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Front-Row Seat: Striking the chords for live musics return – MPNnow.com

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Additional venues gradually begin hosting bands and solo artists in outdoor, socially distanced spaces

This newspaper and website for years maintained a "Local Live Music" calendar, a roundup of the upcoming musical performances scheduled at the area's clubs, breweries, coffeehouses, restaurants and concert halls. It was always arduous and time-consuming to put together, but rewarding in offering a glimpse at how rich the Finger Lakes/Greater Rochester area is in musical talent, in breadth, depth and diversity.

The shutdowns necessitated by the advent of the novel coronavirus all but ended live music for a time, and the isolation that remains necessary amid the state's gradual reopening has made live music's return a slow, similarly gradual process. Small venues without much in the line of outdoor space are holding off, for instance.

But venues that have outdoor space sufficient for social distancing outdoor venues like Lincoln Hill Farms in Gorham or Roseland Waterpark in Canandaigua; bars/restaurants with patios like The Lovin' Cup in Henrietta or Jos & Willy's in Canandaigua have struck the opening chords in the gradual return of the area's live-music scene.

"The response has been heart-warming," Danny Deutsch, owner of Abilene Bar & Lounge in Rochester, said via email. Abilene started up with a low-key, socially distanced event on its outdoor patio featuring local band Anonymous Willpower on June 19. It followed it up the following week with shows by the Adrianne Noon Trio and Brody George Schenk, and the Noone trio is returning thisFriday night. A number of other shows are planned for the near future, all depending on weather.

"Old customers ... and some new, stopping in to hear music, check on us and how were holding up and all playing by the rules," Deutsch wrote. "Mask wearing in full effect while in the bar ordering drinks and then headoutside to enjoy the patio ambience. I've been pleased. Abilene's customers have been conscientious and caring of other customers and of my staff, and it's made for a very cool scene."

He allowed that "it's been different, that's for sure" but they're "thrilled to be back enjoying live, original music" for "smallish but super enthusiastic crowds."

We're looking forward to the day when we can start up that arduous, time-consuming Local Live Music calendar again. But in the meantime, here's a taste of what the region offers over the next week or two for music lovers:

July 2:Paint Crew (drum and bass duo) Thursday, July 2, at7 p.m. on the outside patio at Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way, Rochester. Cover: Tip jar.

July 3: Adrianne Noone Trio (featuring Noone, Chuck Salvaggio and Chris Clinton), Friday, July 3, at 7 p.m. on the outside patio at Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way, Rochester. Cover: $5.

July 3: Dirty Blanket (bluegrass) Friday, July 3, at 7 p.m. at Lincoln Hill Farms, 3792 Route 247, Gorham. Doors open at 3 p.m., with tickets limited on a first-come, first-serve basis at the door; $15 adults, $5 children.

July 3: Jackson Cavalier (one-man band, folk-rock) Friday, July 3, 5-8:30 p.m. on the patio at The Lovin' Cup, 300 Park Point, Henrietta. (Free show)

July 3: Xarika (solo acoustic) Friday, July 3, 6-8 p.m. on the porch at ReInvention Brewing, 9 N. Main St., Manchester.

July 4: Classic Rock All-Stars (featuring Phil Naro from Talas, Michael Hund from Ted Nugent's Derek St. Holmes Band, Ron Rocco from Black Sheep, and A.D. Zimmer from Lou Gramm's band) Saturday, July 4, at 6 p.m.,in the parking lot at Fanatics Pub & Pizza, 7281 W. Main St., Lima. Tickets: $75 per vehicle, 585-624-2080 or 315-473-2411.

July 4: "July 4 at the Farm" featuring multiple performers noon to 11 p.m. at Lincoln Hill Farms, 3792 Route 247, Gorham. The fundraiser for Camp RocStar features Zach Eberts, 1 p.m.; Brianna Collichio, 1:30 p.m.; Max Doud, 2 p.m.; Own the Night, 2:30 p.m.; Calvin Isham, 3:30 p.m.; Cooper Scotti, 4 p.m.; Primrose, 4:30 p.m.; Judah, 5:30 p.m.; BB Dang, 7 p.m.; and Shackwater, 9 p.m. There will also be fireworks at 9:45 p.m. Tickets (at the door only): $15 adults, $5 children.

July 4: Red, Hot & Blue Saturday, July 4, 6-9 p.m. at Brews & Brats at Arbor Hill, 6461 Route 64, Naples.

July 5: Craig Synder Sunday, July 5, 2-5 p.m. at Twisted Rail, 169 Lakeshore Drive, Canandaigua.

July 5: The Uptown Groove Sunday, July5, 2-5 p.m. at an Open Barn concert at Muranda Cheese Company, 3075 State Route 96, Waterloo. (Featured food truck is Pizza Posto)

July 7: GA029 (blues/R&B/rock) Tuesday, July 7, at 7 p.m. on the outside patio at Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way, Rochester. Tickets: $15 ($13 in advance at Abilene or https://abilene.showare.com.

July 10: Brian Lindsay Band (rock) Friday, July 10, at5:30 p.m.on the outside patio at Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way, Rochester. (Happy-hour show)

July 10: Evan Meulemans (reggae, Americana, blues) Friday, July 10, 7-8:30 p.m. on the patio at The Lovin' Cup, 300 Park Point, Henrietta. (Free show)

July 11: Alex Goettel (singer-songwriter, member of The Byways) Saturday, July 11, 6-8:30 p.m. on the patrio at The Lovin' Cup, 300 Park Point, Henrietta. (Free show)

July 11: Amanda Ashley (pop/rock/soul singer-songwriter) Saturday, July 11, 6-8 p.m. on the porch at ReInvention Brewing, 9 N. Main St., Manchester.

July 11: Tas Cru & The Tortured Souls Saturday, July 11, at 6 p.m.,in the parking lot at Fanatics Pub & Pizza, 7281 W. Main St., Lima. Tickets: $50 per vehicle, 585-624-2080 or 315-473-2411.

July 12: Cool Club & Lipker Sisters Sunday, July 12, 2-5 p.m. at an Open Barn concert at Muranda Cheese Company, 3075 State Route 96, Waterloo (featured food vendor is 4J's NVR Specialty Sauces)

July 12: Music of the Stars Sunday, July 12, 2-5 p.m., Roseland Drive-In at Roseland Waterpark, 250 Eastern Boulevard, Canandaigua. Only presale tickets will be redeemed; tickets are $40, $55 or $70 depending on tier. Buy tickets at roselanddrivein.com or call 585-396-2000.

July 14: Jeff Riales & The Silvertone Express Tuesday, July 14, at 6:30 p.m.,in the parking lot at Fanatics Pub & Pizza, 7281 W. Main St., Lima. Tickets: $50 per vehicle, 585-624-2080 or 315-473-2411.

July 17: Big Eyed Phish (Dave Matthews tribute) Friday, July 17,6:30-9p.m., Roseland Drive-In at Roseland Waterpark, 250 Eastern Boulevard, Canandaigua. Opening act: Mike Cosco and Julie Dellarie. Tickets are $45, $60 or $75 depending on tier. Buy tickets at roselanddrivein.com or call 585-396-2000.

July 17: The Occasional Saints (New Orleans blues/swing) Friday, July 17, at5:30 p.m. on the outside patio at Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way, Rochester. (Happy-hour show)

July 19: Nate Michaels Sunday, July 19, 2-5 p.m. at an Open Barn concert at Muranda Cheese Company, 3075 State Route 96, Waterloo. (Featured food vendor is Lake Country Food Truck)

A 'Little' online music

Not all venues are equipped to offer the live experience, of course, but some continue to offer what's arguably the next best thing in a digital age with livestreamed concerts. The Little Theatre in Rochester continues a nearly full slate of shows, just online at its Facebook page. Maria Gillard, adjunct instructor of music at Finger Lakes Community College, is performing every Monday in July as a residency, with 7 p.m. concerts July 6, 13, 20 and 27. Also coming up for the Little: Classical Guitar Night at 7 p.m. July 5; Alex Goettel at 7 p.m. July 9; and Crossmolina at 8 p.m. July 11.

SummerWrite lit camp moves online

Concerns over high traffic in a small space and sanitizing requirements with a small staff has led Writers & Books to opt not to open its University Avenue facilities in Rochester to the public this summer. W&B has moved all of its adult workshops online and now plans to conduct its annual literary-themed youth summer camp, SummerWrite, entirely virtually. It began offering SummerWrite programs June 29 and will continue rolling out the reading and writing enrichment camps most of them five-session Monday-through-Friday programs, offered through Zoomthrough Aug. 28.

A complete list of the programs, with cost and registrationlinks,is at wab.org. For an example, next week's SummerWrite programs include "Acting Exploration," "Musical Theatre Book Club," "Fiction in a Flash" (about creating very short fiction), "Take Space, Make Space: Storytelling Through Dual Language Poetry," "Writing a Fiction Series," "Produce a 90-Second Newbery Film" and more.

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Here Are the Best Fourth of July Sales This Year – Thrillist

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There might not be "official" fireworks in your city, but it's still clear that the Fourth of July is approaching. Your neighbors are setting off bottle rockets, the evening air smells like charcoal, and you just finished sweating through your third shirt of the day.

Like every holiday where people might get a day off work, companies are seizing the opportunities to sell off their wares at reduced prices. It doesn't matter what you're looking for, you're probably going to find solid discounts on it. There are sales on clothes, mattresses, camping gear, and just about anything else you may want to make the summer a little more enjoyable. (That's especially true if you're social distancing and realizing that you just don't have the tools to camp or do other activities that make more sense during a very different summer than years past.)

Here are the best sales you'll find over the Fourth of July weekend.

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Your daily 6: Gambling without booze or smoking, Hong Kong crackdown and virus ‘grim and getting worse by the day’ – STLtoday.com

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People, social distancing and wearing masks to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, chat as they wait in line at a mask distribution event, Friday, June 26, 2020, in a COVID-19 hotspot of the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. Florida banned alcohol consumption at its bars Friday as its daily confirmed coronavirus cases neared 9,000, a new record that is almost double the previous mark set just two days ago. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Surges in new Covid-19 infections have paused or rolled back reopening plans in at least 19 states as the nation's top infectious disease doctor offered a bleak warning: Americans need to take sensible measures to curb the spread or risk seeing 100,000 new cases a day.

"We are now having 40,000 cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around," Director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing.

Turning it around will take a coordinated, collaborative effort, he said at the hearing, not the "disparate responses" the nation has shown so far.

But without strong national leadership, that coordination may be up to mayors and governors, according to Dr. William Haseltine, a former biotechnology executive and professor at Harvard's medical and public health schools.

"This situation is now so grim and is getting worse by the day," he said. "From now on, they know it's in their backyard and their job to take care of it if no one else does."

Most of the US has the pandemic in their backyard, with only two states showing a downward trend in cases from last week. The surge comes as restriction-fatigued Americans increasingly gather in large groups for summer recreation.

Precautions like social distancing and mask wearing are meant to help people "enjoy themselves within the safe guidelines," Fauci said.

"We should not look at the public health endeavors as being an obstruction to opening up. We should look at it as a vehicle to opening up," he said.

Turning the tide means more masks and fewer bars

The measures health experts tout to curb the virus are especially important considering more than 90% of the country has not experienced the virus, meaning herd immunity could still be years away, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told the Senate HELP committee on Tuesday.

Both Redfield and Fauci stressed the importance of widespread masks, which experts have encouraged for months even as President Donald Trump has noticeably forgone them.

An environment with universal masks is "fundamentally the most important thing we can do," Redfield said.

What people shouldn't do in this pandemic, Fauci said Tuesday, is head to the bar.

"Bars: really not good, really not good. Congregation at a bar, inside, is bad news. We really have got to stop that," Fauci said Tuesday.

Without those measures, Fauci said, the US will continue to be in trouble.

"Clearly, we are not in total control right now," he said. "The numbers speak for themselves."

In Florida and other Sunbelt states, hospitals are rushing to line up more hospital beds as they head into the height of the summer season amid a startling surge in confirmed cases of the coronavirus.

Over the past few days, states such as Florida, Arizona, Texas and California have reversed course, closing or otherwise clamping down on bars, shutting beaches, rolling back restaurant capacity, putting limits on crowds at pools, or taking other steps to curb a scourge that may be thriving because of such factors as air conditioning and resistance to wearing masks.

Any time you have these reopenings, youre depending on people to do the right things, to follow the rules. I think thats where the weak spots come in, said Dr. Cindy Prins, a University of Florida epidemiologist. She warned that things are likely to get worse before they get better.

Hospitals in the new hot spots are already stretched nearly to the limit and are scrambling to add intensive care unit beds for an expected surge in COVID-19 cases in the coming weeks.

Newly confirmed cases in Florida have spiked over the past week, especially in younger people, who may be more likely to survive the virus but can spread it to the Sunshine State's many vulnerable older residents.

The state reported more than 6,000 new confirmed cases Tuesday. More than 8,000 were recorded on each of three days late last week. Deaths have climbed past 3,500. Floridians ages 15 to 34 now make up 31% of all cases, up from 25% in early June. Last week, more than 8,000 new confirmed cases were reported in that age group, compared with about 2,000 among people 55 to 64 years old.

Hospital ICUs are starting to fill up in South Florida, with a steadily increasing number of patients requiring ventilators. Miamis Baptist Hospital had only six of its 82 ICU beds available, officials said.

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This Bold Makeup Bundle Is the Perfect Way to Show Your Pride All Year Long – POPSUGAR

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For the last 42 years, the iconic rainbow flag has been a symbol for the LGBTQ+ community and is often the inspiration behind many of the bold and beautiful beauty looks that surface during Pride Month. Although Pride celebrations have looked a bit different this year amid the coronavirus, the flag and the spirited looks it influences are better than ever. If you want to continue showing your Pride spirit through a plethora of rainbow looks that deserve their own Instagram feed, look no further than the e.l.f. Cosmetics Celebrate Pride Bundle.

During the month of June, e.l.f. Cosmetics bundled this pack of four products the 18 Hit Wonders Eyeshadow Palette, the Lip Lacquer, and two gorgeous shades of its Liquid Glitter Eyeshadows to raise money for the It Gets Better Project, a nonprofit organization committed to uplifting, empowering, and connecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth around the globe, and donated 50 percent of the Celebrate Pride Bundle product sales to the LGBTQ+ initiative.

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The Best Metal on Bandcamp: June 2020 – bandcamp.com

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BEST METAL The Best Metal on Bandcamp: June 2020 By Brad Sanders July 02, 2020

It feels like it shouldnt need to be said, but sadly, it does: there is no place in metal for racism. An all-star cast of metal musicians have been saying it loudly and unequivocally these past few weeks on a new web series called Metal vs. Racism. You can watch the episodes that have aired to date on Bay Area death metal crew Necrots Instagram page. If youre a cruel, small-minded, and ignorant person, and watching those videos makes you want to smash your High on Fire and Testament records, Ill gladly lend you the hammer.

Check out this months best metal picks below.

This Juneteenth, when Bandcamp donated their cut of all sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, dozens of bands and labels stepped up to make their own donations to racial justice initiatives.One of the many bands to step up with donations that day was Spirit Adrift, a longtime favorite of this column and perhaps the committee (of one)s pick for the best metal band in the world right now. They released Angel & Abyss Redux, an EP featuring an acoustic reworking of the Divided by Darkness highlight, plus brilliant covers of Roky Ericksons I Think of Demons and Jimi Hendrixs The Wind Cries Mary. The band is donating 100% of every sale of this record to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in perpetuity, so if you didnt have a chance to grab it on Juneteenth, it is well worth picking up now.

Now three full-lengths and a smattering of demos and EPs into their career, the Finnish duo Lantern have moved far beyond merely worshiping the Nordic death/doom scene that first inspired them to pick up guitars. Dimensions is a legacy-making album, the kind of record that should ensure their place in death metal history. Its bookended by the seven-minute Strange Nebula and the 14-minute Monolithic Abyssal Dimensions, which highlight the band at their labyrinthine best, each song rife with twisting riffs, decaying atmospherics and stretched to epic lengths. Just as impressive are moments like the two-minute Portraits, almost an interlude track, but far too interesting to be cast off as such. Its an effectively eerie vocal showcase for frontman Necrophilos in a genre that rarely provides vocal showcases. Cauldron of Souls is another high point, a black metal-tinged banger with an infectious stab of lead guitar serving as its primary hook. For the past several years, its felt like Lantern were quietly climbing their way to making a true masterpiece. With Dimensions, theyve reached the mountaintop.

For a brief, shining moment in the mid-00s, post-hardcore, Hot Topic screamo, metalcore, and prog rock all got along. Bands like Coheed and Cambria, Between the Buried and Me, and Canadian stalwarts Protest the Hero were consistently releasing ambitious, strange music that defied categorization but seemed to bring all kinds of misfit kids to the table. If you werent down then, you probably wont be down now, but if you were down then, the new Protest the Hero album is like a cold blast of shopping mall air conditioning to the face. Now 15 years older than they were when they released their debut LP Kezia, the band offer a more controlled fury on Palimpsest. Vocalist Rody Walker still climbs seemingly impossible scales, but after recovery and retraining following a vocal cord injury, its not with quite the same level of abandon. That allows him to force us to focus even more on his lyrics, which here dissect American history through the dual lenses of its Trumpian so-called greatness and the more complicated truth. A Canadian singing about the flaws of America might seem presumptuous, but his relative distance grants him a clarity thats genuinely refreshing. Behind Walker, guitarists Luke Hoskin and Tim MacMillar oscillate between a jerky start-stop dynamic and seemingly self-aware moments of faux-epic bluster, underpinned with the most bombastic orchestral parts the band has ever used. Most impressively, Protest the Hero took a sound that, to many people, feels tethered to a semi-embarrassing moment in time, and brought it thrillingly into the present.

Live albums feel particularly attuned to this moment. There are those among us who have historically derided them as a pale facsimile of the real thing. Now, we live in a world where there is no real thing, and no one has been to the real thing in almost four months. Its in that context that we must examine Power Trips new album, Live in Seattle. I saw Power Trip on that tour, in Brooklyn. They were incredible that night, well-deserving of the 675-capacity venue that theyd sold out after years of playing their furious brand of thrash-infused hardcore in smaller bars. Does Live in Seattle capture the feeling I had that night? Not quite, but a crowd surfer didnt break my glasses while I listened to it, either, so I guess its a wash. The band rips through all the essential cuts from Manifest Decimation and Nightmare Logic, plus some key non-album singles, closing with the crowd-pleasing anthem Crossbreaker. Theres a real sense of movement and propulsion to the album, with only the briefest breaks for stage banter as the band barrel through their set. As non-live live experiences go, its one of the better ones available for headbangers to experience right now. Heres hoping we can all get back together and mosh to Power Trip again soon. Hell, by then Ill probably let you break my glasses.

The self-titled Satans Hallow album that came out back in 2017 was a hell of an introduction to the Chicago newcomers, and it carried the promise of an exciting new band for lovers of traditional heavy metal to follow for years to come. They split up shortly after it was released. Midnight Dice rose from Satans Hallows ashes, with four of the five members of that band reprising their roles here, crucially with Mandy Martillo still on the microphone. Hypnotized is their first proper EP after a demo, a live tape, and a split 7 with fellow Chicagoans, Hitter. Its only 21 minutes long, but damn it if they arent 21 of the finest minutes of true metal to come out this year. Martillos pipes are laser-precise as she belts over Steve Beaudettes souped-up NWOBHM riffs, and songs like Starblind and Speed City feel tailor-made to be played onstage someday, when thats possible again. (Someday youre gonna wish/ You were still half as good as this/ So make tonight your bitch in Speed City reads downright Proustian in these times.) Satans Hallow left us too soon, but with a lucky roll, Midnight Dice should stick around a lot longer.

The fretless bass has a long and contentious history in death metal. Most famously utilized in the early 90s scene by Sean Malone of Cynic, its since taken on a life as a kind of shorthand for exploratory, progressive death metal. If you hear a fretless bass line meandering around the edges of a death metal riff, the band is trying to tell you that theyre doing something outside of the box. On VoidCeremonys bonkers debut album, Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel, the fretless bass is doing something more interesting. Damon Good (also of Mournful Congregation) has certainly heard a Cynic record or two, but his bass lines help anchor these songs rather than making them spin off into space. His bass represents a human, flesh-and-blood presence on an album thats often given to glorious, maddening abstraction. If this is technical death metal, its only in the sense that everyone performing on it has no shortage of technique. Yet their interests lie not in the proving of chops but in the exploration of whats possible within the death metal framework. Exhilarating as Entropic Reflections Continuum is, it seems theyve only scratched the surface.

Though theyve been well-known in leftist metal circles online since their founding in 2014, the queer, antifascist sludge duo Vile Creature havent yet crossed over to mainstream success. Glory! Glory! Apathy Took Helm!, their third full-length, should change that. For one, theyve signed to Prosthetic Records, who reissued their early work on a comp last year and have put significant promotional muscle behind them. More crucially, Glory! feels like an arrival, a record where everything Vile Creature is all about has coalesced. Throughout the album, moments of transcendental beauty are met with the counterweight of ugliness. When Glory! Glory! transitions into Apathy Took Helm!, the former songs ghostly choral parts dissolve into the latters punishing dirge. Before long, the choral vocals return amid the din of the sludge riffs, suggesting the necessary coexistence in troubled times of joy and agony, love and hate, reflection and action. Ive only spent a week or so with this record; I expect it to reveal so much more in the coming months.

Colin Marston is a lot of thingsvirtuosic musician, champion of the avant-garde in metal, mastering engineer extraordinaire. As a principal member of Beholdthe Arctopus, Krallice, Gorguts, Dysrythmia, and more, he has pushed metal into some of the stranger places its been over the past two decades. Unsympathetic Empyrean, the debut album by his new solo project Xazraug, feels like something entirely new for him, an avant-black metal album roughly in the I, Voidhanger house style, but transgressive in its own peculiar way. Its undeniably an assault on the senses. Its five tracks span from nearly 10 minutes to over 14, and none of them leave a lot of space for contemplative atmospherics. Whether hes playing a mind-bending riff, laying into an Emperor-style synth part, or layering hellish chanting, Marston consistently fills the sonic space with something you cant easily tune out. That makes Unsympathetic Empyrean a demanding listen, but that shouldnt turn off any fans of Marstons work. The challenge is the point.

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Power Distribution Market 2020 With Top Countries Data: Industry Trends, Share, Size, Top Key Players Analysis and Forecast Research – Cole of Duty

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Global Power Distribution Market Size, Status And Forecast 2020-2026

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It’s Time to Rethink How You Handle Cloning Out Distractions – Fstoppers

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Whether youve worked with Photoshop for years, or are new to the program and want an updated approach to cloning, healing, and editing out distractions and issues, theres been a number of updates that have challenged the old paradigm of editing in these situations. Want to know the new approach you should be using?

When I got started with Photoshop, and had to deal with removing an element of an image, Id reach for either the clone stamp or healing brush tool. Both were fine, but required a good sense of how to rebuild the areas, if you were removing a sizable chunk of the photo. For this next section, when I refer to cloning, you can consider healing and cloning to both run into the same issues, at least to some extent.

Beyond just size, theres a number of complicating factors that can make these tools more difficult to use than necessary. Consider an object against a pattern background, where youll have to pay attention to matching the orientation and periodicity of the pattern itself, rather than just cloning over it with a random sample. Another example is when cloning up against the border of two different objects, especially where theres a defined edge. Working near that edge with a healing brush can result in a blurry mess, instead of a clean replacement.

To work around these challenges, Photoshop has added a number of tools that I dont think get enough attention for this part of the workflow. Furthermore, there are a number of optimizations to how you work with the existing tools that can help address these issues.

The first change Id recommend making is altering how you approach editing out a distraction in the first place. Instead of reaching for a brush of any type or the patch tool, grab the lasso tool. Combined with content aware fill, I find it much easier to make selections quickly, hit my reassigned shortcut for fill (faster than Edit> Fill), and end up with a great looking result for basic adjustments.

I like this better than the brush approach because of how well it leads into making adjustments to the area being fixed. If I need to end up selecting more of a region, like if theres a color cast spilling onto the background, its easy to add to the selection. If Im removing too much, just by holding Alt, I can quickly remove something from the selection. In the very rare cases where Photoshop isnt automatically selecting a good patch to fill with, its easy to jump into the dedicated Content Aware Fill dialog, as your selection is already set up.

This approach isnt just good for its versatility, but also because it is very low effort. Draw a sloppy circle around what you want gone and it vanishes. Content Aware Fill seems to do a remarkable job of leaving things alone that dont need to be removed, even if its in the active selection, unlike when you draw outside the area with the spot healing brush.

Furthermore, Photoshop offers a ton of options for making an easy, effective selection, making this approach even easier. A great example of this is when working with a panorama. After stitching, you can end up with small gaps around the edges of the frame, where the stitch hasnt resulted in a perfectly rectangular image. To fill these in with a brush-based approach would require a detailed examination of the edges of the frame and painstaking work to brush in only the necessary regions. Instead, by selecting all the content on the layer, inverting the selection, and expanding it by a few pixels, you can quickly fill all these gaps automatically. Ive even loaded that process into an action, taking what would have been minutes of work into about 5 seconds and 2 clicks.

To sum it up, when working with an easy, or even intermediate issue, Ive left the myriad healing and cloning brushes in the toolbar, instead relying on sloppy selections and Content Aware fill via both the fill menu and dedicated dialog. Its saved a lot of effort, and can easily be stepped up to deal with more difficult cases.

Unfortunately, Content Awares AI isnt at Skynet levels just yet, For some areas, its still necessary to go in and manually clone out the region. This is most noticeable in the cases I mentioned earlier in the article, with regular patterns and some literal edge cases. Here, however, I still dont leave the selection tools behind.

Making a selection before working with cloning tools can be one of the best ways to refine your approach. One of the easiest examples of this is when working with something that comes up to an edge of another object. In these three shots, you can see the initial issue, the selection, and the finished product. By going in with just the regular clone stamp, you can build in some margin around that white pillar, while still keeping a very clean edge on the object. Once thats done, you can then use any tool, like the healing brush, to go in and finish the job, as well as refine the transition.

Trying to mirror that rounded edge with a single brush stroke is way more difficult than it needs to be. Setting up the selection ahead of time functions a bit like the bumper guards in bowling, where even a mistake doesnt ruin your attempt.

Setting up this perimeteralso leads into my next bit of advice, which is dont be afraid of the clone stamp. While the initial strokes can look worse than using the healing brush or spot healing brush, I find that for larger areas, you can never get the healing brush to look just right without first removing the offending object via another method. Healing over a large area can just result in a smudgy mess, often with color artifacts from the removed object. Instead, give a couple swipes of the clone stamp to at least get the area into a more neutral starting position, then refine with the healing tools if necessary.

One last thing to remember is the clone source panel. If youre working with an offset pattern, or dont have a great 1:1 match for cloning, you can use the clone source panel to expand your options. In the panel, you can adjust the rotation of your clone source to better match your subject, increase or decrease the scaling ratio, or even mirror it. By playing around with these settings, you can get a far more convincing blendor even create a usable source out of an otherwise dissimilar area.

None of these features are that new, with content aware fill being around for years already, for example. Instead, the iterative improvements of content aware fill, combined with some new techniques Ive integrated into my workflow, have led me to realize that I hardly even touch the old standards of cloning work anymore. As content aware fill continues to improve, Ive had to do less and less manual refinement. Id suggest you see how it fits into your workflow, as well as understand the cases where it isnt going to be useful, and how to compensate it might just save you quite a bit of time in your next edit!

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The best sci-fi movies about cloning – Looper

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Oblivion draws heavily from science-fiction films of yesteryear, particularly sci-fi movies of the 1970s. The year is 2077, and humanity has relocated to Titan, Saturn's largest moon, after Earth was overrun by aliens. Tom Cruise's character, Jack, is sent back to Earth to help service drones in their fight against the extraterrestrials. It's during his time back on his home planet that he discovers he has been cloned. Nothing about Jack's reality is quite what it seems, and watching him unearth the truth is a gripping ride from start to finish.

Oblivionis definitely more of a popcorn flick than other movies you'll find on this list. It doesn't dive as deeply into the ethical ramifications of cloning, nor is it distinguished by granular scientific detail. But then, it's not interested in those things Oblivionwants to be a blockbuster sci-fi of the highest order, and completely succeeds.Cloning is only one of many sci-fi concepts the movie plays with: Rebelling robots, a post-apocalyptic setting, and subterranean cities are all here too. It pretty much wins sci-fi bingo, and that's why we love it.

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Hard Drive Cloning Software Market Next Big Thing | Major Giants: Acronis, Symantec, Microsoft, Paramount Software – 3rd Watch News

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When to Avoid Nootropics? – Newswire

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While nootropics are an incredible thing, there are instances where you should avoid them all together.

(Newswire.net -- July 1, 2020) -- Nootropics are sought after by people with many different motivations. Some are looking for a mental boost before the big test or a stressful workday. Others are looking for something to help alleviate stress. No matter what the motivation is, people get serious relief from nootropics.

While nootropics are an incredible thing, there are instances where you should avoid them all together.

There are some nootropics that you should steer clear of. If you recognize some of these ingredients on any given nootropic, avoiding them is a good practice.

As you can see, some of the more well known synthetic nootropics have a lot of side effects. It makes you wonder if it is even worth it. For most people, no, it is not, and that is why they choose herbal nootropics instead.

Some medications have negative interactions with certain nootropics. Antidepressants are the drug class that has the most interactions with nootropic compounds.

St. Johns Wort and Ginkgo Biloba for example should be strictly avoided at all costs if you are on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Paxil, Seroquel, Zoloft and more. Before deciding to take a specific nootropic, check to see with your doctor if any of the medications or supplements you take would have an interaction.

Some nootropics have stimulant effects, and others have calming effects. Like with anything, they each vary in effects. It is important to know before hand whether or not it is safe to drink on.

When you drink alcohol in combination with other substances such as nootropics, you increase the efficacy. The way that works, is the alcohol increases the concentration of whatever other substances are in your blood.

So say for instance you took a low dose of Ginkgo Biloba then had a glass of wine. The dose of Ginkgo Biloba may have been low, but once that wine hits the bloodstream it will increase the Ginkgo Biloba it is sharing the stream with.

That is why many medications, particularly ones that affect the central nervous system, strictly prohibit you from drinking while on them. Now, that is not to say that every single nootropic requires abstinence from alcohol.

It just means that if you are going to be drinking alcohol, find out if it is okay to mix with the nootropic of choice you are using. Better safe than sorry. In fact, some people substitute their alcohol use and replace it with calming nootropics to take the edge off in a safer way.

Dont compromise your safety and drink or combine nootropics with things they shouldnt be combined with. It is critical to always exercise safety and check with your doctor to see if you are good to take nootropics.

If there is one class of nootropics worth avoiding, it is synthetic ones. Of course, not all of them are bad, but in general they are the ones that really bring it when it comes to side effects.

Choosing a natural nootropic over an herbal one means you dont have to worry about avoiding any of them at all.

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