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Why A Spendthrift Trust Can Be A Great Solution For Your Heirs
Why a Spendthrift Trust Can Be a Great Solution for Your Heirs
There are many tools that can be used when putting together your estate plan. One such tool is a trust.
A trust is a fiduciary arrangement, established by a grantor or trust maker, which gives a third party (known as a trustee) the authority to manage assets on behalf of one or more persons (known as a beneficiaries). Since every situation is different, there are different types of trusts to ensure the best outcome for each beneficiary. One type of trust, known as a spendthrift trust, is commonly used to protect a beneficiary's interest from creditors, a soon-to-be ex-spouse, or his or her own poor management of money. Generally, these trusts are created for the benefit of individuals who are not good with money, might easily fall into debt, may be easily defrauded or deceived, or have an addiction that may result in squandering of funds.
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Put simply, a spendthrift trust is for the benefit of someone who needs additional assistance managing or protecting his or her money.
The spendthrift trust gives an independent trustee complete control and authority to make decisions on how the funds in the trust may be spent and what payments to or for the benefit of the beneficiary are necessary according to the trust document. Under a spendthrift trust, the beneficiary is prohibited from spending the money before he or she actually receives distributions. These restrictions prevent the beneficiary from squandering their entire interest or having it garnished by the beneficiary's creditors. The trustee controls the assets in the trust, including managing and investing the funds, once the trust is made irrevocable. Most trusts become irrevocable after the grantor has passed, but some are irrevocable from the start.
Creating a Spendthrift Trust
A spendthrift trust is created essentially in the exact same manner as any other trust. However, the vital difference of a spendthrift trust is that the trust instrument must contain the right language to invoke the law's protection. A knowledgeable estate planning attorney can provide guidance on how to best structure this provision, so it meets your family's needs.
Like any trust, the benefits of a spendthrift trust can help avoid the delay and expense of probate as well as provide tax benefits and peace of mind. Of note, there are several states that limit a grantor from naming his or herself as a beneficiary under a spendthrift trust for the purposes of avoiding creditors.
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The deepening of the Eurozone crisis – with Greece, Spain and Italy on the brink and threatening to bring the rest of the EU down with them – has stoked fears about the rise of the far-right and the future of European politics.
In Greece, the extreme right party Golden Dawn secured twenty-one parliamentary seats, making it the most far-right party to enter an European legislature since the Nazi era. Similarly, Marine Le Pen's anti-euro, anti-immigrant National Front Party achieved a record 17.9 per cent of the April vote in the first round of France's presidential election. These wins illustrate how frustrated voters, disenchanted with mainstream political parties, are increasingly turning to fringe parties on both left and right.
No wonder that Dutch MP Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party, has just released his new book, Marked for Death: Islam's War Against the West and Me, in New York. With 24 seats in the Dutch parliament in 2010, Wilders' party was the third largest bloc, supporting Prime Minister Mark Rutte's minority coalition in return for a range of anti-Muslim concessions – a crackdown on immigration and a ban on the burqa. But last April, when Wilders pulled out of the coalition due to its support for austerity measures, Rutte's government collapsed.
Wilders' broad anti-Euro, anti-austerity agenda – calling for Netherlands' budget policies to be decided domestically, not by the EU lawmakers in Brussels – has given him a platform to exploit the wave of opposition to austerity sweeping across Europe and beyond. A new poll shows that for the first time, his Freedom Party has outstripped the ruling Liberal Party in popularity, making them second only to the Socialists, who have doubled their seats to 30.
But Wilders' Muslim thesis is so unhinged that it raises concerns about the resurgent legitimacy of far-right ideology under the stress of political and economic crisis. His Marked for Death essentially sets out a rationale for his call for an "International Freedom Alliance", an umbrella organisation of groups and individuals "fighting for freedom against Islam". The agenda is simple – the Qur'an should be banned, mosques forcibly shut down, Muslim women who wear a headscarf taxed, Muslim immigration halted, and potentially dangerous Muslims deported en masse.
Wilders' hostility toward anything to do with Islam makes him incapable of recognising the growing impetus for reform across the Muslim world. For instance, Wilders takes aim at the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the intergovernmental body for 57 Muslim member states, as a clandestine vehicle for a global Islamic Caliphate conspiring to "elevate Shari'ah Laws over human rights."
While the OIC is far from perfect, this overlooks how since 2005, under the leadership of Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the body has taken serious steps to promote internal Muslim reform – establishing the world's first Muslim human rights commission to investigate abuses of "internationally-recognised civil, political, economic and social rights" in Muslim countries; issuing a comprehensive resolution condemning "all forms of terrorism"; while condemning Arab dictatorships trying to crush local democratic movements.
In his zeal to demonise Islam as a Nazi-like "totalitarian political ideology" and "existential threat", Wilders turns a blind eye to such efforts for progressive Islamic reform. It is not a surprise, then, to find Wilders equally oblivious to the American Muslim experience. A study by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security finds that American Muslim communities "have been active in preventing radicalisation", and that the threat of home-grown terrorism, while already "minuscule", has continued to decline. American Muslims regularly confront "individuals who express radical ideology or support for terrorism", prevent "extremist ideologues from preaching in mosques", and communicate "concerns about radical individuals to law enforcement officials". No wonder even the RAND Corporation concludes that terrorists "would find little support in the Muslim community" in the US.
But then, published by notorious neoconservative outlet Regnery Publishing, Wilders' Marked for Death offers little new in the profitable field of anti-Muslim scaremongering. Indeed, it is no coincidence that his Freedom Party has for years received funding to the tune of six figures from many of the same US sources published by Regnery, such as Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes and Pam Geller – whose stale stereotypes about Islam are amply regurgitated in his book ad nauseum.
The US publication of Marked for Death in English thus reveals the extent to which US ultraconservatives are getting desperate. With upcoming elections on the horizon, they have thrown the 'Wilders card' in a vain attempt to project his alleged European experiences on to an American audience to scare them into voting against Obama – which is precisely why Wilders is marketing his book in the US, and not Europe.
Fortunately, his book's boring message is falling on deaf ears. Bar an interview with the equally unhinged Sean Hannity on Fox News, Marked for Death has received negligible acclaim in the American press. Discerning readers will note the most obvious reason: in the name of defending "freedom", Wilders' political programme is based entirely on the idea of forcibly eliminating the freedom of all Muslims across the West to practise and speak about their faith – whether or not they oppose extremism (which most do). Only someone utterly ignorant of American history would attempt such a thing in the Land of the Free.
Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is an international security expert and Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development. His latest book is A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (2010), which is now a documentary feature film, The Crisis of Civilization (2011)


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You're almost done with your amigurumi, but there is one task left: you decide to embroider some of the details of your toy. Oh no! At the beginning of my crafting life, I always dreaded stitching the little amigurumi faces, especially the mouths. Over the years, I've picked up on some handy tips and tricks that helped me along. I will share these with you today.
All you'll need for your embroidery adventure is a needle and some thread. I personally prefer an embroidery needle (with a sharp point) over a tapestry needle (with a blunt point) for this. It makes it easier to enter and exit the plushie wherever you want. Now onto the thread. You could easily use any type that you wish, but I recommend not using something that unravels easily. For really small amigurumi, I use one to three strands of special embroidery thread. For regular amigurumi toys, I find it easiest to use a good quality cotton thread of fingering or sport thickness (4-5 ply), depending on the size of the plushie.
Before or after?
When should you embroider your details? Before you start stuffing or much later, once everything else is already done? If you are making your plushie for young children, I'd advice on the first. When you embroider before stuffing, you can make the most secure knots and be absolutely sure that, no matter how much pulling or fingering it may endure, the stitches will never come loose. However, if you are having trouble with embroidery and you are not planning on giving your amigurumi to the young ones in your life, I'd recommend embroidering only after you've finished crocheting and stuffing your toy. When the plush is already stuffed, it's considerably easier to make your stitches in the right places and to make them match up.
Starting and ending?
If you have decided to embroider before stuffing, simply make a big knot at the end of your thread and begin on the inside of your amigurumi, so the knot stays on the inside and keeps the thread from being pulled out. You will finish your embroidery with another big, tight knot on the inside. If you start embroidering after you've finished your amigurumi, start with a long thread on your needle, but don't make a knot at the end! Enter the amigurumi about eight stitches (or as far as the length of your needle permits) from the spot where you'll be embroidering a detail. Push your needle through the amigurumi from the entry point to the embroidery-spot, and leave a semi-long thread hanging from the point of entry. When you're done embroidering the details, after the last stitch, exit the amigurumi again at the entry point. Now you have two threads hanging from the same point. Tie them together into a tiny knot, cut away the excess yarn and push the tiny knot into the amigurumi with the backside (the blunt side) of your needle. Gone! No-one will ever see a thing.
What now?
Now you know how to start and end, that's all good and well, but what do you actually do in between those two steps?! I'm happy you asked!
I like to use some basic rules for the order of my embroidery stitches. I start with the most important outlines, the ones that will form some sort of frame that will guide me of where to put my next stitches. Then I fill up the space created by the outlines. Afterwards, I work away uneven lines by putting some last stitches over them to hide them.
When I embroider something that hasn't got a frame or space to fill up per se, I follow a different order. I start out with a single stitch in the middle. Then I slowly expand from that center to both sides so I can mirror my stitches with less difficulty. I know this all sounds kind of abstract, but bear with me. Below you will see some step by step drawings that will clear up these descriptions.
The most common shapes: step-by-step
Here are some step-by-step diagrams for the most common shapes in amigurumi, applying the tips that I have explained above. They are not absolute rules of order, but just a look into how I personally create the basic embroidery on my amigurumis. There are a million more ways to create shapes, so be sure to try around to see which works best for you.
Snout with nose and mouth
Here we begin with the outline of the upside down triangle, to estimate its size. Then we fill in the triangle, and finish the uneven lines at the top with the top line. Then we can proceed to the smile.
Multi-purpose basic snout
Here we make a couple of vertical lines, and then a couple of horizontal lines. Done already! This one is the easiest and can be used for rabbit amigurumi, for example.
Several eyes
You can make such a wide variety of eyes! You can create even more diversity by combining different types of eyes, like a regular eye and a sleepy eye to make your amigurumi wink. To make circular shapes, try to use very small stitches. This takes more time, but a lot of tiny stitches with a slightly different angle look more circular than simply four straight, long lines.
Good luck!
That's all! Don't postpone any longer and try some of these embroidery techniques on that amigurumi project that you have been avoiding. Will you mess up? Probably, every skill takes a lot of practice. Don't let your fear of ruining all your toys stop you. At first you will create a bear with an awkward mouth that's way too big or small, but 20 toys later you will look back on that bear and appreciate that you can visually see how much your practice has helped you. That will give the awkwardly embroidered bear its own charm!
This article originally appeared at Hobiumyarn.com's blog. You can read it here.


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09.15 -10.15
Concelebrated Mass presided by H.G. The Archbishop Paul Cremona O P
Venue: St. John's Co-Cathedral – Valletta
11.00 – 13.00
Opening of Convention
Opening Address by The Hon. Dr Tonio Borg, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Address by
The Rev. Fr Alfred Vella, Archbishop's Delegate to Emigrants' Commission
The Hon. Dr Joseph Muscat, Leader of the Opposition
H.G. Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P.
Address and Inauguration by
The Hon. Dr Lawrence Gonzi, Prime Minister
'Setting the scene:The Retention of Maltese Identity Overseas' by Prof. Henri Frendo
Venue: Exchange Buildings, 64, Republic Street, Valletta
Reception hosted by the Hon. Dr Lawrence Gonzi, Prime Minister in honour of participants
Venue: Auberge de Castille, Valletta
Opening Address by The Hon. Ms Dolores Cristina, Minister for Education, Employment and the Family
Address by Mr Peter Portelli Permanent Secretary for Information, Tourism and Sustainable Developement
• 'Il-Kultura Maltija fost hutna Msifrin' - FR Lawrence Attard OP
• 'The Cultural and Folkloristic Heritage of Gozo - Towards a Niche Tourism' - Mons. Dr Joseph Bezzina
• 'Maltese Heritage in Australia' - Mr Mark Caruana
• 'Maintaining Maltese Culture and Heritage in Australia through Increased Migration from Malta' - Mr Alfred Fenech
• 'The Legacy of the Maltese-Canadian Culture – Identity, Struggles and Possibilities' - Prof John Portelli
• 'The Changing Phases of Maltese Culture' - Mr Bernard Scerri
• 'It-Taghlim tal-Malti lill-Maltin li qeghdin fl-Iskejjel Ewropej' - Mr David Agius Muscat
• 'L-Edukazzjoni : Ankra fl-Identità ta' Poplu' - Mr Roderick Bovingdon
• 'Maltese Language and Education' - Mr Frank Scicluna
• 'Maintenance or Shift of Maltese among Maltese Migrants in Australia' - Prof Lydia Sciriha
Venue: Exchange Buildings, 64 Republic Street, Valletta
Continuation of Working Group 1 Discussion – Interventions from the floor
Reception hosted by the Hon. Dr Tonio Borg, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, in honour of participants of the convention
Venue: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Palazzo Parisio, Merchants Street- Valletta
08.30- 13.00
Opening Address by
The Hon. Dr Joe Cassar, Minister for Health, the Elderly and Community Care
Mons. Philip Calleja, President, Emigrants'Commission
• 'Il-Maltin ta' Franza' - Mr Francois Azzopardi
• 'Malta's Role in the field of Ageing both Nationally and Internationally' - Prof. Joseph Troisi
• 'The Current Situation in Australia' - Prof. Maurice Cauchi
• 'A Society for all Ages' - Mr Lawrence Dimech
• 'The Care and the Elderly in Australia' - Mr Paul Rosario Borg
• 'Entropy in Aged Care Needs : A Looking Glass into how Migrants' needs can be met' - Dr Stephen Gatt
13 - 1430
14.30 – 16.30
Continuation of Working Group 2 Discussion - Interventions from the floor
Venue Exchange Buildings, 64 Republic Street, Valletta
Visit to the Emigrants' Commission, Audio Visual presentation – 'Sacred Island', Reception hosted by Emigrants' Commission
Venue Emigrants' Commission, Valletta
The Hon. Mr Clyde Puli, Parliamentary Secretary for Youth and Sport
• 'Understanding Young people in Today's Society' - Dr Andrew Azzopardi
• 'The Challenge of Engaging Maltese Australian Youth in Maltese Community Life in Australia' - Mr Victor Borg
• 'Youth in the 21st Century' - Fr Victor Camilleri
• 'Iz-Zghazagh : Sfidi, Incertezzi, Opportunitajiet' - Dr Joseph Chircop
• 'Iz-Zghazagh Awstraljani Maltin – Gharfien lil ta' Qabilhom: Direzzjoni Gdida' - Ms Marlene Galea
• 'Youths-The Positive side' - Mr Herbert Magri-Overand
• 'New Media, New Messages, New Voices : The Youth, Architects of the New Global Village' - Prof. Francesco Martinelli
• 'Growing up Maltese in California' - Mr Louis Vella
13.00 – 14.30
Continuation of Working Group 3 Discussion - Interventions from the floor
Visit to Centru Nazzjonali Laburista, Triq Mile End, Hamrun
Opening Address by The Hon Dr Chris Said, Parliamentary Secretary for Consumers, Fair Competition, Local Councils and Public Dialogue
Address by H.E. Mr. Francis Tabone, Malta High Commissioner to Australia
Mr. Joseph Mizzi, Director, Citizenship and Expatriate Affairs Department
Mr. Joe Camilleri, Director General, Social Security
• 'The Critical Role of Government in Maltese Diaspora Engagement' - Dr Edwin Borg-Manché
Continuation of working Group 4 Discussion – Interventions from the floor
Visit Dar Centrali Partit Nazzjonalista, Triq Herbert Ganado, Tal-Pietà
Malta Sightseeing Tours [North tour or South tour]
Tree planting Ceremony with the Hon Mr George Pullicino, Minister for Resources and Rural Affairs
Venue: Ta' Qali National Park
Address by The Hon. Dr Tonio Borg, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Closing address by H.E. Dr. George Abela, President of Malta
Reception hosted by H.E. Dr George Abela, President of Malta in honour of participants
Venue The Palace – Valletta
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It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning, I'm Steve Inskeep.
And I'm David Greene.
Here's yet another sign that Russia is firming up its control of Crimea. The Russian prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, and much of his cabinet showed up there today. Medvedev announced that Crimea will become a special economic zone with tax breaks to attract investors. Now, Russia says it annexed Crimea at the request of its large ethnic Russian population. But not everyone there is Russian. And even before the annexation, some people were leaving their homes and fleeing. Many people elsewhere in Ukraine are offering their homes to Crimean refugees.
NPR's Peter Kenyon is in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, where the number of newcomers is overwhelming.
PETER KENYON, BYLINE: Yelena Tarasenka was born and raised in a town near Sevastopol, home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet. She always considered herself a Crimean and a Ukrainian, but all of a sudden being both is extremely hard.
KENYON: Sitting on a park bench overlooking Kiev's Independence Square, Tarasenka explains that even before the Russian takeover, it was clear things were getting dangerously unstable. Suddenly there were more than 10 times the usual number of Russian troops on the streets, as well as other armed groups. There were Russian armored vehicles on the move and helicopters flying overhead. She took her nine-year-old son and a few belongings to the train station.
YELENA TARASENKA: (Through translator) And when I arrived to the station, the tickets were almost gone. The train was packed, so many wanted to leave. I managed to get a ticket for me and my son and we had to squeeze on board. So many people wanted to leave. They were mostly women and their children. And this was before the referendum.
KENYON: Oleksandra Dvoretska is a young Crimean activist forced to leave her home of 23 years, as Russian forces advanced. She called the government hotline for displaced Crimeans and got no help. She's watching the acting parliament pass a bill about the occupation of Crimea and is shocked to find it doesn't even address the myriad problems facing Crimeans who don't want to be absorbed by Russia.
OLEKSANDRA DVORETSKA: (Through Translator) How will social benefits, pensions, child allowances be paid? How will children be registered for school? Will Crimeans pay taxes to Ukraine? A business registered in Crimea should pay taxes there but nobody wants to pay the Kremlin.
KENYON: Anna Sandalova helps her son enter an address into their car's GPS. They're headed to bring food to a Crimean Tatar refugee and her family, that Sandalova helped relocate to a suburb of Kiev. A public relations manager by profession, she says she didn't know a single person in Crimea, but she woke up one morning realizing that even those who didn't face the bullets in Independence Square had to do something.
ANNA SANDALOVA: And if you see what you have to do, you have to do that. And in the beginning of March, I understood that we have to bring kids from Crimea to more safe place in Ukraine - in Western Ukraine, in Kiev.
KENYON: She created a Facebook page and soon had a thousand people volunteering rooms, apartments, even homes for Crimean families - focusing on mothers and their children. She says many of them feel lost when they arrive, with so many questions that they can't find answer to yet.
SANDALOVA: Do they want Ukrainian passport? Or do they need to change it because they have their lands, their houses there, and they didn't know what to do with that?
KENYON: The recipient of Sandalova's food delivery is Suzanna, a 38-year-old Crimean Tatar mother of four. She asks that her last name not be used because the men in her family are still in Crimea. Suzanna says the feelings of anger and betrayal are still running strong among not just Tatars but all pro-Ukrainian residents of Crimea.
SUZANNA: (Through Translator) Yes, that's true. When the Russian forces came, many people thought Ukraine had abandoned Crimea. They said: Why didn't they resist? We showed our patriotism, why didn't they protect us? And many people still feel that way. But since coming here, I understand that maybe they couldn't do anything after the Yanukovych regime degraded the military.
KENYON: Suzanna says Ukraine also relied on the Budapest Declaration, in which the U.S. and Britain - as well as Russia - committed to protecting Ukraine against aggression. Now she hopes that the new pro-Russian mood in Crimea won't turn to violence against the Tatars who remain, who say they won't be driven from their homeland again.
Peter Kenyon, NPR News, Kiev. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Rise and shine, Retro. Chances are if you're reading this, you're already groaning that another work week has come in this hamster wheel called life. But that's fine, because there are several new hacks waiting for you to get your digits all over.
If you swing on by the Sonic Hacking Contest 2015's website, you now have a selection of titles from some of the Sonic Scene's more technically inclined to try out and evaluate. While you can play the games without restriction, voting does require a Sonic Retro or an SSRG account, so try to snag one by Saturday if you want to guarantee your vote.
If you're not about that, you can enjoy a week of streams, with one kicking off in a less than 20 minutes. These streams will let you see some of the community's finest play the games for you to watch and just hang out with fellow fans. Fan-favorites MegaGWolf and SomecallmeJohnny also return, with a music workshop hosted by DalekSam Saturday, if you're interested in learning how to create songs for games. The schedule is as follows:
5pm BST / 12pm EDT to 7pm BST / 2pm EDT – Monday to Friday: Donnie
7pm BST / 2pm EDT to 9pm BST / 4pm EDT – Monday, Wednesday and Friday: Spanner
9pm BST / 4pm EDT to 12am BST / 7pm EDT – Monday to Friday: MegaGWolf
12am BST / 7pm EDT to 3am EDT / 10pm BST – Monday to Friday: SomecallmeJohnny
5pm BST / 12pm EDT to 7pm BST / 2pm EDT on Saturday: DalekSam Music Workshop
7pm BST / 2pm EDT to 11pm BST / 6pm EDT on Saturday: Nova
7pm GMT / 3pm EDT to 9pm GMT / 5pm EDT (clock change on Sunday): Results Show
So come on by and relax in the Sonic Hacking Contest's IRC. Just point your favorite client (or mibbit) to irc.badnik.net #shc2015.


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In early January the Obama Administration released the Pentagon's new Guidance, Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense. It is clearly designed less to cut U.S. military spending than to reorder Pentagon priorities to ensure full spectrum dominance (dominating any nation, anywhere, at any time, at any level of force) for the first decades of the 21st century. As President Obama himself said, after the near-doubling of military spending during the Bush era, the Guidance will slow the growth of military spending, "but…it will still grow:, in fact by 4% in the coming year."
The new doctrine places China and Iran at the center of U.S. "security" concerns. It thus prioritizes expansion of U.S. war making capacities in Asia and the Pacific and Indian Oceans, by "rebalanc[ing] toward the Asia-Pacific region…empahsiz[ing] our existing alliances." This means Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and now Australia and India as the U.S. "pivots" from Iraq and Afghanistan to the heartland of the 21st century global economy, Asia and the Pacific. The implications for Okinawa and Japan should be clear: Washington will be doing all that it can to ensure that Japan remains its unsinkable aircraft carrier, including pressing for construction of the new air base in Henoko.
Russia "remains important," but the priorities are ensuring that China's rise occurs within the post-WWII global systems dominated by the West and Japan. The Iran focus is to ensure that Tehran's ambitions do not jeopardize the West's neo-colonial control of Middle East oil essential to their economies and militaries.
China and Iran are thus the primary targets of: weapons systems to be developed; of expanded U.S. military alliances, bases, access agreements and an increased tempo of military exercises; as well as advanced cyber and space war capabilities.
Related to Middle East oil, the Guidance explicitly stresses NATO's out of area (read Global South) responsibilities "in this resource-constrained era." This is to be reinforced by the counter-terrorist operations on a global scale, including increased emphasis on covert Special Forces operations. And, among the many fault-lines of the Guidance is the emphasis given to financial and war-fighting "burden-sharing" by NATO and other U.S. allies, goals unlikely to be achieved midst Europe's economic meltdown.
The Guidance signals that the President's National Security Council is currently conducting a nuclear posture review that could at least minimally reduce the roles of nuclear weapons in U.S. war fighting doctrines and the numbers of weapons in the U.S. arsenal in a second Obama administration. This needs to be seen in the contexts of the President's Prague speech, as well as the political extortion that led him to embrace the $185 billion increase in spending for new nuclear weapons and delivery systems over the next decade in order to win New START Treaty ratification.
Dr. Joseph Gerson is Disarmament Coordinator of the American Friends Service Committee and Director of the AFSC's Peace and Economic Security Program in New England.


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Friday, September 11, 2009
Tutorial--Sweet Scarf for Little Girl--
Well, its tutorial time! Have you noticed in the morning and at night, the air is getting cooler? I created this for my little girl using the Honey Bun from Moda. Don't worry, just in case you want to make this with your fabric stash, I included the measurements.
You will need:
1 Honey Bun (you only need five strips from this)
3 1/2" x 50 1/2" minky strips
Lace (optional)
How to make:
1. First pick out your favorite fabric strips from the Honey Bun.
2. Lay them on the cutting mat and cut into 5 1/2" strips. The Honey Bun is 1 1/2" wide, so the each strip will be, 1 1/2" x 5 1/2".
3. The top and bottom strips will be assembled from 11 pieces. The middle strip will be assemble from 10 pieces. Lay them out and keep arranging until you like what you see. Remember to slide each row, like a brick wall, so that the seams do not line up. Look at picture to see what I mean. Sew each row first, then sew the long strips together.
5. I used a small bowl to draw a half circle then gave the scarf ends a round edge.
6. Right sides together, lay the pieced top and the minky. Minky is very tricky fabric it moves and slides easily, so use lots of pins to secure it.
7. Leaving 4-5 inches opening sew all around it.
8. Turn the fabric inside out then press with an Iron. Fold the fabric at the opening inside and pin it, sew all around the edges to secure the fabrics. If you would like to add lace like I did, you can do it at this stage.
9. All done! Enjoy the fall.
I came up with this after I did a Five Fat Quater Scarf for myself. Since I only used a little bit of the Honey Bun, I am now making a small quilt with the rest of it. You can make several of these scarves out of one Honey Bun... Perhaps, that would be a perfect Christmas gift if you have several daughters, grand daughters, and nieces.
I hope you enjoy this. Have a great weekend everyone!
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The Ultimate "Never Too Late for Love" Story
James and Geraldine had lived long lives—let's just say both are eligible for senior-citizen discounts—but found themselves single and looking for love. Loneliness drove Geraldine, a retired Texan, to join our site. James, a farmer in Iowa, signed up because he saw that there were "a number of available women, and pretty ones!"
Many couples admit that, at the outset, they weren't confident online dating would bring them the love they sought. But these two, despite growing up in a world without personal computers, much less the Internet, had a good feeling about it right from the start. "I felt that the one for me was on this site," Geraldine says. James agrees. "I felt positive I would find someone."
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James was a member for five months and Geraldine for five weeks before their paths crossed. She viewed his profile and was struck by his stoic charisma. Geraldine elaborates, "I was impressed with his overalls and his smile."
James saw that an attractive woman in his age range had checked him out. So he looked her up. "I liked her profile… her smile and puppy-dog brown eyes," he recalls.
They whiled away pleasant hours on the phone, joking around and getting to know each other. Their passions in life were similar: religion, politics, dancing. But there is one common interest they have yet to share. "We like bowling, but we have not been able to find open lanes yet," James laments.
The road to romance was bumpy at first. On the evening of their first date, the moon and stars were not in evidence and between the darkness and Geraldine's GPS device, fate conspired to delay her. She arrived much later than expected. "I was hooked to the point of driving 1250 miles, due to a TomTom error, to meet him in person!" She says.
"I was pacing the floor until she came," James chimes in. Geraldine might have arrived frustrated, but she left with the certainty that her long journey was not in vain. "I was sure we were a match," she says. "And we continued to see each other…"
At this stage of his life, James prefers to speak the unvarnished truth. Geraldine appreciated his candor about his intentions for dating. James says, "I told her I wouldn't string her along. Either I would marry a woman or dump her."
Well, he sure didn't dump her. One day, the couple went out on a normal outing. "I took her to the jewelry store and it was closed on Monday, but the owner happened to be in the building and let us in."
Just like that, they were picking out engagement rings. "I am marrying my Jim and can hardly wait," Geraldine laughs. "He considers my every feeling before he does anything. He is the joy of my life even though we are in our senior years."
James dotes on Geraldine and fixes breakfast for her every day. It sure doesn't feel like work. "We're acting like 20-year old kids, kissing in public," he says. "Gerri and I get along great. I am as happy as I have been in years. I grin like an old possum all of the time!"
With their accumulated life experience filtered through the joy of an autumn romance, both James and Geraldine have wisdom to share with singles still looking. "Be truthful with the people you meet," she advises. "Don't try to change anyone to make them what you want them to be."
"Life is nothing but a speck in time," James says. "Take it from someone who is over 70 years old. A person is non-reloadable. Don't play games."
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EELL2 says:Posted: 01 Mar
I like their love story.I hope I will get my match soon.Just tired of this site.Have been here for long.Lol!! no one serious yet
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Flirty53 says:Posted: 14 Oct 22
Beautiful love story, I'm still holding on to faith. My turn is coming.
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Shondel67 says:Posted: 09 Aug 21
A beautiful and touching love story. Just goes to show, that age does not matter. The right person will find you!
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Butterfree says:Posted: 07 Aug 21
This is real love. Beautiful soul mates. The truth meaning of not playing games. Love has no age limit . You would think it was their golden anniversary. I wish them faith, happiness, and being yourself. Love conquers all .
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Twizzle818 says:Posted: 07 Aug 21
What a beautiful story. It brought tears to my eyes. I'm so happy for them.
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jackykenyan says:Posted: 07 Aug 21
That was story and half wish I will find my dream white man here and I forfill my dreams best of luck the senior couple. Jackie
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Babykech says:Posted: 29 Aug 19
I'm impressed guys. Your love story has given me hope at last. I have been thinking that I'm too old to be here let alone searching for a soulmate. But after reading about you guys, I'm certain I will find love here. Thanks for helping my faith and congratulations. Your union will last long blessed.
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SundayLover1 says:Posted: 07 May 19
I just turned 60 and hope with all my heart that isn't too late for me. Sometimes I feel that I am too strong in my profile but I don't want any misunderstandings, just true friendship, companionship, and love...in that order.
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Wejie says:Posted: 10 Apr 19
Nice story....one day it will be my story,I'm still searching...
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Chickenroom says:Posted: 20 Feb 19
I am similarly looking for mine with deep and sincerely love,
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Ladysarp says:Posted: 03 Aug 18
Am happy for you, you are lucky enough to meet your soul mate, it beautiful, I pray for the same thing to happen to me as I keep searching, enjoy it to the fullest
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Coffebro says:Posted: 14 May 18
Its sound great hearing all these stories. Hope to find mine soon
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jimmy701 says:Posted: 16 Apr 18
Will let you all know how things turn out later. she name is goldfishh should have Hershey gold cause she is CHOCOLATE GOLD and I MEAN GOLD
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jimmy701 says:Posted: 16 Apr 18
i found mine and she just GREAT TOO AND her little girl too and I LOVE BOTH OF THEM NO CHILD IS A MISTAKE MADE OUT OF LOVE AND YOU HAVE TO LOVE THE CHILD TOO CAUSE THE CHILD IS PART OF THE MOTHER AND I LOVE THEM ! and KNOW WE ARE GOING TO MAKE A GREAT FAMILY TOO SHE 33 YEARS OLD AND IM 70 YEARS
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goodsweetie says:Posted: 09 Apr 18
Nice story, hope to find my soon. God bless the both of you may you both live long to enjoy this great love together in Jesus name AMEN
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Hori204 says:Posted: 03 Apr 18
Lovely story wish them all the best hoping the best for us
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73Danny says:Posted: 02 Apr 18
Happy Easter to you all. Some of us have been members for a long time but havent met the right one yet. I had Chats with very nice women here but the Luck of Patience from one side could not keep the Conversation going. It doesnt take only one Partner to Sacrifice during the Dating period. Most Women want Men who have a stable or permanent Job at the same time ask for First Meeting after a few Days of talking which was Impossible because my holidays were not near. This was a Problem. What will be your reaction in such a Situation.
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Hanna12121 says:Posted: 30 Mar 18
Such a lovely love story. It gives me faith. Love the couple.
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Ch3rryme says:Posted: 11 Mar 18
Such a beautiful story . I am so extremely happy for them. It goes to show the mature side of men and women. I know one day i will have a story just as blissful to tell. I thought i had the greatest story and then it got erased. I sometimes get lonely but i continue to seek God and wait for him to allow the right person to find me, My parents have passed on and will never see me walk down the isle but with the inspiration from these two i know my day will come. God bless you both
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Pretyio says:Posted: 06 Mar 18
Wow, happy for you guys. I'm still searching for Mr Right
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wannydee says:Posted: 30 Sep 17
Lovely stories..so encouraging for me to wait till I get the right one here..
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Augs says:Posted: 05 Aug 17
This story encourages me to be patient i as well will meet my king I love love I am a romantic woman I hope long life and happiness always for this couple congrats!
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Ear2earsmile says:Posted: 27 Jun 17
Such a sweet story with meaningful advice, too. Thank you!
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chiccha says:Posted: 08 May 17
This story and many others inspired me so much. I believe in true love and destiny. If only we can throw away our old baggage and come clean we could be able to be happy again. I am just picking my pieces of self. Just met a nice and truthful guy on this site last month and we just click like magic . We had chemistry and many things in common. We whatsaap , Skype calls and phone calls. As the burning fire gets closer he booked for a flight to visit me from US to Germany this May ending and we promise to hold on searching until after meeting then we could decide on next level. Because am an ardent reader of successful stories in this site I kept logging in reading and some time shares the stories with him until someone sent me a friendship request began to ask flirt and out of curiosity I answered him but never told him am hoping to meet a member soon . After a day thereafter my first guy block me off and told me that he sent a friend to flirt on me that what i did was cheating in a way that he told me that his ex wife cheated on him that was why he left. That he has cancelled his flight and no more visiting and he deleted all his contact without giving me chance to explain. Rather the imposter friend of his wrote me detecting how I should not contact the guy again , that he has asked him not to see me cancel his flight etc. Then after a day the real guy sent me a message apologizing saying that the extent we were that I didn't deserve that harsh messages from his friend , though everything is over that his friend has advice him not to see me inoder not to hurt us more. It really shattered my life and was down for complete 3days not knowing what to do . We were so much into each other and honestly he is my dream man but as luck may have it he left me. It gives me a lot pain and feel like I betrayed his trust but honestly I never meant to hurt him . I hope my dream man will come and I believe if ever he is meant to be mine it shall come to pass. I guess I have learnt my lesson in a hard way. Ladies beware!!!!
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Maya2017 says:Posted: 08 May 17
At first i was mistaken to think that old people are mature enough not to break other people' hearts until someone broke mine. Of late i flirted with a 71yr old man who dumped me without realising how hurt i would be.we chatted lovingly and i enjoyed it hoping i had found him. Are these stories real ?
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Augs says:Posted: 05 Aug 17
Queen Maya thank Gid he dump you sooner than later, he wasn't the one for you your true love will show up be patient that's his lost my dear there is no coincidence in life he probably have something to hide and he new you wouldn't put up with good luck my dear.
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GoldApple says:Posted: 01 Oct 17
I have been asking my self the same question, are these stories true!?
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Apple-17 says:Posted: 21 Mar 17
Am inspired by this story and I intend to wait patiently for my Prince charming to come sweep me off my feet though I have not up graded due to constraint in my finances.
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blkbeauty99 says:Posted: 15 Mar 17
wow,that's so beautiful!!! I'm inspired to wait patiently for my king...God bless them!!!
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reallycute says:Posted: 13 Mar 17
What a great story thanks for sharing.
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Matiniz says:Posted: 15 Feb 17
That's great story thanks to God because if god is in the of you two anything will be great I wish you the best in your life
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powde says:Posted: 14 Jan 17
This is beautiful look at this may the lord shine his heavenly light opon you lovers i could learn alot from u papi teach me and i will teach others
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Benduk says:Posted: 07 Dec 16
For sure never late to love I might get mine soon
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moveti says:Posted: 04 Mar 18
Get yours and start preperation how will u b treating. your lover
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BARIKALETAM1 says:Posted: 07 Dec 16
God is wonderful in his own way. He mk real love meet at the right place at the right time. I love this testimony. I pray God ti mk my own come fast.
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kweya says:Posted: 04 Nov 16
God's time is the best. Hope to find the love of my soul soon
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Karadin says:Posted: 28 Oct 16
I pray to God all time to give me my lovely woman
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Karadin says:Posted: 28 Oct 16
I so love this history, mais open my way to see a wonderful human
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mydestiny11 says:Posted: 26 Oct 16
Congratulations guys! Your story motivated me not to lose hope in finding the right one.
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The House committee investigating the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol made its opening arguments on prime-time television last night. The committee, which is chaired by Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, laid out new evidence that former President Donald Trump and his supporters attempted a coup to overturn a legitimate presidential election. Just after the hearing ended, our colleagues Asma Khalid, Deirdre Walsh and Ron Elving offered their insights for the NPR Politics Podcast. We're going to let Asma take it from here.
ASMA KHALID, BYLINE: At the outset of this nearly two-hour hearing, Congresswoman Liz Cheney from Wyoming spent a good amount of time just laying out the narrative. She was attempting to show that President Trump and most of his senior aides actively precipitated and encouraged the rally at the Capitol and waited hours and hours and hours to encourage the pro-Trump extremists who broke into the Capitol building to leave.
LIZ CHENEY: On this point, there is no room for debate. Those who invaded our Capitol and battled law enforcement for hours were motivated by what President Trump had told them, that the election was stolen and that he was the rightful president.
KHALID: Then the committee showed an 11-minute film with footage of the insurrection on January 6. And after a short break, the committee then heard from two witnesses, a documentary filmmaker named Nick Quested and a Capitol Police officer who was injured during the riots, Caroline Edwards. Edwards described part of what she experienced in pretty raw detail.
CAROLINE EDWARDS: What I saw was just a war scene. I couldn't believe my eyes. There were officers on the ground, bleeding. They were throwing up. They were - you know, they had - I mean, I saw friends with blood all over their faces. I was slipping in people's blood.
KHALID: After the hearing wrapped up for the evening, Edwards was seen embracing Sandra Garza, the partner of Brian Sicknick, who was the Capitol Police officer who died on January 7 following the insurrection. And, Deirdre, I want to begin with you. I mean, what did you see as the goal of this committee coming into tonight's hearings?
DEIRDRE WALSH, BYLINE: They've been saying that they wanted this to be their opening argument. And I think what they were trying to do was remind the American public what happened that day and just how violent it was, and also about sort of how coordinated it was. It was a deliberate attempt to sort of bring people viscerally back to feeling how close we came to our democracy being in jeopardy - right? - that these violent protesters wanted to overturn the election and were going after elected leaders, including the vice president, the speaker of the House, and were attacking Capitol Police officers. I mean, I think the question for me is, was it enough to keep people interested for the remaining five hearings? I think that's an open question.
RON ELVING, BYLINE: Yes. But we need to remember, too, that the next four of these sessions, at least tentatively, are scheduled to begin at 10 o'clock in the morning. So it's going to be a somewhat different kind of atmosphere. Obviously, high points will be available for people to look at. But it won't have nationally the same kind of impact as tonight. The key for this committee, I think they've decided, is for them to persist and to penetrate. They think they can get through the shell that has clearly grown over this incident since January 6 and all the other things that people have been dealing with the past couple of years. They think they still can drill through that.
KHALID: Deirdre, you were getting at this a bit earlier. But I recognize maybe it is a premature question because you say you don't know how this will play out in subsequent hearings. But do you feel, at least for tonight, that the committee was able to succeed in conveying what it was trying to do?
WALSH: I do. I mean, I think some members of the committee were sort of raising expectations, promising bombshells. I don't think they had those. But they really had a very effective narrative. I think especially Vice Chair Liz Cheney did a really good job at sort of laying out what was coming and teasing some really interesting on-the-record, on-camera comments from Trump's inner circle. I mean, to me, seeing Ivanka Trump, the president's own daughter, saying on camera that she agreed with Attorney General Bill Barr's pushback to the president that there was no election fraud...
IVANKA TRUMP: It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.
ELVING: I think we can all have a certain amount of sympathy or empathy with Ivanka Trump's division here. She has, on the one hand, extraordinary loyalty to her father. And on the other hand, she seems to be aware of the facts. And she knows that the facts contradict her father. So on the one hand, she was the truth. In the presence of her father, she represented the truth. And she would have probably brought that to his attention at some point or another that she believed Bill Barr. On the other hand, she also accompanied him on the day of January 6 before he spoke to the crowd on the Ellipse. She had not separated herself from him at all. And then later on in the afternoon, she played the role of begging him, as many others in the White House did, begging him to call off those protesters.
WALSH: I think the other thing that the hearing did a good job of was sort of taking you back in the lead up to January 6 and using people, close Trump advisers like Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller. There was a Trump campaign lawyer who told the committee in these on-camera depositions that they presented the president with data in November that there wasn't there there for him to contest the election. The results were that he lost. And there wasn't anything for them to do to push back. Using the president's own senior advisers to tell the story about how they were telling the president that he couldn't contest the election, it was just sort of an interesting way of letting them speak for what was going on around the president instead of having, you know, Bennie Thompson say it.
KHALID: There was a clear sense that committee members wanted to show, not just tell people what was being said. And, you know, there's this moment where you hear from some of the rioters who were there on January 6 saying that they were there because Donald Trump told them to be.
ROBERT SCHORNACK: What really made me want to come was the fact that, you know, I had supported Trump all that time. I did believe, you know, that the election was being stolen. And Trump asked us to come.
ERIC BARBER: He personally asked for us to come to D.C. that day. And I thought, for everything he's done for us, if this is the only thing he's going to ask of me, I'll do it.
KHALID: Two men, Robert Schornack and Eric Barber.
ELVING: This is a big, big part of what the committee is trying to establish, that what happened on January 6 was not in any sense spontaneous, but that Donald Trump had summoned this mob to Washington and then incited them and then unleashed them on the Capitol. That's what they're trying to show.
MARTIN: Senior editor and correspondent Ron Elving and congressional editor Deirdre Walsh speaking to White House correspondent Asma Khalid for the NPR Politics Podcast. The select House committee investigating January 6 plans five more televised hearings. The next one is Monday.
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Sharing Your Vision
Logos have a unique way of catching attention and lodging themselves into our subconscious. As a business owner or the head of an organization, that's exactly where you want to be -- inside your customer's head.
A good logo design should reflect the universal feeling of your company. Ask yourself, what is the most important service we provide to our customers, who are we trying to attract and what is the most important feature of our business? Businesses developing designs should contemplate the answers to these questions in order to articulate they want their business logo to say.
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Trade-ins, payments, purchase price and down payments: These essential elements of how to buy a car can help you find the right one for your needs and wants.
There are a lot of factors to consider when buying a car, from monthly payment to loan rate and trade-in value. Also, you'll typically need to prove that you have insurance before you can drive it home and it's relatively easy to obtain proof of insurance and to add or replace a vehicle on your existing insurance policy. Here are some car buying tips to help you be more successful in the car buying process.
Don't discuss a monthly payment
It's a common scenario: A car buyer looks to buy a new car from a dealership and tells the sales representative that he or she has a certain amount — say, $300 or $400 — budgeted for a monthly payment. At this point, the salesperson knows that he or she may be able to sell a new or used vehicle to the customer for almost any purchase price, as long as the monthly loan payment falls within the budget. While it definitely makes sense to have an affordable monthly payment amount in mind, don't share it until after you've negotiated the purchase price, which is what you're actually paying for the vehicle. You may be able to lower your payment by stretching out the life of the loan, but make that decision once you've already agreed on the purchase price of the vehicle.
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Increase your down payment
Once you've settled on a final purchase price, you can lower your monthly payments by putting more money down. A larger down payment (typically 20 percent or more of the purchase price) may also help you lower your interest rate and could prevent a scenario where you owe substantially more for your vehicle than it is worth.
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When it comes to any marketing, the importance of taking the time to understand your audience cannot be overstated enough. Marketing is all about communication, and how can you expect to properly open up a conversation with someone if you don't bother to learn the same language? This is especially true regarding both B2B and B2C marketing collateral, which aren't as different as you might think. You can approach things from similar angles and even use both channels as a way to convey the same message but, at the end of the day, the major qualities that separate one group from the next comes down to your understanding of your audience.
B2C Marketing Can Be More Emotional
B2B or "business-to-business" marketing is all about solving problems. You have a product or service, your customer has a problem, and only you can solve it. Therefore, your marketing becomes all about showing in the most logical, rational way possible how you can help your customer accomplish that goal in a way that meets their needs and falls within the budget they have to work with.
B2C or "business-to-customer," on the other hand, is intended to side-step the rational side of it all and play more to a person's emotions. Your end goal is less "here is how my company can make your job easier" and more "here is how my company can make your life better."
B2B Markets Are Typically Smaller
Concerning sheer market size, when you're going after a B2B audience you're usually talking about a much smaller group of people. It's much more of a niche audience, which lets you laser-focus your messaging on core pain points without worrying about alienating people who can't relate to them.
Because B2C markets are much, much larger, your messaging will tend to be a little broader at the same time. Instead of focusing on how to make your product or service appealing to a few thousand people, you could be trying to go after as many as a million or more with one sleek, sophisticated message. This will also change everything from the language you use to the type of materials you put out there.
Your Goals Are the Same. Your Tools Are Different.
As stated, your ultimate goals in both B2B and B2C situations are often very similar. It's how you achieve those goals that will vary wildly. Case in point: both B2B and B2C customers are much more likely to make a sale if you can establish yourself as an authority in a topic area.
B2C customers like their marketing collateral short and snappy, so real estate is at a premium. You have to get in and get out, all while still showing off how much you know in the process. With B2B customers, you can take your time. You can use more lengthy, highly detailed content that is filled with technical jargon not because the audience is more sophisticated, but because they're looking for the same thing in a totally different way.
While it's true that B2B and B2C marketing collateral can often look completely different from one another, they're not as distant as you might think. The "what" and the "why" of marketing never changes, regardless of what you're trying to sell and who you're trying to sell it to. It is the "how" of it all that will play an important role in the types of decisions you make moving forward.


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SEPIA SATURDAY is a weekly meme which encourages bloggers to publish and share old images and photographs. All that is required is for contributors to post an old image (it doesn't have to be in sepia) and provide a few words in explanation. If you could provide a link back to the Sepia Saturday Blog and visit as many of the other contributors as you can, it would also be appreciated. There is no weekly theme, as such, but some people like to use the archive image published with the weekly call as a kind of theme. There is no requirement to adopt such an approach : the choice of image is entirely up to you. Once you have published your Sepia Saturday post, add a link to that post to the Linky List published each week and leave a comment to let everyone know you are joining in.
Tuesday 2 August 2011
Sepia Saturday 86 : Saturday 6 August 2011
25 comments:
- Baba Doodlius said...
Cows are yummy.
- 2 August 2011 at 15:28
- DougVernX said...
This theme is a lot of bull. :)
- 2 August 2011 at 15:54
- Rob from Amersfoort said...
Cows are beautiful creatures. There are a lot of them where I live. Sometimes I stop my car just to make a picture of them.
- 3 August 2011 at 11:12
- Bob Scotney said...
A mixture from Washington, no politicians in sight.
- 3 August 2011 at 16:22
- Rosie said...
I think I have finally figured out what the problem was with commenting. I had to go to Tools in Internet Options, Privacy, then lower the value of my Cookies.
I went with the statue theme this week. Happy Sepiasaturday to all!! - 3 August 2011 at 21:48
- DougVernX said...
You can find a few curious cows on my post this week.
- 4 August 2011 at 03:26
- Postcardy said...
I have a book on the Columbian Exposition that shows those buildings, but the cow is nowhere in sight.
- 4 August 2011 at 04:28
- Postcardy said...
Check out the CowParade here:
Chicago had a CowParade in 1999 and has a permanent bronze casting now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CowParade_bronze_casting - 4 August 2011 at 16:01
- Little Nell said...
I decided to go messing about in the river.
- 4 August 2011 at 19:13
- Unknown said...
I've just the thing in my found photo collection! Also referred back to an older post on the same theme. Go and see!
- 5 August 2011 at 03:06
- dakotaboo said...
Really enjoying the exhibitions photos. I have to admit I have recycle another of my old blog posts again this week as last year I posted a handful of vintage postcards from the Franco-British exhibition. I hpe no one minds me sharing them again (pretty sure they were not shared as a sepia saturday posting so hopefully new to most people).
- 5 August 2011 at 10:06
- tony said...
off-topic but I have a Bee in My Bonnet this week!
- 5 August 2011 at 12:17
- Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy said...
Hi Everybody!
My pictures are only from 1975, but they are of when we visited the Statue of Liberty. I'm so happy that you chose statues this week, Alan.
Happy Sepia Saturday to all, and I can't wait to see what everybody posted. Have a great weekend,
Kathy M. - 5 August 2011 at 15:52
- Mike Brubaker said...
Must have been a fantastic place. How long did it take to construct it?
I'm on theme by an amazing coincidence of nicknames. - 5 August 2011 at 19:17
- Karen S. said...
I'm a bit early for me, busy day coming tomorrow, and after viewing Bob S. post right away I was so inspired I had to be sure to get mine in quickly, rather than later. The cows yeah Crazy Like a Fox are a lot of bull but the good kind of bull and this big boy has quite a tale or tail (lol) to tell! Thanks Alan for giving me so much fun again...gosh if only you had been one of my teachers in school...!
- 5 August 2011 at 20:47
- Howard said...
Completely off-theme from me this week, my post is a tramcar accident.
- 5 August 2011 at 22:56
- Bruno Laliberté said...
a long photographic post, short on text, thankfully!! i didn't mean to be a themer, inspired by something i saw in the city this week. oddly enough though, Alan's prompt is right in cue for me. so, a themer, despite myself...
blame it on king Edward VII, or my razor that broke...
HUGZ - 6 August 2011 at 06:20
- Alan Burnett said...
I'm fashionably off-theme again this week (but as the person who picks the theme, I think it is unfair if I follow it)
- 6 August 2011 at 10:02
- Sheila @ A Postcard a Day said...
I tried to follow the theme but again a tenuous link. A statue. A British bull(dog).
- 6 August 2011 at 15:00
- Kristin said...
This week I have no cattle. I decided to share a photo I put up for wordless wednesday but I think you all will enjoy it.
- 6 August 2011 at 17:38
off topic, but always some old photo goodness!
- 6 August 2011 at 18:22
- Unknown said...
Had a tough week had to combine a couple of posts. Not an old photo but a photo of an old place, for me today. I love that picture. There are plenty of cows around my neighborhood. As always I post before I look. Not a good idea sometimes. Almost like turning before you look both ways.
QMM - 6 August 2011 at 18:33
- Tattered and Lost said...
I do have a photo of a cow but decided to stay with the "theme" I'd already started a few days ago: summer.
- 6 August 2011 at 20:26
- PattyF said...
Hi all! Better late to the party than never! I went with the "on the water" theme. Can't wait to read everyone's post!
- 7 August 2011 at 00:29
- mouse (aka kimy) said...
okay so i didn't find my inspiration in cows, statues, lampposts, or the other suggested themes...guess that's what happens when one does everything backwards! but it felt really good to get in a sepia saturday post before another 7 months went by....next time i'll visit first and try to pay attention to the theme!
of course now i'm thinking of old snaps i have in my stash with lampposts and statues!! - 7 August 2011 at 21:15


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Jeff Koons: Now. Newport Street Gallery, London, England [May 18 - October 16, 2016] (Edition 1)
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France [November 26, 2014 - April 27, 2015] (Edition 3)
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York [June 27 - October 19, 2014] (Edition 3)
Art Basel. David Zwirner Booth, Miami Beach, Florida [December 4 - December 8, 2013] (Edition AP)
Freedom, Not Genius: Works from Damien Hirst's Murderme Collection. Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia [November 29, 2013 - February 2, 2014] (Edition 1)
Jeff Koons. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland [May 13 - September 2, 2012]
Jeff Koons. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois [May 31 – September 21, 2008] (Edition AP)
The François Pinault Collection: A Post-Pop Selection. Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy [November 11, 2006 – March 11, 2007]
Where Are We Going?: Selections from the François Pinault Collection. Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy [April 30 – October 1, 2006]
Happy Birthday! Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France [November 26, 2004 – January 26, 2005]
Champion, Julie and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov. Jeff Koons: La Retrospective: The Portfolio of the Exhibition. France: Centre Pompidou, 2014, p. 119.
Champion, Julie and Caroline Edde. Jeff Koons: La Retrospective: The Album of the Exhibition. Belgium: Centre Pompidou, 2014, p. 43.
Koons, Jeff and Norman Rosenthal. Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal. Hove, England: Thames & Hudson, 2014. p. 95. [French Edition]
Koons, Jeff & Norman Rosenthal. Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal. China: Thames & Hudson, 2014, p. 95. [English Edition]
Beaux Arts Magazine. December 2014, Cover.
Lavrador, Judicaël. "Jeff Koons: génie ou imposteur?" Beaux Arts Magazine November 2014, Table of contents.
Pinacoteca, Giovanni e Marella Agnelli. Freedom not Genius. London: Other Criteria, 2012, p. 127.
"Jeff Koons Desire of Love" Monthly Joong-ang August 2011, p. 338, illustrated in color (installation view, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2004).
Bader, Graham. "Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago." Artforum September 2008, p. 450, illustrated in color (installation view).
Holzworth, Hans Werner, ed. Jeff Koons. Cologne: Taschen, 2008, p. 6, 21, 62 (installation view), illustrated in color.
Hur, Tae-Woo. "Jeff Koons: An Artist Who Made Banality Blue Chip." Asiana May 2007. Cover, Table of contents, p. 6.
Flash Art (no. 240) January-February 2005, illustrated in color on the cover.


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SF Bay Area Thrashers KILL RITUAL has signed a worldwide deal for the Oct. 30th release of their debut CD "The Serpentine Ritual" with Scarlet Records.
The CD was recorded and engineered by Kill Ritual Lead Guitarist Steve Rice at Fang Studios in San Mateo, CA and Fossil Sound in San Jose, CA. Mix and Mastering was done by Andy LaRocque of King Diamond fame at his Sonic Train Studios in Varberg Sweden. LaRocque also makes a guest appearance on the CD with the ending solo on the track "Coat Of Blood".
The band has also shot a promo video for the first single "Old School Thrasher" that was directed and edited by Mike Sloat (Testament, Machine Head, Lynyrd Skynyrd…) to be released in conjunction with CD.
The cover art was designed by Jobert Mello for Sledgehammer Graffix (Sabaton, Primal Fear…)
Lead Guitarist Steve Rice comments on the deal: "Well the Kill Ritual debut will at last see the light of day and we are psyched to have Scarlet Records on board for the release of the CD. The label has a ton of great bands on their roster and excellent distribution worldwide so we can reach as many Metal Maniacs as possible. Get ready for some SF Bay Area Thrash and Roll!"
"The Serpentine Ritual" track listing:
01. The Serpentine Ritual
02. Torn Down
03. Time To Kill
04. Ambush
05. Old School Thrasher
06. Coat Of Blood*
07. Cold Hard Floor
08. Law Of The Land
09. Prisoner Of The Flesh
10. My Neighborhood (Bonus Track)
*Guest solo by Andy LaRocque
KILL RITUAL is comprised of former members of Imagika, Dark Angel and Eldritch that formed in 2010.
KILL RITUAL is: Josh Gibson – Vocals, Steven Rice – Lead Guitar, Roberto Proietti – Guitar, Danyael Williams – Bass, Wayne DeVecchi – Drums
The new official Kill Ritual website designed by Jobert Mello from Sledgehammer Graphix and it will be up and running soon to promote the CD release: www.


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- Ports 443 and 8443 are used for agent registration, data center selection, user authorization, certificate download, Web Restore and Backup management console access.
- Ports 7770-7800 are used for agent communication with Management server (backup plans creation and applying, status reports, activity logging, etc.).
- Port 44445 is used backup read-write operations.
You can additionally open 80 port for your convenience, so any http requests from browser will be redirected to https.
- Port 80 is also used for the remote update of agents.
Beside, you may issue telnet command from the server/vm/terminal to be backup to verify the connection:
#telnet backup.exabytes.my 443
#telnet backup.exabytes.my 8443
#telnet backup.exabytes.my 7780
Or you may download this tool for connection verification:
1. Download the connection verification tool (For Windows only)
2. Unpack it.
3. Open the Command Prompt and run the tool with the following parameters:
port_checker_en-US_x86.exe -u=<login> -p=<password>
where u is your Backup Account username and p is password for the Backup Account. You will be prompted for password if you don't specify this option.
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There is evil in this world. Some is systemic, titanic, nigh-insurmountable. And some is petty, banal, all the more troubling for its triviality. Farm Story 2 is the lesser evil. It's the whispering, cloying, harrying serpent at the heel of gamers.
Farm Story 2 is evil in a way that inspires not rebellion, but pity.
This is a well-crafted game. There are barely any bugs and the art is attractive if generic. The bug-eyed chickens are charming, and it has a scamp of a kid who is adorable until the third or fourth time they implore you to install another of Storm8's insipid games. I don't have a quarrel with any of the (mercifully uncredited) people who worked on the game. My issue is with the environment who produced such a work. Let's explore the darkness at its depths.


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In Louisiana:
-- "Jindal declares state of emergency, urges caution ahead of winter storm." (The Times-Picayune)
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-- "Several county schools in Birmingham area closed, delayed or dismissing early because of weather Tuesday." (The Birmingham News)
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-- "Winter-storm warning: Freezing rain possible." (Tallahassee Democrat)
As NPR's Debbie Elliott said earlier today on our Newscast, "snow and ice are rare in typically balmy places like New Orleans, Mobile and the Florida panhandle, but officials are warning residents to get ready for significant accumulations and bitter cold."
And if it's cold down along the Gulf Coast, you know it's downright frigid to the north. :
"Windy conditions will make temperatures across the northern Plains and Northeast feel as cold as -30F in some locations. On Tuesday, accumulating snow, sleet and ice will make for hazardous travel conditions from South Texas to the Carolinas."
Headlines from some of our public radio friends in the shivering states help tell the story:
-- "Deep freeze hits Chicago again." (WBEZ in Chicago)
-- "Polar temps, heavy winds close schools and roads, strand travelers." (Minnesota Public Radio)
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Temperatures closer to what's normal for this time of year aren't expected until Thursday.
Finally, because we want everyone to stay safe, we're once again pointing to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's tips on how to prepare for "winter storms & extreme cold."
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PRATT — The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism is accepting proposals for the Chickadee Checkoff Small Grants Program through May 18, 2014. Grant recipients carry out projects focused on wildlife diversity and native non-game wildlife species while addressing the issues and strategies within the Kansas Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plan "A Future for Kansas Wildlife."
Since 1980, Chickadee Checkoff has funded a wide variety of educational, research-based, and habitat projects, as well as the monitoring of non-game wildlife and habitats. Some of these projects include the creation of the top 20 birds of Cheyenne Bottoms identification cards and the evaluation of habitat characteristics surrounding prairie chicken leks of different sizes in northwest Kansas.
By making small grants available, the department is able to utilize the talents and expertise of people outside of the department. The diverse projects completed as a result of this program have led to numerous publications in scientific journals, educational products, and new information on native non-game wildlife species and their habitats.
Interested parties have until May 18 to turn in a completed grant proposal. For program information on this program, including eligibility requirements and to view a list of priority projects for 2014, download the grant guidance document, or visit ksoutdoors.com and click "Services / Wildlife Diversity / Chickadee Checkoff."


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So every day KND operatives write asking me a lot of VERY important questions. Like these:
'Oh hai, im in ur internets wondering can i haz more KND episodes pleez k thx'
'In Operation: INTERVIEWS I noticed that Numbuh Four was standing exactly 15.5 inches away from Numbuh Three, which is the EXACT distance that married couples stand apart from each other in Pre-Serbo-Texan wedding ceremonies (circa 1453 BC) so obviously that means that Numbuh Four likes (as in likes LIKES likes likes LIKEY like likes) Numbuh Three. Right? Could you please confirm this so I can tell everyone on the 3/DCFDTL message board 'in your face'?'
Important, indeed. But one of the most frequent and important questions is this:
'Where can I find the Codename: Kids Next Door Sooper Hugest Missions File 2 DVD?'
And you know me. I love to give clear concise answers to everyone's questions. So this is what I tell 'em:
Ya see it's like this- For some crazy reason, Cartoon Network only made a limited amount of File 2 and sent them out in limited distribution. And they went kind of fast. And for some OTHER crazy reason, they never made any more. So nowadays if you go somewhere like HERE you can see it, but you can't buy it- hence the 'currently unavailable' notice. They also don't mention what episodes are on it, but I will:
1. Operation: C.A.N.N.O.N.
2. Operation: C.A.M.P.
3. Operation: C.H.A.D.
4. Operation: S.H.A.V.E.
5. Operation: T.R.I.P.
6. Operation: T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G.
7. Operation: D.A.T.E.
I think the really funny thing is that I don't even have a copy of it. Cartoon Network didn't send enough for our crew (par for the course) so we raffled 'em off. I figured I'd just get one later.
I never did.
But if YOU got one, maybe it'll one day be considered a 'collector's item' and you can sell it for eleventy ka-hundred dollars. And if you do, just make sure you hook me up with some curly fries the next time ya see me.


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August 27, 2008: Heavy Gear To Return To Roleplaying Dream Pod 9 and Steve Jackson Games announced an agreement today for a new line of roleplaying products based on DP9's best-selling Heavy Gear. "The world of Heavy Gear was always intended to support multiple gaming formats," said Robert Dubois, Licensing Manager for Dream Pod 9. "We've focused our efforts on the miniatures line, with Heavy Gear Blitz! We are overjoyed that a publisher with the experience of Steve Jackson Games is interested in continuing the RPG material." The line will launch with a new edition of Heavy Gear, bringing the Silhouette mechanics to their fourth edition. This core game will contain everything needed to create characters and roleplay in the world of Heavy Gear. Further releases will update Heavy Gear's best-known places and personalities, bringing the story up to date with the miniatures line. New releases will explore military hardware, locations, factions, and the whole universe in greater detail than ever before. The line will primarily be released in PDF via e23. Heavy Gear is set on the world of Terra Nova, over 4,000 years in the future. On this war-torn world, the elite armor units are giant humanoid battlesuits known as Gears. City-states battle for position within their leagues, the leagues battle for control of Terra Nova, and everyone battles against the malevolent Earth forces who are trying to retake their lost colony. "Heavy Gear has the deep background and rich setting that brings excellent roleplaying," said Paul Chapman of SJ Games. "We're excited to be able to bring the world of Terra Nova to a new generation of gamers, and to support the fans that have been following it for the past decade." The fourth edition of the Heavy Gear RPG will be released in 2009. Watch for updates at www.heavygearrpg.com. For more information, contact Paul Chapman (email@example.com) at (512) 447-7866 x207. Share this post! |
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As I get a little older, I'm increasingly impressed with the changes in the world that a person can see in the course of a single lifetime. I have always been amazed that my grandfather, who was born at a time when it was still a matter of debate whether heavier-than-air flight was even possible (1889), lived to see human beings step foot on the moon.
The same can be said for Chesley Bonestell (pronounced bonn-e-stell) who was born in 1888 and not only lived to see men land on the moon, but helped make it possible. It was his visionary paintings of how space travel might look that helped convince congress that the space program was possible and worth funding.
At a time when most airplanes were still driven by propellors, Bonestell created a series of strikingly photo-realistic paintings of scientifically feasible designs for multi-stage rockets, orbital space stations, spaceships and lunar landing proceedures based on sketches on graph paper by Wernher von Braun, with whom Bonestell worked closely.
He also created a celebrated series of Colliers' magazine covers and illustrations for articles by von Braun based on the same concepts.
Bonestell is the undisputed father of space art. If you were raised in the post-Star Wars era, you take space art and science fiction concept art for granted. If you are a baby-boomer, however, chances are that it was Bonestell's images that fired your imagination about space travel and the lure of other worlds, whether you encountered them in Life Magazine, Collier's, on the covers of science fiction magazines or in wonderful illustrated books like Willy Ley's Conquest of Space.
Bonestell was trained as an architect and worked on the Golden Gate Bridge and the Chrysler Tower. When the depression made architectural work difficult to come by, he transitioned his talents to special effects matte painting, working on films like Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Destination Moon (1950), When Worlds Collide (1951) and War of the Worlds (1953); but it is for his prophetic and still inspiring space art that he is most revered.
The Chesley Awards, given each year by the members of the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists in recognition of the best in the field, are named in his honor. (A collection, The Chesley Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy Art: A Retrospective, was published a couple of years ago.)
There is an offical Bonestell Space Art site and a site for Bonestell archives of Melvin H. Scheutz, but the best reproductions I've found on the web are the previews of these Bonestell prints from Dreamstone, and these Bonestell prints from NovaSpace.
You cannot get a true picture of the imaginative brilliance of Bonestell's space art, or the surprising breadth of his artistic range (from architectural renderings of the Golden Gate bridge and New York skyscrapers, to beautiful portraits, idyllic landscapes and architectural fantasies) by looking at the few small scraps of his work available online.
There is a superb and beautifully printed book from Paper Tiger: The Art of Chesley Bonestell by Frederick C. Durant III and Melvin H. Schuetz that really strives to reveal the scope, beauty and astonishingly visionary quality of Bonestell's work.


text: A bus driver was heading down a street in Colorado. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no left turn" sign, and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still – he didn't break any traffic laws. Why not?