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nash needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 196 designs submitted by 71 freelance designers.
this is an edgy logo that has the words pocket square in it.
it could possibly emphasize the P and the S (PS) or have those letters larger. this is a logo that will be made into a STAMP that will be stamped on the inside of the product. so the logo's real size will be a 3 to 5 inch area.
pocket square
I need a logo for a new product. the logo will most likely be turned into a stamp. the logo will also be on the business card. The product is a wallet that is made from recycled juice and milk containers. The juice container is cleaned, cut in a few areas and then folded into a very cool wallet. The wallet is called a "pocket square" because it goes in your pocket and the finished product is the shape of a square.
The logo should be clean, edgy and minimal. I want 1 or 2 colors only (preferably one but open to new ideas). The P and the S can be emphasized as in 'PS' or not... i will leave the creative part up to you.
I want:
cool font, clean, straight forward
i dont want:
busy, hard to read, multiple colors
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Here's an old song of mine I've been listening to:
She Evil Carries Roses
This concerns a dark-haired girl in Chicago who, at the time, I was painfully enamored with. It seems to be a put down because I say she "evil" carries roses. But the song was meant affectionately. I think. I was in a weird frame of mind at the time. She was "evil" in the sense of being mysterious and impenetrable. But not in the sense of being bad. Her name was Monica. We worked together at a Woolworths where we often had to carry plastic fake roses up and down the stairs to the stock room in the basement. These fake roses were bought by people who put them on graves. Or I assumed that's what they did with them. Years later I tried to call Monica and she refused to speak to me.
It also concerns a dream I had while staying at my recently deceased grandmother's house while I was a child or maybe a teenager. The dream has stuck with me all these years. I must have had the dream about 10 years before I wrote the song, if not more and I wrote the song some time in the 80s, yet I still remember the dream.
It's a sort of creepy song. Don't get creeped out by it.

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text: My name is Heather Royal, thank you for visiting my work!Originally from NJ and now living in NYC, I've been lucky enough to live with constant stimulants, whether it's new people, places, ideas or just the changing landscape that always leaves room for new perspective and inspiration. I studied fashion, fine art and art history, so I'm partial to exploring form- the figure, portraits, nudes, etc, but I do like to experiment. My creative time is split between fashion, where I work as a bespoke designer, and then fine art- something I had reserved for myself but am now ready to share and hopefully find homes for some of my work.While I will always love developing that more traditional work I am experimenting with other expressive and abstract pieces, and hope to share those pieces soon. I hope you enjoy my portfolio.


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The Crank Shop Specializes in 2 stroke snowmobile performance work. We specialize in Bombardier & Polaris. We offer a wide variety of services.
The Crank Shop is going to branch off a little into the Hemi car motor parts. We will be offering Hemi 671 blower manifolds for 5.7 & 6.1 engines.


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Formal footwear from our collections for men, bringing together British design with Italian craftsmanship. Styles include Derby shoes, loafers and lace-up designs, all in velvet and a variety of leather finishes, from burnished to patent. Accentuated treads and grosgrain trims add subtle details to the classic selection.
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"No way!" exclaimed Mike Helde as a train engine exited a long tunnel and headed for the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis.
The reason for his surprise: "It went through with no sparks," said Peter Southard.
That's a good thing when it comes to reassembling the tracks for a 16- by 30-foot model-train layout. Everything has to fit back together just so for the train to run smoothly. And, "there's something about tunnels that makes it harder to work on it," Southard said.
After all, the tunnels are only a few inches tall and wide, along with sundry buildings and landscaping on the large model-train diorama that re-creates a vintage Minneapolis scene. But while the devil is in the details, as the old bromide goes, the truly hellish work on the large layout already had been done:
It began with a cross-country trip from California that required cutting a 10-foot-square segment out of a house, guiding the layout's pieces through it and then down 15 feet onto the ground, and toting them onto a 53-foot truck for the long trek to Minnesota.
That's what the Twin City Model Railroad Club just accomplished, bringing a slice of Minneapolis life to St. Paul from Santa Barbara, Calif. -- even if in miniature form.
"That was the hardest part by far, just getting it out of the house, dealing with the scaffolding and the scissors lift and then a narrow walkway," said Chad Kono, who journeyed to California last month for the project. "Two or three of those sections were really heavy."
He added, "We also had to take a lot of pictures so we could remember where everything went."
Now the club is reassembling the depiction of Minneapolis' Mill District, circa 1950, at the Twin City Model Railroad Museum. After a few weeks' work -- during which visitors can observe the rebuilding process -- the layout will join 13 others on permanent display.
But the new addition will be the facility's prize, with its gorgeous reproduction of Ceresota and other mills, the Milwaukee Road Depot and several bridges (the Stone Arch was a railroad bridge until 1982), framed by vertical panels showing the Leamington Hotel and other iconic buildings of the era. The Foshay Tower, however, was nowhere to be seen on a recent visit.
"It's on the middle panel, which needs repair work," Kono explained, "and we need that opening to get some bugs worked out."
Reliving childhood
The panels serve as a backdrop to the downtown area that model-train enthusiast Michael Corrigan hired Broadway stage designer Clarke Dunham ("Candide") to build. As a child growing up in the Twin Cities, Corrigan was enraptured watching Milwaukee Road, Great Northern and other trains pass by his window during a lengthy stay at Methodist Hospital.
Dunham handcrafted the depot and other Minneapolis structures; the rest of the layout is a generic 1940s and '50s scene: Mel's Drive-In, Coca-Cola bottling plant, Esso gas station, playground (with moving merry-go-round and teeter-totter), Palace Theater (marquee a-blazin') and other buildings bearing the owner's name.
"It's Corrigan-ville, literally," Southard said. "He put $130,000 into the construction of this layout, and it shows."
More recently, the club spent about $8,000 -- derived from proceeds at the museum -- on the Milwaukee Road layout's move. Corrigan covered the cost of cutting and replacing the hole in his house.
Corrigan, who moved to the West Coast as a teenager, is selling the house, so he decided that the best home for the model-train layout was his hometown.
"I feel really good about sending this many-year labor of love back to the source of the inspiration, where I hope it brings pleasure to many more people than were ever able to enjoy it when it was in my home," he said.
Club's collection growing
He found a ready and willing recipient in a local coterie of baby boomers reliving their youth, when model-train sets were a coveted Christmas gift.
When the railroad-themed Bandana Square opened in 1984, the developer provided a large room to the local club for a layout of downtown Minneapolis (well before Corrigan's was built). That setup -- "one of the best O-scale layouts in the world," Kono said -- still is housed in the main building.
Three years ago, Medtronics executive John Ross donated his layout to the club. After storing it for a year, the club opened a Toy Train Division in the Chimneys Building, between Bandana Square and, appropriately, some busy railroad tracks. That space now contains Ross' five-train diorama, several tiny N-scale tracks and trains, and a couple of displays that kids can operate: a carnival and a Thomas the Tank Engine setup.
Soon they will be joined by Corrigan's massive Minneapolis layout, but not before Southard, Kono, Helde and other club members work out all of the pesky bugs. But amid all of their exclamations and exhortations -- "Don't run anything on the top track; it's got a tree on it"; "This freaking telephone pole keeps falling down" -- the guys clearly are enjoying themselves.
Especially Helde, whose "real job," fittingly enough, is operating the Lake Harriet streetcar.
"Over there, I get to do the real thing," he said. "But that's work; here I get to play."
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Google Nexus 5 Pictures
The Nexus 5 is an affordable device packing top-shelf specs. Made in collaboration with Google and LG, the Nexus 5 runs on the newest Android 4.4 KitKat. It is a solid performer featuring a Snapdragon 800 system chip and 2GB of RAM. It is also the first Nexus to put the focus on camera performance as it comes with an 8-megapixel shooter with optical image stabilization (OIS).


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Outdoor Education: FACEtime Pre-Orientation Program
Put down your cell phone.
Turn off your computer.
Make some real connections.
FACEtime is the outdoor, adventure component of DiscoveRIT, RIT's pre-orientation program. Trips take place just before the start of New Student Orientation and are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, visit http://www.rit.edu/studentaffairs/discoverit/ or contact Tom Connelly.


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amypowerhands wrote:Don't we always learn the effectiveness of a modality when we learn it? Don't we usually hear what makes that modality different than others?
yes, and yes, hopefully.
Don't we usually hear what makes that modality better than others? Why would anyone learn and try to master a modality if they thought it was only just as effective as another?
No, and huh?
I've taken a couple of classes from very well-known instructors, one with a "patented" technique. Both were amazing classes that added greatly to my effectiveness as a therapist. Both explained very clearly why their methods were effective, and both were also forthcoming about the effectiveness of other methods.
Come on people, a little forgiveness and understanding goes a long way. This forum is starting to remind me of parenting politics or religion. It seems that some people are searching for quotes within other posts in order to pick apart, interpret and ridicule. I'm not sure this promotes open communication.
I'm not sure it promotes open communication when people tout one particular method as superior, not believing that anything else can be so effective. We have over 3000 members on this board, many of them highly effective therapists. The numbers don't lie, and we have lots of stories about "miraculous" recoveries through MT. Only a fraction of these are trained in JFB-MFR. Only a fraction trained in MAT, a few in ART, some in CST... and lots more alphabet soup, eh?
Perhaps some of the reaction (from me anyways,) comes from meeting therapists in real life who practice one of the trademarked techniques exclusively, and experiencing them behaving as if I am just a hobbyist, and an ineffective one at that.
In spite of the condescending attitude toward therapists who are not JFB-MFR, I actually learn quite a lot from reading even the posts that I challenge, (maybe especially those ones.) Unfortunately, with others, (as in goodtouch2's 2nd post in this thread- the one I responded to,) there is very little information about the technique, instead lots of insinuation and opinion about why the other techniques don't measure up.
I too want to learn as much as I can, but I don't think it happens with a situation where someone says "this is the ONLY effective way to treat the body."
I think you're awesome if you use MFR (JFB or not), sometimes, all the time, or never. I have true respect for all of you, and all of your opinions, and I really thank those who have risked ridicule to share them. I want to learn as much as I can. I am not learning anything from pick-apart posts.
And as far as the picking apart of posts... I do that because I have the memory of a gnat, so if I break out the pieces I want to respond to, and put them in each section, things are much more coherent, and I do less talking in circles.
I also think therapists who specialize very narrowly are awesome. I sent my mother to a Bowen therapist last fall when she could barely walk with her RA flare-up. The therapist had her going back up and down stairs in only 3 sessions. Pretty dramatic, and as far as I know, she didn't mix it up.
The interesting thing about JFB is that he DOES "mix it up." Though he stays within the covering of MFR, originally the use of MFR was done either with "direct" or "indirect" techniques. As I understand it, JFB blended the two methods together in his training program. This is what I was taught to do in my integrative NMT classes.
I'm sorry you are not learning anything from the "pick-apart" posts. Since this is a "discussion" board, I will probably continue to do them. (Again, this is why we need the ignore button. People who don't want to see any discussion can put me on ignore. Wouldn't be the first time... )


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Food Recalls: What You Need to Know
"FOOD RECALL" — two words with immediate consequences. Every day, food products are recalled for a variety of reasons. Here in Georgia, recalls can impact our state's food distribution system from the wholesale level right down to the consumer.
At the Georgia Department of Agriculture, our Food Safety Division administers state rules and regulations to help ensure product recalls are addressed quickly and efficiently. In fiscal year 2012, 114 food recalls directly impacted consumers across the state. Since recalls happen roughly once every few days, what exactly does this mean for you?
Learn Classes of Recall
It is important to know not all recalls are the same. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture outline 3 classifications in a tiered system.
- Class I — The most serious situation, in which a consumer faces "reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death." Examples of Class I recalls include those involving foodborne pathogens and foods containing allergens not specifically listed on the ingredient label.
- Class II — Still considered serious but less so than a Class I recall. Class II signals that "use of, or exposure to, a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences," and the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote. If a product were adulterated with hard or sharp foreign objects (plastic, metal or glass) during the processing or packaging phase, it would merit a Class II recall.
- Class III — The least serious recall, in which "use of, or exposure to, this violative product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences." When a product is off-color or off-taste, for instance, it may be deemed unfit for consumption, even if the food does not pose a health hazard.
How to Know If a Recall Affects You
Check the FDA and USDA websites for recall news, and look at your product labels. When those agencies announce a recall, they list the product/brand name, lot codes, expiration dates and product photos so that you can easily identify unsafe foods. If you're unsure about a product's safety and don't see the food listed in a recall, contact either the product manufacturer or the store you bought the food from.
When the Food Safety Division gets notice of a recall, we contact partner agencies across Georgia to help spread the word, and GDA Food Safety Inspectors check facilities where the product could be found, such as warehouses or grocery stores. We also post recall updates you can follow on Twitter, and GDA Food Safety officials are on hand to help answer your questions and receive consumer complaints. Our adage is, "When in doubt, throw it out!"
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About the Author
Jessica Holthaus is a Georgia transplant, originally hailing from Long Island, New York. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Hood College in Frederick, Md., in 2005 and has worked in a variety of communications and outreach settings throughout her career. She began with the Georgia Department of Agriculture in 2010 in the Public Affairs office and recently made the switch to the Food Safety Division under a recall strategy grant. Follow her and the Food Safety Division on Twitter @GDAFoodSafety.
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Calling all former
Girl Scouts
When: Noon-2 p.m. Today
Where: Island Lutheran Church, Main Street, Hilton Head
Description: The Girl Scouts of Hilton Head Island and Bluffton will host a reception celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Girl Scouts. The reception will kickoff at 12:30 p.m. with a flag ceremony, the reciting of the promise and singing. Following this a large birthday cake will be cut. Other food and refreshments will be provided. Service Unit 631 will be displaying "Girl Scouts Through the Decades," starting in 1912 with photos, books, old uniforms and much more.
Details: For more information, call Phyllis Neville at 681-3646.
Bluffton Tea Party
When: 5 p.m. for dinner, 6:30 meeting Tuesday
Where: Golden Corral, U.S. 278, Bluffton.
Description: Allen Page, Southeast director for Freedom Works, will be guest speaker. He will discuss the "Freedom Connector" and the nationwide effort to support conservative candidates who are running for election to the U.S. Senate this year. Also on the agenda will be a discussion of the South Carolina School Choice legislation. A question-and-answer period follows. This month a new "Patriots Pre-Meeting" will be added at 6:10 p.m. The new pre-meeting has an informal "open mike" format that gives the microphone to any members who request time to present their views on a topic of their choice. Patriot Bill Covell will give a book review of the best-seller "Throw Them All Out" by Peter Schweitzer. Members are invited to sign up for time at future Patriot Pre-Meetings to be held prior to the regular monthly programs.
Details: Bluffton Tea Party meetings are open to the public and all are welcome.
Fate of Theodosia
Burr Alston
When: Noon Wednesday
Where: Country Club of Hilton Head
Description: Michael Parker will be guest author for the USCB Lunch with the Author Series. His latest novel, "The Watery Part of the World," revolves around two known facts: (1) Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of controversial and brilliant Vice President Aaron Burr, and wife of Governor Joseph Alston of South Carolina, disappeared in 1813 while en route by schooner from South Carolina to New York; and (2) in 1970, two elderly white women and one black man were the last townspeople to leave a small barrier island off the coast of North Carolina.
Details: Reservations are necessary. Call 843-521-4147 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. The all-inclusive price is $42 and lunch is served at noon.
The Sea Island Quilters
When: 6 p.m. Thursday
Where: Praise Assembly, 800 Parris Island Gateway.
Description: Special guest speaker will be Pat Wys of Silver Thimble Quilt Co., Snellville Ga. She has been featured in "Quilt maker's 100 Blocks."
Details: Call Sharon Kimber at 838-2870.
Relay Rocks The Boathouse
When: 5-7 p.m. Thursday
Where: Skull Creek Boathouse, 397 Squire Pope Road, Hilton Head
Description: Happy Hour fundraiser to benefit Relay For Life Hilton Head.
Details: $20 donation for drinks and appetizers. Call 757-7450 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Go to www.relayforlife.org/hiltonheadsc.
Beaufort Art Association Spring
show and sale
When: Friday through March-25, open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Saturday; noon-4 p.m. Sunday
Where: Charles Lind Brown Activity Center, 1001 Hamar at Greene streets
Description: "Something Old and Something New" celebrates the 400th anniversary landing of Jean Ribaut and the Huguenots who founded Port Royal. The show will feature acrylics, oils, watercolors, pastels, drawings, hand-pulled prints, photographs, digital art and sculpture, as well as works in clay, wood, fiber and mixed media. Participants will be competing for over $2000 in awards.
When: 7-11 p.m. Saturday
Where: Hampton Hall Clubhouse
Description: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Nu Delta Omega Chapter will host the Scholarship Pink Ice Ball.
Details: Tickets are $50 per person. Call 838-4575 or 263-6929.
When: 8 p.m. Saturday
Where: Holy Family Catholic Church, 24 Pope Ave., Hilton Head Island
Description: Known for their clarity of sound, diversity of repertoire, humor and musical excellence the Hilton Head Choral Society is excited and proud to host this internationally acclaimed choral ensemble.
Details: Preferred seating is $35, available on line at hiltonheadchoralsociety.org or by phone 843-341-3818. General admission is $30, available at Burke's Pharmacy, Hilton Head Plantation; Pretty Papers & Gifts, Wexford Place; Christie's Hallmark, Barnes & Noble Center and Belfair Towne Center; Markel's, Kitties Crossing; at the door on night of performance.
When: 4 p.m. March 18
Where: First Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Bluffton,
Description: Remembering black women who are the foundation of our community. First Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Bluffton, in observance of it's 150th church anniversary and in recognition of Women's History Month, will remember and honor more than 40 women who served the Bluffton community and the church dating back to the late 1800s. The families of those deceased are invited to take part in this recognition along with those who are still among us. We want them to know they are not forgotten. The Voices of Elshaddi, an ecumenical group of men and women with local, state and national acclaim, will render music for the occasion.
When: 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. March 19-23
Where: 8085 Rivers Avenue, Charleston
Description: Red Cross Emergency Medical Response course will provide the participant with the knowledge and skills necessary to work as an emergency medical responder (EMR) to help sustain life, reduce pain and minimize the consequences of injury or sudden illness until more advanced medical personnel take over. Updated course now offers: choice of digital or printed materials – with best prices in the industry; two-year professional-level certification with free digital refreshers for CPR and AED to keep knowledge and skills sharp; highly interactive course includes hands-on, scenario-based training; exceeds EMS Educational Standards.
Details: Course fee for the one-day training is $400. To register, call 1-800-REDCROSS (733-2767) or register online at www.redcross.org/en/takeaclass.
When: 6 p.m. March 21
Where: Colleton River Plantation, The Nicklaus Clubhouse, 2 Colleton River Drive, Bluffton.
Description: Hope & Opportunity Dinner to honor people in Bluffton who support the community and the Club. This year, the Club will honor Bluffton Mayor Lisa Sulka. The guest speaker will be author and career expert Brooks Harper, a former Boys & Girls Club member who currently serves as a board member at the Boys & Girls Club of the Midlands in Columbia. Harper is the author of "Why Should We Hire You?" and is a motivational speaker.
Details: Cost is $100 per person. For reservations, call Liz Vallino at 843-379-5430, ext. 233 or email email@example.com.
When: 7:30 p.m. March 22-24 and 29-31; 3 p.m. March 25 and April 1
Where: ARTworks, 2127 Boundary St., Beaufort
Description: In this satire of Catholic school life in the 1960s, four actresses play the nuns and the first through eighth grade girls at St. George's School in Yonkers. An amusing portrait of girls maturing to the threshold of adolescence delightfully emerges, as they experience bonds of friendship, reprimands from authority figures, pressures from home, as well as the Beatles, the Addams Family, the Supremes and the election of a Catholic president. Between scenes of the classrooms, monologues give free rein to the students' decidedly secular ambitions.
Details: Tickets are $17 and online at www.ArtWorksInBeaufort.org; March 22 and 29 are "pay-what-you-can" performances ($5 minimum).
When: 8 p.m. March 30
Where: First Presbyterian Church, 540 William Hilton Parkway, Hilton Head Island
Description: Revel in the magic of Mozart when the Hilton Head Choral Society chorus, orchestra and soloists present "Missa Solemnis in C," the last piece of church music the composer wrote before leaving Salzburg and moving permanently to Vienna. In addition to this short musical gem, the evening repertoire will feature the sparkling Regina Coeli, choruses from three Mozart operas and some very charming Austrian folk dances.
Ticket info: Preferred seating is $25, available on line at hiltonheadchoralsociety.org or by phone 843-341-3818. General admission is $20, available at Burke's Pharmacy, Hilton Head Plantation; Pretty Papers & Gifts, Wexford Place; Christie's Hallmark, Barnes & Noble Center and Belfair Towne Center; Markel's, Kittie's Crossing; at the door on night of performance.
When: noon-5 p.m. March 31
Where: Buckwalter Place
Description: Bluffton Rotary is hosting a charity event to benefit Waddell Mariculture Center of the Lowcounty. Buy tickets by March 1 and get a limited edition pint glass. Entertainment will be provided by White Liquor. Vendors will be on hand for separate food sales.
Details: Tickets are $40 for tasting, $10 for designated drivers. Tickets are available at the UPS store at Belfair, Growlers, Comfort Inn, PayPal via www.firkinstock.com or call Mike at 540-9022. Must be 21 years of age to purchase tickets.
When: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. March 31.
Where: Caddy's Pub & Grill, Clubhouse Drive, Rose Hill Plantation.
Description: U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will conduct a boating safety and on-the-water training class. This fulfills federal, Coast Guard and South Carolina Certification. On water training will use a U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Vessel from a local marina at a convenient time.
Details: $50 includes text, lunch and certification. Course is $40 per person. Discount for second family member applied to both classes. Call 987-2745 or go to http://a0701001.wow.cgaux.org.
When: 9:30 a.m.-noon April 7
Where: A state-of-the-art teaching kitchen on Hilton Head Island.
Description: The Technical College of the Lowcountry and Hilton Head Health Culinary Arts Center present totally hands-on classes in Dessert 101, Knife Skills & Culinary Basics 102 and Local Cuisine 103.
Details: Cost of each class is $150. For more information or to register, call 843-525-8205.
When: April 13
Where: Everywhere
Description: Operation: Military Kids encourages everyone to wear purple to honor children impacted by military deployment.
Details: For more information, go to www.scomk.org.
When: 6 p.m. May 4
Where: Island Rec Center, 20 Wilborn Road, Hilton Head
Description: Community festival to support Relay For Life and the American Cancer Society.
Details: Event participation is free. Call 757-7450, email firstname.lastname@example.com or go to www.relayforlife.org/hiltonheadsc.
When: 8 a.m.-7 p.m. daily in March
Where: Meet at Fish Island in The Sea Pines Resort.
Description: Enjoy a one-hour guided tour through the freshwater lakes of the Sea Pines Forest Preserve and an up-close view of Hilton Head Island's indigenous plant and animal life, including the American alligator.
Details: Reservations are required and may be made by calling 686-5323. Cost is $22 per adult, $19 per child 12 and younger. Go to www.seapines.com.
When: 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month
Where: BJWSA Community Room, S.C. 170 and Snake Road/Callawassie Drive, Okatie.
Description: Beaufort-Jasper Flotilla 070-10-01 welcomes new members. Learn how to help keep the waters safe by assisting the U.S. Coast Guard in various inspections, courses and search and rescue missions.
Details: Call Tom Sellers at 705-7174, email firstname.lastname@example.com or go to http://a0701001.wow.uscgaux.info.
When: 5 p.m. every Tuesday
Where: Summit Place of Beaufort, 1119 Pick Pocket Plantation Drive, Beaufort
Description: Tidewater Hospice and Summit Place have joined together to offer a weekly bereavement group. This free forum will provide help to people who have experienced a loss and would like support and information associated with grief and bereavement.
Details: Call Marie James, MA, Tidewater Hospice, at 757-9388.
When: 8-11 p.m., every Friday
Where: Calhoun Street, Bluffton.
Description: J. Howard Duff performs his brand of Lowcountry blues and rock'n' roll.
When: 10:30 a.m., on first Saturdays
Where: Each Other's Muse Studios, 19 Buckingham Plantation Drive, Bluffton.
Description: Join for creative, art-orientated, no-pressure fun. Go to www.meetup.com/Bluffton-Relax-and-Create/.
When: Noon Friday
Where: St. Luke's Church, 50 Pope Avenue, Hilton Head
Description: A recital given by members of the Low Country Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
Details: The performance is free and open to the public. Contact email@example.com.


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Stephen Condon needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 131 designs submitted by 40 freelance designers.
Great Aussie Red
Three partners in the business 2 Australian 1 x Chinese. Our Aim is to introduce the benefits and enjoyment of quality red wines from Australia at an affordable price. Our winemaker is in the Hunter Valley which is famous wine country and blends quality wines for the Chinese palate.. Our philosophy is to gradually educate the market to the varying tastes and blends of red wine.
Chinese middle class retail consumers
Hospitality industry - Hotels, restaurants etc.
Wine/liquor retail outlets
Label must resonate with the Chinese consumer and be instantly recognisable as Australian.
Contain red color somewhere on the label
Do not use Koala, Kangaroo, Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge images in the design. (Trademarked Australian icons)
An elegant style label is required, depict quality.
Lettering/Typeface to be in English, we shall translate to Chinese ourselves.
Please do not use cartoon images.
We require Jpeg, PDF AI & PSD file formats


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|QTP on Easy way to automate testing
There are a lot of QTP videos. Each QTP text tutorial contains screen shots.
So, this is a well-illustrated blog containing interesting info for QTP newcomers and professionals.
You can find here different QTP videos and tutorials. Example QTP video #1, #2, #3, #4, etc.
To get new QTP videos and articles automatically, you can subscribe to blog.
|QTP Google group
This is a moderated QTP group. A great place for newcomers and professionals to improve knowledge and experience in QTP.
This is a very big QTP group - more than 1250 members as at Jan 19th, 2009. So all issues will be resolved quickly.
You can subscribe to this group here.
Before posting, please read Rules, FAQ, and others pages.
|Quality Center on HP Forums
Office HP forum for all questions related to HP Quality Center.
Unfortunately, there is no subbranch of QTP-related questions.
There are a lot highly professional specialists on this forum, so visit this forum from time to time to improve your professional skills.
|QTP on SQAForums
This is a QTP branch of SQAforums site. Moderated forums where you can find solutions to different QTP questions.
As a bonus, several HP QTP Support engineers share their knowledge and experience.
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Great site containing unique and interesting information about QTP.
Authors publish periodically articles about non-documented QTP features, investigations, books, etc.
Site contains internal forum.
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His site contains a lot of artciles about different QTP features and topics - Descriptive Programming, VBScript, and even original QTP tools.
|Software Iinquisition site
Amazing site! Definetely, you will like their simple and clear QTP articles.
Authors (Marcus Merrell & Will Roden) describe parts of their Software Inquisition Foundation Library for QTP (a kind of QTP Framework), and many others interesting things.
|Stefan Thelenius' blog
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|HP QuickTest Professional Software site
Official HP QTP's site.
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|'Automated Chaos' blog
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|HP Advanced Self-Solve Knowledge Search
'Knowledge Base' of QTP-related articles, manuals, documents, webinars, and others extremely useful documents.
Many artciles contains 'must know' technical information. Greate place to prepare for QTP certifications.
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|QTP on TDForums
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Site requres registration from corporate (not public) email account.
|Mohan Kumar Kakarla's QTP blog
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The win was the second in a row for the Lady Bisons. It was the first loss for Belmont on its home court this season and its first Atlantic Sun Conference loss. The Lady Bisons have won their last three games with Belmont dating back to last season. This was the biggest margin of victory in those three wins.
"Hopefully, we can build on the intensity level and our execution in these last two games and move forward," said Lady Bisons coach Frank Bennett. "It would have been easy to quit after we lost seven games in a row.
"We have been trying to get into stuff quicker and not be quite so set. I think that has helped us take care of the ball. We get some motion before we try to score."
It was the second time this season that Bartsokas has scored 20 or more points. She finished with 20 against Tennessee Tech Nov. 18. She made seven field goals and eight free throws, both career highs. She tied her career-high for free throw attempts with 10.
The Lady Bisons spotted Belmont a 4-0 lead to open the game. A 3-pointer by Anna Bowers gave the Lady Bisons their first lead of the game at 9-6 with 15:21 left in the first half.
They maintained their first half advantage. The biggest lead for the Lady Bisons was 12 points, 33-21, on a pair of free throws by sophomore forward Valerie Bronson.
The Lady Bisons held a 35-31 lead at halftime, the most points they have scored in the first half this season. They scored 31 against Campbell Jan. 8 in a 69-45 win at Allen Arena.
With 9:13 left to play Belmont moved into the lead for the first time in the second half, on a 3-point shot from Cacy Burtnett.
The Belmont lead was short lived.
With 6:51 remaining in the game Bowers hit a pair of free throws to give the Lady Bisons a 51-50 lead they would not give up. The game stayed close the rest of the way but the Lady Bisons, often playing three freshmen at a time, refused to give up their lead.
"Belmont is such a good team," said Bennett. "Anytime we play them it is going to be a dog fight. You never know what possession might change the game.
"It got a little tight when they took the lead, but we responded well to that. We met their runs."
In the final stretch the Lady Bisons used a combination of lay-ups and free throw shooting to ice the game. In the final 1:11 the Lady Bisons hit 10-of-12 free throws.
"This was a real team effort," said Bennett. "We got things from all of the players offensively, defensively and rebounding. It is good when your top players all play well."
The Lady Bisons set new NCAA era records for both free throws made and free throws attempted in a game.
The 31 free throws the Lady Bisons made broke the old mark of 28 set twice against Stetson, Dec. 29, 2002, and against Florida Atlantic March 2, 2006.
The 41 attempts shattered the old mark of 39 against Georgia State Feb. 19, 2005.
Senior forward Jilian Partin earned her third double-double of the season and the 10th of her career with 14 points and 11 rebounds, which ties her season high.
Sophomore forward Cree Nix added 15 points, her second game in a row to score 15.
"This was the first time Cree has played over here," said Bennett. "She had a broken hand last year. She had been talking a lot about playing here at the Curb. She went out and got us started early."
Bennett also praised the play of Bowers, making her second straight start. She played a season high 33 minutes.
"Anna got a big steal for us," said Bennett. "She played a real solid game. She always plays tough defensively."
Belmont placed three players in double figures. Guard Amber Rockwell scored a team-high 19 points. Center Jessica Bobbitt completed the double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Burtnett chipped in with 11 points.
Belmont forward Haley Nelson tied for the game-high in rebounds with 11.
The Lady Bisons are 4-11, 2-4 in the A-Sun. Belmont slipped to 5-1 in the conference, 10-5 overall.


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Ingredients listed below are approximate, depends on
how much you have on hand or how much you buy or how
many you are feeding.
2-3 cups freshest ricotta cheese
3/4 cup finely diced sopressata or any good
hard or semi-hard salami
1 cup sauteed walnut halves
[saute walnuts in mixture of butter
walnut or olive oil until medium brown,
salt and let cool]
sea salt and pepper
Very lightly toss ricotta with salami, salt and ground pepper to taste
Put in round or square bowl and edge bowl with walnut halves.
Grind a little black pepper on top to prettify. Store any unusued
walnuts, they come in handy for lots of dishes [like pasta].
This dish is great as a first course with a platter of 6 oz prosciutto, and
a 5 ounces each of other Italian cold meats sliced thin. Add slices of
buffala mozzarella [8oz] and garnish with spinach leaves or parsley.
Depending on how many and how plentiful the ingredients, serves
4 to 6
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Perricone MD has just released Blue Plasma ($95 / 2 oz.), an incredibly gentle exfoliant that is designed for daily use. I'm a major fan of frequent exfoliation. Nothing reveals and renews skin like taking the dead layer off, to let the new skin show through. Sometimes I will use AHA chemical exfoliants, and sometimes other types of at-home peels (for example, this one from Le Metier de Beaute is an exceptional twice-per-week peel). I'm also going to take the opportunity to compare it to some other daily peels that I've tried recently.
Blue Plasma is a once-per-day lotion that had a beautiful, gentle exfoliating effect and I experienced absolutely zero stinging. If you are looking for an effective peel for sensitive skin, or one that treats your skin like a princess', then Blue Plasma is for you. The Perricone MD website reads:
This cutting edge liquid treatment works with Bio-specific Peeling to attack only dead skin cells, Micro-extraction to lift surface debris, unclogging and purifying the skin of build-up and finally Hydro-fusion to rebalance skin's hydration with enriched water. No rinsing needed. Apply and follow with your daily skincare regimen.
I did find the results effective. My skin was softer, brighter, smoother, and more alive. Particularly for winter-wearing skin, it's lovely to have my glowing skin back without damaging or peeling. I typically put it on first, then wait for a few minutes to apply my moisturizer, then sunscreen. It can also be used before bed in the evenings instead.
As an introductory offer, Perricone MD's website is running an auto-ship special which reduces the price of the product to $85.50 plus adds a free Citrus Facial Wash with every order.
Auto-ships from Perricone MD are less scary than they sound. I've done an auto-ship special with the Perricone MD Vitamin C Ester 15, and found that I was able to pace the shipments to my needs simply by calling (my shipments arrive every three months, instead of every month, and still get the lower price and freebie product for every shipment).
As an aside, I preferred Perricone MD to Bare Escentuals Intensive Glow Pads Brightening Treatment ($35 for 60 pads).
The Glow Pads are cotton pads (one side smooth, the other rough) that are soaked in AHA and other items, designed to combine manual and chemical exfoliation. I found that these were fine, they were certainly easy and they packed well. The container is a strong plastic, and they aren't–strictly speaking–a liquid so they were convenient when baggie space couldn't accommodate all the skin care that I wanted to bring. Overall, Perricone MD is far more gentle, and left me with more side benefits (softer, hydrated skin). Also, Perricone MD's Blue Plasma doesn't make my skin more sun-sensitive.
I did feel a stinging quality on using the Intensive Glow Pads. Generally, with this type of cotton-soaked pad product you'll want to be diligent about flipping the jar after every use so that the pads don't dry out. For an AHA product, I still prefer M2, the advanced formulation of the old Mama Lotion. With a bottle of M2, you don't have to worry about any pads drying out, and you get plenty of product for the price (one bottle seems to last forever).
One product that I became very curious about for daily exfoliation was fresh lemon juice. I've never seen Makeupalley review a skincare product at a 92% approval rating before, so I had to try it. All I can say is, harsh harsh harsh, at least for me. If you heard someone shouting in pain, that was me. I've heard warnings about using this, including making skin go off-balance, or uneven skin tone after using it. I certainly would dilute it significantly the first time.
Of all of these options, Perricone MD's Blue Plasma is by far my favorite. Together with my other Perricone MD products, my skin is vastly improved. In particular, the Blue Plasma gives me a gentle, daily exfoliation which leaves my skin looking younger, fresher, and with a beautiful luminous quality. In fact, some day's I'll wear the Giorgio Armani Maestro Concealer over a few problem areas and no foundation. To me, that's a priceless result.
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Here's a short video from Perricone MD illustrating how Blue Plasma works (no sound):
Perricone MD sent Blue Plasma to Cafe Makeup without charge for consideration for review.
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You know it's funny that I opened the site to this review today as I was just reading about Blue Plasma last night. I have been switching up my skincare routine lately and have been trying different Perricone products and this is definitely on my list. Thanks for the review – especially for ladies with sensitive skin!
Great review. When do you use the blue plasma? I have the vitamin c ester and the formula 15 but wasn't sure if I could or should work this in?
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St. Pierre will return from a lengthy injury-induced layoff to defend his welterweight crown against interim titleholder Carlos Condit in the UFC 154 main event on Saturday at the Bell Centre in Montreal. The 31-year-old Canadian last fought in April 2011, when he defeated Jake Shields by unanimous decision. Soon after, a serious knee injury and resulting surgery stalled his career.
While many consider the St. Pierre-Condit unification bout a blockbuster in its own right, White has designs on a far more ambitious pairing, one featuring St. Pierre and Silva in a pound-for-pound super fight between UFC champions. The UFC boss expects the Brazilian to be in attendance to watch St. Pierre in Montreal.
"There's no doubt Anderson Silva is there to cheer Georges St. Pierre on," White said during a pre-fight media call. "He wants him to win this fight, and he wants to fight him after. The fight has to happen, people."
White already has mapped out three potential locales for the Silva-St. Pierre super fight: Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the Rogers Centre in Toronto or a soccer stadium in Brazil. Cowboys Stadium may be the most intriguing of the three. Home to the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, it seats 80,000 fans for football games but can be reconfigured to hold more than 100,000. It drew 50,994 to a boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey in March 2010 and could conceivably draw far more to a UFC event featuring St. Pierre and Silva.
"We've been talking to the Cowboys guys for a while," White said. "Whenever we want to do an event there, they're ready for it."
St. Pierre, who has remained non-committal on the idea of facing Silva, has kept his focus on the man in front of him.
"I don't care about Anderson Silva; he can do whatever he wants," he said. "I'm focusing on Carlos Condit, and that's all that matters for me."
Though the St. Pierre-Silva discussion leaves him as something of a forgotten man, Condit understands the interest behind a potential showdown between two of the sport's most accomplished fighters.
"Yeah, a GSP-Anderson fight intrigues me," he said. "They're the two best fighters to step into the Octagon. You want to see who's the best, but first thing's first. I have to do my thing. It's definitely motivating. I like playing the role of spoiler.
"There's a lot of people in the sport and media that are overlooking me and are looking forward to a super fight between Georges and Anderson," Condit added. "I'm looking to get in there and do my thing and hopefully change [their] plans."view original article >>


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Settlement reached in Marvel 'Ghost Rider' lawsuit
NEW YORK (AP) — A writer has reached a settlement with comic book publisher Marvel Entertainment over claims he owns the rights to the Ghost Rider character.
The deal was revealed in a one-page court filing Friday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that said both sides had "amicably agreed to resolve all claims."
No information about the terms of the settlement was mentioned and the court case was not yet formally dismissed because the deal had not yet been executed, according to a letter to U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest. She suspended deadlines in the case.
Gary Friedrich had sued Marvel in 2007, saying he was owed a cut of the box office proceeds from a film version starring Nicolas Cage.
The comic features a motorcycle-riding character with a flaming skull named Johnny Blaze, who had agreed to let the devil have his soul in return for his adoptive father being cured of cancer.
The cover of the 1972 "Ghost Rider" debut says it was conceived and written by Friedrich. A lower court found Friedrich relinquished his rights in 1979, but an appeals court in June reversed the ruling.
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How do you explain magic (Satan and Jin)? My question does not concern individual cases because i know some people suffer from psychological problems, I am asking about how a number of people can see magic happen in front on them? And how does the magician or psychic get to know things in the future or things that happened in the past that no one knows? For example, when people are robbed they go to one of those people and they can reveal the thieves and tell their names and motives. Please let me know if you have any sort of explanation to this.
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Magic has another common name, "sleight-of-hand". It is all trickery. And, as Loren says, look up James Randi.
Ahmed, there are whole books explaining "magic" tricks and "mind reading" scams. Here's a site that examines hoaxes: http://www.skeptic.com/ These are rational people. The key to understanding "magic" is this: Everything that happens follows the laws of science: chemistry, physics, biology, and all. So if something appears to violate such a law, it's either a trick or a misunderstanding of evidence. Thanks for a really good question.
Terence McKenna once explained that what we call "magic" utterly becomes without mystery if you posit that these somehow work through a "higher dimension." Then, seeing into the future, things popping in and out of existence perfectly makes sense if you posit a higher dimension.
What? Matt, can you explain that in another way? You lost me.
Sure. As Loren Miller quoted Arthur C. Clarke:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
In other words, if you posit that the extraterrestrial, for example, didn't visit us from Star Systems that reside billions and billions of light-years away from us, but rather through parallel dimensions, realities or universes that co-exist in time and space with our own universe, except through the phenomenon of quantum decoherence, do not interact with our universe except through a kind of "advanced technology" possessed by an E.T.
So, from our perception, it looks as though something, i.e. a UFO "pops into existence." I mean, that's just one example. Another example would be the Tralfamadorians in Kurt Vonnegut's book "SlaughterHouse-Five" that perceive in the 4th dimension, so all time is relative from their perspective, past, present, or future are all seen from that perspective, and if you have that kind of perspective, then things like seeing into the past, present, or future become utterly unmysterious.
So, the word "supernatural" can then be defined by those processes that are intertwined somehow with or manipulated through a higher dimension. Well, I'm not sure if that was understood, but here's two links that might help:
Two quotes to summarize this whole business:
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
|"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."
The magic was feeling forgiven.
If I explain it to you, it will no longer be cool. Magic and psychic powers are illusory. There is no supernatural force causing anything to happen. Magicians and psychics take advantage (hopefully for entertainment purposes) of perceptual biases and attentional deficits that all humans have.
Magicians and psychics are not able to know things in the future or past that no one knows. There are many subtle and often amazingly simple deceptions that can be used for gathering information to give this impression, but it is all trickery.
So far as I know, there is not a single confirmable example of a psychic solving a crime by providing specific information about the perpetrator. If someone can do this, they should collect James Randi's million dollars. If I had magic powers, I'd sure do it.
I am a bit curious about the parenthetic "Satan and Jin." Are you implying that anyone who can perform an illusion in front of a number of people is capable of harnessing evil forces?
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Denver has the highest ATM surcharges and overdraft fees in the nation, according to new report released Monday by Bankrate.com.
In Denver, the average ATM surcharge (the fee charged by an ATM operator to a non-customer) is $2.80 .
That's in addition to the average fee of $1.88 (fourth-highest in the nation) that Denver banks charge their own customers for leaving the network.
Bankrate.com said that a customer that's charged both fees would be out $4.68 for each out-of-network withdrawal.
Denver's average overdraft fee is $33.60 .
Following Denver with the highest ATM surcharges are New York metro; Seattle, San Francisco and Houston.
The ATM surcharge fee in New York metro and Seattle with both having a ATM surcharge of $2.70.
Following Denver for the highest average non-sufficient fund fees are Houston at $33.53; Atlanta at $32.70; Miami, $32.63 and Boston, $32.47.
According to Bankrate.com, the average ATM surcharge rose four percent to a new record of $2.50 .
This is the eighth straight year that the average ATM surcharge increased.
For the first time, 100 percent of the banks that Bankrate.com surveyed charged non-customers to use their ATMs.
Many banks also charged their own customers for using another company's ATM. This fee jumped 11 percent to $1.57.
Bankrate.com noted that the percentage of free checking accounts offered by U.S. banks continues to fall as other checking fees continue to rise.
Only 39 percent of non-interest checking accounts surveyed are available to all customers free of charge, down from 45 percent last year and the peak of 76 percent in 2009.
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Skycatcher's Big Price Hike
Cessna's decision to raise the price of its Skycatcher light sport aircraft by $35,000 is likely to have some ripple effects in the market. For one, in a single leap, Cessna goes from being middle of the pack pricewise, to very near the top, at least on base price. For another, its competitors, worried about being buried in a onslaught of not-that-expensive Skycatchers, are probably dancing in the streets. A 30 percent price hike is an attention getter and I wonder what impact this is going to have on Cessna's long list of position holders. I have to think some of them are going to say no thanks and take a second look at a Flight Design, a Remos, a Legend or any of a dozen other choices.
That Cessna made this decision is not particularly surprising. They've done it before. About a year ago, I got an e-mail from an engineer working in the GA industry. He was trying to understand why new airplane prices have so outstripped the rate of inflation. For instance, in 1976, a new Skyhawk cost $27,667 typically equipped. Plug that number into an inflation calculator and it's about $105,000 in 2011 dollars. But a new Skyhawk sells for a little more than $300,000. What gives?
Part of the answer lies in plotting new aircraft prices against the inflation curve. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, the two curves tracked nearly parallel. But beginning in 1978, the new aircraft price began a steeper climb that continues yet today. Recall that 1978 marked the leading edge of the great GA downturn, when production plunged from more than 17,000 airplanes to under 3000. As the leading producer at the time, Cessna remained profitable through both volume and a realistic margin. When the market soured, it appears to have simply raised its prices to hold a profitable margin, even if it wasn't making quite as much money. It seems to have simply divided its overhead by fewer units and arrived at a higher price. I think it has done exactly the same thing with the Skycatcher.
You can complain about the price increase and argue that the industry will never prosper trying to sell $150,000 LSAs. And that might be true, but the fact that Cessna has always been profitable means that it has kept its dealer and support network in place without interruption while other airplane companies have come and gone. High prices or not, if you own a Cessna, it's in your interest that the company remain profitable.
For as long as I can remember, Cessna's marketing ethos was to produce a model for every conceivable buyer on the brand loyalty theory. If you got the buyer with a Skyhawk, you could step him right up to a 182, a 206 and maybe even a Citation. I don't know how true this was, if it was at all, but I wonder if it still guides Cessna's decisionmaking. Or has the market become so fragmented and competitive and disposable income so stretched that brand loyalty is but an illusion? Either way, Cessna never seemed to be a proponent of loss leader marketing and it appears as if it still isn't.
Only one thing mystifies me about this decision. Cessna is the only LSA manufacturer well established with manufacturing in China. If a company with Cessna's economy of scale and marketing acumen can't make an LSA more affordable by building it in China, the notion of low-cost aircraft may very well be the myth that many people think it is.


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Making Money Off the Poor? Microfinance Institutions Going Public Creates Controversy
Microfinance originated in South Asia in the 1970s when pioneers such as Mohammed Yunus of Grameen, introduced the idea that providing small loans to the poor, especially women, can help generate income. In the last thirty years, after many experiments from around the world, the term microfinance now not only includes credit but also savings, insurance and cash transfer services for low income families.
An explosive growth of microfinance institutions (MFIs) has been seen within the last decade, both in India and globally. In fact, following the recent financial crisis, both Grameen Bank and Kiva have started lending in the United States.
The largest MFI in India, SKS made its first public offering on July 28, 2010. Backed by powerful funders like George Soros and Narayan Murthy, this is only the second "pure" MFI in the world to go public. The first one was the Mexican MFI, Compartamos, in 2007.
The Microfinance Gateway is the most comprehensive online resource for the global microfinance community and recently features an article based on eleven interviews with diverse experts on what they think the IPO could mean for the poor. Here's a sneak-peek:


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Optimism and pessimism seem joined at the hip these days where U.S. business sentiment is concerned – and such a mixture of opposing perspectives also seems to be rapidly becoming the "status quo" as well.
For starters, take a glance at a poll conducted by Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP of 1,700 professionals from a wide range of industries including financial services; consumer and industrial products; plus technology, media and telecommunications.
Respondents were torn on the topic of U.S. economic recovery in 2013 with nearly as many expecting improvement in 2013 (47.5%) as not expecting it (44.2%).
Indeed, other challenges that the global economy will face in 2013 discerned from Deloitte's survey include the European debt crisis (27.8%) and China's slowing economy (9.4%). Nearly three-fourths (73.6%) of those polled by Deloitte said the sluggish global economy has already impacted their businesses, with 6.5% expecting more impacts to come.
"As the Eurozone sinks deeper into recession and China's growth slows, we need to remember that their economies—just like many others—are closely tied to America's," noted David Williams (below at right), CEO of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP.
"Whether or not U.S. companies export and have operations overseas, we've already seen that fluctuations in one market can send shockwaves globally that tend to drive dealmakers to the sidelines amidst economic uncertainty," he stressed.
By contrast, however, a national survey from TD Bank discovered that that both middle-market and corporate CFOs are actually optimistic in terms of both macroeconomic and business growth this year – and at levels unseen since the height of the Great Recession.
Conducted by ORC International, TD Bank's survey polled a total of 303 executives, half at companies with annual sales of $50 million to less than $500 million (defined by TD as "middle-market") and half at companies with annual sales greater than $500 million (definied as "corporate" in this survey).
Nearly half (46%) of the CFOs in TD Bank's polled said they are more optimistic about U.S. economic growth over the next year compared to 2012. Further, 57% of respondents are more optimistic for their own companies' performance over the next year.
Furthermore, most middle-market and corporate financial decision-makers say their companies have accumulated at least a modest stockpile of cash and are optimistic for revenue increases in 2013. In tandem with expectations for increased cash flow and a positive business outlook, almost half (48%) of all executives polled expect their capital expenditures to increase over the next 12 months.
"Business executives have grown more willing to invest, albeit cautiously, over the last year and our survey results support this trend continuing through 2013," noted Greg Braca (at left), head of corporate and specialty banking at TD Bank. "Despite remaining policy and regulatory concerns at the macro level, CFOs seem poised to drive expansion and investment with capital accumulated since the downturn."
The increase in corporate cash reserves noted in TD Bank's poll turns out to be a much discussed topic of the last few years, Braca added, with 66% of the survey's respondents stating that they have at least a modest stockpile of corporate cash saved. Of those accumulating reserves, over a quarter (26%) report they are prepared to spend from those funds in 2013.
Adding to the optimism regarding cash availability, over the next year 71% of CFOs expect sales to increase, with only 15% expecting a decrease in sales. While those expecting a drop in sales increased by six percentage points from last year's survey, 13% don't expect a change, Braca said.
Notably, 24% of respondents from companies with revenues over $500 million responded they may likely use cash reserves for expansion via merger and acquisition.
"The climb to a sustained corporate recovery has been a long one, but our survey results and recent work with customers indicate the environment is progressing," added Fred Graziano (at right), TD Bank's head of regional commercial, government, small business banking, and U.S. Treasury management services.
"The cautious optimism hinted at in last year's survey has begun to take hold within our footprint," he noted. "We're seeing customers capitalize on the low interest rates through M&A [mergers and acquisitions] and self-investment, positioning themselves for a recovery in the market."
Still, it's not all peaches and cream for the CFOs polled by TD Bank.
Grazino noted that aside from the U.S. economic climate – about which executives are largely optimistic – respondents are concerned about the government's potentially negative impact on their company finances.
Some 30% of those polled by TD Bank cited political gridlock over the U.S. budget deficit and tax policy, and 24% cited government regulation, as substantial sources of anxiety. While overall uncertainty regarding the global economy remains an issue for 15% of respondents, the sovereign debt crises in Europe are less of a concern, cited by only 3% of those surveyed.
In sum … it's dang confusing as to how things are going, with some surveys painting a gloomy economic picture for the U.S. while others decorate the outlook with rainbow colors – and that doesn't help much when it comes to figuring out how freight is going to do, now does it?


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UltraHD TVs, also known as 4K TV because they have four times as many pixels on screen as high-definition TVs, are expected to be the hot seller in televisions this year, according to a Toshiba executive as well as market research firm NPD.
"UltraHD is the new hot category, and it is going to grow very quickly," Scott Ramirez, vice president of product marketing and development for Toshiba in the U.S., said in a press briefing ahead of this week's huge 2014 International CES tech show in Las Vegas.
UltraHD is an evolution, one step better than your last TV. For the most part, people can tell the difference when they see huge TVs with 4K content. It delivers better picture quality, an important feature alongside screen size and thickness.
"In our lobby, when they pass by our 84-inch UltraHD TV, everybody stops and stares," Ramirez said.
Of course, you'd expect that from a guy trying to sell you TVs. But the category has a lot more potential than the last big fad, 3D TV, which is sinking fast. A lot will depend on how low the prices for UltraHD TVs go.
"We do not believe that 3D will be an important factor in the future," he said. "Some manufacturers will continue to include it, but we feel that is just adding cost and not fulfilling a consumer need."
The overall TV industry is expected to be flat in 2014, according to both Toshiba and NPD. But some categories will continue to grow. The net result is flat revenue and a shift toward different kinds of TVs.
Market researcher DisplaySearch believes that 723,000 UltraHD TVs will be sold in North America in 2014. Toshiba projects about 800,000 for the U.S. alone. But much of the adoption will happen in the middle of the year or later. That's 10 times more than in 2013, and it's about 10 percent of the 50-inch and up screen size.
"It's a needed and a wanted business," Ramirez said. "Consumers are stepping up to bigger screen sizes and better picture quality. It really does bring back the wow experience."
Toshiba believes that UltraHD will become the majority of screens 50-inches and higher in less than five years. You can sit in front of an UltraHD TV at half the distance of an HD and not see pixels. The TV will cover more of your field of view and make it a more immersive experience, and it will deliver images to you at 60 frames per second.
Toshiba is on its third-generation 4K engine for its TVs. As the technology moves forward, it will drop in size and be used in a wider range of screen sizes. The company is making its own backlights because that is the way to control picture quality, Ramirez said.
Connected TVs are gaining ground as consumers subscribe to Internet video services like Netflix. In 40-inch and 50-inch TVs, Internet connectivity has hit about 50 percent of the market. It's not clear if the 32-inch size will shift over to connected TVs, Ramirez said.
U.S. LED TV sales are down 1.9 percent, according to NPD. One of the reasons is that people aren't buying smaller TVs anymore, since they are putting their money into smartphones and tablets, which have small screens but are mobile, Ramirez said.
Toshiba says one in three TVs sold are 32 inches, the most popular size. Those TVs now have 1080p high-definition video. But in the U.S., bigger is better. Large screen sizes are popular, with 50-inch screens growing the fastest.
Plasma TVs are declining fast, down 33 percent in 2013. The highest revenue volume generator is 59 inches. Average screen sizes are rising.
"For plasma, every screen size is declining, and that screen size will move very quickly over to LED," Ramirez said.


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I wouldn't dream of criticizing "The To Do List" — a summer coming-of-age film that opens this weekend — for being drenched in teen sex.
Nor would I dream of calling it exploitative. Or over the top. Or in bad taste.
For one thing, I haven't seen it yet.
And even if I had, I still couldn't raise those objections. If I did, anyone who knew me as a high-schooler … or a twentysomething … or even early thirtysomething (just kidding … no, really) would laugh and call me the biggest hypocrite on the planet.
I won't tell tales, and I won't admit to anything, other than to say if someone looked back and compared my behavior at times to a farm animal that enjoyed rooting around in mud, I wouldn't necessarily disagree.
Summer teen movies are what they are and have been since the image of Phoebe Cates emerging from the swimming pool in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," the mother of all teen sex movies, burned itself into my 15-year-old brain.
I am, however, going to come out and say I hate this movie without even seeing it … because God has an incredible sense of humor and gave me four girls to be in charge of.
A virginal heroine
The film focuses on high school overachiever Brandy Clark who, as a scholastic whiz but a something of a social nerd, hasn't been sexually active.
Brandy gets ridiculed for being a virgin and warned that she'd better get up to speed for freshman year of college's sexual smorgasbord (the cafeteria scene from "Fast Times" involving Cates and Jennifer Jason Leigh and a carrot just appeared in my brain, but I'm ignoring it).
To be fair, the movie doesn't look as dumb as it could. The cast is solid, and I'm guessing — hoping — that some smidgen of a message is delivered among all the anatomy jokes (even "Fast Times" dealt, briefly, with a girl's pregnancy). The thin slice of my soul that remembers what I was like before I became a middle-aged, judgmental parent would probably find it amusing.
Bad message?
But (you knew there was a "but" coming), I couldn't help but cringe at the idea of anything that might glamorize random sex, or suggest that kids are outcasts unless they are having sex in high school.
Again, I haven't seen the movie. But, because I have four girls, even the previews terrify me.
I'm not Puritanical (duh), nor am I stupid enough to believe anything short of a chastity belt (hey — do those really work?) or electrified bars around teenagers' windows will stop them from having sex (I had a father pull a gun on me outside my girlfriend's window, and it didn't stop me). They don't even have to know what it is to know they want to try it.
But there were — and still are — varying levels of acceptance among parents. Some have no problem with high schoolers staying over at each other's houses. Some don't mind kids partying to excess, passing it off as normal behavior. I understand that teen sex happens — I'm not going to lock my kids in a tower, but I won't push them toward it, either.
Parents can't afford to stick their heads in the ground, especially at a time when information spreads so quickly and through so many conduits. They need to be realistic (brrrrr) and realize teen sex has to be dealt with head-on (communication, birth control, threats.) And they have to do their best to take the glamour out of it.
Kids don't need a to-do list to prepare themselves for having sex. But their parents do.
Contact Tony Hicks at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.
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Before the original sketches, I had imagined and dreamed this font was used for side characters of retro robot animations such as Gundam and Ideon. But the sketches were put in a PENDING folder. It was a few years ago.
In the begining of 2011, I restarted working with the sketches to complete as a font file. Detail and some shape were improved retaining the original concept and they were completed, then named 'Space Colony'. Just as the name implies, this wide and geometric font family consisting of six weights was designed targeting at use for futuristic product of game, movie, logo and so on. Not only that but the rounded shape makes a lovely, cute and soft impressions so this font is also suited for cartoons, animations and character merchandise too. More…
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nodyce necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 130 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
Finer Franks
This logo will be used on a hot dog cart in Austin, TX (kind of a trendy place) so the logo has to be clever, fun but still gourmet.
Servers will wear tuxedo T-Shirts and serve hot dogs on plastic silver platters.
A cartoon of a character named "Frank" in the logo is not out of the question but not the only answer.
Fun is really important. Fun colors, fun fonts and fun design.
The mark will be used for golf shirts for employees as well as the signage so vector style art is best with bold lines.
Fun is really important. Fun colors, fun fonts and fun design.
* Clear BOLD design that is re-markable
* Words "Fine Franks" should be easily readable from a distance
* Strong use of color that stands out
* Interesting but simple font choice that lends to signage
* Design says smart, fun & very friendly
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Hello, I'm studying Keats for A-Level, just wondering if anyone can help with a few confusions I have?
Mainly it's about Keat's philosophy. He states that
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need to know"
What does this mean? I've looked at it lots, and still can't fully understand what he means!
Negative capability has something to do with Keat's philosophy too - shown in La Belle Dame sans Merci. Can someone explain this concept?
Also, in Lamia, the philosopher is seen as the bad guy, who reveals too much, brings people down to Earth, as it were, and evetually destroys the imagination: i.e. Lamia. Dows Keats reject philosophy because it disregards negative capability?
Hope someone can help me with this confusing poet!


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10 Coolest Small Towns: Truth or Consequences
These towns all have fewer than 10,000 people—but they can rival larger cities when it comes to good food, culture, and quality of life.
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
Population: 7,163
Nearest City: El Paso, Tex., 123 miles
In 1950, Hot Springs renamed itself Truth or Consequences in a publicity stunt to boost tourism. Fame has faded over the years, but the odd name still pays dividends. "When I saw it on the map, I knew I had to check it out," says Susan Morrongiello Koenick, who ended up quitting her job as an art therapist in Washington, D.C., in 2004 to relocate to T or C, as residents like to call it. Koenick's vintage-clothing store, Dust & Glitter, was one of the first businesses to move in downtown (404 Main St., 575/894-3613, dustandglitter.com).
Other places have opened up in recent years, including MoonGoddess, a recycled-textile art shop (415 Broadway, 575/744-0011); Cafe BellaLuca, an Italian restaurant with art exhibits (303 Jones St., 575/894-9866, cafebellaluca.com, pastas from $8); and Blackstone Hotsprings, a retro motel with mineral baths flowing straight from the 110-degree aquifer (410 Austin St., 575/894-0894, blackstonehotsprings.com, $75).
With its wide-open skies, T or C also appeals to space enthusiasts. A spaceport that's being built just outside town will be the future home of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic flight program (virgingalactic.com). "At night, you feel like you can touch the stars with your hands," says Tobias Katz, organizer of the annual Truth or Fiction Film Festival (torcfilm.8m.com, Feb. 6–8).
>See photos of the coolest small towns


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Last night's Academy Awards show was in my opinion, not the show-stopper that last year's show was. Although I very much enjoyed Neil Patrick Harris as a host, I felt the show dragged on. Also, I'm sure a big part of my mentality was that I was not too emotionally involved with the nominations and…
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Buster12345 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 21 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
We have a software program that helps large and medium sized organizations decrease their printing and distribution costs as well as help them be more environmentally friendly. Reduce paper costs, decrease carbon emissions and so on.
Our turnpage software takes any print ready document and converts it to a digital Turnpage document. Links to email and websites can easily be embedded, video and audio clips as well. We can even give you statistics on pages view, most popular articles read etc, you can even sell advertizing on the interface.
Our clients are from a wide range of industries, publishers making up the bulk. We have converted Newspapers, magazines, books, brochures, annual reports, promotional materials, news releases, company documents, booklets leaflets. Others use the service to convert their online materials such as pdf documents that are basically static and don't offer the user a dynamic experience.
Like I mentioned above, we want a very clean looking easy to navigate site, since we sell a software service it is very important that the visitor knows what we are offering once he arrives on our home page.
The site should be on a white background with large bold calls to action in color. These could be rounded squares or anything else that will relay the message effectively.
We will want to use our existing flash file so space must be available for it, I can change the colors in the flash to match any design.
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Tomato, Pepper, and Garbanzo Salad with Sumac
|A delicious salad with marinated garbanzo beans, tomatoes, bell pepper, and a generous amount of parsley!
Chop the yellow bell peppers and slice the green onion.
Coarsely chop the parsley. (You can use Italian parsley if you prefer.)
Drain the garbanzo beans, catching the balsamic vinegar.
Mix together the drained tomatoes, yellow bell pepper, and sliced green onions and toss with as much dressing as you need to moisten the salad to your liking. Then mix in the parsley. Serve right away, sprinkled with Sumac on the finished salad if desired.
And just for the fun of it, here is the original one-and-only photo of this recipe from 2006!
Tomato, Pepper, and Garbanzo Salad with Sumac
(Makes four servings; recipe adapted from Sunset Magazine.)
1 can garbanzo beans (chickpeas) drained well
2 T balsamic vinegar
3 cups diced tomatoes or grape tomatoes cut in half
1 tsp. sea salt (for tomatoes)
1/2 cup sliced green onion
1 large yellow bell pepper, diced
1 cup (or more) finely chopped parsley
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
3 T extra virgin olive oil
1 T fresh lemon juice
generous amount of Sumac for sprinkling on the salad (optional)
Drain the garbanzo beans, reserving the balsamic vinegar. Whisk the olive oil and lemon juice into the balsamic vinegar and season dressing with salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste.
Put bell pepper, onion, drained tomatoes, and garbanzos into large bowl and stir to combine. Toss with as much of the dressing mixture as you need to moisten the salad to your liking. Gently mix in parsley, season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper, put in serving bowl, sprinke with Sumac (if using) and serve immediately.
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More Salad Ideas with Garbanzo Beans:
(Recipes from other blogs not always South Beach Diet friendly; check ingredients.)
Warm Butternut and Chickpea Salad with Tahini Dressing ~ Smitten Kitchen
Mediterranean Spinach Salad with Garbanzos, Tomatoes, Radishes, and Sumac-Lemon Vinaigrette ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Chickpea and Feta Salad ~ Simple Nourished Living
Arugula Chickpea Salad with Feta and Balsamic-Tahini Vinaigrette ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Garbanzo Bean Salad with Cilantro and Feta Cheese ~ Tasting Spoons
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
Somewhere over the rainbow....
Two cities. Two cheerful images. The near perfect rainbow was spotted by my daughter Arundhati over the tennis courts of the Bombay Gymkhana. She interrupted her game to click it over her phone. The other image was clicked by our Blogdost Nitin Rai ( theyoginme) capturing the spectacular fireworks in Chicago. I found the pictures uplifting and inspirational on an otherwise unexceptional Sunday...more from me tomorrow... a hectic Monday beckons.
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and de, need to ask arundhati to take up photography... she has it in her genes... let the lens be her muse.
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What happens with Pedro Varela, the Spanish publisher?
By Maria Poumier
BARCELONA, December, 2010 — He is in jail near Barcelona, incarcerated since Sunday December 12th (1) 2010 being sentenced for fifteen months. This is the end of a long run: the Catalonia's court was after him since 1996, for publishing, selling and promoting books that the Jewish lobby dislike. At first, he was sued for H denial; but the supreme court of Spain decided in 2007 that this is not punishable in Spain, because "democracy relies on freedom of investigation and scientific knowledge, and history of WWII is a matter of science." So now he was found guilty of promoting hate, and worse than that: he supposedly approved of the big H! Pedro Varela argues, how can you approve a genocide which you don't believe it ever happened?
Usually, at present, in Spain, you don't go to jail if the sentence is for less than 2 years, tells his lawyer. Pedro's new sentence is for 15 months, still they sent him to jail.
The prosecutor, called Miguel Angel Aguilar, is a well known friend of SOS Racism, a Jewish-led body that needs to find racists in order to justify its existence, and find public funding by taxpayers. So is the principal judge, Mrs Estela, as Pedro explains.
The sentence punishes Pedro for his supposed intentions, not for any precise offence; but even accepting such a non-legal claim, it is not logical at all: it recognizes the right to sell any kind of books, but not the right to sell + publish + promote some of them, even when our society is based of the supreme law of marketing goods; the matter is not one particular book or another: there was no previously a list of forbidden books in Spain; most of the listing have already been published by other publishers, or are available for free on internet.
On the list of incriminating literature you can find a book by the psychologist Hans Eynseck (available on the shelves of the big Spanish store "El Corte Ingles"), a book against vivisection of animals, and some classics of the far right by German and Rumanian authors as well as the Spanish ones. But it is not a definitive list, and through the successive trials, it has grown or shrunk!...
So, as Pedro insists, this is much worse than the Inquisition of old: then you could obtain a list of forbidden books, and stay away from them, but now the list comes afterwards, it is absolutely foggy, and doesn't come from any official desk, but from some mysterious foreign forces through their local servants.
As a matter of fact, Catalonia has always been seen by the rest of Spain as a Jewish enclave, with tight links with Genoa, next to its coasts. Barcelona has the only important Jewish community in Spain, with some 5000 persons. Bauer, Rothschild, Danone, are still important families of Barcelona, and the popular Catalan leader Jordi Pujol has sent his sons to a kibbutz. The Zionist thinker and art critic Max Nordau (son of Hungarian Sefaradi rabbi and poet Gabriel Sudfeld, of an old family from Saragossa) published in Barcelona his bright History of Spanish Painting, so he is considered a Catalan there. The book by Angel Pulido, an important writer who gave an intellectual renaissance to Sefer in Spain, has been translated to French by Max Nordau.
At the same time, Catalonia has strong anti-Israeli tendency: the projected Sarkozy's conference on extending the European structures to the Mediterranean States (which means first of all institutionalizing the presence of Israel in the midst of these structures) was cancelled by the Catalan government, as a protest against the new settlements ordered by Netanyahu; last year, the Home Minister of Catalonia had lead the demos against the Gaza slaughter, and cancelled a H celebration on January 29th. This year, a popular sculptor called Eugenio Merino woke Israel's wrath showing his "Ladder to Paradise" a prostrated Muslim under a kneeling Christian, under a standing up and laughing Rabbi. ADL and others of its ilk consider Spain as the most anti-Jewish country in Western Europe. The Jewish State was not recognized until 1986.
The US are not popular, but Wikileaks cables show that the government recently was ready to submit to the US ambassador Aguirre's request when he asked to drop the charges against the US marines who murdered the cameraman Couso at the balcony of Hotel Palestine in Baghdad; the cases of using Spanish airports for the US "flying prisons", and of torture in Guantanamo will be probably dropped as well. Spain considers it has "universal jurisdiction," as Belgium claimed, until Belgian judges tried to judge Ariel Sharon.
In such a hot battlefield, the old-fashioned Nazi literature Pedro was selling is not a real danger for anybody, mostly because Spaniards cannot claim to belong to the supposedly sublime Nordic race: real hyperborean master folk have always laughed at the Spanish, and considered them "degenerated African bastards". Catalans indeed have a tendency to a scornful and racist nationalism, but Varela is not a separatist Catalan. The reference to German self-adoring mythology is used against Varela because it allows viewing him as a Halloween ghost from a remote past.
Pedro Varela enjoys his peculiar fame: he is Catholic, vegetarian and alpinist; he wishes to advance further in his quest. As he says, he is guilty of a kind of sin no one can withdraw or repent: the search for freedom of mind, not only for his Nazi fellows, but for whole Spain.
Write this imprisoned bookseller in Spanish or in English:
Señor Pedro VARELA
Centro Penitenciario Brians 1
Apartado de Correos 1000
Barcelona, Spain
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Sorry to get to basics, Ive been looking for 100% white cotton fabric for backing and some boarders. Im getting confused with all the different types of fabric. Is it ok to use muslin. I have found that the basic white cotton is very expensive. is there any alternative.
oh and yes, whats the difference between normal cotton and flannel. Im doing my fabric shopping online as there are no fabric shops near by.