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Published: Dec. 17, 2018 at 2:00 AM CST
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"Neither the demigods nor any exalted personalities were there helping Rama, for He acted alone. You should not entertain any doubt on this matter. Indeed, Rama shot feathered arrows, plated with gold, which turned into five-headed serpents that devoured all the Rakshasas. The Rakshasas were oppressed with fear, and wherever they went and wherever they turned, they saw Rama in front of them. In this way, O spotless one, have your Rakshasas been destroyed in the forest of Janasthana by Rama." (Akampana speaking to Ravana, Valmiki Ramayana, Aranya Kand, 31.18-19)
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नैव देवा महात्मानो नात्र कार्या विचारणा।
शरा रामेण तूत्सृष्टा रुक्मपुङ्खाः पतत्रिणः।।
सर्पाः पञ्चानना भूत्वा भक्षयन्ति स्म राक्षसान्।
येन येन च गच्छन्ति राक्षसा भयकर्शिताः।
तेन तेन स्म पश्यन्ति राममेवाग्रतः स्थितम्।
इत्थं विनाशितं तेन जनस्थानं तवानघ।।
naiva devā mahātmāno nātra kāryā vicāraṇā।
śarā rāmeṇa tūtsṛṣṭā rukmapuṅkhāḥ patatriṇaḥ।।
sarpāḥ pañcānanā bhūtvā bhakṣayanti sma rākṣasān।
yena yena ca gacchanti rākṣasā bhayakarśitāḥ।
tena tena sma paśyanti rāmamevāgrataḥ sthitam।
itthaṃ vināśitaṃ tena janasthānaṃ tavānagha।।
"I know I shouldn't look at things this way, but I can't help it in this case. I know you often make reference to Akampana's testimony in the Ramayana, wherein he describes what took place on the battlefield of Janasthana, after Ravana sent a massive army there to deal with a single man.
"These are historical incidents involving an avatara of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but there seem to be elements of symbolism involved. Maybe element is not the right word. Opportunity. A way to teach a complex principle through story. Sort of like explaining something in a picture instead of writing it out.
"Would you say that is accurate? What symbolism can we draw from the incident, where the innocent Shri Rama defended Himself against attacking night-rangers?"
1. One against many
This historical incident is another of countless attempts by the nonbelievers to measure the extent of the potency in the Almighty. This sort of challenge shouldn't be necessary. One look out the window while aboard an airplane should provide vivid and clear evidence of the extraordinary nature of this creation, over which we have little control.
Nevertheless, the illusion is potent for a reason. It can fool an otherwise intelligent person into believing that there is no God, that the individual can rise to the summit of achievement and influence, and that every kind of opposition can be squashed.
In this case, Ravana applied overwhelming force. Fourteen thousand of his men, who were expert at black magic, who could change their shapes at will, who were accustomed to attacking at night and in the forest area, went to Janasthana to deal with a warrior prince named Rama.
The supposed pretense was the ill-treatment received by Ravana's sister, who had previously met with Rama and tried to attack Rama's wife, Sita Devi. Rama's younger brother Lakshmana disfigured her in the process, and she ran away bloody and screaming.
But a villain like Ravana does not require justification; the senses dictate every move. This should have been a quick encounter. Short and painless, with success guaranteed. It turned out to be true, but the other way around. Rama easily routed the fourteen thousand Rakshasas. For God this is child's play. He can defend against fourteen million, if needed.
2. Service of the guru
Rama was not alone in the forest. He was living there with Sita and Lakshmana. For this encounter with Ravana's men, the eldest son of King Dasharatha accepted the battle alone. He directed Lakshmana to take Sita to a nearby cave.
This is striking considering the service attitude within Lakshmana. He certainly would have preferred to fight. He would have defended Sita and Rama by himself, if he had to. He was not afraid. To retreat to a safe area was not his preferred option, but the representative of the Supreme Lord will make sacrifices in this way, serving the best interests.
3. Kala chasing
Akampana described that Ravana's men could not find relief from Rama's arrows. Retreating did not work. The arrows, which were plated with gold, chased them, as if heat-seeking missiles had been launched. It was like a computer had locked in on a target and would not let go.
This exchange illustrates how kala operates with the asura class, those who are against God. Kala is a Sanskrit word that means both time and death. Time devours as soon as there is birth. Death is the last blow of time on the individual in their particular body.
The asuras think they can defeat time, but in truth they are merely retreating. They are looking for shelter here and there, but they will never find it. The targets are set, and they will be hit.
4. Oppressed with fear
Who actually welcomes death? Who wants to be forced out of their way of living, to which they have become attached through so many years of association? Who wants to be dragged into the court of justice, with their sinful and pious deeds reviewed by a judge whose word is final? Who wants to take the chance of being sent somewhere in the future that is not enjoyable?
In this way the Rakshasas were oppressed with fear. They had reason to be concerned with the afterlife, which they foolishly denied for so long. They had killed many innocent sages in the tapo-vanas before, and they thought there wouldn't be negative consequences. They thought wrong.
5. Grim-visaged
Kala chases every person, irrespective of their disposition towards dharma, or the path of righteousness. The distinction with the atheist class is that they get a meeting with a gruesome form. The incident described by Akampana is further evidence.
Kala was striking through Rama's arrows. After chasing their targets, those arrows showed the face of a five-headed serpent. Death was grim for the egregiously sinful, and there was no way to escape.
The sura class, those who acknowledge God and are steadfastly devoted to Him, always sees Him, no matter where they are. They are neither running away nor hoping for additional time in ignorance. They bask in His presence, no matter where they live, and see Him standing tall, ready to protect and defend.
In Closing:
Not into illusion to fall,
Seeing Him standing tall.
Ready always to defend,
With gold-plated arrows to send.
The enemy chasing away,
Mark on the target to stay.
Better with that consciousness leaving,
With blessed image of Rama receiving.
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Astrophotography Part 5 of 6: Working in Post
The Time-consuming Part
By K David in Articles and Tips on Nov 2, 2016
This article looks at some basic software and editing approaches related to astrophotography, including discussions about and samples of specific photos I've shared over the course of this series. Toward the end you will also find resource links for a number of excellent sources on capture and processing techniques. Note that this article is not an in-depth exploration of niche astrophotography editing techniques. Many other resources, both here on Pentax Forums and elsewhere, cover that well. Also, the niche editing techniques are not generally intended for DSLR users.
Don't miss parts 1-4 of our astrophotography series before reading on!
Post Processing Benefits
As important as the camera set-up and capture techniques, post processing your star photos will help you deliver the results that you set out for. Good techniques for astrophotography image editing include a number of specialty and niche techniques and programs. We'll touch on those briefly but this article's focus will be a couple specific compositing use cases. They entail techniques readily accessible to most photographers with a capable photo editing software.
Post Processing Options
Many post processing options exist. Photoshop, Lightroom, GIMP, and Nik are common general-purpose photo editors. RegiStax and StarStax are two popular astrophotography image stacking programs designed specifically for that purpose. For this article, we'll be discussing Photoshop (using version CS6 extended) and comparing both RegiStax and StarStax. We'll also run through some basic post processing principles.
Editing Raw Files
If you don't already shoot raw for your astrophotography work, start. Raw editing affords far greater image recovery room, more star recovery capability, and more foreground illumination control. Also, if you plan to stack your images, you can batch-balance all your raw files to achieve like colors and lighting across each frame prior to stacking.
Editing JPEG Files
JPEG editing, if this isn't already your practice, is best suited for fine tuning. Tasks like cloning out distracting foreground elements, refining colors, adding or removing image noise, and other revisions not accessible in a typical raw editor are well suited for JPEG editing. If you plan to stack images, it's best to do your JPEG editing on the final, stacked image.
Combining Images In-camera
Star Trails Composite Image | K David
If you have a newer advanced Pentax DSLR model, you have the option to easily combine images in-camera using one of two drive modes: interval composite or star stream. The former outputs a single image file, while the latter creates (up to) 4K videos of star trails and works very well for sharing motion-capture time lapse images. One or both of these modes are available on the Pentax 645Z, K-3, K-3 II, K-1, K-S2, and K-70.
Look in the drive mode menu to see if your camera has the interval composite / star stream modes
These two drive modes make life easy, but they also have their limitations: you get much more control and flexibility by shooting a sequence of multiple images and combining them in post.
If you'd like to create a single star trail image from an interval sequence shot by the camera, the best option is to use your blending mode in Photoshop and select "Bright."
Bright works exactly as you think it might: by layering each photo and keeping only the brightest pixel in the stack. This is the mode to use when shooting a star trail image. You will also pick up clouds, however.
If you have the SD card and hard drive space, it might be a good idea to keep your process as well as the final image. That way, you have more than just your final frame. This has uses if your image has a car drive through the foreground, for example. Going back to the first frame would give you a better foreground to cut and paste into the final image. For more information on Pentax composite shooting modes, check out this article.
Photoshop Extended Statistics Blending
Pentax Forums published an extensive guide on Photoshop blending techniques. For more information on long-exposure compositing, check out this article. A number of useful Photoshop blending modes exist for astrophotography and the results from various modes can be great or, at minimum, possibly useful as editing layers.
Stacking Images
Some Software Options
For photographers who don't need all the to-do Photoshop provides or don't want to pay a monthly fee of the privilege of using Photoshop CC, two free star trail programs provide some reliable astrophotography functionality: Registax and Starstax. Both of these programs lack the ability to support raw files and Registax, at least, caps component imaged a 3,000 by 2,000 pixels. We don't have an in-depth write-up on these, but they are freeware and can be downloaded from the links in this paragraph.
Registax is the more capable of the two and is what many amateur astrophotographers use for lucky-frame image composition. This feature allows a video or multiple, sometimes thousands, of frames to be compared for the sharpest individual pixel groups to deliver far sharper images than typical shots or composites.
Starstax is a star trails creation software. It also has some options such as making comet-like trails from the stacked images and allows users to remove the gaps that can occur between star photos when the camera ends one frame and starts the next. If you only want to do star trail photos, Starstax is a good, free option.
Layers and Selective Deletion
Layers are a powerful tool for astrophotography edits. It's important to note that editing should not change the nature of the scene but enhance it or fix errors in the capture process. It can also help to create a specific image that recreates a scene that the photographer aimed to capture and, in doing so, create a piece of art. For this section, I'll share three images and then show how layer use resulted in the final image.
Shooting the Moon
This photo arose from two different images:
I used this shot for the moon— a scaled JPEG otherwise straight out of camera is shown above. The file used in the final image was edited in raw to sharpen, increase contrast, and remove some of the lens-related moon glow.
I used either this shot or the other in the series for the stars. For reference, that star is Vega. The moon was not passing by Vega when the photo was taken that night, which allowed me to capture more stars without light pollution from the moon. I overlayed the moon photo onto the Vega photo in Photoshop.
In this screen capture from the editing process, I turned the transparency on the moon layer to 50% illustrate the overlay. In the final image, the moon layer was left at 100%. There are a number of ways to do the next steps.
Click on the photo for an enlargement. Here you can see my Photoshop interface with the layer blend mode to lighter color. This lets the stars from the lower layer shine through the upper layer. If you elect to use this method, any stars behind the moon that shine through need to be erased. That's easiest by going into the bottom layer and cloning out the subject stars with the healing tool brush set to replace. If you just erase the stars with the eraser tool and the sky colors don't match exacty you will end up with black dots where the stars were.
Again, click on the link for an enlarged view. The image above shows the results of the two approaches. The top circle shows where I cloned out a star. The lower circle shows where I erased a star.
However, that's now how I did my compositing. There's a better way that will deliver better results in situations like these. I noticed in my shots, especially after editing, that the sky in the Vega shot was lighter than the sky in the moon shot. That gave me the idea to give the moon a shadow, to use the empty space behind the moon to give it a complete form. For this approach, I left the moon layer's transparency at Normal.
Here you can see that the moon layer is set to normal transparency. I used grid lines to create an intersection between the furthest point on the moon both on the side and bottom. I chose the bottom only because the top of the moon doesn't show the actual top (notice how the shadow covers the northern pole).
Using the grid lines as a reference, I created a circular mask (CTRL+mask drag) until the moon was surrounded by the mask lines. This is the easiest approach to creating a precisely placed circular mask— find the corners of a square that would fit the circular object snugly and then drag a perfect-circle mask from corner outward.
After creating the mask, I selected the inverse and deleted the background around the moon. This approach created a shadow area for the moon because the moon's background sky was darker than that in the star shot. I did not feather the deleted space because I wanted a crisp moon shape. This empty space created the moon's shape in the final image. After I had just the moon to work with, I placed it where I wanted and cropped to a pleasing 1:1 aspect ratio.
Wading began as an effort to capture star trails. In total, the foreground and sky image resulted from 108 images, though far fewer would have been required. This shot was taken on the shore of South Lake Tahoe in California looking northeast toward Reno, Nevada. I hadn't planned on a person being in the shot, but some drunk kids went for an after-midnight dip and one frame with one of the kids turned out very well.
The shots had to be 30-second exposures because the lights from the casinos in South Lake and the lights of Reno overpowered the sensor on longer exposures. When I pulled the shots into post, I was disappointed with the numbers of stars I had captured. Even in raw, I couldn't pull a significant number of stars out. The foreground had a number of issues, too, with boats and a foreground jet ski moving around in the wind and leaving the smooth lake full of blurry objects.
I blended the 108 frames using Photoshop statistics (median) and obtained a shot totally devoid of stars. I found the shot where one of the waders had stayed in place for the whole frame and also the frame previous where he walked into place and left a wake behind him. I combined those two layers and placed them into the water to hide the blurry red jet ski.
I used some additional layers to remove blurry boat masts and correct color. Because the star trails were lackluster, I brought in the blank sky from the median-blended image and hid the stars from the original shot. That night I had taken a second star trails shot with my K-3 and the same lens only this time pointed directly at the sky to maximize stars. The camera was pointed over the area of this shot but without the same level of light pollution. I used the star trails from that shot in this image and lined their paths up, generally, with the few star trails the original shots captured.
Additional Resources, Tips, and Tricks
For those of you who would like more resources about astrophotography editing, here are some links to websites and organizations with more specialized knowledge. And, of course, your area astronomical society will have a lot of knowledgeable and experienced people who can direct you to editing techniques that will benefit your specific images.
General Resources
- An entire article series (and a very comprehensive one) on astrophotography.
- An excellent, detailed, and very in-depth resource that will keep your astrophotography knowledge growing for a long time.
- A good rundown of available software and resources.
- A superb resource with exceptional tutorials on various tips and software. You can also find your local astronomy society through this site.
- A good tutorial on the ways and whys of photo stacking.
Lightroom and Photoshop
- A great Lightroom tutorial. This source also includes a fantastic Milky Way exposure calculator. It's also exceptionally thorough and shows every step in the editing process for the article's image.
- This source looks at how to pull all kinds of details from a photo of Andromeda. This tutorial uses curves, making it easily understood and accessible to astrophotographers of any Photoshop skill level.
- Basic Photoshop image correction tutorial using a sample photo of M81 an M82. Accessible to photographers with any level of Photoshop skill or experience.
Setting Yourself up for Easy Editing
- Minimizing your post work difficulty will improve your results. If you'd like to try imaging with filters to highlight, eliminate, or single out certain image elements, here's a guide to filter selection.
- Tips and tricks for CCD imaging, but many also apply to DSLR imaging.
- Tips and techniques for deep-sky imaging with your DSLR.
Just for Fun
- Here's a poster that shows the paths of many of the space explorers we've lauchned from earth. Some of the craft had amazing journeys.
- A list of locations, worldwide, with great stargazing and astrophotography potential.
See also the other parts of our astrophotography series here!
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Hey lixxie, it sounds like your RVF is quite small. Or in the process of healing? Did you have an MRI done? That's how mine was finally found.
Most of the time, my drainage is what I'd consider light. However, if I'm "holding it (my poo)" for too long, more comes out of the fistula hole. There is air from time to time, nothing embarassing. The outside hole is just outside the vag. opening. I wear a panty liner 24/7, and I also stick a makeup remover pad (cotton round) on it if I'm having a heavier day. I take antibiotics for both the fistula and for pouchitis.
I've had my jpouch 19 years, this appeared about 1.5 years ago. In June I had a seton put in: this was to prevent branching, and to help it heal. I like CJB's explanation, comparing it to an ear piercing - wish I could thread a string soaked in rubbing alcohol through the fistula like I remember doing with my ears to help them heal! My doc (at CC) told me this type of fistula will NOT heal. I think that's because mine's got a large angle to it.
I go back to the surgeon next June to see how it's going. She thought the seton would be in for 3-4 more years. She offered up a pouch redo, or a pouch removal, but even then said there's no guarantee the seton would go away. She didn't sound confident that any other type of fistula surgery would work on this particular one.
Really, this will sound selfish, but the only problem I have is that marital relations are not possible, at least not at this time.
Good luck with yours - fingers crossed that it healed on its own!


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Growing Tomatoes
But I did not give up. I researched why this was happening and what I should do to make my plants bear fruit. I checked the composition of the fertilizer I had used and the location of the pots to ensure they got enough sunshine. I used a different kind of fertilizer that was high in fruiting nutrients and added more soil in the pots. I continued watering the plants regularly and pruned unnecessary growth.
After another couple of weeks I saw flowers forming and transforming into small tomato fruits. I am looking forward to reaping a good harvest.
It occurred to me that we are like tomato plants planted where we are. We need to take care of ourselves, not only our bodies but also our souls. We need to grow and bear fruit.
Jesus said: "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. . . . . Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit . . . " John 15:1-3
Our Lord wants us to be fruitful. And He gives us all the graces we need through prayer, spiritual reading especially Holy Scripture, and the sacraments. Our Lord Himself gave us His Body and Blood as food for our souls.
" . . . the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control." Gal 5:22
If we abide in our Lord, we will bear much fruit, fruit that will lead us to eternal life.
That is what matters most. In fact, the only thing that matters for the plants the Lord has planted . . . us.#


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Courtesy: Chronicle Books With all the iPhone hoopla and backdated-options drama that has attended Steve Jobs in recent months, it's high time for an investigative book on the tumultuous rise of Pixar, a chronicle of how Jobs cleverly leveraged his animation studio's string of blockbusters to gain near total control of Disney, America's ultimate fantasy factory. To Infinity and Beyond! The Story of Pixar Animation Studios is not that book. Instead, Karen Paik and Leslie Iwerk's coffee-table retrospective — packed with concept art, storyboards, and other fanboy fodder — tells a gleaming rags-to-riches story with the happiest of endings: How, in 1984, computer whiz Ed Catmull, whose underappreciated computer division at Lucasfilm cracked the problem of computerized motion-blur — then the holy grail of animation — hires John Lasseter, sensing that the Disney washout's storytelling chops could take the fast-developing medium to a new level. How, two years later, Apple exile Jobs hands Lucas $10 million for Catmull's embattled group, then lets it stumble along as a failing computer company until it scores an Oscar in 1988 for Lasseter's short, Tin Toy. Five of the top-grossing films of all time follow, and Pixar grows into The Toy That Ate Disney. By leaving out the PG-13 boardroom bloodbaths that led to Jobs' $5 billion stake in the Mouse House, it all amounts to a lovingly crafted, painstakingly detailed, gorgeously illustrated 304-page press release. Who cares — it's incredible!
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'Good Morning America' referred to Hillary Clinton as Bill Clinton's wife and nothing else
As attendees began streaming into the Friday inauguration ceremony of president-elect Donald Trump, the Twitter account for ABC News' Good Morning America dedicated a tweet to the arrival of two guests in particular: former President Bill Clinton and his "wife," Hillary Clinton.
"Wife" is an interesting title to use to refer to Hillary Clinton. It's not her most recent role, or the one we'll someday remember her most for.
Here are some alternate captions "Good Morning America" could have reasonably decided to run with instead:
• Winner of the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election by almost 3 million votes, Hillary Clinton arrives at the U.S. Capitol with Bill, a man who sometimes accompanies her
• Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives at the U.S. Capitol with her husband, Bill
• Hillary Clinton, New York senator during Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, arrives at the U.S. Capitol with husband
As we've seen time and again, the media is no stranger to referring to women as merely the accessories of their more supposedly accomplished husbands. But in the case of Clinton — a woman with a resume longer than the lines of onlookers stretched out along the National Mall to witness Friday's ceremony — it's an especially egregious oversight.
Correction: Jan. 20, 2017


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When I posted this pic of me in this Yoleaux shirt on top of the Dolomites, people went crazy (the scenery and the wine didn't hurt either). What a shirt, and what a day hiking in the clouds. I actually got the shirt from Wines of Bordeaux, who made them as a super fun play … Continue reading
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