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***UPDATE*** - New Azure wallpaper just added - 10/06/08:

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The comic con was pretty cool - Jim Lee was the headliner, Mike Mignola and Tim Sale were signing, and a number of other big-name illustrators were showing their stuff. Zuda had a very minor presence in the form of flyers, the sampler booklet we've seen online in a pdf format, and the postcards. There was a small DC booth, but both Marvel and DC had a small showing at this years con. I guess Baltimore was a low priority on their schedules this year, while the convention itself had a larger turnout than last year. It was nice walkig around talking to folks - many who had heard of Zuda, and a few who've submitted or plan on submitting comics.

Early next week I will have some more concept pieces.

Sagiv writes that in certain respects corruption "constitutes a natural, almost inevitable outcome of the ethos created by the early Yishuv" claiming that the historical ambivalence toward the institution of Law in early Zionism and the creation of the new Jew had many positive aspects in the early days of the State.

Yet 60 years on, this 'unruly, irresponsible and lawless behavior' is seriously undermining Israel's ability to prosper.

Without taking a position on the issue, Sagiv's argument is similar to that of Diamond's book Collapse. While describing why societies that successfully lived for centuries ultimately disappeared, Diamond cites their inability to adapt values to changing circumstances.

Yet the most interesting idea is that it was those very values that had helped the community survive at a certain times which ultimately led to their later collapse (for example, the Norse's religious beliefs kept them together but also led them to trade ivory for church objects rather than food, leading to their starvation).

In Israel's context, while ignoring certain aspects of law (Zionism was founded on rebellion / breaking boundaries) helped the young state to survive, maintaining those values may ultimately undermine it.

What values from early Zionism remain relevant and which are in need of 'refinement'?

The car started life as an '04 2004 UK Azure Blue GT Coupe (brembos, bose, leather etc etc) .  In the UK, guys were lucky enough to be able to combine Brembo's and leather early on.  The US didn't have this option I believe until 2006 (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

Modifications include:

JWT Popcharger
Kinetix V+ Plenum
DC Sports Exhaust

Aerosync bumper
USDM Nismo sideskirts
JDM Nismo Cannards
Dream CustomZ Headlight (Gunmetal gray with inverse audi style LED running lights)
Honda Stubby Aerial :)
Tommy Kaira rear badge

Eibach Pro lowering kit
EBC redstuff pads
Privat wheels 20"
Toyo T1R 245/30/20 front, 285/30/20 rear

The awesome photo's were taken by Adam at ARPhotography.  Check out the site at arphotographs.deviantart.com  - he takes some amazing pictures!

Datum: So., 21.09.2008

Einlass: 20 Uhr

Beginn: 21 Uhr

Ort: White Rabbit, Leopoldstr. 1-3, 79098 Freiburg

Veranstalter: d&o concerts (www.myspace.com/dandoconcerts)

Preis: VVK: 9€ (plus Gebühren) über www.reservix.de; BZ-Karten-Service, Flight 13 / AK: 12€

Maria Taylor, die zweite Hälfte des Azure Ray Duos und 1/4 von Now It´s Overhead bevorzugt auch mit ihrem Soloprojekt feingliedrig komponierte Pop-Songs, wie man sie von Azure Ray Alben kennt.
Das Spektrum reicht von Liedern, die mit einer leichten Brise Folk/Jazz angehaucht sind und mit ihrem minimalen Arrangement überzeugen, bis hin zu Balladen, die die Süße und den Schmerz der Sehnsucht nur allzu sehr verdeutlichen.
Maria Taylor wird diesmal von Andy LeMaster (Now It´s Overhead) begleitet und Lieder ihrer letzten beiden Alben rein akustisch interpretieren.

Unbunnys Sound ist holzig und gesetzt, gähnt gemächlich, um sich dann in aller Ruhe vor Dir auszustrecken. Das Gerüst für die Songs bilden zerbrechliche Akkordfolgen, die Bezug auf bittersüße Beobachtungen und Erfahrungen nehmen.
Es ist die Art Musik, die spät nachts auf Dachböden entsteht und geprobt wird in Kellern.

MARIA TAYLOR

www.maria-taylor.com (mit Stream des aktuellen Albums „Savannah Drive“)

www.myspace.com/mariataylor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xLqxBEo4J0&feature=related (Maria Taylor - Not a lovesong (feat. Kristofer Åström&Wolke)

UNBUNNY

www.myspace.com/unbunny

I will put up the lower levels as we see those areas in the comic, (don't want to reveal too much prior to the pages being viewed online).

Also I figured this would be a good reference for people. This is the first thing I made when planning Azure. This is a map of the world circa 2022. I developed this by raising the waterlevel on a global scale by just a few hundred feet, and then adding a few strategic craters where certain err...densley populated areas were. In 2022 there are certainly people left after the Event, but there just isn't that much habitable land. Big ups to NASA and their public use imagery I used as a base to build from, and some fabulous folks at google earth who helped me out in raising the sea levels to see just what might be left. Obviously the movie Waterworld was a complete farce, as even if the glaciers did melt there really would be a lot of land still around. We just have a lot of extremely high mountain ranges and not as many low lying regions as one would think.

That being said, as each update is released I will throw up a new track listing here for each update that is made.

How to Download the wallpaper

Step 1) Right Click the image and click "save as"

Step 2) Name the wallpaper what ever you like

Step 3) Click save and you now have downloaded the wallpaper

How to Install the Wallpaper

If you need help installing the wallpaper on your psp then you can use the tutorial here;

How to install a psp wallpaper

Rating : 9.2/10

Sometime you found the treasure by accident. I got the sample of HydroPeptide Eye Extreme Dark Circle Concentrate when I ordered other skincare products. At first it didn't seem interested to me becauase of the package. The old eye cream ran out so I tried this concentrate eye cream at night because of the peptide ingredients. After a few days, I can see my eye bags diminished very quickly when I saw my face in the mirror. So I keep using this at night and use Lancome High Resolution Eye Collaser 5X at day time and the result is GREAT! After couple weeks, I can see that the area that I have been dabbing the eye cream on is smooth and firm, dark circles is less and less.. I think the eye cream works EXTREME good as it stated. capillaries started disappear. I'll buy when the sample run out!