Robert

Whoaaaaaaaaa!!!!! what else can I say it should be sent to GB Robert

It is always strange to me that stereotype exit because they are not true such as Italian with the mafia Germain with Nazis Polish with stupidity Iris with drunkenness so on and so on BTW the origins of the secret society known as the Mafia are believed to be as old as the 9th century. During that period the island of Sicily was occupied by Arab forces. The original inhabitants were oppressed, and needed places of refuge to escape to. The word "Mafia" means "refuge" in Arabic. When the Normans invaded Sicily in the 11th century, the native tribes were once again oppressed and forced into labor on the large estates their rulers created. Once again, the only way to escape this fate was to seek refuge in the hills of the island. During every subsequent invasion of Sicily, the refuges established in earlier centuries were sought out again. This secret society was at that time mostly intended to unify the natives against their enemies. Its intention was to create a sense of family based on ancestry and Sicilian heritage. This idea of family was carried through in the structure of the organization, which had a strongly hierarchical layout. At the head of the organization stood the dons, or chiefs, who were in charge of the Mafia chapters in every village. They in turn reported to the don of dons, who resided in the capital, Palermo. Members of the organization were required to take an oath upon initiation Robert Robert Rigaux Fort Myers Beach Florida

I have appreciated your comments I have posted the instructions because some people who have downloaded at the cottage thank me and ask me by email how I did it As far as thank you is concern you have to realize that only few members of this forum participate actively and help other if they have problems with pte and even problems with other software and they rarely get a thank you for instance Bill from the cottage manages on his server hundred of pte shows that members upload so far I did not see any post on the forum to thank him and I can assure you that is not easy and it require lot of work even if you pay me I wont do it. Personally I peruse the forum on the average once a week because I got tips from other members posts and I have also downloaded from the cottage and I get ideas from other pte shows and I don't take the time to thank them therefore I don't expect a thank you. I can understand your point of view of the unthankfulness on the Internet personally I am often p...o.. or upset to be polite of the expectation and the demanding attitude of people on the net but the net has being marketed as a free lunch and it will solve all problems for instance we will connect all the schools and sooner or later we wont need teachers that did not happen or ecommerce put your webpage on the net and wait for the checks some are still waiting for them, In the near future you going to have to pay for content sooner or later google will charge for it is services and when only few ips will operate don't be surprise to pay for sending email I am absolutely convinced that we will pay for sending email in 5 or 7 years. Regards Robert

Several people have asked me how the christmas card Happy Holidays Pte posted on the Cottage was done. The snow effect is an optical effect of 3 different frames with random snow flakes the snow flakes effect can be done with Ulead particles plugins or in PS with different layers or you can place snow fackes at random on each frame. You set Pte enable transition effects but you uncheck all the different transitions, set repeat show until esc key is pressed and display each slide for 0 second and 30 ms add a midi file for music try to keep the final pte under 600k to be able to send it by email attchmt You can add other effects such as blinking stars, christmas lights, windows lights ect ect you can also do some effects with the text remember if you use the same frame over and over it does not increase the size of the final pte.exe if some of you develop ecards could you post them on the cottage it would be interesting to see what other people do with the same idea. Robert Robert Rigaux Fort Myers Beach Florida

Happy Holidays I upload an Ecard at the cottage "holiday.zip" for all the members and their family I hope that we are going to be nice to each other in 2003 Robert