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gravitybound wrote:Beautiful design, very artistic, but I really can't see myself wearing it. Did not GMV, but I may change that over the course of the week, and even if I don't and it wins I may buy one if nothing else I do vote for makes it in. Great job, though, on the artwork. I am impressed.
fair enough, thanks.
sokowa wrote:Thanks! S' ok, I wasn't "feeling" last derby either
Heheh... another frightening and funny entry. :-)
Re: The Nectar of the Gods
Nice color choice all around, but not a design I'd ever wear. Just a tad too (and this isn't the right word, but I don't have a better one atm) silly for my tastes.
Re: Typical Weekday Morning
Heeheheh... why do I sympathize with this cat so much? :-)
Re: Super Sloth (A little faster than a regular Sloth)
Funny design, but I I am an un-original person to see how this represents "energy"
Love it.
theinfinityloop wrote:This is very impressive artwork. This could be a lovely painting to display.
thanks! i'm including the link to your cat because it is by far my favorite design in this derby so far. everyone please consider voting for it.
Re: Cofee Levels Critical
An accurate meter for me most days. Love it.
Arnion wrote:Some say it doesn't matter. Some say its nasty. Some say it stunts growth. Some even say its unhealthy. Yet, for the rest of the world, coffee is the nectar that keeps our hearts beating. Thanks expresso double shot. Comments, criticism, suggestions, etc. are welcome and encouraged. =)
Love it! Great design - got my vote!
klswoot wrote:Okay. I have to admit. This took me a second to find the pucker. Always love seeing how you incorporate your 'signature style' into the derby. Back to the sparklers and smoke bombs! Happy 4th everybody!
Ha! There are TWO puckers in this one! Thanks for taking the time to look.
Re: Things are tough all over
I love it and so will my Bio/Chem profs, I think. I can always use the bonus points. (I swear I got a B instead of a C in Chem because I would draw little cartoons of molecules and such on my homework and tests.) GMV!
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Sometimes that big lunch takes the energy right out of you. Must be time for a: Power Nap! Here's a larger version for those who'd like to see more detail: Hope you guys like it!
Re: Sound Energy
I would definitely buy this, let's hope it gets printed!
taikuodo wrote:this is a resubmission...
Sorry, I'm kind of new to getting involved in Derbies. Was I supposed to mention resub in the name? In any case, I changed the colors a bit, including the shirt color. Sometimes colors picked that work and are subtle on the computer monitor wind up completely lost when it goes into printing. Shortly after I tried on the green derby, I realized it wasn't going to work without the ability to use text at all in my design. Just....a lot of the entertainment is lost that way. So, it got pulled pretty quick.
Re: Dream Eater.
One of my favourite designs on woot! excellent.
shutts67 wrote:Since when are shirt.woot's tagless?
They are in my shirt comps.
This turned out great! <3
I love this idea, jaden! and what I wouldn't give for a plugged-in power nap! and a bar that showed my energy-use, too
Re: Renewable Energy
Very very cute! I know my girlfriend would love this
Re: Pedal Power
easily the best design in this derby so far, great work!
this is just aweful! i want one!
Patchitect wrote:Oil is a renewable resource.. its just requires us to use so much we super heat the planet, go extinct and let the col dblooded species dominate the earth again.. drill for oil.. burn it till they are extinct.. then its our turn again!
i like it, but the white skeletons kind of get lost in the light blue, a different color shirt might be better.
Re: Inefficient Energy
I'm very partial to anything blue, so I have to say this one is awesome.
D'oh. The detail image doesn't contain the black outline on the image. I didn't realize it before posting. You can see the black outline on the composition image though.
Re: our future or our finish
atomic energy it could save us it could kill us all
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LOVE IT!!! i am so broke, but would def. be in for one if this places, its AWESOME
Get your bunny today. This bunny keeps going and...so long as you have a nice little carrot garden out back. Our family has saved a bit of money in the past few years by having this little furry (New Man's Best) friend!
Re: Energy lost at each step until caffeine
I LOVE your use of color! You managed to get 6 colors to look like so many more! The design is great, and personally, the logo doesn't bother me; I'd buy it either way. (But the beans make it pretty clear that it's coffee, anyway)
This is awesome. I love it!
Re: Good and Bad Energy as One
good pic, but off topic.
Re: Circuit-ulatory System
I like the idea, but do you think people just looking at the shirt will get it without the "Circuit-ulatory" word on it? Since we are allowed minimal text this week, think Woot will allow enough for you to put the shirt title ON the shirt? GMV in any case
Elevenbane wrote:Sorry, I'm kind of new to getting involved in Derbies. Was I supposed to mention resub in the name? In any case, I changed the colors a bit, including the shirt color. Sometimes colors picked that work and are subtle on the computer monitor wind up completely lost when it goes into printing. Shortly after I tried on the green derby, I realized it wasn't going to work without the ability to use text at all in my design. Just....a lot of the entertainment is lost that way. So, it got pulled pretty quick.
I'm fairly new to woot so I didn't know, but I hope this doesn't get pulled, I like it.
Re: Energy Rush
Yay! I think we DEFINITELY need more Koala shirts!!
Very creative and original, I love this design!
mandraque wrote:what i love about this shirt, wether intentional or not, its that the dog and the atomic cloud form the shape of a dead person with a skull. That is what seals the symbolism for me.
Where? I don't see that.....
I agree, green looks better. I also like it in the corner and now in the center, there are too many "busy" shirts on woot, it's nice to see something simple, but gets the point across. Good luck!
Ha! Great play on words and fun design. You're always very clever, Jaden.
SydneyB wrote:I like the idea, but do you think people just looking at the shirt will get it without the "Circuit-ulatory" word on it? Since we are allowed minimal text this week, think Woot will allow enough for you to put the shirt title ON the shirt? GMV in any case
(IMO) I think people can appreciate the graphic without knowing the word being implemented.
Incredible art. Too spooky / creepy for me to wear, though - Seems, perhaps not-so-ironically, very nightmare-inducing.
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Brunson first heard about Donovan's finesse with sweets from grape guru and Old Major wine director Jonathan Greschler, who had worked with the pastry chef at Fuel Cafe -- and in August, Brunson took off for Portland, where Donovan was then working at a high-volume bread bakery and spending time in the kitchens of Le Pigeon and the Woodsman Tavern, to check out her repertoire, only to discover that she'd broken her hip and wasn't cooking. Still, she managed to bust out a box of oatmeal cream pies and her version of Oreo cookies, and, says Brunson, "they were some of the best fucking cream pies and cookies I've ever had." And since Donovan was itching to move back to Denver, where she has family, Brunson kept her on his radar.
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Whenever I go out front in the yard and I see the Copper Daisy in full bloom, I say to myself that I just GOT TO share that gorgeous view with you. Today is the day!!
It grew back from nothing this year into this HUGE HUGE *shrub?* Took over lots of plants underneath but since it is real picky when you lift it...I just left it alone. Some like the smell...some say: Oh what is that smell lol. I like it but the deer don't :-)))) It grew way past the fence and they do not touch that one. The last few days the deer even knocked down the fence to the fig tree to get to the stems....so hey....Copper Daisy will always be in my front yard. I can only recommend it! Mostly green and growing all year long but OH what a sight once it starts blooming! Bees..and TONS and TONS of all sorts of butterflies!! When all is bare...you still have these pretty bright blooms showing off their glory. Hope your day is filled with wonderful moments Lucy |
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- Posted by dimples31312 z8Guyton,GA (My Page) on Thu, Dec 3, 09 at 7:21
Oh Lucy that is beautiful!!! I really like the look of it. Save me a few seeds if you can. I would love to try it. Hugs Dorothy |
Good morning all. Lucy, that is like a ray of sunshine! I have never heard of Copper Daisy before. O.k. had to google and came up with Tagetes lemmonii. There was a volunteer in my front yard a couple of years ago, and I know what you mean about the scent. I think the gophers must have gotten to mine because it's gone. |
- Posted by givelittle_getlots Zone 8 TX (My Page) on Thu, Dec 3, 09 at 8:02
I will collect seeds. But I am hoping that the low laying branches will ROOT :-) and I have plants to share too. Lucy |
- Posted by karyn1 MD 7 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Dec 3, 09 at 8:18
That's beautiful. Are you saying that's one plant? Deer proof, maybe I should plant that around my Fuyu persimmon tree. I got my first fruit this year and the deer ate everything, not only the fruit but all the new branches too : ( My figs didn't produce a single fruit this season and last year they did so well. I have to wrap them in burlap at the end of the month but need to cut them back first. I'm not climbing any ladders to wrap them. There's very little still growing at my house but 5 miles closer to the city almost everything is still in bloom. What are those pretty pink flowers on the left near the fence? |
That is a gorgeous display of yellow, Ms Lucy! I am a daisy killer, they just don't like me, so seeing yours looking so sunny really makes my day. Pam |
- Posted by givelittle_getlots Zone 8 TX (My Page) on Thu, Dec 3, 09 at 8:25
Karyn YES, ONE plant!!! You should try it!! Gave Kristy one for her shop :-) Had bought a little seedling at the local nursery. Not realizing it was the SAME lol. Since YES they come under different names. All I remember is that when I bought THAT one, there was Mexican in the name! The pink flowers are the morning glory tree I planted there :-) But I guess it does not like SOMETHING about that location...Others grew HUGE...the one advice I can give is...when you have one growing....bend the whole plant DOWN so it is more laying then standing. That is what the one behind the house did on it's own. Low and behold....new growth shot out all along the stem and it grew really into a nice bushy looking plant. Lucy |
- Posted by givelittle_getlots Zone 8 TX (My Page) on Thu, Dec 3, 09 at 8:34
Pam we posted at the same time. You being in TX...you wanna try this one? I tell you....no matter what I do to this one in the 2 seasons....it loves full sun and is a no care plant. Which takes my watering...not watering. all weather. I am going to plant more of that in the front because it just looks SO GORGEOUS and grows :-) And STAYS because deer must really hate it lol Lucy |
Thanks for the offer Lucy, but that would be a horrible fate for a lovely plant! If my gerbera daisy makes it through this winter, I may branch out a little. |
- Posted by rock_oak_deer 8a TX (My Page) on Thu, Dec 3, 09 at 10:57
That's beautiful. I'll look for that one, if the deer don't like it then I love it! Hope it likes cold because we're going to have plenty of that around here. Did you get snow yet? I'm busy bringing everything in today Brugs and all. Going to have to put the Christmas lights on the Bananas instead of the house, lol! |
- Posted by haase 10 CA (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Dec 3, 09 at 10:59
What a stunning show of sunburst. Lucy you amaze me again with the many flowers you have in your garden. So beautiful! Ingrid. |
- Posted by dimples31312 z8Guyton,GA (My Page) on Thu, Dec 3, 09 at 13:21
Great Lucy seeds or plants either would great! I'll be glad to pay the posted just let me know when. Hugs Dorothy |
Beautiful Lucy!! You surprise me everyday!!☺☺ Thank You!! Kylie |
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I just discovered what I may do with my own throw away fan..Or two...I will paint it a flower color or maybe psychedelic color (at one of my kids suggestion) as a yard deco....Thanks to you all here for getting my mind going...and making good use of what can be.....1st time posting...can you tell??? |
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I could just kick myself. I got a retro turquoise green fan from my Dad's junk pile. DH fixed so it ran for a month or so before the motor died. Anyhow, once it died, DH looked at me and said, don't even think about keeping it, it's going in the trash. I shoulda snuck it out of the trash and dismantled it. Those fan blades were cool........ Sheree |
Garden Momma, I am making a whirlygig out of mine. I just posted about this over on Garden Junk. I have a stand fan that the only part that won't be used is the motor. The 2 grids will be birdfeeders and a hanging basket, the base will be a table base for a flower stand, and the fan blades will be the whirlygig. Now I'm kicking myself, I had a small personal sized fan that burned out a couple of months ago. I could have used those blades as a flower decoration! dang it! BTW, hi, it's nice to be back on the T2T forum. I posted here months ago before my move, and got so snowed under with life stuff that I hadn't had a chance to post before now. |
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Out of stockEffortlessly elegant, this is a blush-pink variation on our ever-popular Champagne & Chocolates Box. Fortnum's impeccable rosé champagne is selected for us by rosé experts Billecart-Salmon, and the pretty pink truffles are made especially for us. Presented in lovely pink box, this will be a very welcome gift indeed.
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Revelation 12:1-17 - And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: (Read More...)
1 John 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
James 1:17 - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 - For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (Read More...)
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. (Read More...)
Romans 8:29 - For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
John 1:1-51 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (Read More...)
Matthew 6:1-34 - Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. (Read More...)
Ezekiel 48:1-35 - Now these [are] the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east [and] west; a [portion for] Dan. (Read More...)
Job 31:15 - Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Revelation 11:1-19 - And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. (Read More...)
1 Peter 3:1-22 - Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; (Read More...)
James 4:1-17 - From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members? (Read More...)
Hebrews 6:1-20 - Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, (Read More...)
Hebrews 5:1-14 - For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things [pertaining] to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: (Read More...)
1 Corinthians 1:17 - For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
Acts 8:38 - And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
John 20:10-18 - Then the disciples went away again unto their own home. (Read More...)
John 14:1-31 - Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. (Read More...)
John 8:32 - And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Luke 23:29 - For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed [are] the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Luke 13:22 - And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
Luke 11:1 - And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Mark 1:14 - Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
Matthew 22:1-46 - And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, (Read More...)
Matthew 19:1-30 - And it came to pass, [that] when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan; (Read More...)
Matthew 3:16 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
Zechariah 14:1-21 - Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. (Read More...)
Hosea 13:16 - Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Hosea 9:14 - Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Ezekiel 9:6 - Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which [were] before the house.
Lamentations 2:20 - Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Jeremiah 1:5 - Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Jeremiah 1:4-5 - Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (Read More...)
Isaiah 13:18 - [Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
Isaiah 13:16 - Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Proverbs 31:6-7 - Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. (Read More...)
Psalms 127:1-6 - (A Song of degrees for Solomon.) Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh [but] in vain. (Read More...)
Psalms 100:3 - Know ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Psalms 91:1-16 - He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. (Read More...)
Psalms 51:5 - Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
1 Chronicles 17:1-27 - Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD [remaineth] under curtains. (Read More...)
2 Kings 15:16 - Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that [were] therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not [to him], therefore he smote [it; and] all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
2 Kings 8:12 - And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
2 Kings 2:23-24 - And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. (Read More...)
1 Samuel 15:3 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Deuteronomy 28:53 - And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
Deuteronomy 2:34 - And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
Numbers 31:17 - Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
Numbers 25:4-9 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. (Read More...)
Numbers 15:32-35 - And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. (Read More...)
Numbers 3:1-51 - These also [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day [that] the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai. (Read More...)
Leviticus 19:1-37 - And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, (Read More...)
Exodus 21:22-25 - If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart [from her], and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges [determine]. (Read More...)
Exodus 20:13 - Thou shalt not kill.
Genesis 6:1-22 - And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, (Read More...)
Genesis 3:16 - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Genesis 2:7 - And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:1-25 - Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. (Read More...)
Genesis 1:1-31 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Read More...)
Revelation 14:12 - Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Revelation 13:1-18 - And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. (Read More...)
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Scenic Rim 2 Day Itinerary
A 2 Day Tour of the Scenic Rim.
A travel Guide for overnighters in the Scenic Rim
Day 1 Country Towns Route, stopping overnight at Moogerah.
Featuring the towns of Boonah, Kalbar, Roadvale, Harrisville and Peak Crossing.
You can experience some of the delights of the Scenic Rim, local food, wine, arts and crafts on your way to Moogerah
From your starting point drive to Peak Crossing, and then to Harrisville This touring also has a few events throughout the year. Ask as you visit places.
- Peak Crossing to Harrisville via Warril View/Peak Crossing Road,, visit Normanby Wines in Harrisville and eat at Macaways Café.
- Harrisville to Roadvale via Munbilla Rd and Roadvale/Harrisville Rd. Road vale has a typical Aussie Pub at its centre.
- Roadvale to Kalbar via Roadvale Rd and Teviotville Rd. In Kalbar have a coffee at the Art Café du Kalbar
- Kalbar follow Kalbar Connection Rd to the Boonah Fassifern Rd. turn right then first left onto Lake Moogerah Road. Stop at the dam for wonderful views across to Mount Greville, Mount Edwards and Mount French. Hire a Kayak at the Lake Moogerah Caravan site, well worth a stop if you are a caravanner.
- Continue on the Lake Moogerah Road, careful not to miss the right angle bend ( follow the Mount Edward signs). There is an untarmaced section of about 3 kilometres, then as the tarmac resumes there is Zengarra Country House on left, a very good B & B..
- If you have any time left over follow the signs to Spicer's Gap, one of Queensland's best lookout points, the Governors Chair, has views as far as Brisbane. Its only a further 9km beyond Zengarra.
- Overnight at Zengarra or the Lake Moogerah Caravan Park
Day 2 Natural Wonders:
Incorporating the towns of Boonah, Aratula and Mt. Alford and the natural attractions of Cunninghams Gap, Spicers Gap, Mt. French and Lake Moorgerah.
1. If you missed Spicers Gap and the Governors Chair on Day 1 then start a bit earlier and catch them today, then retrace you steps to that T Junction of Mount Alford Road and Lake Moogerah Road and turn towards Mount Alford. The road climbs up to a wonderful view of the Scenic Rim and the long straight road down to Mount Alford.
2. Mount Alford is tiny but has an old store with petrol pumps outside, out of use now but was featured in much Queensland Advertising in the past.
3. .Contine on for a couple of Kilometers and you will see the turn Brents Road to your right with a big sign to Kooroomba Vineyards. Take the turn and watxch on your left for Bunjurgen Vineyards, an up and coming vineyard run by a very enthusiastic vigneron and well worth a visit. If you are still thirsty head on to Kooroomba.
4. Turn back and head for Boonah, (clearly signed) and as you enter the outskirts of the town you will see the Dugandan Pub on your left. Thirsty for beer or coffee try the "Duggie" or head into Boonah (the Heart of the Scenci Rim) and try Café 17.
5. From Boonah head for the Cunningham Highway along the Fassifern Road.
6. At the highway turn right and head out towards Warwick on the Cunningham Highway.- still in need of coffee or some fruit for the journey - then try Aratula a small town on the Highway.
7. Drive up the Cunningham Highway, near the top is a big parking area from which you can make various bushwalks from serious to gentle.
8. If you have time continue on to Warwick, then via Queen Mark Falls back to the East of the range and the Scenic Rim at Lake Moogerah


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Iranian Student With $750 Turns Billionaire — Made by Islamic Art
By William Green, Bloomberg
March 30 (Bloomberg) — Nasser David Khalili stands in an exhibition hall in St. Petersburg's Winter Palace, gazing at an 18th-century painted enamel of flowers that's one of 25,000 works of art he owns. "I'd have paid anything for it," he says, appraising this miniature by Frenchman Philippe Parpette. "There's no way I'd have let anybody else buy it."
Khalili, 64, an Iranian-born billionaire who lives in London, has come to Russia to unveil his fifth art collection: On this overcast December afternoon, 320 of his 1,200 enamel treasures will go on display at the State Hermitage Museum, home to the collection of Catherine the Great, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its May issue.
Having flown in on a chartered plane, Khalili is relishing a private preview, peering through tinted eyeglasses at such possessions as a gilded clock with matching candelabras that once adorned the home of U.S. railroad tycoon William Vanderbilt. Khalili, who says he has a photographic memory, recalls paying $16,500 for these three pieces 34 years ago. He estimates that they'd now cost $600,000.
In all, Khalili says the enamels he has lent the museum are insured for more than 100 million pounds ($150 million). Even so, they are a trifle compared with the obsession that's consumed him for four decades: his 20,000 pieces of Islamic art. "His collection is certainly the best in private hands," says Edward Gibbs, Sotheby's London-based head of Middle Eastern art. "He is the man who has everything. He's come to define the market."
Khalili is revealing his latest collection just as the $43 billion global art market is showing signs of reviving — with an Alberto Giacometti sculpture selling for a record 65 million pounds in February to a buyer later identified by dealers as London-based billionaire Lily Safra. In the Islamic art world, prices for the best pieces have been buoyed by a new generation of Middle Eastern buyers, including museums in Qatar and Abu Dhabi.
"There's fierce competition for anything unique, rare, beautiful or important," Gibbs says, noting that an Islamic textile Sotheby's estimated would fetch $250,000 to $350,000 in a March 2009 auction went to Qatar's Museum of Islamic Art for $3.4 million.
The limited supply in this niche within the art market has made Khalili's collection all the more precious, says Claire Penhallurick, an Islamic art consultant for Bonhams auction house. She says it's impossible to guess what his entire collection is worth.
"How could you value something that's unique and irreplaceable?" Penhallurick says. "If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't assemble his collection now."
When an exhibition of 471 of Khalili's Islamic pieces opened at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris in October, they alone were insured for almost 600 million pounds.
The story behind how Khalili built his fortune has long been shrouded in secrets. As a property developer, he shunned publicity and didn't slap his name on buildings or the company that is his main investment vehicle. He has also operated under the radar when buying art.
"During the collecting, I don't say anything," Khalili says. "When it's done, then I speak."
His elusiveness has fueled much speculation, often revolving around how he financed his collecting. Khalili, who left Iran in 1967 with $750, says he's since spent $650 million on art. London's Sunday Times, which estimated his fortune at 5.8 billion pounds in 2007, gave up guessing his worth the following year and removed him from its annual rich list.
Khalili, whose works are held in a family trust, says he used subterfuge to amass his Islamic collection, pretending for several years to be an art dealer so he could acquire pieces at wholesale prices. While his stealth has often obscured the scale of his buying, the magazine ARTnews says Khalili is one of Britain's top collectors, along with Safra and private museum owner Charles Saatchi.
The Iranian says he's aware of whispers within the art trade that he grew rich buying Islamic works for Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. Sitting in his office in London's Mayfair neighborhood, where the treasures on display include an 8th- century bronze camel and a 7,000-year-old stone sculpture, Khalili beats his chest with his hand when asked about the rumors.
"I didn't buy anything for anybody. Nobody, right?" he says. "I bought for myself. This is all bulls—, all right?"
The questions surrounding Khalili stem in part from his emergence in the 1980s as a trailblazer in Islamic collecting.
"There was this sudden transformation," says William Robinson, director of Islamic art at Christie's International. "In the late 1980s he was the No. 1 buyer." Robinson and others thought he was buying as the exclusive agent for a powerful client. "It was assumed that the Sultan of Brunei was behind it," Robinson says. "I really don't know."
Brunei's Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn't respond to requests for comment.
Britain's press also fueled speculation about the source of Khalili's riches. "He spends on a scale no art collector has done before," London's Independent wrote in 1994. "Yet no one knows where his money comes from. … (Khalili) vehemently denies the suggestion that he has been secretly investing the sultan's money rather than his own."
Khalili says he met the Sultan of Brunei around 1984, after the U.K.'s Foreign Office asked him to advise the monarch on creating an Islamic gallery at the Brunei Museum.
"He had about 10,000 pieces," Khalili says. "I chose about 1,000 pieces and said, 'Throw the rest away. They're junk.'"
As a favor, he says, he selected several items for the Sultan to buy at auction and the Khalili family trust sold him a dozen pieces from its Islamic collection, including Qurans, metalwork and textiles, for about 4 million pounds.
Khalili dismisses rumors that he sold art to the Sultan at inflated prices, pointing out that he later convinced him to donate 10 million pounds to the University of London for an Islamic gallery.
"If you rip somebody off, would they turn around and give you 10 million pounds to build a gallery?" he asks.
It's now obvious he was buying for himself, Khalili says, since his Islamic collection is cataloged in 19 books written by an army of scholars he has hired to document its provenance and authenticity.
Khalili, who has also built collections of Japanese Meiji art, Spanish metalwork and Swedish textiles since 1975, says the value of his artworks is irrelevant, because he will never sell them.
"All five collections are priceless: 2 billion pounds, 3 billion pounds, 4 billion pounds, it doesn't make any difference," he says. "These collections cannot be replaced."
His Islamic treasures include a 14th-century Iranian world history by Rashid al-Din Fadlallah, which he says cost him 12 million pounds in 1990. "It's one of the greatest illustrated manuscripts in the world," says Tim Stanley, senior curator for the Middle East at London's Victoria & Albert Museum.
Khalili, who holds both U.S. and U.K. passports, offered to lend his Islamic collection to the British nation in 1992 if the government provided a museum to house it. Khalili says he stipulated that the loan would become a gift after 15 years if the collection was exhibited to his satisfaction; if not, he could take it back.
Outsider in London
"The offer to the British government was a really terrible one," says Anna Somers Cocks, editor-in-chief of the London- based monthly Art Newspaper, because of this risk. After months with no response, Khalili abandoned the plan. Still lacking a permanent home, most of his artworks are stored in warehouses in London and Geneva.
Michael Franses, a U.K.-based retired dealer in rare carpets who's known Khalili since the 1970s, says this rebuff reflected Khalili's outsider status in his adopted country.
"The British establishment was very closed," Franses says. "I don't think people trusted him because he was Iranian and strange and different."
That setback is a distant memory as Khalili strides through the Hermitage, musing on how far he's come since leaving Iran. His artworks have been showcased by 40 museums, including the Victoria & Albert and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Khalili also prides himself on the honors he has won for his philanthropy. An observant Jew who says he avoids discussions of politics, Khalili co-founded the Maimonides Foundation in 1995 to foster dialogue between Jews and Muslims through sports, cultural events and education. He also endowed a research center for Middle Eastern culture at the University of Oxford.
In recognition of Khalili's interfaith work, Pope Benedict XVI anointed him last year as a Knight Commander of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Sylvester.
"I'm self-made. I've done it all on my own," says Khalili, whose 14-page resume is headlined: "Scholar, Benefactor and Collector."
Khalili sees no contradiction in being Jewish and owning an Islamic collection.
"I fell in love with it because it was the most beautiful and diverse art," he says.
In 2005, at the launch party for Khalili's book The Timeline History of Islamic Art and Architecture, Iran's then- ambassador to London, Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, hailed him as "an ambassador for the culture of Islam."
First Treasure
Khalili's journey to the top of the art world began in Iran on Dec. 18, 1945. The fourth of five children, he grew up in Tehran. His mother counseled divorced women. His father — like his father before him — visited homes to acquire artworks he could sell for a few dollars profit.
As a child, Khalili tagged along when his father traded art, once joining him at the home of a former education minister with a collection of pen boxes. The 12-year-old yeshiva student was enraptured by a lacquer pen box painted with 800 men and horses, each one different. Khalili recalls that when he rhapsodized about the box, the owner's eyes filled with tears.
"He turned round to my dad and said, 'I'm not selling this to you. I'm giving this to your son,'" Khalili says. He still has the pen box in his Islamic collection. "So the first piece I didn't buy; I was given," he says.
Art Mentor
After high school, Khalili did national service, training as an army medic. At 22, he left Iran for New York, where he worked at a Howard Johnson's restaurant while studying at Queens College, part of New York's public education system. One evening, as Khalili sipped cream to soothe an ulcer, the restaurant manager scolded him for taking it without permission. Khalili threw his waiter's jacket at his boss and decided he'd trade art to pay his school fees.
At an auction of Russian enamels months later, Khalili noticed the main bidder was Alan Hartman, whose family ran a Manhattan antiques store. Khalili borrowed several enamels from Hartman on consignment. He says he sold them that evening for a $26,000 profit to Iranian collectors he knew on Long Island, where many wealthy Iranians were settling. (Khalili's four siblings have since moved there.)
Hartman, now 80, says he wanted to help because Khalili was a Jewish immigrant struggling to build a new life. "We felt sorry for him," he says.
"Alan and I did a hell of a lot after that," Khalili says. "In two years, I was a millionaire."
Friends say it was typical of Khalili that he'd launched himself by charming a stranger into lending him art.
"He has a way of winning people over," says Sotheby's Gibbs.
Tactile Billionaire
In person, Khalili exudes warmth: Meeting someone for the first time, he's liable to introduce himself with a hug. He stands close to people, resting his hand on their arm, shoulder or back.
Before graduating from Queens in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in computer sciences, Khalili was already amassing his own collection.
"I used to buy a group of objects — let's say, 10 objects for $100,000 — keep 3 or 4 of the best aside and sell the rest for $250,000," he says. "I used my knowledge to create money to finance my dream."
In 1978, Khalili married Marion Easton, an Englishwoman he'd met while buying jewelry from her in a London antique store, and they settled in the U.K. capital. They have three sons: Daniel, 28, a jewelry designer, and twins Benjamin and Raphael, 25, who invest family money in startups such as PlayPit Games Ltd., an online entertainment company.
Decoy Shop
In addition to dealing art, Khalili says he began in the late 1970s to buy commercial properties in the U.K., France, Portugal and Spain.
"As he made money with property, he put it into art," says Franses, the retired carpet dealer. "He was only ever interested in the art."
Khalili approached him whenever he had cash to spare, buying such rarities as two 16th-century rugs that Franses says would now cost 2 million pounds each.
Khalili deployed misdirection to his advantage when he opened an Islamic art store in London in 1978. For three years, Khalili says he used the shop as a ruse to obtain dealers' prices.
"I never sold anything there; I used that place as a decoy and bought unbelievable stuff," he says.
"His timing was impeccable," says Penhallurick. Islamic art was such a backwater that dedicated Islamic auctions didn't begin until the 1970s. Khalili — whose main rivals at the time included the Kuwaiti royal family and the David Collection, owned by a Danish foundation — says many pieces he acquired then would now cost 10 to 50 times more.
Beautiful and Overlooked
"Anything that is beautiful and was overlooked, I bought," says Khalili, who received a Ph.D. in Islamic lacquer at the University of London in 1988.
By the mid-1980s, Khalili says, his purchases were partly funded by venture capital investments that he declines to name. He says he made 30 times his money off shares he had bought in the late 1970s in a company developing technology to treat tumors. In 1987, he says he pocketed $15 million from the sale of a private company that made indigestion pills.
Khalili says he stopped trading art around 1980 and bankrolled his collecting primarily with profits from property. In a typical deal, he says, he paid 32.5 million pounds in 1992 for Cameron Toll, an Edinburgh shopping mall, selling it two years later for 55 million pounds as the market revived. Public records show Khalili has owned various private property companies.
Property Development
His main vehicle, Favermead Ltd., was incorporated in the U.K. in 1992 and sold 97 million pounds of property in 1995 alone, according to the company's financial statements.
"Business is the least of my pride," Khalili says. "Compared to collecting, it's a piece of cake."
Still, he currently owns a 60,000-square-foot (5,574- square-meter) business park in Exeter, England; a 32,000-square- foot building in Mayfair; and a site in central London where he plans to build a 320,000-square-foot, 13-story office tower when the real estate market recovers.
"If he starts building in the next 12 months, it'll be very good timing as there's very little available in the market," says Gerald Ronson, CEO of London-based developer Heron International, which also bid for the central London site.
Mayfair Mansion
One personal property venture proved more problematic.
In 1993, Khalili began combining two buildings in Kensington that once housed the Russian and Egyptian embassies into a 55,000-square-foot home. Khalili says he spent 90 million pounds on the house, including 45 million pounds on the refurbishment. He employed 400 craftsmen for 4 years, installing 3,200 square meters of marble, a Turkish bath and underground parking for 20 cars. Marion Khalili says she refused to move in, deeming the house too palatial.
In 2001, Khalili unloaded the property for 50 million pounds to Formula One tycoon Bernie Ecclestone, who sold it to steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal for 57 million pounds in 2004, according to public records. Khalili now lives instead in a seven-story Edwardian mansion in Mayfair.
These days, Khalili says, his buying of Islamic art has slowed. With competition intensifying, he's turned his attention elsewhere. One afternoon in late February, he reveals that he's already begun his sixth collection. This time, Khalili says, he's acquired an existing trove of nearly 200 pieces, to which he'll add more treasures.
And the collection's theme?
"I'm not telling you," Khalili says with a smile. With that, he draws a veil on the next chapter in the improbable story of the Iranian yeshiva student who became the world's leading private collector of Islamic art.
–Editors: David Ellis, Jonathan Neumann
FTC Announcement Regarding Debtor's Rights
January 10, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
The FTC has announced the largest penalty ever imposed on a debt collection agency for allegedly threatening and harassing consumers; disclosing their debts to third parties, and depositing postdated checks early, in violation of federal law. The FTC has also released this consumer education video on debt collection so that consumers can be aware of their rights and debt collectors can be aware of their responsibilities under federal law. The video is also available in Spanish. The press release below provides details of the case and another link to the video.
Please let me know if you have questions and if you plan on running a story about this.
Lisa Lake
Bureau of Consumer Protection/Division of Consumer and Business Education
The Federal Trade Commission
601 New Jersey Avenue, NW — Drop: NJ-2267
Washington, DC 20580
Direct: 202.326.2345; Fax: 202.326.3574
January 7, 2009
Debt Collection Supervisors Settle FTC Charges
New FTC Video Explains Consumer Rights
Concluding a case that drew the largest civil penalty ever imposed on a debt collection business, the Federal Trade Commission settled with the two remaining individual defendants who allegedly misled, threatened, and harassed consumers; disclosed their debts to third parties; and deposited postdated checks early, in violation of federal law. The settlement order requires each of these senior managers to pay a civil penalty and bars them from future violations.
"The FTC wants to remind debt collectors of their responsibilities and obligations under the law. Abusive collection actions are illegal, and if debt collectors use abusive tactics they could face legal action," said David Vladeck, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "At the same time, we want consumers to understand their rights if their debts go into collection. Money matters, and the more people know about managing their debt and dealing with debt collectors, the better off they will be."
According to the FTC's complaint, filed by the Department of Justice on the FTC's behalf, the defendants participated in, or controlled, the actions of debt collectors whose unlawful practices included false or deceptive threats of garnishment, arrest, and legal action; improper calls to consumers; frequent, harassing, threatening, and abusive calls; and unfair and unauthorized withdrawals from consumers' bank accounts. The complaint also alleged that the defendants failed to adequately investigate consumer complaints or discipline collectors, and collectors who were terminated for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) often were rehired within a few months.
In 2008, Academy Collection Service, Inc. and its owner, Keith Dickstein, paid $2.25 million to settle FTC charges that Academy collectors violated the FTC Act and the FDCPA while collecting debts, and that Dickstein failed to stop the violations. The settlement order announced today, negotiated by DOJ and the FTC, imposed civil penalties of $375,000 and $300,000, respectively, on Albert S. Bastian and Keith L. Hurt III, who oversaw Academy's Las Vegas collection center. The judgments were suspended upon payment of $7,500 each, based on their ability to pay. The full judgments will become due immediately if the defendants are found to have misrepresented their financial condition.
The order bars Bastian and Hurt from making false, deceptive, or misleading representations in debt collection efforts, such as that nonpayment will result in garnishment of wages, seizure of property, or lawsuits, or that they or their agents are attorneys. They also are prohibited from withdrawing money from consumers' bank accounts without their express informed consent, and from depositing or threatening to deposit postdated checks before the date on the check. In addition, the pair are barred from improperly communicating with third parties about a debt; communicating with a consumer at any unusual time or place, including the
workplace; and harassing, oppressing, or abusing any person in connection with debt collection.
The Commission vote to authorize DOJ to file the consent decree was 4-0. The consent decree was entered in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.
The Commission has released a video, at www.ftc.gov/debtcollection and www.youtube.com/ftcvideos, explaining consumer rights regarding debt collection. Consumers with questions about their rights under the FDCPA should refer to Debt Collection FAQs: A Guide for Consumers at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/credit/cre18.shtm.
NOTE: This consent decree is for settlement purposes only and does not constitute an admission by these defendants of a law violation. A consent decree is subject to court approval and has the force of law when signed by a judge.
The Federal Trade Commission works for consumers to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and
unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them. To
file a complaint in English or Spanish, visit the FTC's online Complaint Assistant or call 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357). The FTC enters complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 1,700 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad. The FTC's Web site provides free information on a variety of consumer topics.