As we drove along the soil route North of our farm 1 Sunday afternoon, the colour of the sky reminded me of Mom's Ag pick and refined sugar waiters when they were tarnished and needed to be polished again.

Since morning, the sky had been cloudy, but now at mid-afternoon, the clouds had grown much thicker and darker. Earlier in December we had gotten a small snow. Respective forty-degree years had melted most of it, and the landscape was a combination of dun-colored grass, black tree subdivisions and the russet colour of certain oak leaves.

Every twelvemonth in December, Dad and I went on a Christmastide tree expedition, and we were on our manner now over to what we called our 'other place' to cut a tree. During the summer, I made frequent trips to the other place, a 2nd farm my parents owned that was about a statute mile away, to assist Dad with the haying or just to label along when he checked on the maize or the oats or the soybeans.

But after school started, I rarely went to the other place, and it always took me by surprise how different it looked in the winter. Instead of greenish lucerne and herd's grass and trefoil waving in a warm South breeze, what had grown back after 3rd harvest was now brownish chaff that trembled in the face of a North wind. The Fields were strangely soundless now, too, without the songs of meadowlarks and bobolinks, and the bobwhite quail quail which lived in the narrow subdivision of forest lining the road.

We were only about five proceedings into our journeying when Dad shifted the pickup motortruck truck down into first gear wheel and then eased into the field driveway. The rutted path that ran along the border of the meadow was so jarring that a merry jingling came from the baseball glove compartment -- probably a few thunderbolts and washers, along with a couple of twists and maybe a screwdriver or two. When you're a farmer, you never cognize when you might necessitate a twist or a screwdriver or a bolt.

"Is it going to snow, Daddy?" I asked. Now that we had gotten past the trees lining the road, the sky had opened in presence of us again.

Dad leaned forward to look up through the windshield.

"I'd state there's a pretty good chance," he replied.

"How much?"

My male parent shrugged. "Don't know. Maybe quite a bit. Wind's out of the east. And that usually intends we’ll acquire at least adequate to shovel. Could be a batch more, though."

When we reached the long plantation at the other end of the field, Dad turned the motortruck around, driving forward a few feet then backing up, then driving forward and then back again, forward and back, until we were facing in the way we had come. He allow the engine idle for a few secs before shutting it off.

"Daddy?" I said, as we started walking toward the rows of planted reddish pine. "When make you believe it will start to snow?"

Dad stopped and tipped his caput back. "Soon," he said, "that wind experiences natural and damp."

When my male parent said 'soon,' I was not expecting it to start snowing within the adjacent 10 minutes. At first, while we were cutting the tree we had selected, only a few random snowflakes drifted to the ground. By the time we reached the motortruck and had securely stowed our Christmastide tree in the back, it was already snowing harder.

"If it maintains up like this all night, you won't have got school tomorrow," Dad said as he started the truck. He slowly allow out the clutch, and soon we were retracing our path along the field driveway. He turned on the windshield wipers, and with each base on balls -- clickety-snick, clickety-snick -- the wipers cleared an discharge through the wet snowflakes plastered to the glass.

After we had pulled onto the soil road, Dad shifted into 2nd gear, although when we reached the 'Y' -- where you could either turn left to travel toward our farm, or right to travel toward the house that had at one time been portion of our other place -- he shifted into first gear wheel wheel again.

"Hope we do it up the hill," he said, glancing at me. "Wet snowfall do the route sort of slick."

It was touching and travel for a few secs when the dorsum wheels started spinning, but finally we reached the point where the hill leveled off. Trees grew on both sides of the route here, and to the right, a steep depository financial institution gave rise to a little wooded hillside.

"Look," Dad said, pointing toward the bank. He inched over to the side of the route and stopped.

I peered through the drape of falling snow. The depository financial institution looked pretty much the same as it always had -- exposed tree roots, musca volitans of moss and bare spots where level sandstone stones had slid toward the road.

"What make you see?" I asked.

"Wintergreen," Dad answered. He close off the motortruck and opened the door.

Wintergreen?

The first time I had tasted wintergreen, I decided that it was my favourite flavor. Peppermint was a small too sharp, although candy canes at Christmastide were all right. Spearmint didn't savor like much of anything. Wintergreen, it seemed to me, was just right. In my opinion, Teaberry chewing gum was the best, with wintergreen Lifesavers following as a stopping point second.

Dad liked wintergreen too. Lifeguard books were popular gift exchanges at school for our Christmastide party, and if the individual who had drawn my name gave me a Lifeguard book, I would merchandise with other children who had also gotten books. Sometimes I managed to get respective other axial rotations of wintergreen. Then I would share them with Dad. I thought Teaberry chewing gum was better than candy because the taste sensation lasted longer, but Dad preferred Lifesavers. Gum, he said, stuck to his dentures.

During the summer, every time I went to town with Dad to crunch feed, I hoped he would purchase a bundle of my favourite candy or gum. Not at the provender mill, of course. They didn't sell Teaberry chewing gum or Lifesavers at the provender mill. But if we went to the eating house for pie while we waited for our feed, or if Ma had asked Dad to pick up a couple of things at the grocery shop store, I would seek to speak him into purchasing some chewing chewing gum or candy.

Going to the provender factory with Dad was a summertime activity, however, and there were long stretch alongs during the school twelvemonth when I never even saw a bundle of Teaberry gum or a axial rotation of Lifesavers, much less had any in my possession.

So what was Dad talking about when he had stopped the motortruck and said, "wintergreen?"

I stared at the embankment and then at the hill beyond but I couldn't see anything out of the ordinary. I close the motortruck door behind me just as Dad scrambled nimbly up the depository financial institution into the woods.

"It's growing all over here," he said, pointing to the ground. "They've got berries, too."

I struggled up the depository financial institution behind him to acquire a near look. Underfoot were little works with glistening greenness leaves.

"That greenish material is wintergreen?" I said.

My male parent nodded.

"Like what they utilize to do gum?"

"Yup. Here. Taste."

He reached down and picked a couple of small, pinkish-red berries, popping 1 into his oral cavity and handing one to me.

I sniffed the berry. It smelled like wintergreen, all right, but I wasn’t 1 spot certain about eating the thing.

"Taste it," Dad urged. "You'll be surprised."

So, I ate the berry. It had a unusual consistence -- kind of dry and mushy, all at the same time. .and then my oral cavity was filled with the fantastic taste sensation of wintergreen. The same as my favourite gum, but different, too. More delicate.

"It's good!" I exclaimed, grinning. Then I frowned. "How come up we haven't seen it before?"

"Usually too much snowfall by this time," Dad said.

"What about in the summer, though?"

"Too much undergrowth and other greenness things."

"And this is really the material they utilize in gum?" I asked.

Dad took his cap off, slapped it against his leg to free it of snowfall and then set it back on his head.

"Well. .they probably don't travel into the forest and pick wild wintergreen. People probably raise it and sell it, and I believe they might utilize the go forths of absence rather than the berries, but yes, this is the stuff."

By now the snowfall was falling so difficult it made a hissing noise as it struck the copper-colored oak leaves above us. Unlike other trees, some of the oaks, I had noticed, maintain their leaves of absence until spring.

"How make you cognize so much about wintergreen?" I asked.

"Oh," Dad said, "when we were kids, we used to pick it so we could do water ice cream."

I turned to look at him. "Ice cream?"

"Our sort of water ice cream, anyway. A small dish of snowfall with winter-green berries amalgamated in."

Suddenly I struck upon a fantastic idea.

"I know! I can seek some right now."

I took off my mitten, picked a few wintergreen berries and scooped a little smattering of fluffy, fresh snow. I set the berries in the snow, and -- well -- I have got to acknowledge it was pretty tasty.

I set my mittens back on. "Didn't you have got existent water ice pick when you were growing up, Dad?"

My male parent smiled. "Sure -- sometimes. Not hive away bought, though. We made our ain with a hand-cranked water ice pick freezer. But that was mostly in the summertime. We thought wintergreen water ice pick was an atrocious batch of fun."

Dad had been the center kid among respective aged brothers, an aged sister, and three little sisters. My grandparents had worked as cooks in a timber encampment in northern Wisconsin River in the early 1900s. Many old age ago, long before I was born, Dad had made his life film editing mush wood.

"Daddy? How did you see the wintergreen from the road?" I asked.

My male parent hesitated before answering. "I didn't see it. Not today, at least."

I stopped trying to set my mittens so the pollex lined up like it was supposed to and turned my full attending toward Dad.

"Remember last fall, when the county Forester came out here?" he asked.

"Yeah, I remember."

Just on the other side of the little wooded hill was a two-acre base of tall redness long with a couple of rows of achromatic long adjacent to the road. Dad said the trees were among the oldest of the plantations in the county that had been planted just after the Great Depression to maintain the sandy dirt from eroding. Nearly every year, the Forester would come up out to check up on on them. One twelvemonth he used Dad's long trees to show a trade name new trimming device to Foresters from other counties.

Well," Dad continued, "while we were out here, I decided to take a small walk. I don't acquire much of a opportunity just to walk around back here."

"And that's when you saw the wintergreen?"

Dad nodded. "I was waiting for the right chance to demo it to you."

He turned back toward the truck. "It'll be dark soon. We'd better acquire home. The cattle are waiting to be milked."

As we slid down the embankment, I glanced over my shoulder.

Wintergreen.

Growing in the forest not far from my house.

And in that instant, I knew chewing gum and candy would never again savor quite the same.

From the book: Christmastide In Dairyland (True Stories From a Wisconsin River Farm)
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Well, I hope you did not read that headline wrong, Crew Member Starbucks is not doing Paris Hilton. What I am saying here is Starbucks will now be offered in some Hilton Hotels. Just think you can watch Paris the skinny blonde babe on your infomercial in room TV ad for a Starbucks, run down to the lobby to and buy a fattening Frappachino.

Imagine the benefits of having Starbucks in your room? Sounds good and while you are on vacation who cares if you get fat and look like crap in our bathing suit by the pool. Chances are Paris Hilton will not be there anyway, she will be in Paris getting married to a different Paris? If all this is just getting too darn confusing for you, do not worry about it. But realize your Starbucks Card will not work in Hilton Hotels but they do take American Express?

Starbucks will be continually adding world wide partners to promote their brand and are big on entering the Chinese Market by way of franchising or license branding with Chinese Partners. Just think all those skinny Chinese people who now smoke two packs of day of US Cigarettes will be able to get nice and plumb on over priced frappachinos. Isn’t that wonderful. The only problem I see is will 1.2 Billion Chinese people run out of space in their country? And will they be able to squeeze them all into the Jet Liners when they come to America to sell their wares. Or will the A-380 be ready for much bigger seats for all these newly rich, cancer ridden, over weight, Charlie Chocolate Factory rolly polly Chinese?

Think on Globalization, ya gotta love it.

Love is in the air at the Venice Rookery. The birds (and the bees) are there doing the thing they are so famous for, and you can take pictures of it! Seriously, though, the Venice Rookery is an ideal spot to photograph birds mating, building their nests, fighting for territory and feeding their chicks. It’s a requisite for bird photographers, and sheer delight for the rest of us.

A rookery is a breeding ground for certain birds and animals. At the Venice Rookery, you’ll see snowy egret, great egret, anhinga, great blue heron, tricolor heron, night heron, and the like. Active during the months from November to April, the birds are most photogenic showing their breeding colors in February and March.

HOW TO GET THERE

The Venice Rookery is located in a Sarasota County park within the city of Venice, Florida, about half way between Tampa and Fort Myers on Florida’s west coast. It is monitored by the Venice chapter of the Audubon Society. To get to the Rookery, take I-75 to Jacaranda Boulevard (Exit 193). Go right (north) on US Highway 41 until you see the State Highway Patrol Office located at 4000 S. Tamiami Trail. Turn left just past the Office, as if you were going there, but instead follow the road all of the way back until you reach the park in about a mile. Parking is to your left. It is free, plentiful and convenient to the Rookery on your right. There is no entrance fee.

The Venice Rookery itself is a small island in a lake, which forms a natural barrier. The island is full of small trees and bushes where the birds build their nests. They fly to surrounding areas for the good nest-building sticks and food but soon return, giving plenty of opportunities for flight shots. When the chicks are born, you will view the wonders of nature as the parents work together to feed them. You also get to see some strange behavior when the anhinga chicks stick their heads all of the way down the throats of their parents to get food.

HOW TO GET YOUR BEST SHOTS

The best photography can be had during the morning light, when the sun is over your shoulder. The birds also tend to be more active in the morning. While you can hike around the perimeter of the pond for the afternoon light, the photography access is limited and difficult. Instead, stay on the shore next to the parking lot for dramatic silhouette shots in the afternoon.

You don’t need to worry about a blind at any time because the birds have become habituated to people, who are separated from the nests by the pond. All you need to do is stand on the shore along with the other photographers and birders, and fire away. Although the area is small, it hosts a variety and a tremendous amount of bird activity. For the best shots, you’ll need big glass of 500mm or more to photograph the birds on the island, especially the chicks. You can get by with less for the flight shots or for the few times that the birds get close to shore.
Discover the place where some of the greatest bird photographers go. If you have big glass, or just want to watch tons of great bird activity in one place that is easy to get to, the Venice Rookery is the spot for you.

MISCELLANEOUS

The park amenities are minimal. It consists of the parking lot, the pond and portable toilets. There are no food services or attendants. However, because the Rookery is in the town of Venice, there are plenty of facilities close by. A gas station with a mini-mart full of vital snacks is across the street from the Highway Patrol Office. Other restaurants and facilities can be found on US Highway 41, which is a main access road through the city. Some options are Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill (4329 Tamiami Trail S.), Bob Evans Restaurant (4080 Tamiami Trail) and the Alpine Steak House (4520 S. Tamiami Trail).
Because the Rookery is in the city, there are plenty of lodging options. Make your reservations in advance, especially during the spring break weeks. The entire west coast of Florida is a hot spot during that time. If you don’t make your plans in advance, you may have to drive for hours to find a place to stay. Some options are the Days Inn (two miles away) http://www.daysinnvenice.com/, the Motel 6 (4 miles away) http://www.motel6.com/reservations/motel_detail.asp?MotelId=0364&state=FL&full=Florida&city=Venice, the Best Western Ambassador Suites (4 miles away) http://www.bestwesternflorida.com/details.cfm, and the Holiday Inn (4.5 miles away) http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/1/en/hd/srqvn?irs=null.

The area is not very well shaded, so bring your sun block lotion and a wide-brimmed hat. You also may want to bring a lawn chair to take a quick break and snacks to keep you shooting throughout the morning hours. The photographic opportunities are so great; you don’t want to waste time with extraneous items.

Another bonus of the Venice Rookery is its close proximity to many other prime places for bird photography. They include the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island http://dingdarling.fws.gov/, the Six Mile Cypress Slough in Ft. Myers http://www.captiva.com/stateparks/sixmilecypress.htm, the Corkscrew Swamp Preserve in Naples http://www.captiva.com/stateparks/corkscrew.htm, and Ft. Desoto Park in Tierra Verde http://www.pinellascounty.org/park/05_Ft_DeSoto.htm. All of these locations are so great for bird photography, they deserve their own article.

Copyright 2005 Carolyn E. Wright

The huge beauty and profusion of the desert can be easily seen in one place in Tucson, Arizona. Known as the Arizona Genus Sonora Desert Museum [“Desert Museum”], this gorgeous and convenient site is host to a profusion of plants, birds and animate beings native to the desert. Home to more than than 300 animate being species and 1200 works in natural settings, it is a photographer's paradise.

Located in the Tucson Mountain Park just a few statute miles outside of Tucson, the Desert Museum was founded in 1952. The private, non-profit-making organization, dedicated to the preservation of the Sonoran Desert, offers a zoological park, a botanical garden, an fine art gallery and a geology museum. The Desert Museum is a 15 minute thrust from the bosom of Tucson and is unfastened every twenty-four hours of the year. Hours are from 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. from October through February, and 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. from March through September. The entranceway fee is $9 for adults.

While this is in fact a “museum,” don't be confused by the name. The installation is out in the unfastened and experiences more than like a menagerie or a park. It includes almost two statute miles of paved and soil ways through 21 estate of desert.

WHAT YOU can exposure THERE

The hardest thing about this location is deciding what to photograph. Should you pass your time shot in the cactus garden or the hummingbird aviary? Bash you first spell through the pollenation garden filled with bees, butterflies and moths, or visit the respective exhibits of mammals, including black bears, mountain lions, Bighorn sheep, wolves, British shilling cat, fox and coyote? It will take respective visits to take in all of this.

Docents - trained military volunteers - have on achromatic shirts and are available throughout the Museum to reply your inquiries and to give demonstrations. One docent enthusiastically shared his Mexican Feather Boa serpent with me, while another held a screeching bird of Minerva and explained the differences between the many species of owls. While there is much to photograph, don't go so enamored with the assorted topics that you bury about making your best images. Backgrounds and people will be your greatest challenges. Tripods are allowed everywhere, but marks counsel photographers to be aware of the other visitors. Put your lens system right up to the birdcages so that the cages are so out of focusing they can't be seen in your concluding photo. Avoid photographing the animate beings in dappled or uneven visible visible light (where parts of the animate being are in shadiness and other parts in light). Like many zoos, the animate beings often are sleeping around corners where they are hard to exposure so talking with trainers, docents and museum staff to see when they feed the animals. This is when they will be most active.

TIPS FOR shooting THERE

You also have got to drill your technique. For example, the hummingbirds move fast as lightening, so it's impossible to follow them to shoot. Instead, expression where they perch or feed, put up your shot for the best background, and then patiently wait for the hummingbirds to go back - they will. While the visible light is best both morning time and afternoon, the animate beings are more than active early in the day. Be careful to avoid the bright background where the mountain king of beasts wishes to perch. Note that the Desert Cringle Trail, place to the collared peccary and coyote, is a relatively steep and hot trail.

You'll desire a long telephotograph lens system in the scope of 300-400 millimeter to frame in the wildlife. An extension tubing or telephoto/macro volition let for stopping point focusing of the hummingbirds. For the full compliment of images, add a wide-angle lens system system for the few landscape shots and a macro instruction lens for the cactus garden. In improver to the birds and mammals, the Desert Museum have first-class reptile, invertebrates and submerged exhibits, as well as a mineral display. The visible light in these countries is inadequate for photography, however.

The heat energy of the desert do it a hard visit to the Desert Museum in summer. In October during my visit, the twelve noon heat energy was tolerable with a chapeau and sunglasses, but the temperatures were more than comfortable during the early morning time and late afternoon. One docent advised that April is the best time to see for desert flowers, but she tells her friends to see in March when it's cooler.

DIRECTIONS

For more than information, bank check the website at www.desertmuseum.org, Oregon phone call 520-883-1380. The computer address is 2021 N. Kinney Road, Tucson, AZ. To acquire there, take I-10 to the Speedway Avenue issue and travel West for about 10 miles. Note that Speedway Avenue turns into Bill Gates Base On Balls Road along the way, and be certain to halt at the two scenic position turnouts there. Bend right at the dead end onto Kinney Road, and thrust for three miles. The Desert Museum will be on your left. If you get via the Tucson airport, marks will direct you to the Desert Museum by manner of Highway 86. I establish this to be the longer and less efficient approach, but you see more than of the beautiful Tucson Mountain Park this way. Also utilize this path if you are carrying a trailer, because the Bill Gates Base On Balls Road is steep and winding as it goes over a mountain pass. The Desert Museum supplies a enormous copiousness of fantastic photographic and educational chances in one place, and is deserving many visits.

MISCELLANEOUS

Food: There are four nutrient installations on the Desert Museum property, ranging from a bite barroom to insouciant fine-dining. No picnicking is allowed inside the place owed to the presence of animals, but a little field day country is available just outside the entrance. Additional big field day countries are located throughout the Tucson Mountain Park, including the San Juan Carlos field day country adjacent to the Desert Museum on Kinney Road.

Lodging: Since the Desert Museum is close to business district Tucson, there are tons of places to lease a hotel room. Convenient hotels include the Four Points Sheraton Hotel (800-843-8052), the Marriott University Park Hotel (520-792-4100), and the Red Roof Hostel (520-744-8199). The Gilbert Beam Campsite (RV friendly) is located on Kinney Road about two statute miles sou'-east from the Desert Museum (take a right bend when leaving the Museum).

Other Necessities: Restrooms, shaded remainder countries and H2O fountains are scattered conveniently throughout the Museum, including on the relatively long, hot Desert Cringle Trail. The Museum have two gift stores stocked with a supply of batteries, movie and other necessities. Bring a wide-brimmed hat, sunscreen and comfortable, hardy shoes. Trousers will maintain the cactus acerate leaves at bay, especially if you venture into the desert for that sunset shot. The closest gas station and convenience marketplace are located four statute miles sou'-east (a right bend from the Desert Museum exit) on Kinney Road.

Caution: The sun can be rough and the air is dry. Drink tons of fluids. Also short letter that pets are not allowed in the parkland because of the wildlife, but make not go forth them unattended in your car. Wildlife, including snakes, lizards and coyotes, can wander throughout the Museum's grounds.

Other Local Areas of Interest: The Saguaro National Park (http://www.nps.gov/sagu/), another important member of the Genus Sonora Desert, boundary lines the Tucson Mountain Park. Famous for its giant sahuaro cacti that sometime attain high of 50 feet, the Park offers respective hiking trails and scenic thrusts that supply entree to great photograph opportunities. The Old Tucson Studio, where many cowpuncher movies have got been shot, is just southwesterly of the intersection point of Bill Gates Base On Balls Road and Kinney Road. On your manner to the Desert Museum via Speedway Boulevard, you will go through The Wildlife Museum, full of stuffed animate beings from around the world. A couple of visitants to the Desert Museum told me that the Colossal Cave located in Vail, Arizona (about an hr thrust from Tucson), which is on the National Register of Historic Places, is a must see. www.colossalcave.com

Copyright 2005 Carolyn E. Wright

If you desire to be happier and you also love movies, this article will learn you how to utilize their lessons to change your life. To accomplish this, you must look for three things in every film you watch. If the film have all three, it tin be a rich, meaningful experience that can alteration your life while you’re also having fun. Here’s what to look for:

1. Bashes this film animate you? Great wise men must be able to convey out the best in us. A good film must have got the powerfulness to animate you through the fictional characters it conveys to life. If you love a movie, you can utilize it as your inspirational military unit by answering these questions:

• How did this movie animate you to travel after what’s of import in you life?

• What did the fictional fictional characters learn you about success and what will you make to follow their examples?

• What did the characters learn you about errors and what noxious actions will you avoid in your life?

2. Bashes this film stir in you powerful emotions? In watching a movie, it’s safe to experience emotions you usually conceal in existent life, from unhappiness and hurting to joyousness and bliss. Life is full of emotion. If a film can not stir powerful emotions in you, it’s not a story about existent life but a exanimate illustration in motion. To do the most out of a good film’s ability to stir powerful emotions, reply these questions:

• What powerful feelings did this film stir in you?

• How have got you been handling those feelings in existent life (such as avoiding, suppressing, or letting out of control) and what results are you getting?

• Can you do any improvements in the manner you are handling those feelings?

3. Bashes this film show you how to manage the unknown? Like a great teacher, a good film must have got lessons that set up you for the unknown region and warn you about the dangers of the future. The fictional characters must be honorable illustrations of existent people and their ways of dealing with life’s curveballs must learn meaningful lessons for your life. To make the most out of those lessons, reply these questions:

• What did this fictional fictional character (or characters) do to face that unexpected challenge?

• What happened as a result?

• What am I learning from the illustration of this character (or characters) that I must utilize (or avoid) in my ain life, when I face a similar challenge?

When a film makes not ran into the three criteria, it can still act upon you through other, equally of import elements, such as as particular effects, cinematography, great action sequences, or the soundtrack. In such as a case, inquire yourself: “What make I like about this film that I desire to have got more than than of in my life?” If it’s the music, then set more music in your life. If it’s the cinematography, then add in your agenda some art-related activities. If it’s the action sequences, then pick an country of your life that misses action and make something about it.

How to Use the 3 Criteria

Get together with two or three friends who love movies. Pick a film from the following listing and ticker using the three criteria above. Keep in head the inquiries listed within each criterion. Then, reply the inquiries that follow below. For more than tips on how to change your life in 12 hebdomads using lessons from popular movies, visit www.reelfulfilment.com.

1. “The Aviator” is a biopic about Leslie Howard Hughes, who became a magnet following his passionateness for air power as he fought the debilitating personal effects of mental illness.

2. “Ray” is a biopic about vocalist Beam Prince Charles who achieved world celebrity as he fought blindness, poverty, racism, and diacetylmorphine addiction.

3. “The Notebook” is the story of two people who turn old together letting nil base in the manner of their love for each other.

4. “Million Dollar Baby” is the story of somes determined female pugilist who accomplishes her dreaming just before life throws her a poke that she’s not prepared to return.

Questions to answer:

- How did the movie animate you?

- What powerful feelings did it stir in you?

- What did it learn you about handling the unknown?

Now do a listing of:

1. Something you have got a desire to achieve.

2. An obstruction you believe is blocking you from achieving it.

3. Three strengths you gained from watching the suggested movies.

Put your acquisition to drill with concrete actions. Enjoy the results.

This tutorial is made to teach Photoshop tutorial owners about successful optimization, submission of your tutorials and receiving the most views possible.

Introduction

Photoshop tutorials are made to teach your knowledge to other users who might want to learn new techniques and improve their knowledge of Photoshop. Millions of users use Adobe Photoshop daily to make better professional graphics. Photoshop users include photographers, Web Designers, Sketch Designers, 3D Designers, and Architecture Designers who are always searching for tutorials to better use the Photoshop software. Submitting your Tutorials are also a good way to get more visitors for your website, usually the first one or two days can get you at least 5,000 views if your tutorials are optimized professionally. Most of the Designing websites start by submitting their tutorials to let users know that their website has resources that can help them. If you have a small web designer's community or just started one, then you should use this technique to get more users for your website and promote it for free as well as help others.

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Your next step is naming your tutorial, pick descriptive words for your title, which explains your tutorial or technique in 2 or 3 words. Remember, your title should be competitive, which would get users to view your tutorial. It acts just like your website's Title. You cannot change your tutorial's titles after submission, so it's your only chance to choose your best title. Do not go more then 4 words.

Your next step is to write a short description for your tutorial. Your description should tell the users a little about your tutorial, include information about what technique you are going to use, how it is going to be useful to your visitors and if there are specific requirements for your tutorial, like: version, plug-in, etc. Keep your description short but explain your steps in one or two sentences.

Choose the best matched category for your tutorial, you wont be accepted if your tutorial is submitted to a category not related to your tutorial. If you are not sure about the category, look inside each category to find similar tutorials as yours and find an appropriate category. If you are still not sure, email the webmaster of the website to ask for a new tutorial category or suggestions about which category to submit your tutorial.

Always include your website name with a URL to index of your website when you submit your tutorials. Don't forget to Put a link to your tutorials index in your tutorial pages, this will send viewers to your older tutorials and it might be useful for them. Most of the viewers read more tutorials from websites they are referred to.

Another trick to receive more hits is by providing html code for your visitors that they can use to link to your website or your tutorials. Keep making and submitting tutorials, every website that links to your tutorial sends around 2,000 viewers on the first day and about 200-300 viewers month at least after that. So, each tutorial is guaranteed 200 users from every website that links to it. You can also hire tutorial writers for your website or ask friends to write tutorials for your website if you don't have the time or resources. Good Luck!

Some Key points to remember for Successfull Submission:

* Try to make the steps as easy as possible, so new users can understand what you are talking about.

* use easy English, so your visitors don't have to use a dictionary to find out what you are talking about. Not all of your visitors can speak fluent English.

*Spell check your tutorial and use proper grammar to make your tutorial look more professional

* Make sure your website can hold enough bandwidth for as many users as possible, at least 2GB for each tutorial.

*Do not use too much advertising or popups in your website; this might decrease your viewers. Most users get fed up by annoying popup and stop viewing your tutorials.

*Do not rip, copy, or use other tutorial writer's content. Most tutorial viewers are aware of other tutorial websites which will cause you to lose viewers.

*Read Submission Guidelines of the website you are submitting your website to before your submission.

*Provide direct Links to your tutorials or your tutorial will be seen as spam.

*Optimize your tutorials for Search Engines, Use ALT's for images and proper paragraph Tags to make sure it's indexed in Search Engines. Your main target keywords would be your tutorial's name, which might be easy if your tutorial was unique.

Some Websites to submit your tutorials:

Good-Tutorials.com

World's Largest Photoshop Tutorials Website.

Pixel2life.com

Includes All kinds of Tutorials, including Photoshop Tutorials.

Pslover.com

Another good website to submit your tutorial.

Photoshop 911

Another website to submit your tutorial to.

Fusion Tutorials

Another Cool Tutorial website to submit your tutorial to.

Tutorialman.com

Cool Tutorial website to submit your tutorial and get more hits.