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Monday, July 23, 2012

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Glasair Sold To Chinese Company

By Mary Grady, Contributing editor

Glasair, which sells a popular line of homebuilt aircraft and offers the "two weeks to taxi" option at its Washington factory, announced on Saturday that it has been acquired by Jilin Hanxing Group, based in China. Fang Tieji, chairman of the company, has formed Glasair Aviation USA LLC. The new owners plan to invest "substantially" in Glasair's existing product lines, starting with certifying the Sportsman design, according to the company's news release. "There are no plans to relocate or terminate any existing Glasair Aviation employees," according to the company statement. "Mr. Fang plans to retain Glasair's U.S. headquarters, management team and employees."

Glasair joins other general aviation companies that have been acquired in recent years by Chinese owners, including Cirrus Aircraft. Hawker Beechcraft is currently negotiating with a Chinese company for a possible sale. AVweb's editorial director recently spoke with James Fallows, author of a new book reporting on China's aviation industry. Click here for that podcast.

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'Degrassi' Star Expects 'Shocking' New Characters To 'Stir Things Up'

Jessica Tyler opens up about all the drama set to go down in season 12.
By Jocelyn Vena

Jessica Tyler from 'Degrassi'
Photo: MTV News

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1689958/degrassi-season-12-jessica-tyler.jhtml

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Sunday, July 22, 2012

TRAVEL THEME: TRADITION ? Francine In Retirement

TRADITIONAL AMISH BUGGY AND HOME

While visiting the Amish country in Pennsylvania and Ohio I had the fortune to see an Amish buggy and visit inside an Amish home were we were served a wonderful meal. ?Below are the photos of that experience.

AMISH BUGGY

The Amish buggy is a common sight along the country roads of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania and in the nearby state of Ohio. ?Although the?Amish religion?allows the Amish people to ride in automobiles, as well as buses and trains, they are forbidden to own one. ?In fact, of all the worldly possessions available, the car is considered the most dangerous to the unity of the community and the purity of the culture. ?It is believed that car ownership would lead to the breakdown of the Amish community by opening the floodgates of social and cultural change. ?Instead, the Amish use horse-drawn carriages or wagons for local transportation. These horse and buggies tend to travel at an average speed of 5 to 8 miles per hours. Since the Amish rarely travel very far distances, this leisurely speed is not a problem. ?In fact, because the horse and buggy is so limited compared to the automobile, the people are more inclined to remain within the confines of their family and community, rather than outside of it.

AMISH HOME

Simplicity as a Virtue?

Although modest and simple, the typical Amish house reflects the importance of the family, daily work, and humility. ?Amish homes are usually large with two stories since many Amish families consist of six or seven children. The homes tend to be plain and are usually painted white, green, blue or brown which are the colors of nature. ?Amish farmhouses tend to have double or triple dwellings to house the grandparents. Traditionally among the Amish community, adults retire from active farming when they reach their fifties. ?When they do this, they move into an extra house that has been built on the land. ?A married son or daughter then takes over the main house along with the primary responsibilities for the farm.?

INSIDE THE AMISH HOME

Everything within the house is functional. To preserve the religious value prohibiting pride and vanity, pictures and photographs are not hung on the walls for decoration. ?Amish furniture is well-made and sturdy but modest in design. ?Curtains, shades, and quilts may feature colorful designs but are also modest and simple. When designs are used, typical motifs tend to involve depictions of nature such as doves, roses and trees. ?

As part of the Ordering and the tenets of the?Amish religion,?electricity is not used within Amish houses. ?Instead, alternate means of energy are used. ?For instance, in Amish kitchens refrigerators and stoves are often powered by various types of natural, propane or bottled gas or kerosene.

Special allowances are made in the Amish built home to accommodate the prohibition against electricity. ?For instance, homes often feature skylights to increase the lighting and inverters are sometimes used to pull currents from a battery source so that appliances such as electrics fan can be used.

However, you won?t find a telephone, television, stereo, or computer in an Amish teenager?s bedroom or anywhere else in the house. ?Such items are strictly forbidden.?

HOME MADE MEAL

After viewing the home and surrounding land, we were treated to a sit down dinner prepared by our Amish hosts, and the younger members of their family, from items grown in their garden or brought from the neighboring farm.

The Amish do not permit photos of them, but I was granted permission to take the above photos, which I was very grateful.

To see more entries of Ailsa?s challenge or to participate, visit her blog, Where?s my backpack? and this week?s theme ?TRADITION?.

BE ENCOURAGED! ?BE BLESSED!

Source: http://francineinretirement.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/travel-theme-tradition/

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How to take spectacular photos of your car with your iPhone

Is your car your pride and joy? Do you regularly dedicate hours of your time to washing and detailing your beautiful vehicle? Have you secretly dreamed of hiring a photographer to take professional photographs of your most prized possession? Then this tutorial is for you! This installment of iMore's photography series is all about cars and how to get the most spectacular photos of your car with your iPhone's camera.

Choose a nice environment

Nothing will ruin a photo of a beautiful car more than an ugly environment. How can your viewers soak in the beautify of your car if it's surrounded by a distractions like messy garages, driveways, parking lots, or car dealerships. In every car magazine, the photos of car are showed off in locations that enhance the overall appearance of the car, not that distract from it. You should do the same. I'm not going to deny that this will probably be the hardest part about getting an awesome photo of your car, but it's so worth it.

I wasn't too thrilled with the location I chose to take photos of my car for this article, which is why I chose jammer148's photo for this section instead. (Thanks jammer148!)

Clean your car

The above photo is an example of the type of photo you do not want to show off. What's the first thing you notice? The pile of dust on my bumper? Yeah, me too. Any level of dirt on your car will stick out like a sore thumb, so make sure you give it a good washing before taking it out for photos. In my case, most of the dirt appeared on my car while getting to the location, so I recommend bringing some car wipes and touch-up cleaning supplies with you to take care of situations like this. You can't predict what will happen -- like getting stuck behind some jerk who sprays you with windshield-wiper fluid (I hate that!).

Now, there is one except to this rule -- vehicals that are meant to be dirty. For example, perhaps you take your truck four-wheeling in the mud. If that's you, then you want the opposite of clean. Go take your truck out on an adventure, then take photos. Just make sure you take the photos in the appropriate environment. A filthy truck in a driveway looks like a filthy truck in a driveway. A filthy truck out in the hills and a mud puddle looks bad ass.

Interesting angles

Your average person will take a photo of their car by stepping back until their vehicle fits in the frame, then snap the picture. Don't be average. Get creative with your angles. Get low. Get high. Add tilt. Step a little to the left. Aim not to take a snapshot of your car, but a portrait of your car. Little things like turning the wheels of your car will also add interest and dimension to the final photograph. I recommend taking a look at some car enthusiast websites and magazines for inspiration before taking your car out for its big photo shoot. You can even save examples you like in your Camera Roll to reference.

Get the details

Some of the most interesting aspects of a nice car is in the details, so make sure you get some photos focusing on them. Are you particularly proud of the specific model of car you have? Focus on that. How about those alloy wheels, fancy sport shifter and pedals, and detailed stitching in your leather? What about the engine? Get it all! Everyone knows what the outside of a corvette looks like, but not everyone has had the opportunity to sit in one and take in all the details -- show them what they're missing. And again, make sure those details are spotless; whip out the Q-tips if you have to!

Go wide

Most professional car photographers use wide angle lenses when photographing cars because it adds dimension and a creative look to their photographs. If you own an external wide-angle lens accessory for your iPhone, bring it along for your car's big photo shoot. If you don't, you can achieve a similar effect with panoramic photography apps like Autostitch.

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HDR

HDR photography with cars is very popular and can result in an interesting look, so make sure you experiment with this idea! If it's a sunny day with lots of harsh shadows, I definitely recommend using the built in HDR feature in your iPhone's Camera app. This will help make skies bluer and bring out details that are in the dark. But if you're interested in getting creative with more drastic effects, head to the App Store and try out some apps specific for HDR photography. The above photo was taken by the winner of our car photography contest winner and he used the app HDR Fusion to achieve this look.

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Examples

We recently had a car photography photo contest and received a lot of great submissions, so make sure you take a look at the official car photography contest thread in the forums for inspiration.

Now go out and shoot!

Now that you're all prepared for taking the most spectacular photo of your car, put it to practice! And when you do, please share your results in the iMore photography forum. Above all -- have fun!

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Business Financing Survey | Finance Resources

As an entrepreneur you need to discover that choosing the wrong type of financing that can lead to undesirable situations like yours and resentment financed by a change of control beyond the reach of your hands and a waste of time and money, but other undesirable effects. The thing is that you need to watch and for the cheapest option for financing a company that is best suited for small entities. As a way to support you find the ideal financing option, we have several financing options that you might find suitable for your business.

Before continuing, it is important to emphasize that the small business financing is often more complex than expected by many companies of the borrowers. We certainly have tried to characterize the business loans for working capital financing, either easy or simple. In fact, the opposite is the case. The sad fact that most companies financial processes have always been too complicated and that meaningful improvements are not the way it is also continuous observations. However, we believe that this is essential for every small business owner has an absolute and complete understanding of the whole commercial finance process in front of the prevailing commercial lending complexity. Help create new insights commercial loans and business banking problems to understand the present report is one of many in-depth work for us.

Many banks have money and are willing to increase lending to small businesses, but the other things to avoid doing. The demand for business loans has been reduced because many companies cutting or by specifying the extension. As pointed out put, there is less creditworthy companies. Many banks have pressure regulators which reduce risk, but the difficulties in some of their commercial real estate loans. Although the small business loans can be very profitable, they are at high risk.

When it is time to present the case of financing and all information and tactics phases one and two to take, and to change the presentation is clear and concise.Other than clarity, to be honest with the performance of your business over the years. While this may sound to our intuition, fully reveals performance of the company and explaining the information that they see to help build a proper business case.

Small businesses can obtain financing for companies or financial institutions. But online lenders are considered the best source of lower financing company. So better to apply online to the lender. In the meantime, all lenders and compare rates to find a suitable offer.

Source: http://www.cleverwealthnow.com/business-financing-survey.html

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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Leaked EOS M photo looks like Canon's long-awaited mirrorless camera

At this point, after strong hints and even patents, a Canon mirrorless camera is all but certain. The only question is what it'll look like and how it'll compete with other Micro Four Thirds and APS-C shooters like the Olympus E-M5 and Samsung's NX range. The image above may at least help to answer the first part of that question, if it isn't a masterful photoshop. It was reportedly leaked by retail sites and captured by Digicame-info, and it appears to show an unknown model called the EOS M (shown in the top left corner) -- which does indeed look like a thin and lightweight mirrorless ILC. MirrorlessRumors also notes the presence of an entirely new mount: the EF-M -- which may mean that Canon is moving away from the inbetween sensor size it used in the G1 X and possibly towards full APS-C. An official announcement is expected on July 23rd, so we'll know plenty more then.

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