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How Obama can avoid the second-term curse
- Scandal or mere failure often derail a returning president
- President%27s ability to command public attention begins to ebb well before end of second term
- Some political veterans say Obama%27 list of second-term goals is unrealistically long
WASHINGTON -- For presidents, practice apparently doesn't make perfect.
Those who win re-election can claim what would seem to be an invaluable asset: Four years of on-the-job training for one of the most demanding posts in the world. Yet the second terms of modern presidents typically are remembered for assorted catastrophes. Richard Nixon resigned. Ronald Reagan became enmeshed in the Iran-contra scandal. Bill Clinton was impeached. George W. Bush was buffeted first by Katrina and then by a cascading financial crisis.
As President Obama prepares for next week's inauguration, he acknowledges the cautionary history. "I'm more than familiar with all the literature about presidential overreach in second terms," he told reporters at a White House news conference after his re-election. He discussed the prospects and pitfalls of second terms last Thursday at a private White House dinner with nine presidential historians.
"By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated," says Robert Dallek, one of those invited to the dinner and the author of influential biographies of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy. "In second terms, the big problems that confront the country, and they're always there, more or less catch up with the incumbent."
To be sure, some presidents have scored significant achievements in their second terms, from the tax code overhaul signed by Reagan to the balanced federal budget during Clinton's watch. But advisers who have been there say the rhythms and political dynamics of the second term are different from the first.
"In the first term, you're running for re-election," says Ken Duberstein, White House chief of staff for Reagan during his second term. "In the second term, you're running for legacy." That impulse — "whether it's hubris or overreach or over-interpreting a mandate" — sometimes contributes to stumbles.
John Podesta, chief of staff for Clinton in his second term, says there's no "unifying physics theory" to explain the second-term curse, a concept that has become so accepted it has its own Wikipedia page. Despite that conventional wisdom, he says second terms also pose an opportunity for a president to deploy a more seasoned staff and exploit more executive powers.
USA TODAY asked top White House aides to Reagan, Clinton and Bush during their second terms for their tips, some reflecting hard lessons learned during their time in the West Wing. Here's what they told us.
1. Watch the clock
The Constitution says there are four years to a second term, but political reality says a president's ability to command public attention and compel congressional action begins to ebb well before that. "People tend to get tired of their president in the second term," says Frank Donatelli, second-term White House political adviser to Reagan.
"Certainly history has proven that second-term presidents typically get the most accomplished in their first year and a little in their second and then not a lot accomplished as the party fights over who the next standard-bearer will be," says Sara Taylor Fagen, political adviser in Bush's second term.
That means Obama's major legislative initiatives for his second term probably need to be spotlighted in his inaugural address next week and detailed in the State of the Union speech that follows next month. His opportunities are likely to shrink as time passes, and fast.
"It's the Benjamin Button theory of the second term," says former Clinton White House aide Chris Lehane, a reference to the 2008 movie and F. Scott Fitzgerald short story. "You have a year to 16 months, max, to do anything, at least domestically. You're going to age in reverse."
At the midpoint of Bush's second term, press secretary Dana Perino saw attendance at daily White House briefings drop as reporters shifted to the 2008 campaign. "Toward the end, I said, 'If we are on the front page of the paper, we have done something terribly wrong or have a huge problem,'" says Perino, now co-host of The Five on Fox News Channel.
Another potential problem: The midterm congressional elections. The president's party often suffers big losses in the sixth year of a presidency, although Democrats already may have taken much of that hit in the 2010 elections, when they lost control of the House of Representatives. Democrats probably will have more muscle in Congress for the next two years than in the final two of Obama's term.
"There's a little bit of a feeling that you become chopped liver in your seventh and eighth years as the campaign heats up," says Podesta, who ran Obama's transition operation four years ago and is now chair of the Center for American Progress, a liberal-leaning think tank. "The play is going to move on."
2. Pick a priority
The president can do something in his second term, the veterans say, but not everything. Fighting too many battles could mean winning none.
Obama has said his major goals for his second term include enacting a comprehensive immigration bill and energy legislation, and he has added gun control to the list since the December shooting rampage at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school that left 26 children and educators dead. In the next few months, he also faces the need to raise the debt ceiling and deal with automatic spending cuts that are poised to take effect.
Some veterans say his list is unrealistically long. "It's still not clear to me what they really want to do," Perino says.
The hard line Obama has drawn with Republicans on the debt ceiling risks sapping his political capital and leaving scars that will make prevailing on the other issues more difficult, Fagen says. "If he spends this year fighting with Republicans on the debt ceiling and the fiscal cliff, yeah, (House Speaker) John Boehner may lose the hand on that," she says, but Obama "is the one who is going to be harmed the most long-term."
After carrying 49 states in his re-election, Reagan focused on overhauling the tax code, and succeeded. Bush also picked a clear second-term priority — adding private investment accounts to Social Security — only to see it crash in Congress. His next proposal, to overhaul immigration, also failed.
Bush told reporters after his re-election that he had "earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it." To his dismay, he apparently hadn't earned enough capital to push through such divisive proposals.
Obama made a similar point at his news conference Monday when asked about a pending showdown with Republicans over raising the debt ceiling. "They've got a particular view of what government should do and should be," he said. "And, you know, that view was rejected by the American people when it was debated during the presidential campaign."
Obama needs to be realistic about not "misinterpreting the size of his victory," Fagen says. "That is a recipe for having a very long and cantankerous legislative session with little accomplished."
3. Fix a first-term problem
One good thing about second terms: It's a chance to reverse some of the errors made the first time around.
Bush made changes in his fractious national-security team during his second term, eventually installing new secretaries at the State Department and the Pentagon. Clinton was criticized during his first term for inaction on bloodshed in the Balkans; in his second term, he engineered a NATO bombing campaign that halted ethnic cleansing by Serbs in Kosovo.
Clinton also revisited the signature disaster of his first term, the failure of his proposed health care overhaul. In his second term, he pushed through several smaller pieces of legislation, expanding coverage for children and ensuring more insurance portability.
For Obama, the second term is an opportunity to show that the Affordable Care Act can deliver on its promise to expand health care coverage and control costs. Nearly three years after Obama signed the health-care overhaul, the public remains unconvinced. In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll last month, just 30% of those surveyed said the law was going to make things better for their families; 40% predicted it would make things worse.
"You have to put an emphasis on the execution of the programs you put in place in the first term," Podesta says. "For Obama, that's a particularly critical chore with respect to health care. At the end of the day, passage of the Affordable Care Act is going to be the signature achievement of his first term, and it will only be viewed positively if properly implemented in his second term."
Duberstein suggests Obama also work to strengthen his ties to members of Congress. "It is not too late to build lasting relationships on both sides of the aisle, because it's a means to an end," he says.
4. Look abroad
While Watergate raged, Nixon got a hero's welcome in Moscow. During the aftermath of the Iran-contra investigation, Reagan signed an arms-control treaty with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Even after his successor had won the 2000 election, Clinton spent the final days of his second term trying to reach a Middle East peace deal that proved elusive.
During second terms, foreign locales can seem more appealing and more productive than domestic ones, especially when the next presidential election has taken over attention at home.
"There is a sense that presidents sort of end up concentrating more on foreign policy toward the end," Podesta says. "They certainly have more capacity to take the initiative. You can't ignore Capitol Hill, but you have much more power to take the initiative, so it's a natural place presidents late in their second terms go."
During his second term, Obama plans to withdraw most U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, drawing America's longest war to a conclusion. With that, he could find a new opening to focus on the nations touched by the Arab Spring. That could involve the current violence in Syria and a potential crisis with Iran over its nuclear program.
That instinct to look abroad affects presidential spouses as well. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Laura Bush traveled extensively abroad during their husbands' second terms. Laura Bush went to Africa to spotlight the U.S. global initiative against AIDS and to the Arab world to promote the cause of women and girls in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
"You do have a tendency to work a little bit more on global issues in a second term," says Anita McBride, chief of staff for Laura Bush during her husband's second term who now runs a project on first ladies at American University. "You sort of realize you've got this worldwide platform to use."
5. Brace for trouble
The misbehavior that caused some of the most celebrated second-term scandals didn't actually happen during second terms. The Watergate misdeeds came during Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, for instance. Clinton's White House liaisons with Monica Lewinsky began a year before his 1996 re-election.
In those cases, winning the second term gave time for misdeeds to become known and opened the door to full-blown investigations.
"The federal government is this enormous apparatus, and it's just a matter of time where somebody, somewhere winds up screwing up," says Donatelli, who now chairs GOPAC, a group that trains Republican candidates. "It takes awhile to work through the system, and for people to find out about it."
Whatever the origins and timing, every second-term president of the past half-century has had to contend with a major scandal involving themselves or, at times, officials acting without his knowledge. The Valerie Plame affair, which drew headlines in Bush's second term, was sparked by a newspaper column outing the identity of a CIA operate that ran more than a year before his re-election.
A scandal that could bedevil Obama's second term might have already happened, though he may not know about it yet.
"Almost by definition, because you've been in office so long, something is going to pop in a day and age where the opposition party in particular is looking to use the investigative process and the ethics issue as a partisan bludgeon," says Lehane, who worked on the Clinton White House response team for the Lewinsky and other investigations. He is the co-author of Masters ofDisaster: The Ten Commandments of Damage Control, published last year. "Almost every single day, you're out there on a high wire with somebody jiggling it. Eventually, you're going to fall."


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Last week we posted a story about Regina and her gift of a hearing aid from her sponsors. Here's a response from her sponsors, Sarah Deien and her family.
Years ago, when our twin girls were in pre-school, a priest came to our parish in Hannibal, Mo. He spoke of the CFCA program, and the dire need of children and elderly around the world.
Our girls looked up at us and asked, ìCan we adopt a sister, PLEASE?!!î We found it hard to say no. Actually, it was God saying yes to a blessing in our lives.
They sifted through the folders and immediately agreed on Regina. They couldnít wait to write to their new big sister.
That started a relationship that has brought much joy to our home.
The Deien family
You see, my husband and I thought we could make some small difference in a childís life; we didnít realize the difference Regina would make in ours.
Our family immediately connected with Regina. The very day we took home her picture, she became part of our daily prayers.
From the first time the girls ripped open an envelope from Regina, their world expanded from our small town to another place where people donít live as we do.
It was a lesson in geography, economics, philosophy, even English. Most importantly, it was a humbling lesson of humanitarianism.
As much as we enjoyed sharing Reginaís life, my husband and I wondered if there was more we could do.
When Regina explained her need for hearing aids, we researched it, prayed about it and decided this was something that could really make a difference in Reginaís life.
By American standards, weíre not well-to-do. By worldly standards, we have such an abundance.
We had to budget for the $900 expense. We involved the whole family. That Christmas, we agreed to cut back on the excess. Just like Jesus, our girls now get three presents under the tree … usually a book, toy and pajamas.
We stopped giving gifts to extended family, and started making treats together.
When we sent the money, Iím embarrassed to say we fretted over it. Did we spend too much? Would the money really go to Reginaís hearing aids?
When we got a picture with Regina and her hearing aids, along with a nice thank-you letter, we knew we had made the right choice.
Over the years, Regina has been with us as we added two new daughters to our family. The youngest girls have grown up knowing about their ìbig sisterî in the Philippines.
They all look forward to sharing news with her and hearing about her life in another land.
But aside from all that, Regina has taught us compassion.
We continue the tradition now of three gifts under the tree. We make do with less and appreciate what we have more. Each year, we buy toys for the needy and send other things we donít need to an orphanage in Mexico.
Our children donít have the newest and the latest in material things, but they do know the gift of giving.
My sweet Regina, thank you for the kind words. Iím so happy that our small sacrifice made a change in your life.
When you wrote to thank us, you asked how you could repay us. I asked you to go make a difference in other peopleís lives. Youíre doing that today, working with CFCA.
Iím so proud of you, and so grateful to you for the blessings youíve brought to our family. Youíll always be a treasure in our lives.


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This would be a great improvement to SO.
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I feel embarrassed typing this, but I am a woman with large breasts and it is not easy. There, I've said it. Now, this subject-matter has made me feel awkward for some time, and I know why. It is because we are indoctrinated to believe that large boobs are the epitome of femininity; that nothing short of space-hopper tits embellished with kitten-tongue pink nipples the size of place mats are desirable; that a full curvaceous bosom and a cleavage that looks like an ass crack tightly trussed up with wires and lace so it resembles a Christmas turkey caught in a weird sex act with a doily is womanly and beautiful.
Women are either supposed to feel proud if they are boasting "more than a handful," or to dutifully check themselves in to be sliced open and stuffed full of silicon sacks if they are anything below a 'D' cup. The lingerie industry plays into our insecurities by marketing supposedly boob enhancing bras that will produce plump, shapely busts as an absolute must for any self-respecting lady. Therefore, in short, any woman who complains about having large breasts is considered irritating, like she is feigning unhappiness with her body in a bid to draw attention to her most valuable assets and to solicit admiring, envious compliments from others. Other women are more than happy to re-mortgage their houses and take out high-interest loans in order to bounce a mile in your Bravissimo, after all. Just be thankful for what you have. But the truth is, in my experience, having large breasts can unfortunately make you a target for negative attention from men and women alike.
I am not an exhibitionist. I don't walk around wearing nothing but fluorescent pink tassels, twirling them enthusiastically when trying to hail a taxi and the likes (if nothing else, I lack the co-ordination). I am very conscious of my breast-size, but when you have an ample bosom it can be difficult to dress them. A polo neck does nothing more than make me look like an old matron who is shaped not unlike a loaf of bread, whilst simultaneously amplifying their size. Pretty fitted blouses often fall to the floor of my bedroom like dead bodies as they fit everywhere but across my bust. Unfortunately, anything that is tight-fitting and shows a little bit of cleavage is likely to be interpreted as an animalistic attempt at sexual flirtation, with zombified men becoming aroused and dragging themselves into London-town from as far as High Wycombe using their own cocks like dowsing rods to hone in on the areole every time I, or any other well-endowed woman, slips into a saucy v-neck top.
And this is not because I am a particularly attractive woman. I am ordinary by anyone's standards. It is just something about the breasts that make men think it is alright to stare or grab or make lewd comments. For example, I was on the tube home recently looking nothing short of ragged after a hard week's grind when a man was blatantly starting at me (or rather, my chest). My hair looked like I had rubbed a balloon on it, my cheeks were flushed following a particularly hectic day in the office, I was wearing odd socks, and my coat was a bit tight owing to an intense three-week fling with a selection of buff, refined carbohydrates. Even the most conservative of commentators would be hard pressed to accuse me of having dressed "too provocatively."
The man fixed his eyes on my breasts for the entirety of the journey. I could see his slack-jawed reflection in the window as I went through the motions of reading my book. Once or twice I pretended to look down the carriage in the hope it would startle him into looking away, but instead our eyes met, he smiled wryly, and then continued to stare. I quickly turned my head away.
The thing is, to be stared at is intimidating. Whilst there are other people around it is difficult to share your concerns because there is no guarantee other people will understand why it is unnerving. There is no immediate danger, after all. But you feel awkward, and uncomfortable, and violated. You know you are being reduced to nothing more than the sum of your parts. You know that if it came to it you would not be able to physically defend yourself. You know if you say something you will be accused of making a fuss for no reason; of being paranoid; or of having an inflated opinion of yourself. You cannot prove what is happening. You don't know what to do with your body. I did not know whether or not I should cover my chest with my book, or if making any sort of contact with my bust would provide some sort of titillation and constitute "teasing." Would acknowledging what he was doing without loudly criticising it be interpreted as endorsement or a come on? I was not sure. I was just on my way home.
Similar things have happened to me over the years. I've been told I have "fantastic tits," asked by someone if he could "suck" them, "have-a-go" on them, told I would give an "excellent tit-wank," and fought off a number of attempts by strange men to grab and fondle the "fun bags." One spectacled office worker once cupped my left boob as he disembarked from a packed rush hour bus in Tufnell Park. Sometimes I feel like a walking fruit cart pedalling a pair of melons passers-by cannot help but test for ripeness. It is not pleasant, but I can understand why this happens.
Porn features women who look like caricatures drawn by Hugh Hefner after binging on the Best of Benny Hill. Regardless of the size of these women, their breasts are unanimously large. Massive, in fact, in a way that does not appear to be anatomically possible. Big, round, perfectly symmetrical, and solid. Men have been wired to think that they must find large breasts sexually desirable; that they are the life-saving buoys floating in the sea of sexual frustration that will offer them salvation; that is it acceptable for them to make sexually explicit comments when a pair of large boobs appear because that's what real, tearing-chunks-of-meat-off-the-sides-of-cows, red-blooded men are supposed to do. Conversely, women have been wired to think that they are not sexually desirable unless they are smuggling a pair of basket balls.
But having physical attributes that fit the porn template is not pleasant. Gigantic mammaries have become synonymous with sexual attractiveness and sexual availability. This means that any woman with large breasts grows up expecting a certain level of sexual harassment from men -and feels that she is powerless to stop it. The irrational subtext to this is as follows: how can the lads be expected to display any sort of self-control when they are told they should want big tits, and that women with big tits by default want to be sexually objectified and treated like sex toys? Men assume that because I have large breasts, like them women wot are in porn, I will likewise be begging for the money shot; that I have a desire, nay, a duty, to sexually satisfy them. I don't really get to challenge their misconceptions. I am just a pair of tits.
Women with large breasts are never described as elegant. They are curvy, and sexy, and bubbly. They are not taken seriously. They are cheap and sexually accommodating. They are "easy." We are forced into a position of having to apologise for our breasts, making a concerted effort to conceal them so we are not considered complicit in our own sexual objectification. I have found that a number of other women make no secret of their distaste if some flesh can be seen; a bit of cleavage is on show; or if the size of the breasts can be made out under clothing. Some stare as much as men, and often they will turn their heads with pursed lips, a look of disgust on their faces, presumably because they, too, think I am overtly showing the world that I am up for it. This is difficult to deal with. I know in many cases these women think I am "flaunting" my bust and feeding into rigid notions of what constitutes female sexual attractiveness. They may think I am offending common decency. That I am single-handedly reversing the hard-earned victories of my feminist foremothers. That I have no self-respect. But the fact is I am not "showing them off." They are unfortunately just noticeable by virtue of their size. The magic circle has not yet launched a lingerie line and, until they do, it is unlikely I will find a bra that lives up to its promises to visually reduce the size of the female bust I had no control over the physical attributes nature gave to me.
I can remember as a student if anyone made a remark about my breasts some other women would become defensive and passive aggressive. "My boyfriend says he prefers small breasts anyway," one of them would say to another in front of me. And, my personal favourite, "I wouldn't want big boobs anyway. At least mine won't be down by my ankles at the age of 40."
It is difficult to defend yourself because you feel you are already strangely at an advantage because you are naturally in possession of something we are told all women should have and which many women actively acquire. You feel like you have to just take the put-down. What you actually want to say is that breast size really doesn't matter; that, yes, at some point your breasts will probably resemble bowling balls dangling in a pair of Christmas stockings but, it's ok, all natural breasts sag because of gravity, it is inevitable; that you have no more control over your breast size than they do theirs; that you do feel self-conscious about your boobs; that you would love to have the kind of chest that would enable you to get up of a morning and just slip effortlessly into a summer dress without having to worry about scaffolding, but you accept the breasts you have; and that you know that it is not personal; that as women it is really unfair that we are forced into a position of making comparisons with each other in this way through no fault of our own.
It is absurd that the size of our breasts is considered directly proportionate to our femininity and our womanliness and our sexual attractiveness, as this is such a reductive assessment of the spectrum of sexual preferences and what it means to be a woman. But it is difficult because society has a strange attitude towards female breasts. Whether we have big or small boobs, we are made to feel inadequate in some way; constantly bombarded with messages that our bodies simply don't make the grade. If we pay to have our bust surgically enhanced we are perceived as vain and superficial. No consideration is given to the overwhelming social factors and the media pressure that lead to us drastically modifying our bodies. Instead of our choice being accepted we are judged for opting for the "Barbie make-over;" for being too weak to just live in our own skin. I know of women who have suffered such debilitating back-ache due to the size of their breasts that they have had to have them surgically reduced. Their choice was questioned and trivialised by others who could not fathom the fact that a woman would take action to make her boobs smaller despite medical evidence indicating it was the best decision. What they needed was support and not cheap "what a waste" quips to get them through.
The truth is that you are not sexless or unattractive or undesirable if you have a flat chest, but nor are you and airhead or a bimbo if you have a hefty cleavage. We need to be kinder to each other. We need to try and shake ourselves out of this FHM mentality that makes us question our own bodies and our worth because we do not look a certain way.


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By Brittany Givens
Hampton Union, March 20, 2012
[The following article is courtesy of the Hampton Union and Seacoast Online.]
HAMPTON -- Shane Pine wants to bring a new kind of dining experience to the Hampton area with his brick oven flatbread pizza restaurant, The Community Oven, scheduled to open March 31.
The name Community Oven is exactly what Pine wants it to be: community and family oriented.
"I want to support the community by not only buying local," Pine said, "but also trying to participate in anything the community is doing that I can get involved in."
Pine wanted to keep everything local while creating his restaurant. All the furniture is from Abode in Portsmouth, Imagewise in Hampton Falls is used for all of his products, and the insurance is from Bean Insurance Agency in Hampton.
"I really believe that for a restaurant, it's a family thing," Pine said. "As a family thing, you kinda want the community to support what you are. You try to support what they're doing."
Pine hopes that the restaurant and menu can bring something new to the Hampton area, which he hopes will become a destination place like Downtown Portsmouth.
The Community Oven will have two separate areas: a family dining area and a bar that cannot be seen in the dining area.
The menu will feature brick oven flatbread pizzas, including two unique pizzas: an all organic pizza and a local products pizza.
Other menu items include s'mores, dry rub chicken wings, chicken kabobs and steak kabobs.
"(It's) something different, something unique, hopefully challenging taste buds and presenting it in a different way," Pine said.
Along with a 56-foot pizza bar in front of the brick oven, a kid-friendly draft root beer bar will also be available.
In the bar area, there will be high-tops as well as an outdoor patio area. Pine will have 16 craft beers on tap, including Blue Lobster Brew, a new brewery that will be opening soon next to the Community Oven.
"We're gonna be working together," Pine said. "I'm gonna serve his beer over here and I'll cater some events that go on over there. You come here, you've got a little bit of wait, you can walk next door and sample some of his beer while you wait."
Pine is bringing his restaurant back to where he started in the restaurant business 23 years ago. His first job, which was at Newick's, which formerly occupied the same location as The Community Oven.
"It was weird at first," Pine said, "but everything fell into place. It's been amazing. Between the town, the trades people that I've worked with, interviewing 170 people, it's just been really great."
The Community Oven will also generate new jobs. Pine wasn't expecting 170 applicants.
"I'm happy to employ 45 employees in town," Pine said. "Try to get some income back into the community."
The Community Oven opens March 31
Owner: Shane Pine
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Shridhar was one of the finest technicians of our industry and a dear friend. We have worked together a number of times, and very closely during Lagaan. He did the final mix of the film, which is the last and most crucial creative process in film making. A close associate of A.R., he has worked together with him on a majority of his songs and background scores. In fact he was in A.R.s studio until 4am yesterday morning working with A.R. and Murgadoss on our film. By around 8.30am he had passed away in his sleep.
The sudden news of his most untimely death came to me yesterday morning when I was still trying to pull myself out of the depressive state of mind I had slid into post the attacks on Mumbai. It left me shattered.
As I had expected various politicians have tried to use this traumatic and tragic attack to their advantage. I only hope that people see through them this time.
Quite clearly both the major political parties have failed to tackle terrorism. There have been repeated attacks on us during both their reigns which neither has been able to either anticipate or deal with well. While what happened in Mumbai recently clearly exposes the incompetence of the Congress, the hijacking of the Indian Airlines flight 814 during the BJP rule shows them in even worse light. They actually NEGOTIATED with the terrorists and RELEASED 3 dreaded terrorists from Indian jails. All the 5 hijackers and the 3 terrorists released from India by the then BJP government were allowed to escape to attack us another day.
I think the first lesson to learn from this is that we MUST NOT NEGOTIATE. No matter what, the next time round around, and lets not fool ourselves we must be alert and prepared for more attacks, we MUST NOT NEGOTIATE. All potential terrorists must get a very clear message that INDIA DOES NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS. What that means is, that in the future if there is a situation where me or my kids are held hostage by a bunch of terrorists then I must be prepared to tell our government - to hell with me and my children just go in there and kill the terrorists. I am prepared to sacrifice myself and my loved ones for the larger safety and security of the country but DO NOT LISTEN TO AND NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS.
I personally hold both these political parties, and in fact other regional political parties across the country, responsible in one way or the other, for fueling terrorism in the first place. And please remember that the definition of terrorism is not restricted to AK 47 toting maniacs. It includes the spread of terror by other means like stone throwing, beating up of innocent people on the roads, and rioting, etc. Any means, in fact, to spread terror in the hearts of ordinary citizens.
The other important thing we need to remind ourselves in this time of anger and hurt is to stay calm and take sensible steps, and not give in to thoughtless knee jerk reactions. I heard someone say on television that we should all stop paying our taxes as a show of protest. Havent heard of a more silly idea than that. If we stop paying our taxes then we wont have an army and NSG to save us next time around!!! Instead we should all START PAYING OUR TAXES. We demand so much of our leaders but are we fulfilling our basic responsibility? Can we say with honesty that as citizens of our country we are all honestly paying our taxes? If we are not paying our taxes can we blame the government for being inefficient? If we are corrupt then how can we expect our politicians to be honest?
I have a very important thing to say to all the various people going around arbitrarily throwing accusations at the politicians. These politicians are not from Jupiter or Mars, they are one of us, from our very own society, selected by us through a democratic process. So now think for a moment, who really is to blame? We can only blame ourselves guys. Half of us dont go to vote. The half that does vote has selected these guys.
In my opinion, you really want to change things? Change yourself. Each one of us needs to take a very honest look inwards and rectify and work on what we think is wrong with us. If each one of us does that individually then there will be a sea change in our society at large. I have to promise myself that I will not be corrupt, will play my role in society with honesty and sincerity. Doctors, lawyers, judges, people in the IAS, police force, media persons, businessmen, job workers, labour force, everyone. We have to stop thinking of our own individual gain and loss and do what is honest, true and right, and think collective. It calls for personal sacrifice in this time of chaos but from chaos will emerge clarity. Even if we dont manage to achieve this for ourselves we will achieve it for our children.
What I would really like to see emerge from all this is the youth of this country starting a political party. A group that stands for strong, clean, honest and fresh leadership. A group that we can all support.
And finally, if we really want to make sure that terrorists fail in achieving their end, then these terror attacks should not take us towards hate but instead towards love. If we react with hate we are succumbing to these terror attacks, and if we react with increasing love and peace in our hearts then we squarely defeat the terrorists. Allowing love, peace and trust to grow within us is not a sign of weakness but a sign of immense strength.
With appreciation and gratitude to the security forces who acted with courage, and with a prayer in my heart for those departed.


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Arch Terminology (Español)
Esta página es para dar a entender los términos usados en la comunidad de Arch Linux. Se libre de agregar o modificar cualquier término. Si decides agregar una, por favor agregarla en orden alfabético.
- 6 bbs
- 7 [community]
- 8 [core]
- 9 custom/user repository
- 10 developer/desarrollador
- 11 /etc/network-profiles
- 12 /etc/rc.local
- 13 [extra]
- 14 hotplug
- 15 hwd
- 16 hwdetect
- 17 initramfs
- 18 initrd
- 19 makepkg
- 20 namcap
- 21 package
- 22 pacman
- 23 pacman.conf
- 24 release/[release]
- 25 repository/repo
- 27 [testing]
- 28 udev
- 29 unstable/[unstable]
- 30 versionpkg
- 31 wiki
El Arch Build System (Sistema de Construcción de Arch) es útil para:
- Hacer nuevos paquetes de software para los que no existe un paquete.
- Personalizar/Modificar paquetes existentes para tus necesidades (activar o desactivar opciones)
- Re-construir todo el sistema usando tus flags del compilador, "a la Gentoo" (Y obtener módulos funcionando con tu kernel personalizado)
ABS no es necesario para usar Arch Linux, pero es muy útil.
Para mas información consulta la página de Arch Build System
El Arch Linux User-Community Repository (Repositorio de Usuarios de Arch Linux) es un repositorio manejado por la comunidad de usuarios de Arch. AUR era inicialmente concebido para organizar la compartición de los PKGBUILDs a una audiencia mayor, donde los mas populares son ingresados a los repositorios [core] y [extra] mediante el repositorio de AUR [community].
Es denominado como el lugar de nacimiento de los nuevos paquetes de Arch's. Esto es porque en AUR, los usuarios contribuyen con sus propios paquetes. La comunidad AUR vota por o en contra de ellos, y eventualmente una vez que un paquete ha tenido los suficiente votos positivos, un TU lo toma al repositorio [community] que es accesible por medio de pacman y ABS.
Puedes acceder al a AUR a través de aquí
Trusted User (usuario confiable). Este es alguien que ha sido elegido por otros TU para controlar AUR y el repositorio [community].
Los TU tienen la habilidad de marcar los paquetes como seguros en AUR, y si han sido votados como popular, moverlos al repositorio [community].
Para mas información visitar esta página
Trusted User Repository (obsoleto) Antes en AUR, Los TU tenían su propio repositorio para (versiones especiales de) aplicaciones que no estaban en los repositorios oficiales. Cualquiera podria hacer su propio repositorio, pero los TUR creaban uno de mayor calidad, porque ellos eran votados por su calidad y grado de conocimientos.
Bulletin Board System, pero en el caso de Arch es solo el foro de soporto localizado en https://bbs.archlinux.org.
El repositorio [community] es donde los paquetes pre-construidos se encuentran disponibles gracias a los TU. Una gran mayoría de los paquetes de community, provienen del AUR.
Para acceder a este repositorio, descoméntalo en
El repositorio [core] contiene los pocos paquetes necesarios para un sistema Arch. Tiene todo lo necesario para tener un sistema con línea de comandos.
custom/user repository
Cualquiera puede crear un repo y ponerlo online para que otros usuarios lo usen. Para crear un repositorio, necesitas una serie de paquetes y una base de datos compatible con pacman para los paquetes. El archivo de BD es creado con gensync. Cuando tienes ambos, puedes ponerlo online (HTTP or FTP) y cualquiera podrá usarlo agregándolo como cualquier repositorio.
Half-gods working to improve Arch for no financial gain. Developers are outranked only by our god, Judd Vinet.
In this, you can create various network configurations.
This is very useful for laptop users that switch networks very often, for example between a home and an office network.
Additionally it can be used with wpa_supplicant that can manage all of your wireless networks.
For each configuration you need to make a configuration file. The easiest way to do this, is by copying the template.
After you are done with this, you need to enable these in
After applying changes, you should restart your network by using, as root,
/etc/rc.d/network restart
This script is run at the end of every boot. It is intended for miscellaneous commands that you might want to execute before the login prompt. It is not recommended to add any services or settings in
/etc/rc.local that could be started or set from
/etc/rc.conf instead.
Arch's official package set is fairly streamlined, but we supplement this with a larger, more complete "extra" repository that contains a lot of the stuff that never made it into our core package set. This repository is constantly growing with the help of packages submitted from our strong community. This is where desktop environments, window managers and common programs are found.
Hwd; hardware detect for Arch Linux, is for both devfs and udev device systems and also for kernels 2.4.x and 2.6.x. Instead of running an auto configure script what may be expected, Hwd (
/usr/bin/hwd) does not change existing configures. Detects hardwares and modules, and provides information how to do manually. This allows the user to have a control over his/her system; basic philosophy of Arch Linux.
Hwd is uploaded in Arch Linux's [extra] repository. To install, run pacman.
pacman -S hwd
here can you see the things you can use Hwd to [1]
The special file
/dev/initrd is a read-only block device. Device
/dev/initrd is a RAM disk that is initialized (e.g. loaded) by the boot loader before the kernel is started. The kernel then can use the block device
/dev/initrd's contents for a two phased system boot-up.
In the first boot-up phase, the kernel starts up and mounts an initial root file-system from the contents of
/dev/initrd (e.g. RAM disk initialized by the boot loader). In the second phase, additional drivers or other modules are loaded from the initial root device's contents. After loading the additional modules, a new root file system (i.e. the normal root file system) is mounted from a different device.
makepkg will build packages for you. makepkg will read the metadata required from a PKGBUILD file. All it needs is a build-capable Linux platform, wget, and some build scripts. The advantage to a script-based build is that you only really do the work once. Once you have the build script for a package, you just need to run makepkg and it will do the rest: download and validate source files, check dependencies, configure the build time settings, build the package, install the package into a temporary root, make customizations, generate meta-info, and package the whole thing up for pacman to use.
namcap is a package analysis utility that looks for problems with ArchLinux packages or their PKGBUILD files. It can apply rules to the file list, the files themselves, or individual PKGBUILD files.
Rules return lists of messages. Each message can be one of three types: error, warning, or information (think of them as notes or comments). Errors (designated by 'E:') are things that namcap is very sure are wrong and need to be fixed. Warnings (designated by 'W:') are things that namcap thinks should be changed but if you know what you are doing then you can leave them. Information (designated 'I:') are only shown when you use the info argument. Information messages give information that might be helpful but is not anything that needs changing.
A package is an archive containing
- all the (compiled) files of an application
- metadata about the application, such as application name, version, dependencies, ...
- installation files and directives for pacman
- (optionally) extra files to make your life easier, such as a start/stop script
Arch's package manager pacman can install, update and remove programs cleanly those packages. Using packages instead of compiling and installing programs yourself has various benefits:
- easily updatable: pacman will update existing packages as soon as updates are available
- dependency checks: pacman handles dependencies for you, you only need to specify the program and pacman installs it together with every other program it needs
- clean removal: pacman has a list of every file in a package. This way no files are left behind when you decide to remove a package
The Pacman package manager is one of the great highlights of Arch Linux. It combines a simple binary package format with an easy-to-use build system (see ABS). Pacman makes it possible to easily manage and customize packages, whether they be from the official Arch repositories or the user's own creations. The repository system allows users to build and maintain their own custom package repositories, which encourages community growth and contribution (see AUR).
Pacman can keep a system up to date by synchronizing package lists with the master server, making it a breeze for the security-conscious system administrator to maintain. This server/client model also allows you to download/install packages with a simple command, complete with all required dependencies (similar to Debian's apt-get).
NB: Pacman was written and is being maintained by Judd Vinet, the creator of Arch Linux. It is used as a package management tool by other distros as well, such as FrugalWare, Rubix, UfficioZero (in Italian, based on Ubuntu), and, of course, ArchLinux-derivatives such as Archie and AEGIS.
This is the configuration file of pacman. It's located in
/etc. For a full explanation of its powers
man pacman.conf
Release repository follows the semi-regular snapshot releases and does not update until the next snapshot/iso has been released. For example, the Release repository will point to all packages on the 0.5 ISO until we release 0.6; then it will point to 0.6 packages until 0.7 is released. This is useful if you only want to update your system when a new release is available.
The repository has the pre-compiled packages of one or (usually) more PKGBUILDs. Official repositories are
- core: containing the latest version of packages required for a full CLI system
- extra: containing the latest version of packages not needed for a working system, but needed for an enjoyable system ;)
- community: containing packages that came from AUR and got enough user votes
Pacman uses these repositories to search for packages and install them. A repository can be local (i.e. on your own computer) or remote (i.e. the packages are downloaded before they're installed).
Read The Fucking Manual. This simple message is replied to a lot of new Linux/Arch users who ask about the functionality of a program, when it is clearly defined in
man program
It is often used when a user fails to make any attempt to find a solution to the problem themselves. If someone tells you this, they are not trying to offend you, they are just frustrated with your lack of effort.
The best thing to do if you are told to do this, is to do as above, and read the manual page:
- Read the program man page, at a command line
man program-name
- Search the wiki
- Search the forum
- Search Google
This is the repository where major packages/updates to packages are kept prior to release into the main repositories, so they can be bug tested and upgrade issues can be found. It is disabled by default, but can be enabled in
udev provides a dynamic device directory containing only the files for actually present devices. It creates or removes device node files in the
/dev directory, or it renames network interfaces.
Usually udev runs as udevd(8) and receives uevents directly from the kernel if a device is added or removed form the system.
If udev receives a device event, it matches its configured rules against the available device attributes provided in sysfs to identify the device. Rules that match, may provide additional device information or specify a device node name and multiple symlink names and instruct udev to run additional programs as part of the device event handling.
This is a very simple script that allows you to easily update your CVS and SVN packages without having to edit the PKGBUILDs manually to enter the date or revision number.
Simply run this script rather than makepkg in the build dir. This script completely removes the need for backtick execution to set the date or tag version in PKGBUILDs.
More detailed information can be found here[broken link: invalid section].
This! A place to find documentation about Arch Linux. Anyone can add and modify the documentation.


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Apple has unfurled its customary banners in the run-up to WWDC and is emphasizing the split between OS X iPhone and OS X Leopard in what promises to be a company-defining event.
Mystery Apple boxes; Safari JavaScript boost; thinner 3G iPhone?
06/05/2008, 05:06 pm
Stacks of unmarked boxes are appearing at a Quanta distribution center just days before WWDC. Meanwhile, the WebKit team plans a major performance boost to JavaScript in Safari; the company has released a security configuration guide; and a report claims the 3G iPhone's dimensions are smaller than case makers have previously thought.
Photos of 2.8- and 3.2-inch iPhone-like touch panels surface
06/05/2008, 01:06 pm
Images depicting a pair of touch-screens reminiscent but slightly smaller than those employed by Apple's existing iPhone and iPod touch have surfaced on the web, fueling speculation over whether the electronics maker has plans to introduce a smaller version of its phone or multi-touch iPods in the near future.
Rumor has UK's O2 offering 'free upgrade' to 3G iPhone, more...
06/05/2008, 10:06 am
Macworld UK is running with a rumor that British wireless carrier and exclusive iPhone service provider O2 is planning to lure customers to its network through hefty incentives such as a free 3G iPhone.
Larger Apple multi-touch devices move beyond prototype stage
06/05/2008, 09:06 am
There's a 50-50 chance that Apple will introduce new form factor multi-touch devices at its developers conference next week, ushering the company into the ultra-mobile computing space, one Wall Street analyst says.
AT&T boosts 3G speeds by 20% ahead of 3G iPhone launch
06/04/2008, 10:06 am
AT&T announced Wednesday a more than 20 percent increase to the typical download speeds across its 3G wireless network and a 50 percent increase to typical upload speeds.
Japan's SoftBank to offer Apple's 3G iPhone in Japan
06/04/2008, 09:06 am
SoftBank Mobile Corp., Japan's fastest growing mobile operator, announced Wednesday that it has signed an agreement with Apple to offer the iPhone to its customers later this year.
Native iPhone apps Monday; multi-carrier Singapore; iPod lead solid
06/03/2008, 05:06 pm
The first third-party native iPhone apps may be ready as soon as Apple makes its version 2.0 iPhone firmware available, according to a report. Also, a job posting hints that SingTel won't have an exclusive deal in Singapore, and Lehman Brothers notes that Apple continues to track above expectations for its iPod shipments despite a seemingly weak market.
Apple on Apple Expo pullout; more on 3G iPhone shoot; .Mac outage
06/03/2008, 02:06 pm
Apple has confirmed that it forgo this year's Apple Expo in Paris. Meanwhile, more details of the company's 3G iPhone commercial shoots are surfacing. And Monday's .Mac outage has added to speculation that a re-branded service may be imminent.
All-encompassing iPhone patent filing hints at GPS, video chat
06/02/2008, 06:06 pm
Apple has filed for a patent that addresses virtually every aspect of the iPhone, including potential additions such as GPS mapping, media messaging, video calls, and voice commands.
Report: 3G iPhone 22% thinner, better battery life
06/02/2008, 04:06 pm
Wired's Leander Kahney, arguably the most credible yet of those who've weighed in with alleged specs of Apple's upcoming 3G iPhone, is reporting the handset will be 22 percent thinner than its predecessor, not thicker as some earlier reports had suggested.
Tidbits: retail blackout days; 3G iPhone ad filming; iPhone GPS
05/30/2008, 07:05 pm
Apple has started to spread word of its own retail vacation blackout days. Meanwhile, the company's filming in Manhattan on Thursday was likely tied to one in Los Angeles a week earlier; the GPS chip inside the 3G iPhone has been paired with a supplier; and four teens have been permanently banned from Apple's international retail chain for extending the capabilities of an iPhone.


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"Communication is the key to our international success, and BlackBerry holds that key for us. It's a two-way street between sharing and receiving information and our BlackBerry solution helps us achieve goals that we've set for ourselves." — Vikas Sharma, Business Process and IT Head, Homex India Private Ltd
When Vikas Sharma became Business Process and IT Head at Homex India Private Ltd., a subsidiary of Desarrolladora Homex, S.A.B. de C.V, he soon realized the challenges of corresponding with the company's head office in Mexico, thousands of miles and many time zones away. Inquiries would often go unanswered for hours and it was difficult for Sharma to efficiently support a number of projects.
Sharma's role has recently expanded to include the company's new Saudi Arabia office. This move has prompted him to create a reliable communications strategy that effectively connected each office and took advantage of the security provided by the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. Building upon the company's existing BlackBerry® smartphone deployment to its senior management and project leaders, Sharma encouraged the employees to better leverage the many features offered on their BlackBerry devices.
Protecting private corporate information was also a key consideration. From an IT administration perspective, Homex effectively managed the BlackBerry deployment through IT policies via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. This gave Sharma the confidence that company material was securely managed.
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"It started with a broader use of the BlackBerry solution," said Sharma. "Since we have offices spread out across several different time zones, we're essentially online as a company at all hours, and by educating staff about the reliability and security of the email function on their BlackBerry smartphone, I was able to start working with other BlackBerry features."
Sharma educated employees about the benefits of working with BBM™ contact information, encouraging them to send him messages whenever they had an inquiry or issue. Working with BBM allowed Sharma the flexibility to manage two offices at once, whether in India or Saudi Arabia, where he travels for 15 days every three months.
"BBM allows me to address any concerns very quickly," said Sharma. "The fact that I know when the messages have been delivered and read help minimize the geographic barriers in a sense. I don't have to wait a day, as is the case with email sometimes, to follow up on any outstanding projects and everyone just seems much more organized when we use BBM."
The company's improved communications has resulted in much faster and more effective responses to its SLAs, which Sharma calls the backbone of any IT function. Whether rectifying the problem immediately or connecting with the Mexico office to find a solution, Homex now has a solid and robust continuation system for its SLAs.
Homex's BlackBerry solution has also resulted in an estimated savings in overall communication costs by up to 40 per cent in some cases. Rather than rely on more costly and oftentimes less reliable international mobile services, the company takes full advantage of the BlackBerry smartphone's data efficiency and Wi-Fi® connectivity to save money, especially during trips to other offices.
"At the end of the day," Sharma said, "the company's IT departments are now far more integrated and employees more attentive because of the improved follow-ups on deliverables.
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AGHHHHHH! Sorry. I had to get that out of my system.
Yahoo Movies has just posted the two new teaser posters for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, and below the posters was this little (boy, is that an understatement) gem:
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|Library and Instructional Support faculty and staff are guided by this policy in selecting new material and managing existing resources.
As described in its mission statement, the Library provides resources to support University programs and the University community. The Library's primary aim is to support the instructional curricula of the University, both undergraduate and graduate, and to support faculty research and scholarship. In accord with the University's role as a regional center for higher education, the Library also considers the interests of the general community. Recreational interests are considered to a lesser degree.
The Dean bears responsibility for collection development and materials selection. The Dean has delegated overall coordination and selection to the Collection Development Librarian. Participation in collection development and material selection are the responsibility of all members of the Library faculty, who serve as liaisons to departments. Departmental faculty are invited to recommend materials to support their instructional programs and research interests.
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When I am faced with a daunting pile of projects and need a boost of energy, I need only walk a few steps outside my office and listen to any of the 24 voices that can be heard speaking on the phone to our sponsors.
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As the voice of CFCA, Sponsor Services is a well-informed, committed team that deals with the various issues of concern to our sponsors. The men and women of Sponsor Services are different from other customer service teams. They must be equipped with the patience to handle the many questions about contributions, the compassion to share difficult news and the spirituality to pray for and with sponsors over the phone.
The topics are many, the results are varied and the goal is singular ñ to help sponsors in a way that shows the thankful respect and care we feel for them.
Speaking with a smile on their faces, (it can be heard, you know), Sponsor Services strives to guide sponsors on their journey of friendship with their sponsored friends. They donít have the answers to every question, but they will do everything they can to help the sponsor, if possible.
Customer Service Week is celebrated nationally, Oct. 5-9. The week was designed to recognize company representatives for the important work they do all year, and to drive customer service awareness and improved service levels throughout the entire organization.
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I can't believe I've never done a post like this before, It's about time I rounded up the cameras that I use on this blog. It's one of my most commonly asked questions so why I've never done a dedicated post I don't know!
Canon 700d: Up until a few months ago I've ALWAYS used second hand SLR's. I've had a Canon 1000d and a Canon 500d but never purchased one brand new from a store. I decided it was about time to upgrade my photography and get a new camera. I'm familiar with the Canon brand as it's what I've always used, I obviously had to go with them. It's a nice bit of kit and takes wonderful images in low light. I love how many different settings that it has and how I can play with so many different settings with ease. It has silent auto focus therefore it's also suitable to film on unlike the 600 series from Canon (a blogger favourite). I use a mixture of the kit lens (18-35mm) and a 40mm (mainly in beauty shots and out and about ones), But I think you can get away with just the kit lens if you're a beginner. Admittedly my friend Jon takes most of my outfit photos these days and he uses a Canon as far as I'm aware.
Sony NEX-5R: This is what I used to use to film all of my videos on my Youtube Channel. It's a good little camera, yet I might sell it now I've got my 700d which films in absolutely beautiful crystal clear HD. I love the camera as it has a flippy screen so I can see what Im doing, although I do get a lot of comments saying I stare at myself all the time! Its just really hard as you want to be in focus all the time, and get the most flattering of angles! Duh. I do like filming on this but I feel it can often look a bit "soft". By this I feel like my face is a bit too blurred out and not as sharp as I'd like. None the less I do film most of this one, but like I said a little bit softer than I'd like. In all I think it's a excellent SLR/compact hybrid camera which I'd really recommend as a good all rounder.
Canon S100: This is what I sometimes use when I do lifestyle type posts (although at the moment I've been using my SLR) as it's such a small compact camera. It fits into my bag perfectly and is so durable! I think it takes amazing quality photos and has tons of different settings for all sorts of different environments. It also has one of the best range of manual settings I've seen on such a little digital camera. Also this is the camera I vlog (including this unexpected vlog), although sometimes I use the Sony one depending on how I feel!
I want to make it clear that I really don't believe you need a SLR to take good blog photographs. You just need a mixture of good lighting a little bit of editing in post production. Often when my camera is out of battery, I use my Canon S1000 to take my beauty blog photos as they are just as good. Not the same but nothing a little post production couldn't help with. I think far too many people think that Canon's are the only cameras you should use if you want to blog, but I really don't agree. I feel its such a waste of money. So many people buy SLR's thinking they'll automatically be the best blog ever but most little digital cameras have the same settings. Things have come a long way since the old days of crappy point and shoot cameras. I think of it like this, if you aren't going to take the time to learn how to use the manual settings to get the most out of your camera there is really no point wasting hundreds of pounds on it. I see far too many people not getting the most out of SLR's and just using the manual settings when just knowing what F-stop or a ISO is could help you get such a better shot. I know I did photography at college, but I think its worth learning a bit about both photography techniques and photo editing if you want to get better blog photos. There are countless books, online guides or even 1 day courses you could take to get some photographic skills which can help you out.
In conclusion I really do think the key to good blog photos is lighting and a bit of editing. Being savvy with composition, lighting and thinking about a few things also helps, but I'll save that for another post. I hope you enjoyed this little non-usual LLYMLRS post, but I do hope it'll be helpful to those who want some frank advice about cameras and blogging. Let me know if you want to see any other posts like this and I'll see what I can whip up.
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