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The Writing Tools of 20 Famous Authors. The Coital Alignment Technique (C.A.T.) – A Refresher Course  You’ve all heard of the Coital Alignment Technique.

The Coital Alignment Technique (C.A.T.) – A Refresher Course 

It was all the rage a decade or so ago. But have you ever actually tried it? Have you tried it again recently? It takes patience. Amanda Palmer: The art of asking. Seeking wicked digital illustrators with Storyboards.com. Kitchen Chemistry. Beag Air Bheag - Unit 02. Vector Drawing. Quick Definition of Vector Graphics: Vector graphics are graphics that computers render by using mathematical formulas.

Vector Drawing

This allows the image to be scaled up many times without distortion, unlike something in MS Paint which uses raster graphics (graphics made up of pixels). Primary Uses Vector graphics are primarily used for logos, icons on your computer, and wallpapers due to their scalability. Software[edit] This will be written specifically for Inkscape (review). Assignments[edit] The Project Gutenberg eBook of Language of Flowers, by Kate Greenaway. Nerd Paradise : How to Write a 20 Page Research Paper in Under a Day. Posted on: 10 Cado 7:0 - 5.27.29 So you've procrastinated again.

Nerd Paradise : How to Write a 20 Page Research Paper in Under a Day

You told yourself you wouldn't do this 2 months ago when your professor assigned you this. But you procrastinated anyway. Shame on you. Languages - Chinese - A Guide to Chinese - 10 facts, 20 key phrases and the characters. How to Build Self Confidence: 12 steps (with pictures) Five Parts:Cultivating a Good AttitudeDealing with EmotionsPracticing Self-CareSetting Goals and Taking RisksGetting Help Building Confidence Self-confidence, the combination of self-efficacy and self-esteem, is an essential part of humanity.[1] Self-efficacy is the internal sense, or belief that we can accomplish a variety of tasks or goals throughout life.

How to Build Self Confidence: 12 steps (with pictures)

Self-esteem, is similar, but more related to believing we are generally competent in what we do, and that we deserve to be happy in life. A person with self-confidence generally likes herself, is willing to take risks to achieve her personal and professional goals, and thinks positively about the future. [2] Someone who lack self-confidence, however, is less likely to feel that she can achieve her goals and she tends to have a negative perspective about herself and what she hopes to gain in life. [3] The good news is that self-confidence is something that you can build on your own! Your Blog Post Promotion Checklist - An Infographic from @DivvyHQ. One of our mantras at Divvy is to help people work smarter, not harder.

Your Blog Post Promotion Checklist - An Infographic from @DivvyHQ

And in the world of content marketing, content repurposing is a great way to take a piece of evergreen content that you slaved over in the past, dust it off, repackage it in the popular content format of the day, publish it and then watch as your audiences embrace it as if it were a new piece. Such is the case with a helpful little blog post that I wrote back in March of 2011. You're Bored? That's So AWESOME. 10 Things They Should Have Taught Us In Sex Ed. Sexual Education is a very good, necessary part of growing up.

10 Things They Should Have Taught Us In Sex Ed

And it can come in many forms — and from many sources — but the one we almost all got universally was the uncomfortable, video-lecture-aided classes that we squirmed nervously through. We got to see graphic internal anatomy, learn about where babies come from, and if your school wasn’t insistant on the self-defeating lulzfest that is abstinence-only education, how to have safe sex. But there are just some things that didn’t become clear until we actually got out into the world of coupling and knowing one another Biblically, and we definitely should have learned them when stuck in Sex Ed. Sheet-for-Emotions.jpg (1700×2200) 100 Exquisite Adjectives. By Mark Nichol Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it’s quality, not quantity, that is the issue.

100 Exquisite Adjectives

Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words. Here’s a list of adjectives: Subscribe to Receive our Articles and Exercises via Email You will improve your English in only 5 minutes per day, guaranteed! HELP ME BE FCKNG CREATIVE.

17 Wonderful Free Tools To Make Designers Lives Easier! Don't Forget to participate in a contest where you can win an amazing e-Commerce template from TemplateMonster.

17 Wonderful Free Tools To Make Designers Lives Easier!

This is the wonderful list of 17 free and online web based tools for designers and developers which may be very helpful for you as well when you are at work. Designers and Developers will must like this list but you can also use them and will love whether you are office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known but, they are really amazing in respect to their features.

Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here. Steve Cober: On Quitting Your Day Job & Building A Business With Heart. After a three-year career working as an Art Director for an international ad agency, Steve Cober was let go. 9/11 had just happened, dot com 1.0 was crashing, and advertising budgets were drying up.

Steve Cober: On Quitting Your Day Job & Building A Business With Heart

But instead of searching for a company that would finally put his creative ideas to work, Steve decided to create one. Inspired by the toy-crazed Japanese and a young-at-heart outlook on life, Steve used his agency severance package to start Magic Pony, a Toronto-based studio, gallery, and retail space that has become a beacon for artists, designers, and collectors.When we met, Cober greeted me at the door to Magic Pony and quickly pulled me inside for a breathless mini-tour: “These mushrooms are beautiful! They’re by Tania Sanhueza. She actually started doing the mushrooms as an experiment where she was taking antique furniture and sewing in these angora or cashmere mushrooms into the cracks of sofas and curtains as nature’s way of taking the space back.”

" Cat Sculpture by Ginette Lapalme– Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills. The web is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills.

Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills

You just have to know where to look. Sure, you can use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to search for sites where you can learn new skills , but I figured I’d save you some time. Here are the top 40 sites I have personally used over the last few years when I want to learn something new.