Rapid Detox

It's alarming and depressing to know that society's drug addiction problem isn't getting any better. Depression, anxiety, impulse-control issue, personality problems are the usual factors why people tend to abuse and resort to drugs. But there is still hope and the family's support will always be the biggest help that can make one improve for the better.

It's also relieving to know that there are professionals and new technologies that can make the rehabilitation process a lot easier and faster. Las Vegas Rapid Detox Medical Clinic through its rapid detox process treats the physical addiction and the withdrawal symptoms of an opiate user. The procedure consists of 8 hours of rapid detox intensive treatment, 36 hours of one-on-one care after rapid detox, 8 weeks of psychologist follow-up counseling after initial psych assessment. Rehabilitation is not an easy plight to walk on but with the necessary support from highly trained professionals and the user's loved ones, drug addiction will just be a thing of yesterday.

Diversifying Assets Through Gold Trading

I decided to take a rest from my online projects this noon so I browsed the very informative site of USGoldBureau.com. We're thinking of "diversifying" our assets and precious metal trading is what we're opting to try right now. Here are some of my learnings about gold:

1. Buy gold depending on your needs. There are certain types of gold to match your requirement. Let's say you want to capitalize on price movement, gold bullion is the right investment.
2. Buy gold anytime you feel the need. So any time is the best time to buy gold bullion.
3. Gold is considered a bedrock. The gold remains valuable in itself, notwithstanding the world economy status.

This just the tip of the iceberg and I know there's so much I need to learn about gold trading before I take the plunge. I'm thankful that there are readily available web resources that I can peruse anytime.

He's A Gym Buff Now.

Guess who's been regularly visiting the gym lately?

Not me.

Probably, the husband's got fed up with my satirical comments on how he has obviously gained weight lately. Then he got the shock of his life too when he weighed in after the holidays so that convinced him to go back and undergo some muscle toning session in the gym. He's lucky because their company provides free gym usage and workouts to their employees so he need not spend on expensive gym membership fees. He works out every other day during lunch break and so far, he hasn't missed a schedule which is great. I regret that I wasn't able to get a picture of him before he started so we can compare and see the before and after look. On double purpose, with the perfect fitness equipment themed digital kit, I can also digiscrap those photos as a remembrance of his being a gym buff and a motivation as well to maintain his fit-conscious attitude.

How To Round Photo Corners from Designer Digitals

I have just finished reading the auto insurance quotes that was forwarded to me via email when I stumbled upon this great tip from Designer Digitals on How to Round the Corners of Photos using Photoshop. Recently, I've been trying to edit some of my photos and frantically searched for this tip on the web but found nothing. Thank you Designer-Digitals because your newsletter for today containing this tut just came in time. Take a look on my take below and if you have time, try to do this editing tip by yourself. By the way, I've copied and pasted their tutorial but should you wish to view and be guided by a video, here's the link.

In Photoshop and Elements, there is more than one way to do almost everything, so if one way doesn't feel natural to you, there's usually another workaround. Last week's tip showed one way to create a mat around your photos (or other page elements) using the Stroke function. This week's tip shows you another way to get around in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements to create rounded photo corners and mats.

Begin by creating a new document at 300 pixels per inch or opening a piece of digital background paper. Press the letter D on your keyboard to change the Foreground/Background colors to the default black and white.

Get the Rounded Rectangle tool which is hidden beneath the Rectangle tool in the Tools panel. You can either click and hold the Rectangle tool or right-click to reveal the hidden tools. Select the Rounded Rectangle.

The next step is to make your choices in the Options Bar:

Choose the Shape Layers icon (Photoshop only) and the Create a New Shape layer icon, then adjust the radius. The lower the number, the sharper the corners of your rounded rectangle will be. Larger numbers produce rounder corners.

Now click and drag out a rectangle the size of your choice. Holding the Shift key as you drag creates a square.

This creates the rounded rectangle mat on its own shape layer.

To add a photo placeholder, Ctrl click (Mac: Cmd click) the thumbnail of the shape in the Layers Panel. This places a selection around the mat.

Choose Select > Modify > Contract from the Menu bar and type in a number. The higher the number you choose, the larger your mat will be.

Now click the Create a New layer icon in the Layers Panel. Select Edit > Fill selection to activate the Fill dialog. Choose a fill color and click OK. Press Ctrl D (Mac: Cmd D) to remove the selection.

Now you've made a mask that you can digitally "glue" paper and photos to.

Click on the top layer and then hold the Ctrl key (Mac: Cmd key) as you click the bottom layer. Get the Move tool and drag the pair onto your scrapbook page.

Still using the Move tool, select the top layer of the mask pair. Drag the photo onto the layout and position it over the top mask layer. Alt click (Mac: Opt click) between the photo and top rectangle layer to create a clipping mask.

Use the same technique to clip patterned paper to the larger rectangle.

Where Oh Where??

He's so adorable, right? This is one of the photos I've been longing to scrap. A boy themed digital kit complete with cars or truck and truck accessories elements are the perfect tools to do so. Which reminds me, I think I have the perfect one stashed in my hard disk. I also have Photoshop CS3 installed. The two things that are just lacking are the drive and time. Oh, mojos..where art thou?

Valentines Gift.

As early as now, I know a lot of the gals and ladies out there are getting ready to be swooned this coming "love" season. It'll be Valentines in less than a month and I bet, confectionery, flower, card and jewelry shops are all getting revved up, thinking of new promos and stuffs in anticipation of the said season.

For the guys out there, these faux sapphire earrings may be a great suggestion. They will surely knock off your girl's feet. These high quality and well-crafted eye candies are artistically made by Holsted Jewellers. If your wallet can't afford those expensive genuine gems, synthetic sapphires will do since they are as classy and elegant-looking as the original ones. These will make a great addition to your girl's lovely collection of jewelries.

Of course, the traditional gifting of flowers and chocolates remains a top favorite to many.

Help

Way back schooling days, I often commute and pass by the busy and filthy roads of Quiapo and Taft Ave (Escoda) on my way home. Often times, I see pathetic young beggars lying on the side streets sniffing solvents. Seeing such is really disturbing especially that they are still minors. I can’t help but wonder what they will become as they grow older. They are in danger and must be saved.

If you or someone you know needs help of a drug rehab or alcoholism rehabilitation, start doing your part of saving them. You can do so by calling a caring drug counselor. From there, you'll be guided what to do. You will be assessed and provided with treatment referral options depending on your needs. As concerned loved one or a friend of a "user" you can also do your part by reading more about drug education and information so that you'll have a better understanding of their plight and provide assistance better.

Recovering.

Have you noticed how the world has now recovered a bit from last year's recession? Although I couldn't say yet that life is better now because prices of commodities are still surging every now and then, I observed that a lot of companies have resumed hiring and opening job vacancies once again. In fact, in my husband's office, he said that their Recruitment center is back to its normal crowd thickness with lots of hopeful applicants filling the place.

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