Japan v Turkey, 30-28 (August 4)
Week 2: Argentina v Turkey, 36-34 (August 9)
Week 3: Japan v Bulgaria, 29-31 (August 16)
Italy v Dominican Republic, 30-32 (August 17)
Highest Scoring Matches
Week 1: Russia v Poland, 3-2 (25-21, 22-25, 29-27, 28-30, 15-13) – 235 points
Week 2: Bulgaria v Dominican Republic, 2-3 (22-25, 25-18, 23-25, 30-28, 14-16) - 226 points
Week 3: Turkey v Dominican Republic, 3-2 (25-27, 22-25, 25-22, 26-24, 15-13) - 224 points
Week 3: Dominican Republic v Italy 3-2 (25-21, 25-19, 32-30, 26-24, 15-11) – 228 points
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You're using LinkedIn wrong.
I mean that in as non-judgmental a way as I possibly can. I've used LinkedIn wrong in the past, and I've probably made much bigger mistakes than you ever have. But over the last two years I've learned a thing or two and worked out a framework for how to generate leads and sales on LinkedIn.
More than half of my new leads first approach me through LinkedIn messaging, and that's not an accident. I've put in the time to figure out how LinkedIn works. I've developed a lead-generation system that gets the results I want.
And I'm prepared to let you know how it works. To start out, I'll let you know about the mistakes I've made in the past. Because that's how I've really learned how to do this. I started out without the faintest clue of what I was doing, but gradually I identified and eliminated my mistakes.
You can do the same thing. You don't have to use LinkedIn in a hit-and-miss way. You can turn it into a reliable process for generating leads that mature into sales. And if you start out by eliminating these ten mistakes, you'll be well on your way to mastering that process yourself.
So without further ado, let's get to work on those mistakes:
- You Don't Have Measurable Goals
It's important to understand that when you're selling on LinkedIn, you're setting up a marketing funnel, just like you'd do with your website.
When you set up your website, did you expect it to generate leads for you just by being there? No, of course not. You took care of SEO. You put systems in place for generating traffic. You made sure the website copy was inviting and prompted action.
In other words, you had a series of measurable goals and took action to reach them. You knew that a good website must A) generate traffic and B) generate leads. You knew those were complex challenges that required time, effort, and experimentation.
Just as making a website without measurable traffic and lead-generation goals won't get any results, a social media presence without measurable goals (in terms of profile visits and lead-generation) will not get results.
- You Come Across as an Asshole
Communication over digital media is different from face-to-face communication. In a face-to-face communication you can get across subtle nonverbal cues. People can figure out what you mean based on how you say it. Tone of voice comes across clearly, even on the phone.
None of that is present online. Digital communication means your words alone make an impression.
That means the LinkedIn Police constantly throw away good business opportunities by telling marketers (usually highly skilled marketers, too) that what they're posting "doesn't belong on LinkedIn."
If it didn't belong on LinkedIn, the best marketers wouldn't be posting it. So instead of alienating these people right off the bat, why not try to figure out why these people are posting these things?
- You Try Too Hard to Push the Sale
If every single one of your posts is a sales pitch, nobody is going to listen to you.
Listen: I get it. I wish I could just post about my LinkedIn marketing services all the time and have people lining up to throw cash at me automatically. But things aren't that simple.
There are a gazillion people on LinkedIn. You're trying to find the tiny fraction of those people who A) have an interest in what you're selling, and B) have the authority to buy what you're selling.
You won't find them unless your posts get seen by many, many people. That means most of your posts are going to have to be geared toward a wider audience than the one you're actively trying to sell to. You can include sales pitches in your posting repertoire—but you can't always be selling if you want real results.
- You Don't Try Hard Enough to Push the Sale
Believe it or not, this is a pretty common mistake. It might even be more common than pushing the sale too hard, actually—because when somebody pushes too hard it's obvious, but if somebody's not pushing enough they're the only ones who ever know.
But here's the thing: there are people active around LinkedIn who don't make it clear what they're selling, or even if they're selling anything at all. There are people on LinkedIn who get approached by viable leads and don't follow up.
These people exist, and they wonder why they don't get results from LinkedIn. Too much directness is no good, as we all know, but too little directness can be just as disastrous. Don't do it.
- You Don't Know Your Customer in Detail
This is fundamental. Before you go out to make a sale, you should know who you're trying to sell to. You should know their problems. You should know their needs. You should know where they are in the buying process when they first encounter your material.
Take the time to put together a customer persona. This is a systematic description of your ideal customer. Your promotional material and selling process must be directed at your ideal customer.
You don't want to do business with just anyone who comes along. Figure out all you can about the type of client you want to attract—then figure out how to make it happen.
- You Don't Genuinely Help People
This is a cliché, but it's true: social media is a social environment. I'm the most introverted person I know, so it took me a long time to figure this part out.
Because I'm so introverted, every time I'd hear about "relationship selling" or anything like that I'd want to roll my eyes and feel like puking. I just wanted to exchange my services for my clients' money and have that be the end of it.
I made mistakes, in other words.
If you want to get what you need from LinkedIn, you have to give first. And I know how corny it sounds to say something like that, because I feel awkward and cheesy just by typing the words. They're true words, though. You have to give value to get value.
So help people out when you can. Go out of your way to find ways to help. It's hard at first, especially if you're like me and you're not used to it. But give to people without thinking about how they can pay you back. It's scary, but you'll be surprised at the results.
- You Don't Have a Process for Generating Leads
If you don't understand how your content contributes to building your brand, improving your outreach, or moving people through the buying process, you have a problem.
Remember your mission when using social media. Pull off all the layers of spin and remember your social media presence has one purpose and one purpose only: to produce leads who eventually turn into clients. Focus on refining that process.
Building your process is important. Break it down. Understand the steps of the process, from when your prospects first become aware of you, to the point where they understand what you can do for them, to the point where they feel the desire to reach out to you and become active leads.
- You Don't Have a Process for Turning Leads into Sales
You need to make sales. It's as simple as that. If you set up the funnel leading prospects to your door, you can't let yourself drop the ball at the last minute. You have to follow through.
Listen, I get it. I'm a marketer. Personally I love setting up systems, but actually interacting with my fellow human beings takes some pumping-up.
If you're not making sales, your problem is that you're not trying hard enough. You're making excuses. You're letting a weak process sabotage you. Remember: process is everything. You want to make it easy for people to choose your company. Once you do that, you've got it made.
- You Try Too Hard to Sound Smart
Don't get me wrong: there's a time and a place for industry jargon. There's even a time and a place for industry jargon in a sales process. But too much of it used in the wrong way will scare people away long before they've started to listen to you.
If it's worth saying, it's worth saying simply. Abraham Lincoln was one of the greatest speakers in history, and he was known for making his points with simple stories and fables.
Your customers are smart people. They can understand what you're talking about—as long as you don't hide it behind a lot of jargon!
- You Don't Meaningfully Interact with People
Social media is about relationships. It's about reaching out to the people who have what you need, the people who need what you have, and the people you meet along the way. If you want to wear gloves and look at people through windows, social media isn't for you.
Success on LinkedIn is a matter of meaningful relationships built up over time. Put yourself and your business out there, and you'll see how it works. So reach out to the people who have what you want. Reach out to the people who know what you need to know. Reach out to the people who can help you.
You'll be glad you did.


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The team at Damco Kitchens have come up with a few of the many great reasons on why we like the idea of the industrialised bathroom, providing inspiration for those that wish to go down this path. Damco Kitchens Melbourne is an award-winning, leading provider of striking and functional kitchen and bathroom renovations in Melbourne, having created stunning kitchen and bathroom areas for over hundreds of households across Victoria.
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Use the Winter Months to Re-Hone Important Skills
Though veteran real estate professionals may feel as though they know all the ins and outs of their business and local markets, it never hurts to hone the skills that lead to long-term success. Winter may be the perfect time to revisit those efforts.
Even agents who have been in the industry for years may still have a thing or two to learn about the best practices in the modern real estate market, whether that means doing research on some of the changes taking place in their regions over the past year or how best to communicate with clients, according to Skills You Need. These areas are usually the tools in any agent's utility belt that make them stand out from the competition, and with business, a little slower at this time of year, a bit of work to make sure everything is up to snuff can go a long way in the spring and summer.
Where to Begin
One area where many veteran agents may be able to start their winter research is to see if any state or local rules and regulations have changed in the past year because that review is just the sort of thing that can go by the wayside in spring or summer when sales activity is far more hectic. Small changes in this regard can end up having a big impact on an agent's sales efforts going forward, so learning the ins and outs of whatever may have shifted is a great way to kick-start the retraining effort.
After that, additional effort to brush up on some of the finer points of social media communications or make connections with the owners of new local businesses could help to lay the groundwork for a successful spring and summer.
A Focus on Social
For some agents, there hasn't yet been a huge shift to marketing on social media, but experts say finding footing on those platforms is a great idea at this point, according to McKissock Learning. That's because the average American spends 40 minutes on Facebook alone every day, and social sites tend to drive a huge percentage of all web traffic. To that end, it's a smart step for agents to learn how to market themselves on the site with both organic efforts and paid ads. Even if the latter isn't used heavily, it's still wise to know the best practices for developing effective ads.
Moreover, any agents who haven't set up their own professional accounts, and have instead been using their agency's page or personal accounts, might want to build an individual professional page. That's another great way for would-be clients to start putting a face to a name and differentiate an agent's personal life from their professional pursuits.
Even the most seasoned professionals can always stand to learn a little more about how to succeed in their fields. That fact may be especially true in a sector like real estate sales, because so much is changing all the time.
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[Zacks] Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA (ADR)(NYSE:PBR) (TREND ANALYSIS), Brazilian state-run energy giant has postponed its third-quarter 2014 earnings for a month amid escalating tensions owing to a multibillion-dollar money laundering and bribery case embroiling it. Petrobras was slated to release its third-quarter earnings last Friday but is now expected to provide the unaudited report on Dec 12.
Following the announcement, Petrobras ADR dipped more than 6% during intraday trading on the NYSE on Friday to touch a 52-week low of $9.51 per ADR.
Renato Duque − former director of engineering and services at the company – was arrested last Friday while 30 police teams was conducting a corruption investigation across Brazil. The detention of Duque was the second arrest of a former top Petrobras executive in 2014.
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Taking a look at the company's recent performance, Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA (ADR)(PBR) reported on August 12th. The company reported actual earnings per share of $0.36 against the consensus Street estimate of $0.48.
Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA (ADR)(NYSE:PBR) is currently valued at $58.99 billion and closed the last trading session at $9.33. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $13.02 and a 200-day moving average of $15.30.
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There are currently nine analysts that we track that cover the stock. Of those nine, one has a Buy rating and eight have a Hold rating. On a consensus basis this yields a score of 2.11 and a Hold. The combined price objective of these covering analysts is $17.67, which represents a 89.35% upside difference to the last closing price.
The most recent analyst activity consisted of Cowen and Company Downgrading their market perform stance on the company. Cowen and Company has a price target from $22.00 to $18.00 which represents an upside of 92.93% from the last closing price. On the date of the report, the stock closed at $10.62.
Another research firm weighing in recently was Goldman Sachs who also downgraded their rating on the stock. On the day of the report, PBR shares closed at $11.21.
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Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA (ADR)(NYSE:PBR) operates as an integrated oil and gas company in Brazil and internationally. It's Exploration and Production segment is engaged in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas; sale and transfer of crude oil in domestic and foreign markets; and sale of oil products produced at natural gas processing plants. The company's Refining, Transportation, and Marketing segment is involved in the refining, logistics, transport, and trading of crude oil and oil products, as well as exports ethanol and invests in petrochemical companies. This segment is also engaged in the extraction and processing of shale. These segments products include gasoline, diesel, and residential liquefied petroleum gas.


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The vector art is boon to the world of computer illustrations. Actually the term hold a broader meaning which uses mathematical basis to get quality images. So it is a revolution in the digital field with unbeatable quality images. It is now a popular art that will replace the era of raster drawings. The vectorized art deals with the use of mathematical equations for every basic form of drawing to represent a picture on the screen. So the lines, curves and shapes of an image are represented by equations. The raster art is based on pixels and hence the vector art is more advantageous.
The vectorized art is selected for generating high quality images which can be enlarged to any size. This art form is specifically used for illustrations and logo designs. So we can define it as a type of digital artwork which will not degrade in quality even if we resize the image to any extend. In the case of normal pixelated images, it bears a computerized look. But vector art is successful in creating a real look with higher resolution. If you have patience and a basic knowledge about photo editing, you can easily make a vector art. The vectorized art can be transformed without losing the resolution of the picture. The picture can be enlarged, stretched or rotated in an easy fashion.
The vector art gives the special advantage of selecting and transforming any component of a picture. Because of the mathematical platform, the artist will get exactly what he wants within less time. The illustration programs or drawing programs are used for creating vector artwork. Computer aided designing (CAD) and many of the 3D animation programs are vector art programs. Without redrawing the picture, the individual points can be tweaked into new points easily. The vector images can be stored in low sized files when compared to the larger sizes of raster files.
Vector artwork is gaining popularity in the graphics world and is highly customizable. If you are looking for high quality images with easy editing features, vector art is the perfect option. It features easy color changing options and you can quickly switch the gradients. For typical drawing applications, vector art is used extensively among the graphic designers.
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Adobe Photoshop CS4 is the latest upgrade to the Photoshop line. You might think that the CS3 version is already very comprehensive, but Adobe has managed to come up with new features. More than just minor updates, this version is packed with new and enhanced features reprogrammed to be faster and more efficient.
Adobe Photoshop CS4: Interface
The whole package loads up very quickly and feels snappy. It comes with a revamped interface, but the layout isn't a lot different from CS3. You'll still find your favorite tools in the usual places. There are just some modifications.
For example, the main bar on top of the window now contains the common tools such as selection, zoom, and rotate for easier access. Adobe Photoshop CS4 also supports OpenGL for better 3D performance.
Adobe Photoshop CS4: Mask Panel and Adjustment Panel
You will see new additions on the right hand side of the screen – the mask panel and adjustment panel. The mask panel is where you will find common masking tools for pixel and vector masks. The adjustment panel is where you will find layer adjustment tools to adjust the brightness, contrast, exposure, and etc.
Adobe Photoshop CS4: Rotating, Zooming, and Scaling
You can now rotate the image while editing without affecting the final image. This new feature is especially convenient when you use a graphic tablet for drawing.
The OpenGL integration makes zooming through images smoother. Even at the highest zoom settings, you can still make fine adjustments.
Resizing photos is also easier. A new feature called content-aware scaling lets you resize photos with very minimal change or distortion to the image. You can even specify the scaling reference point and the area to protect.
Adobe Photoshop CS4: Improved Features
And of course, the existing features weren't left out. They were also altered for improved performance. The clone stamp tool now efficiently shows a preview of the pixels to be copied. You can also see a preview of the brush size and easily switch to other sizes.
The auto-align and auto blend function have also been enhanced so the pictures you compile come out very smooth and well-blended. You can now turn a bunch of similar pictures into 360-degree panoramas.
Adobe Photoshop CS4: Raw Format
The camera raw plug-in has also been improved. Similar tools found in Lightroom 2.0 can now be used in Photoshop CS4 and Bridge. You will have quicker and more intuitive ways of processing these large, unadjusted files.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 is not just upgraded with improved functions, it comes with new core features that puts it on top of its game. This remains the digital photo software to beat.
If you are thinking of graphic blogging, you have to have patience, since there are so many people indulging in graphic blogging, and thousands of vector images which are part of graphic blogging, that it becomes difficult to be a successful graphic blogger.
What is graphic blogging?
When you include a design, for example bringing a vintage postcard into your blog, and creates templates for blogging, the designer blog is known as graphic blogging. Why do the designers go on blogging? There are two primary reasons for this. Interaction with others becomes valuable, and that is the main reason. When you hide yourself in your own niche, and do not interact with other designers, you can miss out. Since designers do form a large online community and most of them are likely to give feedback teach and help you to become a good designer, they indulge in this practice. Secondly, though blogging is a nice hobby, graphic designs can help you make money, though many do not start blogging to make money online. Graphic blogging can help you get more clients, and increase your selling as a designer.
6 steps for graphic blogging successfully.
1. Visit other graphic blogs. Vector images that have been brought into the blog can be a tool for designers to learn graphic blogging. You can become familiar with blogosphere as other designers read your graphic blog, and begin to add to it.
2. Since there are thousand of bloggers online, with new ones joining every day, your graphic blogging should not be another graphic blog. Find a niche to have longstanding marketing strategy. When you have defined the purpose, you will be able to set success to follow. Do not just blog about vector images, or templates collection, instead find an angle, start with creation of your own vector business card, and start having templates designed. You will be thus making graphic blogging a business proposition, by giving tips, advice, and more designers who want to make a living will join your brigade.
3. Make your graphic blog a resource, and not mere ranting about any particular subject. If you want your blog to grow, you should market it as a help to other bloggers. Include articles which can teach, persuade and in spite others. Market the blog through the social networking, as a graphic blog which should be read.
4. Social media is the place where the template collections should be exhibited. For each graphic blogging you should find a facebook fanpage or twitter account, or other social media links. If you don't use them you will be losing a number of opportunities. .
5. All said content matters, as it is the king. The best of graphic blogging can be lost, if you don't give information. Overindulging in making your graphic blogging the best is wasting time. Instead bring in interesting reading.
6. Your graphic design should have theme which is professionally created. Contrary to the advices, every one judges a book by the cover and a graphic design by its theme. Build a theme in a creative manner using vector images, and browse for wordpress themes online, where many tutorials are available to help you become a graphic blogger.
Do you want to know a secret? The answer to the question in the title of this article is me. That's right, I created Google. No, really, and so did you. You don't believe me? Okay, maybe that is because you have already heard the story of how Google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, PhD's of Stanford University, and how the concept for Google was born of Page's dissertation idea to investigate the mathematical properties at work online. It is truly a great story and Page and Brin do get the credit for creating the company known as Google, but they are not solely responsible for the popularity of the company. This is where you and I come into the picture.
Well, before we come into the picture I have to admit the marketing team at Google also played a significant role in the success of Google. While Page and Brin put together the concept behind the page rank system, it is their marketing staff who really helped to promote Google as the superior choice in search engines. The fact that Google produces reliable results is important, but there are other search engines out there such as Yahoo! and Bing that are also doing this, but they are not nearly as popular as Google.
Think about when your friend asks you the name of a song and you can't think of the answer. Do you tell him to just DogPile it? Do you tell them to Yahoo! it? No, you are much more likely to tell him to Google it. That is because the marketing team at Google has done such an excellent job of branding this company that their name has come to mean search engine in the minds of many internet users. It is the first place many of them turn for any information they want.
Which brings us to why I created Google! Right, it wasn't just me, you helped too. Page and Brin created the concept their marketing team promoted, but it is the users of the internet who embraced it so wholeheartedly. It is also the users of the internet who have remained loyal to the brand. While other fads on the internet have come and gone, this search engine is showing no signs of losing popularity because the internet users are happy with the results they receive when they use Google.
Blog spam is an unfortunate by-product that comes with the encouraged interactivity on blogging sites. When viewers visit your site it is always good to have them post comments In fact many people judge how popular blogs are based upon the amount of comments they see.
Of course most site owners would like to see comments that are constructive and helpful towards the development of the site itself. However there are many online who use this opportunity to be nothing more than disruptive or for their own promotional purposes. Even worse are those who submit links that are malicious in nature and therefore pose a threat to you and your readers.
Since it would be nearly impossible to prevent spam like this there are ways a blog owner can identify and reduce the amount of spam that shows up in comments.
Here are 3 different 'warning signs' you can use when people post comments to your blog as to whether it is something you should approve or delete.
Keywords as Names
Any comment that is left without the name of a person is usually a big flag. Normally these spammers use keywords instead of a name in an attempt to get back-links to their sites. These people are simply trawling for traffic and likely use software to post comments.
Generic Comment
Comments left that say very little other than some polite chatter or remark about nothing in particular is a strong clue they have been software generated. These comments tend to 'draw you in' based upon their complimentary nature.
Another style (if you want to call it that) spammers use when they post comments is making critical or inflammatory remarks.
You simply need to look at these comments closely to see if they 'really' have anything to say that can be related to the post.
Comment is Irrelevant
These comments are fairly easy to recognize and usually target sites that do not use any type of spam filter. The remark normally contains information or a response that is clearly NOT intended for the blog they are found on. These spammers are the most irreverent since they blatantly 'hawk' their own sites or simply aim to be disruptive.
Blog spam is just another unfortunate by-product that comes with blogging sites that encourage and experience reader interactivity. The fact of the matter many visitors will judge how popular blogs are upon the number of comments they see. Site owners do want people to post comments that can be used for constructive purposes bit it is hard to prevent spam showing up in these comments. The 3 warning signs discussed above can be use to detect and minimize the amount of spam you approve for posting on your site. By filtering spam in this way you will be protecting your readers from potentially malicious sites. The net result will be an increased feeling of security and satisfaction by your readers when visiting your site.
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To get a high ranking on the search engine result pages is one of the most important concern for any website and therefore it is quite natural that they would try almost everything to achieve that goal. Now the fact is that this is not only the desire for any website but in reality the fact is that for any website it is their desperate need to get a higher ranking on the search engine result pages to increase the volume of visitors to the website. The point is that without a considerable flow of a good volume of visitors to a website it is not actually possible for them to stay in business or to prosper. And therefore the the need is so dear to be within the top ten ranking on the search engine result pages. Therefore in this respect to get a proper placement on the search engine result pages becomes the most essential need for any website.
Now the fact is that there are basically two means to get a placement on the search engine result pages. One of which is the sponsored listing. But the best means to get a proper placement on the search engine result pages or to rise higher in the search engine ranking is the process of Organic Search Engine Optimization. This is the process of website optimization to obtain unpaid search engine listing and to rise higher in page ranking. The main objective of the Organic Search Engine Optimization is to follow certain strategies and techniques to improve the visibility of the website to the search engines and their users. As the search engines are the greatest source of web traffic therefore it is quite natural that the ranking on the search engine result pages really matters a lot for any website. The reason behind this is that the search engine users are always in the tendency of visiting those sites most that appears to them first. Therefore better ranking you can get for your website the better are the chances for your website to gain more volume of visitors.
If we start with the keyword research for a website it is essential to note that the proper choice of the keywords means a lot for the proper optimization for a website. The fact is that the keywords play a very vital role in the incoming of the volume of traffic to the website. Other than that the link building is also one of the most essential things needed for the proper optimization process. Therefore all these things should always be taken proper care of in order to get the best results for the website.
For any company to truly be a success and reach a wide customer base it must have a captivating and informative website. However if the website is not designed in a way that makes it accessible and informative, it might do more damage to a company's image, instead of good. If your company is in need of a website then it is advisable to hire a web design team to create a unique and effective website for you.
A good web design team can combine knowledge of marketing, technology, and artistic creativity to construct a fitting website for your company. Most often today, a website is the first introduction your customers have to your company. It is for this reason that your web design team will create a site that is visually eye catching and informative. Often hooking your visitor immediately will ensure that visitors to your site will more likely browse longer and might just end up becoming customers.
A professional web design team will work with you to ensure that the information provided and the overall image that the website conveys stay true to the company's image and ethos. They will be able to use their knowledge of marketing and design to create a company brand, which is a reflection of your company. The web design team will be able to create a unique and customised website based on your specifications.
A professional web design team not only has a creative vision but also is able to put a website together with the most contemporary technology. Web designers can assure that your website is easy to utilize right from the start by putting into place certain frameworks, which increase accessibility and usability. The web designers that you choose should be able to create a website that is well planned and easy to navigate for its visitors.
A web design team not only can make your website easy for customers to navigate but they can also make your website easier to link to other social websites to expand your customer base. Such social media tools can make your website contemporary and wide reaching.
When hiring a web design team to undertake the construction of your company's website you must make sure that the web team works in the interest of both your business and the visitor to your site. When your website is visually pleasing, captivating, informative and easy to navigate it can convert visitors into potential customers.
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Amy Lowell (1874-1925) is perhaps best-known for being the figurehead and ringleader for Imagism after Ezra Pound, who had founded that movement, grew jaded with it and moved on to Vorticism. Although her poems were less 'classical' and restrained than those by Pound, Lowell's poetry is often true to Imagist ideals of brevity and vividness, and the ten poems included in this blog post bear this out. There are ten of the finest short Amy Lowell poems – we hope you enjoy them.
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If you want to hear the debut of new Frank Ocean music, we suggest tuning into his radio show. The singer has made his Beats 1 radio series Blonded the destination for premiering his new music, with both his own singles and the music Ocean curates for the show displaying his wide range of tastes.
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it's real hard to say because it depends on what you are wanting to do. There are a lot good tilesets out there but you need to find ones that match your setting and plans.
Also please start a new thread if you want help and such this thread isn't really the correct one for figuring out what haks to use.
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:31 am
We almost have the storyline and the rest ready to submit, but I have a very important question. Can anyone recommend Some good hak tiles?
I know there are some really nice ones out there, but I don't know which ones are the best so I was hoping someone here could shed some light on it.
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:16 am
Will do.
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:54 am
Ah, I thought this was something of a "reboot" of the server. If you already have players, then yes, not letting them portal works (though nobody really ever likes that solution).
If you want to discuss the technical integration aspects, the best way is probably to chat me up on IRC sometime. I'm usually around after 5:30 Eastern; the server is irc.stratics.com, channel #copap. I'll start the formal proceedings for you if you PM me the things mentioned in the Articles.
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:59 pm
yes a split would be handy. I have been building a dungeon for a few weeks called Dark Depths maze it a super dungeon with 10 floors each floor has 7 doors, all but one take you back to the start it has puzzles and a few other things, levels don't matter in it as much as team work, and it is a very drawing aspect to the server, apart from that we have a island built for NPC quests.
As far as Vampires go, We could just keep them from traveling to the other planes, our playerbase has always had them.
Currently we have a nice size playerbase, messing with the formula and changing things much more then what we already plan to might not float with them.
the current module we have has about 27 dungeons, with about 100 spred through different modules. some as large as 4 area's of 12X12.
it does sound very ravenloftish and does sound like a good route to take.
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:15 pm
I don't know how amenable you are to this, but I almost feel like vampires should not be playable. I think this reduces the work required by you and other worlds (significantly), and, to be honest, greatly boosts your chances of being accepted into CoPaP. I think your theme would still work fine with mortal PCs vs. vampire NPCs, and would probably be able to integrate off-world visitors more readily.
Another thought I have upon rereading your first post is that that number of areas REALLY needs to have some decent scripted content (e.g. quests) or at least some good dungeon-crawlin' areas to have any chance at attracting a critical mass of players to make it worthwhile. DM coverage cannot possibly be 24/7, and when introducing into a new set of servers, you'll have to provide a good number of hooks that do not rely on DMs.
For perspective, Hades has somewhere in the neighborhood of 100-150 areas, I think, and we have a good... (*counts on fingers*) five major dungeon-type regions (not counting city sewers). That, and pretty much that alone, has allowed us to regularly reach 3-7 players during peak times. It may seem low, but that's a perfect number for our DM staff, and a perfect number to form one group even if a DM doesn't show. If you don't get those players on with static content, DMs aren't going to bother logging (so players won't bother logging), and the world will wither and die from lack of team interest. Sorry to paint such a bleak picture.
One final thought: we probably want to split this thread at this point, as it has gone pretty far from the original topic. I'll leave that to an admin. Cheers.
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:35 pm
How about building the server to a Ravenloft theme? You could have players wandering the mists for ages....
The vampire in sunlight issue is a tough one. I would be tempted to block vampires from portaling (the Ravenloft theme would help with this) as most of the other worlds (except perhaps Hades) would be close to instantly fatal to vampires anyway.
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:53 pm
Thanks thats what I needed to know. Also of the custom tile haks out there any that you recommend?
Also one problem I do see is that we use Vampire as a subrace, we trigger through a script which checks on every area. we can add that to are own area's but not others worlds. So while on the server being made vampires would take damage from sunlight area's by DnD rules. on other servers that would not happen. Any idea's on how to work around this?
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:22 am
To clarify what Terry said, copaphak has custom PRCs, but no custom tilesets. Rule of thumb: anything that could possibly need to be transferred between worlds on a character (character models, classes, races, item types, skills, spells, feats, etc.) MUST go into copaphak or universalhak. copaphak contains mostly 2das; universalhak contains mostly models. Anything that is specific to and contained within a world (tilesets, NPC/monster appearances, etc.) goes in the world's own hak(s). This does mean that sometimes a world hak will override a CoPaP hak (e.g. appearance.2da for NPC models). However, all world haks have to be based off of the CoPaP haks for compatibility.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:46 pm
The copap haks are just base common haks that ensure all copap worlds support the same races, classes, skill, spells, etc. Most worlds, if not all, have custom world haks that comtain different tilesets, monsters, etc.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:31 pm
Thanks! I Have built a few servers, So over that time I met alot of skilled builders. Currently the builders are downloading the haks CoPaP currently uses, I have not looked into them yet one question that.
Does the Hak File have custom tiles & PRC's? We are trying to keep to the standard haks, if not we plan to add them anyway.
Currently we are unsure how we wish to Go about the story, we might even just keep to are old good one, but we want to move away from it.
the current one Is a cool Idea, but while we have builders and scripters story was not much we put much thought to because we planned to keep to the old one, then we some where took a vote to cast it out and do something completely new, and exciting.
that has brought forth a theme, but not much story. As soon as I get that worked out with a few others, we will get back to you.
But please feel free to drop idea's, with things you feel CoPaP could really use but no one ever did. Since we are unsure of where we are going we can work alot in.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:48 pm
Final Shinryuu
Sorry, just noticed this.
Feel free to send me a PM with a detailed description of your server (both what you have and plans). Currently, we have Abyss, Ysgard, Hades, and three prime material servers. Your idea sounds interesting so far, I'd love to hear it. I'll make sure it gets posted for CoPaP WL discussion.
Actually having the builders and scripters to help is a huge first step. =)
Usually, proposed worlds are understaffed, and have difficulty becoming live.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:47 pm
I will get back to you soon. Been busy with life.
If any of the current world leaders want to take down your info to start the process, they're welcome to.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:48 am
Hi I am Joyrock/Delor/DM Onyx of AstoriaLITE the admin of the latest in the NWN Astoria line. We wish a new face and so the server was brought down, While reworking it I thought how great it would be this go around to Join CoPaP.
We wish to be a ACS Server, the current Idea of the server is something dealing with vampires. Astoria is well known for it vampire RP and the battle between them and mortals, moving away from Astoria while our sister server continues that we wish to build a plane Some what like the abyss, but would instead with a more undead twist of it being run by vampire lords, battling of control over it with devils, and mortals.
We would like if no one has taken them to add a shadow plane, and Thanos Orcus's plane added to our server if no one else has done so al'ready.
We have not started much building we only have 300 area's made for the new server + 700 from the old, though we wish to start over and use Hak tiles.
I have sent a request though I left out some info explaning about the server.
We have many skilled builders and scripters and could finish the server in a few weeks once work is started. Any advice, info on what is needed in CoPaP, (updated) would be great, we really wish to join the CoPaP and really bring something to the table.
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:16 am
Thank you
World of Iron City
Server Admin.
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:26 pm
My apologies. I dropped the ball on this one.
A few things got lost in the shuffle while Orleron was handing management over. He did forward your e-mail.
I'll look for it in my inbox.
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:14 am
Themicles will hopefully get to you soon. I would also PM this to him.
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:48 am
Trying for membership
Ok I have e-mail this 3 times and so far I am not certain that anyone in power knows about my wish to join confederation!
So hopefully here my info will get notice, plus I think players need to be inform about all new server anyways J
I have read all Articles of Confederation.
The Name of my world is IRON CITY
The world is developed enough to handle players from levels 1 to 4 at the moment and growing weekly, so far they are 3 team members/players and we have a forum at:
Iron City takes many of the futuristic concepts found in the Rifts RPG. For a history of that check this site:
Of course there is a twist to make it NWN compatible.
The world will be Avlis compliant so I will eventually need the module scripts for the world to run properly.
If anyone has any questions please let me know:
Yours truly,
Server Admin
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:37 pm
I am once again managing CoPaP and will be taking new recruit requests.
Thanks in advance!
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 5:12 pm
Orleron is currently unavailable to handle new world additions and other CoPaP coordination.
In Orleron's absence, please contact me instead.
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:21 pm
How to start proceedings to join CoPaP
The following is an excerpt from our latest copy of the Articles of Confederation. Follow the steps here, and you'll be set. Whenever you see reference to a "contact person", that would be me. I can be reached at
1) Prospective member must read the Articles of Confederation. If they are not in agreement with them, stop here. If you find that you like what they propose, go on.
2) Send a message to the person who recruited them. Include the following information:
* Notify that the Articles of Confederation have been read.
* Send name and world's name (does not have to be a final name for the world)
* Give a summary of how far along the world's development is and, how many players if any
* Brief background and history of the setting
* Whether world will be an Avlis compliant server or a non-Avlis compliant server... if making a NACS, how will the server differ?
3) The contact person who received this information from the prospective member must then post the information up in the CoPaP Ambassadors forum for all members to review. This information must be posted in the format of a normal proposal as dictated in Article 6 Section 5.
4) The proposal is debated and voted on in the usual way described in Article 6 Section 5.
The results of the vote are submitted to the council of four. If none of the members of the council have an issue with the result, it is allowed to stand and the server is admitted to CoPaP as a probationary 'World in Progress'.
The world leader and new ambassadors from the World in Progress will be given access to the CoPaP forums, and the Avlis Zero module. They will also be added to a mailing list where you can talk with other CoPaP leaders.
5) The new team is to start/continue building their server, using the CoPaP forums for support, giving periodic estimates of when they think they'll be online.
6) When the new server's development reaches a point where the leader thinks they are able to link to CoPaP, the world will be checked for compliance. This is done by announcing the readiness in the CoPaP Ambassador forum, and having all Ambassadors visit the world at various unannounced times to search for compliance issues.
7) Once initial compliance issues are worked out, the server may begin to work on its plotline to link to CoPaP, with the help of any DM's and ambassadors willing to help.
If desired, the new server will be allowed to run for 2 or 3 weeks unlinked so it can build up its own playerbase and work out bugs and balance. More time will be given if needed.
9) At the end of the testing and player recruitement period, the server will be given the VaultSTER software (if it has not been distributed to the public yet). A test link will be set up between the new world and the world they are linked with directly. Once this step is achieved, the World in Progress becomes a full member with voting rights in CoPaP.
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Federal and state prosecutors in New Jersey have charged a dozen school officials and bus contractors in a widening statewide investigation of corruption in the pupil-transportation industry.
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The latest round of accusations, brought against officials of six school districts in July, indicates a "very disturbing pattern of corruption,'' according to U.S. Attorney Samuel A. Alito Jr.
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's order requiring a suburban Philadelphia school district to allow a performance by a Christian magician in a school auditorium.
In a one-sentence ruling issued June 16, the appellate panel supported U.S. District Judge Louis C. Bechtle's temporary restraining order last year forcing the Centennial School District to allow a Halloween-night performance by an illusionist affiliated with Campus Crusade for Christ. The district had attempted to bar the event, citing its policy forbidding the use of school facilities for religious services, instruction, or activities. (See Education Week, Nov. 4, 1987.)
Judge Bechtle has indicated that he will issue a permanent injunction against the district's policy prior to the start of the upcoming school year.
The nation's Roman Catholic bishops have reached a compromise on teaching about the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS.
At a June 27 meeting, the bishops let stand a controversial church document suggesting that information about condoms may be included in AIDS-education programs. But they also agreed to work on a further clarification of their policy. (See Education Week, Jan. 13, 1988.)
A federal appeals court has overturned a jury verdict ordering the Hawkins County, Tenn., school board to pay $70,000 to a parent involved in a dispute over textbooks.
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The astounding spectacle of Karl Rove on Fox News disputing that network's call of Ohio for President Barack Obama put a cherry on top of a cornucopia of extraordinarily wrongheaded, bad faith predictions of a Gov. Mitt Romney victory by conservative pundits and prognosticators.
Rove led a parade of "experts" masquerading as fair-minded analysts whose real agenda was to line their own pockets by feeding the public's craving for information that confirms their biases.
Herewith, 10 of the worst offenders:
- Dick Morris. You know that worn-out joke about how someone's face is next to, say, "ugly" in the dictionary? In the digital age, it's no joke. Google "worst political pundit" and the name Dick Morris comes up early and often, with links to example after example. This time Morris outdid himself, smugly promising that Romney would win an epic landslide, with a 10-point margin in the popular vote and victories in such Democratic strongholds as Pennsylvania and Minnesota.
- Hugh Hewitt's blog preserves for posterity a chain of risible predictions from a Romney sycophant. Two examples: On Oct. 22 Hewitt wrote, "Romney won the debates decisively, which means he will win on November 6. Some things are simple, and this is one of them." Last weekend, he insulted both John Donne and Ernest Hemingway: "For whom does the bell toll when the deep blue states go purple?Minnesota."
- Rush Limbaugh shared that his intellect indicated a blowout for Romney. Let's give Rush the benefit of the doubt and assume he meant to say "microscopic" before "intellect."
- Michael Barone, a genuine expert on the intricacies and details of the American electorate, bought into the "polls are wrong" meme and forecast an electoral triumph for the Mittster.
- Karl Rove, who stood to make a fortune, win or lose, from fat-cat super PAC contributors, deployed insider polling lingo to fashion a parallel universe in which polls that showed the president leading were absurd and that no sane person would pay attention to them. (Rove effectively took the insanity defense off the table.) Did you see the showdown between a pained Barone and Rove on Fox? It was among my favorite moments on Election Night, Rove insisting that Fox was wrong to call Ohio for Obama — and Barone politely/emphatically insisting — because he'd had enough of this shit — that the numbers do not lie. Rove's Rohrshach-inkblot face could've read anything you wanted. I read "trapped."
- Matt Drudge. At any given time, if 20 polls showed Obama leading and one didn't, you could count on Drudge to identify that one as being the state of the electorate. On election eve, when it was nearly impossible to find a non-partisan/pro-Romney survey, Drudge tweeted this: "Romney internal polls put him UP in OH, TIED in PA and WI." Even the Romney campaign, no stranger to lying, admitted that those internals were "incorrect."
- Charles Krauthammer. If you joined Peggy Noonan and other myopic Romney backers whose gut told them Mitt would win, that was one thing. If you made the anti-factual case that all the polls were wrong, you were not necessarily inconsistent. But Krauthammer, a very smart man, knew better than to predict a Romney electoral landslide based on a late Romney surge — the evidence for which, according to him, was that Mitt was tied or leading in all the national polls. In the real world, the president led in eight of the 12 national polls published the day before the election.
- Joe Scarborough, a Republican partisan who sometimes takes the role of fair broker, said on Meet The Press last Sunday that the race was a tossup and that Pennsylvania was a tie. He well knew that there was exactly one poll out of dozens that showed a tie in PA — and that Obama led comfortably in all the rest.
- Ann Coulter insisted early on that, "If we don't nominate Chris Christie, Romney will be the nominee and we'll lose." Of course, she changed her tune the instant Mitt got the nomination. Last week, Coulter demonstrated the pretzel-logic necessary for the survival of the bad faith forecaster. After Christie gave Obama's cause a boost when he heaped praise on the president for his post-Sandy performance, Coultersaid, "We'll find out tomorrow, when Romney wins, that he (Christie) didn't do any damage." She dismissed the cognitive dissonance of the preponderance of pro-Obama polls by asserting, without evidence, that they "over-predict victory for a black candidate." She promised to show up for the Fox News Romney "victory party" — which was held on Liar's Street, just off Fantasy Avenue.
- George Will, a veteran with a long history of incorrect forecasts, predicted a romp for Romney, whom he had previously discounted as an implausible candidate.
Don't hold your breath for sincere mea culpas from this bunch. Ratings determine who gets the most airtime — and research actually shows that the worst pundits get the most airtime. And so our most popular predictors tend to be the worst. In other words, we get the pundits we deserve.
On election eve, the public figure who's had the most positive effect on my life and the lives of so many others predicted an Obama landslide. He may know nothing about the polls and little about the pols, butBob Dylan relies on a different quality. It's called wisdom.
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Ever hear of Cedar Fever?
Cedar Fever is the common name people give to an allergic reaction for the pollen spewed forth by the Texas hill country cedars, starting about two weeks after the first freeze of the winter. Some folks are completely unaffected. Others, if sensitive, are completely incapacitated.
My younger daughter Amy lived near Austin (Round Rock) for a few years, and when the cedar pollen hit the air the first winter, she was bedridden with headache, fever, and other symptoms. Total incapacitation.
Fortunately she was properly diagnosed and given a prescription for some anti-allergy stuff that kept the reaction at bay. Her doctor told her to take it daily starting about a week after the first freeze. The next winter she was... what? ...re-capacitated? In other words, mostly unaffected.
I've never had a problem with cedar pollen in the past. In fact, I have no known allergies. (Yes, I'm perfect in SO many ways... but we won't go there.)
This year, starting last weekend on Saturday (as I think I reported here) I felt washed out, listless, kind of achy, but not quite bad enough to send me to bed. The weather was too nasty to play golf, but even if the sun had been shining and the temps in the 70s I think I would have passed on the activity. Ever since then (including today) I have had more or less those same symptoms. They're never bad enough that I felt I ought to stay home from work, but I never feel quite good enough or energetic enough to get really productive, either.
Allergy medicine and ibuprofen seem to help. Some. But my aura of perfection is definitely tarnished. Hopefully by the end of NEXT week (when we leave for our ski trip) I'll be once again rarin' to go!
We'll see. Meanwhile, sitting around the house sounds like all the activity I need for right now.
6 comments:
- kenju said...
I hope you feel better soon, John.Take care.
- r.e.wolf said...
Feel better, John - you've got skiing and cookie-eating to do!
- Michelle said...
I can't believe your perfect aura has been tarnished. That must have been devastating for you but not to worry, to some of us you are still perfect. *grin*.
Hope you feel better soon so you can enjoy your ski break.
Have a fab weekend.
- Christina said...
you mean there's a chance you may not be perfect? but what about all the perfection genes i inherited from you? are they tarnished as well? oh, the horror!
- Duke_of_Earle said...
Dearest daughter, there is no need to fear. Your possibly tarnished genetic makeup (from me) has been more than cleansed, sanitized, and purified by the genetic input of your mother. HER perfection is beyond any hint of doubt, as you well know.
- Peter said...
Cedar fever... hmmm... no energy, listless, just want to sit around all day... can you get this without havin' the cedar trees John???


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