Turn a Boring Bar Graph into a 3D Masterpiece (2)
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In this tutorial, you’ll learn to plot an accurate bar graph using Adobe Illustrator’s Graph Tool. We’ll also render the graph to give it additional visual appeal. Successful completion of this tutorial requires an intermediate knowledge of Illustrators tools. Let’s get started! Final Image Preview Below is the final design we will be working towards. Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join VECTORTUTS PLUS ...
Top 5 Haunted House Cliches (2)
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As someone who enjoys going to and building haunted houses, I’ll be the first to say that the creative capital of the industry is running extremely low. Currently, there seems to be just two kinds of haunted houses. The first are over-capitalized ones that have a budget that rivals a Hollywood movie. They spend all of their money on sets and animatronics and seem to forget about the scares. Coupled with high admission prices and ...
What Is The Source Of Long-Term Stock Market Returns? (or… Do Stocks Really Always Go Up?) (2)
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Why do we think that the stock market will always go up? Why has it gone up over long periods of time historically? For instance, let’s look at this graph: Source: A Random Walk Down Wall Street There is one theory that I have read about in the writings of respected authors like Jack Bogle and William Bernstein. It states that there are three main components to long-term stock market performance: Part 1: Dividend Yield ...
How to Create a Dream Sanctuary | Illuminated Mind (9)
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We have all had incredible dreams at some point in our lives. As children there are no limits to our imagination. We want to become a space ranger, a superhero or a magical medicine woman that saves lives and whisks people off to safety in the face of impending danger. When we’re young we’re told that we can be that space ranger or have that amazing life that we dream up in our racecar bunk ...
How to Make Your Dreams a Reality (series) (1)
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photo by h.koppdelaney Let’s face it, in our society the dreamer isn’t usually the most popular person. Contributing to the economy (shopping) and being productive (being a cubicle slave) are more esteemed than people with silly dreams and frivolous aspirations. But if we can’t live our dreams, what the point of life? Simply to survive? I want more than survival. I want more than security. I want to actually wake up and be excited about ...
We Love to Travel - But Our Luggage Didn’t Make It (1)
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Luggage Pile, courtesy of Sundazed/Creative Commons 2.0 It’s no secret that our luggage doesn’t always agree with our travel plans. I realized this when I considered how many times my luggage has decided to go somewhere else, misses the flight, or just returns home. It would seem that my luggage has it’s own travel plans on a regular basis. If you travel by air, and everyone does sooner or later, it’s important to realize that ...
The Real Life Jurassic Park (2)
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Image: Johnny Shaw If you’re thinking ‘Jurassic Park’ already, you aren’t alone. Luckily though, bringing back an extinct species of tortoise in the Galapagos wouldn’t involve DNA cloning or an ill-conceived theme park. All it would need is a little controlled cross-breeding. That’s what researchers at Yale University say could bring back the ‘Geochelone elephantopus,’ which vanished from the Galapagos over a century ago due to whaling operations in the area. Image: tim ellis Recently, ...
Target vs. Goal (1)
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Manage By Walking Around (2)
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While most people don’t distinguish between goals and objectives in every day conversation, I find that performance management practitioners sometimes use the word goal when they really mean target. This potential confusion between objectives and targets explains why I usually recommend against using the term goal when establishing a standard performance management terminology. From my point of view, objectives, KPIs, and targets are related, but distinct, items: An objective describes what you want to accomplish. ...
Planning For Early Retirement Makes Me Happy (1)
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In a recent issue of Money magazine, Walter Updegrave shared the results of a recent survey by insurer Northwestern Mutual and health education company LLuminari. It showed that people who perform financial planning tend to feel happier than those who don’t. The article is also online here - Save for tomorrow, be happy today. You have to be a little careful in reading the diagram provided, and realize that there are separate components going on ...
Where Does Money Really Come From? (3)
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The first part explains our fractional-reserve banking system very well. One might think that for every $1 we put in a bank account, that is $1 that can be lent as a mortgage loan. In actuality, it is more like $100 that can be lent
Things I’ve learned from a friendfeed discussion (1)
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The other day I got involved in a discussion on FriendFeed with my friend Robert Scoble and his friends that centered around politics and the current election. I learned several things: 1. How great FriendFeed is for discussion. People I would have no other contact with I got a chance to disagree with and also to learn new things from. Their points caused me to think, hopefully something I said caused them to think as ...
The Four Secrets to a (nearly) Perfect Relationship (6)
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Marrying my wife was the best decision I ever made. We have an amazingly close relationship, and we’ve also had our share of ups and downs like anyone else. Despite the luck I had marrying my wife, our relationship still takes a lot of work and patience. I’ve made plenty of mistakes. I’ve also seen the ugliness that is failed relationships (I’ll spare you the details). I’ve avoided writing about this subject for a while ...
Rock Band 2 Registration for 20 Free Songs Now Open (1)
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If you picked up Rock Band 2, you may have noticed a code on the back of your manual with instructions on how to get 20 bonus songs for free. Well now it seems Harmonix has opened the way for you to be one step closer to getting those free tracks. Registration has now opened so that you can enter your code a receive an e-mail with another code once the tracks become available. Sadly, ...
Erase the Waste (1)
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Changes are afoot at the University of Florida. In addition to becoming more sustainable in general–with a goal of producing zero waste by 2015–Gator Dining Services just launched the “Erase the Waste” campaign. The program focuses on getting students and staff to think about reducing food waste. Most schools don’t ask students to change their behavior, they just make wasting food (and overeating) more difficult by removing trays. U. of F did that, too, going ...
GEOFF FARINA: la session acustica (1)
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Vi abbiamo già raccontato quali sono i dischi da isola deserta per il sig. Geoff Farina ma ora vogliamo sentire il perchè del nuovo progetto Glorytellers, vogliamo sapere se è vero che l’ultima fatica del chitarrista di Boston è stata composta in mezzo alle Dolomiti, vogliamo sapere se tornerà mai la chitarra elettrica al suo fianco, se i Karate…cosa? Ecco le risposte a molte di queste domande, inframezzate da 3 brani bellissimi chitarra e voce, ...
Next Automattic Buy: Too Lijit to Quit (3)
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WordPress search sucks. There’s no nice way to put that. If you’re using running WordPress and are using the default search engine, your visitors would likely find it faster to get the information they need with a bus ticket to your house. Though most of the platform is great, the search has always been the pits. Unfortunately, even as media handling, plugin installation and other features have grown up and become big boy tools, WordPress ...
Free FICO Credit Score From Equifax (No Trial) (3)
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Equifax is currently running a campaign that is giving out your FICO credit score for free based on your Equifax credit report. There is no credit card or free trial subscription required, so you don’t have to cancel anything. Only available to the first 10,000 responders, so go try it now! If you’ve used Equifax before, you should just sign in because they will make you sign in again anyways once getting your information. The ...
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What’s Right With Your Life? | Illuminated Mind (4)
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The typical nature of all personal development blog posts is to define a problem, then propose a solution. I’m not going to do that here. We spend a lot of times trying to improve things in our lives. We want better, more, faster, bigger, cooler, and on and on. So is there a time when more is not the answer? Is there a time when solving something wrong with your life is detrimental, because you ...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Raymond D. Powell ray@theywillbehea... http://www.TheyWi... Restore The Republic Radio announces Presidential Debate Restore The Republic Radio (RTRRadio.com) will hold the first of its kind presidential debate live via internet radio on October 9th. Unlike the debates that will be held by the TV networks, THIS debate will give a voice to EVERY major presidential candidate. Northbrook, IL, 10/7/2008 -RTRRadio.com announced it will hold an unprecedented internet radio based presidential debate on ...Shared by Ryan (11)Contribute comment
