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CrazyLeaf flower 2007-02-07 10:09:00 Â Name : CrazyLeaf flower
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Real Facts - Did you know that … ? 2007-02-08 00:30:40 In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but theÂ
animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal isÂ
punishable by death.
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In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman’s genitals, but isÂ
prohibited from looking directly at them during the examination. He mayÂ
only see their reflection in a mirror.
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Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This alsoÂ
applies to undertakers. The sex organs of the deceased must be coveredÂ
with a brick or piece of wood at all times.
(A brick??)
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The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
(Much worse than “going blind!”)
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There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the
countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them f
Create Magazine Announces The 2007 Create Awards 2007-02-08 09:02:45 Inovartis is proud to announce they will sponsor the 2007 Create Awards
.
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Prizes offered by Inovartis are three (3) Flash Video Packages with an individual value of $99 US or less as the grand prize and one (1) Flash Video Package with an individual value of $99 US or less as the prize for each of the 8 runner-ups for a total of 12 Flash Video Packages.
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Feb. 2, 2007 - The 2007 Create Awards - one of the top creative competitions for professionals and students in advertising, film and video, motion graphics, graphic communication, photography, printing, interactive media, and copywriting - announces its official call for entries: March 15.
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Following a successful first year, The 2007 Create Awards (www.thecreateawards.com) has tripled the Best of Show Award to a once-in-a-lifetime prize for the creative professional: a $30,000 Dream Studio Prize Package with products from industry-leading companies including: Adobe, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, NEC Display Solutions, Alienware C Read more:Magazine
Dumb teacher 2007-02-09 11:52:49 Not the most bright of teachers.
The dude is right. I would have gave him an “A” for this.
Divorce hurts a man 2007-02-09 11:49:50 Be carefull who you’re marring. The divorce may be expensive.
2007 9ff Cabrio: fastest road-legal convertible 2007-02-09 10:58:06 9ff has setted a new world record for the road-legal
convertibles. They have competed agains 16 other tuners.
The 911 Cabrio
T-6 made a maximum output of 780 bhp, which has proved to be enough to leave others in the dust. The official speed record for road-legal convertibles now stands at 236.5 mph.
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Corel launches Corel Painter X 2007-02-09 22:42:54 The latest version of Corel
’s painting and illustration application features new composition tools and the RealBristle Painting System.
The new version sports quite a list of additions and improvements, notably the RealBristle Painting System that’s said to faithfully replicate traditional art media via individual bristles that respond similarly to their real-world counterparts. New composition tools include the Divine Proportion composition tool, which provides guidelines that follow the Divine Proportion, or (Golden Ratio). A new Layout Grid composition tool provides guidelines that follow photography's Rule of Thirds, and can be customized to other grid patterns.
Corel Painter
X is currently available for pre-order for $429 on the Corel site. A Limited Edition version supplied in the Classic Painter can, which also includes the complete Learning Corel Painter
X with Jeremy Sutton DVD-ROM, the Corel Painter X collectors poster and the Corel Painter X Composition tool, i
Internet users quick to judge 2007-02-09 19:03:36 Internet users
can take just one-twentieth of a second to decide whether they like the look of a website, researchers say.
Dr Gitte Lindgaard and colleagues from Carleton University in Ottawa flashed up websites for 50 milliseconds and asked participants to rate them for visual appeal.
When they repeated the exercise after a longer viewing period, the participants’ ratings were consistent.
“Visual appeal can be assessed within 50 milliseconds, suggesting that web designers have about 50 milliseconds to make a good impression,” the Canadians report in the journal Behaviour & Information Technology.
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, Internet users
Anna Nicole Smith found dead in a hotel room 2007-02-09 13:00:26 On February 8, 2007, Smith
was found unresponsive in a room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. At 1:38 p.m. (18:38 UTC) Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said a nurse in Smith’s sixth floor room called the hotel front desk, who in turn called security, who in turn called 911, and at 1:45 p.m. a bodyguard administered CPR before she was rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital at 2:10 p.m and pronounced DOA at 2:49 p.m. Smith’s husband, Howard K. Stern, was with her when she died and has reported to Entertainment Tonight that her temperature was running high the night before. An autopsy is expected to be performed to determine an official cause of death.
As reported by Reuters, on Wednesday (February 7), a Los Angeles judge had set a February 21 deadline for Smith to complete a DNA paternity test of her five-month-old daughter, as part of a lawsuit by ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead, who claims to be the father from a two-year relationship with Smith
Adobe Illustrator tutorial - Making a flower 2007-02-10 19:30:56
 CrazyLeaf Flower
 Tutorial by CrazyLeaf Design
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In this tutorial we will learn how to make a flower
using AdobeIllustrator
. This is how it will look at the end.
1. The Paths. Create the basic paths for the flower using the pen tool.
2. The Petals. Apply the Gradient color. Select one of the petals and apply a linear gradient (using 3 colors as shown bellow) and select Multiply in Transparency pallete.
Select the other petals and using the Eyedropper tool click on the gradient petal to copy the fill. Adjust the gradient for each petal as needed.
3. The Filament. Make the filament using the pen tool. Apply a 3 color gradient with the colors you like and select Multiply in Transparency pallete.Â
Duplicate the filament for each petal. It should end up looking like the image bellow.
4. The Center. Use the Ellipse Tool, make a circle, fill it with Radial Gradient (as shown) and select Multiply in Transparency pallete.
5. The Final. Duplicate the flower an
Glaceau Smartwater 2007-02-10 13:46:45 Here’s a great example how good design can influence marketing.
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Bob Would Never Cheat 2007-02-10 13:32:50 Bob works hard and spends most evenings bowling or playing basketball at the gym. His wife thinks he is pushing himself too hard, so for his birthday she takes him to a local strip club.
The doorman at the club greets them and says, “Hey, Bob! How ya doin?” His wife is puzzled and asks if he’s been to this club before. “Oh no,” says Bob. “He’s on my bowling team.”
When they are seated, a waitress asks Bob if he’d like his usual and brings over a Budweiser. His wife is becoming increasingly uncomfortable and says, “How did she know that you drink Budweiser?” “She’s in the Ladies’ Bowling League,honey. We share lanes with them.”
A stripper then comes over to their table, throws her arms around Bob and starts to rub herself all over him and says,”Hi Bobbie. Want your usual table dance, big boy?” Bob’s wife, now furious, grabs her purse and storms out of the club.
Bob follows and spo Read more:Cheat
Fastest ways of communication 2007-02-11 12:31:21 Three fastest ways of communication
in the world: Â
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a.. Tell-a-woman Â
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a.. (Tell her not to tell anyone)
WordPerfect helpline - Real Story 2007-02-11 12:28:34 This is a true story from the WordPerfect
helpline. Needless to say, the help desk employee was fired; however, he/she is currently suing the Word Perfect organization for “Termination without Cause.” Actual dialogue of a former WordPerfect Customer Support employee with a caller:
Customer Support: “Ridge Hall computer assistant; may I help you?”
Caller: “Yes, well, I’m having trouble with WordPerfect.”
CS: “What sort of trouble?”
C: “Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went away.”
CS: “Went away?”
C: “They disappeared.”
CS: “Hmm. So what does your screen look like now?”
C: “Nothing.”
CS: “Nothing?”
C: “It’s blank; it won’t accept anything when I type.”
CS: “Are you still in WordPerfect, or did you get out?”
C: “How do I tell?”
CS: “Can you see the C: prompt on the screen?”
C: &