Photoshop Tutorial: "Highlights & Shadows" Can Save a Picture Where You Can't See Important Parts. FREE from Pixlr online Photo Editor.

Highlights & Shadows at Work. 

pixler.com FREE online photo studio 

You Can Make Dark Areas Lighter

and Light Areas Darker 

AT THE SAME TIME.

It's Located in Adjustments

With Two Back and Forth Sliders

I Modified a Series of Pictures... In the Originals, You couldn't see the Murals Because of the Shadows. They are Painted Underneath the Highway 99 Overpass in Chico, Ca. by Gregg Payne.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/mural-in-chico-by-gregg-payne-birds.html

an alert reader asked if I was trying to learn how to use Photoshop?

Well, I don't Own Photoshop and I will Not be buying it in the Future. Victoria bought me an Official Disc about 15 Years ago... and I loved it... Then I bought a Windows 10 Laptop and The Disc I Owned WOULD NOT WORK on the New Operating System... Yes, Adobe Still works on The Computer at Home in Eureka but I Live in Orangevale and I use a Laptop... Adobe & Microsoft Teamed Up to FORCE People to Buy New, New, New Stuff... That Does Exactly What the Old Stuff Did Already!

SO... Now I Bought a Google Chromebook that does not use any type of Windows Operating System... and I Use Pixlr.com to do Potatoshopping!

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Potatoshop Tutorial: How to Improve Portraits of your Friends... Resample image Height=106% Width=94%. Suddenly, Everyone got Taller and Thinner! It's a Magic Trick. Do not tell your friends THAT it was done. In order for this to really work, they must Remain Unaware. They Just Think, Hey I look good! Works in every photo image processing program. Try blurring the cheeks and forehead on your friend's faces.  Instantly Younger... Removes Wrinkles...

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I Make sure I post my words and Pictures on Parler, Gab, Ello, Mastadon, Minds, Twitter, Devient Art, LinkedIn, MeWe, Tribel, Tumblr, Flipboard, 4Chan, Reddit, Medium, Occupy and Viadeo... and then FaceBORG's Opinions are Not That Important... 

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My Own Personal Boycott: I'm on strike against Amazon... I canceled my Amazon Prime Monthly Bill (what a Rip-Off) and Haven't purchased anything in 2 Months... Usually I buy something about Twice a month... Food, Clothes, WhatEVER... A Guitar... 2 Honer Harmonicas... a Spyglass... Shoes... a Gym Bag... I've Been shopping there for YEARS... But JEFF BEZOS Has Been Behaving Badly Recently so... I'm Buying Nothing... The Old Folks Home I Live at Shops at Costco and I Can Survive on What they Feed Me...

The Purchase of the Spyglass still troubles me... I wanted a Telescope to Look at the Boats going in and Out of Humboldt Bay... I Had NO IDEA about which product i wanted to buy... So I went to a Local Sporting Goods Store (Bucksport) and asked the Clerk many questions and looked thru many telescopes and figured out which one was best for me... Then I said Thanks, went home and Bought it on Amazon... The Local store Paid that Clerks Paycheck, and the rent, heat and light on the Building but... I Spent Nothing at Bucksport in Eureka.

on a Totally Different Subject:

I'm suspicious about ALL "Think Tanks" - Pew, Heritage - RAND... I believe They Choose the Answer they Want to Promote FIRST... and Then Find "Facts" That Verify That Answer... The Exact OPPOSITE of the Scientific Method... Where You Collect Facts First and then Come to a Conclusion after Studying those Facts... Especially corrupt is the George Mason University... Their Entire Shtick is Telling Congressmen and Senators What to Think & How to Vote. Funded by the Koch Brothers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Chains

 

SE is At Dillon Beach, CA (a Bit North of Pt Reyes)

https://goo.gl/maps/J4H383LKJGhNoB788

and She Said:

Northern California: where we don't let a silly thing like cold weather interfere with our time at the beach. We always come prepared for anything. Chilly? Throw on a hoodie and power on through.

I Replied:

I still like it warmer... Manresa, South of Santa Cruz is Warmer than The Unmarked Beaches North of Santa Cruz...

She Said:

I find the main Santa Cruz beach to be as hot as hell. I personally prefer foggy beaches. I remember it used to get foggy in Santa Cruz when I was a kid, but now it's always 90+ every time I go there, and I can't stand being in the sun when it's that hot. Even the beaches in Aptos have been hot and sunny the last few times I've been there. Climate change is making it harder to find fog.

I Replied:

I did not know that... The Unmarked Beaches North of Santa Cruz are the Foggiest... PLUS! You can Eat Raw Brussel Sprouts that You Pick right off the Bush and Wash in the Ocean... and THAT'S a Real Treat!

SE Said:

I didn't know that about the Brussels sprouts. I've never eaten them like that before, but I would certainly try it!

I Replied:

Remember to wash them in the ocean... the poison they spray on the plants tastes terrible... FOR GOOD REASON.

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https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/09/boycot-plastic-garbage-chicken-of-sea.html

Boycott Plastic Garbage! Chicken of the Sea Tuna is Marketing "Infusions" with a Plastic Bowl, Lid and Fork. Trash that will pollute the Earth for 10,000 Years. REFUSE TO BUY PLASTIC CRAP.

https://chickenofthesea.com/company/sustainability 
CORPORATE LIES: "Sustainability:
At Chicken of the Sea, we pride ourselves on our long-standing commitment to operating a socially and environmentally responsible business. We realize that our sustainability obligations don't end when the seafood is caught, but extend all the way through the processing, packaging, and delivery of sustainable seafood to our customers."

Fact: We Have Eaten Tuna Packages in Metal Cans for Decades... and That Metal Can Be Recycled... Melted and Used Again. This new Marketing Strategy Will Create Millions of Plastic Bowls... and WHY? 

A whopping 91% of plastic isn't recycled

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/05/bogus-every-bottle-back.html

The TV Ad: "Every Bottle Back" is Classic Greenwashing. About 8.7% of the Plastic Bottles in the USA are Actually Recycled... But That's Not the Fault of the Corporations That Make the Plastic Bottles... SO THEY SAY:

They Have an EveryBottleBack.com Program Set Up to Handle Recycling of Plastic Waste... and If YOU Throw Their Bottles in the Garbage, That's NOT THEIR Fault... 

The Environmental Protection Agency says that just 8.7 percent of the plastic that was discarded in the U.S. in 2018 was recycled...

and I Don't Buy ANY Plastic Bottles because I Drink Coffee, Green Tea and Water Right from the Tap. I use Real Glasses and Cups and Wash Them and Use Them Again Tomorrow... None of that Single Use Plastic Crap for Me!

and then I was thinking about my total plastic consumption... The Fruit Juice comes in Big Plastic Jugs... maybe Two Liter Bottles... Pork Chops and Chicken is Packaged on a Styrofoam Tray covered in Plastic Wrap... Ice Cream Comes in a Plastic Tub... My Groceries are Packaged in Whatever CostCo Uses... 

Plastic Food Packaging - Fruits and Nuts

I don't use Plastic Spoons and Forks... I don't eat Fast Food at Taco Bell, Jack or McDonalds... All of those Places are Heavy on the Plastic Crap!

My Laptop is Made of Plastic... My Phone is Made of Plastic... and I Replace them About Every Five Years... But the Corporations That Make That Plastic Crap Wants You to "Upgrade" Every Freaking Year! Whazzup With That? I can Still Order a LYFT with my Current Phone... and I Can Make a Phone Call... and That's all I Ever Do... No Chatting on Social Media on my Phone because it's Really Difficult to Enter Text... I Type a LOT on my Laptop and The REAL Keyboard is Easy to Use... In Fact, When I'm Lost in thought Deciding what to Say... I forget about the keyboard entirely... THAT would never Happen on an iPhone!

anyway... When I see that Every Bottle Back TV Advertisement I'm Glad I Don't Buy Their Plastic Crap! 

I know a Lady that lives near Beale Air Force Base and She has to Buy Plastic Bottles of Water because the Tap Water is Polluted With Jet Fuel from the Airplanes... Some Fuel Spills and Then Gets into the Groundwater... SO... For Health, She Drinks Plastic Bottled Water... What She Fails to Realize is that SHOWERING in Toxic Waste is Just as Bad as Drinking it... I told her to Move away but she's poor and Moving to a High Rent district is not possible... DEEP SIGH... 

What is truly Tragic is that Beale Air Force Base Has Never Been Used to Defend the USA... Not Even Once... Even During World War Two the Only Attacks on the USA Were Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Los Angeles where a UFO Supposedly Attacked... Or Maybe Nothing Attacked and the Soldiers manning the Anti-Aircraft Guns were Firing at NOTHING... Could Happen... Sadly, that Air Force Base Near Sacramento, California Has Never Been Used...

and Of Course... Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended the USA. NOT EVEN ONCE!

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Daniel RuelleThe Ram Dass Group 

How y'all feel about the "death is completely safe" quote that Ram Dass used to always say, when lecturing and working with the dying? Everything I read from Hinduism/eastern mysticism, pretty much teaches that death is actually sketchy as f*ck if it isn't entered properly.

For example, if you die before your biological clock finishes (murdered, suicide, accident, etc. ) it's said that your soul wanders and experiences heavy feelings of hunger and thirst, but with no physical body to satiate it, so you just suffer for the amount of time it would have naturally taken for your body to eventually die (refered to as "parabdha karma") , before the energies are feeble enough to assimilate into a new womb to reincarnate.

Also, yogis talks about heaven and hell not as a geographical place you end up after death, but a frequency of consciousness you end up in based on what the quality of your consciousness was before your soul left your body. If you were in fear mode before you die, when your soul leaves your body, the energy snowballs into a millionfold fear, because there's no longer a discriminatory mind to deal with the emotion once it leaves the body. Pleasantness/peace at the time of death would manifest a millionfold into "heaven." So it can go either way.

So all that said, if death is completely safe, it would have to mean that there's zero chance of suffering post death... And that seems too good to be true. That would make suicide a pretty reliable way to end suffering completely, and I'm highly skeptical of the nature of reality being that conveniently escapable.

What you think?

I REPLIED:

All predictions about what happens after Life are totally BOGUS... No One Knows... Anyone Can Make up an Opinion... I believe that NOTHING Happens... Might as well use my body as fertilizer for a Tree... I won't know what is happening... Recently I signed a Doctor's Instruction Form: Do you want us to save your life if needed? I said YES... even if that puts me on life support for years and a huge hospital bill...

https://familydoctor.org/advance-directives-and-do-not-resuscitate-orders/

and Some Dude Said: 

CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS SLEEP .

In conscious, dying and death one begins with communion, merging into the source of life. Irreversibility never returns unless you want to…

If you carry your thoughts, memory and dislike to your sleep and you spend most of the time in dreaming.

In the same way while at the moment of death if you have regrets attachment, inner changing to objects and individuals. If you cannot stand the idea of being separate from them then that clinging that attachment that thought may bring back to the earth clothed in another form.

When we realise the body cannot carry anymore. Sense and brain cannot function anymore. There is a possibility one can depart consciously dying in a state of Samadhi. Because in dyanam, in meditation one has removed all the entanglements. One is free, completely letting go and ready to take off.

In unconscious sleep we pretended to sleep ended up in dream state and comes back in the next morning. There is no take off. There is no quality of change in consciousness if we are pushed in to death and do not die consciously . With awareness result is incarnation.

Chernobyl, Whole Earth,
Extinction Rebellion LOGO - gvan42

and another Dude Said: 

DEATH IS ENLIGHTENMENT .

When there is a holistic movement even while living that person is dead as liberated. Death is liberation. Meditation is moving in the elegance of death what does that mean? Everything is brahman (cosmic intelligence). Everything is immortality therefore nectar.

When you live holistically right from your breathing is related to the subtle essence in the physical reality, the immortal essence in the physical reality. So whether you speak or one do not speak one is not only in harmony but united we are one with that reality.

The reality clothed in the form of human body and reality clothed in the form of cosmos is quite identical in quality and essence. So a human being separated from reality is no more there. The separation has ended.

Death is the death of the illusion of the separation from the cosmic reality and liberation is the awareness of the illusion of being separate. one is liberated when the myth of separateness is exploded. So as a separate individual one is dead and as a united wholistic expression of reality one is alive as human being, become the wholstic expression of that reality.

It's Pretty Damn Obvious that we live in the end times prophesised by John in the Book Revelation. #TrumpIsTheAntiChrist

What historical moment stands out the most in your mind? The Assassination of JFK... and RFK and MLK and John Lennon... "Death under Mysterious Circumstances" Abbie Hoffman, Gary Webb, Dr Frank Olson...

Every time I Go to the Rainbow Gathering I have a Different goal... and so I have a different experience... At UTAH 2014 I was looking for a really Big Idea! I was working as a Midnight Fire Tender at Welcome Home Kitchen and I had the Desire to LEARN Something Significant... and two days Later I Met a Teacher and We've been friends ever since... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2r0I8VoxJY

This Image Shows What Colin Powell's 2003 UN Press Conference Would Have Looked Like. He Was Promoting the Insane Bombing of Civilians in Iraq... Just Like Pablo Picasso's Guernica Painting... That was COVERED BY SHEETS so it would Not be Visible During the Press Conference...

Colin Powell gave a Press Briefing at the United Nations

where he explained the Reasons for going to War in Iraq.

Press Briefings are always held in front of Picasso's Painting "Guernica" that depicts Insane death from the sky.

Powell was proposing starting a war that would have a lot of

Insane Death from the Sky... 

SO HE HAD JANITORS COVER THE PAINTING AND HE SPOKE IN FRONT OF A WHITE SHEET...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell

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A Brief History of the War In Iraq. OOPS, We Blew Up The Wrong Country. On 9/11 Fourteen (14) SAUDI ARABIAN Hijackers Flew Airplanes into The World Trade Center. Five (5) Were NOT Saudis.

George W. Bush (the Son) felt that He Could NOT go to War with The ACTUAL people that Caused 9/11 so he had the CIA write FALSE Reports so he could start a War Against Iraq. Years Later We Learned that Iraq Had No WMD, Had No ties to Al Qaeda and Had Nothing at all to do with 9/11.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-brief-history-of-war-in-iraq-oops-we.html

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Photoshop Tutorial: How to Improve Portraits of your Friends... Resample image Height=106% Width=94%. Suddenly, Everyone got Taller and Thinner! It's a Magic Trick. Do not tell your friends THAT it was done. In order for this to really work, they must Remain Unaware.

They Just Think, Hey I look good! Works in every photo image processing program. Try blurring the cheeks and forehead on your friend's faces.  Instantly Younger... Removes Wrinkles...

 

Eat Girl Scout Cookies - Delete Computer Cookies.

Internet Troubles? How to Fix the Edge-Chat-Error... Delete Cookies, Restart Browser. Save Passwords but delete all unneeded files.  Fixes a LOT of problems... Be Aware that Deleting Cookies SIGN YOU OUT OF ALL YOUR FAVORITE WEBSITES... and You will need to Sign Back In... That's WHY You want to Save Those Passwords and Usernames... 

In my Art History Class at Humboldt State University... I Drew Pictures of all the Famous Artworks... as a Study Guide... We were Required to Remember the Names of the Painters of Famous Paintings... and then...


I Drew a Picture of the Lady Sitting next to me... It Never Looked Like my Classmate but... It turned out to Look Like Grace Slick... so I emailed it to the Official Jefferson Airplane Website and they Posted it online... and Said Thanks! I was So Honored!

Why does Facebook store Thousands of thumbnails on my computer? Could I simply decline to store that useless information, supposed to fire my imagination... 

Brookings Oregon

A Five Star Experience!

Just over the border [Welcome to Oregon]

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Dialog:
She said: "I Question My Beliefs. Do You?"
He said: "Sure, I Also Question Your Beliefs... Duh"
She said: "What I meant was... Do you question your OWN beliefs. "
He Said: "Of Course Not..." 

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Let's Cut the defense budget to half 

by ending CrazyWars... 

I wonder what the Mission is... 

Any GOAL? Anything?

 Obviously, It's not to defend the USA. The Military has not Defended the USA since 1945. There was a real attack on us on 9/11/2001 but the military failed to protect the country. Total Failure... So there must be some other reason we have invaded Vietnam, Nicaragua, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Is it simply to sell weapons to the Pentagon? Whenever we have a war we sell a lot of weapons, meals, tents, bandages, trucks, and airplanes... Corporations make a great profit. Soldiers die, civilians die, enemies die, but nothing is really accomplished. After all, what difference did it make who won the war in Nicaragua? None. It made a difference to the people of Nicaragua but it had no effect on life here in the USA. None of these Crazy Wars have made any difference to the people of the USA. NONE! The only military action that made any sense was the dozen men that assassinated Osama bin Laden. That was a worthwhile mission.

Therefore, It's really important to remember to NOT VOLUNTEER for the military. I saw President Trump talking at a Wounded Warrior Event today and it reminded me that all those people VOLUNTEERED to go die for nothing. OOPS, they got wounded because ___________. Fill in the blank if you know why. Was it simply because they couldn't find a civilian job and the military was hiring? Was it because they saw a John Wayne movie and got all inspired? Was it because they were easily brainwashed?

If we cut defense spending in half we could afford many wonderful things. We could prevent hunger 100%. We could pay for health care for all. We could pay for great school for all. We could pay teachers more... Not only is defense money wasted but people's lives are wasted also. The engineers that invented drone airplanes could have been designing better electric cars... BUT, they wasted their talents making drones... Most soldiers spend their entire career without once doing anything of value. What IF we hired them to rebuild our infrastructure? We have roads that need paving but no money to fund construction crews. WHAT IF WE STARTED BEING SMART?

So, what can one person DO to end Crazywar? Vote Democratic... and write to your representatives and ask them to stop funding stupid stuff. For example: You could copy and paste this message and email it to them.

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