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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 23 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Underseat Air Fresheners aimed at the automotive industry has recently been put on Store Racks. In my opinion, the LABEL and the FULL Page Ad/Brochure type flyer needs to be RE-DESIGNED.
Underseat Air Fresheners aimed at the automotive industry needs a better LABEL and Flyer (redesigned). The ones we have are in a flash photo album located HERE.
Here is another photo album showing more detail.
We want to advertise to our email list, newspaper ads, magazine ads and use flyers to get people to be aware of the brand and recognized at stores. I think that's called "preselling".
We manufacture these Air Fresheners through the main company: http://www.productioncarcare.com and don't have anyone experienced enough in this area. You'll see what I mean when you look at the photo album right here and the quick website I put up at: http://www.gimmeone.info
We may private-label these too so this may be an on-going need depending on how this turns out. It's a surprise for my husband, the owner so this should be interesting to say the least!
- See the photo albumand then the close-up photo album to see more detail. Please FIX the busy, can't figure out what the heck the message is in those cluttered designs! There are other pictures included there for reference.I guess RED looks like the color scheme, the style: ??? Mango is the favorite and I've heard some talk about Banana too. With all the different scents one master is all we need to be designed so that the scents can be changed on the basic template design.
The taglines are there and the FONT for Gimmeone is stencil I think. It looks a lot like the font HUMMER uses. Just need something to use that people will respond to instead of cringing when they see it.
- What I don't want is what we have already! See "what I want" above. Thanks, Leah


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Legal Descriptions Explained
Legal Descriptions
The County Assessor's office also uses aerial photographs to locate and identify property. There are several types of aerial photographs as listed below:
Aerial Photographic Enlargement is nothing more than a "blown-up" photograph. Neither tilt nor relief displacement are removed for these photographs. Because of this, you will not be able to make accurate measurements from the maps made from the photo. These photos are helpful for inventory of parcels and locating structures.
Rectified Aerial Photograph is one in which distortions caused by tilt displacement have been removed. The rectification process is accomplished by projecting the photo image onto a flat surface that is tilted to eliminate the original tip and tilt of the aircraft. The objective is to project the image back to its correct shape and scale. Although relief displacement is not removed from rectified photographs, this type of photography provides acceptable accuracy for assessment mapping in areas of relatively flat terrain.
Ortho-Photographs look a lot like the other two types of aerial photographs. However, it has the accuracy of a map drawn from ground survey information because tilt and relief displacement have been eliminated. Measurements of a land surveyor on the ground should "fit" when plotted on a true-to-scale ortho-photograph. Distances and area calculations on an ortho photograph are usually extremely accurate, and property lines will correspond closely to physical features.
Digital Ortho-Photographs is an ortho photograph scanned or created in a digital format. These have the same accuracy as ortho photo sheets, but can be viewed and manipulated on the computer, with the capability to zoom in or out. This also provides us a method to lay property lines or any other data over the photo.
Mapping and Land
Locating land is fundamental to the tax mapping process. Once land is located it must also be given its own unique "name". This is called parcel identification. A good land description will permanently and distinctly locate one and only one individual parcel of land. It is common, land is described by written descriptions or legally recorded plats.
Written land descriptions may be based on the rectangular survey system (also known as the township and range system), a metes and bound description or a coordinate description system. This system is based on the idea of parallels and meridians that circle the globe. The equator and all horizontal lines north and south of it are known as parallels. The vertical lines which converge at the north and south poles are known as meridians.
The rectangular survey system also has its own special meridians and parallels throughout the United States. The meridians are known as "principal" meridians. Each principal meridian has a parallel which goes with it. These are known as "base" lines. The points where these two meet are known as initial points. Land described using this system is referenced to either the Indian or the Cimarron Meridians.
Another set of lines is established at 24 mile intervals north and south of the base line and at 24 mile intervals east and west of the principal meridian. The east-west lines are called standard parallels or correction lines. They are one continuous, uninterrupted line. The north and south lines, called guide meridians, are not continuous throughout their length. Because meridians converge as they get closer to the poles, they must be broken at the base line and at each standard parallel.
The guide meridians and standard parallels form a 24 mile square. Each of these 24 mile squares is divided into sixteen smaller units of land called townships. A township is, as nearly as possible, six miles by six miles. A row of townships extending north to south is called a range and a row east to west is called a tier. Each township is further divided into 36 one mile square areas called sections.
Sections can be subdivided as well. The quarter section (160 Acres, 1/2 mile square), the half-quarter or eighth sections (80 Acres, 1/4 mile by 1/2 mile), and the quarter-quarter or sixteenth section (40 Acres, 1/4 mile by 1/4 mile). The quarter-quarter section is the minimum legal subdivision under the general land laws but it is common to divide the subdivision further for descriptive purposes.
Property Measurements
Graphic land descriptions are based on the recording or filing of maps. These descriptions are known as "recorded map descriptions" or "legally recorded plats". Record map descriptions are descriptions of parcels by reference to lot numbers (or letters) and/or block numbers (or letters), and name or numerical designation given to a recorded or filed map.
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Borsook, Cunetta and Harrison Set Personal Records
BOSTON, Mass.—Competing at Boston's Franklin Park for the second time this season, the Yale men's cross country team put their depth on display on Saturday with a 10th-place finish in an especially competitive field of 41 schools at the New England Championships. Thanks in large part to strong finishes by senior Michael Cunetta and junior Tom Harrison, the Elis ended the day with 305 points, finishing just behind MIT (273 points). Central Connecticut State University (74 points), Northeastern (120), Dartmouth (133), Boston University (196) and Middlebury (214) took the top five spots. The Bulldogs previously competed at Franklin Park in the season opener, racing against their rivals in the annual Harvard-Yale meet.
The Elis' strong showing on Saturday was that much more impressive given that several of Yale's top runners used this weekend as an opportunity to rest before competing at Pre-Nationals in Terre Haute, Ind., next weekend. With the exception of Dartmouth, all nine schools that finished ahead of the Elis on Saturday had most of their top runners competing.
"I thought it was solid," said Head Men's Cross Country Coach Paul Harkins. "I thought it was a significantly deeper race this year than a year ago."
Harkins was pleased with the entire team's showing, but singled out the performances of Cunetta (26th place – 25:06), Harrison (38th – 25:18) and junior Alec Borsook (98th – 26:01) as worthy of special praise. All three runners set personal records in Saturday's race.
Harrison and Borsook finished second and fourth on the team, respectively. Cunetta finished first on the team, easily outdoing the time of 25:43 that he ran at Franklin Park earlier in the season.
"That time a year ago or two years ago would have put him in the top 20," Harkins said with regard to Cunetta's finish at the New England Championships on Saturday. "He ran significantly faster than he did on the same course at the Harvard-Yale meet. He would have been number two [on the team] at Harvard-Yale with that time. It was a really good, tough run."
Senior team captain Ryan Laemel (44th – 25:27) also came through with his best race of the season, beating his time from last weekend at the Paul Short Invitational by 25 seconds and finishing third on the team. Freshman Dan Grosvenor tied with Borsook for fourth on the team, finishing just seven seconds slower than his season-best time of 25:54, which he set against Harvard in the season opener. Junior Miles Richardson (104th – 26:07) and freshman Ryan Douglas (163rd – 26:43) finished sixth and seventh on the team, respectively. Freshman David Hatch, meanwhile, posted a 28:01, competing separately in the sub-varsity race.
"I'm pretty excited about the progress we've made," said Harkins. "We're moving up on Harvard a little bit, as well as the rest of the league."
With yet another strong performance under their belts, the Bulldogs will head to Indiana on Oct. 19 for Pre-Nationals—a meet with potentially huge postseason implications. That race will be followed by the CCSU Mini Meet (Oct. 25) and the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships (Nov. 2).
"We're building some momentum for sure," said Harkins. "I'm very pleased with where we're at and hoping for a big race next weekend as we get ready for Heps."
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A unique project in the prestigious location, with ecological environment and beautiful view, where owing to incredibly large verandas, the company has created a summer space – "a yard in your apartment" overlooking Vake Park and Mikheil Meskhi stadium.
At the expense of its own territory, Axis is planning to expand the road from 5 meters up to 11 meters from the side of Khabeishvili street, and yields 1500 sq. meters of its own territory to the city.
Axis maintains the natural recreational space and develops the courtyard.
The residential complex consists of four blocks, two of which are skyscrapers. Despite its dimensions, the building looks light and laconic due to high stained-glass windows and glass façade.
If you wish to enjoy modern lifestyle and live in the house, which brings future to the city – then "Chavchavadze 49" is the place, which you are looking for.
Advantages of the project:
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"Axis Chavchavadze 49" is located on Chavchavadze avenue, near Vake Park and turn to the Turtle lake. Good ecological environment is ensured by coniferous trees and fresh air coming from Tskneti.
Modern technologies
The façade of the building is decorated with SAPAGROUP silicon stained-glass windows, and doors and windows, as well as Sliding system.
- The building is coated with Caparol heat-insulating material.
- The roof is insulated with light concrete of polystyrene cement, which is an innovative method and increases power efficiency of the project.
- Hydro-insulation of the roof is performed with ALCHIMICA layer, by seamless polyurethane membrane.
- Interior walls are faced with Saint Gobain sound- and heat-insulating material.
- WAVIN sound-absorbing pipes are used for sewerage system.
Axis takes care of you and creates maximum comfortable atmosphere. We introduce the partner-company, which provides with the following services:
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- Power-efficient building with modern technologies
- Smart house system – fits you individually
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|Edison Academic Center (Bradenton, Fla.)
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Brandon Zimmerman's goal on WCC's Top Play Tuesday
Four-Time All-WCC Midfielder (2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011)
TopDrawerSoccer.com National Team of the Week (10/2/11)
2010 Marquette Invitational All-Tournament Team
2009 & 2010 UC Irvine Collegiate Classic All-Tournament Team
2008 WCC All-Freshman Team
SENIOR (2011): Named an All-WCC First Team player as a senior, helping Santa Clara post the league's best overall record (11-5-4) and earn a national ranking of No. 18 ... Zimmerman anchored the Bronco midfield, playing and starting in 18 games on the season, scoring three goals and passing out two assists ... named to TopDrawerSoccer.com's National Team of the Week (Oct. 2) after bending-in the decisive goal in Santa Clara's pivotal 1-0 victory over Portland in both team's WCC opener on Sept. 30 ... the Portland victory was followed by a 2-0 shutout win over Gonzaga on Oct. 1 which helped SCU begin the season 6-1-3 ... scored his second goal of the season during a 4-1 rout over San Diego (Oct. 30) ... netted the game-winner at St. Mary's (Nov. 6) in a game which helped the Broncos win five-straight to close out the regular season.
JUNIOR (2010): One of the best midfielders in the West Coast Conference, leading SCU to a 7-1-4 league record and the WCC Championship in 2010 .... started in all 18 games he appeared in and ranked second on the team in points (10) ... named to the All-WCC Second Team at season's end ... distributed the game-winning assist in SCU's second game of the year, a 1-0 victory over Loyola Chicago (Sept. 6) ... scored a penalty kick goal to help the Broncos beat Marquette on the road (Sept. 12) ... scored SCU's lone goal at Stanford (Sept. 19) ... assisted in the game-winner against San Jose State (Sept. 24) ... had at least one shot in nine straight games during Santa Clara's 12 game unbeaten stretch from Sept. 19 through Nov. 5 ... had a season-high three shots and scored at LMU (Oct. 31) - a game that vaulted SCU into first place in the WCC standings late in the year ... had 14 shots on goal during the season and 23 shots overall, both ranking among team and WCC high's.
SOPHOMORE (2009): Named a 2009 All-WCC midfielder ... started in each of the first 13 games of the year - did not play in the final seven ... led the team in assists with three ... recorded two assists vs. No. 15 UC Irvine (Sep. 1) in the season-opener ... 2009 UC Irvine Collegiate Classic All-Tournament Team ... had an assist vs. Cleveland State (Sep. 5) ... scored the game-winner goal vs. Gonzaga (Oct. 4), knocking-in a penalty kick with 45 seconds remaining.
FRESHMAN (2008): All-WCC Honorable Mention ... also named to the WCC All-Freshman Team ... saw action in 19 contests, starting in 15 ... recorded five points on one goal and three assists ... earned started in his first collegiate game against Loyola Chicago (Aug. 30) ... dished out his first career assist against UIC (Sept. 1) ... dished out his second assist of the season on Connor Mitchell's game-winning goal against Stanford (Sept. 27) ... tallied his third assist on Sean Danzeiser's goal against Loyola Marymount (Oct. 17) ... also registered his first collegiate goal on a PK against LMU (Oct. 17).
HIGH SCHOOL: 2008 graduate of Edison Academic Center in Bradenton, Fla. ... never played high school soccer as he came into Residency first ... played club soccer with the Crossfire Premier ... helped team to the State Championship in 2005 and 2006 ... joined U.S. Soccer's Residency Program in August 2005 ... on U-17s played matches for the U-17 '89s and '90s ... was a member of the U-15 BNT in 2005 ... U-17 team played in FIFA World Cup in 2007, making it to the round of 16 before being beaten by Germany.
PERSONAL: Born in Richland, Wash. ... parents are Ken and Pam Zimmerman; mom graduated from BYU ... has three siblings: Megan, Derek and Preston; Preston was also in Residency and is now overseas with Hamburg SV in the Bundesliga ... hobbies include fishing, soccer, hiking and music ... major is business management.


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Thursday, April 9, 2009
How To Take Questions At A Tech Conference
1) Yehuda Katz.
2) Yehuda Katz.
The best thing to do with questions at a tech conference is to ignore them completely. The second best thing is to turn them into advertising for yourself, your company, your favorite language or open source project, or, if there are attractive women in the audience - rare but it happens - your sexual prowess.
However, you may, in your foolishness, decide to take questions seriously, think about them, and see if you can learn something. Maybe Zorak have mercy on your soul. (Zorak is the parking god, who prepares spaces to park. All glory be to Zorak.)
God I forgot what I was going to say.
Oh yeah. The real way to take questions in a tech talk. Don't be like ok are there any questions. People will be like, oh shit, I had something I wanted to say, but I forgot what it was. Other people will be like, I've got the only good question in the room, but I'm shy and kind of weird in the head, so I'm going to cautiously half-raise my hand and then drop it and hide it the minute I think you might actually call on me. Still other people will be like oh look at me my question is stupid but I can talk for a really long time before anybody figures out how stupid it is because I know lots of obscure terms even though I don't know how to arrange them into an intelligent sentence.
Skip all that. Instead, open the talk with your Twitter username, and be like, at the end I'll take a look at Twitter for questions. That way you can screen out all the stupid questions. You can also screen out the questions you disagree with or which you find personally annoying. But it's better to answer a few of those, otherwise people will stand up and yell them at you anyway.
The real win is that it allows people to ask the question when they think of it, and since they're right there in the room, if they ask a question which is interesting but not totally coherent, you can ask them to elaborate. It makes life easier for shy people, and it also allows you to focus on the best questions, since you see the question before you choose the person who speaks, rather than vice versa. It's great for the backchannel, because people can discuss what question to ask before they even ask it. The 140 characters is also good discipline for the excessive verbiage crew. No matter how good their point might be, you as the speaker have to be fair to every other person with a question too, so if you get them to use their brains for brevity and clarity instead of verbosity and vocabularity, it's like converting a supervillain to truth, justice, and the American way.
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That's frickin' brilliant.ReplyDelete
It is brilliant. Totally doing this when I give a talk in June.ReplyDelete
I did this for a talk I gave earlier in the week... it worked great! I got questions both live and on Twitter. Nice distribution.ReplyDelete
I knew you were gonna say Twitter lol.ReplyDelete
genius. i can't tell you how much I hate a particular person who I see at conferences. I literally don't attend small sessions that she attends, because she is guaranteed to: a) talk to directly back to the speaker while he's speaking (like a rude person at the movies), b) ask a long, involved, grandstanding question that invariably just ends up being about her, c) blabber loudly to the poor person next to her, or d) annoy me with her presence because of my anticipatory hatred for a, b, & cReplyDelete


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Got Game?
Author: Stephanie Doyle
Book Description:
Oh, Yeah. Game On! The world of professional golf is rocked when the new ranking system allows Reilly Carr – the country's best female player–to compete with the big boys. Now everyone wants to know if she will or won't play in golf's premier event…The American.
But her tough choices are complicated further when Luke Nolan – her on again, off again lover – suddenly decides now is the time to turn their friends-with-benefits set up into a real relationship!
If she's going to make the cut she'll need to battle her game, the press and most of all her heart. The stakes have never been higher.
I have to say upfront that I loved Reilly as a character – she was a tough, no nonsense, work her ass off kind of girl. Having worked in a male dominated career for the last eight years, and dealing with people who try to skate because of certain characteristics – I find that i am often drawn to characters i books that reflect more of what I would like to see – in this case, a woman who shows the guys how it is done. True, she won't ever be able to completely match them, but getting out there and doing her best is what I liked.
I liked how the relationship between her and Luke was re-kindled (since I am a sucker for young love rekindled). Although her brother and best friend drove me a bit nuts. The whole bickering, make-up, break-up thing just doesn't do it for me. So i'm glad that everything worked out on that side of the house in the end.
I have to admit that I kind of figured out the suspense angle before it was revealed, but i think that the author did a good job of making it obvious without being too much so (if that makes sense…). I'll definately be looking forward to reading more books by Ms Doyle in the future (can't remember off the top of my head, if i have read any by her in the past or not…). Solid 3.5 stars overall.


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Someone the other day tweeted a link to some very cool animated gifs. I love animated gifs !!
I have always wanted animated gifs in Silverlight/WPF BUT for reasons unknown they never came. They would have been perfect for A LOT of scenarios where creating storyboard animations would have been overkill.
Well turns out WinRT XAML, firmly rooted in Silverlight XAML, also doesn't have GIF support nor will it probably ever get it. BUT it does have WinRT support and it has access to DirectX & WIC via SharpDx!!
And today on Twitter Jeremiah Morrill tweeted that WIC has support for GIF's, this intrigued me. Can I build my own support for animated gifs in XAML using DirectX & WIC (via SharpDx) ?!
Challenge is on ……
This is the animated gif I will try to render…
Source : "Savannah Rain" (frommetoyou)
Default XAML/C# metro app project + SharpDx
I created an empty managed metro project and added the necessary SharpDx bits, basically like I have been over the last several posts.
As always this project has a effect renderer that will render to a (Direct2D or Direct3D) surface via a (SwapChainBackgroundPanel or SurfaceImageSource). Again this is what I've been doing in all my SharpDx posts to date so just go back to those or the samples if you've forgotten
Animated GIF resource
Now just add the Animated GIF as a content resource to the project. I could load it in via a URI BUT I thought it would be easier to just include it for now .
Load GIF via WIC
Ok this is where it gets interesting, SharpDx gives us access to WIC from C#. Question is does it have the GIF bits.
As I've said many times before SharpDx is a very thin/performant wrapper over C++ libraries (but just to clarify there will always be an overhead to using WIC via this wrapper even thou it is small). This wrapper is a metadata mapping generated api so technically the GIF bits of WIC should have come across. Lets test it out.
Lets instantiate a WIC GIFDecoder that will be used to read the animated GIF resource. The "asset" is simple the internal uri to the gif content.
Next when we animate this gif we need to know how many frames to animate. The GIF spec defines this…
Now for each frame we want to get the bitmap of that layer and store it for rendering. There is a lot going on in this code BUT in a nutshell an object is created that lets us get at the bytes of data for a particular frame in the gif. (its easy to follow just step through the code , that's how I learnt
As it turns out for GIFS the first layer normally has the entire bitmap contents of the GIF and all the other frames above that contain delta information.. Also the 'delta' frames are all offseted so we need to get the offset (left,top) of those frames and store them for rendering of that frame later on..
So assuming that SharpDx's GIF WIC works fine that's basically all we need information wise.. We just need a way to store those frames and render them to the UI.
…. hello SpriteBatch
The best way to render a series of textures in the graphics world is via a spritebatch. Lets create a very very dirty one that will serve our purposes ..
I'm not going to go into too much detail of how this dirty spritebatch works, it's not in the truest sense a spritebatch BUT it will do for now..
This spritebatch will keep a cache of the GIFs frames that I will render on a DirectX Surface. I've defined 2 lists to store the static frames ( 0 ) and the rotating frames ( 1 – 7 )
I've created a way to add sprites (frames) to my spritebatch via the methods
1. DrawAlways – sprites that will always get rendered on each loop of the rendering pipeline eg. frame 0 of the aimated gif
2. DrawRotating – sprites that will rotate there appearance with each loop of the rendering pipeline eg. frames 1 to 7 of the animated gif
These methods are called when we are decoding our GIF (the section prior to this outlined this process)
The sprite batch, as expected, has the ability to render itself and all it's sprites. In my example it will render on a D2D surface and will use the much loved BitmapEffect to render the layer .
Also note that the offset(_texturesRotatedOffset) for the layer needs to be rendered for the 1-7 frames
Now if you don't understand the above just step through the code, it will all make sense..
Does this all work ?!
Does SharpDx's support for WIC GIF's work for animated gifs ?!
Running the demo
Here's some awesome gifs from a very cool site
Here's the metro xaml/c# demo running one of those animated gifs. Note that the framerate is low because of the simultaneous video recording going on. Without it it runs buttery smooth at 65-70fps.
Sample code
I started out this experiment fully expecting it NOT to work… I was so surprised that it actually did . Animated gifs in a XAML managed metro app!!! Damn!!
XAML/WinRT + DirectX/WIC (via SharpDx) is turning into a killer combination of features for building pretty amazing new experiences. I'm only now getting familiar with the frameworks, I can't wait to see what I'll be creating a month from now!
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clanowen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 80 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
The death of a loved one is a most stressful time and there may often be certain reluctance or even dread in taking up the task of administering the deceased's Estate. Unfortunately, the situation is helped by the fact that many Estates are completely over charged by solicitors and financial institutions carrying out the administration.
As a solution to this problem, Probate Direct offers a no obligation service for finding a competitively priced specialised Probate Solicitor. In doing so, Probate Direct is Ireland's first independent broker for the work involved in administering the Estate of a deceased.
This ia first in the industry and will offer solutions to people when they need it most.
The target audiance therefore will be those people who have unfortunately lost a loved one and who need to feel protected, secure and in safe hands at this very vulnerable time.
We want to convey a message of trust, security, and reassurance that that by using this service they will find the most competitive solution.
The objective of this project is to create a logo and associated stationery for a leading probate online service which offers a very competitive tendering services to lawyers and solicitors so the customer can find the very best value for money at a time of extream sadness resulting from the loss of a loved one.
The logo will need to convey:
We are open to suggestions on ideas but we are looking for something innovative which will stand out.
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Tools: Sizzix Big Shot, Provocraft (Tiny Tags), Nestabilities (Circle)
A huge "Thank you" to my friends Penni from Lazy Cats Cards and Vicky from Cuddly Cards for giving me those awards! xxxx
Hi claudia
Oooh yummy papers, and gorgeous colouring, this is fabulous.
hugs Kaylou xoxo
I find no greater joy than seeing all of your amazing cards! ((well, in the card making world that is :) )) Do you EVER make one that does not exceed perfection ;)?!?! This is BeAuTiFuL x 2! Thanks for sharing your talent and for all the inspiration.
What a beautiful card!!!and gorgeous colouring,
Hugs Trudy
hi wat gorgeous card like the paper you just by by tanja
Very cute. I love it.
ooooh so sweet and i love the colors you used
hugs Annemarie
Beautiful! Love this image, and those papers are perfect! Yummy!
Absolutely stunning Claudia. You are so clever chick. LOVE your work sooooooo much xxxxx
Aw, Claudia...this is so cute...love that image and especially that little sweet beat in the wagon...Love the papers you have used and all of the details is typical Claudia--STUNNING!!! Hugs HB...Jacque
Fabulous card Claudia, you rock every challenge that you do! Love the details and papers.
Carole x
So fab card Claudia, love the cute image, fab charm and gorgeous papers! Hugs, Moni
Claudia, this is adorable. All of your cards are amazing! My jaw drops just looking at them. They truly are works of art - and heart. Thanks for brightening our day.
Thank-you so much for making my day with this card. You do such beautiful cards!
Lovely dp and such a cute stamp, just another gorgoeus card Claudia. Hugs Marja
Fabulous lovely colouring and love the papers.
Hugs Di xx
Lovely card, Claudia, beautiful colours and details!
hugs, Alina
Wonderful card. That image is so sweet and your colouring is magnificent. Yummy papers and ribbon!!
Ce n'est pas du Magnolia, mais si mignon comme tout ! Bravo !
OMG!! So super sweet!! beautiful coloring!! :) TFS!
What a beautiful card Claudia,l love the image and colours.
So gorgeous papers.
Hugs Riet.xx
ohh so cute ! I love it... don't I always ??
love the colors really cute.Ohh an I just noticed the precious cargo... TEDDY !!! ;-)
hugs Annita
Just too cute!!!
Love the colours, papers and adorable image.
xoxo Karin
What a fabulous card, really great. Wonderful colouring!
Totally adorable Claudia, really sweet and pretty.
Thanks for the lovely comments too, much appreciated
take care
Wow this is so very beautiful!
Love your sweet image and beautiful colouring!
That paper is delicious and your design and detail fabulous!
kim x
Super cute card Claudia - gorgeous image and paired so beautifully with those yummy papers!! Fabulous colouring as always my friend!
Hugs, Danielle
Hi Claudia
Cute card!,BEAUTIFUL Coloring!!!
How cute is this card?! Such a sweet image Claudia and I adore the colours and papers you've chose. So girly and sweet!
Hugs, Vicky -x-
Wow Claudia, diese Karte ist absolut zauberhaft, mit tollen Farben und Papieren. Das Motiv finde ich total süß und deine Coloration ist wieder genial schön.
Hugs und GLG
Another stunning card Claudia and such a pretty, cute image too! xx
Gorgeous card hun, love the image and the colours are divine, love it!
Hugs Tab xxx
Good morning Claudia! Very cute and pretty coloring on your sweet card! Love your papers too!
She is perfect for the challenge too!
Jodi =)
such a pretty card,very colorful and nice!!
Just beautiful!! Love the way you coloured this RAM image. Great colors. Love,
Claudia..This image is just so precious! So many wonderfully delicious things going on..Too ..too cute!
Soooo cute! What a darling image and your papers are just delightful!!! I saw your three Maggie cards in Just Cards. I got my issue just today. I also have a card published in there. From a long time ago, but hey, it works for me.
Love all your work. Your cards are just such a delight!
Hi Claudia
You put me to shame:-) You've been a power house this week, hehe Love the card and especially the stitching!! It adds such dimension to the pieces. Do you stitch each piece twice? to get the thick stitches?? They are wonderful.
Really cute image and she is colored wonderful, bright, cheery:-)
I've been working on Cute daisy may stuff. Maybe tomorrow I can play in a challenge for me:-)
Too cute!
Oooh I love this stamp, I got it a few weeks ago.... these papers a yummy they remind me of gummy candy dont know why!
Yummy paper is right! I love these papers and what a super cute image.Gorgeous.
Simply gorgeous! I love the way you have layered up these fabulous papers into this layout ~x~
Dear Claudie, such a precious card. This one is just too too cute. Love all little details. The embelishments look just right.
Norma xx
Love the stamp you used it is so very cute! Claudia your card is awesome as always. Love the papers,colors and all the love that you put into all of your cards!
Aw, it's so cute! I love your work, Ruth x
Very cute card! Love the image and I like the colors you used!
She's absolutely adorable


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Vampires rule the world. we are their slaves, their pets, their lunch. but what happens when we become their lovers? Thank you Moonspinner. Your banner was voted top!
Vampire's have taken over the world. Also, the normal vampires are in this book but also the moonlight vampires (Moonlight, tv series). please don't think i'm insane. these are what they are like.
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I lay in the basement, very still. Even so, they would find me. My mother was there as well, my sister lying next to her. Then we heard the door being ripped off. Banging, clattering down the hall. Smashing. Then a pause, as though someone was inhaling. Then the door of the basement creaked open.
"Come out. We won't hurt you," said a soft, musical voice. My sister moved.
"No Lizzie" she stood up and walked up the stairs. Seven years old, her eyes filled with fear and hope.
"Hello child" said the man at the door.
"What's your name?"
"Lizzie Brooks" he took her hand and led her away. Then the screaming began.
"No!" yelled my mum. Suddenly he had hold of her, pinning her against the wall by her throat.
"You'll pay for what you did," he said, before sinking her teeth in her throat. She struggled. The last thing she saw was his murderous red eyes. I tried not to cry as I lay. My sister was dead. My mum was dead. And vampire's ruled the world.
6 years later
I was in a facility. Waiting for my time. Eventually, I would either become a slave, or lunch. Everyday was the same. I was currently seated on my bed. It was a small bunk bed in the corner of the white room. It looked like an asylum, inside and out. A bell rang. I got up and stood at the end of my bed. Same old routine. Inspection, breakfast, lessons, lunch, recreation, tea, bed. Everyday identical, only ever changed when someone was taken away or added. I wondered if today would be that way. My door swung open. There was only me in this room, my last roommate had been taken away a month ago. I was already thinking about what I would do during recreation. I would have loved to go outside. But I hadn't seen the sun in years. I had lived on a farm when my family was alive. I had never met my dad. It had always been me, mum, Lizzie, Daisy, Uncle Mark, Aunt Lucinda and their daughter Sophia. We had lived in two separate farmhouses but we worked together. I worked hard at school. I helped look after Lizzie, Daisy and Sophia. I enjoyed my life. Even though the vampire's were in charge, as long as we didn't go into the woods, we were fine. If you went into the woods or a forbidden area, you were dead. You might as well dig a grave. Then, for no reason, the vampire's attacked our house. They were searching for something, or someone. Lizzie and mum had been killed. Uncle Mark, Aunt Lucinda and Sophia's house was burnt to the ground. Daisy was still alive. In the facility. She was nine years old, with black hair that she kept in a plait. She once had rosy cheeks but they had faded. Probably for the best, considering the vampires.
"Hello Katherine" said the nurse pleasantly. I looked at her. She was human; Vampire's didn't do these jobs. Way to low down for them.
"How are you today?" she said as she inspected my room.
"Fine. Is anything interesting happening today?"
"Not that I know of, but who knows! Vampire's are so unpredictable" she laughed. Then she nodded.
"Get down to the food hall" I did as I was told. I stopped at the mirror. One wall in the corridor was entirely made of mirrors. My hair was blonde and it blended with my white t-shirt and skirt. All the clothes were the same. Boys had trousers, girls had skirts, all uniform in style, colour etc. I carried on walking and reached the food hall. I joined the queue for breakfast. Cornflakes. Same as everyday. I was glad I didn't have allergies. People with allergies, or people who complained about lunch, quickly ended up becoming lunch. I sat at an empty table and gazed into my bowl. My friends sat next to me. Same old routine.
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The onslaught against the West's moral codes
March 2018
Although, as Rodney Stark observes, commitment to the progressive reasoning of God's will requires Christians to accept that the Bible is not only or always to be understood literally, Christianity nevertheless does depend for its core beliefs upon the literal truth of supernatural events for which there is only fragile supporting evidence, if that. Much more thus devolves onto pure faith, defined as belief unsupported by evidence and unmediated by the conceits of metaphor or symbol. And that is much harder to sustain under the onslaught from materialism.
In Judaism, many Biblical miracles are explained as either natural events or metaphorical allusions. In the 12th century, the great Jewish sage Moses Maimonides wrote his seminal Guide for the Perplexed precisely to explain that there was no contradiction between rationalism and the Hebrew Bible. He argued, for example, that the Torah was full of similes which were not to be taken at face value as the literal truth.
This is not an attempt to demonstrate the truths of Judaism. It is rather an attempt to show that Judaism is above all a religion of reason which makes it less difficult to reconcile with the modern age. Indeed, Talmudic exegesis is all about reasoning to a highly advanced level to understand better the words of the Hebrew Bible and the relationship of God to man. Moreover, the Bible's enigmatic and poetic text makes little sense if read literally; Genesis is filled with contradictions which demand sophisticated analysis and make a literalist interpretation absurd and indeed anti-religious.
In the 12th century, Maimonides was the classic exponent of the idea that metaphysical truths could only be grasped through the exercise of reason. He held that religion was the highest rung of metaphysical knowledge. Human perfection consisted in "the attainment of rational virtue . . . the conception of ideas which lead to correct opinions of metaphysical matters". So as Eliezer Berkovits has noted, for Maimonides only someone who had mastered all the disciplines of human knowledge such as logic, mathematics and natural science could attain the knowledge of God. Concentrating the intellect in this way was the highest form of spirituality. Even living according to the law was secondary to the intellectual service of God through contemplation. That is why, even though doing good works and promoting the "repair of the world" are stressed in Judaism as moral imperatives, the very highest calling in Judaism is learning.
Nor has there ever been a problem reconciling Judaism with science. As a non-believer, zoologist Professor Andrew Parker, the lead researcher at London's Natural History Museum, was astounded by what he found when he studied in detail the first page of Genesis. For he realised that whoever had written it had set out with uncanny accuracy the precise order of events in the development of the universe, facts which those unknown authors thousands of years ago could not possibly have known.
August 9th, 2018
Mac, the Moshe Ben Maimon text is clearly in Hebrew, not Arabic.
July 29th, 2018
Appears Mūsā bin Maymūn was writing in Arabic. I wonder if the author is aware of that.
July 4th, 2018
Regarding "Christianity and its moral origins in the Hebrew Bible..." Whatever else Jesus may have or have not said, and whatever other words 'theologians' may have put in his mouth over the past 2,000 years, there's no escaping the fact that the Sermon on the Mount--the crux of his teachings--are as thoroughgoing a renunciation of Jewish theology as may be imagined. Indeed, there have been *Endless* contortions among Christian theologians ever since Nicaea to try and reconcile this House Divided Against Itself. They cast Marcion aside, branding him forever a heretic, and did their best to erase his work from history. At least the Jews don't have to reconcile these two antithetical canons. But this raises the question of why they strive to include Jesus among their Tribe. I say it's for the same reason they try to claim that the Testament of Jesus Christ doesn't actually contradict the Torah and Tanakh, despite the clear words of the Antitheses. Marcion promoted a version of Christianity which was indeed more 'pure' and 'beautiful'–because it was more accurate. More accurate in the sense that it represented the teachings of Jesus Christ in their essence, particularly as transmitted through the Sermon on the Mount, and especially as they renounced the primitive, bloodthirsty, and hate-mongering "Old Testament" Torah/Tanakh/Bible. It's been said many times that the "Judeo-Christian" Bible is a 'House Divided Against Itself'. Taken together, the two 'testaments' describe two antithetical Gods and promote two antithetical theologies. Early Christian Councils, such as that of Nicaea and of Constantinople, were inevitably political as much as religious, with predictable results. It would seem that the revolutionary teachings of Jesus Christ were acceptable only within limits. Jesus Christ didn't just renounce Jewish law, he renounced it in the most forceful and definitive terms imaginable. He said– repeatedly–'you have heard the elders (prophets) telling you that, but instead I say this.' And then went on, point by point, to preach the diametric opposite of Jewish Law. Supposedly he framed this within 'I come not to defy the elders (prophets) but to redeem them' and if he said that he could have been trying to save his skin (didn't work!) or retain his audience (sort of worked), or any of a dozen other possible interpretations. But there is NO possible interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount which does not recognise that Jesus is casting aside Jewish theology lock, stock, and barrel. Jesus was a revolutionary, an apostate, and 'righteous judaism' indeed spat him out. Torah: "you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."(Exod. 21:22-25) Jesus: "But I say to you, do not resist one who is evil. Whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. If anyone would sue you and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two." (Matthew 5:39) It's possible that many 'hebraics' get caught up on this point simply because they cannot understand Jesus Christ's admonitions. An alternative possibility is that they are simply infuriated by his admonitions. Another (more relevant) discussion here: http://www.unz.com/article/exodus-redux-jewish-identity-and-the-shaping-... A Jewish scholar, William Klingaman, (who is quite skeptical of Jesus's potential divinity, by the way): > > "Jesus deviated radically from conventional Judaic tradition when he > raised these moral imperatives to an extreme and seemingly unattainable > level. According to him the ancient prescriptions of the Law were no > longer sufficient for salvation." (*The First Century; Emperors, Gods, > and Everyman*, 1990; p.171) About Jewish integration vs separation, note Steven R. Weisman in the NYT: "No Jews today see the Hellenizers as role models." He refers to "wealthy, educated Jews [who] were especially attracted to Greek culture, philosophy, sciences and athletics…" and says that Hanukkah "celebrates a stunning military victory in which strictly observant Jewish forces crushed the Jews who favored assimilation into the larger secular culture and expelled them from the Temple in ancient Jerusalem." [Steven R. Weisman, "The Celebration of Hanukkah, Then and Now", NYT 20 Dec 97] http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/20/opinion/editorial-observer-the-celebra... The essence of the story: Jews who favor integrating themselves with others are worthy of violent death–at the hands of their own Orthodox. 'Old-Testament Hatred', which may be a tad redundant frankly. Jesus told Pilate: "My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence." (John 18:36).
Alicia Sinclair Portland
April 11th, 2018
Have read Melanies magnificent book on a couple of occasions, and this is an excellent primer and adjunct. She nails the contemporary culture brilliantly, and with both force and inexorable logic, so can`t thank her enough. The Christian Church really needs to grasp what she`s saying. Jesus was a Jew, and -as He says-came to fulfil "the Law" as opposed to abolish it. But as we know, there is contextual analysis to give us all the understanding of what exactly, the gospel writers were trying to convey. And then we`ve got Paul and church histories to pile on top of that if we`d rather do that that stick with Jesus alone.But once we`ve been to the Cross and understood what trhe empty tomb nearby means to us, then we`re free to do what we like, think as we want. But knowing that we`re a heartbeat away from Jesus the Judge. I see the Hebrew Bible as the perfect blend of Gods Love and Gods righteous anger. Dawkins, being a theological illiterate takes the worst of Joshua and Judges to parody what his version of his non-god would be. Maybe that line through the human heart between good and evil, fight and wrong has a crossbeam at the top of it. But Islam is a third rate tribute act to half heard bits of the Judeao-Christian traditions. Like atheism, it need not detain us-as long as we actually know our OWN scriptures as well as they do their Koran and their Kapitals.
April 8th, 2018
Good read. Inspires thought.The breakdown of moral code that constrained the individual for the sake of the community seems a good explanation for the axe being laid to the root of the tree we see happening. This is a story of human morality rising up from an ego driven rule of life governed by the need to survive. A morality that extends to preserving communal life unconsciously, like animal behavior that seems moral but is an involuntary response to the law of survival. So, this law of survival that in human nature creates attachments to family, tribe, and clan becomes stressed and unable to extend to the outer reaches of state or nation. A sense of 'otherness' inevitably results as the community enlarges and it's borders become to porous to keep the contamination of 'otherness'from coming in and infecting the body. The law of survival because it emerges from the individuals need to survive and spread genes is not able to unite a world populated by many peoples, races and nations. A law from beyond the human animal mode of living that transcends the law of survival is necessary. A new law to place again within the sight of intellect the objective good that it may replace the inferior subjective good that hid the true object of the human will. The true object of the will reentered the human sphere as the Ten Commandments. From that revelation, a moral code able to transcend the law of survival and overcome it's limitations has continued to this day to develop and transcend even it'self. God said let there be light. And there was light. The light divided the darkness and God called the light day. The first day God called very good. It's interesting now that the moral code established by the revelation to Moses, for millenia stabilized societies and formed institutions that increased the quality of human life, are being usurped and replaced by an incapable and inferior morality, not only fails to credit the origin of these gifts to humanity but claim these gifts as it's own. As the culture rejects religion the state becomes a religion worshiped by the masses who congregate faithfully and listen intently to the new ecclesia. An ancient ministry hidden from view finally appearing as a new light of life to save humanity from it'self. Another God is preparing it's seat on the throne hidden within the human heart.
Cedric Michael
March 28th, 2018
Claire Khaw: No, Christianity is not and never has purported to be the antithesis of Judaism, nor has Islam ever purported to be the synthesis of that supposed dialectic. Jesus was not only a Jew but a deeply loyal Jew whose own conviction was that his very life embodied the essential meaning of the Mosaic Law.It is true that the question of his divinity within a Holy Trinity of divine persons consisting of a Father, a Son, and a Holy Spirit, has been a contentious one, but the aspect of this that you seize on as absurd, namely, that the eternal absolute creator of all that exists is capable of having come into existence in time,is not actually absurd, but completely compatible with the understanding that space-time and everything in it must necessarily not only have eternal absolute being as its historical origin, but as its present substantive foundation. Space-time is not some absolute 'other' created from sheer nothingness by absolute being, but a creation with a creaturely nature created by absolute being from nothing but absolute being itself. Absolute being is one with space-time, and space-time is one with absolute being. This is St Paul's view: "We . . . have our being in God." If that is so, then God not only can but does have his being in us and can enter into his creation as one of us. Far from being absurd, this becomes eminently thinkable once you realise that the creation is not absolutely other than God, or vice versa.
Gavin Stoffberg
March 14th, 2018
Thanks for a great article. Loved it!
Madge Hirsch
March 14th, 2018
It is obvious that Melanie Phillips has never bothered to aquaint herself on any but the sketchiest level with Hinduism. One could argue that the order of the 10 incarnations of Vishnu were an example of evolution just as much as anything to be found in Genesis.I would suggest that the arrested development of science in Hindu India has a lot more to do with the devastation caused by neverending Islamic invasions and the reduction of the Hindu population to dhimmi status rather than cyclical notions of time. As for the tyranny of atheism there was plenty of tyranny around before the 20th century.And just look what that wonderfully vibrant Bible Belt has produced- a great deal of hypocrisy, lots of people who believe the earth is only 6,000 years old and Trump for POTUS. As for asserting that the stuff in the OT is more factual than the so called miracles of Christianity because "it happened to us"- pathetic.
Naomi King
March 12th, 2018
The comments above simply prove that atheism is irrational and stupid.
Elisabeth Holland
March 12th, 2018
The Hebrew Bible reveals that God is holy/pure/ righteous/just and as such is the true judge of sin. It is very hard for us to comprehend the holiness of God and just how bad sin is. Sin always perverts truth. There are so called Christians who deny the resurrection of Jesus but this is to fail to recognize the nature of God as holy, the creator and redeemer who indeed makes rational the resurrection. The Hebrew Bible points to redemption of our sin-sick sorry world through the unexpected means of the death of Jesus and its story is brought to fruition in the New Testament, but we need to read both books carefully as ask God to reveal himself to us as we do.
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I've been playing Elite since early public beta, and I'm impressed generally. I think what I've noticed from that stage was that even then it was obvious they were going to struggle to make it offline. There was too much to be ported across. It's a shame tbh, but so far I'm not experiencing major difficulties with the game.
There have been some annoying bugs, but I expect that. Most games do. It is more technical than the X series, but then X is more tuned to almost arcade style gaming than ED is in design.
Regarding the funding, it's frustrating, but I've been on the otherside of this coin (or similar side).
Working with DBTech to develop mods I've had people purchase the product, download it, then submit a refund claim to PayPal. That get's costly and means a free copy has gone out. I can understand why Frontier have made that stance, though I utterly share your pain in feeling frustrated like this.
I was wondering how many more X players might have given ED a shot... there are a few over on the Frontier forums...
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By Patricia Boccadoro
PARIS, 2 November 2006—The tribute to Serge Lifar (1905 - 1986), the Russian /French dancer, director and choreographer largely credited with the revival of 20th century French ballet, began with Suite en blanc. Created in 1943 while Lifar was at the height of his fame, it is one of the masterpieces of 20th century dance and is almost a dictionary of academic dance at the time. The ballet consists of a series of particularly difficult variations, pas de trois and pas de cinq, adages and ensembles which display the brilliance, virtuosity and elegance of the French company. Made for the great dance personalities of the era, each short sequence tells a story in the style Lifar affected. Whether or not the man, and not Fokine, actually invented certain positions of the feet, the 6th and 7th as is claimed, remains a polemic, but what he did was to give a name to them.
Since its premiere, Suite en blanc has become one of the company's showpieces, having been danced, to date, on 382 occasions. However, over the years, some casts have been brighter and more sparkling than others and for this performance the work, although as visually attractive as ever, lacked lustre. Performances of individual dancers were uneven. Fortunately there was the radiant presence of Emilie Cozette , a ballerina who possesses that most elusive quality of all, that of class. She is a dancer with a soul as well as a beautiful technique.
In the second ballet, L'envol d'Icare, Thierry Malandain's first creation for the Paris Opéra Ballet, the director of the "Centre Chorégraphique National" in Biarritz played around with his subject. Finding the music by J.E. Szyfer and Arthur Honegger used in Lifar's own 1935 ballet, Icare, somewhat dated, he substituted a score by Schnittke created for The Labyrinth, a ballet which tells the story of the seven young girls and seven youths sent from Athens to feed the Minotaur, that half-bull, half-human creature imprisoned in Crete by King Minos.
Theseus, aided by the king's daughter and Dedale, the architect who built the maze, overcomes the bull, but Dedale is punished and shut in the maze with his son, Icarus. The work ends when Icarus, escaping from his prison with wings of wax, goes too close to the sun, melts them and goes crashing back to earth.
"While my ballet springs from the tale of the Minotaur", Malandain told me, "it's an abstract work with, for example, movements which recall the horns of the bull."
The French choreographer had already created a ballet some years ago, Les creatures, also inspired by Lifar's 1929 work, and his familiarity with the style of Les Ballets Russes as well as with the qualities of the Paris dancers was evident. He had also staged his personal versions of Bolero, Pulcinella, L'après-midi d'un faune, and Spectre de la rose successfully for his own company, and this new work was a harmonious ballet, ideally suited to the interpreters and the occasion.
Malandain is a choreographer with a language of his own who can adapt it to the dancers he's working with, and while they initially did not have his style, they soon absorbed it, he told me. Jérémie Bélingard, a dancer with an untameable wild streak, was particularly well-cast as Theseus/Icarus.
As a company member himself nearly 30 years ago, the choreographer's knowledge of the troupe showed in his use of jumps, lifts, and groupings. Movements were pretty, large and generous without excess. It was most agreeable on the eye. The costumes themselves, in true Ballets Russes style, were colourful and attractive, in rust, orange, green and black, with short fluid, swinging skirts.
Much less can be said of the costumes for Lifar's Mirages, premiered in 1947, the last work on the programme. With memories of candy floss coloured tights, pale pink and green tunics and silly hats with feathers sticking out all over the place, not to mention the multi-coloured jackets and black-ink tutus edged in sparkles worn by the corps de ballet, they were execrably hideous whilst the ballet as a whole has suffered from the ravages of time. Only the two central figures escaped, both choreographically speaking, and in their costumes.
The work, inspired by Alfred de Musset's poem, A December night, is full of symbolism and meaning. And although Lifar undoubtedly created an atmosphere and set an example which Roland Petit and Maurice Béjart later followed, developed and improved, much of the choreography is stilted and artificial.
The young man was interpreted by Hervé Moreau, the anti-hero who loses everything he has each time he thinks he has it, whether it is his shadow, himself, his destiny, or the woman he loves. As his shadow, Agnès Letestu, in the role she had coveted since dancing a variation from it on her promotion to première danseuse in 1993, was sublime and their central pas de deux breathtaking. Moreau is proving to be one of the company's most gifted interpreters; It seemed such a pity that this masterpiece had to be surrounded with all the rest, impossible to stage today with a lesser company.
The real merit of Lifar's genius lies in the reforms he made within the company, paving the way for Rudolf Nureyev. On his arrival, Nureyev simply did away with what he called all the "chi-chi and whipped cream."
When Serge Lifar, a man of great personal magnetism, took over the directorship of the Paris Company on December 29th, 1929, he wrote in his biography that "there was no troupe, no audience, and no living tradition worth speaking of".
He began by dimming the great chandelier as soon as a performance began, forcing spectators to concentrate on events onstage rather than off; no one was allowed to enter once the show had begun. Moreover, in 1934 he instigated the first complete evening of ballet, once a week, every Wednesday evening in July that year; dance was no longer light entertainment between well-known operatic arias and society could no longer enter and leave at will.
On a practical level, he banned tights with holes, personal jewellery and elastic on shoes, and as for the male dancers, they were asked to shave! Professional make-up was introduced and the women obliged to dance on pointe, rather than the slovenly sort of demi-pointe they had grown used to.
Once he had begun his process of cleaning up, he began his most important work; training dancers who could ally a faultless technique to their other qualities. Considered to be the outstanding European male dancer of his generation, and anxious to give his knowledge to others, he created a class d'adage which he taught himself, while ensuring that promising students in the opera school went to study with the great Russian teachers including Preobrajenska and Kchessinska who had settled in Paris after being driven from their homeland.
The result was ballerinas of the status of Darsonval, Schwartz and Chauviré for whom he choreographed works with the collaboration of people such as Cocteau, Derain and Bakst. His friends were Picasso, Max Ernst and Prokofiev and, drawing inspiration from sculptures, history, mythology and the bible, he brought a whole new serious audience to dance.
But as a choreographer, however, he could not resist creating works for
himself underlining his "beautiful body". Moreover, Lifar's ballets were
very much a product of the time. The reason perhaps why so few of his
works are performed today, particularly by other companies, is probably
because they were so personal and have aged so badly. With just a few
exceptions, they are curiosities, a sentimental stroll backwards in the
history of ballet.
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Celebrities were added with the Late Night EP and give any sim the opportunity to be famous!
How To Identify Them
Like in real life, sim-celebrities get followed around by the paparazzi and crazed fans. To see whether a sim is a celebrity or not, hover over them (or their picture in the relationship panel), and if they have stars above their name then they are famous.
There are five levels of fame, ranging from A to Z list, and this can be determined by the number of stars a sim has. One star is Z list, five stars is A list.
- The higher a sim's celebrity status, the more clubs and lounges they can get in to.
- They will get given discounts on a variety of goods.
- Suppliers will send them free goods, such as pianos, hot tubs and beds.
- Fans will come up and ask them for autographs or take photos.
- Children of celebrities will automatically gain Celebrity Levels without having to do anything.
- They can have bad rumours spread about them - both true and false - resulting in a negative moodlet which lasts for three sim days. If a celebrity does something negative, like pee themselves or woohoo with a vampire, they will be informed that word has spread around town. Spouses of celebrities can also find out about their affairs this way. Occasionally a celebrity might have a false rumour spread about them. To try and quash the rumours sims can either talk to other sims to 'dispel rumours', or take drastic measures and take a trip to city hall to sue for slander. Beware though: if a sim loses their case they will still have to pay legal fees, but never fear because if you lose you can just try again.
- The paparazzi will follow them around, taking photos and writing notes.
- In Bridgeport, the really high-level celebrities live in the big houses on the island across from the main downtown area. Their houses are flanked by high security gates, and if a sim doesn't know the residents then they can't get onto the property.
How To Become One
The key to gaining star status is networking. In order to increase a sim's Celebrity Level they must earn Celebrity Points. The quickest way to do this is to befriend sims with a higher Celebrity Level than theirs.
When a sim is out and about, if they see a celebrity they can approach them and greet them. Depending on their Celebrity Level, they may invite the sim to try and impress them, or they may be less friendly and tell them to come back when they can impress them! Here you can click on the celebrity and choose 'try to impress celebrity...' which brings up four options:
1. Talk about occupation.
2. Talk about skill.
3. Name drop.
4. Talk about wealth.
The success of any these depends on how high up the sim is in any of them. The best way to impress is to choose the one under which the sim ranks best. For example, if the sim knows a 5-star celebrity and has two skill points in mixology then choosing 'name drop' will work better than 'talk about skill'. If the sim is successful in impressing the celebrity, then the normal social menus will appear when clicking on them and you can interact with them as normal. Once the sim has gained enough Celebrity Points a notification will appear informing them of this, and you will be able to open up their Celebrity Journal (found on the Simbology tab of the UI or by pressing 'L').
In order to keep progressing, the sim will have to socialise with celebrities who are of a higher level than themselves. Additionally, certain career paths may provide opportunities which reward the sim with Celebrity Points.
Celebrity Journal
This lists statistics relevant to your sim's life of fame. It shows:
- Their current Celebrity Level.
- The progress bar.
- The number of celebrities known.
- The number of discounts obtained.
- The number of freebies obtained.
- The amount of money saved.
- The number of bars visited.
- The number of times photographed.
- The number of autographs signed.
- The number of times publicly disgraced.
- The number of times falsely accused.
Celebrity status is independent from career tracks except Film, for which it helps with performance.
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A Massachusetts man accused of plotting to attack the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol building with model planes filled with C-4 explosives will plead guilty to two terror charges, say prosecutors, and serve a 17-year federal sentence.
According to court documents filed by prosecutors and attorneys for Rezwan Ferdaus, a Northeastern University physics graduate and U.S. citizen, Ferdaus has agreed to plead guilty to attempting to provide material support to terrorists and attempting to damage and destroy federal buildings by means of an explosive.
Ferdaus, 27, was arrested at the culmination of a long-term sting operation by undercover FBI agents posing as Al Qaeda operatives.
According to investigators, Ferdaus believed he had been working for al Qaeda since 2010, when he began modifying cell phones to serve as electrical switches for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to be passed on to fighters in the Middle East and then providing them to the supposed operatives.
"During a June 2011 meeting, he appeared gratified when he was told that his first phone detonation device had killed three U.S. soldiers and injured four or five others in Iraq. Ferdaus responded, 'That was exactly what I wanted,'" the Department of Justice said in a statement in September 2011.
The alleged model-plane plot called for Ferdaus to command a team of six operatives to use remote-controlled aircraft filled with explosives to attack the Pentagon and the Capitol before shooting survivors in a subsequent "ground" attack.
Ferdaus allegedly travelled to Washington, D.C. to conduct reconnaissance on his targets. Ferdaus was arrested in Framingham, Mass. in September 2011 after he took delivery of the AK-47 rifles, grenades and C-4 explosives that were allegedly to be used in the attack.
Federal officials say the public never faced any danger during the sting, because the "explosives" furnished to Ferdaus by undercover officers were inert. The Justice Department says agents gave Ferdaus every opportunity to back out of the plot, but he refused even after being warned that his attacks could kill women and children.
Ferdaus told undercover officers that he had been radicalized on the internet.
As part of his plea deal, prosecutors and Ferdaus have agreed to a 17-year sentence.


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CINCINNATI (WKRC) – Retired appeals court judge Mark Painter has handed down a lot of opinions over a 30-year career on the bench.
His opinion on fellow Republican President Donald Trump is terse and to the point: Impeach him now.
"America is in danger from one of the most incompetent presidents we've ever had and I think we ought to start the process," Painter told Local 12 via Skype from Orlando, Florida Wednesday afternoon. "The president of the United States sticking up for his family's enterprises and using public money and features to do it and the power of his office to help his own personal family business is beyond belief."
Painter says he is convinced Trump's actions have crossed the threshold of "high crimes and misdemeanors" required for articles of impeachment. He says Trump's ties to his business empire violate the Constitution's emoluments clause every time a foreign government does business with one of his developments or hotels. Painter says the questionable, pre-inauguration connection between former national security adviser Michael Flynn and a Russian diplomat is a problem not just for Flynn, but also for Trump.
"Obviously the president knew about Flynn's conversations with the Russian ambassador way before Trump was sworn in. That would certainly be, by itself, an impeachable offense."
Painter, a lifetime Republican, has called upon U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, to start the impeachment process. A Chabot staffer said that won't happen, because the president has not done anything that is "grounds for impeachment." Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, suggested that everyone take a deep breath.
"Let's take a look and see what facts are out there," Wenstrup told Local 12's Duane Pohlman. "I don't think that's an appropriate conversation at this time."
Painter obviously disagrees and says impeachment may not be imminent but is likely.
"We grow immune to it, because every day there's something worse or as bad as the day before. I think there is a lot more likelihood as we go forward, because more and more things will come out."
Painter served as a Hamilton County Municipal Court judge from 1982-1995. He sat on the Ohio First District Court of Appeals bench from 1995-2009.


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Anyone with doubts about BYOD look away now. A new survey has found that almost half of mobile users still employ no security despite the fact that many of devices are used to access and store corporate email.
Surveys of mobile device security are easy prey for nay-sayers, routinely showing relatively low levels of awareness about mobile data. Sophos's survey of 1,008 UK consumers outlines the issue without shedding much new light on the reasons behind this.
Forty-two percent had lost or left a device (mostly but not exclusively smartphones) without security in place, while 20 percent said their devices were used to access email. An identical 20 percent kept personal data such as national insurance numbers, names, addresses and dates of birth on their smartphones.
One in ten reckoned their devices would have revealed information such as PIN numbers and credit cards.
Teens were far more likely to lose an unsecured device than older users, confirming the mundane truism that the young think less about consequences until they have experienced them. Only those at or near pensionable age matched them for lack of security, a phenomenon usually explained as being a generational lack of familiarity with the technology among older people.
What does all this mean and why don't vendors spend more time investigating why mobile security remains a low priority for some sections of the user base even where business data is at risk?
"Most concerning for businesses is that this lack of awareness will inevitably seep into the corporate environment. Indeed, the research already shows that corporate email - on lost and potentially unsecured devices - opens up a potential security hole in the infrastructure," said Sophos director of technology, James Lyne.
"Businesses too should ensure their traditional IT security educational policies extend to laptops and mobile devices. Mobile manufacturers should also be challenged to make these devices more secure out of the box," Said Lyne.
The last point is an interesting one. Out of the box, mobile data security remains poorly designed in a surprising number of cases.
Only a few weeks ago, a report from consultancy Context Information Security picked numerous holes in the security design of Samsung's Galaxy Tab, at least as far as businesses were concerned. Apple's iPad and RIM's PlayBook achieved better scores but even in these devices some failings were found.
There is a reason for this. Companies such as Samsung and even Apple are companies that sell gadgets to consumers. Security has not appeared a high priority based on assumptions about the usefulness of such features for consumers.
But if BYOD is a real phenomenon – and there is ample evidence that it is – then consumer devices are now dual-purpose and need to be designed to meet the security needs of businesses.


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Granger on Movies: 'The Raid 2'
Following is a review of the new movie, "The Raid 2," by Fairfield Citizen movie reviewer Susan Granger:
It's obvious from the get-go that this genre sequel to Gareth Evans' 2011 "Raid: Redemption" is going to be an intense, uber-violent action adventure. Set in Indonesia, just hours after the conclusion of the previous film, it's the epic tale of a heroic Jakarta cop infiltrating an underworld cartel in order to weed out the rampant corruption within the city's police force.
When Rama (Iko Uwais) joins a covert undercover police force, he's given a new identity and sent to prison where he befriends Uco (Arifin Putra), the hot-tempered scion of a crime family. Two years later, when Rama gets released, Uco's grateful father, Bangun (Tio Padkusadewo), gives Rama a job as an enforcer.
Problem is: impatient Uco wants to take over the business and is tempted by seductive offers from leather-gloved Bejo (Alex Abbad), a rival boss who previously bumped off Rama's bad-seed brother in a sugar-cane field. That places Rama right in the middle of a father/son turf war, fighting off psychopathic assassins like Baseball Bat Man (Very Tri Yulisman) and Hammer Girl (Julie Estelle), while his long-suffering wife and infant son wait on the sidelines.
Obviously, Welsh-born writer/director Gareth Evans surrounds himself with martial-arts specialists who pride themselves on inventive methods of annihilation -- like pushing a man's face onto a steaming griddle.
Stretched over two-and-a-half hours, the relentless mayhem is adroitly photographed and carefully choreographed with a bizarrely artistic flair, particularly the careening, multi-vehicle car chases, reminiscent of "The French Connection" -- all punctuated by a primarily percussive soundtrack.
There's little CGI, so it's all accomplished by stuntmen and adroit editing. But how the combat scenes with their explicit carnage managed an R-rating is a mystery; NC-17 would have been more appropriate. But then it couldn't have played in mainstream theaters.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "The Raid 2" is a sadistic 6 -- and the fact that it's subtitled doesn't much matter since the bloody, brutal brawling transcends the language barrier.


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Stan Smith is born
On this day in 1946, the American tennis champion Stan Smith is born in Pasadena, California. A three-time All-American at the University of Southern California (USC), Smith captured the NCAA singles title in 1968 and the doubles title in 1967 and 1968. With his USC doubles partner, Bob Lutz, Smith went on to form one of the most successful teams of all time, winning more than 50 titles, including the U.S. Open four times (1968, 1974, 1978 and 1980) and the Australian Open once in 1970.
Smith also had an impressive singles career, and is particularly known for his stellar performance for the U.S. Davis Cup team. Over an 11-year Cup career, Smith contributed significantly to seven U.S. victories (1968-72 and 1978-9). He won the clinching point for his team 16 times–three times in singles, and 13 times in doubles (with Lutz and Erik van Dillen). In 1971, Smith was the runner-up at Wimbledon, where he lost in five sets to John Newcombe of Australia. Later that year, he took the U.S. Open singles title, beating the Czech player Jan Kodes in a four-set match that was the first to end in a tie-breaker. Smith's 1972 Wimbledon victory, over the volatile Ilie Nastase, is remembered as one of the great Grand Slam finals. Also in 1972, Smith scored each of the three U.S. points in a match against Romania, beating Nastase and Ion Tiriac in singles and teaming with van Dillen to defeat a Nastase-Tiriac team in doubles, for a fifth straight U.S. Davis Cup victory.
Early in his career, Smith was drafted into the U.S. Army, and served a two-year tour of duty (1970-72). During this time, he continued to focus on his tennis, and was used by the Army on recruitment tours and visits to hospitals to build morale. Ranked in the world top ten for six straight years from 1970, Smith ended the 1972 season ranked number one in the world. His career spanned the amateur and open eras of tennis, and he won more than 100 titles overall in singles and doubles. After retiring from tennis, Smith became active in the United States Tennis Association (USTA) and eventually opened his own training academy in Hilton Head, South Carolina. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987.


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Lady Gaga may have smuggled in a few extra guests to the MTV VMAs last night -- because the people at PETA think it's likely that her raw meat dress was "crawling in maggots."
A rep for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals tells us that Gaga "has a hard time being 'over the top,' and wearing a dress made from cuts of dead cows is offensive enough to bring comment."
But the rep notes that if the dress was made from actual meat -- and not the fake stuff -- it wouldn't take long to go sour ... saying, "After time spent under the TV lights, it would smell like the rotting flesh that it is and likely be crawling in maggots."
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VIDEO: Kevin Love is Cleveland bound — how will his arrival help the Cavs?
HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Seventeen games into his tenure with the Miami Heat, LeBron James was taking abuse from every direction. In those early stages of the 2010-11 season, the Heat were 9-8 and the Big 3 era was off to a shaky start, given the outrageous expectations that accompanied the joining of forces between LeBron, fellow free agent Chris Bosh and incumbent face of the franchise Dwyane Wade.
The Heat rebounded from those early stumbles and made it to The Finals before being taken apart by Dirk Nowitzki, Jason Terry, Jason Kidd and the Dallas Mavericks.
In the aftermath of that ugly finish to their first season, LeBron was quickly cast as the scapegoat (with Heat coach Erik Spoelstra stuck in the mud with him). He flatlined at crunch time in The 2011 Finals. Unlike Wade, he had no championship ring or Finals MVP to fall back on. And Bosh was seen as the third wheel, so there was no way he could be the fall guy in that scenario. So LeBron was left to shoulder that burden, one that ultimately led to back-to-back titles and Finals MVPs.
The roles have been shuffled in LeBron's latest super-team situation in Cleveland, where he's the championship veteran with rings and Finals MVPs, playing alongside young All-Stars in Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving. Unlike Bosh and James back in 2010, though, the next playoff points Love and Irving score will be their first.
Far be it from me to rain on the attention parade going on in Cleveland, the epicenter of the sports universe with the Cavaliers' new look and the seemingly never-ending Johnny Manziel news cycle. But what happens if (it's blasphemy, Cavaliers fans, I know) LeBron and friends don't win the title in their first season together?
Who is the fall guy this time?
Forget the common sense that should come with a new team with new leadership (coach David Blatt playing the Cleveland edition of Spoelstra's role). The 2010-11 Heat and the 2014-15 Cavaliers face this similar circumstance: anything short of a title will be viewed as a disappointment by most.
And that means someone has to shoulder the burden of that disappointment the way LeBron (and Spoelstra) did when he went dark for weeks after The 2011 Finals trying to reflect on what had been a whirlwind 11 months.
LeBron should be immune this time around. We know what to expect from him. He has extensive experience playing with other elite superstars. He won't have to make as many adjustments to his game to be effective. Even with the San Antonio Spurs shredding the Heat in The Finals this year, LeBron (cramps aside) was basically unstoppable. It was his supporting cast, both Wade and Bosh in particular, who didn't play up to their own lofty standards.
And the Spurs were so good, it might not have made a difference if Wade and Bosh played well or not.
Love and Irving are clearly in the crosshairs this time around, given their lack of playoff experience and the fact that the only time they have shared a locker room with players as good or better than them is during All-Star Weekend and their time with USA Basketball. No one knows how either of them will hold up in the crucible that is the postseason. All of those regular-season highlights are useless if either of them melts down in the playoffs or runs into a matchup they simply cannot win.
Love will have to assume the Stretch 4 role that Bosh played in Miami, where his numbers dipped considerably compared to what he put up as a stand-alone All-Star in Toronto. Irving will have to relinquish some of the facilitating duties and scoring load that he's had to carry early in his career to make sure his game meshes perfectly with two new elite teammates with higher profiles than his own.
Both Love and Irving will have the luxury of playing with the best player on the planet. But not even LeBron will be able to save them from expectations that are not fulfilled. Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, general manager David Griffin and LeBron have all done their part. The pieces for success at the highest level have been assembled.
The rest is up to Love, Irving and the supporting cast. And if things go awry come playoff time, the scapegoat list will be easy to make!


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Willa Cather, the author of several celebrated novels examining the lives of western pioneers, dies in New York.
Born in Virginia in 1873, Cather moved with her family to Red Cloud, Nebraska, when she was 10 years old. Although she did not attend regular school until high school, she was a bright student who eventually earned a degree from the University of Nebraska. She had long dreamed of being a writer of fiction, but initially she took a more secure route, working as a journalist and editor in New York City. In 1894, she had a chance encounter with the author Stephen Crane, who encouraged her desire to write fiction.
In 1903, Cather published a book of poems and, two years later, a collection of short stories. Although well received by critics, sales were modest. Significantly, neither of these books, nor her first novel (Alexander's Bridge, published in 1912), dealt with the frontier West. Still, by 1912, Cather was earning enough money from her writing to quit her job in New York and devote herself to writing full time. That same year, Cather and her brother made a trip to the Southwest, sparking her interest in the western frontier as a setting for her novels.
In her next novel, O Pioneers! (1913), Cather first developed the frontier themes that would give her works a uniquely western voice. Five years later, she produced her best-known work, My Antonia. These two novels, along with her 1927 work, Death Comes to the Archbishop, established Cather as a brilliant novelist focusing on the American pioneer experience.
Though Cather's novels unflinchingly explore the hardships of pioneer life, they also celebrate the optimism of hardworking men and women who are confident of better days to come. Criticized by some for romanticizing pioneer life and by others for portraying it too harshly, Cather's goal had never been to recreate accurately a vanished period from the past. Rather, she used her frontier settings as a useful stage on which to examine broader universal themes, like the power of humans to overcome adversity through faith in the future.
By choosing to set many of her novels in the West, Cather was instrumental in creating a serious literature for a region that had previously provided fodder primarily for dime novelists.


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The Etowah County Commission could consider lending its support to naming the four-lane stretch of U.S. Highway 411 after veterans fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Etowah County Commission could consider lending its support to naming the four-lane stretch of U.S. Highway 411 after veterans fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sen. Phil Williams, R-Rainbow City, approached the commission Tuesday at its work session, asking members to consider naming that stretch the "Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Memorial Highway" in honor of those who have served overseas.
Williams, a veteran of both wars, said to his knowledge there is no memorial set up in Alabama for veterans of those conflicts. He described this as the longest-running war in U.S. history and is "certainly one of the costliest in terms of national treasures."
"I've had a number of friends who made it home, and several who made it home different," he said, "and I think this is an easy way to honor ... Etowah Countians who have been there and show them we care about them."
Williams had prints of a mock sign that featured the campaign flags of each conflict on the bottom.
Commissioner Larry Payne asked if approval would be needed from the Alabama Department of Transportation, since it is a state highway. Etowah County CEO Patrick Simms said the state probably would want a letter of endorsement from the commission.
Commission President Jeff Overstreet asked Williams if he would speak with Cherokee County about extending the highway name into that county, and Williams said he would.
Commissioners at next Tuesday's meeting will consider a one-time buy-back program to purchase employee vacation or sick hours at the meeting. If the measure passes, employees would be able to exchange up to 40 hours of sick and vacation time or both for extra pay.
Personnel Director Jennifer Taylor said the county did a buy-back last year, which cost $135,000. She said if every county employee participated, it would cost about $200,000, but she expects the cost to be between $135,000 and $150,000.
Simms said if the measure passes, the commission will adopt a budget amendment when the number of participants is finalized.


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Coal cars stored near Kolin, MT shimmer in the moonlight.
While Central Montana Railway's bridges are unusable and under repair the CMR is storing cars where they can. About half of the track from Moccasin to the former GN Judith River trestle is filled with coal cars of various ownership. These long strings of cars stand out on the open prairie and are quite a contrast to the wheat fields that dominate this particular area. Kristi from the CMR told me last month they have over 240 cars stored currently. Nice bit of income for a shut down railroad.
At one of the grade crossings near Kolin I stopped when I noticed how the moon lit the sides of the stored hoppers. I spent 10 minutes or so photographing this spot until the moon moved around to where it wasn't shining on the car sides any more.