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I'm a self-taught digital painter who is in need of constructive critiques.
I'm almost done with it, but there is something odd about it...
Please give me some suggestions and advice. Thank you!
I'm a self-taught digital painter who is in need of constructive critiques.
I'm almost done with it, but there is something odd about it...
Please give me some suggestions and advice. Thank you!
Are the rays of sunshine coming from the fish or the sun? Because they don't continue from the other side of it and there's no clouds to block the light either so..
"I eat comics and poop stylization"
♞Sketchbook (Critiques, no compliments please.)
Nice stuff going on in this!
I wonder if the furthest fishy on the horizon should be a bit smaller?
Are those cherry blossom trees? I think maybe they're looking larger than they are or should be partly because of the larger speckled highlight brush strokes. Since everything else is looking pretty non-brush strokey, I suggest using the smallest speckle size you used for all of the tree leaves.
Ok, I changed the clouds and the trees a bit and made the furthest fishy smaller.
Thanks for the feedback! Feel free to C&C more.
This is a wonderful piece.
I like how the farther fish blend into the clouds.
I feel that the main fish could do with stronger lighting on top due to the sun's rays.
Great overall mood and colors but the lighting bothers me. The cherry trees look like they're glowing because light doesn't effect the up facing parts of the cliffs close to them, like the tall rock on the right. If the rock is in shadow, how come the cherry trees around it aren't? With some more definition on the lighting, I think this'll make a great piece!
I'm bothered by the cropping of the bottom part of the image. It feels like it would look nice if you extended it to include the waterfall and maybe a ground plane of sorts. Just my opinion
Nice piece - and I agree with other critique. The scale of the trees and the fact that they don't exist further back in the canyon bothers me most. Right now the furthes trees are the largest - and that is an excellent observation that teh trees on the right need to be in shadow as well. The large foreground cliff/rock on the left is a bit problemtaic - it creates a tangent with the main peak at top left and is completely in shadow/silhouette? Should be affected by lightsource like everything else. Anyway, nice work - looking forward to seeing it finished!
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Plein Air
Still Life
Sight Measuring
Wow. Thanks again for the comments and critiques! I would have never caught these.
Seems like lighting is the most problematic. I will work on it and update as soon as I can.
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In cold weather like this nothing sucks more than filling your car with gas. I don't seek out stations with gas jockeys but a couple of the places I frequent the most out of convenience just happen to have them.
I'm not the world's greatest tipper but I do try to leave something with the guy (or gal) for doing this most miserable winter job. Now, I'm not talking the same 15% that restaurant staff expect as a minimum for dropping off a plate of food at your table in a warm restaurant, but at the pump just a loonie or twoonie from your parking change tray will usually get get a look of gratitude and a "thanks".
From time to time I've asked others if they do this, (including people I'm with who have no problem dropping that sort of change into a glass for someone who spent 5 seconds popping the cap off beer bottle for them), and I usually get a quizzical look.
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Illegal Fishing: The Case of Mozambique
Pinto, M.A.
Lopes, S.
Refereed StatusNon-Refereed
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The fisheries sector plays an important role in the economy of Mozambique, contributing to 40-50 per cent of the country's foreign exchange earnings. The extensive coast supporting diverse fisheries makes Mozambique a sensitive place for illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. This paper discuss the relation between IUU fishing and the surveillance capacity, the length of the coastal zone, the commercial value of the resources and the national fishing capacity of Mozambique......
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Document Languageen
Spatial CoverageMozambique
Conference NameCoastal Communities and the Indian Ocean's Future
Conference PlaceIIT Madras Chennai, India
Conference Date9 – 13 October 2001
CitationCoastal Communities and the Indian Ocean's Future, IIT Madras Chennai, India, 9 – 13 October 2001
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According to Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports, the Tennessee Titans are looking to acquire a third round pick for wide receiver Kenny Britt.
That price might be abit too steep though.
The Titans have talked to several NFL teams regarding struggling receiver Kenny Britt, according to sources with knowledge of the situation, but have been attempting to get a third-round pick for him, or a combination of picks equal to a third rounder. Other clubs have found that price to be high, sources said, with them viewing Britt, given his off-field issues, expiring contract and lack of any recent production as valued more like a fifth-round pick.


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The Jakarta Post App on Firefox OS
Yesterday, I've seen this post from one of our good friends who also a former Mozilla Representative in Indonesia, Benny Chandra. The talk between The Jakarta Post Digital CEO, Budi Putra, and him about making an app for Firefox OS started from a simple thing: discussion over a cup of coffee.
I haven't get the full story yet on that but Budi Putra have told me to start including Firefox OS App in our timeline (and I'm still curious about the full story, ahem..)
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Customer Satisfaction Is Key - An infographic by the team at DMC Software
Many small businesses I speak to are worried about using social media. It's understandable; after all, social media puts you and your company in the public spotlight and there's always the risk that you may get negative online reviews as well as positive comments.
Indeed, that's usually the biggest concern – what if a customer complains and leaves a negative review? Their comments are out there in public, posted, shared, re-tweeted. Everyone can see them!
But think of this – you may well have had disgruntled customers in the past but you just weren't aware of them. Now look at the role of social media from a different angle – if someone leaves a negative comment on Twitter or Facebook (and they will!), you have a valuable opportunity to address the issue.
This enables you to take a two-pronged attack – damage limitation by resolving the problem and turning the situation around by converting a complainer into a brand advocate.
Remember that social media also gives you a platform on which to publicly demonstrate that you care about your customers. Many people prefer to deal with complaints offline. The trouble with that is that your sincere apology and the way you resolve the issue won't be in the public domain. However, if you do it online you are being completely transparent and you may just call a halt to droves of similar complaints being posted.
Make someone happy and there's every chance that they will relay the good news to others, turning a complaint into positive PR and building some good brand awareness at the same time.
Copyright © 2015 Sarah Orchard, an expert contributor to Marketing Donut and a consultant at Orchard Marketing Associates.
It's so much cheaper to keep a customer than to find a new one, that for a small business it's perhaps the most vital ingredient for a healthy future.
So how do you keep customers? Price is the most important factor for many shoppers and some businesses trade exclusively on that. But there are two problems with this as a long-term strategy: firstly, most customers don't decide where to buy on price alone; and secondly, those that do will eventually be worn down by an apparent lack of care by the seller.
Excellent customer service is the foundation stone on which to grow your online business. In this day and age, when so many companies give poor (or simply neglectful) service, it's also a fantastic way to stand out from the crowd.
It's not a short-term strategy; it should be a permanent, long-term mission statement. Being friendly, efficient and above all helpful may not immediately get you more sales, but it will help to persuade customers to return and it will encourage them to recommend your business to friends and family.
I'd like to re-emphasise the word helpful. Go out of your way to help your customers. Distinguish yourself from companies with robotic staff who parrot the usual line, not intending, or caring whether they really help. Actually solve problems, don't just sympathise; offer real solutions, not just a goodwill gesture.
Above all, contact your customers to check if they're happy. That's what the restaurant trade calls the "two minute check-back", and it works brilliantly when the waiting staff are properly trained – it allows them to check that everything is okay with the customer's meal and experience, but it's also a great opportunity to offer more drinks and get more sales.
Whatever you do, don't hide behind your website. You may not have that bricks and mortar store, but it's no excuse for zero interaction. Publish your phone number clearly; interact with customers through email and social media; contact them frequently for that "two minute check-back".
The customer may not always be right, but they are always the king, and if you invest the time and effort to treat them like royalty then you'll be creating the conditions for a long-term, thriving businesses.
Copyright © 2014 Simon Michels is a director of Photo Productions.
There was a time when businesses could get away with hiding from their customers, particularly when they knew they had done something wrong. Those days are long gone.
Good customer service is more critical than ever and businesses that want to survive and thrive must value their customers and build good relationships with them.
In fact, there are simple ways that small businesses with tight budgets can improve their customer service. Here are some findings from Expert Market UK's recent customer service study, which found that:
The biggest damage occurs when potential customers don't get the information they need when they first enquire (57%). The other danger point is when a customer has made a complaint but is not satisfied the response (26%).
Phones and email are still the preferred channels in the UK and respondents polled said businesses should focus on increasing their customer service staff (36%), providing contact details (24%) and making sure staff are aware of current policies and promotions (20%).
In fact, complaints can often be turned into wins for small businesses. Always contact customers promptly, using their preferred method. At the same time, make it easy for customers to reach you by displaying contact information clearly.
Victoria Elizabeth is digital asset executive at Expert Market UK.
If you know what you're doing, social media can be an easy and cost-effective way to improve your customer service, especially for small firms. As your company grows, you need to make sure that you are also developing a loyal customer base. The great thing about social media is that a satisfied customer will recommend your products and services to their family and friends.
If you are unsure how to approach social media, take a look at your competitors to get an idea of how other businesses do it. Then aim to do it better. Here are five tips to help you improve your social media customer service:
The best way to ensure your customer service remains consistent throughout your company and social media platforms is by developing clear company values and social media policies. Ensure your employees are properly trained and that they have the ability to deal with issues as they arise. This way you can guarantee your online presence is consistent.
By maintaining active social media profiles, you will have a platform on which to connect and interact with your customers. Be a person, not a faceless brand. Your customers want to talk to real people — and this is often where small businesses have the edge over bigger competitors. By really engaging with your customers you can get a better understanding of the people who use your products. Use this to provide a personalised service that will exceed your customers' expectations.
If you receive a complaint, make sure that it is dealt with quickly and professionally. When dealing with the customer, be polite. It is important that you genuinely and openly apologise for the error. After this is done, move the conversation to a private message or email. The best way to exceed expectations is to reach a mutual resolution, but provide more than what the customer was expecting. This is your opportunity to turn a customer's negative experience into a positive one.
Complaints are not only a chance to showcase your customer service skills; they are also an opportunity to learn and develop your products and services. You should encourage your customers to give feedback and take on board any suggestions that they have to offer. You can use this feedback to provide your customers with a product or service that is tailored to their requirements.
Give advice and share your expertise and experience. Produce interesting and useful content that you can use for your company's blog. If you do start a blog, make sure that you update it consistently and frequently. Your posts can then be promoted on your social media channels and used to kick-start meaningful conversations.
Sara Parker runs the social media for Face for Business.
When I run sales workshops, I always test the temperature of the audience by asking them about their favourite customer; not necessarily the biggest one, but one that they like on a personal level.
This is to help me to get a feel for their business, how they deliver their products and services, and to look at how to replicate their best practices, based on successful customer case studies.
Occasionally some members of the audience look at me blankly and further probing reveals that they actually dislike all of their customers: difficult people, who always seem to be complaining and constantly looking for lower prices.
At this point I feel they are more in need of personal counselling than sales coaching, but do my best to rectify what must be a terrible situation for someone in a small business. In a large organisation you can at least look forward to the pay cheque at the end of the month, whereas in a small organisation, the buck stops with you. There is one consolation: in a small company, you are actually allowed to make some mistakes, so long as you rectify them swiftly.
This was an interesting observation made by Richard Richardson, who has seen both sides of the coin. He had a very successful career in advertising, most latterly with Young and Rubicam. His favourite customer was John Barnes at Kentucky Fried Chicken, and they used to spend many hours cooking up new business ideas, just for fun.
But one idea seemed to have some traction: what about the original British fast food — fish and chips? The best-known name, Harry Ramsden's, was a single large restaurant at Guiseley in Yorkshire, with a few other outlets, differently branded. The owners were looking to sell and Barnes and Richardson saw the opportunity to build a great brand, something they were both passionate about.
They had very complementary skills; Barnes the charismatic ideas man, Richardson the completer/finisher. They shared common values, particularly a love of customers and customer interaction.
They raised some money and then set about building the Harry Ramsden's brand, but without the large marketing budgets they were both used to. They developed a style that they later captured in their book, Marketing Judo — the idea that you use the opponent's weight to your advantage, using leverage, rather than brute force.
They kept the team lean but instilled a sense of customer awareness by insisting that everyone in the 25-person head office called at least five unhappy customers every week.
This caused some bemusement amongst their customers, particularly a gentleman in Bournemouth who had filled in a card to complain about some cold chips at their Bournemouth outlet.
He was so surprised to hear from a director of Harry Ramsden's that he dropped his mobile phone, and then explained that he had just bought a car for £35,000 and had less joy in having problems resolved than for this 70 pence bag of chips. Richardson's simple phone call also generated significant new income as the gentleman's wife resolved to take parties of visiting Chinese business people to Harry Ramsden's.
But Richardson explains that in a small business it is fine to make mistakes, so long as you resolve issues swiftly and personally. He feels that many large companies seem to have an ethos of never admitting failure, which can be disastrous, as customer expectations are increasing all the time.
Once the brand had become established, they decided to grow their business by a franchise model, as it meant that ownership of the brand was closer to the customers; a proven concept delivered by local people. But while the brand can be promoted generally by head office, it is still down to the local entrepreneurs to do what they can, often without much of a marketing budget.
In Marketing Judo, Barnes and Richardson have many tips for doing just this, including extending your offer in interesting ways (the Glasgow branch offered haggis) and providing complementary additional services (arranging coach trips for senior citizens to show off interesting local buildings after a fish supper). They refer to this as "getting the crowd on your side", using emotional leverage rather than just marketing muscle.
If you do this, not only will you grow to love your customers, you will find they will love you right back, and do your marketing for you, by word of mouth.
Copyright ©Mike Southon 2012. All rights reserved. Not to be reproduced without permission in writing. Mike Southon is the co-author of The Beermat Entrepreneur and a business speaker.


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Nokia X3 review
We review the Nokia X3, a budget Nokia music device
If you like the idea of the Nokia X6 but think that prices of £449 SIM free for the 32GB Comes With Music Edition and £299 SIM free for the 16GB version are on the steep side, then you might want to give the £129 SIM free X3 a second glance. The price is a very clear indication that this handset plays, er, second fiddle to the X6, but it might offer all the musicality you need.
There are some nifty features for music fans. Arguably the most important of these is a 3.5mm headset jack sitting on the top edge of the chassis. This is the ideal location for a headset jack, as it minimises the chances of pocket snagging when your headset is attached.
The provided headset is a somewhat chunky affair with industrial strength cabling – perhaps to help the earphones last longer than usual as they are squished in your pocket rather than neatly wound. The rounded in-ear buds are a snug fit, and the sound quality is good enough for everyday use. Still, we'd have preferred a two-piece headset so we could use our favourite, high quality earphones to bump up the sound output quality that little bit further.
There is an equaliser which has a just a few presets. At least they have a noticeable effect on sound output and you can save two personal presets.
The X3 sports three front buttons for playback control. These sit down the left side of the screen. They are quite neat looking, though we'd have liked the right side to have three shortcuts too – maybe user programmable, rather than a simple filler strip. We aren't convinced about the 'music light' either. This is basically a pulsing white light that sits in the large D-pad when music is playing. We turned the feature off.
There is an FM radio and you can use the music controls to manage this too, flipping through stations easily. The radio has RDS support and there are 20 presets. You can use the radio without having the headset plugged in as its antenna is internal.
There isn't a great deal of built in memory for storing music – there was just under 14MB free on our review sample right out of the box. The X3 supports microSD cards, with the slot on the left edge of the casing under a solid protective cover. You get a 2GB card with the phone. Clearly if you are a music fan you are going to want to boost this by purchasing a higher capacity card, and Nokia says the X3 supports cards to 16GB.
Physically this is a fairly nice handset. It is a slider, measuring 96mm tall x 49.3mm wide and 14.1mm thick with the slide closed, growing to just over 120mm with the slide open. The slide mechanism is smooth and delivers a good 'clunk' in both opening and closing the phone. The keyboard is flat with dividers between the keys so that you can find what you want fairly easily. It might not suit speed-texters, but the rest of us should find it OK.
Build quality is average, with plastic used throughout. The red and black colour scheme of our review sample was OK but not especially innovative. You can get a blue/black alternative.
The screen is fairly small at just 2.2-inches, and its 320 x 240 pixels are very much entry level these days. There's nothing wrong with it in terms of brightness or clarity, but if you want to do media rich stuff like Web browsing, you might want to look elsewhere.


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I think opposing viewpoints have to be shared and are shared on this site.
However, I still think that replies like "We all have different credit goals" don't really hit the nail on the head. Of course, each of us has a different subset of goals. Someone wants to buy a house, yet another wants to repair their score etc. However, behind that array of different goals there is a goal that we all have in common: to obtain, build, keep a reliable and good credit profile that makes it possible for us to convince lenders to extend credit to us when we need it. I have yet to see one single poster on here who has not been pursuing that. I think that is the overarching idea on here, isn't it?


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Try to change Arizona's budget-making process, and you're bound to bruise a few egos. Sen.-elect Jeff Dial found that out the hard way this week, as word of his proposal to bring back appropriations subcommittees – once a staple of the budget process for Arizona lawmakers – spread throughout the Capitol.Read More »
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Brophy McGee gave a resounding endorsement of Dial's plan to restore the subcommittee process in crafting a budget, saying her colleague is "right on the money" with the idea. "The budget process has become much more the purview of leadership, and members are left out in a sense and given a package to vote on.Read More »
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Canberra and the banks play a delicate game
It is not just Gail Kelly of Westpac who is afraid of putting up bank interest rates for fear of a backlash from the government. The other banks are in the same boat and would dearly love to bolster their returns by increasing interest rates.
Dreams of freedom driving Sri Lankans onto boats
IN A grim, windowless hut on the outskirts of Colombo sits Kevin Rudd's nightmare.
Whatever Floats Your Boat
Music has to be fed by life experience and, as Matt Buchanan writes, James Morrison has dined well at that table.
Boomers Catch Sailing Bug
IN those dark and distant days when money was tight, credit was merely a compliment, and greed wasn't necessarily good, folk aplenty turned to sailing for their cheap thrills.
Is It Crunch Time For Coal?
Brown coal is cheap and abundant in Victoria but so high-polluting it may become prohibitively expensive once carbon trading begins. "Clean coal" is the industry's great white hope, but it may be wishful thinking.


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Nanotechnology and Plasma Technology
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With a blend of organic tapioca syrup, organic honey and electrolytes, Honey Stinger Organic Gels offer a different taste and texture from their original Classic gels with the added bonus of new and unique flavor varieties. Each gel contains a 100 calorie boost and is made from 95% organic ingredients.
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Starting centers for the Dallas Mavericks after Tyson Chandler left
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In the year that the Dallas Mavericks won their first ever NBA championship, center Tyson Chandler started 74 games. Since his free-agent departure to the New York Knicks, there have been nine different starting centers in three seasons for the Mavericks. Here's who started and how many games they started after Chandler's departure. (All figures taken from Basketball Reference.)
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Secret Hideaway in The Atlas Mountains
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If your idea of getting away from it all involves more than going from plane to hotel and back again, it's about time you made a new discovery—namely the town of Azilal, nestled in the Atlas Mountains. Off the tourist trail in central Morocco, the region is known locally for its weekly souks, religious architecture, and fortified villages—but most of all for its epic scenery, from 4,000-metre peaks to white waters between vast canyons, and from timeless waterfalls to prehistoric caves. Leave the beaten path far behind you and Escape for real to Widiane Suites & Spa.
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Known as Holy Basil (Ocimum sanctum), Tulsi is a sacred plant from India used in traditional Ayurvedic medicine. There are three Tulsi varietals, each with a distinct flavor: the Green Leaf (Rama Tulsi), Purple Leaf (Krishna Tulsi), which bears dark green-to-purple leaves, and this third varietal, considered the most flavorful and also hardest to grow – Wild Forest (Vana Tulsi).
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn (WVLT) Former Knox County Executive Dwight Kessel was injured after being struck by a KAT trolley.
The accident happened at the corner of Henley Street and Clinch Avenue in downtown Knoxville just before noon.
According to Knoxville Police Department spokesperson Darrell DeBusk, Kessel was standing on the curb when he was startled by the trolley.
DeBusk said Kessel slipped and fell, and his leg was run over by the trolley.
Kessel was taken to UT Medical Center for treatment.
A spokesperson at the hospital lists Kessel as being in stable condition.
Kessel's family tells Volunteer TV's Alan Williams that he suffered a broken leg and a cut on that same leg.
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Confetti rains down on the field at Lucas Oil Stadium after Indianapolis' first Super Bowl in February 2012.
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Indianapolis is among three cities invited Tuesday by the National Football League to bid for the 2018 Super Bowl at the owners' spring meeting next year.
The city will compete against New Orleans, the site of last season's Super Bowl and a 10-time host, and Minneapolis, which has hosted the event once.
Minneapolis last hosted the Super Bowl in 1992 but is building a new stadium that will open in 2016, while New Orleans is positioning its bid by pitching the Super Bowl as part of its celebration of the 300th anniversary of the city's founding. ...


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CYMBALA'S EASTER STORY Jim Cymbala preaches at a church in the slums of New York. He tells the following story: It was Easter Sunday and I was s...
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Scripture: Exodus 18:15-18:18, Luke 23:32-23:34, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13:8, John 13:34-13:35, Matthew 25:34-25:45, [more]
Tags: Body Of Christ, Dignity, Work, Supper, Second Coming, [more]
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LEADERS AND FOLLOWERS S. I. McMillen, in his book "None of These Diseases," tells a story of a young woman who wanted to go to college, but her hea...
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Whatĺs Wrong With Same Sex Marriage, a new book from Crossway by D James Kennedy & Jerry Newcombe, is packed with revealing and insightful data that c...
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Hostile natives surrounded his missions headquarters one night, intent on burning the Patons out and killing them. John Paton and his wife prayed all...
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Johann Sebastian Bach was born into the musical family of Bachs in 1685. By the age of ten, both of his parents wer...
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Talk about rising to the top of your field, Martha Graham (May 11, 1894áľ April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Her influen...
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RESUME OF A SERVANT LEADER Eliezer is not mentioned by name in this story, but he makes a name for himself in the pages of history. If you are look...
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CARL'S GOSPEL GARDEN He didn't talk much. He would always greet you with a big smile and a firm handshake. Even after living in our neighborhood fo...
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|Release Date: April 15, 2011
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|Box Office: $15,017.00
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Summary:At the annual Vent Haven Convention in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, ventriloquism capital of the world, director Mark Goffman discovers five extraordinary characters straight out of a Christopher Guest movie. But in this case the characters are real. Kim, a former Miss Ohio beauty queen yearning for her big break; Dan, a thriving cruise ship performer whose wife may divorce him when he comes ashore; Dylan, an introverted 13-year-old with dreams of hitting the professional circuit; Wilma - all six-foot-five of her - a former security guard who brings her dummies to senior homes and Wal-Marts; and Terry, who struggled for decades as a small-time performer before winning America's Got Talent on his ... Full Summary >>


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Aurora World is opening a permanent showroom at AmericasMart Atlanta, a facility that Aurora has operated since 1993. The new showroom will make its debut at the Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market from July 7 to 14. [Read more...]
Aurora World to Open Permanent Showroom at AmericasMart Atlanta
Raggedy Ann Celebrates Her 100th Birthday with Aurora World
Aurora World Inc. will celebrate Raggedy Ann's 100th birthday with the release of special edition, 16-inch Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy rag dolls. These new Stars and Stripes dolls each feature a red, white, and blue theme; exclusive 100th year embroidery; and commemorative hangtags on every doll. [Read more...]
Aurora Expands My Little Pony Plush Collection to Include Brushable, Sparkling Hair
Aurora World Inc. is adding to its My Little Pony plush collection with 12 new ponies featuring styled, brushable hair with glistening, mylar accents. These 12 new styles feature characters Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Princess Twilight Sparkle in both 6.5-inch and new 13-inch, medium sizes.
Aurora will showcase its latest products at both The Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market on January 6 to 13, and North American International Toy Fair on February 14 to 17.
Aurora Reveals Easter- and Spring-Themed Plush Products
Although Halloween just passed and we're only heading toward the holiday season, sometimes its fun to think ahead. To get you through the dreary winter with thoughts of spring, Aurora World Inc. is offering more than 180 Easter- and spring-themed plush products highlighted by new designs and materials, extensions of lines, and extensive programs for its retail partners.
Featured products include the Lopsie Wopsie Bunny and Sweet & Softer collections, as well as Miyoni Unlikely Friends, an animal pairing for one of Aurora's popular lines. Aurora and Hasbro have teamed up again to expand the Raggedy Ann doll collection with a new Gardener edition.
Aurora Anticipates Valentine's Day with New Plush
Plush toy and gift manufacturer, Aurora World, Inc., is known for doing big things in the retail world, especially to anticipate a holiday season. For its upcoming Valentine's Day catalog Aurora is releasing new products, including fresh characters and variations of popular lines and licenses.
- Pink Promise Elephant – The loveable elephant is fashioned with super soft-tipped, two-tone fabric and has playful heart prints in its oversized ears. Pink Promise is available in four huggable sizes (10.5-inch, 12-inch, 14-inch, and 22-inch).
- YooHoo & Friends – Luvee, an endangered chimpanzee joins Aurora's best-selling plush line as a three-color assortment. Luvee hugs a slightly askew heart, each with a different message, including "Love U," "Be Mine," and "XOXO!" Each 5-inch plush makes a smooch sound when squeezed.
- Butterball Bear – This unique huggable bear features a sweet and happy smile while offering a red rose to his sweetheart. He's thsi soft plush is available in three sizes (10-inch, 14-inch, and 20-inch).
- Raggedy Ann "Sweet Dove" – This 2,400-piece limited-edition doll features a pink and brown truffle-inspired polka dot cotton dress with a detailed, embroidered apron. She's sprinkled with satins, ribbons, and love doves embroidery, and the hangtag and sewn label are individually numbered for authentication. Each Raggedy Ann features the traditional "I Love You" heart embroidered on her chest.
- Sad Sam & Honey – This property stars two basset hounds. Aurora has expanded the line to include three embroidered message assortments on sparkled, velvet hearts: "I Love You," "Puppy Love," and "Be Mine." The line expansion also includes large "Blushing" variations; paws rest on their blushing cheeks that, when squeezed, light up and make a smooch sound and an oversized feature tag doubles as a gift card.
Aurora products are available in more than 25,000 specialty stores and gift shops worldwide as well as online at shop.auroragift.com.
Aurora Donates Thousands of New Stuffed Animals to K.I.D.S. For Hurricane Sandy Relief
Aurora World Inc., will donate thousands of new stuffed animals and baby products to K.I.D.S. (Kids in Distressed Situations), a charity that provides kid-essentials to children and teens who have been impacted by disaster, poverty, and tragedy. Hurricane Sandy hit close to home for Michael Kessler, Aurora's SVP of sales and marketing who grew up in Cherry Hill, N.J. and spent summers in Ventnor, N.J.
Those who want to make a cash donation can text GIVE 8000 to 80088 to donate $10 to K.I.D.S. on your mobile phone bill. To make a larger donation, contact Cristina Morais at (212) 279-5493, ext. 204.
YooHoo & Friends Expands into Tween Market
Aurora World, Inc. is expanding its YooHoo & Friends brand into the tween category. New YooHoo & Friends products will include plush, stationery, fashion accessories, decorations, and "snaps."
Aurora's "snaps" are approximately one inch in diameter, and can be mixed and matched and fastened to items such as lanyards, totes, accessories, and more.
The six new YooHoo & Friends plush animals include Shooga the Sugar Glider, Lemmee the Lemur, Hapee the Lesser Panda, YooHoo the Bush Baby, Chewoo the Red Squirrel, and Pammee the Fennec Fox. The plush are available in five or eight inches and make a sound when squeezed. Each sports a headband or flower and is embroidered with hearts, peace signs, or words such as "love" and "peace."
The company is also releasing the YooHoo & Friends Fun Center collection, which includes stationery such as a spiral notebook and doodle pad, decorative accessories such as sticker rolls, and fashion accessories such as an accessory case, laser cut bracelet, and lanyard.
Aurora World Inc. Introduces Milly the Pinkest Kitten
Toy and gift manufacturer Aurora World Inc. is introducing Milly the Pinkest Kitten—-a line of feline, freestanding plush dolls in 10 variations, from dress-up to portable toy pet carriers. The new line is geared toward young girls partial to pink and plush.
The Milly WannaBes are eight-inch plush dolls aimed towards girls ages 3 to 7. The dolls can be dressed as a princess, ballerina, or fairy.
Milly's Cupcake Carriers are the latest in Aurora's line of plush toy pet carriers. The scented carriers include an eight-inch plush animal, Mini-Flopsie, and come in chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry scents. The scents last approximately six months.
The Milly Birthday Girl, a freestanding, bean-filled toy, comes holding either a cupcake or a birthday balloon and is available in two sizes, 10 and 13 inches.
Aurora World Inc. is the Korean-based company responsible for the YooHoo & Friends. Its products are sold through a wide variety of retailers, including major zoos, toy stores, and gift chains.
Aurora Launches YooHoo & Friends Website
Aurora World, Inc. has launched an interactive website for its brand, YooHoo & Friends, www.yoohoofriends.com. The site, targeted to kids ages 5-12, is free and requires no activation code.
In the virtual world, kids can learn about real animals and their environment, play more than 15 games and view animation in the "Playground," adopt, raise, and customize a room in "My Room," and send e-cards, download wallpaper, and more in the "Fun Zone."


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WP is by far the most professional blog application I've come across. Keep up the good work!
It would be great to post articles restricted by user level such that posts can be viewed only by registered users with certain user level(s). Password protecting a post is not an efficient approach in the long-run. WP already has a user level system and a feature to restrict posts by user level will be quite easy to integrate I suppose. It would also be neat to restrict access (depending upon the user level) to certain categories. Maybe a "hack" already exists to do what I've just mentioned?!?!
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Literature: Sinbad the Sailor
venture capitalist who goes on seven high risk business ventures to open new trade routes to oversea markets, only to have unforeseen complications create areas of opportunity for his negotiating skills to create mutually beneficial outcomes.Or at least, that would be the modern interpretation of Sinbad. This middle eastern fable is a collection of stories told in a manner similar to the Thousand And One Nights; Sinbad the Porter stops to rest outside the mansion of Sinbad the merchant, and laments that for chance he missed out on the amazing riches of the latter, which he won very easily. However, who should hear him but Sinbad the Sailor? Rather than be angry at his jealousy, he invites the porter to sup with him and regales him for seven consecutive nights with the tales of his fortunes and misfortunes, adventures and perils, giving him a hundred gold coins at the end of each.The tales of Sinbad the Sailor were originally independent of the Thousand and One Nights. Antoine Galland added Sinbad to the "Nights" when compiling his 18th century French translation, which was the first translation into any European language and which introduced the Nights to European culture. The "Sinbad" stories have since become closely associated with the Thousand and One Nights and are usually included in Nights translations. The original Arabic name is most closely transliterated as "Sindbad"; this is how it's spelled in the famous Richard Burton translation and the 2008 Lyons translation. Note that there are two radically different versions of Sinbad's seventh voyage (one where he spends a long period in a city of intermittently winged men, the other where he's enslaved and encounters an Elephants' Graveyard); some translations include both.Despite being commonly called "the Sailor," Sinbad is a merchant and a ship-owner, and has adventures in places reached by sailing, but is not himself a sailor of any sort; at most, he occasionally improvises rafts for emergency travel. Some translations call him something like "Sindbad of the Sea", which might be more accurate.Sinbad has proven a popular figure in the cinema and on TV, where, however, his adventures have generally had little connection with his original 1,001 Nights version.Not to be confused with Popeye The Sailor, though they did "costar" together in Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor.
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- Aesop Amnesia: Whenever Sinbad gets in a really bad spot on one of his journeys he regrets leaving home and wishes he hadn't taken a risky sea voyage. After he finally does get home, he gets bored and winds up going to sea again.
- Arabian Nights Days: The baseline setting.
- City of Gold: Sinbad gets to visit some very wealthy kingdoms, though none of them really hit the peak version of the trope.
- Disproportionate Reward: Perhaps filtered by Values Dissonance, but the rich kings and caliphs in Sinbad's tale do seem to enjoy lavishing him with presents and riches just for being an interesting guy. They may be flaunting their wealth to a foreigner there, of course.
- Doom Magnet: Sindbad is unlucky, very unlucky. However, his crews tend to be a lot unluckier — at least Sindbad always survives. Most of the stories end with him the sole survivor of some terrible cataclysm, or begin that way. Then it gets worse. Then he got rich(er). Then he goes out on more adventures and does it again!
- Dwindling Party: Sinbad tends to be the lone survivor of a lot of his tales.
- Framing Device: Sinbad tells his stories to Sinbad the Porter over several dinners.
- Guile Hero: Only rarely does Sinbad ever need to use violence to escape his predicaments.
- The Homeward Journey: Every time he goes off on an adventure, Sinbad eventually gets homesick and looks for a ship heading back to Baghdad.
- Intrepid Merchant: Sinbad's schtick. He does seem to have a gift for trading.
- Non-Action Guy: Despite the habit of portaying him as a swashbuckling hero in modern times (just look at the page image), like a lot of 1001 Nights heroes Sindbad was more of an explorer and businessman than a fighter and primarily used his cunning to find was to avoid conflict. When he was forced to fight it was always as a last resort, he wasn't particularly good at it, he rarely did so in a very action packed or heroic way - typically, he would spring upon his enemies when they were vulnerable and beat them down before they could react.
- Mr. Vice Guy: Sinbad is a lot like Scrooge McDuck, ambitious (but not evil, Values Dissonance not withstanding) and out to make a buck. In fact, by the end he's one of the richest men in Baghdad.
- One Steve Limit: Notably averted when Sinbad the Porter attracts the attention of Sinbad the Sailor, who proceeds to tell the porter of his seven voyages.
- Sole Survivor: Often Sinbad's status by the mid-point of a story.
- Walking the Earth: Well, more like sailing the ocean, but still.
Tropes used in the First Voyage:
- That's No Moon!: The sailors mistake the giant sea creature for an island.
- Turtle Island: The sleeping giant whale/fish has a forest growing on it.
Tropes used in the Second Voyage:
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Sinbad lands in a valley full of snakes ... giant snakes.
- Giant Flyer: The Roc ("Rukh").
- That's No Moon!: Sinbad mistakes the Roc's egg for a white dome, and looks for a door.
Tropes used in the Third Voyage:
- Eye Scream: Sinbad and the other sailors blind the giant with two red-hot iron spits with which the monster has been kebabing and roasting the ship's company.
- Giant Mook: The giant.
- Go for the Eye: The way to take out something that's basically too big to kill.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Mmm. Mmm. Sailors!
Tropes used in the Fourth Voyage:
- Captured by Cannibals: Sinbad just keeps walking into this sort of thing, doesn't he?
- Grave Robbing/Serial Killer: After escaping from the tombs, Sinbad periodically returns, murders whoever else was thrown in there alive, and takes their stuff.
- Lotus-Eater Machine: Well, plain old "Lotuses" anyway. The cannibals make their other captives docile with an herb to fatten them up.
- Together in Death: The bad kind. The kingdom has a custom that when one member of a married couple dies, the spouse will be entombed with them.
Tropes used in the Fifth Voyage:
- Can't Hold His Liquor: Sinbad's homebrew makes the Old Man fall off his back, and then he kills him.
- Death from Above: What the Rocs do after the sailors eat one of their eggs.
- Giant Flyer: Another Roc.
- Made a Slave: The Old Man clings to Sinbad's back and can't be shaken off; he rides him around.
- Maniac Monkeys: A feature of life in the City of the Apes.
Tropes used in the Sixth Voyage:
- Worthless Yellow Rocks: The land of Serendib is so jewel studded it's a massive piece of jewelry.
Tropes used in the Seventh Voyage:
- Elephants' Graveyard: Sinbad finds one in the variant version.
- Made a Slave: In the variant version.
- Our Demons Are Different: The inhabitants of the distant city where Sinbad settles for a while turn out to be demons, or at least demon-worshipers.
- Revised Ending: Some versions, such as Burton and Lyons, include the alternate version in which the Caliph sends Sinbad back to Serendib bearing gifts — in effect, an eighth voyage, especially once things go wrong for Sinbad yet again.
- Sea Monster: The enormous fish that threaten Sinbad's ship.
- Shapeshifting: The demons/demon-worshippers change form and grow wings once a month.
Works Featuring Sinbad (Sometimes In Name Only) Include:
- The Adventures Of Sinbad
- Arabian Nights: Adventures of Sinbad an anime series, made in 1975 and one of Nippon Animation's earliest works.
- Captain Sindbad, a 1963 fantasy B-movie.
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
- The Magic Voyage of Sinbad
- The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
- Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
- Sinbad: A 1978 licensed pinball game based on the movie.
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
- Sinbad the Sailor
- Sinbad Jr., whose theme song describes the hero as "Sinbad the Sailor" (with no Jr.)
- Sinbad: A 2012 British TV series starring newcomer Elliot Knight as Sinbad, cursed to never be able to stay on dry land for more than a day after accidently killing a man in a fight.
- Magi features Sinbad as the ruler of the prosperous island nation of Sindria, as well as an adventurer famous for completing seven deadly trials.
- Osprey Publishing have a volume about Sinbad in their "Osprey Adventures" line.
- Sinbad even got a Text Adventure spinoff on the ZX Spectrum, Sinbad and the Golden Ship!
- The Fantastic Voyages Of Sinbad The Sailor.


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Despite a minor trip on the red carpet [1], it looked like Jennifer Lawrence had a grand time at the 2014 Oscars on Sunday. She continued her reign over award season [2] on the red carpet, stopping to greet celebrities like Cate Blanchett [3], Will Smith [4], and Channing Tatum [5]. While she lost the award for best supporting actress, she didn't let that squash her fun, and she even joked around with winner Lupita Nyong'o backstage by pretending to steal her award [6]. Keep reading for the complete guide to Jennifer's night at the Academy Awards, and be sure to vote on her look and many more styles in our our fashion and beauty polls [7].
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If it is seen that the words appearing now speaking of yesterday are just a story (fabrication) appearing presently one will not be fragmented or conflicted.
The belief is 'I could have done it better'. Which is not true.
Thinking about the past or future produce emotions. Fear and desire. Projecting an image of yourself into future or past senarios and playing out a scene in the mind causes all sorts of feeling in the body which is always felt in the present.
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By Jim Heid | Thursday, January 23, 2014
No athlete would take to the field, and no musician would take to the stage, without first warming up. But what about photographers? Do you really need to do stretching exercises before pressing the shutter button?
In this week's installment of his series, The Practicing Photographer, Ben Long discusses the importance of warming up your photographer's eye when you go out to shoot.
Photography involves seeing the world through a keyhole shaped like a rectangle (or a square, for us Instagrammers). Photography involves seeing the world the way a camera does: unforgivingly, without the benefit of your brain's built-in editor and its ability to ignore, for example, the telephone pole that appears to be coming out of your kid's head.
Photography also involves seeing the world through lenses that may have different magnification values than your eyes. And on top of all this, photography involves operating an often-complex instrument, packed with buttons and adjustments that you need to get right, lest you lose a shot.
This week, Ben explains how he shifts mental gears from writing about photography to actually doing it.
One suggestion is to take a photo of something, anything, as soon as you pick up your camera or step out of the house. Ben will snap a shot of his hand or his feet or something around him. Just this act of looking through the viewfinder, framing a shot, and snapping the shutter helps shift his thinking into visual mode.
He also suggests a seeing exercise that involves picking out the corner of a building and then using only his peripheral vision to try to pick up more details on that object. Think of it as resistance training for your eyes.
There's another aspect of camera calisthenics that every professional photographer will tell you: Know your gear.
Nothing will close the faucet on your creative juices faster than fumbling for knobs or trying to remember which menu page contains a critical setting. Spend time practicing the operation of key functions: changing ISO and adjusting exposure compensation, bracketing, autofocus settings, and the like.
You should be able to make adjustments like these using muscle memory alone, without giving them a second thought.
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As the curtain closes on the presidency of George W. Bush, the one loose end dangling is the pardon of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. In 2007 Mr. Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, was convicted for perjury and obstruction of justice.
Let us be clear about the Bush legacy. After September 11, not a year into Mr. Bush's term, his became a war presidency. George Bush's place in history will turn on what becomes of Iraq and al Qaeda. If Iraq fails, history will mark down the Bush presidency. If by fits and starts Iraq grows into the Middle East's first large, functioning democratic republic, a more likely result, the Bush presidency will be one of the great building blocks of the new century's political order.
In his final press conference Monday, Mr. Bush described the disarray after the airliners slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field: "People were hauled in front of Congress and members of Congress were asking questions about, 'How come you didn't know this that or the other?'"
The Bush team righted itself and assembled a tough response to the attack: the assault on the terror strongholds of Afghanistan and the Patriot Act. Then, in astonishingly short order, the political unity of 9/11 dissolved. Mr. Bush and his team found themselves embattled by the opposition party, much of the Beltway press corps and a leaking national-security bureaucracy. The goal of the domestic opposition was to thwart the Bush antiterror policy, or take down the people shaping it.
Scooter Libby is the most notable casualty of the domestic war that ran alongside the global war on terror.
In my many years of writing about Washington's politics, I thought that the Plame affair, its long, mad hunt for the leaker, and then the Libby trial, was one of the most fantastic, preposterous events I've ever watched.
A Washington press corps for whom leaks have become the oxygen of life spent three years writing about who leaked Valerie Plame's name to Robert Novak. Of all the serious and genuinely damaging leaks during the Bush presidency, this was the only one the press chased. Why? This one was different. This leaker was thought to be a top Bush aide, perhaps even the vice president. Once named, this aide could be demolished by a prosecution.
That proved true. Scooter Libby was demolished.
Nominally the legal case was about the wheels of a prosecution in motion. Indeed by its end the details of the case against Mr. Libby had burned down to a travesty. But make no mistake. The effort that went into keeping the Plame affair alive was about discrediting the war effort in Iraq and the Bush antiterror program.
To the extent the Libby prosecution distracted the White House staff, consumed its working hours, eroded personal savings on lawyers, and inevitably pitted the president's aides against each other, the strategy worked. The domestic opposition didn't deter George Bush. But like any tireless pack, it hurt him and it hurt his goals.
I often wonder what the Bush presidency would have been like without 9/11. I wonder as well about the unhinged antipathy that grew against this president. For his own part, Mr. Bush clearly decided that his obligation was to exercise the powers of the presidency with as much will and wisdom as he could muster after that murderous attack.
The president's pardon authority is embedded with clarity in our spare Constitution. Alexander Hamilton argued it should reside with "a single man of prudence and good sense."
I think there is a good legal argument for the Libby pardon, but others have done that well, making a credible case that he in fact is innocent. But there is another dimension to this that deserves consideration.
Washington is on thin ice. The American people could not be more disgusted than they are with the tenor and conduct of politics in Washington. The long Libby case was more muck. When the vice president's chief of staff was convicted, financially ruined and professionally destroyed on the basis of a conversation, my first thought was, this is going to make it hard to attract the best people to serve in Washington.
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Why wouldn't the spouse of anyone offered a similar job argue that if the system can let a Scooter Libby wash over the falls for this, the price is just too high. "You aren't going to put our family's future at this much risk. We won't serve. We can't."
Yes, a pardon would set the anti-Bush chorus to howling. So? They've done plenty to turn the city into a viper's nest.
George Washington, in his farewell address, warned against the destructive force of party rancor. Something like that is at stake here again. Serious people in our politics, Republicans and Democrats, would understand that a Bush pardon of Scooter Libby is mainly about closing some of the worst wounds of these long war years. And about giving the nation a chance at refinding that lost unity.
These were hard years, and required hard decisions. It's time to let Scooter Libby get back to work. Like the rest of Washington.
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