‘Creating a Dynasty’ is one of the many successful seminars that Dani Johnson is holding. If you’re wondering what type of network marketing techniques you’d be able to master from this 3-day training seminar then here are a few things you can expect to add to your arsenal after seventy-two hours of learning from the networking expert.

The Language of a Professional

People are more likely to take your network marketing offer seriously if you look, act, and sound like a professional. But how does a professional speak anyway? Does it have to do with grammar or diction? Is it dependent on your choice of words? You’ll find the answers to these and more when you participate in Dani Johnson’s Creating a Dynasty seminar.

Have Top Producing Distributors in Your Downline

A dynasty can’t have just one great person, even if that person’s you and you’re on top. A dynasty can only be built if its members are as strong as its leaders. If you want to have a network marketing dynasty that would last well into the future then you need to learn about Dani Johnson’s secrets in developing downline into top producing distributors.

Results versus Perfection: Which is More Important?

Tough question, isn’t it? Which should you focus on more? Should the bottom line be the only thing that matters or do you need to place extra importance on perfecting the subtle but critical nuances in network marketing?

Having Realistic Expectations

Techniques are sometimes harder to master when it has to do with changing your own mindset. This is certainly true when it comes to people’s personal outlook on their business. One of the basic principles in management is having SMART goals: goals that are smart, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound.

In network marketing, maintaining realistic goals is often the trouble. Because network marketing has been commonly portrayed as a highly lucrative opportunity that allows people to become millionaires overnight, it’s easy for people to develop unrealistic expectations of their business. That, however, is one of the biggest mistakes they could commit in network marketing.

If you want to succeed in network marketing, Dani Johnson can teach you how to start right by getting rid of unrealistic expectations and seeing your business with the right pair of eyes.

Having Vision

The way you perceive things often colors your judgment and this still holds even in network marketing. Earlier on, you got to understand how having unrealistic goals can hinder rather than help your business. Similarly, purely focusing on short-term goals and ignoring long-term planning has the power to seriously harm your business.

Even if you’re one of the top sales associates now, you need to look at the bigger picture and ask yourself if you’re content to simply being a sales associate for the rest of your life. Don’t you desire to retire comfortably in the future? If so, you better learn how to plan ahead and consider where your network marketing business is heading.

Achieving Balanced Success

Happiness can’t be purely derived from material wealth. If you want to succeed in network marketing or in any field for that matter, it’s important that you learn to place as much importance on other aspects of your life outside business.

Dani Johnson will teach you more than the techniques listed above when you join her seminar on Creating a Dynasty. Indeed, what’s been mentioned is just the tip of the iceberg so imagine what else lies in store for you.

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We have all seen contemporary artists in action. We have seen them splash paint on giant canvases. But there is another way to make great art. And that is through the rigor of practice and the perfect control over one’s fingers. In the world of traditional artists – practice marks out the best from the rest. Through eyes that can barely see, and through the strength of their frail fingers – the older generation of indigenous artists, create art that simply tantalizes the perfectionists.

Patachitra art has been around for a long time. However the alienation of indigenous art forms has made it difficult for the enthusiast to find out the techniques and methods which produce a great Patachitra. Conversely some of the traditional techniques require upgrading to the latest available materials and tools. With the intention to understand how authentic Patachitra is made, I traveled to Raghurajpur in Orissa to get a first hand view of some of the best Patachitra artists.

So how is good Patachitra made? There a number of steps in the traditional style. The first is of course the preparation of the materials required for the painting. Tamarind seeds are soaked in water in an earthen pot and then boiled to get a gummy solution. Rice powder may be added to give a stiffer feel to the canvas. This process knows as ‘Niryas Kalpa’ takes a few days.

After this, two course cotton cloth pieces of the same dimensions are selected and pasted together using this solution. This forms the ‘Pata’ or the base canvas for the painting. Chalk, clay or stone powder is then mixed with the tamarind solution and applied on both sides of the canvas to give it a semi-absorbent surface coat. After canvas has dried it is burnished first with coarse grain, and then with polished stones to give it a smooth surface. The process of polishing involves many hours of careful work. The result is a canvas with high tensile strength and an excellent surface coat for the intricate lines that are to be made on it.

‘Chitrakarita’ or the process of painting begins once the canvas has been polished. The first step called ‘pahili ranga bhara’, involves painting a red background and the borders and outlines of the composition. The central solid colors are then painted in. The main colors used are red, brick red, yellow, white and lamp black. Many different types of brushes are used to make the different details on the painting. For fine lines, brushes made of the hair of a rat or mongoose is used. For thicker lines buffalo hair is the traditional choice. Kiya plants have been used to make the bolder lines, in the past. However in the last few years some of the artists have started using standard painting brushes made of synthetic materials.

The painting is finished with a coat of lacquer, applied using a soft cloth. After the lacquer has dried completely, the edges are clipped down to the decorative border. The lacquer layer is called ‘jausala’, and is glazed in the final step. In earlier times the lacquer layer was made by sprinkling resin powder on the painting and then holding it down with a hot bag of sand. Synthetic varnish has been used as a substitute in recent times with mixed results. A fallout of the varnish is the brown tinge to the painting.

In the past the themes of the Patachitra paintings belonged to a few major categories

Pictures of the god Jagannath Hindu epics and episodes especially “Krishna Leela” Stories from Folklore Worship of various gods and goddesses Animal and bird themes Erotic themes

In recent times modern themes have started appearing on these paintings, even including themes from other religions. However the newer themes are mostly secular and center around modern day events and stories. The depictions however are not uniform and the structure of the paintings can vary from circular paintings to long rectangular panels.

The Patachitra artist also paints on a variety of mediums other than the ‘Pata’. ‘Talapatachitra’ is a variation of the style done on dried palm leaves stitched together to make a canvas. The design in this technique are primarily made with a needle head and etched on to the surface of the dried leaves. This is an extremely difficult and time-consuming process requiring many hours concentration at a time. The older artists develop eye problems mainly due to the extremely detailed designs they make using this technique.

Other mediums that have been used are wooden boxes, tassar silk apparel, coconut shells, wooden doors and panels and even traditional playing cards called ‘Ganjifa’. Compendiums of mythological stories called ‘Chitra-pothies’ are made from many palm leaf paintings stacked together between decorated wooden covers and held by strings or silk threads. These form interesting and memorable gifts, especially desired by the discerning tourists visiting the state of Orissa.

In a following article we are going to examine what differentiates a good painting from an average one. Also on the cards is a an indepth look at the life of a Patachitra artists and the hardships which have made most of them abandon this most delectable art form.

By: Surajit Ray

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If you are sitting for an exam and find yourself struggling, take a deep breath and relax because when you are relaxed, the study material you have been slaving over all this time will start coming back to you. Of course there are techniques we can use to bring that flow of information back into our minds. There are things to do and things to remember…

1. Remember there is a passing mark.

Understand that you can get some wrong. So don’t put too much strain on yourself. Concentrate on passing the exam. If you pass with a high score, great. If you just pass, then great also. So long as you don’t have to do the whole thing again (go back to study the material, book the exam again, attend the examination room) – just concentrate on passing – nothing else.

2. The test actually gives you some of the answers.

I’ve sat through plenty of certification exams in my time and still do. To date, I’ve never sat an exam that didn’t give me some of the answers to the questions I have been struggling with. Some are so obvious, others are well hidden.

The trick to finding them is leaving the questions you are having difficulty with and just going through the rest of the exam answering what you can. Then come back and do the more difficult ones. You will find that some you can answer now because you saw the answer to them further down the exam.

3. It’s multiple choice so relax abit.

Imaging having to sit through an exam which was not multiple choice and you had to provide the answer without been given any clue!!! Now that would be difficult!!!

Now that you have seen that things could be worse, understand that multiple choice makes things a little easier on you. And here is the trick to the multiple choice format:

One answer is correct

One is close to the correct answer

One is totally unacceptable

One is totally unacceptable but sounds acceptable

Start the process of elimination. For example. Lets try to answer a question that we are unsure of at first…

Question – Which access method does the 802.11 architecture use?

A. CSMA/CD

B. CMSA

C. CMSA/DC

D. CSMA/CA

We don’t know the answer off the top of our heads so let’s begin the elimination process:

First what is the 802.11? we remember it has something to do with wireless networking.

Now lets see which of the answers given can we eliminate?

A. CSMA/CD [we know this means, Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection - so we keep this one]

B. CMSA [One is totally unacceptable - we eliminate]

C. CMSA/DC[One is totally unacceptable but sounds acceptable - we eliminate]

D. CSMA/CA [Carrier Sense Multiple Access With Collision Avoidance - we keep this one]

So here we have:

One answer is correct

One is close to the correct answer

One is totally unacceptable

One is totally unacceptable but sounds acceptable

We still don’t know off the top of our heads which access method does the 802.11 architecture use so lets look at both our answers that are acceptable:

A. CSMA/CD [Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection]

D. CSMA/CA [Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Avoidance]

What do we remember from our studies?

CSMA/CD – this is the prefered access method used if the network can support it. Ethernet networks use it to physically monitor the traffic on the line at participating stations. With this method, a particular station transmits. If two stations try to transmit at the same time, there is a collision. After a random time, the stations that collided try to transmit again.

CSMA/CA – this method is used where CSMA/CD cannot be used. 802.11 wireless LANs use this because its not possible to listen while sending so collision detection isn’t possible. With the 802.11 wireless LAN networks a node A, in range of the receiver R, is not in range of the sender S, and therefore cannot know that S is transmitting to R.

So if we have studied and know these things about the CSMA/CD and the CSMA/CA access methods we know our answer to be CSMA/CA to the above question.

4. Pay attention to trick questions.

It has been noted that in our anxiety to pass the test, we make the simplest mistakes. Dumb mistakes that we should avoid at all costs. One of the major mistakes we make is not paying attention to the full question. A high number of mistakes are made when the word ‘not’ is included in a question but we oversee it. Example:

The OSI model does not consists of 7 layers (pay attention to the ‘not’)

The OSI model does NOT consists of 7 layers (the ‘not’ is more visible now)

5. Are some questions true-or-false?

Your exam will certainly include these types of questions. And by their nature they are ‘easy’ because there is only one response. You can guess these so exam providers tend to make their true-or-false questions a bit difficult. So, if a question appears easy, then give it some more thought. Example:

QUESTION: The 10Base185 network transmission medium can support cable segments up to a maximum of 185 meters. True or false?

False because there is no such thing as 10Base185. The correct answer is:

The 10Base2 network transmission medium can support cable segments up to a maximum of 185 meters.

See how this was a trick questions? Be wary of these.

By: Georgia Stath

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As it has been inclined to do for the past five years, the company officials of Oracle on Tuesday guaranteed Java Technology a strong commitment. The IT support company also offered a preview of the future of the platform.

Jeet Kaul, the Vice President of Oracle who is also a former official of Sun Java along with the Oracle Vice President, Steve Harris offered certain perspectives on Java. They also discussed about the road maps on the technologies which also included GlassFish application server which serves the Java Platform and the Enterprise Edition 6 as a reference implementation. Both the company officials Kaul and Harris also spoke about the issue at EclipseCon 2010 conference held in Santa Clara in California.

Oracle became the owner of the Sun Microsystems Java Technologies after its purchase of Sun in last April finally succeeded in January. However, ever since the conference in last June in San Francisco, the company has been constantly offering its reassurances to the core Java developers about its future in the different intervals. In an interview, Harris stated that Java is unbelievably one of the most essential factors involved in their business. According to Oracle, the priority levels at Oracle for Java also include adding the boosting adoption, developer base, increasing competitiveness and also the adaptable feature.

On the other hand, Kaul stated that the main attraction in the entire story is only the platform. It is this IT services platform which is the main factor behind the success of the company. For several years together, Oracle has been a participant of the Eclipse Foundation while Sun has always avoided the foundation. After the purchase, even the former sun officials can now easily embrace the Eclipse Foundation. A number of Java developers from around the world can now feel reassured after the EclipseCon.

By: Andy Fitzpatrick

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Sites with a great deal of content often implement dynamic menu bars that change to present the most relevant options on each page. Sites often use some kind of “feedback” or special effect to let users know where certain navigation elements are located, such as graphics that change colors when the users point their mouse at them.

You can use a variety of technologies and design elements to implement Web site navigation. As you consider different navigation techniques, keep the following seven basic comparison factors in mind:

Visual

Does the technique look and like a navigation element that users are accustomed to seeing? In other words, is it a button or a menu that users will recognize as a navigation element?

Feedback

Does the technique offer some form of feedback to indicate that a user has pointed at or clicked a particular navigation element? This type of feedback can be important because users often explore a site by moving their mouse around to see what happens. Navigation techniques that allow individual elements to respond to this activity make the overall navigation more likely to succeed.

Accessibility

How does the technique work when a visually impaired person attempts to use the site with a specially equipped Web browser? If this demographic is important to your company, pay special attention to this capability.

Overhead

Some techniques require the Web browser to server to transfer more data to the Web browser than is required by other techniques. If your customers will be accessing the site over slower connections, then using techniques with a high overhead will result in slow page loads, and possibly bored customers who will give up and move on to the competition.

Scalability

Does the technique offer any particular advantages to make growing the site easier? Some navigation designs may require you to redesign the entire site every time a new feature is added. Others may simply require a few minor modifications to add several new departments to a menu.

Space

Some techniques, combined with your site’s browsing philosophy, require considerable space on the screen. Other techniques allow you to present a wider array of navigation choices while using less screen space. Keep in mind that your navigation elements should never occupy the majority of the screen. It is the content that your customers came for, not the menu bars.

Compatibility

How well wills this technique work within the available range of Web browsers? If one of your objectives is to have your site usable by as many customers as possible, pay attention to the techniques that offer a broad range of compatibility, and steer away those that are limited to a smaller set of browsers.

Navigation Technologies

To implement Web site navigation, you can use one of four primary technologies. The oldest and simplest of these technologies is the basic, static HTML page. A step up from that is the static HTML page, which is dynamically generated on the Web server. Web pages can be given more interactive capabilities with Dynamic HTML (DHTML), whether programmed in VBScript or JavaScript. Java presents the opportunity to program a complete, standalone application to use as a navigation aid.

Static HTML

Static HTML links are the oldest and simplest form of navigation on the Web. They can be less exciting than their dynamic counterparts, but remain one of the most effective navigational techniques on the Web.

Dynamically Generated Static HTML

If your site is constantly growing and changing, static HTML will require a constant effort to keep the navigational elements in line with the site’s growth. A common solution to this problem has been to dynamically generate the navigation elements when the page displays. When using the DHTML, you don’t have to manually update elements as the site grows, because an automated process generates the navigation elements as necessary, based on the information in a database.

VBScript and JavaScript Dynamic HTML

DHTML is a technology that allows you to embed programming code in the Web pages that are sent to user’s computers. DHTML code actually executes within the users Web browser, and can change the appearance and content of the Web page in response to the user’s actions on the page.

In Finality

You can use a variety of technologies and design elements to implement Web site navigation. As you consider different navigation techniques, keep the above seven basic comparison factors in mind. Visitors are becoming rare and rare in this competitive globe of e-commerce. Retain those who visit to your site for longer period in order to convert them as customers. Site navigation techniques help you to do so.

By: David Davis

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Advantages of the String implementation in JAVA

1. Compilation creates unique strings. At compile time, strings are resolved as far as possible. This includes applying the concatenation operator and converting other literals to strings. So hi7 and (hi+7) both get resolved at compile time to the same string, and are identical objects in the class string pool. Compilers differ in their ability to achieve this resolution. You can always check your compiler (e.g., by decompiling some statements involving concatenation) and change it if needed.

2. Because String objects are immutable, a substring operation doesn’t need to copy the entire underlying sequence of characters. Instead, a substring can use the same char array as the original string and simply refer to a different start point and endpoint in the char array. This means that substring operations are efficient, being both fast and conserving of memory; the extra object is just a wrapper on the same underlying char array with different pointers into that array.

3. Strings are implemented in the JDK as an internal char array with index offsets (actually a start offset and a character count). This basic structure is extremely unlikely to be changed in any version of Java.

4. Strings have strong support for internationalization. It would take a large effort to reproduce the internationalization support for an alternative class.

5. The close relationship with StringBuffers allows Strings to reference the same char array used by the StringBuffer.

This is a double-edged sword. For typical practice, when you use a StringBuffer to manipulate and append characters and data types, and then convert the final result to a String, this works just fine. The StringBuffer provides efficient mechanisms for growing, inserting, appending, altering, and other types of String manipulation. The resulting String then efficiently references the same char array with no extra character copying. This is very fast and reduces the number of objects being used to a minimum by avoiding intermediate objects. However, if the StringBuffer object is subsequently altered, the char array in that StringBuffer is copied into a new char array that is now referenced by the StringBuffer. The String object retains the reference to the previously shared char array. This means that copying overhead can occur at unexpected points in the application. Instead of the copying occurring at the toString( ) method call, as might be expected, any subsequent alteration of the StringBuffer causes a new char array to be created and an array copy to be performed. To make the copying overhead occur at predictable times, you could explicitly execute some method that makes the copying occur, such as StringBuffer.setLength( ). This allows StringBuffers to be reused with more predictable performance.

The disadvantages of the String implementation are

1. Not being able to subclass String means that it is not possible to add behavior to String for your own needs.

2. The previous point means that all access must be through the restricted set of currently available String methods, imposing extra overhead.

3. The only way to increase the number of methods allowing efficient manipulation of String characters is to copy the characters into your own array and manipulate them directly, in which case String is imposing an extra step and extra objects you may not need.

4. Char arrays are faster to process directly.

5. The tight coupling with String Buffer can lead to unexpectedly high memory usage. When StringBuffer toString( ) creates a String, the current underlying array holds the string, regardless of the size of the array (i.e., the capacity of the StringBuffer).

For example, a StringBuffer with a capacity of 10,000 characters can build a string of 10 characters. However, that 10-character String continues to use a 10,000-char array to store the 10 characters. If the StringBuffer is now reused to create another 10-character string, the StringBuffer first creates a new internal 10,000-char array to build the string with; then the new String also uses that 10,000-char array to store the 10 characters. Obviously, this process can continue indefinitely, using vast amounts of memory where not expected.The advantages of Strings can be summed up as ease of use, internationalization support, and compatibility to existing interfaces. Most methods expect a String object rather than a char array, and String objects are returned by many methods. The disadvantage of Strings boils down to inflexibility. With extra work, most things you can do with String objects can be done faster and with less intermediate object-creation overhead by using your own set of char array manipulation methods.

By: Jignesh Padhiyar

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In 2004 Oracle, Inc. made its new step toward J2EE application development simplification, releasing new RAD Oracle JDeveloper 10G. First of all JDeveloper 10G is targeted to rapid web application building, utilizing all the achievements of J2EE World: web service, EJB, MVC frameworks, XML, etc. Oracle JDeveloper 10G allows you to conduct all full development cycle for complex system – from UML diagram-based concept to debugging, profiling and deployment.

Let’s look at the product main features а:

1. Cross-platform (works under main Unix/Linux platforms and in Microsoft Windows environment) friendly development environment with high level of integration and third party plug-ins switching on. Syntax highlighting, re-factoring, transparent work with RDBMS, bi-directional code generation between UML models, EJB models, required J2EE patterns generation with one click of the button, visual web application builders and other capabilities open the doors for developer, who had never before being dreaming to create industrial-strength J2EE application!

2. PL/SQL stored procedures development and testing, plus integration with major database platforms – Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server etc. via JDBC mechanism.

3. Deployment capability for all major application servers – Oracle Application Server, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, JBoss. OC4J – J2EE container comes with this environment, which perfectly fits for application development and testing.

4. Oracle JDeveloper 10G provides possibility to realize persistent layer for applications on the ADF component base, EJB components or O/R Mapper – TopLink, which is also included.

5. Team Development feature with interoperability with major VCS systems – CVS, Rational ClearCase, Oracle SCM

6. Oracle JDeveloper 10G unique feature is utilization of Oracle ADF (Application Developer Framework) – MVC realization, enabling rapid J2EE application development. View Layer makes it possible to build applications for data exposure as for thin clients, based on web browser viewing, as well as for rich client and even wireless. Controller Layer is built on Jakarta Apache project platform – popular Open Source framework Struts. Business Components Layer may be realized with various technologies – Java POJO, Oracle ADF Components, WebServices, EJB or Oracle TopLink Objects

7. At this moment (December 2004) Oracle is testing new version – Oracle JDeveloper 10g (10.1.3) Developer Preview. The new features of this new version will be completely redesigned user interface, additional re-factoring capabilities, advanced UML diagrams features, web services simplified creation, support for the web application building on Java Server Faces base, complete support for J2EE 1.4 specification, ADF Faces – JSF components and others.

8. You can get production and developer preview for Oracle JDeveloper 10G here http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/index.html

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