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Blog Post: A Startling Case Study of Manual Penalties and Negative SEO
So they must also learn every clause in the tax code, every line of Obamacare, go to law school, what next. How to fix their plumbing, repair the air conditioning, put up electric signs. Why is it SEO they have to learn and they cannot hire an internet marketing specialist who they should be able to trust. Problem with the industry and has been as long as I have been around which is some time.
Ian the companies that I have seen hammered were successful businesses that took their business online late or small business owners who simply do not have the time to study it. I think that if a business is 100% online and very successful they are very likely to be SEO savvy but that is just one type of online business owner there are many many more.
Yes complete waste of time and innocent sites (I know, I know many knew what they were doing and got caught) are being screwed again by SEO companies offering to fix their penalties which are not fixable. Does Google ever think about normal people, normal sites and good people who hire SEO's who are scammers. Why is it only in SEO that a small business owner has to "undertstand" SEO before they hire a vendor. Do they have to study business tax law before they hire a CPA, Do they have to go to law school first before they hire an attorney, learn graphic design before they hire a web designer. This blanket idea that Google has if you have bad links you knew about it makes me want to spit. Can you tell!!...
Good luck with that. My guess is your new clients wont be clients in a few months. Brands seem to get some attention but your clients are not in that category you can forget it. If the links are dealt with the rankings and traffic wont come back so how will they keep paying you and stay in business. I would take on a client that was a brand for link pruning but Mom and Pop I have to tell them I cannot help them.
Yonatan, why are you dismissing it as not negative SEO. That is precisely what it is. Somebody else has taken deliberate specific actions to help themselves and in the process created tactics which will almost certainly hurt another site. Same shit different toilet. Sites being taken down innocently is now an everyday occurrence. Due to Google's incompetence at fixing their algorithm to identify a bad link and discount it as a ranking factor we now have a bigger nightmare than ever.
Oh and the irony of it we now have companies offering link takedown services who sold the links in the first place. Google has created a new wonderful opportunity for every unscrupulous link builder out there and some new ones jumping on the wagon.
There is one solution to this and only one and that is for Google to work out what a good and bad link is and not allow it in the first place. Come on Google grow up and act like a professional business that can keep its own house in order. I am no major expert but I can spot bad links and networks selling them a mile off why on earth cant Google do that they are notorious for their hiring of PHDs use them.


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Cut the cost of visits to animal attractions year-round.
This Deal of the Day comes from Kelli B. Grant at partner site SmartMoney.
Consumers visiting animal attractions this summer can count on encountering lions and tigers and -- bargains.
While most of the leisure attraction industry, including amusement parks and museums, struggled to draw consumers during the recession, many zoos and aquariums reported record attendance. The North Carolina Zoo, for example, saw its highest attendance in 13 years during its last fiscal year, which ended June 30. In total, 749,627 people visited -- 20,210 more than during the previous year.
The combination of low entry fees at zoos and aquariums and their proximity to home is a draw for people on a budget, says John Gerner, managing director of Leisure Business Advisors LLC, a Richmond, Va.-based consulting group.
Here's how to save:
They clearly have a significant value conflict. Can they reach a compromise?
This post comes from Trent Hamm at partner blog The Simple Dollar.
Recently, I posted an article about setting goals with your partner. In the comments, Brittany left a wonderful question that I felt deserved a post all its own:
What if you have your shared goals, but one partner doesn't have the financial gumption to see it through? I'm not married, not even engaged, but I'm in a relationship that looks like it might be heading for the long term. But my partner is awful with money and even worse with savings. We have a few shared long/medium-term goals (and one is a life goal of his, so I'm positive it's not my goal; I'm just calling "ours"), but my partner isn't making any progress toward the goal. He's far more likely to make a bunch of little frivolous purchases now. ("Eh, it's just $10 … it's just $20 … I'll save when I have a reasonable amount to save.")
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How thoughtful is this? A California sperm bank is willing to donate its product to wannabe moms, who would otherwise have to pay if they can't find their own supplier. Sperm can cost anywhere from several hundred to several thousand dollars a vial, and you generally need more than one. That's pricey.
So why couldn't that sperm bank obtain nonprofit, tax-exempt status from the IRS? The U.S. Tax Court recently ruled against the Free Fertility Foundation, settling a six-year dispute.
The court cited a couple of reasons, Kathy Kristof reports at CBS MoneyWatch. Most important seems to be that the sperm bank has only one donor -- the foundation's founder and director, Donor fwcn02453.
Frustrated by your carrier's waiting list? Here are some options.
This Deal of the Day comes from Kelli B. Grant at partner site SmartMoney.
Buying most cell phones takes minutes, but getting one of the must-have new smart-phone handsets is an endeavor that could last weeks.
Apple's iPhone 4, which sold out of pre-orders for its June 24 launch, currently has a three-week wait through the company and AT&T. The HTC Droid Incredible, launched in April on Verizon Wireless' network, ships within a month of ordering, and Sprint's Evo 4G (another HTC phone) is backordered indefinitely -- the company's site isn't taking orders, and refers customers to check back later.
Cities are using special toll lanes for drivers who are willing to pay for the privilege. Are "Lexus lanes" fair?
Would you pay more to drive faster through high-traffic areas?
Highway officials in a number of cities are deciding that many drivers would be willing to pay to escape highway congestion.
They're installing what are known as HOT (high-occupancy toll) or express toll lanes, where you pay a toll to be able to drive in what used to be the carpool lane or, in some cases, newly constructed lanes. In some cities, vehicles with more than a certain number of occupants get a free ride.
Cities, states experiment with how to force banks to clean up rotting properties.
This post comes from Marilyn Lewis of MSN Money.
Health officials in Orange County, Calif., are pondering whether mosquitoes breeding in the 6,000 to 7,000 stagnant swimming pools in abandoned homes there are helping spread the deadly West Nile virus.
The bugs pick it up from birds and pass it to humans, says The Orange County Register, noting elsewhere that distressed homes make up 31% of all properties for sale in the county.
All across the country, abandoned homes -- a legacy of the economic and mortgage meltdown -- are creating blight and trouble for neighborhoods and cities.
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Trying to eat healthier? Wanting to explore organics and plant-based eating without spending the equivalent of a second mortgage? Whole Foods is considered by many to be out of financial reach.
Believe it or not, you can go bargain shopping at Whole Foods and actually save money.
To the list of the absurd becoming ordinary we can now add the idea that richer Americans should arrange to die in 2010 to save on estate taxes.
This guest post comes from Frank Curmudgeon at Bad Money Advice.
I am always amused by things that started as a mocking joke but then, through repetition, slowly became unfunny enough that they were taken seriously. The word "software," once used derisively by engineers who built actual electronics to refer to the work of their programmer counterparts, is a good example. Daylight saving time, first proposed in a satirical essay by Ben Franklin in 1784, is another.
To this list of the absurd becoming ordinary we can now add the idea that richer Americans should arrange to die in 2010 to save on estate taxes.
In May 2008 The Wall Street Journal ran an article with the eye-catching title of "Death by taxes: Seniors may plan their demises to maximize their bequests." But the author made clear his humorous intent in the opening paragraph.
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Didn't know that html5 could do this! The gallery and 360 were a little laggy but probably was because of first gen iPod touch.
Actually support Apple more on this now...
I was typing my name into the "Typography" section with my iPad and Safari crashed and exited. What do you have to say about that Mr Jobs?
hmm. wont let me test with chrome. Have to download Safari on my laptop.. lol
I'm actually quite impressed with HTML 5. I didn't know it could do this as well as it did... and with NO FLASH.
I went to college for graphic/web design and started with Flash 4 and CSS as well as HTML 4. Things have come a long way since (that was 10 years ago too). I'm excited to see more developers use this as a standard.
Props go to Apple for actually creating many useful examples WHY they want it to be the standard. IMO this should shut some people up... or at least give them something to think about.
I think HTML5 is great, but so is Flash. Apple not allowing it on their iDevices is just childish. Our way or the highway. Seriously get over it. Not everyone wants to code with HTML5
I liked the fact that one of the demos only worked on Mac Safari and not PC Safari.
So HTML5 is so great.....you still have not coded the windows browser to work properly with it.
hmmm... flash works on my firefox... but not this demo... fail.
wouldnt run on my iPad...kinda disappointing. I'm assuming site load, or crappy AT&T network and slow data transfer could be to blame...
Flash has been around for s while, this is still in beta(I think). That's prob why some of you are having problems. IMO this is better for mobile devices. Can't wait to see more of it. I love flash but it can slow things down a little.
Wow, it is pretty impressive, but I just hate the fact that I have to use safari to view this instead of firefox..
Will not load on my Windows machine - now there's a shock...
Standards so open you are forced to use Safari on macs...
So much choices are to download a flash plugin to do this type of stuff or download an entirely new web browser?
Thanks Apple.
Wow, After the "demos", I'm all for HTML5. Developers get on with coding your webpages to HTML5!!!!
I still like Flash though


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-- Robert Preidt
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-fed babies are much
more likely to put on excess body fat if their mother's diet is
high in trans fats, finds a new study.
U.S. researchers looked at 96 women and their babies. Infants
whose mothers consumed more than 4.5 grams of trans fats per day
while breast-feeding were twice as likely to have a high percentage
of body fat than babies whose mothers consumed lower amounts of
trans fats.
The study also found that mothers who consumed more than 4.5
grams a day of trans fats had a nearly six times greater risk of
excessive fat accumulation. This suggests that intake of trans fats
could have a more significant weight gain effect on women when
they're breast-feeding than at other times in their lives, said the
University of Georgia researchers.
The findings were recently published online in the
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Further research is needed to learn more about how a mother's
consumption of trans fats may affect her child's long-term
"It would help to be able to follow the child from when the mother was pregnant, through birth, and then adolescence, so that we can confirm what the type of infant feeding and maternal diet during breast-feeding have to do with the recent epidemic of childhood obesity," study co-author Alex Anderson, an assistant professor in the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences, said in a university news release.
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- Aaron Yang
- Plano, TX
- United States
High school Mathematics teacher,
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Do we need "losers" to have "winners" in life?
I have recently decided to pursue a career in education and am trying to prepare myself for the upcoming school year. Some of my fears include dispassionate students and the diverse learning curve in a classroom. Although I am wholly optimistic and seeing the best in everyone, I know others will not see the same way. This got me thinking about the success of every individual on this planet.
For there to be winners/successful people, there must be others taking the hit. My question is, do we need to have this structure of successful and non-successful people in the world? Would it be possible for global happiness if everyone received the same goods and services, such as in communism?
Others will argue that different individuals are content with different levels of prosperity. But, at their levels of contentedness will the world remain stable? Say one individual is content with being a gardener after completing 5 years of grade school, whereas another individual is content with being a surgeon after completing 25 years of schooling.
In our society, do we let the unmotivated fall, so the ambitious can rise? Or should we uphold an optimistic approach of everyone becoming successful and prosperous, is this possible?
EDIT::: perhaps this would be more clear.
"If everyone gave their best at whatever they choose, would there be a niche for everyone in society?"
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Feb 7 2013: Hi Aaron,
This is a question I have been struggling with a lot recently, so I appreciate you forming this TED conversation. I think you raise a couple of ideas that are worth discussing.
First, you mention money and while I realize this was not your definition of success, the issue of wealth distribution in our world is very apparent. While having money doesn't necessarily mean you are happy, NO ONE is happy living in extreme poverty, or in poverty at all. With that being said, we can see that people do live in unfortunate circumstances today that are completely out of their control. This does not mean that the wealthy shouldn't get wealthier, but at the same time if it is 2012 and more than 50% of the population live on less than 1500 a year we are doing something wrong as a global society.
I wonder if this means that we are focusing immensely more on the success of few individuals rather than the happiness of the greater community.
Having the terms "losers" and "winners" just goes to show how far our society is from serving the needs of most people. Clearly, these terms are subjective. Moreover, I find it impossible to define a person as either a "winner" or "loser"...I find human beings to be more valuable than to be reduced to fit one of two narrowly defined terms. I think we need to be okay with not labeling everything, especially human beings.
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Mehdi Hasan, political director of the Huffington Post, caused a modest online controversy last week with an article opposing abortion. He said:
I consider abortion to be wrong because of, not in spite of, my progressive principles. That I am pro-life does not make me any less of a lefty.
I consider abortion to be wrong because of, not in spite of, my progressive principles. That I am pro-life does not make me any less of a lefty.
In a riposte to his critics, he added:
"Pro-life" lefties do exist.
"Pro-life" lefties do exist.
Well, yes; there can be no serious dispute about that. But the substantive issue is whether the tendentiously-termed "pro-life" position accords with liberty, ethics and rationality. It does not. Those who deny the ability of a woman to terminate a pregnancy are, by definition, on the side of reaction and state authority against personal liberty, women's rights and the ethic of the family.
This isn't a legitimate question of incommensurable values or competing rights that need to be traded off. To insist that a woman carry a foetus to term is (it is no hyperbole to say) not merely illiberal but despotic. That has long been the demand of autocrats and religious obscurantists, who are often – as in the strict prohibitions on abortion maintained by tsarist Russia – the same people. And it's despotic even if you suppose, contrary to science and reason but consistent with religious dogma, that the cluster of cells that make up an embryo is a human life.
It is for considerations such as these – its authoritarianism and heedlessness of women's welfare – that, I believe, Mehdi's case sparked such criticism, in which I join. It's a small point by comparison, but his citing Christopher Hitchens as a fellow-thinker on abortion is not right. Apparently, Mehdi has had second thoughts about the prudence of doing this only because Hitch is not universally popular.
I didn't agree with Christopher, whom I knew well, on this issue, but he understood that there were many circumstances in which it would be undesirable to bring a foetus to term (and said so, in God is Not Great, p. 221). That point is not made by Mehdi, yet it's a simple, minimal and humanitarian truth.
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Oracle Customer: Caja Popular Mexicana
Location: Léon, Guanajuato, Mexico
Industry: Financial Sector
Employees: 5,200
Oracle Customer: Caja Popular Mexicana
Location: Léon, Guanajuato, Mexico
Industry: Financial Sector
Employees: 5,200
Caja Popular Mexicana (CPM), created by the merger of 65 credit unions in 1996, has 430 branches in 22 Mexican states and an expanding network of ATM machines. Membership has grown from 150,000 to 1.7 million in 15 years, due to the popularity of its affordable loans and financial services. CPM is now the largest co-operative in Latin America and one of the 15 leading financial institutions in Mexico.
CPM's revenue grew 51% in just two years, and its employee base grew 10% in three years, which meant the credit union was exceeding usage of its enterprise license for PeopleSoft Financials and PeopleSoft Human Resources. Tracking usage to ensure compliance was the responsibility of CPM's central technology team, which carried out twice-annual manual checks. Rapid business growth, senior management changes, continuous rotation of branch-level staff, and the lack of an automated system for licensing control made it difficult for the IT team to reconcile up-to-date usage with license entitlement.
The company knew it was at risk of breaching its contractual obligations. When Oracle License Management Services made a routine call to CPM, 90 days before the contract anniversary data, the company welcomed the opportunity for assistance in identifying and rectifying any license shortfalls. Oracle License Management Services consultants provided spreadsheet-based scripts and intuitive, graphic-based data collection tools, which enabled CPM's IT team to verify actual usage without diverting resources from day-to-day activities. The entire process was minimally intrusive, involved just two on-site meetings with Oracle License Management Services consultants, and was completed in three weeks, enabling CPM to bring its licensing into compliance.
Before, during, and after the assessment, Oracle License Management Services worked with the IT team to train them in how to maximize their PeopleSoft assets and give them an in-depth understanding of Oracle's license policies and pricing practices. CPM now uses Oracle License Management Services' best-practice, tried-and-tested methodologies to track usage on an on-going basis and plan future license purchases cost-effectively, without compromising user or business needs.
The company has significantly reduced the amount of time and effort that it spends on managing its license assets. "It used to take around three months and involve considerable input from the IT team to gather usage metrics for our PeopleSoft assets," said José Miguel Palomares Mendoza, director of information technology, Caja Popular Mexicana. "We can now complete the process in three weeks, which represents a time savings of 70%, while carrying on with business as usual."
"Oracle LMS has enhanced our understanding of Oracle's licensing and pricing policies, made management of our PeopleSoft licenses simple and transparent, and eliminated risk of noncompliance. " – José Miguel Palomares Mendoza, Director of Information Technology, Caja Popular Mexicana


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The man was driving a vehicle in the area at around 1:20 p.m. when he allegedly jumped out and ran, leaving the vehicle running in the street.
A resident on Christy Street called 911 and stated that a Latino man had jumped the fence to her yard and was going through her garbage can in an effort to hide inside of it.
When police arrived to check the residence, the man was already gone and hasn't been seen since.
The Tracy Police Department received 202 calls for service Tuesday, Oct. 9. The following is a sample of those calls.
7:59 a.m.: Animal control officers impounded a stray dog that was found wandering on the 1800 block of West Lowell Avenue. The dog reportedly appeared to be emaciated.
11:59 a.m.: Two black men seen driving in a white Buick on the 1500 block of Aldacourrou Street were thought to be casing houses in the neighborhood. The vehicle, which was registered to a residence in Stockton, was gone when police arrived.
12:50 p.m.: A man was allegedly attacked by two other men at the Tracy Park Apartments, 2800 N. Tracy Blvd. One of the men reportedly had a chain. A police report was expected.
4:03 p.m.: A fence on the 1600 block of Behaven Court was allegedly damaged by teenagers who jump over it. The most recent incident is part of an on going problem with teenagers damaging the fence.
5:05 p.m.: A resident on the 100 block of Hollywood Avenue is allegedly killing their neighbor's grass and trees with weed killer spray. The neighbor wanted police to respond but didn't want officers to confront the alleged culprit.
11:32 p.m.: Police responded to Rusty's Pizza and Bar, 320 W. Grant Line Road, where a woman was apparently struck by a vehicle outside of the business. The victim was transported to Sutter Tracy Community Hospital with undisclosed injuries. It's unclear what happened to the driver who allegedly struck the woman.
• This column includes a sample of items as reported in the Tracy Police Department dispatcher's daily log. Additional information is based on reports from officers and other law enforcement agencies. To report information anonymously about a crime: Crime Stoppers, 831-6847.


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I'd say that nature can take one for the team in that case. The Lich King is a global catastrophe in his own right. Blighting the lands, trying to extinguish all life, etc. I think the only reason they stopped Illidan is because 1.) Malfurion is a tree hugger and any time the wilds whine at him he has to do something about it. 2.) Malfurion was pissed at Illidan about Tyrande's "death" even though I don't see how he's at fault in any way...he doesn't control the undead. 3.) Maiev just wants to capture Illidan period, and if that means stopping him from doing what is essentially a good thing then she will.


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NW Soldier Homecomings Signals End Of War In Afghanistan
By Austin Jenkins
For more than a decade, Washington's Joint Base Lewis-McChord has been sending soldiers off to war and welcoming them back home. Now this cycle of deployments and homecomings is winding down. Over the next month, more than a thousand soldiers from the 4th Stryker Brigade will return home. More than 200 were welcomed back Wednesday.
In many ways, this homecoming is like all the others. There's an Army band.
Anxious families wait on gymnasium bleachers. Homemade signs at the ready with messages like "We Missed You Daddy." Colonel Jody Miller says soldiers coming home now will experience an Army life not seen since before 9-11.
Jody Miller: "We're transitioning from wartime footing to training to be ready for that next call."
For Stephanie Seelye it's a relief. Her husband has done three wartime tours.
Stephanie Seelye: "He deployed to Iraq the first time for 15 months, then Iraq again for 12 and now Afghanistan for 9."
Finally, word comes the buses carrying the soldiers have arrived. Seeyle puts her hand over her heart.
Stephanie Seelye: "It's racing, I'm like oh my gosh."
Through the back doors of the gym the soldiers march in.
Col. Miller welcomes them home.
Jody Miller: "We are so, so very proud of you. Thank you for your service and sacrifice over the last eight months."
And then the moment everyone's been waiting for. Seelye and her daughters frantically search the sea of camouflage fatigues for a familiar face.
Stephanie Seelye and her children eagerly await the arrival of Sgt. Aaron Seelye at an homecoming ceremony at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Photo by Austin Jenkins.
Kids: "He's right there he's coming he's right there."
In the chaos that follows there are hugs and kisses and pictures. Sgt. Aaron Seeley kneels and reaches for his young son.
Aaron Seelye: "Hi bubba. Hi buddy."
Later, sitting on the bleachers, Seelye calculates he's spent nearly half his time in the Army deployed overseas.
Aaron Seelye: "I'm just happy to be home. Glad that I made it. All three of my deployments I have not sustained any injuries. And I'm just happy to be home."
Four soldiers from this Brigade didn't make it home. A reminder that war doesn't always end in a happy homecoming.
Soldiers from the 4th Stryker Brigade stand in formation as they're welcomed back from Afghanistan. Photo by Austin Jenkins


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I decided to take a poster that I liked (picked up at a craft store for around $10) and skip the large expensive frame. Instead, I made it look like a wrapped canvas, using a cheap old thrift store canvas I had lying around. Warning: this project is not for the perfectionist! If you're looking for large-scale art on a budget, and can accept some minor flaws, this is the project for you! I completed this project in less than 20 minutes.
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I love this!
another inexpensive way is to print a photo on vinyl at kinkos or some print shop. It's more expensive than a poster but much less than a canvas print, and it could be youre own photo. then so the same with it as in the post. since its vinyl, you can put it outside on a porch or carport too.
I have done this with tee shirts and sweatshirts.
I've done this with art/scans at work, printing on over-sized Epson printers on special printer canvas (after hours ;). I wrapped my art around inexpensive new blank canvases.
This could be a nice way to hang your little ones latest masterpiece.
Check out artscow.com. They will print your photos on canvas pretty cheaply. The downside is that they ship from Hong Kong and it may take a bit.
Nice idea. Though I have to say, in this case, I preferred the image that was being covered up.
You also can give your kids crayons and a white wall.
I never actually thought of hanging artwork over a bath tub. I mean, if it is intended to be looked at, and not just be a rectangle hung on a rearguard wall, it is rather hard to stare at it while soaking on your back.
I once had a friend, who tacked a poster of the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling above her toilet. Now that was cool! I mean, looking up at it at the same angle as one would look up at the original!
Inspired by her, I tacked a poster of Michelangelo's Delphic Sybil above my toilet. Because I'm a guy, I had lots of opportunities to look at it.
Fantastic idea! Can't wait to try this one out :)
I'm shocked that you didn't save that amazing lizard painting! ;^) (NOT!)
Yay. We were just pricing having one of my husband's amazing photographs printed on canvas to hang in our home and it was waaaay too expensive for our budget right now. I even have a blank canvas from a one-long-go project that I never used! I think we'll print at Staples of something using their architectural-sixed prints.
This is really nice work and good idea ! I have seen almost the same idea last year and have done it. Marvelous ! I get lot of compliments and questions where did I bought it :)
This is great! This photo reminds me: I need to protect a (cheap) canvas print from moisture so I can hang it in the bathroom. What should I use?
great idea, I love another's commenter's suggestion of doing that for your child's artwork. I wonder if you can spray it with something to keep the paper from fading or warping, though?


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The way I see it anything can be beta other than walking up to the base with your eyes closed then putting hand to an unknown rock type and climbing an unknown route without really knowing there is a route. That would be purity of on-site nearly at its most extreme.
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Course: Creating a Realistic Head in Blender
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This is a in-depth tutorial series explaining the creation of a realistic human portrait with Blender. The entire process will be covered from base mesh modeling, detail sculpting, texture painting, hair growing and styling, sub-surface scatter shading, and compositing. Some of the more time-consuming tasks will be time-lapses with commentary like modeling, sculpting, and texture painting; the other parts will be mostly real-time.
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Posts: 2Łukasz Maciejewski says:
Hi Kent,
First of all, thank you for all your amazing tutorials.
I have a question about settings that give realistic perspective in the viewport, mainly the lens angle. In this tutorial you've increased it to 80mm from the default 35mm – what was the rationale behind that? Also, when you convert to metric system – or relabel the units, since 1 blender unit is 1 meter – your head sculpt is the height of a person, 1.7 meters. Does this have any connection to the lens angle?
Also, on a tangential topic, if you had to create a head with realistic dimensions, would you aim at the right dimensions from the start or for some reason make it much bigger and scale it down after it was ready? And would it even matter which way it was done?
Thanks in advance for the answer.
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Normally a 35mm lens would not be an ideal portrait lens. You would have to get quite close to the subject in order to fill the viewfinder and provide good detail to the image. By getting too close to the subject you would introduce some distortion into the image. Normal portrait lens focal length is 80-about 105mm. I'm sure a professional photographer would be able to provide a better insight, but this is what I have found and read over the years in rl photography.
Posts: 60dolores 74 says:
Thanks irishrose, I did the test. Always wondered why my character looks so weird in close up.
I did the test. Posted the result in an image on my profile.
Posts: 1nbernardsen says:
You have indeed avoided the widespread myth, that wide-angle lenses distort the image.
The most common portrait focal lengths for 35mm film or sensor format range from 70 to 135 mm.
70 being for the "american shot", 135 for a close-up.
The distorting effect when you get too close to the subject is caused by the fact, that the distance between the lens and the tip of the subject's nose is significantly shorter than the distance from the lens to the ears. Thus, the nose appears to be comically large. With the right point of view a person can be made to look like a bobblehead doll in camera.
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Guys..i got a problem with the course in sss part…in the video ..i saw when Kent add the back scatter. Epidermal . Subdermal ..but not the diffuse..
How should I add the diffuse texture ..plz
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All your tutorials are so amazing. I admire a lot your knowledge on anatomy and your focus on knowledge about the subject matter as opposed to the software/technology. Thank you!
Posts: 1lokifawkes says:
Great tutorial, except the prerequisite is unreasonable and for even some of the most experienced and talented artists, unattainable.
Generally, only someone already capable of everything the tutorial teaches would be able to do the first part at all, and only if they are "perfect" with the sculpt tool at low resolutions. In layman's terms, kids, don't try that first step at home.
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New baby will be the cutest kid in the clubhouse when dressed to a tee in this adorable three-piece, golf-themed layette set.
The sporty layette set includes a soft argyle-print bodysuit with white sleeves, white back and bottom, secure snap closure, matching argyle tam with pom-pom accent, and white booties with fluffy, sky-blue pom poms.
The layette pieces arrive in a cute mini-golf-cart gift box with a hole in the top where the tam's pom pom pops through. The layette set is made of machine-washable, 100% cotton. Size 0-6 months.Gift #7853
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IRVING, Texas - For the second time in two weeks, a Cowboys player has won NFC Special Teams Player of the Week honors.
This time, place-kicker
Bailey's 32-yard field goal with just two seconds left in regulation tied the game 20-20 and sent it to overtime. He then won the game with a 38-yard field goal with 6:07 left in overtime to give the Cowboys their second straight win. Bailey also made a 44-yard field goal in the third quarter to cut into Cleveland's 13-0 halftime lead.
Last week, punt returner
This marks the first time since the 1992 season the Cowboys have won a specific weekly award in consecutive weeks. That year, Troy Aikman won it consecutively in the playoffs after games against Philadelphia and San Francisco. Earlier in the regular season, Emmitt Smith and Erik Williams won it in consecutive weeks.
For Bailey, it's the second NFC Special Teams Player of the Week honor in his two-year career. He won the honor last year against Washington when he made six field goals, including the game-winner to account for all 18 points in an 18-16 win.
These two special teams awards are the only two NFC weekly awards the Cowboys have won this year.