#adobe decrees

[punnyasitgets]

HYPE, sleep, friendo, talkative moot, r u like ok

hehehehehe

#aaaaagaronia #mutuals ❤️ #adobe decrees

[enubus]

#Less than a year after helicopter roundups killed 37 wild horses and sent hundreds more to now disease-ridden holding corrals #wild horses in Wyoming’s Checkerboard Area are facing a new threat — a government decision that would remove more than 1 million acres of p #slash the number of wild horses allowed to remain #and completely eliminate two herd management areas. #The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) #the federal agency tasked with managing America’s iconic wild horses #has been considering for years how to fulfill a consent decree to reduce wild horse numbers that was handed down by a federal judge in 2013 #following a lawsuit from a private grazing entity. #The BLM’s proposal #released this May #would not allow any wild horses in the current Great Divide Basin or Salt Wells Creek herd management areas (HMAs). Herd sizes in the Adobe #down from the estimated 1 #481 to 2 #065 horses that roam free there now. #The decision also impacts 1.1 million acres of designated #protected wild horse habitat – a more than 50 percent loss for Wyoming’s wild horses. #The Checkerboard horses already have suffered enough: 37 died during the most recent roundup #and survivors have been trucked to the Wheatland and Canon City holding corrals #where there are outbreaks of the highly contagious and fatal diseases strangles and equine influenza #respectively. #Rounding up and carting off more horses to already packed facilities #where they could face injury and even death #is not the answer – especially when polls show that 88 percent of Americans don’t support these cruel roundups. #Decimating wild horse habitat also is not the answer. #America’s wild horses don’t deserve to have their free-roaming livelihoods stripped to cater to private grazing interests. #Concerned members of the public and animal advocates can protest this horrific decision until June 6 #after which the BLM will consider the comments and then issue a final record of decision. #Sign our petition telling the BLM that you strongly protest the decision to remove wild horses and eliminate herd management areas and that #consolidating public and private lands in the Checkerboard area or other alternatives they didn’t consider during the planning process.

[maypoleman1]

7th March

Black Chickens

Source: Adobe/23ABC Bakersfield website

Chickens, especially black chickens, are generally considered lucky, particularly those who are born in March who are considered extremely fertile (‘a chicken in March is eggs for a year’ as the saying has it). The dawn-crowing cock is linked to the sun god in many pagan religions and his crow was believed to dispel evil at the start of the day. In Somerset, lore declared that ‘a cock will frighten away the devil himself’. Equally the crowing of the cock is a signal for the undead to cease their night time revels and hurry back to their graves before sunrise - as referenced by Shakespeare in Hamlet and the composer Saint-Saens in his work Danse Macabre.

Faith in the chicken’s good fortune charms was such that the unfortunate bird was often sacrificed during the construction of new buildings and buried in the foundations to ensure the structure would safely stand. Other traditions however decree to sacrifice a chicken will bring bad luck. The cock crow can of course be irritating. A traditional rhyme states rather impatiently that:-

A whistling wife and a crowing hen

Is neither good for god nor men.

Aside from the casual misogyny, the reference to a whistling wife probably relates to witches and their propensity to whistle up storms; the reference to the hen possibly reflects the annoyance of those who are woken up at dawn by their feathered friend.

#english folklore #black chickens #cockcrow #sun god #pagan religion

[pinkprimrose05]

GX Month Day 15: Ayers Rock Sunrise

@gxmonth

Ao3 Version Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33473653/chapters/83933650

Alright, let's face it. Even in the slower format of Duel Links, playing Evil HERO as a pure theme is bound to fail. It's not that it lacks a win-condition, the agressive nature of the Fusion bosses cover that relatively well, it's that the Deck has no sort of inherent protection, follow up, or interaction with the opponent, and falls short in terms of consistency as well (you have to run the crappy vanillas to access all of the Fusions bar Fiend, and that simply doesn't work in a format where every card is a combo starter).

What I'm trying to do here is give Evil HEROes some cool starters, extenders, and forms of interruption (plus some niche cards because I want a way to toy with them names). Please do tell if there's any way to improve these, I'd appreciate that a lot!

~~~~~

PART 1: We're Evil Now (Vanilla HERO Retrains)

This concept has been floating in my head for quite a while as a form of support, because when you go -3 to make a Fusion without your materials giving you any form of recovery or protection, you know something's wrong with your Deck. The following cards are mainly meant to help with consistency and maintaining enough resources to make a comback if things go south, but since I have a knack for adding useful GY effects on Main Deck combo pieces, you get some more advantage or protection as well. Here we go:

Evil HERO Pyro Burst

FIRE

Level 3

ATK 1200 / DEF 800

Fiend/Effect

This card's name is also treated as "Elemental HERO Burstinatrix" while in your hand, Field, or GY. If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Dark Fusion" from your Deck or GY to your hand. While this card is banished or in your GY, when a card or effect is activated that targets an "Evil HERO" monster(s) you control (Quick Effect): You can shuffle this card into the Deck; negate the activation, and if you do, inflict 500 damage to your opponent. You can only use each effect of "Evil HERO Pyro Burst" once per turn.

Evil HERO Twister Shot

WIND

Level 3

ATK 1000 / DEF 1000

Fiend/Effect

This card's name is also treated as "Elemental HERO Avian" while in your hand, Field or GY. If this card is sent to the GY or banished as Fusion Material for the summon of a "HERO" Fusion Monster: You can Draw 1 card, then shuffle 1 card from your hand into the Deck. You can only use this effect of "Evil HERO Twister Shot" once per turn. If an "Evil HERO" monster inflicts damage to your opponent, by battle or card effect: You can return this card to your hand.

Evil HERO Adobe Shield

EARTH

Level 4

ATK 800 / 2000

Fiend/Effect

This card's name is also treated as "Elemental HERO Clayman" while in your hand, Field or GY. If this card is Normal summoned: You can target 1 "Evil HERO" monster in your GY; return it to the hand or Special summon it. While this card is face-up on the Field, your opponent cannot activate cards or effects in response to the summon of your "Evil HERO" monsters'. The first time an "Evil HERO" Fusion monster that used this card as material would be destroyed by battle or card effect each turn, it is not destroyed.

Evil HERO Jolt Blaster

LIGHT

Level 4

ATK 1600 / DEF 1400

Fiend/Effect

This card's name is also treated as "Elemental HERO Sparkman" while in your hand, Field or GY. If you control an "Evil HERO" monster: You can Special summon this card (from your hand). If this card is sent to the GY by a card effect: You can target 1 monster your opponent controls; negate its effects. During the Main Phase, if this card is in your GY (Quick Effect): You can banish this card; set 1 Spell/Trap that lists "Evil HERO" in its text directly from your Deck. It cannot be activated this turn. You can only use each effect of "Evil HERO Jolt Blaster" once per turn.

~~~~~

PART 2: All Aboard the Reference Train! (Backrow Support)

More tools to work with in terms of interaction and interruption, another Fusion Spell, and most importantly, a whole load of references in names and effects. Let's have a look, shall we?

Supreme King's Castle Guards

Spell/Continous

When this card is activated: You can set 1 "Supreme King's Castle" directly from your Deck. Each time a monster(s) is sent to the GY: Place 1 Castle Guard Counter on this card (max. 6). All monsters you control gain 100 ATK for each Castle Guard Counter on this card. When a card or effect is activated in response to the activation of your card or effect, while you control an "Evil HERO" monster: You can remove 3 Castle Guard counters, negate the activation. You can only control 1  "Supreme King's Castle Guards".

Dark Miracle

Spell/Normal

Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, that must be Special Summoned with "Dark Fusion", by shuffling the Fusion Materials listed on it from your hand, Field and/or GY into the Deck. (This is treated as a Fusion Summon with "Dark Fusion").

E - Empyrean Valor

Spell/Quick-Play

Target 1 "Evil HERO" monster you control; it gains 500 ATK, and if it does, your opponent's cards and effects cannot be activated during each Battle Phase this turn.

V - Vindictive Order

Spell/Quick-Play

Target 1 monster you control; Special Summon 1 "Evil HERO" monster with the same Level from your Deck. It cannot attack this turn. You can only activate 1 "V - Vindictive Order" per turn.

I - Infernal Decree (Read as Trunade PTSD)

Spell/Quick-Play

If all monsters you control are "Evil HERO" monsters (min. 1): Return all set Spell/Traps your opponent controls to the hand. You can only activate 1 "I - Infernal Decree" per turn.

L - Latent Darkness

Spell/Quick-Play

Send 1 card from your hand to the GY, then target 1 "Evil HERO" monster in your GY; Special Summon it in Defense Position. You can only activate 1 "L- Latent Darkness" per turn.

Evil Flash!!

Spell/Quick-Play

Banish "E - Empyrean Valor", "V - Vindictive Order", "I - Infernal Decree", and "L - Latent Darkness" from your GY; shuffle all cards your opponent controls into the Deck. You can only use this effect of "Evil Flash!!" once per turn.

~~~~~

PART 3: I'll Play Myself, Thank You (Bonus Card)

This is kinda too broken for Duel Links, but I found myself loving the idea of monster support for archetypes having that one card that heavily resembles their user or are inspired by them (see Amazoness Paladin and T.G Star Guardian), and decided to do one of my own as a bonus boss alongside the support cards above. Presenting...

Evil HERO Malicious Majesty

DARK

Level 10

ATK 3900 / DEF 3400

Fiend/Fusion/Effect

1 "Evil HERO" monster + 1 Fusion Monster

Must be Special Summoned with "Dark Fusion" or by its own effect, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. Cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects. This Fusion Summoned card is unaffected by your opponent's card effects, unless they target this card. During the Main Phase (Quick Effect): You can destroy all cards on the field, and if you do, this card gains 100 ATK for each card destroyed by this effect, until the End Phase, also your opponent cannot activate cards or effect in response to this effect's activation. Once per turn, during the Standby Phase, if this card is in your GY: You can target 1 "Evil HERO" monster that is banished or in your GY; Special Summon that target. You can only use each effect of "Evil HERO Malicious Majesty" once per turn.

Some trivia about this card:

1- It's an indirect upgrade to Malicious Bane, as seen with the higher Level, higher stats, same attribute and similar protection/board wipe effect.

2- Its Fusion Materials and the effect that prevents your opponent from chaining cards to the board wipe are a reference to Super Polymerization; where the former means you can summon the card with Super Poly under Supreme King's Castle, and the latter is a shared effect with Super Poly itself.

3- ...Nothing, really, I just wanna make a third point for some reason. Yeah, this should be everything for now. Goodbye.

(Jk, I'm still staying for Day 18. 'Till then.)

#gxmonth2021 #yugioh gx #Evil HERO #custom cards

[mark-a-what-blog]

THE HISTORY OF NEW MEDIA

(1989)

— Aug 6th — birth of the web.

· Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web.

· AOL launched its instant messenger chat service and began by welcoming users with the iconic greeting “you’ve got mail!”

(1990)

— Tim Berners-Lee continues his works and develops the first Web browser WorldWideWeb.

(1991)

–researchers set up live camera footage of a coffee pot brewing and watched the live footage from their computer screens. Later this is connected to the World Wide Web and becomes the first webcam.

(1992)

-The term “surfing the internet” becomes a well-known phrase amongst those using the internet.

· Tim Berners-Lee posts the first photo ever to be on the internet. The photograph is of band “Les Horribles Cernettes”.

(1993)

— CERN introduces the World Wide Web to the world, this is now accessible to everyone.

· The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) — the first web browser to become popular with the general public

(1994)

— One of the first known Web purchases took place: a pepperoni pizza with mushrooms and extra cheese from Pizza Hut.

· ‘Yahoo!’ is created by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo. The site was originally called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.”

· Two lawyers post the first massive, commercial spam message with the subject “Green Card Lottery -Final One?”

(1995)

— Amazon.com is now open for the public, billing itself as the “Earth’s Biggest Bookstore.”

· Craig Newmark starts Craiglist, originally an email list of San Francisco events.

· Match.com is launched — the first online dating site.

· Entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar launches eBay, which was originally named “AuctionWeb.” the first item listed for sale was a broken laser pointer. A collector purchases it for $14.83 (£10.45).

· Chris Lamprecht becomes the first person to be banned from the internet by judicial decree. “I told the judge computers were my life,” Lamprecht later recalled.

· Microsoft releases Windows 95 and the first version of Internet Explorer.

(1996) 

— Nokia releases the Nokia 9000 communicator, the first mobile phone with internet capabilities.

· HoTMaiL launches as one of the world’s first webmail services, its name a reference to the HTML internet language used to build webpages.

· ‘the dancing baby’ — a 3D animation, becomes one of the first viral videos.

 (1997)

  — the Jet Propulsion Lab allows people to watch the Sojourner rover landing and exploration of Mars. The broadcast generates about 40 million to 45 million hits each day.

· Netflix first launches as a company that sends DVDs to homes via mail.

· Google.com registers as a domain.

-Electronics companies agree to make Wi-Fi a worldwide standard for wireless Internet.

(1998)

 — AOL launches AOL 4.0 and inundates American homes with CD-ROM mailers. AOL membership jumps from 8 million to 16 million members.

· The Internet Corporations for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) takes over responsibility for the coordination of the global internet’s systems of unique identifiers.

(1999)

— Pew Research Centre tests online polling with mixed results.

· MP3 downloading service Napster launches, overloading high-speed networks in college dormitories. Many colleges ban the service and it is later shut down for enabling the illegal sharing of music files.

· ‘Yahoo!’ buys GeoCities for $3.6 billion.

(2000)

— The NASDAQ hits a record high of 5,048, before plunging by 78% during the dot com bust. A 2001 survey finds 71% of Americans who had heard about the dot com troubles believe a major cause of the dot-com woes is that investors were eager to make a lot of money and took a lot of risks.

· AOL acquires Time Warner for $165 billion. New York Times says, “it could be the internet companies that do the buying and the old media that sell out.”

(2001)

— The average internet user spends 83 minutes online.

-Apple revolutionises music listening by announcing its iPod MP3 music player.

· Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger founded and launched Wikipedia. Users write over 20,000 encyclopaedia entries in the first year.

 (2002)

— Social networking site Friendster.com launches, and is soon overtaken by Facebook.

· Microsoft launches Xbox Live, its online multiplayer gaming service.

(2003)

— Apple launches the iTunes Music Store with 200,000 songs at 99¢ each. The store sells one million songs in its first week.

· Skype, a voice-over-IP calling and instant messaging service, launches and quickly becomes a verb, as in “Skype me.”

 · Professional networking site LinkedIn launches.

 · MySpace.com is founded and quickly adopted by musicians seeking to share music and build their fan bases.

· President George W. Bush signs the CAN-SPAM Act into law, establishing the first national standards for the sending of commercial email.

· WordPress blog publishing system created.

(2004)

— Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launches thefacebook.com. 1,200 Harvard students sign up within the first 24 hours. Facebook goes on to become the world’s biggest social networking site, with over a billion users worldwide.

 · Google starts trading on the NASDAQ at $85 a share.

· Mozilla releases Firefox 1.0.

· Massively multiplayer online role-playing game(MMORPG) World of Warcraft launches.

(2005)

— Broadband connections surpass dial-up connections.

· Community news site Reddit is founded. It is bought by Conde Nast a year later for $20 million.

· Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. buys MySpace for $580 million and sells it in 2011 for $35 million.

· YouTube is founded on Valentine’s Day. The first video, an explanation of what’s cool about elephants, is uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim on April 23rd. Google buys the company a year later.

 (2006)

— The late Senator Ted Stevens describes the internet as “a series of tubes,” during a 2006 speech on net neutrality. His quote is mocked by Boing Boing and the Daily Show and inspires YouTube remixes.

· Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion. YouTube founders Chad and Steve announce the Google acquisition in a video recorded in a parking lot: “The king of search and the king of video have gotten together.”

· Twitter launches. Founder Jack Dorsey sends the first tweet: “just setting up my twttr.”

 (2007) 

— Amazon.com launches its Kindle electronic book (e-book) reader.

-Apple releases its first touch screen iPhone, priced at $499 for 4GB and $599 for 8G.

 · Estonia becomes the world’s first country to use internet voting in a parliamentary election.

(2008)

— Google releases the Chrome Web browser.

· HTML5 is introduced.

· Deal-of-the-day website Groupon launches.

 · Apple launches its App Store with 552 applications.

· World of Warcraft hits 11.5 million subscribers worldwide. Guinness Book of World Records names it the most popular MMORPG.

(2009)

— Twitter raises $98 million from investors, valuing the company at a whopping $1 billion.

· The Web is transfixed by the tale of a six-year-old boy flying over Colorado in a weather balloon. The story later proves to be a hoax.

· Kanye West’s VMA outburst sparks an internet meme.

· Wikileaks collaborates with major media organisations to release U.S. diplomatic cables.

Apple releases its touchscreen tablet computer, the iPad.

3D TV starts to become more widely available.

· Ex-Facebook employees launch user-based question and answer site Quora.

(2011)

 — LinkedIn reaches 100 million users and debuts on NYSE.

· Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion.

· Google+ launches.

· Young Egyptians use the hashtags #Egypt and #Jan25 on Twitter to spread the word about the Egyptian Revolution. The government responds by shutting down the internet.

· Rebecca Black’s “Friday” becomes a YouTube sensation.

 (2012) 

— Facebook reaches 1 billion monthly active users, making it the dominant social network worldwide. Some analysts start calling it “Facebookistan.” The company buys Instagram for $1 billion and debuts on NASDAQ at $38 a share.

· South Korean music star PSY’s “Gangnam Style” video surpasses Justin Bieber’s “Baby” as the most viewed video ever, with over 800 million views.

· Ecommerce sales top $1 trillion worldwide.

· The Internet Society founds the Internet Hall of Fame to “celebrate people who bring the internet to life.”

 (2013)

  Former CIA employee and NSA contractor Edward Snowden turns over thousands of classified documents to media organizations, exposing a top-secret government data surveillance program.

· Apple says app store downloads top 40 billion, with 20 billion in 2012 alone.

· Twitter files for its long-awaited IPO. Shares soar 73% above their IPO price of $26 a share on the first day of trading.

-Elon Musk announces “hyperloop” — a giant, pneumatic tube transport system.

(2014)

— Facebook buys messaging app Whatsapp for $19 billion.

 (2015)

–Instagram, the photo-sharing site, reaches 400 million users, outpacing Twitter, which would go on to reach 316 million users by the middle of the same year.

-Supercomputers (the world’s fastest computers) are now a mere 30 times less powerful than human brains.

(2016)

The number 1 Youtube video to go viral in 2016 — Adele singing on James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke”.

 (2017)

— Apple launched their new iphone X

april 26- Instagram announced that it has added 100 million new users in the last four months alone, bringing the total Instagram user count to a whopping 700M.

Quantum computing shows signs of becoming a practical technology.

Instagram launches multiple photos in one post feature

twitter increases tweet character count to 280.

adobe spark is launched -With Adobe Spark, you can create beautiful graphics, web stories, and animated videos in minutes.

 (2018)

— instagram launches IGTV

Computer generated users of social media begin to gain popularity. ‘Virtual influencer’ Lil Miquela reaches 1m followers in April.

crypto anchors — Crypto anchors are digital footprints which can help companies, as well as ordinary consumers, check the product’s authenticity. they can help people to feel more secure about the product and not to spend their money in vain.

Apple watch series 4 is introduced by Apple

omron robots — these have been designed to dramatically increase productivity in manufacturing and logistics operations.

Parker Solar Probe by NASA — Fastest spacecraft ever — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is officially the fastest thing ever made by humans, reaching a top speed of 430,000 miles per hour as it makes its 7-year mission in the sun’s outer corona.

 (2019)- present

 —      Apple Launched IPhone 11

#media

[catbagannoobie-blog]

(1989) — Aug 6th — birth of the web.

· Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web.

· AOL launched its instant messenger chat service and began by welcoming users with the iconic greeting “you’ve got mail!”

(1990) — Tim Berners-Lee continues his works and develops the first Web browser WorldWideWeb.

(1991) –researchers set up live camera footage of a coffee pot brewing and watched the live footage from their computer screens. Later this is connected to the World Wide Web and becomes the first webcam.

(1992) -The term “surfing the internet” becomes a well-known phrase amongst those using the internet.

· Tim Berners-Lee posts the first photo ever to be on the internet. The photograph is of band “Les Horribles Cernettes”.

(1993) — CERN introduces the World Wide Web to the world, this is now accessible to everyone.

· The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) — the first web browser to become popular with the general public

(1994) — One of the first known Web purchases took place: a pepperoni pizza with mushrooms and extra cheese from Pizza Hut.

· ‘Yahoo!’ is created by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo. The site was originally called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.”

· Two lawyers post the first massive, commercial spam message with the subject “Green Card Lottery -Final One?”

(1995) — Amazon.com is now open for the public, billing itself as the “Earth’s Biggest Bookstore.

· Craig Newmark starts Craiglist, originally an email list of San Francisco events.

· Match.com is launched — the first online dating site.

· Entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar launches eBay, which was originally named “AuctionWeb.” the first item listed for sale was a broken laser pointer. A collector purchases it for $14.83 (£10.45).

· Chris Lamprecht becomes the first person to be banned from the internet by judicial decree. “I told the judge computers were my life,” Lamprecht later recalled.

· Microsoft releases Windows 95 and the first version of Internet Explorer.

(1996) — Nokia releases the Nokia 9000 communicator, the first mobile phone with internet capabilities.

· HoTMaiL launches as one of the world’s first webmail services, its name a reference to the HTML internet language used to build webpages.

· ‘the dancing baby’ — a 3D animation, becomes one of the first viral videos.

(1997) — the Jet Propulsion Lab allows people to watch the Sojourner rover landing and exploration of Mars. The broadcast generates about 40 million to 45 million hits each day.

· Netflix first launches as a company that sends DVDs to homes via mail.

· Google.com registers as a domain.

-Electronics companies agree to make Wi-Fi a worldwide standard for wireless Internet.

(1998) — AOL launches AOL 4.0 and inundates American homes with CD-ROM mailers. AOL membership jumps from 8 million to 16 million members.

· The Internet Corporations for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) takes over responsibility for the coordination of the global internet’s systems of unique identifiers.

(1999) — Pew Research Centre tests online polling with mixed results.

· MP3 downloading service Napster launches, overloading high-speed networks in college dormitories. Many colleges ban the service and it is later shut down for enabling the illegal sharing of music files.

· ‘Yahoo!’ buys GeoCities for $3.6 billion.

(2000) — The NASDAQ hits a record high of 5,048, before plunging by 78% during the dot com bust. A 2001 survey finds 71% of Americans who had heard about the dot com troubles believe a major cause of the dot-com woes is that investors were eager to make a lot of money and took a lot of risks.

· AOL acquires Time Warner for $165 billion. New York Times says, “it could be the internet companies that do the buying and the old media that sell out.”

(2001) — The average internet user spends 83 minutes online.

-Apple revolutionises music listening by announcing its iPod MP3 music player.

· Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger founded and launched Wikipedia. Users write over 20,000 encyclopaedia entries in the first year.

(2002) — Social networking site Friendster.com launches, and is soon overtaken by Facebook.

· Microsoft launches Xbox Live, its online multiplayer gaming service.

(2003) — Apple launches the iTunes Music Store with 200,000 songs at 99¢ each. The store sells one million songs in its first week.

· Skype, a voice-over-IP calling and instant messaging service, launches and quickly becomes a verb, as in “Skype me.

· Professional networking site LinkedIn launches. 

· MySpace.com is founded and quickly adopted by musicians seeking to share music and build their fan bases.

· President George W. Bush signs the CAN-SPAM Act into law, establishing the first national standards for the sending of commercial email.

· WordPress blog publishing system created.

(2004) — Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launches thefacebook.com. 1,200 Harvard students sign up within the first 24 hours. Facebook goes on to become the world’s biggest social networking site, with over a billion users worldwide.

· Google starts trading on the NASDAQ at $85 a share.

· Mozilla releases Firefox 1.0.

· Massively multiplayer online role-playing game(MMORPG) World of Warcraft launches.

(2005) — Broadband connections surpass dial-up connections.

· Community news site Reddit is founded. It is bought by Conde Nast a year later for $20 million.

· Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. buys MySpace for $580 million and sells it in 2011 for $35 million.

· YouTube is founded on Valentine’s Day. The first video, an explanation of what’s cool about elephants, is uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim on April 23rd. Google buys the company a year later.

(2006) — The late Senator Ted Stevens describes the internet as “a series of tubes,” during a 2006 speech on net neutrality. His quote is mocked by Boing Boing and the Daily Show and inspires YouTube remixes.

· Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion. YouTube founders Chad and Steve announce the Google acquisition in a video recorded in a parking lot: “The king of search and the king of video have gotten together.”

· Twitter launches. Founder Jack Dorsey sends the first tweet: “just setting up my twttr.

(2007) — Amazon.com launches its Kindle electronic book (e-book) reader.

-Apple releases its first touch screen iPhone, priced at $499 for 4GB and $599 for 8G.

· Estonia becomes the world’s first country to use internet voting in a parliamentary election.

(2008) — Google releases the Chrome Web browser.

· HTML5 is introduced.

· Deal-of-the-day website Groupon launches.

· Apple launches its App Store with 552 applications.

· World of Warcraft hits 11.5 million subscribers worldwide. Guinness Book of World Records names it the most popular MMORPG.

(2009) — Twitter raises $98 million from investors, valuing the company at a whopping $1 billion.

· The Web is transfixed by the tale of a six-year-old boy flying over Colorado in a weather balloon. The story later proves to be a hoax.

· Kanye West’s VMA outburst sparks an internet meme.

(2010) — Social photo-sharing sites Pinterest and Instagram launch.

· Wikileaks collaborates with major media organisations to release U.S. diplomatic cables.

Apple releases its touchscreen tablet computer, the iPad.

3D TV starts to become more widely available.

· Ex-Facebook employees launch user-based question and answer site Quora.

(2011) — LinkedIn reaches 100 million users and debuts on NYSE.

· Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion.

· Google+ launches.

· Young Egyptians use the hashtags #Egypt and #Jan25 on Twitter to spread the word about the Egyptian Revolution. The government responds by shutting down the internet.

· Rebecca Black’s “Friday” becomes a YouTube sensation.

(2012) — Facebook reaches 1 billion monthly active users, making it the dominant social network worldwide. Some analysts start calling it “Facebookistan.” The company buys Instagram for $1 billion and debuts on NASDAQ at $38 a share.

· South Korean music star PSY’s “Gangnam Style” video surpasses Justin Bieber’s “Baby” as the most viewed video ever, with over 800 million views.

· Ecommerce sales top $1 trillion worldwide.

· The Internet Society founds the Internet Hall of Fame to “celebrate people who bring the internet to life.”

(2013) — Former CIA employee and NSA contractor Edward Snowden turns over thousands of classified documents to media organizations, exposing a top-secret government data surveillance program.

· Apple says app store downloads top 40 billion, with 20 billion in 2012 alone.

· Twitter files for its long-awaited IPO. Shares soar 73% above their IPO price of $26 a share on the first day of trading.

-Elon Musk announces “hyperloop” — a giant, pneumatic tube transport system.

(2014) — Facebook buys messaging app Whatsapp for $19 billion.

(2015) –Instagram, the photo-sharing site, reaches 400 million users, outpacing Twitter, which would go on to reach 316 million users by the middle of the same year.

-Supercomputers (the world’s fastest computers) are now a mere 30 times less powerful than human brains.

(2016) The number 1 Youtube video to go viral in 2016 — Adele singing on James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke”.

(2017) — Apple launched their new iphone X

april 26- Instagram announced that it has added 100 million new users in the last four months alone, bringing the total Instagram user count to a whopping 700M.

Quantum computing shows signs of becoming a practical technology.

Instagram launches multiple photos in one post feature

twitter increases tweet character count to 280.

adobe spark is launched -With Adobe Spark, you can create beautiful graphics, web stories, and animated videos in minutes.

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Headlines

Discovery of 20 new moons puts Saturn ahead of Jupiter (AP) The solar system has a new winner in the moon department. Twenty new moons have been found around Saturn, giving the ringed planet a total of 82, scientists said Monday. That beats Jupiter and its 79 moons. If it’s any consolation to the Jupiter crowd, our solar system’s biggest planet--Jupiter--still has the biggest moon. Jupiter’s Ganymede is almost half the size of Earth. By contrast, Saturn’s 20 new moons are minuscule, each barely 3 miles (5 kilometers) in diameter.

UN Chief Says UN Facing Worst Cash Crisis in Nearly 10 Years (AP) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday that the United Nations is facing its “worst cash crisis” in nearly a decade because 64 of its 193 members have not paid their annual dues--including the United States, its largest contributor.

White House vows total halt to impeachment probe cooperation (AP) The White House declared Tuesday it will halt any and all cooperation with what it termed the “illegitimate” impeachment probe by House Democrats, sharpening the constitutional clash between President Donald Trump and Congress. “Given that your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, any pretense of fairness, or even the most elementary due process protections, the Executive Branch cannot be expected to participate in it,” White House Counsel Pat Cipollone wrote.

El Salvador Begins Mass Trial of Alleged MS-13 Gang Members (AP) El Salvador on Tuesday began a mass trial of over 400 alleged gang members, including 17 purported leaders of the feared transnational crime group Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.

Venezuela designers turn to piracy after Adobe announces it will cut service (Reuters) Venezuelans desperately explored piracy workarounds on Tuesday to continue using Adobe programs after the software developer said it will cut access to its products for the country’s users, citing U.S. sanctions.

Protests paralyze Ecuador (Foreign Policy) For the fifth day, thousands of indigenous protesters in Ecuador blockaded roads and crowded the streets of the capital, Quito, on Monday, to demand that President Lenín Moreno revoke last week’s decree to end longtime fuel subsidies. The protests also disrupted three state-run oil fields. Since the unrest began, 477 people have been arrested. An indigenous organization, CONAIE, says the protesters refuse to back down until Moreno withdraws the fuel hike. The movement has significant precedent: Indigenous-led protests forced three presidents out of office before ex-President Rafael Correa took power in 2007.

A U.S. diplomat’s wife killed a British teen in a wrong-way collision, police say. She claimed immunity and fled the U.K. (Washington Post) An American woman, the wife of a U.S. diplomat, has fled the United Kingdom after killing a British teenager in a wrong-way collision, authorities revealed Saturday. The Aug. 27 wreck left 19-year-old Harry Dunn dead after the woman allegedly collided with Dunn’s motorcycle near the Royal Air Force Croughton station, which is operated by the U.S. Air Force. Offering his sympathies to the family for their “tragic loss,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday that he hoped the woman, who has been identified as 42-year-old Anne Sacoolas, would return to Britain to face justice.

Brexit update (Reuters) A Brexit deal is essentially impossible as German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson that to do one, Northern Ireland must stay in the European Union’s customs union, a Downing Street source said. With just 23 days to go before the United Kingdom is due to leave the EU, the future of Brexit remains deeply uncertain.

Cyprus, Greece, Egypt call on Turkey to end ‘provocative’ actions (Reuters) Cyprus, Greece and Egypt called on Turkey on Tuesday to “end its provocative actions” in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, including exploring for oil in Cyprus’ territorial waters, which they called “a breach of international law”.

Ahead of offensive, Turkey says it strikes Syria-Iraq border (Reuters) Turkey’s military struck the Syrian-Iraqi border to prevent Kurdish forces using the route to reinforce northeast Syria, as Ankara prepared to attack following a surprise U.S. troop pullback, Turkish officials told Reuters on Tuesday.

Lam says Chinese military could step in if uprising gets bad (AP) Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam warned Tuesday that the Chinese military could step in if an uprising for democratic reforms that has rocked the city for months “becomes so bad” but said the government still hopes to resolve the crisis itself. Lam urged foreign critics to accept that the four months of protests marked by escalating violence were no longer “a peaceful movement for democracy.” She said seeking Chinese intervention was provided for under Hong Kong’s constitution but that she cannot reveal under what circumstances she would do so.

Iraq reaches a breaking point (Foreign Policy) On Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi ordered the army out of the Sadr City district, where dozens of protesters were killed over the weekend amid the country’s ongoing violent unrest. The intensity of the demonstrations has surprised even some veteran protesters, as young demonstrators call for the government to be overthrown. A number of protesters even say they are ready for military rule.

The Zimbabwe doctors’ strike (Foreign Policy) Public doctors in Zimbabwe continued their month-long strike on Monday, defying a government order to return to work and rejecting a 60 percent pay increase. Under extreme inflation, the doctors say that is not enough and have demanded salaries pegged to the U.S. dollar. Already facing medicine shortages, Zimbabwe’s state hospitals are struggling amid the strike.

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The Night of Decree: Lailatul Qadr It’s time Here it comes Sad i feel For how lacking I’ve been Disappointed For I know i have not done enough For all the could haves and should haves But alas here it is It’s time Here it comes And hopeful we must For His mercy is vast So drown in your tears Drop on your knees Again and again and again Push, drag, crawl if you must For it is time Here it comes The night that are better than a thousand months “Allahumma innaka ‘affuwwun tuhibbul ‘afwa fa’fu ‘anni” ‘O Allah You are The One Who forgives greatly, and loves to forgive, so forgive me. [Sunan Ibn Majah] ———— Allah swt says in the Qur’an: “The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months. The angels and the Spirit descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter. Peace it is until the emergence of dawn.” [97:3-5] The blessed Laylatul Qadr can be found in any of the last 10 nights of Ramadan, which are the most blessed nights of the year. As such, we should increase our worship and devotion during this period. Abu Hurayrah r.a relates that the Prophet s.a.w said: “Whoever stands (in the voluntary night prayer of) Ramadan out of faith and in the hope of reward, his previous sins will be forgiven. And whoever spends the night of Lailat Al-Qadr in prayer out of faith and in the hope of reward, his previous sins will be forgiven.” [Sunan an-Nasa’i] #iffahlukislukis #ramadhan #lailatulqadar #last10nightsoframadhan #CWAMuslimahCreative #illustration #islamicillistration #komikmalaysia #adobe draw #ipadpro

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Five Things I Do While Painting in Photoshop

Making little vids about my process has been super helpful for me to understand my shit and get better. Maybe it can be for you as well? Below I elaborate on my minute vid posted originally in my Instagram feed.

Set Up

I know a lot of people who like to save a million versions of separate layers of things. I guess you could call me a minimalist because I cannot be bothered to hold on to the past. In this file I have merged the grey-scale drawing into one single layer. Next I create two layers for color. One has the Multiply blend mode activated and the other is in the Overlay blend mode. From there I play around with the color until I get what I like—just like IRL painting. Starting off gradually I eventually get super detailed but I haven't agonized over every choice made in the drawing.

As I go I combine the layers using the best trick ever. Hold down "ctrl", "alt", "shift", and "E" (I dunno what this is on a Mac—sorrrrryyyyy). All of your layers will be merged into a single layer NO MATTER WHAT BLEND MODE THEY ARE IN. Here is the full scoop on this tip from Photoshop Essentials. I use this trick all. Damn. DAY.

The Goal

The rest of the image is built off of the basics I lay down early. I can add things and make adjustments but if the foundation sucks then the image is garbage and I'm left tinkering with something that can't be saved.

Brushes

When I was learning how to paint in Photoshop I heard a lot about Kyle Webster on Insta and at Adobe Max and basically any-fucking-where anyone talks about a damn Photoshop brush that isn't mentioning Syd Weiler. I impulse bought a mega pack (and sixteen million other packs) of his before Adobe brought him on board (like... right before it came with your Adobe CC subscription).

I now use two of those brushes (yeah I know). Both are from the PaintBox. The first is "Big Wide Softy" which is super bitchin' for blending and building trees and clouds as fast as humanly possible. The other is Bristle 3 for drawing and painting things out. Otherwise, I'm using the lasso tool and paint bucket or shaping things with the smudge and eraser tools.

For me, finding the right brushes was similar to finding a favorite medium in the real world. We each draw differently in the same way that we all have different handwriting. Play around with things and go from there—and don't spend a million dollars on a ton of things you will likely never use.

The View

Go to Window, Arrange, and at the bottom of the menu is "New Window for {blah blah file}". Then Go back to arrange and select the view that works best for you (I do 2-vertical). That way you can have a bird's eye view of your work while you are also zoomed in real close. If both windows are rotating at the same time there's a box you can uncheck "Rotate All Windows"  in the toolbar when Rotate function is active.

Take one thing off

I've started the use the Olly Moss trick of putting your "finished" WIP on your phone screen. When you look at it randomly during the day you will see what is so wrong or so right, so fast...

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Pair of red paper hearts on red background. Good love, valentines day, womens day banner, offer, card, invitation, flyer, poster template.

The history of Valentine’s Day–and the story of its patron saint–is shrouded in mystery. We do know that February has long been celebrated as a month of romance, and that St. Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. But who was Saint Valentine, and how did he become associated with this ancient rite? The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred. One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death. Still others insist that it was Saint Valentine of Terni, a bishop, who was the true namesake of the holiday. He, too, was beheaded by Claudius II outside Rome. Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons, where they were often beaten and tortured. According to one legend, an imprisoned Valentine actually sent the first “valentine” greeting himself after he fell in love with a young girl–possibly his jailor’s daughter–who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter signed “From your Valentine,” an expression that is still in use today. Although the truth behind the Valentine legends is murky, the stories all emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic and–most importantly–romantic figure. By the Middle Ages, perhaps thanks to this reputation, Valentine would become one of the most popular saints in England and France.

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How to Create a #Women2Drive Poster in Adobe Illustrator

What You'll Be Creating

Did you know, the Gulf kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that bans women (both Saudi and foreign) from driving? 

Only men are allowed a driving licence, and women who attempt to drive in public risk being arrested or fined.

Recently this has changed, as King Salman of Saudi Arabia signed a decree allowing women in the ultraconservative kingdom to drive.

For this tutorial, in support of the "Women2Drive" movement and the new reform policy which will take effect in June 2018, we are going to create a poster design promoting women's rights in support of the women in Saudi Arabia and the new social reform.

We will be using basic Adobe Illustrator tools like the Rounded Rectangle and Ellipse tool, and learning some shortcuts to speed up our workflow.

By the way, you can head over to GraphicRiver to find a great selection of graphics you can use for the design of the poster.

1. Set Up a New Document

Have Adobe Illustrator up and running so we can set up a New Document (File > New or Control-N) using the following settings:

Name: Women_2Drive

Number of Artboards: 1

Width: 8.5"

Height: 11"

Units: Inches

And from the Advanced tab:

Color Mode: CMYK

2. How to Set Up the Layers

Once you have finished setting up your project file, you need to layer the structure of the file so that you can have a clean, steady workflow and work on separate parts of the poster. 

Open the Layers panel (Window > Layers). Rename 'Layer 1' as 'Background'.

Then click the Create New Layer icon and create a total of three layers, which you need to rename and layer as follows:

layer 3: Illustration

layer 2: Text

layer 1: Background

3. How to Create the Background

Step 1

Let's start by creating our background. Make sure you are on the 'Background' layer.

Using the Rectangle Tool (M), click on the artboard once to open the Rectangle dialog box. 

Create a rectangle the size of the artboard:

Width: 8.5"

Height: 11"

Set the Fill color as green hex #119b48, to reflect the Saudi flag and color symbol 'To Go', and position it in the center of the artboard.

Step 2

Next, select the rectangle and Copy (Command-C), Paste in Front (Command-F) in order to create a duplicate on top of the original.

Choose the Delete Anchor Point Tool (-), and delete the top left anchor point, so a triangular shape is formed.

Set the Fill color of the triangle, as green hex #037f2f.

Step 3

Next, we need to create dashed road markings on the left and right of the banner.

Open the Stroke panel (Window > Stroke).

Select the Line Segment Tool (\), with a Stroke color of white. Hold down the Shift key and draw a line segment from top to bottom, with a Stroke Weight of 20 pt.

In the Stroke panel, check Dashed Line, and set Dash at 100 pt and Gap at 35 pt, as shown below.

Step 4

Duplicate the line by Copy (Command-C) and Paste in Front (Command-F). 

Hold down the Shift key to constrain movement, and drag to the right of the artboard, so we have parallel dashed lines on the left and right.

Step 5

After that, we need to create a black strip at the base.

Select the Rectangle Tool (M), tap once on the artboard and make the settings in the Rectangle dialog box as:

Width: 8.5" (inches)

Height 0.7" (inches)

Set color Fill as black with no stroke, and position the rectangle at the bottom of the artboard, as shown below. 

We will use the black strip as a text banner background in the next stage.

4. How to Place Text

Step 1

Moving on, we need to add the text.

In the Layers panel, Lock the 'Background' layer, and select the 'Text' layer. Open the Character panel  Window > Type > Character (Command-T) and the Paragraph panel: Window > Type > Paragraph (Option-Command-T).

In the Paragraph panel, select the Align Center icon.

Select the Type Tool from the Tools menu. With a black Fill, and with the Font family 'Bebas Neue', type in the words 'KEYS OF CHANGE' with the following settings:

'KEYS OF' with Font Size: 71 pt 

CHANGE' at Font Size 201 pt

Leading: 154.14 pt

Step 2

Open the Align panel (Window > Align).

Let's align our text to the center of the artboard. Simply select the text and choose Align to Artboard, from the Align Options dialog box. Then from the bottom right of the panel, select Align Objects: Horizontal Align Center.

Step 3

Select the 'KEYS OF CHANGE' text, and duplicate it: Copy (Command-C) and Paste in Front (Command-F).

Give the duplicate a white Fill color.

Object > Arrange > Send Backward (Command-[), and slightly move it to the right using the Right Arrow key, to create a light effect.

Step 4

Next, we need to add text over the black strip we created at the base.

Select the Type Tool from the Tools menu and with a white Fill and the Font family 'Bebas Neue', type in '#Women2Drive' with the following settings:  

Font: Bebas Neue

Font Size: 45 pt

Leading: (54 pt)

Set the Tracking for Selected Characters at 150

Set Paragraph to Align Center. Then Horizontally Align Center from the Align panel.

File > Save (Command-S).

5. How to Illustrate the Female Key Character

Step 1

Once you’ve finished working on the text, Lock the 'Text' layer and then move on up to the 'Illustration' layer, where we’ll start working on the illustration of our key character, which will be a car key control in the shape of a woman in hijab.

Select a black Fill, no stroke color, and the Rounded Rectangle Tool from under the Rectangle Tool in the Tools bar.

Tap once onto the artboard and set the Rounded Rectangle settings to:

Width: 1.9 in

Height: 3 in

Corner Radius: 0.4 in

OK

Step 2

Next, select the Ellipse Tool (L) and draw a circle 1.5 in in Width & Height above the rounded rectangle.

Then select the ellipse and rounded rectangle and Align to Selection, from the Align Options dialog box. Then select Align Objects: Horizontal Align Center.

Step 3

Open the Pathfinder panel: Window > Pathfinder.

Select the ellipse and rounded rectangle and select Shape Modes: Unite, to unite both into one object.

Next, pick the Rounded Rectangle Tool again, and set a skin color of hex #e8945b.

Click once onto the artboard to set Rounded Rectangle settings of:

Width: 1.5 in

Height: 0.7 in

Corner Radius: 0.2 in

OK

Position the new rounded rectangle in the top third of the united shape and Align to Selection from the Align Options dialog box.

Click Align Objects: Horizontal Align Center.

Step 4

Now we need to draw some eyes to place onto our lady key character. 

Select the Ellipse Tool (L) and draw two intersecting ellipses, with a black Stroke and no Fill, to illustrate the eye shape.

With both ellipses selected, select Shape Modes: Intersect.

Step 5

Use the Ellipse Tool (L) again to illustrate the iris and pupils of the eye, as shown below. Start from the outside and move inwards.

Note: Make sure to hold down the Shift key to constrain proportions when drawing a circle.

Step 6

Give the eye shapes colors of your choice, and Group (Command-G) the pupil shapes together. 

Step 7

Use the Selection Tool (V), and select the eye white.

Copy (Command-C) and Paste in Front (Command-F), to create a duplicate on top of the original. Object > Arrange > Bring to Front (Command-Shift-]).

Then use the Selection Tool (V) to select the pupil and top eye white, and Object > Clipping Mask (Command-7).

Step 8

Select the Pen Tool (P), with a black Fill, draw in the eyelashes and eyebrows, and then Group (Command-G) the eye shapes together.

Step 9

Select the eye group, Copy (Command-C) and Paste in Front (Command-F), to duplicate the eye.

Select the Reflect Tool (O), hidden under the Rotate Tool (R). 

Set up the center reference point between the eyes; Option-Shift-Drag and release when the object is mirrored into position. 

Then select both eye shapes, Group them (Command-G), and use the Down Arrow key to align to the frame.

Step 10

Next, let's create the "Unlock" icon button on the key control.

Select a white Stroke color, no Fill, with a Stroke Weight of 3 pt. Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool from the Tools bar.

Tap once onto the artboard and set the Rounded Rectangle settings to:

Width: 1.5 in

Height: 1.2 in

Corner Radius: 0.2 in

OK

We have illustrated the button frame.

Then draw another rounded rectangle for the 'lock', with settings:

Width: 0.3 in

Height: 0.6 in

Corner Radius: 0.2 in

OK

Step 11

Next, let's create our lock icon.

Select our center rounded rectangle, Object > Path > Add Anchor Points, to add equal anchor points on the rounded rectangle.

Take the Scissor Tool (C) and cut the center anchor points.

Select the top path, and take the Rotate Tool (R) and set the rotate axis point on the bottom right anchor point. Rotate the path so it looks like an open lock.

Step 12

Use the Pen Tool (P) to close the path of the base of the lock.

Then with a white Fill, no stroke, create the keyhole using the Ellipse Tool (L) to draw a circle. Below it, draw a rounded rectangle using the Rectangle Tool, as shown below in the 'lock'.

Select all objects and Align Objects: Horizontal Align Center, from the Align panel.

Step 13

Let's add some highlights on the key control to give the impression that it's hit by light.

Open the Brushes panel (Window > Brushes). Chose a white stroke, no Fill, and then select the Paintbrush Tool (B), and draw a white stroke around the shape. 

Note: Decrease the brush stroke by selecting [, and increase it with ].

Step 14

Cute! Now use the Selection Tool (V) to select all objects of the key control and Group (Command-G).

Object > Transform > Scale, and Uniform Scale by 130%. (Check Preview to view the scaling properly).

File > Save (Command-S).

6. How to Illustrate the Key

Step 1

Moving on, let's start illustrating the key.

Take the Ellipse Tool (L) and with black Fill color, draw an ellipse with Width & Height of 0.9 in.

Then, take the Rounded Rectangle Tool and create a rectangle with the settings:

Width: 1.5 in

Height: 1.8 in

Corner Radius: 0.4 in

Select the Free Transform Tool (E). The Free Transform widget will appear with the button options to Constrain, Free Transform, Perspective Distort, and Free Distort. 

Select Free Distort, hold the Shift key, and move the bottom anchor points inwards.

Step 2

Next, create the base of the key.

Take the Rounded Rectangle Tool to create a rectangle below the key top, with the following settings:

Width: 0.4 in

Height: 1.9 in

Corner Radius: 0.1 in

OK

Then, with the Ellipse Tool (L), create a 0.2 in circle of Width & Height.

Use the Selection Tool (V) to move the small ellipse on top of the key ellipse.

Select the two ellipses and rounded rectangles and Align to Selection, from the Align Options dialog box, and Align Objects: Horizontal Align Center

Step 3

Select the two key ellipses and from the Pathfinder panel, click on the Minus Front tab, to create a hole for the key.

Then Unite the new shape with the rounded rectangle, as below.

Step 4

Select the base of the key, and then take the Eraser Tool (Shift-E), and squiggle erase part of the base.

Note: you can control brush stroke by selecting [ to decrease, and ] to increase.

Then take the Rounded Rectangle Tool and draw the center of the key as seen here.

Step 5

Give the base of the key a Fill color of yellow hex #f9d026 and black Stroke Weight of 3 pt.

Then using the same Fill color of hex #f9d026, no stroke, take the Type Tool and type in 'JUNE 2018', as follows:

'JUNE' with Font Size: 45 pt, Leading: 33 pt, Tracking: 75

'2018 ' with Font Size: 39 pt, Tracking: 20

Align Center from the Paragraph panel.

Step 6

Let's add some highlights.

Chose a white Stroke no Fill, then select the Paintbrush Tool (B), and draw white highlights around the shape. 

Step 7

Use the Selection Tool (V) to select all the key elements, and Group (Command-G) them together.

Chose the Fill color of yellow hex #f9d026 and black Stroke Weight of 3 pt, and with the Rounded Rectangle Tool draw two rectangles with the settings:

Width: 0.15 in

Height: 0.6 in

Corner Radius: 0.1 in

OK

We will use these as a hook to the control ring.

Step 8

Select each of the yellow rectangles and place one on top of the ring and the second over the character.

Then Horizontal Align each with its respective object from the Align panel, and Group (Command-G).

Step 9

Let's create the key ring to attach the key and character to it.

Select the Ellipse Tool (L), and with black Stroke of Stroke Weight of 12 pt, draw a circle with a Width & Height of 2.5 in.

Object > Expand, which will open the Expand dialog box. 

Have Fill and Stroke checked, and OK.

Step 10

Give the circle a color hex of #f9d026 and black Stroke Weight of 3 pt.

Object > Arrange > Send Backward (Command-Shift-[).

The ring is too big, so you need to scale it down. Object > Transform > Scale and set Uniform scale: 80%. Make sure Scale Strokes & Effects is checked.

Step 11

Now for the last steps.

Select the ring object and use the Rotate Tool (R) to rotate and position it to connect it to the ring. Do the same with the female character.

Step 12

Finally, Object > Transform > Scale, and Uniform Scale the key by 115%, and OK. 

I went back and used the Direct Selection Tool (A) to select all the yellow filled shapes and set their Stroke Weight to 4 pt, so they look similar.

Also, I switched the text color in the 'Text' layer to white instead of black.

File > Save (Command-S).

Congratulations on Your Drive 2 Change!

Great job! I hope you managed to follow each step of the way, and maybe learned a few tricks along the way. Have fun designing and use the work to post on your social channels.

Share your creation below, and don't forget to hashtag #Women2Drive.

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