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This Chicks Sunday Commentary: Book-Blogger Mashup!

At work the other day someone described a friends personality as you would describe a fine wine. You know “she’s bold with an undertone of ripe raspberry’s growing on the coast of California, with a hint of salt”. It got me thinking, I have been following many of you for a few years and after reading some of your reviews, can almost provide my own Book-Blogger Mashup.

https://thereadingchick.com/2019/02/17/this-chicks-sunday-commentary-book-blogger-mashup/

Fairy Bower Falls, Morton National Park
Celebration: countdown 34

A spray of water, long pendulous roots and ferns cling to this fragile rock-face partway down the Bundanoon canyon.

Image: Cliff faces are the natural enemy of cameras: high contrast environments inevitably mean the lit part of your shot will be overexposed and the shadows will be underexposed. Ordinarily, in poor light with mist rising i would try a HDR composition to even out the contrast or a long exposure to flesh out the shadows (frustrated here because of clouds of mist rising from the nearby large fall and a healthy breeze up the escarpment.

Instead, i took a series of stills from a video i took of this scene. Rewatching the video, i was struck by a significant difference in the white and brightness balance between the dynamic and momentary images. In the dynamic, the static elements (cliff face and vegetation) seemed darker and the shadows deeper while the spray of water was distinct and brighter. This was most noticeable in the top left of the image, where brightness in the undercliff reflections in the still image originally swamped the fall.

I have tried to deal with this using a series of differential filters and by using a technique i have explained previously - placing the original image beneath a 40-60% translucent and desaturated image toned for structure.

Inevitably there is a trade off - a DSLR will be defeated by mist and wind - a video is not going to capture fine detail.

Celebrate: Thank you. To celebrate what we all achieved on G+, i am publishing the 50 most viewed posts in this collection until shutdown. This is a reprocessed image of side falls to the lower Bundernoon Creek Falls (34th most viewed - viewed 1,917,409 times).

After shutdown, you can find me by visiting https://wheretofind.me/@peterquinton
Adventure with me at my website: http://www.silenttheory.net
The books we wrote here on G+ are now on Amazon: https://amazon.com/author/peterquinton
My footprints are on GoogleMaps: https://goo.gl/maps/r2CtN5y38XJ2

#CelebrateCountdown (please feel free to use this hashtag to celebrate your own favorite posts)

https://youtu.be/GF2tg1yeUPo
20 Pound Cat Mr Grim chilling with me in the Garage. He's a Hefty Black Cat that weighs 20 Pounds. Please Like,Share,And Subscribe for more videos. Thanks for watching!

Mt. Fuji over Peach Blossoms
Ootsuki City, Yamanashi Pref., Japan

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Maine reporter reveals why he busted Gov. LePage for shelling out thousands of tax dollars at Trump's hotel https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/maine-reporter-reveals-busted-gov-lepage-shelling-thousands-trump-hotel/ -via Flynx

https://youtu.be/5B9m17u3ZE8
Mr Grim Being Cute as the cat wants attention. Please Like,Share,And Subscribe for more.

Add these 13 foods that lower blood pressure and hypertension are high in magnesium, potassium, and to cut your risk of stroke and heart attack nearly in half.

http://www.herbsmedicines.com/13-foods-good-for-high-blood-pressure/

Instagram wants you to look like a good person, but Facebook just wants your credit card - Shopping on Instagram has been getting bigger and bigger and Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear that enabling more commerce on Instagram is a priority for the 2019. But, the company seems to be starting with a bit of a Trojan horse in order to remove a bit of friction, and the Trojan horse is a very interesting one: donating to charities through Instagram Story stickers. To be fair, a Donation sticker ...

6 Clear Signs That Your Phone Was Hacked.

+AAEON has launched a compact embedded computer based on Nvidia Jetson TX2 processor module with 8GB RAM, four GbE ports, HDMI, USB and RS-232 ports designed for robotics, drones and security/surveillance projects.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/02/19/boxer-8120ai-jetson-tx2-mini-pc/

Not all heart problems come with clear warning signs. Some heart symptoms don’t even happen in your chest, and it’s not always easy to tell what’s going on. Consider these symptoms a good reminder to see your doctor about heart health and your risk for heart disease.

https://www.thehealthypage.com/7-weird-signs-might-heart-problem/

Most cases of type 2 diabetes are preventable and some can even be reversed. Your food choices matter a lot when you've got diabetes. Here are the 11 best foods for diabetics, both type 1 and type 2.

https://medmd.org/11-foods-diabetics-should-eat-daily/

https://youtu.be/rYow7n7Os0Y
Little Foot The Cat

Did you know your legs technically start from your 12th ribs, which sit beside your lumbar (lower) vertebrae?

https://youtu.be/XyD2zQcn3yQ
Steve The Cat sitting on the bed wondering why I'm doing this. Please Like,Share,And Subscribe for more videos.

"Deep learning may need a new programming language that's more flexible and easier to work with than Python, Facebook AI Research director Yann LeCun said."

"There are several projects at Google, Facebook, and other places to kind of design such a compiled language that can be efficient for deep learning, but it's not clear at all that the community will follow, because people just want to use Python."

"The first portion of the paper is devoted to lessons LeCun took away from Bell Labs, including his observation that the AI researchers' and computer scientists' imaginations tend to be tied to hardware and software tools."

"LeCun reiterated his belief that self-supervised learning will play a major role in advancing state-of-the art AI."

"If self-supervised learning eventually allows machines to learn vast amounts of background knowledge about how the world works through observation, one may hypothesize that some form of machine common sense could emerge."

We are introducing you top 10 potentially habitable exoplanets, that is based on estimates of habitability by the habitable exoplanets catalog (HEC), and data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive.

https://thetechinside.com/top-10-potentially-habitable-exoplanets/

Regardless of the outcome of special counsel #RobertMueller’s investigation into Donald #Trump’s presidential campaign team’s alleged conspiring with #Russia, the president may face even greater difficulties stemming from the the Southern District of New York's separate inquiry. The Department of Justice’s guidelines, which Mueller is subject to, does not permit the indictment of a sitting president. But some former prosecutors in the Watergate scandal, which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, believe the Southern District of New York, for which they also worked, isn't subject to the precedent.

The Southern District's investigative team was a big part of Trump’s former lawyer #MichaelCohen’s downfall. In August, Cohen struck a deal with the Southern District, pleading guilty to several financial crimes.The Southern District also issued a subpoena to Trump’s inauguration committee, to investigate several allegations.


#WorldEconomy #AmericanPolitics #POTUS45 #Politics #AmericanPoliticians #RepublicanParty #TrumpAdministration #TrumpOrganisation #Republicans #SDNY
NEW YORK INVESTIGATORS COULD 'INDICT' DONALD TRUMP WHILE HE'S STILL PRESIDENT, WATERGATE PROSECUTOR SAYS
https://www.newsweek.com/new-york-investigators-indict-trump-president-1334917

See 5 fat burning foods that can burn calories as you digest them. Plus, these foods help boost metabolism and trigger hormones. These superfoods will rev up your fat- burning engine. So, add to your daily diet.

http://www.healthuses.com/these-5-super-foods-will-burn-your-tummy-fat-fast/

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The number of apps in the Google Play Store has grown to around 2.5 million by December 2018. Meanwhile, there are multiple apps with the same functionalities.

So, instead of trying all of them, we have saved you some time by compiling this list of best free and paid Android apps of all time. These are also some of the essential Android apps that you should have on your Android device in 2019.

https://mirrorcrunch.com/10-amazing-apps-for-your-new-android-phones/

https://youtu.be/eevT6PonIBA
Little Foot And Steve the two cats playing in the garage. Please Like,Share,And Subscribe.

This is how it ends: not with a bang, but a stumble.