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Fanfarinette and La triomphante illustrate Rameau's mastery of the pièce de caractère. The first is a depiction of someone who feigns bravery (the term is derived from 'fanfaron'—a braggart); perhaps we can hear this in the fanciful quality of the melody and the runs in the right hand. The second piece is a general evocation of triumph rather than a reference to a specific person; the last couplet has a hint of Rameau the curmudgeon. The A minor Suite closes with the justifiably famous Gavotte with six 'doubles', or variations, which has become a warhorse of many a recital programme. The solid, chorale-variation flavour to this piece makes sense when we hear it through the lens of Handel's eight 'great' suites of 1720, a hugely popular collection that appears in bits and pieces in Continental sources and which was certainly known to Rameau. Rameau's variations are directly based, in fact, on the air and variations from Handel's D minor Suite. And Handel's variations are, in turn, elaborations on models by Pachelbel and Zachow. Rameau seems to have been blissfully ignorant of the Germanic and ecclesiastical basis of such a variation style, and in the final three variations he takes a completely different and frankly virtuosic path.
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Does that include Windows 7 or XP? Or does that run into driver problems?
Interesting they mention Mac OS. I wonder if this is speculative, or if it means Microsoft have actually already tested its suitability as a hackintosh.
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> I wonder if this is speculative, or if it means Microsoft have actually already tested its suitability as a hackintosh.
It was engineers talking, wasn't it? I don't it MS's corporate policy to promote the probably illegitimate use of a rival's OS on their machine. Still, it might have provided them with some task-for-task energy consumption benchmarks against OSX on the MS same hardware.
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Oh, that's right, it's rectangular, therefore has corners, ergo, they've copied Apple.
And it isn't running Chrome or Android and is automatically rubbish.
Re: Other operating systems
> Interesting they mention Mac OS.
Very interesting.
OSX is specifically only licenced for use on Apple hardware; building a hackintosh is actually unlawful[1].
So are Microsoft inciting users to breach copyright?
[1] Not that Apple are going to care about the odd one here and there, of course, but they have form in tackling commercial operations getting OSX onto non-Apple hardware.
>This enabled them to bring the response time of touch controls down from 100ms to below 12ms
12ms is around what iDevices have had since the first iPhone, and what Android has only achieved with its recent Jelly Bean version. It makes a noticeable difference in music-creation applications. It's good to see that MS have been paying attention.
Can you cite a source?
I haven't heard response times for iDevices quoted before. Do you have a link to a credible source?
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I think the poster may be confusing refresh times and touch response times — the iPhone display has run with hardware acceleration and a 60Hz response rate since day one whereas the Android OS didn't mandate a GPU at first and versions prior to 3.0 did all drawing and updating, including scrolling, on the CPU.
There's definitely some response lag on iOS devices; I couldn't tell you exactly what it is but it's easy enough to discern if you try dragging or scrolling. Just watch exactly what you put your finger down on, then move it quickly and watch whatever is trying to track your finger always be a few milliseconds behind. It subjectively feels like a lot less than 100ms but is definitely more than a frame, and clearly more than the 1ms Microsoft has demonstrated in the lab. I guess 12ms likely buys you a single frame of lag, which it definitely feels like iOS is doing worse than.
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Go back to sleep troll
Re: MS Surface pro FAIL
Actually I think you will find that MacBooks and iPads sell reasonably well. You shouldn't be so harsh on Apple. They don't fail that much, they got there in the end!
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>you can have the man-with-breasts thing.
More likely some sort of gender-confused eunuch
Re: MS Surface pro FAIL
Nobody on earth needs that pointed out, especially in such a tasteless manner, troll.
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In all fairness - it took me a while to figure out what Eadon meant: it seems as if he intended to write "Microsoft('s) copy (of) Apple (led to a) fail (for Microsoft)".
<---- Paris, because, well, defending Eadon makes me feel dirty and a little confused (this despite my being firlmy in the penquin camp). I may as well defend RICHTO or BDG555 (now fortunately no longer with us, although I still believe they are one and the same).
But I won't evangelise nor slag people off for their choices - my choice is personal and probably idealistic, but there you are.
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Yawn. Here goes....
Mac UI -> Windows UI - so Windows 8 is a copy of Mac? Wow, that's a different take. But don't worry, they all ripped of the WIMP approach from Xerox. FAIL
ARM -> ARM - no, MS buy it in like everyone else, either from a licensee or as a license to produce themselves. FAIL
Make hardware -> make hardware - Xbox, mice etc have been pretty good products, not to mention profitable and MS foing hardware is nothing new. FAIL
iPod -> Zune - I'll give you that one ;-)
iPad -> Surface - like all the Android tablets too. FAIL
App Store -> Microsoft Store - No different to Google. Hell, there have been other app stores on the Windows platform for years - Steam and Intel's spring to mind. FAIL
iPhone -> Win Pho 7/8 - it might be rubbish, but Windows Phone (Pocket PC 2002) goes back further than the iPhone (2007), so.... FAIL
Go after the high end -> Go after the high end - MS have always covered all markets - different offerings for XBox, Windows editions (before 8). And why, pray, is this a problem? FAIL
Apple retail stores -> Microsoft Retail Stores
etc. - Another one I'll give you - can't really see the point.
Microsoft also copy Google, Sony and a plethora of others too, the copying is irrefutable. - And they do likewise. GMail copies hotmail, for example. Android copies iOS in many ways (and vice versa). That's the cost of competing. FAIL
Nice try, no cigar.
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There you go with the "shill" thing again, Eadon.
Will you never learn?
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All hope is now gone, after reading (and replying) to something you wrote the other day that came across as quite reasonable, you have devolved back to your normal rants, shame as some of your first post made sense.
Mac UI -> Windows UI << Really I thought the Mac UI was popular??
ARM -> ARM <<Doesnt this run on an I5
Make hardware -> make hardware <<Samsung make hardware too
iPod -> Zune << The iPod was not the first MP3 player on the market
iPad -> Surface <<They didnt copy this a quick look will tell you that they look completely different
App Store -> Microsoft Store <<App Store not the only one on the market to be copied
iPhone -> Win Pho 7/8 <<Unbelievable as this seems iPhone only made smart phones popular they were not the first Smart phone on the market
Go after the high end -> Go after the high end << 90% of the worlds companies do this, including MS that is why you have so many different releases of Windows from starter to Premium, aiming at differing levels of the market
Apple retail stores -> Microsoft Retail Stores << Cant argue with this
You need to find your pause button, some of your comments start off with semi intelligent comments which rapidly turn into anti MS rants, I know im going to be accused of being some kind of MS corporate shill because of this and if they want to pay me to point out the blindingly obvious then I wont stop them lol
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Oh, this tired argument... Here is an alternate view of the world which does not work for Tim Cook and the rest of APPLE COs religious fan base.
Xerox -> Mac ui
Arm = not an apple company
Move into hardware consumer devices -- Xbox -> duh.. iPod.
Star trek -> iPad
retail -> app store
Napster -> iTunes
Android notifications -> Apple notifications
Blackberry -> iPhone
Firefox search bar -> safari search bar.
calvin Klein targets super premium-> Apple targets super premium
ALMOST ANY HARDWARE EVER -> Apple
x86 desktop -> x86 desktop
Touchscreen UI desktop environment -> *future* touchscreen desktop environment
Everyone copies everyone. At least everyone else is honest about it and doesn't pretend they are some how special to anyone but their mummies :-)
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I think most of you apple fanboys have become tinted by apple... Whilst all of you are arguing about who is copying who may I remind you that Apple is the biggest copy cat of all... and has been sued many times as a result, Apple even have the design of a rectangle with rounded corners patent, Only naive people would have that done.
Also MP3 > iPod???
So please you apple fan boys get off your high horse because apple is nothing more then another company out there that borrows idea's and technology off other people/companys. If you people believe no one should borrow idea's of other people then how is technology ever going to advance???
And another question for you, When microsoft releases the surface pro, how long until Apple release a Tablet that you can run Mac OSX on?
But surely that would mean Apple is copying Microsoft even though its there operating system....
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@AC's haven't you got a better career than to harass authors of on-topic and relevant, technical comments
Oh dear, oh dear, oh deary me. I'm killing myself laughing at that. An author forsooth! I'm struggling to work out which is funnier, "author", "technical" or "relevant"...
I try not to be gratuitously rude, but you really do spout some crap on here. And given your propensity for calling everyone who disagrees with you a shill, I think it's justified. That's also bollocks by the way - no one cares enough about your opinion to be worth spending actual money to dispute it. Yes astro-turfing and shilling does happen, but it seems to be quite rare on here. Much more likely to appear on online reviews, and it's harder to spot there because the comments are shorter, and you often can't check posting histories.
As for your MS copying Apple comments. Well, sometimes they do. Sometimes Apple copy them, sometimes they both copy Google. That's business for you. You might argue WinRT is a copy of Apple (unfairly in my opinion), but Surface Pro certainly isn't. MS have consistently been trying to put full-fat Windows on a tablet since the 1990s, even when the technology barely existed to do it. They've probably spent billions on it. In tablets they are maybe the biggest innovators in the industry - even though they keep cocking it up when it comes to releasing products...
They've almost got full tablets right, although there's an argument that the chips still aren't quite there to do it properly even now. ARM aren't quite powerful enough, and Intel still a bit too power-hungry. Plus Win 8 doesn't look to be perfect for tablets quite yet, but one service pack might solve most of those problems - I think they could make it fit for desktops with minimal changes.
I do agree with you that it's quite sad seeing MS trying to copy the Apple cool factor with stores though. And they also copied Apple with Zune and did it better. The Zune software was much worse than iTunes, which must have taken some serious effort to achieve...
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@Eadon - Your obsession is seriously worrying - go and speak to someone about it, really, in all seriousness this isn't normal behavior.
Eadon - In all seriousness, I am genuinely concerned for you. I really do worry about your mental health.
Its simply not healthy or normal to spend what must be a major part of your day posting vitriolic comments on the Register ranting about Microsoft. Microsoft are just a company. Apple are just a company. They both exist to sell stuff. They both just make stuff - no one has died. To spend most of your waking time ranting about widget A being better than gadget B simply isn't normal. Theres wars, famine, death, opression and lots of of heinous things in this world to get this worked up about - but a new computer???
Maybe go out for a walk? Spend some time in the park, find some hobbies or intersts outside IT. Broaden your horizons. You really do come across as someone in dire need of an intervention. Again, this is not a dig or an insult, I just really worry that you'll become the focus of an el reg news article after having done a Mark Chapman, putting six bullets into Blamers back straight after asking him to sign a Microsoft surface.
Please ,for your own sake - get help.
Aston Martin has 4 wheels and an engine -> So does a Lada
BMW makes high-mid range repmobiles -> So does Audi.
Get real, these are companies all competing in the same sector; they are allowed to make similar products!
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But apple are allowed to be 'inspired' by other products (I had a phone that I could load MP3's onto long before the iPod/iPhone, Siemens SL45 anyone?) but anyone looking at an iProduct and thinking 'thats a nice feature' will have the iAttackLawyers set on them. iNnovation ? Nein Danke.
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indeed... KinderBLAG sounds like just what I need for my kids... The older one will turn 5 in january, and he is using the café's PC's when there are no customers... 1 has Edubuntu, 2 have Blag (Via 796Mhz+256 megs of ram) and one other has Zenwalk...
I have been able to download all the KDE games, Edutainment, Tux-Paint... Except for Childsplay, which is my kids favorite ! So this is why I made the request for Childsplay... Back in the days when there was many repos in Synaptic, I enabled all to search for it, but didn't find anything... I tried to install from the download on the website, but it didn't work...
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I am asking that because my Zenwalk box is an ancient IBM pc 300gl, with a Celeron 466Mhz, and 128 megs of ram. I once tried the text install of Anaconda, but I only had 64 megs of ram at the time... it didn't work...
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Except for Childsplay, which is my kids favorite ! So this is why I made the request for Childsplay...
It'll be ready in the repo by tomorrow.
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is it possible to perform a minimal Blag install, in text mode, and then add very light apps, like Fluxbox, Rox, and others ???
You can do a text mode install and then add what you need. Though even with the machine you have you can do a text install and just add everything. ;) (well, assuming you have a 2 gig HD or so).
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Muchissimas gracias de parte de los niños !!!
You might have a "Santa Klaus" feeling tonight !!!
We are now the Tropical Blag Family, as my wife is really happy with her account, she listens to the "Latin" section of Streamtuner/Shoutcast, when doing other people Univervity's homework on OOo (she makes a few pesos with that...)
The youngest kid (soon 3 years old) starts to have a good time with "The Potato Guy"... His older brother is a Childsplay addict !
So once again,thanks for your assistance !
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re ndiswrapper: if you want that, I suggest just grabbing it from livna.org. That should be pretty straightforward--just make sure you get the one that matches your kernel (`uname -a` and most likely i686).
Given my druthers, I'd be using the native bcm43xx driver, but I haven't been able to get it to work for over a month. I'll try downloading it from livna.org when I get home. For now I'm using my wife's PC running Windows XP. :^(
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Telegraphic Address: "LABREPCOM, SOWEST, LONDON."
Telephone: VICTORIA, 8016, 8017, 8018, 8019
Secretary: J.S. MIDDLETON
November, 1937.
The Annual Conference of the Party held at Bournemouth instructed the National Executive to undertake a nation-wide campaign forthwith to compel the Government to abandon the Non-Intervention Agreement and to restore to the elected and constitutional Government of Spain its freedom to purchase arms.
The National Executive Committee have already taken steps to organise an intensive campaign of Demonstrations and Collections for a " Milk for Spain " Fund between now and Christmas. A Spain Campaign Committee, responsible to the National Executive, has been constituted and is composed of: Sir Stafford Cripps, M.P., Joseph Henderson, M.P., Stanley Hirst, James Walker, MP, and Ellen Wilkinson, M.P., with George Dallas as Chairman.
This Committee was given the authority to co-opt other members of the Party who are able and willing to give the Committee the benefit of their advice and co-operation. Amongst those who have been invited, the following have already accepted the invitation to join the Committee: Captain H. Beaumont, Councillor Tom Braddock, Viscount Corvedale, Alderman W. Dobbie, M.P., G.T. Garratt, D.R. Grenfell, M.P., James Griffiths, M.P., John Jagger, M.P., Dr. S.W. Jeger, Dr. H.B. Morgan, E. Shinwell, M.P., Vincent Tewson, George Wansbrough, and Miss Sybil Wingate.
Secretaries: William Gillies and Ellen Wilkinson.
The accompanying Appeal has already been published.
National Demonstrations.
The following Demonstrations have been arranged under the direct auspices of the Spain Campaign Committee :—
November 14 ..................................... Manchester.
November 21 ..................................... Edinburgh.
November 28 ..................................... Birmingham.
November 28 ..................................... Swansea and Newport.
December 5 ....................................... Leeds.
December 12 ..................................... Bristol.
December 12 ..................................... Newcastle.
December 19 ..................................... London.
Other Meetings.
Parties in other localities are earnestly requested to co-operate in the Campaign by organising Meetings within their own areas, and are invited to make application to the Head Office for Speakers.
Speakers will be allocated to Parties for these Meetings on the understanding that all costs, including all necessary travelling and hospitality expenses, are met locally.
Immediate Party Meeting.
This Campaign has been devised to give a new stimulus to the Party action for Food, Freedom and Justice for Democratic Spain at what may prove to be a decisive moment for the Spanish Working-class and Democracy in Europe. It will be associated with a new, original and striking method of raising money for "Milk for Spain." This plan will ensure that the propaganda efforts which we are asking you to undertake will have the maximum of effectiveness.
The co-operation of your Party in this plan raises problems of initiative and organisation which call for immediate consideration and action. You are requested to call together at once a meeting of Party members, or, at any rate, your Committee, with a view to making arrangements for a well-organised and widespread distribution of leaflets, undertaken with a willingness and enthusiasm worthe of the cause.


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Movement 3: Adagio
Movement 4: Vivace
In the case of the present work Telemann achieves effective sonorities through his informed writing for three tonally contrasting solo instruments: treble recorder, oboe and violin. Such exploitation of tonal colour was a feature of Italian Baroque music and of Venetian music in particular, and a close analogy exists between this concerto and the many examples of Vivaldi's chamber concertos for mixed obbligato instrumental ensemble. Telemann, unlike Vivaldi, however, remains faithful to the four-movement layout of the 'sonata da chiesa'.
The opening Adagio is characterised by a gently undulating motif introduced by the oboe and taken up first by the violin, and lastly by the recorder. The textures preserve a delicate transparency throughout. The following Allegro is fugal with episodes of vigorous passagework both in the solo and continuo parts. In the Adagio third movement (C major), Telemann achieves a notably tender means of expression both through delicately contrived sonorities and an affecting interweaving of parts.
The Vivace finale is the most extended of the movements and, perhaps, the most Italian. Its rhythmic energy and unison tutti figures call Vivaldi to mind, as indeed do the frequent episodes of virtuoso passagework for the three soloists. Distinction between 'solo' and 'ripieno' is more marked here than in the previous Allegro, each player being given clearly defined solo episodes. In the last of these, for violin, Telemann takes Italianate string figurations to heart in a dazzling display of arpeggio sequences outdistancing in length, for instance, almost any comparable example by Vivaldi. A full recapitulation of the ritornello brings this fine work to a conclusion.
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Welcome to the fold Ally - an auburn haired beauty who hails from the Czech Republic.
Posing for Petter Hegre marked her first time ever posing nude and wow was she like Bambi on ice!
Lanky and awkward but completely adorable, Ally bravely took to posing before the camera. Her only modeling experience prior to this was as a hair model for a show – but once she relaxed Ally slowly proved herself as a budding nude model in the making!
With a genuinely sweet personality, Ally studies at art college and specializes in making jewellery – medallions in particular.
An innocent and fragile young girl – we are so pleased Ally made the jump from hair model to nude model!
|ED BYRNE United Kingdom
Welcome back Ally! It's nice to have you back Ally!
|Tuco United Kingdom
Hear, Hear! It's so good to see the lovely Ally again! A wonderful showcase of her beautiful long legs and oh-so-cute bottom! Thank you!
|Voyeur United States
Lovely set. Ally does a great job and her growing comfort in front of the camera is evident.
|DANIEL United States
|Carne Asana United States
Delectably on display. Ally is first in show on this podium!
|wheeler United States
very nice! nice to see the "art" come out in hagre-art!
|JP United States
Delicious little pussy I love Ally's cute little pussy. Such a beautiful girl!
|Pete United Kingdom
Girl next door Girl next door looks reminiscent of the much missed Janina. Set is too short, but Ally's confidence is growing as she leaves litle to the imagination here.
|Eddie United States
Ally is so beautiful. She really has that girl next look which knocks me out. Please keep her as a regular. I agree with previous comment, this set needed to be longer.
|Pete United Kingdom
Where is she Petter despite favourable reviews for Ally this is her last set. What happened, would be good to see her return
|ED BYRNE United Kingdom
Heaven!! Heaven!! I could do with a massage myself!
|Carne Asana United States
Ally and friend are just what I kneaded! This gallery universally rubs everyone the right way I'm sure. BTW can anyone tell me what's the tatt on the woman's hand? Ally really is storming HA, that sweetness just doesn't get in the way of totally baring it all!
|JP United States
Masseuse The masseuse looks pretty sexy, too. Will we see her naked in part 2?
|Pete United Kingdom
Massage Never been a big fan of the masage sets and dont think this does Ally's great body justice.
|Perry United States
Video of the Massage Hello, Where is the video of these massages? Great pics, let's see the videos.
|patrice_78 France
Ally's fmassage film When can we see the film?
|wheeler United States
short, but sweet! I like that there's not too much background to distract us from the lovely foreground!
|ED BYRNE United Kingdom
More please! The photo set is far to short but the photographs are of a high standard & that is to be commended. Ally really is sweet young thing very nice!
|Carne Asana United States
A tiny but delicious morsel served on a huge plate. Ally is a special gift, capable of softening the most industrial of rooms.
|Pete United Kingdom
Far too short 20 and 26 stand out in a classy but depleted set.
|MJ United States
Oh. My. A fabulous woman, superbly photographed.
|wheeler United States
you "wear" that bikini very well, Dear!
|ED BYRNE United Kingdom
Bikini pleasure! Ally what a sweetie you are! These photographs are very seductive very sexy indeed WELL DONE!
|longtimefan United States
Ally, warming up to the camera Raw. genuine. beautiful. Thank you for sharing yourself with us all.
|Mark United States
Irrestible Ally We've only seen her in 2 sets, but oh my she's sexy and already daring. Again, I can't wait to see more of her. Petter, please don't make us wait so long this time!
|Torval United States
More Please I agree very much with 'Mark', Ally is terrific and more of her should come sooner than later.
|Carne Asana United States
I agree it's been a long time since April 3. Ally's freshness comes from her adorable body and cutely confident face. The aqua color bikini is the perfect touch. She really can pose. Photo 1 is poster-like, 10 playful, 11 explicitly powerful and 14 so long and lean.
|Pete United Kingdom
Long and Lean Ally is a great addition to the long and lean Hegre family that inlcudes Yanna, Thea, Olena and the much missed by me Antonina
|wheeler United States
"Welcome to the fold" INDEED!!! I can't wait to see more of this delectable creature!!!
|Carne Asana United States
Cute! Ally's milky skin, expressive eyes and wonderful body make a for a most welcome adorable bundle. Such an innocent look, right before I click on the next page I'm convinced there's no way she'll show everything. And then... pow! It's a great introduction, complete with wedding night white lacy lingerie and little smiles. Thumbs up!
|Alex Wilhelm United States
Ally, innocent? Is it overly rude of me to declare my desire to enter this young woman with my own, now increasingly inelastic member of sheer lust?
|Mark United States
What a turn-on! All I can say is Wow. This being Ally's first time posing nude, and under the heading of 'white innocence,' I wasn't sure how far this young stunning beauty would go. But with image after image, she became bolder, and of course hotter. I could drink her up. Can't wait to see more.
|ED BYRNE United Kingdom
New girl! Nice to see new sexy girl's here so welcome Ally!
|Paul United Kingdom
Ally You know what Petter......after Luba the other day too, I really think some of these knickers-on sessions need more research......obviously they have to come off too, otherwise the guys would be up in arms. But, please lets have some more......remember that oh so sexy scene in Thelma & Louise when the camera goes down her flat tummy ..............
|Pete United Kingdom
Innocent? If Ally was shy and innocent about he first nude shoot, she took to it really well. 25, 42 and 45 surprised me as she really gets into this set. 25 she looks a littel coy, her first fully naked shot but after that she laps it up. Great debut, she can be your next big star.
|paul United States
Ally That was so hot of a debut set, especially considering she has never posed like this before. Ally is so hot and beautiful, love it. Thanks
|Dan United States
|Greg United Kingdom
Absolutely stunning! Wonderful work.
|Jesse United States
Ally is awesome! I do love the way she poses and such a beautiful young woman. Make some videos, Ally is perfect and so natural. I can't wait for more!!!!!!
|Moose United States
Ally, you are robosexy. Thank you for sharing and being vulnerable with your sexuality. Great set!
|Bart United States
work great work-- loved the spread in Playboy this month, you really know how to capture the beautiful essence of sexuality in a woman
|diesel United Kingdom
simply the best yet!! More like this please, thank you!
|thedude United States
best. video. ever.
|Akira Japan
When the model gets so wet, Peter, stay focus on her pussy (close up) and you shoud not move the camera so much because the gradual pussy wetting like that is really rare to come by. by the way, did you or she wiped off her juice in the middle of the shooting ??
|Carne Asana United States
Spectacular! Less than two minutes in and all the windows in my office are fogged up. Ally is completely uninhibited and this film captures her unbridled heat to the fullest. As sweet and innocent as she looks, she's just as full of passion and lust. I think this is an incredible film, beautifully shot and thank you for including Ally's own sounds. Throughout the years the level of explicitness on HA has been discussed: keep it the same, lower it, increase it. I'm totally pleased and satisfied in all the directions Petter leads us. Some days it's a classical nude in a grape vineyard, hands coyly covering certain parts; other days it's a full on, up close orgasm. The variety (not just in gorgeous women) of presentation is astonishing here. Yes, I do like to see galleries and films of these amazing models taking it further and further. And yes I do want to see an abstract, only partially visible Stasha bathed in florescent red light. Basically, I want it all. And that is what I get on HA. BRAVO.
|Laurie United Kingdom
Hey Wiseacre Its just a girl having a wank for goodness sake!
|Dom United Kingdom
I watched this yesterday but only commenting today. Just want to say I agree with Carne Asana. LEss explicit more explicit , keep on shaking it up . It makes everyday interesting not knowing if we will get a shy girl, an arty photo series or a full on orgasm like this. ITs why HegreArt stands out. Great work please keep surprising us.
|Pete United Kingdom
Sophisticated Where would this site be without Laurie's sophisticated comments?
|Laurie United Kingdom
Its my parting Shot Probably better off Pete. Its time to move on, I enjoy a challenge. Two years of Hegre-art is enough, I am bored and seek to regenerate my creativity which has suffered since introducing a computer into my life some 2 years ago. For months I have willed it to malfunction because I fear becoming trapped in a mind numbing nerdishness that is an obsession for some. My membership has expired but when I saw your comment I was prompted to respond. Cheers mate and look after the girls. By the way don't take my comments about Tasha seriously. Its not my style to criticise the girls, I was simply trying to wind someone up. Silly really!
|intoit United States
Spectacular Simply great stuff!
|jay United Kingdom
very sensual, lovely girl and great camera work
|dan United States
vastly erotic, very powerful, nicely done. I am in awe of how Petter can get these performances.
|pierart1954 Italy
Polyshing the pearl I had neglected this film, because the image of the poster was not very attractive. Then I have opened the tape and you/he/she has been a continuous surprise: Beautiful model and beautiful pussy: All the images of the pussy are in close up. A marvelous pussy, soft, elastic, soft pulpy, from the pink meat as the petals of a rose, deep as the wine glass of the nectar of a flower and the fingers that sùs go and down lingo the auction of the clitoris. A sweet and warm, slow and continuous masturbation and the humor that he/she is sometimes seen and at the end it goes out as a warm brook of water of the source of the pussyCome I would have wanted the fingers of the fotomodella to be my fingers. !!!! Beautiful film.
|gentelman Netherlands
film and erotica so beautifull and lovely to look at honey for my eyes never seen such a girl like herself.your the best Petter thanks.go on with it..luba perhaps?
|Idle Gods United States
You people need to get jobs... First, she's not exactly that good looking -- nice heat rash... Second, she' just not that good looking. So, do we simply worship the ground the Petter stands on? Or do we provide a discerning perspective of his work. It ain't all THAT great, boys and girls....
|Jack Man France
So great She is so great in pleasuring herself. Every woman should look at that video !
|dgraham United States
RE: I agree theres really nothing that great, her one finger motions were not all that impressive... Not to mention she barely makes a sound till just about the end of the video so i seriously doubt even she was all that thrilled.
|Dremar United States
Ally I thought she was on her way to becoming one of my favorites. Then poof! She was gone. Lovely pussy.
|mach30 United States
Beautiful ! It was beautiful ! Ally, you are also beautiful !! Thankyou!
|ned United States
Let It Flow Nice long easy rhythm, glistening pussy lips. Totally edible.
|lovejill222 United States
RE: Let It Flow love to see her wetness coming out of her pussy
|Greggor1 United States
Beautiful Self Pleasure Ally is a treat in this film. Her slow and easy technique is a delight. Her wetness proves the effectiveness of her methods. Ally's breasts look wonderful if one can take their eyes off her wet pussy long enough to have a look. I especially like the point in the film when Ally turns over. It's a delight to view from behind as she works her wet pussy closer and closer to orgasm. Masturbation shared with others is very hot. Hot to see and hot to do. I would enjoy seeing more films of this kind.
|Jacko Australia
More visible anal and vaginal contractions at orgasm would be great
|Qoo Taiwan, Province of China
Her pussy's so wet. She must be actually enjoy the moment! Great shot Hegre!
|lovejill22 United States
climax love the final climax exciting.
|Straightarrow United States
Wow! Her body slowly responded to her touch, and it was so sensual! Attaboy, Hegre!
|Pixie United Kingdom
Lovely and wet!


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The recent Google TV announcement had many questioning what future of the Apple TV would be. Would they scrap it all together? Update the software on the existing OS and hardware platform? Or would they go an entirely different direction?
It looks like the answers is definitely the latter.
Those gadgeteers over at Engadget always have their ear to the ground, and this time they've picked up a major tip from a source very close to Apple.
The next-generation Apple TV will be built around the iPhone v4 platform all the way down to the A4 processor, OS and 16gb of on-board Flash storage. The device won't focus on local storage, but instead on cloud storage and streaming. Time Capsule compatibility will be there for those looking to access large local network stores, but that won't be the prime function.
The craziest part of these so called confirmed rumors? A price tag of $99 out the door and you'll be pimping your TV Cupertino style. What do you get for that hard earned Benjamin? No screen. No extra ports. Just a small case, power port, and HDMI video port.
They're calling it an iPhone without the screen and cell radio. The iTunes app store is a must, but whether iPhone or iPad will run natively, though I can't imagine iPhone Tetris will look great on a 50" screen.
A WWDC announcement is not expected, but the tipster says development is moving forward at a steady pace. So will this be the Google TV killer, a nice little box for Apple fan-boys, or the next hacker's black box dream? Regardless, great things are in everyone's future if they're interested in web content on the TV.Follow Electronic House on Facebook and Twitter.
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I was planning on doing that on beta later this week (probably weekend), but it depends on the time I have
I don't suppose anyone's gone about the business of testing out Satrina's mod for figuring out threat values for the new patch?
I was about to go and do it myself, but in the interest of saving time, I'm just making sure there isn't already a guide floating about somewhere.
Thank you.
I was planning on doing that on beta later this week (probably weekend), but it depends on the time I have
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I'm working on it. So far:
Threat Modifier = 300% (as opposed to the old 207.35%). All numbers below are multiplied by this unless otherwise noted.
White Hits: Damage only
Shockwave: Damage only
Thunderclap: Damage only
Rend: Damage only
Concussion Blow: Damage * 2.0
BloodCraze Healing: Heal * 0.50
Enrage Proc (from Bastion of Defense): 1 threat
Rage from Shield Spec: 5*rage gained (not affected by stance modifier)
I'll be looking into the rest of the abilities tonight.
so shockwave and conc blow do the same threat, but shockwave does double the damage, cannot be dodged or parried, and has a shorter cooldown (that can be glyphed to 15% shorter than that--17 second). priorities still seem very 'the same'.
I'd be interested in if there's a bonus threat to Devastate.
Because right now, it's a dps loss to use Devastate instead of Heroic Strike. I was looking at my WoL parse from last night and my averages were
Shield Slam -- 9672
Revenge -- 7137
Heroic Strike -- 6358
Shockwave -- 6033
Concussion -- 5431
Devastate -- 3495
Heroic Throw -- 2878
Cleave -- 2047
Thunder clap -- 941
The new ability queue also messed me up several times where I hit Devastate but couldn't react quickly when Sword and board proc'd.
HS has a 3 second cd, so you still have room to fire off devastates... and HS isn't on the gcd.
Format shamelessly pulled from Satrina's original thread. Used that Threat addon to do this research.
Battle and Berserker stance modifiers are now 1.00 or 100%. 1 Damage = 1 Threat.
Defensive stance modifier is now 3.00 or 300%. 1 Damage = 3 Threat.
Threat Values (stance modifiers apply unless otherwise noted):
*For Battle and Commanding Shout, the 20 and 68 is multiplied by the threat modifier (300% for defensive stance), but the rage gained is not affected by stance. Further, you only get threat for rage you actually gain. If you are at 90 rage, and only gain 10 rage (instead of 20) by using the ability, you will only get the 10*5 = 50 threat, instead of the 20*5 = 100 threat.Code:(Note: All values verified build 4.0.1 (13164)) *Battle Shout ______________________ 20 (modified) + 5*Rage Gained (not modified) (total split) Blood Craze_________________________ 0.50*Healing Cleave _____________________________ damage + 30 (split) *Commanding Shout __________________ 68 (modified) + 5*Rage Gained (not modified) (total split) Concussion Blow ____________________ 2.00 * damage Demoralising Shout _________________ 41.6 (split) Devastate __________________________ damage + 315 + 5% of AP Enrage (Bastion of Defense)_________ 1 Heroic Strike ______________________ damage + 28 Heroic Throw _______________________ 1.50 x damage Rage Gain (Shield Spec/ZerkRage)_____ 5 per rage (stance modifier is not applied) Rend _______________________________ damage only Revenge ____________________________ damage + 7 Shield Bash ________________________ 60 Shield Slam ________________________ 1.30*damage + 231 Shockwave __________________________ damage only Slam _______________________________ damage + 100 Spell Reflect ______________________ damage only (only for spells aimed at you) Social Aggro _______________________ 0 Sunder Armour ______________________ 395 + 5% AP Thunder Clap _______________________ damage only
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so awesome, thanks a ton Porcell.
So, our rotation will look like Shield Slam > Concussion > Revenge > Shockwave and Heroic Strike for rage dump?
In my opinion, Devastate only usable to keep Sunder Armour debuff up
Well, at the moment those values put Conc. and SW at the same spot unless i'm mistaking. But blizzard buffed conc to do 75% of AP instead of its current 25%(?), so eventually conc. will be better than SW.
But for now we might aswell use SW due to the extra damage.
Or am i horribly mistaking?
How about when used in conjunction with the Thunderstruck talent: if you can stack the buff three times and keep it, it equals 30% damage buff to Shockwave? This should be especially easy to maintain over the course of a fight like Saurfang if you're in duty to keep up the attack speed debuff on the boss. The only issue is that the Thunderstruck buff is expended after each time you use SW, so you need to stack it up again.
If there is no DK in your raid (frost fever) or other tanking class (paladin and ferals applies it on the run) you'll have to thunderclap once every 30 seconds. You could argue about clapping four times a minute to keep rend up with the blood and thunder talent. While tanking bosses with high vengeance stacks and a +% bleeding debuff (feral, hyena, Arms Warrior) it might be worth it while ticking for over one thousand.
Funny you mention it, just now realized that Thunderstruck is a buff on us and not a debuff on the add >< So we can indeed prep it in advance provided we got the rage. This puts shockwave above Conc blow yes.
@ klausi: Rend won't get effected by Vengeance as much as it sounds. It's main damage is still derived from your main hand weapon damage, which is sad to say, quite low. For Rend to get a bigger damage boost you need to get a slow 1hander as they tend to have higher damage.
Just tried testing Rend only w. and without battleshout (310AP pre. modifiers). The difference in damage pr. tick was 30-40 dmg.
With a full vengeance, raid buffs and +damage% effects, it might be worth it.
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I am not sold on rend. Talking about a boss, and assuming you have blood and thunder, you need to rend at the start and then do roughly 5 thunderclaps per minute to keep it up (15 second duration, but you would need to do it early to refresh). Whereas you would normally have to do 2 thunderclaps per minute to keep the debuff up (or none, if your OT or other person has the debuff).
For me the gains just didn't seem to be there. I ended up dropping blood and thunder and going with War Academy, Cruelty, and full Incite and Shield Spec.
@Porcell: Does Devastate give fixed threat regardless of sunders now?
Also, if these numbers are correct than threat is SS > Rev > HT/SW/CB > Dev
SS does twice the threat of Rev, and Dev is about 80% of Rev threat.
Damage is a similar spread, with SS 'only' being 50% more damage than rev and CB ofc being the least (for now?)
With my BQS; Rend, TC and Victory Rush are all similar in single-target threat. (so basicly, BnT is only worth it on 5+ mob packs that live out the full Rend duration)
Innate TPS (non-scaling with damage) is now <8% of your total TPS, so you should not see any major problems on fights with damage increases.
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Heroic strike on a 3 cooldown current feels stupid for threat building it really does.
Marking targets, coordinating CC, and *most importantly*, pulling responsibly so that 9 elites didn't rush us and wipe the party, this Is something I have missed since nov 08.
Could someone please upload Satrina's Threat addon somewhere? I don't have it anymore and the old download location gives me a 404 (google came up empty).
works fine for me.
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with the software.
Has Threat been bundled with SBF? I can't see it in the features list.
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Movement 2: Allegretto grazioso, meno mosso
Movement 3: Poco adagio
Movement 4: Finale: Allegro con brio
At first sight the Trio in F minor looks as if Dvorák was willing to comply. He composed the work rapidly, but not without difficulty, in February and March 1883. His manuscript indicates that he had considerable trouble in deciding on the final shape of the score and the published version differs substantially from the first draft; Dvorák made numerous changes including altering the order of the middle movements to their present arrangement. The first performance was given on 27 October 1883 in Mladá Boleslav in Bohemia with Dvorák at the piano. A Prague première was given a fortnight later on 13 November by the same performers.
The Brahmsian manner is apparent in the musical rhetoric as an occasional homage, and the older composer's example may also have prompted the slightly more restless nature of the secondary material in the first movement, a point at which Dvorák normally tended to provide a more sustained and self-contained melodic stretch. There may also be a small debt to a non-Viennese composition, in the shape of the F minor Trio composed in 1872 by the Czech composer, Zdenek Fibich, whose opening idea is strikingly similar to Dvorák's. But the majority of the work is entirely typical of Dvorák, its powerful tone, clearly evocative of the tragic manner, perhaps prompted by personal circumstances. Just two months before he began work on the Trio, Dvorák's mother died.
The urgency of the first movement, clear from the very opening, is present throughout with little let-up, even in the more subdued secondary themes. As a foil to the driving energy of the 'Allegro ma non troppo', Dvorák provided an intermezzo rather than a full blown scherzo. Although there are moments of great passion in this movement, its main melody has a wistful quality while the middle section provides the first stretch of relaxed lyricism in the work. The 'Poco adagio', with its eloquent, almost vocal melody for the cello, returns to the grand manner of the first movement.
The concluding 'Allegro con brio' is one of Dvorák's most effective finales from this period. While it is tempting to see the cross-rhythms of this finale in terms of the Czech furiant, the impression is less of a composer striking a national pose than creating a sense of abstract, restless activity. If folk inflection is to be found, it is in the waltz-like second theme. However disparate these elements may sound, Dvorák maintains an impressive sense of purpose. The resolution of all this activity comes with a magnificently dark reference to the first theme of the first movement before a moment of sweet nostalgia is swept away by a brisk dash to the cadence.
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Retailers, like all humans, are trapped between what they want to do (defined by interests, or requests), what they can do (limited by time, space, and money), and what they have to do (to keep the doors open). There are only so many hours, so many shelves, so many dollars. Having game tables is good, but it comes at the cost of a lot of shelves. Given limited time, they focus on what they don't have to "sell" but what they just have to "keep on the shelves" so people come and buy it. That's all retailers, not just game stores. Ever wonder why grocery stores sell so much stuff that isn't food? (e.g., school supplies, party supplies, cosmetics, books, magazines, medication, music, and on and on).
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My heart and Katra go to SFB for always and forever. It's logical.
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All I can say is that I enjoyed it in the 80's and now play it again in the 21st century.
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Steve Cole wrote:
. Ever wonder why grocery stores sell so much stuff that isn't food? (e.g., school supplies, party supplies, cosmetics, books, magazines, medication, music, and on and on).
I will tell you why ,being a longtime grocery store manager, its maximize the average basket "ring". That is the average amount of dollars customers basket contents come to overall each day. Every year a store pushes to increase this year after year. It indicates the overall growing attraction to your particular store. Therefore providing a well rounded shopping experience, in theory, will make your store more of a one stop destination. Increasing your business while decreasing the competitors.
That being said I am glad the SFU is alive and well. I have been in the gaming hobby for about 30 years and of all the years I have been shopping ant hobby/game stores it seems that SFB has been one of those products that has always been lurking around. However I must say that I only ever tried it once probably about 17 or 18 years ago but I was so into Warhammer and other such things it didn't really catch on. I was really into running FASA Trek in those days and a big ST fan on top of it but SFB just seemed sorta cumbersome. That and it was also the peak of the TNG days and the films were at an all time high in popularity (think Undiscovered Country) so I suppose in alot of ways SFB seemed a little dated in its context.
However after many years of gaming and after endless playing of Warhammer and Warmachine and Historicals and RPGs and Card Games galore I find myself a little burnt especially on the fanboy competitive immature climate of the game scene.
So in order to find something "new" I have become interested in something"old". Or at least that has been around since the beginning. After checking out and being fairly impressed by FC I am giving SFB another go as well. In doing so I actually realized one big thing that has contributed to my dissatisfaction with alot of game sis the ever increasing simplicity. I actually miss the heavier detail and bookkeeping that seemed to be far more common in games back in the days when introverted, overly intelligent, excessively imaginative young men poured over mostly black and white books and documents in cold garages, studies and vacant university halls late at night working out the events in some distant world or universe.
It seems to all given way to a mass marketing scheme that emphasizes power gaming and spending money over what once was something done for the love of imagination.
Seems almost like SFB is one of the last few systems that refuses to disconnect from its roots and what I think of as the classical gaming traditions from the early days of the hobby and those of us that have been along for most of the ride.
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Every year a store pushes to increase this year after year. It indicates the overall growing attraction to your particular store. Therefore providing a well rounded shopping experience, in theory, will make your store more of a one stop destination. Increasing your business while decreasing the competitors.
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You forgot the DVD of Klingon Gurlz Play Beach Blanket Bingo.
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Is that the one in the plain brown wrapper?
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HAHAHAhAHA! Steve, you crack me up.
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I'm holding out for "Romulan girls play beach bingo" to go with my Romulan border boxed set! LMAO
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And my local game store no longer carries ADB items, you have to special order them. They *do* have three FULL aisles loaded with Warhammer stuff, however. They cringed the last time I asked if myself and some friends could demo FedCom in their shop...
Why would they have any issue with someone doing a game demo in their shop? Seems like it would bring in potential new customers and generate sales for them and ADB. I'd think they'd be asking for people to come in and demo a game or even have a regular game ongoing.
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Like irashaine, I think I'm a little unusual in that I've been gaming pretty actively for 35 years, but I only started playing SFB two years ago when I moved to a new town and joined a new game group that included an avid SFB player.
I had seen the game being played at conventions in the '80s, but frankly it was mostly tournament duels that looked pretty boring if you didn't understand what was going on. And the community of players at the time (at least where I was) was very insular, elitist and often downright rude. They were definitely not interested in teaching, sharing, or explaining. It was all kind of a turn-off and I never gave the game much more thought over the years.
But when I moved in 2012, I agreed to give it a try with my new group. I read the Cadet rules, and quickly discovered that this was THE game I had always been looking for:
Something complex and interesting enough that learning it was an ongoing element of the experience.
I've got a hundred beer-and-pretzel games, I wanted something that was a challenge I could really dig into and feel some accomplishment in learning.
Something capable of creating a wide array of narrative-driven scenarios with diverse game experiences.
I've grown bored to death of all the point-based squad-building games that have you facing off in the same endless frontal assault conflicts.
Something in a fictional setting that is completely realized and immersive enough that exploring the backstory for new game possibilities becomes a substantial part of the experience.
You don't have to dig too far into most sci-fi and fantasy game settings before the plot holes and inconsistencies have you throwing up your hands in frustrated exasperation -- if you haven't already been bored to death by it.
Something with a stable, well-balanced track record I can rely on.
I think this is the biggest reason people give up on games. There are one or more broken rules that can get leveraged in a way that you find the unbeatable strategy/force/technique, etc. And the publisher (trying to patch those holes and make an extra buck) keeps putting out new edition after new edition until the fatigue of it all chases players away.
I know I'm not alone in wanting these features in a game. I think that if properly introduced to it, there are legions of other newer, younger gamers also looking for a more challenging, immersive, reliable hobby experience who will fall in love with SFB and SFU in the same way I have.
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I've been thinking about approaching various stores that allow demos about building a larger FTF SFB group. We've got seven now and perhaps another one that is interested to start but 'the more the merrier'.
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SFB pocket edition is the future. Seriously. My group, who all played avidly in the 90s had pretty much given up on SFB as too cumbersome. A couple of years agowhen the pocket edition was released in PDF we dug it out at a con and had a blast. We are old school so we didn't care it's not balanced, we just had fun with something where only 20 or so pages are actual rules.
We did the same thing this year with original pocket box Car Wars. So much more fun than the latter bloated versions.
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I haven't played SFB in years, but I still buy all the stuff. Clearly mad, but who cares.
I used to run regular SFB tournaments at the RAF Wargaming Association in the Air & Space category and we used to have 6-10 players, but the thing with SFB is that all the detail makes it slow. Really slow. X-Wing is the big game in that category at the moment. I have run a few games of Fed Cdr (and managed to get it in a 4-game competition a few years ago with 1 round each of Fed Cdr, Silent Death, B5: ACTA and a homegrown WW2 aerial combat game) but haven't really been able to generate much interest since then. However, as my Klingon and Federation Fleets near completion, I will be taking Star Fleet: ACTA to our AGM in October and see how that goes as a demo.
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Opponents of a new Maryland gun-control measure that gives the state some of the nation's tightest gun laws have filed a lawsuit to block the legislation from taking effect.
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Arlington is one of three communities in Virginia that regulates small in home day care facilities that have five or fewer children. Alexandria and Fairfax County are the others.
A proposed budget from the county manager aimed at closing a $25 million to $50 million budget shortfall would eliminate the office and the three people who conduct criminal background and safety checks on owners and their homes.
Marie Mosby, the president of Virginia's Child Care Association and who also runs the Miss P-Nut's House in South Arlington, says there's concern that unqualified and even dangerous operators could set up shop if the 40-year-old county licensing requirements are eliminated.
"People will go over their five [child] limit and endanger their children because perhaps their facility is physically too small," she says.
The inspectors can drop into a child care facility unannounced has been a major deterrent against people breaking the rules, she says.
Daycare centers with more than five children come under state regulations.
Arlington County boardmember Mary Hynes, who has worked in the early childcare field for more than 25 years, says she was surprised to see this proposal among the budget cuts.
"The power that the board has is to ask the manager to look in different places or ultimately to raise taxes," she says.
She says she has been getting lots of complaints from parents and people in the child care field.
Hynes says the state should be taking more of a lead in inspecting day care centers noting that Child Care Aware of American, a national advocacy group, has given Virginia an F for not dealing with family home care centers.
Cutting the county office that does the checks could save $250,000 a year.
The Arlington County Board has a budget hearing scheduled for March 26 and is expected to approve a budget by April 20.
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