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Photos can look great. An astonishing landscape can transport the viewer to another time and place. Maybe it is just for a fraction of a second. A great photograph of a person can look into the person’s soul, and let you share their smiles or tears. A great photo communicates to the viewer. There is an enormous market out there for photographs. Publishers know that the people who buy their materials want photographs that reach out to them. Visual communication is something that we all can relate to. Subjects out there to take photos of are never ending. The only limitations are within your mind.

But what is it that makes a photograph successful? A photography course can definitely help you, but the answer is fairly simple, and you can improve your photography today, if you just learn a few very basic rules.

However, rules are meant to be broken. Some of my favorite photographs very purposely break a lot of the basic rules. But to break the rules in a way that enhance a photograph and effectively turns it into a great photo, you first have to know the rules and second you must have a reason for breaking them.

Number one: Get in close, really close, much closer than you think.
The first, and most essential, rule: Simplify. The more you simplify a photograph, the more attention you draw towards your subject. And the more attention you draw towards your subject, the more successful you will be in communicating your message to the viewer. There are approximately a million ways to do this, so I will keep it simple and stick to my preferred technique here, and that is to get in as close as possible. When you do that, you eliminate anything in the background that may distract from your subject.

Number two: The photographic composition
Most strong photographs position their main elements in certain specific places of the frame. When you think about where you want to put your subject in the photo, you are composing your picture. When a painter starts out with a blank canvas, he or she has full control to decide where to put that river, those mountains, the trees, clouds and whatever thing that needs to be included. Creating a photograph, you ought to go through the same process.

Number Three: Is there a better way to do it?
The last thing we will talk about is point of view. The photographers’ point of view more exact. How often have you seen something worth taking a photo of - perhaps a barn, a tree, or your dog - and picked up your camera to take a picture right then and there? If this is the way you go about taking photos, you can noticeably improve your technique with one simple process. Just walk around the subject. Notice how the background changes as you move 360 degrees around your subject. Try to lie down on the ground and point the camera up at your subject. Climb up a ladder and look down, trying the same thing. Tilt the camera vertically, even diagonally. Take a whole roll of film or fill a whole memory card if you use a digital camera, of the same subject from different points of view and compare the results. You will surprise yourself. You will certainly surprise the viewer by trying something different and that will add power to your photo.

So, should you take a photography course? I think so. It does not have to be a long tedious one with a lot of technical stuff and hour after hour with boring behind the desk lecture. No, go out and play with you camera – I will see you out there!

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As any one in the dating scene well knows, there is an entire cottage industry that sets up and promotes single events. But the question is, are they effective?

Many people who have been dating for over a year have come to the realization that they need to try as many approaches as possible.

While some people find their soul mate within the first few dates, or months of dating, many other people come to the realization that the dating process can take much longer.

As in any market for which there is a need, there will be a supplier, so also in the dating market many suppliers have entered the market.

One of the newest types of suppliers, is the professional single event producer.

This business, or non profit organization, will organize, promote, and run events geared towards those who are dating.

Some single events will be geared towards recent college graduates, while other events will target those recently divorced.

While it is clear that there is a market for these events in the dating scene, the real question is whether these single events are effective.

Their effectiveness could be measured by how many matches have come about from these events.

Of course, in reality, many matches might be produced weeks later, or as an indirect result of a single’s event.

According to Donny Lowy, “the issue is not the potential of a single’s event, but the approach of a participant.”

Donny, who founded www.bestdatingstrategies.com, is a firm believer that there are steps that can be put to use by any single to improve their dating life.

“You can maximize the potential of any event by dressing the right way, communicating well, and being positive.”

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Sir Tom Stoppard, the early plays

4. If You′re Glad I′ll be Frank

In Sir Tom Stoppard’s play If You’re Glad I’ll be Frank (Radio 1966), a change of direction is clearly seen. Here the central couple are, in fact, separated, and although they try to meet they are unable to do so. Their relationship is frustrated, it seems, not only within the play itself but also as a result of Stoppard’s decision to sacrifice human relationships to metaphysics. With this play Stoppard abandons his mentors (Enter a Free Man being heavily derivative of Robert Bolt and Arthur Miller) and his real strength as a playwright starts to show through. The theme of individual liberty versus the established order is continued, but takes metaphysical flight as the established order becomes Time itself. Gladys, the speaking clock, reflects on the nature of Time while trapped at her desk metering out ten second intervals She sees through the usual human time-scales into a vertiginously disorientating vision of relativity.

The contrast between two concepts of time is reflected in the two forms of language used by Gladys. In performance her free verse is spoken simultaneously with the rigid repetitive rhythm of the speaking clock. In this way Stoppard makes his point directly on the audience’s perceptions. The dual perception of these scales drives Gladys towards a mental breakdown; we might see her as trapped between excessive order and excessive chaos, She wants to rebel against her role as mediator between the two.

‘At the third stroke I’m going to give it up, yes, yes - it’s asking too much, for one person to be in the know of so much.’ (p.22)

Ultimately though, she accepts the established order and continues to measure out ten second intervals under the guiding hand of the First Lord of the Post Office, who ’sets her right’. The story is of chaos trying to overrun order, but failing.

The ‘depth’ which Stoppard formerly tried to give his plays by the characters and their relationships is now given by the complexity of structure, in which the themes are presented simultaneously on a number of levels. Gladys’s frustration at the rigidity of our concept of time is paralleled by Frank’s attempts to squeeze a few minutes out of his schedule as a bus driver, to rescue Gladys from the G.P.O. building. Every time he stops the bus, Ivy the conductress, frightened of the threat to convention (chaos disrupting order), chases after him shouting, ‘Frank we’ll get behind time . . . I ask you to remember the schedule . . . The passengers have noticed’ etc., representing the pressure of established order limiting individual action.

Another level on which the accepted order is represented is the G.P.O. hierarchy, and the procedure by which a member of the public ought to approach its senior officials. Frank, like John Brown and George Riley before him, rebels against the accepted order and pursues his own course. He charges through a series of offices in the G.P.O. building and bursts in upon a board meeting presided over by the First Lord. Frank’s rebellion is frustrated however, just as Gladys’s was, by the authoritative voice of the First Lord.

‘My dear fellow - there’s no Gladys - we wouldn’t trust your wife with the time - it’s a machine, I thought everyone knew that.’ (p.25)

Although these characters have struggled to rebel against order and authority they are quite relieved to have failed. On a metaphysical level this suggests that order and chaos co-exist in some kind of natural balance that cannot be violated. In human terms it suggests that the autonomy of the individual is limited by the order of the universe, physical and social, in which he exists, and that this is the cause of both frustration and comfort.

Another characteristic of Stoppard’s work to emerge in If You′re Glad I′ll be Frank is deliberate ambiguity. Is Gladys really being held prisoner by the G.P.O. to act as the speaking clock? Or is the speaking clock just a machine and Frank’s idea that it is his wife just a delusion? This question is unanswerable; it adds a deliberate quality of mystery to the play by throwing into doubt our assumptions about which aspects of the play represent objective reality, and which represent subjective, and possibly deluded experience. This important point will be further discussed in relation to Stoppard’s major plays Jumpers and Travesties.

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The human race is obviously going asleep and not paying attention to the important things that our civilization and society needs to do to move the species forward. Too often people have surrendered their minds to their television sets, without regard to those things that are happening around them. Why?

Why is it that people have stopped observing things in their life experience? Why have people turned off their minds and stopped thinking? How can people believe every thing they here on their televisions and vote not with their minds but solely based on the last commentator they watched?

How come people refuse to face the reality and buy into political correctness, which is making things worse? Folks it is Almost Time to Wake America Up Again and Move into the Future. It is almost time to say enough is enough and to stop allowing obvious sound and fury to rule the human species.

It is almost time to start a new and bring the human race into the future and get busy with the next step and to propel this species into the forward progression, which is the true destiny. We cannot allow all these humans to run around like this with their heads in the sand and expect to enjoy the fruits of our future. Consider this in 2006.

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My son came home from school one day,
proud as he could be.
His eyes asparkle, his face agrin
for all the world to see.
“I can read”! he exclaimed,
“Come, sit down with me.”

We sat down with a book from school
which he began to read.
“Mom, I can do it another way
with a lot more speed″.
He shut his eyes, and recited the book
from his memory.

I smiled and said, “That’s great my love
I am very proud of you,
And one day soon, you will read
with both eyes opened too”.
He looked at me, eyes full of love,
“Really? What shall I do.”

“Just listen to your teacher hon,
I will help you all the way”

Thirty years have since gone by,
but I never forgot that day.
The love we shared, is still as strong
though he is 500 miles away.

I wrote this poem for my younger son. It is a true story. I still smile when i think of that day. He did learn to read, as a mattter of fact, quite well. I am just as proud of him to day as i was so long ago. I love you hon.

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More than just a horse with a horn, Unicorns are actually transcendental spirits of total purity. Only able to survive in places that are pristine in their goodness, they are much less prevalent now then they were in ancient times. These days they are generally only found in the most remote parts of the world, and even then many are now only shadows, existing much more strongly in other universes than our own.

The purity of the unicorn makes it immune to need or desire. This means that even if you can locate one of these rare creatures, it will be incredibly difficult to catch. However many still try, spurred on by the promises of eternal youth, spiritual ecstasy, and the Unicorns horn rumored to be able to cure any physical or mental disease.

The most common method for catching one of these powerful creatures is to use a pure young maiden. Unicorns will flee from most humans, because even the smallest amount of selfishness or evil repulses them. However, sometimes a person who is pristine in spirit and mind, usually a young woman, can have a powerful enough inner light that Unicorns will not flee from them. This allows them to approach and interact with the creatures. Sometimes the Unicorn will even recognize the purity in the girl as being similar to their own, and will grow very close and friendly to her.

The only way this method can work is if the girl is not actively seeking the unicorn for any selfish purpose. This makes catching the unicorn very difficult, because someone pure enough to come in contact with a unicorn, would never want to catch one.

In the past greedy people have exploited innocent girls, and tricked them into helping catch a unicorn. However when this method is employed, an even bigger problem arises. Unicorns exist in multiple universes at the same time. When the purity of their surroundings is corrupted in one universe, they begin to fade from it, and become stronger in the others. If faced with a particularly evil surrounding, the unicorn can temporarily fade completely from that incarnation. When this happens the entire universe suffers, and becomes a darker place, until its inhabitants have purified themselves enough for the unicorn to return.

When captured for selfish purposes a unicorn will immediately begin to fade from that universe. Any attempts to harvest the powerful unicorn horn will result in the creature disappearing immediately. This means that those who have captured it, will only gain a short period of spiritual bliss and a little bit of good health due to its presence, before the unicorn fades completely, leaving its captors behind with a painful and haunting memory of the complete joy they once experienced.

The only sensible way to capture a Unicorn is to purify oneself totally, both spiritually and mentally. Purifying one’s body is useful too, as unicorns don’t like unsavory odors. When you have reached a sufficient level of inner light, you will be unable to actively seek the unicorn without sullying your spirit. However it is still possible to wander pristine fields and quietly desire the unicorn’s presence. If both you and your desire are pure, the creature may reveal itself to you. If not, you still will have captured some small part of the mystical power of the unicorn, in the powerful purity you have gained within your own spirit.

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The discourse that all black people are second class citizens and prone to uncivilized hooligan behaviour was a ‘truth’ that started off during the colonisation of America back in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. After the European settlers slaughtered countless numbers of Native American Indians, they imported folks from Africa to come and labour in America as slaves on plantations and in construction. The Europeans viewed them as inferior human beings who are irrational, disorderly, prone to uncivilized behaviour and practically subhuman. So what was it that made the Europeans believe that black people were indeed a savage ‘race’? It was the notion of Darwinism, philosophised by Charles Darwin in the 1880’s that allowed such discourses to be maintained and accepted as ‘truth.’ Darwin believed that different groups of human beings or ‘races’ evolved over hundreds and thousands, even millions of years at different rates and times, and so, some groups were more like their ape-like ancestors than others. He held certain that the black ‘race’ came from gorillas and were the least developed, whereas the white ‘race’ came from chimpanzees and were the highest, most evolved race. Therefore the white ‘race’ was ‘naturally’ and biologically seen as being more superior to any other ‘race.’ This view was assumed to be proven and thus lead to the idea that social relationships are ‘natural.’ As a result, permanent black inferiority remained the dominant scientific hypothesis. By the 1920’s, text books supported the idea that man had evolved from a lower life form developing into varying degrees of accomplishment. Information such as, white people being naturally ‘superior’ and black people being ‘inferior’ and more ape-like, was commonly reflected in science books published from 1880 to 1980. The fact that racial prejudice became naturalised, universalised and seen as being a scientific fact, explains why attitudes of racial inferiority have continued to plague western culture. For example, statistics show that the majority of white people in America believe that African Americans are more violent, less intelligent and not as hard working as white people.

In ‘The Hurricane,’ directed by Rudy Langlais discourses of black inferiority was upheld by powerful institutions such as the legal system, as police officers had the right to arrest and punish black people without significant proof of their conviction. For example, when young Rubin Carter was forced into a police station after being wrongfully accused of harming a white man, the police sergeant had said to the officer, ‘It’s a nigger with a knife. I don’t care how old he is. Take care of him.’ The judge at the hearing had then said to Rubin, ‘I only wish you were old enough, I’d send you to state prison.’ These examples show that societal power reinforces discourses as it persuades people into taking up the dominant position of the discourse. As explained by Robinson and Jones-Diaz, those people who are located outside the dominant discourse, in this case the black people, will frequently ‘experience inequities, diminished power, and little or no support from the dominant culture for their ‘truths’ about the world.’

In the film, Rubin (Hurricane) Carter takes on the belief that all white people are racists. After spending almost twenty years in state prison, Rubin expresses a feeling of shock and hate when his African American friend introduces him to three white folks who want to help Rubin get out of prison. Rubin says to his African American friend, ‘I don’t want to talk to them, just go.’ However, the three white folks, determined to release Rubin, challenge white supremacy after being threatened by white authorities to stay away from Rubin and leave town. The white woman strongly defies this threat by telling the authorities that she was not going to leave the town until she sees Rubin get set free. The white citizens in the film, for that reason, are directly challenging white supremacy and racial injustice. Hence, the discourse that all white people are racists have been challenged, and the ‘truth’ that Rubin held in relation to this discourse had been deconstructed and reconstructed, leading him to a new and a more equitable way of looking at the world.

In conclusion, it can be said that ‘race’ and racism is a complex issue that has been historically and culturally constructed over a long period of time. Racial attitudes still prevail in American society today because it has been so heavily engraved in the construction of their history. Now that we know that no ‘race’ is superior to another, the word ‘race’ should be abandoned completely because it is now meaningless. Scientists have found that differences that set us apart are cultural, not racial (Jim, 2002). That is why the word ‘race’ has been place in inverted commas throughout this essay. The idea of white identity in dominance must also be abandoned so that everyone can be more accepting of cultural diversity flourishing in society and acknowledge the hybridity of people today. These issues have a strong impact upon educators, as they must implement appropriate strategies to help students feel comfortable and proud of their own culture when entering into a dominant culture.

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If you’re just learning to play one of the most important
things you can spend time learning is basic Texas Hold’em
betting Strategy. Some of the most important things to
learn are basic to poker betting strategy in other poker
games as well.

Here’s some very basic terminology, relating to Texas
Hold’em betting strategy. The most common type of betting
in Texas Hold’em is a fixed limit. In a fixed limit game,
there are two betting amounts. The low and the high.
We’ll use a $5-$10 Texas Hold’em table as an example. For
the first few rounds each bet must be in increments of
$5.00. For example if the bet is at $10, you can only call
or raise it to $15.00. Then depending on the game, at some
point, the betting limit doubles, all bets would then be
made at $10.00 increments.

The basic Texas Hold’em betting strategy in this game is to
concentrate on what you think the other players hand are
based upon any clues you have. Remember, in betting the
most important is to understand your opponents and bet
accordingly without the other players at your table being
able to predict your next Texas Hold’em betting strategy.

In the above scenario, most casinos will limit the number
of raises in a single round to three or four. The number
of raises in a single betting round should also be
carefully evaluated into establishing your Texas Hold’em
betting strategy.

As you probably already know a check is as bet of nothing.
It allows you to stay in the game without increasing your
bet. If no bets have been made during the round and it is
your turn to bet you can check (bet nothing) and pass to
the next player. Once you become more comfortable
playing, a round including checks can be a golden
opportunity to employ Texas Hold’em betting strategy. Of
course you’ll need to evaluate the likelihood of your hand
carefully and your opponenets. But this can be a winning
opportunity.

In the instance above, the opportunity to bluff may enter
your mind. A word of caution about using a bluff - A bluff
works best when no one is expecting it. If your play is
conservative, most people won’t expect you to bluff. Using
a bluff occasionally, when it’s least expected is a good
Texas Hold’em betting strategy. Another consideration in
learning Texas Hold’em betting strategy is that if you
never bluff your opponents will know you have a good hand
when your bets are aggressive, thus they will fold.

Texas Hold’em is a game of chance, but learning effective
Texas Hold’em, betting strategy can improve your chances
greatly. The more experience you get, the better your
strategy should become. Don’t allow yourself to ever get
into a predictable routine during games. You’re setting
yourself up for loss if you do.

For more wins and lots of fun, take some time to learn
effective Texas Hold’em betting strategy.

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Wang Guiquan is famous now…barely two days ago, a google search had nothing on her. Today, there are reports, blogs, articles and discussions all over the internet - from China and Japan to India, Germany and further afield.

She did her thing and that raised a controversy and now she has an acknowledged presence in the world of art.

I remember a little incident that happened while I was still at college. One of the students there wrote a piece on the prevalence of homosexuality at the college hostel. The college is and was one of the best-reputed institutions in India and the article was published in a magazine that was somewhat well-known and popular with the young English-reading public, especially students.

In the article, the young man alleged there was rampant homosexuality within the college hostel and the gutsy young man who spoke with a lisp and in a manner well below the standards of the college made instant enemies. He had a harrowing time for the next few days and faced a lot of ire from the students and the management at the college. However, the anger cooled down soon enough. More importantly, he was noticed by the publishing world and though his English was merely average, if not worse, he was soon contributing articles to some pretty well-known publications.

Today, he is a senior journalist working with a reputed publication. Assuredly, his English has improved considerably since those stormy days and he has learnt a lot about his craft. And, he is famous…well, famous enough!

So, Wang Guiquan with her bold expression and about twenty pictures of her nudes and close-ups of her genitals in ‘Experimental Space′, an exhibition in Nanjing has already attracted a lot of attention and notoriety, if you like. She has also, surely, made a lot of enemies and critics but she has fired what might be the biggest salvo of her fledgeling career.

There is no tonic like sex and controversy to give a heady push to an artist’s career.

Wang Guiquan, deserves support and encouragement from all who believe in art because, in the world of art, an artist has just been born.

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