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The largest RV show on the West Coast has shrunk in size, but the builders of trailers, toy haulers and motor homes who remain in business parked their homes-on-wheels in Pomona, Calif., optimistic that the worst may be in their rear view mirrors, according to the Riverside, Calif. Press-Enterprise.
On display until Oct. 25 during the California RV Show at the Fairplex in Pomona sponsored by the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) are rows of recreational vehicles from towable trailers for $30,000 to veritable tour buses equipped with fold-out balconies and slide-out flat-screen TVs. Those, joked 61-year-old Jerry Presson of Fullerton, were for an RVer's wife who wanted a hotel room, not a camping trip.
He takes two trips a month in his 1991 Winnebago motor home and plans to journey "a lot more" now that he's retired. He was shopping for a Class A diesel motor home on Friday.
"I was going to buy one last year, but then the economy turned," he said, so he stayed with his job as a technician for an aerospace firm until he was forced to retire this year.
The recession severely curtailed motor home sales as banks were skittish to lend to customers and RV dealers alike. Manufacturers went under; dealers closed.
Nonetheless, Bill Gibson, president of Jag Mobile Solutions based in Howe, Ind., decided to get into the RV business. With his first Galileo trailer model — a solitary vehicle parked next to the fence across from a wall of RVs — Gibson sees it as the perfect time to come into the RV market with something new. His 5,000-pound trailer starting at $30,000 has room for four adults to sleep, stereo surround-sound and a solar panel on the roof.
His company still makes custom-ordered portable restrooms, showers and trailers for films. As for RVs, "I only need a very small number of people to buy," he said. "I have time to wait."
Dick Graham, regional sales manager for Forest River Inc., Elkhart, Ind., sat surrounded by his company's 2010 model motor homes.
"We're eternal optimists," he said. The economy that felled RV giants, most recently Riverside-based Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. (now owned by a New York equity firm and renamed Fleetwood RV Inc.), Weekend Warrior Trailers Inc. and National RV Inc., has left the market open to those remaining, Graham said.
Tom Powell, chief executive officer of Riverside-based Pacific Coachworks Inc., showed off his company's use of plywood instead of particle board inside its brand of Tango trailers. After stopping production and laying off most of his workforce, Powell ramped up production again earlier this year.
He said his firm has an advantage being one of the few RV makers left in the Inland region — others include Skyline in Hemet and Eclipse Recreational Vehicles in Riverside — since local buyers can rest easy with a factory nearby if a fix is needed.
John Collins, 34, a feature film art director from La Crescenta, has been to the Pomona RV show before but hadn't made a purchase.
This year he said he was willing to spend $75,000 to $125,000 for a motor home for his family that had bunk beds for his 2-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son, and anything but easy-to-stain white carpeting.
"We have to find one we absolutely love to spend that much money," he said.


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OCEAN CITY – Although the holiday season will come to an end next week, Light Up Downtown will continue its fundraising efforts to reach the goal of having light displays in the Inlet Parking Lot once again.
Light Up Downtown kicked off its first year on Nov. 24 with a celebration and the lighting of Sunset Park's tower into an illuminated tree. Each Friday and Saturday following until this past weekend Santa was on the scene with various entertainment scheduled, including music and dance performances, plus a bake sale, hot cocoa and more. There were also horse drawn carriage rides offered by R and B Ranch each Thursday through Sunday.
The Downtown Association initiated Light Up Downtown to bring the downtown area back to life during the holiday season. A number of years ago, Ocean City provided the Inlet Parking Lot with light displays during the holiday season for visitors to journey through, but the effort was abandoned.
The association hopes to reverse this by raising funds to once again light up the Inlet through Light Up Downtown and other fundraising initiatives.
Light Up Downtown Celebration Committee Chair Brian McCarthy reported he has noticed a difference in the number of visitors to the downtown area this year.
"A lot of the businesses have noticed more people have come down," he said. "Residents and visitors alike have enjoyed the carriage rides and the performers … Winterfest of Lights has been around for so long and it's so nice, but this is just something else for them to do on their way up to see the lights."
McCarthy said the kickoff celebration was probably one of the most crowded nights for Light Up Downtown as the City Council was present and music provided.
"Every night we had more people than we had expected," McCarthy said. "With an outside venue, it is hard to predict. It is all conditional upon the weather, but we were pleased with it every night."
McCarthy said some of the highlight performances were a contemporary A Cappella group from Salisbury University, Sqwuakappella, and the horse drawn carriage rides.
"The most amounts of inquiries were from people who wanted to know when the carriage rides were going on and when," he said. "It was a good asset to have."
According to McCarthy, not enough money has been raised at this point to have light displays in the Inlet Parking Lot by next holiday season. Light displays similar to the size of what is presented at Winterfest of Lights are upwards of $20,000 each.
"We raised a couple hundred dollars and so that will help get us ready for next year and try to approach it from a full long season," he said.
McCarthy still has high hopes to have light displays in the Inlet by next year and plans to continue fundraising efforts into the new year and throughout the summer.
The Downtown Association has discussed setting up a booth at Springfest and Sunfest with Santa and even having a holiday themed boat parade this summer. Parade entries would be judged for prizes.
"There has been a lot of excitement about a boat parade, Christmas in June," he said.
The boat parade will be proposed to take place from the Bahia Marina on 21st Street down to the Baywalk on 3rd Street or De Lazy Lizard on 1st Street.
"We would like to thank all of the volunteers and the businesses and the organizations that helped set up and of course a big thank you to the city," McCarthy said this week.
Ocean City Development Corporation Executive Director Glenn Irwin agreed the first year of Light Up Downtown was a success.
"There is a lot that can spin off from lessons learned from this year's event," he said. "Overall, the attendance I saw was very good."
Randy Davis of R and B Ranch said business spurred from the event was also very good.
"I have had a steady crowd on the weekends for the holiday route," he said. "The boardwalk is good, it is according to weather, but we have been doing very well."
Horse drawn carriage rides followed two routes during the month of December. The holiday route has ended, but the general route will continue beginning and ending at the Inlet on the Boardwalk near the comfort station.


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Just like some Mexican moles, this chili has a bit of chocolate in it. Serve sour cream and shredded sharp cheddar cheese alongside.
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- Makes 6 to 8 servings
- Nonstick olive oil spray
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 medium-size red bell peppers, chopped
- 6 garlic cloves, chopped
- 2 pounds ground turkey
- 3 tablespoons chili powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 3 15-ounce cans pinto beans, drained
- 1 28-ounce can diced tomatoes in juice
- 3 cups canned low-salt chicken broth
- 1 ounce semisweet chocolate, chopped
- Generously spray bottom of heavy large pot with nonstick spray. Add onion, bell peppers and garlic and sauté over high heat until vegetables begin to soften, about 8 minutes. Add turkey and sauté until no longer pink, breaking up large pieces with back of fork, about 5 minutes. Mix in chili powder, cumin and oregano and stir 1 minute. Add beans, tomatoes with juices, broth and chocolate. Bring chili to boil. Reduce heat to medium and simmer uncovered until chili thickens, stirring occasionally, about 1 hour. Season with salt and pepper.
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- Calories432
- Carbohydrates45 g(15%)
- Fat13 g(20%)
- Protein37 g(75%)
- Saturated Fat4 g(18%)
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Building a nest box and placing it between 10-30 feet off the ground will invite these pint-sized predators to your garden.
Closing up my potting shed one evening, I heard an eerie, but welcomed, soft neigh originate from a cluster of oak trees in the corner of my yard. Thirty seconds later, I heard a horse-like whinny call in the opposite corner from the 40-foot-tall clumping bamboo. I was surrounded. I quickly went to see if they had moved in the nest box that the previous owners had attached to an oak tree about 15 feet off of the ground – they had not.
A few short weeks later, after the courting had subsided, I saw the two new residents: Mr. and Mrs. Screech Owl. I checked a few weeks for signs of chicks and it appeared that they were unsuccessful. Then one night a fully feathered chick popped its head out of the nest box! The next day two chicks flew the coop.
Hosting and inviting owls to your garden has many advantages. Although not seen as often as diurnal birds, when owls are spotted it is a thrill for all. Their distinct vocalizations often give their locale away, as they fly silently with their fringed feathers hunting for vermin. Having pest control working not only for free, but throughout the night unseen, is an added bonus. Owls are an environmentally safe form of pest control – no harsh chemicals needed. These nocturnal birds will coexist with your songbirds because they are active at different times, so you can still enjoy your passerines. Here we profile four distinct owl species. Any garden can accommodate these and other native raptors with a few organic changes to your landscape.
Barn Owls
Barn owls are found throughout the world. They can take up residence in abandoned sheds, barns and silos. Designating a rustic area of the garden where pruning and maintenance are kept to a minimum will encourage these birds to move in. Reducing widespread exterior lighting such as flood lights will also help.
Barred Owl
While owls get a majority of their water from their diet, the barred owl will especially appreciate ponds, birdbaths and other water features. Barred owls are one of a few owl species that hunt aquatic animals such as snakes, fish, invertebrates and amphibians. These birds can be found naturally in wetland areas and are sometimes called swamp owls.
Great Horned Owl
Great horned owls are one of the largest species in the US and can eat prey items as large as skunks. Leave large, bare branches or snags to encourage nest sites. These roosts will also serve as lookout posts for these perch and pounce predators.
A version of this article appeared in Florida Gardening Volume 20 Number 2.
Screech owl photo by Milo Anderson; great horned owl photo ©iStockphoto.com/JillLang; all other photos for this article by Kenny Coogan.


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Scouting, Volume 7, Number 13, March 27, 1919
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Garden-Variety Giving: How One Mom's Garden Feeds a Community
The first time she tried growing vegetables, Amy Grey ended up with way too much lettuce. A trip to the food bank to donate the surplus led to a program that's feeding families in need.
Surveying her backyard in Moscow, Idaho, Amy Grey feels a rush of satisfaction. Raspberries and strawberries are ready for picking, pole beans and plump tomatoes ripen on trellises, and there's row after row of carrots, squash, spinach, pumpkins, and more. Her plantings yield more than 1,000 pounds of fresh produce annually—not bad for someone who was all thumbs, none of them green, when she started gardening a few years ago. "I grew up playing in the alleys of Chicago and pretty much have always lived in cities," she says. "Until I moved to Idaho, I'd never grown anything in my life."
These days Amy, a 41-year-old freelance graphic designer, is reaping record crops for Backyard Harvest, the innovative program she founded in 2006 to feed the hungry. Every May to October, Amy and other hardworking volunteers plant, pick, and deliver some 20,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables to food banks in Moscow and nearby Lewiston, as well as in Washington State. The project has been so successful that two branches recently sprouted in California. "We've found a way to help others—and it's right outside our doors," she says. "With all our baskets and bushels of homegrown produce we're contributing to the health and well-being of thousands of people by tapping into a spirit of self-reliance and living off the land. And we're creating a more tightly knit community in the bargain."
An Unexpected Community Garden
As Amy likes to tell it, Backyard Harvest started serendipitously. She and her husband, Mark, moved to Moscow from Cincinnati in 1998 when he was offered a position to teach archaeology at the University of Idaho. After sons Tom and Sam were born, the family bought a 1948 clapboard house on three-quarters of an acre with views of the fertile, rolling hills known as the Palouse. "During our first spring there in 2005, I decided that having a garden would be fun for all of us," Amy recalls. "But I was a total novice, so I let the boys plant the whole packet of seeds, and we ended up with 200 heads of lettuce. We had friends, but we didn't have that many friends."
She contacted the Moscow Food Bank and asked if they'd accept fresh produce. "They said yes, and it turned out people really wanted it, because the lettuce was gone in a flash," says Amy. "I remember thinking how ironic it was that Idaho is one of the greatest agricultural states in the nation, but people had been leaving the food bank without a single apple or bunch of carrots. It got me thinking that there must be a way to get wholesome food onto people's tables."
Amy began planting as much as her backyard could grow and enlisted neighbors to do the same, telling them she'd cart the bounty herself to the food bank. Some people had fruit trees, so Amy soon added apples, pears, apricots, plums, and cherries to the haul. She also did a little research and learned that Moscow and Lewiston have a high percentage of seniors on limited incomes, and that 14 percent of area households face some degree of food insecurity, a number that exceeds the national average. "I wanted not only to turn this project into a nonprofit but also to set up a corps of 'garden mentors' to teach people how to grow food and can it themselves," Amy says. "I remember being fascinated as a child when my mom told me stories about my great-grandmother making preserves. This charity was in me all along."
Finding Community Partners
She turned to Tom Lamar, founder and executive director of the Palouse Clearwater-Environmental Institute (PCEI), which supports local, organic farming, for help filling out applications and writing grant proposals. Using her graphic design skills, Amy set up a Web site so she could launch a donation drive. "PCEI had generously agreed to be our fiscal sponsor, which meant that until Backyard Harvest was legally established, any funds I raised would be donated to the institute, and it deposited the money in an account for us," she explains.
Once Backyard Harvest was up and running last year, Amy began offering free gardening kits to new members who contributed $25 or more. "We have about $14,000 in the bank," says Amy. "It may not sound like much, but our expenses are low. I'm still a volunteer, as are all our gardeners, who use their own cars and pay for their own gas. We have just two paid staffers, including one we call the Gleaning Coordinator, who takes all the requests for pickups and organizes who goes where."
Amy still gets a helping hand from her family. When a call comes in from someone with trees bursting with cherries or a patch full of pumpkins, "we all pile in the car," she says. "Tom and Sam, who are now 9 and 6, love seeing new places and meeting new people. Mark and I might sit and have coffee with an elderly couple before we pick the peaches in their backyard and the boys will play with their kittens. They'll feed apples to the horses on a farm near an orchard that gave us several bushels. Or we'll just sit right down and eat some of whatever we've picked. I have a picture of Sam totally covered in cherry juice and looking really happy!"
The kids still tend their own garden, a popular field trip destination for their teachers and classmates. "The students might harvest berries, plant cucumbers, prepare boxes for the food banks, or do crafts, like carving dried gourds into bird houses," says Amy. "They also love making worm bins by putting shredded paper into wooden crates. We feed them scraps and then use their waste as fertilizer—a great firsthand lesson in ecology. But just seeing plants grow can be a real learning experience. One little boy was amazed to find out that peas come from a pod and not a frozen dinner!"
Spreading the Bounty
With recent requests from Portland, Oregon, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for information on starting local chapters of Backyard Harvest, Amy hopes that communities from coast to coast will follow suit. The group has also partnered with the city of Moscow to allow families to use food stamps at the area farmers' market to purchase fresh produce. "When times are tough—and they certainly are right now—there's no easier way to give people nutritious meals and let them know someone cares," she says. "There's a special look in people's eyes when they receive food from others who've planted and harvested it with their own hands. I was dropping off produce at a food bank once when a woman came up to me and said, 'This makes me feel loved.' I told her it goes both ways. And believe me, I get more than I give."
The blessings extend to her whole family. "Mark and I were a couple of city kids with no idea what to expect when we got here," she says. "Now we feel we belong. In fact, we raved about Idaho and the Northwest so much that when my parents retired last year, they moved from Chicago to Spokane, Washington. They help out with the harvest when they visit, right alongside their grandsons. We've all become friends with many of our neighbors in need who we'd never have met otherwise. They'll be in our hearts forever."
Calling All Cooks
Know how to make a delicious zucchini casserole that even the kids love? Have advice on preparing rutabaga or storing peas? Backyard Harvest is putting together tips and recipe cards to accompany produce donations. Go to backyardharvest.org to e-mail your ideas—or to make a contribution online. You can also send a check to Backyard Harvest, P.O. Box 9783, Moscow, Idaho 83843.
Originally published in the August 2009 issue of Family Circle magazine.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Attorney General Eric Holder said on Thursday that President Barack Obama would not have the authority to order a drone to kill an American citizen on U.S. soil who was "not engaged in combat."
In a two-sentence letter to Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul, Holder said he had heard Paul wanted to know if the president could use a drone to kill an American outside of an emergency situation.
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I know how sensitive I am about where/how I get my information about multiple sclerosis. From your comments over the years, I know you are too. Thus, this blog is intended not only as an interesting topic of conversation, but also full disclosure.
I have been asked by the primary investigator of a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to act as a patient advocate in the protocol phase of a phase II study looking at neuro-protection in progressive MS. While this study is of a medication (a medication I don't remember the name of and, quite frankly, don't even care that much), it's not the drug part of the study which interests me.
I'd like you to understand my involvement in this study so you can understand why I am excited.
First (and this would have been a non-starter for me), this study is being paid for and all data will belong to NIH — not the drug company. Second, while my statement of not caring about the MS medication may be confusing, this study will help lay down some of the first benchmarks (measures of success, if you will) for treating progressive forms (primary progressive and secondary progressive) of multiple sclerosis. THAT, my friends, is why I was excited to be asked!
The roll of a patient advocate for this study was requested by NIH. The reason: some of the proposed benchmarks are more difficult to ascertain than those used to measure success in relapsing forms of MS.
In relapsing MS, Gadolinium-enhancing lesions which show up on MRI scans indicate inflammation. Inflammation = disease activity. Stop the new lesions, stop the activity. That's how most of the drugs are measured for success.
In setting up benchmarks for this trial, there are several measures that must be looked at, some of them not the most pleasant. That's why they've asked for a patient to have a look at the plan. Also, as this is an oral drug, there are issues that many researchers just don't think about when it comes to progressive MS…
As this trial will have multiple doses of the drug throughout the day and different doses will be tried, two bottles (two from one, three from the other), five bottles, and blister packs are all options. The cognitive and fine-motor skills necessary to use any one of these options may be difficult for someone with progressive MS.
Is a brain MRI enough for this trial, or should we do brain and spine? Which part of the spine? The whole spine? If it's just a brain MRI, will we have enough data? If we scan the whole spine, is that too long in an MRI tube? Are there enough people with progressive MS willing to sign up to be studied? How will prospective subjects react to the idea of lumbar punctures (yup — plural!) as part of the study?
All of these questions (and plenty more) await this team and its nationwide set of research sites (stay tuned for that list). I may, as I have on other occasions, come to you for input. Again, this is an NIH study. They are paying for it, not a drug company. They, not the drug companies, will own the data. The data will be public and available to all (once it is published by the investigators).
Also, I want to ensure that everyone knows that this is an unpaid, 100 percent volunteer position. I will receive nothing for the work. That would have been a non-starter, too.
I know this may be a bit dry for a Monday topic on our blog. I thought, however, that it was important (at least to me) that you are all aware of my involvement.
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
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Christopher Jason Vann, age 39, passed away Nov. 24, 2012.
Christopher Jason Vann, age 39, passed away Nov. 24, 2012.
He was a member of South Clinton Baptist Church and was an employee of AT&T. Chris enjoyed riding four wheelers, fishing and playing video games.
He is survived by his two daughters, Brittney Vann and Brooke Covington; his father, Michael Vann and wife, Gwen; his mother, Deborah Vann; a brother, Matthew Vann; his grandfather, Danny Koerner; an aunt, Vickie Wright and husband, Kenny; uncles, Paul Koerner and wife, Amy, Tom Koerner and wife, Donna; and by several nieces and nephews.
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Life is just a bowl of cherry-red lettuce
Or maybe that's cheery red lettuce. I'm bringing a full salad bowl to work nearly every day now. If I'd known how easy and satisfying growing lettuce was, maybe I'd have gotten off my duff earlier in spring years before this.
I'm enjoying watching the Five-Color Silverbeet Swiss Chard from Seed Savers, the yellow leaf in the center, and the "Marveille de Quatre Saisons," or "Marvel of Four Seasons," the red leaf that's fourth from the left, from Botanical Interests, grow taller and fuller and more frilly by the day. It seems like the more I cut, the more they grow. They are sweet enough to eat plain, right out of the bowl while driving, except that a tiny green inchworm almost became a condiment.
Curtis Jones, who co-founded Botanical Interests with his wife, Judy, says greens and lettuces are among the things so easy to grow that you'd be crazy not to, but in addition to being easy, I just think a plot full of lettuce is beautiful and feels abundant.
Nearly all the tomatoes I grew from seed have gone to their homes, and I'm having a little bit of empty nest syndrome. Because my back yard is getting a total re-do this summer, I didn't want to plant any crops that would just have to be ripped out. Is this how a spider feels in the afterlife watching those eggs hatch into baby spiders and take wing?
Some tomatoes went to co-workers. Some went to fellow bloggers. ace commenter/food photographer Kitt, got a Stupice and two purple tomatillos. Six went to my wonderful next-door neighbor, Jeff, a retired rancher who loans me tools and trades dogsitting duties with me. I know he'll care for them like he cares for everything; this is a guy whose garage floor you could eat off of.
Some are planted at my friend's house in the foothills, a woman whose gardens in Iowa were a major motivators so many years ago, back when we were both wild and crazy girls who stayed out late and drank rotgut scotch and too many margaritas. (See her blog here.)
I still have a few tomatoes and a lot of peppers. And I think I'll plant them in the proof of life garden, because it's already on a drip system and the dirt is already dug, and because it makes me happy to see some food in that all-ornamental garden that now feeds only the bees and my own need for beauty. I'll reclaim the kitchen table, perhaps just seeding some basil and leeks in flats on the back porch.
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Here's the deal. There are two completed Gossip Girl episodes remaining and that will probably be it for the season unless the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike is resolved, which looks increasingly unlikely. The two un-aired episodes will be shown January 3 and January 10.
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Thursday, 1 March 2012
Tea Brack
Tea Brack
Serves 8-10
300ml hot tea (use 2 normal teabags and 1 Earl Grey)
180g sultanas
180g raisins
100g dried stone dates, chopped (I used currants)
1 eggs, beaten
225g self-raising flour
150g light brown sugar
1-2 tbsp Cointreau or other orange-flavoured liqueur
2 tsp mixed spice
2 tbsp honey, to glaze
The day before you want to make the brack, make the tea and leave to infuse for 15 minutes.
Place the sultanas, raisins, chopped dates (currants) into a bowl. Remove the teabags from the pot and pour the hot tea over the fruit. Cover and leave overnight to soak.
The next day, preheat the oven to 180oC/fan 160oc/gas mark 4. Line a 2lb loaf tin with parchment paper.
Add the beaten egg to the fruit mix along with the flour, sugar, Cointreau and mixed spice. Mix well with a wooden spoon.
Spoon the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours, or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Leave to rest in the tin for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool. While the cake is still quite warm, brush the top with the honey.
9 comments:
- Maggie said...
I love Brack Bread, it never lets you down. It keeps, gets lovely and sticky and it freezes well too.
- 2 March 2012 at 11:32
- Kelly-Jane said...
I love tea brack too, never made it with orange liqueur - that sounds lovely.
- 2 March 2012 at 15:42
- Lisa said...
Looks FAB. I'm going to have to stock up on dried fruit next time I go shopping!
- 2 March 2012 at 16:52
- The Caked Crusader said...
ooh - yes please! Cut and butter me a nice thick slice!
- 4 March 2012 at 17:54
- Lauralovescakes said...
This looks delicious...especially spread with butter. I really love a good tea loaf so I imagine this tastes lovely, it looks really moist too!
- 5 March 2012 at 19:07
- Unknown said...
Looks delicious, especially with the butter over a slice.
I've never tried or made a tea brack but have quite a few recipes for loaf bakes, will try.
- 6 March 2012 at 20:56
- Mary Bergfeld said...
What a lovely tea cake. This is my first visit to your blog, so I took some time to browse through your earlier posts. I'm so glad I did that. I really like the food and recipes you share with your readers and I'll definitely be back. I hope you have a great day. Blessings...Mary
- 8 March 2012 at 13:37
- Nic said...
Nice looking sticky loaf, and love that you have the addition of orange liqueur in there!
- 19 March 2012 at 15:56
- Suzie Hull said...
I can't imagine how the Irish thought of putting tea in their fruit loaf??? It shouldn't work but it does. Lovely recipe and great site.
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I know he's not Atogwe or Asomugha or Sanders but I think the addition of Erik Coleman is a smart and savvy move for our Lions. Coleman isn't a throw away guy. He was a starter and a decent one at that until he hurt his knee. Once he recovered he had been replaced by a second round pick that was playing well enough to make his contract expendable. I think all Falcons fans seemed pleased to have him as a quality back up at safety and even when he was a back up he managed to be the captain of the special teams unit. To me that shows character. He could have taken it easy or got an attitude about not getting his starting spot back but instead he went out and performed at a high level.
This has been a trend in Detroit, bad character guys have been removed and replaced with guys that are willing to work hard and give their best. Maurice Morris, Stephan Logan, Kyle Van Den Bosch, Ndamukong Suh, and even some lesser known guys like John Wendling have all been sought out because they are professionals and bring character to the team.
Coleman also gives me even more insight into the Lions plan in the secondary. I have a strong feeling that Chris Houston will be back next year with a multi-year deal.Coleman and Houston played together in Atlanta and should be able to play together quite quickly. An upgrade could still be had at the other side but if the season started today with the combination of Nathan Vasher, Alphonso Smith, Prince Miller, Brandon McDonald, and Tye Hill as you rotational corners I think the team's pass defense would be in better shape than most people give them credit for.
The Lions finished last year as the 16th ranked pass defense in the league. That's a major improvement over the past years. Especially when you consider the amount of injuries and rotations they made. Remember Jonathan Wade? The starter? Ya, I don't really either. Both Vasher and Smith played better than I think anyone anticipated. So much is made of continuity and chemistry. This unit should have a chance to gel this off-season. I still think a rookie defensive back is a real possibility in the draft but if they only get another mid round developmental guy like Devon House, Jalil Brown, or Johnny Patrick then I think they will still be in good shape.
I hope they focus more on bringing in two solid line backers. One in the draft, one in free agency, and another late round developmental guy with speed that can be a special teamer. Obviously Von Miller in the first round if he falls. I think he will but not sure if he falls that far. One of my favorites that has gone under the radar somewhat is Chris Carter from Fresno State. He's played at defensive end but is a true athlete and can make the transition to backer. He's around 230 pounds which isn't bad but you'd like to see him around 240-245 in a year or two. If he can keep his speed and athleticism and gain some size in a developmental year then I think he's a guy that could take over a starting spot inside in a 3-4 defense or outside in a 4-3 will be where he is best suited.
Dontay Moch in the second round along with Mason Foster are guys to watch. I like Adrian Molten from Maryland as a developmental third day prospect so watch for them. All in all the run defense was much more of an issue last season than the pass defense, ranking only 24th. That's actually an improvement over recent seasons but nowhere near good enough to contend for a playoff spot. With the talent and skill that is on the defensive line the Lions should be a top 15 defense in both the run and pass game.
The back seven really only needs 3 players at this point from what I'm seeing. A quality starting corner, a quality starting line backer, and Chris Houston. With Coleman in the mix the depth is good. With guys like Palmer, Dizon, and Carpenter the line backer depth is solid and one of those guys could start.
If I was in charge, which I'm definitely not, I would go after one of the top line backers available out there that will fit in as an upgrade where Julian Peterson used to be. There will be up to 10 solid possibilities to look at. Find the best scheme fit and bring him in to start. Then I would try to get my hands on whomever the best weak side prospect is in the second round. In the first I'd strictly go best available and build the talent level on the team.
After fixing the line backing core with a guy like Chad Greenway and drafting a weak side prospect like Dontay Moch in the second, I would resign Chris Houston and hope to get a good corner prospect in the first round like Jimmy Smith or Brandon Harris. That would fill every perceived hole on this team. In the third round I would look at another offensive play maker like Randall Cobb or Lester Jean(one of my sleeper prospects). A center prospect has to be high on the list as well. The trouble Dominic Raiola keeps finding himself in as well as his questionable abilities combined with Dylan Gandy being a free agent make the need for a developmental center significant. I haven't found a solid mid round prospect that I like yet though.
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"Therefore he was named Perez."
The story of Judah and Tamar is a strange one which interrupts the Joseph narrative that ends the book of Genesis. As I (Josh) read through it initially it seemed like a weird and frankly gross inconsequential story with no bearing on the rest of the Genesis or Biblical narrative, save perhaps to highlight the general despicableness of Judah (who one chapter before wanted to kill his brother) compared to the righteousness of Joseph (as the reader sees in the following chapter and the story with Potapher's wife). But as I re-read it alongside a commentary to gain more context the ending of the story suddenly became very significant to the rest of the Biblical narrative. Why? Because the younger of Tamar's twins (conceived from Judah) is Perez from whom comes the royal line of David and therefore Jesus.
Why is this significant and why does it resonate with me personally? It can be very easy to view Jesus with rose-colored glasses, to think of him floating around being perfectly nice to everyone and generally happy-go-lucky all the time. Don't get me wrong, I think Jesus was happy and joyful, deeply so, but this false picture ignores the dirtiness of the world Jesus walked in and the ugliness of a sin-ravaged earth. What I love about the story of Judah and Tamar is precisely the ugliness present.
The language is blunt and brutal. Tamar, not a descendent of Abraham (and therefore not part of God's chosen people) is humiliated, mistreated, abused and nearly killed unjustly. She is a childless widow with nothing, no power, no prospects save a vague promise from her father-in-law Judah to give his youngest son Shelah to her in marraige when he is old enough. And yet her actions (pretending to be a prostitute and tricking her scum-bag father-in-law into sleeping with her and getting her pregnant) are those of a smart, keen, desperate and confident woman. The passage in no way condemns any of her actions, in fact she is the righteous, just foil to Judah's corruption. Judah is not only corrupt and contemptible (he does not keep his word to allow Shelah to marry Tamar when he is of age) and generally despicable (picking up a roadside prostitute after his wife just died) but is also cruel (he wants to burn Tamar alive when he finds out she is pregnant from prostituting herself when the usual punishment would have been death by stoning).
Yet this is the man through whom God brings King David and eventually Jesus? I'll be honest, I weirdly love that. Often I think of Jesus as a perfect superhero-like foil to all the brokenness, corruption, evil and death in the world who had no choice BUT to play the part of superhero, a man so earnest even Captain America rolls his eyes. But Jesus' very bloodline bears the scars of sin and uncleanliness. Of the four women in Matthew's genealogy (Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and Bathsheba not including Mary), two are prostitutes (Tamar and Rahab) and all are foreigners, 'unclean' non-chosen people. One scholar even beautifully noted all four women conceive by questionable means just like Jesus' mother, Mary. Even through his birth God was identifying Jesus with the lowest of low, the broken, defenseless, the foreigner, alien and powerless. As Dr. Ray Bakke said "He is the savior who came into the world and deliberately choreographed into his own blood stream the scandalous people that Judaism was leaving outside and wanted nothing to do with". Jesus' lineage both reflects the ugliness of this fallen world and the heart of God for such a world which makes his life, death and resurrection all the more significant.
He did have a choice and chose to obey God the Father perfectly, to go to the cross and embrace the consequence of sin like those his ancestors committed to redeem a dark, twisted world where women are threatened with unjust death and mistreated, where incest happens, where people break promises, where father's watch their sons die and where racism condemns people because of the community (or country) they are born into. Jesus dies and redeemes a world like that, a world he knew and experienced, a world his very blood was evidence of both as he was born and as it poured out in death. Which is why I love the ugliness of this passage, because it reminds me justice has been done, there is an answer now for such pain and devastation. Jesus.


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Jody Kent Lavy is director and national coordinator of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth.
A year ago this week, the Supreme Court ruled in Miller v. Alabama that it is unconstitutional to impose on a child a mandatory sentence of life without parole. The court stopped short of striking down all life-without-parole sentences for children but required that judges consider a child's maturity, home environment, role in the crime, potential for rehabilitation and other key factors before ordering this harsh penalty. Miller was the third Supreme Court ruling in three years to reaffirm the notion that children who run afoul of the law cannot be treated the same way as adults without consideration of their status as children because science tells us — as all parents know — they are fundamentally different.
Still, an investigation by the Center for Law and Global Justice found that the United States remains the only nation in the world known to sentence children to life without parole — a sentence to die in prison. While young people can commit serious crimes, the children most likely to receive this sentence are among society's most vulnerable. Nearly 80 percent of youths sentenced to life without parole reported witnessing violence in their homes, according to the Sentencing Project; more than half witnessed weekly violence in their neighborhoods. Most never received treatment for the trauma they experienced at young ages.
A 2005 Human Rights Watch report found that African American youths are sentenced to life without parole at a per capita rate that is 10 times that of white youths convicted of the same crimes, and that more than half of youths who received this sentence had no prior record and, in many cases, had grossly inadequate legal representation. The vast majority of those sentenced to life without parole for crimes committed as youths live in states where the sentence was mandatory.
Millerstruck down the statutes in at least 29 states, many of which have considered changes to comply with the ruling. Some states have focused on approaches that would impose the next-harshest available sentence. A few states — including Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Washington and Wyoming — have pursued compliance more broadly, seeking reforms that provide periodic reviews of sentences for youths convicted of serious crimes. This approach reflects the notion that children should be held accountable in ways that ensure they will have a second chance at life, increasing the likelihood that they will be motivated to change and be productive members of society when they return home.
The federal government, however, has been silent about addressing this issue.
This month a coalition of more than 65 organizations, including the National PTA, the American Correctional Association and the National Association of Social Workers, called on Attorney General Eric Holder to comply with the core tenets of Miller by reforming the Justice Department policy that allows children to be tried and sentenced as adults in federal court, where life sentences may be imposed. Six months earlier, Holder's own Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence advised against transferring children to be tried in the adult criminal justice system. The Obama administration should set an example for states and take this practical but significant step to demonstrate that youths — even those convicted of serious crimes — should be held accountable in ways that reflect their status as children and their capacity to change.
Policymakers would also do well to look closely at model correctional programs such as the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center in Wisconsin. Mendota provides individualized mental health and behavior modification programs in a correctional setting and is run by mental health staff and funded in part by the state's health department.
A 2012 evaluation by the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention found that the recidivism rates of youth who completed the Mendota program were less than half that of the comparison group. A study published in the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency in May 2006 found that despite the Mendota Center's substantially higher daily costs than those of typical secured juvenile corrections services, the program resulted in a shorter length of stay so the costs ended up being similar to those of secured corrections centers. Mendota also saves the state roughly $7.18 for every dollar spent by avoiding the expense of imprisoning recidivists. In contrast, it costs approximately $2.5 million to send a child to prison for life without the possibility of parole.
Policies that automatically lock children away with no hope of release are inconsistent with American values. The Obama administration has an opportunity to move our country forward on juvenile justice reform — an issue that was a priority to Barack Obama when he served in the Illinois legislature. The administration should implement meaningful juvenile justice reforms that uphold the dignity and human rights of our children and ensure that no child in our nation is deemed a throwaway person.


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In his notes in Algebraic Number theory, J S Milne gives the following as an example of an unramified Abelian extension :
$ K = \mathbb Q (\sqrt{-5})$ having a quadratic extension $L = \mathbb Q (\sqrt{-1}, \sqrt{-5})$. Then, $L/K$ has discriminant a unit, so it ramifies.
My question is, considering the simple extension $L = K(i)$ gives the discriminant to be $-4$, which clearly isn't a unit in $\mathcal O_K$. Am I committing any mistake?
Can you suggest other examples of unramified extensions?
Since I am a beginner in Class Field theory, related examples (of Abelian / non-Abelian extensions), counter-examples and other insights are more than welcome.


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Lyme Disease Vaccine injection
What is Lyme disease vaccine?
LYME DISEASE VACCINE (LYMERix®) is a vaccine that helps prevent infection with Lyme disease, an infection that is carried by ticks and is transmitted to people by tick bites. Lyme disease can cause symptoms like rashes, fevers, joint pain, arthritis, nervous system problems, and heart problems. Persons who live in or travel to areas that are likely to have ticks that carry the Lyme disease may benefit from vaccination with this vaccine. This is especially true if you participate in outdoor activities.
NOTE: This drug is discontinued in the United States.
What should my health care professional know before I receive Lyme disease vaccine?
They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
fever or infection
heart disease or irregular heartbeat
an immune deficiency (natural or due to cancer chemotherapy, radiation, or steroid therapy)
infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or AIDS
rheumatoid arthritis or other arthritic condition
neurological or neuromuscular disease
an unusual or allergic reaction to latex or rubber
an unusual or allergic reaction to vaccines, other medicines, foods, dyes, or preservatives
pregnant or trying to get pregnant
How should I use this medicine?
Lyme disease vaccine is only for injection into a muscle. It is usually given by a health-care professional in a hospital, clinic or prescriber's office.
Contact your pediatrician or health care professional regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
The use of this vaccine must be officially recorded. Federal law requires that the manufacturer's name and lot number; name, address, and phone number of the person giving the vaccine; and the date of administration be recorded in the patient's permanent medical record. Your health care professional will give you some written information about the vaccine, you should read this information.
What if I miss a dose?
Remember to keep appointments for the two follow-up doses at 1 month and at 6—12 months after your initial Lyme disease vaccine dose. For best effectiveness, you should receive all 3 doses according to the schedule recommended by your prescriber. Notify your health-care professional if you are unable to keep an appointment, or miss a scheduled dose. After one year, a booster dose is recommended each year to maintain protection against Lyme disease.
What drug(s) may interact with Lyme disease vaccine?
medicines that suppress your immune function, like cancer treatments, or certain medications for organ transplant or inflammatory conditions
Lyme disease vaccine may or may not be administered at the same time as other common vaccines. In some cases more than one type of vaccine may be given to you at the same time, but at different sites on the body. Ask your health care provider if you have questions regarding your vaccination schedules.
Tell your prescriber or health care professional about all other medicines you are taking, including non-prescription medicines. Also tell your prescriber or health care professional if you are a frequent user of drinks with caffeine or alcohol, if you smoke, or if you use illegal drugs. These may affect the way your medicine works. Check with your health care professional before stopping or starting any of your medicines.
What should I watch for while taking Lyme disease vaccine?
Report any side effects to your prescriber or health care professional that do not go away within 3 days. Ask your health care professional about immunization for other family members.
In addition to receiving the Lyme disease vaccine, there are other things you can do to protect yourself from tick-related infections. Continue to protect yourself with traditional methods -- such as wearing protective clothing, using tick repellents, and checking for ticks after venturing into the woods or grassy areas.
What side effects may I notice from receiving Lyme disease vaccine?
Serious side effects to the Lyme disease vaccine are rare, but could occur.
Side effects that you should report to your prescriber or health care professional as soon as possible:
difficulty breathing, shortness of breath, wheezing
difficulty swallowing or swelling of the lips, face, eyes, or throat
high fever (102 degrees F or more) or severe chills
severe rash, itching (hives)
Side effects that usually do not require immediate medical attention (report these side effects to your prescriber or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
More common:
pain, tenderness, redness, swelling, or a "knot" at the injection site
Less common
loss of appetite
low-grade fever (101 degrees F or less)
minor irritability or fatigue or "flu-like" symptoms
muscle aches or minor joint pain
Where can I keep my medicine?
This vaccine will be administered in the clinic or office of a health care professional. You will not be given vaccine doses to store at home.
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This question has been brought up a few times in the comments section. It's a good question. Here's why I'm pulling for Detroit:
- I don't hate Detroit yet. I hate the Bears and the Vikings, but not Detroit. (That may change if they play dirty against us – something they've been accused of doing.)
- They are good this year no doubt and I picked them to go to the playoffs, but I don't see them as a huge threat to the Packers just yet. The Packers are still a much better overall team.
- The Bears are not good and they might as well duck out of the NFC North race sooner rather than later. They will then be less annoying. I have the Bears going 5-11 – something I still believe will happen.
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Brocolli belongs to the cabbage family and is rich in nutrients like beta carotene and vitamin C. It reduces the risk of cancer, heart disease and also reduces blood pressure.
NOTE: Brocolli retains its nutritive value when cooked crunchy. Brocolli should not be steamed or boiled for more than 3-5 minutes. Overcooking will decrease its nutritional value. Perfectly cooked brocolli has a bright green colour.
Brocolli - 1
Shelled peas - 1/4 cup
Salt - as per taste
Cumin seeds - 1/8 tsp.
Green chillies - 2 (slit)
White pepper powder - 1/4 tsp.
Butter - 2 tsp.
Parsley - for garnishing (optional)
Wash and cut the brocolli to florets.
Heat a pan, melt butter, add the cumin seeds. When it sizzles, add the green chillies, peas, brocolli and salt. Sauté on a high flame for a minute. Sprinkle little water, simmer the stove and cook it covered till crunchy. Add white pepper powder , give a quick sauté, garnish with parsley and serve hot.


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State Treasurer Visiting Berkshires
Grossman will be in Pittsfield in the morning to highlight his Small Businss Banking Partnership. According to Grossman's office, the partnership directs deposits usually held by large institutions into state community banks with the understaninding they would increase their lending to small businesses.
He will meet with banking officials and elected officials at Berkshire Bank and then tour Starbase Technologies, which received a partnership loan.
In the afternoon, he will visit the new Luma's Muffin and Mug on Main Street in North Adams. Luma's is also a recipient of a partnership loan.


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How to Succeed in Assistance, An Essay by Walter Bilderback - Part Two
In the 1950s, this office-based knowledge worker was "The Organization Man" or "The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit," as two best sellers of the period named him. In the 1960s, the next generation became the ubiquitous "junior executive," whether with Bob Newhart's "buttoned-down mind," the reluctant conscience of Jack Lemmon's "Buddy Boy" Baxter in The Apartment, or the amoral charm and WASP chutzpah of Bobby Morse's J. Pierpont Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. These men (for they were almost all men outside the steno pool) diligently filled their cubicle every day, briefcase in hand, performing tasks that were nebulous but apparently essential to the functioning of firms such as How To Succeed's Worldwide Wicket Company. The really skillful, including the Finches of the world, could rise to the top of their enterprise. In the sort of large corporations Drucker emphasized, the price of mediocrity was plateauing somewhere in the limbo/purgatory of "middle management," but with job security, a nice house in the suburbs, and a guaranteed pension.
How to Succeed in Assistance, An Essay by Walter Bilderback - Part One
The Wilma's artistic staff was pleasantly surprised to realize that the center two plays of our season both took place in workplaces. While most of us spend a large portion of our waking lives at work, most plays give the workplace short shrift. And the two workplaces represented in Assistance and Under the Whaleback demonstrate, in vibrant verbal and theatrical form, the sea change that work has gone through in many of our lifetimes. Under the Whaleback shows the end of the 20th century industrial model. Assistance is very much of the 21st century.
In a remarkable 1995 article titled "The Age of Social Transformation," the management guru Peter F. Drucker wrote:
No century in recorded history has experienced so many social transformations and such radical ones as the twentieth century.…In the developed free-market countries…work and work force, society and polity, are all…qualitatively and quantitatively different not only from what they were in the first years of this century but also from what has existed at any other time in history…
"Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole."
Tony Kushner uses this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson as the epigraph for Perestroika. The title of the second half of Kushner's "Gay Fantasia on National Themes" refers to Mikhail Gorbachev's "restructuring" (the meaning of "perestroika") of the now-defunct Soviet Union. We get glimpses of the Soviet Union in its dotage in Perestroika, but the relationships of all the characters undergo restructuring as well. As Tony Kushner writes about the two halves: "Millennium Approaches is a play about security and certainty being blown apart, while Perestroika is about danger and possibility following the explosion. The events in Perestroika proceed from the wreckage made by the Angel's traumatic entry at the end of Millennium. A membrane has broken."
The idea of "membrane" is important. Skin, and the body (both individual and politic), echo through Millennium Approaches as emblems of identity, along with the related themes of movement and stasis. Here they come to the fore. How do people and societies change? Especially in the midst of the "mad swirling planetary disorganization" that has seemed to characterize our world for the past quarter-century?
Watching with Winnie
by David Gardner
Alan Ayckbourn refuses to write or direct a play unless he's shifting our expectations of what theater can do. Whether it's moving the focus of a Christmas party to the kitchen—where the real action takes place (Absurd Person Singular)—or it's staging two interlocking plays on two stages in the same theater at the same time (House & Garden), Ayckbourn constantly pulls the rug out from under tried-and-true theatrical conventions. And My Wonderful Day is no exception.
Rather than present a straightforward comedy of deceit and discovery, My Wonderful Day tells its story through the eyes of one little girl. Originally announced as Winnie's Wonderful Day, the title of Ayckbourn's 73rd play was later changed to My Wonderful Day—a change that signals the play's truly innovative focus on Winnie's first-person perspective. Such subjective point of view is difficult to pull off in drama, but throughout the entire play, what Winnie sees and hears, we see and hear.
"It's a children's viewpoint of an adult world," writes Ayckbourn. "My theory being that children from a very early age - if they're the listening sort, which I was - sit and listen and record what they hear and play back what they hear later in life. They are small recording machines, video and audio. I want to tell the story through Winnie's eyes. It's rather selective what she sees, adults drift away and you hear them talking in [a] corner but you stay with her."
It's okay to laugh at Kafka.
Kafka: Laughter Lost in Translation
In The Understudy, two young actors and a stage manager rehearse a newly discovered play by literary giant Franz Kafka. As in any great comedy, things go awry, and we laugh with the characters as they try to sort it all out. But what sets The Understudy apart from other comedies is the way Theresa Rebeck allows our laughter to make us more receptive to the deeper truths of her play—truths about the need to be recognized, the fear of being unknown, and the terror of feeling out of control. This is where Kafka comes in, for these are truths about which he wrote at length. By combining Kafka's dark truths with her own knack for comedy, Rebeck creates a theatrical world where fear and laughter coexist. But much more than that, Rebeck teaches us how to read Kafka, for while this juxtaposition of horror and hilarity would seem out of synch with Kafka, whose work is generally considered to be all gloom and no mirth, Rebeck's combination of Kafka and comedy turns out to be spot on. Reading Kafka as uniformly dreary is a misreading, due largely to decades of mistranslation.


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I had a lot of problems.
Last one is called premature Parkinson, a disease that affected me a lot in walking, talking, eating, sleeping, dressing, etc.
I've been in a hospital last year for almost 2 months.
They recover me with pills that unfortunately are not anymore provided in Romania since the beginning of this year. The pills 'name is Madopar.
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I talked with someone in Spain and he offered me to send me these pills if I will send him EUR 1,000. For a quantity for 3 months.
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A winner was selected from 65 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
Real Estate professionalism meets IT creativity. This will be used throughout the company as its main brand from business cards to WebSite and uniforms. We are looking to reflect the credibility of the company as we are dealing with highly sensitive material and would like to portray a sense of security and comfort in our logo.
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