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Recently me and my husband moved to a new home that needed a few touch ups and a major renovation in the kitchen. This room wasn't as much a concern for my husband as it was for me, so he left the decision making up to me. I made sure to take my time and research and develop as many possible ideas on what could be done to optimize our finances and style choices. The kitchen had this amazing window in it that was the main feature of the room and I really wanted this area to stand out. As soon as you walked in this was the first thing you noticed. I had decided upon the color scheme, appliances, and counter tops but I was having a hard time finding some shutters Manchester. After much searching though I found the perfect ones and they really completed the room.
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On a more serious note, from what I know of astrophotography (admittedly, not much), maybe it would be better to choose the lens first, then the camera.
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Pastor Keith Tucci, former Director of Operation Rescue National and founder of Life Coalition International, holding Morgan, next to her mother Joanna in front of the Aware Woman abortion clinic in Melbourne, Florida" on 12/11/93.
Joanna came to Aware Woman the previous winter during IMPACT training. Somebody gave her some pro-life literature and she chose life. Joanna doesn't know who that person was and that person doesn't know that he/she was used to save baby Morgan's life. Thank God that someone left their comfort zone and showed up at the gates of hell that day to be unknowingly used by God to save baby Morgan's life and maybe Joanna's as well.
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Horde of warriors
I'm stumped as to how the land should be done.
It's a horde of Eldar fighting space marines, a wh40k player's inside joke
I used part of the background from this-
it's suppost to be similiar to that in appearance
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Please don't use a background from another pic, no matter what your skills as an artist are, it's really looked down upon. I find the concept of the image interesting, but it looks very rushed. I would suggest drawing from life more, it will greatly improve your ability of fantasy drawing
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I agree, its is probably best if you dont use someone else's background. It would be alright to go for the same kind of "feel" and paint it yourself. The background as it is now doesnt feel very coherent with the rest of the picture because its not very unified in terms of color, lighting,etc. with all the guys in the foreground. The guys in the foreground look like they don't really have any lighting on them at all. It looks mostly like just the local values/colors. Get some light going on in there, and make sure its affecting everything in the scene. Life drawing will help you a lot with that. I do the same thing you did sometimes and draw all the foreground stuff and then I'm like "OH Crap it would be awesome with a background", but then its a pain because you have to go back and make sure you dont paint into all the stuff you've already drawn and it could get pretty messy. Usually its best if you think of those things early on so that doesnt happen to ya. Hope this is of some help, good luck man.
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March 7th, 2005 #4
Only use your own stuff. Nobody's going to respect you if you use other peoples' even if you tell us (if you don't, and people find out, they'll HANG you).
I think the biggest thing here would be to enforce the variation of line widths. All of your lines here are exactly the same. Try making more important ones thicker and detail lines thinner. It'll make it way more interesting and easily read.
And... shading. Any kind of shading would be better here than what you have. Now it just looks like blobs of colour. It's very chaotic and difficult to see what's going on.
You have an interesting idea here. It just needs some better thought going into the execution.
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March 13th, 2005 #5
Less is more
This would look SO much better without the background and colors. Just as linework it has a certain cartoony charm. All the bells and whistles just scream "I've got a computer and I'm not afraid to use it!"
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Apple has filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for a "data-driven" page layout application. The filing notes that writing custom pages in languages like XML can often take time, even if using templates, since these still require building the code, and knowing enough to fix it if the template is somehow broken. Apple's technology instead suggests a way of producing pages based on previously created ones, pulling out structural objects and "relationships" from them, while still allowing users to edit the new pages in a graphical interface.
This permits the quick creation of pages with transposed means of representing data, while letting users customize this information by adding or deleting elements. Copied graphs, for instance, could have points inserted or removed, and their information changed. To this Apple suggests adding an assortment of possible stock objects, similar to those found in current WYSIWYG web editors, such as bars, buttons, dividers and tables.
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Has good and acceleration and shows good burst to the hole. Shows speed to beat the defense to the corner. Has nice footwork, able to sidestep and juke defenders on the second level. Has some power, able to lower the shoulder and run over defensive backs at the second level and bounce off some tackles. Has decent hands. Shows some ability to line up outside in the slot and can be effective there. Straight-line speed and burst make him a factor as a kickoff returner.
Coming off a major knee injury at the end of his junior year, and certainly didn't look 100% as a senior. Tends to dance too much in the backfield as well as a return specialist. Can be tentative about contact. Doesn't have great vision between the tackles. His footwork can be choppy at times and will struggle to change direction. Doesn't have the size or power to run over NFL-level defenders.
Cooper gets points for a valiant comeback from a torn ACL in the bowl game last year, playing in 10 games as a senior. But even before the injury, he looked limited in the pros. His best asset may be his speed if he can get that back and being a special teams guy. Led Miami in rushing his first three seasons. Best year came as a sophomore with 171 carries for 841 yards (4.9 avg) and 4 touchdowns, along with 29 receptions. Returned 42 kickoffs for an average of 20.8 yards during his career. Also averaged 6.6 yards on 31 punt returns during his career.
Before his injury, Cooper looked like he had potential as a change of pace runner and third down back. He's not a great receiver, but good enough to think he can develop down the road in that role. But more than likely he was going to be a speed back that a team used on occasion, sort of in the same capacity that the Falcons have used Jerious Norwood over the years. Cooper doesn't have elite homerun speed, but had enough before his knee injury to think he could be effective in that role. How much speed he's lost remains to be seen, and his prospects on offense are dramatically reduced. He is more in line with a No. 3 runner now that is good enough to get maybe 5 carries a game on offense as a change of pace guy, but doesn't offer the upside to think he'll produce with a larger workload. His best value at the next level will be as a return threat. He's a better kickoff guy than punt guy, but he may be limited there as well, as he doesn't have the elite top-end speed or vision as kickoff guy to be a reliable option. Cooper is a guy that I think will bounce around some team's practice squads for a couple of summers, but have a hard time sticking. He's more in line with the guy that teams bring in when they have injuries, rather than the guy that they keep because they really want to develop him as a situational runner. Probably the best he can hope for is carving out a niche down the road along the lines of Aaron Stecker, and only if he proves valuable as a returner and third down specialist.
Because of the Falcons desire to bring in more speed at running back, Cooper is worth a look. He offers similar tools as Norwood, but unless he's 100% back from his knee injury, I would say he's a longshot to make the roster. He could push for a practice squad spot, but his long-term upside is limited and unlikely to stick in Atlanta because there is nothing special about him.
Cooper probably should go undrafted because he's not a strong bet to make an NFL roster. But a team looking for a speedy option as a No. 3 guy that they can develop as a special teams player might look at him in the seventh round.
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Michael Goforth: 'House of Cards': Addictive series I love to hate
When the Peachoid appeared on the TV screen, I recognized it immediately.
After all, how many towns can boast of a 135-foot water tower with a top shaped and colored like a giant peach?
The Peachoid is clearly visible alongside Interstate 85 at Gaffney, S.C., just over the border from North Carolina. I grew up and spent much of my reporting career in Shelby, also just north of peach-growing Gaffney. Living in a dry county, Gaffney is where I traveled to buy beer. On Saturday nights, I would sometimes go to the dirt track stock car racing in Gaffney.
Gaffney was and still is a small town. But, it has played prominently in the TV series "House of Cards," which premiered Feb. 1 as the first original programming by Netflix. The Peachoid was featured in Episode 3 of the 13-part series.
The lead character in the series is U.S. Rep. Francis J. "Frank" Underwood, a native of Gaffney, who has risen to become the House Majority Whip. Played by Kevin Spacey, the Democrat Underwood is one of the most despicable characters to ever appear on the small screen. With all the compassion of a rattlesnake, he will do anything and everything for the sake of power.
Deliciously evil, the powerful lawmaker has had little good to say about his hometown. I wondered how folks living there feel about the series and discovered they have a far better sense of humor than I have.
Longtime Mayor Henry Jolly told me he doesn't subscribe to Netflix and hasn't seen the series, but everyone in town he's talked with about the show seems to like it.
"Any publicity is better than no publicity is what I think," he said from his home before heading out to a meeting.
Mayor Jolly indeed.
Pam Foxx, executive director of the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce in Gaffney said, "There's been a great response. People are really getting a kick out of it."
People understand that those in "House of Cards" are only characters playing roles. Residents see no reason for taking any offense, she said.
"We're kind of looking at it as an opportunity," Foxx told me. "Economic opportunity comes in a lot of different ways."
She said the Chamber is looking into ways to promote the town through its association with the series.
"I love Kevin Spacey," she said. "I'd love to have Kevin Spacey come and talk to us."
Maybe I'm being overly defensive, but listening to the phony Southern drawl of New Jersey-born and California-raised Spacey is offensive to my ears and to my heritage.
In fact, just about everything and every character in "House of Cards" is offensive to me. There is Underwood's wife, Claire, played by Robin Wright, who runs a nonprofit as a rich woman with time on her hands and a need for recognition.
Then, there is Zoe Barnes, played by Kate Mara, a reporter with little conscience or sense of morality.
And, there is U.S. Rep. Peter Russo, played by Corey Stoll, a fragile lawmaker addicted to alcohol and drugs who wouldn't know truth and honesty if they smacked him in the head.
To a large extent, the characters in "House of Cards" are caricatures, exaggerations of the worst possible assumptions about people and organizations that their opponents might make. Corruption abounds and nothing the characters say or do can be trusted. Behind every smile lurk a thousand daggers.
Much of the series, to my mind, insults small towns, Southerners, labor unions, progressive nonprofits, honest politicians, independent women, and respectable journalists.
What is most disturbing about the series is that some who will watch it will believe it is more fact than fallacy.
And, yet I watch it. I watch it like one watches a traffic accident in slow motion. I watch it in disbelief. I watch it to try to gain some insight into how people far different from me might think and why they might think as they do.
It gets my blood boiling. But, sometimes that isn't a totally bad thing. So, I eagerly await the next episodes.
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"Film is a director's medium. I would rather choose my directors over actors. It is not about the actor, it's always about the director, writer, script or the character I would like to play," said Sonam, who made her debut in 2007 with director Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Saawariyan".
"It's kind of demeaning to say that I would like to work with a particular actor. It's very demeaning to directors and writers to say that. They are the technicians, they are the ones who make the film actually," she added.
She was speaking on Wednesday on the sidelines of the on-going 15th Mumbai Festival.
So far Sonam has also worked with directors like Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra in "Delhi 6" and "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag", Pankaj Kapur in "Mausam" and Anand L. Rai in "Raanjhanaa".
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I like the different roles she choose. I liked how she did ranjhana with dhanush and mausam with shahid when he desperately needed a film. She has done different films but I think the audiences don't appreciate her for that. From sawwariya to delhi 6 to i hate luv storys, aisha they all were different in their own ways. I don't understand Indian audiences sometimes.
Love you dear! :*coool ;)
That is why you didnt get established till now. Do some more films yaar, people enjoy ur films.
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Beastly Adventurer
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Location: Mazatlán
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Chalbi Desert, Kenya
Since the whole village was asleep, I probably could have dozed until sunrise without anyone noticing, but once awake it was best to avoid potential hassles and roll for Marsabit, the last small Kenyan town with electricity. Yet even if I reached there, the next long stretch to Moyale at the Ethiopian border is the fiercest section. The only light at the end of this tunnel was knowing that eventually an asphalt road at the frontier would lead to Addis Ababa and hopefully to a set of mechanics tools to repair a broken suspension.
Out of fear and common sense, no one drives after dark in Kenya, but I hoped that also meant any bad guys were likely fast asleep dreaming of daytime plundering. Attempts to convince myself that a night ride under the stars would ease the misery were quickly squashed when I recalled, the previous days events. A few optimistic test bounces in the saddle confirmed that no divine healing had occurred during the last four hours, and there was no telling if the shock absorber would last another day or another mile. I was beyond the point of no return in every direction.
Unlike blazing desert days, midnight air was crisp and clean. The push of a button made the motorcycle grumble to life. But my confidence faded as yesterdays brutal jarring resumed even worse than I remembered. There would be no escape in a first-gear crawl, easing over every ridge and rock. With zero travel in a frozen shock, violent kicking and bucking made simply hanging on to the handlebars a challenge.
At 10 miles per hour without rear suspension, I tried to calculate how many hours it would take to ride 300 miles. Maybe throttling up to 15miles per hour would shave an hour or two. Either way, between robbers and vicious terrain, one of Africas worst roads was ready to bang and test the limits of both my internal organs and a thoroughly abused motorcycle frame.
At least riding slow allowed me a chance to evaluate which bumps and gullies to dodge to minimize impacts. Standing on the foot pegs with bent knees was temporary relief but became too tiring, requiring rest stops every 30minutes. With fatigued arms and legs, a creeping desert dawn glowed into a bursting orange sunrise.
By noon, the last carefully packed apples had shaken into mush and the fragmented shells of hard-boiled eggs had ground together with the yolks into gooey paste. Combining the concoction together to swallow in lumps was still better than the foul-tasting local fare. But the smelly combined proteins were nutritious, and there was still a gallon of water left to last the day. My need for intense focus on the road meant that stunning savanna scenery passed by in a jiggling peripheral blur. By noon, there were still no other vehicles in sight.
Finally, just after the 20th straight hour of rolling misery, a two-room dilapidated structure appeared with barely legible, grime covered words above the tilting doorway Marsabit Medical Center. Even though I knew more of the same still lay ahead, arriving on the towns outskirts felt like reaching the finish line at an Olympic event.
Marsabit town is a scene out of Americas Wild West scrawny cattle being driven past windowless ramshackle wooden cabins and clouds of red grit swirling down stony clay avenues. Nothing has been maintained or repaired since it was built decades before. Few buildings had electric power, and none had running water. Hand-painted weathered letters on broken signs described what was offered inside.
In Magic Marcies Fashion Design, piles of musty used clothing donated by international charities were ready to be illegally resold. Marsabit General Supermarket was a doorless shack selling milk in cartons and canned meats with labels reading A Gift from the People of New Zealand. What wasnt crumbling was rusting or sat gathering dust while no one seemed to care. As in many developing countries, men stood drinking afternoon tea and cheap beers by night.
From disordered, debris-strewn markets, subservient women in lace headscarves trudged under heavy loads of vegetable baskets and bundled firewood. Engaged in their share of the labor, caped young boys in worn sandals tugged on ropes, leading bleating goats to pasture. What little water there is must be hand carried or lugged in lopsided wooden wheelbarrows wherever needed or to those who can afford it.
Jey-Jey Center is the only hotel secured by barbed wire and with a deteriorating underground cistern servicing a filthy squat toilet at five bucks a night, the single cement cubicles were a bargain. Cleans sheets stopped mattering to me months ago, as long they dont stink and are not overrun with fleas. At least the two-year drought had eliminated mosquitoes and the threat of malaria.
For boring evenings, a beat-down honky-tonk built of splintered planks provided economical entertainment as one strolled past broken saloon doors hanging off rusted hinges. With African rap music blaring through crackling metal speakers, the ear-splitting throbs were a deafening assault as I wandered. Safe within steel-barred cages, middle-aged, chubby Indian men peddled rotgut whiskey and warm local beers while drunks slobbered on themselves in darkened corners.
The scene was made complete as potbellied hookers with long, drooping breasts flashed forlorn smiles through decayed teeth and puffy maroon lips. But late nights in Marsabit are for partiers with more determination than me, and other than this exclusive freak show, there was nothing else enticing enough to keep me awake.
In the afternoon, the moment I ventured outside Jey-Jeys, throngs of unkempt children crowded around me, yelling Sweets, sweets, give me money, give me pens! Although its clear that the foreigners role in Africa is strictly for giving, all that I offer is bumpy rides on a limping motorcycle.
Having trained their children to beg, scowling parents glared as giggling youngsters abandoned rehearsed scam-lines and jumped with delight, lining up to be next for a spin through town. Sometimes you just have to let kids be kids. With one eager child on the front and two on the back, appeasing the crowd still required a whole afternoon. Following the Pied Piper back to Jey-Jeys, the trailing troops assured me they would stand guard as I swatted away the last of persistent horseflies and tried to forget the situation while spiraling into sleep.
No matter how good it feels, ignoring problems will not make them disappear, but leaving the bike parked for three peaceful days allowed me enough time to quit peeing burgundy and relieve an aching back. Still, the question of reaching the border returns with a confirmation by locals that bandits are active again. They dont tell you to stop, they shoot the driver and then attack passengers.
Pulling off his shirt, one truck driver says, Here, look at my body. Ive already been shot five times. On that thought, its likely the road ahead is to become more interesting still.
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A funny thing is that, in Irish Gaelic, the term for a black man is "Fear Gorm" which, literally translated, means "Blue Man".
That term has been around for 1000 years, in Irish Gaelic, which means that, despite not much in the way of documented evidence, the Irish knew of central Africa long before their country was invaded by their near neighbours less than 800 years back.
And the Irish Gaelic, and probably Scot Gaelic too, term for a black man is still "Fear Gorm".
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Spent the last two mornings reading and gazing on these images, made tears well... Thank you Old Boy.
A lady friend is flying to Cape Town next month. She is built for comfort, very dark, about 55
and I'll be buying two copies of One More Day Everywhere. One for me and the other for her trip.
Looking forward to taking Robin to lunch when she returns so i can have an uninterrupted time to hear her tale.
I did read your first book several years ago, then gave it to a Navy buddy that was Search & Rescue for 8 years.
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Gnarly Adventurer
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Alright so....where is the rest of this ride report???
Tempted to buy the book now.
52 Weeks of warm
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I like your lens
You should work for National Geographic .or Maxum or maybe a combo.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West
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Just finished the book
Just sent you a message on FB. What a great adventure book that will rank right up with Ted Simon and Lois Pryce for insights from travel and getting to know the people of the world. This is a book I am going to refer to in the future, where I can open it and read a few pages. There are short stories to enjoy on every few pages, with your insights and thoughts. You have to keep writing. You have a gift of looking at people thru the microscope and appreciating everyone's unique gifts. Great job, amigo.
Beastly Adventurer
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Thanks for the replies amigos. I completely forgot about this thread and will update these postings soon.
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U lie&yo'breff stank
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i think he forgot again
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And the Road Smoothes
January 10, 2006
Delia, Ethiopia
Early mornings in Marsabit were a wicked tease. A cold, gray fog enshrouded decrepit buildings and browning eucalyptus treetops, offering just enough momentary light mist to tingle faces. But in the arid Chalbi Desert air, rain was a frivolous notion as faint whiffs of moisture were sucked into clouds of swirling red dust before ever hitting the ground. Inhabitants werent encouraged; only optimistic foreign visitors were foolish enough to think the drought was ending and a storm approaching. But it was the same result by noon, an empty powder-blue sky breathing steady desert gusts to deposit grit into squinting eyes.
Riding toward the border, there was little to see beyond a deep cut corrugated road evaporating into the horizon. Endless ruts and jagged stones threatened to slice vulnerable rubber tires over thousands of flat square-miles across evenly spread baseball-sized volcanic rocks. The scene ahead looked like photos broadcast from robot cameras on Mars.
Despite the governments attempts to search for water, their inadequate gesture is a year too late. As massive brand-new yellow road-graders rusted in Marsabit equipment yards, there was no one to man them or the scattered, abandoned roadside drilling rigs. Foreign aid sent to finance relief was likely lining the Swiss bank accounts of various government officials appointed to oversee these projects and no one here works without pay. They will die first sooner rather than later, if the delay continues.
Established watering holes have vanished into pathetic pits of caked earth there is nowhere left to drive cattle for drinking, and there is no plant life left to graze on. Useless to continue herding, cows have been freed to die in the open. Every other mile, scrawny strays lie sideways, intermittently flailing their legs in futile attempts to rise and in between, the piercing stench of death announces another less fortunate. Skinned for their hides, the decaying meat was poison to humans, and there werent even any vultures to pick the bones.
Despondent villagers with downcast eyes waited next to stacks of empty plastic jugs. African pleas were no longer hustles for money only parents and children on their knees with clasping hands shouting Water, water, water. I still hear them when trying to sleep.
Continuing past dusk into late evenings transparent black velvet, teams of miniature antelope the size of jackrabbits leaped aimlessly across the road. Sets of shining pink eyes either froze in my path or charged for the light. A faster-moving vehicle would have creamed these only companions of the night. Able to march vast distances without water, long camel caravans weaving through thorn bushes stood the best chance.
These tall, lanky animals could be smelled before they were seen in the headlight, as nomadic tribesmen in high-piled turbans swatted their rumps with irritable commands to keep moving forward. As the only beasts able to survive, even their final hopes were to find the edge of the desert. Yet the only hope for an alien on a limping motorcycle was the Ethiopian frontier, where promised tarmac would lead to Addis Ababa and an opportunity at repairs which will be necessary if I am to finish a journey that I am no longer sure of.
And just before dawn, rooftop shadows of the dilapidated outpost at Moyale rose into view like welcoming tombstones. More rundown than a typical soulless border town, this forlorn graveyard of decaying structures made Marsabit look modern. Though it was too early for me to enter customs and immigration procedures from the Kenyan side, I could see relief ahead a dark asphalt strip wrapping low-lying hilltops, vanishing into the Ethiopian skyline.
Finally, groggy, old black men in soiled gray uniforms shuffled to their posts in time to first fire kettles of tea for the upcoming day. As the only person transiting either direction, my carnet de passage and passport were stamped and registered almost faster than I wanted. With no other suckers out this early, black-market moneychangers argued over who could scalp me the quickest. But using the leverage of supply and demand, I bargained them down to exchanging the last of my Kenyan shillings at better-than-bank rates
and felt lucky until discovering that there are no ATMs in Ethiopia.
Riding to the capital was a 12-hour sprint to cash my emergency travelers checks, which until then, would leave barely enough money for fuel. Still, the casual countryfolk were pleasant, and at every stop I was met with outstretched hands and urgings to take their photo. Ordering food was a challenge. As no one spoke English, in order to eat without fried onions, there is now a complicated new language to learn, quickly. Derived from Arabic with no familiar letters, consonant sounds are configured in peculiar order and pronounced with hisses. Greetings come first in developing countries. Salaam endemana? (Hello, how are you?)
But this works fine while waiting for food in side-street restaurants, as I engage locals while pantomiming questions for recording definitions in my improvised Amharic dictionary. Experimenting in crude cafés is still the best way to meet people, and soon Ive bumbled through an hour-long simple dialogue in an unknown language. Between easygoing natives and flavorful, spicy curries, southern Ethiopia was much too pleasant to rush, and for the first time in awhile, it was a refreshing change not to hurry.
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