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Hello All,
Please see below and assist if possible with my London Itinerary:
When: 4/25/16 - 5/1/16
Why: Honeymoon
Where: Pestana Chelsea bridge hotel, London
I really appreciate all the help and advice I've been given on this forum. It's very awesome
Please note some things in our itinerary may not be relevant, like prices. Just for our knowledge. We tried to schedule by location.
Day 1 – 4-25-16
6:50: Arrive
7:30 Head to Picadilly Line at Heathrow to purchase 2x Oyster Card, we are going to do a car shuttle service, blackberry I think?
8:30-8:45 arrive at hotel ---Pestana Chelsea Bridge hotel and Spa
9:30: Victoria and Albert Museum—Free >>Bus+Metro: [email protected]:00AM
12:30-1: Food
1:00: Natural History Museum of London----Rest of day
Dinner sometime at night and early check in as we will probably be exhausted
Day 2- 4-26-16
9:00: Breakfast
10:45: Travel to Buckingham Palace
11:30: Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace—45Minutes -36/56£
12:15ish: Head to Westminster Abbey----2hr------40£
3:00: Head to Big Ben---Free---30mins
3:30: Head to Trafalgar Square----Free---30Min
5:15: Picadilly Circus------Free---15Min
5:45: ChinaTown
6:30: Dinner
8:00 London Eye –Tickets Purchased
Day 3 – 4-27-16
8:00 Breakfast
10:00 British Museum-------Free----Stay until 2pm
2:20 National Gallery-----Free---Closes at 6pm
6:00 Dinner
7:30 Jack the Ripper Tour----20£----1.45hrs
Day 4 4-28-16
9:00: Breakfast
9:48: Depart from Hotel to Warner Brothers Harry Potter Tour---80£ [email protected]:30AM
3:30 We leave and head to Hyde Park
4:00 Hyde Park----Free----2hr
6:00: Dinner -Fancy dinner
9:00: Ghost Bus Tour----- 42£
10:15 Head to Hotel
Day 5 4-29-16
9:30 Breakfast
10:30 Head to Tower of London ---3hr -----50£----50min ride—[email protected]:20
2:20 Head to Borough Market------2hr
4:20 Shakespeare Globe Theater-----1hr-----30£
6:00 London Bridge the Experience------1hr----54£----maybe skip??
7:00 Dinner
Day 6 4-30-16
Windsor Castle Day Trip ???
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>>7:30 Head to Picadilly Line at Heathrow to purchase 2x Oyster Card, we are going to do a car shuttle service, blackberry I think?<<
OK right off the bat you are making a mistake. I thought from the other thread we had explained that you will want paper travelcards NOT Oysters to get the 2for1 discounts. You can buy the paper travel cards at the station walking distance from your hotel. I think justairports will be cheaper than Blackberry but double check.
OK day by day: Day 1: With a 0650 arrival you probably will not get to the hotel until 0930 or 10AM. If your room is not yet available you can leave your bags and come back later -- but don't count on getting to the V&A until probably 11AM or noon after checking in. And then no chance to walk to the Natural History until 3 or 4 PM a the earliest.
BUT day one is not usually a good time to schedule big museums and definitely not two of them. Jet lag!
Day 2: You have basically filled day two w/ 'walk by's' If it was me I'd do these on day one so you are out doors getting fresh air and not bogged down in museums. Then do the V&A and Natural History on Day 2.
Day 3: Please PLEASE skip the Jack the Ripper tour. Take a London Walks pub tour or something better.
Day 4: You better leave your hotel well before '9:48' if you have an 11:30 tour at the HP studio. It will take about 2.5 hours door to door to get there.
Ghost bus tour - really?
Day 5: IF you get that paper travel card -- the Tower and Globe will both be Half price!
Day 6: Maybe consider Hampton Court instead.
None of your days will run exactly to plan so just so you don't drive yourselves crazy -- forget about the precise times.
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Instead of the Ghost Bus or JtR - why not go to a concert or play or a late night gallery opening or something.
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I'd take the London Eye when it is daylight and the first thing so you can orient yourselves to London by seeing it all in one fell swoop - yes the lights at night are nice but does not orient you much to the city below - maybe board at dusk and that may be at that time in late April not sure.
China Town is basically one street you walk thru in a few minutes.
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Hey Janis,
I forgot to edit that part out, We typed this up on Friday before my other post sorry about that. You're indeed correct REaper Travelcard -----Also I tried justairports but let me try again, thought it was a bit more pricey. --This luggage stuff is weird, I have a small mitsubishi eclipse and it fits our 2 backpacks/2 big luggage things with no problem. Not sure how any car can only fit 1 suitcase
I remember hearing that being outside is good for jet lag, so yes we will switch day 1 and 2 then. We didnt want to do 2 back to back museum days was my biggest concern.
We really enjoyed a ghost tour in Asheville recently, that's why we picked the ghost bus tour lol. We thought it would be fun. It and the jack the ripper thing had great reviews so thats the reasoning. Not sure if pub means bar or not, but we are not drinkers at all so a pub tour wouldn't be as entertaining.
I see your point, exact times probably aren't best unless we have to be somewhere at an exact time, London eye/HP Tour.
Thanks Janis
London Eye has been booked so we can't change that.
OH I didn't know that, re China Town: We saw on a guide it could take like 2 hours to wander around it.
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Another recommendation for London Walks. There are many to choose from. You just show up at the appointed time and place, pay the trip leader and off you go. No reservations, no cancellations. We have done many, including Westminster, British Museum, Cotswalds, etc.
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On the justairport website don't count your carry-ons. Unless you have HUGE suitcases which you shouldn't (if you do, that will require another thread ) a saloon (regular sedan) will be fine. And the cash price is less.
So two people and two suitcases - period. Hope you aren't taking larget than 24 inchers (26 max.)
>>Not sure if pub means bar or not, but we are not drinkers at all so a pub tour wouldn't be as entertaining.<<
You still might want to visit some pubs at least for a few meals. No requirement to drink alcohol. They serve soft drinks, coffee, too . . . Shame to go to London and not visit any pubs . . they aren't like the local road house or anything.
China Town is more than one street -- but the 'touristy bit' is mainly just a lot of restaurants and a gateway. I'd spend that time exploring Covent Garden instead.
Re: Jack the Ripper. OK -- I'll be blunt. This is your honeymoon - right? Not that you will necessarily be lovey dovey every single minute but do you really> want to walk around the East End hearing (in pretty gory detail) about prostitutes being butchered? Plus not a single one of the original sites still exists. Totally redeveloped and mostly business and apartments. This ain't Disneyland -- it was a mass murderer. Not pretty.
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agree with janis about the ripper tours
do they do Ted Bundy tours for entertainment in the US?
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>>do they do Ted Bundy tours for entertainment in the US?<<
. . . Or Jeffrey Dahmer??
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Or the Boston Strangler?
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We both have 25inch suitcases We thought if we filled those it would be considered light, how do some people go for two weeks on 21/22? That's impressive.
I'm sure we'll eat at some pubs then. We've yet to look into any restaurants. The only thing I want is a nice beef wellington as there is nowhere around here to get it and I really want to try !
Maybe we can skip China town then, figured it might be cool to see.
We both love murder mysteries and the shows on tv involving that sort of thing. Just something we enjoy, as well as just scaredy stuff in general. I'm not trying to say, go jack the ripper go kill more people, but we are just looking for some nightly entertainment and we figured we'd enjoy that sort of thing.
Hmm. I've never heard of ted bundy tour, but I'd imagine if it were a situation of popularity, 9/10 times I'd imagine more people to have heard of jack the ripper from around the world.
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janis asks about Jeffrey Dahmer Tours and yes Jeffrey Dahmer Tours are indeed done by Hangman Tours.
Ted Bundy tours - of course!
This latter one compares itself to London's many Ripper tours.
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>>Jeffrey Dahmer Tours are indeed done by Hangman Tours.<<
>>Ted Bundy tours - of course!<<
No accounting for taste
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I travel for months rather than weeks with a 22 inch roller and a day pack that doubles as a carry on for pharma and electronics. The trick is laundry, for which I use the bathroom sink. 25 inches is definitely not light!
For my packing list start here (links at the top of the page):
Or try this:
Also, I don't understand this:
"Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace—45Minutes -36/56£"
The changing of the Guard is over-hyped but free.
Do be prepared to abandon the schedule and just relax and wander, London is a wonderful town for just strolling and seeing what's round the next corner. Or enjoying the parks if the weather cooperates.
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Hey Thursdaysd, I've no idea where I got that price from...I can no longer find it lol.
I'll check your packing links. Thank you. I wonder what the costs will be for doing laundry. I was going to bring 7days of clothes and wash when we are leaving for paris(or close to that day).
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Let's see. If you do as BigRuss and Janis said and get the two-fers, you just saved lunch money at Minories Pub which is thisclose to the Tower. It's under the DLR overpass at Tower Gateway station on the street called Minories.
Other notes: just because you're an American doesn't mean you have to be suckered in to a daft tourist trap like the Changing of the Guard where the bang/hype ratio is completely screwy. Look into Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower instead. Changing of the Guard is neither as neat nor as traditional as it was. If you want to see a good, solemn, traditional, and moving changing of the guard, go to Arlington National Cemetery.
And you're not spending 30 minutes at Big Ben - look up, there's a big flippin' clock, take some pics, yadda yadda.
If the other half has any interest in history, you should go to the Abbey and then to the War Rooms for your day 2 and walk by the Palace at another point in time. There's also the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum and more.
The ripper tour is interesting, but there are better things you can do like catch a show, a concert, a comedy performance. This is the biggest city in Western Europe and everyone claims to speak English so you might as well take in some culture that you'll actually understand (i.e., not opera).
Nix the London Bridge experience - it's a bloody bridge with little or no artistry. And the original is in Arizona so who cares. If you're confusing the Tower Bridge with London Bridge, again, it's still not money well spent.
You also don't need a day at Windsor Castle - HRM doesn't allow the serfs that much run of the place so what's accessible can be shot in about 1/2 day.
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Changing of Guards is free but in order to get a good view of what's going on you need to be there v. early. IMO it simply isn't worth it.
There are a number of better evening walks than Jack the Ripper. Have a look at their website for other options. www.waljs.com
Good advice by thursdaysd on planning some free time to just experience London. Once there you will find numerous things you want to see/do that aren't on your list...wandering through Covent Gardens, walking St. James/ Hyde Park or enjoying a cup of tea at the Orangery, exploring Clerkenwell or the residential area by Westminster Abbey etc.
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Tea time is definitely something I really want to do. I love doing afternoon tea on cruises/vegas and other places I've ventured. So now it's time for the cream of the crop I don't want to spend more than 40-50£ per person though as it's just a bit much for that. Any good afternoon tea spots that have excellent sandwiches/scones/deserts/tea that isn't a thousand pounds a visit ?
Sounds like we should definitely skip changing of the guard. Duly noted. That's why I'm glad I'm asking all of this.
I absolutely love history, my fiance not so much. I'm not too big of a fan of history post 1900's though. Which I think is what the Imperial War Museum is all about, correct me if I'm wrong.---No idea what the maritime museum is.
We had kensington palace on the list, guess we can add that in somewhere
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" I wonder what the costs will be for doing laundry."
No idea, I do it myself in the bathroom sink for free, usually a little every other night. Your hotel or google maps should be able to direct you to a laundromat, having your hotel do it will undoubtedly be very expensive.
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You list dinner just after Chinatown. Why not just eat there? They have some really good restaurants.
Google Richoux Tea Shops. We share the "Tea for Two" order.
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If visiting Kensington Palace you could have your afternoon tea at the Orangery. Have a look at their website. www.orangerykensingtonpalace.co.uk
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I was actually looking at that place for tea. Have you tried it yourself?
@thursday do you just bring your own soap for the clothes? That's quite interesting.
Hmm. I guess we could do dinner at chinatown, thanks for the tip!
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I'm not really into afternoon tea but have had tea & cake, sandwiches there. The Orangery has a very nice ambience. In the more modest price range, I'd say it was a very good option.
Don't know about thursdaysd, but I also do sink laundry. I always use the shampoo or body wash that the hotels, B&B's offer. They work just fine.
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I used to take a small plastic bottle of Woolite, these days I just use shampoo, it's easier to replace and works fine. Do test wash your clothes to make sure they drip dry successfully. I bring two or three plastic hangers, or use the hotel's, but a lot of people bring travel clothes lines. Probably unnecessary for London, but I also travel with a sink stopper - http://www.travelsmith.com/clothesline-26-sink-stopper/583502
If you just want a scone and clotted cream for tea, the V&A does a good one, and they have three gorgeous rooms to eat it in. The Orangery has a good ambience, but their prices have gone up.
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>>No idea what the maritime museum is.<<
It's pretty fabulous. http://www.rmg.co.uk
Lee Ann
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Oh wow, I've never done sink laundry before. I will have to look into this at it's just very interesting to me.
Thanks for the tea recommendations as well. !
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We went to the Orangerie for our 50 the wedding anniversary and loved it. I always carry a bar of laundry soap and wash socks and jocks daily . I also have a small clothes line which has suction cups and is twisted so you just attach the clothes thru the twists. Even if you can't get a livNe thins dry easily in bathrooms , on towel racks etc.
there is avast range of walks on London walks - might a history one there.
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Go to the Wallace Collection for afternoon tea. It's lovely, in a courtyard. Not ver expensive, and the museum is free. The English Afternoon Tea with sandwiches, scones, cakes is 18.50. And for that you get a lot of food.
The Orangerie is nice too - haven't been there for a while. You can have just tea with scones, or the whole thing.
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Lots of positives for the Orangerie. I think that's where we will go. Thanks everyone .
Lot's of mentions of London walks, are there any particular ones that I should focus on maybe?
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>>Lot's of mentions of London walks, are there any particular ones that I should focus on maybe?<<
You really need to read the descriptions and pick the ones that sound best to you. They offer so many and almost all are very good - but because there are so many covering so many different areas and topics there is something for everyone. Plus each is offered on specific days of the week so you need to find the ones that fit in your itinerary.
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I'm anther who would advise avoiding Jack the Ripper. There's nothing left to see and it annoys the residents.
The Old Jewish Quarter tour will take you into the East End and the sort of neighbourhood he'd have haunted.
You might also like the Legal London tour. The Inns of Court are havens of tranquility. You'd hardly know that you are in a big, noisy bustling city.
However as somebody suggests, have a look at what's offered and see what grabs you
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A small thing but the correct spelling is Orangery. In France I'm sure it'd be Orangerie.
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We did a London Walks tour that included the changing of the guards. They place you right in front of the guards as they are marching toward Buckingham Palace and you can get great pictures without a ton of people blocking your view.
We also took their Inns of Court tour and found it very interesting.
As far as tea, we had tea at the Claridges and loved it. They replenish your tray and have a vast array of teas to choose. Lovely upscale ambiance.
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For laundry, I would just ask your hotel for places nearby that do a service wash. Drop your clothes off and pick them up later, clean and folded.
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Forums > Digital Art and Retouching > Not using the "High Pass Sucks" solution *sucks*.
Photons 2 Pixels Images wrote:
Photons 2 Pixels Images wrote:
will take a look
Apr 23 10 04:19 pm Link
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Berwick, Pennsylvania, US
Mask Photo wrote:
Photons 2 Pixels Images wrote:
I tried it a few times a few different ways and every time it goes through the Sharpen actions, the layers all end up within the Original group. But when I stop it after it makes the HF Scratch layer and move that to the top of the stack, it works fine.
Apr 23 10 05:43 pm Link
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San Diego Country Estates, California, US
Mask Photo wrote:
I have this thread bookmarked as I expect it will grow to be as useful (actually, it's already more useful for me) as the original thread.
Apr 24 10 08:13 am Link
Posts: 296
Chicago, Illinois, US
This thread and the original have been massive wealths of information. The first time I read it, it was a bit confusing, but the more I messed around with it I really wrap my head around how it all works now. Cheers for figuring this stuff out, its real genious at work I must say!
Apr 24 10 10:07 am Link
Ok, I'm trying to get this to work but am having loads of trouble. here's what I'd *like* to happen:
layer stack:
+Capture Sharpen (curves adjustment)
+Noise (linear light)
+Healing (normal)
High Frequency (linear light)
The HF layer should be in LL in order to put its detail back into the LF layer.. And I can get the healing layer (in normal mode) to clip to the HF layer to inherit its blend mode. I can also get the capture sharpen layer to clip.
however, I can't get the noise layer to behave correctly. If I leave it as LL, unclipped, it works fine, but i can't put it below the capture layer. If I clip it in LL, it seems to apply its effects twice or something strange, things get way too sharp with noise clipped in LL. If i leave Noise in "normal" and clip it, things get wrecked.
Am i missing something? Have i explained correctly?
Apr 25 10 04:45 pm Link
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Photons 2 Pixels Images wrote:
Photons, did you grab v0.7.3? from this post: http://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?threa … st12736874
Apr 29 10 02:40 am Link
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Berwick, Pennsylvania, US
DH Studios wrote:
No, I didn't get that. I actually use my own action but was only trying to help solve an issue some were having.
Apr 29 10 08:34 am Link
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Austin, Texas, US
Lunarimaging wrote:
My head is still not wrapping, but I'm definitely trying! Thanks to all of y'all for the help.
Apr 29 10 12:43 pm Link
New version up, linked (and described) in the OP. Some improvements, but nothing groundbreaking (though I do enjoy not having to set my clone source on the high frequency layer over and over now)
Jun 04 12 02:05 am Link
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Austin, Texas, US
Mask Photo wrote:
Awesome thanks I have to try it out....
Jun 04 12 05:59 am Link
Hotfix uploaded: now any layer that does simple sharpening is desaturated. I noticed that some of the creative sharpening layers were altering the saturation, which is something that should be done for a reason, not as a side-effect of sharpening.
(the exception to this is local contrast; it just looked weird being desaturated, since the whole point of the layer is to emphasize differences in large areas)
Also added another flavor of creative "sharpening" in the final effects action. Now we have:
Sharpen - 4.3px
Grit - 13px
Edge Enhancement - 40px
Local Contrast - 85px
if you want to tweak these for your own files, the values I used are 1/1000 the longest side of the image for Sharpen, 3/1000 for grit, ~9/1000 for Edge, and ~18/1000 for Local Contrast.
Jun 11 12 01:47 am Link
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@Mask Photo: YOU are my personal hero!
Jul 04 12 11:54 am Link
Digital Artist
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mask, your "final effects" set has a save action right at the top. after playing around with your actions in a file id been working on, i go to run that one and it goes ahead and saves my psd with all your new layers and testing stuff. thankfully i stopped it. this shouldnt be something left in an action, and if it is, it should be a prompt, not automatic.
just an fyi.
Jul 07 12 07:08 am Link
Eikon wrote:
you're welcome to put in a prompt, but respectfully, i feel that these are actions you should only use in production once you've toyed with them and know what they do. They're intended to be the last thing you do to a file anyway, since they overlay stamps of the entire image in the top layer group.
Jul 08 12 01:52 am Link
So just because I am a newb.
The final effects action do I run that on a merged layer with all the edits applied?
Jan 14 13 04:03 pm Link
plabonte wrote:
Yep. Get all your retouching done, because the final effects will make 3 grouped effects layers that all use a stamp of what's done so far.
Jan 15 13 08:48 pm Link
Digital Artist
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Thank you so much for sharing.
Jan 16 13 11:05 am Link
I must be doing something wrong.
When I run workspace everything is fine. Then when I run the frequency separation 8-bit the final image looks a high pass filter of an image on a 50% grey background?
Also during the scrip it ask about a snapshot and if I should pick all layers, current layer or merged layers... not sure what do answer there either... sorry is there a faq for the scripts?
Also I have no idea how to post an image in a thread.
Jan 16 13 06:28 pm Link
I think I figured it out... the base layer group was not shown after the action is finished. Also the image after the action (frequency separated) has been sharpened a great deal... I just want to make sure it should look that way.
I thought I read once the action is finished there should not be a difference between the original and the frequency separated image.
Thanks, sorry for all the questions.
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You're not doing anything wrong. the action turns the base group off so i can clone on the healing layer using "current and below".
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You're in the faq.
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It's temporarily sharpened a great deal. a gross amount of sharpening, just to emphasize flaws.
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not at all. It means people are using the actions, which is great.
Jan 16 13 10:46 pm Link
I am using CS6, and I figured out that error only happens after you rerun the script after your select Revert Image (one I screwed up the first time I reverted back to the original image and reran the script). However the first time you run the script after you open the original image the script runs fine.
Thanks for making the script, it's awesome!
Jan 17 13 04:45 pm Link
One last question about your workflow, do you do any edits for your shots in camera raw? (other then white balance and color adjustment)
Healing Brush?
Adjustment Brush?
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I do all the "big moves" in lightroom (effectively ACR for your purposes). Large tonal adjustments, gross color adjustments, etc. Also, if you're extending your dynamic range, you'll want to pull several exposures out of the raw and then sandwich and mask them... That's all done before the split. If you have a composite before you split, you'll end up with that composite preserved in the "original" group.
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Cape Town - A "breakthrough" meeting between a
civil rights group and the transport department was expected after construction
of an office block on Chapman's Peak was halted, the Cape Times reported on
The Civil Rights Action Group (Crag), the department,
construction company Murray and Roberts and toll operator Entilini would likely
meet on Thursday to discuss Crag's alternative tolling proposal.
Crag's Terry Wyner was quoted as saying: "(Transport
MEC Robin) Carlisle said if we can show him other options without any legal or
financial implications then he would listen to our proposal."
If its proposal was rejected, reasons for this would have to
be stated in writing within 24 hours. Crag wanted a tolling boom, requiring
minimal assistance, to be erected instead.
Construction of the R54m development had been halted over
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Capital One Cup: Jurgen Klopp insists he's satisfied by Liverpool's level of progress as Reds prepare for Bournemouth
Jurgen Klopp maintains Liverpool are ahead of where he expected them to be as he aims for a first win in his fourth match in charge.
The German must have thought he was about to break his duck when Christian Benteke put Liverpool ahead late on against Southampton on Sunday only for Sadio Mane to equalise.
That made it three draws in succession for Klopp, who was keen to project a more positive vibe ahead of tonight's Capital One Cup clash with Bournemouth - Benteke is ruled out due to a knee injury and is a doubt for the clash at Chelsea on Saturday - at Anfield.
Klopp said: "Everybody can see we need the results. We had results, not the most satisfying in the world. We didn't have the easiest opponents.
"If you are new in a club, normally you have more time, but if you don't you have to accept that the way is hard.
"We have a very important competition every three days and we have to find a solution. My faith in this team is really big. It's a really good working atmosphere in this squad.
"If someone hoped (the changes) would be quicker then I'm sorry but I think winning the first game and not knowing why isn't as good. It's important we find a way to win games in the future and know why, then we know we will get better."
Klopp confirmed he will rotate his squad for tonight's tie but insisted the competition is a priority.
"In this moment I don't know how many changes we will make," he said.
"But I make the changes not because this competition is not important for me. It's because I want to win.
"We had three games in the last eight or nine days in the legs so of course we have to change things.
"We have a suspended player in (James) Milner, we have injured players with little problems that we don't want to risk.
"It's the most important cup in the world because it's the only one we have to play tomorrow," he added.
Roberto Firmino could start after returning from injury off the bench against Southampton but there will again be no Daniel Sturridge who has not yet returned to training after picking up what is said to be a minor knee problem.
Liverpool's fixture with Bournemouth will go ahead as planned tonight after Anfield was cleared to reopen following an evacuation.
The club yesterday reported a man had gone missing from a tour group that was visiting Anfield, which led to a police operation at the stadium from mid-afternoon until late evening.
But after a search, both Merseyside Police and the football club said they were confident the stadium was secure.
"Anfield Stadium is now fully reopened, following a precautionary evacuation earlier this afternoon," said a club spokesman.
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An elderly woman's $10,250 bid for the long-closed Cuervo School in the Route 66 ghost town of Cuervo, N.M., was accepted by the Santa Rosa School Board, according to a story in the print edition of the Guadalupe County Communicator, based in Santa Rosa.
Flora Page, who graduated from eighth grade at the stone structure, submitted the winning bid in December. He age wasn't listed in the current story, but noted she is an octogenarian.
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The Cuervo school once drew students from far and wide, but as the town dwindled in the interstate age, so too did its school. These days, the schoolhouse is just a shell of its old self. The stonework has stood the test of time, but the roof is partially collapsed. Flocks of birds have taken over the rafters, rodents run amok, and both have left evidence of their presence on what's left of the school's wooden flooring. Meanwhile, years of summer monsoons have created deep arroyos creeping dangerously close to the old structure. […]
"My memories in Cuervo are good memories," Page said at the time, saying she hopes to keep the building standing and refurbish it for a gallery or some other type of use for perpetuity.
An earlier Communicator report said her father was a stonemason who helped build the school.
Doc Chapman, a commenter on an earlier report about the Cuervo school going up for sale, said he went by the property on Sept. 14 and saw the windows were boarded up and "No Trespassing" signs posted.
We did notice that there are a lot of survey stakes and boundery markers that have just been put up all along the road in front of the properties. One one piece of property there is several 100 feet of 6 foot chain link fence.
That's a lot more apparent activity at the site than I've seen in my 10 or so years of driving by. So maybe something good will actually happen to the property.
Oh, and that $10,250? It was used to buy musical instruments for children in Santa Rosa schools.


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Avoiding Unrealistic Retreat Enthusiasm: Two Suggestions
It's harvest season, which also means retreat season – we at Training for Change get the most requests to facilitate organizational planning retreats between late summer and mid-fall. It's also when I see the most Unrealistic Retreat Enthusiasm.
And we know a thing or two about Unrealistic Retreat Enthusiasm at Training for Change, because even we professional retreat facilitators succumb at times. Back in 2008 TFC held a planning retreat, a year after having formally closed down as a staff-led organization. We gathered together the people with the most energy in our network for increasing our ability to train other trainers and resource social justice movements, and ended the weekend with a new (still all-volunteer) structure, new working groups, and a new six-month plan. I was pumped! We all were. And within three months, we had accomplished very little of it.
That probably happened for a number of reasons. The core people in TFC are hundreds of miles away from each other, which presented a challenge to sustaining our work. And the structure we developed was unwieldy given the energy that actually emerged – distinct from what we had predicted, which left our plan wanting. Our collective wish to make it work did not quite add up to the ability to step up our time commitments (each individually, and as a group) in a way that would allow us to achieve our new goals using our new structure, and we didn't do enough checking-in about plan implementation in the months following the retreat.
(That gathering also yielded many other unseen positive outcomes unrelated to our plan, and by the time of a subsequent retreat in 2009 TFC had learned a lot from the previous year, and came up with the structure the organization uses to this day.)
Unrealistic Retreat Enthusiasm is that combination of optimism, ambition and genuine positive feeling between group members (also known as love) that results in an unrealistic plan. It happens when our eyes get bigger than our stomachs, when we bite off more than we can chew as organizations, and as individuals.
It often looks like hopeful, gleaming faces, recharged after a weekend together sharing meals and laughter, and having reflected on organizational triumphs. Let's do WAY MORE! Soon! We're going to do even bigger, amazing things! In other words, it looks a lot like any other successful planning retreat. BUT WITHOUT a clear sense of how new tasks will be accomplished.
In other words, it's a new, more ambitious plan, without the answers to three crucial questions:
1. If this plan requires new energy, where will that come from?
(Are current people stepping up, new people being brought in, or are old projects being phased out?)
2. If current people are committing to step up their involvement, how will they each manage that?
3. If new people are needed to achieve new goals, how will that happen?
Besides answering these questions, there are two other suggestions I usually offer to help groups avoid biting off more than they can chew. My favorite of the two: Have a different kind of retreat!
Suggestion #1: Have a Retreat, But Not to Plan
Grieving/Processing Heavy Emotions. I think a lot of culturally white, middle class organizations in particular have difficulty setting aside time for deep check-ins and taking stock of difficult moments. Often we know something needs to be done, but given that grieving is something we're only supposed to do when someone dies in US middle class culture, we get together to plan instead.
Resilience Training. We can all learn a thing or two from how firefighters prepare as a group – they anticipate likely stressors and challenges, and practice for how to handle them. You don't need to be a first-responder to do that. Add planning for how to handle transitions (e.g. group members entering and leaving or scaling back/stepping up), and you've got a recipe for a more resilient organization.
Relationship-Building. Because we're not often together in the same place, Training for Change trainers spend several hours on personal check-ins when we do meet up. For kicking off long-term leadership programs I've seen a lot of value of a full weekend spent solely on relationship-building activities and team challenges.
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Apologia sent me Volume I of their new Biblical Worldview of God and Truth, What We Believe series. There are going to be four books in this series but the last two have not been completed. Here are the links to all four books: Who Is God?, Who Am I?, Who Is My Brother? (available 2011) and What On Earth Can I Do? (available 2012).
The book I received, Who Is God?, was a beautiful, large, hardback book with 254 full color pages. It is recommended to be used with ages 6-14 and the cost is $39. There are some other resources that you could purchase to go with this such as the audio MP3 Cd ($15), coloring book ($8) and a notebooking journal ($24), however none of these products are necessary. We only had the book and some free pages we printed out from the link given to you when you purchase the book. I also wrote out the memory verse for each lesson and the definitions that we were to learn for that particular lesson and we reviewed those each day.
The book is separated into 10 lessons and according to the schedule located in the front of the book you should be able complete a lesson in 2 weeks. We did not use this schedule. It just didn't work for us. Instead we easily adapted the lessons to fit our time allowance. If we were short on time, we read one section and did the activity that followed. If we were able, we read more.
The lessons are separated into many different components such as The Big Idea (overview of the lesson) Hide It In Your Heart (memory verse), Integrated Learning (uses different topics such as art, science, math, or history to relate to the main topic being taught), What Should I Do (focuses on a godly characteristic and how to apply the lesson to your life), Worldview Study (helps students see the world around them from a Biblical worldview, as well as exploring other worldviews), Short Story (stories that use characters with differing world views and examples of how to deal with these differences and explain what you believe) and more.
The activities vary from simple notebooking, narration, to more hands on activities, like baking brownies!
Baking brownies was one of our favorite activities and we've already looked ahead to see when we will bake again (soon!). What does baking have to do with Biblical Worldview you say? Well a lot when you know the entire story.
One of the fictional stories in the book depicted a young boy explaining to his friend that, just as the plate of brownies they found on the table couldn't have baked themselves, neither could the earth have created itself, without the hand of a Creator.
We were instructed to gather the ingredients for Phenomenal Brownies and wait… So we did:
We watched…and we waited…But those brownies never did make themselves (and neither did the earth create itself, by the way )
I'm kind of glad they didn't because we would have missed out on the fun of making them…
I would highly recommend requesting a catalog from Apologia. There catalog is like a mini magazine filled with articles from the different contributors at Apologia.
If you want to know what other TOS members thought of this book, click here.
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The winds are a powerful force in Rokugan, both literally and figuratively. They power the vessels of the Mantis across the known world, bring the storms that bless or ruin harvests, and empower no less than five different Fortunes. Like all forces of nature, the people of Rokugan respect and fear the wind, for it is beyond control, and beyond understanding.
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Margo ▼ as a girls' name is pronounced MAR-go. It is of French origin. Variant of Margaret. Actress Margaret Hemingway, actress and granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, changed the spelling of her name to match that of a famous Bordeaux wine, Chateau Margaux. Ballet celebrity Dame Margot Fonteyn.
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Margo is a very prominent first name for females (#676 out of 4276, Top 16%) and also a very prominent surname for all people (#36129 out of 150436, Top 24%). (2000 U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS)
Margo entered the list in 1910-1919 and reached its top rank of #334 in the U.S. in the 1940s, and is presently at #1279. (2015 U.S. SSA RECORDS)
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Prominent related forms of Margo (#1279 IN RECENT RANKINGS) listed in the Top 2000 are Madge, Maggie (#241), Maisy (#1144), Margaret (#154), Margaux (#1774), Marge, Margery, Marget, Margie, Margot (#593), Margret, Margy, Marjie, Marjory, Markie and Meg. Usage of these forms of Margo was more pronounced a century ago (ADOPTION OF 4.8%) and has become much less since (ADOPTION 0.3%, ▼94.4%), with forms such as Margo becoming less stylish. Margot is the most contemporarily stylish name for newborns in this list.
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Margo▼ is alike in pronunciation to Marga and Margey. Other suggested similar-sounding names are Amargo, Madge▼, Maeko, Mag, Maggi, Maggy, Maiga, Mando, Mara▲, Marah, Marci▼, Marcy▼, Mare, Maree, Maren, Marfa, Marg, Margalo, Marge, Marged, Marget, Margi, Margie▼, Margit, Margy, Mari▼, Maria▼, Marie▼, Mariko, Marin, Marion▼, Maris, Marit, Marja, Marje, Marji, Marjo, Marjon, Marjy, Marla▼, Marlo▼, Marlon, Marlow, Marna, Marne, Marni, Marra, Mart, Marta▼, Marte, Marth, Marti, Marty, Marva▼, Marve, Mary▼, Marya, Maryjo, Maryk, Maryl, Maryn, Maryon and Marys. These names tend to be less frequently used than Margo.


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"What is God?" I asked my best friend Naomi, as we made our way in the afternoon sun toward the woods behind our New Jersey houses.
"God is everything," she said with some authority.
"How's that?" I asked.
"I don't know," she said. "All I know is he is."
I pondered this, as we followed a band of our older friends, crossing the last known suburban street in our universe, heading toward the discovered-only-by-kids entrance to the woods. Naomi and I were the little ones tagging along, five-year-olds who'd already enjoyed a busy afternoon on our own, doing entirely unspiritual things. We'd ridden our tricycles in front of our houses, then watched Let's Make A Deal on Naomi's color TV while savoring her mother's tuna fish on toast. After that, we'd watched her father climb a ladder, and hook their new set of wind chimes to the eaves of their porch roof. He stood back when he'd finished, then lifted up one silver-hued tube and swung it lightly toward the remaining five. The sound they made, as each gently struck the others, made us think of the way rain pings into puddles. "Remember that," Naomi's father said, looking at her. "That's our sound." Naomi, memorizing the particular music of this chime, nodded. I nodded too, though in truth the cascading sound made me miserable. Naomi's family was the last on our block to add bells to her house—besides my family. Now she would be like everyone else when the afternoons arced into dinnertime and the parents called their kids home for the day. Everyone in our neighborhood knew her own sound. My parents had held out for silence.
I realized that, after hours of typical play, my questions about God seemed to come out of the blue. But I also knew that sometimes people prayed for things they wanted, and since I too wanted my parents to secure a cymbal or sleigh bells or even a gong, and allow me to feel like everyone else, I was wondering if I should learn to pray. Please God, make them go to Woolworth's tonight. Besides, I felt certain that Naomi understood the material reason motivating my questions. With our birthdays only two days apart, and our houses only twenty yards, my golden-haired, sunny-spirited, all-day-every-day companion had come to feel like my third sister. We could ask each other anything at any time, and we often did.
Now we snaked along the hidden path, the caboose of a line of girls, making our way between the huge, summer-green trees. We rarely ventured this far, deep into the uninhabited parcel of land wedged between the farthest houses in our development and the back of the synagogue that hugged the main road. But I always loved going here, exploring this mysterious territory. Not only was it off the maps and away from adults, it backed up to a building that my family never entered. God was an important word in our house, and Hanukkah a routine. But rituals, prayers, and sacred buildings were unknown to us. And no one had ever discussed what the concept of God might mean.
"Well, okay," I said. "But then, where is God?"
Naomi pursed her lips in thought. I didn't know if her family was observant, though they were Jewish, too, as was the whole neighborhood. "I think God is everywhere."
"How can he be everywhere?"
"He just is."
I looked around. Brushes of sunlight gilded our skin, the shrubbery, the roots poking up from the earth. Above us stretched enormous trees, their leaves like small hands pressing toward the sky. In front of us, I now saw, rose a gateway of light, indicating that our path was about to reach the end of the woods and enter the field of tall grass. The meadow, as we called it, the far corner of our world. Bounded by the woods on all sides, it was numinous and private and made us think of different things than Barbie and Parcheesi and the other group of kids in the neighborhood, the boys. They called themselves The Cools. We, The Girls, saw The Cools as our adversaries, not that we'd had any battles. We just knew that they saw themselves as superior to us, and so in retaliation we looked down our noses at them. We'd even made up a song that we would sing when they gathered at Jimmy's house, right behind mine:
All the girls in France do the hula hula dance
And the way they shake they could really kill a Cool
When the Cool is dead they put rats in his head
When the rats die they put spiders in his eyes
When the spiders die, it is nineteen forty-five.
Of course, the final line of the song seemed nonsensical to us, a fact that often made Naomi smile and shrug at me, but no one seemed to mind. We would jump rope to this song in the tool shed in my backyard, where The Girls convened. Our parents never furnished the shed, and it stored no tools; it had been purchased solely to become our giant playhouse. Other parents in our two-block kingdom possessed no such sanctuary in their yards, so ours was the only game in town. However, my brother and sisters and I were not smug about this distinction; other parents had come to favor that more melodic kind of purchase, the one we ached to own but my parents waved off. "That's ridiculous," they'd say. "These bells are just a neighborhood fad. We don't need help calling you in for dinner. We'll just yell out your name."
Only when Naomi and I left the playhouse, and were no longer able to see the familiar glint of brass bells or glass chimes hanging beside the back doors, and only after the grass-bordered sidewalks of our world were far behind us, did God ever come up. I had some notion of him on my own, but also a great vagueness. On the one hand, the thought of God provided me with much comfort, especially in light of the unprovoked Nyah-nyahs of The Cools, or the senility that had stolen my grandfather's personality, or our family's cheerful pet parakeet who'd died suddenly in her cage, or the eerie suspicion that kept appearing in my dreams that my father was unhappy in his life. The thought of God gave me the idea that there was something greater, a sense of justice, a goodness watching over us. On the other hand, when I closed my eyes and tried to envision God, I came up blank. And if you weren't able to see God, how could you ever hear what he'd say, if he wanted to answer your prayers?
Naomi said, "He's all around us now." She gestured, as we passed out of the shade and into the full press of light in the meadow.
"In the trees. In the clouds. Everywhere."
I turned around, wondering.
My parents spoke little of God. Adults seldom did. I loved looking through the picture books we owned with Bible stories, but, I would eventually learn, when my father was only six himself, he had become skeptical of the existence of God. My mother went to temple on and off until she was almost thirteen, when, suspecting her family was too poor to cover her bat mitzvah, she stopped attending. She was in mourning for a God she had yet to meet. My father had concluded that God was an invention.
How I wanted to feel certain about God. How I longed to see him, hear him, understand what God really was.
"Is God the same as the air?" I asked.
"I think so," Naomi said, her tone growing more doubtful.
"So are we always breathing him in and out?"
"I don't know."
I wanted to put my hand out to touch him. But there was nothing to touch, aside from the grass and the soil and the sunlight and all the other children with me, fanning out now across the meadow.
"Well, he feels real to me," I said. "Except you can't touch him."
"Maybe you have to make that up," Naomi said.
For the next half hour we just made up games. There was much to entertain us in the meadow, from the iridescent bugs on the blades of grass to the vast variety of textures on the surface of the weeds to the ease with which we could appropriate petals for mustaches and seed pods for eyeglasses. I forgot God then, as I always did when the pleasures of life loomed larger than my questions. I forgot time too, as the afternoon aged. Soon, though, the sun was stooping lower, and shadows were wrinkling the veins in all the leaves.
Then it came. They came. The sounds.
Ting, ting, ting.
One by one, as each set of bells began to clap and the chimes began to tinkle, our friends raised their heads from their amusements.
"That's my mother," Ruthie said first.
"There's my house," Linda said, hearing hers.
"Dinner's ready," Deborah added.
They stood up from our games. "I have to go now," Ruthie said.
"See you later," Linda said.
Naomi and I were used to this. Many times she and I had remained behind in the meadow as the others ran off, alerted by the distinct harmonics of their family's bells. Now, I braced myself, already angry once again at the injustice of my parents' stubbornness, and already feeling so alone.
Crouched on the ground, watching ants march through the grass, Naomi turned to me. Her eyes shone with the thrill of listening for the sounds of her home, calling out from far beyond the meadow. Until now, neither of us had had any reason to pay the slightest attention to the many bells that rang out at dusk every day, and so distinctions had blurred for both of us. Often we never even heard them at all. But now, she turned her head, listening for the chimes she knew were meant for her. I fixed my focus back on the ants, hoping they would never come.
But then a voice joined the fray: Pinckle-jinkle-ping.
She jumped to her feet. "That's for me!" she said, bursting into a smile.
I stood too. Already Ruthie and Linda and Deborah were running off down the path. Naomi took a step toward them, and I wondered what I would do here, all alone in the meadow. I wasn't much for ants on my own.
Then she paused. "Come on," she said. "Come back with me."
I didn't want to. My mouth tightened with resentment. My parents were being too mean.
Naomi looked at me. She didn't say anything. She just waited a second. When I didn't move, when I didn't even return her smile, she looked away. This is it, I thought, imagining that now I too would be like my poor parakeet, alone for good in her cage.
But then Naomi looked back. And with a sudden movement that I didn't even notice, she seized my hand, and yanked me toward the woods. Had she been any other child, I would have resisted. But she was Naomi, so I laughed.
Off we ran, together, toward our houses. Her chimes kept ringing, as did the entire choir of neighborhood clangs and jangles and peels, and as the air rushed into our lungs, and the scents of the woods filled our heads, and our sneakered feet sprang down the wooded path and then out onto the sidewalks, I listened to the sounds for the first time. Each bell, I now truly heard, sounded completely different, yet inevitably sweet and soothing. Sort of like the way the sunlight felt sifting through the trees. Sort of like the way I felt, when Naomi went exploring with me, or my parents swept me up in their arms. Maybe, I thought, this is the way God speaks to you. Each person hears her own special sound. You just have to be listening.
We rounded the corner and saw our two houses, side by side, and giggled with the fun of it all as we tumbled into our yards. Although her house still sang its Naomi tune and mine persisted in its silence, I decided, as we barreled toward our respective doors, that tomorrow and the next day and every day after, I'd have to listen to everyone and everything. I'd listen hard until I recognized his voice, so when God called me to dinner, I'd know.
[Refer: This essay put the editors in mind of the poem "Deuteronomy" by Sue Swartz "]
Rachel Simon is the award-winning author of six books and a nationally-recognized public speaker on issues related to diversity and disability. Her titles include the bestsellers The Story of Beautiful Girl and Riding The Bus with My Sister. Both books are frequent selections of book clubs and school reading programs around the country. Simon's work has been adapted for theater, NPR, the Lifetime Channel, and Hallmark Hall of Fame, whose adaptation of Riding The Bus With My Sister starred Rosie O' Donnell and Andie McDowell, and was directed by Anjelica Huston. "The Bells of God" will appear in 2015 in the updated edition of Simon's first book, Little Nightmares, Little Dreams (at Barnes & Noble, and Amazon). Her website is www.rachelsimon.com.
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2012 BMW X3: rear view camera with top view
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