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Have you ever looked at a successful model and said, “I am just as beautiful as this girl so I think I’ll become a supermodel.”

I would like to clarify one thing and please listen carefully …

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A NATURAL-BORN MODEL!!!

Yes, some people have a natural beauty and some learn more quickly than others. I’ll agree that these attributes are important. But, I’ll say it again - There is no such thing as a natural-born model.

If you believe this, let me ask you a question. Do you believe there is such a thing as a natural-born surgeon? Do you think that the most famous surgeon in the medical profession was born to be a doctor? I guess when he was delivered the doctor who brought him into this world said, “Look!!! It’s a surgeon!!” I don’t think so.

For this man to become this famous surgeon, it took many years of education, internship, and watching other doctors before he was even considered to do actual surgery. I’m really glad he did, aren′t you?

And, even after all these grueling years this doctor still was not guaranteed to become well-known in the medical industry.

The point I’m trying to make is that, modeling can be a rewarding profession but it does require some effort on your part.

The following are some of the attributes of successful models ..

Learning ability and intelligence

Self confidence
Willingness to travel and leave friends and family behind
Good organization skills
A healthy body and lots of get-up-and-go!
A model who is comfortable in setting goals and not afraid to go after them with a dogged determination
Resistance to peer pressure - Stay drug and alcohol free
Don′t just read these attributes. Study them, learn them, and make them a part of your own personality traits. If you don′t have them at first, pretend that you do.

Remember, you will become what you think and the way that you act. You’re not lying when you say, “I am in the process of writing down my goals for modeling and on my way to becoming successful.” You’re just telling the truth in advance!!

Bob Pardue is a professional model photographer located in the Southeastern US. His work has been published worldwide.

Contemporary Football is not just a great game that captures millions of hearts in the world. It turned into a show that is now watched by millions of television viewers.

In order to address the question, key points of Steve Wagg’s statement must firstly be assessed. The meaning of ‘football as a television show’ is an ambiguous one to say the least, therefore it is important to define what criteria the sport of football must meet for it to be considered ‘a television show’.

This essay will begin by addressing the actual presentation of football on television, the techniques used in today’s programmes and the direct practical affects of televising the game. However it will move on to issues such as the effect of television on football’s place in society, the blurring of the lines between broadcasting companies and clubs, and football’s increasing reliance on television revenue as a means of survival.

Even when the issue of football as a television show has been addressed, consideration must be paid to Wagg’s claim that this is not just one of football’s roles in British society, but the ‘main significance.’ This suggests that football now has more importance as a television programme than it does to countless other issues that include regional and national identity, escape from the reality of the rest of a football fan’s life, profit making business or simply as a form of leisure.

Although to address football’s development into a television show consideration must be paid to underlying issues, the most obvious and direct issue raised by the question is that of the actual presentation of football on television.

The study of football’s presentation on television raises some valid points and shows undoubted development of the sports role in entertaining a media audience, however to answer the question fully consideration must be paid to more than just the techniques used to deliver the game to an audience. To justify Steve Wagg’s statement that football’s significance is as a television show, evidence may be needed that the game itself has been directly affected by the medium.

Television has been criticised for damaging the game, Ed Horton describing its moment of arrival as ‘when the cancer set in’ in his book Moving the Goalposts; Football’s Exploitation. However despite this kind of criticism, it cannot be denied that the very image and reputation of football has been affected and boosted enormously by television, particularly since the arrival of satellite broadcasting.

Sky, Granada and NTL are amongst the television companies holding shares in Premiership football clubs including Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Leeds and Liverpool- clubs who, as they are floated on the stock market, have a legal obligation to consider any offer that is beneficial to their shareholders whether it is for the good of the game or not. (McGill, 2001) Although at the moment broadcasters do not hold controlling stakes in clubs, it is feasible that they hold a degree of influence somewhere down the line. Football clubs may not be mere investments that will be left alone by broadcasting companies according to former Sky chairman Sir Frank Barlow, who stated that ‘clubs are being bought up by TV companies who are gaining increasing power and influence over club matters.’

The bid by Sky to take over Manchester United forced the issue of club ownership into the public eye and highlighted the potential power of broadcasting companies if they were to dominate the ownership of British football. Sky (or BSkyB as the company was called at the time) announced a £575m bid for a 100% share of the club in September 1998, a figure which was later raised to £623m. The bid was met with immediate controversy, Manchester United fans fearing the running of their football club as a money making machine by the infamous Rupert Murdoch. The bid was referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission which recommended to Trade Secretary Stephen Byers that the takeover be blocked, advice that he promptly took. Although the bid was unsuccessful, the issues that it raised are applicable to today’s clubs, where although broadcasters do not hold controlling stakes, they most definitely have their feet under the table. The takeover bid is a case study useful in highlighting the potential results if the lines between the industries of broadcasting and football were to become completely blurred.

Steve Wagg’s statement raises some immensely valid points and demonstrates that television’s effect on football is evident in many areas. However the claim that the game’s main significance is as a television show is one that is incredibly difficult to prove and is a claim that is, in the opinion of this essay, unjustified.

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In this Ninth of a 12 part series on horoscopes, we′re going to look at the third of what are called the fall signs, Sagittarius the Archer.

People who are born between November 22 and December 22 are Sagittarians. Their element is Fire, their quality is Mutable, their energy is Yang, their rulers is Jupiter, their color is Purple, their gem is Turquoise, their main anatomical parts are the liver hips and thighs, their keywords are understanding, enthusiasm and exploration, their Tarot suit is Wands and their Tarot Major Arcana card is The Chariot.

Some famous celebrities who are Sagittarians are Brad Pitt, Ben Stiller, Lucy Liu, Britney Spears, Woody Allen, Kim Basinger and Walt Disney.

Those born under the sign of Sagittarius are called the gypsy, student and philosopher all in rolled into one package. There is no other sign that is as focused on finding the truth and meaning of life itself. They have a burning need to understand everything. They thrive on the changes that this search can lead them through. Their life is literally one long adventure that is never ending.

The archer needs their freedom and independence. They never get tired of a change of scenery. Therefore, it is not uncommon for an archer to move several times in their lifetime. A home is just a temporary stopping point along their journey of life. It’s very easy for them to miss an important date or deadline, but they are also great for getting a dull party going. Their lack of commitment can drive some people crazy. It’s hard to tie the archer down to anything and have him commit. Many archers go through their life without ever getting attached.

That brings us to an archer in love, if there really is such a thing. Commitment? Not much of a chance, at least not for a long period of time. If they ever do find their true love you can bet that they left a long line of lovers behind. The archer is great for a good time. If that’s all you’re looking for, then you have found the ideal partner. But if you expect that good time to last forever, you better look elsewhere.

At work, the archer is not the most dependable person because they tend to lose interest in a project very quickly. If you want the archer to perform well, put him in a think tank kind of environment. They are at their best when they have to come up with solutions. This all goes back to their unending desire to find the meaning of life. At work, they may simply have to settle for finding a better mousetrap.

Archers have a weakness to always having to be on the go. Because of this, they can wear themselves down quite easily. While they’re doing this running around, they may end up gathering a number of projects to do. Eventually these can become quite overwhelming, though they will never admit it. The search for truth and understanding is all that matters.

Michael Russell
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Less stress, more joy
It’s time to employ
All our faculties and strength
To rid ourselves of futility’s length,
Burdens and load
By which it bombards and does goad
By which it exacerbates
Frustrates and infuriates
Puts fear in one’s soul and intimidates
Removing faith causing one to hesitate
Deviate from the destiny within
It’s time to rejoice, triumph, and win
Rise above the stress of the day
Seek the face of God and pray
Don’t let life’s challenges
Get in your way
PUSH - Pray Until Something Happens - today
Get rid of negativity and those who say nay
For surely there is a way and means
By which you can honor your desires
And not diminish and demean
Your dreams and personhood
How would you live
If you knew what you attempted you could
Succeed and when doing, fulfill when trying
Allow joy to replace crying
Allow love to replace self-centered fear
Allow peace to replenish your weary soul
Allow patience to possess and make you whole
Joy means you rejoice
Joy means you choose to be resourceful
Joy means you think positively
Joy means you rise above negativity
Joy means you replace inability with possibility
Joy means you consider yourself powerful
Joy means you deem yourself capable
Joy means you see the good in everything
Joy means despite the circumstance you sing
Joy means you show yourself bigger than everything
For you are growing through the times that are challenging
If it doesn’t kill you, it just makes you stronger
Rejoice therefore and live longer
Give thanks for what you have
Rather than considering what you don’t
For you are rich inwardly
Wealthy within
Relationally not alone
In heaven, God has prepared you a home
Be settled therefore let not your mind roam
Cast your cares on God above
Who cares for you
Let His love and power
Flow through you
Replace stress with joy
Be your personal best
Pray that it’s blessed
And happily forget the rest.
Today’s test is simply
Tomorrow’s testimony
Let your joy overflow
And overtake your stress
Rejoice and be victorious.

Paul Davis is a life coach (relational & professional), popular worldwide keynote speaker, creative consultant, explorer, mediator, minister, liberator and dream-maker.

Paul is a minister and author of several books including God vs. Religion; Breakthrough for a Broken Heart Stop Lusting & Start Living; and Adultery: 101 Reasons Not to Cheat.

Paul’s compassion for people & passion to travel has taken him to over 50 countries of the world where he has had a tremendous impact. Paul has also brought revival to many in war-torn, impoverished and tsunami stricken regions of the earth. His nonprofit organization Dream-Maker Ministries is building dreams and breaking limitations.

Paul’s Breakthrough Seminars inspire, revive, awaken, impregnate with purpose, impart the fire of desire, catapult people into a new level of self-awareness, facilitate destiny discovery and dream fulfillment.

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As an editorial stock photographer you are not coached or art-directed by someone else, as is the case in commercial photography. You make the decisions. As an editorial stock photographer your mission is to produce images of the world, as you see it. This is the same license given to any artist. If you are constrained as an artist, then you are influenced, and if you are influenced, your directions are coming from someone other than you. If this be the case, then the photograph is not really your artistry.

Society would prefer that artists produce material that is ‘politically correct,’ or to put it another way, to not produce material that is considered insensitive to local, regional, or national mores.

Within our own industry, critics of your editorial stock photography will often wave the banner of “ethics,” claiming that you have overstepped certain boundaries in photographing wildlife, or natural objects. Or that you’re intruding into the private lives of individuals or government officials.

What does “ethics” have to do with art? Or don’t you consider yourself an artist? If you think of yourself as an engineer, or a technician, maybe ethics plays a role.

What society calls unethical today, can change tomorrow. Not unlike the fashion industry, or our own industry.

For example, a couple of decades ago, photographers were wringing their hands over the possibility that digital photography would disrupt the ‘ethical purity′ of a photograph by allowing the manipulation of the contents to create an altered image from the original. Today, the voices of protest have subsided and society accepts a digitized image.

This seems to be a cultural question. I don’t think that before digitizing, or before film for that matter, artists ever thought of “ethics” in their art. Before film and digits, there were sketches, oils, pastels, watercolors, engravings, lithographs — and no one ever asked the artist if he or she were being ‘ethical’ by manipulating a scene to change it or improve it.

Photography, in my opinion, was never meant to be a mechanical art where the medium was in control, not the photographer. Editorial stock photography allows you to go beyond the mere ‘taking’ of a picture. It allows you to make a picture - and that’s being an artist. –RE

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Many people collect Inuit art as investments. Inuit art is growing internationally but it has been suggested that the number of actual Inuit artists are actually declining. The creation of the Nunavut government which represents Canada’s third official territory, has resulted in many new employment opportunities for the Inuit, particularly the younger ones. Carving and the entire process of bringing back suitable stone from distant quarries to their own communities are hard work for Inuit art carvers.

Many young Inuit prefer to pursue less physically demanding careers such as regular nine to five, weekday only government office occupations. As government offices grow, so will the local businesses to support them which create even more local jobs for Inuit people. These trends are not only
affecting Inuit males but also females as well. As more young Inuit women move towards a ’southern’, i.e., more North American lifestyle, Inuit art drawing, wall tapestry and doll making will be less attractive skills to learn compared to office or retail skills.

Many master Inuit art carvers are also expert hunters. They get to see the Arctic animals regularly resulting in excellent representations in their Inuit carvings and other artwork. Many young Inuit these days prefer not to hunt since northern community grocers have reduced a need to hunt for food. As a result, the accuracy of carvings by some younger, non-hunting Inuit artists may be affected since they may not have the familiarity of Arctic animals like older master carvers do.

All of these developments may lead to the demand for good, high quality Inuit art surpassing supply. This will in turn cause a future appreciation of value for good Inuit art. Of course, characteristics of each piece must be taken into consideration. However, most art experts recommend against buying any type of art purely for investment purposes only. Art should be appreciated for its esthetic value. If a certain artwork doesn’t increase in value as hoped, then at least one would still have a lovely piece of art to look at. If one finds a piece of Inuit art that he or she really likes and can afford, then it should be purchased since the opportunity to own that one of a kind piece will probably not come around again.

Clint Leung is owner of Free Spirit Gallery FreeSpiritGallery.ca FreeSpiritGallery.ca , an online gallery specializing in FreeSpiritGallery.ca/inuitcarvings.htm Inuit art and FreeSpiritGallery.ca/nwcarvings.htm Native American Indian art. including carvings and prints. Also numerous information articles and videos.

Once you have your oil painting safe at home, you’ve unwrapped it, placed it on in its permanent place and have stood in front of it admiring it you may now be wondering how you will keep that painting as beautiful in the future as it was when you first pulled it out of the package.

Here are a few tips to help you maintain your painting to keep the luster and beauty it originally contained. Your painting can last forever if you take good care of it, of course the location you hang your painting could intimately have a lot to do with how well your painting keeps its bright colors or how fast it fades.

It may not seem like a normal thing but as you get ready to display your painting there are a number of environmental issues that can harm your painting. If your painting will be in an area where it will be subject to direct heat or humidity can, in time, expand and contract your painting, which could crack your painting.

Dangerously cold temperatures can also hurt your painting, in time, the proper and most recommended temperatures for your painting should not be below 65 degrees or higher then 75 degrees.

Another important factor to keep in mind while choosing the destination of your portrait is to be sure your painting is not in direct sunlight or any kind of bright light. Subtle lights can compliment your painting, but bright lights in the room your painting hangs can make your paint fade over time.

One more thing to keep in mind when you find the perfect spot for your painting is to make sure you don’t have it in an area where dirt builds up or insects normally roam. Sometimes the build up of dirt can help the growth of mold, moisture in your room will do the same. So be sure the room you are placing your painting is well ventilated, the perfect temperature and not in a room that holds a lot of moisture. If you do find a lot of moisture in your room try using a humidifier to maintain it.

Insects sometimes sneak to the back of your painting and build their nests in the small indents. While cleaning your portrait be sure to keep an eye on the back, to make sure there is no growth of insect families.

And finally the best way to dust your portrait is to use a feather duster; chemical-cleaning products can damage or distress the paint. Handle with care while you clean your painting, it is one of the most common mistakes from owners, over handling and mishandling the painting.

Chris Jacob is a fascinating individual who just can′t seem to help himself and try everything. Today he is providing an ( jiveexchange.com Oil Painting Advice) Service that has artists and critics all over the world talking…..and best of all it is FREE.

If you listen to the Arab world media you would swear that every single problem that the modern day Muslim faces is in fact caused by the United States of America. This simply is not so of course and such notions are completely and BS, but when listening to Al Jazeera you might actually believe that.

This anti-American Middle Eastern mass media is purporting and misrepresenting what the United States of America is all about and it is inciting many young Muslims to go onto the Internet and post negative comments about America on Internet forums.

As these Muslims go onto the Internet forums they claim that Islam is the peaceful way of life and their Muslim religion preaches peace, however in debating this topic with online I had to make the following comment;

“Besides didn’t Mohammed, fight in 89 battles? Isn’t that what Koran says? You want to defend a religious doctrine, which preaches war? You don’t get it do you? This is the problem and the United States of America is the solution and it is coming in a very precision-guided way in the new net-centric battlespace. Iran starts it and well I guess we have to finish it. Get it? Got it? Good!”

Perhaps you see the problem as the President of Iran states that it wants nuclear energy and a nuclear deterrence and therefore it has the right to make nuclear weapons. No mention of the fact that they sponsor international terrorists organizations, which go and blowup innocent people. Obviously if Iran has nuclear weapons it will give these weapons to international terrorists organizations to blowup innocent people in some large civilian population or city and we just can’t let that happen. Consider this in 2006.

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Each formal occasion has its own rules and conventions to follow and a graduation ceremony is no exception. The graduation traditions that we follow now were started since the middle ages.

The tradition of graduations started in the 12th and 13th centuries, when universities were taking shape. They didn’t have central heating then. Most classes were conducted in a church or nearby buildings. Historians suggest that universities were started by clerics themselves. Back in those days any scholar be it be a student or a teacher wore the dress of a cleric. There were very few exceptions. A medieval scholar normally would belong to at least some orders, made certain vows and may have been tonsured – so they wear long gowns with hoods to cover their bald heads. That got replaced only by the skull cap.

It wasn’t until 1321 that a statue of University of Coimbra that all “Doctors, Licentiates, and Bachelors″ wear gowns. By the second half of the 14th century in England there were statues of a couple of colleges that restricted ‘excess in apparel’ and decreed that the long gown be worn. In the late 15th and 16th centuries under the reign of Henry VIII, Oxford and Cambridge Universities started decreeing a definite academic dress. The universities even had control down to the minor details of clothing.

Later on, the graduation gown color was standardized largely because of contributions by Gardner Cotrell Leonard of Albany, New York in the late 19th century. Mr. Leonard designed graduation gowns for his class at Williams College in 1887 – they were made by Cotrell and Leonard – his family firm in Albany. He wrote an article about the academic dress in 1893 which got him invited to work with Intercollegiate Commission and led to having a standardized system of academic attire. This Commission met at Columbia University in 1895 and adopted the code for academic dress. They not only regulated the cut and style and materials of the graduation gowns, they also assigned the colors to each of the various academic disciplines.

That’s how the traditions of graduation gowns got started. But what are YOU supposed to wear to your graduation ceremony apart from the graduation gown? The first thing to do is to check with your school or college for specific rules. A lot of colleges would already have rules and guide lines for the graduation or commencement ceremony.

Remember that your graduation would most likely fall between May and June so think light clothing. You can’t get rid of the graduation gown but you can wear light and airy fabrics like cotton and linen.
Ladies should wear something easy and elegant like a simple dress or a skirt and blouse. If your graduation gown is white or yellow, make sure you wear a light color underneath – not only will it be cooler the outline won’t show up in your graduation pictures!

The gentlemen might need to wear a tie depending on school customs. Even if your school is not forcing you to wear it, get one anyway – it just looks nice and formal. You can get a rep tie or a foulard and wear with with a neatly pressed shirt in white, blue or any other pale color. Either a spread collar or button down are fine. As far as the pants go, wear a neatly pressed casual khaki or olive drab trousers – dress trousers are not a necessity.

Your graduation shoes should be moderately dressy, either flats or pumps are fine but nothing that you’d go into the mosh pit to. Gentlemen graduates should wear either a loafer or dress shoe. At any time, please do not wear jeans or shorts, flip-flops, sandals, tennis shoes or bunny slippers – keep them in your bed room or dorm.

At your graduation ceremony do not affix a message out of masking tape letters to the top of the mortarboard or the back of the gowns. Now that you know the history of your gown and what you′re supposed to wear, the only thing left is to enjoy your graduation because it is something that you′ve earned.

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Hard to imagine that Miami just won the NBA title a month ago, and baseball is knee deep in pennant races and we have football less than a week away already. After a year in 2005 that saw numerous favorites cover with big numbers in the NFL, week in and week out, and offshore books and Vegas books losing to the public, it all starts over again with the opening game in the NFL preseason with Oakland and Philly kicking if off August 6th.
My take on the NFL preseason has always been guarded optimism. I have sat at many round table with other big named handicappers discussing the pros and cons of the preseason, some of us love it, and some of us avoid it. I am in the middle on the issue, but DO realize the potential for profit is there, but your discipline in doing your homework, and knowing the tendencies of particular coaches heading into the preseason, based on the performance of his squad in the previous year has to be taken into account.

Lets take a look at 2 factors that make up a great deal of emphasis I put on handicapping the NFL preseason that have proven profitable over the test of time as part of the equation of handicapping the NFL in August. The number one thing I look for is Quarterback depth, and playing rotations, bar none. Here are a few of the teams I have looked at for 2006 and red flagged, that have the ability to score points in meaningless preseason games that give them an edge in any contest, based on talent at the helm. These are listed in no particular order other than to say in my mind that the Eagles have a solid rotation of talented and capable guys and should fare well in the preseason in the early games.

Chicago Bears - With a healthy Rex Grossman, he will get plenty of playing time in the preseason, and with a solid 1-2 punch at back-up here with Kyle Orton and Brian Gresie, both with starting experience, and they way Chicago plays defense in general, look for the Bears to be formidable in the preseason with this rotation in any form.

New York Jets - With Chad Pennington slated to play, but not much in the preseason, look for ex-Redskin and capable Pat Ramsey and Brooks Bollinger to see plenty of action behind a deep offensive line. The Jets should be able to put up some points with deep RB positions as well.

Philadelphia Eagles - With Donovan McNabb, Jeff Garcia and Koy Dettmer, you have a very strong and experienced starting 3 rotation here, I would not be surprised to see ex-Hawaii star Tommy Chang make some unusual plays in the preseason either, and Philly also has a stable of RB’s that are deep.

Tampa Bay - Jon Gruden loves to win anytime he is coaching, but his QB rotation is solid this year with 3 guys all having starting NFL experience. Chris Simms will get plenty of snaps, Jay Fiedler and Tim Rattay also will see considerable playing time this preseason as well. All are capable enough of making some big plays, and Rattay may see allot of action behind a 2nd string line that still will be better than any OL he had at San Fran.

St. Louis Rams - Look for a strong rotation with a deep WR unit here with Marc Bulger, Jeff Smoker and Gus Frerotte in an established system that is wide open and not conservative in any way, and the Rams will put up points, so the totals on the over may come into play depending on who they are playing as well.

Secondly, you look for coaches who like to win in the preseason, or coaches who are new that want to instill a winning attitude up front with their team. Dennis Green for Arizona comes to mind as he is building an offense and has a running back in James form the Colts this year as he looks to improve the Cards offensive output, as well as QB Matt Leinart from USC, who will get some serious playing time. This team has the potential with their WR’s to put up some serious numbers in 2006, and I think it might start in the preseason. Green is a stellar 6-1 SU as the Cards coach in the preseason and over 62% SU lifetime as an NFL head coach.

Guys like John Fox for the Panthers, Jon Gruden for the Buc’s, and Jack Del Rio for the Jags, Dennis Green as mentioned, and Lovie Smith for the Bears are guys to bet on the preseason as far as emphasizing wins and playing tough defense throughout the game. New coaches to the NFL in the head position are looking for team chemistry and starting rotations and unless I know something from a local sportswriter as far as a gameplan that is not public, I tend to stay away from them.

Teams that are weak in depth at QB like Houston, Dallas, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Miami, and the Colts to name a few, will not play their star player more than 2 quarters until the final pre-season game in a dress rehearsal before their first game. Look for Atlanta to also shelf Mike Vick for the most part until the latter stages of the preseason as well. Many times coaches play for the final game with most their starters in tact and look for a win going into the regular season the following week. The Colts are 3-1 ATS the last 4 years and Denver is 6-1 ATS their last 7 years in their final games.

All in all, pick and choose your spots wisely with handicapping advise that is sound and experienced. Over my 15 years of capping the preseason, I limit my plays to sound fundamental handicapping methods that have proven a profit, and while my plays are limited to 7 or 8 games in August and early September, before the regular season begins, I find more profit by using the methods and trends explained in this article and a few other secrets that prove that less is more, and there is profit in the NFL preseason.

Tony George is a documented member of the Professional Handicappers League.
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