Shiny
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For your nature photos, the ones including the sky, I'd suggest taking 2 exposures of the same scene. A normal exposure and one with 2-4 stops under exposure so then you can use the underexposed image as a layermask for the normal exposed image. Know what I mean?
Open the normal exposed image in photoshop, then drag in the under exposed image on top, add a layer mask on the top layer, use the gradient tool and add a gradient going up to down so the image blends together.
Truth be told, I would have take 2 exposures and done what you have said. However, I was... how do you say it. Quite high, really. During the taking of the shot. But yeah, agreed completely.
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God yes. You'll appreciate this website, RPG.
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f50/kaya-scodelario-68243.html
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The IT crowd!
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My girlfriend and I.
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Chapstick feels [bleep]ing fantastic. I love it.
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My current support lies with Ron Paul. While I differ in a lot of his views, and a lot of his political aims, he is what is needed for the American government.
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This is a long shot but here goes:
I just received a random cheque for 1250 dollars in the mail. Apparently it is for my student loan, from the Alberta government (I live there). The company is called Edulinx, and they took over student loan operations since 2001 I've found out. Anyways, problem is I never requested this loan, the only loans I applied for are from the Canadian government, and I already received half of it in September, the other half is supposed to come later this month. I filled out a form for the Alberta loan, but they only confirmed to give me 100 dollars-ish and I already got that in September as well.
The envelope also had a form I have to fill out with my banking info, but that's weird because they gave me a cheque? Their website requires an account, but I don't have one, and their hotline wants my social insurance number :mellow:
So to anyone who lives in Canada, what the hell is this?
Sounds like a scam. I bet you can't cash in that check neither.
Cash the cheque, then spend the money. Pronto.
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Looking at a straight, 1 v 1 fight, Santa has nothing on Jesus. Jesus is a fit male, at the peak of his life. Santa is old, wrinkled, and [bleep]ing fat. At the rate he pounds down drinks left out for him, I'm surprised he hasn't got a DUI, much less being able to fight.
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OO Greener Pastures 4 is it. It is a beautiful skating series. I've started getting into longer and harder stand up slides, perfect for my board.
But unfortunately, i've [bleep]e dmy bearings. I was forced to ride out in the rain, and now they are going seriously slow.
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The thread idea was spurned first by an article Ginger Warrior posted. The article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13470731. Given the article provided no context for the prostitutes, and didn't divulge whether they were, in Racheya's words, "kidnapped" or not, I personally saw no moral qualm with the action taken by the insurance company. Which further led me to think, what is the general Tip.it consensus on prostitution? What about the issues surrounding prostitution such as sexual and physical violence, diseases, hard drug use and underage prostitution? Do you think our western society does enough to actively prevent these aspects of the 'trade'?
For me, I take the stance that an adult should be allowed to sell their body for sexual service, given it is consensual. Obviously, I think this is a very basic answer, and does not take into account some of the other issues surrounding prostitution, but that, at least is where my answer starts. Because of it, I think prostitution should be legal, as well as government-regulated. 4 [garden tools] to a house, condoms at all times.
Where does your view lie?
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holy shit the world is falling apart. it's armageddon when people F*CK
is there nothing else that could be more worthy of your concern ?
Agreed. Furthermore, if an insurance company want to spend money on prostitutes for their top level employees, and its consensual, I don't see where the issue is?
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On the topic of teaching:
Here in the UK (not so sure about America as I'm not sure what is taught at secondary level) I much prefer secondary history to academic history. Academic history focuses on a minuscule and very specific part of history, so for example you may study the crusades, but you will miss out the vast majority of things which actually had an impact on the outcome, battles and the like, instead focusing on something as small as gender roles among crusaders (something I'm having to do right now). When it gets to this stage, I personally find it so tedious and pointless that it actually infuriates me when writing many of my essays. History at an academic level has become such a trumped up pile of crap. Outside of academic history, the people of the world don't care about the vast majority of things scholars write about as they are so dull, dry and seemingly pointless that they are totally uninteresting. I'm doing a history degree, but I thoroughly hate what academic history is and represents. history should be about bringing history to the people, which is why I am doing a dissertation on public history and heritage. Don't get me wrong, if a historian enjoys being mind-numbingly nit-picky about "Women activists, southern conservatives, and the prohibition of sex discrimination in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act" (yes that's an actual article I had to read) then by all means do it, but history will die out if it continues to solely be that due to people being uninterested in it. It also has a tendency at higher levels to totally miss parts of history out due to being too specific.
Secondary history on the other hand has the opportunity to be incredibly influential in a young persons life, it can teach them about anything from the Romans to US civil rights, not going in depth enough to be dry but still being correct, while staying general enough that you don't have to spend a whole year looking at a topic. It can help children learn their cultural identity as well as knowing the important world events which happened way before they were born. Hell, History lessons ideally would be like an episode of QI, learn something cool, move on, learn something else cool, move on. It's going over the same crap just in more detail that makes history boring.
History is important for people to learn, so it's vital that history is entertaining and interesting while staying correct. When I become a teacher, I want to get kids interested in history and love it as much as I do. When I went to a local school recently, I spend a good while just reading a textbook, and actually learnt a lot of things simply due to academic history being too specific and not giving broader pictures.
A man who makes tyres doesn't necessarily know much about cars, whereas a mechanic may not know much about tyres, but he sure knows about cars as a whole. The same applies to historians. They may be able to tell you about a specific thing, but they won't have a clue about it in context.
Rant over.
I completely disagree, I think the academic historians and the intellectual writers are the ones pushing the field forward. I know a lot of people see it as playing with your self intellectually. Most of those people (in my experiences) just don't understand it. The "coolness" of history is okay for middle schoolers, but history is also about gaining critical reasoning skills, analytical skills, and problem solving skills. Academic history provides this. Studying the nuts and bolts of history--the battles, the dates, the figures--is fine and dandy, but there are some of us who want to draw larger conclusions from these events. Also, if you know your historiography well enough, you'd know that public history is itself a born from a very long tradition of academic history.
My point here is that some historians (myself included) enjoy pondering, thinking, and hypothesizing about the abstract. This is how we perceive the world. This is how we view history as well. As I said before, the nuts and bolts of history is fine for those whose appetite is satiated by that sort of thing, but there are many of us who desire to move beyond that :)
Also, a historian that does not know the context of the subject he/she is writing about is simply a bad historian, not an academic one. An academic historian should provide an in depth analysis and also be able to weave in the context in which the specific occurs.
But most importantly, an historian should know to use an, and not a.
Considering history: The subject itself interests me to no end, and is one I am thinking of looking into at a tertiary level. Focusing on the events of history, and analysing the context in which they were created, and the consequences that they had is something that interests me to no end. To me, the nuts and bolts are not where the most interesting bits lie. Sure, dates and figures work well, but its the abstract thinking that too has caught my attention.
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Bows your link doesn't work.
To be honest, I seriously appreciate the effort, but I'm not a huge fan of the signature. The smudging is a bit overpowering, and I feel like the tag lacks a bit of direction.
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I've been carving the local hills in my area, getting used to standup slides on Big Zigs. Admittedly not the best sliding wheels, they just grip like a motherfuker. Awesome for carving though. I'm building up to 10km casual rides now. I'm loving my Kracked Skulls board though, thinking I might invest in some new bearings. Got them a bit wet the other day, when I had to board in the light rain.
Mostly, the boarding has been sweet as, and i'm looking forward to much of summer.
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Deput Head Master just rang me....
I got chosen to be a prefect! :DDDDD
You and me both. I also got picked to be a prefect by my school, pretty stoked for that. Congratualtions, also Ouchy.
Gosh, I still think of Harry Potter when I hear prefect, haha.
Just killed my Chemistry exam. Feel so good right now. There's nothing like having a very esteemed professor like you because you simply do the work well instead of trying to suck up to him and all that.
Welcome back duff, I have someone to talk about longboarding with again.
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Not bad Soa, I think I might start doing a few sigs for the summer. If I get alright again, down for a collaboration?
Size: 400 x 180
Render: http://planetrenders.net/renders/albums/userpics/253713/Scout-n-Heavy.png
Text (if any): mrshinyredplanet
Anything else:
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Rollies, if at all.