Movie Posters for That Loving Feeling

Movie posters can stand by itself as a work of art. They decorate otherwise drab walls of theaters and put life into them. They tell a story, they speak something about the films they are promoting. As the song goes a picture can paint a thousand words.

The movie posters are employed to advertise a movie. They came into existence since the earliest public exhibitions of film. The movie posters started as placards listing the line up movies to be shown at the theater. With the onset of the 1900s, the movie posters took on a different turn. They have now illustrations of a scene from individual movies.

In the beginning the movie posters were created and produced solely for use of the theaters. The film ads were very necessary for a film to succeed. They were returned to the distributors after the film was done in theaters. This is true in the United States of America. The movie posters were returned to the National Screen Service (NSS). But somehow some of the movie posters found their way into the hands of collectors and film poster dealers. This is especially true when the NSS stopped its operation in 1985.

By this time the film studios took over direct production and distribution of movie posters for the films they produced. This started the spreading out of the process of making and distributing movie posters. Nowadays film posters are produced in great quantities to promote a movie because they are now being sold directly to the public by retailers who bought them from studio distributors. Movie posters also have now invaded the internet. The studios that created these film ads placed them on their websites for the promotion of their movie films. The easy access and readily available movie posters do not now make collectors' items. Rare movie posters can cost up to thousands of dollars.

Movie studios then have to make several movie ads for one theater since theaters then only show one movie at a time. Thus different sizes of movie posters were created to promote the movie film all over the theater. But with the advent of multiple screen cinemas sizes of movie posters were standardized. This is because the theater spaces have to be apportioned among more films. But there are still different sized posters for distribution to other countries.

The Miracle Of Smiling

When you share that honest smile, good things are bound to happen. Your beautiful smile can touch someone's heart and breakaway all barriers of doubt and mistrust. That genuine smile, often communicates that 'I care... it's alright... let's be friends'. That positive smile creates an environment of happiness, love, hope and peace with those you share it with. You make a difference with that smile. You form that miracle when you smile'.

Smiling is not only a welcoming gesture yet a miracle can happen when you share it with a stranger or a friend. Unfortunately, not many people take smiles seriously. For instance, this habit has become a mere formality shaped by cultural social ties that its emotional impact on others is hardly felt. While for some, it's not in their nature to smile often, the daily hassles of life can even make a brittle smile next to impossible. Many times, I am often intrigued by the innocent smiles of children... it makes me love and hug them often!! Putting this aside,... how about smiling anyway?

It is true that different smiles portray a variety emotions and give out a lot of information about you.

Sometimes,we may find it challenging to smile genuinely? However, you can acquire that wonderful smile if you get the hints below:

1. Imagine the presence of good people around you. Concentrate on doing good, kindness, and feelings of happiness... Joy will affect the smiling curves around the corners of your mouth. Remember that as you focus on these good virtues repeatedly, making it a habit... your smile will blossom and flow so naturally. It will emit different shades of positive light from your face tapping directly into the mind of the one you are sharing it with. The power in that honest smile has to reflect in your eyes, then miracles happens:
Feelings of fear turn into boldness
Sadness to cheerfulness
Loneliness to companionship and a sense of belonging
Tears of sorrow into joy.
Doubt into trust... and so on.

2. Change to a positive mindset and learn to greet others with a big smile. This will attract people to you.

3. When you spot people looking at you, then return their gaze with that broad, loving smile and hold it for a few seconds. Some will smile back at you, others will come to you and a few will look away because they may not like your smile. But hey! the ice is broken! You can see the miracle of your smile and don't you feel more confident now? Go on and try it. When you fail the first time, try again and again until the art of smiling is perfected.

The miracle of smiling in good for you because:

1. It is healthy for you - You have heard of the saying ' laughter is good medicine for the soul' ( The Bible book of Proverbs 27:22 )The miracle of smiling follows laughter which will strengthens our immune system, increases your energy levels and lifts up your spirits. You recover easily from from a long illness when you laugh your troubles away, look younger and live longer!

2. It attracts people to you like a magnet- because it makes you more relaxed with others. People love associating with happy people wearing that genuine, contagious and friendly smile.

3. It indicates that you have positive thoughts and emotions about other people.

4. It makes you and the one you give it to feel good.

Now, it's normal to have a cold stare but can you imagine its effects on others, especially after a hard day's work?
'That cold stare can usurp all the positive energy from your tired body and makes those around nervous. When shared and prolonged it signals a cry for help and sadness which is not good for you. A cold expression could mean bitterness and anger. Yet, behind that coldness is a vulnerable heart yearning... for a hug and that genuine smile to make that miracle happen.'

Yes, we can get very tired and don't look so happy many times. But we shouldn't allow this become a chronic habit. We must find or make time to give love and smile. A warm smile certainly reduces all the tension and heals the tortured heart. Why not share it?

On the other hand,

Not everyone that shares their smile with you is a genuine person. Like I said before that different smiles convey various emotions. You will meet people from all walks of life who naturally have sly smiles because they are sly too.. These can be crooks or deceitful con artists that use this gesture to get anything from helpless people for selfish gain. While some smiles may indicate nervousness, other smiles worn to cover feelings of awkwardness. Like I said previously, smiles can talk a lot about us.

Give that gracious smile to somebody. Let our smiles flow naturally from the heart at all times. Someone surprised me one time, when we lost a loved one. I was amazed that this lady, whom I didn't even know, kept glancing at me a contemptuous smile yet the intensity of my grief and those around me at the was overwhelming, at this burial ceremony. There she was, moving around smiling with everyone, so I wondered if a mournful smile, a time of sorrow was so hard for her to put on. Could have been a mental problem or was this smiling technique to make her cope with this tragedy? You could interpret this situation differently but one wonders if we are soon losing out on public etiquette. People like that will cross our paths in life often and you know deep within you that you know need special help. Let our motives in our hearts be pure always in order to make that miracle of smiling happen.

In conclusion, you can choose to share that genuine smile with someone today. It's not only for your own good but it forms a miracle touching the one who receives it. Like Mother Teresa counsels " let us make one point that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family." I love Princess Diana's radiant and winning smile because it was always followed by acts kindness to people from various walks of life. You can open this link to find out why she inspired the world so much that her miraculous smile was never forgotten.

Einstein Was Not A Scientist

It's shocking to say that maybe the most renowned scientist in history is not a Scientist. But according to the Value Zodiac model, Albert Einstein was most likely the scientist's nemesis -- the Shaman.

Einstein was a theorist. Theorists are thinkers that use conceptualization to perform educated guesses to discover truth. Theorists often intuit an answer. They stumble onto ideas that seem to "make sense" to them, reflecting the central value theme of harmony that represents the Shaman.

Physicists have long understood that electricity and magnetism were related. The question that faced physicists in Einstein's time was how electricity and magnetism (E & M) were related to classical Newtonian physics of moving bodies.

The way in which Einstein intuited his way into history highlights Einstein's Shaman disposition. Einstein started by using the unusual experimental tool of the thought experiment. Unlike traditional experimentation which relies on setting up a unique set of circumstances in the physical world, controlling for variables, and measuring the results, the thought experiment is one that takes place entirely in the imaginative mind.

When Einstein was 16 years old, he imagined himself trying to chase a beam of light. He realized that if he was moving at the speed of light alongside the beam, he would see the beam as being in a fixed location according to his perspective. This was his first inkling of what eventually became his theory of special relativity.

Einstein began developing relativity by supposing that the speed of light was constant. At the time, he had no physical evidence of this, but he inferred this from the work of another scientist named Maxwell, who had done some groundbreaking work in the field of E & M. With the assumption that the speed of light was constant, Einstein created a couple of thought experiments.

Taken to the next level, Einstein imagined himself and his wife looking at each other across an open field. Einstein stood upon a moving railroad car. His wife stood on a fixed point on the ground. If Einstein were to fire a particle of light between two horizontal plates on his cart, he would see the particle moving up and down between the plates, but his wife would see the particle bouncing up and down but along diagonal paths as the cart moved down the track.

If our assumption that the speed of light is constant is true, this creates a paradox because the particle is seen by both parties is hitting the mirrors at the same time, even though the particle appears to travel a longer distance as seen by Einstein's wife while traveling the same speed.

This doesn't make sense. How can two things travel different distances in the same time while moving at the same speed? The answer lies in examining the clocks each person is using to measure time. Einstein's clock moves forward at a slower rate than his wife's clock. This is the concept of time dilation.
Einstein made this leap of logic without a shred of experimental data. He reasoned his way to this result in his head. It allowed into derive of his famous mass-energy equivalence relationship.

Many of his contemporary physicists roundly condemned his findings -- accusing Einstein of circular reasoning. His postulating that the speed of light was a constant made his calculations tremendously easy and elegant. But he was right!

Good theorists are rarely good experimentalists. Because they so often focus on the big picture or big ideas, they often quickly become bored with the mundane effort that is associated with scientific experimentation. Although Einstein published his general theory of relativity in 1915, relativity was not provided an experimental basis until Arthur Eddington and his team performed observations of stars during a solar eclipse in 1919. This again illustrates how important it is for people of different approaches to life work together to maximize the impact of both.

Einstein was a Shaman. Shamans always look for simplicity. The elegance of E = mc2 is in its ability to condense so much complicated physics into a simple relationship. This simple relationship "made sense" to Einstein. It reflected the central value theme of harmony that is associated with the Shaman.

The same sentiment which led him to his biggest breakthrough also later led him to his biggest professional challenge after other scientists began to develop the probabilistic-centered theory of quantum physics. Einstein famously said, "God does not play dice." Since quantum theory did not make sense to him, he rejected it despite the experimental data that emerged to support it. He worked to the end of his life trying to refute quantum physics. In the end, Einstein was relegated to the fringes of his profession because quantum theory conflicted with his vision of the world. Einstein's story only proves the central tenet of the Value Zodiac -- that we all have unique gifts which are worldview helps us to find tremendous insight, but if we don't keep an open mind to other points of view, we can lose that which makes us great.

Your Defiant Child: Review

I studied this book as my primary source in preparing and drafting my second crime/mystery book. That is one reason why I mostly substituted the word 'child' with 'defiant'. The other reason is I'm trying to apply the book context to retarded adults rather than to defiant children. Retarded adults are children anyway right?

Besides so many children around me who are showing signs of becoming sociopaths, there are more adults who are acting like children. Many defiant children become adult psychos or sociopaths then some become serial murderers. I will use the reviewed book to explain why and how the criminal became a sociopath in my book.

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The whole family can lose its affection for each other. Parents blame each other for the destructive behavior of the defiant one. Siblings can end up hostile toward parents and the defiant sibling. That's how one defiant can bring the whole family down.

Important Facts to Remember

The defiant's behavior is all up to you. Why? Because the greatest potential for control of the defiant's behavior is in the environment and the enormous part of the environment is YOU.

The defiant acts the way he do because he can't see things the way you do, i.e., difference of perspectives.

The fastest way to determine why the defiant acts the way he do is to look at yourself. Can you see the defiant's attitude in yourself? If so, you are the problem or the root of it.

You encourage bad behavior to get worse when you show you have a breaking point and use cumulative punishment. You finally lose patience and decide to punish or give up and temporarily reward defiant behavior thereby creating a time bomb -- the inevitable physical violence.

Overreacting suddenly to a certain defiant's behavior will prevent the defiant from learning specific consequences for specific types of misbehavior. The defiant can't build a predictable framework of action and reaction without that learning. Offer incentives like 'reward points' instead of using punishment.

What I think the book missed is giving stress to the fact that failure is not bad. In fact failing is actually good because we cannot learn until we fail. I not only missed my childhood. It was also a mess because my father was a perfectionist. Guess how that affected me. Yes. He never taught me that failure is good but instead coerced me to be 'perfect'.

Remember, this is just a fraction of what I learned from the book.

David and Goliath - Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Malcolm Gladwell was not satisfied with oversimplified retelling of the David and Goliath story. When Malcolm sizes up this story he calculates David's victory was a highly probable one due to a tragic flaw coincident with Goliath's size. This flaw was not an obvious one nor was it simply that bigger moves slower in real time. Its revelation requires asking critical questions such as; Why does Goliath ask David to "come at me?" Why does Goliath speak of sticks when David has one? And why does Goliath have an attendant for a one-on-one battle?

Once we realize there is a perfectly logical explanation that fits those questions we begin to see how perceived advantages may be limitations. This is a call to be more discerning about our own perceived advantages/disadvantages. Moreover we can extend the allegorical one-on-one conflict to other types of opponents (actual armies, disability, misfortune, and oppression).

Sports are replete with David versus Goliath type conflicts. The key is to realize that power can come in forms other than size (e.g. breaking customary rules of engagement, speed and surprise in place of strength). A person that has never coached basketball could notice assumptions made about advantages and disadvantages in game strategy. For instance consider how the full court press defense is typically employed by someone who is familiar with the game.

Conventional strategy might use the full court press for just for few minutes of game. A surprising strategy would be to always attack the inbound pass. Who does that? Perhaps a team does it when it lacks height or outside shooting superiority. Maybe a team that has built up its stamina employs a full court press for an entire game.

Being an underdog gives you freedom to try things (such as the whole game full court press defense) but usually teams will not do it because it is hard work. Ironically players have to be bad enough at offense to be convinced they need to play that way. If they think they have a chance playing the easier way they will abandon the more demanding full court press style.

Malcolm has made the 10,000 hour rule for success famous in his previous bestseller Outliers. In David and Goliath he continues with a fair amount of mathematics and uses graphs such as an 'Inverted U' to describe the relationship of academic achievement to class size. He bemoans data that shows "to this day 77 percent of Americans think it makes more sense to use taxpayer money to lower class size than to raise teacher salaries."

Most intriguing are the examples he used to explain the sociological term "relative deprivation" and the psychological term "desirable difficulties." In our achievement culture we need to reconsider how having resources and belonging to elite institutions may limit our options (relative deprivation). We can also be misled about perceived disadvantages. Malcolm notes that an extraordinarily high number of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic and do well on the cognitive reflection test (desirable difficulty helps on this test).

Lastly he enumerates three "Principle of legitimacy;" 1. All participants have a voice 2. Rules are consistent, same thing applies day to day and 3. All are treated equally under the rules in fairness. Malcolm cites Joanna Jaffe's J-RIP as a breakthrough because it countered how the powerful were viewed by the oppressed. The juvenile robbery intervention program (J-RIP) established legitimacy for police as caring members that serve and protect their community.

David and Goliath provides a good quantity of mathematical and scientific evidence to uncover false advantages. This book also delves into the psychological and sociological factors that may unmask disadvantages. Perhaps the author's background suggests both a science and an "Art of Battling Giants."

Book Review of "Back to Normal"

In his book "Back to Normal", Enrico Gnaulati explores a topic which I'm sure many of us have pondered as parents. As a child psychologist himself, he has an inside glimpse of what is expected from doctors by the insurance industry and pharmaceutical companies.

Enrico cites lack of proper training and pressure for a quick fix as two sources of the confusion. Psychiatrists hand out the medication and psychologists do the counseling. They are generally not put together as a team. The first source of concern is usually a referral given by the teacher at school to have a child evaluated. The parents contact a psychiatrist who given the medication prescription and the child is under control without further investigation as to what may be causing the behavior.

If a family is willing to stick it out, counseling over a long period of time may get to the root of the problem without the need for medication. In today's hurried lifestyle, parents are unable to take time off from work for a counseling session. Children are pushed into so much activity through the schools and extra-curricular activities that there is no time to talk.

I have thought of two other examples that were not mentioned in the book. The first is the possibility of a neurological or medical condition. Doctors usually hand out medication at the first mention of behavior and that's the end of it.

The second example was when my son was in fourth grade. The teacher advised me to have him assessed, stating that he was too pre-occupied with "Power Rangers". I was thinking, "Yeah, as is every other fourth grade boy who watches cartoons and before that it was "Ninja Turtles" and before that something else. Next year it will be the latest craze." At that time, the school also banned trading of "Pokemon" cards. That was the stupidest thing I've ever heard. It's a cartoon which now, no one even cares about.

Trying to be a responsible parent, I complied and made an appointment. I was upset when after going to the first appointment, the insurance company went bankrupt and I was turned over to collections for a $200.00 bill in which we did absolutely nothing but fill out the new patient paperwork. I later found out that if a school asks you to get evaluated, they have to pay for it.

Each family has to work through what is needed in their scenario. For some, it is a truly needed resource. However, before using medication as the first solution, do a little research and explore all the options.

If You Are Considering Writing/Publishing a Book, Think It Through - Then Go Ahead And Do It Anyway

Personally, I believe that the experts finally got something right: As difficult and exhausting as writing can be, nothing compares to the challenges and sheer misery of marketing one's self.
Just the huge numbers of electronic avenues make this experience quite daunting. (I run into that word quite often when I discuss trying to sell one's work). And as many of us have come to realize, it's not just the sheer numbers of Internet sites, it's the TIME you need to spend on them to make yourself credible. That's the REAL killer. I'll spend at minimum, an hour agonizing over THIS composition.
Plus, here you are, all excited and duly proud of yourself for having completed something that you devoted weeks, months, even years to and you can't even get your sister to buy one and give it a five star rating. You should be having this HUGE celebration with all your friends. Instead, you're fumbling around like a teenager in the back seat of your old man's Chevy, trying to add some kind of Pin to a Board on a site that you REALLY don't care about. And it's TWO O'CLOCK IN THE DAMN MORNING!
But you've checked your numbers and you're 697,364 in Amazon's Best Seller Rank. So you text and you tweet. You create a fan page. You blog. You Skype. You Pin, and you Tumble. You contact every "friend" you have, and have them contact every friend they have, and every friend they have, and so on down the line. "Yes," they say, "I'll get me a copy of that new book you just published. I'm gonna read it, rate it, and give it a whole passel of stars." Two days later and now you're at 798,621.
And so you text and tweet some more looking for support and ideas. But as much advice as I get; I write. I consider myself a writer. Maybe not a very lucid one, but a writer nonetheless. I have stories inside of me. Having them stay there while I attend to other business only makes them fester and this will ultimately lead to some really bad juju.
By nature I am not a tweeter or a texter, a Pinner, or Tumbler. I don't try to StumbleOnto anything. Don't much care for Skyping, and I secretly hate all of my "friends" on Facebook.
And so here I sit, trying to promote my book on one more probably useless site, and it's now 3 o'clock in the damn morning. I just keep repeating to myself, "I'm a writer, I'm a writer, I'm a writer, I'm a writer, I'm a writer...