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Fluorine in the water actually helps protect your teeth, so drinking bottled water has not only a detrimental effect on the environment, but your own health.

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Nice stories, and the newspaper is looking even better. I think the paper would look better if you made it wider, and included 2 or 3 columns of text. You could try making it up of multiple pictures 800 px wide (mosaic style), rather than a single 600x800 picture.

Try this picture:

THE CORSANIA DAILY TIMES - CDT.COM Special Report: The Corsania Electoral System By Isabelle Miller The Corsania electoral system draws on aspects from around the world to create a unique system in a unique new world. The Corsania Daily Times reveals how it all works. The system is characterised by three main arms, the President, the National Assembly and the Senate. These three arms are responsible for different areas of government. The President The President is responsible for the overall leadership of the state and international affairs. The President is in charge of areas such as: international relations (including treaties, foreign negotiations and aid), the armed forces, immigration, trade (including airports and seaports), the Central Police Force (responsible for enforcement of Presidential laws and international policing in conjunction with the National Police Force) and the majority of tax revenue (including sales tax and income tax). The Presidential arm has control over all land and most of the government revenue, and as such is able to allocate funds to certain areas of the National Assembly’s budget. The National Assembly The National Assembly is responsible for running domestic affairs. They are in charge of areas such as: healthcare, education, emergency services, transportation (including roads, highways, rail and mass transit), utilities (including power, water and garbage) and recreation. The National Assembly is primarily funded through the Presidential budget, but also raises money through property taxes and revenues from services. The Senate The Senate is solely a supervisory body, not normally having any direct vote on issues. The Senate is able to call an election if 80% or more of senators vote for it. It can also block legislation if it has an 80% majority against it. The Senate is meant to be a body made up of the finest minds in Corsania, which can provide advice to the President and National Assembly as well as being able to prevent corruptions of the governmental system. Due to the lesser time requirements of the Senate, many senators will keep their jobs in other areas. Voting Voting is restricted to citizens of Corsania over the age of 18, and is compulsory, with those citizens who do not vote being fined. Each arm of government is voted in for five year terms, with elections every 2.5 years, alternating between the National Assembly and the President, with half the Senate elected each time. The Houses of Parliament The Houses of Parliament are where the National Assembly and Senate meet. They also hold offices for members of parliament and senators, as well as the President. Most parts of the civil service are located in adjacent buildings or in the original government quarter in Millbrook. Additional Pictures Houses of Parliament (Click for larger picture) Waterfront around the Houses of Parliament (Click for larger picture) Back of Houses of Parliament (Click for larger picture) Houses of Parliament at night (Click for larger picture) Waterfront around the Houses of Parliament at night (Click for larger picture) Area around Houses of Parliament from behind at night (Click for larger picture) The Houses of Parliament from behind at night (Click for larger picture) Not really much for me to comment on, other that the fact that the pictures really do look much better when you open them at their full resolution (a lot of them are four images in a square shape - so they are wider than they seem here). There may not be any updates for a while...

THE CORSANIA DAILY TIMES - CDT.COM Special Report: The Corsania Electoral System By Isabelle Miller The Corsania electoral system draws on aspects from around the world to create a unique system in a unique new world. The Corsania Daily Times reveals how it all works. The system is characterised by three main arms, the President, the National Assembly and the Senate. These three arms are responsible for different areas of government. The President The President is responsible for the overall leadership of the state and international affairs. The President is in charge of areas such as: international relations (including treaties, foreign negotiations and aid), the armed forces, immigration, trade (including airports and seaports), the Central Police Force (responsible for enforcement of Presidential laws and international policing in conjunction with the National Police Force) and the majority of tax revenue (including sales tax and income tax). The Presidential arm has control over all land and most of the government revenue, and as such is able to allocate funds to certain areas of the National Assembly’s budget. The National Assembly The National Assembly is responsible for running domestic affairs. They are in charge of areas such as: healthcare, education, emergency services, transportation (including roads, highways, rail and mass transit), utilities (including power, water and garbage) and recreation. The National Assembly is primarily funded through the Presidential budget, but also raises money through property taxes and revenues from services. The Senate The Senate is solely a supervisory body, not normally having any direct vote on issues. The Senate is able to call an election if 80% or more of senators vote for it. It can also block legislation if it has an 80% majority against it. The Senate is meant to be a body made up of the finest minds in Corsania, which can provide advice to the President and National Assembly as well as being able to prevent corruptions of the governmental system. Due to the lesser time requirements of the Senate, many senators will keep their jobs in other areas. Voting Voting is restricted to citizens of Corsania over the age of 18, and is compulsory, with those citizens who do not vote being fined. Each arm of government is voted in for five year terms, with elections every 2.5 years, alternating between the National Assembly and the President, with half the Senate elected each time. The Houses of Parliament The Houses of Parliament are where the National Assembly and Senate meet. They also hold offices for members of parliament and senators, as well as the President. Most parts of the civil service are located in adjacent buildings or in the original government quarter in Millbrook. Additional Pictures Houses of Parliament (Click for larger picture) Waterfront around the Houses of Parliament (Click for larger picture) Back of Houses of Parliament (Click for larger picture) Houses of Parliament at night (Click for larger picture) Waterfront around the Houses of Parliament at night (Click for larger picture) Area around Houses of Parliament from behind at night (Click for larger picture) The Houses of Parliament from behind at night (Click for larger picture) Not really much for me to comment on, other that the fact that the pictures really do look much better when you open them at their full resolution (a lot of them are four images in a square shape - so they are wider than they seem here). There may not be any updates for a while...

Great pictures! I love those fields and the town. What are they growing in the purple ones? Flowers?

vinumne et salem praebebo apud Fabricam Alcis? I probably like Catullus most out of the Latin poets, he wrote very personal poems. If I recall that one, it probably wasn't the best advertisement for the Moose Factory (it went something along the lines of come to my place for dinner, but bring all the food etc. with you). si sum qui sum, quine sum ego. I am not sure if it works, but it sounds kinda like a tongue twister.

Stationery. Jeans.

Those region view shots are look great, the cities spread out quite large. I like the the farms too, with trees breaking the fields up well.

non Latinam loquor at scribo paulam. puto posse bene recitare. paene Anglice Latina transferebam . I said: "I don't speak Latin, but I write it a little. I think I can read it well [but who would know with a couple of 1000 year old language ]. I mostly was translating Latin to English." I think "loquor" in the first sentence takes an accusative, but I don't know. By the way, I think the title should be "loquerisne Latine?". "-ne" to indicate a question and decapitalising the first word because Romans didn't do that! If anyone wants something translated into Latin, I could give it a shot.

True, true. But yeah, I could care less about what they do. They got a dog? So what, I don't need my nightly news covered with that.quote> While you don't feel the need to have your news covered with that recent pet acquisitions, many other people do. I would suggest the only fair way to determine the newsworthiness of a story is what the majority or people want to learn about. I find that I mostly don't watch TV news, because I can find out everything I want (and not the stuff everyone else wants) in a fraction of the time and in greater detail on the internet. Even for the stuff I am interested in, I find that TV generally tries to bombard you with shocking pictures, and doesn't actually present as much in the way of informative facts.

The paper is very well written and designed. I like the city shots too, it all looks quite natural. A few typos though on pg 68 though, "thirtd" and "se". Great job!

Very nice. I like the train station at the end! The only thing I would suggest is to try relotting the fountain, tree and kiosk in the second picture to have the same base texture as the surrounds. That aside, I really like the look of that canal/plaza area.

I find "Valley Heights" interesting.

I think the support columns look too small to it hold up. But overall, very nice!

It looks great! I agree that one complex is probably better, as I quite like those multi-part buildings, they look more normal than having single islands of buildings surrounded by roads!

This sounds like a very interesting story you have set up. I am looking forward to seeing what happens!

These models are looking great, I am looking forward to seeing them released. Did you make them entirely in Sketchup, or did you do the geometry there and texture them in Gmax? I have tried to export files made in Sketchup without much success on the textures.

That is a really picturesque place you have made, it looks very natural. I like the town perched on the top of the mountain there. Nothing that can be faulted.

9/10 That's a cool wolf picture. I like it!