#the gia campaign

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[prettyfuul]

Flora Paisley 'Ellery' dress by I AM GIA

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Gia Studios

[crackcancer]

[akuncloudflare]

Sasha Pivovarova Enchants in Pink for Blumarine Slide 2022 Campaign

Sasha Pivovarova Enchants in Pink for Blumarine Slide 2022 Campaign

Blumarine focuses on the shade pink with its drop-winter season 2022 campaign. Sasha Pivovarova, a modeling icon, poses for photographs taken by Petra Collins. The photographs also characteristic a pink motor vehicle that has been submerged underwater. The Russian design is viewed sporting types made by the Italian brand’s artistic director Nicola Brognano. Lotta Volkova, a style stylist,…

[fat-models]

Yasmin Geurts & Gia Love by Jacqueline Landvic for Ganni Campaign June 2023 Collection

[ask-a-goldsmith]

In writing my last few posts, I have realized that there is quite a lot of basic(to me) knowledge required to understand most of this stuff. I've done my best to explain as I go, but I think this deserves its own post. So, here we go!

Junior Gemology 101

This post is mostly about diamonds! I am well aware it's called Junior Gemology, but 90% of what I deal with on a day-to-day basis is diamonds. Also, a lot of this applies to coloured stones too, so no need to repeat myself.

What is a diamond, actually?

Diamonds are carbon! That's all there is! Except for inclusions. And coloured diamonds. Those have little bits of other materials in them. And are also a topic for later. I digress. Like always.

Specifically, diamonds are carbon atoms bonded together covalently in a tetrahedral shape. Confusing enough yet? This means that each carbon atom is bonded to 4 other carbon atoms. It's ok if you don't get it, I spent about 3 hours trying to understand diamond structure before things started to make sense. This website has a 3D model of the tetrahedral structure seen in diamonds and is what I used to finally wrap my head around it. The important part is: diamonds are made of carbon atoms connected in a pattern. If the pattern was different, It wouldn't be a diamond! If the carbon was bonded in hexagonal rings, it would be graphite! Same atoms, veeeerrrryyy different result.

What makes diamonds so darn special?

I've told you what a diamond is - so why do people care about this very specific pattern of carbon? The answer is(mostly) that humanity LOVES shiny things, and diamonds are great at being shiny. Why have diamonds become THE shiny thing to have? A combination of some REALLY successful marketing campaigns and some of diamond's unique characteristics. These characteristics include things such as their hardness, brilliance, and fire. I went deeper into these characteristics and what they mean in terms of telling diamonds from other stones in this post, but I'll give you a quick run-down here.

Diamonds are very(and famously) hard. They're a 10 on the Mohs scale, and almost nothing is harder than them. This doesn't mean diamonds are impervious to damage - while they are very hard, diamonds can also be brittle, and a hard smack in the wrong place can chip, crack, or even shatter a diamond. Trust me, I know. I've broken a few by accident.

Brilliance and fire are what give diamonds their characteristic bling. Though they are classified as different things - brilliance being the bright white reflections of light and fire being the rainbow reflections - they're both caused by diamond's Refractive Index. Refractive index(RI) is the measurement of the speed at which light travels through different materials - for our purposes though, think of it as how much a ray of light bends when it moves from one material to another. Diamonds have an RI of 2.42, which causes high brilliance and a medium amount of fire. RI isn't super important for most people to know - it really only comes into the conversation when comparing diamonds to simulant materials.

What are the 4 Cs?

The 4 Cs are the meat and potatoes of diamond basics - Carat weight, Colour, Clarity, and Cut. These four terms are used to describe diamonds worldwide, each describing a different part of a diamond's look.

Carat weight is the weight of a diamond. Pretty self-explanatory. What's not clear is what a carat actually is - no, not a carrot. A carat. A carat is 0.2 grams. Therefore, a 5 carat diamond(good lord) would weigh 1 gram. With me? Why do we weigh diamonds in carats instead of grams like sane people? Because way back yonder, carob seeds were used as a counterweight to weigh diamonds, and language did what language does.

Image from loosegrowndiamond.com

Colour refers to - you guessed it - the colour of the diamond. There are two basic systems that GIA(The Gemological Institute Of America, and the accepted authority of these things in North America) use; the normal colour range and the coloured or fancy diamond range. The normal colour range is used for stones that are colourless, light yellow, or light brown. These are the most common colours of diamond, thus the "normal" colour range. These stones are graded alphabetically D-Z, with D being colourless and Z being quite noticeably yellow or brown. Normal range colour grades are sorted into 5 groups based on the general amount of colour; colourless(DEF), nearly colourless(GHIJ), Faint(KLM), Very Light(N-R), and light(S-Z).

Image from GIA article 4Cs Color

Stones that fall outside this range (stones that are too yellow or brown for the scale or show any colour other than yellow and brown) are graded using the fancy colour grades. Fancy colour grades are an entire thing, but generally pretty self-explanatory. The grade will include 1 or two colours(the more dominant of which goes last) and an intensity descriptor such as light, intense, fancy deep, etc. For example, a stone may be graded as a fancy greyish blue - this means that the stone has a middling amount of colour and is blue with a hint of grey. Easy peasy.

Clarity is how many inclusions are in a stone. Well, technically it's more complicated than that, accounting for placement and contrast and type of inclusion etc etc etc. Really, clarity is how many inclusions you see in a stone. Inclusions are things in the diamond that are not diamond, such as included crystals, or imperfections in the diamond itself, such as cracks(called feathers) or chips.

Clarity grades are, frankly, confusing as fuck. There are 11 grades, broken down into 6 grade groups. From highest to lowest, they are; Flawless, Internally Flawless, Very Very Slightly Included(VVS), Very Slightly Included(VS), Slightly Included(SI), and Included(I). VVS, VS, and SI are each broken into 2 grades - 1 and 2. I is broken down into 3 grades - 1, 2, and 3. The lower the number within a grade, the better the grade - a VS1 stone would be less visibly included than a VS2. You know what'll help? Visuals!!

Images from GIA D&DG Chapter 11. Credit to John Koivula/GIA

The diamond on the left is graded as a VVS2 - the red arrow points to the inclusion that gave it this grade. The diamond on the right is graded as an I2. No red arrows are required - this stone has many highly visible inclusions. If you want a little more info (and examples) of clarity grades, GIA has a lovely little tool that explains it quite well.

Cut refers to the shape of a diamond - specifically, the combination of shape(face-up outline) and cutting style(the arrangement of the facets). A classic round brilliant is what most people think of when they think of a diamond, but there are dozens of different cuts. When talking about cut grade, cut refers to how well executed the cut is. Are the proportions ideal? Is everything symmetrical? Is the polish well done? These determine the cut grade of the stone. Cut grades are as follows, best to worst; Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair, and Poor.

What are the parts of a cut diamond?

Specifically, the parts of a round brilliant diamond. Round brilliant is the name of the most common cut of diamond. Think of a diamond. Is it round? That's almost definitely a round brilliant. Think I've said round brilliant enough? Round brilliant. Whew. Done with that now. This is best explained with diagrams.

The parts we're most interested in are the table, crown, girdle, and pavilion. The way those 3 parts are shaped and proportioned has a huge effect on the looks and value of a diamond.

Knowledge Check

Let's say you're looking at a 1.01 carat round brilliant diamond - it has a colour grade of F, a clarity grade of SI1, and an excellent cut grade. So, what does this mean to you?

Round brilliant is the cut of the diamond. It has a round outline and a brilliant cutting style. 1.01ct is a fairly large diamond - this one in particular is 6.42 mm in diameter (that's a quarter inch!). This stone is colourless - F is the lowest colour grade in the colourless range, but it is still classified as colourless. The diamond will either have one large or several small inclusions that are easy to see under 10x magnification, but hard or impossible to see while looking through the table of a stone with the naked eye(they may be visible through the pavilion with the naked eye). The diamond will be very well cut - the best cut grade possible, in fact! There will be no visible variation in the girdle outline, and all the facets will be well-placed and symmetrical.

It's up to you to decide if this stone matches your criteria - is SI1 a good enough cut grade for you? Is 1.01ct the right size? How "good" a stone is depends on what you want - there will always be bigger, clearer, more colourless diamonds on the market. What makes a stone "good" is if it's the right fit for you. Another stone may be better quality, but if it's out of your price range, then it's not a good stone for you.

In Conclusion

So, you made it this far! Congrats! Hopefully, I haven't bored you too much. We've really just scratched the surface - this was enough information to give you a good idea of what's going on and allow you to navigate the mysticisms of those strange numbers and letters you see associated with diamonds. All information was taken from the GIA Diamond Essentials 130 and Diamonds and Diamond Grading 230 courses and my 6ish years in the jewelry industry. If you have questions about specific pieces of information or want more resources, send me an ask! I will be delighted to answer.

[luhafraser]

Says the man who is never himself, at least publicly...

One moment he's the guy who sponsors a campaign for his newest product, on the high seas with a variety of plastic items on board... And another moment, the guy who raises the flag against plastic.

He was once the guy who supposedly had long relationships until 2018... And more recently, he's the guy who can't maintain relationships because he's traumatized by his father's absence. Wasn't he before? He should have married MM if at that time the trauma wasn't something that got in the way so much. 🤦🏻‍♀️😜🤣

Or rather... Katie (it was real, right?!)... Those playlists don't seem like something from someone who is afraid of commitment.

For magazines, he is the reserved guy in his private life (the last "sold" girlfriend was MC)... For this fandom, it's a rumor every month, random stories, photos dropped by DM, russian videos (hilarious 😜🤣), ... Any breadcrumbs and stories that start from the most viewed Anti blogs.

What Sam has most is conflict about who he is publicly! Inconsistencies! But that must be what he wants...

Addendum: If all these magazines are so interested in Sam, how come none of them have looked at what this fandom says about Sam, besides the fact that he might be involved with Caitríona? How come only the small vocal group = shippers have a voice? Serious? How come no magazine published who Gia was, the Playboy playmate, who was with Sam during the 2020 quarantine in Hawaii? How come no magazine published that english footballer Eric Dier's current wife was with Sam in Paris two years ago? Seriously, they're just a bunch of idiots who don't investigate anything before publishing and keep mentioning MM and MC as "his girlfriends"?! Bullshit! It's more like... Magazines publish what they are paid to publish.

[ohriyonid]

Raleigh aka Newton aka the Ancient Gold Dragon of Panacea aka party dad aka Sir Commander (he’s a beloved oc of mine and an npc from my sci fi dnd campaign, GIA) :o)

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WHAM ! BAM !

[whereserpentswalk]

Variants on knight class living armor.

For the armies of the far future the most powerful types of armors are full body pieces of living armor. Muscles holding up plates of heavy steel, a similar priceable to previous generations of power armor, but far more graceful and powerful. These pieces of armor are living beings, often even being capable of making small adjustments to themselves for extra protection, and giving information to wearer.

These are examples of Knight Class armor. A species of living armor popularized for its sleek design, and for its associations with its owners: the Knights of Mons, the secret police and elite shock troops of the Republic of Olympus Mons. These are the six most common variations on this armor.

Top left- Knights' Armor: the armor of the Knights of Mons that popularized it. The design and colors are designed after their ancient military uniforms. They're also the ones who popularized the use of shields and Tsar rifles being used with the armor.

Top middle- Shock armor: paler less ornate versions of the armor, used by the knights on missions that require stealth. Infamous for their use in the Tharsis campaigns.

Top left- Phobos kingsgaurd armor: Ornate armor used by the royal guard of the kingdom of Phobos and Deimos. These guards are trained as Knights and gifted by Mons to Phobos. They're thought to be more loyal to Mars then they are to its ally of Phobos, being accused of killing at least two kings whose choices would have been bad for Mons.

Bottom left- Gia export armor: The armor given to the Knights of Mons when they fight alongside Mons's ally of the Gia Union. As the Gia Union is uncomfortable with the concept of an ally and demands its soldiers all wear pure white cloth and pure chrome metal, allied troops wearing greens would stick out poorly.

Bottom middle- Repentance armor: The armor worn by those who have transgressed against Mons's moral order and seek to redeem themselves by fighting alongside the Knights. These soldiers tend to be political prisoners or prisoners of war, whose only other option would be death or worse.

Bottom right- Umbral armor: The Umbral legion is a vast network of revolutionary insurgents and fighters across the inner worlds. As they are taken from every army, occasionally treasonous Knights fight for them. Their armor is modified to take the Umbral symbol of the serpent, and a dark color pallet.

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From DM--Pic CONFIRMATION that Sam Heughan did indeed hang out with Georgia Ellenwood at the athletic event in Ratingen, Germany this past weekend, June 17-18, 2023!

So, yesterday, I posted this, showing that Sam was in a pic in Ratingen. And athlete and ex Sam date, Georgia Ellenwood, was competing in the event. 👇

Today, I get a DM from someone who has DMed me before giving me some info and a pic. 👇

It's blurry, but here it is closer. 👇

Definitely Sam and Georgia--same exact clothes they were photographed in that day! Look 👇

His grayish jeans, white t-shirt, you can see the black lanyard string hanging from Sam's neck--probably VIP, and Georgia wearing sleeveless black top and black shorts. Bingo!

Has #samgia (for those keeping track, samgia is Sam and GeorGIA and Sam and his ex Gia Marie were #giasam. Don't get confused. 😉), have they rekindled their romance...or was this just a friendly get together? Regardless, they're sitting cozily IMO. ❤️.

P.S. Remember when bunny boiler, Monica Aksamit, said she contacted Sam's exes to commiserate and badmouth him? Well, one of the ones she contacted was Georgia Ellenwood. Obviously, Georgia didn't agree with Monica's smear campaign against Sam. She and Sam have continued to mutually follow. AND now, it's clear they're still in contact and on GOOD terms. Sucks to be miserable Monica.

P.P.S. Hey, Extreme Shippers, how are you going to explain away that Sam didn't spend Father's Day with Cait and their 5 bairns? Or was the hottie young blonde athlete "another decoy?" 😁🤪🙃🤦‍♀️

[hangjrlk]

Giữa thời điểm mà mọi nỗ lực của cộng đồng quảng cáo, nội dung, thiết kế, marketing, ... khốn đốn với AI thì các sếp bên tôi lại phán: Content is king.

1, Liệu content có còn là king không?

Xin phép cho tôi ở năm 2024 được trả lời bản thân mình cho năm 2015 thuở mới ra trường, cũng chập chững mần content.

Câu trả lời: Không. Chưa bao giờ là King.

Và đây cũng là câu trả lời mà tôi đã trả lời bản thân mình từ nhiều năm trước.

2, Content với tôi chưa bao giờ là king.

Sau một thời gian dài tham gia và rụng rời với các doanh nghiệp start up, doanh nghiệp nhỏ và tầm trung, đến các doanh nghiệp "cây đa cây đề" thì đối với tôi, chất lượng sản phẩm và chất lượng dịch vụ mới là thứ quyết định khách có quay lại hay không. Hành vi khách hàng, túi tiền khách hàng mới là thứ quyết định xem có gắn bó lâu dài với doanh nghiệp hay không.

Nếu chất lượng sản phẩm, dịch vụ của doanh nghiệp kém - tệ - không đáng tiền bỏ ra. Xin thưa là king cũng phải "tay gậy tay bị" mà thôi.

Việc content có hay ho, trau chuốt, độc đáo, lạ lẫm - xin góp về lĩnh vực giải trí, nghệ thuật, sáng tạo. Doanh nghiệp thay vì cứ mãi theo đuổi content, theo đuổi marketing, theo đuổi cái hào nhoáng bên ngoài, thì thật lòng là sớm muộn cũng rụng thôi.

Người tiêu dùng họ sử dụng túi tiền của mình một cách thông minh.

3, Nhưng tại sao nên "đua" content?

Việc các doanh nghiệp chạy đua content cốt để cạnh tranh với các đối thủ của mình trên thị trường.

Cùng một sản phẩm, cùng một mức giá, cùng chất lượng dịch vụ, cùng vị trí trong khu vực, việc quảng cáo của bạn hiệu quả hơn thì khả năng là khách hàng sẽ chọn sản phẩm của bạn.

Chính vì vậy, phát triển 4P trong marketing đã thành 7P giúp cho các "marketer" xây dựng kế hoạch quảng cáo của họ.

Tuy nhiên, thay vì quá chú trọng những thứ hào nhoáng, việc áp KPI, ảo lợi nhuận, ... trong việc cân bằng chi phí sản xuất khiến chất lượng sản phẩm đi xuống và giá thành tăng cao. Điều này dẫn đến việc khách hàng quay lưng lại với doanh nghiệp. Doanh nghiệp tiếp tục quay vòng với việc tìm kiếm sản phẩm mới, chạy campaign marketing mới, và xem đó là lợi nhuận.

4, Cho nên là thôi content is king giúp.

Content là một phần trong doanh nghiệp, trong marketing, là một trong những công cụ giúp khách hàng nhanh chóng quyết định chọn mua hoặc không mua khi họ có nhu cầu và tài chính.

Cũng như một tiệm tạp hóa gần nhà mà bạn đi ngang hàng ngày, khi cần mua một gói mì, bạn sẽ ghé qua. Content của bạn phủ đủ rộng, khách hàng tìm tới bạn ngay khi họ có nhu cầu.

Và nếu gói mì đó bị mốc, họ sẽ chẳng ghé tiệm tạp hóa lại lần 2.

[spellarena]

Bandits' camp

Greetings folks! "Bandits' camp" is a map of DM's Essentials theme. With this month's set of maps, we've prepared maps that every Dungeon Master should have at their disposal. They'll be perfect for both one-shots and longer campaigns.

Get this map on our Patreon!

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Vanquish the evil bandits who attack and rob caravans!

For the last few months the roads between Old Wolde and Brightstream haven’t been safe. Bandits in groups ranging from five to eight members have been plundering the caravans traveling between these two major trading hubs. Finally the mayors of the two towns have decided they’ve had enough of the bandit threat. They’ve contacted you to get rid of the dreadful enemies.

You make your way through the woods to the bandit camp. It’s surrounded by a tall palisade, suggesting that the inhabitants aren’t planning to leave any time soon. Two humans stand guard in front of the entrance. You make quick work of them and enter the camp itself.

To the right are four tents around a campfire. The inhabitants come outside, weapons drawn, and attack you. The battle is difficult and bloody. At some point, from the larger tent in the back, the bandit chief appears and joins his comrades in the fight. He’s strong, and the swings of his battleaxe are deadly. But you prevail, and the fight ends with your victory.

When you look around the camp you notice cages with people inside. These are the bandit victims who went missing. They cry tears of relief as you open their prisons and let them out. In the back behind the tents is a wagon with expensive textiles, recently stolen. There are also numerous crates full of potions, jewelry, pottery, weapons, and pieces of armor. The bandits stole whatever they thought was of value. But now you will be able to help Old Wolde and Brightstream return these valuables to their rightful owners.

Finally the threat of bandits is no more, and all thanks to you, brave adventurers!

Adventure Hooks

Old Wolde and Brightstream, the two main towns in the region, have had their trade interrupted by bandit attacks on the road that connects them. They have asked you to locate the bandit camp and get rid of the enemies who disturb the peace of their traders.

A dwarven merchant called Dumas had his wagon full of expensive textiles stolen recently by a group of bandits. He will pay you handsomely for returning the lost property to his residence in Brightstream.

 It’s bad enough that the bandits who are active on the road between Old Wolde and Brightstream rob wagons of valuables, but now they’ve started taking people prisoner too. An old woman who goes by the name Tasia has no money for the ridiculously high ransom the bandits demand in exchange for releasing her daughter Gia. An old heirloom of hers is all she can give you. She pleads for you to rescue her child.

[akuncloudflare]

Savannah & Florence Pose in London for Piombo Slide 2022 Marketing campaign

Savannah & Florence Pose in London for Piombo Slide 2022 Marketing campaign

Photographer Paolo Santambrogio captures Piombo’s slide-winter season 2022 campaign on location in London. Styles Savannah Huitema, Oliver Kumbi, Florence Clapcott, and Simon Nessman can be found in these pictures, placing poses in front of effectively-known spots inside of the town. The brand’s spring adverts ended up captured in Palm Springs. The ads show a quantity of London sites, like…

[gritsandbrits]

@nitkat360 asked about the meme i made

Created my DA account in 2015 to read Hetalia x Reader fics

My oc for DC is in a relationship with Bruce Wayne who is a few years older than her hence the sugar baby joke (she is not an actual sugar baby)

My oc for scooby doo is black and given the reaction to Velma she probably would be called woke...ignoring her personality

My self insert for monkie kid is the center of a love triangle between Sun Wukong and Macaque

Barb (my oc for hotwheels) is the estranged daughter of Dr. Tezla. Her parents divorced when she was 4 and it was only when she was 16 that she met her father again at the Highway 35 race

I ship Kendrix Tennyson wh Varian bc they work so well together I can't explain it but Varian would go for someone like her and he's the only guy she can really stand besides Albedo but that's purely platonic

Given the nature of the franchise I have multiple versions of Kaysha Wallace depending on show. The big mainstay is that she loves fashion and wears pink

Tallulah an oc I made for Monster High id part werewolf which technically makes her a monster but she can't turn into one. She doesn't even had werewolf traits she is human. Her sister on of the other hand can turn into a lycan.

In my au Lloyd's mother is not Misako but a lady named Bashira. She was frozen in stone and had Lloyd taken from her bc her village feared her son. Misako and Wu tried years to find him and that's where the first season comes up where Lloyd learns of his mom. Also bc Misako x Garmadon is so fucking BORING

Jora's dad offered the Incurseans frog legs as a sign of peace...didnt go very well but in his defense he don't know shit about aliens

Because of the shoddy way Arcee and Blackarachnia were written it motivated me to give my female OCs complicated backstories and personalities that didn't revolve around a guy or manpain

After s8 and such Lord Garmadon comes back and shacks up with Odette's family. Her sister Leilani befriends him and Garmadon may have a chance to redeem himself even if he can't access his human form anymore.

In my version of The Amazing Spiderman Gwen Stacy lives because it's my oc Vesta that gets kidnapped by Green Goblin and dies. She comes back in Homecoming as Wolf-Spider in a grand rescuing Michelle from a similar fate; reuniting with Her world's Peter but can't be with him bc she's now helping guard the multiverse from Scarlet Bitch

On plan I had for Rosslyn (my oc for alpha teebs on machines) was for her to be a clone of Mr. Lee's late wife Rosanne. But this was scrapped bc it was too obvious a twist plus I doubt Lee would clone his own wife.

Noelani was originally conceived as Chris Thorndyke's teenage sister and would replace him as the main human. I changed so much of her by then especially to distance her from that shitstain.

An idea I had for Jojo Part 9 was for Jolyne Kujo's mother (Jotaro's ex) to be the main antagonist. Her goal was to avenge Jolyne's death by leading a campaign against stand users seeing them as too dangerous, as well as plotting to wipe out the rest of the Brando family so they can't hurt anyone ever again. My main JOJO, Josephine "Josie, wouldve opposed her alongside her friend Gia Brando (Dio's granddaughter), Josuke 8 and Yasuho.

I have a himbo fetish since some of my personal f/os are himbos

CANON MONSTERFUCKING Amani is dating a Mummy Pharaoh, my self inserts date mummies, and monsters and robots yeah we having a great time

And that's about it!!

Also all ships (that aren't incest\problem/gross/yucky) are canon bc i dont care much for ship wars