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Work In Progress: No Trespassing
No Trespassing, oil on canvas, 33.5 x 39.25 inches, work in progress copyright ©2016
This is a painting that I'm currently working on site, at the Snohomish Valley viewpoint. We are looking west on an unused Department of Transportation right of way, with gate chained shut and marked no trespassing. There is a red road sign that has no icon or instruction, and the entire fence, sign and the right of way itself seem in danger of being completely overtaken by nature. It reminds me of Sartre's description of foliage waiting to envelope the abandoned town in his novel 'Nausea.'
No Trespassing: I've always been intrigued by the idea that even if there is a sign and a fence barring entry, one's eyeballs can penetrate the prohibited space, and go dancing and gamboling about like birds on a wing. One can inhale the colors and textures through the organs of sight, like forbidden fruits stolen from a farmer's field.
This photo was taken after the second session. The painting is being brought up gradually, with the slow articulation of leaf forms and shadows where the brambles of blackberries entangle the left side of the painting. I may emphasize even more the static banding of gray-blue and gray-purple of the sky.
One can often see wildlife at this location; hawks, deer, eagles, garter snakes, wrens, red-winged blackbirds, crows and finches. On the day that this photo was taken I saw a small lizard, which I almost mistook for a twig. It was a fence-sitting lizard, so-called because they are often seen sunning on fence posts. It is the only indigenous lizard in the area, hence easy to identify. During this session I was accompanied by two of my students, Min Zhong and Bin Li. Both were busy painting the Snohomish Valley itself, while my mind wandered down this forbidden trail.
Sunshine Celebration Plein Air Class Sale
Pilchuck Riverbank, oil on canvas, 16 x 11 inches, copyright ©2015
Summer finally seems to have arrived, and I'm celebrating the Sun's rejuvenating rays by having a sale on Plein Air Class Session Credits. You can go to my classes page, www.williamelston.com/classes/ for details about the sale, which include some of the deepest discounts I've offered. There is a counter at the bottom of this page that counts down the days until the end of the sale. But don't wait until the last minute!
Many people think that painting en plein air requires innate talent, that it is an unproductive way to spend one's time. An artist once said 'the great thing about plein air is that you get to live your life while you are painting it!'
Painting en plein air is less about representing the countryside or urban environment than it is about becoming aware of life's underlying rhythms. By sustained looking and listening, the distractions of daily life fall away. We find ourselves more fully occupying the moment. By replicating nature's pulse in the gestures of our brushstrokes, we train our mind on what is essential. The paintings that result, records of observation and reverence, are just the icing on the cake.
Painting en plein air is good for your soul!
Bothell Landing 3
Bothell Landing 3, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches, copyright ©2016
I returned to Bothell Landing with several plein air students this past week, and reworked an image that was begun at this time a year ago. Looking up the slough, with the early sun passing through the trees and lighting the embankment beyond, there was one difference: This year the Cottonwood trees had decided to let loose their snow-flurry of puffy seeds a bit early. In the painting you can see the evidence in the grayish surface debris that eddies with the current, but at times it really was like a snowstorm. One had to be on guard to keep the stuff from landing on palette and painting, and to avoid breathing the stuff lest one become like the victims of one of Heliogabalus fatal petal parties.
The end painting is more textural, as it was done over an unfinished painting of another subject. I rarely do this, preferring to paint on fresh canvas. But occasionally one must, when there is not a ready canvas of the appropriate size at hand. Under such circumstances I try to take advantage of the shapes and value structure of what lies beneath, and incorporate the textural effects into my new conception.
The heat also presented a challenge. It seems that rarely can good compositions be seen from the shade. "Fishermen do not fish in the sand," the old Spanish saying goes. I usually work with umbrellas, but they shade the painting and my palette, and leave precious little protection for me. Their purpose is to control the light as it falls on my work, as it is too difficult to judge color accurately in full sunlight.
Bothell Landing is far from being the pastoral oasis that it appears in this painting. Behind me is a bustling park of children, bicyclists, budding martial artists, yoga enthusiasts and the noise of motorists on Bothell Way and beyond. In the city one must take one's bucolic pleasures where they are to be found.
Crossing The River (Monroe Street Bridge)
Crossing The River (Monroe Street Bridge), oil on canvas, 24 x 64 inches, copyright ©2016
This painting is another view of the Monroe Street Bridge, seen from Post Street, just above Spokane Falls. It's a venerable old bridge, which I first painted in the early 1980s. That earlier painting is in the collection of Washington Trust Bank, a purchase that was spearheaded by the late Frederick W. "Rick" Scammell, a Vice President of the bank and a true friend of the Arts. That painting, entitled simply Monroe Street Bridge, measures 68 X 105 inches, and still hangs in the Washington Trust Bank lobby. I've painted the Monroe Street Bridge a few times since, including a preliminary study that preceded the Washington Trust painting.
This particular view was only recently opened up, due to renovation that took place in Riverfront Park. Down below Post there is a new park that provides even more interesting views, as well as Bicentennial Trail on the north side of the Monroe Street Bridge, which provides vistas of the river, Peaceful Valley and the west side of the bridge. When I'm in Spokane I always feel as if I'm orbiting around the bridge, from the lower South Hill to Browne's Addition, Peaceful Valley and Vinegar Flats, Rimrock, Fort Wright and spiraling out to Glenrose Prairie, Lincoln Heights and Manito. It's the portal through which the Spokane River passes after its tumultuous tumble down the falls, on its way out past Deep Creek Canyon and beyond.
I suspect that many current and former Spokaneites have strong feelings for this old bridge, spanning the river that is the heart of the city. I lost a tooth on its pavement, when a car suddenly pulled out in front of my 15-speed bicycle. I guess that you could say that I know the Monroe Street Bridge intimately.
The work is on display, along with other paintings of Spokane subjects, at Dodson's Jewelry and Fine Art, at 516 W Riverside Avenue.
Last Sale Before Plein Air Season Begins!!!
Bothell Landing Launch, oil on canvas, 26 x 36.5 inches, copyright ©2015
I'm currently having one last sale before Plein Air season begins the weekend of April 16. Deep discounts for 8 and 16 plein air sessions are available. We paint at a large variety of locations in the Greater Seattle area. Sessions are scheduled to accommodate all students, and coordinated through my website. We paint on both weekends and weekdays. Check out my website for further details. There is no better way to find yourself "in the moment" than with a brush in your hand that has paint on the end of it. http://www.williamelston.com/classes/
Update: This sale has expired!
In This World: An Exhibition of Paintings by William Elston and Ann Duffy
Snohomish Valley, Looking East, oil on canvas, 36 x 47 inches, copyright ©2015
My exhibition with Ann Duffy opens this weekend at i.e. gallery, 5800 Cains Court, Edison, WA. The exhibition will be up from April 8 through May 15. Opening reception is April 9, 4-6pm. Refreshments are being catered by Tweets Café. Gallery hours are Friday – Sunday 11am-5pm, or by appointment. Call (360) 488-3458.


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The Arizona Cardinals are through two weeks of training camp, and many players have stood out so far. The top five will be highlighted here, ranging from rookies to 10-year veterans and those in between.
One player has struggled throughout, but we've picked on him enough so that he doesn't need to be highlighted anymore. If you want to check on his progress—or lack thereof—click here for highlights and lowlights through two weeks of camp.
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Inverurie Panto
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The Inverurie panto 2014 is Jack and the Beanstalk and runs from 6 to 24 December at the Town Hall. There is a mixture of matinee performances at 2pm and evening performances at 7pm. Book tickets at www.inveruriepanto.com
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The Inverurie panto has quickly established itself as a fun annual event in the About Aberdeen calendar and something we eagerly look forward to watching. Once the live orchestra take their seats and the curtain goes up we know we are in the company of some fine friends and will have a great night's entertainment. The wide smiles from all the performers are ever so infectious and within minutes the audience are smiling back and laughing out loud at the many jokes. Being a local production there are many jokes about Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire ranging from Stewartie Milne, Pittodrie and the annual friendly dig at Kintore! It is such a treat to hear a performance spoken in Doric with much use of the dialect throughout the performance, including Doric singing and jokes that leave locals rolling in their seats.
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The Inverurie pantomime is also a visual treat with their colourful scenery, professional costumes, smoke effects, sound effects like bangs and flashes that get the unexpected audience jumping in their seats and the highlight of the 2013 Inverurie panto: the magic mirror and mine cart which takes the audience and cast on a magical ride.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs follows the much loved Brothers Grimm and Disney tale of young Snow White, played by the gorgeous Steph Bruce who warms the hearts of the audience. She works in the Castle and has eyes for the Prince, who in the great tradition of the principal boy is played by a lassie (Natalie Tough). Sadly his stepmother, Queen Malus, played by Sophie Hamilton, who has perfected a wicked cackle worthy of a Torry fishwive, is jealous of her beauty and tries to get rid of her with a poisoned apple. During this adventure we meet the seven dwarves who are cleverly given
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The comedy duo, who steal the show, are Nicky Tam (Ricky Garden) and Dolly Dimple (Gavin Davidson) our Dame who would have given Danny La Rue a run for his money with several colourful costume changes through the performance. Look out for some hilarious exchanges between this double acts characters that gives some marvellously witty innuendos for the adults and funny interactions for the children. They bounce off each other on stage, not just during their energetic slap stick routines but verbally too as they effortlessly exchange comedy routines and ad libs with the audience with such twinkles in their eyes. Their generosity of giving out sweeties to the children in the audience was so much fun from the moment the orchestra put on their hard hats through to the happy chomping noises of satisfied kids. Their colourful costumes cheered a drab December night, especially the ever changing bloomers!
The deliciously wicked baddie is Gangrel the down trodden Henchman of the Queen, played by drama teacher Ryan Peacock.
One of the many joys about the Inverurie panto is seeing familiar faces in the cast, from regulars like Steph Bruce and James Yule (the magic mirror) to wee Mikey Smith whose constant grin is the highlight of the show. Mikey steals the show in a clever singing sketch which Aberdeenshire audiences will fondly remember for years to come. As I write this Inverurie panto review it still makes me chortle! This clever witty sketch is worth the price of the ticket alone.
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Skip to comments.Fake Obama Kenya birth certificate?
Posted on 08/02/2009 4:56:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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Pray you are right , obviously , but have serious doubts and it's not just the Mombassa / Zanzibar / Kenya thing . We should soon know .
if we keep on top of this eventually all the documents will have to come out—not just his BC but all his missing school records, esp for the time he was in Indoneisa
Perhaps Kenya's connection with England would mean that lots of bureaucrats with British names are all over the place.
Not fake. :)
The question is why would Obama Sr. travel to Zanzibar to have his child? And not have his child in either his own country or his wife's country?
That's what seems fake about it to me. Someone made this up with Mombasa as the birthplace because that's been the rumor going around for the past year or so. But this new (to me) information about Mombasa not even being part of Kenya when Obama was born makes it seem extremely unlikely that he was born there.
Good question. Why did I have to show my whole life for the INS and Coustoms while Hussein didn't. Eventually I took a job with DHS. Low level - Bared my soul.
"my question is, how in the WORLD did he get a security clearance without proving where he was born!!!"
Sadly, elected officials don't require security clearance. When the people elect you they have cleared you for access to classified material.
It was a result of, not a cause of, the Kenya certificate.
This poster thinks the Kenya certificate very well may be legit.
Maybe yes, maybe no. But let's not pretend that no lefties are smart enough to fake a copy. I saw a post on another thread suggesting that the folds are specific and are unlikely to be faked - unless, of course, someone had an original and used it to generate a fake.
I can't imagine who could have an original.
Their young very PREGNANT "mistress playtoys"? And they purposely have their children there, in some country that's neither theirs nor the mother's?
I'm going to post this so that EVERYONE who thinks we are powerless to do something about this understands how best to go about it. We need to find the legal remedy enabling us to charge our representatives with disobeying their oaths of office and start removing them one by one. Here is the case.
Exhibit A, The Twentieth Amendment, Section 3 reads as follows:
" 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
Exhibit B U. S. Code, CITE: 3USC19
Sec. 19. Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President; officers eligible to act
(a)(1) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is neither a President nor Vice President to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, upon his resignation as Speaker and as Representative in Congress, act as President.
Exhibit C: U. S. Constitution, Article Six Oath of Office for elected officials:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Exhibit D: The Electoral Vote Counting Act of 1877:
The process currently provides that someone challenge the electoral votes during a short, specified time frame while the Electoral College votes are opened and tabulated. This process does not cover challenges to "eligibility" qualifications. In fact, if this act pretends to do so in the manner in which it prescribes, it is unconstitutional. Any act of this sort that does not require that qualifications be presented by the President elect serves to undercut the provisions in the Constitution itself. No act that does not support the Constitution is constitutional. In order to change the requirements of the Twentieth amendment, one would need to pass another amendment. An Act doesnt cut the mustard.
The portion in bold stating or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify in section three is particularly interesting in that it plainly seems to infer that a qualification of some sort must be made in order to serve as President. Certainly, one cannot argue that it does not require a qualification process for one to qualify. To infer that the lack of a specified qualification process means that stated eligibility qualifications for the office of president can be ignored is fallacious. The wording of this passage in the twentieth amendment clearly infers that a qualification is required, regardless of how this is done.
There is only one set of qualifications listed anywhere in the Constitution that are not health related and they are listed in Article two, section one.
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
To satisfy meeting the requirement of the twentieth amendment to qualify, a president elect must present evidence that he meets its requirements for eligibility to serve. This means that a proper birth certificate HAD to be presented by the president elect in order to serve as president. In fact, without establishing whether or not the President elect is "qualified", Congress would not know whether or not to step in and name a temporary replacement as the Amendment requires. Certainly, this means that the proof of "qualifications" must be presented to Congress.
If this was done, where is that certificate and to whom was it presented? If this was done, why would we not have the right to verify and inspect it under the freedom of information act?
If it was NOT done, then under the provisions of the twentieth amendment, Barrack Obama has failed to qualify and should not be serving as president of the United States of America.
Based upon the above, I conclude that:
1. We currently have a vacancy at President because no one has yet qualified as required in the Twentieth amendment. The terms "The President elect shall have failed to qualify" clearly places this burden upon the President elect and not on someone raising their hand in objection.
2. Anyone serving in Congress (see Congress in bold in Exhibit A), or anyone who is currently serving under the oath of office in Article six has "standing" and can DEMAND that their oaths be met by receiving proper qualifying documentation from Mr. Obama. This charade at the time of counting the Electoral College votes does not limit their ability to do so at any time they so choose. The very fact that they are duty-bound by oath to "support" the Constitution REQUIRES them to respond to any and all attacks against it. No judge can deny any of them the standing to do so. It would ask them to break the law in their effort to enforce the law.
3. We need to start pressing legal charges against all of our local representatives and senators covered by the oath of office in Article six for disobeying their oaths to support the Constitution as it pertains to the language of section three of the Twentieth amendment. Put PRESSURE on them to represent the document that gives them their authority in the first place. We are looking into how best to do this down here. We all should be looking into this approach. NOW.
Ok, has any "decoded" why page 5733 was chosen?
Why? See post #59.
I think you're being way too anal about the whole thing. Your attitude reminds me of a funny "Far Side" cartoon I saw many years ago. There are two frames in the cartoon. The first frame shows an Indian village, where a drummer holding a big drumstick has been beating loudly on a huge drum, so hard, in fact, that there's now a huge hole in one side of the instrument. The other frame shows a circled group of covered wagons, with an anxious, frightened group of people gathered round their leader, who says, "Don't worry folks ... they only attack to the sound of the drums!"
Okay. Been through the OPM interview and it sucks. Maybe the current occupant didn't have to go through it - but maybe he should. Maybe if he did - we would have been spared from this freakin nightmare. Have you ever been through it?
Worse yet is the fact that someone elected President gets automatic access to the highest classification of documents with ZERO background checks while some of us while employed by the DoD had to go through 5-year upgrades.
That question is impossible to answer without knowing a lot more about the places and the times. Sometimes women travel to hospitals to give birth because they have better care (perhaps American doctors?). Or, she may have been visiting someone in the area and went into labor when she was not expecting to. It's hard to say, but that in and of itself doesn't seem particularly damning.
Obama's 57 states.
Not sure about the 33.
Was Mombasa a sea port?
Perhaps they traveled by boat rather than plane and she went into labor before she could get home.
(I ask from ignorance here...just thinking aloud)
Wait... Paul is not dead? Well, if he faked his death he is probably on the run.
Sorry, I don't believe it is fake.
What on earth are you talking about? There's no requirement of proof; no previous president has been asked to prove anything about their birth, including the one who may have been born in Canada. There's no support whatsoever for your claims, and by your logic, the office of President has ALWAYS been vacant because no one has ever "proven" their eligibility before.
So all the anchor babies born to illegal Mexicans are not natural born citizens? (I think the "born on US soil automatically a citizen" thing needs to be changed, but it has been taken as unquestioned truth for a long time.) Their parents are not citizens but birth on US soil makes the baby a citizen, certainly a natural born citizen.
So, if OBama was born on US soil, then no one questions that he was a natural born citizen. But if he was not born on US soil, then his parentage comes into play.
But it can't be a simple as: parents US citizens, baby US natural born citizen; parents not US citizens, baby not US natural born citizen.
Not "anal". Just asking questions like everyone else here. It simply makes no sense to me that two people would travel to a 3rd country, not either of their home countries, to have their child. If you think that's perfectly understandable, fine. I don't.
The last post at the DU on the link of the first page is quite interesting.
Perhaps this registrar in Africa was named after this dude or one of his descendents? Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't that the question here..if this was the name of a registrar and/or 'district' in Africa.....not a person?
That's the impression I am getting from this.
The signature on the document appears to be less aged than the document. Look at the folds and you can see that the other type is somewhat faded because of the folding. Whereas, the signature does not and looks fairly fresh.
I wish otherwise .......... but the document may prove to be a fake. :O(
I admit to thinking the same thing today. This may well be a fake, but I am a little suspicious about the seemingly-coordinated hysteria about birthers over the past week.
You've obviously never heard about babies poping out early. What if they traveled to the beach and got surprised a few weeks ahead of time?
Perhaps they traveled by boat rather than plane and she went into labor before she could get home.
I understand what you're saying. And anything's possible. We're all just speculating here. But traveling halfway around the world by boat when you're apparently THISCLOSE to giving birth that you can't even wait until you're out of the port city? Seems incredibly risky and unlikely. The odds of giving birth on the high seas in such a situation would be extremely high. Would you even be allowed to take such a long trip in that condition?
Or he named his son after himself.
Oh come on, you know that babies always arrive on their due dates! ;)
#59 is incorrect. The second image with "E.F. Lavender" is just a close-up of the first image. But WND did say they inspected another Kenyan BC for consistencies and it checked out... they just didn't say anything about a second signature from E.F.
I'm totally up in the air on this. I want to believe it, but I don't want to get burned.
Well, perhaps you can explain what section three of the Twentieth amendment means with the phrase "or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify" What on earth could this be talking about?
Someone went to ALOT of trouble to make this appear real.
What about the Divorce papers?
I don't get the feeling that 'E.F. Lavender' is a person but that it is more like a district or registar name..perhaps named after a person back in the day.
I ask again what may be a dumb question: Wouldn't one expect the occasional bureaucrats/registrars to have British names, given the deep ties between the two nations? How different is it from someone like Paul Running Bear signing a BC for a kid born to a German mother while she is visiting an Indian reservation here? Not the best example, but you get my drift. I'm neither advocating nor rejecting this document's validity. I'm just posing a question about this particular point that has everyone so riled.
Somebody made a good point :
>Not anal. Just asking questions like everyone else here. It simply makes no sense to me that two people would travel to a 3rd country, not either of their home countries, to have their child. If you think thats perfectly understandable, fine. I dont.
Which means that the "E.F. Lavender" signature in no way calls this latest document into question.
And the number: If it weren't 47044, it would be something else—and somebody could come up with reasons that it COULDN'T be a coincidence.
I'm not convinced this is an "obvious forgery" yet.
It is good Jim that you spoke on this issue.
The first, E.F. Lavender, is the name of the registrar in 1961 whose name appears on the referenced record in book 44B on page 5733. The second, E.H. Miller, is the registrar in 1964 at the time the certificate attesting to the content of the record was prepared. Joshua Simon Oduya is Mr. Miller's assistant who prepared and signed the document.
To dilute the issue. To make it seem like they are all fake. Oldest playlist in the book.
I just looked up the origin of the surname Lavender, and it is English. I'm agnostic on this particular document, but I don't yet see this name as a problem in a country with close ties to England and, thus, entrenched British-surnamed bureaucrats.
102181 sealed it for me fake of well
102181 sealed it for me fake of well
Not sure ... I did come across a William and a Frederick Lavender predating E.F., both registrars, IIRC.
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Joshua Simon has been ranked No. 1 or 2 in the world for most of the Pokemon Trading Card Game season, but it looks like it might not be in the cards for him to earn a top rank in head-to-head competition at the world competition next month in San Diego, Calif.>
And what I'm saying is that there are a million and one reasons why someone might do something that might seem on the face of it to be illogical or unreasonable.
Zanzibar was not a "third country." The whole region was British-controlled but with differing structures. Mombasa was "nominally" under the control of Zanzibar, which, I believe, had at least the notion of some "autonomy" rather than a direct British colony. But Zanzibar was under heavy British influence. Eventually most of Zanzibar went with Tangyanika to form Tanzania but Mombasa went to Kenya. But it had long-standing ties to Kenya. In 1961, going to Mombasa from Kenya was not exactly "going to a third country."
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Hilarity, not gameplay, is this Bard's saving grace.
It plays similarly to top-down dungeon-crawling adventures like Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance or Champions of Norrath, which is appropriate since it shares a graphical engine with those games. You control a party of one, the Bard, in his quest to make the world a better place ... for himself. The Bard becomes stronger by traditional means -- buying and finding better equipment, raising levels, and learning new spells and abilities -- but he also has the ability to summon helper creatures with his songs. As the game goes on, he becomes able to summon multiple creatures at a time, until you have a proper adventuring party, albeit one that's AI-controlled.
The game unfolds gradually through discrete quests the Bard takes on, some of which contribute to a main plot thread, and some that don't. It's nonlinear enough that you can take the quests in any order, which is where the problems begin to crop up. Though there's not a set order to do the quests in per se, in practice you have to be very careful about what you do at what time -- some quests can't possibly be accomplished before you've earned items, weapons, and experience found in less-difficult tasks. It's necessary to save often, and keep multiple saves, to guard against being caught in an untenable spot. As you gain levels and additional helper creatures, this becomes less of a problem, but it's rough going near the start.
That's not to say the gameplay didn't receive any polish, of course. There are lots of bright spots, like the streamlined interface -- items picked up from slain creatures that you can't use are automatically converted to money on the spot -- and fun ideas such as the pet dog you can find, who'll help out in battle as best he can. (He can't be killed permanently, but he also can't take much damage before being knocked out for a few seconds.) The menus for using items and casting spells are done in an on-the-fly menu, similar to Kingdom Hearts' but much more user-friendly, since the camera stays put and there's less chance of picking the wrong menu option in a crucial moment.
Even so, the game is redeemed mostly by its unconventional story and humor. Unlike Earthbound's surrealist tone, Bard's Tale goes for a more directly parodic sense of humor, and strikes at the most common fantasy RPG tropes. Just to take one example, the typical Japanese RPG convention of a band of children saving the world gets a ribbing on multiple levels. The Bard is a lad not in the sense of his youth, but in the sense of his interests: he's interested in attractive women and piles of gold, and does his best to shake off the brotherhood of old men intent on thrusting a greater destiny upon him.
Furthermore, there are "chosen ones" littered throughout the game, many of whom have exactly the survival capabilities you'd expect from an 12-year-old against a slavering goblin. The whole game is played with tongue in cheek in that way, and the accumulation of jokes works a lot like the old Airplane! movies -- even if one bit isn't especially inspired or creative, there'll be something else coming along in a second.
Voice acting is important in comedy, and Bard's Tale nails just about every part, especially the shopkeepers who do their deadpan best to sell you on their wares. (Which is actually a pretty good idea, and would be interesting to see in a game that didn't play it for laughs.) The only thing that prevents the humor from working as well as it could is the graphical engine, which isn't well-designed for characters who act in frequent close-ups, serviceable though it is during the actual game.
Bard's Tale does skate close to the edge of being an American equivalent to all those JRPGs which would be better served as anime OAVs -- the humor really is the best part, and would work equally well divorced of its game context. However, the gameplay is good enough to save it from such a fate, and if the thin plot of games with similar mechanics bothers you, this could end up as your favorite in the genre.
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Nanjing news roundup: April 11
- Written by Jimmy Olsen
Expect a cold and dreary weekThe next few days in Nanjing will feature cool and wet weather, according to forecasts. Until Wednesday at least, the temperature will decline and it is exepcted to rain every day in the southern Jiangsu region. Experts advise that citizens should consider it still winter time in Nanjing, and thus sweaters and heavy winter coats are recommended.
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Students earn commission teaching bargaining skillsIn a new trend, 'bargaining groups' have appeared on local campuses, which involve students helping their peers negotiate lower prices on goods in exchange for a consulting fee.
Last week, reporters followed a bargaining group to the Zhujiang 4 Mall, where the goal was to help a student on his purchase of a Macbook Pro. The asking price was 11,500. Negotiator Xiao Wu countered: "Boss, this model is not new, it came out six months ago, plus the configuration is not the highest."
After a 3-minute 'war of words', the price dropped to 9,800 RMB. Xiao Wu was paid 85 RMB for his efforts.
He told reporters: "I charge bargain consultancy fees, my specialty is digital products, the cost is 5% of the amount I bargain off the asking price." He also helps girls purchase clothing, at a rate of 1% of the discount amount.
About his long-term plans, Xiao Wu said: In Beijing there is a famous magazine shopping guide. We could do the same on campus – give shopping recommendations and report on trends and so on."
According to experts, students generating innovative businessideas is not ideal, as their focus should be on study. Thus, university and community officials should help guide such endeavors towards standardization.
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Man dumped in river over unpaid loanA man who was unable to pay back a 30,000 RMB loan was dumped into a river and barely escaped with his life. The victim (pseudonym 'Wang') borrowed the money in 2008 for his clothing business, but he squandered it all within 6 months. Then, the creditor (pseudonym 'Shuai') hatched a plan of murder.
Mr. Shuai lured him to a quiet spot, smashed his skull, stomped his face and thew him into the river to die.He told Mr. Wang that he had raised some more money that he could borrow. He drove to Mr. Wang's house and asked him to get on his motorcycle to go to the bank.
On the outskirts of town, Mr. Shuai smashed Mr. Wang with weights tied to a rope. Then he stomped his head, and finally dragged his body to the riverside and threw him in.
Miraculously, only the upper half of Mr. Wang's body fell into the river – his lower half remained on the riverbank. The next morning, he managed to drag himself onto the road where passersby discovered got him to the hospital.
Mr. Shuai laid low in seedy Internet cafes until he was captured in October 2009 and charged with attempted murder.
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Trapped in pyramid scheme, woman escapes confinementA young woman trapped in a fraudulent pyramid scheme was held against her will for two weeks before being rescued by police. The victim Li Zhao came to Nanjing from Guizhou and soon took up work selling Chinese health foods. However, instead of getting paid, she was told that she had to pay them 3,000 RMB.
When she refused, her cell phone and ID card were confiscated and she was locked in a small room with sealed windows.
After two weeks, she managed to slip a small note out of a crack in the window, which read: "I am trapped on the second floor, please help me!" A passerby found the note and alerted police, who rushed to the scene and rectified the situation.
Police charged the leader of the scheme and his cronies with the crime of 'unlawful deprivation of personal freedom'. The courts sentenced the leader to 10 months in jail, and his cronies to lesser time.
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Gambling loser punches machine, suffers a beatingA man who lost money street gambling punched the machine in frustration, leading to him getting beaten down with bricks and knives.
On April 8, reporters visited the Pukou District Hospital to meet the victim Mr. Pu, who was wrapped in bloody gauze and badly battered. With the help of his girlfriend, he removed his clothes to show reporters the multiple stab wounds on his back and limbs.
Mr. Pu told reporters that he was playing slot machines at a local shop when he lost 2,000 RMB. In anger, he punched the machine, shattered the screen and left. Later the shop owner called him and ordered him to return to address the damage. Mr. Pu showed up with 3 friends and an argument broke out.
Suddenly, a group of more than 20 men showed up and began attacking Mr. Pu with bricks and knives. The gang then dispersed and Mr. Pu was rushed to the hospital, where docters deemed his injuries not life-threatening.
Police have closed down the shop and are currently investigating the matter.
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Grandma errs, feeds child rat poisonA woman accidentally fed her grandson rat poison, but after several days of severe deterioration, the youngster finally recovered.
After midnight on April 3rd, the 50-year-old woman rushed into the Nanjing Children's hospital with her grandchild, shouting "Please help me, I accidentally gave him rat poison!"
On the day of the poisoning, the grandmother was playing cards with her friends while the boy was off playing by himself. Later, he told his grandmother that he didn't feel well. The boy then began to vomit up red rice, and the grandmother knew that something was wrong.
She ruefully told reporters: "A few days ago I had bought a bottle of rat poison, mixed it with some rice and then placed some under the bed and cupboard. I specifically scattered the rice so my grandson couldn't reach it, but obviously, I made a mistake, the blame is mine."
In the hospital, the boy suffered 10 hours of twitching and weakness before doctors performed emergency techniques (fluid infusion, diuretics etc) to flush out his system. 5 days later, his condition finally stabilized.
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No mosquitoes in sightExperts at various monitoring points in Nanjing have found that no mosquitoes are around at a time when they are usually rife, which might mean a summer with less mosquitoes than usual.
"It might have something to do with the weird weather we are having..."The Nanjing CDC Division of Vector Control Environmental Health conducted mosquito density tests at various points in the city.
Mosquito specialist Zheng Yiping told reporters that this year is really strange: "We did not catch even one mosquito. By this time in previous years, there is usually a lot of first generation ones already, it might have something to do with the weird weather we are having in recent times."
He theorized that once the daily average temperature reaches 26 degrees C the first generation of mosquitoes for the year will appear, probably in a few weeks.
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Cat lady ditches husband for petsThe 'Xinjiekou Cat Lady' has taken in 10 stray cats over the past three years, causing her husband to leave her and her neigbors to question her actions. Nonetheless, her passion for cats has not waned.
Reporters visited her home and found that the cats were in charge – everything was scratched up and in disarray and there were catprints everywhere. The Cat lady explained that she took in her first cat three years ago, but then it had babies, and they began to multiply. "I wanted to find good homes for them, but most people who wanted them had no cat experience, and some did not have the time to take care of them properly."
The cat lady spent half of her total income on the cats, including buying the most expensive carp on the market for them to feed on. "Cheaper fish have too many small bones for these cats."
Her husband complained and eventually they separated, but the cats remain her priority.
– original story
Drag racing on the streets of NanjingRecently, many citizens have complained about drag racing in the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center North Gate area, involving a group of "rich second generation" owners.
One reporter investigating the case wrote: "Yesterday, I drove to Olympic Center, and I found a quiet road with few pedestrians. Suddenly I heard a deafening noise and I saw four unlicensed cars – black, red, yellow and silver luxury sports cars, having a drag race."
Local resident Mr. Xu told reporters that one night, the cars suddenly appeared and raced just a few centimeters away from him, causing him to fall and badly bruise his body. Mrs. Zhang, 7 months pregnant, commented: "It is horrible, so dangerous, I do not dare go out at night. Now I get bad headaches and I can't sleep at night. I am worried about the impact this will have on my baby."
Last week, reporters found 4 luxury sports cars in the area. The owners of the cars, all wealthy young men, were hanging around smoking. The rich guys bragged about their wealth to reporters and claimed that they were above the law.
The rich guys lost their bluster, apologized, and claimed they were just out to 'test' the cars.Reporters called the cops who found a host of possible infractions: driving without a license, suspicion of speeding, failure to conduct annual safety inspections, and so on.
At this point the rich guys lost their bluster and began to apologize. One of them told officers that all of the cars were purchased through legal channels, and they had just come out onto a quiet road to 'test' them. Police detained the group for 20 minutes to check their records and then released them pending further investigation.
Yesterday, Nanjing traffic police issued a statement that the phenomenon of drag racing at the Olympic Sports Center area will be eliminated via increased surveillance and heavy fines for offenders.
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Since I have purchased a white Dodge Neon on July 16, 2006 it has been in the shop for 18 days, I have been asked to lie to the warranty service, I've had the phone hung up in my face when calling Green Light Auto Sales, I have had $550.00 deducted from my bank account for a rental car, I've been late to work the first 4 days before I got the ok for a rental car when my car was in the shop, and the list goes on and on. Now here it is August 11, 2006 I just got the car back yesterday, so that means I have now had possession of the vehicle 6 days since I bought it and already the first payment is due. None of this is my fault; I walked up to Green Light Auto Sales on July 16, 2006 because a friend referred me to go there. All I wanted was a car to get me to and from work; instead I have almost lost my job, I'm flat broke and now I have a car payment due. Trust and believe the Better Business Bureau will hear about this and so will my lawyer. I should not be out of pocket for a dime, for something that was in need of repair before I even walked up to Green Light Auto.
Green Light Auto can continue operating their business with no problems, no phone call to Haans with the warranty company, no lawyers (I know the lemon law), and no reports to the Better Business Bureau, if they will agree to tear up the contract, refund the down payment and rental car bill, and take possession of the Dodge Neon.
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Brandon Lewis praises work of housing associations on tour of L&Q regeneration project
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Brandon Lewis praises work of housing associations on tour of L&Q regeneration project
Housing and Planning Minister Brandon Lewis has praised the work of housing associations on a visit to a £200 million regeneration project in east London.
Mr Lewis said the sector was playing as "vital role" in delivering affordable housing, during his tour of the Haggerston West and Kingsland Estates in Hackney, which housing group L&Q is transforming with 761 new homes, a new community centre, retail space and public gardens.
In his first official visit to the capital in his new role, accompanied L&Q chief executive David Montague as they looked aroud the City Mills regeneration area.
Residents have been campaigning for new homes since the 1980s. In 2003 L&Q was chosen to draw up regeneration plans, and in 2007 residents voted to transfer from London Borough of Hackney to L&Q.
Since then, L&Q says it has been keeping residents fully engaged with the project as the old estates were demolished and the new City Mills created.
Brandon Lewis MP said: ""Building homes is a vital part of our long-term economic plan and it is working. In London, new home registrations were up 60% last year, the highest annual total since modern records began, and thousands of new homes will be built on 20 housing zones across the capital.
"In addition to this, the Mayor has announced plans for the largest house-building programme since the 1930s, including more homes for affordable shared ownership.
"Housing associations across the country are playing a vital role in helping to deliver the affordable homes that families need. I am delighted to see how L&Q's City Mills development is progressing and hear how they have been working with the community to drive the scheme forward and create new homes and jobs in Hackney."
Daivd Montague said: "The chronic shortage of housing in London is well documented, but we wanted the minister to see first-hand how housing associations like L&Q are responding.
"We are committed to working with the Government to increase housing supply, and City Mills demonstrates how we can achieve this on a large scale, and with great design at its heart. On completion, we will be providing over 700 new homes – for people on a range of incomes - in one of London's most exciting and fashionable quarters.
"And we've been able to achieve all of this by keeping the needs of the local community in mind at all times. We've spent many years working with residents and local partners to successfully create a large scale, mixed tenure urban neighbourhood that people can be proud to call home."
Debra Herring, a local resident and vice chair of the Haggerston & Kingsland Estates Local Management Forum, added: "There is a whole community here who have collaborated to bring this scheme together for the good of all; all the choices have truly been collective.
"When the development is finished, residents will be left with an estate to be proud of. Residents have taken ownership of the decisions around their estates by becoming involved and this will be the lasting legacy of this project with L&Q."
Earlier today, Mr Lewis hailed the latest ONS housebuilding figures which showed there were 26,230 new housing starts in England between April and June, an 18% increase on the same quarter last year.
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I recently read where guns will be permitted in our churches. What a shame. In my opinion, the only person who needs to carry a gun is a thief, murderer, vagabond or a person who is disrespectful of the church and the almighty God.
What kind of judge would allow a gun in church? I hope that our pastor does not abide by that rule. Even in the Old West, guns were not permitted in church. I for one will not attend a church that allows guns.
The majority of our citizens are respectful people who do not want to be in a crown with anyone carrying a gun. The church is a place of worship and silence, prayer and meditation.
I also hope that the good people talk to their pastors and ask them not to abide by that stupid law. May God bless us and our country because it is going to Hell if not. I do not need a gun to pray to my God — only the bad who do not respect God and people would need one.
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- "To think, they called me insane, Lawrence! We'll see whose insane, when my pets exterminate all life on this miserable, planet!"
- ―Nefarious[src]
- "That should clear things right up, sir."
- ―Lawrence[src]
Rilgar was a chilly planet far from any sun, devoid of snow. It was famous for its black-colored "water", from which Blackwater City took its name. Rilgar was home to Skid McMarx, and was where a Hoverboard race took place in the original Ratchet & Clank game.
Rilgar was a popular spot for hoverboard races, and was also home to an active night life. However, it also suffered from an Amoeboid infestation, thanks to the tyrannical Nefarious.
Despite losing control of most of their homeworld, Tyhrranosis, Rilgar was attacked by the Thyrranoids during the events of Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal when Nefarious ordered an attack on Blackwater City. The Galactic Rangers and Ratchet were successful in repelling the assault and liberating the besieged city.
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Blackwater Docks is a multiplayer map in Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal.[1] The map supports Deathmatch and Capture the Flag modes.[2]
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|Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal multiplayer
|Capture the Flag • Deathmatch • Siege
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|Aquatos Sewers • Bakisi Isles • Blackwater City • Blackwater Docks • Command Center
Hoven Gorge • Metropolis • Outpost X12 • Korgon Outpost • Marcadia Palace
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|Flag • Node • Weapons of multiplayer
Characters on Rilgar
- Sewer Sharks
- ExtermiBots
- Extermitanks
- Amoeboids
- One-Eyed Tyhrranoid v2s
- Three-Eyed Tyhrranoid v2s
- Ultra-Mech Tyhrranoids
- Attack Ships
- In Into the Nexus, a portrait of Rilgar's Blackwater City can be found in the Intergalactic Museum of History in the Hall of Villainy.
- The planet looked like a mirrored image of Gorn.
- The native race of the planet were called Rilgarians notable for their green skin along with three spikes on their head. Males seemed to have spiky tails while females did not.
- In the Demo of the first game, it was originally named Planet Blackwater. It is unknown whether this was deliberate or a mistake.
- Ratchet & Clank (first appearance)
- Ratchet: Deadlocked
- Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
- Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus (picture only)
- Ratchet & Clank (PS4) (re-imagined Rilgar)
See also
- Walkthrough for Rilgar
- The Rilgar Times
- Ratchet & Clank gold bolt locations
- Ratchet & Clank skill point locations


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- Tracing a pixel-based image
- Sketching and drawing for Illustrator
- Creating and editing gradients
- Creating multi-colored blends
- Creating seamlessly repeating tile patterns
- Creating interlocking artwork with Live Paint
- Designing advanced type effects
- Recoloring artwork with color harmonies
- Making the most of symbols
- Integrating Illustrator with Photoshop
- Using transparency, blend modes, and opacity masks
Skill Level Intermediate
In this exercise, I'm going to show you how to take those two objects, at least our perceived objects; the green one and the orange one. We'll fill them in with gradients, as we're seeing in this final Celtic knot.ai file. It's not really hard to pull this off. It's just that it takes a fairly deliberate approach, because things can go wrong as I'll show you. So you just have to be careful. I've gone ahead and restored the saved version of my Intricate weave.ai file. So let's say, I decide to select the green object. We've seen that you can do that using the White Arrow tool.
So I'll go ahead and grab my White Arrow tool, and then I'll Alt+Drag or Option+Drag around the top of that object to select it independently of the orange circular object. Then I'll go up here to the Fill swatch in the Control panel and I'll change that Fill to Green grad, which is one of the swatches I've set up in advanced, and I get this effect here, which is okay. I guess that's more or less sort of what I'm looking for, at least it's a starting point. I did fill in these regions as well, the parts of the circle that are not selected with the green gradient and up here as well.
So everything that's caught inside of these objects got filled, which isn't what I want. But anyway, I'll Alt+Drag or Option+ Drag now around a portion of this orange shape in order to select what I perceived to be a circle with the hole cut out of it. Then I'll go up to the Fill option, and I'll change that to Orange grad, another swatch that I've set up in advance, and that absolutely kills the stuff on the inside. So that wipes out everything. In truth to be told, this is the wrong approach. So, let me show you the right approach, because you could be at this for a little while, trying to get all these guys roughed in properly, and you could end up, if you go too far with it, you could end up losing your strokes and that's a big pain in the neck if you have to reestablish those.
So, I'm going to press Ctrl+Z or Command+ Z on the Mac a couple of times in order to undo those modifications. We're going to switch here from a Live Paint Bucket tool to the Live Paint Selection tool, which you can get by pressing Shift+L of course. Now problem is, I need to select my fills, but I can't, because you may recall a few exercises ago I set this tool so it only select strokes. So I need to double-click on it in order to bring up the Live Paint Selection Options dialog box and I need to turn on Select Fills. So, both of these check boxes are on. I'll click OK.
Now I'll just click some place inside of the green object in order to select that green. Now you might figure okay, now I've got to Shift+Click and Shift+Click, and so on, and actually not. Here is what you can do. With one of these green areas selected, you can go up to the Select menu, choose Same, and choose Fill Color. That actually works. That'll go ahead and select the rest of the green fills. So huge timesaver, and now just so, I can see what I'm doing. I'll press Ctrl+H, Command+H on the Mac to hide those selection regions.
I will switch my fill here in the Swatches panel and that works great. Now you might look at and say no, it doesn't. We have all these horrible intersections going on. Basically, that's what Illustrator has done. It's filled each and every one of these sub-paths with its own independent gradient. That's okay. We can fix that later, so don't worry about it. What I'm going to do now as long as I'm here is I'm going to go to the Gradient panel. So go ahead and open it up, if you want to work along with me, and I'm going to change the Type. I saved these gradients as linear gradients; I want them to be radial.
So right now at this point, so that I don't have to go back and mess around with things. I'm going to change the Type from Linear to Radial and then we'll get these tiny little spotlights of gradients throughout all these little sub-paths. Now we will override that shortly. But right now, I think it's pretty cool. Now I'm going to click inside one of the oranges. We're not going to see the selection pattern this time, because I press Ctrl+H or Command+H to hide him. That's fine. I know it's selected. I'm going to go up to the Select menu, I'm going to choose Same and I'm going to choose Fill Color again. That selects all of the oranges.
And I can confirm that by pressing Ctrl+H, Command+H on the Mac. That brings back my little weird selection patterns. Fair enough. Press Ctrl+H or Command+H again to get rid of them. Now go over to the Swatches panel, and click on Orange grad, and we get a bunch of little orange gradients all over the place. Here inside the Gradient panel, I'll change Type from Linear to Radial in order to create this effect here. Now you might be thinking what in the world do we do now? How do we solve this particular problem? Well, here is what I want you to do. I'm going to go ahead and zoom out. If you're working along with me once again, I want you to select all of the objects in this illustration by pressing Ctrl+A, or Command+A on the Mac.
This would be all the visible objects. I'll press Ctrl+H, Command+H on the Mac, so I can see that everything is selected. I just want to make sure this outer rectangle is also selected and I'm going to go ahead and zoom in. Now, check this out. Using the Gradient tool, you can go ahead and drag inside of the illustration in order to set the angle, and size, and all that jazz associated with your Radial gradient. So, get the Gradient tool or press the G key if you want to, and I'm going to start my gradient from about here and I'm going to drag down to the lower right region of my window and I'm going to release.
That goes ahead and fills everybody with this same sort of radial gradient and it's continuous throughout the various shapes. The problem is, it's looking like I just wiped out my strokes, which would be terrible news. In fact, what Illustrator has done, it's just changed all my strokes. So it still knows where the right strokes are, didn't completely wipe them out, which makes them fairly easy to reinstate. But it did for some reason override them. I don't know why it did that. Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and change the placement of my Radial gradient a little bit.
I think I'll start it right about there, and drag down, like so. So you can apply the Gradient tool to multiple path outlines even if they're part of live paint objects here inside of Illustrator, which is really great. All right, anyway, I'm going to switch back to my Black Arrow tool. I'll click off my paths for a moment to deselect them and then I'm going to marquee around these shapes, so that I'm selecting them independently of the background rectangles. So the square is not selected this time around. I'll go ahead and reinstate my stroke information. I'll press Ctrl+H or Command+H on the Mac, so you can see that all of the strokes are in the right place.
It's just that we now have weak blacks I believe, and we also have one point strokes, which is no good. So I'll click on the Stroke Swatch here in the Control panel and I'll select Rich black and that will darken up the blacks. Then I'll click inside of this line weight value right there. I'll enter 2 and press the Return key or the Enter key on the Mac to reinstate those strokes. All right, one more thing I want to add a little bit of depth as I was saying. You could try to heap of another stroke on this object here inside the Appearance panel if you want to.
I don't recommend you go that route. I didn't find it to be that successful myself. Instead, the best approach I found was go to the Effect menu, choose Stylize, and then choose Drop Shadow, or you can press my keyboard shortcut if you have loaded dekeKeys, Ctrl+Alt+E, Command+Option+E on the Mac. These are the settings that I applied. So mode is set to Multiply. The Color is black by the way. Opacity 50%, X and Y Offset both 1 point. Blur 0. Turn on the Preview check box, and you'll see what happens. So it's just a slight amount of depth there. Click OK.
So, to just give you a sense of what happened, because it's pretty subtle actually, I'll turn off that eyeball here inside the Appearance panel, the one that's associated with Drop Shadow. Turn it off. That's what the shapes look like without the drop shadow. This is what they look like with the drop shadow. So it's just a little bit of depth going on, and that is the final version of my illustration. So once again, if you decide to do this number where you click off the paths, or press Ctrl+H, Command+H on the Mac, so I can see what I'm doing. Click off the paths to deselect them.
Then start dragging these items to different locations, like so. Then you start to reveal these little bits of weirdness, that is the ghosting associated with the original gradient pattern. Then all you need to do is select the shape once again, and then apply the Gradient tool in order to rectify the situation. That's entirely up to you. But this gives you a sense of the amazing power really of this basic feature. The whole reason that Adobe created the Live Paint feature in the first place was to simplify things, and what they ended up doing was creating a feature that does something you can't otherwise do inside of Illustrator, create overlapping path outlines, paths that weave in and out of each other, and in and out of themselves.


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Fans suing ECHL arena over beer cup controversy
Fans of the ECHL's Idaho Steelheads feel they were defrauded by the team's arena which was found to be charging $3 more for "large" beer cups that held as much liquid as the "regular" size
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Minor league professional sports have to do a lot of things to attract fans to their buildings. Though some rely on cheesy promotions and specialty uniforms, the one thing all minor league franchises have to draw fans no matter where they are: Beer.
That's why there has been a bit of an uproar coming out of Boise, Idaho, home of the ECHL's Idaho Steelheads, this week.
Steelheads fans Heath Forsey and Gwen Gibbs were the ones to spot the discrepency at CenturyLink Arena. The pair noticed when pouring a full beer from the cups labeled as "large" into one that was labeled as "regular", there was no overflow. The large beer costs $7, the regular costs $4. It's the shape of the cups that is different, not the actual size.
Paying $7 for a cup that holds the same amount of beer that costs $4 is enough to rile up the most casual of fans. Forsey and Gibbs took the cups home and tested things further just to be sure, then posted the video above on YouTube. It very quickly went viral. The video, uploaded to YouTube on March 9, has more than 935,000 views as of this posting.
In response to the video, Eric Trapp, president of the Steelheads and CenturyLink Arena, issued a statement on the team's Facebook page.
"It was recently brought to our attention that the amount of beer that fits in our large (20-oz) cups also fits in our regular (16-oz) cups. The differentiation in the size of the two cups is too small. To correct that problem, we're purchasing new cups for the large beers that will hold 24 ounces, instead of 20, for the remainder of this season to provide better value to our fans. As we do every offseason, we'll evaluate our entire concessions menu for next season over the summer."
Trapp doesn't admit that the cups hold almost exactly the same amount, but does say they'll order new cups. That's not going to be good enough for a lot of people, who feel they've been ripped off.
Do you smell lawsuit? That's probably because a group of four fans have already filed one.
Here are the details from the AP via the Idaho Statesmen:
The lawsuit, filed in Boise's 4th District Court on Tuesday, contends that Block 22 LLC, which does business as CenturyLink Arena, defrauded customers by fooling them into thinking that a tall, narrow cup of beer sold for $7 was substantially bigger than a shorter, wider cup sold for $4.
Mike Campbell with Block 22 said he hadn't yet seen the lawsuit and so couldn't comment.
Brady Peck, Michele Bonds and William and Brittany Graham are asking for damages exceeding $10,000.
Now you can say people sue for everything these days, but it's a legitimate ripoff. Even if it wasn't intentional, fans were taken advantage of and now will find it hard to trust that they're being treated fairly as a paying customer. This group probably has a good case.
For the Steelheads, this is going to be a rather large self-made headache.
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