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It's finally here and I'm so friggin' excited about this new collection of mine that I squeal every time I see it!
A couple of months ago I did an interview with True Up in which I shared a bit of a background story on my concept of Flora & Fauna. I said (and I quote) "for this collection I had to go completely out of my comfort zone. I deviated from the structured, linear feel that I am so accustomed to and went with a more free-flowing, organic set of designs. This was my way of proving to myself that I could do something completely different while still staying true to my style."
So here it is, in it's full glory. It was a labor of love... I hope you like it!!
I just LOVE how the four color stories play so harmoniously together just like elements in nature!
I'm sure you all want to see some sewn items, don't you? Of course, I had to do pillows first! I always do pillows first.
Check out the back of my pillows! I used the selvedges as the edges of my envelope backing. Heehee. Oh, I crack myself up so!
I tweeted the other day when I was making these sweet little hexes. Oh, GOSH, I love these bees so much it hurts!!!
My dear friend, Valerie, sewed up this Nina pattern for me in record speed. Doesn't Sydney look so "Mod" and "cosmopolitan" in her Flora & Fauna ensemble? This sweet little 2-piece set will be on display at my booth at Quilt Market and after the show, it will become a store display at Sew Much More.
OH, and I almost forgot! The collection comes with a bonus "double border" design. I am so in love with these! Oh, the possibilities... skirts, dresses, curtains, quilts, pillows. I cannot wait to see what you all make with them. The Double Border Daisies come in all 4 colorways.
So, what do you think of Flora & Fauna? I am so excited that I want to share the wealth. I have a small stack of fat quarters sitting here in my studio just begging for a new loving home. Leave me a comment and I'll pick 2 winners to take these home. It'll be a small assortment of prints, but OH so sweet! Let me know if you have a favorite print or a favorite colorway. Tell me how the collection inspires you, or anything at all. I just want to hear what you think! :)
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Ohhh I am smitten! They are all fabulous!!! I think my favorite (if I had to choose) is the sort of Dandelion-y print (5th from the bottom in the turquoise set)- I love what I can see of it in all 4 pallettes! I can see ALL kinds of dresses for my little gals. I have your Emma pattern and I am envisioning all sorts of great combos for that!!!
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I'm following you on Twitter.
This is your best collection yet. I like how many of the fabrics can cross over to another colorway to add more sparkle (not that any of these really need it).
The turquoise colorway is my favorite and the humming birds are my favorite pattern.
Kathy (kquilts) goodness, first I thought i loved the turquoise, then I saw the raspberry, then I saw the mustard, then I saw the stone...love them ALL! Seriously, drooling tons. Beautiful, beautiful work. Plus, I just love the actual weight and texture of your fabrics in real life. I think some of the first quilting cotton I bought was your pink jester fabric and I was astounded by the fabulous quality. I hate to use the fabric up and as soon as it's gone, I want to go buy more! :D
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My grown daughter has been asking me for over a year to make her a bed quilt. We have just never gotten around to fabric-shopping yet and now I think I know why - THIS LINE!
I am sure she is just going to LOVE it and her most difficult decision will be which colorway she and her husband will agree on.
I'm excited to show it to her! OMG! I love every single piece! It's not fair to pick a favorite but if I had to pick a colorway it would be both the Mustard & Turquoise. I'm seeing a really cute aprons with these fabrics especially with the double border designs. I can't wait to get my hands on all of it! Great Job - you are truly talented!!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! All of the color combinations are beautiful, but I'm especially fond of the turquoise. The walls in my oldest son's room are turquoise, and now I'm inspired to add some other hits of color, especially that orangey-red.
And of course, I'll need to get some of your beautiful fabrics to use for the accents :)I love, love, love it! Oh WOW Patty, your time and dedication paid off on this line of pints. Your "labor of love" screams passion for color and design. My favorite color collection is the turquoise. I think so many people are afraid to be bold. However, as they say, bold is beautiful! Keep up the amazing work. I am looking forward to seeing this on the shelf at our local boutique sewing shop!
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What a wonderful collection! The hummingbirds are just to die for. They are feminine looking, but still very strong. The honeycomb is really special too.
I am a HUGE pink and green fan, so the Raspberry palette is my favorite.
Congrats on what I'm sure will be another hugely successful line, and kudos to you for going outside of your comfort zone. It's a leap of faith, but well worth it for the results.
RebeccaAll 4 colorlines have each their unique look. They are so beautiful - but if you make me pick, I would definitely choose the blue line. I love how those gorgeous fabrics and prints, make ideas pop up in my mind.
It must be so wonderful to be able to make people's ideas bubble through your work. :)I want to buy these NOW and I'd love to win them! :) I think they are amazing. The first color palette I was like, wow that's pretty. Then I saw the next and I was like, oh that's my favorite. and I kept saying No thats my favorite all the way to the end. I can't stand how gorgeous these are and I might have to redecorate my entire house just so I can use these. Seriously. I love them.
ReplyDeleteWOW! I adore the turquoise palette - but the raspberry palette is a close second. Who am I kidding - they're all four gorgeous and I now have a hankering to make a gorgeous coin quilt with white trim - all 4 palettes combined... can't you see it??
Incredible work, Patty. Can't wait to see it in person :)I am dumbstruck!! I am speechless. I seriousely want every single one. Now I have to sell a ton of towels just so I can buy every one.
My mom loves birds of all kinds, especially hummingbirds, and I must must must have some of that print. She is going to go bonkers.
Thank you for all your creativity.
I wish I could go to that part of market. I guess I will just have to settle to the public section.Oh Patty. They are just gorgeous!! I scrolled down and that "OH the Turquoise is my favorite" then continued down and thought "Oh Raspberry is it" then "OH no the Stone is the prettiest!". I don't think I could pick a favorite. They are amazing. I just received my Mezzanine am in love but these new ones are incredibly beautiful!! AND I can't wait to get my hands on the NINA pattern. So sweet. I can see my Claire in it already:)
Thanks for making such beautiful things:)
firstname.lastname@example.com, You know that feeling you used to get on Christmas, right before you ran downstairs? THAT's the feeling I just got reading your post. I'm so totally serious when I say your talent is out of this world ... thanks again for sharing yours with the rest of us. You are truly making our world a prettier place!!
ReplyDeleteAWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME!!! oh I can't wait for these to hit the shops...i love all of the colorways but my favorite would be the stone. i really like the bright colors against the darker background. It just makes everything pop as those colors should!! I can totally see putting this together with the raspberry....Anything with polka dots makes me go yipee!!!
ReplyDelete- Nicki C K3:28 PM
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! *Squealing at the top of my lungs* I want it ALL! GORGEOUS, GORGEOUS! I can hardly wait to sew with this--Dresses and Purses and Quilts, OH MY! Seriously, to choose a favorite is like making me choose between my kids. NO CAN DO. Love it ALL Patty! Really nice work!!! *fingers & toes crossed*
ReplyDelete Oh my gosh Patty. I saw these on True Up and couldn't believe how beautiful they are. Congrats! Good for you. I'm soo happy someone is bringing border prints back. I crave them. And I love bees, hives, and hexagons. So I'm tickled to have them come into the market. I can't wait to make something from these lovelies. I love all the color ways. The pink and turquioise - yummy.
ReplyDeleteThere is really nothing to say...the fabric says it all!! I am not even sure I could pick a favorite if I tried, but they are all so beautiful and vibrant that you couldn't go wrong with any of them :) Thank you for stepping out of your comfort zone--if only we could all be so successful at doing something we are not comfortable with :)
ReplyDeleteI honestly could NOT make a choice...they are all so zesty and fun and DIFFERENT. The raspberry has a "Florida" look and as I am a Floridian it is very appealing. Guess if I had to pick it would be the mustard. What a refreshing change you have designed. I can't wait to use your work in my projects.


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A cool feature from Chrome OS is now ported to Chrome for Windows: the app launcher. For now, it's only available in Chromium, but it will soon make its way to Chrome's dev channel. To enable it, open a new tab, enter this address: chrome://flags, press Enter, scroll to the bottom of the page, click "Enable" next to "Show Chromium Apps Launcher" and restart the browser.
You should see a new icon in the taskbar for a launcher that includes the apps you've installed from the Chrome Web Store and a search box that works just like Chrome's Omnibox. The app launcher is great because it's there even if Chrome's windows have been closed and it's a faster way to open an app, perform a search or go to any other site. You can also use it for simple calculations and unit conversions. It reminds me of the Google Quick Search Box and a similar feature from Google Desktop.
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The same as on Chrome OS, love how there making all the Chromes the same. You can enable a flag on Chrome that you can search for Contacts in the search box.
ReplyDeleteThis is so much more than i needed!!! but will all come in use thanks!!
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Real Madrid want £24m for Arsenal target Alvaro Morata, according to reports in the Spanish media.
The 21-year-old striker is in high demand after manager Carlo Ancelotti said he expected him to leave Madrid this summer.
Morata made only five starts for the Champions League winners last season and was linked with a January move to Arsenal, but expressed a desire to stay and fight for his place.
The striker's contract at the club ends next summer and although Ancelotti has hinted that a loan deal for the player might be most likely, it is also understood that the club will consider big offers for Morata.
Madrid are thought to be willing to lower their price demands on the condition that a repurchase clause is inserted into the deal.
However it is understood that potential suitors Arsenal and Wolfsburg are unwilling to agree to to such a clause and not prepared to spend as much as £24m on the player.
Arsenal transfer talk: Potential summer targets
Arsenal transfer talk: Potential summer targets
1/14 Sami Khedira
The World Cup winner looks to be heading to the Emirates if the reports are to be believed, as the Real Madrid midfielder looks set for a £26m switch to the Gunners. Having turned down a new contract and just a year remaining on his current deal, Khedira could soon be Arsenal's latest big-name signing.
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2/14 Douglas Costa
Costa is one of six Brazilian players refusing to return to Shaktar Donetsk due to the increasing political unrest in Ukraine. Arsene Wenger is reported to be interested in the 23-year-old, with the Gunners reported to be preparing a move for the attacking midfielder.
3/14 Morgan Schneiderlin
Schneiderlin is a transfer target for the Gunners' fierce rivals Tottenham, but Arsenal are reported to have held talks with the 25-year-old Frenchman over a move that would see him snub Spurs. The midfielder would fill the defensive role that Arsenal are currently lacking.
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4/14 John Ruddy
The Norwich goalkeeper would be a shock signing for Arsenal, but rumours have linked the England stopper with a move. Arsenal do need another goalkeeper to replace Lukasz Fabianski, but it is worth noting that Ruddy was part of a side that were relegated last season and conceded the third highest number of goals. The arrival of David Ospina has made it even less likely.
5/14 Iker Casillas
Another goalkeeper linked with Arsenal this summer is Real Madrid stopper Casillas. He's not been the favourite at the Bernabeu for a couple of seasons now and his disastrous World Cup has led to speculation he could move on. Again, the arrival of Ospina makes Arsenal's need for him not so desperate, but Wenger may not want to pass up the chance to sign such an experienced keeper.
6/14 Michy Batshuayi
The Standard Liege star has already stated that he expects to leave at the end of the season, preferring to move to either England or Germany and recently admitting that Arsenal are his favourite team. The 20-year-old striker is the top scorer in the Belgian league this season. Batshuayi can also operate on the wing and has been linked with Everton and Napoli. Arsenal are said to be willing to pay his release clause, which is understood to be £6.5m.
7/14 Javi Martinez
Arsenal are believed to be one of a number of clubs looking at Bayern Munich defender/midfielder Martinez should he become available in the summer. He would not come cheaply though, given the Bavarian club activated his €40m release fee to sign him in 2012.
8/14 Julian Draxler
A move during the January transfer window failed to materialise over Draxler's £37m release clause with Arsenal unwilling to pay the hefty fee, according to Schalke's sporting director. The German international was also said to be a target for Bayern Munich in case Toni Kroos failed to sign a new deal with the Bundesliga champions. However, chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has ruled out a summer move for the highly-rated 20-year-old. Arsenal will have to change their stance over the transfer fee to acquire the attacker with several big clubs interested.
9/14 Juanfran
With Bacary Sagna confirming he will leave at the end of the season, Arsenal look short in the right-back department. A reported £9m move for Atletico Madrid defender Juanfran was rejected, but the Gunners could return for his services should they up their bid.
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10/14 Josip Drmic
Arsenal have been linked with the Nurnberg striker recently after Lothar Matthaus claimed on Sky Germany that the Gunners had already signed the 21-year-old. Wenger is said to be keen to bring in the Swiss striker before the World Cup this summer. Drmic is a wanted man after scoring 16 goals in the Bundesliga this season despite his club battling against relegation. Drmic, who has three-years left on his current deal, is reported to have a release clause of less than £5m. Only Bayern Munich star Mario Mandzukic, Borussia Dortmund's Robert Lewandowski and Hertha Berlin striker Adrian Ramos have scored more league goals than Drmic this season.
11/14 Sebastian Jung
Eintracht Frankfurt defender Jung has been monitored by Arsenal this season. The 23-year-old has been one of their best players this season as the Bundesliga side recovered from a bad start to move clear of the relegation battle once they were eliminated from the Europa League. The German could be available for a fee in the region of £2m but the Gunners may face competition from Wolfsburg.
12/14 Atsuto Uchida
Uchida will travel to Brazil for the World Cup as part of Japan's national team, but the Schalke defender could see himself become the subject of interest from Arsenal as they seek a replacement for Bacary Sagna.
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13/14 Salomon Kalou
The former Chelsea forward, currently at Lille in France, is interested in a return to the Premier League. To the dismay of Arsenal fans the Ivory Coast international has been linked once again to a move to the Emirates. Kalou could be available for a fee in the region of £2.5m this summer despite still having two years remaining on his current deal at the Ligue 1 side.
14/14 Juan Quintero
Having impressed at the World Cup, Quintero could be on the move just 12 months after joining Porto. Arsenal have been linked with a £15.8m bid for the Colombia midfielder who impressed at the World Cup.
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Northern Virginia Welcomes Three New Members into Ordinariate
Potomac Falls, VA, January 15, 2013—The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter will receive three new members into full communion with the Catholic Church at a Mass this Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. at Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church in Potomac Falls, Virginia.
The St. John Fisher Ordinariate Community (SJFOC) is the Northern Virginia mission of St. Luke's Catholic Parish, Bladensburg, MD which is affiliated with the new U.S. Ordinariate established by Pope Benedict XVI as a home for Episcopalians and other Anglicans who desire to join the Catholic Church but retain elements of their heritage.
Stephen Smith, Judith Smith and Anne Marie Whittaker from Alexandria, VA will be received into full communion at the Mass.
This marks the first time that members who are Ordinariate-bound will be received in Virginia. Fr. Randolph Sly, who is assigned as an Associate Priest for St. Luke's, serves Chaplain of the SJFOC.
A former Anglican priest archbishop who was ordained a Catholic priest in June of 2012, he celebrates a weekly Anglican Use Mass at 5pm on Sunday at Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church.
He and the St. John Fisher Community are also planning other special monthly events, such as Choral Evensong and seminars, to be held at centralized locations throughout Northern Virginia.
They extend an invitation to Episcopalians, Anglicans and other non-Catholic Christians who are interested in Catholic faith and Anglican liturgy to attend and or all of these services.
Fr. Sly explained, "With our vision of establishing an Ordinariate parish in Northern Virginia, we are very blessed to welcome three former Episcopalians to the Catholic faith.
As a former Anglican myself, I am confident that there are many more Anglicans and non-Catholic Christians on a similar journey."
Fr. Mark Lewis, the Priest Administrator of St. Luke's Parish, Bladensburg, MD, who brought 80 of his former Episcopal Church parishioners to the Catholic faith, will be a concelebrant.
The members of SJFOC will host a gala reception after the Mass, and all are welcomed. In addition, Fr. Scott Hurd, who currently serves as the Deputy to the Bishop to aid in the administration of the diocese, will be on hand after the Mass to sign his book, Forgiveness: A Catholic Approach; copies will be available for sale for $9.95.
Where: Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church
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Potomac Falls, VA 20165
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When: Sunday, January 20, 2013, 5:00 PM
Contact: Fr. Randolph Sly,
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The formation of the new Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter on January 1, 2012, has accelerated interest in Pope Benedict'sAnglicanorum coetibus, which allows Anglicans and Episcopalians to join the Roman Catholic Church while retaining key elements of their liturgy, music and fellowship. The "first wave" of ordinations to the Catholic priesthood began in the spring of 2012 and the second class of prospective Ordinariate priests is currently in formation
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Ideas On How to Earn More Money
February 13, 2013
Although we are all trying to stay within a budget of some kind or another there are going to be times when we find ourselves stretched to the limit. This can be a very uncomfortable situation, especially if you have important bills that need to be paid. You may also find that you are in need of extra money during certain times of year when you want to give gifts or perhaps do something that is out of the ordinary and expensive. In any case, there are some things that you can do to help earn a little bit of extra money and to take care of those necessary items.Original Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?cat=Finance:Personal-Finance


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Nicotine feedback
Nicotine feedback
I have been doing the 8 day cycle of UD2.
I am on my second cycle.
For those of you who dont know what UD2 is, my workouts and diet are structured like this:
1300cals...50set(90-110min) depletion workout + 30-60mins low intensity cardio
1300cals...50set(90-110min) depletion workout + 30-60mins low intensity cardio
1300cals...30-60mins low intensity cardio
1300cals...30-60mins low intensity cardio
Tension workout AM--->Carbup 4000cals
Continue carbup 4000cals
AM power workout Maintenance calories
My maintenance is ~2800cals per day, so as you can see, the 1st 4 days were very hard!!!
I am using a plaethora of supps including:
Legal gear product X
Legal Gear lipoburn
EC(pre workout)
Green tea(drink)
Sesathin(depletion only)
Miltivit + Extra calcium and magnesium
FL7(carbups only)
ALA (carbups only)
With these supps though, I was still ravenously hungry on the depletion days.
I started chewing on 5-6 4mg pieces of nicotine gum a day, and my appetite just plummeted. Today I had to force down my 3rd meal(@ 4PM) of about 300cals.
I also feel more relaxed and more socially comfortable--more talkative/readily starting conversations.
This worked much better for appetite surpression than anything I have tried before.
Great review. Be sure to post a followup though if you encounter any withdrawal symptoms, and what are they like compared to EC withdrwal.
I'm on UD2 now , thanks again for the info bro. (Alek from bb.com) -
I plan to keep this updated.
I will stop Nicotine usage for the carbup(cold turkey) and see what happens, I doubt it will affect me a lot.
I plan to use every day that is not the carbup. - 11-09-2004, 01:19 PM
That might not be long enough to show full withdrawal effect. How many cycles of UD2 will you be doing? Maybe you can review it for certain once you're done with ud2 and start bulking.
I will be bulking after UD2, but may still use, as I will be on a cyclical diet still!
If you guys want I could run it for the 6 days after my carb load this cycle @20-24mg a day, then stop for the next 4, until my next depletion day. Would this be long enough?
I plan to run UD2 until the week of xmas ~7cycles. -
I've personally used nicotine gum for a few months at a time, and have noticed absolutely no withdrawl symptoms upon cessation of use. For myself at least, the gum form seems to hold no addictive potential, even though I have found myself hooked on items such as caffeine and ephedrine in the past, and suffered the consequences of quitting both cold-turkey.
I worked up to a maximum of 6-4mg pieces per day at my peak of usage. I had developed enough of a tolerance that I could chew the nicotine gum like you would a normal piece of gum, and not suffer the accompanying nauseau that one would experience if chewing the gum too quickly at first.
6x4mg is the highest I plan on going.
Today is my carbup, so no nicotine gum. We shall see how I fare. - 05-06-2005, 02:59 AM
Originally Posted by MaynardMeek - 05-06-2005, 04:41 PM
Originally Posted by waitlifter82 - 05-06-2005, 05:15 PM
When I quit smoking about 3/4 of a pack a day, I didn't gain any weight really. I just really noticed a fuller feeling after working out (more bloodflow I would imagine)
Nicotine didn't impress me that much, I won't buy it again. It does provide a MILD appetite supression effect, and perhaps some nutrient partitioning (again I wasn't impressed) but it's not worth the price. I'll stick with the juice and lots of fiberous foods I think
Originally Posted by exnihilo - 05-08-2005, 06:12 PM
EC in decent doses does more for a diet than nicotine, IMO. Definately the number one thing besides fish oil to take when you're trying to lose weight.
I don't have a problem with hunger with my diet, I eat a crapload of fiberous foods, and about 4000 calories a day. I feel full pretty much all the time (as long as I don't wait like 6 hours between meals) I'm leaning out slowly and my strength has been very good. If you're starving on your diet you must be very lean or else I'm pretty sure you're doing something wrong - hell you could be eating ~1800 calories a day and be full all the time if you just eat mostly fiberous veggies and small portions of lean meat - 1000 calories of broccoli and spinach is a LOT
Edit: just to quantify a LOT, 1000 calories is approximately 10lbs of spinach or 8lbs of broccoli - 05-08-2005, 06:25 PM
Originally Posted by exnihilo - 05-08-2005, 06:29 PM
Originally Posted by waitlifter82 - 05-08-2005, 07:38 PM
When I cut I'm pretty much hungry all the time, even though my cutting diets tend to consist of a TON of fibrous veggies such as spinach, cucumbers, lettuce, etc. etc. etc. I've found nicotine to be a godsend as far as appetite suppression is concerned. The gum provides moderate appetite supression at best, but the patch pretty much destroys my appetite, while simulataneously providing a nice mood enhancing effect.
I found the biggest problem with nicotine is the ease in which one can overdose on the stuff, as it seems the line between an effective dose and too much is very fine. By the time you release you've had too much, it's too late to really do anything about it.
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Most felt there had never been any other course open to the IRA's political wing once the thrust of the accord between London and Dublin became known, and so the outcome of Sunday's special conference in Letterkenny came as little surprise.
Had any of the conference delegates been in any doubt beforehand about the nationalist community's sympathies they need only have walked a few yards from the Sinn Fein's advice centre to come across a freshly painted gable-end mural putting it in the clearest terms. Surrounding the Irish tricolour being waved over a crowd scene is the legend: 'Downing St. Declaration. Nationalists Sold Out Once Again'.
A driver of one of the black taxis that ply between the Falls and other nationalist ghettos like Andersonstown and Poleglass had a similar, if less refined, message. 'They can stick their declaration up their arse,' he said. 'I've beat it into the kids: hate all Protestants. We don't want peace, we want the bastards out; on a boat back to Scotland. And when they're on the boat, sink the boat.'
A colleague, 40, echoed some of the sentiments, though with a little more finesse: 'There was nothing in it for the nationalist community. If they'd have accepted it they'd have been giving in. Sure, everybody wants a settlement, but they don't want them to cave in overnight.'
Just along the road, another graffiti artist had immortalised his views in Gaelic, and then added a helpful translation: 'Fiche Blian - Ar Aghaidh Chun Bua. Twenty Five Years - Onward to Victory'.
The victory of a united Ireland, rather than some fudged score draw, is something that quite a few feel is in sight and a key reason why Sinn Fein would have been foolish to have endorsed the declaration. 'The Hume-Adams initiative started it . . .' said one 35-year-old unemployed man. 'There's been more movement in the past year than in the previous 24. If they moved before, they can and will move again.'
But another crucial area of concern for most is that the declaration gives the unionist community a veto over the future of the province. 'This is something that should be up to the Irish people as a whole and the British should have no say in the matter,' one man said. 'But the way it stands at the moment, they just want the nationalists to surrender.'
A few, however, felt that everybody had to give some ground in the cause of peace and that Sinn Fein had missed an opportunity.
'I'm very disappointed,' said Mary Marron, 59, whose son was wounded in a loyalist shooting incident last year. 'I've been disgusted with Sinn Fein for the last while. You can't talk about peace until you stop killing. But here we are in stalemate again. And now the unionists are just laughing up their sleeves, because all along they said: 'Don't talk to Sinn Fein'. Well now the British government doesn't have to.'
Another unemployed man, 50, said that Sinn Fein could easily have called a ceasefire and gone to the negotiating table. 'They should have tried it for six months or a year. The timing is right with the 25th anniversary of troops on the streets coming up. But they would see it as the wrong time. Symbolism's very important . . .'
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A study published in the March 2010 issue of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Social Psychology Quarterly, advances a new theory to explain why people form particular preferences and values. The theory suggests that more intelligent people are more likely than less intelligent people to adopt evolutionarily novel preferences and values, but intelligence does not correlate with preferences and values that are old enough to have been shaped by evolution over millions of years."
"Evolutionarily novel" preferences and values are those that humans are not biologically designed to have and our ancestors probably did not possess. In contrast, those that our ancestors had for millions of years are "evolutionarily familiar." "General intelligence, the ability to think and reason, endowed our ancestors with advantages in solving evolutionarily novel problems for which they did not have innate solutions," says Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science. "As a result, more intelligent people are more likely to recognize and understand such novel entities and situations than less intelligent people, and some of these entities and situations are preferences, values, and lifestyles." An earlier study by Kanazawa found that more intelligent individuals were more nocturnal, waking up and staying up later than less intelligent individuals. Because our ancestors lacked artificial light, they tended to wake up shortly before dawn and go to sleep shortly after dusk. Being nocturnal is evolutionarily novel. In the current study, Kanazawa argues that humans are evolutionarily designed to be conservative, caring mostly about their family and friends, and being liberal, caring about an indefinite number of genetically unrelated strangers they never meet or interact with, is evolutionarily novel. So more intelligent children may be more likely to grow up to be liberals. Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) support Kanazawa's hypothesis. Young adults who subjectively identify themselves as "very liberal" have an average IQ of 106 during adolescence while those who identify themselves as "very conservative" have an average IQ of 95 during adolescence. Similarly, religion is a byproduct of humans' tendency to perceive agency and intention as causes of events, to see "the hands of God" at work behind otherwise natural phenomena. "Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid," says Kanazawa. This innate bias toward paranoia served humans well when self-preservation and protection of their families and clans depended on extreme vigilance to all potential dangers. "So, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to go against their natural evolutionary tendency to believe in God, and they become atheists." Young adults who identify themselves as "not at all religious" have an average IQ of 103 during adolescence, while those who identify themselves as "very religious" have an average IQ of 97 during adolescence. In addition, humans have always been mildly polygynous in evolutionary history. Men in polygynous marriages were not expected to be sexually exclusive to one mate, whereas men in monogamous marriages were. In sharp contrast, whether they are in a monogamous or polygynous marriage, women were always expected to be sexually exclusive to one mate. So being sexually exclusive is evolutionarily novel for men, but not for women. And the theory predicts that more intelligent men are more likely to value sexual exclusivity than less intelligent men, but general intelligence makes no difference for women's value on sexual exclusivity. Kanazawa's analysis of Add Health data supports these sex-specific predictions as well. One intriguing but theoretically predicted finding of the study is that more intelligent people are no more or no less likely to value such evolutionarily familiar entities as marriage, family, children, and friends. |
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Well, since you christians and don't believe that any information obtained from the internet or other silly sources like, say, the Merriam Webster dictionary, how would you define the word "truth". Please, educate us as to the correct definition of the word "truth".
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Yeah, I just answered that on another thread. I have a 2004 Rubicon, hard & soft tops, 3" Black Diamond lift, 33" BFG Mud Terrains, ARB Bull front bumper with Warn 9500 winch and 10k no-load, Warn Rock Crawler rear bumper with swingaway tire carrier with matching tire/rim, Banks CAI, Borla SS catback, various lights and other aftermarket crap, etc., and I take it off road every chance I get.
I'm also gainfully employed with a household income over $150k and a homeowner in an upper middle class neighborhood. I'm an accomplished photographer specialising in female models. You can see my work here: http://www.modelmayhem.com/thetasteoflight I have 2 grown kids and 3 grandsons, 2 of which are champion wrestlers and good students. Our oldest daughter is a nurse in a cardiac unit and is returning to school to get an advanced degree. She and her husband just bought their second home. I throw great parties that people look forward to every year and I can shake a MEAN martini. Anything else you want to know? |
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Main Entry: ar·ro·gant Pronunciation: \-gənt\ Function: adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin arrogant-, arrogans, present participle of arrogare Date: 14th century 1 : exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner I may be overbearing, but I'm not exaggerating, so it's half right. Oh, and I really don't care who likes me and who doesn't. Not at all. The people that do are people I respect. Those that don't I have no idea. But I'm not going to sweat not being liked by everyone. I do believe, however, that if you came to one of my parties we would probably find things about each other we like, and catch A Good Buzz in the process. You have a nice day too bro. |
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Honestly? Well... 1. In spite of our differences I think you guys are pretty cool. Wrong on EVERYTHING. But cool. 2. I like wheeling. My Jeep is the biggest piece of shit wheeler I've ever owned, but I like wheeling (I'll never buy another Jeep). 3. I enjoy a spirited fight, and you guys fight with gusto. The "intellectual" sites are a bunch of sensitive sissy boys. Okay, they're smarter and better informed than me and tear my ass aprat in an argument, but why can't they get pissed once in while??? 4. Because regardless of how far I've come in my life I never forget where I came from. I got here by mopping floors and cleaning toilets and doing shit work for shit pay. I'm no prima donna. I'm no rich boy. I'm not ivy league. And I'll scrub floors any day if that's what I have to do to take care of my obligations. Yeah, I'm a pompous ass. I walk proud. I talk proud. I am proud. I've earned all the praise I give myself, and I unabashadly give it too. Hate me for loving myself, I don't give a crap, but if you spent any time with me you might find things about me you like too, as I know I would with you. Now back to our regularly scheduled drinking.... *hic* Oh, I should add that I work in corporate America. Worked my ass off to get there. Now I'm miserable because I'm surrounded by ivy league sissy boys. I wish I was back in construction or a machine shop where we did real work. |
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I was in construction, all phases, residential and commercial for 10 years. I do plumbing, electrical, carpentry, etc etc. Then I left the industry when the bottom fell out and mopped floors and cleaned a machine shop until I proved that I had a good mechanical head on my shoulders and moved in to maintenance. I maintained 28 CNC machining centers, R&D dep't (Bridgeports with DRO's) and engine lathes, and all fluids and waste stream management in a 50,000 sq. ft. 24/7 precision production environment. Self taught most of it by bringing the manuals home and reading up. Now I manage large commercial buildings. BUt all that said, I'm still a pompous asshole. |
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maX would like to invite members to attend the North American Auto Show in Detroit, MI. The show is open to the public for 9days (Jan 10th - 19th) and the decision was made to have our outing on a weekday since the crowds all come on weekends. Admission is around $15.00 CDN and the trip over is by the local transit shuttle bus ($2.60) from downtown Windsor directly to the COBO Center in Detroit. About a 8 min ride.
BRING PROPER I.D. FOR BORDER CROSSING BY BUS... (Birth Cert, Passport, Citizenship card etc...) NOT JUST A DRIVER'S LICENSE! We'll be leaving early from Krispy Kreme Mississauga (7:00AM) since the drive there is around 3hours. Car pooling can be organized beforehand depending on who wants to stay the night. Some people want to experience the night life in Windsor/Detroit so a tally will be held to see if it's worth the effort to get a motel (hence the Fri trip instead of mid-week). LIST ATTENDING: tlaselva EMPOWERD RichieRich chanh SickFingas Betray DILDOMATIC? Windsor318is Jase+wife Slowered318 WhadUpp Bill Gates Miguel E46_lover (ride back?...anyone?...please?) audiophilia STAYING THE NIGHT EMPOWERD (renting large SUV -no vacancy-) SickFinga Betray Rolled_Out Bryan_M3? Chris Slowered318 Miguel WhadUpp Bliss ///Compact |
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I guess the guys in windsor will have to meet you guys at the bus at around 10am *th-up*
IM IN!!!! with brian_m3 and chris
Ill stay the night too, and if brian_m3 is allowed to cross the border, (finds out jan 2) he'll be there too staying the night also! Time to make an absolute MESS of casino windsor :) always have good luck down there :) |
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I looked on the website for the autoshow if we get a group of 25 it is only 8 per ticket USD. *th-up*
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I'm interested in thursday or friday.. stying over
I'll come...but not stayin the night in windsor...i am underaged to do anything worth while
staying over sounds like a trip! lets party it up 8-Mile style in tha Detroitizzle.
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there is some nice clubs in windsor. That would make the latin quarter look cheap.
But I do hear Windsor is second to Montreal as fars as strip clubs go *th-up* |
I'm in..can't wait!:cool:
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Prepare for a safe landing, open your parasols. The One Piece Pirates are popping out of thin air, each of them comes with a parasol that fits their personality. Created according to a coloured illustration in the Shonen Jump Weekly magazine, the figure makers at Mega House adds a comic touch to the already cheerful picture. Some of them grin, some of them smirk, some of them look smug while the others wail. Frankie and Brook both have their parasols hidden by the other characters in the picture, so the figure maker gives each of them one. Line up the whole crew to bring a bit of cheer into your room.further info
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kaldbalog (60) on 28, Jun. 2012 18:38 (HKT)
Awesome figure
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Really cute and well made. Perfect as a gift. :)
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Donations of goods and cash worth a total of VND3.5 billion (USD167,865) have been presented to over 4,800 poor households in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap to help them overcome the aftermath of the devastating floods in 2011.
The donations were from the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) and the aid agency Save The Children, then re-distributed by the Dong Thap Women's Association.
The goods, including water filters, water tanks, decontamination tablets and nutritional additives were delivered to flood victims in three districts of Tan Hong, Hong Ngu and Tam Nong.
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Lot 83: French School 19 th C. Youngsters at the river
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Crimes Of The Heart Commits Comedy Misdemeanors
Jenae Yerger-Glanton and John Brumley in Crimes
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Playwright and SMU grad Beth Henley won a Pulitzer for her 1981 Southern gothic comedy Crimes of the Heart. Interesting to note that the 1981 Pulitzer for fiction went to John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. It was a good year for literature about idiots in Dixie.
Crimes, now running at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, has its own cast of dunce characters in the siblings who've come back to the family home in Mississippi to help out the sister who's just shot her husband "because she didn't like his looks." Out on bail, Babe (played by Jenae Yeager-Glanton) behaves like a low-IQ child who doesn't realize she's in deep, deep dooky for pumping bullets into her spouse and then taking time to make lemonade before calling an ambulance.
Sister Lenny (Diane Casey Box) lives in the rundown family homestead, the same house where the girls' mother hanged herself (and the family cat) years before. Lenny's the harried caretaker, the one rushing to the hospital to look after "Old Granddaddy." She's also a disaster with romance, and, by the looks of this production, hopeless at choosing her own clothes. (Wardrobe by Kaori Imai is ugly and unflattering on each of the women.)
Third sister Meg (Marianne Galloway, giving the only performance that doesn't make one's teeth itch) set out for Hollywood seeking stardom and returns world-weary and probably alcoholic.
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Director Cynthia Hestand has allowed some egregiously phony Southern accents to happen, and she's missed some of the built-in jokes in the play. Actors sit at the set's kitchen table, droning along for two long hours as though the audience doesn't exist. It's all inert and uninteresting.
This play, over-produced around these parts, hasn't withstood the test of time. It's creaky now. And just odd to see how Henley portrayed grown-ups in the early 1980s. Women this idiotic would be held for psychiatric evaluations now. And the one who shot her husband? She'd be doing hard time and be the subject of an episode of Snapped.
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Name: Luis Brethauer
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Result: 15th
When was the point for you that you thought you had a good chance of going to the 2016Olympics in Rio?
Luis Brethauer: Pretty much directly after the London Olympics I set myself the goal to qualify for Rio. But because of the injuries I had in the qualification years, sometimes I wasn't really sure about my chances to actually represent Germany another time. But through the end of 2015 it started to look pretty good that I'll get the one spot through the individual ranking.
Name: Alfredo Campo
Number in Rio: 593
Country: Ecuador
Result: Last
When was the point for you that you thought you had a good chance of going to the 2016 Olympics in Rio?
Alfredo Campo: It was always a dream of mine! Midway 2015 after Pan-Am games I tought I had a good shot of making it!
Can you explain what kind of sacrifices you have to make as a professional BMX racer to be on top of your game all the time?
Alfredo Campo: Leaving home being 16 years old was for sure one of the hardest things, but I love challenges that's why bmx has been so unique for me, not having a solid national team and having to do things by my own like making a financial plan is also a tough piece of the puzzle
How important has your coach been on your road to Rio?
Alfredo Campo: Main key, a mentor, a journey I will never forget alongside Anders Grounsund
Name: Niek Kimmann
Country: The Netherlands
Number in Rio: 313
Result: 7th
How did Rio turn out for you as an Olympic rookie looking back at the race now?
Niek Kimmann: The level of the top guys in BMX is so high that I knew I could easily go out in the semi with some bad luck, or maybe even medal if everything fell in the right place.
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Result: If I'm not mistaken I finished 18th
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So close to a medal. Do you re-watch the final on a regular basis?
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Seven Gambian press leaders arrested over Hydara reaction
Publisher | Committee to Protect Journalists |
Publication Date | 16 June 2009 |
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New York, June 16, 2009 – The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for Gambia's national security agency to release seven journalists it arrested on Monday. The detainees include leaders of the country's press union and editors of newspapers that published a union press release criticizing President Yahya Jammeh's recent comments about the unsolved 2004 murder of editor Deyda Hydara.
On Monday evening, National Intelligence Agency (NIA) plainclothes agents picked up veteran Managing Editor Sam Sarr, an advisor to the Gambia Press Union, and reporter Abubakr Saidy Khan of Foroyaa at the paper's offices, according to local journalists. Foroyaa, which comes out three times a week, published the press release in its Friday edition. Saidy Khan was arrested while attempting to take photographs to document the arrest of Sarr, journalists told CPJ.
Earlier, the agency arrested Emil Touray, Foroyaa assistant editor and the union's secretary general, along with four journalists from the private daily The Point, which published the union's statement in Monday's edition, according to local journalists. Managing Editor Pap Saine, News Editor Ebrima Sawaneh, and union Vice President Sarata Jabbie and Treasurer Pa Modou Fall were all being held at the NIA headquarters, according to local journalists.
No official charges have been brought against any of the journalists, according to CPJ interviews with the press union and the NIA. Journalists may only be held for 72 hours before charges must be brought, according to Gambia's 1997 constitution. NIA investigator Lamin Saine declined to comment on the case to CPJ.
"The Gambia Press Union has a right to question the government over it failure to investigate the murder of Deyda Hydara, who was formerly the managing editor of The Point," said Tom Rhodes, CPJ's Africa program coordinator. "It is outrageous that security forces should detain journalists from The Point and Foraya for carrying a press release. All seven journalists should be released immediately."
Sources at the union told CPJ security agents originally came to their offices Monday morning looking for union President Ndey Tapha Sosseh, who is currently out of the country. After they failed to apprehend Sosseh, the agents arrested senior press union members and the editors responsible for re-publishing the press release, union members said.
Guards at the NIA headquarters have twice denied the seven detainees visits from union counsel lawyer Lamin Camara and family members. The guards told Camara that any request to see the detainees has to be approved by the director general of the agency, and that the earliest a meeting can be arranged is Wednesday morning, the union reported.
Both publications are continuing to print despite the detentions, local journalists told CPJ. The arrests overshadowed Monday morning's acquittal of Saine, who was in the Banjul magistrate's court facing spurious immigration-related charges believed by local journalists to have been lodged in retaliation for a recent political story. Immediately after Saine's acquittal, security officers escorted him to the NIA headquarters.
Also on Monday, the managing editor of the private daily Today, Abdulhamid Adiamoh, was fined 50,000 dalasis (US$1,885) after pleading guilty to charges of publishing false information. Adiamoh told CPJ his paper had incorrectly reported on June 10 the firing of two officials but published a retraction the following day and sent letters of apology to the officials in question. Andiamoh was arrested June 10 and detained for nearly a week.
In the Gambia, one of the world's worst backsliders in press freedom, a handful of independent media operate in a climate of fear and self-censorship, particularly since the unsolved murder of Hydara and the 2006 arrest of journalist "Chief" Ebrima Manneh.
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A pair of interlocking love triangles make up Lou Ye's Spring Fever, the director's first film since his 2006 Tiananmen romance, Summer Palace, led to a five-year ban from filmmaking in China. Financed internationally, Spring Fever was shot surreptitiously on the streets of Nanjing, and its subject matter — gay life in contemporary China — is well served by the film's ad hoc, undercover aesthetic of necessity.
We begin inside a car with two young men riding in comfortable silence and stopping to piss off a bridge. One, Wang Ping (Wu Wei), is married but closeted. The other, Jiang Cheng (Qin Hao), is as out as you can be in his circumstances; formerly a drag performer of some renown, he's now a travel agent prone to gaudy scarves. As they reach their destination, entering a house in the woods on a blustery March day, the camera moves away from its privileged position into one of surveillance, watching the men through the trees. And then it returns to them, tight on their nude bodies as they have sex inside.
The tension between these two points of view gives the opening scenes of Spring Fever a splash of intrigue: Who is watching? What does he want? In light of the politically charged Summer Palace, it's easy to imagine a movie in which the omnipresent Chinese authorities uncover the two lovers.
Lou, though, has a different set of revelations in mind: Wang's wife, Lin Xue (Jiang Jiaqi), has hired a photographer to tail him. The unveiling of her partner's secret life unhinges her, a scenario that will be repeated later in the film as Lou's focus shifts from his initial triangle to a second one involving Luo Haitao (Chen Sicheng), the shutterbug whose spying contributed to the dissolution of the first.
Spring Fever's focus is relentlessly personal, not political, though the pressure of repressive Chinese society does make a few hysterical scenes feel, to the Western eye, like throwbacks to the queer dramas of yesteryear. ("You want to ruin us?" Lin shrieks at Wang when she finds out.) But much of the movie is silence, its characters wordlessly smoking, staring, texting, or fucking. You may, at times, chuckle to recall that Spring Fever won a prize for its screenplay at Cannes. (The script is credited to Mei Feng, but the press notes make clear that Lou had a hand in it as well.)
There's not just silence but also darkness, with shots that, while thoughtfully composed, often brutally tax the low-light capabilities of Lou's digital cameras. Whole sequences go by in which nothing is visible onscreen but the tiniest glint of moon on skin. As a mood-establisher, Lou's underlit images are peerless; as a dramatic tool, they're underwhelming, as I realized when what I thought was one character's contemplative early-morning mountaintop sojourn turned out actually to be a suicide.
As a result, the film's few moments of flair stand out, especially a tear-stained karaoke duet and a candy-colored drag show. Artifice can, at times, illuminate a character's interior life more brightly than unadorned truth, and a little melodrama never hurt anyone. For long stretches of this tantalizing, romantic, aggravating film — until just before its extremely satisfying ending, in fact — I wished Lou had caught a little spring fever himself, cranked up the volume, and turned on the lights.


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Key Lime Pie
In the 1950's, the only pie at the legendary Joe's Stone Crab in Miami Beach was apple pie. "But a visiting food critic from Chicago mistakenly mixed Joe's up with another restaurant and praised the Key Lime Pie," wrote Geoffrey Tomb of the Miami Herald after an interview with Jo Ann, the creator. Requests came flooding in, and Bass's father told her to develop a recipe. After a few modifications from new chefs at the restaurant, here is today's signature pie.
One 12" pie
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- 5 egg yolks
- 2 can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 c. fresh lime juice
- Zest of 1/2 lime
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- 10 graham crackers
- ¼ c. sugar
- 5 tbsp. melted butter
- Whipped cream, optional
- For the filling: Mix yolks, milk, juice, and zest.
- For the crust: Mix crackers, sugar, and butter. Form the crust in a 12" pie pan. Bake 8 minutes at 375 degrees F. Remove and let cool.
- Pour in the filling and bake another 8 minutes at 375 degrees F. Remove and let cool. Once cool, place in the freezer until ready to use.
- Before serving, remove from the freezer and let thaw at room temperature for 15 minutes. Top with whipped cream if desired.
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The service appears to be excellent even if its price has deterred me from personally trying it on recent visits to London.
Use is low because for a family a taxi is cheaper, as is long-term airport car parking for most brief vacation trips.
For individuals, the Piccadilly Line is less expensive, while being driven and dropped off by a family member is often cheapest of all.
What nonsense for Sir John Egan to say that "Americans don't think trains are for respectable people". It's more a case that Americans don't like being taken for a ride.
It is time the Blair government learnt that effective transport services are critical to the healthy functioning of the economy.
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