Johnny Depp fears sudden end of acting career

Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp fears that his days in Hollywood are numbered despite his long and successful career as an actor.

`The Pirates of The Caribbean` star who is one of the highest paid actors of all times is amazed that his career has lasted so long, reported Contactmusic.

"I never dreamed I would get this far and stay around for so long. In fact I always wonder when I`m going to be rumbled and sent packing. It could happen tomorrow, so I`m just deeply, deeply grateful for the jobs I get," said Depp who first shot to fame with the 1984 teen horror movie `Nightmare on Elm Street`.

The 45-year-old actor who has two children with French actress Vanessa Paradis said that he hallucinates about ending up working at a gas station.

"I fear I might still end up playing guitar in some bar someplace. Or pumping gas? I honestly believe it`s a miracle I still get jobs," added the actor.

Depp is not the only actor who credits luck for their success stories, `Harry Potter` actor Daniel Radcliffe had previously said that it was good fortune and not exceptional talent that worked wonders for him.

"I got where I am by dumb luck. I know most actors hoped for a job, and then found themselves between jobs. For me, it was a great job at 11. I`m a person who got lucky very young," the actor had said.

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Salman Khan to write a book on bodybuilding!

No doubt, Salman is one of the fittest actors in Bollywood. He has a well toned body and has always believed in maintaining it.

Salman apparently loves to work out and has given many young rising stars in Bollywood, tips on working out and developing a fit body.

Well now it seems, Salman wants to give tips on bodybuilding, and so, he is toying with the idea of writing a book on bodybuilding!

According to industry sources, "He wants to write a first person prologue on what got him into body building. In fact, he plans to trace his journey from his skinny days in Maine Pyar Kiya, to his toned up body."

Right now, Salman is not sure about what will be the main topics in the book, but he is reading up on fitness books written by well-known authors.

He seems to be taking his writing quite seriously, as just recently

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The Bahamas to host Miss Universe 2009 pageant

Nassau, the BAHAMAS - It's now confirmed: Miss Universe 2009 will be held in the paradise islands of the Bahamas. It's been officially announced by the Prime Minister of the Bahamas this Monday at the House of Assembly, said a press release sent by the Miss Bahamas Universe Organization through its public relations officer, Ms. Monalisa Thompson.

Ms. Gaynell Stubbs, National Director for the Miss Bahamas Pageant, says "this is a dream come true for the Bahamas and could not have come in a better time".

The year's highly contested 2009 Miss Bahamas Universe Pageant will be held in May, as many of the small island beauties seek to serve as the official Ambassador for the Bahamas. The winner will try to accomplish at home what not other Bahamian beauty queen has done in the past editions of the pageant: to advance to Miss Universe's semifinals.

The final international event and telecast will take place at the fabulous Atlantis Paradise Resort, supposedly on August 30 (TBC).

Government authorities believe it will be a great opportunity for the Bahamas to expose its natural beauties to several places around the world, mostly the USA, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia.

Miss Universe is today the second most watched international beauty pageant in the world, reaching a global audience close to 1 billion people.

Eighty plus international delegates are expected to participate in this year's event.

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Watch Miss Universe 2009 Online Streaming

This year's pageant is scheduled August 23,2009.and will be the 58th Miss Universe to date. We will also provide you guys hints and tips on how and where to Watch Miss Universe 2009 Online here on Kralix come August 22.

Last years pageant was a blast, the production number was phenomenal , the swimsuit competition was ecstatic (of course with Lady Gaga's special role) , not to mention Crystie Stewart's (Miss USA) break and fall moment!. Nothing but more!,more.! More! to expect ! and for sure this year we hope, would be more exciting. Why not? The Miss U will be hosted by the Bahamas. The pageant will be held in the Atlantis Paradise Island .One of the most spectacular resort-hotel and casino in the world.

The reigning Miss Universe 2008, Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela, will relinquish her crown to her successor at the end of this event, so don't forget to Watch Miss Universe 2009 Online Streaming here on Kralix. Again, the most coveted title will be participated by more than 80 countries, territories and independent states will compete. The pageant will broadcast live on NBC and Telemundo the South Am. broadcast network.

Of course the pageant is not only a 1 day affair. As usual it will be a week long contest.

Check out this schedule:
• August 1 - August 3: Arrivals and Registration
• August 10: National Costume Competition
• August 13: National Gift Charity Auction
• August 16: Miss Universe 2009 Presentation Show
• August 21: National Director Meeting
• August 23: Miss Universe 2009 Live Telecast and Coronation Ball
• August 24: Departures

I'm pretty sure that the Miss U phenomena has also shared the betting game. As for the Philippines " manok" the Miss U Representative is Pamela Bianca Manalo form Metro Manila, she was Binibining Pilipinas 2009 - Universe. Pamela Bianca is the sister of the Miss World 2002 finalist Katherine Ann Manalo. During the Bb. Pilipinas 2009 pageant she won awards including the Best in Swimsuit and some sponsors awards like Miss Natasha, Miss Philippine Airlines and Manila Bulletin Reader's Choice Award. We really expect a lot from her.

And as to my very own favorite country Venezuela the would be crown chaser is Stefanía Fernández a native from Merida,Venezuela. Fernández won the Miss Venezuela 2008 title in a pageant held in Caracas, Venezuela on September 10, 2008. She was crowned by the outgoing titleholder, Dayana Mendoza, Miss Venezuela 2007 and Miss Universe 2008. Fernández also won the "Miss Elegance", "Best Body" and "Best Face", titles

As of date there are seventy countries, territories and independent states who have been registered and has pre-qualified for the pageant. Although there are certain countries that don't send annual delegates. This year's returning countries are :

Romania last competed in 1998. Iceland, Northern Marianas and Sweden competed in 2006. Bulgaria, Guyana, Lebanon and Zambia last competed in 2007.

Trivia: Did you know that the Miss Universe is not just about "beauty and charm" ?

Yes! In fact the pageant was created by business tycoon Donald Trump for several advocacies like increasing HIV/AIDS awareness by focusing on women's health and reproductive issues. By forging relationships with organizations committed to research and education such as the Latino Commission on AIDS, God's Love We Deliver, PSI/YouthAIDS and Gay Men's Health Crisis.

So don't forget to check back here on kralix regularly to get updates on the event and to Watch Miss Universe 2009 Online Free!

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Miss Universe 2009 contestants

From L to R, Dominique Peltier, Miss Bolivia 2009; Estibaliz Pereira Rabade, Miss Spain 2009; Ada Aimee De la Cruz, Miss Dominican Republic 2009; Michelle Rouillard, Miss Colombia 2009, and Larissa Costa, Miss Brazil 2009, pose in their swimsuits during the 2009 Miss Universe competition at ATLANTIS, Paradise Island, Bahamas, August 6, 2009. The 2009 Miss Universe competition which will be presented on August 23, 2009.



Mareike Baumgarten Oroa, Miss Paraguay 2009, and Stefania Fernandez, Miss Venezuela 2009, visit Fort Charlotte in Nassau, Bahamas to pre-tape a segment for the Miss Universe 2009 competition, August 5, 2009.The Miss Universe 2009 competition will be presented August 23, 2009.Photo taken August 5, 2009.


Diana Arno, Miss Estonia 2009,and Sofia Rudyeva, Miss Russia 2009, visit Compass Point restaurant in Nassau, Bahamas to pre-tape a segment for the Miss Universe 2009 competition, August 5, 2009. The Miss Universe 2009 competition will be presented August 23, 2009. Photo taken August 5, 2009


Melat Yante, Miss Ethiopia 2009, gets a kiss from Cassie the Sea Lion while in Dolphin Cay at ATLANTIS, Paradise Island, Bahamas, August 6, 2009. The 2009 Miss Universe competition which will be presented on August 23, 2009.

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Miss universe 2009 IMAGES

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South Africa Fashion Week 2009....NSI News Source Info # 475

Sanlam's SA Fashion Week's opening last night, Wednesday, 16 September 2009, was well attended by a broad spectrum of eager and excited fashion fanatics, all dressed to the nines. Amid flashes of fuschia, ribbons of rose and pink posters, trendspotters gathered at the Sandton Convention Centre to see what local talent has to offer while celebrating the 50th birthday of pop-culture princess Barbie.

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Miss Universe 2009 Pageant In The Bahamas....NSI News Source # 461

Sarah Cosic, Miss Croatia 2009, Angenie Simon, Miss Curacao 2009, Sandra Vinces, Miss Ecuador 2009, Mariana Valente, Miss Canada 2009, and Iveta Lutovska, Miss Czech Republic 2009, pose at Atlantis on Paradise Island in preparation for the Miss Universe 2009 pageant in the Bahamas in this August 7, 2009 handout photograph. Miss Universe 2009 will be crowned on August 23.

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Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2009

Miss Puerto Rico 2009 Mayra Matos models in a swimsuit during the beauty pageant in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Oct. 22, 2008.

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Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2009

Mayra Matos (center) candidate for Cabo Rojo is crowned Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2009 by Ingrid Rivera, Miss Puerto Rico 2008 (2nd-r.), next to Miss USA, Crystle Stewart (r.) and Marianne Cruz (l.), Miss Dominican Republic, at the Jose Miguel Agrelot colliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Pamela Bianca Manalo at Miss Universe 2009 Pageant

I am all support for Miss Philippines, Pamela Bianca Manalo, for winning the crown of Miss Universe 2009 that is now being held at the Atlantis Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas (my dream destination). I have seen her interviews and I believe that Miss Manalo has a big chance of getting the coveted title. She is beautiful, statuesque, graceful, poised, intelligent and every inch a Filipina. She is also a firm believer in the Lord.

Early on, pageant experts have already picked Bianca as one of their favorites. In many websites, she ranks either among the top 10 or top 15 of the contestants, out of the total of 83 beautiful ladies from all over the world. Being able to catch the eye of the international press is already a plus factor for our local stunning beauty.

Bianca hails from a family of beauty queens. Her sister, Katherine Anne Manalo, who is now Mrs. Hernandez, was among the Top 10 finalists of Miss World 2002. Meanwhile, her aunt, Nini Licaros, was also among the Top 15 semi-finalists in the Miss International 1968. But probably, among them, Bianca might be the one to bring home the international crown.

In the local Binibining Pilipinas pageant, Bianca bagged the Best in Swimsuit award plus other sponsor awards.

Will Bianca Manalo win tonight? Let us wait and see. Meanwhile, I offer a prayer up for her.

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Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2009

Miss Puerto Rico 2009 Mayra Matos models in her evening gown during the beauty pageant in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Oct. 22. Matos, contestant of the coastal town of Cabo Rojo, will represent the Caribbean island in the Miss Universe next year.

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Cute Monkey Vampire Tutorial

1.
Get New File with 500x500 diemnsion.
Use Guide Lines(View>New Guide) to get nice and smart proportion.
Then use Tool>Ellipse and draw a black circle, press Alt+Shift and draw from centre point. Lets assume this layer as Base.



Go to Layer Properties and Choose Blending Option. Set this layer setting like that.






For Stroke Color, I used #919191


Here you will get like this aftre setting.



2.
Here, we have to make 2 reflected layers for this circle.
Choose 1st New Layer (Clt+Shift+N)
Make selection by clicking Clt+click on Base Layer, in Layer Properties box.
Then, Tool>Elliptical Marquee and change this to Intersect with Selection, Select half upper part of Circle, on 1st layer.





Choose Tool> Gradient Tool and draw from up to down



Here is the result


Create 2nd Layer for 2nd reflection.
Clt+click on Base layer and draw with Gradient tool from bottom to up. Here we finished reflected layers.



3.
Create New Layer again, for two Eyes. Draw two eyes and drop shadow abit in Blending Option.



4.
Choose New Layer for Mouth.
Tool> Pen and drawing something like that. Foreground color : #ec0000



Then set the Layer Style as following




Color #afafaf for Outer Grow


You will get something like this




5.
Create New Layer again for Tooth. Draw with Pen tool and set Bevel and Emboss a bit.




6.
Draw two eyebrows with pen tool on new layers, and set Bevel and Emboss a bit.




7.
Draw ears on new Layers. Ear Layers must be under the all layers, except bg layer. Set the layer style as follow.
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Here is the last cute monkey vampire!




8.
If you wanna animate it, just export this .psd file to Image Ready
Then, Set 1st frame delay time to 1.




Duplicate the first frame and move its eyebrows. Make sure Eyes Layers must be unckeck in layer Style.




Here we get the final animated Lovely monkey vampire.



Download Work-flow Photoshop file here : PSD
Tutorial by NLS

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Sleek and Spicy website header Tutorial

In this tutorial I am going to teach you how to make a nice sleek looking mockup for a website header.
It should look like this: Click here.

• We start by opening a new document (Ctrl+N) (Cmnd+N – Note for mac users – Replace the CTRL with Command) Dimensions 800px width X 120px Height – Background color set as white for now. OK
• On the background layer go choose black as your color and than go select the paint bucket tool- than click on your stage to fill the bg with black.
• Create a new layer above the bg(background) layer and name it “pattern”. While the pattern layer selected go select paint bucket tool and then go up to the top of the screen to the properties panel and select PATTERN instead of FOREGROUND.

Select the thick pin stripes pattern.

• In order to have the pin stripes pattern in your pattern library – you first must create one. Keep this document open and go open a new document (CTRL+N) and create something like this

make sure you delete the background layer to be a transparent background. and not white. Than go to edit>Define pattern>give it a name “thickpin” and click ok.

• You will now be able to close that doc. and go back to your oringinal document and select that pattern from the pattern library. You should have the paint bucket selected so just click the stage to fill it with the pattern.
• Go select the pattern layer and double click it to open blending options. (if it doesnt open it for you than keep on clicking you will get it – make sure you are not clicking on the text – that wont work) – now select color overlay and choose a nice blueish color like I did #005777. and click OK. You should now see this:
  
• Now double click on the magnifying glass so you will see the image at 100% this is always good. And drag open the surrounding window around your stage – you should be able to see a gray color of the document around all sides of the current header. This is going to help you for the next step.
• Create a new layer and name it “gradient black” select that layer and go select the gradient tool and bring it back to the stage. place it inside the gray section below your header and hold on shift (this keeps it straight) and drag your cursor upwards all the way to the top of your header. now release. you should have this:
• Create a new layer above that and name it “hr”(stands for horizontal Rule) Go to the color pallete and choose a nice yellow color #e0ff36 . Now select the square tool and drag out a nice line at the bottom of your header.
  You should see this on your stage and this in your layer panel.
  
• Now go to the layers pallete and select the “pattern “layer – now hold down on shift and select the “hr” layer – you will see now that all three layers are selected. (This selection trick is a great new feature in cs2 – just how folders work on your pc or mac.) Now with all 3 layers selected go to the top right corner of your layers pallete and click on the triangle and it will drop a menu down
  
  - go select “new group from layers” now name it ” Backgrounds” and click ok.
• Now your backround layers are in that nice little folder
  
  so they wont confuse you the rest of the way. To be smart – while the folder is selected , you can even click on the lock symbol at the top of the layers pallete in order to lock the folder so they wont be opened – even by mistake. Originization is very important – ALWAYS NAME YOUR LAYERS and USE FOLDERS!
• We will now do the text logo – go select the type tool and choose a nice font and a white color. – and write the name of your company . I wrote Shiny Black. This should have automatically opened another layer above your “backgrounds folder”. now right click on that layer and select duplicate layer.
  If you are using a mac and you only have one clicker than Hold down on cmnd and click once to open the menu. Now while the duplicated text layer selected – name it reflection – than go to edit>transform>flip vertical and than select the move tool and bring it down so the bottoms of both texts are about 1px away from each other (foot to foot). give it a 40 or so opacity. you should currently see this:
  Than in the layers pallete click on the “ADD LAYER MASK” icon (3rd from left in cs2)
  
  now go select the mask layer. With the mask layer selected go change your foreground color to back .Select the gradient tool drag upwards from beneath your text to 2 thirds through it and release.
  You should have this:
  
• Now select those layers and create a group for it like we did with the “backgrounds folder” and name this folder “logo”
• We are now going to make the “forgot your password link” .
• Now Create a new layer above the logo folder and get the type tool and type out “forgot your password” it shouldnt be too big – i chose a 10pt for the size of text. i placed it closer to the right side of the header . Look at final image to see where it goes. View here.
• Now create new layer above that layer and name it underline – go to the tools panel and while your cursor is over the shape tool – hold down on the mouse clicker – and select the line tool from that menu.
  
• At the top of the screen – go to the line line properties and type in 1px for the weight.
  
• go to the choose an nice color for your underline I chose #e0ff36 .
• and now just below your text, drag out a nice thin line from one side of your text to the other – hold down on shift to keep it straight.
• once this is done make a folder for this and name it. I named it “fyp” forgot your password .
• Open a new layer above that folder and name it text field.
• Go choose white as your color.
• Go to the shape tool menu – but this time choose the “rounded rectangle tool” and in the properties at the top of the screen type in 3px for the raidus.
  
• Now on the far right side of the stage drag out a nice rectangle for the username text field – about this size.
  
  Double click on that layer to open the Blending options and select the inner shaddow – and enter the following numbers: 24% opacity, distance 3, size 1, – the rest keep as default.
  
  Duplicate that layer by draging the layer to the “create new layer icon” at bottom of the layer panel – it sits right next to the garbage icon . – or you can right click and select “duplicate layer”.
• Change the foreground color to a dark grey. Select the type tool . You can type whatever text you want . I typed Photoshopit for the username and those little stars (”asterisks”or whatever they are called) for the password – and placed that text directly over the text fields.
• Change color back to white. Next to each text field should be the text which describes each field – in this tutorial I used USERNAME and PASSOWRD but every site may be different. I used size 20pt for my text.
• ok close them up in another folder and name that folder “text fields”.

Now final item – the login button.

• Go into your text fields folder and duplicate on of the text field blocks. and drag it out of that folder so it sits on the layer above that folders. Name this layer “loginbutton” now double click on that layer to open its blending options and uncheck the inner shaddow effect and give it a color overlay and select a nice blue color like #15a7e3. click ok.
• Holding down on ctrl click “loginbutton” layer (your cursor must be directly over the square thumbnail of the layer for this to work) this should create a marquee selection around the button. now create a new layer above that and name it “bttn grad” for button gradient. Go to Select>Modify > Contract – type in 1 px and OK. Go get the gradient tool – choose the “FOREGROUND to TRANSPARENT “option and change your forground color to – #046993. Now drag your gradient tool Upwards from below the loginbutton to half way through. this will create the nice shade effect..
• I think we are done. Here is the header on a sample page. Click here.

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