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Cape Agulhas by benbroug (743)
helstor (113) 2003-05-26 16:23
Hi Ben, This may not be the most exiting picture but I like this shot, because it gives me a chance to see a place I will probably not get to see any other way. Technically the picture is good; good sharpnes, good exposure. I wish you could have taken it from a higher vantage point (don't know if that's possible) so that we could see more of that vast ocean over the top of the rocks. Thanks for sharing
Land Rover by ashmash (201)
helstor (113) 2003-05-16 17:32
I love Land Rovers and I used to own a Series III just like this one. Putting the main subject dead center like this doesn't make for an exciting picture. Just by moving the camera a little and place the LR according to the Rule of Thirds would probably result in a more interresting picture. I'll give a point anyway - it is a Land Rover after all ;-)
Devils Bridge by Dina (1)
helstor (113) 2003-05-14 13:20
Welcome to TrekEarth! Stone bridges are always good photo subjects and this is a nice effort and the people on the bridge gives a sense of scale. The difference in light levels between the sky and the foreground has lead to parts of the bridge and the foreground becoming underexposed. Not a lot you can do about that apart from shooting early in the morning or in the evening or to use a grey grad filter to even out light levels.
Chichen Itza (Mexico) by vbourrut (32482)
helstor (113) 2003-05-14 12:33
Pretty much as close as you can get to a picture perfect postcard of Chichen Itza. Love the skies and the person on the steps giving a sense of scale. Not really a critisism, but I wonder what it would look like if you had pulled back a little to give a bit more space on the left side. Great shot!
Piran from the Wall by danbachmann (1746)
helstor (113) 2003-05-10 15:23
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Living in Colour by Porteplume (3470)
helstor (113) 2003-04-29 16:56
Tres bien, Viviane! Gorgeous colours. Like someone else already mentioned, I hope you filled all your memory cards with shots while you were there!
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helstor (113) 2003-04-29 16:47
Adding foreground interest or framing a view with a tree or something else is often a good compositional tool. In my opinion there is just too much "dark tree" in the foreground here. Instead of leading the eye into the view in the background it acts as a barrier.
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Jason Burnett is fine. Really, he's good. Never mind the metal plates in his right leg. Or the screws holding them in place. Or his bandaged left foot, wracked by plantar fasciitis, which aches every time his weight bears down on a trampoline.
"I have pain throughout the day," said Mr. Burnett, 25, an Olympic silver medalist in trampoline from Etobicoke, Ont. "That's fine with me, because I have a bigger goal to achieve right now. I'll deal with this problem later. Right now I have something else to do."
Injured? No problem. En route to London 2012, that's a mantra as familiar to many Canadian Olympic athletes as O Canada. At his point, with the Games only weeks away, athletes will have to play the cards dealt them. It's now as much about mental preparation as it is physical training.
Leading the charge of stoic determination is Alexandre Despatie, who confirmed Thursday that he was London-bound despite a June 12 diving accident that left him with a concussion and a gruesome 10-centimetre gash just below his hairline. The two-time Olympic silver medalist will be marching into the Olympic Stadium with Mr. Burnett and other world-class competitors making due with sore knees, tender ankles and hobbled hips.
"I feel pain all the time, but the only time it's really bad is when I'm playing basketball," says Teresa Gabriele, 32, point guard for Canada's national women's basketball team. She suffers from atypical plantar fasciitis in her foot, deteriorating cartilage in her knees, a bone spur on her heel and tendinitis in both Achilles tendons, and wakes up most mornings walking around "like I'm 85 years old."
Serious injuries can derail or end athletic careers, but a spectacular comeback is also what Olympic telecasts are made for. Canadian gymnast Kyle Shewfelt broke both his tibias and spent the next 11 months in rehabilitation before competing in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Silken Laumann shattered her leg 10 weeks before the 1992 Games; five operations, and countless hours of gruelling rehabilitation later, she won bronze.
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Still, he said, getting to that point of mental clarity is a tricky process.
"There's fear of re-injury. There's fear of failure. There's fear of letting the team down," Mr. Robinson said. "There are also emotional stressors if they're not where they were prior to the injury, and they have to handle some pretty disappointing results."
Researchers looking at sport psychology have come to understand that physical readiness and mental readiness are not synonymous, said Canadian researcher Les Podlog, an assistant professor in the department of exercise and sport science at the University of Utah College of Health.
In his research on the psychology of returning to competition after injury, Prof. Podlog has found that athletes feel best, and even perform at their best, when they have the autonomy to decide when they return – with the support of coaches, family, and health staff. What doesn't work, he said, is when they feel forced to return by external pressures from coaches or looming competitions (like the Olympics). Athletes can also put undue pressure on themselves out of guilt, fear of failure, or anxiety about being isolated from their peers.
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"If you're not going to do more [physical] damage by competing, then it really comes down to a level of acceptance," he said. "Because, obviously, the athlete is aware of the pain, and if they're mindful of it without thinking, I'm not going to win, I can't compete. ... If they are aware, and they accept it, and they still take responsibility for what they are signing up for, then their psychic energy, their brain power, is now focused on the task at hand and they are fully engaged."
Mr. Burnett says he has the confidence to compete in pain because his doctors and physiotherapists have assured him he's not doing more damage to his foot.
Ms. Gabriele says she's still competing because her passion for basketball outweighs the fact that her chronic injuries are a total drag. Still, her plans to retire from basketball after these Games will feel pretty sweet.
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A fresh start to a new year!
One of the hardest parts about blogging (if you don't already know) is coming up with content to write about. It has been about 3 years since I was consistently blogging. My last good post was about Mobile Marketing. It's hard to blog about good stuff when you don't want to give away all your secrets… and it's even harder to blog in general when you have so much stuff going on. Blogging takes time. More time then most people would think. You have to brainstorm a topic, research about the topic you want to write about, then you have to take the time to write it all up.
I've been asked quite a bit on Facebook and in email what I have been up too these last couple of years… And so below is a brief outline of what's been going on marketing wise.
1. I started XRev Media, LLC and sold the company 2 years later. XRev was voted into the top 20 networks for MThink.com for 2013. I'm hoping it can make that list again for 2014. While I do not own the network anymore, I continue to work with the new owner and the existing affiliate managers to grow the network. The network has had continual growth since day 1 and it is really exciting to see where it has come and where it is going.
2. My passion is and always will be profit funnels. I took some time over the last 2 years to do some private consulting for several companies. These were long term consultation contracts and so I was able to see and help the companies grow because of the efforts I put in. One company went from $3MM when I came on board to $7MM the first year I was with them and $25MM in my second year with them. I've done everything from landing page optimization to fulfillment center optimization. I am a firm believer in backend profits and maximizing the amount of money you can make from streamlining all funnels and processes.
Another company I consulted for owned their own diet product. I was able to help them optimize their whole entire sales process to be able to generate between $12-$28 per first page prospect signup (depending on the traffic source). This allowed them to pay $6-$8 per optin and generate massive amounts of income by paying per lead instead of per sale. Their focus went from finding ways to make money with existing customers to finding as much traffic for their site as possible. We were even able to pay certain mailers on a cost per click (cpc).
3. Website creation is where I started my online career back in high-school. The last three years were definitely not void of creating websites for people. It's always an easy project that can net close to $300/hour when all is said and done and so I often take on small website builds for people looking to begin an online store or just to showcase their company to the world. It's an easy project that can be outsourced if I don't have time to upload a few files myself or when I'm bored and want a break I can install the backbone of the project myself.
4. Software creation has and always will be a great niche to get into because it is about providing a product that you would utilize but also a product that other people could take advantage of. You should always license that software out to other people so that they can benefit from it and so you can make yourself a little extra cash on the side. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars for my own personal programs to be created and so last year I started to license those programs out to other companies to use as well. XRev Media has their own Affiliate Manager, Network Organization and Finance tracking system apart from Cake Marketing and I have spent some time with a couple colleagues to develop our own affiliate tracking program for our personal mobile and Facebook campaigns. Both of these products are being licensed to individuals and companies to help us re-coupe some of the costs that went into their development.
5. The last thing that I have done and am still developing, is a non-profit organization. The non-profit has been up for about 6 months as of this writing and has generated a bit of donations from organic traffic. I hope to be able to recruit a team of volunteers in the coming months to be able to help generate more donations. The purpose of the non-profit is to assist veterans who have been wounded in combat. The goal is to be able to remodel homes for disabled veterans so that they can more easily maneuver their house. We can install wheelchair ramps, widen doors and hallways, as well as perform any remodel that will be beneficial to the veteran and their family.
That's the quick and dirty of what I've been up too. I plan on getting more posts up and becoming more involved in the Internet Marketing community again. I've been a little out of it with all the stuff going on but I definitely want to get back to being an active participant.
What have you been up to the last couple of years? Leave a comment below and let me know!
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DEARBORN, Michigan � At least nine Detroit area high school juniors are in trouble for wearing sweat shirts bearing a design that evokes the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center's Twin Towers.
Dearborn Public Schools spokesman David Mustonen has told The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press that the shirts the boys wore to Edsel Ford High School on Monday are "offensive" and in "poor taste."
The boys are Arab-American, as are about half the school's 1,700 students.
They belong to the 2011 class. On the shirts, the number 11 resembles two buildings, with the school's "Thunderbird" mascot flying toward them. Printed beneath the image are the words, "You can't bring us down."
The boys are to meet with school officials but suspensions are not planned.
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I agree... maybe the only thing slightly offensive is the school Mascot flying into the building... But it appears to me like a display of defiance.
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Ravens head coach John Harbaugh said earlier this week that running back Ray Rice could still play Sunday without practicing, and he's sticking to those words. Rice didn't practice Friday, finishing out a full week of inactivity, but Harbaugh said after the session that nothing has changed; he still considers Rice to be a game-time decision.
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