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ꕥNGR is dedicating September to Suicide Preventionꕥ
There is no single cause for suicide. It most often occurs when stressors exceed current coping abilities of someone suffering from a mental health condition.
✦ From September 1st -30th we will be posting facts about suicide prevention.
✦We will also be holding a photo drive - Dates & times will be posted for availability
✦Writings on the Wall Gallery - Put your favorite inspirational/motivational quote or words on the wall.
✦Strides against Suicide Masked Gala - Sept. 22nd 5-7 pm slt
A candlelight vigil will be held at halftime during the gala
Although we are not doing sponsorship packages, we will be taking donations all month. All donations can be sent to NuGammaRhoCharity inworld. A receipt will be sent to you upon sending.
↳All Donations will be going to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention↲
For more information visit : afsp.org/
.....early yesterday morning....managed for some time....today though the skies are dark grey and heavy....short lasting showers and storm like winds are the case....a day to spend as much as possible at home.
Striving for perfection
And hiding when it comes
Seeing its reflection
And the fire it becomes
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yNyEOuG6Z6s (MGMT: "INTROSPECTION")
Hat tip to Mr. Lichtenstein (Mirror #1, 1969)
Hervaè Home is back with another release for you all, and this time it’s a pool! Embrace and enrich the rest of your summer with our latest release, the Milano Pool. Currently available at the August round of Tres Chic.
As always, the team here at Hervaè Home strives to provide you with a variety of choices when it comes to customizing your Hervae Home products. The Milano Pool comes in four distinct base colors; Blanc, Clay, Platinum, and Onyx.
Included in the purchase of each of our base colors, is a texture change HUD. This HUD will allow you to choose from a total of twenty-eight different tile and concrete options for your new pool. Additionally, the texture change HUD will provide you with a further twenty-three options for the waterfall accent wall, as well as six metal options for the spout.
Included in your purchase is a control panel HUD. This HUD allows you to control the hot tub jets, as well as the steam that emanates from the water. Additionally, to further enhance your swimming experience, you can simply click the waterfall to turn the running water sound on or off.
Lastly, there are eight different spots throughout the pool, where you can sit back and let the rest of your summer days pass you by. There are a total of forty animations scattered throughout the pool. To access these sitting and animation points, simply click on the pool surround.
PS, we will be releasing an update shortly, which will contain functional pool lighting. Unfortunately, we are experiencing some scripting related issues & are currently troubleshooting. For anyone who has purchased any variant of the Milano Pool, please keep an eye out in your notices for a redelivery containing this update.
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Middle class India is currently in a celebratory mood. Word has it India is to be the next economic super power in the world. Yet a 2001 World Resources Indicator report which shows that 2 million of the most wretchedly poor people of the world live in 51 countries, also indicates that almost half of these people live in India and China alone!!!
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. ~~ Pearl S. Buck
we all should strive for knowledge, not necessarily in this way :)
texture from NinianLif
I don't know why but I feel that this is not my style & that its not me who captured it, who knows this might be my style!! time will answer that
Here's another six image panorama of Jubilee Creek in the Knysna forest.
Many people who know me also know that I often spend more than a few hours editing a single photo. This panorama was no exception. My camera might be able to capture all the details in the highlights and shadows in a scene like this, but I do have to tweak all the photos if I want my final image to look as realistic as possible. This is my basic workflow...
1. I open all the RAW files and make some basic adjustments. Then I save 2 copies (as TIFF files), one copy exposed for the highlights and the other for the shadows. Then I blend each of those pairs together using luminosity masks.
2. Next I stitch the blended photos together into one panorama using PTGui or Photoshop's Automerge feature (whichever does a better job). Then I save the resulting pano as a 16-bit TIFF file.
3. I open the stitched image in Photoshop and start off by cropping it to create the strongest possible composition.
4. Then I'll balance the overall exposure (if necessary) using gradient masks and the "blend-if" tool, and I'll also add some midtone contrast and tweak the white balance.
5. Next I might adjust specific colours which still don't look quite right. The red tones are often overrepresented in a forest photo, so I usually have to tone those down quite a bit. I also try to remove any blue and cyan tones from the sky that are reflected off the leaves.
6. Then I will adjust the black and white points and tweak the contrast until everything looks as close as possible to reality. Then I save my photo as a 16-bit TIFF file.
All those steps are easy to follow when you know how to do them. I've had lots of practice over the years, so I could probably perform them in my sleep. I wouldn't need more than about 20 minutes to complete those simple tasks. So why do some of my photos take several hours to edit? Because the final step is always the most important step...
7. I get up and walk away from my computer and won't return for at least 5 minutes. This gives my eyes some time to readjust to the reality of the world around me. When I return to my computer I ask myself one simple question; What DON'T I like about this photo? It might be a colour that appears a bit oversaturated (usually the greens or yellows), or it could be a small twig that catches my eye too often and becomes a distraction. I'll try to fix as many of those problems as possible, before getting up and walking away from my computer again for another 5 minutes. I will repeat this process of self-critique and small adjustments until I wouldn't change another single thing in my photo. Sometimes I'll only be 100% happy the next morning.
So that's why (in case you were wondering) it often takes me many hours to edit a single photo. :)
“When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with God's help.”~Robert Half
I have this silly dream (currently working on it) to visit every lighthouse in the west coast of the USA. :)
Anyway, this tunnel is on the way to Point Bonita Lighthouse--located in the entrance of the San Francisco Bay, which it was an adventure to find. Thank goodness for GPS navigation systems. :-)
::|| Listening to DJ eko extended mix of this awesome song ::||
NOTE:
-This is one shot. NO HDR.
-I simply applied in PS CS3 unsharp 20/60/0 and re sized for web.
-I was really testing the metering system of the new camera (called Spot in Nikon or Partial in Canon) . I was testing how it handles super bright backgrounds. Read more about digital camera metering systems or consult your camera manual. :)
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Strive to enter in at the straight gate.
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Cholistan-Rohi,
Pakistan.
Rohi vithri megh malhaaraan,
Bootay bootay thiyaan gulzaraan,
Shala moriyam dost maharaan
Bhaag suhaag di mausam aayen
Tr.: “Every plant in sprouting and Cholistan is turning into a garden. This is because the rain has come. O friend, you also come back”.
I reached, the only standing fort out of thirty five built earlier, The Daravar Fort. On the eastern flank of this massive brick-built fort stands a beautiful and petit marble mosque. Erected on an artificial platform the design of this mosque reminds the visitor of the great jamia mosque of Delhi.
Passing through the mosque, I walked towards the fort and entered through a huge wooden spiked gate. Every portion of the fort held a mystery inside. I could see so many frames longing to be captured. The massive brick structure seemed to be striving for survival. The remains were calmly resting as if it has been ages they are like this. The more I moved further, I was being pushed into a state of sweet solitude. I was enjoying the experience to the utmost. The aroma of tranquility prevailed all over and the dominant seemed weaker. The fear of all the powerful started fading away. In the absence of colors, light and shade played a talismanic role. The amazing sciagraphy, due to the different levels in the typology and the changing angle of the rays of light, played magical feats and created shadows which spoke a different language every other hour. Shadows have always accompanied me; always been a companion to me in this journey where I love carrying this crowd of loneliness around me.
Soon the sun started to set down. The light was getting darker. And once again, I had to bid farewell to my companion and move on…for another journey!
Our Daily Challenge ... our parents war.
My parents fought to ensure that their children got the education they missed out on. My father qualified to go to High School but he had to leave to get a job, apprenticed to his father, who was a baker. My Mother went to High School but couldn't leave home to train as a nurse because her brothers were away at war and she was needed to help on the farm. So, education and working in our chosen field was high on the agenda. I know that it was often a struggle especially when Dad died at 46 and Mum had to do it alone.
I finally got my replacement camera on Tuesday and I spent a frustrating two days trying to work out how to change the Asian language to English. Finally went to a store today which had the same camera and had a look to see where the language control was in the menu and "Hey presto" I can now read what it says. It has some great new features to try out too. We also finally got a new aerial for our Internet today. So far it seems considerably better so hopefully I will now be able to catch up.
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So I had a lot of fun with doing my top ten favorite villains list and sot I thought id do my top ten favorite TV shows. This is all opinion, so be aware before you get pissed. Also, I cheated a bit on one or two and combined them, but this is my damn list so fuck it. So, lets get started.
10-Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Star trek tng is a fascinating look at sci-fi and the space exploration genre in general. While I’m not crazy about the first few seasons, I love it near the end. It’s just so rich with atmosphere and has such a creative and full world that you really can feel it. It’s a very smart, very clever, and very well exsiccated show with lots of interesting things to say, and great writing to do so.
9-Firefly
What’s better then a joss whedon space western staring Nathan fillion? Will 8 things obviously but this show still seriously kicks ass. It has incredible writing that is masterfully performed by amazing actors. The only thing stopping this show from being higher on the list is its lack of seasons. Other then that, it’s a funny, action packed thrill ride from start to finish that I recommend to anyone looking for adventure and fun in space.
8-Justice League and Justice League Unlimited
So yeah, this is kind of a tie, but jlu is basically just a continuation of the original show, so I think its ok to group these two together. Anyways, justice league manages to really get how these larger then life heroes would interact. How they are still people, even though they have godlike powers, and how they manage to deal with the fears of the world, and of each other. Every character has there own voice and you always know how one would feel about something, even if they don’t say it. It’s a perfect comic book adaptation that every dc fan should watch
7-Young Justice
I toiled over weather to put this or justice league at this spot, but I had to go with young justice just for its unapologetic love for its source material and the amazing way it adapts the comics into a different medium (cough* arrow *cough). I love how they hit the ground running with its immediately recognizable comic book characters and anything goes mentality towards storytelling, yet still manages to have compelling character drama.
6-Monty Python and Fawlty Towers
Did I even need to say it? These two are some of the funniest shows ever made and what every comedy after them should strive towards. The reason I put them together is because towers feels like a python sketch that got extended into a full series without being dragged out or overdone. What else can I say? These two are legendary enough, and if you haven’t seen them, we need to have a little chat.
5-Futurama
A sci-fi comedy by the same guys behind the Simpson’s? Sign me up. I’ve always preferred futurama to the Simpson’s, mainly the sci-fi moments and more abstract elements add to the comedic feel of the whole show. It’s incredibly cleaver, and isn’t afraid to comment on society. All the characters are don so well with each being funny and deep at the same time. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants smart humor, with an edge to it.
4-South Park
I don’t think I like South Park for the reason most people like South Park. Its not for the raunchy-ness, or the “how far will they go” humor (although I do like both), no, what really gets me to love south park is how they can realistically (to a certain extent) take the point of view of a kid, and turn it into a zany, yet interesting critique on society, while still being having that child like viewpoint. It’s hysterical, fun, and crazy as hell.
3-Doctor who
Here I’m specifically talking about the rebooted series. The original series will always have a place in my heart, but the new series is just so much fun, and has so much character and is so well written. I love the sci-fi and I love how adventures it feels and l=how likable the main characters are. I love how recognizable the villains have become and how much it’s grown since its humble beginnings, and for good reason. If you haven’t watch dr who, go watch dr who.
2-Avatar, The Last Airbendeder
This is the best animated series of all time, period. It is so deep and has such good characters yet still manages to be light hearted and genuinely funny, but its also dark and serious. It’s so well balanced that it’s hard not to love it. It’s practically Shakespearian in character depth. The art is beautiful and perfectly matches the tone of the world around it. It’s an astounding work of art, and if you haven’t seen it, change that!
Now before I get to number, lets go through so me honorable mentions.
The Spectacular Spiderman: perfectly capturing the tone and atmosphere of the original 60’s comic while updating and adding to the things that needed it. Easily the best version of the character ever put to screen
Sherlock: a well-written, well acted mini series that’s a dark, yet fun spin on the source material
Batman Beyond: the perfect way to end the batman mythos in my opinion. It’s really original, and has great banter between terry and old Bruce.
Wolverine And The X-men: this show is not talked about enough. It takes its source material and really captures it perfectly. Great voice cast and great writing, a must watch for any x-men fan
Teen titans: a nostalgic character driven show with a fun art style and great character writing, but with enough dark elements to keep it from being to cutesy
Avengers, Earths Mightiest Heroes: like the avengers are the marvel version of the justice league, their respective cartoons do it similarly. It’s well written and is pretty stylized, but also draws from silver age marvel to get this great marvel show
Bob’s Burgers: great humor, mixed with great voice acting, mixed with enough crazy character drama to make this show funny as hell
Batman, TAS: amazing art style and fantastic writing, and easily the best voice cast the batman franchise has ever had, batman TAS is easily the best version of the dark knight yet.
And now for number one, drum role please
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1-Arrow
How could I not put this show at number one? It’s a great adaptation of the original comic and has some of the best writing of any show in years. Its crowning achievement is it main character, who is a perfect adaptation of… of, BWAHAHAHAHA
Sorry, couldn’t say that with a strait face. Arrow is fucking terrible, but I'm addicted, so fuck me. DO NOT WATCH, unless your morbidly curios, anyways.
Now for my real number 1
1-Game of Thrones
This show is all about character, and considering I’m constantly mentioning it here, there’s a reason this show is number 1. There are now good guys, or bad guys, just characters, with different motivations, and conflicting ideals. Some are in power, some are not. In a way, there isn’t a plot. Only characters, and their actions, and its reproductions in this world. Speaking of, the world is rich and full of history, and 12 kinds of insane depth. I honestly know more about the world of GoT then I do real American history. #imahugefuckingnerd. If you plan on watch GoT, id read the first book or two before you do. If this show has a fault, it’s that it’s horrible at explaining what’s happening, and just throws you in assuming you already know what’s going on. It’s still an excellent series that I hope to continue for many years to come
And that’s my list. Hope you liked it. Tell me your faves, and please tell me about how arrow is the best show ever and how and how dare I talk about it like that. THANKS FOR READING!